Taylor's 19th Birthday

Can't quite believe that Tay is 19! When did this happen?

Our college girls!

How cute are Tay and Amanda? They have been best friends for so many years and it's been so fun to watch them grow up together. They're now both in college and so it's such a treat to see them hanging around the house together.

Utah Food!

So apparently, although DC is the capital of our country, it is not the capital of good food. Sam said that there are mainly boutiquey type restaurants that are really expensive and a few fast food chains like McDonalds. So when she was here there was a strict plan in place to eat at certain restaurants....

Marleys in Lindon. They are part of the new Harley Davidson place. SUPER YUMMY sliders!!


Breakfast at Magelby's Fresh in Provo.

The remnants of the sent from heaven syrup for the all you can eat pancakes and french toast. if my trainer is reading this, I had two bites!!

Costa Vida!! So Yummy is the half salad!

This picture just cracks me up. It was taken just before the above picture. Not everyone was ready and Sam looks really concerned! She was asking if I was taking a picture of the whole table or just one side.

Chinese Buffet in Orem. We went to lunch with Shawn's family. It was so great to see all of them again!

Sam's Birthday Visit to Utah!

So Sam flew out here to Utah for a WEEK! So we could celebrate her 30th birthday with her. Every minute was planned so she could pack everything in. It was so FUN having her here and I was WAY sad to see her go!

This is the stack of scrapbook pages that she finished. She did over 300 pictures while she was here and filled two albums.

Sam in action!

Sam and Tay

Mom took us out on Friday for both of our birthdays (three days apart). Of course we chose to spend our birthday money at Archivers!!! BTW....I look like a giant in this picture! Sam has started wearing flats of all things!

I love this picture because it looks like I have really long hair!

This is the first picture of getting mom to do kissy lips! We went to see "New in Town." Really cute show!


Sam and Ben

The Greatest Burger in the Wasatch Front Challenge!

So we went to Marley's, which is the restaurant inside the Timpanogos Harley Davidson store in Lindon, for dinner the other night. (Thanks Grandma!) And upon sampling the DELISH sliders they have we have instituted the First Annual Greatest Burger in the Wasatch Front Challenge! We are making it our mission to taste all the Burgers, Fries and Shakes that are NOT fast food and come up with our top five or ten list. This will be our great contribution to society.



So far, Marley's and Five Guys have made the list for Burgers and fries and JCW is on the list for their shakes.

If you have a recommendation, please let us know and we will add it to our quest.

Sisters

Wanna have some real fun? Give your camera to two cute girls and have them snap away! I have so many AWESOME pictures of my girls that I got FROM them. Here are a few post-Thanksgiving, not sure what to do next, people are napping pictures of Tay and Bay.

What we're really thankful for...

Football!! Could this picture be more staged?! Go Cowboys!

Seriously though, we had such a great day just hanging out, being together and sharing a bottle of Pepto.



Tay and Coop



tay and Dad



tay and Harrison



tay and ....no wait! No tay! Cooper, Morgan and his CUTE girlfriend Lani.

Congratulations!! It's a food baby!

Tay and Bay are expecting...to feel sick really soon!



Our friend, Bryon Danielson and his food baby



Morgan claims that this is how he always looks....

Happy Thanksgiving!!

So here's my crazy family posing for our non-traditional happy thanksgiving shot! We have entirely too much fun together!

The MENU...


We took this delicious and healthy mountain o fruit and turned it into....



...this delicious whipped cream fruit salad. YUMMY YUMMY!



And these nutritious YAMS into this brown sugar/marshmallow candy side dish.



And of course we had to take the ever so good for you green beans and dip them in batter then FRY them, yes I said FRY them. This was a DIET COKE batter...does that make it healthier because it's Diet?



Oh yeah, then the turkey. We didn't carmelize it or anything! We just ate it like this! Except of course the fat drippings gravy I made. Hmmmm....How many pounds to people gain over the holidays?