she went to the temple and then she got married

this last weekend was our last in Roseville, CA!

it's a bittersweet time :)

ha, but for our last weekend of funnes in CA we were able to go to a close friend of mines wedding reception!

dearest andy seibert balsteadt!

she was andy the lifeguard at AG last summer

and now she's mrs. andy the wife!

we figured out her reception was only like a 2 hour drive so we decided to boogie on up!

so glad we got the chance!

it was fun to experience that part of cali,

a rural-country-hick-town part of cali :)

talk about the country!

ha! but it was a beautiful drive, a cute town (sonora), and a beautiful wedding day for her!

i'm so incredibly excited for her and glad to have another one of my friends joining the married club!

they're off to kuai! lucky gooses! i know they'll love all aspects of this weeks ;)

chocolate for breakfast

remember how casey and i love cereal?

ya, like we do a lot.

the only thing i don't do for cereal is when it gets too sugarey.

 Kimber! too sugary!? what in the heck does that mean?!

yes, that's what i said, too sugarey,

i don't do chocolate for breakfast

i.e.

  they were on sale.

casey was ecstatic.

haha, love that guy

free!!

no casey and i are not free from work yet, but

there is a free picaboo book offer online!

go check it out!

it's like the canvas-picture offer i told everyone about a few months ago where you pay shipping and handling.

you make/order a 20 page picture book that you design!

way cool, do it, offer ends i think at the end of the month :)

Sacajawea Jump!

well they did it! 

they did the sacajawea jump for an incentive this summer and it was a hoot!

for those not accustomed to summer sales programs- the management does "incentives" all summer long (daily, weekly, monthly etc) to get the guys excited and motivated to sell. we had a bunch during the month of July, one of which was if the office services their best month they got to do Sacajawea Jump! the Sacajawea Jump is where they put a whole lot of quarters and Sacajawea coins in a pool and then, in utter chaos, everyone jumps in to get as much money as they can! pretty savage and funny :) in total this year the pool held $500 in quarters and $200 in Sacajawea coins! cerrrazy!

 

I was casey's number 1 fan on the edge of the pool (of course!:) and it was fun to watch him and be there, I had heard about it before but never gotten to see it!

 

  look really close! you can start to see the plethora of coins in the pool!

you would not believe how many coins it really is! the search went on forever! it did not help that it was a night time and there was like a 7 feet deep end! the deep end was where all the Sacajawea coins were so that's where casey went the whole time- that savage! ha!

 some of the savages

casey was like a little kid on christmas day getting to finally get home and count it all!!

 

good news! work is ending a week earlier than we planned! YESSSSS!!!! (imagine that being said with the most enthusiasm ever, raising your arms in the air, head tilted back and screaming for joy!) can you tell we're excited?

 

the woodruff key

****warning picture overload****

what a family reunion!

the serge woodruff family minus a few
my dad's side (his brothers and sisters and 2 cousins) get together every 2 yearsish for a family reunion and it's just the best!

this year a large cabin was found at Bear Lake (northern utah/south idaho=beautiful!)

it had 14 bedrooms with multiple beds in each room!

 so much fun!

lots of great activities were planned,

most were able to attend (we missed those who couldn't come!!!),

lots of yummy food was prepared and eaten (thanks to Amanda!),

lots of babies to play with,

lots of pictures,

just lots of pure fun!

we got up to utah a day early to play with cute little abby(7 1/2 months)!!!

she's crawling and oobber cute!

we then met up with logan and blair for a sec at the logan temple on our way up!

we were so excited to play with annalee (2 years) and phoebe (3ish months)!!

once we all finally arrived at the reunion and got everything set up we hung out, caught up on each other, ate, played the game "do you love your neighbor" and just had fun together!
the next day we played even harder!
the fun included steal the bacon, volleyball, ultimate frisbee, and other fun games!

and we had a fun water balloon toss in the field

and of course an awesome slip-n-slide!
we had tricks and trains
big and small kiddos too!

and more games!
we played the newlywed game thanks to aunt sue (casey and i may have won by chance)
and casey and i brought up the wii game just dance which was epic!

my cousin suzie taught us how to make these super cute headbands!
and played with all these cute girls!

casey and i did a bunch of the little kid games!
duck duck goose, red light green light, what time is it mr fox,
and at the end was a super duper totally awesome treasure hunt!

bear lake is also very well known for their raspberry shakes and we were lucky enough to be there on the weekend of their "raspberry days!" (it's like the town festival) such fun to all be together!

my immediate little family decided to take a little rendezvous to bear lake and try out the water-
fyi- if you ever try to go the beach at bear lake good luck! the whole beach is all private access or it's $5 per car load in a few areas!
we were lucky enough to find a private access where the owners let us walk through the marshy land to get to the beach! and what a walk it was! ha it was fun though and beautiful!:)

also we celebrated 2 birthdays!!!!!! amanda and brooklyn!

also had a camp fire and yummy s'mores!

and family pictures!
i was lucky enough to have all my siblings attend!!!
slowly but surely we are getting bigger!

other activities of the family reunion included:
women's circle
men's round table
children's craft
muddy buddy demo
eating lots of apricots
a game room which had ping pong, pool, foosball, dart board, basketball game thing and other games!
early morning brisk walks and kimberobics
listening to grandpa talk about granny woodruff and wilford woodruff
a wonderful testimony meeting
blanket stitching demo
morning and evening devotionals
looking through everyone's wedding albums
the missionary map
the family tree map
homemade kellogg ice cream
our awesome family reunion shirts
LOTS of cute little kids to play with- casey and i loved this part!

i wish so bad everyone was able to be there!
i wish so bad we could do this every summer!
i wish so bad it could've been longer!

it was really nice to have little to no cell service or internet access- really nice surprisingly for all!

i love my family,
i love my heritage,
i love the memories we made
and i love you all!

**family member wanting any pictures- you can download all of these pictures full sizes from the website i emailed to you all**

worst drive EVER

reasons why this was the worst drive ever:

1. remember when i talked about how horrible the sun is on road trips? this time we were driving into the sunset (west) so instead of the horribleness lasting 2-3 hours it lasted like 5 hours! death!
2. we lost a hubcap on one of the wheels :(
3. a car with red and blue flashing lights decided we were driving too fast and gave us a pretty little ticket :( mmeh. cruise control was totally set at 84!
4. my tummy started hurting after about 4-5 hours and lasted the whole rest of the 6 hours even between all of our "stop the car casey!", open the door, yada yada yada, you know what happens next moments. life stunk beyond stinkiness. then i just tried to sleep through the pain which meant casey had to drive the rest of the time with no naps! i felt so bad!
5. the drive should'e only taken us about 10 hours and turned into like 12 with all of our stops. mmeh :(

even though the car ride home was horrible the reunion was so fun and worth it!

i will be updating about a million awesome pictures as soon as i feel up to it!

ps- only 3 more weeks of summer/this job and then back to BYU/provo!

yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

we are so excited :)

fact

fact: i am sick of work
fact: casey is even sicker of work
fact: we will be driving all night/morning to UTAH for a family reunion (which starts thur)!!! yay!!!
fact: we will be listening to tennis shoes among the nephites 8, 9 and 10 to stay awake
fact: catching fire finally became available at the library for me to listen to! yay!

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