Missyerific

Today we celebrated Missy's 27th birthday.

" I love office Supplies"

Emy sent Missy some post-it's that say Happy Birthday Missy along with a couple other things. We all had a great time. Missy said that she enjoyed the day.

We had a bbq dinner with our family.

Say Cheese!

Missy couldn't wait to try on her new purse that Ben and Meg got her.

Dad said it's one of those horse feeding bags. ;)

Ben made some great Balloon thingy's and mom made Missy one of those Cherry chocolate dutch oven cakes that we used to make when we were camping. It tasted great.
Missy was having a hard time getting all the candles lit before they melted all over the cake.

Here is dad's bbq creation. We had Chicken, pineapple, squash, asparagus and corn. Very yummy!



27 things about Missy:
1. She is my little sister
2. Her favorite color is Black
3. She loves movies
4. Shes loves making things out of beads
5. She has a great older sister named Rach
6. She has a silver car named Lucky
7. She is also Emy's little sister
8. She loves peppermint icecream at Christmas time
9. She loves playing dinner dash and now some villagers game on her laptop
10. She loves Harry potter puppet pals
11. She is Logan's Older sister
12. She works at the SCERA
13. She loves Bankok Grill in Orem
15. She just saw Shrek the musical in New York
15. She loves to Travel to Virginia to visit our sister Emy
currently going again in October
16. She loves reading several books at the same time
17. She loves Musicals and Plays
18. She is a little sister to Ben
19. She has 2 nephews: Marky and Tristin
20. She has 3 neices: Milly, Princess Ada, and Tabby
21. She loves chocolate popcorn
22. She has blonde hair that sometimes changes color
21. She has several callings in the Branch that I can't remember what she does
22. She has lots of friends: Ali, Natty, Kennessa, Camille, Holly, Lafe, Michelle,
the list goes on and on!
23. She loves bags of candy in her room that I used to sneak into when she wasn't there
24. She loves purses as you can see from the picture above
25. She loves shoes too and clothes shopping
26. Her favorite stores: Barnes and Noble and Lane Bryant
and last but not least
27. She's just Missyerific
(Nickname given by her favorite Brother in law- Dan)

Happy Birthday Missy!

We love you lots

24th of July Breakfast

We celebrated our 14th pancake breakfast. Here is Dad, Preston and Max getting started.

Everyone seems to be having alot of fun. The kids that come really love the hill and the pancakes.

Thanks to Grandpa Lloyd for a great sour dough pancake recipe

Hot Dog it's a suprise Party

Missy threw me a suprise party. ;) It was great. Emy and her had been planning my 30th birthday since January, but things kept coming up and they had to change their plans.

They finally decided on a picnic HOT DOG PARTY complete with Hot dog bar. They even invited some of my cousins and friends. Here are the highlights.

Emy and Missy went in together on a CD Player for under my counter in the kitchen. I didn't have space for a big one and actually planned on buying one anyway so it worked out perfectly

We had a watermelon pinata. I even tried it~ but refused a blind fold so I just swung at it after the kids had a chance to try.

Aunt Deanna and Phil were visiting from Arizona a Washington for some family things. It was great to see them and do some catching up.

Of course the kids have always loved sliding down the hill

There is Missy and Dad getting our Hot dog bar ready

There I am with my giant Watermellon

Missy, Ben and Tristin

He loves the big bat

Kolby giving it a try. This is Camilles daughter

My little cousin Reece - how cute

Everything turned out great. So far so good being 30 is fun. But in my mind I am still 26 ;)

Happy Birthday to me!

All about Rach ;)

Here I am. So chubby and round. Here are some pictures of me when I was little.

Emily, Ben and Rach

Melissa and Rach

Happy Birthday to me !

Today I turn 30!

Do you play Croquet?

My dad decided that it would be a great idea to have family home evening once a month at each other's house. This last monday was mine and Dan's turn.

We had a lesson on Service. I thought it would be great to focus on how we can help others- not on how we want others to help us. I've noticed that when you focus on others- it could be your neighbors, or people at work or your family than it's easier to deal with your own problems. My mom and dad are great examples of service. My mom is always helping Ben with his kids and over at my grandma and grandpa's helping them weed, clean the house and most recently helping re-shingle the roof. I wasn't able to help as much as I like because of my back and the angle of the roof. It's been pretty hard having a back problem. I used to be able to do just about anything, but not anymore.



Anyway - we based the lesson off of the conference talk given by Elder Oaks. You should all read it.

After the lesson- we had homemade Vanilla ice cream compliments of my mom and Grandpa Lloyd and I was able to use my new Ice cream maker and made some chocolate. Yum!

4th of July in Moroni

This was the first time that Missy and I went to Moroni for the 4th of July parade. Here we are sitting with Dan's Grandpa Dee and his Grandma Maurine. There really was more candy but really lacking in floats. But we still had fun. We even had a family lunch after. Missy and I made a lot of jokes and had a lot of fun.

Dan's Nephew Josh and his sister Krisdee

Some girl and Kaylon ( Dan's Cousin)

The kids waiting for the candy. I don't think they even knew who was in the parade. They just chased the candy down the street.

Missy and Me. It was fun doing stuff with my sister. ;)

Independence Day

As an all time favorite movie of Missy's. I'd like to quote that

"Today is the day we celebrate our Independence Day!"

We are greatful that we live in a country that we can have our freedom of Religion. To be able to believe in our Heavenly Father and for the things that he has given us.

I woke up this morning and realized that I don't have 4th of July music like my mom has. She'd turn it on in the morning while she was making breakfast or cleaning up the kitchen. So you'll just have to play the music in your mind - or if you'd like to belt the words out as your are cleaning your house or driving. It's on of my favorite songs for this holiday.

I’d thank my lucky stars,to be livin here today.‘ Cause the flag still stands for freedom,and they can’t take that away.
And I’m proud to be an American,where at least I know I’m free.And I wont forget the men who died,who gave that right to me.
And I gladly stand up,next to you and defend her still today.‘ Cause there ain’t no doubt I love this land,God bless the USA.
From the lakes of Minnesota,to the hills of Tennessee.Across the plains of Texas,From sea to shining sea.
From Detroit down to Houston,and New York to L.A.Well there's pride in every American heart,and its time we stand and say.
That I’m proud to be an American,where at least I know I’m free.And I wont forget the men who died,who gave that right to me.
And I gladly stand up,next to you and defend her still today.‘ Cause there ain’t no doubt I love this land,God bless the USA.
And I’m proud to be and American,where at least I know I’m free.And I wont forget the men who died,who gave that right to me.
And I gladly stand up,next to you and defend her still today.‘ Cause there ain’t no doubt I love this land,God bless the USA.

We hope you all have a great Independence Day

Lehi Parade

Here we all are at the Lehi Parade. Dan said he likes the Moroni Parade better since they throw more candy. Yep that's the most important part of a parade. ;)

The boys slept over at our house Friday night. I think they had fun. Dan said he could hear them getting up in the middle of the night doing something. Apparently they were doing dares. But it didn't matter-I still got them up at 8 am to start the day.

Tyler, Travis, Tyson, Logan

Missy and Rach

Ben and Meg