Love them to ever!

A big ol' crazy group of my best friends.

Best cheerleaders, hysterical comedians, escapade adventurers: my family!

Josh, my biggest bro, (Crystal, Elliott, Solomon, Eisley) came into town from North Carolina and so we all dropped... basically everything to play. We have so much fun together. The 7 Souter's turn back into a bunch of 10 year olds when we are together, and the in laws are startin to shed away the years too. Matt just can't help it. ha. It was my favorite thing for the whole group to play kick ball in the back yard (parents included) for hours. And I'm talking like a few weeks ago. Play dough contests. Pizza making contests. Arm wrestling. Jump rope. haha good times.

This occasion was especially neat because little Eisley was blessed here. Oooo I am so thankful for my family. Even though I may be whoopin them in some competitions... they are still my role models. My most powerful examples. I still watch their every move with admiration and look up to them through my little kid eyes.. and see that they are my heros! (Literally looking up. Last week we measured everyone at dinner. ) But I just love hearing their insights and wisdom, how intertwined their lives are with the gospel. They live it to it's fullest and have the glow to show it :) They are inspiring. I love watching how they cherish their families and their testimonies. And for the 2 younger than me, no worries. I look up to you too. 

So here is an exciting family pic because there are a few new additions to the group. One of them being MATTHEW! Woopeee! I love that boy. 

 Josh's idea. Just could not sit and watch the photoshoot...
haha

Oh wilf you are too much. :)

Sorry for the overload, i just had to include the snowball fight :)

I have never shot a shot gun before. I was a little intimidated. And the flying neon targets were not helping.
My dad is a marksman (pretty much, I think... really good!) So I felt pressure to just nail every flying pigeon. Or skeet. Whatever they call them. So Matt gets up and bam, bam, bam. Hit every flying thing. Geez. So now it's my turn. They tell me to shoot a bush first.... haha okay. So I am aiming and freaked out by the trigger because I am envisioning me flying backwards in pike position after I fire because of the kickback! So I close my right eye (wrong.) And fire! BAM. I screamed so loud after I shot.
I know that wasn't wise because I probably scared everyone, but the deed was done.
So here are some videos of the shot gun that I now really like. A lot. Now who's intimidated?
ha.

This is up at Brooke Richard Springer's cabin in Bear Lake for the weekend. What a riot! Okay and let me tell you about what an adorable, giving soon-to-be mother we have on our hands. An absolute doll. She prepared the yummiest food up there and kept us all round enough to roll but happy as can be.

 We have been besties since we were tiny. Love her!