The weekend of crazy hectic fun!

So we had a fun filled weekend. We were able to go down to the Manti Pageant on Friday night with two of our good friends, Josh and Michelle. And Josh's cousin lives in Ephraim and her family was all in the pageant, so that was fun. We camped out in her backyard on Friday night after she filled us with root beer floats and kept us up until 1:30.
We woke up Saturday morning about 9am when we no longer could sleep because the sun was beating down on us. We went inside and Kristi had made us breakfast. Wonderful eggs and toast, and she was attempting to make hashbrowns which didn't turn out! Oh well.
We left, and on the drive home Josh decided we would stop in Fairview and go to their little museum...which was a little po-dunk, but actually was pretty neat. They had history of the town and surrounding area, they had artistry from people who live around there, rocks that had been found in utah (rare...and not so rare), and really old, really neat newspaper articles.
The newspaper articles were my favorite. My favorite newspaper article was the one that talked about the lady who had 12 of her sons in the service (different branches of the military) all at the same time, anywhere from ages 22-38. And she had two more sons that she would also send out. I thought that was really neat...14 boys in all, all her sons...and all were serving or going to serve our country! Talk about neat! WOW!
Then we drove on and stopped by the side of the road. Now you will know what I am talking about here if you have ever driven from the north, down to Manti. There is a swamp, and houses that are half sunk in the mud. Yeah, that use to be a town called Thistle. Of course my sweet hubby, Richard, knew all about it, and Josh just gobbled it up! So we stopped and took pictures next to that half sunken houses! :) What joy!
AND...of course Richard started talking about a dam and all this stuff and Josh had to find it. So we went off-roading and found ourselves at a shooting range...where we were not suppose to be! :) eeek! We were asked to leave, unless of course we wanted to sign a waiver and do some shooting...no thanks! Not now!
So we got home and as we were unpacking Josh found the marshmellow guns that he had forgotten to get out while we were in Manti. So we had marshmellow wars, Richard, Josh, Michelle and I, around a few buildings in our housing community. So much fun! Richard and I are definitely making marshmellow guns for ourselves! YEAY!
After Josh and Michelle left, we took everything in and got ready to go swimming with Mariah and Luke at Alta Apt. and it was so much fun. We swam for a couple of hours, playing basketball and racing up and down the pool. Then we got ready at our friends apartments and went to Target! We ate at the little eatery and got a wedding card, and found our way to our friends wedding reception. We saw a lot of old friends there, so that was fun! Stayed for about an hour then made our way home. It was about 8:30 by the time we got home. Mariah and Luke met us there and we went to see GET SMART! And we really liked it.
It was a lot better than we expected...I had gotten some negative reviews from friends, so had my mind set that it wasn't going to be that great! It was wonderful...at least Richard, Luke and I thought so...Mariah? well...maybe not so much!

Natalie and Phil got married!!!

So Natalie and Philip got married on Saturday! Yeay! And Phil absolutely DID NOT want anyone to decorate his car. He loves it too much. So he had made his sisters and their husbands promise that they were not going to do anything to it. Well, he had not made Richard and I promise. But no one would "flat out" tell us where they were staying, so we did some research. We knew they were staying in St. George, and there are only a handful of hotels that are nice enough for Philip's wedding night! :)

So we called around and finally found the hotel where they were staying. We drove up to the hotel to make sure that the car was there, and when we found it, it was parked right in front where I am sure he thought he could keep an eye out for car decorating offenders! But he didn't catch us.

We went about 11:30 and decorated his car, windows were written on with window paint, with such phrases as "Just married, oh yeah baby", "You got punked" (this was my personal favorite since he didn't want us to do it...we pretty much punked them!), "Baby on board", "Hot new couple", and "We love you". We also covered the car, well a lot of it, in post-it notes. We used all of them and only covered the top half of the car. And we had debated at the store whether to buy one package or two...dang!

We would have went back to the store and got more, and come back...but there was a dog in the car next to us that kept barking. It was SO annoying. Why would they leave a dog in the car anyway. And those people, when they drove up, said "I don't think that is such a good idea, that is too bad!" They said this to us, referring to us decorating the car. Richard and I got a kick out of that!

But there were a few people/couples that walked by that said things such as, "wow! what a good idea, we should do something like that", "that is awesome", "good work guys", "way to be sneaky!", and other fun comments!

We finally finished just before midnight. We drove off, pretty proud of ourselves, and expecting to get a call on Sunday morning! No call came, nope. Richard recieved a text message from Phil at about 8 p.m. Sunday night. "Someone owes me a supersonic car wash". That is the first time that they had found the car...8 pm the next night! Room Service?

Crazy week...

It has been a crazy week this week. Every day at work has been really busy, or dramatic, or something else...at home things have been crazy with Richard starting a new job, things not going quite as planned, our little pregnancy scare, etc...
I am really excited to go to St. George this weekend! We are going tonight and we will come back on Sunday. A good long weekend, it is what Richard and I need. It will be so good for us. And...we get to watch Richard's little nieces and nephews on Friday night while their parents take a night off! That is going to be fun too!!! Wahoo...yeay for a good ending to a crazy, insane, stressful week!

yeay for weddings!

So Phil and Natalie are getting married on Saturday. Phil is Richard's cousin and Natalie was my roommate this last year. They met because Natalie came over to Richard's with me to watch a football game, and Phil was there (they were roommates). Anyway, I am really excited for them to get married. They are great! And we are going to have a fun time being two newlywed, married couples who are cousins. hehe! I love cousins.

Congrats to my new cousins...yeay! I love weddings!

Happy Graduation!!!

My baby brother Spencer Colby is graduating from Jr. High (8th Grade), today! Congrats little bro, you get to go to High School now! You are the greatest! I love you!

My little sister Breann ("Bree") is graduating from High School tomorrow. Congrats Bree! I love you! And she is going to BYU-I starting in the fall to go to school, I am so excited for her! Yeay!!!