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!

 I know we could all get in an all out brawl about who has the cutest nieces and nephews. Aren't they the best?  Well, this is little Easton Egbert (hilarious son of Amy and Patty Egbert) in the bathtub, meeting himself for the 1st time on Aim's video camera. I am laughing just writing about it! So I hope you enjoy this as much as I do!... which is averaging about 30 times a day. 

Oh, and please feel free to call me Sheesha! That is how EATON says it and I am taking it on.

Come on in... the water's glorious! Matthew and i woke up from the best dream. We dreamt that we actually went on a 7 day cruise to the carribean. Eeeek- it was real. And such a riot! We went with a big ol' group of fun crazies (work friends), but we are also kinda saying' it was our 'happiest anniversary woohooo trip' because............ rippley's believe it or not.......... our One Year is this coming Saturday! Yyayaabooombbaambata
So here are some pics of the bahamas, st thomas, and st maartin. Matthew and i were thinking' 'pinch me' the whole time because the warm, turquoise water, smoothies on the beach, snorkeling, four wheeling st maartin, and goggles kind of make up our perfect world.
Matthew got hypnotized at one of the shows on the ship... he really is not a bad ballerina, or race car driver, or slow dancer. lol He had me rollin' laughing and everyone was chasin' him down the rest of the cruise to ask him questions about 'going under.' haha
We were strolling the streets in st maartin and needed a cool down so we went running off the rocks into the perfect water. Stick me in there and i will stay all day, bottoms up, goggles on, happy as a clam. A few minutes later a local woman came over and told us in a thick accent to 'be careful, sharks there yesterday.' Holy moly i was so outa there so fast. I came flying outa the water like i had turbo flippers. She then proceeded to tell us about the 10 ft sting ray there earlier too.
So to sum it all up... pretty magical. I love my bestie matthew, i love beaches, i love the two together like crazy.

OH HEYYYY!

Should I introduce myself again? K. Cool. Hey guys! The name is Tessa.

Okkkkk the Aimster (sista) is at it again, here is another video. Seriously thee only way to truly remember an event! So this is Labour Day weekend with the biggest boaties ever. The Mechams and the Egberts. It was A RIOT! The water was hot and I was in heaven.
Easton, my god son, (amy and patty we gotta talk about arrangin that) started calling me SHEESHA. Oh I go weak in the knees when I hear him call me! (you too matty) I will drop and do anything that for that lil' Eeester. He was absolutely hysterical when we were eating lobster and knew the claws=rawr so he was rawring at me and when the waiters would pass he'd pull a fast one, turn, and RAWR! haha They would jump. And I would be rolling on the ground!
The flips you see on the wakeboard are my claim to fame. Ya that is Patrick, my new bro.
Amy is the pro surfer of the fam.
Any skiing you see is a Mecham. I have so much respect for that sport! It's so fast. And awkward to get up!
The piece of twizzler you see Mike catch, ya he was about 20 feet away from the boat doggie paddlin', super impressive.
YES, we really did jump out of the water back into the boat! haha sweet effects aim!
The sweet hats are TUBA!!! Thee thing to have.
Such a blast of a vacation, I love my family!!!