Catch-up on July

So I have definitely been up to a lot in the last few weeks! July came and passed in a blur! Here are several pictures to help show what happened!

On the third, it was my Mommy's Birthday!! I made here a long card with pics expressing some of the things that she has taught me!

Here is a short excerpt:

"I think that the most important thing I have learned from you is to love. To love our families, to love being a wife, to love being a daughter and sister. You taught me to love life and everything I choose to do. You taught me to love others when I serve them. You taught me to love the Lord and His Gospel. I can’t even come close to telling you all that you have taught me, but for all of that, I am forever grateful to you! I

love you so much! You are the best Mommy ever!"

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The next thing that we celebrated is the 4th of July! I got to go to Stadium of Fire because Logan was in it! It was fun and of course the fire works were awesome! Then, that week was the beginning of the Dixon family reunion. It was up in Herriman, UT and had a great view out over the valley were we watched fire works!

Logan is holding the flag in the middle front slightly to the right.
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Our next adventure took us to Colorado for the weekend to see my family and hang out at my grandparent's cabin close to Vallicito Lake! Logan had never been, so it was a ton of fun reliving all my childhood memories with him! I was also grateful that a lot of my family was able to meet us there! The only scary thing that happened was the bear that was under the deck and Logan scared off but was only a few feet from it!

Here is us driving to Colorado. This was a pretty lake we randomly stopped by (McPhee Reservoir). We also got a good shot of our new car we were taking on a road trip for the first time!

Driving up to Middle Mountain with the family. Too bad the white car got a flat tire so we didn't stay very long but that didn't stop any of our fun!

Here is a panoramic view of the valley. This is the prettiest place in the whole world!
At the lake and the wildflower garden. Middle MountainFlowers and the river we had a picnic by.

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It was so much fun going to the cabin again but we had to eventually come back to real life. The next week we went and got some family pictures done by my good friend Paula and her friend. Here are some of my favorite!

Thanks Paula & Jenni! ----Here is a pic from the Shield's open house to see them off onto their new adventures in the Air Force! They will be greatly missed but me and Lauren and me already decided our children are going to get married someday :)
We have had the most fun getting to know them and lots of the other cadets at the ROTC program at BYU. No matter where we all end up we will always be great friends!
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Lastly, Logan left for a week to get his medical tests to become a pilot. While he was in Ohio for 5 days, my mommy came to visit me! We had a great time together and she kept me distracted (although, I still missed Logan).
We went shopping, watched movies, spent lots of time looking at fabric, went to Ikea, ate too much good food, got our hair cut and had just a ton of fun overall! She is my best friend and I love her so much!!
Logan is now home and things are back to normal! Whew! We expect to hear back in about 60 days from now whether he will be a pilot or not, so we are learning how to be patient and have fun with where we are at right now!