Sooo... My mom is back from Florida, with her newest baby in tow...
she named her Gretta (could change at any time). If you thought it was hard enough to go through the airport as a normal person, try doing it with a live animal.
I'm sure my mom had nothing but happy thoughts as they whisked her away to be probed in Orlando this weekend. She had bone meal for her kitty and they suspected that it was Cocaine.
Seriosly TSA = how ridiculous this world has got.

http://www.rockymtnsavannahcat.com/

here is Cubby and Echo.
Echo is Due with her first batch any day now... cross your fingers

HAPPY 30 (or 29 +1 which ever).

Sooo
You guessed it. I'm 30!

Friday was the big day. It was pretty much AMAZING.
My Car stereo was buggin so Jake tore it apart and
got a new one for me. ;)
Love that he does the electronic stuff so well... I mean I was on minervision in H.S. but that's about the extent of my electrical skillz.
After running around we dropped the kid off at Her grandma Roxane's and Jake took me to dinner at Franck's.

I felt slightly guilty ordering. Going to a fine dining eatery and ordering what is traditionally a no fuss, simple, comfort food. I had heard so much praise for this particular dish though, that I just had to try it. I checked with our server and she agreed “Yes, you really do need to try it!” So, I went ahead and ordered Franck’s southern fried coconut and lemongrass chicken.
Delicious.
(excuse the camera phone shot)

It's pretty much the most amazing place to eat in the entire state. YUM.
I had the Southern Chicken...loved every morsel.
If you want to visit it's by Tuscany (and there by also by the cotton bottom ahah)Just a bit to the south. Enter on Holladay Blvd.

May I suggest the Cheese tray for your first taste. It's delicious. I didn't know cheese could blow your mind. It can.

After dinner we went up to the Cliff Lodge at snowbird. I had no idea how big a suite could be. Two thumbs way up.

We had some dessert at the Aerie, which is spectacular. It kinda felt good to be ID'd, except I didn't' have my DL on me. So they took a copy of Jake's. haha . the old man will vouch for me.

(the inside view from our room.. eek)

The Guava creme brulee was delicious, just hook me up to an IV of that please.
Saturday Morning we went on a great hike and we were going to hit up the tram (I laugh in the face of Heights ... not) but it didn't open until 11am. (Damn the bad luck). So we are going to go up next month (If I can muster the courage). I'm serious when I say It is highly possible that I would end up face down in the middle of the hovering death trap crying my eyes out, wailing out something about food storage and living wills if there were to be any turbulence. I made Jake check the Internet to see when the last Tram disaster was just in case snowbird was up for one. haha. funny but true.
It's interesting how I was not scared to die when I came home from my mission (I even went on the major roller coasters at lagoon) but now the fear of flying and of heights gets to me. Gets to me in a way that makes me long for a Xanex.

We enjoyed our time in the canyon and then came home and watched Cowboys and Aliens. The jury is still out on that one. I want to like it. I really do. I don't know what is stopping me. I thought Indiana Jones + James Bond = Good Movie... hmmm. still trying to decide what I think.
I have decided that I LOVE LOVE LOVE my new kindle. Thank you family!
BEST idea ever.
I love how it's not back lit. I can read for longer amounts of time with my good eye.
Speaking of good eyes. I was the unfortunate recipient of a small infection at the base of my eyelashes... YUP a stye. Sucks bad. Sucks because it truly is my good eye. For the last few days Jake has had to drive at night because my vision is shot. Good think I can adjust the font on my Kindle to somewhere between "great grandma type" and "legally blind." That just means there are only 4 words per page. It's light as a feather and holds a charge for 4 months. that's just crazy . I love it .

The Rascal

CAN SOMEONE TELL ME WHY WE NEEDED THIS ?

Oh ya,

to do stuff like this with it

It's actually kinda fun to drive around in, But it's a litte Redneck if you try and adapt it so that a car seat will fit securely somehow on this type of vehicle ... not gonna lie.

"fun for the whole family"

I told Jake that if we do get this that I get to rename it

"The Rascal"

and so it was...

Lamb Days

Had a great time at the Parade this year.


Lamb Days Bath... in the sink

During our Lamb Days Vacation... we escaped down to

Maple Canyon

to check out the Indian Petroglyphs... Cool

Pretty easy hike

(I did it in flip flops... which i wouldn't recommend)
It seems I'm always wearing the wrong foot attire.
I hiked the Na Pali coast of Kaua'i in flip flops too. eek.

Roxane

Roxane's Front Yard

before we got to it.

We cut out lots of grass to give the front more shape and expand the flower bed.

below is the after we planted...

Jake and I decided to give her an awesome front yard for her birthday...

I think we did a pretty good job.

It will look fantastic this time next year !

I love this stuff!

I would have loved it even more if we could have used some kind of equiptment instead of just our two hands and shovels. oh well, it was a killer workout.

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY

WE SPENT THE DAY DOWN IN ALPINE AT GREAT UNCLE LEROY'S HOUSE

(JAKES GRANDPA JAY'S BROTHERS HOUSE)

THEY ALWAYS PUT ON A GREAT BIG LUNCH AND SERVE AWESOME BURGERS OUT OF AN OLD SHEEP CAMP THAT THEY HAVE RETRO FITTED TO BE A BBQ.

YOU CAN SEE IT IN THE BACKGROUND OF THE NEXT PICTURE.

LOVE IT.

SOPHIE LOVES HER DADDY.

HE HAS TAUGHT HER HOW TO GROWL... A TALENT THAT SHE SEEMS TO USE WHEN WE ARE AT CHURCH IN SACRAMENT MEETING.

SERIOUSLY.

This is my top pick for best picture of the summer.

5 Generations !!! yea.

Great great grandma Ivie Cardwell page (Jay's mom) always asks us

"Who Are You"

when she see's us... and Sophie is giving her the same look.

It's like a mirror. Each on the opposite spectrum of life, and

Neither have teeth.

It just made my day!

I also like how only 2 of the 5 are looking at the camera.

Sophie has become very interested in showers lately.

This is from my mom's kitchen sink.

I like her little bum cheeks.

You can see that she is trying to figure out what's going on /

how the faucet works when she plays in her grammies sink.