Sunday, July 5, 2015

This is Florian and Julia from Germany.  They were in town for business and came for dinner.  Jeff knows Florian because he is a dental technician and sales rep that belongs to Jeff and Von's dental group: The DTG.

For Fathers Day, I made this new recipe from the Pioneer Woman: Crunchy French Toast.  Definately a hit!  Try it out..you wont be disappointed!  http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2015/06/crunchy-french-toast/



Annnnnd...another pioneer woman recipe.  Jeff's favorite chocolate pie to top off his Fathers Day.  http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2008/02/the_meal_of_love_part_iv_de-licious_chocolate_pie/


For Banks birthday he started the morning off with a few presents from his grandparents...followed by boating all morning with daddy...followed by camping for two days with our dear friends and neighbors: the Loys.  He had quite the 3rd birthday!  This picture is Banks opening his birthday present from Grandma Hamilton.  (He loves making this cheesey face these days ha ha)
Happy birthday Banksy!  (June 18th)  Thank you to everyone who sent loving cards/presents to make this lil dude's 3rd birthday a blast!

Birthday morning!



Banks birthday breakfast

Banks lil sweetheart Rowin was in town recently...If you don't remember Rowin and Banks birthday fall in the same week.  This is at her birthday party.



I came home one day to find Banks so excited to show me his "Payson Temple" he built with his dad.  (Banks thinks every temple is THE PAYSON Temple because we went to the open house)  Pretty accurate minus the animal sacrifices on top..ba ha ha ha!


Exploring in the field by our house....



Daddy and Banks at the splash pad.  We love summer!



Day 1 of Camping..also Banks Birthday.  This is him enjoying his chocolate birthday cake!




Day two of camping:  Fishing.  This lil guy was the ONLY one to catch a fish!


The second night camping we HAD to give Banks a bath because he was covered with 20 layers of dirt.  (We heated water on the propane stove) He quite enjoyed his lil make-shift bath tub.  

When you go camping with the Loys (our dear friends and neighbors) you really go in style.  Lorna is my kind of lady.  She puts A LOT of time and effort into her "kitchen".  
He's in love with his new "Panda Bear" camping chair we got him

Banks and Sean Loy enjoying some breakfast.  


This is what we had for breakfast one morning.  We call it "mountain man breakfast burriots".  To the left are Lorna's homemade flour tortillas.  (WHO makes homemade, from scratch tortillas camping!!?)  And I made (on the right) the burrito filling:  peppers, onions, eggs, bacon, cheese.


Banks and Sean being silly.



Banks favorite part about camping I'm sure was: S'MORES!

Some dutch oven peach cobbler!





Sorry not the best pic.. but this is what Jeff and I did for the 4th of July.  We got to go to Stadium of Fire at the BYU football stadium.  They put on a pretty fantastic firework show.  Journey was the band that performed...our fav!!


Chef Jeff serving up some delicious thin-crust pizza.  (At Justin's cabin with is awesome brick oven)
Our good friend Athena came to town with her lil boy Maverick to visit.  The two of them had a blast playing.  Banks referred to him as his buddy.