garden time

my sister jess is the head gardener at the youth garden project,
so i was really excited to have her help me plant our first
little garden last weekend!

we planted rosemary, basil, cilantro, spinach, lettuce, and broccoli..yum!
oh and snapdragons too!

jess is a really strong little pregnant lady and broke the shovel..hehe!
that girl knows how to dig!

walking around plant world always makes me happy- so beautiful!

i really miss the fall in utah, idaho and nyc, but planting a garden in october made up for it! thanks sista!

neighbor time

we found some friends that like playing with our toys as much as we do (yes, that little truck is ours)! i especially like having someone around to race down the street!

happy saturday! :)

dancing and a documentary

i really like this video...



and i'm so excited to see this...


okay, that's all. bye. :)

last month

mandy and brian were in town for the weekend! we want them to move here so we tried to show them all that vegas has to offer...

giant necklaces.

and great transportation.

what more could you ask for?

weekend camping

we had a fun little camping trip with our friends jared and kristine this past weekend. the dune buggy looked more at home cruising through the dirt and sand dunes than down our street. it was a blast!
the real highlights of the trip for me were almost stepping on a rattlesnake in the dark, getting a painful bug bite in the middle of the night, watching a creepy movie before we went to bed (not a good idea for me), hiking through bushes with swarming bees, and listening to howling coyotes as we set up our campsite. yikes, and i thought sleeping on top of the houseboat at lake powell all those years was camping! rich is really giving me a taste of this wilderness therapy. i will say i loved seeing the beautiful night sky, waking up with the sun and hanging out in camping chairs all morning. just please hold the snake next time. thanks. oh and i'll be watching a disney movie before i go to bed. ;)

play time

check out rich's new ride...we are now the proud owners of two mini scooters made by rich. we call them doodlebugs. we had a pretty awesome doodlebug date cruising around our neighborhood last friday night. yep, we are the crazy neighbors.

also, i like our backyard.thanks shelley and russ for letting us steal the ping pong table!

shoveling rocks...

was our waterski staff's secret code for personal ski time when lyndsey and i worked at camp vega in maine 7 years ago (oh and my claim to reality show fame is that ashley from the bachelorette was a dance instructor there that year..hehe).anyway, i was pretty excited when i got to "shovel rocks" with lyndsey while we were in idaho last week! lyndsey has been one of my best friends since age 3 and now she's married and has two adorable kids and a boat with a heater. what?! when we worked at vega we would race to the cabins after training and turn our hair dryers on to warm up. what a hard life..ha! so now that i've told you some really important information about our secret code, the bachelorette and hair dryers, here are some pictures from our beautiful day in island park!

rich

sweet lucy me

lynds: pro driver and mom

vacation time

we had an awesome week in idaho, wyoming, montana and utah with family and friends! i have lots of pictures to go through but i thought i'd start off by showing you some of the amazing scenery. i loved growing up in such a beautiful area!

view of the tetons from the top of my favorite ski resort, grand targhee

the idaho falls temple

my parents riding our four wheel bike "angus" just outside jackson hole, wy

hiking around targhee with my mom

driggs, idaho

view from our backyard in driggs

rich skipping rocks on jenny lake in wyoming

and one more from targhee

yum.

sweet potato curly fries are a favorite around here. rich has perfected the curliness. ;)

beach day

the best way to get our nephew carson to hold still for a picture is to bury him in the sand. :)

i wasn't as successful with catching his little brother hunter.
brooke and lindy are pro jumpers as you can see. this is how excited i was to spend an entire day outside (111 degree temps in vegas right now don't really allow that). yep, really excited!

i loved everything about our weekend in L.A. the beach, seeing lots of dolphins, boogie boarding, playing with our adorable nephews, catching up with family, getting pedicures with the girls and of course picking more grapefruits from diane's tree!