Temple Bar and the St. George Marathon

We had our annual Temple Bar Lake Trip and it was a blast of course. The only hitch was when Jason decided to put a 55 gallon drum full of gasoline in the back of the truck I was driving. Jason and Clay went down first to set up camp and I came late night after work towing the boat in Clays truck. When I got to the Dam check point they stopped me and told me I could only have a max 25 gallons of gas with me and that they wouldn't let me cross the Dam. So, with Benson asleep in the truck I proceeded to back track to Laughlin, around to almost Kingman, and back up to Temple Bar Marina. What should have been a 9pm to 10:30pm trip became 9pm to 1am! Oh well, we used all that gas. Didn't want to run out like last year! That's a whole-nother story. This trip was great and we had lots of family with us!

We also went up to Sand Hollow and Pine Valley for the St. George Marathon. We had a great trip out on the lake and the sand dunes and we'll just leave it at that. ;-) We have lot's of ix but we used someone else's camara. The pic at the bottom is Benson asleep on the boat with his cup of pretzels and one he's still dream eating on!

Summer Time

So here are a few updated pix of our sweet boy. He is now saying a lot of words. He can say please very well (he gets what he wants when he says please, that was an easy one to learn), and says thank you about half the time (if we gave him food we can forget about a thank you because now the food's in the mouth!). He says Doggie very well, and Daddie of course, and it's funny when he mixes the two up! Still loves a good wheel and "drives" anything that he's strong enough to push and gets made if he can't push it.

His birthday was a blast and i had a great time making him a whale cake and his own smash cake. I LOVE to cook and create things but working full time managing Allyse's Bridal and trying to be a good mom and wife leaves me about no time to do much creatively.

Work had been good and I love helping brides and other women find a great dress that they don't have to feel uncomfortable in or spend more money to alter something to make it modest. We have done a couple bridal shows and recently had our Homecoming 2009 Fashion Shows. I have a great group of girls working for me now and they are a BIG help and a relief. In June we also went to Orem for Fashion Camp with our Fashion Team girls and Benson got to ride his very first airplane. He loved it and was very well behaved. We had a great family vacation to Newport Beach and, the Ford girls favorite place, Disneyland. Lots of pix here to see. Sorry fam and friends for never being good at updating. I got an IPhone from Jason for my Bday so hopefully now I can update better and maybe facebook a little more!