Heather and Jake visit-fall break 2012

Heather and Jake came down for fall break and Heather stayed here while Jake

 flew in and out for a dental school interview in Michigan.

 Heather cut these stencils and we made pillows for Halloween.

We also did a little sewing, Heather made this shirt and I sewed my pillows.

Saturday we went to Pumpkin land.

This is Heathers "excited to show Jake a childhood memory face."  I should have taken a picture of her "disappointed face" when we rounded the corner and saw that pumpkin-land is now $4 each- it was always just a free place to take the kids and get a dollar pumpkin! And that's about all it's worth- it's just a dirt trail with pumpkin photo ops and swings! I think Jake was OK with missing it.

When Jake got back we went to Heaps ( Brick Oven)-he had never been there, the five of us shared two feasts for two and had lots of leftovers to take home!

Brubaker family reunion 2012

Heber Valley Family camp-I have been to girls camp here a million times it seems like! It was great to be here for an evening with a new group!

Dinner, a few games and lots of some-mores! Several families stayed over night and did ropes courses and canoeing. Here is Gary trying to teach the kids to say the word "briquettes" while waiting for them to get hot.

After the wedding...June 17-21, 2012

After Diane's wedding, Raquel, little Riley, Heather, and I got in with Gordon and Tammy and left for an extended pool party in Las Vegas. (Gary had to go back and write the state photo test.)We went to one buffet, shopped for groceries and meant to go a few other places but could not tear ourselves away from the pool!

 We all weighed in before and after the buffet. We pretty much gained 3 lbs each!

 Here we are in our dyed pants.

Don't you think the photographer should have made me look as skinny as Heather?

 Even though she's "not really a dessert person" this is Heather's first plate!

 Does Gordon look amazed or jealous?

 Thank goodness this was her second plate. 

You have already seen previous blog post(s) of what my plate(s) looked like-total crab legs!

 Oh yeah, we played a lot of games. Discussed the world's problems and collected a few coins too.

 Tammy held boot camp one night.

 Diving for dice.

 Liar's dice in the pool on floating boards.

 Yes, it was hard to get out of the pool but we had to do a craft; hand painted silk scarves.

 Dive in movie on the last night.

And a good time was had by all.THANKS Gordon and Tammy.

Gary goes to photo conference in Logan...

...and Carol and Heather play all day while Jake studies and works.

Our main activity was dying white pants with jade green and robin egg blue  fiber reactive dyes.

 We rode the bus with all our supplies (I think we looked like cleaning ladies on our way to work),

to do this in Heather's art class room (just in case), but everything went well!

Since we slept in Heather and Jake's living room we spent our hotel money on going out to dinner every night. This is a picture at The Owl, the only place we checked out and didn't eat at! No pictures of Texas Roadhouse, giant burritos at Cafe Sabor or  the underground pizza place.

June 8th the guest rooms are full!

First Heather made plans to come down to her friend Polly's wedding, next Nancy needed a place to stay the night before the Provo half marathon, then Alice decided to come down and visit Laura (she was the last reservation so she got the couch-sorry Alice). The only time we could see Cameron was on his lunch hour so we all met at Sammy's.

Friday was my Dad's 94th birthday. We celebrated with Mexican Food at Nancy's house. Alice made a perfect pineapple upside down cake with crushed pineapple-pineapple in every bite mm mm. I took my camera but it didn't have the card in it because I left it in the computer. So-no pictures! We better celebrate again next year!
The next night we ate at Smash Burger-so I have no pictures of my Dad 94th B-day but I have a picture of Smash Burger sides!

Sunday it snowed, today it snowed even more, but it's OK becauese tonight I get to go to Arizona for this:

 Even cute screaming! Roxie Cramer.

Cameron's Birthday week-end

Heather and Jake came down last week-end. Heather and I found a new bakery. Five loaves later we decided we better have sandwiches for lunch, soup for dinner and french toast in the morning!

We played a lot of games and made valentine decorations.

Cameron and Jake went shooting and played basketball (no pictures). Heather and Gary and I made a  cake for Cameron's birthday. Yes we still make four wheel driving cakes for Cameron (we would still do it for you too Kyle if you were here). You're never too old!

Heather and Jake left Sunday morning. Sunday night Grandma and Grandpa Cramer, Lacey and Tyler, Raquel, Brady, and Riley and came over for dinner and cake.

On Monday the 23rd, the actual Birthday, I dragged Cameron to lunch at the Brick Oven with me and my friend Kris (who did not want to be in the picture.) We had dinner at Red Robin-birthday coupons- and then we went to Home Depot and Cameron and Gary had a drilling contest. (while picking out his present-specialty pliers) Cameron then went bowling with his friends. We had to count it as Gary's birthday too because Gary got all his presents early (TV and jacket) and spent his Birthday the next day (24th) announcing a Basketball game.

 The cake was delicious! I think this recipe is just as good as Magleby's so here it is!

Chocolate Cake

½ Cup oil

1/3 Cup cocoa - Beat. Then add

2 eggs - Beat, and then alternately add

½ Cup milk

2 Cups flour, and then add

1-2 t. vanilla

1 Cup boiling water

2 t. baking soda

Dash salt

Bake at 350 degrees ½ hour

Christmas 2010 in Arizona!

Gary and I along with Jake, Heather and Cameron loaded up all our stuff and all the presents and headed to Kyle and Ashleigh's house for Christmas!
We started out working on Kyle's Jeep, then added some shooting and some shopping.

bum shot!

I could not get this picture to turn in blogger-it's right in my picture file!

Jake

Cameron, Kyle

Cameron

Cameron, Jake, Kyle

Another sideways picture!? Here we are at the Last Chance store, Ashleigh is taking the picture. We each bought a pair of pants.

We played a lot of games and ate a lot of delicious food!

Jake must be winning!

Carol, Ashleigh

An (exciting?) game of Risk.

Maybe it's the phone pictures that won't turn?

Lemon cheesecake and ginger bread at the Bakery at Orange.

Gary, Kyle- a little round of Wacky Six.