Oquirrh Mountain Temple open house

This summer has been fun going to two Temple open houses. The Oquirrh Temple is a lot like the Draper Temple. It was standing in the middle of no where and was beautiful to see.

Angel Moroni was struck by lightning and when this happen there were cars and cars full of people driving by to see what the lightning did to Moroni. His face, arm and horn were burnt black. I tried to zoom in as close as I could. It was cool to see!

Launi, Ryan & Em, Am & Bridger and Lee on the end. We all went into the tent to watch a dvd of the temple.

Am's best little buddy, Bridger.

When we came out of the Temple it was dark. The Temple was so pretty all lit up and looking out in the valley to see the veiw was breath taking. You could see the Draper Temple on the mountain.

Em, Ryan and Bridger Porter

Em & Am

I was having fun with my camera and the fountains. They would of been sharper if I had my tripod but they aren't that bad. It was fun trying but the water behind Am is totally blown out!

                                                                                                  

The fountains were so pretty at night.

Our adventure to IKEA again for the second time!

Okay for any of you that know me I am never afraid to do anything and think NO problem we can do that. So Am and I went down to IKEA again for her head/foot board finally came in and we needed to complete her bedroom set. We get down there and it's in Draper for those of you who do not know where this AWESOME place is.  When we get the queen size set bought we come out and ah... well it does not quite fit in my car! SO we see the bin of rope and so we get this bright idea to tie it to the top. We really are not THAT far away from home right? So we lay down cardboard on the top

so I do not scratch my new car. Now the place is closed and the employee's are coming out looking at us like huh? SO I never let anything stop me and so I get this head/foot board tied to the top and the side boards are not hanging out too far out the back. Am called her good friend CshaNel to see if her and her husband could bring her truck over for they only live 20 mins away and they said sure! But by the time they got there I had it all secured down and we were on our way!
Well as you know we are at the point of the mountain the wind blows a lot and so here we are on the freeway with the wind blowing this BOX up and I think at one time we were flying!! ha ha
Then I decided that we better pull off and go on Main St so we could avoid this box from flying into someones car. So Am and I dragged  Main St from 9000 So to Beck St and from Beck St, get on Main St again in Bountiful until we took 500 S exit. It only took us one hour to get home. But in the mean time the box broke my antenna and well we just could not wait to tell Mike about this. It ended up costing $23 to buy the part and Mike put on the new one.
Anyways that is the rest of the story!

IKEA here we come!

Ambree put her old bed set for sale on KSL.com.
We sold the set in 30 min. This cute little 3 year
old boy parents bought it for him to have for
his big boy bed. So we took the money down
to IKEA and bought her a new dresser drawers
and two end stands.























IKEA's stuff is pretty easy to put together
and well Mike did not think that we could
do it...

and we did it! We watched Father of the Bride 1 and 2 while

we put them all together.

Here is the finished products!

Ambree's midnight ride on Antelope Island

Here is the people that Ambree works with and a friend of
Dr Eggert. Dr Eggert paid for all of the ones that wanted to
join in the fun. He put everyone’s bike on the back of his car.
They went 24 miles from the Marina to the Ranch and
back! Way to go guys.

Fireworks for the Fourth

I thought this was really cool with the full moon! This would
of been better if I had a tripod.

We laid our blankets out early so we could all reunite to
listen to the concert at Layton park and then watch the
fireworks after.

Ambree and her friend Madison before the concert.

4th of July

Grandma playing Phase 10























Andrea and Am in the background

Grandpa watching us play the game

Mike swinging and Amanda and Amber playing as well

Aimee looking real excited

At grandma's we all love to play games!

Fourth of July Parade

Here is Spencer Nalder a cousin. He decided to die his hair black, not to bad.























Ambree, Emmy Sue and Gracie. She loves these kids























Ryker watching the fire trucks.























Emmy Sue























Sweet Ben holding his hand on his heart. Isn't that cute?























Gracie waving at the fire trucks for last year she fell off a ride and broke her leg and was in a body cast. She remembered them.























The fire dog giving Ben a high five. .























I love catching emotion. Here Jen & Gracie are watching the parade.























Here is a great friend Shelley Owens she plays in two bands.























Here is Mathew Dean, the one in the middle. Shelley talked him into playing for they were short on some band people. He is in our ward as well.























Emmy Sue playing with her flag























Ryker and grandma with his flag.























Ryker not sure about what he was seeing!























Gracie, our human flag pole.























The whole gang. We have so much fun with this family. We were on our way to the parade and ended up finding the Nalders and the Noyes family which are like nephews and nieces to me!















Riley Nalder

Kicking off the month of July

To kick off the month of July my dad's singing group "Men of Song" is always asked to sing at the Layton Amphitheater to get everyone in the mood for the 4th of July. It is always a nice concert. Here they are waiting their turn.

My dad loves to sing and he has been in this group for several years.

The song that they are singing here is a tribute to all the arms forces and as they sing the theme songs the people in the audience are to stand and wave their hands. This song always brings tears to my eyes for I am very patriodic and these service men and women have done a lot for our country. It is fun to beable to cheer for the one that served in the wars!

Here is the whole group of performers singing the finale song.

Ambree and her grandpa. He loves to tease her.

Well, I was trying not to close my eyes for in almost every picture they are closed. Obviously they are not closed!