Handsome groom and beautiful bride!

This is Jessi, Andy's bride, isn't she beautiful!

Andy and me dancing at his wedding.

Isn't he handsome?!?!?
(I don't like the picture of me though.)

Welcome to the family, Jessi, we love you!

So proud...

Our youngest son, Aaron, has been "giving back" as he has been coaching West Side Babe Ruth Baseball this year. It has sure taken a lot of time, energy and patience (with the boys and their parents/grandparents). Aaron and Tasha live in Holladay and this league is on the west side of SLC so travel time was one of the sacrifices he made for these kids. Last night was the awards dinner and game between the coaches and 15 yr old players. Nine of Aaron's boys were named all stars and Aaron was "Coach of the Year"!!!

Congrats Huff...you're the "Man of the Year" in my book!
Love you!

Three more pictures from Peru

A baby sloth. Picture taken at a remote village in the Amazon of Peru.
Cute little sloth wouldn't you say! I had seen adult sloths in Costa Rica and their fur looked so coarse. The baby sloth's fur looked coarse as well,
but he was so soft and cuddly!

AMAZING!!!

Is this REALLY a Dairy Queen Birthday Cake????

It has been our tradition for over 20 years to have a Dairy Queen birthday cake for our birthdays. Since there isn't one close to our home anymore we drive quite a distance to get one. Angela is visiting and even though her birthday isn't until June 14th we are celebrating tomorrow by going out to dinner and coming back to the house for cake.

When Tommy walked in the house with the cake, those who saw it made negative comments about it, I was busy and didn't think anything of it....then when I realized what they had said I had to go to the freezer and look for myself.

This cake looks like a 10 year old made it. It is NOT the quality of work that the Centerville, Utah Dairy Queen usually turns out when I order a cake from them. I called and complained, but I imagine nothing will change... he tried to send me a coupon, I said I'm not trying to get anything from you I just don't want to EVER get this quality of bd cake from you again. I told him it was supposed to be yellow, orange, peach and white with green leaves on the roses. Well, for one thing you can't even tell that there are roses on this cake most of them look like blobs of frosting. The quality of frosting is terrible...it has tons of air bubbles in it and like I said the cake looks like it was decorated by a 10 year old...it is hideous--to quote one of my kids. And what about the mechanics blue...I didn't order any shade of blue...

So, anyway these pictures don't do the shabby work justice...
Happy Birthday Ang...

Everyone makes mistakes but you usually try to cover them up.

You should see this mess in real life...

The blob of yellow icing is supposed to be a rose...and all of the flowers are very, very small.

The quality I expected and usually got can be found at: I can't download this image in my blog for some reason...

http://www.dairyqueen.com/us-en/eats-and-treats/menu/treats/dq-cakes/

Piranha Fishing

Well...I can now say I've been piranha fishing in the Amazon...yep, yesterday after hiking in the jungle and lunch, we went piranha fishing and also saw giant lily pads, a snake, sloths and other various insects. Though I didn't catch any piranha many in our group did and they also caught some Amazon catfish. I put bait (beef) on my hook and made noise on the water with my pole and watched the piranhas snatch the bait off the hook bite by bite. It became a game with me to watch them and I didn't care if I caught one or not. There were 3-4 piranhas who would attack the bait as I watched. We saw pink and gray river dolphins again as well. After dinner there was a show put on by some of the locals and we celebrated Cathy's birthday; a few days before we had asked our tour guide, Carlos, to see if he could arrange a birthday cake for Cath. When the Ceiba Tops Lodge employees went to Iquitos they bought a cake and it took a 2 hr boat ride back to the lodge. After the show the band and the employees of the Lodge sang to her and the rest of us joined in. All in all it was a fun day in the hot, humid Amazon Jungle/River. I enjoyed the people but I don't think I want to come to the Amazon region again though. No pictures yet...will post when I do.

Peru...being sent FROM the Amazon Jungle...

So, I thought walking on the Great Wall would be #1 on my list of things I've done...not so,  I've now climbed into Machu Picchu and it was far more amazing!  

We've also visited a remote village and took them school and medical supplies and we are now in the Amazon Jungle...a lodge with free wireless internet which blows my mind--not the free but having it in the jungle!

Today we took a ride down the Amazon (we saw pink dolphins that swim in the Amazon River) to visit a tribe of Indians...can't remember the name.  They were fun people and two of the kids had tiny monkeys for a pet and one boy had a baby sloth. 

This has been a great trip so far.  We haven't uploaded the pictures from the Amazon yet, but will post some when we do.

Jack came to SLC for an hour!!!

Big boy Jack at the SLC airport.

Grandma running to keep up with Jack.

Jack found MANY buttons to push!!!

Jack and Tim on escalators...we all rode the up and down escalators at least 4-5 times with him...in addition to riding the elevator!

Jack and Grandpa

Aunt Amy holding Jack so he'll eat dinner.

Jack and his best buddies...Grandpa Huffaker and Mr. Elephant

Jack couldn't figure out why we weren't going with him.

Our last good-bye!

On their way to visit Tommy's parents, Jack and Tommy had a layover in SLC; here are a few pictures of our fun. All Jack wanted to do was RUN, RUN, RUN....AND ride the elevator and escalator--he couldn't get enough. Ang, these are for you!