Seven Peaks

I live for the summertime and absolutely love being in the sun, so on my day off its the number one thing I want to do if I can. This week Tyler and I took his sister's kids to Seven Peaks and my little brother and sister joined us. It was such a fun day, it made me realize how boring Tyler and I can be when we there alone. The kids made it much more fun and lively. I wish I would have taken some pictures of them in action, because they were fun to watch. Brinley was especially funny. She loved the lazy river and kept wanting to go back. Chaston was a little dare devil and kept trying to take off into the 6ft. part of the wave pool (he had a life jacket on) and he was dying to go on all the big slides and even the rope swing. Unfortunately for him he was way too short for all of it! Mccall was tall enough but she wasn't so sure she wanted to brave some of the big slides!

Brinley was really determined not to get burned. Her mom put sunscreen on her before she left. Then she wanted some on when we got there and again about an hour later, then 30 minutes later we were sitting on our towels Natalie turned to me and said, ummm Nicole...I turned around to see her legs caked in it! We had a good laugh and had to scrape a lot of it off and share it with everyone else.

Mama Schaef's Special Day!

It's my mama's birthday today! I was feeling really bad because I wasn't going to see her today. She is having a fun birthday up in Salt Lake with the homies (the children still living at home) and of course, I'm working so wasn't going to be able to join the family for dinner, luckily I learned that she wouldn't be leaving for Salt Lake until later so Tyler and I went with her and Natalie to breakfast. Dumb me fully intended on taking a picture there to be posted here but as soon as we pulled away I realized I'd completely spaced it. Sooo, being that its Throwback Thursday and all, a definite throwback birthday is due (although I'm pretty sure this was at a wedding shower, but I'm going to pretend).

Happy Birthday Mom!!!

Hope its the best!

The Busy Life of Nicole

This summer has so far been an interesting one for me. I feel like I gave up my life back in April and my whole life consists of work. Its not that I'm working a long amount of hours. I think I'm averaging about 42 a week, but whats killing me is the hours that I do work. Let me start by saying I actually really do love my job. I work with a fun group of girls, in a great office with great owners and staff, however being available to work between 8:30am and 10pm makes it really difficult to plan much of anything. I think Tyler and I will probably run out of friends soon considering how many people we've turned down for things like BBQ's, movies, and all things summer because of my hours and did I mention I get to work the 4th of July? Awesome. The one upside to it all, is that Tyler is available in the day so we still find plenty of time to go do stuff together and make it so I can still have a little taste of summer. So far we've spent a few hours at 7 peaks and last week we went to the home opener Owlz game and I'm hoping to do a lot more fun stuff this week, because I work not only 1 early day this week but 2 and have my day off to play on top of that. I can't wait. Working the hours I work sure make me grateful for whatever time I get!!! I basically live for Sunday's because its the one day a week I know I always have. Yesterday was a particularly good Sunday. We went over to Misty and Russ's and played with cute little Bryce and then went to a get together for my cousin Brett's birthday. We had lots of laughs and enjoyed time with family, as always!

A Day for Dad's

I'm a lucky girl, that's all I can say. I have the best dad in the world as far as anyone is concerned and Tyler can say the same thing about his own dad!
 Between the 2 of us we're blessed with some pretty darn great men in our lives.

Happy Fathers Day to my Wonderful Dad and Father-in-Law!

We sure love you both and are so blessed to have men like you as our dad's.

(...and to my own dad, I think I deserve favorite child status for A. Writing this post and B. Not abandoing you like a few other children on this special day!)

Shantel's Wedding Cap

One of my longest friends got married on Thursday. Shantel and I have been friends since I was in 1st grade and she, in Kindergarten. It was a sad day in 9th grade when I moved away and we were no longer only a few houses down but none-the-less we have stayed friends. It was so great to get to be in the temple and watch her and her now husband, Kyle, get sealed to one another. It was a great day and she looked so gorgeous. Her dress was beautiful (my pictures don't do it justice at all.) and all in all it was a perfect day.

Here are a few pics via Instagram.

Dancing Divas

For those of you who don't know my mother-in-law Kim runs a dance studio out of Lindon and Santaquin. All 3 of our nieces take from her and every year its so fun to see them dance at their year end recital. This year was especially great, because it was the first year all 3 of them were dancing. It was Brinley's first year and it was so fun to see her up on stage too. I was a proud auntie watching them dance. They were the best and cutest ones up there! We're so lucky to have such a cute nieces!

Bryce's Baby Blessing

Yesterday Misty & Russ blessed their baby Bryce. We were so glad we got to be there for it.

 Isn't he a cutie?

Bryce with all the Hunsaker men.

Just Had to Share :)

Vinyl. Vinyl. Vinyl.

Tyler and I recently purchased a professional vinyl cutting machine and are officially up to our ears in vinyl. It can cut anything and everything which is pretty exciting stuff. Just thought I'd get the word out in case anyone is interested :)