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A few weekends ago Scott and I went camping for the first time together. Dan, Patty and Andrea invited us to come with them to Kelley Canyon. It was such a fun camping experience! We had tasty hobo dinners...

dutch oven rolls...

and birthday pineapple upside down cake...
for Andrea's birthday.
Scott had to work and got there in time for the cake, he was happy about that :) (we saved him the other tasty food too, of course)

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Pop quiz, How do two women fill a car to this capacity?

"How?!" you ask? Well, you end the semester for BYU-Idaho and take all those single students who don't care about their things and add two women who care about said things and are willing to go to great lengths to get said things.

Well, not super great lengths, but good enough lengths :) (A.K.A. we did not dive into the food dumpsters...)
Yesterday was the highlight of my month :) Patty and I were home alone since the guys went on a bike adventure. We were going to craft or something but then decided to go to yard sales. Then we realized, "Hey, it's the end of the semester..." and we went to about 10 apartment complexes and raided the tops of these white dumpsters and Patty even got into this yellow dumpster that we said to be for home furnishings :D Don't worry, we had hand sanitizer :)

We took our loot to Dan and Patty's and sorted through it. This is all the loot!

(these were outside of dumpsters and no where near any contaminatable things)

Why yes, that is bags and bags of CLOTHES!

The boys even got some loot out of our efforts. Alex tried on a bunch of shirts...

and then tried to reach a world record...

guess how many he got on...

ELEVEN SHIRTS is the correct response! :D

So here is what I got from our efforts:

And Scott won these:

This is my favorite, Patty found it :)

We also got dishes (not pictured), this lamp,

3 small trash cans, a picnic basket, a laundry basket, a pool lounger, 3 sleds, shelves, and a twin bed set! :D It was like a dream come true. Thanks Patty for such a fun time!

Here is an update on our garden:

Our snap peas have been harvested once already, we have 3 squash, 2 zucchini, 2 regular tomatoes, and a vine of cherry tomatoes that are dying to get ripe enough for us to eat them up! :D

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This weekend we went to Salt Lake for a get together with Scott's siblings. It was so nice getting to see everyone! We lit fireworks off in the evening...

And went on a beautiful hike in the afternoon. We got to spend the afternoon with Brooke and her family, Shane even got to join us this year! woot woot!

I love having so much family to love and talk with. They are the bestest :D Thanks for a great time everybody! :D

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We left home around 3:00am and drove straight to the Basin. My family had been there 5 minutes or so when we pulled up so we made good time :) It was nice and sunny when we pulled in.

And then the thunder and lightening started to tease us and my brothers dogs didn't like it. So the dogs went into Tim's new truck...and locked the doors with their little excited paws...with the keys in the ignition.

We had to hold down some tarps when the wind got crazy...and I got a little wet :)

We had some fun adventures for the few hours we spent on the mountain.
The boys took advantage of the dirt. :D

And we even went on a nice hike so they could pick flowers for me...and watch Uncle "Stop" (Scott in little boy language) ride his bike.

We did little boy things like: throwing rocks in the nearby pond! Or at least getting rocks for Aunt Classy (that's me!) to throw.

Grandma even enjoyed herself and stayed pretty warm.

That night we went to Alex's and enjoyed fireworks. Scott and I made a pit stop in Wyoming on our way down to visit. We loaded up and it made the evening so fun! :D

Scott especially enjoyed lighting off new fireworks that he had never experienced before.

New Jersey laws are pretty strict and Scott had never lit any fireworks when I met him. I helped him experience his first sparkler. My bro's helped him experience everything else that night :)

Mammy (Grandma, in little boy language...they don't know the urban dictionary definition...ha.haha. My mom "loves" that we remind her of what her name means so often. We wouldn't want her to forget, of course.) did a puzzle with the boys. They were so precious the whole time we were there. They love having Stop and Classy stay at their new house.

Monday morning we went to the parade and utilized Dad's shop being on Main Street. Some of us sat inside and enjoyed the shade while some sat on the road to watch the excitement. This little guy HAD to have an icee, he went around asking all the aunts and uncles until someone took him to get it. haha.

Tim and Linds came with some of her family, this little guy is adorable. He was the ring bearer at their wedding.

Papa helped out at the parade too, he is such a good Grandpa! :D

Before we left I had to go see how high the water was at the creek. I spent enough time at home that I even slipped and called it the crik...haha.
We really enjoyed spending time with my family :D It was a great weekend! We can't wait for the next visit!