Wedding flowers Orange, Lime, dark Purple

Fun colors for the Kennison wedding. She wanted her bouquet to be "round but wild."

 

We were glad when they picked them up so we could get to the milk!

A funny story...

Last Sunday the boys came over to collect our Fast offering and I had the envelope all ready. They said I was the first one all day to be ready. Then Gary said "It's not ready, I want to put something else in there." We went in the kitchen and he said "I want to put something funny in there for when they open it." He said "How about a coupon?" I said "No, because Brother Duncan opens them and his wife already thinks I'm cheap." Well we ended up putting in a papa John's pizza coupon.
Monday night the doorbell rang and Cameron opened the door and I heard him start laughing. Brother Hill said "This is for your Dad. He gave us a coupon to buy pizza so we used it and thought you should get the left-overs." (It was a whole pizza not left-overs.) We were laughing so hard, maybe you had to be there... what kind of coupon should we put in there next month?!

Pumplin walk quilt shop hop

Marjean and I went to the pumpkin walk and found out we have the opposite taste. 

She likes very traditional and I like modern.

 She liked this one above.

 I liked this one.

 We agreed on this one.

The back of it was great too!

I just got home from AZ...so get ready for a lot of Roxie pictures!

Roxie has turned into a very happy baby. Starting from the moment she wakes up!

 We played in her room together every morning.

 Crawling for her toys.

 The camera looks like a good toy!

 I bet you all wish your baby was this cute!

 We went on a little outing every day. The Phoenix art museum was one.

 Long Wong's wings, the inside of the one by Kyle's work is evidently a lot better than the one by Kyle's school.

 We stuck it out though. Should we have?

 Roxie, 6 months old, sitting up and crawling now. This is her brand new custom made crib.

 Gun shop outing, Kyle had to buy a part (to go with the parts he got for his anniversary) 

the for gun he is building (since he got some parts for his anniversary).

 We picked up some cheesecake from the Cheesecake factory and Roxie loved her first taste of the whipping cream on top! BTW I highly recommend the turtle brownie cheesecake!

 We went to the Cornish Pasty Co for lunch on Saturday. A pasty is a filled bread/pie crust with a little handle on top. Miners in England took them for lunch and held them by the handle which they did not eat because of the poisons on their hands from their work. See if you can read this menu for the numerous choices of fillings available.

 Roxie saw me coming with the flash and hurried and looked away, what a smart baby!

 Loves her books! Yum.

 No pictures of  Moab. Gary and I met up with Kyle after his bike ride "The Whole Enchilada", watched the most awkward date of a guy and girl jeeping together each in their own jeep, stayed in the little cabins, ate at Cabo taco and the Moab grill, then Kyle and I drove to AZ. No pics of Roxie swimming and eating real food, shopping etc.

Oh well you'll just have to believe it happened.

Flew home on Allegiant Air from the Phoenix-Mesa airport. I was the first one in the whole airport that morning! Landed at the Hinkley airport in Ogdon, Utah. I am a total fan of small airports!

Gary and Cameron picked me up, we drove up to Logan and went to the Brigham City temple dedication with Heather and Jake, then over to Alice's for dinner.

The next day Monday the 24th my quilt group came over and I served them the delicious salad Ashleigh had made earlier this week. It was  a hit. 

Ashleigh's salad

Grilled chicken

Romaine lettuce

Tomatoes

Avocados

Black beans

Roasted corn

Red peppers

Dressing: 3 parts ranch salad dressing 1 part BBQ sauce

For dinner I made Heathers baked potato soup

Chicken broth

Cream of chicken soup

Potatoes

Onions

Crock pot 6-8 hours

then add Cream cheese

Cramer craft day September 2012

 We made cards and little veggie bags to have ready  to go in our fridge.

Misty, her son Jeffery, Cathy, Grandma Cramer, 

Velda holding Emily's son, Emily's daughter Khloe, Raquel and Riley, Emily.

Last week...

 Yoga with the activity day girls.

