Clint Turns 30!!!

September 23, 2010 Clint's turn came to turn 30. We had a small little get tother with the Jensen's and my sister and brother-in-law Lori and Kyle. We went to Carrabba's (Clint's favorite restaurant) and then came back to our place and watched the Office and had birthday cake. It was a fun night!

Veenker Gomez Party

In September my mom decided that the Gomez family (Andrea's family) needed to meet the ENTIRE Veenker family so we had a little dinner. Of course it was fun and I'm sure the Gomez's thought that we were a bunch of crazy people, but we REALLY like them so it doesn't really matter. Thank you Gomez's for being such amazing people and sharing Andrea with us, we LOVE her!

Scott & Andrea

Here is the happy couple hanging out one day. Scott was washing Andrea's hair and I couldn't resist taking a picture.

Meeks Family Photos'

In August Clint's brother Coleton came from Georgia for a visit so had family pictures taken. My sister-law Katie took them and I think that she did a FABULOUS job! Thanks Katie.

Check out her blog, she's amazing!

http://katieveenkerphotography.blogspot.com/

Out Night With Veenker Siblings

Back in August most of my sibling their spouses and my parents got together and went to dinner at Costa Vida and then headed to the movie theater to watch Inception. We had a great time! Thanks everyone!

Jen Turns 30!!!

Yes it's true, I am no longer young. On August 6, 2010 I turned the big 30 and you know what, it was great and I really don't feel as old as I thought I would.

First off for my present from Clint. He had taken my wedding ring into the jewelers' at got it all spiffed up for me. It looked SO nice and I was so happy to have it back and wearing it instead of the cheap one I had been wearing from Walmart that started to turn my finger green. Thanks Clint, too bad now it's 6 months and it needs to be done again.

Clint threw me a party and a few of my nice friends came. My friend Robin had the most amazing creative mind and came up with a game for me called "That's Jentertainment!"

We had six different categories we competed it.

1.Jen shaken...not stirred and on the rocks

2.Could you please pass the Jen's favorite food.

3. Jen the bread winner

4.Jen on high school night. (In side Joke, Robin wanted to go to studio 600 and FINALLY after nine years Teresa (Robin's wife) and I agreed to go. Unfortunately (for Robin, not me) it was high school night and there was NO way we were going to hang out with a bunch of high school kids.

5. Jen in bed, kind of

6 Jen and Jen

Here is the poster with the different categories.

Ok #1 - Jen shaken not stirred (no picture sorry). So my favorite drink is Diet Coke with Lime. So Robin had 12 different drinks everything dark and carbonated from Coke, Pepsi, Dr. Pepper, Root bear and everything in between. So Clint and I were competing against each other and we had a 12 cups filled with all the soda's and who ever picked the "Diet Coke with Lime" wins! Less than 5 seconds I had it picked!

#2 Could you please pass the Jen's favorite food. So if you have ever been to Magleby's Fresh you know that they have the most AMAZING syrup for there french toast. Well one day we took the healthy Robin with us and he loved it until he found out that it was made with butter. Anyways, since I like the syrup, Robin of course thinks that my favorite food is Syrup and Butter. (It's not by the way!) In this competition we had to come up with a a picture made out of butter and syrup. I won, mine is the bottom left. I had no idea what I was doing, but it ended up looking like the scream character and since Robin loves anything to do with movies, mine one.

#3 Jen the bread winner. Well all of you, or most of you know that my first career is cosmetology. So Robin bought wigs and Teresa and Tamsin had to cut the wigs while the boys were wearing them. I had to judge and it was a very close call, but the Norths won. It was so hilarious watching!

#4 Jen on High school night. So I've been doing Zumba since June and absolutely LOVE it, if you haven't tried it out yet, you really need to. It's the best way to work out, don't be intimidated, just try it! Anyway, for this competition, I had to be the Zumba leader and everyone had to follow me exactly, and if they didn't do it exactly, they were out! Super fun!

