McKenna's Visit

 I love being able to spend anytime I can with my sister, so I was extremely excited when she was able to come and spend the weekend with Joe and I! McKenna is so super busy with school so getting her to leave her homework and books behind was a huge sacrifice for her. {THANK YOU!} I had so much fun being able to cook for her, and do her laundry. I'm like domestic or something now, it's weird. 

Friday night McKenna got into town around 7:30. I made baked ziti, garlic bread, and ceasar salad. Yum, yum, yum. Domestic, right? And of course, we had to go to G's Dairy to get ice cream after :) We stayed up late talking, laughing, and catching up. It was so fun and much needed.

Joe and I woke up early on Saturday to go get our first Bountiful Basket! Those things are seriously so cool; thanks, Pax for convincing me to get one! 

We then hung around the house and waited for Joe to get done with his group meeting and then we were off for our adventures! We thought it would be fun to go to Mesa Falls for the day.  I decided to drive because I thought I knew where we were going...We definitely took the longest way and went through Island Park instead, which made our drive like an hour longer haha. 

McKenna! 

Cheese Balls 

Husband (:

Joe was walking like a raptor down the stairs...McKenna thought it was hilarious

Winner! 

Cuuuuute!

Love him

Always leaving me out

What's wrong, Kenny? 

Shoesssss

Workin' it

So much fun!

I found a chipmunk friend 

Well, that's typical 

Joe got McKenna to shoot his airsoft gun...out the front door.

She loved it

Later that night we decided it'd be fun to go have a bonfire and make s'mores .  We brought along Joe's friend, Skyler and we had a blast.

The boys... gathering firewood 

The girls...doing nothing

Thanks to our friends Patrick and Lauren who showed us this little gem to go have a bonfire

Buildin' the fire 

Perfection

Freakin' huge fire. McKenna swears she doesn't have eyebrows now

Love of my life 

McKenna won't admit it, but she's a pyro 

Well hello, Skyler 

S'mores!

It's a camel! And I named him Humpty 

I'm obsessed with this guy

Okay, little back story on this camel dude. My friend, Alyssa, from work told me of a new, shorter way to drive to work, since we both live in Rexburg, and she said the best part about taking this way is the camel! I thought, a camel? You're kidding, right? Camel's don't exist is south east Idaho.  But sure enough they do!! {Or, I'm just dumb and think it's a camel?} I drive this way to work every time and each time I about swerve off the road because I can't get enough of him!  My mom was not convinced that there was such a camel, so hopefully this proves it to her! One of these days I'm going to knock on the door of the house that owns the camel and ask if I can pet him.  Apparently, camels are mean and tend to spit, but I don't care I want to meet my new camel friend up close and in person!

Such a great weekend! Thanks McKenna for driving all the way from Provo to come visit us! You're always welcome whenever, so how about you come up next weekend? (:  

This video is pretty funny, at least I thought it was...

Easter!

Easter was so much fun this year! For some reason, I cannot remember what I did for Easter last year...were we on tour? Anyway, Joe and I got to go down to Utah where my mom came up from Arizona to see us and McKenna. 

Unfortunately, McKenna had to get her wisdom teeth out that Friday before Easter, poor girl! She was a champ though and recovered so quickly and didn't complain at all! When she came out of recovery my mom said that she was blabbing about what muscle her tongue is connected to and many other anatomy terms...psh anatomy nerd!  I always love hanging out with my mom and sister- usually what happens is whenever my mom and I are together we are ridiculous; we are super immature and extremely giggly. McKenna usually just stares at us and probably thinks, "how did I turn out so good?" But really, that is the age old question- where did McKenna come from and how did she turn our so amazing? I think she was switched at birth and belongs to a scientist dad and a doctor mom. It only makes sense.

We had a blast hanging out, eating, relaxing, and enjoying each others company. 

Yes, more puppy pictures

They love going buh byes in the car!

Chloe is too cool to look at the camera

Lola: Big and beautiful 

Melt your heart!!

Another weird looking picture with Lola

:)

If you have seen the movie UP you'll remember the awesome chair Mr. Fredricksen has in his house on the stairs. Well, my grandparents have one and it's pretty much awesome. 

Spoon Me

Trying to get them to take a picture was harder than I thought

Finally! Look how great McKenna looks 1 day after surgery!

We took the puppies to go see the ducks

Chloe saw the ducks right away

These ducks were lame they didn't even come close to us

Happiness is this :)

Lovers

Not a fan of the ducks

Pretty Mommy!

Any time you go through a drive thru with the puppies you have to get them a water with no ice. Not kidding, they get mad if you don't. 

Precious 

Cooking Easter Dinner 

Poor thing! But she still looks great! 

Nana and the dog that always growls at me

Nana was such a trooper as well! We must have worn her out with all our escapades! 

Papa

Magic Kitty. Aka the devil

 During this fun filled weekend McKenna found out that she was hired to be an Anatomy lab T.A. and I couldn't be more proud of her!  She interviewed on Thursday night and had to teach for five minutes on a lesson that she prepared covering material on all the muscles, ligaments, bones, etc of the arm!  She is such a smart kid, and she of course knocked the interview out of the park! She aced her interview and was asked to start TAing in the fall! She went into lay down after dinner on Friday night and while she was asleep she got an email saying she was accepted to the be a T.A. When she read it is was so excited she came running, literally running/ wobbling down the hall. It scared us all half to death, I thought she was bleeding or having a heart attack she was so riled up. She was so cute and so excited that she started to cry.  She will be writing and grading quizzes and teaching all the anatomy students in the lab! Holy, smarty pants! Now do you understand why I'm convinced she was switched at birth? I am so proud of her and her new found love of the body and for teaching. She is going to be one heck of a teacher. She told me she is most excited to share her love of the body to all those that she will be teaching; how awesome is she?