My favorite part of halloween

Being with Sterling

Searching for Pumpkins

Homemade Stew

Carving pumpkins

being with Sterling

Visiting teaching message

Since I'm not very good at keeping up with my visiting teaching,

I made a special treat

The subject......

"Witch way will you support the rising generation"

Treats were added to the shoes with a lovely message.

I sure feel better now. We should do visiting teaching every month. :s

another birthday

My 22nd birthday was on the 9th and we celebrated by going to the cheesecake factory. Then on Sunday my parents were so nice to have a dinner with all of the family. Thanks mom and dad. Sterling got me some beautiful fall flowers. He knew that is just what I wanted. Thanks sweetie.

The kids got to blow the candles out with me

Happy Birthday!

My dad turned 60 this week. He had everyone over for dinner and he fed us all for his birthday.

Happy Birthday to the man than is constantly giving and taking care of his family. Happy Birthday to the avid yankees fan. I love you dad you are the greatest. Thanks for the fun family get together.

The grandkids

dad and mom

The whole fam damly

(except for mom she's taking the picture)

makin cookies with gavin

Am I doing this right?

yum

that was fun!

You're TWO!

Happy Birthday to my cute little nephew Gavin. What a cute car loving kid.

Mawige

My very good friends are married now! Marlena and Steen the high school sweethearts are finally married.

It was a beautiful wedding

and I love those two shananigans

another update

We went and bought a bushel of peaches from farnsworth farms last week and this is all Sterling has been eating. He loves peaches and ice cream.Once again, we've been busy with school. We are both taking Biology and Chemistry along with labs and Sterling is also taking math and English. We are so excited to get more classes done. It feels so good to be getting somewhere in school. I am thinking that I may be able to apply for hygiene school for fall 2010 or I may be able to get there in spring 2011. We will see how everything goes. Hopefully sooner than later. Sterling has about 2 years until he can apply to medical school, which by then I should be close to done with hygiene school. We hope everything works out.

Please help this poor puppy

Family Reunion

We had a lot of fun at the family reunion this year. It was fun being able to see family. Aunt May always does such a great job at planning the whole thing. Our family has climbed up to over 300 people and of course not everyone always makes it, but it seems like there was a really good turn out this year. Here is a picture of a small portion of the Harper family.

We had so much fun visiting

Sterling and I also had the assignment to make some big cowboy posters to stand up. I forgot to take a picture of them, but they are those big pictures with the face cut out of them so you can put your face in the hole and take a picture. We hung them up on the nails sticking out of the pavilion and tied the bottoms to bails of hay. I'm so glad it worked out.

My aunt Launa set up a fishing hole with my Grandma Dora's name on it. My grandma says that she has always hated her name, that was until Dora the explorer came out. Now she tells all the kids that she is Dora the Explorer.

I also got a kick out of my cousin's son Max. He is a crack up. We had a trading post set up where anyone could bring homemade things to trade. Little Max came up to his mom with a loaf of bread and she asked him where he got it. He said that he had gotten it from the trading post. His mom was a little bit puzzled and realized wait we didn't have anything to trade. Max just said that he took care of it. He went and picked some flowers, tied them up and put them on the table.

These are the clovers that Max left on the table for someone to enjoy.

Max

We went to the Jon Schmidt concert tonight at the sandy ampitheater (Which by the way was superb) The sunset was beautiful and it was so much fun to be together and to spend some time with my parents too. Jon Schmidt is amazing I want to play the piano like him.

Last weekend for the fourth of July we decided to go on a hike to cecret lake. We ended up going on the white pine trail up cottonwood canyon and it was so pretty. Here are a few pictures from our journey.

We also had a lot of fun going to Sterling's parent's house to light some fireworks and eat yummy sugar cookies. Then on the fourth we went to the bee's game with my parents.

We also had a little suprise. The moisture from the air conditioning pipe was leaking and there was a big huge bubble in the ceiling. We popped it and had to replace a big chunk of the sheetrock. What a big job.

Good work Sterling and dad

2 years

Sterling and I celebrated our 2 year anniversary this weekend. The doctor I work for gave us tickets to go see hello Dolly at Hale Theater. It was cute and pretty funny. Then we went and saw My sister's keeper which I was excited to see because I read the book. It was pretty good if you are in the mood for a sad movie. On our actual anniversary, saturday, we went to a chinese restaurant called Watermoon. We love going there. Afterwards we set up a big fort of pillows and blankets on our floor and watched Forever Strong. It is so much fun to spend time with Sterling every weekend. I love that we are able to have that time together. I love you Sterling. You are the best husband I could ever ask for. I am looking forward to a million more anniversaries.We have never been into the whole Sushi trend, but we decided to try it awhile ago and this has been our favorite ever since. It's called the Poker Roll.

I love you Forever Sweetheart

What a beautiful place

I've had some pictures of the Draper temple for awhile and I've been wanting to post something about being able to go to the open house. I knew I was waiting for a reason, I just needed this last picture. We were coming down the mountain the other day and there was a spot in the road where we looked over and saw this. It was so pretty that we had to take a picture.

This one is of the templ in the process of being built

These two pictures are from a hike we went on

It was so great to go to the open house. The whole thing was so beautiful. I am just so glad that we have this beautiful building approx. 3 minutes away. No more excuses to not go. Has anyone been to the oquirre mountain temple open house yet?