This is gonna be a long one....

Brandon and I left for our 6 hour and 45 minute drive to Roseville on July 17th to visit The Butlers! This was definitely the highlight of my summer. I am so thankful to have such an awesome Aunt and Uncle that are willing to open up their home to

Brandon and I. There were so many great memories created that week, ones that I will surely never forget. Here is a little glimpse at what our week entailed.

Not only did Brandon and I get to attend an amazing show at Club

Retro to see CV play, Uncle Brandon, Danielle, Seth and Payten drove up Friday night to stay for the weekend. Austen was so thrilled that Uncle Brandon was there to see an actual show, and was able to record it with his fancy shmancy video camera :)

Carcerys Vale Show @ Club Retro

Of course, we all did a few crafts while we were up there. I made Bryan a door knob hanger for the office, and a summery jewelry box (Bailey helped me)!

Crafts

Tuesday, Auntie decided that she wanted us to go to Petroglyph (this is a place where we paint ceramic pieces and they fire it and it comes out nice and shiny and beautiful!) Auntie has started a tradition that she pays for all visiting guests to make a plate, & she gets to keep it so that next time we visit we can use it to eat with! :) The boys even joined in on this! It was a blast.

Everyone had such a great time thinking up what they were going to design on their plate. Of

course, I had to choose a peace sign, because I absolutely LOVE them! :)

Petroglyph

The rest of the week was great as well. Other events included: seeing Harry Potter 6 and My Sisters Keeper at the theater, going out to eat at Cal Roll, Prime Wok, Red Robin, and the infamous morning donuts, playing lots of guitar hero with the boys, going to the mall, making a trip to Learning Express to pick me up an ugly doll (which I will blog about later on!) and seeing a few old friends (Nansee, Elise and Mike)!

I am sure you have all noticed that within just a few days I went from being a blondie to a red head! Unfortunantely Jodie had done my hair 2 days before I left for my trip and I just wasn't happy with the turn out (my roots were very dark and it was just wasn't doing it for me). If you know me, my hair is definitely an important aspect of my appearance (I have gone through about 20 different colors, and I personally think that I have looked good in most of them) So, since I wasn't enjoying the blonde I went out and dyed my hair Intense Auburn! I am so happy with the turn out and absolutely love it! Its really treating me well, and I have received nothing but compliments on it!! :)

BEFORE

AFTER

I had thee best time on my mini-vacation, to say the least. Hope you all enjoyed the pictures!!! :)

P.S - Auntie, I miss you guys so much already. I hope we can begin to visit each other a lot more often! Like every few months or so, cause that would be great!!! Thank you so much for everything you did for me! It really meant so much to me! I love you guys!