Happy Father's Day!!

Happy Father's Day to all the great dads out there!! I love you!

University Villa reunited

A long time ago I lived in University Villa while I was going to BYU - a few days ago we got together with some of the awesome people who lived there - ahh the memories:)

My old roommate Lisa's little boy Robert with Brenna

old roommates, Amber, Lisa, Alycia, Kate and Wendy

Then a few days later, I met up with some more of them at the park - SO fun to see them again!

Alycia, Tiffany, Wendy and Michelle

All of our kids

Thirty something

Yep, that's right - I'm now 31
We had dinner at Firehouse Pizza to celebrate - thanks for coming guys!

oops! Heidi got me some really cute earrings - to bad they were the same as the ones I was already wearing! Thanks anyway Heidi!!!!

Danielson's and Riskedahl's

The Riskedahl's and us Danielson's have been friends forever - our dads grew up together in Tuttle and our moms were friends in Bismarck. They got married and both moved to Tuttle, all us kids came along and we're still close - they are such a wonderful family - it feels like they are our family. We all got together for Sunday dinner and had to take pictures:)

Back - my brothers Jesse and Stuart
On couch - The Riskedahl girls - Ronda, Leesa, Jill and Sally
On the floor - my sisters - Theresa, Me, Heidi and Serena


Brenna and Kiera having fun together - little Binky babies


Then we decoded to try to get a group photo of all the kids for our parents - one was already sleeping so he's not pictured and one kept trying to escape - yeah, we tried:)

Then it was time for make-overs. Stuart's girlfriend Chelsey was such a good sport - you looked so great!!

This picture makes me laugh - Serena, you look like a single mother who's about to give up!!

Brenna and Brynja - Brenna's almost 9 months and Brynja is 17 months - they weigh the same!

Happy 26th Birthday Tyson!

Happy Birthday Tyson - we love you!!!!

Drive - Part II

SO, after getting stuck for HOURS, we were now alone on our drive so we decided to go see the Provo River Falls. Of course the road from here on out was completely dry! Anyway, on our way to the falls, we saw two moose.


The falls were out of control and it was Freezing there! Good thing I was wearing capris huh!

After a LONG but fun day Brenna was ready to drive us home.

Nice leisurely drive with the fam - HAH!! Part I

One of Tyson's favorite fishing areas in the Uintas is Mill Hollow Reservoir. It has been closed for quite a while for repairs, but it's scheduled to open again soon, so we decided to take a drive to see the progress. We invited my sister Heidi and her clan to come with us.

Here are the guys inspecting the progress

Here are the girls - inside the vehicle - it was freezing up there!!

After Mill Hollow, we decided to continue our drive and cut through the mountains to get to the Mirror Lake Highway area. It's a road Tyson had been on thousands of times and he wanted to see how the snow melt was coming. Well, there were still some pretty good drifts, but we kept going to see how far we could make it. Along the way, another vehicle came up behind us and we ended up talking to them 'cuz they didn't know where the road went and they asked if they could tag along. We said sure, but they didn't know what they were getting themselves into! Yeah, Tyson got stuck (shocker! See video below) trying to get through the "last big one". He got through after a couple of tries later (don't worry, he only lost his licence plate and dented the bumper). MEN! Anyway, our "new found friends" wanted to try to drive through it too and needles to say, they got stuck too. Heidi and Josh decided to go home and not get stuck because their Jeep would have been hard to pull out. They were smart. Yeah, about four broken tow straps and three hours later, our "friends never made it through and had to be pulled out the way they came by two teenagers who came by. Hey on the bright side, Tyson found his dad's snow chains he had lost in that same spot years earlier!!!

These pictures are of us waiting for the men as they "played in the snow"

Ethan found all kinds of dead worms in the stream and was "fishing" with them - what a boy!

YUMMY!

Here's Tyson's idea of a refreshing treat for Brenna

Here's my idea of a refreshing treat for her:)

Memorial Day Weekend

We went camping with Tyson's family for Memorial Day. We went to Chrystal Hot Springs again and had a lot of fun, but after one night in the tent with pouring rain and baby who thought it was funny to wake up twice in the middle of the night - very angry) and after it rained ALL day on Sunday, we went home early and began a more rigorous search to by a camping trailer:)

Because of the rain, I only got two pictures, here's Brenna lounging in a camp chair


and watching her Dad trying to put all of our stuff under the tarp in the truck before it got soaked!

Anyone interested?

Our next door neighbors are selling their house - so are the people right behind us. I REALLY want nice neighbors - I NEED some nice neighbors - anyone interested???????????????????