missing my sister

Just wanted to share this great video of my cute sister. She's a missionary for the LDS church in Seattle and I'm sure the people there just love her and her fun personality - I mean, how could you not? Her cute companion is from Mongolia. I think my sister is pretty awesome and watching this video made me miss her! Check out her mission blog that my Mom updates for her. Love you, Liz!

Sisters, sisters, there were never such devoted sisters!

James Taylor!

Growing up we used to listen to music a lot, and some of our favorites were artists that my Dad really liked - The Moody Blues, Simon and Garfunkel, the Beatles, and our favorite - James Taylor! I have lots of fun memories of driving in the car on family vacations and listening to James Taylor. I still listen to his music quite a bit, and one of our family's favorites now is Sweet Baby James (for obvious reasons!). Last night my three sisters and I went to the James Taylor concert, and it was awesome! He sang a lot of the classics (Sweet Baby James, You've Got a Friend, Fire and Rain) as well as some newer songs, and some new covers he did for an album that's coming out. We had so much fun! Jonathan and James stayed home and had a little guys night in.

our way overpriced but good food :)

girls' weekend out

This weekend my aunt Jamie took all of her nieces to Park City for the weekend. This has become an annual tradition to celebrate all of our birthdays. Jamie has always been so sweet to all of us and has always done fun things with us for our birthdays. This year we had more people with us than usual - two of my cousins got married in the past year and so their cute wives came along for the first time, and James got to come with us, too! What a brave kid to hang out with so many girls!

We stayed in a fun condo and played games and watched movies, and we went out to eat and had fun shopping at the outlet stores. It was a really fun weekend, and I am so grateful to Jamie for being so sweet and generous. James was really good, especially considering how tired he got, but he really was a champ. We ate a Mexican restaurant on Saturday night and he was getting pretty fussy, but Aunt Annie got sung to at the restaurant (we really were celebrating birthdays - plus, it's her birthday today! Happy Birthday, Annie!) and she gave James the balloon that she got, and he was SO happy after that.

Here is our whole group outside the restaurant - (back row, left to right) Kelsey, Annie, Kathryn, me, Jamie, Holly, Michelle, Whitney (front row, left to right) Megan, Liz, James, Abby, Sarah.

My happy boy with his balloon!

the gals' shopping excursion

When we were in Oregon, the girls (and James) all went shopping while the boys worked outside in the hot sun (sad) - but we had lots of fun! Mostly we just tried on awesome hats and accessories, and bought a few choice purchases from the dollar store :)

Anna, Emma Jeane, Rebecca, me and Sierra at the dollar store

James was such a good boy during the whole outing!

Sierra, Bethany, Emma Jeane, Anna, Rebecca & Kathleen looking lovely in pink!

Fun times at World Market - here is Sierra, Rebecca and me

Sophisticated Anna

Cute Bethany

Me with an awesome Chinese-looking umbrella

Cute Rebecca!

"Trying on" dresses (or shirts? not sure...) at Kohls

We bought these lovely flowered accessories :) at the dollar store for all the married gals - even Nana. We were just trying to cheer up the guys, who had been working all afternoon...