Fun with the Zimmers

There are three Zimmer boys in Rexburg, Daniel and his two brothers Jason and Jody. We have a lot of fun together. With Jody living in our basement and Jason and Aimee about a mile down the road, we try to get together as much as we can. We play with the kids (Ila, Isaac and Aiden), play the Wii, celebrate holidays and birthdays together, go on trips together (mostly just home to Oregon), play games and eat TONS of delicious food. We miss Jeff and Aimie alot, and we wish you could be here with us- you too Nana and Poopa. Here are some fun pictures and movies we have taken these past few weeks. I love being a part of the Zimmer family!


Jody and I at Lake of the Woods in Oregon


This is Aiden and his Mom having fun on Easter Sunday


Isaac and I trying our "glasses" on for size


Daniel and Isaac taking a Sunday nap


Cooking Jody's birthday dinner


All the boys playing Mario Party on the Wii. There is a mini game called "Chomp Wash" where you have to wash off spray paint on a cannon ball by shaking the controller up and down as fast as you can. I crack up every time I watch this because this is what it's like all the time around these boys. Enjoy.

Goin' on Down to Georgia

About a week ago I went with a team from BYU-I to Atlanta to participate in a national landscape design/management competition called PLANET Student Career Days. I competed in two events- Pest Management and Maintanance Cost Estimating. There were about 12 other events my team participated in. It was such a great opportunity to learn and travel places I had never been before. The accents were hilarious, and the people were bubbling with that southern hospitality. Out of 66 universities we finished 3rd, only 6 points behind BYU in second place. Arrrrrgh. Now- I am a cougar fan, but I had a really hard time liking them when I was competeing against them. Sorry to everyone who attended or attends said school, but for BYU-I to beat BYU in anything is huge for us here in Rexburg. I finished 3rd in Pest Managment (see below pic) and 21st in Estimaing. Both had about 130 participants per event.



When you place in the top three you get a certificate and cash award from the event sponsor. I got to walk on stage and take tons of photos. It was a pretty big deal. Heather (in the picture with me) finished 2nd in Interior Plant ID.


This is my team studying and waiting for the events to start.


A picture I couldn't resist taking :)

We also visited gorgeous gardens, and the Coca-Cola world in Atlanta. At the end of the Coke tour they had an entire tasting room dedicated to every product created by Coke. It was fun tasting latin american, asian, and european soft drinks. Sorry Mom about all the soda drinking- I brushed my teeth as soon as I got back to the hotel. Georgia reminded me a lot of Oregon. There were green trees and beautiful plants everywhere. The humidity was wasn't too bad either- I even got a sunburn on my face! I came home to 40 degree weather and snow on the ground. Drats.


This orchid was just growing underneath a palm tree in a giant celarium. Totally cool.


These were the latin american products- they were actually really good, one soda was banana flavored. Yum.


They also let you take all the coke you want before you leave, I only grabbed a few. . .