fourth of july

Happy 4th of July! We had a great day celebrating america.

We slept in late,

 made waffles,

 went to a movie,

 BBQ'd with friends and family,

 and topped it all off with fireworks! 

god bless america.

strawberry picking

We hand-picked the strawberries from the strawberry patch, added a little of this and a lot sugar, and our results were perfect- a homemade strawberry jam that tastes like summer.

75 days of building our house

Six months ago TODAY we moved into our house. It feels like yesterday.
I've been waiting a long time to post about our house because I wanted to wait until everything was finished, but I finally realized today that even if I waited 6 years, our house would still not be ready for show. oh well.

The building process was new for us, and we both learned a ton. We are so grateful for this lucky opportunity.

 

We love being back in Lindon!

rodeo time

 We have always loved the strawberry days rodeo! This year, Jake's work decided to make a team to compete in the 'wild cow milking' competition, and they got first place! No major injuries reported, but they get to go again on Saturday with the finalists. To say I'm worried would be an understatement-Luckily I have prayers and strawberries & cream to help keep me from freaking out...

                                                  yes, those ARE Jake's boots in the air...

back in bermuda

Just over a year ago we had the chance to go to Bermuda, and absolutely fell in love with the island.  Since returning home, we have bragged about the beauty of Bermuda to many people we know.  It was our favorite place and we only hoped that someday we would have the opportunity to go back.  We figured that opportunity would come when we were MUCH older, but this past week the stars somehow aligned and we returned to our beloved place!  We rented scooters and rode the entire island on the wrong side of the rode. We visited our favorite beaches we found last time, and discovered a few new favorites.  Bermuda is OUR place.  We hope we make it back again someday.

15 seconds of fame

We weren't planning on a trip into manhattan when we bought our new york airfare,

but 15 stops later on the subway we found ourselves in times square,

After shopping and walking we glanced up and what did we see?

some very familiar faces on a rather large big screen tv!

(even if it was a short trip to new york, we had to make time for the metropolitan museum of art)

a favorite pastime

Last fall when Jake had his knee surgery, and we were confined to the bed or couch, we stumbled upon a great discovery....The discovery was that Jake and I read at exactly the same speed.  Because of this finding we are able to snuggle up and read books together.  It makes our pillow talk/book club amusing as we analyze what we are reading as we fall asleep. In the last couple of months we have read the following books, and we recomomend all of them!

thanks mom for passing along the fun reads...

not so scary goblins...

This weekend we took off on Thursday and went to Goblin Valley with our good friends Trevor and Melissa.  They are some of our best friends and are moving to the windy state later this month, so we decided we needed to go camping as one last hoorah!

We had such a great time! Some of the highlights from our trip include:

an incredible camping spot, 9 mile hike through the saweet slot canyons of little wild horse,

mountain man breakfast, tinfoil dinners, smores & bannana boats, shooting competitions,

and lots and lots of not so scary goblins. 

cinco de mayo

5 traditions we celebrate on the cinco de mayo:

1.      The husband will ONLY speak Spanish to me all day (including texts)…until I go muy loco.
2.      I get to sign a paper saying that “I will be fluent by the next cinco de mayo”…this is the year, I just know it.
3.      We share a yummy dessert called “never on sunday” from the pizza factory in lindon.  Yes, we know this tradition is not very festive, but for some reason we started it when we were dating and you can't break a tradition, right?
4.      We drive up to our favorite look-out point up the mountain and listen to spanish music while we talk about life and how fun our summer is going to be.
5. We make a homemade pinata with goodies inside-jake made ours this year and he did an exceptional job!      

Me gusta el cinco de mayo.

love birds

Dear Love Birds,

           I am happy that spring has finally sprung. I love that the flowers are starting to bloom. I love smelling the fresh air, and I love the fact than I can start wearing flip flops again without getting weird looks. I know that you sweet love birds like spring too. We love listening to your chirping every morning as we leave for work. We’ve obviously enjoyed your chirping so much that we failed to recognize where you two wanted to start your little birdie family until the other day, when we caught you flying into our BBQ…hmmm so we opened the lid and sure enough we found your humble abode. We have decided to let you stay-consider it our gift to you…but be warned little birdies, come next spring, we are charging rent.

                                                                            -xoxo

ps. Since you are living in our BBQ, we are currently counting you as food storage. If we happen to have a natural disaster, we won’t hesitate to fire up the grill…