Memorial Day

We had a fun time this memorial day. Garhett and I had just returned from Hawaii that morning. We took a good nap and then headed to meet up with the fam.

Every year on or around Memorial Day we get together and head to the Salt Lake Cemetery to visit family graves. We go up often to see my sister Marianne's grave and so the cemetery has come to be a special place for my family. 

After the cemetery we headed to my mom and dad's for a barbecue. Good times were had by all!

My cute niece and nephew

         

The girls and dad...

The whole gang (minus two families!) Yes my mother has to show the Volcon sign "Live long and prosper" in at least one family picture no matter where we are.

Birthday Boy

Since we will be in the beautiful state of HAWAII for Garhett's 25th birthday, I decided to celebrate early. We had Garhett's family over to our little apartment for dinner. Just a barbecue with hamburgers and hot-dogs; it was fun to celebrate! 

I know, I'm sorry, the birthday boy isn't even in the picture. He wouldn't let me take it though.

 For dessert I made an ice cream cake. I'm not going to lie, I'm pretty proud of this cake. Not only does it look really good but it tasted amazing - but I'm a sucker for ice cream and cake. It's three layers of chocolate cake and two layers of vanilla bean ice cream with a cream cheese/whip cream frosting. (How can you not like that?) It really was a little taste of heaven. Garhett wasn't a huge fan of the candles I put on the cake. But it's not really a birthday celebration without blowing out candles on your birthday cake - all 25 of them!

I forgot to get a good picture of the whole thing, but here's how it looks on the inside!

I can't believe Garhett is 25. It seems so old, but yet not old at all. What's even worse is that I'll follow in just 4 short months!

But I LOVE this 25 year old birthday boy. It was one year ago that I knew I really loved him and I have fallen even more in love with him everyday since then! He is the love and joy of my life. He makes me smile and laugh every single day. He has the most amazingly cute smile that makes my heart melt every time I see it. I mean how could you not fall in love with that smile. (that's how he got me from the start!) 

He is so sweet and kind and thoughtful. He doesn't have a selfish bone in his body! He treats me like a princess and I know I don't deserve it! He is humble and generous and always happy. He doesn't stress about the little things and helps me enjoy the simple pleasures in life. I learn from his example every day!

Happy Birthday Garhett. I love you!

Prom

My little sister Marcie had her Senior Prom in the middle of May. My parents were out of town so the girls all got together to help her get ready. (Well, we would have done that anyway) 

Doesn't she look beautiful!?

The Girls

I promise we didn't try to color coordinate. It just so happened that we were wearing similar colors. :)

This is Marcie's cute date Jameson. They sure do make a cute couple!

Tulips!

Those who know me well know that I LOVE tulips. A few weeks ago the hubby and I went and strolled around temple square to see the tulips.

We recently got a new camera. The Nikon 3200. Garhett dabbles in photography a little bit. A favorite hobby of his when he has time. I would love to learn more about photography to be able to use our fancy new camera to the best of its ability. But Garhett knows a thing or two about taking great pictures. Here are some of my favorites that he took.  :)

This is the exact spot that we got engaged! We just had to stop and reminisce.