Sheryl is FINALLY done :)

Sheryl making a cheesy face for me :)

Last Friday was my mother-in-law Sheryl's last day teaching 7th and 8th grade at Kaysville Jr. High. She is finally retired and the family is so excited for her! I didn't have Sheryl as a teacher because I was a Farmington Husky so I didn't get to enjoy her in class but from what I have heard is she was a funny, silly, hard teacher. We joke in the family that if I had her for a teacher I wouldn't have been able to marry into the family. I was a bit loud and I'm just guessing I would've been in trouble a lot.


Me and Brack at Maddox

Any way, to celebrate the retirement Bracken's aunt JoanE and her family came in town from Denver to surprise Sheryl for the weekend. On Saturday his family treated us and his aunts and uncles to a wonderful lunch up at Maddox. It was delicious and lots of fun. The best part was when Sheryl opened her gift from my father-in-law John. I know I have said this on here before but Sheryl is the biggest Jazz fan I have ever met. She is so funny. She just loves them when they are winning or losing she loves them. So for her gift my father-in-law gave her an authetic signed basketball by the whole Jazz team and coach. It was awesome. She was seriously freaking out. Any way, all in all it was a really fun day. Thanks John and Sheryl for the yummy lunch.

The brother's Ben and Blake (they are single ladies!)


Brack's aunt and uncles, Bruce, JoanE and Ron

The rest of the weekend was spent with Bracken's family but the batteries in my camera died so there are no pictures. Saturday night we went and Brack played basketball with his cousins and we went swimming and just hung out. Then Sunday was another one of his cousins baby blessings so we went to that and then hung out at his parents the rest of the day playing basketball, talking, eating, and playing a little guitar hero. It was a fun weekend with family!

Birthday Boy :)

The Big 25!! Isn't he cute?


Yes, I made a football cake :)


Today is Bracken's 25th birthday! He was supposed to start the day using his birthday present at the golf course (he got new clubs!!) but because of the "wonderful" Utah weather he wasn't able to go out. So instead his day consisted of a nice lunch with my parents and just hanging out. For the evening we had a BBQ with our friends Nikki and Hal and then went bowling. As weird as it is, in the 4 years that Brack and I have been together we have never been bowling. Mainly because I totally suck at bowling. Seriously, I think I normally get around about a 30. I know we have tried going before but it seems like everytime we try there are leagues or something. So it was really fun to go. Bracken tried to show me how to bowl better but I still lost and Bracken won. I did get what I think is my highest score which was a big...58! Yes that is right, I am awesome. Brack almost doubled my score with a good 115. It was fun though. We have tons of fun with Nikki and Hal and we are glad they hung out with us. Afterwards, we had a little cake and ice cream. All in all, I think he had a good day.






Nikki and Hal



I'm proud of my 58!

I just wanted to tell Bracken how grateful I am for him. Everybody that knows Bracken knows what an amazing person he truly is. He is one of the most open and inviting people you will ever meet. He is always smiling and makes everyone laugh, especially me! I love how happy he always is. He loves his family, friends and everyone he meets. He has been the biggest blessing in my life and I couldn't thank the Lord enough for him. He is the hardest worker I know and will do anything he can to provide for us. He has a strong testimony, he is kind, he is giving and he is sincere. I just love him to death!! He is the love of my life and I love having him in it. Life wouldn't be what it is without him. I love you Brack, Happy Birthday!

Summer Buzz Cut!

Ok this post is about one week late but I have to get it posted. Last weekend we had a BBQ at our house with our good friends Nikki and Hal Holbrook. I actually met Nikki because I trained her to sort of take my place at work and since then we have been really good friends and lucky for us, our husbands really like each other. They recently bought a house about 1.5 miles away from us so we try to get together as much as we can.

Every spring/summer Bracken shaves his head. Most of the time I hesitate to have him do it, don't get me wrong, I think he looks good, I just enjoy the hair sometimes too (he won't have hair for much longer so I like it while its still there). Well ever since Bracken shaved his head this year Hal has been wanting what he calls the "summer buzz cut". He talked about it everytime we saw him for like 3 weeks and finally Nikki just told him to do it. Nikki, Hal and I were a little nervous at first because we didn't know what Hal would look like with no hair but Brack was pushing him to join. So after dinner, Hal decided to cave into Bracken's peer pressure and get his "summer buzz cut". He was freaking out but went along with it. Here are some pictures of the event.

Brack and Hal before the buzz

This is after the first cut...he had tons of hair!

Brack finishing up the job.

Nikki does hair so we had her do the touch ups.


The outcome.....he loves it! I guess he has been very happy with the decision. Now Brack has a friend with the same summer buzz cut. They claim it makes the cooler when they are outside but I don't know if that is true or if they are just happy not to have to do their hair in the morning.


