Jennifer's Bridal Shower

Our friend Jennifer is getting married!!

We had a shower for her a few weeks ago.

I should have waited until the food was all set up before I took pics.

Same here

I should have waited til the present table was FULL before I took pic.

But you get the idea

Some of her friends

Her in-laws

Her family

My mom and Jen

More relatives

Jen got SOOO much lingerie

I hung it on this tree

This picture does not do it justice.

More friends

We played this fun game

We gave each team a bag of random candy bars

and they had to come up with a candy bar poster card for Jen.

They were pretty funny.

Now we just have to wait for the big day

November 10th

Zoo Friends

We went to the zoo with our friends!!

four kids semi looking at the camera

enjoying the animals

Cabin Fever

Last weekend we went to the Hemenway's Family Cabin

with my cousins

Bryce, Bec & Zoey, Kyle & Lex, and Amber & Kiddos

Stella was in heaven

because she could play in the dirt

all she wanted

Here she is eating wood

Running and running and more running

Climbing

More dirt

The swings were probably her fave

See what I mean...

Zoey even joined in on the swinging fun

Best attempt at a group shot

Looks like we wore Zo Zo out

There was a much smaller bike

that I tried to convince Stella to ride

But she insisted on riding this one

That's all folks!!

Best "Frousins"

A friend of mine calls her

best friends/cousins

her "frousins".

I like it!

Jersey and Stella will be best frousins

 Jersey and Stella really do love each other.

Look at them stare a each other in these pics.

So cute!

 Both in purple dresses playing in Stella's crib.

 Right after I took this picture

Jersey dropped Stella and said
"Let me see it"

Good thing she doesn't have far to fall

and she fell on her mattress.

haha

To all those mothers of two or more out there....

trying to get two kids to look at the camera and smile is tough 

pretty much impossible.

Rivalry

We have a friendly rivalry with our neighbors

This year it's pretty embarassing to even talk about

But these babies are so cute we'll do it anyway.

The Frisch's got us good this year but sneaking

a U of U decal onto to our back window

the afternoon of the big game.

Pretty sure Andrew was

FREAKING

out as soon as he noticed.

He couldn't stop staring in the rear view mirror at it.

He had to pull over and get it off before we could go far.

 Here is some close ups of our little cougarette.

She had her first cold when these where taken.

These pics also make her hair look light....but it's not.

Bosom Friends

If you are familiar with Anne of Green Gables... 

then you will recognize the term Bosom Friends.

I have a Bosom Friend.

Her name is Becca.

She and I both had baby girls this summer.

Cutie pie, Jane, was born just 6 weeks after Stella.

This was their play date a couple weeks ago.

Now don't forget Ash's darling little Anna.

She is going to be the "mother"

when these little girls play house in a couple years.

And she didn't want to be left out of the pictures.

Ash will also have another baby girl this fall.


What's in a {NICK} name?

I think nicknames are so fun!

I guess I love nick names because there are always funny stories behind them.

And I'm a sucker for a funny story.
Our family members have some funny nicknames

Bean

my uncle Paul ate a lot of beans and then went to the movies

and I guess you can probably guess the rest

bottom line:

whole family and row behind left and went to the back of the theater

Tag

another uncle, Mike, has this weird habit

of rubbing the tags on his shirt he is wearing
or better yet, if you sit next to him-he might rub the tag on your shirt

Boo

Andrew's bro Brian was apparently quite the whiner once upon a time

he doesn't whine too much now--but the name is still there

Bosom

Becca {Bingham} Greenwood and I

used to love to watch Anne of Green Gables

so we started joking that we were bosom friends

now we still call each other Bosom

when my mom wants to know what's up with Becca, she says

"What's new with Bosom"

Dibb

all of Andrew's friends call him Dibb

and most of my family calls him that too

I called him Dibb {or "quiet boy"} until we got engaged

then I had to train myself to call him Andrew

just after we got engaged

my aunt Leslie called my mom and asked

"What's Dibb's last name?"

my mom said

"Dibb"

Leslie said

"Dibb Dibb"

my mom laughed and said

"Nope, Andrew Dibb"

Leslie replied

"Wow!  I had no idea"

What's your nickname or your favorite nicknames for other people? 

