Fourth of July in Modesto

I already posted photos of the place from my trip home over the 4th of July, but I also got to meet Kate on this trip and to play with Jack and Aiden. It was a lot of fun and hard to drive home at the end of the trip!


Aunt Vivian meets Kate at the 4th of July picnic at Uncle Drew's.
Jack and Aiden love to "work" with Papa at the Place. This is Jack showing his skills with the screwdriver.

Aunt Jen and Kate.

Jack and Aiden cooling off in the hoses. Jack figured out that it was more fun to put the hose on Aiden long before this activity was done. Aiden wasn't quite there yet.

Aiden grabbed a little alone time with the trains...a rare thing when Jack's around.

Here's Aiden showing his construction skills, too.

Girl's Camp

So, I'm a little behind on blogging this summer, but I just uploaded all of the photos off of camera, so I thought a little catch-up might be in order. In June, our girls went to girl's camp. This year, they went to a state beach in Malibu to camp. I went up for the final campfire and tin-foil dinners on Friday night. Yum! All of the girls pictures in the photos below are in the Young Women's organization I work in at Church on Sunday and every Wednesday night.

Making the tin foil dinners with Kristen Anderson (Camp Director) and Melissa Marquis (Stake Young Women's President).
The cooks for the evening...President Vargas and Bishop Lee.

The delicious dinners cooking in the fire.
Adreana Lee and Serina Shin loved the dinners!
Precious Hart, Britney Norman (my Young Women's Secretary) and Kiki Hart.
Lucy Imboden, Krystal Fe'esago, Jael Muoz, and Kiki Hart.

Food...Glorious Food

So, I've had food on the mind a lot this week--probably because I've started back on Weight Watchers and am determined to take off some of these stress-induced/work-related pounds. I'm trying to get creative with my use of vegetables because that's one of the only ways to increase what I can eat--vegetables are free in points and they are good for you.

One of my favorite dinners (although, it's so many vegetables that I can only eat it once or twice a week) is this one...it's sliced vegetables...one potato, a couple of zucchini, a bell pepper, and a purple onion with a little bit of olive oil, salt, garlic, and pepper. Bake at 425 degrees until you think it's done. Mmmmm.....


I'm also excited about this new recipe for bread and butter pickles. We canned them last night at Young Women's. I'm not a bread and butter pickle fan, but with the bell peppers and onions, these are crunchy and quite tasty!