Beautiful Bear lake

Here we are at our annual Bear Lake trip. We go every year with my moms brother and sisters and their kids, and their kids for my grandmas birthday.....needless to say we had a bunch of people to party with. I love getting together with all of my cousins, we have such a good time together...we need to do it more often. It was really fun and as you can tell the weather and the lake (still a little chilly) were beautiful.




This is one of our favorite things a Bear Lake....a heated pool. We spent most of Saturday in there. We had a blast and are lucky because in two weeks we get to go with just my side of the family for a week, and then at the end of July we get to go with the Marchbanks family for a week.... we can't wait.

Golfing at Bear Lake

One thing that Sadie and Matt love to do together is Golfing. We went to the beautiful Bear Lake Golf course. Audry came along and had some fun learning how to hit the ball. Her and Sadie were pretty good at smacking the ball.

Grandmas 80th Birthday Party!

Here are some pictures that we took at the party.

"Peter Pan"

My cute little dancer had a recital on Wednesday this week, and she did so good. The theme of the recital was Peter Pan. Sadie was a crocodile for her hip-hop dance and a magical fairy for her ballet dance. The costumes were so cute, I didn't get a picture of her in her Crocodile costume, but she said that was ok because she really loved the fairy costume the best anyways. I am so proud of her, she said that she was pretty nervous to go on stage, but went anyways. Matt was so impressed when she came out as a fairy, he thought that she was so graceful, and looked like a beautiful fairy. I think that she will grow up to be a pretty darn good dancer if she wants to. Good Job Sadie, WE LOVE YOU!

Surprise! Happy Retirement!

Happy retirement dad!! Saturday, my three wonderful sisters an I threw a surprise retirement party for our dad. It was awesome. We have never done any surprise party for my dad, so we thought that this was a good time to do it. The party was held at my house in the backyard, so to get him to come over to my house all nice and dressed up we told him that we were going to take him out for dinner to the Chefs Table Restaurant for his retirement. As soon as he and my mom pulled up Matt and I met him outside and asked if he would come look at a tree in our backyard that was looking a little sad, As soon as we said that, he asked what was going on, he had a hunch something other than dinner was about to happen. We took him around back and what do you know....... his Sister, her husband, their son and his wife and baby, had come from California for the party, also a cousins son from France came. Even though he knew something was going on I think that seeing them was a big surprise. It was fun to see the reaction on his face. Then the rest of the night we had people from my moms family, from their neighborhood, people from my dads work, and old friends show up. We had dinner for all of the visitors, and if you can believe it we made most of the food. We probably fed around 150 people that night, and we only had to run to the store once, because we ran out of meat. Here was the menu:
Grilled Chicken skewers
Grilled Flank Steak
Couscous
Tomato Salad
Cabbage Salad
Pretzel Jell-O Salad
Crackers and Cheese (and Amber's yummy Cheese Ball)
Chips & Spinach Artichoke Dip (Costco)
Fruit and Veggie Trays
Bread and Yummy Homemade Jam
and so many different yummy cookies and cupcakes
It was really an awesome night. Our Dad has worked so hard all these years for us. We always had good food to eat at home, clothes on our backs, and family memories from all of our fun vacations that we went on together. Thanks Dad for taking such good care of us, now it is your time to party. We love you!!!!