Our 4th

Jared and I had a great time celebrating the 4th of July. Because it fell on a Sunday he had a 3 day weekend so we decided to make the best of it. There was a a lot going on around the state over the entire weekend. So we made a 3 day celebration out of. Saturday night we had dinner at JCW's and then watched the fireworks at Thanksgiving Point. I didn't take my camera with me so there aren't any pictures.

Sunday we decided to make it a full day and took Trax to the Gateway to take in a movie.

We went and saw Toy Story 3 in 3d

Then, because it wasn't very crowded I wanted to take pictures around the Gateway. It's a beautiful area

There were hardly any people until we got to the fountain and it was pretty packed with people enjoying the refreshing water.

After we walked around and killed sometime, we got back on Trax and headed to the Spring Mobile Ballpark for a Bees Game

Some entertainment

A marriage Proposal during the entertainment

Hey batter batter!

Play Ball! We switched seats at the beginning after about 10 minutes.

and the race in on the ice cream is in the lead.

After the game all the people who were sitting outside the fence came onto the field for the fireworks

The sole firework picture I took. I was too busy enjoying them.

Monday we went to the Olive Garden for lunch and then just hung out.

It was good that we got this time because for 3 weeks after that Jared worked without any days off. I love it when we can spend time together doing the things that we enjoy doing. Sometimes work can get overwhelming and take away all of our free time, so any time we can get out of the routine it's good.

A first.

As I have mentioned in previous posts I have had quite a busy summer. One of the reasons was because I decided to try my hand at my 1ft ever craft sale. Early in May an email went out at work asking for some input on who would be interested in becoming involved in this. I hesitated for a while but then decided why not give it try. I began working feverishly in all my spare time to get together enough cards to make it work. I had never done this before so I wasn't sure what kind of cards people were interested in. I even had a close friend of mine come out one Friday and help me.

Here I am all set up and ready to go. I chose to put the cards in baskets this time but think if I ever do it again I will display them differently.

Some of the other sellers

Here are the cards that I created this time and a learned a lot about what people like and don't like. The Christmas cards were not a top seller.
In fact I don't think I sold any,

Even the Birthday cards didn't go over well, though I sold a few

The Ballerina card was a hit and I sold of those that I made as well as the Ipod card. I think the pinwheel card was the very top selling card that I had made.

People really liked the note cards

But not so much the sympathy cards or the wedding cards.

Kids Birthday cards were a hit. The Halloween cards not so much.

People really responded to the Baby Cards as well. Especially the one with the stork. I got to orders off those ones.

All in all I did pretty well and the extra money was nice. I think I would do it again and should really start building up my supply

Summer Weddings

It was a relatively slow summer as far as weddings go for us, as there were only two. The 1st one was the wedding of my cousin's daughter Contessa. She and Kyle were in the Draper temple on June 17th. They held their reception at Cactus and Tropicals in Draper. It was gorgeous to say the least.

Here is the card that I made for them

My aunt and uncle made the cake(s)

Yummy food

A chocolate fountain with at the dip ins

The happy couple (taken from Facebook)

The next weeding was in July and was that of one of my very best High School Friends, Jamie. She and Kevin chose the 10th to be sealed in the Mt Timpanogos Temple

The had their reception at the Chillon Reception center in Spanish Fork. I met up with a lot of my old classmates and friends.
The Happy couple (picture From facebook)

I wish both couple lots and lots of happiness in their lives.

Larsen Family Reunion 2010

At the last minute Jared and I decided to go the 3 hours to the Larsen Family reunion in Torrey. We were not there that long but it was nice to see family that we don't see very often.
Click the picture to go to my album

I Love a Parade!

Just a few random pictures from the Eagle Mountain Parade that was held the beginning of June

Homer from home depot

Pretty Princess'

Getting Candy!

Super pig!

It was nice day for a parade