Utah Food Bank

2 postings in 1 month! Can you believe it?? I'm trying! lol

I wanted to post some pictures of our Walker Family Christmas Party!! We had such a great time! We had our party at the Utah Food Bank. The Utah Food Bank provide 1300 hot meals EVERYDAY to kids in Elementary School who do not have food to go home to after school. On weekends, they provide those kids with backpacks full of food for the weekend. This is called The Backpack Program.

Our family did 2 things- we went and put together all the backpacks for the children to take home so they could eat over their Christmas Holiday and then as a family, we collected and bought things for 150 stockings so some of the children would have something for Christmas. It was a great experience!!

If you are ever looking for a volunteer opportunity, please go to The Utah Food Bank!! They ALWAYS need volunteers! Monday night is family night and you can call and arrange to take kids of all ages to volunteer. Everyother night they only want volunteers who are 12 yrs old and older.

Items for stockings

All the kids!

My cute mom, sister-in-law, and aunt.

My niece, Areeana.

My neice, Abee.

My cousin, Luke.

Long Time No See

Okay, Okay... I know it's been a long time! My sister keeps reminding me that I haven't updated my blog in a very long time. I am just going to post a few pictures showing what has been going on the last several months. I hope you all have a great Christmas!!!

This is our Christmas Card this year! My friend, Celeste, made them for us. They turned out so freaking cute!!
This is our Christmas Tree.

This is my really good friend, Adrian, and I. This year we decided to put together a Christmas Drive for The Road Home (the local homeless shelter) We had so many donations!! It was incredible to see and be apart of it!

This is my other really good friend, Sidney (Adrian's Sister). She helped us a lot and we couldn't of done it without her!!!

This is my office. This wasn't even a quarter of the donations!

Jay and I took his mom to the Transiberian Orchestra. It was amazing!! Loved it!

More Transiberian Orchestra

More Transiberian Orchestra- It was awesome!

Jay and I took his mom to temple square. Very pretty!

Doesn't get any more beautiful then that!

My mom had back surgery right before Thanksgiving! She is doing well and we are so glad that she can finally get back to normal! Hopefully no more pain!

This is my sister-in-lay and I. Before Thanksgiving, my office went bowling. Guess who won??? Yep, you're looking at her!! I was the best bowler of the group! Although I won the turkey, I wasn't about to touch it!! Thanks Hay for cooking it!!

The winner with her lucky ball!!

Jay's Birthday

We celebrated Jay's Birthday 2 Sunday's ago and had a party at my Parent's house. My friend's, Adam & Angie, made him the cutest cake ever, so I had to post the pictures!!! Jay LOVED it!!! He thought the cake was the only thing I had up my sleeve.... until I gave him his present. I made him a story book- which told him we were leaving the next morning for Disneyland!!! He was so surprised and couldn't believe it! I'll post the pictures of Disneyland when I get them on my computer!

Starting that Sunday and for the next 5 days, he just kept saying over and over and over "This is the best day of my life!!" I had to keep reminding him it was the 2nd best day of his life! haha We had the best trip ever!!!! Thanks to everyone for keeping it a secret for SO long! (even when the cat was let out of the bag several times... and he still didn't catch on)

The trailer is made out of cake. It was so cute!

This was the book I made.

Bragging Rights

So Jay and I's Anniversary was this last week and I wanted to take a mintue to brag about my wonderful husband! He bought me the most amazing flowers.... He is so sweet!! I love him so much! Even though I can get really frustrated with him at times, he loves me more than I could imagine and LOVES to be with me! He loves doing anything I am doing. I"m so lucky to be married to him forever and ever and ever and ever!

There were some really neat exotic flowers.

He had these three balloons put on the flowers... Jay was unemployed over Valentines and my Birthday so he was making up.... so cute!

This is a really cool flower that was in my bouquet.

Campin

We just got back from our Walker Family Reunion...... and boy, did we have a good time!!! We went to North Fork Park, which just a few miles away from Pineview Resevoir. We spent all day Friday at Pineview at it was a blast!! The only complaint I have about the weekend is the stupid stupid stupid racoons in the middle of the night! I slept in my parents 2 bedroom tent because Jay was not able to make it up until Saturday. The first night we woke up to animal noises-- they were in all of our stuff and growing threw the garbage- which was in a fire pit with a huge board covering it. They were strong enought to move the board!
It happened ALL night long. We kept making my dad get up and go check outside. At one point, I swear the stupid animal was either in our tent or right next to my head outside. I started freaking out and I made my dad trade me beds. I slept with my mom the rest of the time. The next night, they came back but we tried to stay calm. I kept telling myself "I was okay" over and over again. My mom and I decided to name the raccoon- Robby the Raccoon. We are laughing about it now, but it wasn't funny at the time.
Here are some pictures from our fun weekend!

This was the inside of our tent. My dad is so awesome! He made the best tent in the world! He brought carpet and laid it down and made a living room with chairs. It was sooo comfy! There are 2 rooms to the right of this picture- behind the blue and white chair.

Here is the front of the tent. He strung lights inside and outside of the tent.

This is my cute sister and me on the boat!

These are some of my cousins.

More family....

My aunt made "leaves" for each memeber of our family and hung them over the table area. We are each a memeber of our "family tree."

My freaking cute husband!

Over the 4th of July, my aunt took pictures of a body part on each member of our family. She made these posters and we had to guess who each part was. It was really cute and fun!

More cousins!

Thanks you uncle Layne for getting the boat and wave runners!

More cousins, Breanna, Anna, & Leah, sister-in-law, Haylee, and niece, Aree.

This is my cousin Devin and his wife, Lianne. He worked on the hole all day!

My niece Aree and cousin Leah.

Grandma & cousin Kira around the camp fire.

My way cute mom and cousins Travis & Leah.

Update on Garden Experience

So I thought I would show some pictures of our garden now that its been almost 2 months since we planted it. It is growing like crazy!!! And so are the weeds!! It is so exciting to see everything grow and know that I actually planted it. Jay says since we are doing so well at keeping the garden alive, we can probably handle some kids!! haha Although I have killed 5 cucumber plants at this point. We have one left and I'm trying so hard to keep it alive.

I can't thank my family enough for coming everyother week to help weed the garden! They certainly weren't expecting to help me so much!

This is the whole garden.
These are our first jalapenos.

That is our first zucchini.

This is the row of carrots.

These are all the tomato plants! There are 24 of them!!

Some tomatos.

This is one of the watermelon plants. They just barely starting growing

so they have a ways to go!

These are the pumpkin plants. I'm excited to have my nieces come

pick out some pumpkins when they are ready!

And this is the very first pumpkin! Who knew this could be so fun!