a tribute...

to these crazy kids right here: we have had such a fun year with robby and zenna and trae and candice and are so sad to see them BOTH leave. luckily they are both only going to pocatello so we might have to do game night once a month... especially since they both have babies, well kind of... robby and zenna's puppy and trae and candice's little boy who will be here in octoboer! thanks for all the fun times and good memories. good luck in pokey!

as embarrassing as this is, i just have to add this picture in:
it was suppose to be a silly picture... who do you think won?

it's a boy!

my very good friend candice is having a baby boy and i threw her a baby shower friday night. a big thank you to everyone that came! although there were only 7 of us, i think we still managed to have a good time. we had so many goodies because everyone was so thoughtful and brought something to eat. we played some games, my favorite being guessing what kind of "poop" was in the diaper (really it was just melted candy bars). here are some pictures:

stacy and zenna inspecting the diaperskelcie inspecting the diaperheidi and candice both trying to figure it outapril was good at guessing

the happy mommy to be

candice got some really nice things for her new baby. i made her a diaper cake. ive never made one before and i didnt have enough diapers to make it as big as i would have liked so i had to improvise a little and make it taller... i thought it turned out cute though:

candice isnt due till october, but they are moving at the end of the month so i wanted to give her a shower here before she left. jared and i feel so blessed and are so grateful for the friendships we have made with trae and candice and are really gonna miss them when they leave us behind... :(

fun fourth

we had such a fun 4th of july! of course i didnt take a single picture and im so sad cause we did some really fun things. we had thursday and friday off of school and it was wonderful! jared had to work on thursday so i thought i would get all my homework done and out of the way while i was home all by myself... so naturally i didnt open my back pack once all weekend :)

friday we went to the sand dunes and played in the water and rode four wheelers with jared's family. it was a lot of fun! jared and i both got some sun on that day. i found a frog there and showed it to our niece charlee and she loved it! she held it and didnt want to put it back in the water when it was time to go.

Saturday we went to the parade here in rexburg with our friends trae and candice... afterwards we were so hot we decided to go back to the lake at the sand dunes. candice and i were just walking around when trae and jared told us to come over to them.. while they were looking for frogs to catch they happened to catch a salamander! it was pretty cool and we spent the next little while playing with it and digging a little sand castle for it... we all felt like 8 year olds again.

That night we went to jared's parents house in idaho falls and had a BBQ with trae and candice and played some card games and ladder ball. then we headed over to the fireworks. we had a pretty good spot and they were awesome like always.

I lied.. i got this one picture of us watching the fireworks :)

yes it was a cold night so we had to use a blanket!

and now it's back to school :( thank goodness there are only 3 more weeks left of the semester and then we are going on a MUCH NEEDED vacation to colorado to see my parents and sisters and im so excited!