Tuesday, June 30

Monday, June 29

Family Reunion-Day 1

Monday:
We stayed in a hotel in Boise Monday night. My grandma had planned a bbq at the park with a lot of her family & extended family that night. My great grandma was there, along with a lot of my mom's cousins & aunts & uncles. I met a lot of people I had never met before, or hadn't seen since i was a little girl.




Eileen, Jessica, Melinda & I had to leave the bbq a little early to catch the last hour of the Bachelorette. :) (Can't believe she sent Jake home.)


We spent the rest of the night swimming & just hanging out at the hotel.

Temple

I wanted to post these pictures almost 2 months ago, but forgot. They were on my mom's camera & I kept forgetting to get them from her. On May 5th, I got my endowments out at the Mount Timpanogos Temple.




Jeff, my parents, Paula, Julie & Jeff's grandparents were all able to be there with me. It was such an amazing experience.

Sunday, June 21

Welcome to the family Gordon

This is Gordon.

We are still getting to know him, but these are the things I've learned so far.
He is an 8 year old Sulcata Tortoise.
He weighs 9 lbs & is 13 inches long.
Likes:
*exploring our backyard & eating the grass & plants
*chilling in the sun
*trying to eat rocks
*he loves to eat carrots
*more than anything he loves the cement...no matter where I put him in the yard, he finds his way back to the cement
Dislikes:
*being scared-he hisses & super quick slides back into his shell when something scares him
*he absolutely hates being put back in his tank after outside time-he slams his head into the side of the tank trying to escape

Thursday, June 18

For Mike

My mom gave Jeff & I a "Family Home Evening for Newlyweds" book. One of the ideas in the book says to write 10 reasons why you love your in-laws. Every time Mike comes over he asks if I've written his 10 things yet....so here you go Mike :)

#1-I love that Mike cares about people. He loves to make others happy. He is always doing things for people and puts everyone else before himself.

#2-I love the attitude Mike has about life. No matter what happens he is always positive and happy and just loves life! I really admire that about him & wish I was more like him in that way.

#3-Mike loves to have fun! He is always up for anything. Even going to see "Twilight" :) He's always ready for an adventure & makes everything fun.

#4-I love that Mike invites me to the gym with him so I have someone to run with. Then pushes me until I think I might fall over dead :) It's good for me!

#5-I love how Mike talks to me about girls. When he gets back from a date, he answers all my questions without complaining ;). He asks me my opinion about them. Then we analyze together "why she said this" or "what she meant by that". It makes me feel important.

#6-I love that Mike has a strong testimony of the Gospel & shares with me little spiritual experiences he's had. He's truly a great example of someone who lives the Gospel.

#7-I love that Mike thinks I'm funny. He may roll his eyes at my jokes, but I know deep down inside he's laughing ;) he he

#8-I love that Mike & I are friends. He's not just my brother-in-law. We can hang out without Jeff & still have a blast!

#9-I love that I can talk to Mike & he listens. He never makes me feel stupid or feel like he's judging me at all. I feel comfortable telling him anything.

#10-I love that Mike is my brother-in-law! I'm so glad he's a part of my life :)

Love ya Mike :)

Wednesday, June 17

Summerfest

This is my absolute favorite time of the year! 4th of July...parades...otter pops...rodeos...carnivals...summer nights...hot air balloons...baseball games...ice cream cones...bbq's...fireworks....Love it all! Friday and Saturday we went to Summerfest in Orem. It rained us out both nights. Saturday, Melinda was with us & we made it most of the way through the parade before the rain started.




It stopped raining in time for the fireworks. We watched them from the Macey's parking lot with our Kong ice cream cones!


If you look in the bottom of this picture, in my left hand is Jeff's baby ice cream cone.

Tuesday, June 16

Gus is a papa

For Christmas last year Jeff wanted to get Maggie a bunny. We ended up coming home with 2 because apparently I needed a bunny too :) Gus & Fluffy were 6 weeks old when we got them. Two weeks ago Fluffy had 7 baby bunnies. Two of them were dead when we found them, and two more died that week :(

They are growing up so fast. They have fur now, and two of them have their eyes open.

Aren't they the cutest things you've ever seen?!

Monday, June 15

06/09/09

Tuesday was our one month anniversary :) I know a month isn't that long, but I can't believe how fast the time went. I got up early Tuesday morning and made Jeff pancakes, bacon, & eggs for breakfast before he had to go to work. After work he brought me home a daisy!

My mom was at girl's camp all week, so Tuesday night we had Maggie & Matthew over to spend the night. Jeff had to work until 8, so we watched the Bachelorette online while we waited for him to get home. When he got home we started a game of Monopoly. Halfway through we decided to go to Brick Oven for a cookie monster. They were out of cookies. Bummer! We got brownie sundaes instead.


We came back, finished our Monopoly game (Jeff won), watched a movie & went to bed.

I guess we wore them out. They slept until 11 am!

Saturday, June 13

Mousey

This was our little mouse pet for one day.
We couldn't save him because we didn't have a mommy to feed him.
He got fed to the snake.
I felt so bad for the little guy.
I cried.
A lot.

Wednesday, June 10

1 Room Down

Here are the pictures of our finished living room! I love how it turned out. I want to frame and hang a wedding picture or 2 when we get them back, but other than that it's pretty much done.



Now on to the rest of the house!

Monday, June 8

Bbq

Saturday we went to Aubrey & Tyler's house for a bbq. Aubrey & I met our freshman year of high school & have been friends ever since.

I should be used to fact that she has kids now, but I still get a kick out of watching them attempt parenthood ;) Emory is such a nut! Always gives us a good laugh. She was quite entertaining all night. Running around the yard with the dogs...drinking the dog's water when her parents weren't looking...putting her shoes in the dog's water...climbing in and out and in and out of her chair...fake laughing...such a funny girl!


This is Bo, the newest addition to their family, and Jeff's new best friend.

Bronson, Tara & Bam

Thanks for a fun night!

Wednesday, June 3

Tag

The 6th picture in the 6th folder is...

Ashtyn & Alyson at Jonathan & Julie's house.

I tag Amy, Julie & Aubrey.
Just post the 6th picture from the 6th folder on your computer. Have fun :)

Tuesday, June 2

Memorial day

So cute...the Sonnenberg's first holiday together ;) Fun day! We went to the pool with Mike, Caitlin & the boys.



Bridger loves the water! His little bottom lip was shivering but he wasn't going to get out for anything. Jeff put him up on the side and he would dive right back in.


It was the cutest thing. He didn't mind going under the water as long as we clapped for him when he came up.
Later on they all came over to our place to have pizza and help us paint! We painted our living room a sage green and tan. It's a good thing they were here, because apparently Jeff & i really had no clue what we were doing! Thanks guys :)



Bridger kicked back to watch all the action.


I'm really happy with how it turned out! I'll post pictures of the final result when I take some :)