Strawberry Jammin'!

I have been on break from school for the past few weeks and the lack of activity is catching up with me. I'm starting to get restless, just ask Ryan. I think I'm starting to drive him crazy. So to keep myself occupied I started taking on little projects such strawberry freezer jam. I'm also sewing a tote bag and soon I'll move on the a skirt!. I'm worried that if I keep up with the food projects we are all going fat!Last year I got the itch to make raspberry jam. So in September Ryan and I went up to pick raspberries at Apple hill and ended up with 11 pounds of berries. It took us two days to make that stupid jam, but it was tasty. This year I toned it down a bit and made jam out of 8 pounds of strawberries. But I guess strawberry jam isn't that bad except the 4 cups of sugar to every 2 cups of fruit that the recipe calls for. Right? I plan on giving jam away. (Don't worry Andy, we wont forget you this time!) Thankfully the jam only took a few hours to make instead of a two day project. I still have a couple weeks till I start school and I'm running out project ideas!!! I could use some suggestions!

Yum!

On Monday night I was a little bored so I decided to try a new recipe. Debbie gave me the idea of cinnamon rolls and I remembered that my mom used to make super yummy cinnamon rolls when we were little. I started at 5:30 and finished at 11:30. The rolls took several hours to rise in different stages. Ryan helped me with the assembling part and as you can tell in the first picture he wasn't to excited. But he was good at hamming it up for the other pictures. The cinnamon rolls turned out to be very tasty! We all enjoyed a late night snack, especially Andrew! *See pictures at bottom!

Time with the girls!!!

These Next few posts are long over due! Sorry to keep you all in suspense because we know you are all so enthralled and caught up in our Oh so interesting lives! Just Kidding!! My twin brother Scott and the love of his life, Krystal (who is super awsome!), recently got married a few weeks ago. After the wedding everyone went home but Erin stayed with Morgan and Taylor for another week. We did all kinds of fun stuff with them! We went to the splash park, the mall for the marry-go-round, the train museum and of course swimming. Ryan has allot of energy because he was able to keep up with the girls every day! I think that after a while, he was wearing them out! What a good uncle! He'll make an awesome dad! It was fun getting to spend time with Erin because we don't get to see them as often as we would like. We got very familiar with the new version of Disney's Fantasia. In fact I think we have it memorized because we watched it every day, some times twice a day! Morgan and Taylor get bigger every time we see them and I'm still convinced that they are the cutest girls in the world!!!!

Scott and Krystal's Wedding

Its Official! Mr. and Mrs. Scott and Krystal Channell were sealed in the Sacramento Temple on July 25, 2008! Finally!!!!! Everything went perfect that day! Scott was handsome as ever and Krystal was absolutely gorgeous! Krystal had nine, yes, nine bridesmaids while Scott had 6 groomsmen. Every one wore bright pink in some capacity. The dresses were pink and so were the boys vests and ties. We all looked fabulous! Morgan and Taylor were part of the flower girls and they were too cute! Later that night they had a reception at the Esketon Village in Sacramento. The reception was full of dancing and yummy food! Scott played a beautiful song that he wrote just for his beautiful bride on the piano and made us all cry! They left the next day for Cancun Mexico for a week long honeymoon. Congratulations Scott and Krystal!!! We love you!!!!!

What a good looking couple!

Hey! stop checking out my wife!!!!

Cuties!!!

still cute!

I'm too sexy for my pink vest...

Mom and Scotty

Krystal's Lingerie Party

On July 23 My mom, Erin, Robin (Krystal's mom) and her aunt threw Krystal a surprise lingerie shower! She was super surprised as you can tell in the pictures! She received lots of fun goodies for her honeymoon! It was a challenge trying to embarrass her but she held up well! You go girl!... Wow, I'm lame for saying that!

Yea! A lingerie party!

Look at me, I'm the beautiful Bride!

Awwww this one is pretty and sweet!

What the...?

The blushing bride!