Guys Night, Drumline and Dutch Oven!

It's been a fun few weeks. For 1, my cousin Josh made it through Boot Camp for the Marines. He came home after camp for 10 days. We had a big family get together for him and it was so good to see him! One of the nights while he was home, I had him and my brother Chris over for a "guys night" haha. Chris and Josh have been best buddies since they've been little tykes. Growing up, us sisters (Heidi and I and Josh's sisters) would want nothing to do with our annoying little brothers when we were all hanging out. But now, it's opposite. It's funny what growin up will do to ya :) It was a lot of fun having them over. We had pizza and watched Blades of Glory. I teased them when they first came over that I was going to dress them up like girls and paint their nails and do their make up. I of course got a quick NO! Then they said, since it's "guys night" how about you dress up like a guy. So... I did! ha! Went and changed from my clothes to Prestons.
Haha... there ya go.

It was fun hanging out with those two. I love my little Chrissy-poo and Joshy-poo!

Chris has been on Skyline's drumline. They had their homeocming game last weekend and they had a part in the half time show. It was really fun to see him doing what he does best. My brother is so talented at the drums. So talented that he transfered schools (long story, but good decision and no, Chris isn't in trouble) he's now at Cottonwood and the Skyline band teacher still wants Chris in his drumline. Chris will probably play in most of the Skyline games. He's looking forward to play in the drumline for when Cottonwood has their homecoming game against Skyline! My pictures aren't the best because I had to try to zoom in quite a bit and I guess my camera doesn't like when it's zoomed in a lot! But here's what I got.
Can you see him?

Jake, Chris' friend and pretty much a family member in our fam and Kayley, Chris' girl friend :)
The dancers and drumline.
He's 3rd drummer in from the left.
Chris and his girl!
Whose this cute boy? That'd be my brother!



Last weekend Dad and I competed at the fair in Dutch Oven. It was so much fun and wow, there was some good food being cooked. There were 15 couples competing. We were there from noon till about 8:30 pm. We had from 2-6 to cook and the judging took place at 6. We did really well. We didn't win a 1st, 2nd or 3rd place but we did win... "PEOPOLES CHOICE"!!! There were so many people from the public (a few hundred I'd say) that got to come taste everything after the judges were done. We had friends and family come support us so it was a lot of fun and we came away with a prize. My dad is the pro at the Dutch Oven. I was just the chopper, dish washer and run around for my dad but it was still so much fun! For our main dish, we cooked cornish game hen chicken, for our bread we made a cheesy twist bread and our dessert was Oma's german plum struessel cake. They were all a big hit!
The pro gettin the Plum Cake ready.
Our game hen cookin away.
Our cheese bread
The Plum Strussel Cake!
Team 10!
The finished product of the Game Hen! These guys were based with my dad's homemade Habanero jelly and stuffed with spanish rice. mmmm delish!

Some of you have heard that our list for Pharmacy schools have changed. There was a mix up with the classes SLCC offers which changed the list. But we're really happy with the new list and feel really good about them. We're planning on applying to Arizona, Alabama, Georgia, DC and Pittsburgh.

That's all for now!

Labor Day weekend in Yellowstone!

I'm not going to do much typing because I have LOTS of pictures of this place. Yellowstone is beautiful. I can never get over all the different things to see. It was perfect weather. We camped in an awesome camp ground in the park, by Yellowstone Lake. We got a little of rain which made everything smell soo good and fresh. We went with my family and had a blast. We missed Christ, Heidi, Chase and that cute little baby Cade. But we still had a blast! Check it out!
This is inside the Old Faithful Lodge... The coolest lodge ever. Those little rooms up in the ceiling is where bands would play back in the day.

The colors around the park with all the different minerals are so cool!

Dad and I made his famous camp hash for breakfast one morning. It is SOO GOOD!

Check out that moon.

Can you see him?

Standing in front of my favorite geyser. The dragons cauldron.
Precious!

Haha everybody was smart by wearing a hat or sun glasses.. not me. I was trying to keep my eyes open in this picture but the sun was just too much!

Standing on top of a water fall. This fall has just over 2 million gallons a minute go over that ledge.
This part of the park had some of the very fist geysers that were ever in Yellowstone. This is one of them.
Dad preparing our tin foil chicken dinner!
There it is in the oven!
haha silly Lili
moose head!
If you look really hard you can see them!
Well, that's it. Told ya there were a ton of pictures! That about wraps up our Summer vacationing/camping trips.