 BYU vs Utah in women's volleyball, we won so quickly it was a good thing we weren't (too) late! We went with Kris and Rodger Warner. Their daughter Nicole is pictured above (center). They stayed the night at our house and we stayed up really late talking, the night before my art group went til 12:20 pm. The next night I stayed up late for no good reason. I'll have to renew my goal about getting more sleep!

Carol, Kris

More members of my quilt group joined the American quilting block of the month club this year so now we also have a breakfast club. Fun times!

53 Flower arrangements for the Timpanogos story telling festival

We had a little rain and thunder, the lights in this tent with Bill Harley were swinging!

on-line art class "Supplies Me"

I started an on-line art class on how to use different mediums (or what to do with all those art supplies you've collected!) We had to do a mixed media art journal page before the class even started so here is mine, hopefully there will be one at the end of the class and it will be better! The only instruction was to use gesso on paper. I was thinking about my Mom this day.

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.

July 2012

The first week in July I made flowers for a country style wedding (Allysha Gayle) The main thing she wanted was to have scabiosa pods in each arrangement. I forgot to take pictures of the corsages and bouts. Which is too bad because they were fun with the pods in them.

 On the 3rd of July Gary, Cameron and Neal and Laura and I walked the streets of Provo til one am-it's always a party in Provo. We ate lots of free tubs of Dryers ice cream, ate pizza and people watched. We didn't sleep over this year but came back bright and early on the 4th for the road race and parade. We went to Cramer's for the traditional fried chicken; I was so tired I could hardly talk to anyone! Then we zipped up to Cal's house for a Brubaker party. Scott and Rebecca came home from being mission presidents in the Netherlands and came straight from the airport to the pool party. All that action and I have only two lame pictures I took at Cal's!

That week-end we went to Logan for the Cruise-in on main street. A little ice cream from Charlies and a little pink hair for the end of the summer.

Sunday July 8th, we went to Scott and Rebeccas homecoming talks and Heather wore this cute outfit.

The next week-end after our quilting class at American quilting Sandy Call and I went to Nordstrom's because a pair of boots I had my eye on finally went on sale. Sandy found some clothes too. We both liked these sandals and came home and found them on-line for $35 instead of $69 so I got black ones and Sandy got brown and black ones!

That night July 14th Gary, Cameron and I went to the Steel Days "Cruise-in" in American Fork. Got to get all this local summer fun in!

The 3rd week on Wed. I went to the Utah Valley quilt fair on the way to  Kim's in Santaquin for a card group lunch, Thursday we skipped a day at Fish Lake with the Keele's to help Dad clean out his garage some more.
Friday Gary's parents took us and Garys siblings to the days of 47 rodeo.

 Mike, Cathy, Doris, Delile, Gary, Velda, Dean.

 Heather and Jake came down and went to an Owl's game while we were at the rodeo. Gary made us brownies which kept us up til midnight, but did not keep us from going to the Provo bakery and The Chocolate the next day after the ward breakfast (July 21).

The fourth week Alice came down and I dragged her to my book group and my art group (July 25). Lots of people told us we sound alike but do not look alike.
Imagine sitting in a group of real artists and painting tennis shoes- well they are a friendly group and do not care- I think they'll all get some white or black shoes to work on now!

We hadn't had enough fun yet so when Alice went back to Logan I went with her. Heather, Alice and  I went hiking, to yoga, and aqua aerobics. We also made a sewing room for Alice in Laura's old bedroom. We went to a quilt shop, did a ton of errands, and went to a (back to school clothes) shopping outing with Alice's school teacher friends.

 Heather tried on what I call bathrobe dresses. I ended up with these things, striped maxi skirt, striped "scarf fabric" shirt, brown skirt, orange sweater and multi scarf. Heather said she was proud of me for actually buying stuff and then admitted it was her self-imposed 4 month shopping moratorium that kept us from ending up getting distracted and shopping for her.

 Heather and Alice did a straightening treatment on my hair too. I don't quite look like the girl on the box though.

Gary and Cameron fiber glassing a speaker thing for Cameron's "new" jeep.