Week with the Orams

This past week has been jam packed with fun! My sisters and parents came to town so my dad could go on a motorcycle trip with Cody and the girls could head to Park City for a girls weekend of shopping and eating. Well, one day into the trip my dad's new bike had "issues" ---(which please don't ask my mom about it---my dad's bike is kind of a sensitive subject) so dad and Cody ended up coming home 3 days early which was fine with us because that meant they got to watch Maile's baby Canon for the weekend! What troopers they were. Above is a cute picture of my sisters and mom and below is a picture of my mom with her two sisters. My Aunt Pat lives in SLC and my Aunt Barb lives in Seattle so they love it when they get a chance to all be together!

















Of course we had to go to lunch with all the girls one day---we were calling it
"Lani's last lunch" in hopes that she would have the baby within a day or two of this picture but I'm sad to report for Lani's sake that she is 3 days overdue at this point! At least she's not feeling the least bit miserable----RIGHT! I had a nightmare the other night that she had her baby and forgot to tell me but I called her and she assured me that would never happen!


















Below is kind of a tragic picture for me....Quinn found my cabbage patch doll from when I was young. Trying to keep the "favorite aunt" status I actually let him play with it (although I will be honest and say I don't think he showed it the proper respect it deserves!) anyway, he was a little disgusted that I didn't have a diaper on her so he put one of Canon's on her---he actually did a pretty good job! My favorite line of Quinn's from the week was when he asked Kami "why does Aunt Nalani have a different laugh than anyone else?" Then he proceeded to imitate my laugh with his face all scrunched up and a really loud cackle.....not so cute.


















We celebrated Maile's birthday the night before they all left. Her birthday is actually Sunday but her husband is in China right now on business so we wanted to make sure she had some sort of party! My mom made her favorite raspberry chocolate cake and more hot fudge for hot fudge sundaes. Even though we were bursting at the seams of Casa de Baadsgaard with everyone here for a week I was still sad to see them all go!

GUESS!!!!!

So pretty much anyone who knows me has met my friend Lani. We've been friends for about 10 years now. Yes, I know---who would even think I would have a friend named my same name. Whenever we're together and meet someone new the conversation usually goes like this: "hi I'm Lani" and "I'm Nalani". Then the person will usually say something like "oh my gosh that is so weird----are you guys sisters?" Cause we all know that sisters have the same name?! Not to mention the fact that she's 6 feet tall and skinny and well I'm 5'5 and never been described as "skinny"! Anyway, my point of this entry is to have everyone participate in a little online guess. Lani is 9 months pregnant and ready to have this baby! I want everyone to guess what weight the baby will be as well as how long. I will give you this much information.....Lani is 6 feet tall and her husband Craig is 6'4!!! There will be a prize for the person who guesses the closest. I must also add that no one-----I mean no one is to make any comments about how big she is because it makes Lani get a serious ugly stink face when people say that to her and besides that --it's straight up rude!

Above is a fun picture of all the girls we took yesterday at Jen and Chris' house---they blessed Chase today. I'm so lame that I didn't get a picture of little Chase since it was his day to shine but I'm pretty sure there will be plenty of pictures of him on Auntie Missy's blog or heck, even Jen's blog for that matter! I did however get a very cute picture of our friend Andy and Traci's little girl Etta. Is she not the cutest thing you've ever seen!---She was pretending she was shopping---let's be honest---that's why I love her so much!

Island Park

Let me first apologize to all my fans out there for taking so long to post about my Island Park trip. The sad fact of the matter is that my camera battery died after the first 5 pictures I snapped so I missed out on quite a few "blog-worthy" shots!

So here's the story....we headed up to Island Park on Friday to hang out with the Wheelers for the weekend. We stayed in Caleb's family cabin which holds quite a few memories......which we won't go into. ( let's just say that I've known Caleb and several of his cousins since I was in kindergarten and let's just say that a few of his cousins were a little wild and I went to college with them and there were a few trips up to that cabin that his grandma---(God rest her soul)---never knew about it!) Here's a couple of the few pictures I got......Sarah, Jack and Jed on the tube. I think Jack was explaining to Jed how exactly to hold on. That Jack, he's a safety boy! I love the picture below---Sarah's got her arm up like she's a cowboy or something----YEEEEEHAAAW!!

