New Toys

When I came home from work today I had quite a few surprises. Casey was there instead of at work, playing with his new laptop, and there was a box with my BRAND NEW NIKON D80! Casey bought it for me for our anniversary. My husband loves me! : ) I'm so excited to use it. It is a little overwhelming since there are so many buttons and modes, but after testing it out and talking to Jason a few times, I'm sure I'll get the hang of it.

Casey and his new laptop

My beautiful camera

Pioneer Day

The 24th of July is Pioneer Day, which is another excuse not to have school (but unfortunately not work for most). After I got out of work, we went tubing down the Provo River. We have always wanted to and even though there were a few rain clouds in the sky, we decided that we had better do it while we had the chance. It was so much fun. I got a little beat up just because I'm talented that way (bruises on my shins and a big one on my bum from hitting a rock), but other than that (and the water being a bit chilly) it was a relaxing way to spend the afternoon. We then had a BBQ and set off some fireworks that night. It was a great way to celebrate our ancestors and their trek to the west.

Girls Wii Night

Last Wednesday, a few girls (Tamara, Christie, Jeanette, and Megan) and I had a Girl's Wii Night. We brought snacks, talked, then played tennis, boxing, bowling, smooth moves, and Rayman for a couple of hours. My favorite was Rayman. It all made for a very fun time and I'm so lucky to be able to work with such fun girls.

Tamara and Megan boxing

Jeanette running on Rayman. To run, you have to move the remotes really fast up and down.
Once again, I couldn't get the video to actually appear, so here is the link of us playing tennis. We look like complete spazzes (especially Tamara and I), but it must help because we won almost every game : )

http://s123.photobucket.com/albums/o315/jennatanner/?action=view&current=2e07e392.flv

Harry Potter!

Ryan, Kerstin, Casey and I went at 12:01am this morning to go get the 7th Harry Potter book at Wal-Mart. We got there at 11:45pm and there was a line in the store, but by the time we had bought our book and were leaving, there was a huge line all the way out the door and around the building. It was crazy. I've never gotten the book at 12:01am before, so it was fun. I'm only on the third chapter, so we'll see how it goes...

Kerstin and I with our books

Some people couldn't even wait to get out of the store before they started reading it.

POP! Goes My Heart

Casey and I went and saw the movie "Music and Lyrics" a while ago, which features this song. It was a pretty funny movie, but my friend Jeanette at work has this song on her computer, so whenever she wants to make my day, she'll play it for me. I love this song, so I just wanted to share it with all of you. It is one of my current happy songs : ) Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spASMbLrGaE

Hogle Zoo

A couple of Saturdays ago, we were invited to go to the Hogle Zoo, by our friend Kevin. By the time we got there with Rich, Rebecca, and Kaley though, Kevin and Cathy were all zooed out, so we ended up going around just the five of us. As always, it was HOT, but there was a rare white alligator temporarily on display there, so it was really neat to see. It was also Kaley's first time (it was my first time as well) at the zoo, so it was fun to see her get excited. We also got a magnet to add to our growing collection : )

This was one of those big balls that spin on water. It was donated by O.C. Tanner (the jeweler).

These drinking fountains were so cute.

Rich, Rebecca, and Kaley

This elephant made noises and squirted water out of it's trunk. I have Casey to thank for this picture.

The most photogenic monkey there : ) (the display was temporarily unavailable) A Cougar. This was Casey's favorite part by far. He was so excited to see a real cougar and took a ton of pictures to try and get a good one. Unfortunately, this is the best one we got.
Black Bear. He had just woken up from a nap.
This alligator had his mouth open every time we went past him.

Casey and I with the giraffes.

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.