Matt's Home!

Matthew got home from serving his mission in Brazil on August 12. It is SO great to have him home. We have gone on a few dates- dinner with his family, a Brazilian restaurant, dinner at Applebees and Italian Village. We have gone bowling, swimming, took his big dog on a walk, went to my uncle Michaels birthday party and helped each other move to college...which was both exciting and sad. He's going to UVU and I have my last semester at SUU. He wasnt too awkward but does randomly throw in some portuguese words. He is amazing and we have fun!

Sharlene and Matt

This was on his first day home! WELCOME home Matthew! We had dinner with his family and then of course the first place he wanted to go was to Best Buy so he could catch up on technology. He is brilliant. So if you need your computer fixed- here's your guy. He makes me laugh. Oh it was funny he was taking a picture and he's like 1, 2, 3 paper! (instead of 1, 2, 3, cheese!!) He forgot english a little bit. I love seeing his pictures and hearing his stories. He was a great missionary and I'm so glad we have known each other for so long.

Grandma Witt

I LOVE my grandma! I have had so much fun living with her and learned SO much! I love hearing her stories, talking about love and life, eating dinner together, learning her weird sayings, hearing her great advice, watching cash cab and the news together, shopping, eating dinner and so much more. The summer has gone by fast and I sure will miss living with her. Speaking of how fast time has gone......Matt is coming home from his mission in 1 week and 1 day!!! I cant believe it. Its definately a mix of emotions. I'm excited, nervous, scared, overjoyous, exstatic, overwhelmed, hahaha, it'll be fun and interesting to see what happens. So this picture is for him!

Sallys Married!

Sally and Gavin got married in the St George temple on Saturday and they are so cute! I loved the Luncheon/Reception.

She is my little sister in Alpha Phi and now she's growing up! I love her so much!

We had a little bachelorette party on the night before her wedding and gave her great gifts! Being married will be SO fun!

Sally, Bekah, Me, Ashley

i got a MAC!!

Guess what?!?!?! I got my very own first laptop! I got a Mac! I LOVE it SO much! If you are debating whether to get a Mac or a PC I would go with a Mac. It is So fun! It is great for pictures and one day I will get photo shop. And you can still have office- like word, excel, powerpoint. I can write in my journals, update my blog, everything. So thank you Kady for always letting me use yours last semester. I loved it so much that I have been saving up ever since and finally could afford it last week.

Lets just say my family and I had WAY too much fun with Photo Booth- look at these fun pics. 

Optical illusions. 
Cool backgrounds

This was probably the most I have ever seen mom, dad, sabrina, marcus, david and I laughing so hard at once! We entertained ourselves with all the special effects. 

Ahhh! Its a mop-head!

Or is it Sabrina...
We look young- it was late. I LOVE my family!!! Seriously Macs can do EVERYTHING. Its amazing. What would we do without technology?

Temples

I went to the Oquirrh Mountain temple open house the other night with my friend Nick and it is so beautiful!

Sabrina and I went to the Draper temple after Mikell's fun little birthday party. I love the temple.

Bear Lake and Boating

My family went to bear lake for the weekend. David is getting taller than me!

FUNNY/embarassing story: we relaxingly floated out on lake on our little tubes, had a fun time laughing and playing, we realized we were out pretty far so we tried paddling, swimming and kicking our way back. Little did we know that the wind was blowing pretty far and no matter how hard we paddled we were stuck in the same spot. We didnt even know how we got out that far, especially without realizing it. Then we came up with a system where david back stroked I held his legs and kicked. We would move a little but it got tiring FaSt! Sabrina was pulling marcus along because he was determined that eventually we would just float to shore and he wanted to relax and not get wet. All of the sudden this boat is coming straight at us, david says that looks a lot like dad on the boat (keep in mind we did not have a boat, thus the reason we were just floating on these dinky tubes) I turned and saw him and exclaimed- that is dad! As soon as we were in ears reach he's like "Get in the Boat" So we climbed aboard to this random family that came and had to rescue us. Boy did we feel like idiots. I guess we were out there a few hours and didnt even realize it so my parents got worried and knew we would never make it back. Good news we all made it alive and someone saved the day. We had fun and stayed close to shore the rest of the afternoon.

My ward is awesome! and we went on a boating activity the other day It was too windy so we just tubed and it was a BLAST!

This boat ride was much more enjoyable than the ashamed rescue ride the other day.

I love boating! and summer!

life in this part of town

is anyone wondering...wow I wonder what is going on in the life of sharlene? I mean I know its on my mind quite often.....what am I doing with my life? Just in case it is on your mind too and you have nothing better to do than blog stock (dont be embarassed- i do it too) then here goes- summer has been great and I cant believe its already July. In the past week I have gone to Trafalga 3 times ALL for FREE!! Since we work at Seven Peaks we get a discount and had some free activity passes for June.

First time in my life: went with some work friends- Emilie, Malae, Clayton and his roommate. We hit the batting cages (i suck...and it hurts your hands...but quite fun), mini golf and I totally dominated and 4D movie- i dont suggest this part. It was so FUN!



Second time: went for FHE with Jessica, Scott, Jackson and Carson. We played mini golf and Jackson (my 2 year old nephew) is SOO cute to watch and so good. He'd get out there are swing his club, he's actually a good golfer then RUN to the next hole. Jess why dont we ever take pictures? We played TONS of arcade games and won like over 400 tickets to get cool prizes.

Third time: rode on Alex's scooter to get there and played mini golf- no worries I won again! We had tons of fun and I loved it.

So for future if you are thinking about going to Trafalga GO!! Its a blast!

My friend Nick from high school just got home from his mission from Tawain. So Lance, Nick and I went out to dinner and ate Sushi on Saturday- it was so fun to see him and hear some experiences and learn about Taiwan. The next day was his homecoming and he did so great. I cant even imagine learning Chinese. Too hard. But I am ready for my next language.....so I'll be trilingual.

Speaking of missionaries returning home- Matt gets home in 41 days from Brazil!!!!!!!!! Thats so crazy. Who knows what'll happen? I guess only Heavenly Father really knows... so we just gotta trust Him.

Work has been SO good this week. I LOVE SEVEN PEAKS! I love everyone that works here. Grandma and I have been getting along better too. My day off- Tuesday- I had no plans so I just cleaned the house and we hung out- got her hair done, grocery shopping, lunch at Kneaders (SOO delicious!) and chatted for a while. I have always thought Grandmas house is spic and span...then I borrowed Jessicas vacuum and there was so much dust in some places the carpet changed colors.

I was available for an upgrade and I got a new phone...for FREE!! Its a black berry flip phone and I like it. I checked at T-mobile and was going to get the pearl for $80 then Sab told me to check Wal-Mart (great idea!!) and I got one for free. Now my phone wont die every 5 hours and isnt as ghetto as my old one. Cool. heres a picture

Basically in case you just skimmed through...life in provo is wonderful. Although I DO need to be better at keeping in touch with people. Alicia- I really do wanna hang out. I miss everyone from Cedar (especially my roommates!) and I'm excited for fall semester but for now I like being here. Note to all: live in the Present- its better. Peace out! Have a fantastic day.