Game night and the Drive-in

Just when I thought I was getting all caught up on our life events, I look at the pictures on my computer for the past couple of months, then realize I'm not caught up at all!! Things keep happening, we take pictures to remember the moment, and it's a never ending process! It's hard to pick and choose between all the events, I want to remember it all! My life feels like it's flying by too fast and I just keep getting older and older, but I still feel the same way I did in high school/college (mentally that is). Pretty soon I'll be old and wrinkly, and I won't know what happened! When that day comes, at least I'll have ALL my pictures to remember all my cherished memories!

These cherished memories take place back in July, while my brother Jeff was in town. He and his family was in Utah for a whole week! Which means, lots of fun and lots of pictures! 

When I was little, I was like every other little girl. I LOVED anything pink and Barbies (still do). But unlike some little girls, me and Katie loved watching my big brother Jeff play video games! We didn't have to play, watching was just as much fun. It was like a movie, but we got to help my brother solve the puzzles and choose the endings. We started out watching Castlevania on Nintendo, then as time went by, it was Super Nintendo (oh man, did we ever love Donkey Kong and Mario Kart!), then it was the first PlayStation (that's where Resident Evil and Tomb raider began), and so on. Today, I still like watching Video games, and I sometimes watch Ryan play. So in honor of my brother visiting us, we had a gaming night! Filled with lots of pop, chips, and candy!

It was pretty awesome, if I do say so myself. We had 3 TVs all playing Uncharted 2 at the same time! It was my first time ever playing like that. I wasn't the best at playing the game, considering I was amongst some hard-core gamers, but I can proudly say I killed a good share of bad guys!

"Boom, Boom, Boom!!! Die Bad Guys!!!"

Now....there's some hard-core gamers!

Without further adieu, I now Introduce the newest baby boy of our family: Liam!

Liam is my Nephews little guy....so that makes me a great Aunt? Wow, if that doesn't make me feel old, what does? We love him so, he looks just like his daddy. And as you can see, all babies are welcome to our game nights!

The very next night, we all went to the DRIVE-IN!

More junk food to the rescue! Pizza and Root beer are my favorite combination!

The family that I love  =0)

The friends that are awesome  =0)

This is my brother Jeff's childhood BESTEST friend ever and his family.

 Ryan did a great Job at making sure we were comfortable for our movie! A blow up mattress, lots of blankets and pillows, and the hottest guy to snuggle up too....doesn't get better than that!

Oh, what a couple of nights it was! Definitely cherished memories!

{Family Par-tay}

Our family just keeps growing and growing! (I hope soon it will be bigger =0) Our last family picture was in 2004 or 2005, so....we were really due for a new one. Both my brothers that live far away came to Utah in July, so it was the perfect time to get us all together to make a new one. Of corse, with so many of us, I'm the youngest of 9 and all the neices and nephews (some married and/or have babies of thier own) it is basically close to impossiable to get us all there at once. My so talented sister Katie, took single pictures of each family and will photoshop all of us together. I don't know how she does it, but she is amazing and truely talented. The picture isn't complete yet, but as soon as it is, I'll post it so you all can see how amazing she is!

It was nice for us too, we now have new family pictures or our little family as well, even if it's just the two of us. We are missing Ellie, but we have plenty of other family pictures with her, so I don't feel too bad.

*My favorite*

*The Irish twins*

As we were all sitting there chatting together, the Arnolds old cars got brought up. So Ryan run home to grab the corvette to show off to everyone. For the next hour or so, Ryan was gone taking everyone one mini car rides. They loved it, but who wouldn't.....its just so pretty.

Almost all of us....

Just a fun pic of everyone who could make it.

The babies. All boys.

This picture makes me both happy and sad at the same time. I love it cause who wouldn't love all thoes adorable faces and I love them so! But it makes my heart ache to know my Jason is missing in this picture. All these sweet boys came soon after I lost him. He would of been the oldest, he would of been 1 year and nine months old this month. Some days Heaven seems too far away. How I miss him.

Definatly a full house.

Time with my family is always at the top of my list. We always have a good ol' time togeher.

A day at Bear Lake

And a lovely day it was! My family went up for 3 days, but Ryan and I could only go up for one of the days. We woke up early that morning at 5:30 AM (yawn!), so we could get ready and leave by 6:30AM in order to make it up there by breakfast time!

I love camping.....even if it's only day camping. The only thing that really stinked was that we couldn't have any campfires. How can you camp without a fire!! But, we survived. Good thing we had our handy camping stoves.

Me and the Hubsters

"Its the sun, it's the sun, its the beautiful sun!"

Ryker's toy clock sang that little jingle, and I couldn't get it out of my head all day. It's really a catchy little tune.

 This was the first time these two cute boys met! I know they will be best buddies.

They would of loved my little Jason. Still can't wait till the day when they all can all play together.

Me and my brother.....and his silly shirt.

Awwweee, now this is the life. Relaxing and being with the people I love the most in the world!

Everyone trying to figure out the breakfast situation.....

Our campsite was right by the water, but there wasn't much beach.....just lots of rocks.

*MUAH!* I could kiss his cute face all day!

Wake boarding is the BEST at Bear Lake. It's so big that its not crowded, the water is SO BLUE , and the water (for the most part) can be so smooth,  it looks like glass. But if the winds start picking up, that's when you got to be careful, it can get pretty nasty!

Kennedy is a better wake boarder than me! She can actually get some good air!

Bear lake must give me more confidence, cause normally I'm scared to death to go over the wake
 (Why? Cause I'm a wimp). But at good ol' Bear Lake, I can! Right to left, going through the wake over and over again.

And then there's Ryan and Russ....who not only can go over the wake, they can jump the wake.

I'd say that's pretty impressive!

Ryker LOVES to play in the water  =0)

CHEESE! hehe...

I can't get enough of these babies! I adore them so!

Love my little Asher-roo!

               This is the cutest picture! I love that smile!

Being silly....

Ryan's home-made arrow head. He literally found a normal rock and chipped it away with another rock to make it look like a arrow head. AND then found grass and a stick to complete it.Yes, he is my big kid. Boys! Who needs toys, when there's rocks, sticks, or dirt to play with?

My most cutest mom and dad!

Bear Lake is so pretty! Love this place.