Nikki is terrified of dogs and this was the first time she has ever held Harley, she even picked her up on her own. Good job Nik!


The rest of last weekend I don't really remember. I think we just ran errands and went to dinner on Saturday and then had dinner with my parents on Sunday. Kind of a slow weekend. This past week we didn't do a whole lot. I did start a new "job". My mom had hired a college girl to clean her house for her (because she is insanely busy all the time) once a week for a couple of hours. She hired her a few months ago but then offered to pay me to do it instead. So I took it. It's good money for a short amount of time. Plus, I take my dog, hang out for awhile after I finish and it's really not bad at all. I don't mind cleaning so it works out. Who doesn't need a little extra money? Brack is happy I'm doing it because now I'm not stressing out and freaking out about money as much. Other than that, nothing new going on here. I will be posting about htis weekend after tomorrow's holiday. I hope everyone has a wonder Memorial Day.

Mother's Day Weekend!

We had such a great Mother's Day weekend! It was full of family, food and FUN! The weekend started with me heading down to my sister's in Mapleton to go to my niece Emma's dance recital. Shs is 5 years old and such a character. She is beautiful, smart and very talented. She danced about 4 or 5 dances and she did such a good job. Seriously, she was the only one that knew the steps and actually was on beat. She is cute. Here are some pictures of her all "dolled" up for her dances. She LOVES to dress up, wear make-up and more importantly get all the attention from everyone. I should've taken more pictures of my family that was there but between 2 little one year olds and keeping my 7 year old nephew entertained through a dance recital, I was busy :)

Little Miss Emma!

Isn't she cute?!


Brack chose not to come because the Jazz were playing!!! I couldn't argue with him there, so he stayed home and spent the night at his parents. GO JAZZ! We are having fun watching all of the playoff games. Luckily Bracken loves his sports and watching them but doesn't have a bad temper when his team doesn't do too good. So it usually ends up being fun watching the games. Congrats to the Jazz for pulling off 2 wins! Lets keep it up.

GO JAZZ!


Saturday was our usual Saturday. Brack got up and went golfing with my dad and brothers, I cleaned up the house and then we ran errands. When we got home from errands there was a package on our door from 1-800-Flowers. Brack ordered me flowers! He is so sweet. He has NEVER done something like this and it totally surprised me. He is SO sweet! I couldn't ask for anyone better! That night we went to dinner and then watched I am Legend with my parents and sister and her husband. I don't know why I agreed to watch this movie for a second time, I hate it. I am a baby and it scares me, plus there is a part that makes me sad. Luckily my sister hates it too so we walked out a couple of times on the parts we didn't want to see.

Brack and Emma on Mother's Day playing outside

Then came Mother's Day. Don't you just love Mother's Day? There is just a good feeling about this day. I know that I am not a mother but hopefully I will be someday so the kind people in my life shared the day with me anyway. At church we got a nice church music CD and then after church we went to my in-laws. I made some dinner for the family and we enjoyed the Jazz game. My mother-in-law is truly one of the BIGGEST Jazz fans I have ever met. Normally she is a fairly calm, reserved woman, who knows how to have fun when its time to have fun but when the Jazz are on, all emotions come out. She is not allowed (by the entire in-law family) to watch the game with everyone else, she has to watch it in her room and all you hear is screaming, clapping, and sometimes other choice words :) It is hilarious. I forgot to take pictures there, I always forget.

Later in the afternoon, we went to my parents house. Everyone was there except for Billy, Jacee, and Kenslee who we missed, but it is always so nice to have the family together. We had a nice bbq and were able to play with all of the nieces and nephews. I think Bracken spent the entire day outside playing football, squeezing into tight places (you will see by the picture) and making the kids laugh. He is such a good uncle to all of them. It ended up being such a fun day, playing, talking, laughing and exchanging gifts.

My nephew Jake showed up as "Luigi" and of course Brack had to jump in on the fun!

Brack, Emma and Jeff (brother-in-law) "stuck" in the play set.

Brack who is about 6'4'' and Jeff who is about 6'3'' and Emma all fit :)

At about this time Brack was going to kill me if I didn't hurry and take the picture so he could get out.

Even though I believe it was supposed to be a big day for my mom, she was nice and gave all of the girls in our family a gift. She is always giving and putting her family first. She is the hardest worker that I know, she is such a good example to me and is exactly what I want to be when I am a mother. I hope she knows how much I love her! To all of you mothers, I hope you had a wonderful Mother's Day!

These are both a couple pictures or our dog Harley, she loves to play with the kids and chases after balls that are bigger than her :)

Boring Blog!

