Outside the home where Lincoln died. 

Outside Fords Theater where Lincoln was killed 

Statue of Brigham Young in the Capital 

Casey and I on our trour of the capital.  

Monday

We started the day heading off to see Ford's Theater and visit the home were Lincoln died. It was really neat sitting in the actual theater, seeing the spot where Lincoln was killed and hearing the story. After that, we decided to walk around the Smithsonian for a little bit before our tour of the Capital. One of Senator Hatch's intern took Casey and I on a tour of the Capital. It is a really beautiful building and we were also able to sit in and hear the Senate discussing some issues. One thing I thought was interesting is that every state has a statue of someone who has made a strong impact on our state. Of course Brigham Young was one as well as Philo T. Farnsworth, who had invented the TV...apparently he was from Utah.

Tuesday

On Tuesday before we left to go catch our plane, we wanted to run up to the National Zoo. The Cheeta cubs were recently born, so it was really cute seeing them out there running around. It was so humid because of the recent rain, we didn't want to spend a whole lot of time there, so we headed back to our hotel to pack and get ready to leave.

Our flight home was very long! We arrived at the aiport a couple of hours before we were scheduled to leave. When we got there, we found out our flight was an hour delayed, which meant that we would be missing our connecting flight back to Salt Lake. So they were able to transfer us to another airline where we would fly to Denver and then connect to Salt Lake. But because we switched our flight, we all had to get strip searched, which was a little interesting! Because of weather though, we sat on the plane for 2 hours waiting to depart. Luckly, we were able to watch TV and movies. We finally got into Denver, but we had missed our connecting flight because of the delay, so we were able to get on another flight that was leaving to Salt Lake. Again, we found ourself sitting on the plane waiting to depart. They said that the plane was 300lbs too heavy, and they were working on lighting the load. An hour later we were finally able to go. It was a long day!

Washington D.C. National Zoo 

Father's Day

We had an enjoyable Father's Day. We went out to Tooele to see my cousin Scott's homecoming. It was fun seeing family we don't see as much. After that we came back and had a dinner at Casey's parent's house. We all pitched in and got Floyd a trampoline so he can have fun with his little grandkids on it. Alivia, Bryce and Whitney had a lot of fun trying it out.

Floyd enjoying his Father's Day present...the trampoline 

Alivia, Bryce and Whitney enjoying Floyd's new Father's Day present 

Whitney having fun on the trampoline 

Alivia and Bryce having fun on the trampoline 

Stawberry Days

This week was Strawberry Days so we had a lot of fun activites. We started off the week on Tuesday going to the Peter Brienholt concert. That was really enjoyable to listen to. On Wednesday we went to the baby contest where Autumn had dressed up Braxton in a cowboy outfit, boots, hat and all. He was so adorable! He won the cutest costume award.

Thursday, Allison, Spencer and Casey and I went out to eat with Ashleigh and Randy for her birthday. We went to eat at Bajios and then went to the rodeo together. It was so much fun. My favorite part is the wild cow milking contest. It was so funny seeing all those cowboys running around trying to catch their cows!

On Saturday we went to the Stawberry Days parade. It was so hot!! It was fun to see my dad and sister in the parade. My dad was in the parade because he is a neighborhood chairman and Autumn was in the parade with Braxton because of the baby contest. It was hot and we were glad to go home when it was over!

Sitting in the hot sun watching the parade 

Autumn and Braxton in the Stawberry Days Parade for winning the baby contest. 

Dad in the Stawberry Days parade for being a neighborhood chairman. 

Casey and I at the Rodeo 

Ashleigh, Randy, Spencer, Allison, Casey and I at the rodeo. 

My little cowboy...Braxton won the cutest costume in the baby contest for Strawberry Days. 

St. George/Vegas Trip

We had a great weekend going down to St. George and Las Vegas. We went with Autumn and her husband Doug and their baby Braxton, and our friends Jessica and Jared Larson. We started of Friday going to Autumn's work and suprising her for her and Doug's 5 year anniversery. She thought that we had gone up to her work to suprise her by taking her to lunch. She couldn't believe that we had all her bags packed and we were heading down to St. George that day!

It was a very relaxing weekend of lots of Game Cube and XBox, reading, sleeping, shopping and a lot of eating out! On Saturday we headed down to Las Vegas to see two things: In and Out Burger and to see the fountains at Bellagio. In and Out Burger was wonderful...like usual and the fountains at Bellagio was a lot of fun to see as well.

Laying out in getting some sun 

Standing infront of the Bellagio watching the fountains 

Braxton's first trip to Las Vegas 

Casey 

Autumn, Jessica Larson, and me at the Lemon Tree in the Bellagio 

In and Out Burger 

Piano Recital

Last week Logan had his final piano recital. His piano teacher, Claudia Tobler had taught each one of us through out the years, so as a finale, we ended the night playing a Double Duet. It sounded really good.

Piano Recital 

Summer is here

It was a nice weekend getting some yard work done. I am loving this! I was able to get some flowers planted so we had some color in our yard and I was able to put in my little garden. Because our backyard is so shady, a garden wouldn't do well back there, so we decided to just plant them in pots and we'll see how they turn out! I planted some tomato plants, zuccini and cucumbers. I can't wait until they start growing!

I was able to volunteer at a "Hidden Garden Tour" this weekend for a little bit. It is like the Parade of Homes but for gardens. There were some really beautiful yards and it made me excited to get some landscaping done in my yard.

My garden 

Our home 

My flowerbed