Pioneer Day!!

Our Pioneer Day actually started on the 23rd because of all the people camping out before the parade. The parade comes right in front of the mortuary so we have the advantage of getting good seats every year, but you do have to work for them. We set all of our stuff up around 4:00 p.m. on Monday and hung out all night. It was pretty fun and my dad's band set up in the parking lot and played.

We stayed up and danced to the music. Here's my mom, Elise, James and Marianne grooving to the music.

I love the Pioneer Day parade! I think it's so much fun and we always have such a good time. The problem is our bedroom window in the mortuary faces the street and we have to sleep with our window open or else it gets too hot. Well at 4 a.m. a woman was driving up and down the street yelling "Wake Up! Everybody Wake Up!" Then at 6 a.m. the marathon runners arrived so people were clapping and cheering. So we were out of bed at 6:30 a.m. and very tired! But we still enjoyed the parade!!

That night we went to the BEES Baseball Game. It was really fun!!

We sat on the grass and watched the fireworks after the game. Overall it was a really fun Pioneer Day!!!!

For All You America Idol Fans!

My brother has two tickets to the American Idol concert here in Salt Lake that he can't use. The concert is at the Delta Center (that's right, I said Delta Center!) on Tuesday, July 31st at 7:00 p.m. The tickets are in section 103, row 1. So they are on the first row of the upper deck.

They are $15 each.

Let me know if you are interested. The first person to respond will be the one to get them!!

Flowers

I recently bought a new picture frame that has spots for five pictures. I want to fill the frames with pictures of flowers so on Sunday we went down to Temple Square to take pictures. It was fun to walk around and see all the families doing the same thing. It's such a beautiful area and it made me realize how lucky we are to live so close to this amazing building!

Here are some of the pictures I took. Let me know which ones you think I should put in the frames. :)

The MUSS

Jesse and I have had the awesome opportunity to sit on the front row of The MUSS for the past two years. It has been so much fun and we will probably take advantage of those seats this year for the last time.

As a result of being on the front row we are in a lot of pictures of the MUSS. I was looking through a bunch yesterday and found some fun ones.

In this photo we are in the left corner, leaning forward on the bar.

This photo really made me laugh!! It makes you wonder what's happening on the field. (Try to ignore the guy flipping the camera off)

So You Think You Can Dance

I want to know if any of you watch this show, and if you don't, I definitely think you should!!!! This is one of my absolute favorite TV shows and I love it because it is on during the summer when everything else is re-runs.

The dancing they do is awesome and it is so fun to watch!!

This is a photo of last year's winner. He is from California and he is Mormon! He actually talked about it on the show and one of the reasons he tried out was because he received his girlfriend's wedding announcement while he was on his mission! :(

He wanted to do something to get his mind off his girlfriend when he got home from his mission, so he tried out for the show, and he ended up winning!

(The show is on Wednesday and Thursday nights in case you were wondering. It's an American Idol format: performances one night, results the next night)

4th of July!!

Our 4th of July was a long day but it was fun! We got up and played tennis in the morning with my mom and James. Then we went to a picnic at Liberty Park with Jesse's family.

Here's Jesse's dad and their dog. She loved running around chasing the seagulls!

Jesse and I took our nephew, Astin, to the playground at the park. At first he was scared to go down the slide so Jesse went with him. Astin LOVES his uncle Jesse!!

Astin loved being pushed around on this swing. I was a little afraid he was going to fly off but he was laughing the whole time.

Here's our cute niece, Fiona! Her personality is really starting to come out and it's so fun to see her laughing.

That night we went to Laird Park with my family for dinner. Here's James and Marcus playing football. Marcus could probably beat James up now that they are the same size. :)

Finally a picture of me and Jesse! I need to remember to hand the camera to other people sometimes cause we hardly have any pictures together.

We were actually on-call that night but my dad was nice enough to let us forward the phones to our cell phones for the party. But we had to go home when the fireworks started so we watched some from our window!

Now we have to gear up for the 24th! That's always fun since the parade goes right in front of the mortuary!! I'm making Elise and her friends sleep outside to save our spot. I've done that too many times and it's time to pass the torch!

The Gateway

We were on-call Saturday but my wonderful mom came and babysat the mortuary that night so we could get out for a couple of hours. We went and ate dinner at The Gateway and then we just walked around. We went to the fountain and watched all the kids playing. I think it's so funny how that fountain has turned into a community pool! It was pretty entertaining and I was glad we took our camera. (Oh, and by the way our camera is a Canon Powershot 6.0 Megapixel)

This kid looks so miserable; it's pretty funny!


I have to admit, it looked like a lot of fun and it made me want to play around in the fountain!!

(By the way, to all you smart bloggers out there, how do you get your photos to link. When I visit some of your blogs I can click on a photo and it makes the photo larger on a new page; how do you do that?)