Utah Part 3......Family reunion

On Sunday while we were in Utah we had a little family reunion with my Dad's side of the family. We drove up to Wyoming where my Dad's Aunt, Uncle and some cousins live. We had it at a nice park, and had a good time.

Ruth, my great aunt with my Dad
Connie (my dad's cousin) and my aunt Susan
The kids:
Max
Kate
Max and Kate
Max again (I love his smile!)

Kevin, (my cousin) Josh (2nd cousin) and Evan... well at least his head. :)

The Babies:

Malia

Sophie
Anya (Okay I guess she isn't a baby, but she is pretty cute!)
Regan


The cousins (2nd cousins) Natalie, Kate, Me, Maddie & max)

Cousins: My dad, Aunt Susan, Bruce, Connie, and my aunt Jean
More fun faces:

My uncle Dave

My cousin Jeff, His baby Regan, and his wife Shelly
My cousin Brad and his wife Stephanie
On the right is my cousin Emily and baby Sophie, and next to her is her husband Josh. (Anya not pictured)
Susan and Kate

Ruth talking to my aunt Jean and Cousin Christie
My uncle Mark and cousin Christie
Connie and Jean
Jimmy (Ruth's Husband) and Dave
I love this picture of Ruth pointing at my cousin Brad!
I also loved this picture of Ruth, Susan & Jean laughing
Susan, Ruth, Nicea(my cousin) and Natalie
Regan and My cousin Jeff
Malia

The family! (Missing: Trent who is taking the picture)

After the reunion we took a stop at the cemetery where some of the Hartzell family is burried. This is my Grandma and Grandpa's grave.

The lilacs there were beautiful!

It was a "Sweet" day!
(Kate eating ice cream). This should be my last post about Utah, so look soon for more posts of my pictures and can you guess what.....? Cupcakes! :)

Sweet tooth fairy bakery

Before we went to Utah I planed out something that I really wanted to do while I was there. On Nie Nie's blog she had wrote about the sweet tooth fairy bakery before and how yummy it was. She even has a cupcake named after her. So I got the address and on the Saturday we were in Utah we went!


What you see when you first walk in
My mom, my cousin Josh, and Evan
The cake bites were really yummy! They had so many flavors.
More yummy stuff and the two girls that worked there. They were so nice when I told them we were from San Diego and they let me take pictures of everything.
More cupcakes! It took us SO long to choose.

The bakery was decorated so cute Does this cupcake just look amazing or what? I got it and it was!
See in the top right hand corner Nie Nie's cupcake? It's called VaNIElla. I tried a sample and it was good!
They have lots of yummy stuff you can buy!

Me with the cupcakes! Okay see the shirt I'm wearing? That is a "Sweet tooth fairy" shirt. I bought it while I was there. And the girls there let me try it on before buying it and they let me go in the back to try it on.... that is in the back of the bakery, where they make all the cupcakes! So I got to go back there twice and while I was trying on the shirt I was looking at like everything. It was really exciting especially since I love making cupcakes, and not everyone gets to see where they make the cupcakes, frosting and treats! It was pretty cool to see all that!

Me in front of the bakery


The cupcakes we got were.... (sorry about the blurry picture)
Cookies and cream, red velvet (I got that one), strawberry lemonade (uh, yeah I got that one too, ha ha), and coconut. Not pictured : Evan's mint cupcake called grasshopper, Aaron and his roommates cupcakes (Chocolate peanut butter and Strawberry shortcake) and the two free cupcakes we got for my dad and my uncle since they gave us free cupcakes because the next day was fathers day!

So if you live in Utah or are visiting you should go there! It's in Provo, not to pricey and REALLY yummy! We went there the next Monday because we had to... it's so good! :)

Utah... Part 1 (Friday)

Last week we went up to Utah for a few reasons. The main one was that we were taking my brother Aaron up to collage at BYU! We got there on Thursday evening and started doing everything on Friday! He is starting summer semester and is in helaman halls. His hall is called budge halls.


My dad, My mom, and brother Evan with the "budge" sign. (Evan found a piece of wood that looked like a Y and put it after the word budge to make it say Budgie/budge, .... get it another named for a parakeet? Yes I know he spelled it wrong.)
Aaron with his new bed!
Aaron with his closet
Aaron's desk and closet
Here is a bigger view of it all
This is Josh, Aaron's roommate and good friend. We are really good friends with his whole family and have known them for a long time!
They even get a mini refrigerator! :)
Then we ate Pier 49 pizza, which we always eat when we come to Utah because it's so good!
And then I had this amazing idea to go find Aaron's bike among all the other bikes and take this picture to send to him.......
But he spoiled my surprise while finding me on his way out of the dorms!!! He saw me on his bike and thought that was funny. :)

On our way home we saw all this water coming out... and we had to take a picture of it!
Our last stop was at the BYU creamery! It was SO good. The two ice cream scoops I got were toffee & Raspberries and cream cheese. It was so yummy! Have you been there before??? What is your favorite flavor?

As You Like It!

Last month our Shakespeare class performed "As you like it" obviously by Shakespeare. We had been training for 8 months (Some of us for longer like 2 years) to do a play and we did it! It was a very busy/fun experience. My mom directed it and my Aunt produced it. We have awesome coustumes and a really fun "Island theme" that worked perfect! Here are some pictures! They are mostly in order of the play. I didn't do a great job explaining the play either (I wasn't really trying) so if you havn't seen As you like it before you should!

Natalie (Rosalind) Me, (Celia)
Me & Libby (Madam LeBou)

Natalie, Me, Sofi (Touchstone) and Libby. (They are sisters.... In real life not the play!)

Me, Natalie & Megan (Captain Freda)
Me & Natalie planing to Run away
Best friends, and cousins!
Now on the Island. As you can see Celia (pretending to be Aliena) was unhappy/tired.
Rosalind (Pretending to be Ganymede) & Touchstone were feeling the same!
But things turned out alright!

Aliena reading a love note found on a tree for Rosalind
Rosiland (Pretending to be Ganymede) jokes with me.
Talking about the love note
In this scene we are at the beach!

Here I am sitting on a rock....

And then Celia (Pretending to be Aliena) falls in love............
And then Ganymede faints after seeing a bloody napkin from her love (not pictured)
And we show who we really (Ganymede is really Rosalind... And Aliana is really Celia!) And we get married!
We dance.............
We limbo...............
THE END!!

You should know (if you don't already know) that I skipped a LOT of stuff and there were a LOT of other people I didn't put pictures of. Thank you to Aaron for the great pictures!!