Last week Scott and I made a family crest at the Gale family reunion. Dad Gale drew it for us and we colored it. Each symbol, color and shield has a meaning:

overall shield: represents the roof of a house, signifies protection and faithful service.

small shield in upper left corner: honor

crown: (king-horn) regal or senior authority, heavenly reward

snake: wisdom

fish: of regal authority, one of high nature

pig: fierce fighter, fights to the death.

holly: truth

arm: an industrious person

purple: justice, sovernity, regal

blue: strength, loyalty

green: hope, loyalty in love

maroon: victorious, patient in battle

orange: worthwhile ambition

gold: generosity

Scott had a fun weekend in Vernal with Cassie's family.

We were sooooo lucky and were able to meet up with Brooke and her kids at a park close to Cassie's family's house. We had a WONDERFUL visit with her and plan to do it yearly :)

It was raining on the mountain when we got into Vernal so we waited and went up Saturday morning...it was still pretty muddy

Once we got up there we made breakfast, Scott's tasty hash browns!

Me and the girls (and the girly boys-Tim and Alex) made hawaiian flowers for our hair :0

We went on a hike after craft time, Scott loves his rocks.

We saw lots of pretty flowers!

Scott on his rocks again.

It was so muddy!

We got awesome family pictures! The first with Ayden and with Scott AND the first time we have ever gotten pictures at our favorite place with family-Blair Basin on Diamond Mountain

Mayson is getting big!

Ayden :)

We all went to watch the fire works from a safe distance so the kids could enjoy them :)

Yay for the fourth of July!

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Today has been really nice but the past few weeks in Rexburg were very full of rain. We thought the temple looked so beautiful against the dark sky, preparing for rain :) The sun was hitting the temple and making it seem even whiter.

We also got some hail one day and it covered the ground, as you can kind of tell looking at our garden.

This was the puddle we had in front of the house after the rain stopped last week. CRAZY!

We had a 'buy one get one free" coupon to TGI Friday's so last weekend for our date we went to Idaho Falls and used it. This is Scott with his tasty burger and sweet potato fries.

My tasty meatball sandwich and fries

At Scott's first Drive-In! We got to see Night at the Museum 2 and Scott saw Wolverine...I fell asleep :s

Looks a little freaky, but this was the view I had at the Drive-In...when I was awake.

Our guest star in today's post is Scott's brother Dan. He got a new bike frame last week :)

Scott and I were pretty busy with projects this past week. He made this poster for his english class. It turned out so nice!

I have been working pretty hard on my Preschool File, which I will use when I teach preschool next semester for a class. It is full of fun lesson ideas and activities, this particular one is visuals to teach "Old McDonald had a Farm"

We went to Boise for a Gale family reunion, the first in years. It was really fun! They did a great job organizing it, especially considering how often we get together. One of my favorite things was the Gale Family store. Each of the 'families' brought things for the cousins to "buy". There were items ranging from stickers to movies to mystery boxes full of everything in between. It was a hit. The cool thing was the kids EARNED their 'Gale Bucks' by helping out. Whenever an adult saw them doing something good or when they helped an adult make dinner or something they received a Gale buck. It was fun times. We really enjoyed seeing family and Scott was able to recover from his shock of meeting so many people at once and had a good time.

Mom is the book grandma for Mayson :) We had a lot of fun with him this weekend, he has gotten so big! He runs all over the place and is just so fun.

My artistic brother, Alex, got in on the crafts. Our aunt and uncle live in Hawaii so our aunt Andrea showed us how to make hawaiian flowers for women's hair. Alex made this one for his wife, Meagan, and demonstrated for us how to use it.

It was the first time in over 5 years that all the siblings had been together in one place.

Our first morning in Boise we found Scott's dream bike park just 10 minutes from my Uncle's house...we will be going back :) Here are a few teasers for you

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Today we went with Dan and Emily to visit Uncle Durrell, Aunt Joy...

Aunt Joann and Uncle Nyle and some of their family (Rebekah is pictured)

We had so much fun! I got to know them and everyone else got to know a little more I guess. It was nice to visit family on a Sunday afternoon.

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Our week was a little busy but more normal. Cassie started working with another client at her job and this client is helping her get experience directly with her major (early childhood special education). She is really enjoying work with the new challenges and changes. We also have more time together since she is working a little bit less. She gets Tuesday and Thursday off so more time for us to go to the temple and play and stuff. Scott had classes and work and since it was raining he was not able to go biking, as he would have liked to do. He also took a test yesterday for his Dynamics class and got 100%! That is always happy, but especially when your overall grade is 80% based on your tests.

Last Sunday we played a little monopoly. Cassie was whining the whole time because she decided she only likes word games where you have to use your mind and everyone can laugh and joke. She does not so much enjoy games with strict rules where you are cruel to each other. She tried hard to be nice and it turned out for the better for her...

This was Scott's last move, the move that made Cassie win the game. 

