My family, my family, they mean so very much to me...

I hope for those of you who listened to Power Tunes growing up that that song is now stuck in your head. :) That is the only part I remember though. So, my life for the past little while...things have been busy and not at the same time. I am only working twenty-five hours a week, so I have time, but it seems like it goes by so fast, especially the weekends. Maybe if I managed my time better I would have more of it. :)

Well, Stace stayed after Memorial day until that next Thursday. I had tons of fun playing with her girls and her. They are so much fun and I love them. Here are some pictures from that weekend when we were all together (before Annie and her boys left):

Luke and Me (What a stud! I can't believe how fast he is growing up. He is the same age as I was when he was born!)

Cade and Me (I love his toothless grin!)

Me and Cole (He was being goofy and wouldn't smile, but I like his funny face anyway.)

Jackson and Me (He's a cutie, there's no doubt about it. Doesn't he look so handsome in his shades?)

Kaylee and Me (I love Kaylee! She is such a doll. We played at the park and went on the slides together and had all sorts of fun.)

Here are just some other fun pictures from our little family get together (Everyone but Jana and her clan were there. I can't wait for our family reunion next month! I love it when my family is all together.

I took this picture last week of our Prairie Fire Crab Apple. I love it when it blooms all beautiful. The sky was really gray when I took the picture, but it ended up okay.

I decided that I need to take pictures with just me and my nieces and nephews. I got a good one with pretty much everyone except Brianna, Emily, and Carter. I'll have to get those on here as soon as I get good ones. :) I really love my family and love spending time with them. I can't believe that I am going to have fifteen nieces and nephews by my twentieth birthday. Pretty crazy!

As to other things in my life...I am still going to the singles' branch and enjoying it. The singles' activities every week are pretty much my only out, so I go even when I don't want to some times. Life is good even though I don't have as much of a social life as I would like to at times.

On Wednesday night we had a great horned owl in our backyard. It was so cool to watch it. I wish I had gotten a good picture of it, but it was too dark. It was just running (literally) in the backyard. It was the strangest thing to watch an owl run instead of fly. We got to watch it for about twenty minutes.

My friend Alex got home off his mission to Seattle on Wednesday. He and my friend Jared came to see me Wednesday night, that was kinda a shocker. : ) They invited me to come hang out at Alex's, so I went for a while. A couple of my other guy friends came, so it was just me and the boys again. : ) I am glad that I have friends. So I stayed at Alex's for a while and we talked about his mission and drank apple beer. I didn't really like the stuff the first time I tried it, but it's actually pretty good.

Thursday night my mom and I went to a Stake Relief Society thing. It was a play that my voice teacher wrote, so I was excited to see it. It was really good and I was really glad that I went. Afterwards I watched a movie with my parentals. I like watching movies with them. They are pretty cool people.

Friday, Alex called me and invited me to go "hang out." He didn't want to call it a date because he thought that would be weird because he'd only been home for two days. We doubled with Zac and Brittany. We went to Wingers for dinner (it was after eight and I had already eaten, but I ate again anyway.) I was stuffed to the brim when we left there and went and rented a movie. We got "In the Name of the King," which looked kinda Lord of the Ringish. We went back to Zac's to watch it, but we didn't end up starting it until eleven. Around twelve we were all super tired and Alex had to work the next morning, so we called it a night even though the movie still had about an hour and a half left. It was an enjoyable "date." I hope I broke Alex in easy to the dating scene. :)

Yesterday was really crazy. I helped Mom clean the church and then we put a second coat of paint on the trim in her room. She had a bridal shower to go to, so I stayed home and tried to clean my room, but didn't really get there. :) After she got back we got ready for Kat's baby shower and went to that. The baby shower was a lot of fun. I did feel bad for Kat though, she looked a little miserable. We did a HUGE grocery shopping trip after the baby shower and got home just in time to eat dinner with Dad. After dinner Dad left for a fireside and Mom and I went to see Uncle Merlin and Aunt Suzie, and Uncle Platte and Aunt Leah. We got home about the same time Dad did from his fireside.

So that is my last couple of weeks in a (kinda long) recap. Sorry for the wordiness, I was just in a writing mood tonight. Until next time...