The Weekend

I love going to home for a good weekend. Amanda and I left on Thursday evening. It was a miracle we made it. She was asleep in the passenger seat I was driving, curled up, trying not to move because my body ached so bad. I was getting sick. Again. 3 times in the last 2 months. Ridiculous. Instead of spending a weekend partying with friends and family, I spent a good deal of it in my bed. We (Amanda and I) had lunch with Dad a Flat Bread, then we went glasses shopping, and then Dad took Gabby, Amanda and I to Greenwood's to try on ski boots. Brandon and Cody flew in Friday night, from that point on I was quarantined to staying as far away from the brother as I could. He has midterms next week, can't get sick. Then the grandmother flew in on Saturday morning. I spent a lot of time in the corner, usually on my bed asleep. She couldn't get sick either. Saturday afternoon was mom's piano recital. My mom is amazing. She is the most amazing pianist I have ever heard. She stirs the soul with how she plays the piano. So after a great weekend of staying in my bed and living on Dayquil, while the whole family partied together, we made it back. We were lucky enough to have Wylie in need of a ride back to Utah so he chauffeured us back to Utah. The first time I have ever sat in the backseat of my car for a long period of time, it was great. Fell asleep, watched a movie, relaxed. Lucky us.

"It is what it is"

This always happens. You look great one day, and you only see your sister. You always see your "one" when you aren't at your best.

Baby Stella

This is baby Stella. She is precious. It is still weird to think that Landry is a mom. It feels like yesterday we were jumping into the car at 2 in the morning to drive all night to Arizona (best trip ever recommend it to anyone!)

Landry and her little girl. Landry is a model. Seriously, look at her.

Her cute crib.

Landry worried that little Stella was getting cold, but she loved getting her picture taken!

Amanda and I can't decide what we want Stella to call us. Amanda introduced herself as Aunt Amanda. All I know is she is going to be spoiled by Aunt Amelia and Aunt Amanda. If anyone has any better names for Stella to call us, let me know!

Antelope Island Part Two

This is a great picture. Jeff didn't have to work, kids were out of school. We all took work off and went camping to Antelope Island. (It didn't smell like it did the first time we went out there)

No words.

We went to the beach. This is Syd's model face.

Jeff got into playing his guitar. Amanda was really into singing her songs. She sang 2. Anyone who was not there missed out. Each song lasted for about 10 minutes. She was making them up and she went along. They were hilarious. She is truly a great poet and lyricists. We were all laughing so hard we had headaches, or maybe that was the space heater since we couldn't have a camp fire.... Ask her about her songs, they were too personal to talk about here... ;)

She was strumming her own song her. I took this pic, she looks hot.

Grape throwing contest.

Jeff made us breakfast. It was delicious. Mickey pancakes, what else could you ask for?

All of the kiddies and Megan snuggled up in the top of the tent while they listened to Amanda share her soul with all of us while she sang her songs.

Just kicking sunflowers. While buffalo hunting.

We made a quick trip to the beach.

That's me. Don't over use it please.

Max is really good and writing his name in the sand.

He loves his dog.

Sundance Fall Fest

After a cold evening camping and not too much sleep I ended up here with some awesome fall colors.

It was the Sundance Fall Fest (I think that is what they call it...)

Winborg Sister's tent. We try and help the sisters sale art. They are part of the artistic family. I can't draw a straight line, but give me a flute and I will make you cry (of pure happiness, duh.)

We were just packing up the rig with all of the paint. Some guy tried to pack up out of there above Jeff's rig, he didn't know how to drive his cruiser, only Roper's really know how to drive cruisers.

Antelope Island Part One

Lindsay and Luke were in Utah staying for a few days. So we drove up to Clearfield to partied. We went to Antelope Island. After living her for 5 1/2 years we finally went. It smelled really bad.

Lindsay and Luke are married. I made them stand there and told Amanda to take the picture. I do that a lot. We miss them a lot. We love them. We wish we could live with them. Luke would love that! ;)

This is where it really smelled. Eric (aka Steve) was also in the picture with us.

I took this picture. Steve is always tired. We love Kris. We hope Lindsay's parentals are prepared for visitors in there new house. I only request a good piece of carpet to sleep, its all I need.

We took them to the Burger Bar in Roy. Lots of white trash there, but the best burgers and shakes at this little place. Get the Big Ben (share it between 2 people) and a strawberry or cookie dough shake and you will be in heaven!

The Boise Trip

Here are some pictures from our Boise trip a few weeks ago. We had to go for one last time out on the lake for the summer. Our summers are usually spent mostly on the water, but this year it was a little less then all of the time....

Laural came with us one evening. It was like high school, junior high, and elementary school all over again. She is a natural.

This is what Amanda lives for. We were a taxi that night for friends who were going to camp across from the marina on the other side of the lake. There boat died. One girl had a major blond moment, she said "why don't you just bring the people from the boat dock over and leave us here?" Well girl, how do you suppose you are going to get back to your car in the morning?..... Needless to say they ended back at the boat dock.

This is Jack. He didn't know we were coming into town. So he ran and jumped into my arms when we showed up at his sisters soccer game. There are 6 kids in Boise who each have a little bit of me, Issac, Jack, Lilly, Sophia, Natalia and Raquel. We saw the other 4 kids (some of them aren't really kids anymore but I just don't allow myself to really think about that...) and there parents, love the Demordaunts!

Jack loves to play with Amanda.

We all went to Powells for treats. Boise lights up my life! We had so much fun just hanging out with the parentals and going water-skiing with dad every day we were home. Dad has a soft spot for his girls! We couldn't ask for a better Dad and Mom! We are headed back this weekend for (my mom will kill me if she reads this) a grad performance from my mom who is an amazing pianist!