The Last Days of Summer in Provo!

Roof top concert series with Caroline and Aaron followed by shaved ice - such a fun night!

Family day in Park City!

 
Eating at some of our favorite places!

 Sending Wade off to go home before his mission. I totally cried my eyes out after this picture was taken. We are going to miss Wade but are so happy for him!

 Playing at our neighborhood park on summer days!

 Splash pad...

 One of our favorite family outings! Riverwood's Friday night farmer's market and live music. 

 
Nectarine and milkshake lover!

Wonder where he gets that from...

 Yummy food at the Black Sheep Cafe with my girlfriends!

Last of many great girls nights in Provo.

Packing boxes with my little love.

Emily and I canned 41 quarts of peaches! 

Emily's mother-in-law was so nice to teach us! Love them!

Packing up the moving truck...

 Last family picture in our apartment!

Late night picnic dinner in the hotel room in St. George with these guys. They make anything fun.

We had so many happy memories in Provo and will definitely miss the time we lived by so many friends and family members. We arrived safely in San Diego and are excited for a new adventure in this chapter of our lives! 

Caroline's Baby Shower

last week I threw a baby shower for one of my very favorite people - Caroline! she is having a baby in January and doesn't know what she is having yet. but we all wanted to get together for party before both she and I move away from Provo! 

i love throwing parties, so an excuse to have one is always a treat for me. 

looking radiant and cute pregnant!

the menu: oven-roasted tomato caprese salad, creamy hot artichoke dip and chips, glazed asian meatballs, macarons, summer berry trifle, and cupcakes!

 ellen, caroline, and I. it was a great party! so fun to celebrate together :)

Best Friends Trip 2013

a few weeks ago my best friends and I all went on a little reunion trip to Jessica's parent's ranch in Coarsegold, CA (just outside of Yosemite). i feel like the luckiest girl around to have made such great friends at BYU. we all still keep in touch and it feels like we picked up right where we left off whenever we are together. i'm so grateful to have them all in my life! the trip was filled with tons of quality girl talk, good food, seeing country life on the ranch, and laughing until we cried.

there was a lot of hanging out by the pool and hot tubing at night. 

we all got to ride horses around Jess' ranch! it was amazing!

one night we had a surprise baby shower for Caroline!

one night we sang karaoke at the town's local bar - Alfanso's. hilarious! i have a new-found appreciation for all country songs about local small town bars now. 

absolutely gorgeous!

can we talk about their house for a minute? honestly a dream home.

the Veaters were so kind and treated us to a special dinner one of the nights!

 getting ice cream at the frosty.

antiquing in town!

 and of course we had to recreate some of pictures from freshman year... i don't even know...

i love all these ladies way too much! i need them in my life on a more regular basis. such a fun trip! thank you Veaters for hosting!

Sunday Dinners

While we've lived in Provo the past almost 2 years we've been lucky enough to have Nate's siblings Mike and Emily and my brother Wade here too! Almost every Sunday we get together with everyone for a Sunday feast. It has made for such great memories. Mike just left for optometry school in Houston, Wade is leaving on his mission to Brazil next week, Emily and Richard are moving to the Bay Area, and we are moving back to San Diego at the end of the month - so everyone is parting ways and moving on! But we are all glad we got to hang out so much while we were together. Scotty loves his aunts and uncles and loved getting all their attention every week. We will miss being so close to everyone! But we're excited about all the adventures everyone has in store.

Sunday dinners often concluded with walks around BYU campus... 

 And feeding the ducks! You have to be more creative with what to feed ducks when you eat gluten-free. No way I am feeding $7 loaves of bread to ducks. We'd like to think we expanded their palates with brown rice tortillas and corn chips.

Whitt Family in Provo

Last month my Mom came in town for a few days! It was such a treat to have her and we all had a great time. Wade is still at BYU for summer semester (leaving on his mission next week!) so she came in town to hang out with us and help Wade take care of a few things before his mission. Coincidentally my older brother and his family were in town the weekend my Mom was here too! So we had a little Whitt reunion of sorts. Ken is Scott's only cousin on my side of the family. I'm happy they got to meet

My brothers and I! We won't get another picture like this for at least a few years!

Reading books with Grandma. Scott loves my Mom and calls her both Grandma and the name he gave her when he couldn't pronounce her name "Gah".  One night she was putting Scott to bed and lifted him up and said "You're a really big boy!" Scott replied - "You're a really big Gah!" Such a silly boy.