reflecting

So I'm stealing an idea from Amanda's blog (hope that's ok.) I'll now be featuring a movie/tv/song quote in my sidebar weekly and you guess what it's from. I'm starting off with a hard one, so goodluck.

Martin and I were talking the other day about friendship and how it makes him sad that he's lost touch with so many friends throughout the years. I shared my theory about friendship from the experiences that I've had. Living in the neighborhood I did growing up, a lot of my friends ended up moving away. We always promised we would write/email and keep in touch but never really did. I've found this is also true with friends from high school. Now, who's fault is it? Martin was saying (and I see the same in myself) that he was so mad at himself for not just taking five minutes out of his day to send an email to someone. We're on myspace/facebook all the time, and we can't send a simple email? The other selfish part of us also feels that we shouldn't be the only ones to try. It's sad and it shouldn't be this way, but I think most friendships are made out of convenience. It's easy to stay close when you see the person often and don't have to put in a huge effort, and then when they move away we just get busy with live. Life intercedes I guess. Anyway what I'm trying to say is, to all my friends out there that I've let slip out of my life along the way, I'm sorry.

Camping

Alright it's time to post about our big family camping trip. It took a lot even to just decide on a weekend we could all go and a place that we could fit the trailers and we could use the four wheelers and take our dogs. After much deliberation we decided to go up Logan Canyon to Mantua. It was a great place. We were all together on the end of a loop. The kids rode their bikes around and around the whole weekend.

Here is the Holmes' trailer. Brockton slept in the tent on the front. It's very nice inside with a shower, bathroom and even a microwave.

The Peterson's trailer. Martin was very impressed with their trailer. He'd never seen a pop up tent trailer before. There was a lot of room inside which was nice because both nights we were up there most of the adults packed in there and played yatzee one night and ''Oh, Heck'' the second night. (oh heck lasted until 1:00am) It was so fun.
The humble tent. Martin decided that he wasn't going to sleep up there because of his bad back, so he left late at night and came back in the mornings before breakfast. It worked out well. Seth, the dogs and I shared the tent and there was just enough room.

We had the best food up there. The first night was 'hobo dinners.' My very favorite camping food of all time. I was so excited I documented the whole prep of the meal.








I forgot to take a picture of the final product. I was too busy eating it. Gayla took the time to take a picture though. She should be posting it.
Here are our cute dogs. They were surprisingly good up there. I thought they would bark a lot more than they did, but with a squirt bottle it was manageable. We even took them to the lake that was by the campground. The second day I took Abbi all the way into the water. She swam well, but hated it the whole time. Puck wouldn't go in past his legs, so he stayed up on shore.
Look how cute my hubby is. Everyone together now...awww.
Again...awww. Three generations.
We really had a great time up there we went on some four wheeling adventures. I even learned how to ride Brock's motorcross type motorcycle that was fun, not as hard as I had imagined. They had a cute little country store at the entrance of the campground that we got some candy from. We even saw our cousin there that lives in Mantua. It was nice to visit with them since we only see them twice a year.

The second day Amanda and her cute kids came up to visit. I loved having them there. Kylee was entertaining the whole time. SO adorable. Cannon was so fun too. He's such a content baby. Hardly cried, only when he was hungry. Kylee was cute with the dogs. She would yell at them when they barked.
Martin and Cannon were so cute together. Cannon loved Martin. Martin had him laughing SO hard. I wish I would have thought to get my camera out. It was the funniest thing.
All of us around talking the second day.
We had a great time, I'm sad that we only went once this year and have to wait so long to go again.

pictures

Still loving my camera. Here is the latest cool picture.

I finally went to the salon fix my awful hair. Here is the before shot. The top of my head showing the three colors of my hair.

And the after shot. Much better. This is the first time I've ever gotten my hair colored professionally. I really love how it turned out. The lady that did my hair said that the highlights will lighten the more I'm out in the sun. I really like how she cut it too, but the pictures didn't turn out. I'll try again later.

We are leaving tomorrow to go camping with the whole family. I'm excited. It has been quite the ordeal planning it though. Finding a weekend everyone could go, finding a place we would enjoy and could take the trailers, four wheelers, dogs etc. I'm SO excited to take Abbi. The camp site is right by a lake so it'll be fun to take the dogs swimming. Alright I need to go finish packing and cleaning so we can leave in the morning.

Demolition Derby

First, Abbi.

Mom and Doug invited me to go to the Demolition Derby last night at the Davis County Fair. It was a lot of fun. We got their pretty early so we got to walk around and see the booths and the bunnies and chickens. After I registered to vote, Mom and I signed up to be volunteers for the election in November. It sounds like it would be kind of fun to do together. Ruth, Kelly and Melissa got there just a little bit before the DD started. Here are some pictures of the destruction.

We picked the best night to go to the fair. They had fireworks after the show.

Also, Martin got glasses! Just for driving and while he's on the computer or watching tv. I think they make him look super sexy, like my own Clark Kent. We were arguing last night, I was really mad at him, but he was wearing the glasses and looked so cute I couldn't stay mad. They are my weakness.

My New Camera!

I'm SO excited my new camera came today. Martin ordered it off of one of the home shopping network shows when I was in St. George. I was a little nervous, hoping it would be everything I wanted it to be. It is so much more. My husband is so awesome. How could I have doubted him? Here is my cool camera.

Allie and Nathan came over to my house today so I had other subjects to take pictures of besides me and Abbi. I know you're all greatful. This is my favorite picture I took. This was funny. Allie wanted Nathan to step on her shoulders and jump off.


