Stephanie: Summer 2011

Summer Life is grand, just look and see for your self!

Brother and his family came to town!

Cutest little boy in town

I just can't get over how adorable he is

We hit it off, pals from the start!

Just taking a seat to rest

Third Sunday Dinner

The kid is just loved by all

Everyone is so happy around him

My roommates came to the family dinner!

Enjoying time with the best sister-in-law, Sharon

Lisa my roommate is awesome!

Precious! The spider!

We all love each other, a lot

Playing cards together

Did I mention we are getting a temple!?


Kara bought extensions for her wedding. We decided to see what I would look like if I had her hair color.

The only time my hair will be darker than Ashley's

Time for some country swing dancing

We got a pretty good turn out!

Visit to my sisters

That'd be my dad and me

oh I have such a cute niece

Car I saw in the parking lot, kinda crazy

Cooking

Carmel popcorn

The Sunday night popcorn tradition

Oh there is my niece again! love the crazy hair

My brother showing her to the kids, they love it!

Running from uncle Matt

tackling uncle Matt

Country Swing Dancing - Ogden

Justin! What a stud

DREW!!! Love this boy

Ashley! I haven't seen you in FOREVER!!!!

Dancing was so HOT!!! But we had a blast!

precious!

Visit to Poppys

Hop scotch

Softball, she is quite the hitter

Swinging

spider time (look at my long hair!)

Wow three of us!

Finally got them to understand the concept

Logan trip

Opening the honey wine vinegar

Margaritas

delicious!

Justin has a feddish for trying to kiss girls I think, he must need to get a girlfriend. ;)

Joel took us as hostages cause we were acting suspicious

The fish was the cause of the problem. See the gun in Joel's hand?

Heidi Adair's wedding

We ran into Annie Ferrin! We love that girl!

Kim, Cali, Heidi and Lauren besties!

I accidentally caught the bouquet I didn't even want to go, I was forced!

Kara's wedding!

Ahh, arent we cute!

Jonathan and Kara

At the reception

The mates all together!

A little four square in the parking lot

A dance party in the parking lot

serenaded in the apartment

Justin obviously missed me more than I missed him. ;) ha ha

I missed Smalls more than she missed me.

I learned a new braid, the waterfall braid

Sunday walk

we always seem to find our way to the swings

ha ha we have a great time together

just a little crazy

see we are innocent!

Oh hey, a temple!

I kind of really love sunsets

PROGRESS!!!

Monthly visit to Grandma Hicken's (Granny's)

Cute kids

Oh hey a magnifying glass!

No I did not teach her how to burn things... ok i am lying

Grandma and the great grand kids

four generations right there

Grandma loves the children!

Oh hey, the temple is getting topped!

Look at that!

I promise I do work within all my fun

see look at that!

sometimes I have a little fun while working

sometimes I have bonding time...

Sometimes I get to work with my amazing father!

And sometimes there are just amazing sunsets that you have to stop and enjoy

Gorgeous!

Party with Shorty

Shorty and I headed to haul hay

Hay with is heavy when wet and mixed with other stuff!

But we are amazing and did get it loaded

and we took a ride back to the barn

Neli showed up just in time to miss the work

We went to the park and had a delicious picnic!

And then had some ice cream at my house, yummy!

Shorty thought Neli and I needed pictures together

We are best friends. A bond that will last a lifetime!

Annie and James Wedding

Just sitting around

Oh there is my beautiful bride

They are the perfect couple, love them!

We weren't sure what was going to happen. We just lost two roommates in on summer to men!

ha ha Drew took down Justin and attempted to hide the evidence. ha ha I really don't know but it is a great picture.

Third Sunday Dinner

Cooking with mommy

Making cookies

Enjoying the little niece

He is going to make a great dad one day!

Poppy teaching the kids the finer art of marbles

hard at work

Surprise! Look who showed up!

Making cookies delicious

just the kids!

struggling to get a picture of all the kids together

Hey look we have a temple

I work hard

I get to paint

Daniel and his cute little family came to visit.

Look at that temple going up!

Father son

Ah, they are so cute!

Headed to fix the swamp cooler

Games around the table - tradition

Me and my closest "friends" headed to work

I love the temple

More swamp coolers, just a little higher up

Sunsets are amazing!

Jumping into first dam

Just a little cold and wet

all the jumpers

working with my dad, stretching carpet

Adorable

little kid all tuckered out

AHHH!!!! So beautiful!

I love to see the progress

Pretty much Cinderella, always working, slaving away

Installing a window mount ac unit

...temple again :)

Oh hey look, another sunset

Adam is an awesome hit, look at that ball streaking through the sky

Beach Boys Concert

Batmobile with my daddy

Love family time

Happy 3 of July! (Logan celebrates a day early)

Headed to visit the DeSpains

trip to Mantua

We went canoeing

we built a sand castle

She must have been sick of my canoe driving skills, thought it would be better to kill herself or something ha ha

Ashley's cute little cousin!

Joel is hilarious, we love this boy

Eating treats from the Country Store or as Ash says Mantua Mall

Playing on the "beach"

Ash and Joel having a sword fight

Eating dinner delicious!

Shorty and I totally beat Joel and Justin

Joel made Shorty feel awkward, not hard to do.

Joel gives great awkward hugs, evidently Shorty does too!

Soon to be mates at the DeSpains

Massage train waiting for the fireworks to start

There they are!

The DeSpain's gave us rootbeer floats after wards, they are so great!

Happy real 4th!

We went on a hike with the kids to the waterfall

we had a great time and found a snake!

