Our prolific beans. Never had such a good crop. Much of the rest of the garden has been overrun by squash/gord plants.

8 down, 7 to go.

Here are the beautiful dresses Julia is working so diligently on. She already finished four of Becky's, and she just finished four of Cassie's. They are all turning out so cute! There are to be 9 dresses for Becky's bride's maids, and 7 for Cassie's, making a grand total of 16 dresses.

Pre-wedding celebration...

First party down, 2 to go :) It turned out really nice and it was sooooo fun to have everyone there. Even Doug seemed to have a great time!

Thank you and goodbye!

Family, thank you so much for everything! I am excited to go into the MTC this morning and start my journey! I love you and I can't wait to hear everything fun that you are doing while I'm gone! Don't wait for me to do anything great!

Love you all so much! BYE!

Guess What?

Happy Birthday, Natalie!! (yesterday)

SURPRISE!!!

Natalie's face as she walked in the kitchen to a sea of 40-50 faces and a big yell of "SURPRISE!"

Kaitlyn Christensen and I planned a surprise birthday party for Natalie's 17th birthday. It was sooo fun, and she was VERY surprised, as you can see by her face.

This is the beautiful (and not to mention DELICOUS) double-layered cake that carl toro made. It was yellow cake on the bottom and chocolate on the top with whip cream and strawberries in between the two and bananas and whip cream on top.

Ecstatic.


Natalie was trying to blow out the candles but they were TRICK candles! so it was never ending. Plus it didn't help that she was cracking up the entire time and out of breath.


There was a good turn out. About 40-50 people showed up! :)

Everyone loves Natalie!!


This is the card I made for the Toros in appreciation of their loads of help. It's suppoosed to resemble the cake with the candles stuck inside the chocolate covered strawberries. I'm very proud of it.

My Relay for Life Team.  We won first prize in the fundraising competition.  

Sailing with Danielle, Jen, and Rudd.  

River rafting down the American River.  

Sadie Hawkins with Danny Zuko.  




The Oscars.  I sewed sleeves on this dress and wore it to the Oscars, right after our frisbee championships in which we got first place.