Memorial Day 2017

Memorial weekend started off a little early for me this year. The Wednesday before I was already in Price tending my cousin's kids for a few days. I was nervous. This was the first time I had done an over night job by myself with school days mixed in and driving with a 3 year old that needed a car seat. But lucky for me my cousins have great kids and we didn't have any issues (sigh of relief). I spent an extra night at their house before going to Orangeville on Saturday to spend some time with my grandma and the Gardner side. 

On Sunday Dad and John came down. Rachel and her kids stopped by for a visit as well as Aunt Joyce and Christine. I spent most of the time playing with Kenzlie. Funny things to happen that day that I didn't have my camera out fast enough. Rachel locked her keys in her car and the police had to come and break into her car for her. He have all the kids a badge starting with Christine. The moment was much funnier than it sounds on here. 

The second funny happened while we were at the cemetery. Meg insisted Mandy keep her windows rolled down all the way. So sometime while we were decorating the graves the sprinklers came on. And yep they aimed right into Mandy's windows. So for several hours after her car was raining on the inside. 

Monday was a big day for the Mathis side. Richelle took charge and decided to have us learn more about our ancestry. So we learned about the Mathis' coming to Price and we even got a tour of the local museum of the Bryner house. After we had lunch at Tim and Richelle's and mom talked to us about Aunt Mae. Of course we stayed for a long time after and just chatted and enjoyed each others company. 

We had a pretty good turnout. Kimalee and Murrylee with their kids came down. It was good to see them. I'm honestly not sure when I saw them last and their kids have grown so much! It was a great weekend and again I am so thankful to have the family I have. You all are amazing!

Our Schedule

Uncle Stan teaching us about the Mathis' coming to Price

Mom telling us about Aunt Mae

Mary teaching Evie how to ride a bike

Mother's Day

I wasn't able to go home this Mother's Day. But I just wanted to give a quo shout out to some of the amazing women in my life. I could go on and on with how much I admire and appreciate these women but I won't. Thank you to Mom, Carol, Becca, Jan, and my aunts. You all hold a very special place in my heart! Happy Mother's Day!!

Carol's Birthday

So on a whim one night after work I decided to go home. You see it was Carol's Birthday Celebration and I decided to go home and surprise her for her for the party. So I left Provo around 10 pm to drive home. Had a quite drive and made it home around midnight.
The next day at church I kind of surprised Carol. It would have been a complete surprise if I could have hidden my car so she didn't see it on her way to church. But alas I had no where to hide it. After church it was time to party. We didn't do anything big. It was a pretty typical birthday celebration. Mom made a fabulous meal and for dessert we had cheesecake. Yum! We visited all night and gave her a few gifts (ok really my family gave her gifts, mine was just coming home).
Happy Birthday Carol! Thanks for always being there for me!

BYU Year 1 Performances

I haven't done a very good job at writing about things I did my first year at BYU. I went to almost all the home football games, had a missionary reunion, played with family, and attend several performances. The first event was BYU Spectacular. This year they featured Gladys Knight with Peter Hollens and Lexi Walker. It was amazing! It made me miss being on stage.

I also went to La Bhoieme, an opera in Italian. Tyler from my French class performed in it and we decided to go support him. Unfortunately I couldn't go the same night as my class, so I went on my own.

I also went on my own to Mary Poppins. It was so much fun! I am definitely a kid at heart! It follows the book more but with some of the music the movie has.

Last I went to the Young Ambassadors' performance. My friend took me and it was what I needed that night. A good time with a good friend with good entertainment. It will be fun to see what next year has in store for performances to attend.

Easter 2017- 3 Fingers

So this year we decided to do our Eastering at 3 Fingers. It is near Green River, Utah. It is named after a pictograph of a man with 3 fingers on each hand. The weather was gorgeous! There wasn't wind, which meant to sand in my sandwich. :) We had a pretty good turn out from the family. Not the biggest, but not the smallest either. A few stayed behind in Green River. After our time in the sun we headed back to Aunt Ann and Uncle Lee's house and played some Disney Trivia and later some went over to Nathan's to watch Planet Earth (I can't say I was one of those people).

Skipping rocks over Duncan

Last we stopped to find some fish eye rocks (at least that's what we called them). They are rocks with a bunch of little red textured dots (ok so they are really hard to describe). I found a couple but I mostly played in the dirt with Little Anna. A few of us even found some Geodes.

Mary proud of the rocks she found!

I always have a good time with the family. I am so lucky/blessed to have these guys. They are some of my best friends and part of my support system. Thank you family! You guys Rock!!

General Conference April 2017

For Conference weekend my plans changed a little. I was originally going to go home to Altamont. But about a week before my computer started acting up. It wasn't holding a charge and it was heating up excessively. So I went to the person I always ask about my technology questions. I texted Rob and after some texting back and forth he decided it would be easier if he just looked at my computer. The best time for us both was conference weekend. 

So up to Gordon's I went Saturday after work. The boys were at the Priesthood session and Emy and Becca had just gotten home. We had a lovely dinner prepared by Jena and we chatted. When Rob got home we looked at my computer and decided to completely wipe the hard drive and start over. While that was happening we chatted some more and I also did some homework. 

Late that night Emy's friend came over and we chatted for several hours. It was a lot of fun. The next day Becca made a huge and delicious breakfast (for real, anything I eat over there is amazing). We gathered downstairs to watch conference. After the last session we went to Becca's parents for another amazing meal (thanks Claudia and Walt!). When we got back to Gordon's we worked on the final touches on my computer.  So thanks Rob for helping me out! I really appreciate it!!

Emy and I taking notes. This is not a posed photo.  (I had just gotten out of the shower, which is why my hair looks so crazy.)

New Year's Eve 2016

It was that time again for our trip to Green River to party with the Mathis side for New Year's Eve. We had come the day before since we were already in Emery County from spending a few days at my Grandma's in Orangeville. It's always a good time playing with the family. We had dinner, played poop the potato, Wikipedia, and Aunt Ann had us play her chimes she got for Christmas. When midnight stroke we opened our crackers, put on our mustaches and answered would you rather questions from the crackers. It was a lot of fun for all!