More Bezzants...

This is Andrea and her family, she is my sweet friend Jana's niece so it was really fun taking her pictures.

My cute friend Jennifer - this will be baby 7, she is super AMAZING!!

The Bezzants

What an amazing family!! And guess what, they let me take their big family picture. It was a lot of fun, but not the easiest job ever. Kate helped line them all up and then all I had to do was push the button on my camer. It is really hard to get the attention of all those people at once. So, I hope they liked the end result. Thanks Jennifer for sharing your family!!
Everyone ground level

Me standing on the picnic table.

Grandparents w/ grandkids (could have been better)

Siblings and spouses - some were pregnant and will be adding to the family soon.

Kate Week

Wow, what a week!! Kate and her boys came to stay at our house for a week and we had SO much fun!! She came on Saturday and we had dinner that night with her and the two Tylers. Sunday they went to church with us and we realized how much we miss them sitting by us every Sunday. After church we did our usual naps even though they were here. When we got up from our nap, she had already starting making dinner, which included her rolls (YUMMY). Sunday night we had Family Home Evening, because that is our usual day since Ray is gone on Monday nights. Monday when we got home from Jerika's voice lessons she had dinner ready for us again!! It was so nice. After dinner, we went out to our good friend Jennifers house and took pictures of her entire family. Then on Tuesday night I decided I should fix dinner for a change and then we went to zumba. Wednesday night we didn't have mutual, so we had Suzette Gee over for dinner (we all used to be in Young Womens together and I forgot how much fun those 2 are when we all get together) and then after dinner Kate colored Jerika's hair and mine too (we are both much blonder now). Thursday we went and took pictures of her kids, those boys are so cute and so much fun!! I forgot what good kids they are, some of pictures from that night are a little silly, but under the circumstances they did pretty good. Then they had to leave on Friday, I was so sad. The people at work were jokingly calling her my wife, but it was nice to have extra help and another adult to talk to all week. We have really missed them and it was so nice to spend time with them again. Now I guess it is our turn to go visit them.

Wow, I look pretty scary. But this is us together.

Most of the pictures I took of Kate during the week she had a silly look or her mouth was open. This is Kate and Suzette.

Cute, silly boys!!

International Dance Festival

Every year at BYUI they have an huge dance fesitval with dances from lots of different countries. My boss is usually in charge and this year he gave me some free tickets. So, these are the people I took with me. It was fun, be kind of went a little long for Kinlee & Tiff. There were dancers from Egypt, Mexico, Thailand, China and U.S, I think that was all. It was fun to see the different styles that each country has. And it was a fun night for all of us, we even went to dinner too.

Cierra, Jerika & Kinlee

Tiff & I
What you can't see behind us the CRAZY guy that sat next to us, who kept hitting on Kinlee while his wife was out in the lobby with his kid. That guy was NUTSO!! He kept trying to get her to go down on the floor and dance with him during intermission. COOKOO

In the day light....

I would just like to point out that I really do have some amazing neighbors, really nice people, couldn't ask for better people.  I just really dislike the animal issue.  I felt a little guilty and wanted to clear that up when it wasn't the middle of the night.

Quite possibly the worst weekend of my life.....

This weekend was crazy and I do have some pictures to post, but if I do it will be completely out of order.  So, I am going to just say that I am ready to move to someplace where there are no animals allowed!!  I live in the city limits and I am surrounded by animals.  Now, I am not an animal lover, but I am not an animal hater either.  But, as you can see I am typing this at three in the morning.  I am awake because I was coughing and I thought I would give Ray a little break and let him sleep since he has to be up at 4.  So, I came to sleep on the couch and as you can tell that isn't happening.  So, I am on the computer.  Last night we had some of the same issues so tonight I turned on my air conditioner when I went to bed, so I couldn't hear the animals, but since I came to sleep on the couch I hear everything.  I just posted the following comment on my facebook:  "Barking dogs plus quacking ducks, plus coughing mom, plus aches and pains from near death experience equals night number 2 of no sleep for me."  No sign of the rooster crowing yet, but I am sure I will be awake to hear that also. 

