All because two people fell in love...

This past weekend we celebrated my parents 30th anniversary.
They have gone through a lot in the past 30 years
and it was fun to see them happy and holding hands and in love.
We gave them a "then and now" picture frame
And Laura and Jon took them for a photo shoot for a "now"
picture while Angie, Brad, and I prepared a nice dinner.

We had a lovely dinner with mom's china.

Angie made this pretty card.

And Laura topped it all off with a Pineapple Upside Down cake!
Happy Anniversary Mom & Dad

Summers are for Campfires

This past weekend we took advantage of how close we are to the mountains and loaded up some marshmellows, wood, lighter fluid (Brad's favorite thing) and all of our personal documents needing to be shredded over the past year and headed up the canyon for a Campfire night. This was a lot more fun than shredding paper after paper and going through a couple shredders while we are at it. The scenery was beautiful and burning documents has a romantic appeal that doesn't make sense until you try it. I think we have found another Dennis family tradition.

Fun with music

This summer we have had lot's of fun with music. Brad loves his guitar and I am enjoying the piano and singing. We have been asked lots of times if we do duets and we found one that fits us well- though it is a little cheesey. Hopefully it will come up.

Conquering Mount Olympus

We wanted to go on a big hike this summer and had planned on Timpanogus but due to crazy thunderstorm warnings we decided last minute to conquer Mt. Olympus. One of our friends put it this way- hiking Mt. Olympus is like being on a stair master for 4 hours. We did it, and it was a fairly nice hike until we had to come down because our legs had been worked to the max climbing this thing- no trail just rock climbing to the top.

At the top we wrote our victory statement in the old mailbox so our children's children will know we were once at the top of Mt. Olympus.

Pioneer Day 2010

Since we have not been in Utah the past couple of summers we wanted to do Pioneer Day right this year with the parade, games, festivals, parking fiascos, lazying around, swimming, barbecues, fireworks and all. We started the day getting up early to get a good spot for the parade. Luckily our Ashcraft cousins had gotten up even earlier and secured a prime location for the parade in the shade. Thank you! We had fun playing games with them until the parade started and the rest of the group showed up.
This was mine and Brad's 1st parade experience since we have been married. I liked the marching bands and he liked the shade and the antique cars. We both were a little tired by the end because of getting up early but it was a fun time.
After the parade we went with mom to Liberty park for the Native American festival where we really just went for the food- mmm delicious Navajo Taco's then after some down time at home we went to the Annual Hebdon 24th of July party (normally in the canyon, but this time at Uncle Bruce's). Brad played full contact water basketball, while I sat in the shade holding cute baby Claire and visiting. After a delicious dinner and more visiting we went with mom and dad to see the Liberty Park fireworks.

The best thing about living in Utah is having two 4th of July like holidays in a month. I missed this!

A day with Tanner and Lindsey

This week we got to spend a day with Tanner and Lindsey our cute nephew and niece. We don't get to see them too often because they live in Switzerland so it was very fun to bond. We started out with Lunch at Wendy's

and then hit the pool- Tanner and Brad loved the diving board, Lindsay and I loved the big slide.

We got some snow cones to cool off from the pool and our 90ish degree weather

Lindsey is Miss photogenic

Then we went to see "How to train your dragon"- It was a hit

And to end a perfect day we invited Stacy up for a barbecue. Brad made us yummy shishkabobs and we enjoyed the evening laughing on our lovely patio

While we sat and talked Lindsay creatively took two donut boxes and some paper and glue and created this. What a creative little artist.

Puppysitting

Odin looks freaked out in this picture!

This week Brad and I came closer to joint parental roles than ever before with puppysitting. Strange that we have never done any babysitting together. Brad has never had a moment of babysitting in his entire life! Well this was a good start, though at the end he said "this was fun for a while but now I'm done." Maybe if it was a baby he would have an entirely different response???? Anyhow it was fun and we did grab some cute pictures of our adorable puppy nephews.

Odin would not sit still long enough for a picture!

Link loved hiding in the the tall tall grass