Josh's Birthday/ Wicked

I'm bad...Josh's brithday was on the 8th! To celebrate we went out to dinner at this super cute italian cafe up in LA before seeing Wicked. (It was just a coinsidence our tickets were for on his birthday, but he ended up really liking it!!!! pheeeeew!) For his present I got him the collection of the Lord of the Rings books. He is constantly reading something and our library is extremely limited. We have all the Harry Potter books, Twilight books, a few of my girly/historical fiction books, and Tom Clancy. So now that he has read all of the MANLY books a thousand times he can read these a million times before Christmas!


(not the actually books and definitely didn't get the creepy smeagal book ends)

The italian cafe (really good!!)
"Sexy, Sassy, Sensational" (Gasp!)

my family (minus Kristen, Brent, and JT)
woot woot. (my real birthday present to Josh is me not nagging him anymore to take me to see Wicked!!!!!)

Forth of July!!

To watch fireworks on the 4th we went to the Angel's baseball game!! It was so much fun... we won of course! And we got the must haves: hotdog and a sundae in an up-side-down basball helmet. Yummmy!

That morning Erik, JT, and I decided to run the Ladera Ranch Freedom Run. We found out about it the day before and made up our minds 9:00pm the night before. We got there and went all out with the 10k instead of the 5k. I was happy to actually finish...especially after eating 4 cookies before bed the night before! (I have a bit of a sweet tooth and Jen makes the best chocolate chip cookies!) I finished in just under 60 minutes. JT my 5 year old brother ran the "firecracker" 1k and was thrilled to do a race! Erik my 15 year old brother ran thw 6.2 miles in 37minutes!! He's insane! He placed 1st in his age group and 2nd overall!!!!

Erik with his medal!!!!

me running
Erik running
JT running

Just got back from Youth Conference last week. Our stake went to Bryce canyon for 3 1/2 days and it was a blast!! It was really interesting going as a leader this time, even though I kept getting mistaken as a youth. :-) The best was when the 15 year old boys would ask me to dance at the tri-stake dance we had with 2 Utah stakes! They were always mortified to find out I was one of the LEADERS and I was MARRIED!!! hahah. It was pretty cute. It was so neat to see everyone grow closer to eachother, us leaders, and to hear how their testimonies have been strengthened. It was especially cool to see that in my own girls, it's rare for them to open up like that. Although we got almost no sleep the whole time...it was definitely a great trip! And I have to say I think I had more fun going as a leader than I did when I was a youth (despite having to teach a lesson!)! I hope I'll be around for next years' youth conference!!!!!!!

Youth Conference- Bryce Canyon

I don't like hights much.
taking a much needed break in the shade.
yummy breakfast! (the food was actually REALLY good! And I'm a picky eater!)
Becky and Me.....we kept getting counted as the kids.

Our horses! (Mine was Cherokee and he liked he walked sideways just like me!)

On top of the world! Some of us learders.

Sunrise hike! (We got up at 4:00am Arizona time!!!!)
We were so tired!
Airryanna and a boy that was following her around like a puppy the whole trip!!!

I locked em up for sassing me.
woot woot! Jessica and Airryana are liking the wild west.
Me and April not diggin our get ups
The girls primping for the dance
April, Jessica, Me, Airryana

Scenic Pictures from Bryce Canyon