All Natural!!

Yup...No more spending a ton of money on bleach jobs anymore! My amazing friend, Dena did my hair on Friday. I'm going back to my roots...get it?!..roots! Ha ha (wipe tear).

CALI TRIP...finally!

So we hopped in the car and headed back home to good 'ol California for a little sunshine. The drive went well and we had a blast visiting with old friends and family. Then we spent our last 4 days there camping in Mission Bay, San Diego with Jacob's family. It was such a wonderful vacation!

While traveling down to Cali with my sister, Melissa and her gang in tow, we ran into my step-sista, Jenafer and her hubby, Dave at In 'n Out! How Random!

Water Park in Corona with Violet & Melonie after meeting up with Dottie at Violet's house.

Visiting Jacob's Grandparents. :)

Got to see Memory too!

Girl's night at my sister, Crystal's house! I even got to see my beloved Aunt Edith and Uncle James. I love listening to her stories.

We even got to meet up with Dave and Wendy for dinner!

Me and my bros. I didn't get to see John :( I should have made him come to girl's night with his wifey. Mission Bay, San Diego. Tomseth Family Reunion. :)

MY NEW POT RACK!!

My amazing husband made me the best gift EVER for our upcoming anniversary on the 25th of this month. He made me a beautiful, modern POT RACK!!!! It looks SO amazing in my kitchen. The wood and the black metal match the kitchen perfectly. He even put lights in it to make it just over the top! I am so glad that he got that welder earlier this year! And he did all of this in less than 3 days! I'm telling you, when he gets started on a project, there is no stopping him. Now all I need is a new set of pretty pots! :) Here are some pics of it along with all the other amazing projects that Jacob has done to make our house a home. The Concrete Floors!

This is the truest to color that I'm gonna get with my camera...

The Beams that Jacob put in the basement...

The awesome faux Granite table that Jacob made for me ...

4th of July Fun 2009!

The day consisted of:

*The Provo Parade (which my brother, Quinn was in with his bag-pipe band represenin' our Scottish herritage!)

*Picnic Lunch (with the BEST chicken salad, thank you very much!)

*Rafting down the Provo River (FREEZING!)

*Fun with Cousins

*BBQ and Fireworks at my brother, Scott's house. (Thanks sis for the AWESOME dinner!)

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I LOVE good FOOD.

I LOVE my FAMILY.

I LOVE my FREEDOM.

I LOVE this COUNRTY.

Jacob hit the BIG 3-0!!!!

Yup, Jacob is finally 30! He said that he actually really felt this birthday. He had a hard time wrapping his head around the fact that he is no longer in his 20's. :) I got him a GPS system, made him a cake and threw him a suprise B-Day party with a ton of our closest friends. The party was a TON of fun. We had a Luau theme. I made pulled pork sandwiches, roasted potatoes, corn on the cob, watermellon, pineapple, ect. Of course, no Luau is complete without a proper "Roast"...comedy central style, that is! A bunch of our friends prepared "Roast" speeches to give to the old geezer. We were dying laughing. Then we had a special preformance from one of Jacob's closest friends, Rich. I asked him to sing "Brett, you've got it going on" from Fight of the Concohrds (You Tube it!!)...you know, to make him feel better about turning 30. :) Except, of course he changed the name from Brett to Jacob. It was hillarious! He's from Australia so his accent made it even better! (Flight of the Concohrds are from New Zeland) Rich even went the extra mile and sang a second 'Flight of the Conchords' song about how "Jacob and I met". The song was called "The most beautiful girl". SO funny! Then we had an "Explination of the Cake" and all dug into it. (Explination can be found on http://www.whitmansugarmammas.blogspot.com/) I had even made a poster listing random facts, headlines and cost of living from WAY back in 1979 and posted it on the fence. :) Jacob loves random trivia. :) After that, we all headed down to the basement to watch the hillarious video that my friend, Phil helped me put together. It was basically a "Dateline Special Report" of Jacob's life...with some fiction added in. :) What a fun night. Thank you to everyone who came and a HUGE thank you to everyone that helped out! Happy Birthday honey! I love you more than anything!

Relay for Life...

My beautiful sister-in-law was part of a huge "Relay for Life" Cure for Cancer event down in Payson, UT this past weekend. It was a 12 hour run/walk from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. We stayed up all night running, walking, resting, eating and talking. They had live entertainment and we even performed a little skit. Speaking of the entertainment...David Fritch performed and he was amazing! He sang some Josh Grobin (sp?) , Andrea Bochelli and some other pop and theatre songs. Here's a link to his website. www.davidjamesfritch.com. He's very new but mark my words: He's gonna be big.

Thanks sis, for the opportunity! (This is me and my bro, Scott right before the "race". )

(This is me at about 5 in the morning!)

Kindergarten Birthday Bash

Lizzy graduated Kindergarten...and they had and end of the year party and birthday bash to celebrate everyone's b-day...

So I made a little CAKE...and all the children cheered...and we had fun...

GARDENING...

CONDUCTING SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS...

and then EATING the CAKE.

Yeah, it was a fun day.