friends and fun week

Well it's been another busy week for us. Our friends, Cory and Sarah came back into town and we got to spend tons of time with them. It was a blast! Tuesday there was a barbecue at their house (soon to be "old house") with lots of friends and of course...games.

Somehow we got to hang out with them Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday! Oh ya, and Monday Josh went golfing with Cory and some other friends. Tues. Fri. and Sat. we played games until the EARLY morning! And of course what would time with the Smiths be without some extra entertainment?! Thursday night we went to see a hypnotist down on the strip--complimentary of our friends "...friends...friends!" It was even more exciting when our friend Amber (the good sport she is!) went up on stage to help out with the "entertaining!" She followed every order up there and almost won a sucker licking contest too!!! Love you Amber and love you Smiths! Thanks for being our friends!!!

Also thanks to the Smiths for finding all of our friends. Josh and I were talking the other day and realized that ALL of the friends we hang out with are people we have met through the Smiths. And we love all of them!!

It was Josh's lucky week! He got to go golfing Monday AND AGAIN on Saturday with his dad and bro. Good thing he likes it huh!!

I need to brag for a sec.....What a good guy I am married to! An obnoxious wife sends a camera with her husband golfing (how nerdy!! But hey...gotta get some pics for the blog!!) and he actually takes not one but TWO pictures!! It doesn't even matter that the two pictures are identical except for one has people and one doesn't!! What a sweet husband...he'll do anything for me I tell ya!

More fun for the Granthams

So these past few weeks have been busy! We made it up to St. George couple weekends ago and had a blast with my family. Brien and Heather had a little baby girl---so exciting!! Their little family is growing! Josh and I love to play with all the little kids whenever we get up there; he is so good with kids and they all love him WAY more than me lol. Specifically Brinley. He is her favorite, it's so cute to watch her follow him around saying, "josh! josh!"

All of the little kids are getting so big!!
Jack and Kyle, Elena (chunk), Lucia and Belen

Lately we've been on this bowling kick with Brien and Heather and Eric and Bonnie. We go and take all the kids and compete. Basically josh and I win every time! (k not really....someday though :)) This is a typical scene when we are bowling.... of course we hafto pay attention to the kids occasionally in between turns and feed them! lol

Last weekend we went up to Provo for Josh's mission reunion. Although the night wasn't exactly exciting for me, it was so fun seeing Josh reminising (spelling?!) with all his mission buddies. They talked and talked all night. Lots of their stories were "very curious" for innocent little missionaries...

I finally convinced them to go to Chilis and talk so I could enjoy my chips and queso and catch up with my little sis--Hil!!

We stayed with my cousins Garrett and Russ who were awesome hosts. And watched conference with cousins all weekend. It was a blast for sure!


Our friends, the Smiths, came back from Montana for a visit--to work at the fair actually--but we made it out to see them this last Friday with our friends Brett and Bree Lee. I took my camera with the intention of taking lots of pictures of all the fun we had, but only got one! Josh and Brett sure had a fun time racing their cars and Sarah was awesome instructing and helping everyone else race!!



Yesterday was a VERY productive day for us. I finally convinced my WONDERFUL hub to make shelves for me in our "coat closet." Who the heck uses a coat closet in las vegas?! I've had nowhere in our house to stock food storage and I've really been wanting to work on that lately. So he was sweet enough to build me some shelves and now I have a perfect place for it all! While he did his little project, I made strawberry jam! ....All by myself! ....did I mention it was my first time? And did I mention it tastes awesome?! lol not to brag or anything. All I did was follow the recipee, which I do have to give credit to...my boss and his wife (thanks!) But ya, I'm pretty excited. I sound like a nerd with all my food storage and homemade jam excitement--but seriously---how exciting huh!!

HAPPY EASTER!!!