A few weeks ago, both of my sisters ran in a half marathon! They were amazing and I am so proud of them! They want me to do it with them next year...I said "fat chance". That doesn't sound like my cup of tea. But I fully support them. I love you Tara and Tausha! My dad with some of Tara's kids waiting for them to come across the finish line. The half marathon was in Providence. So we all stayed over night at my grandparent's cabin up Logan Canyon. We got up early Saturday morning to go see them cross the finish line. We all had a great time. Here are some pictures of our fun.

My cute Nate! He looks a little sleepy!

Here is my mom with some of her grand kids. She is the best Grandma and mom this world has ever known! How I love her and want to be just like her !

This is my sister Tausha with her youngest, Malia. She is such a doll!

Here are my cute nieces and nephews playing the "ha ha" game. They are the best!

Need a good laugh?

Nate and I drove with my brother-and-law and their kids down to see my sisters come in from the half marathon. I sat in the back seat with my niece Kylee and Nephew Tyler. I started taking pictures then we just couldn't stop. We had a blast. We laughed for so long. I haven't laughed that hard in a long time. Here are the pictures.

Never knew I had so many chins, did ya? I hope yo you still want to be my friend after you see these pictures. I love you Kylee and Tyler. Thanks for giving me such a good laugh!

Hey, I am looking for some new books to read. Any suggestions?

I feel like a little puppy dog waiting for it's master to come home each time I check my blog to see if anyone has left a comment...Silly how reluctant I was to start a blog and how excited I get about it now. I guess it has been a while since I wrote anything but there hasn't been anything picture-blog-worthy. Does that make since? I did start school this week. Things have gone okay! I think I am going to really enjoy most of my classes. I think there may be one class (there always seams to be one) that will be a bit more challenging. But it has only been a few days and so it is hard to tell. I am hoping for the best. Some of the kids are just so cute, especial my 7th graders. They are so sweet and excited to be there. One girl cam up to me today and as she gave me a hug she said "This is something I give to all the teachers I really like." I thought that was so sweet. There has been a lot of students from last year who have come to visit me. One kid was introducing his little brother to me and said "Mrs. Higbee is an awesome teacher!" I said "I am?!" And he said "Yea!" It warms my heart and makes all the hard days worth it. Puppy dog here, signing off.

Our Las Vegas Trip

Nate and I just got back from a fun trip to Las Vegas. We went for about 3 days and had a great time. We went for one of those time share things. So, they paid for our hotel and in turn we went to their little 3 hour tour and they tried to get us to buy it. Much to their dismay we said no. We didn't want to take out a $50,000 loan at 17% interest! We are weird, huh? Well, here are some pictures of us melting in the 110 degree heat!

Here we are in Ceasars Palace.

This is us in front of the Bellagio waiting to see the cool fountain show.

You can't see this very well but there was this restaurant called Nathan's...something, I can't remember. So of course we needed a picture in front of the sign!

This is Nate and I when we were on top of the Stratosphere tower. That was pretty cool. The time share people gave us free tickets to go up so that was even better!

My dream come true...well one of them. Yes! We got cheese cake from the Cheese Cake Factory!

The Stratosphere

I love to see the temple

Saturday the 12th, Nate and I had the opportunity to go to the temple with all of Nate's family. Nate's little brother is leaving on a mission in about a month and a half and so it was his first time through the temple. It was really special to be there with all of his siblings an parents. I really love the temple. I love the feelings of peace that I feel there. I am so grateful to live so close to so many of them! Nate and I also got new callings. Nate is working in Young Mens with the 12 and 13 year old boys. I just got called to be the Relief Society Secretary. I think that will help me to get to know more people in our ward so I am excited about that.

Happy 4th of July!

The 4th is quite a big day in the Later home. Nate and I went to Layton to be with my family. My mom, who is amazing, helped everyone in the family make matching shirts. We had a flag ceremony and a big breakfast. Later on in the day we went to Layton Park where we hung out and saw some pretty great fireworks. It was a fun day!