Work and Play

Last saturday all my family got together at my parents house for our monthly family night and to work on my mom's dining table chairs. Last year for my mom's birthday while some of us were away in california the rest of my siblings secretly re-did my mom's kitchen including a new beautiful kitchen table and chairs. They unfortunately weren't able to finish stripping, sanding, and staining all the chairs so that was half of the purpose of this Saturday get-together.

As usual I ended up playing with the girls. I thought it would be a good idea to entertain the girls with bubbles outside... and it did ha. They loved it! But we all ended up with bubbles all over ourselves ha ha.

I had to put both of these pictures up because i thought Taya was so funny!

Brynlee got so excited about the bubbles! It was pretty cute.

Lexie was really good at making these huge bubbles

Matt was a good helper too

While we were playing hard, the boys were working hard in the back yard.

Taya just cracks me up! She loved these "pum-pums" :)

Shooting Stars

We had a busy, yet lots of fun few days a couple weekends ago. Friday night we went camping with a small group of friends up Willard Peak. That was the weekend of the meteor shower so we slept out under the stars! It was perfect minus the full moon making it difficult to see lots of shooting stars.

Our perfectly located camp spot

The wildflowers were incredible!

Our little group

View of Eden area

View of Mantua and Cache Valley

Saturday morning we woke up and drove down to WX to got to Lagoon with my parents and Matt for my dad's work lagoon day. It was super cheap so we couldn't pass up the opportunity. It turned out to be an extremely busy and HOT day, but still fun. Jeff hadn't been there in years and it'd been awhile for me too.

Birthday Weekend

Jeff turned 25 this last Sunday, so we had fun celebrating all weekend!

Saturday morning we went fishing at Mantua reservoir!

I caught a fish... just a baby ha ha.

Jeff caught one too! A little better.... ha ha

After fishing we came home and ate some yummy lunch and then went on our favorite type of adventure... Off-Roading! :)

There is this trail up Logan canyon that we LOVE and last time we went up there (a few weeks ago) there was still mud and SNOW blocking the road so we had to turn around.... This time we got farther, however the we eventually ran into a "road closed" sign due to some bad road damage.

It was SO beautiful up there! The wild flowers were incredible! I made a comment to Jeff about how we'd never been up there during the Spring, and he said "Well... actually it's summer" ha ha.

Presents!

Watching the Sunset on a roof

And finally Ice Cream... Cake...? Ha ha!

The "Wagners"

This last Sunday during sacrament meeting we were introduced as the "Wagners." Jeff smiled, and then whispered to me, "Get used to it." :) So I get to go from a name like Rau that everyone seems to struggle with, to Wegner where no one can seem to see that there is an "E" ha ha.

I just now (3 months later...) began the whole name changing process... ha ha. On Monday we went into the DMV to get my new license. I got my picture, smile was good, and everything was going ok. Until... I had to sign my name. After finishing the Jessica part I realized that I had to sign Wegner instead of Rau... ha. Most of the space was already taken up and I got flustered and kind of just scribbled it out... ha.

This is how it turned out....

Kinda' embarrassing... ha. But that is definitely "Wagner"! Ha ha Oooops! :)

For my last bit of news: Thursday was my last day at my practicum... it is Bitter-sweet. It's so nice to now be done with it and have a few weeks of a summer, but I am going to miss those little kiddos! It was a great experience for me and I learned a lot, and those children were adorable! But it is nice to be done. My other online class is pretty much done as well. I've just got a test next week and that's it for my summer semester! Wahoo!

Weekend O' Fun

This last weekend's Adventures left us worn out and sore on Sunday. It was very busy but fun-filled!

Friday Night: Preston Rodeo

We went with my Rodeo buddy and her husband Ryan. Julane was the first one to introduce me to rodeos, and I quickly fell in love with them. I think almost every single rodeo i've been to has been with Julane. Ha!

*We have known each other since 6th grade (or around there...), and have been best friends for Years! Ryan and her got married almost exactly a month after us! It has been so fun to be experiencing the same life stages together.* Sorry, brief side note....

Saturday Morning: Floating the Oneida River!

We had tons of fun floating down the Oneida Narrows saturday morning with a huge group of people. It was tons of fun!

Saturday Night: Rock Climbing

This is Jeff's nervous face... he is afraid of heights... (yes, it is ironic due to the fact that he flies planes thousands of feet above ground).

Jeff's coaches: Cory - One of Jeff's really good friends/old roommate who just got home from his mission, & Staci - One of my best friends/old roomie! We did a little rock climbing double date.

I felt bad because he was literally only about 5 feet off the ground and I was thinking "Come on Jeff, you're not even high!" But... it turns out heights get to me a as well... ha ha.

Harnessed up and ready to go! Don't be deceived by my happy faced... I was terrified before I even started.

Don't be deceived by this happy face either. I'm embarrassed to admit that I had my fare share of threatenings to quit, and we won't even talk about how long I was up there.... ha.

But the important thing is......

....that I Conquered that wall!! (Like an hour later.... he he)

Don't think that I hated every minute of this climb... it was challenging for me, but I decided that I actually really liked it (once I was back on the ground) :) It felt good to make it the top, especially when it was so hard for me.

Cute little Staci... Love this girl!

And then pretty much the two of them (Cory and Stace) seriously showed us wussies up by flying up this "beginner" wall in minutes ha ha. And did it hard core style. But seriously... Cory literally Jumped up this wall. It was neat.

What a Fun weekend! Thanks Cory, Staci, Darrell, Ryan, and Julane and everyone else who contributed to our fun-ness :) Looking forward to this weekend... It's Jeff's birthday on Sunday and I'm probably WAY more excited for it than he is! ha ha!