Happy Birthday Taylor!
It all started on the day of Taylor's birth. I made this sweet cake out of fig newtons so he could have his favorite snack while we drove to Bear Lake

At Bear Lak we stayed at my grandparents cabin and went to the Balling reunion.

We did lots of boating. 4-wheeling, and playing games with family at the cabin

We taught Nate how to sommersault!

If you have never heard of the Air Chair check out this video!
You will be amazed!

Then we headed off to the Smith River in Montana Where we spent a week fishing, rafting, and camping. After setting and taking down our tent everyday for a week Taylor and I have gotten our fill of camping for a while!

We played cards in the Dining Fly to keep away from rain and bugs

"Row Row Row Your Boat"
by: Taylor Horspool

Monday I had FHE at Utah Lake!
Taylor had work and my sister-in-laws had to stay home with babies. So my parents, brothers, and I headed out for some good times on the boat!
Oh how I LOVE water skiing!

Luke

My dad on the air chair

Me

Dan doing the jumps!

Weekend fun

This weekend we journeyed up to Park City to get Taylor's motorcylce fixed. It is under warranty at the dealership so we took it up there. As we were dropping off the bike Taylor got a phone call from his brother who just happened to be in Park City that very moment along with his aunt Carol! So we met up with Brook and Carol for some yummy lunch at the
Pizza & Noodle.
What a surprize eh!

Then after our get-together in Park City
we met up with Taylo's uncle David and his wife Mary Ellen and their very pregnant daughter Rebecca. We went to a really neat little chineese place called Shoots.

Then on sunday we celebrated Taylor's upcoming birthday with my family and some scrumptious pie!

Taylor got so into blowing out those candles he used his arms for some extra wind!

Fun Stuff!

I have been doing my internship every day and Taylor has been working too exept he took off today to go fishing with my dad and grandpa. We'll see how that goes?

We have been doing some fun stuff for my inership and here are a few of the thigs we have done!

The Aquarium in Salt lake was so fun!

It's no hawaii, but I was glad this thing was behind the glass!

We watched a skate park competition and those kjids are crazy!

I found the bear that was ransacking that campground
in the Bean Museum!

My favorite was Lagoon!
This was after a ride that is supposedy a dry one!
Who knew I would get soaked!

Camping!

So Taylor and I LOVE camping!
We live next to so many beautiful places and I think it would be a shame not to take advantage of what we can! This last weekend we found this awesome camp site behind squaw peak mountain and my also newly married friends Jackie & Kyle and Jennie & Eric joined us in our adventure! We all made tin foil dinners and then topped them off with some delicious s'mores. Then it started to rain pretty ferociously during the night, but Taylor and I slept through it all and when we woke up my friends had packed up and left! We all had fun before the rain so it was ok!

The sweet view from our camp site!

Of course Taylor did all the cooking! He is just so good with fire!

If you can't tell... we are all doing extremely difficult kung-fu moves
on the edge of the mountain!

The view at night was almost better!

When we woke up we were in a cloud!

Cute pictures!

So we scanned a bunch of old pictures of taylor and i into the computer for the wedding video and i have just been cropping some and making them look nice and some of them are so cute i have to share!


Who do ya think heather looks like in this one?


I have so many good memories of all my cousins gettting together at grandy's for hot tubbing!



I love those shorts!

Zip Zip Zip!

Yesterday we took the girls to the ropes coarse and i got to do the sip line and it was so much fun! I love having a job that I can come home from and say, "I had so much fun today!"

Yahoo! we found it!

We found the camera and here are some pictures from our six flags adventure...
We went through supermans ice cave to go on the superman ride where we watched our pennies float in the air in front of us!

Then we walked through the misty jungle to the goliath ride. I think that was my favorite!

We had to stop and get one of those giant turkey legs for lunch!

words...

So, I am pretty sure we left our camera in California and that is why we don't have any pictures.:( I will just tell you about our adventures from this week. I started my internship working with girls ages 12 - 18 with a variety of mental illnesses. My first week has been a blast ! We played Frisbee golf one day then arts and crafts another, we went to the library and read books, then we went to the aviary and spent the day going to bird shows and lunch! Isn't rec therapy the best! And after this I will be a lisenced recreator! Taylor has been working hard so this weekend we went camping in Midway with my parents ,sister, and brother along with their families. We had a fire and made pigs in a blanket and some yummy cherry turnover things and smores. Taylor and I slept in the back of my dads truck and it was a delux bed! We had so many foams pads, and my favorite was the memory foam! We camped right close to the hot springs so we biked to them and got in - well they were super hot so i only put my feet in! I wish we had pictures, but I guess you can all just use your imagination!

California!

So we had an amazingly fun week in California and since we did a lot of it with Mike, Amber, Brooke, Tami, and kids you will have to refer to their blogs to see most of the pictures. The only things we did by ourselves was camping at Joshua Tree and a day at Six Flags - magic mountain. We can't find our camera at the moment so 6-flags pic will have to wait!


Joshua Trees are the coolest! and they were everywhere!


We had a sweet camp site too!



Isn't the desert beautiful!

Yahoo! We are done!

Friday Taylor and I walked at graduation together! It was so fun that we got to go together! It was a pretty long and boring ceremony, but i made taylor do it with me because I missed my high school graduation and Kathy came all the way from California to be ehre for it! So we just passed the time by playing some cards and blowing on each others tassels!

Kalai

Kalai is kind of a local musician, but he is so good! So Saturday night Taylor wanted to take me out but he wouldn't tell me where we were going. After dinner we went to the Covey Center where they have plays and stuff. So I thought we were going to a play. Taylor went to pick up his tickets and told me to wait in line to get in. So I went up and asked a couple if this was the line to get into the play. They looked at me kind of weirdly and nodded. So, when we walked in the stage had drums and guitars set up, and I just started laughing cause i realized this was not a play! It was a Kalai concert! It was so fun and he was telling funny jokes all night, and he is a really good guy - no swearing or crude comments or anything! If you want to hear one of his songs look on our playlist. He's also on our wedding video!

This is what I do...

I do laundry and I look at this thing-a-magigger, and use it, while i think, and think, and think to myself - and today I thought of a poem!


Thoughts
I think thoughts every day,
They are what directs my way.
They make me happy or sad,
They can be good or bad.
If I think a man is scum,
and I treat him like he's a bumb,
That is what he will surely become!
But if I happen to change my mind,
and think him, a different kind,
Then maybe he will be,
the one I really want to see!
So, think thoughts that are good,
and things will be the way they should!