4th of July

This was one of my favorite 4th of July. We did so many fun things and got to spend it with really fun people. It started out with the Freedom Parade in Provo. This was my first year seeing it, so it was kind of exciting. We sat with our friends Rich and Rebecca. It was sooooo hot, but totally worth it. After the parade we had a BBQ with Ryan, Kerstin, Ryan's cousin John, Hauser, Fran, and Fran's high school friend Troy. It was delicious. Then we played some cutthroat (a card game). It started to get a little boring, so Casey suggested that the next person to win had to pick what we did. Casey won, so he picked Scattegories for me : ) Hauser won Scattegories, so he picked to go bowling. Casey beat everyone at bowling, so he picked lighting off our parachute fireworks. Then we kind of just hung around. Casey and Ryan worked at the Stadium of Fire helping with the sound system and left at 9:30pm, so Kerstin and I got our pajamas on, watched chick flicks, watched the Stadium of Fire fireworks from the roof, then watched more chick flicks until we fell asleep/Casey and Ryan got home at 3:30am. I'm so thankful that we get the day off to celebrate this special day with friends and family, and for all those that serve our country to protect our freedom.

Casey at the parade

Mini horse. It made us think of "Rob & Big" the TV show.Wizard of Oz float. One of the more amazing ones there.
BYU's float. No surprise that this was Casey's favorite : )
Sunshine Care Bear. I really took this picture for my niece Starlee because this is her favorite Care Bear.
Picture collage of us bowling

Stadium of Fire fireworks. I know, if I had a tripod they wouldn't be so squiggly, but I was just glad to get better pictures than last year.

Five In A Row

Don't laugh because this will probably be one of the only times you see this great feat, so take a good look. We were playing Mexican Train (a dominoes game) with some friends and I got 5 doubles in a row. Four is unusual, but 5, that's just crazy! I was so proud of it I had to take a picture and show everyone. I think our friends thought I was a little weird, but I'd have to define myself as more blog crazy or picture happy : ) Now I will be able to remember this moment always : )

Fall Out Boy Concert

When we were in San Diego, we got tickets to go to a Fall Out Boy concert, but then it was postponed to a date that we couldn't go to, so we got a refund and I bought other tickets for the same concert in Salt Lake City. On June 25, we finally had the chance to go to the Honda Civic Tour/ Fall Out Boy concert. The performers in order were Cobra Starship (a few good songs, one of which was the theme song for "Snakes on a Plane."), The Academy Is..., Paul Wall (worst performer ever), +44, and Fall Out Boy. By the end of the night our ears were a little shot, but concerts are always fun. This was only Casey's second concert EVER and I'm just glad that I could take him to his first concerts. My favorite part is seeing him get so excited. He even researches the band a little or listens to their CD (if we have it) in preparation for the concert. I love seeing him sing along and seeing how happy they make him : )

Paul Wall and his satanic looking sidekick (he rapped all the songs with Paul Wall)
+44 (it was so cool to see Travis Barker play the drums, he is amazing)

Fall Out Boy. They are really good live and put on a good show.

Progress Mfg. Summer BBQ

On June 22, my company had their annual Summer BBQ. This year my friend/coworker, Jeanette, and I were in charge of the party. There was so much fun stuff to do and eat. We had good food, an inflatable obstacle course for fun and later for relay races, two inflatable jumpers, popcorn, cotton candy (my favorite), and snow cone machines, a bubble station, water balloon station, and a treasure hunt. It took a lot of planning on our part, but all the thank you's and smiling faces definately made up for it : )

Casey got a big old fat hot dog for seconds.

Me with my face painted. I've always wanted to do this, and the best part was that it was FREE!
Casey was either talking on his phone or reading his magazine most of the night since I was always off making announcements and making sure everything went smoothly.

Me in the relay race. My team's name was the Relay Rampagers : ) We didn't win, but it was fun anyways.

Casey and I after cleaning up. We didn't leave until 9:30pm.

