23rd Birthday

Joshua had a party for me on my actual birthday in UT. We first went out to the melting pot for dinner with one of our good friends Josh Ammons. Then we came home and had some friends over for cake and ice cream. He got me a brand new pink crusier bike. I have rode it every day since I got it and I absolutely love it! It even has a bell on it, thanks to Jenn :) Thank you Joshie for a great brithday!

My new bike. I haven't named it yet, any ideas?!

Josh made my favorite cake, ball cake, double layer and everything! I was very impressed

At the Melting Pot, yum!

The Thriller-moves

During the Rockies baseball game they like to play part of the Thriller song and every time they did Dad couldn't resist doing the Thriller dance. This is a perfect moment caught on tape of how great, and funny, my dad is. Notice he has the rally cap on and everything!

Our new and improved technology!

Joshie got his new laptop for law school, thank you to G-ma and his parents! We got the money for graduation but we were waiting for the laptop sales to come and they finally did over the holiday weekend. We were in CO when we got it, so my dad was ecstatic just to have a new piece of electronic equipment in the house! We love it and have spent hours already just fiddling around with it. Yay for awesome technology :)

The All American 4th of July

Josh and I took a little vacation to CO and spent a few days with the rents. It was a great weekend!

On the third of July we went to a baseball game, ate Rockie-dogs, lots of junk food, and watched fireworks afterwards!

The Rockies tied in the 9th inning and so dad decided to put his "rally cap" on to help them win. It apparently helped because they pulled ahead in the 11th inning and won!

On the 4th we went and watched fireworks in Highlands Ranch. Jenn and Jeff Clark came with us and we rode in the back of the truck to our fireworks-watching-spot.

Louie was freaked out and shaking the whole time during the fireworks. Josh tried to comfort him by putting the blanket on him. Poor puppy hated every minute of it!! He sure looks cute though :)

A cute picture of my two loves that I snagged at my parents house...

Since my birthday is on July 8th we had a mini birthday party at home with cake and presents. Josh bought me a brand new CoolPix digital camera and mom got me a new outfit (see Rockies game picture) Jenn and Jeff now live in CO and came over to celebrate.

The Hick Show, I mean Rodeo

Lehi Round-up Rodeo! My FIRST one ever. We tried to put together rodeo attire, but it didn't work out that well! We had a good time though with our friends JT and Kali :)

San Fran

Josh and I went on a trip to San Fran with our friends Benjamin and Shelly to relax and enjoy our summer! Here are some pics from our funness

Golden Gate Bridge with the typical SF fog

Cool SF architecture

We went to dinner at the Fairmont hotel at the Tonga room. It had a live band and it had a pool-type thing they floated out on, and it rained!! Very cool AND yummy.

We walked and walked and walked some more. Here is one of many hills we went up and down on high heels on the way to union square and dinner.

Green street!! This is right on the pier, what a perfect place for OUR street!

The city of love! (and lots of rainbow flags...)

The sign next to a phone on the Golden Gate Bridge

Happy Father's Day!

Happy Father's Day Dad. Everyone says thier dad is the best, but mine is still better!! He is kind, patient, forgiving, loving, charitable, honest and much much more. He has been a wonderful strength in my life and I respect him to the greatest. My dad has always been the calm collected one in the house and is always interested in what's best for his kids. I have always been daddy's little princess and I'll admit, spolied to the max, but even 23 years later he still spoils me every chance he gets! Thank you dad for being the best, and being the one I can always go to advice for. I am so lucky. Love you Dad :)

P.S. Thank you Wally and Lindsey for sharing your father's day with us. The food was amazing but the time spent with you was even better! And thank you Sadie for being so dang cute :) Love you all.

P.S.S. Can't leave mom out...thank you mom for marrying the coolest guy ever so i could have the best dad ever :)

STOMP

Joshua and I went to STOMP last night with Mary, Russ, Shelley, and Benjamin. It was so much fun! I went when I was younger in Denver and have wanted to go again since. We got the chance to go last night at the Capitol Theatre in Salt Lake City. I suggest that everyone go to the show if you get a chance! It was such an awesome show :)

Timp Caves

If any of you know me you know that I'm not athletic in any way and hate working out, running, etc, etc. But I decided to got out on a limb and actually hike up to the Timpanogos Caves this weekend with Joshua. It was over 3.5 miles long and the way up was very steep the whole way. I was so proud of myself that we made it all the way up and I didn't even complain!! :) We passed a ton of people and rarely stopped too, so I felt good about that. It was very worth the hike though, the caves were amazing. Of course my camera had to decide not to work the whole time, so unfortunately we don't have any pics. :( I did put a picture on here of an example of cool Stalagmites... not sure if the spelling is right on that one....that are in the caves. But I suggest to everyone to go to the caves because they are very fascinating and awesome to see!