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elder doyle

he left to the mtc august 26th. the family is not the same without him, but we are so proud of him. we sure miss him. he leaves for new york on the 16th... love you JD!! good luck!

24th of july

my mom took my brothers and josh and i to the bees game to see the fireworks. the whole time i was completely paranoid about a foul ball coming our way. because i work on a rehab unit in the hospital i see so many crazy things so i am always super careful when it comes to accidents and head injuries. so josh went out and got his hot dog for the game. then a foul ball was hit and guess where it was headed? right towards me. the only thing i knew to do was to duck and protect my head hoping someone around me would catch it. but there was just enough space between my butt and the back of the chair that i caught it with my butt. hehe. josh didn't believe that's what happened until everyone around us convinced him to believe me. hehe. fun game!

father's day

this was the last father's day that we were able to spend with my great grandpa connors. he passed away about a month ago with cancer. he has been away from his wife for 8 years now and his daughter about 6 years. so i am really happy for him. i also feel very special to have known all of my great grandparents in my lifetime. i was able to have a great grandpa for almost 24 years of my life. he was also one of the few family members that was able to be in the temple with me on my wedding day. it was very special to me. i love you grandpa!!

the whole crew..

dad with grandpa... best pals.

this was just a funny picture i got with JD and danica just chillin.


danica started playing peek-a-bo totally out of the blue. i was able to catch it on camera. hehe.

danica's birthday.

back with the blogging.. maybe even a few posts today. :) my sister danica shares the same birthday as my best friend hayley, june 19th. this was her first birthday. she is the cutest baby girl. i love her to pieces.

sister sister...


and she loved her dora balloon.

this was one of her favorite birthday gifts... she can't quite walk yet, but you can tell that she really wants to get around more, so now she walks around with her baby and her stroller.


and i must put in a couple videos of her with her birthday cake. she was so dainty. she just wanted us to keep singing to her.

the petting zoo

so we have a new addition to our family. yes, a dog. i keep thinking to myself why do pets always come to me? problem is i can't ever bring myself into taking them to the pound, because i never know the type of home they will get? i always want pets to be in a good home.

so here is the story. . . so josh and i had a birthday party at our house for our good friend hillery. (i give her most credit for hooking up josh and i.)hehe. keep in mind this was on may 19th. (like i said before, i have some serious updating to do.) anyway we had her invite all of her friends over for cake and ice cream and to hang out a bit. well we get a knock on the front door, and it was some of her friends on the front doorstep with a dog and they all said here is a dog for your birthday. well hillery still lives at home with her parents, and they do not approve of an extra dog in the house so we decided to try to keep it at our house and see how it goes.

as some of you know josh is attached to dogs. he loves them more than life itself sometimes. so he loves the dog and still to this day keeps trying to push me to let him keep her. problem is we already have 2 cats. if we have a dog too, that makes it a petting zoo. so i guess we live in the petting zoo now.

josh is going to be mad at me for saying this, but if anyone wants her or knows of a great home for her they can have her. for free. we were told she has had all of her shots and is spayed, but i don't have record of either one. so who knows?

we named her zoey. she is pretty cute and has been fun. we love her. i just honestly don't want any more pets right now.



p.s. i guess i should also mention in this post that i got a perm. my hair was so so flat all the time and never had body. i didn't want to cut it, because it is the longest it has been in a long time, but most of the perm has fallen out now, and i am fed up with long hair, so i am scheduled to cut it tomorrow. hehe. i think changing hair lots is fun. it mixes things up.

some serious updating.

so i am horrible. i do have some pictures to put up. still none of the house. my camera has either been full or my house has been dirty! but i will get some soon. (yeah right believe it when you see it right?) hehe.

so the first event i want to post is joshes birthday. it was on april 23. i know i am horrible at this these days! so as some of you know josh's birthday was the day before our wedding. josh's birthday was on a thursday this year and our anniversary was on a friday (april 24th) so we just turned it into a big party weekend and went off to vegas. it was a great get away and such a blast.

so josh had been complaining lots about not getting a birthday cake for the past few years of his birthday, and how because of our anniversary, he probably wouldn't have any great birthdays from here on out because our anniversary is so close to his birthday. so i wanted to surprise him and do something so secretive and special for him. so i got this HUGE birthday bag and i filled it with some birthday gifts and a little cake for his birthday. (josh loves cake!) i got the cake from the same place we got our wedding cake and cupcakes, dippidee. we love dippidee! my mom even put some cute little fillers in the bag.

this was his cute little cake.


and joshes funny surprised face..


and this was josh with the birthday bag surprises...
includes: a new pair of vans, socks, cookies, chips, squirt guns, bubbles, dvd's, and i am probably forgetting some little things, but that is what it mostly was. it was lots of fun.


and this was a day on the town just "JASH" ;)


on our trip we were able to go to a wax museum. this was lots of fun
and we took a lot of pictures, but these were our faves...

this one was so funny. everyone that sees it is like what the heck? haha.
we just laugh....

this one kind of goes with the previous one. its silly. hehe.


snoop


tiger


this one is more for my dad.. hehe. bite your ear off.


stevie

this one is for my mom..

r.i.p. king of pop :(

josh.. the only time you can grab someone's butt is if they are a wax figure..
ok now that we got that straight, hello jessica!!


2pac looks like he has a 12 pac.


elvis


I LOVE LUCY!!!


and can't forget abe!


so while we were in vegas the night of our anniversary we got to go see the blue man group. it was incredibly entertaining and so very fun. we loved it.. these aren't the actual blue men, but we got to get pictures with their wax figures in the wax museum..




then we went to the coke factory and tried different sodas
from around the world. this is a list of some of them that we tried...


some of the sodas.. sparkly rainbow!


then josh tried the beverly from Italy. it was probably the worst soda in the world. literally. it was so funny to look around and see people's faces that drank it. hehe. i only drank the ones that josh told me were good. i cheated.. this is josh with the beverly.


this is a really funny video from you tube of some people trying beverly. it is hilarious how disgusting it is to EVERYONE. haha.



then we went to the m&m factory and got some over-priced m&m's that
were all sorts of different cool colors. we love m&m's!


then when we got home from vegas we attempted to eat our year old wedding cake. it was not frost bitten at all, but it really tasted like it. josh kept warning me and wanted to eat it well before a year, but i wanted to stick with traditions, and look how far that got me. hehe.

more blog posts coming shortly. :) i promise.