For Christmas...Brittany, my niece, gave Rachel and I a copy of her recipe book that she compiled with some of her favorite recipes and recipes that she collected. Rachel thought it would be fun if we had a "Recipe Book Night," where each of us choose a recipe to make. It was a lot of fun and as you can imagine, all recipes were very yummy! After dinner we played "Scum" a favorite card game the Black Family loves to play.

Recipe Book Night with the Jackson's

Okay, I'm back... well, maybe....

But here's my first blog post for the year!

Pictures of our Bear Lake Trip - Story to Follow!

Sorry I did this wrong - still trying to learn it all! But whatever - we had a great time!!!

While Everyone was at the 24th of July Parade we...

(Robby & I) got up very early, picked up Grandma & Grandpa Black @ 7 a.m., drove to Centerville to pick up Andy and Aimee (they're getting married in September) and then to Ogden to pick up Rachel and Travis and headed for.....BEAR LAKE!!! We had soooo much fun! We got their around 10:30ish and Grandma & Grandpa rented Waverunners for us and all of us loved our fun day trip! Ron & Andrea and family (my brother and his wife and their 6 children) were there too! What a day! We had fun taking turns on the waverunners and when we weren't on the waverunners we were swimming and making sandcastles and eating and visiting! Thanks Grandma and Grandpa Black for renting the waverunners and for the great day!!! We set up a picnic area and with the beach area so close to the water, those on the shore were able to watch us in the water! In the later afternoon, on our way home, we stopped for Bear Lake's famous Raspberry Shakes!!! Robby and I (Bruce had to work this holiday, but he went with us on the 4th of July) dropped everyone off and returned home around 8:30, having had one of the best 24 of July holiday activity! We are still talking and reminising about this day and hope that we will continue to make it a family tradition (this is our 3rd year)!
The next day @ 7:00 a.m. Grandma Black had two stents put in one of her main arteries - oh boy! Today, 27, she was able to come to our house for a couple of hours so that we could celebrate her birthday! She is still very weak and hope this wasn't too much for her.

Pictures are of us at Grandma's Birthday, Andy & Aimee and Bear Lake (sorry I did it wrong even though Rachel just told me to do the last pictures first and the first pictures last). I do try to listen!!!!!

Look out Bear Lake we're coming again in a couple of weeks and spending a week there! The lake will never be the same after we leave (lol).

HELLO AGAIN!

Okay...so I forgot my password and all that stuff and had to start all over! This time I saved all the bloggin info in a special place. Hopefully I will remember this "special place" if I need to so that I won't have to do this again. If I do, just go to Rachel's blog, and read what we are doing! She does a much better job than I do anyway. Enjoy (hopefully)....

Bruce and Diane having fun and relaxing in the sun and water!!!