Marlana Dempsey is a friend of mine from High School. She is probably one of the very first friends that I made when first moving to Oklahoma as a child. I have so many memories with this girl; driving to her doctor's appointment in St. Louis, MO for a future surgery that would later be named after her (for scoliosis), many a slumber parties where we dipped some poor girl's hand in warm water in hopes of making her pee the bed (and yes, the famous freezing of the bra of the first one asleep), nicknames, girl problems.....if you are a girl reading this, you know the friend(s) in your life that I'm talking about. Over the years we have made many other friends but we seem to find each other over and over again. We may lose touch at times but one thing is always true of Marlana; I have no doubt that she would do anything for me.

She and her family invited us over tonight to her house for dinner and a swim. As you can see on David's face below, it turned out to a night full of "man" fun! Levi got to practice his new "gun skills" as Hyrum watched from inside with me. Sometimes that little guy wants to be so much like his big brothers! He wanted to do what they were doing so badly but of course, over protective mommy wouldn't have anything to do with that!

Here is Brigham and Garland before taking off on the 4 wheelers. Garland was such a good little babysitter all night!
After eating lots of "man meat" we headed off to the lake.

I should have got this next picture on video instead of picture. Hyrum was so stinkin cute trying to "swim" over to John. It took a lot of coaxing but he finally got down in the water and tried to swim out to him. He never did do anything with his feet but he really did try to flap those arms around.