My daddy and I

We then had a picnic across from the temple

and played in the irrigation ditch

we then got snowies and enjoyed the shade

And finally went to the apartment and played in the irrigation water

and mud

the kids seemed to think they needed to get me wet

oh hey we even drove by this impressive building bet you can't guess what it is!

Then we had fun with some fireworks

Baby Blessing

what a precious child

adorable!

Pretty much the favorite aunt

Off to Grandmas

Helping out around Grandma's house! Stretching the carpet so she won't trip.

Putting the carpet back down

Gorgeous sunset before the fireworks

Delicious brownies, ice cream, caramel and strawberries after the fireworks.

Another great sunset

Headed off to go swing dancing! (I love how this randomly enlarges pictures for me, i could fix it, but I'm not going to)

Oh man, I forgot to rotate it! Oops! This is me working to lay the new threshold!

Redoing a bathroom

cutting and drilling tiles

prepping for tiles

and placing tiles

Happy Birthday Ashley!

Eating at the blue bird

People invited people who invited people and we got a big turnout.

Justin was attempting to make it look like we are together.

Justin offered to get out and fill the car up for me, so I let him. I told him I only wanted 5 gallons. You can't tell very well but it says 5.000 Gallons. Ridiculous, that boy is amazing!

Preparing for Ashley's birthday dinner

Her surprise party, she was so shocked!

We had a great turnout!

We are best roommates

Absolutely love our boys! They bring us lots of joy and entertainment

Love them all

Margaritas after ward prayer

Drew likes Mormon margaritas a lot

game time

more people to play games

Moroni

Tabernacle lawn full of people waiting to see Moroni placed

Kie and I, my adopted little sister

And there is Moroni!

Look at that temple! AHH!!!

Back to work

...at the time it seemed like a great idea, looking back now seems quite dangerous...

Changing the oil and getting everything fixed on the van before my yellow stone trip

My dad is a great coach

Off to Yellow Stone

Sunrise

We made it!

Relaxing around camp

Great game of LIGERETTO!

Soaking our feet in the freezing water, it had been raining

ha ha typical boys

Drew harassing Justin

Justin got sick of it and took action

Look at those beautiful boys

The girls

No molesting the bears!

Drew is a little sick of pictures and Justin is hiding

"Nope sorry."

Friends!

Best roommate in the WORLD!

Wading in the water, we accidentally match

Zach made it to the small land mass

Drew teaching Justin how to be a man as Justin failed at every attempt to knock down a tree

Conquer

Justin HATES this picture. At the time he thought he was funny. It didn't matter how many times we told him to stop he continued to say that he was a real man cause he could roll his shorts and didn't care what anyone thought

Third Sunday dinner

Baseball

Babysitting

Double piggy back

I kind of like sunsets a lot

Time for a little Country Swing Dancing

A Sad day

*sniff* sniff* my poor baby got destroyed! No I was not driving, nor was I in the truck.

Poor baby all busted up

Annie and James came and picked raspberries with me, that brightened my day!

Roofing

This roof is pretty steep. The steepest I have worked on.

My brother and I hard at work.

Just a slightly dirty job. Everyone was harassing me but my dad is just about as bad.

We had to tie him down to work this spot

Adam and Grandma headed to Jim & Angies for food

Dad trying out paint for lipstick

My wonderful cousin Shanna

cute little girl

The brother-in-laws learning the fine points of roofing from my dad, he is a pro.

Amy involving the kids in the hard work


Power tools, the best part! Well, the delivery guys flirting with me is a close runner up. That was pretty funny. Evidently I am the only girl they have ever seen roofing, they were pretty impressed. According to them roofing, especially this one, is too dangerous, oh and I need to take breaks with everyone else.

filling the dumpster

everyone taking a break

Attempt at new hair style

Fishbone french braid, I hadn't ever seen it done, didn't know if it was possible, and this is what I got. Sorry for the strange angle, it's kinda hard to shoot the back of your head.

Magnificent sunsets

Sleepover!

Kie my long lost sister came for a sleep over

yeah we're that cool we slept under the stars!

We also had waffles with ice cream, fresh raspberries and caramel. Breakfast is the best time for dessert, you have the rest of the day to work it off!

Visiting grandma

We kind of arrived later than expected and my dad forgot the key so he attempted to break in.

working to finish off the roof

Now the boys are gone I can enjoy the power tools even more!

My cousin Annie and her new little boy came to visit grandma

I Love to see the temple

Isn't the temple magnificent?!

Photo shoot

Maddy decided we needed to have a photo shoot

man we have a great area and photographer, what happened to the model!

Maddy has an eye for fun pictures

Temple time

gorgeous

Wish it would have come out clearer

Sunday Night Fun

Late night chats on the lawn with graham crackers and frosting!

Bear Lake trip

Setting up camp, most importantly the kitchen

The lake

Cooking dutch oven pizza

Cooked to perfection! Nothing better than dutch oven cooking.

Tired chitlins, can't have a true camping experience without having someone have to set up in the dark.

ready for some water fun

Brave little girl, holding the frog that was caught

love boat rides

ROOMIES!!! Bandito time

Water weenie with the kids

got side swept by a wave and the kids were no help and keeping it right side up, we ended up in the water. They were afraid they were going to drown so I tried to calm them and hold them so they were more comfy but the three of them were great at shoving me under the water. luckily Mattt came to the rescue.

Safe and sound back in the boat

Treasure hunt!

Campfire songs

buried in the sand

wave runner time!

Kansas

he is a horse rider

His hair is getting curly!

Flying with Daniel

This little boy makes me so happy

We're just a little bit nutty. Everyone loved our shirts in the airport and on the plane. I thought it was funny that my parents were yellow and blue as they make green, me! ha ha