Those of you who really know me know I really need my sleep and you know how crazy I get when I can't sleep at night.  Ray and Jerika both took sleeping aids to help them sleep, but they make me feel so groggy the next day, so I chose not to take them.  However, I think I will feel much more groggy tomorrow after not sleeping at all.  Since the ducks moved in next door, Jerika has had to take sleeping pills almost every night, who knew ducks didn't need any sleep or maybe they sleep during the day, I don't know.  I feel quite lucky, however that we don't hear the sheep except when we are outside and the chickens are pretty quiet at night, except when there is a rooster in the bunch.  Wow, am I rambling or what?  I think tonight is one of those nights that it is a really good thing I don't personally own a gun. 

Okay, that is all I have to say because I am not feeling very nice right now.  If anyone knows of a place I can move where no animals are allowed, let me know.  At this point I would even consider moving back into apartments where they don't allow pets just so I can get some sleep.  Oh, did I mention we can't leave our windows open at night because of the noise too.

Cousin visit....

Ray's california cousins both came to visit this summer and we didn't get any pictures of Shantay while she was here. But, here is Laina and her family with the girls.

Kinlee, Jerika, Jonas, Sophia and Emma. They all got a little wet before taking the picture.

Ray and Laina. Now before you scroll down and think that I posted the next two pictures upside down, I want to tell you that my precious husband took those upside down because he thinks he is so funny. I posted them just to show everyone why I usually don't let him take any pictures.

My first trip ever to Mesa Falls and then we fed the fish.

This was one of Jerika's picture that she fixed, so I thought I would put it on.

Day at Rigby Lake

Friend Week #1

We have had so much fun these last few weeks. Lots of visitors and visits. My friend Carole is here from North Carolina, so we all wanted to see each other. It didn't work out the way we wanted to, but we still got to visit, I just missed seeing Kathryn.
Me, Carole and Holly came to my house Friday night the 23rd and talked for awhile.

Then the next week Janice, Carole & I got together. It was a lot of fun catching up with them. Even though Janice lives close and teaches school even closer, we never seem to get together.

This isn't even the end, but next was Jana. She came for dinner and brought Morgan with her and they stayed for a long time and we visited for hours!!! I loved it, I miss her so bad and we very seldom see each other at all. We used to spend so much time together, but I guess we had to grow up and move on.

This is Jerika and Morgan they had fun hanging out too.

A few more pics from Youth Conference

Jana, Kristina, Kristin, Ally, Tia & Lilly

Miana, Courtney, Amy, Justice, Jordan, Bishop & Katelyn

Jerika & her friends - Katie Jo, Myriah & Chelsey. Jerika wishes they lived in our ward.

Jerika and more of her silly friends from other wards.

Youth Conference - 2010 - Rock Creek

The Stake theme for Youth Conference this year was "Unplugged". They had it up at the girls camp, which I think was on purpose, because there is no cell service up there, so it was less of a temptation for the kids to take their phones. They couldn't have ipods either. We had so much fun, just playing good "old fashioned" games and eating the YUMMIEST food!! We stayed over 1 night there and had so much fun. I always hope the girls have as much fun as I do. But, like I have said before we have the MOST amazing young women in our ward and they are pretty good sports about everything!!

Jerika, me, Lili G. & Ally Taylor

Most of our youth attempting to do a skit (too many cooks for sure) - our ward had the most youth 20 girls and 11 boys.

Some of my really cute young women - I love those girls

Jerika and our friend Jeremiah. He was so sweet and carried all my stuff to my cabin, even my really girly overnight bag. We just love him!! He just moved to Sugar not long ago and we have had the privledge of having him hang out at our house alot. He has been gone most of the summer and we really miss him.

Island Park - Macks Inn

On our way home, we had a few minutes, so we stopped at the river at Macks inn. The girls were going to wade, but the water was so cold and they wimped out. But, look at how pretty it is there and look how cute my girls are.

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