July 4th Fun

This year before 4th of July I saw a cake on Pinterest and showed it to Viddy. He was then determined to make it this year during 4th of July. 

It might not look like much from the outside (I frosted it and that's probably why)...

...but on the inside, it's awesome!!! And it tasted pretty amazing too!

This was my creation. It was a brownie with pie cream filling on top, and there might have been some bananas mixed in there somewhere. 

This summer we met some awesome people. These pictures just don't even show how awesome they are and the pictures are pretty cool. They were here for an internship over the summer and we met them right when we both moved in. We hung out with them all the time and were really sad when they had to leave to go back to school. But the best news is that they will be back in January because he accepted a job with the company that he did an internship with. We are super excited to have them back!!!

These were some other people that we met one weekend. He won his wife that unicorn and it was pretty awesome :)

Paused at the Perfect Moment

Pride and Prejudice has become one of my favorite books and the BBC version is one of my favorite movies. Viddy and I were watching a little bit of the movie every night for a week or so until we finished it, and this is where we paused it one night. It was just at the perfect moment. We both busted up laughing and I had to get a picture. 

Jenny and Taylor

Viddy's sister, Jenny, and her husband, Taylor, came to visit us. Taylor had an interview with a company in Houston and so they were all able to come visit us. Again we went to the Houston Museum of Natural Science and the Butterfly Museum. 

This is Jenny and Taylor's baby and we just loved having him here! Isn't he a doll!

Checking out the skull.

This is at the Butterfly Museum. It's hard to see, but if you look closely, there is a butterfly on the right side of Viddy's nose. 

This is in Houston at a place called the water wall. Right before we came here Jenny and I parked in a mall parking lot so that we could walk over to the water wall. On our way out of the parking lot a mall security cop came up to us and talked to us for about 10 minutes about how we should not walk through the parking lot, "for the little one's safety." I'm pretty sure he said that statement at least 50 times. We didn't even park that far away from the exit, and we got to the mall about 45 minutes before it opened so there was no one in the parking lot, but he still felt the need to make sure that we would keep the little one safe by not walking through the lot. At first we thought the guy was joking, but after he had talked to us for forever we couldn't help but laughing as soon as he was out of ear shot. Oh the fun people you meet in a big city :)

Friends from Tucson

This summer we had some really good friends that we knew in Tucson move to Texas. They are still a few hours away, but whenever we get together we have a lot of fun! Here are some things that we did when they visited Houston.

We went to the Houston Museum of Natural Science and to the Butterfly Exhibit. I have to admit that this is one of the more impressive pictures of the day. 

After having visited the butterfly museum several times, I have come to have favorites. This is one of my favorite butterflies, but it is really hard to get a good picture of how awesome the inside of its wings are. 

We went swimming

And their boys had fun playing with Viddy

Maybe a little too much fun :)

This picture can't really show how big this spider was. I was just glad that it wasn't on the path because I may have had a heart attack. 

The blurry thing on the right and right bottom corner of this picture is the dock. This big guy came up pretty close to us.

Book of Mormon Readathon

In the beginning of April Viddy (with the help of his mom...ok she really did the whole thing) planned a Book of Mormon readathon for the youth in all the wards in the town we lived in. They read - or listened to the Book of Mormon be read to them - from cover to cover in just 3 days. It was over a three day weekend  and we started on Thursday night and finished reading the Book of Mormon on Saturday afternoon. It was an awesome activity. There were activities planned that related to what they were reading, food planned for all the meals and lots of snacks to keep the youth going.
Although it was a lot of work, Viddy and I thought that the youth who came really enjoyed it, learned a lot, and hopefully strengthened their testimony. I would highly recommend doing this activity in your ward, and if you need any info, ideas for activities, or things that we thought went well and things we would do differently next time, just let me know!

Fun with Hona and Kate

My good friend from high school came out to Texas with her little one and we had a blast. It was ton of fun because another friend from high school was able to hang out with us most of the time. Here are just a few things that we did: 

We went to the zoo. 

The elephants were my favorite to watch because they have so much personality. 

Hona wanted to go visit NASA and I'm glad that we did. It was really fun and I learned a lot. It's fascinating to me that brilliant people can make something that can take people to the moon, and now the International Space Station. It's really nice being so close to something that has been a large part of our country's history. 

We went to the park. I love our hair in this one!

At the children's museum.

We did lots of other fun things while Hona was here, including giving Hona highlights for the first time. They were very very subtle, but looked great. 

We're Alive!

I realize that I haven't posted in months, so I want to start off and let everyone know that we are alive! :) Ok, but seriously, life has been great. So the next few posts will be some of the major things that we have done since January. We have also have had lots of family and friends visit us, so we have been able to do a lot of fun things around Houston. It's been awesome!