What is the deal?!

You too!? or should I say you two?


Well it seems as though this one is helping out Grandma Vollmers cause in getting me married off.


So after our 3rd Sunday Dinner, I was sitting out in the car with Carissa and Landon while Jenny and Brian 'quickly' said goodbye to everyone.

While sitting there talking to them Carissa looks up at me and states matter of factly, Steph all of grandmas children have moved out except you, cause you haven't found anyone.

She is too little to be harassing me about getting married! Doesn't she like me being at grandmas when she comes? Well I couldn't help but laugh. She looks up at me and says Steph stop laughing, why are you laughing. I tell her that I'm too young to get married and she looks at me disapprovingly like are you kidding me, you are old! Luckily Landon bailed me out by saying mommy and daddy. I tell him yeah, mommy and daddy did get married, they were older than me, by 3,4,5,6 years though. (I kept adding on because it just seemed so close at the real 3 year mark) That seemed to satisfy them and so we got off the subject of getting me married off. PHEW!!!!

Happy Fathers Day!

The whole fam damly was there!
Minus the dogs and turtles, which is perfectly fine!

The boys hard at work.


Just chit chatting


Rylie swinging, such a funny girl. She is so curious it is great. She will ask a question and so you answer and she says why? and you answer and you get another why? and so on until you get to the nitty gritty or you change the subject.


She is so cute. Directing me what to do.

Here she comes! She started having me hold her all the way down and now just catch her at the bottom. She eventually did it on her own! That really is a steep slide.

Rolling down the hill! She really wanted me to, I told her I couldn't, I was in a dress, she got to the why (obviously it is okay, I am in a dress too and I'm doing it) so I told her I would chase her. :D that worked!

Santa Maria!

Kids table! Or as Carissa might state it, all of us 'who haven't found anyone'.

Landon is a little unhappy that his spider man flip flop fell off.

Isn't she just adorable!

Here she is posing. I love how the angle I am at it looks like she is eating the table leg. She was just sitting there with her mouth open really.

Hide and seek! Little do they know Matt is stealthily sneaking up on them!

They got up and were looking around saying, he isn't anywhere! When all the sudden he jumped up. I love the look on Carissa's face.

Run Landon!

Rylie is pretty fast, look at that speed! I am thinking that Carissa is actually right behind the tree. ha ha

Jenny and Brian enjoyin the party.

Amy trying to see if she could knock someone over when they rode by on the bike. Pushing doesn't work so well, but grabbing the handle bars and pushing does. Daniel went down. If only I had been recording or took this a tad latter! AHHH!!!!!

I love my family, they are great. Random, but great.

Look at Landon climbing the wrong side of the ladder! Silly little boy.

Father excited about his presents. Bocce!

Landon just licked all the frosting off the top of his cupcake, or maybe he just wiped it all over his face.

SCORE!!! Oreos

Time for a little bocce.

We have to be very precise to make sure that people get the right amount of points, we'd hate to give it to you if you don't deserve it. Get out that measuring tape!

Look at her, she is going to be an amazing mom, she is a wonderful aunt!

They are so good with kids, I'm excited to have another one joining the family in December!

There is our little runner. We played a little Farkle between these last two pictures.

I should have tried to find a good night setting, oh well, I guess I'll learn eventually, i figured that auto would be fine! Adam Brit and little Carissa.

Here we all are (the ones that stayed late at least) admiring Adams awesome street bike.

Here is our little Carissa singing I lived in Heaven. Really kinda hard to hear but she is cute!

Moving

Once again I am a slacker with pictures, but what are you going to do. I took the opportunity to spend a couple of days helping Daniel and Sharon move into their new 'house'. It was fun to see it empty full of boxes and then see it completely change into a cute little home when we got everything put away. It is such a cute place, they have done well. The best part is that it is still in Brigham, WOOT!!! It was lots of fun to spend time with them, they are so funny.

Shopping

Yep, I got these bad boys.

Big 5 was having a shoe sale! These are originally $49.99 and I got them for $19.99!

I also got these ones.

For a very good price I might add. They were normally $44.99 and I got them for $19.99

All in all it was a very successful trip. I mean I got two pairs of shoes for less than what one pair would normally cost, now if that isn't a great deal, what is?

SOAR

Well, my computer is being dumb and for some reason is not allowing me to turn my photos...yes I took it upside down, it is easier that way sometimes. This is me and my new friend Katelyn.

