A New Baby for the Bradys!

My good friends Monica & Devin Brady have a new baby... Maya Jayde. She was born over the weekend to a girl named Loni and Monica and Devin are adopting her! I'm so happy for them. I think they sign the papers today! Congrats Monica & Devin! She's sooo cute.

Robin & Evan's visit

Robin is a close friend from high school and college. She and her husband came out to visit us the first week of August.



Evan is really into snakes. He has over 100 of them at his house. We went to visit one of his friends who lives in MD and played with ball pythons.



Those are crab claws by the way..


Joey and me at Independence Hall in Phili.


Eating the famous phili cheese steaks at Jim's Steaks. I highly recommend it.

Of course, a trip east is not complete without seeing Wicked. Luckily, it was on tour in Philadelphia - so we did the lottery and got tickets for Robin and Evan - and of course - they loved it!

Summer Vacation

We visited Utah July 17-31.

Capitol Reef National Park - Joey doing a flip off cliff into a very muddy waterfall.

Songer Family - after doing sealings for my grandpa Songer and relatives in the Ogden Temple.

Four Wheeling at the Hale Family Ranch in Grover, Utah.

My nieces at Bear Lake: Ani, Rachel, Megan, Alicia, Lissa and Gracie. (Gracie is the one with attitude) :-)

My sister Sarah getting REALLY excited about one of my gifts to her.... yep that's right - BARBIE CEREAL! (and look at how excited the Megan looks in the background.) :-)

My nephew Andrew. After spending 2 weeks with him - it made me SO excited to have a boy! And the Songers and Hales both need more boys!