A few pictures to show all the neat things we had at the party

Multnomah Falls

For one of the family activities during the family reunion, we went to the Multnomah Lodge and had breakfast, and then we went on the 6 mile Wahkeenah loop hike. It was raining a bit, but I preferred that to it being hot. These are only half of the pictures, and I know it is a lot, but it was just such a beautiful hike that I wanted to share as much of it as possible : )

The upper half of Multnomah Falls (unfortunately, my camera could not get the whole waterfall in one picture)

The lower half (I like this half better)

Casey and I in a crevice in the wallJust hanging around

The top of Multnomah Falls

Everyone together for a little bit. We ended up finishing in small groups because we all liked to go different speeds.

I thought this plant was cool. It looks like the stem is threaded throught he leaves.

Raindrops are so pretty

Everywhere you looked there were gorgeous trees towering over us

Casey like how the water was running over the mossy log

Wahkeenah Falls

We got done about 30 minutes before everyone else, so this is Casey waiting. Casey held Adalei for the last half of the hike, but she was a little tuckered out and a mile and a half before we finished she fell asleep and was out like a rock for the rest of the hike.

Casey laid her on this huge window ledge while he went to the bathroom (of course I was watching her) and it made for a neat looking picture.

Nate's Graduation

One of the big events during the Tanner family reunion was that Casey's brother, Nate, graduated from the Oregon Health and Science University on June 8 and will now be working at Gentle Dental in Gresham, OR. Most of the day was centered around Nate and what he wanted to do since it was his big day. After graduation there was a luncheon at the school, then we went to the Portland temple, and then we had dinner at one of Nate's favorite places, Sweet Tomatoes. After dinner we went and played mini golf as a family. Congratulations to Ashley for beating us all! It was really close though, every single score was only one away from the next person. It was a great day and we are all so proud of Nate and his great accomplishment!

Nate receiving an award after being hooded

The Portland Temple
Adalei on the way to play mini golf

Casey sharing Ashley's iPod with Adalei

Seattle...Take 2

Last summer while we were in Portland for Casey's internship, we took a trip to Seattle, went to a bunch of famous sights, and had dinner at the Space Needle. While we were there the air conditioning was out and it was HOT, so Casey called and they gave us a gift certificate to go back, so while we were up in Portland again for Nate's Graduation we went and used it with Casey's mom. The food wasn't as good as the first time, but it is always fun to visit the Space Needle, and this time it was during the day, so it was a little different. The best part was that we went over the gift certificate amount by $50, but they gave us the whole meal FREE anyways. Free food is always better : )

Pictures from the top

Sky City Orbit Sunday. They put the dish on top of a bowl of dry ice. We got this and chocolate cake for dessert.

The bubbles that the dry ice was making.

When we were in Canada last summer they had all these bear statues for a contest. Now they are doing pigs, so I had to take a picture with it to go in our collection : )

These stone balls surround the space needle and I thought the picture was cool looking.

"It's My Birfday"

Casey had his 25th birthday yesterday, but we started celebrating on Saturday by watching baseball at Chris' then playing mini-golf at Boondocks in Draper with Chris, Amanda, Ryan, and Kerstin. It is one of the nicer fun centers. Then we had dinner at Costa Vida (one of Casey's favorite places to go). On Sunday, I woke him up pretty early to give him breakfast in bed and open his presents. You'll notice that they are wrapped in plastic bags because that was Casey's request and "it's his birfday." After church, we had Ryan, Kerstin, Chris, Amanda, and Kevin over for dinner. We had Alice Springs Chicken, salad with homemade honey mustard dressing, and garlic mashed potatoes. Then a chocolate cake with strawberries and vanilla ice cream for dessert. Since it was Sunday, it was a day filled with food and friends. After dinner we played Scene It and then the boys played a little Halo. It was a good day. (The reason I have "It's my birfday" in quotation marks is because that was Casey's response after any request given throughout the day :) )

Opening presents: First Knight

His half-awake surprised face (I actually made him reopen his presents because he kept giving me goofy faces)
The new Killers CD

His Birthday Cake

Blowing out the candles. Whenever Chris isn't in his chair, there is a good chance Casey is, and he also wanted to see how far away he could be and still blow out the candles. He only blew out the "2" from this distance.