I had to still this picture from Sarah. It was seriously the coolest thing to look up and see this big ole Moose with her baby cooling off in the lake. I love Island Park---it is such a beautiful place. Every time we go up there I try to convince Jed that we need to buy a cabin up there........could you all please help me convince him what a GREAT idea that is! So thanks to the Wheelers for a fun weekend of boating, eating, sleeping and some very non-competitive game playing (SORRY Katie---had to throw that in there.)

4th of July!!!!

I would have to say that this 4th of July has been my favorite ever!!! We started off my heading to Mayfield to go 4-wheelin with our friends Jason and Kim and their 3 boys. Their boys are super fun and FULL of energy. The best part is they think we're cool so we always have at least one of them wanting to ride in our truck or jeep. So this time we got Mitch. I have to admit that he's my favorite (I can say that since I know Hunter and Dawson will never read this). Anyway, Mitch is 5 and has the best blond curly hair. So anyway, as we're driving to Mayfield I taught Mitch how to pump his arm up and down out the window whenever we pass a semi-truck. He didn't believe me that they would honk until he tried it for the first time. Luckily the driver let out a big ole honk and you should have seen Mitch jump! Jed and I were laughing so hard. The next picture is of the Lavender fields in Mona that we passed on our way to Mayfield. Aren't they pretty! --not a bad shot seeing as it was from the truck window going about 90mph on the highway!

I love this shot. It is of Jason and Kim and their boys on their motorcycles. Jason traded Kim's 4-wheeler in last year and got her a motorcycle instead. She's tough! I was thinking that I wanted a dirtbike also but seeing how hard the ride was on Wednesday I'm not so sure anymore. We stopped at a little creek for the kids to play in. They were loving it.

Last but not least we made it back just in time for Stadium of Fire. Here's a little story about the Stadium of Fire and why I insisted on going this year. Well about five years ago we went to the Stadium of Fire when Jed and I were dating and at the end of the night he took me home and broke up with me! So needless to say the Stadium of Fire has been more like the Stadium of Doom in my mind. I told Jed we had to go again now that we're happily married so we could have a good experience and erase the old memory! I happy to say it worked!!!! We had a GREAT time with Missy and Cody. We had awesome seats and I thought the show was great. Now I'm trying to convince Jed that we need to go back to Hawaii to erase that terrible memory of breaking up when we got home! I'm thinking Jed is quickly realizing it would have just been easier and cheaper to have married me about 3 years earlier than to now try and erase all the many, many bad break up memories!!! At least it has a happy ending!!!!

Kenny.......a little late!

So it's pretty much old news that Sarah, Jeanette, Missy and I all went to the Kenny Chesney concert last week. Let me just say....once again he did not disappoint! We sang out little hearts out and danced like our dance moves were still in style.....well I know mine are at least----I won't comment on Sarah's. JUST KIDDING....jeeez! So the incident that Missy mentioned on her blog is true......Sarah and I being the mature people we are almost got in a fight. I'll give you the readers digest version.....a little hussy two rows in front of Sarah was standing on her seat so Sarah couldnt' see. The guy directly in front of us was too much of a wuss to tell her to sit down---or at least not be on her seat. I simply couldn't handle Sarah whining about it all concert so I tell the guy in front of us to be a man and stop being a wuss and move over. I then proceed to tap the girl (ok, I really shoved her----it didn't mean to shove her that hard though) two rows ahead of us. She was drunk so she went crazy.....I was not drunk and got crazy back. Her husband then starts to go crazy on me.....I begin to go crazy on him when the two drunk girls next to me jump in a take over. I then find a security gaurd and he ends the whole brawl and tells the lady that if she doesn't stay off her seat she will be kicked out. I win!