Moving Out Already

After just one week it was time to move Stephanie into her new apartment. She has the best roommates in the World Sarah Edwards, Rachel Lange and Jenny Welling. They are all adorable and have a great time together. If you want to hear or see more about Stephanie and her roommates you can check out their blog at dreamteamatthedreamlounge.blogspot.com They have so much fun and now Stephanie has some sisters which is wonderful. As sad as we were to see her leave us we are excited for her new adventure.

Welcome Home Stephanie!

After four months it is so nice to have Stephanie back. It took no time at all to start playing and have fun like she had never been gone. We spent all day just laughing, talking and looking at her pictures from Jerusalem. She came home with over 3,000 pictures and stories for all of them. It was so much fun just sitting and hearing all about her experiences.

Draper and Oquirrh Mountain Temple

We were lucky enough to go to both the Draper and Oquirrh Mountain Temple open houses in the same summer. They were both so beautiful and the spirit was so strong, but they were uniquely different.

Lake Powell is the best place on earth. We love it!

Girl's Camp!

Girl's Camp is always so much fun. I love it!

This is a group photo of our ward. The Edgemont 4th Ward. We had 37 girls and 10 leaders attend. We had by far the largest ward. It is the old saying the more the merrier.

This is my niece Lindsey Conger doing the Stump walk in the Confidence Course. It was great to be with both my niece and my sister Ali.


Probably my favorite part of girl's camp is Solo Time. I love that we can get away from our crazy busy life and just be out in the mountains. There isn't anything we have to rush for and have time to ponder, pray and really focus on setting goals and thinking about who we are and what changes in our lives we need to become more like our Savior.

I love this picture of the young women. This is me with a group of YCL's that helped plan camp this year. We had a great camp because we had great YCL's. I truly believe they make all the difference. They set the mood and the tone for the whole camp. We had a couple of YCL's not on this hike but this is a good chunk of them. Tara's Mom is one of my camp leaders that made me love camp which was neat to in turn be a leader to her daughter. Pictured: Aimee Johansen, MaryAnne Morrow, Susanna Avila, Sara Avila, ME, and Tara Clark. Not pictured: Allie Bradford, McCale Brockbank, Vanessa West & Ruby Ficklin

This is all the girl's on the first hike with me. We did my favorite hike up at MIA Shalom. We hiked to Memory Grove and then along the North Rim back to camp. It is absolutely incredible.

Celebrating Independance Day with the Family!

After the parade we went over to Nana and Papa's house to spend the day with Aunt Shirley's family. Jordan definately won the award for the most spirited this year. In this picture she had already taken off most of her festive outfit, but she rocked! The boys (plus Jordan) got into a heated basketball game in the pool. They had bruises and scratches all over. Way to go Jordan for representing the girls. The cousins all had a great time pushing, hitting and almost drowning each other. What a great way to spend the holiday.

After swimming almost everyone went to enjoy Unlce Brad's rockets. They went over to Vintage Park and some of us stayed at the house. One of the rockets made it all the way back into our yard. It was amazing how high the rockets went. This was difinately a highlight of the day. I think we wore Grandpa out as you can tell by the picture.

My sister in-law Ginger invited me at the last minute to the "Stadium of Fire". I was so glad I went. Here are a few pictures of the Jonas Brother's, but my favorite part was that they retired the huge flag that has been used for the last 25 years in the show. I am sure the lady who has put so many years of blood, sweat and teers into maintaining that flag was in tears. It was neat to be a part of that.

This is a picture of them carrying the flag to be retired. They burned it in a big caldron. It was so cool to watch and feel the spirit there in the BYU stadium.

This is my boys back watching fireworks from outside the stadium. They were very thankful I left them and did not make them go into the stadium. They played games with their cousins. They had all the boy cousins from the Jensen side of the family over. The 4th of July was wonderful in almost everyway. The only problem is we missed Stephanie. On the way home from the parade that morning we all talked about how much we missed her. Spending the holiday with her would have made it even better.

Girl's Camp!

YEAH! BYU Nursing school here she comes.

Stephanie found out today that she was accepted into the nursing program at BYU. She can hardly wait. She called on the phone before checking her email (2:00am her time) and then opened it while we were on the phone. It was so much fun to share this experience with her. I love that we can talk on the phone. These pictures are of her in Jerusalem at the hospital she volunteers at feeding the babies. I am so jealous. The babies are adorable. That is my kind of work. We are so proud of our little girl who is almost all grown up.

GRADUATIONS!!!

Hilarie Timmerman graduated from Alta High School on June 4, 2009. Another great ceremony. My niece's never cease to amaze me as they all graduate with honors and have great plans and dreams for their future. After the ceremony we all went to Brick Oven to celebrate and enjoy one anothers company. What a great time we had. We are so thankful we were able to share in all the excitement and be a a part of two niece's graduations.

On May 28, 2009 we started the celebrations by having a swimming party to honor our neice and cousin Tara Pearce. It was so much fun to be with all her cousins and friends that love and care about her. Then on May 29 Tara graduated from Timpview High School. It was a great ceremony. The best part, next to watching Tara of course, was watching as over 400 students shook hands with Dr. Bayles they each gave him a large lug nut. He would put them in his pockets in handfuls. Then as all his pockets were filled he was struggling finding places to place them. Then someone brought him a basket to put them in. We just wished someone wouldn't have brought him a basket and the enjoyment would have continued. Concratulations Tara!

Grandma Cookie's 70th Birthday!

May 22, 2009 - Happy Birthday! We had a great time together celebrating Kib's Mom's birthday as a family. We ate wonderful food and the girls then played Canasta for hours. I hate to brag, but I was the winner. After playing games we went out for ice cream all together. It was so much fun having a night of good food and company.

Police Academy Graduate!

These are a few of our classmates and teachers.

It was a great group!

Bonnie Morrow, Julie McKay and Me!

Well, it was Citizens Police Academy, but a blast. The Provo Police Department sponsors this academy once a year. You go to classes for 8 weeks, one night each week for a 4 hour class. I was dreading that I had made this commitment to be quite honest and I really had to work to make it at all, but it was so much fun once I got there. Here is just a little about some of the highlights. We hand cuffed each other, learned some self defense moves, learned how to use the stick (ALP) they carry, etc. We actually took fingerprints off glasses, doors, etc. and learned to gather evidence. Some of the people in class got Tasered just to see how it felt (I didn't). I can tell you that it didn't feel good just by seeing others go through it. We rode in a swat van, learned about the wall of light and learned how to use a lot of their equipment. We learned about the gangs in the area and quite honestly I had no idea there were so many. There is so much more we did I can't even begin to tell you, but if anyone is interested I can set you up for next year. The important thing is somehow I graduated, even with all the classes I missed and was late for. It was GREAT. I would do it again in a heart beat.