Dear Awesome Sister In Laws

I am FINALLY participating in the recipe blog.....what a dang slacker I am! My recipes are all the chubby kind but I'll try to be better about posting recipes~it really is fun to have them all in one place! Love you all! ;)

Ensign Peak

We hiked Ensign Peak with our incredible young women Wednesday night. It was raining when we arrived-stopped for our hike-and then there was a complete downpour as we reached the parking lot. Small blessings!?

The view of the beautiful Salt Lake valley....
Our amazing young women~I think they are just awesome!!! Even super windblown they are beautiful!
SO grateful I get to work with such amazing women-I have learned so much from each one of them and still have a ton to learn from them. They have been such a blessing in my life! ;)

Sawyer Brown

Casey & I were invited to go out to Wendover to see Sawyer Brown last Friday with our awesome friends Chris & Keri...we OF COURSE had so dang much fun! Great company-awesome entertainment-and crazy people in Wendover....

Keri & I both hate seafood & I don't love buffets SO the guys went on a hot date to the Seafood Buffet while Keri & I enjoyed our steak & cheese enchiladas in the restaurant.....Casey & Chris smuggled some dessert out for us because that is always too hard to resist-that many desserts behind one piece of glass??? Dang!
Casey & I...of course there is a funny story with this picture....we picked Casey up from work on our way out and his truck wasn't there-someone took it to take a delivery and his clothes were in it. Good thing he had a dang sexy Good Year shirt sitting on his desk to wear on our hot date! :) The guy cracks me up.
Chris & Keri-he's always up to something. ;)
The one and only Mark Miller. Still amazing. Still dang funny. Love the dude.
Casey's view THE.WHOLE.TIME. This woman was unbelievable. She had to be 60. She was disgusting-had no rhythm whatsover but thought she had some great Sawyer Brown moves-she even caught Mark Miller's attention and he made fun of her. Keri & I laughed our butts off at her for the first 20 minutes-wanted to strangle her the rest of the time. So much for people watching being fun...it really can get old if it's planted right in front of you! ;)

Play Ball!!!!

Sawyer started baseball and it has been so much fun to watch! He played t ball when he was really little and is an awesome soccer player but there's something about baseball that is so dang fun! Might be because I loved watching his awesome dad play when we were young!? ;)

I thought this was so cute-their coach Kelly is awesome! He coached Shaylee in soccer and is such a great coach.
LOVE THIS PIC! Casey is helping coach the team. Sawyer loves Casey and has so much to learn from him. He is an awesome dad and an awesome baseball player! So glad Sawyer has such a neat dad to look up to.

Sawyer's Field Trip

The big field trip for Kindergarten is the zoo. They look forward to it all year long. Sawyer really has talked about it since the beginning of the year. The field trip was Tuesday and it rained THE WHOLE TIME WE WERE THERE. Not kidding. So cold. So wet. Every animal that you could see inside a building stunk worse than ever-the giraffes, the monkeys, the reptile house. YUCK! However-my cute son who loves animals was in heaven. Funny how seeing life thru your child's eyes can help your attitude. It was truly a fun day!

I planned on meeting Sawyer at the zoo and bringing Jaycee. Jaycee did not want to go because it was too far-can you say high maintenance? The kid cracks me up. And Sawyer was super nervous about riding a school bus on the freeway without a seatbelt. I became aware of this Monday night so my awesome friend kept Jaycee & I rode the bus with Sawyer-problem solved! So lucky it all worked out-it was great to be with him on his very first ride on a school bus!
Squishing under the pavilion to dry off a little and eat lunch.
Ethan, Luke, Sawyer & Caleb with the elephants. Silly boys! (I really did try to convince Sawyer to wear his warm coat-he insisted on his jacket and never complained that he was wetter than he needed to be! Just defending myself as the mom! ;) )

Shaylee's Field Trip

My cute Shay had a field trip at This Is The Place....I was pretty hesitant about going...it gets stressful to find people to watch the other kids...she insisted that I come and I'm so glad that she did! We had a great time-she's just awesome!

Riding the big yellow school bus feels crazier the older I get-it wasn't a big deal when I was young-now I know about traffic and blind spots etc......funny....it was fun to be with Shaylee & the kids & the noise, though! ;)
Shaylee & friends pulling a handcart
Learning The Virginia Reel....they were SO FUNNY about this....not wanting to dance with the boys (the feeling was mutual-the boys were being dorks about it!) but once they quit giggling and tried it they had so much fun.
Going to school-their teacher was so cool! I loved the feeling she portrayed of what it was really like-one room school houses, discipline, and going to school with kids that are every age. We've come so far with education!