Happy Birthday Elsie!

My niece Elsie turned 1 this past June... I can't believe it! Isn't she the cutest?!!

BDay Invite

Coordinating Thank U Tags (Koolaid party favors)

Party fun...

 

Glad we were able to drive out to celebrate with her. Had so much fun at her pool party!

Sealed for Time and all Eternity

Two of my brothers made it to the temple this year and I couldn't be more proud of them.
Misi and Tolo got married in November and we were able to travel out to Salt Lake for their special day.

So glad we were able to make it out for the wedding. I am grateful for my new sister-in-law Tolo and am excited for her and Misi's new life together.

This weekend Fatu and Brittainy got sealed in Salt Lake. We're in Vernal, so we weren't able to be there :( But I am so happy for their little family. Fatu has matured so much and I'm proud of the choices he's made as a husband and father.

I still can't believe how much he's grown! What a great way to end 2013 for Fatu and Misi.

A Camping We Will Go!

Fatu and his Cedar buddies have gotten pretty serious about fishing this past summer and I told him that me and Ti wanted to come out for the day and fish with the boys. He was totally up for the idea. Misi heard about it and said that he wanted to come too and before we knew it, it turned in to an entire family event. So we set a date and everyone got their time off work. We decided to camp at the site that Fatu works at. Everyone was assigned a meal to provide and provisions to bring that would help us survive the weekend :) Mine and Neo's family were the first ones to leave. We picked up Fatu from Cedar and started our way up to the site... Wow!!! It was way more of a drive than I imagined. But it was sooooooooooo beautiful!!!!! We pulled up to our designated campground and I was blown away. It was perfect!!! We set up our tents and scoped out the site and had time just to hang out with the kids.

First one up, first dibs on a parking for Goldy

Neo & Kauasi's toy tent lol

My parents and Sila & Abe didn't get there til the sun went down... so we ended up setting up their tents in the dark. Yeah... I can't even believe we pulled that one off. Because of all the wild fires in Utah all open fires were banned... booo!!! My parents brought up their grills and we seriously had the BEST prepared meals up there!

The kids were so happy to be together with all their cousins.

Sila's kids watched the Dark Knight the day before so they had these masks they wore the ENTIRE camping trip haha

 

After breakfast on Saturday we did a little sight seeing at Cedar Breaks National Monument.

How's that for a view?!

Then we went to Navajo Lake to hang out and fish.

Kev joined us and helped the kids out with his fishing expertise :)

 

Unfortunately it started to rain, so we all made our way back to camp. My parents had stayed behind to cook so when we got back (fishless) we had terriyaki chicken, rice, and potato salad waiting for us... yum!!!

Kids got a hold of the camera and snapped these...

Fatu ended up running back to his place to grab more hoodies, beanies, and blankets cause it was FREEZING after the rain. The next morning we ate breakfast, hung out and chatted, then loaded everything up and headed back to civilization. We had such a good time that we decided that we would make a tradition out of camping every year.

 On our way down the canyon, we stopped by one more time to soak up the view...