In this picture is another new friend Lisa (who happens to also be going into elementary education!) Then next to her are two BEHS students both names Morgan. Then across from them is Katelyn some random boy who introduced himself and sat with us and then me.

Here I am headed away from the University to go home. I was fast, one of the first ones done and out. I decided to walk to the car instead of riding the shuttle. That way I could not only enjoy my ice cream in the amazing weather but I could also burn calories as I gained them (unfortunately I gain them faster than I burn them, and the walk is all down hill) plus I would have had to stand around by myself to wait for the shuttle. :D

SOAR was way fun surprisingly. I am glad that I was able to convince my self to talk to people so that I wasn't a loner all day long.

Idaho Falls

On Sunday my Uncle Don was ordained and sustained Bishop. We decided to go down and support him. It was fun to see them and their girls. It has been at least seven years since I've seen all those cousins. But of course I left the camera in the car...oops! After church we decided to go to the Temples Visitor Center. There they had all these pictures of stars and galaxies. It was so amazing. They had information about them, explaining how huge the Universe really is. They had many neat scriptural quotes to go along and there were missionaries there to teach us. It was really neat! Then we walked around the beautiful Temple grounds. It was a great day. Sorry that I'm a slacker on the picture side. :D

Devils Food Cake

My mom decided that we would read this one as a family, making it impossible for me to read alone without getting in trouble! She would! Plus even if I did read ahead, I'd have to go back and reread it with them! Sheesh, talk about making sure you get the details, reading the entire book twice. . . almost. :D I like this one. I think it is also better than English Trifle but that is just my opinion. They are all great and very enjoyable. It took us a little over a week to finish this one. I can't wait for September for Key Lime to come out. It should be good.

One of the amazing experiences that kept us from reading this book was the opportunity we had to go to the church and do a little clean up on Saturday getting the church all spic and span for church on Sunday. It is amazing how fun cleaning can be, if you just have the right attitude and look for the best! Ha ha And of course having it not be my own room makes it more appealing to clean, something new, not the same old.

Cake Decorating Class

My mom and I signed up for cake decorating classes at kitchen needs. We learned the star and so I decided to practice it in a shape since that is how I planned to do my cake. Can you tell what this is? Ice cream cone! (I almost wrote cupcake, oh dear)

Another trial, I figured I should try something a little harder since the one I want on the cake is a little more difficult. This one is a sunflower. I turned it, I have no clue why it still came out sideways!

Here I am working on my first real cake. (Cause I have now taken a class on it)

There I am excitedly working on my latest project. I'm so excited to see how it turns out!

Oh there it is, the cute dog!

Okay so I did a little more work than that. You would have no idea how hard it was to get a brown. So I finally got the outline color and was planning to fill him in with it when I realized it was way too thin, so I thickened it, but then the color was way off so I added more coco and coloring and then it ended up with a way bad texture, and didn't taste that good so I start over, not good. So I try to go from the left over yellow, and add coco and a little coloring and what do you know I got the perfect color and it is a little bit too thin. Well I decided not to bother with it and move on, I was a little sick of it. So I get the white stars on which actually you can see the definition, then i get to making the brown stars and I'm frustrated because it wont hold its shape since it was too thin, not to mention I was making the stars way tiny and you are supposed to do them all the same size so they look good. Regardless to say I did vary. But with the thin frosting you cant tell that much and it helped make it look more like shaggy fur, so it was fine that it was all poky instead of starry looking...I guess.

And of course we have to get a picture of me and my art work before I give it to my wonderful neighbors. Who coincidentally happen to have a birthday in like two days, what are the odds that I decided to make this cake for them and then there is a birthday that week! I was having a really hard time keeping my eyes open. Although this picture goes great with what happened right before. I was getting ready to pick up the cake and somehow only got one hand under the cake and the other hand happened to make a nice indent on the side of the cake. And since I'm an idiot and turned all the yellow frosting brown I couldn't just add some frosting to make it smooth again. Luckily I have an ingenious mother who suggested I add the paw prints around the edge to cover it up. :D It is amazing how much you can cover with frosting.

There we go, the eyes are open. I didn't try the cake, but I was told that it was delicious and very moist. SCORE!!! I used a top secret recipe that my wonderful sister Jenny gave me on a great way make moist cakes. I used a vanilla cake and put cheesecake pudding in the center. I wanted to put cream cheese, but I didn't have time to make that.

