St. Patrick’s Day/ Spencer’s Farwell

Wow what a weekend! The 17th and 18th were so crazy! Saturday the 17th Mom and I spent the whole day Cooking, cleaning and running around like chickens with our heads cut off. :)  We made cookies, brownies, Oreo balls, and 28lbs of pulled pork. It was fun and yummy but so exhausting. I did get some laundry washed, dried and PUT AWAY! (That is a miracle) but by 9:30 I was ready for bed and was asleep by 10.

Sunday we got up and got ready for church, finished up the last minute things and off we went. Spencer spoke on Obedience and did a great job. Dad sang in a double quartet and it sounded great. Bonus Dad did not cry! :)

We had about 52 family members show up, lots of new and old friends, and neighbors. It was a packed house but it was so wonderful! Another Bonus we DID NOT run out of Food! Yeah!!! At DJ’s homecoming we ran out of food. It was crazy. This time we did not want that to happen so we prepared for the masses.

It was so nice to see so much love and support! Thanks to everyone how came!

Chloe and the Family

Spencer and His Friends

July 24th 2011

So, the 24th of July is one of my favorite Holidays. I love the history of the Pioneers, the fireworks, the day off, the time to spend with family and the celebration of 3 months til my birthday. :)

This year it was on a Sunday and it was my Beautiful Cousins Homecoming also.

I love this cute girl. She is so so sweet, kind, genuine, amazing and any other wonderful words. She just got home from her mission and I am so excited that she is back. I missed her so much. She served such a great mission and so many wonderful stories. After church we went back to their house and ate some wonderful Mexican food and chilled and talked with family. It was wonderful.

DJ knows a family from his mission that live really close to Aunt Sue's house so Dad, Mom, DJ and I went over to see them. they were so awesome. I loved their accent and their southern attitudes. It is so wonderful. So when we were trying to find their house we had to flip a Uie and we saw this sign. We were laughing so hard and I had to take a picture of it.

Seriously the could of spaced it out better or changed the color, but it makes for a good laugh.

Then we headed home to do Fireworks! DJ had some leftover and bought some of our favorites that we liked when we sold them. It was awesome! we invited the neighbors and they brought some fireworks too. we also had a bunch of neighbors just show up to see what all the noise was about. It was a great show and we had fun. I love Holidays and the family, friends and neighbor get togethers. :)

Massive amounts of fireworks



Me, Nate, Brooke, Logan

Neighbors!

Happy St. Patricks Day!

Yeah! Happy St. Patricks Day!!!

So I really like this holiday. I think that it is super fun. My mom always made it a big deal and I remember in school it was a big thing also.

In the mornings we would have green waffles or pancakes and we would all wear green so we did not get pinched and then mom always made green chicken pot pie with green mashed potatoes and a green salad. But NO green Milk!

I remember as a kindergartner when Mrs. Olsen had green feet and the leperchaun came and left us a present. It was so great. there is something fun about finding gold and a tiny leprechaun.

Today I miss being a kid and feeling all the magic of this day. but I made myself green waffles and I made green cupcakes for work. :)

I hope everyone's day is filled with luck!!