Yellowstone and Brandon's Birthday

I realize that it has been a few months.... This post is for Aimei and Meradith and anyone else who is sick of seeing "Yee Haw Go Nashville!". Ha ha! Don't worry girls, I will have some more posts to come. Alot has happened in the last few months so it could take a while to get caught up. Here is the month of July, mostly in just pictures....

Our family trip to Yellowstone

Jaxon, me and Ally

Another good scenic pic...

Great couple pic...

One of our favorite pictures from the trip :) Good work Mera! What lead to our 2 hour delay to Old Faithful....

Jacob borrowing some of Jason's old boots. When we were all leaving to head into Yellowstone, he happened to leave the house with no shoes. Yes that is right, he forgot to wear shoes. Luckily, Jason had an extra pair in his car. We all got a good laugh! :)

Sister pose in front of Old Faithful....

Waiting for Old Faithful.... Enjoying another geyser...

Me, Mother and Sister

On Brandon's Birthday we all hit the river for a nice boat ride....

Embley family.... Jacob appears to be having the time of his life :)

Brandon and his back flips.... He loves to show off :)

Steve trying to keep up.... Brandon still showing off :)

Good times....

Birthday Boy!!!!

Enjoying all his presents...

Our quick stop in Idaho Falls on the way home... We had such a good time with everyone!!! Thanks Mom and Dad for planning such a fun vacation. We can't wait till next years! :)

Yee Haw! Go Nashville!!

Right after Brandon graduated we headed out to Nashville with Sheila, Brent and Ian! They were so kind to take us with them :) We had so much fun all together! Here are some pictures from our adventurous vacation.

You have to try on a Cowboy hat when you are in Nashville.....

Brandon even got the chance to arm wrestle Elvis.....The winner got a kiss from me!! :)Nashville's beautiful sunset.... On Mother's Day we got the chance to go to the famous "Pancake Pantry" for breakfast with Brent's family. The food was delicious! I had the famous sweet potato pancakes with their cinnamon syrup. So good! The line was out the door for this place!!! State Capitol Brandon, Ian and I wondered the city one afternoon and got the chance to see the capitol and a nice memorial park This was Brandon's favorite quote.... He thought about it for a while looking off into the distance like that. We then jammed out with Elvis for a bit....nice guy. Here is Sheila and Brent enjoying our nice boat ride around the famous garden atrium And of course we went to the Grand Ole Opry House!!! Brandon and I got the chance to do a jam out session. He played the key board and I sang. We were a big hit. They are asking us to come back soon. Tickets will be expensive I'm sure of it. I was made for the stage....

The last thing on our agenda was to make it to the Loveless Cafe. We heard they had amazing homemade buscuits and jam. All the rumors were true!!! We loved the buscuits and the service was the best! Our server did some magic tricks for us and then the manager of the resturant gave us thier $25 cookbook for free! They were so good to us. If I ever make it back to Nashville, I will be going back!
Our happy family...

Brandon Graduated!!!!

It is a little delayed but.... Brandon graduated!!! I am so proud of him. He has worked so hard balancing school, work and me :) Now he can just focus on work and me for a little bit!

He really looks like a graduate in this picture :)....

Here is the crew that came out to support him... Thank you so much!

Catching Up Again....

I know.... it has been awhile since our last post. I'm sorry to the few of you that check our blog regularly, I wish I could promise that things will be better in the future but I am sorry to say it probably won't. But here we go in catching up on the last few months... Enjoy!

Draper Temple Open House with Sheila, Brent and Ian

We had the great opportunity to go through the Draper Temple open house with Brandon's mom, step-dad and brother. It was beautiful! I'm so glad we were able to experience it together.

Linzie Gwen Christensen

My beautiful niece Linzie was born!!! She is so adorable and is now way bigger than when this picture was taken. Congrats Jared and Kristee!

Valentines Day Brandon treated me well on Valentines! He got me a dozen red roses and two new purses. We were able to set our camera up and take this picture of the two of us..... Brandon is lucky enough to have some long arms so he could hug the chair and me at the same time :) Pretty awkward.

Kalai Concert My friend Crystal and I decided to surprise our husbands for Valentines Day with a concert from our favorite singer, Kalai. It was amazing!! We couldn't have put it together with out all the help from family and friends. Thank you all for making it happen!

Here we are with our new friend Kalai....

Sledding with the Embley's Tradition has it that we go sledding once every winter with the Embley's. So here we are making it happen. We had a lot of fun!

Here is Rachel, Ally, Katie and Sarah all going down on one tube...

Jacob discovered that their dog, Nash, was more like a horse and could pull him down the hill...

Yes, we made this snowman....

Heidi didn't want to let go....

Snowboarding with Steve S. Brandon and Steve got a chance to go snowboarding together this year! I won't go with Brandon so other people need to. :) Steve was really tearing it up....

Happy Birthday Sheila!

We celebrated Brandon's Mom's 50th Birthday this year!!! We all went out to Asian Star to celebrate. It was a great time!!

Us with the birthday girl....

St. George with the PortwoodsWe finally were able to get a way for a weekend and go to St. George! We were so happy that the Portwoods were able to join us. We had such a good time together! The weather was amazing!

We did the adventurous "Crack". Here is Crystalyn and I preparing to go through...Rob took some deep breaths and made it through...We also did a little biking.... I look like I am having a great time, right? Now how do I look????....Embarrassing as it is... I did not last long on the bike. I'm not quite sure what happened?? Maybe it was the heat, or the fact that we had just eaten or maybe the huge mountain we rode up was just too much for me. But what ever it was, I thought I was going to pass out. I made Brandon stop and I found this little place to sit for a while. He kept telling me to get up, I think he was embarrassed cause cars were slowing down to watch. ha ha!!!

Brandon is quite the master on the bike....

It took some convincing to get Brandon off the bike. He was having the time of his life popping those wheelies.... Lets pretend I took the picture late when he was coming down and not right when he got up :)

Kenzie's First Haircut
I was lucky enough to give my niece, Kenzie, her first haircut!! She was so cute when I was cutting her hair. Look at this face....

Taylor Andrews Hair Show And finally.... my first hair show!!! Above are all the model's in our group. We did the hair, costume and make up for each model. Inspired by the artist Georgio O'Keeffe. Below is the model that I worked on....

Doesn't she look amazing????

View of her outfit....

I was so happy that all of our ideas came together!!! Our model, Emily, looked great! She was a great sport and wore her hair like that for 14 hours for us!! She did mention that she had a slight headache.

Charelle, Me, Emily and Ally

Here is the group of us that put Emily together!