Utah Union Station in Ogden

Nate loved exploring the giant trains!

Daredevil Darin Leon!

Treasured Memories! Thanks for coming Joni!!

Hogal Zoo Trian Rides

Luke enjoying a rest on the train.

Sean and Darin Leon exiting the train.

Off for a safari adventure!

Back again!

Grandpa and Grandma Erickson and Mary.

Colton, Jason, Whitney, Mels, Darin Leon, Sarah, Joni, Nate and James!

Darin's beautiful Family....Darin Leon, Joni, Nate and James

Luke riding a seal...

Grandpa Erickson, Mels, Joni, Darin Leon, James, Nate and Whitney

Elephant who enjoyed digging in it's mothers dropping...yuck!

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Kristen's Family...

such a beautiful area...

It was so peaceful!

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Tubing at Lava...

Say good-bye to your tube Colton...

Our tubing crew...

Nephi Pagent...

Grandma Great Miller

Lunch Bunch...

HOME TO UTAH!

Swimming in Lava Hot Springs...

cousins...

This is the house we rented...

Brittany trying to make a shot...

A Blessed Trip!

We had a wonderful time going home to UT. The Miller's met at in Lava for a few days and had a great time swimming, tubing and enjoying the peace of the mountains.

We're on our way...

No news on the house, nothing is happening with it right now. I'm just celebrating Jason not having to fly out today! We have been dealing with him home for small weekend spurts since March and I am elated to keep him. On Friday we went to pick him up a the Memphis airport around 6pm. Of course, we are in tornado season so I wasn't thrilled when the storms rolled through Memphis around that time. It delayed his arrival and that forced them to circle and then go to Tupelo airport to refuel. We hit two bad rain - hail cells driving down and I worried about tornado's. Thankfully, we parked in the covered parking and waited two hours for them to get in. A nice airport lady saw us in one of the restaurants and said to me "Ah, is that the cute boy I saw earlier?" (referring to Luke) I replied "yes, but he wont be so cute to you in another hour." That was a trick keeping them from going crazy waiting for dad. We finally go home at 10:30. It was a long day! But he's home now and will not be leaving again.

We will also be moving this Thurs. or Fri. we'll see how it all goes. I'm anxious to get settled (since we haven't been with half our stuff already down there) but I'm really dreading leaving my friends. I have some really great friends and I don't want to leave them. I will up date more after we get settled...I also have pics from Luke's graduation from preschool, so don't give up on me, I'll get back on shortly!

Am I insane or what?

Can you call me crazy? Yes! I the midst of a move I took on a few too many projects. One of which was a wedding cake. I'm posting about it because it was almost my doom. I had made a few cakes before and loved using the fondant icing. This time I thought I'd do the marshmallow version instead of the bland fondant dough. So Thurs. I started the cakes, a three tiered cake with two layers on each tier. While the cake was baking I started 3 batches of marshmallow fondant. All seemed to be going right on schedule so I was very pleased. Friday morning as soon as the kids went of to school I began icing and layering the cake. I guessed I'd be done by lunch. Just not so...I mixed up butter cream frosting and iced in between each layer. Then I iced the bottom tier, rolled out the fondant and found it extremely sticky so I added more powdered sugar, still sticky, added water as suggested in the recipe. Still sticky I kept adding more powdered sugar and finally felt if would work and gently folded it over to lift up on the cake...no, no, it stuck together so I started the process again of adding p. sugar and rolling. Over and over I worked this only to have it tare apart each time I tried to place it on the cake. I didn't realize it at the time, but it is very susceptible to moisture and boy was it a humid day. I was so frustrated, after working for almost 4 hours on it and messing up all the fondant (due to the butter cream on the cake) I finally lost it. I cried so hard I was shaking. I was so mad I just wanted to throw the cake at the wall! I went and showered, sobbed some more, hoping that I'd get an idea of what to do to solve the problem. I used all the butter cream icing (now ruined). I used almost all the fondant, now ruined, and the cake had to be at the reception in 5 hours. I didn't want to admit defeat and run to walmart to buy a stupid cake so I kept praying I'd know what to do to fix the problem. I asked Jason to run to the store and pick me up the regular fondant. While he was gone I cleaned up the table and prepared to begin again. When he got back I rolled out the fondant and walla it went on perfectly. I rolled the other two tiers and covered them. I then added color to two small piles of the fondant and rolled them out to add for a ribbon look around the base of each tier. In the end it looked good, however, over time at the reception I noticed the flowers were pulling down on the cake so it leaned some. I still have so much to learn still. I was just grateful to have it done!