2010 Summer Unity Tour

This year's Summer Unity Tour included 311 of course, Offspring and Pepper (a band from Hawaii and my new fav). I was lucky enough to get our tickets for $10 each because Smithtix had a 3 hour special one day. As soon as we heard about this lineup Jeff and I wanted to go, but tickets were $50 and that was for lawn seats!! Our seats ended up being great and the weather was perfect too!

PEPPER:
They had tons of energy and put on a great show

THE OFFSPRING:

Jeff and I were really excited to see them since they don't tour much anymore. They were definitly our favorite band to see and played all their hits and some new songs as well. Unfortunatly they didn't play too long and on their last song, the microphones went out so everyone just sang!

Dexter played a cool acoustic version of an old song 'Gone Away'

311 (the headliner) was also really good and energetic. We didn't get too many good pics of them because it was so dark.

4th of July and other happenings

For the 4th of July we were able to make a quick trip to the cabin in Hatch. It was a happining place with Grandma and Grandpa Pearson, Dave & Cher and kids, and my family all stuffed into 2 cabins. We went to Panguitch to watch fireworks at the rodeo grounds on the 3rd and then went to Ruby's Inn at Bryce Canyon on the 4th. Jeff and I both decided that out of all of the fireworks we have seen this year that the Ruby's are the BEST because it is so dark out there!





While in Hatch we had fun riding 4-wheelers around.

Jeff at "the jumps"
We also hit up another demolition derby in Riverton and were dissapointed this year. Not one of our favorites. We also decided that the West Jordan Derby is the BEST because the winner gets $5,000 so the drivers are really aggressive and its more enjoyable to watch.

This weekend was Draper Days (a favorite tradition of mine growning up). Jeff had to work on Saturday morning so we couldn't go to the parade, but we were able to go to an AMAZING concert on Friday night. Collin Raye was the headliner and put on a great show (Jeff, although I had to drag him there because it was 'country' music, ended up really liking him). The openers- Savannah Jack who were from Nashville were really talented as well.

It was such a hot night- 90 degrees at 8 pm!!

In other good news....

We got a truck!!! We bought it off KSL and got a pretty good deal. Its a 2002 Dodge Ram 1500 (sport edition) which means: leather, good sound system, 4 wheel drive, 20 inch rims(which we are learning that tires are $$$$ for that size...not so excited about this). We still have a few dings and things to fix but hey its a used vehicle.

Jeff is in heaven and has been driving the truck everywhere!!!

Backstreet Boys Concert

On Wednesday June 23rd Shan, my mom and me went to the Backstreet Boys concert! Here are some of the pics. It was fun to see them....I was surprised that they put on a great show still!


Mom and her close up shots

Summer Fun

I thought I had already posted pictures from the Salt Lake Bees game we went to, but I guess I forgot. We went a few weeks ago with our friend from Snow College Bryce and his wife. Jeff and I enjoy going to the Bees games, especially on the Harmon's Family nights where tickets are only $3 a person!!! This night was really cold and rainy (hence my flat hair) but we still had lots of fun and are looking forward to another game soon.



Bryce and his wife bought some blue cotton candy and this is what everyone's mouths looked like afterwards. It was hard to take anyone serious when they looked like this. The best part was a little 5 year old boy turning to Jeff and laughing at his blue mouth and Jeff had no idea that he looked like this!!

This weekend we went to the West Jordan Demolition derby. It was a lot better than the Bluffdale Derby because the drivers were much more aggressive. Throughout the night I think 4 or 5 cars ended up getting flipped over, which was scary but cool.

This is the car that I thought would be the winner because he did so well earlier....guess he's out now!

One of the cars getting flipped

Another car that got flipped over

Shannon also performed at WestFest in West Valley. She did great!!

Grandma and Grandpa Pearson supporting Shannon at WestFest

Happy Birthday and Goodbye to the Jeep

Last night we were able to sell my Jeep. I am bittersweet about selling it because it was the first car I ever bought and it was really good in the snow, but it had lots of little problems that I was tired of dealing with and spending money on. We are now on the search for either an SUV or truck to replace it. You don't realize how nice it is to have 2 cars until you only have 1. Hopefully we will be able to find a good deal on a new one soon.

1998 Jeep Grand Cherokee

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

I turned 24 this past week and enjoyed getting together with our family at Donkey Park to celebrate along with Father's Day. Jeff took me to California Pizza Kitchen for my birthday dinner so that I could get my favorite pizza (California Club) and we went to Leatherby's for some ice cream.

My birthday cake

This year I chose to have a carrot cake from Costco...YUM!!

In other news, Jeff has been working lots of overtime at work and I have been trying to finish up decorating our new place with my mom's help. Last weekend we went to the Bluffdale Demolition Derby and had a lot of fun. We also watched fireworks at South Jordan Days. In store for this weekend is the Riverton Rodeo on Friday and then the West Jordan Demo Derby. We have really enjoyed going to the 'smash up' derbys because it is prime people watching....we love counting all the mullets!!! We are also hoping to go to Hatch for the 4th of July weekend.

This wednesday is the Backstreet Boys concert. I got tickets for my birthday and will be going with my mom and shannon. It will be interesting to compare this concert to back in the day when they were popular. A lot of girls my age are going and re-living our teen years!

Also the new twilight movie, Eclipse is coming out next wednesday and of course Shannnon got tickets for all the girls to go see it. I am still trying to get through the final book in the series..it is quite long!

Goodbye Flagstaff...Hello Utah

This past weekend (memorial) my Family and Grandma Evans drove down to Flagstaff to help Jeff and I move home. We are so thankful for their help and time!!! We couldn't have done it alone!

While they were here, we were able to go to Sedona and spend the day.

At the Oak Creek Canyon lookout

It's crazy to think that next year at this time I will have my Doctorate in Physical Therapy!!!
I can't wait to finally be finished with my schooling.




On our way home we had breakfast at the Cowboy's smokehouse in Panguitch and Jeff got some HUGE pancakes that were an inch thick and larger than his face!!!
BEFORE:


AFTER:

Shan had a talent competition that she tried out for yesterday. I thought she looked really cute!


Tommorrow we are unloading the trailer and moving our stuff into our new apartment in Herriman. We are excited to have a brand new apartment and I am looking forward to having a new place to decorate!! We are also going to have a "new start" because Jeff and I are going to do the "South Beach Diet". It will be a challange for us since all we eat are unhealthy foods (cause thats what we can afford), but we both need to loose some weight and I figured what a better time than now. We dont have any food in our apartment anyway so I will only buy things that are on the Phase 1 of this diet. (We are starting it on Sat. and phase one lasts 2 weeks and pretty much you can only eat lettuce and eggs) I also plan on walking every morning now that we live in a neighboorhood area that I feel safe to walk in.

In other good news Jeff was able to find a temp job working at Salt Lake Cabinets in West Jordan. It was a little sooner than we thought but we are greatful for the income! Hopefully he can impress the supervisor so that this job can become a permenant one because it has great benefits!