Adria found the camera and took the first picture. Cute huh!, You can see her eye and nose in the top corner.
We love to eat our dinner outside on a blanket, its so relaxing!
Well if you didn't think these two were buddies, now are you convinced!

I love this picture!!!!!! And I took it!!! haha

She was so busy being a princess, she got tired and past out on the couch. My sweet little girl!!!
She loves to wear her "pincess dgesses".

Here is the Dinosaur cake I did for my neice Savannah. She wanted a pink dinosaur cake. So her mom compramised with her and asked me to make the cake part strawberry. So I used a "Bakers Secret" pan. It is as Deep as a cake pan, but almost as big as a cookie sheet. I used two normal strawberry cake mixes baked seperately. Chocolate frosting for the base, and butter cream frosting for the trim.
I got the dinosaur set at our local Macey's grocery store for $5.00. I put first cake down and frosted it, then put little candies on top of the frosting. Then I put the other cake on top of that and frosted with the chocolate frosting again. The River part is blue decorating gel. I spread it out with a butter knife, and then put blue sugar sprinkels on and then put more blue gel on in a striped motion to make it look more rippley. Then I put all the dinosaur stuff on, and then made the butter cream frosting. The butter cream frosting was supposed to be a light pink, to enunciate the "pink dinosaur cake" idea, and I had it a nice pink color, but then I had the "bright idea" to put raspberry extract in it. The weirdest, most unexpected thing happened! My pink frosting turned bright white!!!! So I tried adding more pink food coloring back in, and the only color I get it back to was this light peach. I think it turned out better that way though, because it matches the sand color under the palm trees. I had more dinosaurs for the cake but my daughter decided to run off with them and lost them. Sorry Savannah!!
The dinosaur eggs in the back of the cake are just decorating candies that you get with the sprinkles and stuff. They are also the candies that I put in between the layers of cake. They are like fruit flavored cinnimon red hots. I have the cake sitting on tinfoil wrapped onto an upsidedown cookie sheet. Oh, ya and I sprinkled green sugar sprinkles too, for little bits of greenery in the land scape.

Wyoming Trip From Tara's Camera

Matt and the kids getting the pole ready.
Tucker taking a swim.
Taking a break on the trail

Abby cheesin for the camera.
Mazie crashed at the end of the trail. She even got to ride on daddy's shoulders the whole way. He should have been the one to crash.
Chris fishing on his rock.

Annie's 3 inch fish.

Here are my pics from the Wyoming trip. My camera was buried for most of the trip too. I've got to do better at keeping it right with me.

Just so you don't get confused

I changed the background.

Cute little Adria in her new life jacket. She was a little scared of the water, because daddy accidentally dumped her face first. He said he does it to make her stronger. We'll see. If she has the fear of water that I had when I was little, it doesn't work that way.
This was Kimberly's bed while we were camping. This time she fell asleep before I could put pants on her. So cute!
Adria likes feeding Kimberly. This was so helpfull while we were traveling.
Every body swimming in Soda Lake.

The top one is a picture of "Pilot Butte". Just another cool landmark. It is a platue, and you can also see this from my old house.
This is a picture of the "Wind River Mountains" that we went camping in. They are so awsome when you get up into them. If you ever want to go camping out of Utah, this is a great place to go. There are a ton of lakes up here, and they are all naturally formed. None of them are resevoirs made by man.
This picture is Boulder Lake, we camped near this lake.
This is Soda lake. We only came here for a little bit, because the sky turned grey and their was lightening, but they have a beach, and everyone went swimming in it. The water was so clear!

The rest of our little home.

The left side of our home, where you see the red fencing, was actually our root cellar. We had a pasture next to it also, and a few horses. I miss the country so much!!!! Living here in the suburbs has been a major adjustment for me. I hope someday, Chris and my family will be able to buy a good peice of property like this. It is just so peacefull in wyoming. I know its not the prettiest land, but even 15 years later, it is still so quiet and relaxing. They don't worry about all the negativity that we have in the cities. Their news covers, how much their produce and cattle stock are going to be at the time. It was so great to get a way from all the busyness around here.
This last picture is the senery that you see from my old house area. In the distance is the beginning of the largest moving sand mass in the united states. The sand dunes go on for miles, and they are so fun!!! They aren't anything compared to the ones here in Utah. I will get some pictures of us when we were little at the sand dunes and post them. Also in the distance is Bores tusk, it sticks out of the ground, and is really interesting looking. I couldn't get a good shot of either of them, so if you are ever in RockSprings Wyoming, go down yellowstone road, and you will see them in the distance. Bores tusk is an inactive volcano. It suprises me that wyoming is so desolate, because it has a lot of really cool landmarks.

Here is the mall that my mom used to work at. Last time I was here, a few years ago, it was really desolate inside, but it has filled up pretty well with a lot of stores and stuff. It still even smelled the same, and the flooring was the same too. I remember when I was little, I would jump around on the patterns on the floor. The mall allways seemed so big to me, but it really isn't that big. It was fun to see again.
This is the church we went to. I used to slide down those railings by the stairs. I can remember playing with my friend Heather on the grass right there too.

This gas station looks like any old gas station now, but it didn't use to be a gas station. It was called the Hitching Post. It was a little store that we used to stop by on our way into Rock Springs, about 3 miles from our house. It never sold gas before we moved from Wyoming. It just looked like a little western building. It is weird to see that they changed it. Here is our lovely little house that I grew up in. The house part, was a double wide mobile home, and then my parents later built onto the back of it, and put 2 bedrooms and a living room, plus a basement with the storage room, coal furnace room, and my parents master bedroom with a bathroom and walkin closet. The 3 door garage you see was also built on by my parents. I helped build the tresses for it when I was probably 11 or 12. Our yard was one of the prettiest yards also in the neighborhood. It doesn't look as awsome as it used to, but someone has been fixing it up, and it is looking a lot better than it did a few years ago. The front porch is different also. We had an awning covering the front dooor, and a porch swing. If I find some old pictures I will have to post them and show the difference. I liked it much better before, but I am thankfull that someone is living in it now, and making it look nice again. For a long time it was abandoned and run down, and condemed actually. That broke my heart, but I am feeling better about it now. So many fun memories here, when I was a little girl. That tree in the front was planted by my parents, and I used to go and talk to it, because I was told it was good for plants to be talked to, because they breath our oxogen. If you click on the picture and look closer at it, you will see the railroad ties in the front, that my parents put in also. They had a bunch of plants and flowers in the railroad ties and it looked so pretty. Somewhere in the side walk next to the porch, we all have our hand prints in it too.