Trip to Savannah

I'm not exactly sure how to get all my photos in the right order...so they load up and I just deal with them.  While SM's parents were here in March we took a trip to visit Savannah.  We had never been there before so we did a little bit of searching on the internet and decided to take a bus tour of the historic district of the city.

The baby was eight weeks old for this trip!

Look at those huge trees and the Spanish moss.  Savannah was beautiful!  I imagine that in the summer it is even more beautiful when all the leaves are out and green.

We used the stroller as a bed for the baby and he took a few naps while we walked around.

SM and his dad are getting the stroller and baby into a very old cemetery.  The cement pathway in the cemetery was made with sea shells.  We enjoyed the ability to walk around and then hop onto the tour bus whenever we wanted to.

Here we are on one of the trolley tour buses!

SM was our fearless leader who got us where we wanted to be.

For lunch we stopped at vegan restaurant, hoping that my Mother-in-law could eat something gluten  free.  Well, we didn't find anything for her to eat but she had brought some things to eat.  The rest of us ate a vegan lunch and then SM went across the street and bought himself a cupcake or two.  He enjoyed every bite.

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The saying goes that if you touch the fish water spout during a rainstorm you'd have good luck.  It is not raining in this photo but I did want to touch the cool fish water gutter.

We had a wonderful trip to Savannah and will return again to learn more about this beautiful city.

Baby shower in Northern Virginia

My friends in No. Va. threw me a wonderful baby shower.  Check out that blue cake in the left corner of the photo.  It was so amazing...and tall.  And there was fresh fruit, yogurt and granola, muffins and cupcakes.  In fact, one of my friends knowing I am from Lehi, ordered some Lehi Roller Mills muffin mixes and made those muffins for the shower.  

The shower was full of fun, laughter and a lot of hugs.  What a great bunch of ladies!

I asked SM to join the party.  He said he would as long as he hid himself in the kitchen.  But as you can see, he still saw and visited with a lot of our friends.

We have been blessed with so many friends.  Thank you to everyone for your love and support.  It was great to see and visit with so many people.

And here are the ladies that threw together such a great party.  A big thank you to ya all!

Faculty Kickball Team

SM played kickball this last week with some of the faculty from the law school.   The students were raising money for the Susan G. Koman for the Cure (Breast Cancer).  The team had a lot of fun...and they won their game against one of the student teams.

Here is the team cheer after they won their game.  What a fun group of people!  I wish I had a picture of several of the student teams.  A lot of them were wearing pink shirts and one team had matching pink collared shirts with tall pink socks.

Valentine's Day in August?

SM and I got our picture taken at the 80's Valentine's Dance last February.  Just recently I was able to scan the photo into my computer and I thought I'd share that photo with you all.  See how silly my husband is?  One of the things that we enjoy about each other is that we make each other laugh.  And hopefully you get a chuckle from this photo.  Enjoy!

Family reunion Part VI

I wanted to add some fun photos from the reunion.  As with most reunions, we ate a lot of food.  Here's one of the youngest members of the family getting her food.  Yum!

And when you are the very youngest member of the reunion, you get so much attention.  Sometimes it's overwhelming!

Here's my brother and his wife!

Mom and Dad! (and a animal cookie?)

My sister and her hubby!

And Me!  My husband went home early because he was running a half marathon the next morning.  I stayed playing a game called Boxers or Briefs with everyone.  I almost won!

Silly faces.  SM won a sucker that had a crazy mouth on the outside.

Another silly face because of a silly sucker!

Family Reunion Part II

Friday morning we took some family pictures, ate some lunch and then we drove up to Cascade Springs.  As a child, my dad took us up to Cascade Springs and we loved it.  I think the kids enjoyed all the water.

When Jeremy and I were either engaged or first married, we drove up to Cascade Springs.  It was earlier in the morning and there was a mama moose and her calf, walking in the springs.  Jeremy and I sat on those stairs and watched the moose for awhile.  This trip brought back that memory.

It was a beautiful day.  As Jeremy and I were on our way back down the mountain, we got stuck behind some cars.  We were very confused why we were stopped.  Finally we saw the teenage son run back to the car with his camera.  They had stopped in the middle of the road so that the teenage son could run out and take a picture of a mother moose and baby.  But the crazy thing was, these moose were right there next to the road.  It was so stupid of that boy to get out the car and get so close to the animals.

So much fun to be together as a family.

Family Reunion in July Part 1

My sister-in-law organized a family reunion and we had such a great time.  One of my brother's brought some games for us to play...Minute to Win It games.  Here we had one minute to put up a pyrimid and take it down.  SM did it...barely.  I wasn't quite so talented.  I am not very fast under pressure.

Soon the kiddos joined us and began stacking the cups.  It was so much fun!

As you can see, we stopped timing once the kids joined us and just let them have fun and be creative.

We had a lot of fun.  The reunion started on a Thursday evening and went until Saturday afternoon.