A Surprise Visitor!

Rachel has written a lot of the blogs lately... I thought I'd do this one. Anyway, Today we had a surprise! My cousin Dane gave us a call around 9ish in the morn telling us that he was planning on flying to St. George today, but that it was to hot down there. So he thought to travel up here to Rexburg with his buddy Heber. So, up they flew. Rachel and I took some time off work and school to go get them and we had lunch at Great Harvest (great sandwiches!). We drove them around Rexburg, showed them the sites. After about 5 minutes of driving, we were done. Back to the airport we went. Dane-dogg and Heber showed us their dinky plane that they flew up in. Seriously, it was the craziest thing. Dane AND Heber fitting in this thing! Rachel just decided that the plane reminds her of Loopin' Louie. Check the pictures out.

We love our cousin, Dane!

We never blogged about what we did for our Independence Day (ID4) Weekend. I will report on this as well! We went down and did almost the exact same thing as last year. It was a little bit of a Deja Vu. We went on a hike at this lake up in the mountains above Murray. Last year we hiked from the lake in the background of the next picture, to a lake called Lake Solitude. This year we went to a different lake on a seperate trail.

Here's the lake we hiked to. Twin Lakes.

We took a very similar picture here last year... we thought we'd do it again for old time's sake.

Lastly, we had a ward BBQ and we were asked to bring a desert. Always determined to wow, we decided to make a watermelon cake (Doesn't taste like watermelon). We'd been looking for a cool summertime cake/dessert. This one was a good start to us being Pros! Super easy. White cake mix with red dye, chocolate chips in a pie pan. Then frost with colored frostings and put chocolate chip seeds on top! Those are gumdrops on the rind section. It was a hit and it got eaten before we left.

We love our Nation!