#4 Jen in bed kind of. This one was quit interesting. Well like most women, I like to read cheesy romance books. Then the next part was an other inside joke (lets face it, the whole game is based on inside jokes). A couple years ago we were at Robin and Teresa's and I asked for a blanket, Robin went and got it for me and by habit (because he does it for Teresa), he started "tucking me in." Of course we laughed for ever about it and still do.

Anyway so for this one, Nick and Tamsin had to swaddle me up like a baby and ready me passages from a cheesy romance book.

#6 Jen and Jen. So I admit, I like Jennifer Anniston. Robin of course thinks she is my favorite actor and is always giving me a hard time about it. This competition he was going to prove to me that I have seen all of movies. I'm sorry I don't remember exactly how this competition went, but I think that Teresa and Clint had to name movies of Jennifer Aniston's back and forth and who ever could come up with the most won. Then Robin had a list of all of her movies and no surprise, I haven't seen half of them. Robin on the other hand can't say the same thing.

So after cake and ice cream and a movie that was it! The big 30 had come and gone, it was a great birthday and I want to thank Robin and Clint for putting it together. I had a great time!

The guests, Robin and Teresa Jensen, Clint, and Nick and Tamsin North. Thanks for coming!

Creepy picture of me I know, my eyes are all weird, but it's the only one I had with the cake.

Scott's Engagment

My Brother Scott proposed to my new sister-in-law on August 4, 2010 and of course being the amazing sister I am helped him out a bit, with Clint's help.

Well he Definitely didn't pick the best day, it was pouring rain, tons of lightning and thunder and a few times it started to hail, but did he want to wait, OF COURSE NOT!!!

Scott and I had previously gone up American Fork canyon the week before and picked out a location that I would set things up. So CLint and I went up an hour before Scott was suppose to be there and set up a table with candles and sushi (Andrea's favorite). Of course it was raining like crazy so we had to use an umbrella but that still didn't stop things from getting soaked, especially Clint and me.

I really wanted to get pictures of Scott proposing so we hid in the VERY wet bushes waiting for them. Scott took a little longer than planned because he was waiting to see if the rain would let up, it didn't.

So they finally got there and he proposed and then Clint and I left the happy couple alone while they ate and we walked through the wet bushes to the car. By the time we were done, we didn't have a dry piece of clothing on us, but it was worth it seeing the smiles on Andrea's and Scott's faces.

Congrats guys! Even though it's now been 6 months and you have now been married for 2, oh well, better late than never!

So I have video's of the event, but they aren't downloading, so that will have to wait for another time! Sorry.

Happy Birthday Mom, 2nd half.

Well after the helicopter ride, my mom treated the whole family to the pool to celebrate her birthday. Should have been the other way around, but I guess when your a grandma you can do whatever you want. So here are some pics from the pool.

Mom's Birthday!

On July 30th my mom turned...well I'm sure it was somewhere around 35. My dad, I don't dare say Finally, but he gave her the present of her life time. It was so great that now she expects it each year from now on. Clint just happened to be working with a guy who owns a helicopter business. My dad asked Clint to see what the cost would be for him and he was SO nice and said, it's on me, just bring her down. So my dad woke my mom up at 6:00 am, they got in the car and headed down south to Spanish Fork. My mom just thought that they were going to the cabin, so she didn't expect anything until they pulled into the airport. Needless to to say she LOVED it. The pilot took them on a ride up to the cabin. They couldn't land at the cabin because the air was too thin, but the top right picture is looking down at the cabin, you can't see it because of all the trees, but trust me, it's there. Good job on the present dad, I know she loved it!

24th of July

For the 24th of July weekend we headed up to the cabin for a fun weekend of 4-wheeling, s'mores, games and spending time with family.

You can't see it very well but the bottom right picture of Clint and me is us COVERED in dirt after a really long, fun ride with Scott and Andrea.

My niece Lexi wanted to show me her amazing photography skills, so the above photos are all by her. She hasn't quite figured out the option of holding down the button and waiting for it to focus. Oh well, she had time to figure it out.