BIG, FAT, BLOG

Readers Beware: This post is long overdue and painfully long with things that probably wont interest many of you... so read only if you have NOTHING better to do.

Now that thats out of the way, here we go! First off, my birthday! I think this was my second best birthday ever! (Beaten out only by going to the US open in New York) First off a couple months ago my wonderful hubby gave me the camera that enables me to document all of these lovely occurances. I think I have formed a bit of an addiction with the picture taking but lets just call it an over-zealous hobby instead.

To start out, my awesome co-workers threw quite the bash including balloons, lots of really annoying, tiny static clinging confetti, and this evil, evil cake from Cold Stone...

Followed later in the week by this scrumptious little pumpkin cake made with love by my friend Gretchen. (PS, we made it all the way home with it and it fell over on the garage floor only steps from safety... I almost cried)

I arrived home on my birthday to a clean house and some of these... from my wonderful hubby

We also went up to Park City for the night. There was an orthopedic conference up there and so we went to that and got an amazing room for way cheap, along with a really nice, fancy, free dinner!

This "room" was the size of our condo... It was so so nice and absolutely beautiful. Even more so when I wasn't looking and my husband pulled some magic out of his backpack. Rose pedals everywhere, a bottle of Martinellis (my favorite)...

And my favorite treat! He really thought of everything! It was the sweetest thing...

So that was my big birthday wonderfulness! Thank you Jon for making it such an amazing weekend (It turned out to be one of those 3 day birthdays). I love you so much and it meant the world to me that you took so much time to make it such a wonderful, memorable birthday. My face hurts from smiling so much... Thanks love!

Next up... we came home from Park City to get to Grandpa Boswell's big 80th birthday party! He is such an incredibly sweet, loving man. We love him to pieces and are very glad we could be there for his big day.

We also got to see the rest of the fam who came up for the party. Mom and Dad Layne
(I love this picture because it is exactly what you get when they are around) always keeping us smiling! We're glad we got to spend some time with you this weekend, hope we see ya again soon!

And of course little Isaiah who is the center of the Layne family universe (which is as it should be, he is the only grandchild so far) He's such a ham, we love him!

Peek-a-boo!!!

Dont let him fool ya though... he has a serious and studious side as well.

And last but not least, a couple pics from out trip to SanFran... we went to see my Dad who was having surgery... we mostly stayed at the hospital to be with him but he is doing MUCH better now. Love you D! Get better and come home soon!

Like I said, we didnt do a lot of sightseeing stuff but we did go to the golden gate bridge and for a walk in the park. It was beautiful weather and beautiful scenery so here are a few pictures I did for my photography class... (PS to my fellow photography friends, I need to learn how to edit these... help!!!)

Wow, if you are reading this you made it through this whole stinking post... gold star for you! Have a great day!

St George

So we had a lovely Labor Day weekend in St. George with a few friends and had a very lovely, very uneventful time... here are the highlights.

Brady and Jon playing basketball in the pouring rain while Gretchen and I watched and laughed.

We took a tour of some of my brothers old car collection and Brady and Jon decided to take one for a spin... now this made me and Gretchen feel a bit uneasy for a couple of reasons, mostly because the cars were worth more than our homes combined and because they were driving them on the edge of a cliff. But being the nice wives we are we wouldn't spoil their fun so we sent them on their way and hoped for the best. After the boys SPED away (and I mean SPED) we patiently waited fr their safe return... and waited, and waited... after an extended time we began to worry that we had lost our dear hubbies to the lure of the fast car on a windy cliff edged road... until we saw this coming around the corner...

The poor boys inch by inch pushing the car back to us... And yes, below is a picture of a pregnant woman pushing the extremely heavy car.

We also found our way to the pool a couple of times... below are Jon and Brady's attempts at... something. Not sure what but the pictures are funny.

Cody and little Londyn also having some fun in the sun.

And last but not least are lots of pictures of my darling little nieces... I got a little snap happy with them around but can ya blame me? They are just so cute, I love them.

TAGGED

Here's the deal: Post these rules on your blog list your 3 joys, 3 fears, 3 goals, 3 facts about yourself, and 3 current obsessions/collections. Then tag 5 of your friends at the end of your blog by leaving there names. Let them know you tagged them by leaving a comment on their blog.

3 Joys

1.) Family (Jon, parents, brothers, sisters, in-law family, nieces, newphew, grandparents, cousins, aunts, uncles, all of um!
2.) Wakeboarding at Lake Powell
3.) St. George

3 Fears

1.) Being alone
2.) Being a dissapointment to someone
3.) needles

3Goals

1.) Have a family
2.) Finish School
3.) Be happy

3 facts about myself

1.) I have good hair and skin usually (thanks mom)
2.) I am soooooo bad at Math its not even funny
3.) I am jealous of really confident people

3 current obsessions/collections

1.) My family
2.) shopping
3.) recently my new camera!

Well that was probably wicked boring to read. I tag anyone who was bored enough to read this cuz you must have time on your hands. :)

SURPRISE!!!

So my birthday isn't until the end of September but my wonderful Hubby surprised me with an early present... a new CAMERA! Oh I love it so so much! I am taking a photography class this semester and so he surprised me with it a little early so I would have it for the whole semester. I still cant believe he got it for me.... I mean I was dropping a lot of hints but the one he got me is MUCH nicer than I had even hoped for. Anyway, if it isn't obvious enough, I am extremely excited about this. I have been taking random pictures since the second I got it so here are my first photos... They are pretty random and boring but here they are anyway

Thanks Jon!!! I LOVE YOU!

Bear Lake

Over the weekend Jon and I went to Bear Lake with my cousin Eric and his wife Andrea. We had such a good time! So many pictures, so many stories, too lazy to do it all, so here are a lot of pictures with a little commentary.

Camping at the lake

Pretty flower

Gorgeous lake!!! We hiked up to this amazing glacial lake and it was the most beautiful thing ever! The water was so crystal clear, I have never seen anything like it! Well worth the hike! And there were a few little fish in it too...

And we cant take a trip to Bear Lake without making a sand creation... This year the boys opted for a turtle named Timmy...

Timmy drew quite the crowd!
Thanks guys for the fun trip! Cant wait till next year!!!