Park City

Daniel and I have a lovely garden and here are some of the delicious fruits we benefit from. We bought cucumber plants and the yellowish ones were are first batch and as you can tell their a wee bit of odd color and Honkers.. but still tasty. The green one was our next try and as you can tell it looks more like a cucumber. We are also growing zucchini, squash, green peppers, and annehime peppers.

We get so many so we took them up to THE FAMILY REUNION in PARK CITY!!!

Park City was a blast and Daniel and I had so much fun and it was so fun to be with everyone (we missed you kentuckians) Thanks so much MOM & Dad for putting on such a fun reunion for us all and for all that you did. I keep reflecting back on how much I miss being with everyone and wish we could still be up there vacationing it up. Thanks to everyone for all the delicious meals, entertainment, and laughter.

They were so cute together.. I'm going to miss watching them play together.

Love this picture of mom and Jadeyn, Jadeyn sure adores her Grandma and I can see why!

Oope who are those little peepin toms in the back..

Dan and I adventuring off to find a short cut back to our place. It sure was beautiful up there. I love hiking.

 NOW for the AMAZING  BOAT JUNKIES who boat with Style and are sure GOOD LOOKING. The Hansen Clan sure know how to wake surf, tube, wake board, and ski!!

Kelsi getting up on the wake board.. ya ya

THe pregno's and jadeyn looking fly on the tube...

Parker about to fall off from a wicked sharp turn.. He surely was a champ on the tube! Lexi couldn't ever be knocked off

Looks like they are having so much fun

Mr. Pro. He could do anything and man was he good

 Rocking the wake board in his Sexy Wet Suit even though he hates wake boarding because of the feeling of being trapped.

Still rocking it up until......

SPLASH!!!! You win the contest of the biggest splash

I love this picture because of the profile picture of Mckay pondering with the shadow of dad in the background.

Park City we will Miss You!

The Nauvoo Trip was a great success and a lot of fun. It was my first family vacation with the Stephens and it was so fun getting to know them more and being apart of this great experience with them. I am so grateful for the sacrifice of the pioneers and the examples they are in my life. I loved learning more about the history of the Saints and the church. 

 

  Here we are at Farr West, such a beautiful, peaceful place

 Playing some pioneer games, Spencer won one round and then Daniel won the other two!

 We look like tropical skittles so I had to get a picture of us. we just finished watching Sunset on the Mississippi

 Up inside the Red Brick Store where the Relief Society was first established. The girls had our own mini relief society meeting here. It was a beautiful experience as Carole shared her testimony of the divine work of Women and the history of those sisters who gave up so much for the Lord. It truly was a testimony strengthener to me as well as I listened to her speak and the Spirit that was there filled my entire soul.

 I'm so happy and so grateful that I am married to this Good looking Man for Time and all Eternity!!

 Inside the Caves of Tom Sawyer in Hannibal

 Inside the Gateway Arch. It is 600 ft tall and we rode inside a tiny little elevator for 3 mins.

 The only blondes of the family:)

Summer Fun

This year up at the Uintah Mountains there weren't many fish, too many mosquitos, and cold cold nights but with all that I loved every minute we had to be up in one of God's greatest creations. I love the outdoors especially the mountains.. it seriously is gorgeous up there and the nights are amazing you can see every star in the Universe and i get to snuggy up close to my Man!

Here is the picture you've all been waiting for. A shot of my prego belly. My little mister had fun camping too. (i almost said his name) 

 This year I got to try something new and adventurous and exciting. Daniel taught me how to shoot a shotgun. I'll be honest I really wanted to do it but at the same time I didn't. I was scared of the loudness and that it would jerk back and hurt me.. I knew the shock would come and I was scared of that moment to happen. I kept hesitating and Dan kept urging me come on babe you can do it, I promise it doesn't hurt. Finally after about what seemed an hour I finally shot the gun. and like I said that moment of surprise of loudness and the force of the gun scared me right out of my pants. I stuck to the little pistol after that.. But then I did a few more times later when we took some of the kiddos.

 Isn't this a great WANTED POSTER!! BEWARE of Bandit lurking about the mountains!!

Daniel slaving away picking up firewood for the fire and he filled our trunk full of wood to build me a boat. No it was actually for his scout campout.



Daniel's Birthday was that week as well. It was fun even though he was at school all day studying his little brains out. Kelsi and I made his cake the night before. For his birthday I themed it to be a Few of his Favorite things and one of his favorite candy bars is Reece's so I made him a Reece's cake. It was really rich but I thought it was delicious. I put the cake in the freezer with a note on the outside don't you dare peek inside of me or else your dead. Then inside the freezer i taped Black construction paper and put food in front of the cake pans so he couldn't see what was inside with another note saying "I thought i told you not to peek!" He had a kick out of that. so he did try peeking the little sneak.

The following week Daniel went and took his boys to scout camp down at Moab. He had a lot of fun with the boys as well as them with him. He wore them right as they went biking throughout the wilderness.

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