Happy Birthday Mom!!

40 reasons why you are amazing! .....

1. you make everything fun

2. you're so beautiful

3. you're a FABULOUS cook

4. You're halarious & goofy

5. you love to go shopping with me

6. you let me help you with your hair

7. you give great advice

8. trustworthy

9. great example to me
10. super strong in the gospel

11. you love Dad

12. you look funny when you sleep :)

13. you help me choose what to wear

14. you listen to what I tell you to wear

15. you are organized

16. you always keep a clean house

17. you don't complain about everything you do for the family

18. when I was little you used to kiss my hand so I could hold your kiss all day

19. in elementary school you used to leave notes on my napkin

20. you always make an awesome Valentines dinner and put so much work into making the table so pretty

21. you go above and beyond to make every holiday special

22. you always want to hear everything going on in my life

23. you're not very coordinated....haha

24. you look halarious trying to dance

25. you're always thinking about others and wanting to give service

24. you compliment others

25. you don't let a bad hair day get you in a bad mood

26. you always smile to people you don't know

27. you always point out the positive in people

28. you work so hard to make sure we are all where we need to be

29. you try so hard to be on time to pick us up (and succeed most of the time)

30. you smell amazing all the time!

31. you're kinda paranoid (when I'm driving).... ok REALLY paranoid but don't worry, its cute

32. you're good about writing in your journal

33. you're super smart

34. you're good at surprising people

35. you ask and take my advice on things

36. you're loved by everyone in the ward and so looked up to

37. you're so affectionate towards me and the other kids

38. all the kids in primary ADORE you

39. you're so patient about little annoying things

40. you are one of my closest friends and I couldn't ask for a better Mom!

I love you so much Mom! Happy Birthday!

EFY & Utah Trip

Camping with Cousins


Lucy Goosy!

Amelia

Kissing Connor

My favorite girls ever!

EFY

Getting ice cream during freetime

haha

My whole company (we were the best at the whole session)

Whit and I with our friend Sarah

We see boys!!

Mine & Whit's Crushes. Whit was after Quinn (blond) and I was after Cale. SO cute.......

Ok, well I have been avoiding this post this whole week because so much happened in Utah and there were SO MANY amazing moments that I have been worried I would not be able to write about them all and even remember some of the things I wanted to say.... so, I am just going to scratch the whole idea of writing about it all (it would be way too long and nobody would probably end up reading it anyway) and post a bunch of pictures instead. All I'm going to say is: eventhough I was in good ol' Utah with family instead of vacationing in the Bahamas, I don't think I could have asked for a better summer. It was so good to see family and cousins that I haven't seen for way too long and spent the 4th camping with some of them. EFY was such a blast and an amazing experience (right here is where I want to go into full detail and talk about every little part, but I'll resist). Whit and I made some BEST friends there that I already miss so much. After two weeks in Utah (and away from our pool) I still wasn't ready to go!