Garden and Lavendar Days

This is our first tomato from our garden!!! It was a little deformed but tasted so so good!!! It was fun to go out to the garden and just pick it!! I can't wait until I have more!!!!
This is our garden!! We have about 10 tomato plants, a billion cucumber and a billion yellow squash plants, about 8 watermelon plants and some strawberries!! It's so neat to watch them grow!! I didn't think it would really grow!! It is so exciting!!!
We went on a field trip to Young Living Farms with the school to learn about essential oils!! We had a neat tour and rode on a carriage thing pulled by two HUGE horses that were beautiful!! It was really neat!! They also have a few different animals!! This one is called a zonkey!! It's a zebra and donkey mixed so it is brown and white instead of black and white!! Pretty cool!! They had camels, pigme goats, bison, and some other neat animals!!

Brad and Staci

Brad and Staci got sealed in the Provo Temple!!! It was a gorgeous day and everything was perfect!! We are so happy for them!!!! There is nothing better than a family member getting sealed for time and eternity!! It was so neat!!

I love the Provo Temple!! It has such a gorgeous view too!!! I love my sweetheart so much!!

Birthdays!!

I am so far behind!! Mike's birthday was the 25th and mine was the 28th!! We had a fun but busy week!! It was the same week as our anniversary and the bbq!! For Mike's birthday I went to his work with a HUGE bouquet of balloons and a bag of goodies and a cool cake!! I forgot to take picts but it was so neat!! When he got home we went to the batting cages and then had his favorite dinner (tuna tetrazzini- yuck!!) It was fun!! For my birthday Mike got me the pair of chacos I've wanted for months!! I LOVE them!! He took care of a lot of things for the bbq so I wouldn't worry when I got off work!! He is so amazing!! I love him so much!!
This is Mike and I at the bbq (p.s. thanks everyone for coming!! It was fun and so good to see you all!!!) My mom was so sweet and brought a birthday cake for us!! Still can't turn picts!

4th of July Weekend

Mike and I went to Logan for the 4th of July weekend!! We had lots of fun with everyone there! Kathleen, Liam, Collin, Melissa, Nate, Tyler, Dylan, Mom, Dad, Ali, and us were all there!! The cruise in was going on then too so we all rode bikes down and dad acted like he was back in his college days!!! It was fun! Dad and I ended up going back that night to hear Stix play!! It was awesome!! Dad had a blast!!!
When we first got there dad was making this shed/tree fort!! Liam called papa from China and asked if they could build one when he came!! So we started to work on it!! I helped with a couple of the walls!! The boys are so excited for it to be done!!!
We lit fireworks- well Mike did!!! He's my little pyro!! These are my two cute nephews, Tyler and Liam, plugging their ears!! It didn't seem to matter if the firework made any noise or not their ears were always plugged!! I love them too much!!!
Mike was in charge of all the big fireworks!! I was in charge of all the sparklers!! There were way too many fireworks for 4 teeny tiny boys!!! But not enough for my boy!!!:)
Here is proof that there were too many fireworks- if there's such a thing!!! All the boys and parents were more than ready for bed by the end!!!
The next day mom, Ali, and I all went swimming while the boys went to the car show!! I forgot my camera though!! It was a fun trip!!!

Give it up!!!

I think my blog looks pretty cute!! I can NOT take the credit for it though!! My wonderful sister did it for me!! She is amazing!! She loves doing those kinds of things and is so great at them!!! If you want a blog lift then she can do it for you!!! Her email is: melissamer@gmail.com! You can also check out her blog to see some others she has done: memyboys.blogspot.com
She charges $10 to create it and $5 to put it on your blog.

GET TOGETHER!!