Yes there are many flaws bu all in all I thought that the decoration turned out pretty swell for an first timer.

YSA Baptisms

Well, I'm a little bit of a slacker on pictures since summer came. But I took the opportunity to attend the temple with the young single adults. It was great!

I drove myself and Candie down. It was a fun drive. Except for the fact that I am pretty sure I am dyslexic! I took 12th street instead of 21st street! (In the past I have missed 21st street thinking it was 12!) This isn't too bad because it isn't hard to find the temple. But what is bad is that everyone follows me! When we get there they said, "Oh well we figured you attend the temple frequently, so we followed you. Is that not the way you usually go?" Oh well, we made it there on time.

Oh and on the way in, it was raining and so I got out the umbrella. I was in a white dress and figured it wasn't a good idea to get wet. The wind was blowing a little and I figured we would be fine. Little did I know that there would be an unexpected big gust of wind that would blow the umbrella inside out! ;( How embarrassing! ha ha. Now I not only have to carry and umbrella through the temple, but it is turned inside out and I have to get it put inside right so it isn't as tall as me! (it was one of those huge umbrellas) Luckily there were many nice single adults to help me. We all laughed together, although I wish it was at someone elses misfortune, not mine. I guess we all have our time, oh well!

Oh, so while we were there, the power went out! When WE were in the temple! The workers said that they had never been there when that had happened(they didn't think it had ever happened), and they thought for a little while that we were running on generators. Is that cool or what?! I truly felt like a pioneer when i got into that icy cold water. It was all i could do to keep from shivering. I figure I got to experience what it would have been like back in the day before heated fonts.
It was a great experience, I love going to the temple. Every time has something unique about it. There is always something to learn. :D

YSA dance

What a cute bunch of Young Single Adults
Kell, Me, Mell, Katrina

There are Kell and Katrina wishing they were as good of guessers as me!

Ya, you better believe it, I won these starburst because I'm amazing! I guessed there were 277 and they say there were 276, so I won. Although I decided to count to see how many of each color there were, because I was absolutely sure there were more yellows than any and so I had to see if it was just me or it was true, and it was true. And when I totaled them all up they equaled 279... I guess they are multiplying!

The dance was fun. They had all sorts of different activities that you could participate in and it was a blast! They had a pie eating contest and almost everyone of them looked like they were going to spue! I felt bad for them. It was a full Maddox cream pie! Honestly that is almost impossible to eat a whole one, they are big! So the winner finished and mostly everyone else had barely eaten half, if even! And of course what ever they had in their mouths when the winner was announced ended up getting spit back into the pie tray, that was a little disgusting!

But the dance was fun. There was a boy named Joe that asked me to dance. He said that he could kinda dance, so I said, well I can kinda dance too, so between the two of us we should be pretty good. :D He is such a LIAR!!!! He is an amazing dancer! I felt so retarded, he kept trying things and I would mess them up and so we tried it again and eventually I got it. He was doing lifts! It was neat, the strangest part is he kinda looked like he would be more of the I'm too cool punk kinda kid. But he was great, very nice, and he could tell I was just graduated, must be because I suck at dancing. ha ha Not to mention I wore horrible shoes to really dance in (I really didn't think people would be dancing when there were movies and games and other things going on...I was wrong), they were tall sandals, oops. The ones I wore when I hurt my ankle at shorty's, and guess what, yeah, in the middle of dancing I rolled it making it pop and it really sucked trying to keep up with his double time speed. Oh well, it was a blast and he said something about having to dance again and work on more moves, so maybe I'll learn eventually. . . and it was nice to watch him dance with other girls and see them struggling to keep up with him, at least I'm not the only one!

Oh and I really suggest that the young single adults attend because not only do more boys know how to dance, but they have great food. They had the mini cheesecake pieces from Cosco and tons of fresh fruit as well as chips and salsa. I'm sure there was more but I was a little preoccupied by everything going on. :D

Senior Pictures (the real ones, not one we took)

Talk about cold water! Oh well, it was fun.

These are taken up at Mantua Camp ground.

This was taken back behind Honor Copy.

Here we are on Main Street.

Did anyone see me? I was laying on the side walk in many different places. My mom was in complete shock, she still is!

I really liked how this one turned out. :D

These are a few of my favorites, hope you enjoyed! What did you think? Any favorites? Or fun comments?