Summer

This post is a big mash-up of all the summer fun we have been having. In fact, we have been so busy making the most of it, that we haven't had time to do a proper blog post :)

There have been two major themes for Marcia and Bryce this summer: Soccer and Mountain Biking. Any given day of the week, it would be a safe bet that there is a mountain bike on the back of one car and soccer gear in the other. And on some special days, we may have it all crammed in together.

Danica and her kids came to visit and we went with them and Marybeth's kids to Dairy Days at Thanksgiving Point. We made butter and ice cream, rode horse carriages, had free ice cream and chocolate milk and Sam rode a pony. Then, Jaime and her kids join us too. The kids loved it!




For Jaime's birthday, Jake got a place in Park City and we had a girls night out. Hot tub, games, chick flicks, pedicure and the next day shopping at the Outlet mall. It was a lot of fun!
Ethan, Sam, Lucas, Abby and Jade. Since we just moved, we are really going to miss our neighbors. Sam couldn't stand to be inside if Abby and Ethan were outside. We are sad to not live next to the Kimballs anymore :(
Here at our new house, we don't have any grass, just stiff weeds, so when we play outside it has to be on the cement or at somebody else's house. Here is Sam, Lucas, Josh and Dekker playing with the water in our driveway.
This is the Hogan family reunion at Heber girls' camp. We had dinner, roasted marshmallows, spent the night at the cabin and had a delicious breakfast the next morning. It is great to do these get-togethers with Bryce's side of the family. Sam especially likes to play with Eli.
Here is Great-Grandpa Hogan, playing with Lucas.

On our way to the pool on Pioneer day we saw the firemen spraying foam into a field. It looked fun so we joined in. It was a celebration for Foam day, whatever that is.
Ero and Sebastiao, our ward friends celebrated their 35th anniversary and we had a really fun Brazilian Barbeque at our house.
Mountain Biking up American Fork canyon. What a beautiful place!
July Girls Night Out with the Brazilian girls. We went to a Japanese restaurant. The food was delicious and we had a lot of fun!
Marcia: My friend Denae invited me to join an indoor soccer team and now I'm is addicted to it. Our team was the champion of the season, so we all got a "Champion T-shirt". Sometimes I play 3 games a week!


Here is Bryce and Andy in the middle of a grueling, difficult 3.5 hour bike ride all over the Wasatch Mountains.
We had a ward picnic and I got to play tennis, volleyball while Bryce and Austin played monkey in the middle with the men.

Bryce playing indoor soccer again. Hopefully no more accidents and surgeries.
Since our church doesn't start until 1pm we go to the park every Sunday with the kids. We have an awesome park by our house with tennis courts, sand volleyball courts and baseball fields.

Whew! Its been hard to keep up with us this summer, but now you can get a glimpse into the fun we are having!

Speaking at InsideRIA conference in San Jose

I've been accepted to speak at the insideRIA conference put on by O'Reilly. You can get more info here:

http://training.oreilly.com/insideria/?CMP=BAC-orm_riaconf_insideria#sessions
and
http://www.insideriacon.com/

If you are a geek or if you really like me, you should come.

Trip to California

For our Christmas present, Mark and Tracy flew us out to California. We stayed at a beautiful condo. We played ping pong, tennis, cards, hung on the beach, and went to Sea World and Legoland. Thank you for the really fun Christmas present!

Memorial Day fun

Here are some pics of our busy memorial day. We didn't do anything like yard work, we only played around.

First of all, we took out the canoe on the little pond by our house
Then we played tennis with Dustin and Sue
Sam found this piece of styrofoam and had a blast playing "magic carpet" with it. I love this picture :)
Then Jake and Jamie took us out on their boat.

Afterwords we went back to Jake's house and had a bbq. It was a great day.

My Birthday and "Before and After" Pictures

This year for my birthday, Bryce got me a kitchen island and a mountain bike.
Since the kitchen island came without the countertop it was a good excuse to get granite countertops for the whole kitchen. And since we were getting new countertops it was a good excuse to paint the cabinets and put handles on them. And one thing led to the other and we got a new 8 inch deep sink and a new faucet.Also we stained our table.
I love "before" and "after" pictures. I love to see the difference between how it was and how it is after you do something to it.
Kitchen Before:

After:


Table Before:

After:


So since I'm showing pictures of the kitchen here are some pictures of Sam's room where we also changed a few things:
Sam's room before:

Sam's bed and dresser before painting:

After:

Fail Picture

If you haven't seen the fail blog, go look at http://failblog.org/. A buddy took this of my car today.

6th anniversary

For our 6th anniversary, Bryce took me to a bed and breakfast in Salt Lake. 

We went to a Middle Eastern restaurant and it was really good. That was our first time trying Lebanese food and we enjoyed it a lot. After dinner, we had ice cream at Maggie Moose and went to the movies.