Hey I just wanted to say sorry for having such a boring blog lately. I know it's horrible and the truthis I have little things to blog about but I just haven't. I do LOVE being home though. It is wonderful! I am busy and it's good. Lately we have been hanging out with Roz and Drew a little bit more than we have for awhile and I have absolutely loved it! We had a little "reunion" with some high school friends a few weekends ago. It was a ton of fun to see those girls, I have missed them. We also have just hung out, played some Wii and watched our husband's favorite movie "Hot Rod". It's just been fun to hang out with them more!

Roz, me, Amy, and Sienna

Cute Brack! He is such a hard worker, THANKS FOR EVERYTHING BABE!

Other than that, not a whole lot has been going on. We have been spending a lot of time with family. Brack is done with school for the semester and did awesome this semester!!! GOOD JOB BABE! I'm so proud of you! So now he is taking the summer off and is going to be busy with side jobs all summer. His dad has quite the list going. It'll be good though. My sister Nat and her husband Jeff moved up here a little bit ago from St. George and we have been spending a lot of time with them. It has been fun. On Tuesday it was my brother-in-law Jeff's birthday and we celebrated by going to Red Robin. I have a funny picture of Jeff, he's hilarious! Happy belated birthday Beff! We love you! Also they found out that they are having a little boy! We are excited for them. And soon to find out what they are having is my brother Billy and his cute wife Jacee. I love having all of these babies in the family. It is tons of fun.

Nat and Jeff and Jeff's birthday dinner

Jeff has very stretchy skin :)

Our cute nephew Brody, he is cuter everytime we see him!

Well hopefully we will have something fun and exciting to post about soon. It could happen :) Until then, I'm sorry about my boring blog! I keep my eyes open for something to blog about.

More pics from my last day...

I know that this may be boring for some of you but I just wanted to post some more pictures from my last day at work April 15th. Some of the girls that day went with me to have lunch at Tasty's for a final time together. Of course it was tons of fun! Oh and YUMMY!

Me and Amy (coworker)

Shiela and Melissa (coworkers again)

Me and Deb

Oh and you may notice I got BANGS! Seriously. Ok a little background on me and my hair. At the age of 7 my hair was down to my butt, in 5th grade I got rid of my bangs, in 8th grade I chopped my hair to the "A-line style" and cried for days. I really looked horrible. From that day forward I grew my hair long and it's been long since 9th grade. I didn't start coloring or highlighting my hair until I was a freshman in college. So as you can see, I've never been very daring with my hair and it has pretty much been the same forever. Yeah I'd add layers every few years then take them away but the bangs weriously is the biggest thing to hit my hair for years now! So let me know what you think. They are long enough to pin back so sometimes I do. These pictures are the first day I had them so I'll get use to doing them and stuff.

Me and Melis

Me and Dr. Steve - he really didn't want to take this picture

Oh and for those of you who have asked, I am currently unemployed :) And very happy to be! It may change shortly so I'll keep you posted. If I work agian it will be from home.

Dr. Bruce and Steve Howard's Office...this is Julianne...

That's right, I am shooting this gun!

Coworkers: Melissa, Tori and Debbie

So the title of this post is something I have said what seems like a thousand times a day for the past 2 years and as of last Tuesday I will no longer be saying that! That's right I quit working at the dental office. Sorry it has taken me so long to post, I actually have a lot to post about but have just been busy. So first things first, a post dedicated to the best job I have ever had and saying goodbye to the girls I will miss so much! The week before my last day we had a scheduled "team retreat". For this we close the office and usually do something as a team, whether it be something fun or CPR certification, or whatever the Dr. wants; then we usually go to lunch. Well this was the funnest team retreat I had been to since I worked there. Dr. Howard is a big outdoors man, loves to hunt, fish, camp, anything. So he decided he wanted to take all of us girls to a shooting range. Most of the girls had never shot a gun, including me. So we headed up to Bountiful, above the "B" and got started. The only bad thing is that once we got up there it started snowing so we were FREEZING! Being girls, we didn't dress real apropriate but we stuck through it and learned to shoot. It was so fun! I was able to shoot 7 different guns, my favorite being 9 mm gun. It was the most powerful of the ones that he brought with him.

Me shooting another gun..yes it was freezing!
Coworker Nikki, she was freezing so she took Dr. Howard's jacket

After shooting we headed to lunch. The lunch was supposed to also be my "goodbye lunch" so we were going to go to Tepanyaki but it didn't open until 3:00. So instead we headed over to Braza Grill. It was good and tons of fun! That was the end of the day. It actually made me really sad to be leaving. Working at that office was such a blessing so many ways. We were ALWAYS laughing and always having fun. I made some of the best friends ever and will miss them so much!! Thanks to Dr. Howard for the wonderful job! And thanks to all you girls for for friendships, I hope we can keep in touch. I will miss our talks, stories, and laughs! I love you all!

Me and Becky!

Me and Nik!

Me, Tori and Nikki warming up at lunch