Cassie also made homemade lemon bars...mmmmmmm! so good! We had an enjoyable week and Scott even taught Cassie how to play one of his video games so he has enjoyed playing with her and helping her get a feel for the game. We are just so lucky to have each other and to be so blessed in life.

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I realized today that I am a little off on the pictures lately. The first three pictures are the week before we left for Vegas and the others are this past week.

Scott and I decided to start getting up Saturday morning to go on a bike ride together. We go to the skate park so that way we are the first one's there. Scott did some tricks to impress and woo his wife :) it was pretty impressive, as you can see. 

We were going to go yesterday for him to show me his 'turning a 180' skills but it was raining so we opted out. We have been having dinner with our good friends, the Frongner's. They made TASTY ribs for us along with a bean casserole and we brought Scott's hash-browns and a tasty carrot cake. We have so much fun doing these dinners and it is so nice to have time with friends during a busy week.

Last week we got to take a break from our car stress and go with Emily and her friends to I-hop for Emily's birthday. Good times, good times. It was so fun being in the midst of single people again and laugh at them and with them. Emily's friends are a hoot! Since it was her birthday she got some tasty ice cream.

Scott and Dan went biking with another guy that same day in the morning. Scott came home with a friend on his sock, it was a tick and he wasn't sure how it ended up where it was but it died there so no worries.

They had a lot of fun and Scott had one almost major wreck but that was pretty much all. It was kind of wet where they were so his legs and bike ended up pretty dirty, cool 'tan line' huh?

So yeah, now you have an update with pictures. We had a situation with Betsy the car, as mentioned above, and she is now safely back to us and we have learned a LOT during our time away from her. She got her transmission rebuilt and is running fine. She does need some other almost major things fixed but we can deal with those little by little in the next 6 months. By the time we get her taken care of she should be good to go for a couple of years if we are nice to her :) Life is good. Wear clean socks. Enjoy the ride. Don't fall off. Eat your food. and laugh, cuz it's good for you.

Here are the promised Ketchup shots!

and this is what happens when you leave crabby patties (the gummy kind) in your dark green car in Las Vegas in May.

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(my fish face was best)

This week is already almost half way over and I'm just getting started...I have so much homework to catch up on so words will come later :) 

Enjoy all the lots of tonz of pictures! :)

(captions courtesy of scott)

breakfast the first day

some of my family phone call pics... there were more like a great shot of dan's feet, and cassie's ear, but I guess they aren't here for me to caption.

so it all started when we went on a stationary road trip.  First Cassie took a funny picture of my face, then I took one of her, and so EVERYONE got to make funny faces.  And then fish faces.  And then I tried to touch my nose with my tongue.

Ah, dinner at cafe rio.  It was good.  All the guys got a burrito, all the girls got a salad, and I finished off everyones leftovers.  Dan helped some with Sarah's I guess, but it was pretty much me (hence all the platers.)

Some pictures as we drove into the strip.

Fremont Ave.  I think I may have enjoyed it more than everyone else, and it wasn't that great in my opinion.  Umm, it was exciting because a drunk guy fell over a police barricade, and as he fell onto me his butt crack rubbed down my leg.  For serious.  You should all be glad there isn't a picture of that.  Oh, I was wearing shorts.  I like soap.

Pretty flower stuff from inside the bellagio.

In my defense, that was the third group pic in a row, I figured the first two were good...

A frog made of flowers.  Yep.

The fountains/music thing.  It was romantic, and would have been even more so if there hadn't been hundreds of other people.  That's Sarah and Larin getting cozy in the background.

Moving floors are fun.  It turns out that the railing moved slower than the floor, as demonstrated by Dan.

Another picture of Vegas.  I mean, we were in France too!  didn't you all know?

A cockroach.  Instead of admiring it's remarkable resilience, we killed it and took it's picture.

We made an amazing mess of potatoes, onions, mushrooms, sausage, and eggs.  We also had fresh tomatoes on top.  It was sooooo good.  We all helped make it and it was fun.

Speed scrabble.

In a pickle.

These cards tell a story.  There was danger in the soul of a cat.  It ended up in lunch eaten by a movie star.  Someone stuffed the movie star in a sofa, which ended up in a whale.  The whale, contents included, ended up in stuffing, in a trunk.  My advice is don't eat the stuffing.

Turtle cream pie.  Each piece contained more than 50% of our daily saturated fat.

We tried licking our elbows.  I was worse at that than at licking my nose.

We went to Larin's house to watch a movie, and Cassie and I rode on the love sack in the back of his truck.  Heh, and we got followed by a cop for a while and Larin's drivers license wasn't with him...

I was trying to blind Sarah and Emily, but they closed their eyes.

Breakfast on Monday.

Lunch on Monday was obviously in and out.  It was good.

Larin and Sarah are weak, half a burger each.

So... I ate their fries.  Stay tuned for awesome videos, including me doing ketchup shots.