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Sunday, August 16, 2009

Boys,boys,boys....

Brandon's good friend Cody was in town visiting his fam. So Bran and Vaughn got to go hangout with them for a night! (I was hanging out with the girls on a girls night outing so I wasn't there.) Here's Bran and Cody: In case you can't tell from the next few pictures they are huge Laker Fans!!

Silly boys and their jerseys! After seeing Cody and Bran in there jerseys ALL the boys had to put their jerseys on too. Boys, boys, boys....

Friday, August 14, 2009

Demolition Derby!!

Here we are arriving at the demolition derby!! We thought it would be fun to take Vaughn since he LOVES cars!!


Here we are in the stadium checking out the cars waiting for the excitement to begin!



Heres where they bring out a few cars and you vote for your favorite! Vaughns fav was the shark car.. He is still talking about it to this day!!


Here they are starting the events with the anthem.

Here's Vaughn before the derby started:



After the first few hits I looked over at Vaughn and this is what he was doing:

He kept say " Cars noisey, cars noisy!"

Here's my dad enjoying the derby and my mom enduring the derby:


Man the cars get SOO smashed up!!
Me and Brooks!!








They were selling Lightsabers at the derby, of all things this is Vaughns favorite!! So my mom and dad just had to get him one!! Man after he got his lightsaber he no longer was interested in the derby! Oh well.


We had so much fun!!

Thursday, July 30, 2009

Goodbye Old Car...HELLO NEW CAR!!!

We decided we needed to get a new car since both our cars are 10 years old. So we heard about the "Cash for Clunkers" deal and decided to give it a whirl. So we traded in Brandon's Blazer and got 4,500.00 towards our NEW car!! Not too SHABBY!! Here's our finally day with Bran's Blazer:



Goodbye Blazer we'll miss you!! We had some good times!
Hello New Car!!! Here's our new car. We went and did a lot of test driving and getting mad at dealerships for being too pushy (one in particular). Hint: it's a Nissan dealer on Riverdale Road, their Honda dealership across and up the street isn't much better, we went to the Honda dealer twice to try the Accord and noone ever even came out to see us. At the unnamed Nissan dealer it felt like I was buying a used car at "Bob Schmuck's autorama"... So (off of the soap box now), we had it narrowed down between the Mazda 6 and the Nissan Altima. But the Nissan won over Bran's little heart (Despite our prior experiences) and we got this beauty from Christopher Nissan (Jerry Seiner) in Bountiful who were AMAZING and we recommend whole-heartedly:






We were so excited!! Bran's been taking care of it like its his baby! It has a lot of cool features. It's almost totally keyless. You just have to have "the key" on your person as you walk up to it and you can open the door!! or start the car!! So no more diggin' for my keys in my purse while carrying groceries and holding Vaughn's silly little paws!! Plus, it wont let you lock your keys in your car!! If the "key" is in the car when its locked it will just beep at you and unlock the car! NICE!! We probably looked silly to the dealership when we had to turn the car on and off a few times by pushing the button and giggling every time.. We don't get out much..

Bran and his baby!! Isn't he just the cutest!

Pioneer Day!

On the 24th of July we started the day out by going to the parade on Ogden. We sat by Matt's family who came down the day before to save seats. Thanks Guys! Here's Vaughn sitting in his chair waiting for the parade to come. Finally the parade started to come. It was funny to tell Vaughn to wave to the people he would wave with his hand out big and wave his arm around real hard.. It was sooo cute!
Here he is waving to the missionaries in the parade!


Vaughn and Papa!


Here are a few of Vaughns favorites from the parade. He thought these guys on the unicycle were funny.


He LOVED the tractors!!


And the "Doggie"!


He also really liked all the cars and the firetrucks!!


C'aunt Jen gave him this fan to play with and he had to lightsaber fight her with it then fan/hit her with it. (translation for C'aunt incase you don't know.. it is a cross between cousin and aunt.)



Heres part of our group that day. Theres Cant Jen, C'aunt Shiree, Alex, Shiree's sister and Vaughn.


Here's my cousins Rachel and Tyler.


Cute little Teagan and her Aunt Melinda!


Chad my cousin and his wife Tonya.


Dad and cousin Kyle

Vaughn liked all the horses we saw as we walked to and from the parade. So we stopped and took a picture by one.

After the parade we went to my Aunt Kelleys house for some lunch and fun!


Cousin in law Matt:



Cousin Stacy and Tyler:

Dad:


My cute boys!! Bran had to work that day (from home) so he went to lunch with us down at my Aunts house.

Cousin Christie:
Cousin Amy:

My cute Gandparents:



What a cute girl! Doesn't it make you want to have another one, Bran?!!!

After that we came home and took a nap we were tired! Whew! What a day!