Bonfire

We met up with Evan, Nicole, Steph & Rick for a bonfire up in the canyon. We fired up some hot dogs, talked and laughed lots, and of course made s'mores.

(Max looks like a little alien dog..)

Since we were up in the mountains, when it got darker, it got WAY colder. Max was shaking because he was so cold so we had to keep him bundeled up. He's so small!
This was our first (and maybe last) bonfire this summer. It'll probably be too cold next month to stand outside in the mountains at night.. oh man.

Tradition

Since most of the Sanford family works at APX, we've started a tradition of going out to lunch together every Friday. Stephanie and Oakley usually drive down and join us to complete our pack :) It's become something to look forward to at the end of each week, and I love it!

Enjoying the beautiful weather by eating outside at Iggy's


The boys reading an alcohol menu for the first time :)

We don't know how long this tradition will last since there will probably be a breaking point when some of us eventually won't work for APX anymore, but for now.. it's perfect ♥

Pioneer Day

We wanted to celebrate Pioneer Day by doing something fun so we decided to go to the Spanish Fork Carnival! It was nice since it's free to go and walk around.

We shopped around at all the cool booths set up, but our favorite thing was watching Oakley on the rides. She loved them!

Rick loved the rides too :)

There was this little bell on the boat that Oakley was ringing non-stop the whole ride-- so funny! Even the ride operator guy was laughing cuz she was so cute that we all couldn't help but laugh. She definitely adds a ton of fun to the family!

Oakley is so independent and wanted to walk by herself but there were a ton of people around so Rick was carrying her. She kept hitting him in the face and then giggling. (Of course after he would make a sad face she'd look at us and say "Aww Daddy sad")

Evan and Nicole met up with us and we all went out to eat at Ruby River Steakhouse after (yumm!) It was a perfect way to celebrate Pioneer Day!

Stephanie's 25th Birthday

We went to Lagoon for Stephanie's 25th Birthday! We stayed over in Herriman the night before her birthday, and we surprised her in the morning :) I had Rick put their Lagoon tickets in a bill envelope to disguise them so Steph wouldn't know where we were going. She kept telling Rick "I already paid this bill, why are you bringing it?" After a little prying, we had her open it & we were on our way to Lagoon!On the swings! (that we all got very sick after.. we had to take a break and go on the train ride so we could just sit for awhile til our stomachs went back to normal)The relaxing train ride to tour the park and see the animals (although most of the animals were hiding since it was an extremely hot day)We all shared this gigantic mug for the day and got free refills on soda as much as we wanted :)Are we married or what? We seriously always make the same facial expressionsThis ride was INSANE! I was literally shaking after because it's so fast (it brings you very, very high up & then straight down)! Such a rush!Rick tried many different games to try to win a huge stuffed animal for Oakley. Trevor joined in and tried to help win something too, but both the boys were unsuccessful.. dang it. Still fun to watch though :)

Happy Birthday Trevor!

Trevor's birthday is on the 4th of July (which is why they have fireworks, as he says) so we had a fun celebration for him!

Trevor has been talking about wanting a grill for a long time so I surprised him and bought him one for his 27th Birthday. The only downside was we had to assemble it ourselves (and when i say "we" I mean Nicolina and Tiara did all the work for literally 2 days straight-- me & Max were there for support of course) 54 pieces to go..(After a few hours, starting to go crazy..)

FINISHED! (finally! after 2 days)We had him open the grill (I wrapped it with a big blanket and huge bow on top) the afternoon of his birthday and then told him we were having a BBQ party for him! He was so excited :) I love surprising him!

The delicious food we had fun preparing-- the chocolate fountain was a big hitOakley loves to party with us!Nicolina made Trevor a Bumblebee Transformer cake! He was so insanely happy (and that's probably an understatement)!We all had fun hanging outUsing his new BBQ!I love that our families love each other!After our BBQ, we went to Tiara's apartment in Provo to watch fireworks on her balcony and then set off some of our ownHAPPY BIRTHDAY TREVOR!