In Loving Memory

My sweet grandma passed away a couple weeks ago.  

Sadly, I looked around for a picture and this was the only

recent one I could find.  Last year at our Warm River Reunion.

She is the beautiful lady in red at the end.  She is sitting 

next to her two sister in laws, my great aunt Edna and my

great aunt Katie.  They each married a Cunningham boy.

I had so many great memories with my grandma.  

Including but not limited to:

Sleepovers in the Trailer, Warm River, Strawberry Pie,

Blackfoot, Hotcakes for Breakfast, Shanghi, 

Carrot Juice, Vitamins, Costumes in the backyard, 

Christmas Day, Fried Chicken, Porcelain Dolls, 

Birthdays, Grandma's Infectious Laugh, 

Life of Service, Cleaning, Tarts

and always, always being made to feel special.

Grandma, you will be missed.  

Here are some pictures of the funeral.

 Cousins

 My mom, grandpa, and aunt edna.

 Lanny, Grandpa, Mom, John, and Bill.

 Quick sibling picture.

Brett and Carrie

One thing about funerals is that is sure is fun to get to see

cousins you don't get to see very often.

 Some of my Uncle Bill's Family flew out from Mesa.

All in all, it was a great day spent with 

family celebrating our very sweet Grandma.    

Egg-cellent Weekend

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It was a great weekend of family food and FUN!  

It figures that all of this fun happened in IDAHO!  Woot Woot!

We had a great time with family at my cousin 

Garrett's Farewell.  He is going to be a great 

missionary!  It was fun to hang out with

family and cousins we hadn't seen in a while.  

Oh and every year my mom puts on an Easter Egg hunt 

for all the kiddos.  It was awesome as usual and here 

are some pics.  I may be biased, but I have some dang 

cute nices and nephews...

    

 

          

 

Fun weekend and cute kids!  

Can't wait until we move...

Wait, What's that?!?!?!  

YUP.  

We are MOVING to Idaho in just a few

short weeks!  It's been a six year run in Utah 

for me. It's been so fun and we have made some 

amazing friends here.

Not to mention, James and I MET in Utah...

 but MAN OH MAN, it is going to be GREAT to be back home!  

Micah's Cake

My cutie-pie niece Micah turned 8 and got baptized 

this last weekend.  James was lucky enough to get 

Saturday off so we made a weekend out of it visiting 

his and my parents.  I asked my sister if I could make

Micah a cake because lets face it, I never get the chance

to make cakes and they are my favorite thing to make.

Micah's favorite colors are blue and green.

Micah loves white cake with white frosting.  So the top cake

is a homemade white cake with a caramel frosting filling and the

bottom cake is a butter pecan cake also with a caramel filling.

(mostly cause I was too lazy to figure out another filling, but

I figured anything is better with caramel.) The cake is frosted

with a buttercream frosting, then covered in fondant.

 It turned out to be much more work than anticipated...haha!

But I loved it!  I finished it up at my mom's house and

my sister in law (who is awesome at decorating cakes herself)

helped me "glue and paste" all the flowers and stripes and stuff.

We had a blast decorating to Taylor Swift in the background!  

Thanks Caitlin!

Me and Miss Micah at the church.

Congratulations Micah!

It was a great weekend and so fun to see and

visit with family.  James and I both just love our in-laws

and realize how lucky we are to have great parents and families!

The Oregon Coast

What do you get when you combine a cozy beach house, 8 Children all under the age of Seven, 8 adults, the beautiful ocean, Boogie Boards, Wet Suits, Seashells, Lighthouses, My mom and dad's A#1 breakfasts, Sticky Bun Ice Cream (perhaps the most amazing ice cream ever invented), and the Tillamok Cheese Factory??? 

Well, let me tell you...

This year, thanks to James's idea, we roped my entire family, except my brother and his wife who couldn't make it, into going out to the coast.  For all of the kids it was the first time seeing the ocean and for all of the adults except James and I, it was the first time visit to the Oregon Coast.

And I don't think it will be our last...

And it was Beautiful!

We hadn't even been there five minutes and already he was trying to throw me in...

Micah and I at Short Sand Beach.

I love everything about this picture.  Boys.

The entire bunch.

My sister's family.

The bridge on the way out of the beach.

Almost bedtime story hour by the great story teller, Lisa.  After the kids were all in bed,

the adults would stay up and talk and laugh and play games.  So fun!

In the parking lot to see this great beauty...

Cape Meares Lighthouse.

Oh baby!

Astoria

My brother's family.

The cool bridge that crosses from Oregon into Washington.

We took a little trolley ride in Astoria.

Each night a different family took a different night to cook dinner.  This was James and I's idea of a Barbeque on the beach!  We roasted hot dogs and had watermellon and chips.  So much fun!

And we always had time to squeeze in a little boogie boarding...

Even my dad got into it!  haha

Our last day we had a visit from James's sister Stacey and her husband Collin.

We went to eat at the Pirate's Cove right on the bay and had alot of seafood. 

Well, they did, I had a hamburger and a BITE of Crab and a BITE of

 Lobster.  Ugh...My all cow meat hamburger was very tasty though.

We couldn't resist a smooch on the beach!  :) 

Don't even worry about it...

One thing is for sure...Family ROCKS!  Oregon was a complete blast!