V-Tunes

Our friends Jordan & Rachel Clark invited us to go see their friends bands play at what we thought was a polygamist music festival in Big Water, UT. The festival's real name was V-tunes. We drove down Saturday, watched tons of bands play and then finally Jordan's friends bands played, Joshua James and Cory Mon. It was killer. We braved the super hot desert sun, sat on gravel, and danced the night away. Here are some pictures of the adventure.

Rachel and Hillary.

Rachel's debut with the penny trick (look in the rear-view mirror)

The Clark & Erdmann Crew

Jordan

We stopped at this sweet cave that turned out to be a big tourist trap. Therefore this picture is all we I have to show. See anything peculiar in it?

And we eventually made it, v-tunes' second year, many more to come for sure!

Rachel and Jordan deemed this as most comfortable spot available (it really was, gravel is no good)

This picture is kinda crappy but that's Joshua James playing up there

So V-tunes got this house boat company to donate a house boat for the event. Since Jordan is friends with the main bands that played, they let all of us sleep that night on the boat. It was amazing! The weather was perfect, and we slept on that top deck and stared at the stars to we fell asleep. The next day we played in the water.

I think this fulfilled one of Hillary's dreams, to slide off the top deck of a house boat into a lake

I think this is Hillary illustrating how white I was by taking a picture of her shadow on my back

Eventually we had to head back home.

The sun really wore us out, except for Hillary. :-P

We stopped at this place in Kanab, UT to take some band pics of Jordan. His band is called Shady Chapel. Hillary got some sweet ones! But this is just to show kinda what the scenery looked like.

And then we made it home. Jordan let me drive some of the way and I think I fell in love with his car. It's a 2006 Subaru Forester. I felt like I coulda drove across the USA in that thing. So fun to drive. Time to start saving some money! :-P

Thanks Jordan and Rachel for inviting us!! We had a blast. You guys are the best.

PS: Happy Birthday Jordan!

WAIT! I almost forgot to put some videos on here!

Jordan owning the house boat slide.

Me trying to do the slide with the noodles but it wasn't as cool as it looks.

Cory Mon

movin'

even though i'm very excited to go to new york

i think i'm going to miss our house. it smells like nectarines

this summer is starting to turn out as i had hoped

i'm a little bummed we have to miss all the festivities 

but maybe next summer...

i also found this picture of brittna j. and matthew from a while back

just reminds me of being in rexburg

 i'm glad we all escaped in one piece 

Matt is a slow blogger.

Hi friends. Matt here. I wanted to upload this video because I think it's cool. It's almost been a month since Hillary's birthday but I'm slow. Sorry! Enjoy.

PS: Today we've been married 1 year! Happy Anniversary to us. I love you Hillary Dawn!

happy birthday matt!!!

matt turned 23 on saturday so we threw him a surprise party

while he was out skating (and destroying his ankle) kekoa and alyssa (and lulu) came over to help get things ready

here is lulu playing with the zombie doll

rachel and jordan came later and helped finish the pinata

(it was supposed to be a hipster pinata but it ended up being some scary ballerina clown)

alyssa made some amaaazing homemade guacamole and i made some veggie soup or stew or chili i suppose. there was pretty much no liquid in it at all...

what's hot this summer

pinata time

unfortunately i didn't know it took so much work to make a pinata so i had to improvise at the last minute which resulted in a quick kill

we waited a couple of swings before we told matt the pinata had fallen to the ground

rachel and lulu!

after the pinata a random game of stickball arose

at one point in the game jordan hit a line drive into matt which may result in us having to adopt our children. it was something straight out of "america's funniest home videos"

here is kekoa and dave laughing about it

yup. fun day. 

after stickball we went into the basement and matt, jordan, rachel, and me had ourselves a jam. mostly matt and jordan though. my toes kept going numb

we finally got to try out the art city trolly restaurant. it was amazing! thanks to the clarks for buying us dinner! you the best.

I want one

There is one for sale in Rexburg for like 600 bucks or best offer. It's so tempting!!

ps: in case you couldn't tell, matt made this post. :-P

this post is for emily. she is an avid reader of our blog. so i'm letting her make her own post while i'm here visiting.

this is what emily has to say: i miss matt. i love my brother. he is my brother. that is why i love him. okay i want to put some pictures up now.