Wedding!!!Ü

Can you believe D.J. is already getting married?!?! He is marrying Rachel Bills on Friday....This Friday!!! Who'd have thought that it would be happening so quickly? Rachel is from Lander, Wyoming. Between traveling to Wyoming last weekend and stuffing envelopes the weekend before, it sure seems like D.J. is taking over our social lives. Then, on other days, Jeff decides to take us camping, or to the lake(now granted, I'm not complaining, but sometimes a relaxing weekend at home is good enough for me!Ü) Well, considering the wedding is on Friday, we hope to see all the family and friends come to the reception that night. It's at St. George Ford in the show room!! Plus, as always, there will be good food!!!!Ü

A Visit to Jessica's

 

Wow!! Never a dull moment at the Schmutz house!! Between wedding plans and Jeff still dating, Jordanne and three of her friends got to drive up to Rexburg, Idaho in order to participate in EFY!!! They dropped Jillian off at Jessica's house, so she could spend the week with her. Jordanne and her friends are undoubtedly having a wonderful time. Jillian is managing her time well with Jessica. She stays up late talking to Jessica or reading. Jillian has actually been rather lazy this week! She slept in until at least 10:30 two or three of the days since she's been there. She spends her time watching movies, playing the Wii and reading! Jessica, Jillian, and Colby went hiking up at Brighton. It has been a wonderful vacation! How will Jillian adjust when she gets back? On Wednesday, Jessica took the young women's to a Bee's game and of course Jillian went with them!

Engagement!!!!

Wow!!! Who knew we would be writing about another engagement so soon?!? We never would have guessed, but it's not Jeff this time, it's his amazing son D.J!!! D.J. got engaged to a young lady named Rachel Bills on Monday night! They will be married on September 19, in the St. George Temple!! We are very excited for them and hope you all will be able to attend! Sorry we don't have any pictures of her yet... They will come soon!!!

EFY!!!!!-Jillian's Trip

Jillian just got back from Rexburg, Idaho! She was up there going to EFY with all of her friends while Jocee stayed with their Aunt Gwen! All in all I think they had a great time doing their own seperate things.

Memorial Weekend

Well, over Memorial Weekend, Jessica and Colby had the opportunity to come down and visit the rest of the gang! Jeff was as excited as ever to get to go to Lake Mead on not just Saturday, but on Monday too. As vacation time drew nearer, however, weather reports got worse and worse. Everyone became disappointed, especially Jeff, as he announced that it would be too cold to go on Saturday, but if the weather held true, we could maybe sneak a trip on Monday. But, low and behold, the weather was not nice to us, and we didn't get to go to the lake. Instead we enjoyed a weekend of painting Jillian's new bedroom(she got to pick the colors, so compliment her on her excellent choice), hosting birthday parties for Jordanne, Amilya Fae, and Jocee(all at one time), and going hiking on one of grandpa McArthur's(oh it's not that hard) type of hike. Of course Jeff led it, but I don't think he realizes how much he is like his father-in-law!! During the hike, we all tried to get Kato to go down this 12 foot drop, like we all were doing. He followed after Jordanne and completely fell down the whole way, almost taking Jordanne with him! His trust in her was destroyed right in that single moment in time. He wouldn't go down any of the other smaller drops, so, we ended up dragging him down, or Jeff would pick him up and hand him off to Colby. Needless to say, after our "little" hike, Kato needed a bath, so Jillian ended out the day trying to bathe him!!! Unfortunately we could only get some after shots of that little experience!

Toroweep

On April 6, Jeff took Jillian, Jordanne, and the Wilcox's down to Toroweep to see the Grand Canyon. Talk about HUGE!!! They had an awesome time!! Jillian and Jordanne stole the camera and were enjoying themselves by leaping across the rocks and doing poses in the air. On the way home, they took the road going back through Colorado City and Hilldale. After making a wrong turn, they got pulled over by the cops, you would never see 6 people(the ones who weren't wearing them) put seatbelts on so fast! The cops made up a story about a fire on the Colorado Strip, which couldn't be true as there was no smoke from out there.

Shooting

So, on April 13, 08 Jeff took Jessica, Colby, Jordanne, and Jillian out shooting. Jillian and Jordanne had previously gotten 270's for Christmas and had not had the opportunity to shoot them. We went out and were shooting the .22's and decided to break out their hunting guns. Jordanne went first and got a small knock in the head from the scope hitting her forehead. Jillian went second and on her first shot managed to hit the jar of cherries she had aimed for, but she hadn't noticed: "Don't put that barrel in the ground!" Jeff yelled and Jillian lifted it a tiny bit higher while holding some fingers to her head. Laughingly, Jessica asks "Are you okay?" Crying, Jillian didn't answer but pulled her fingers away to look at them. Blood covered, she stood up and everyone jumped into action while laughing and joking. We found some old towels in the Excursion and drove home rather quickly. Jessica cleaned it up and now Jillian has a bandaid smack dab in the center of her forehead!