What are the funny stories behind them?

draaaaaaaaggggggging

Does anybody else feel like this week is dragging?

I swear each day at work has felt like 2.

So since it's Thursday--I feel like it's about the 8th day of work this week.

To make things worse...

Last night I went with my friends to see

Wow!  What a boring movie.

Seriously......soooooooooo long and slow and lame and boring.

I love Julia Roberts.

So despite the fact that everyone hated the book

And despite the fact that I've heard nothing {good} about this movie

I was still optiminstic.

Worst mistake ever!!!!!!

Each location in the movie (NYC, Italy, India, and Bali)

Felt like it's own movie.

It really felt like an 8 hour movie.

Do NOT waste $8.25 like me!

Do NOT even waste $1 to redbox it!!!

I am SERIOUS!

Hopefully tomorrow picks up a bit.

Confessions of a Nerd

The nerd conventions

of my life. 

In Jr. High Jenna and I had to compete  in the history fair.

Theme: Turning Points in History

Our Topic: Rock'n'Roll

Who knew?  We won the regional history fair.

Then went on to the state history fair.

Won that too.

Then off to Washington D.C.

to compete in the  biggest nerd convention/national history fair. 

We didn't win that one.

So we're not the biggest nerds in the nation--just the state.

Side note:  You haven't truly experienced a nerd convention until you go to a national history fair dance.  For real, we went one night.  We told our moms to come with us.  Haha!!!  We just wanted to check it out.  We walked in got a cookie, and by the time we were done eating our cookie we were ready to go.   Steve Erkel dancing X 1000=national history fair dance.

In high school, Becca, Ash, and I

won the regional science fair.

We were supposed to go to BYU 

to meet with some professor

to perfect our project

because then we would have been a shoe-in to win the

state science fair.

We didn't really feel like it. 

So we just took our project to state as is.

We still won 2nd place.

Now I'm 4 credits away from being done with college.

Did I make it through without a nerd convention?????

Nope.

Introducing Beta Gamma Sigma

An award for only the top 10% of senior business students

At certain accredited universities.

I got it.

Beta Gamma Sigma sounds like a nerd sorority to me.

Andrew and I went to the "induction ceremony" on Friday.

We didn't think it was a big deal, but then as Andrew put it.....

"All the sudden there were people & family members everywhere

whipping out their professional cameras and taking pics."

We didn't even think to take a camera with us.

We hung around log enough for me to

take my PLEDGE

and then to walk across the stage and receive

my medal,

my key,

and my certificate.

Then we skipped out on their cheap refreshments.

And went to Outback.

Now THAT's a celebration.

Yeah me!

Hopefully adding Beta Gamma Sigma to my resume

will provide me with some benefits.

Because otherwise, I'm just a nerd.

what'd we do last weekend?

Last weekend, Kelsie and Ethan came up from Texas.
We finally got to meet their baby girl, Abigail.

Kelsie's trying to give birth to all her kids in different states.

So far Brooklyn was born in Idaho, Abby in Texas,

and I'm pretty sure she's not preggers already...
so I bet they'll move again before baby #3 arrives. :)

The four of us stayed up WAY TOO late talking on Friday night.
The stories just kept getting funnier
and werider the later it got.

It was so fun to be with our friends.

On Sunday, we went to Grantsville for our other friends.

Goss and Kadee were blessing their baby boy Brigsen.

We don't see them as much as we'd like either.

Because Tooele county is far!!!

(Well far enough that it's hard to just stop by)

The blessing & luncheon were great.

This weekend I'm going to a baby shower and

Brian and Mindy are blessing their little boy Zander.

Wow, there must have been something in the water this time last year......