Game Night

Sunday night at the Ortons' house is one of my favorite parts of the week. Every week, there's always a little group of us playing games, watching movies, and eating treats in their cozy home. This week, though, we decided to make our OWN movie. So, inspired by World War Z (our movie of choice earlier in the summer), Alex whipped up a story board, we ghetto-rigged an overhead camera with a sock, a belt, and a straw, mixed up our own chocolate sauce/red food coloring blood, and got to work. And here's the finished product:







I sure do love these goofy friends of mine.

Ogden Temple open house

Saturday afternoon was lovely. The Ortons and I drove to Ogden and met up with Elizabeth and the Gramolls to go to the Ogden Temple open house!
The last temple open house I went to was the Orlando Temple's in 1994. Needless to say, I don't remember much- just that the little white booties they have you wear on your feet to keep the floors clean were HUGE on me because I refused to go through the line with anyone but my uncle Jeff.
The Ogden Temple is SO beautiful. This was my first time seeing anything but the baptistry inside a temple, and I was in awe. I'm even more excited now to go through the temple for myself later this year! I'll definitely want to come back to Ogden to do a temple session there.
After the open house, Elizabeth and the Ortons and I went across the street to Farr's Ice Cream, which has been there for over 80 years, and was wayyy good. And then the Ortons and I headed over to Marissa and Josh's house for grilling out, catching up, and adoring their precious lil' babe. It all made for a wonderful day!

If you're interested in going to the open house, it's going on until September 6th, and you can reserve tickets here. Everyone is welcome, temple recommend/church membership or not, so you should definitely try to go! It will be well worth your time.

Family Vacation 2014

The fam came to Utah for vacation this summer.

Fun times included but were not limited to:

Sibling sleepover at my apartment

The Deer Valley Music Festival's Disney in Concert night

Panning for gems in the resort sluice 

And the Heber Valley Railroad's Wizard Train

*Other activities not pictured here:

Harry Potter goodies and movies during sibling sleepover

Provo Rec Center swim

Provo Temple-to-temple Pioneer Day 5(10)K

Puppy rental

Homestead Crater swim

Bailey family billiards tournament

Consumption of various delicious foods

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Girl doesn't post for a long time, decides to revamp blog.
Girl remembers that she knows nothing about computers and completely mangles old blog beyond repair.
Girl starts new blog.

Girl keeps rambling.