Bello, Bello, Bello - Bration!!!

Here we are enjoying the circus with some friends.
We missed you Trent and Ulia!!!

Holy Mitt!!!

This past weekend we had the wonderful opportunity to attend the local Rally for Romney. Under the direction of brother Mike as the "team leader", Venita and I were part of Team Simmons along with Mom and Mike's friend Mike Francis. We were very proud of ourselves and our success. The goal for each team was to raise $1,000 and we came amazingly close with $940! Mitt was proud as well!!
(Thanks for your contribution, Kami. You can be an honorary member of Team Simmons)

TEAM SIMMONS!!!!

Let's get on those phones!

Mitt came over while I was getting a contribution from brother Danny and returned the favor by congratulating him on his recent engagement!!

"Don't rock the boat, give him your vote!"

Carmel Apples!!

Every week we like to get together with my brother Mike and his girlfriend Kim for FHE. We have done all sorts of fun activities with them: BBQs, State Fair, movies, this weekend we are even going to the circus but tonight Mike had a genius idea! Just thought we'd share some photos from tonight's activity.

P.S. Notice Venita's new pretty hair, what a babe!

Thanks to Mike and Kim for always providing such a fun time

Our weekend at home

Hey ya'll- we had a great time this past weekend of going home to Rupert and while we relaxed and had fun, we were also hard at work. Venita woke up Saturday morning determined to help with some kind of project that day. Let me give you a quick disclaimer, we basically have two channels at our house, Disney and HGTV (home and garden televesion), and HGTV has inspired Venita to take on design as a sort of hobby. She's good at it- don't get me wrong but we don't have much to work with at our apartment here in SLC. Luckily there is plenty to help with up in Rupert though!!!

Venita decided that morning that she didn't like the faux wood panelling in the basement (this of course is my side of the story) and insisted on putting up drywall. She sent dad to the lumber yard while we worked at tearing down the existing wall.

Once he returned with the supplies, we started the whole fun process. Dad measured and cut the pieces, I secured the drywall, and Venita did a wonderful job of taping up the seams and covering the screws. Quite the team, huh?

After a few hours we got it all done and started making plans for our next visit. We'll need to choose a color of paint and layout for the room, but for now we're going to let Venita take care of all that. Here's a picture of our completed work for the day- we still have a ways to go!

More wedding photos

We decided to add some more photos so others can have access to them instead of just being able to look at them on here.

I have put up some better resolution photos on a different site that are available for download. You wont be able to preview the pictures there but you can preview them at the site above and then download them according to the file name. I hope this helps or at least makes sense!!

Happy Birthday Venita!!!!

'Nuff said

Let us officially welcome everyone to our "new" blog site. I know it's been up for awhile with pictures, but we want to add some commentary as well. Venita just loves to put the pictures up (and pretty good at it) and has taken it upon herself to leave the actual blogging to me. Lucky me!!
Anyway, let's consider this our official "blog start-up extravaganzapalooza"!!!

Come and relax now....

Here are some pictures of one of my favorite places on Earth. The Gorge in George, Washington. This is an ampitheatre built on the bank of the beautiful Columbia River in Eastern Washington state. Every year The Dave Matthews Band plays a weekend of concerts there. As you can tell, the venue is pretty much in the middle of no where which provides for a fun-filled weekend of camping with 20,000 or so DMB fans(freaks) and concerts in the evenings. This experience has become a tradition of mine with my brothers and my friends (one year with my mom even), and this my 4th year was even more enjoyable having the love of my life Venita by my side!
All in all it was a great weekend of good music, good food, good company, and good good times.

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