The zoom on this camera is amazing. 18x zoom. I didn't think that would be my favorite part, but it is. Feet pictures.

mine too
Allie trying to ''serf'' on one of the knee boards I got them.
whoops
Here is a picture that shows off the zoom feature. This is the normal shot. Notice the two brown signs off in the distance.
Here is the close up. I love how clear it is.
Nathan going to jump on the knee board.
Picture from up on the balcony at the pool.
Allie

five-in-one mega post

I've been lazy lately. I just had so much to blog about and no motivation to do it. I've been making and adding to my list of things to blog about all week long, and now, it's just time. Ok now rewind to before last Thursday.

-hair disaster- So a while ago I dyed my hair dark right? I liked it at first, but that didn't last long. Especially once my roots started to show. I tried to dye my hair lighter hoping it would cover everything. Little did I know, you can't do that. It just made my roots more obvious. So the day we were suppose to leave for St. George I wanted to make my hair look better, and I tried to fix it myself... bad idea. I got a color stripper from the store after reading about it online and went to work. Well...it did strip the dark color out of my hair a little, but my lightened roots went this weird orangy type color.

I called Gayla and went over to my Mom's for help. I got to Mom's and just started sobbing. She laughed and said that she liked this look better than some of the other colors I had tried. I was telling her while sobbing that it was actually pretty funny because it was such a stupid thing, just hair, but it was my hair. Anyway Gayla and the kids came out and repeated told me that it wasn't that bad. I still hate it, but it's livable until I can get to a salon to get it fixed. Sara also called me a little later after she heard about my whole ordeal from Gayla and gave me a wonderful pep talk. Again, I am very thankful for my wonderful family.


-Waving to Seth- I went to go pick up Grandma and met Ruth, Melissa and Mom back at Mom's house and we were off. It was a little after 6:00 when we were about to pass Point of the Mountain by where Seth works. We called him and he had just gotten on the freeway. We were going to pass each other, so we just kept saying what we could see on his side and then we passed each other and waved and honked. Writing about it, it doesn't sound as cool as it really was, but we were excited about it.

-Picking up Becky- We stopped in Provo to pick up Becky. We got to see her cute basement apartment. I really loved it, and was very excited that she was coming. I hadn't seen her since her wedding, and was excited to spend time with her.

-Disney name that tune- We had to take two cars the moms in one car and the girls in the other. It was a long ride but very fun. With Melissa's IPOD we played Disney Name That Tune. She would put on a Disney song and we would have to guess what it was. It was actually really fun, and I did pretty well. Though I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing. I love Disney though!

-swimming-We got to St. George at about 10:30 pm and the swimming pool closed at 11, so we hurried an got everything in and went swimming. Any time we went swimming, I don't think any of us really swam, except maybe my Mom. We all just kind of stood in one spot jumping or whatever and talking the whole time.

-breakfast- The breakfasts were fabulous. Fresh fruit and yummy hot meals. I was impressed.
-shopping- Shopping was fun we all got really cute things. We went both Friday and Saturday.

-lunch at Paula's- The first day we of course went to lunch at Paula's for some yummy Mexican food. They did have the slushes so Grandma didn't have to cry into her water like last year.

-Deseret Book- After lunch we stopped at Deseret Book to get Grandma a book. On the doors to go in there was a sign saying that they were accepting Pre-orders for Breaking Dawn, the new Twilight book that was being released that night at midnight. I knew we had to do it. I told Ruth and she was just excited. Then we went back to the hotel for a nap before we were off the the first play at Tuacahn.
-Sound of Music- We got there a little early and couldn't resist the frozen lemonade. Well once we sat down in our seats, neither could the bees. They were crazy and there were so many of them. I gave up on the frozen lemonade until after it got dark and the bees went away. I could not believe how hot it was down there. It felt like it got hotter after it got dark. When we left it was 98 degrees. So crazy! The Sound of Music was amazing. The lead Maria, was played by the same actress that played Eliza in My Fair Lady last year that I loved so much. It was fun to see her again, and I just love her voice.

-back to Deseret Book!- The play got over about 11:30 so we got back to Deseret Book right before they opened the doors at midnight. We were out of there with our books within 15 minutes. The timing couldn't have been better. Of course I couldn't wait to start reading until morning. I read to page 100 before I could stop. Before we could start reading we did Satin Feet and made our feet satin-y soft.





-drove by grandma's old house- After shopping we went to Grandma's old neighborhood so she could visit a friend. Mom and I walked around the neighborhood reminiscing. Then we had lunch at the new Pizza Factory, then went back to the hotel where I read more in my book.



-Les Miserables!- Les Mis was amazing. The singing, acting all top notch. We got back after midnight and had to be up the next morning at 4 am so we could go be with Brock when he was ordained a Teacher in church. It was neat to all be there to support him. Then we went back to Gayla's for a yummy dinner.

I finished Breaking Dawn that night. It only took me two days to finish all 700 pages. Anyone else finished so I can talk about it? I'm dying!

-Kayla's day- Monday was Kayla's day. She wanted to go to Chili's for lunch and had their Molten's for dessert. mmm! If you haven't tried them, DO IT NOW lol. They are fantastic. (pictures included to tempt you.) Then we went to the mall and did some great window shopping. We also went to Shopko and tried on shoes. We tried on the ugliest pair, the tallest hills and the cutest pair. It was super fun.

-Allie's day- was Wednesday. I went and picked her up Tuesday night after I got off work. We went to Walmart and got a movie and some candy. Then the next morning we went school shopping. She did have to come to work with me which wasn't too fun for her, but she fell asleep behind the counter that I thought was adorable. I forgot my camera so I don't have any pictures.

It was so fun to go out with both of the girls I love them so much. Next is Nathan and Harli hopefully this week.