Ok. So this is very short notice I know but I just barely got the brilliant idea of posting this on my blog!! Since we got our house we have been wanting to have a "house warming party" but without the house warming gift thing. So we want to invite all of you to our house this Saturday the 28th at 6:30. We will be having a BBQ and we will be providing the meat and stuff. If you could bring a side (salad, chips, drink, dessert) and a lawn chair that would be fabulous!! We would love to see you ALL there!! If you need our address you can email us: mkdraper@gmail.com Hope to see you all very soon!!!

Our Anniversary

Today was our 3 year anniversary!! It was wonderful!! Mike went to work and I stayed home and thought for a few hours what I could do for him. I thought and thought and finally I decided to make a slideshow for him of the past years together! But of course my computer didn't want to cooperate. So I called apple care and a nice guy helped me get it up and running!! I had 30 minutes to put it all together!! Thank goodness for MACs!!! It only took 30 minutes and it put it to music for me and everything! It was great and even made me cry while we were watching it!! I left a mess because I was running late for work and so after work I ran home really fast to pick it up before Mike got home. When I walked in the door it was clean. I thought uhoh! Mike was in the kitchen making a gourmet dinner for us!! He also bought me one of my FAVORITE movies- Enchanted!! We ate dinner and watched that movie!! What a great movie to watch on your anniversary because it talked about having a happily ever after!! Even though Mike, more than likely, will not read this I am so grateful for such a wonderful man!! It has been 3 amazingly wonderful and as Mike put it "so easy" years!! I fall in love with him more and more each day!! I love you so much babe!

I give up!!

That's right. I give up trying to do my own background and I was sick at looking at the plain boring white!! So, I went to good old trusty pyzam and got me a free one!! It will do! I got all my side things erased in the process so if I forgot to add you back onto my list PLEASE let me know!! I don't want to forget anyone!!

Work in progress

Ok. I promise my blog isn't going to be so boring and white forever! I am working on a background and obviously I'm not very good at it.

Ariel

You Are Ariel!

Headstrong and fiesty. You have a mind of your own that's full of romantic dreams about the world around you. Exploring exotic places is your ultimate dream, and although you can be a little naive you'll realize that there is something to be gained from your family's wisdom.

Which Disney Princess Are You?
That is funny because it is so true!! Just ask Mike and my family!!!

Dylan's One

Those of you who don't know me very well...I do not have any children of my own!! Although it may seem like I have some dang cute boys, they are not mine. I wish they were but I they are my nephews!! But I love them like they were my own!! Dylan turned one today!! I don't want this little guy to ever grow up!! He is still such a little baby and he enjoys being a baby and is in no hurry to grow up and that makes me happy!! He had a birthday party in Logan and we had so much fun!! There are so many pictures that I had to choose from but I finally chose some of my favorites!! He is so so sweet and loves to be held (most of the time)!! He likes to torment his big brother and then give a smile that melts your heart!! He is so much fun and I love him so much! Happy 1st Birthday Dylan!!

Dylan sure loved his cupcake!! He did not hesitate once with it!! He wanted to touch the fire and ate every last bite!!!

Tyler was such a good helper!! He was not happy that none of the toys were for him though!! Mike had lots of fun playing with Dylan too!!


And I will take this opportunity to put some picts of my other favorite people!! Jen, my dad, and Mike!!! I am so blessed to have great people in my life!!

The Aquarium

On Wednesdays I don't work until 4 so I called Melissa and we decided to go for a picnic and to the aquarium!! We had a fun picnic with sandwiches and watermelon!! I love this time of year because all the fruit!! We went into the aquarium and Tyler loved showing me everything and explaining everything to me!! This was their second time there so he thought he was pretty
smart!! He loved everything and couldn't get enough of it!! He now wants a pet shark!! We had such a fun day!! Dylan had a blast too!! I don't know if he knew what he was looking at all the time!! He loved the jelly fish!! They change the color of lights on them so it looks like they are changing colors and they move so gracefully!! He thought they were pretty neat!

I love these boys so much!!!!! They are two super cute boys and I love them to pieces!! They make me so happy! I love the enthusiasm they have for everything in life!!