Father's Day Weekend Pics

The last few weeks have been crazy around here with all kinds of projects we have going on and appointments, etc., so I'm really late in posting all of this, but I just wanted to put up some pics from Father's Day weekend. We enjoyed BBQ's both that Saturday and Sunday, and here are some pictures from the events... My two favorite boys! Chris is such a great Dad to Parker and we're both so lucky to have him!
My Dad & Parker. Parker loves to give him a workout by being thrown "up high" over and over again. He thinks it's the greatest thing...we're still trying to come up with a good name other than "Grandpa" for my Dad to be called... any suggestions? (My Grandpa and G-Grandpa were "Papa" and "Gramps", so those are out...)

My little bro and I with our Dad
Parker and his Uncle Dustin (Chris' brother) playing on the swings at the Hansens. The facial hair is a new summer look for 25 year old Dustin... What do you ladies think??
Aunt Bethany (Chris' sis) is always good to make Parker laugh. He has a lot of fun with her!

I didn't catch a picture of Chris' Dad, Lance on Father's Day, but here is a good picture of him from last Fall (with Chris' Mom and the little monkey). He loves to give Parker tours of their backyard and help him be "all boy" and play in the dirt in their sandbox out back.

Flash forward ten years

( L to R: Nicole, Sara, Lindsi, Jill, Amanda S., Amanda P., Cami, me, Lacey)
Speaking of high school, my good friend Amanda arranged for a bunch of old high school friends to meet up at the park several weeks ago at the park for picnic. It was fun to see everyone that could make it & catch up for a minute! Some of these girls I see pretty often and some I hadn't seen in years! We decided that overall we all pretty much look the same as we did 10 years ago, despite three of us being in our third trimesters of pregnancy (Jill, myself, and Lindsi). Thanks Amanda for arranging the get together! She's always been the planner... some things never change! We decided that those who haven't yet started blogs need to get on it so that we can all stay in the loop this way! :)

Ahhh the Days

I really can't believe that my ten year high school reunion is coming up! It seems like just the other day that I was going to football games, school dances, hanging out with friends, trying to find my locker in the windy and confusing halls of BHS... those were sure fun times, but at the same time I'm glad those days are behind me.

Here's a little flashback....

THE GIRLS 1998

(L to R) Cami, me, Tammy, Amanda, Lacey, Jill, Megan

So why didn't someone ever tell me to cut my hair??

Graduation was held on Brighton's football field. What a crazy night! There was a wind and lightening storm & I'm glad we all made it out alive. We're all a little wind blown here...

High school dances were the best. I swear there was one every month but it sure kept us busy with creative asking, answering and planning the big events. Here we are at girl's choice MORP senior year. We obviously chose the theme of brides and grooms... I borrowed someone's real wedding dress from the 70's! We put a ton of hours into planning this... we had every detail from fake wedding invitations (as the way we asked to the dance), cans tied to the back of our cars with "Just married" written on them, ring pops, a "wedding dinner" at a church with Brittany's dad as the wedding photographer, a "wedding video" playing with clips from famous movie weddings, (Princess Bride, Cinderella, Runaway Bride, etc.), and then AFTER the dance we went back to Lacey's and changed into hawaiian shirts and lays and went on our hawaiian "honeymoons". (Pretty innocent - we exchanged wedding gifts with white elephants that each couple brought and watched a movie or something.) Anyways, it was a good time!

Getting dressed up for dances was always fun. Here I am all ready for girl's choice W.A. (Women's Association). So you're thinking, "GOLD?" Yes, I know. I've never even been a fan of gold, but for some reason I ended up liking this dress. We picked up our dates for this one in Gloria's motor home! Her dad and uncle were nice enough to dress up in formal suits and top hats and be our chauffers for the night.

Prom was always so much fun at the state capitol building. I was so excited to be going in a limo (my first time!) for this dance. My best friend Lacey and I (far right) ended up shopping for dresses together and fell in love with the exact same ones! The only difference was the color. I don't think it was that noticeable, but we didn't care anyways. We just wanted to look good...typical girls. I think we kind of liked that we matched. We went to the JS Memorial building for dinner & if I remember right we took a carriage ride around downtown, then headed to the dance. It was a ton of fun! Seriously, how often do we get to dress up like that post high school besides our wedding days? In my world, pretty much never.

My senior year in high school I was a hostess at Dos Serranos Mexican Grill (it has since closed). Steph Daniels also worked there with me. It was a decent job, although I think I was happy to have an excuse to quit when I headed up to USU the fall after graduation.

The things we did to entertain ourselves.... once in a while we used to drive up Parley's Canyon and take Quarry's Exit (a tunnel turn around off the freeway) and freak each other out with the tales that scary people would set up traps in there to capture the innocent drivers trying to turn around late at night. We would really get pretty scared! Hey -free entertainment, right?

SO there is a little glimpse into my high school experience! Before I know it, my own kids will be experiencing the same things, and I'll be the worried, paranoid parent waiting up late for them to get home.... what goes around eventually comes around, right?

Thanks to all those who helped make the BHS experience a good one. I'm not so sure I'll be making it to the reunion as I'll be 9 months pregnant at that point and so huge that you might have to roll me in or something... :)
P.S. I hope no one minds me posting any of these pictures!

A Day at the Spa!

So I am a little late in posting this, but - I feel inclined to brag a little... last Thursday I got to spend four awesome hours at the spa being pampered! For Mother's Day Chris gave me a spa package to have a one hour pregnancy massage, a facial, a pedicure and lunch! Well, I finally was able to redeem this awesome gift last week, and it was absolute heaven!! I can't remember the last time I had four hours to myself with no miniature little person attached to my side. I was going to take a picture of my pedicure to post along with this, but let's just say my feet are looking a little swollen tonight due to the onset of pregnancy induced edema. Not so flattering. But I'm happy to say that I still have ankles. When I was prego with Parker in AZ, I became so puffy they disappeared the last few months of pregnancy! (It was 118 degrees the day I had Parker - July 22nd.) I am getting off track - like usual - but I just wanted to thank my sweet husband for giving me such a thoughtful gift. I absolutely loved it and I guess he knew I really could use a a little R&R. EVERY girl deserves a little pampering now and then, right?

P.S. -- Surprisingly, the facial was my FAVORITE!!

The Fam

This is Parker's on-command "happy face". He sticks his finger to his cheek, but doesn't always remember the smile. That's okay, we still think he's pretty darn cute.

Six months prego by the way! We're getting close! :)

Fun before church

Told ya he loves stickers. (Then again, what kid doesn't, right?)

Green grass + warm weather = Happy Michelle

Hooray for grass in the backyard! Chris worked all day Thursday and part of Friday and Saturday laying sod in our backyard. I am soooo excited to have this underway. It is so much fun to play with Parker outside and now that we're finally experiencing some warm weather, you can bet that we'll be out there a ton this summer. Next comes a fence... hopefully we can get that up in the next month or so. Thank you, Chris for all of your hard labor back there! You are the best and I can't tell you how nice it is to have a "handy" husband. (He also installed the sprinkling system!)