Congrats Aaron & Jasmine!

This weekend we were able to go to Boise Idaho for one of Dan’s best friends weddings! It was so much fun! They were married on Friday September 12 in the Boise Idaho Temple. It was fun to be able to go to the temple and be there for their wedding ceremony. It was absolutely beautiful and they both looked so happy! Congrats Aaron and Jasmine! We wish you both the best of luck in your new life together!

Swiss Days

So over Labor Day Weekend I went up to Midway with my mother-in-law and her friend to Swiss Days. This was my first year going and it was really fun!!! For those of you who don’t know what Swiss Day’s is – it is basically like a big Quilted Bear!!! Haha! But we had so much fun! We woke up early Saturday Morning and drove up there and spent the entire day looking at all the neat crafts and art and everything that was there! Basically I wanted to buy one thing from almost every booth – luckily I was able to practice some self control because that would have been a VERY expensive day if I hadn’t. But I did get so many cute ideas of things I can make to put in our house – and I am suddenly feeling really crafty! On our way back home we stopped at this Mexican restaurant called the Crazy Lizard or something like that – maybe Loco Lizard – I don’t remember – but they had THE BEST and I mean THE ABSOLUTE best enchiladas I have ever had!!! I am not a big enchilada fan to begin with – so normally I don’t get them, but the waiter strongly recommended it so I decided to try it and I am so glad I did. The only unfortunate part about this – is that this restaurant is ONLY in Park City – so when I want to eat those delicious things again, I have to go to Park City. So needless to say – Dan and I will probably be making several trips to Park City in the near future! Aw Yeah!!!

The First Day of the Rest of Our Lives

We were married: June 26, 2007 in the Salt Lake Temple

A few facts...
* When we got married: I was 21 (I turned 21 exactly one month before we got married…on May 26th) & Dan was 22.
* Our bridesmaids were: I didn’t have bridesmaids… only a maid of honor and it was my sister Whitney, and the Best Man was Dan’s brother Ryan.

*The weather was: PERFECT!!! I couldn’t have asked for better weather!
*We spent our wedding night (keep it clean): At La Quinta by the airport – we had a very early flight the next morning and didn’t’ want to chance missing it!!!
*One thing I will never forget: The overwhelmingly joyful feeling I had when we were sealed for time and all eternity! I’ll also never forget the look on Dan’s face when he saw me for the first time walking towards him in my wedding dress before we walked out of the temple. Oh and I’ll never forget the feeling I had all day – I was a princess married to my prince charming! It was awesome! Haha.

*Our Reception was at: Le Jardin (The Rose Shop) in Sandy!
*One favorite part of the Reception: Was seeing loved ones come and support us and wish us luck on our new adventure. I also LOVED LOVED LOVED our cake – the way it looked in the gazebo it was under and the way it tasted – I hate wedding cake but the lady that did mine was seriously a miracle worker and made the best cake I have ever tasted or looked at!!!

*Looking Back I would have....taken the time before the reception to look at all the decorations, pictures, and food and everything since I didn’t have a chance to do it all night!
*I wish: I could get married to Dan every year and have that special day and feeling again over and over again.
*We Honeymooned: In New York for a week! It was absolutely amazing!!!
*Our First Year of Marriage was: Wonderful! We have learned a lot about each other and we have grown as a couple! Our one year anniversary we stayed at the Anniversary Inn in the Treasure Island room. It was magical!
*We have been married: 1 year, 1 month, and 25 days.
*Life today is: Busy & Fun! Dan goes to school full time and works and I work full time, but we always manage to find time to play and go on fun vacations!!!
*Since Our Wedding we have added: on weight LOL!!!!

American Idol & Lake Powell

AMERICAN IDOL
Ok so I know this happened FOREVER ago – but I am just finally putting up pictures. So Dan and I were able to go to the American Idol concert and it was AWESOME! All of the top 10 did such amazing jobs and David Archuleta was unbelievable. He was so overwhelmed with the crowd SCREAMING for him that he even started to cry. It was so cute. Also – not to do with the American Idol Concert but to go along with American Idol…. I TRIED OUT when they were here in Salt Lake City. HAHA. My husband and little brother were hounding me to do it and so I did. I went by myself but I ran into a lot of people that I knew from high school and from other various singing things that I have done over the years. It was so much fun. It was a very very long day but I had a blast!!! I was able to overcome one of my biggest fears of singing in front of people and I am so proud of myself because of that!!!! I obviously didn’t make it – but it was fun to see the people that did (the really good people and the crazy ones haha) so it was fun and a great experience!!!!

LAKE POWELL
Dan and I were able to go to Lake Powell last week (August 2- August 9) with the Koch family. There were a total of 35 of us there. We had 2 houseboats, 2 boats, 2 wave runners, and LOTS of toys (i.e. wakeboards, tubes, skies, etc.). To save on gas, Dan and I rode with my family down there. On the way there our car overheated (smoke coming out of the engine and everything). It was so scary but we were truly being watched over and blessed. Right as soon as we pulled over someone saw us and flipped around to come help. He apparently knows a lot about cars and knew exactly what was wrong – he even had a special glove in has car so he would be able to touch the hot engine without getting burned. The next city (Kamas – where this guy was from) was only 3 min away – so he followed us there and told us where to go to get our car fixed. While he was following us he called a mechanic that he trusted and told him we were on our way- we got there at about 2:45pm and their shop closed at 3:00pm. They didn’t have the parts that we needed to fix the car and it was going to take 2-3 business days to get them in… but we called another distributor in Richmond and they had them… well my aunt and uncle that were also coming that were 3 hours behind us – were right by Richmond – so they were able to stop and get the parts for us! Well that left us with the problem that they wouldn’t be in Kamas until about 9:00pm and so we wouldn’t have anyone to fix it for us… but guess what – the mechanic was way awesome and stayed until my aunt and uncle got there. Needless to say – we were very very very blessed and had a lot of really nice people help us and we were able to get to Lake Powell late Saturday night. Sunday was awesome – we were all there by then and we wanted to “keep that day holy” so we didn’t do any wave running or wake boarding or anything like that – and that night we had a testimony meeting and it was so neat to hear all the testimonies of my cousin’s aunts and uncles. Then Monday the real party started – waking up at 6:30 to ski or wakeboard on the glass water – going hard all day swimming, tubing, wave running, wakeboarding, and then playing games, watching movies at night and sleeping out under the stars on top of the houseboat. It was awesome! We had so much fun! It was a much needed vacation! I got nice and tan too – so that was nice. I came back to work and everyone was telling me how cute I looked now that I’m tan LOL. And it was way fun for Dan because he had never been to Lake Powell before – so I was so glad that we were able to go. The only bad part of the trip is that my phone got dropped the first day there and the screen broke! So I can still receive and make calls – but I can’t see whose calling or read texts. So sad!!! So I am going to go get a new phone soon – but I don’t know if I want to stay with T-mobile or not – so anyone that reads this… who is your cell phone provider? And do you like them and would you recommend them? That’s all from here. OH wait – one more thing – TREVOR COMES HOME ON OCTOBER 1ST FROM HIS MISSION!!! I am so freaking excited! And then October 25th we leave for Florida for a week – so needless to say – I want September to FLY by!!!!

Update

So... I know I haven't updated in a while... we are in Lake Powell right now, but when we get back I will post pictures of the American Idol concert and our Lake Powell trip... so you all have that to look forward to :).

Random Facts

Random Fact #1 – My favorite channel is the Food Network. If I didn’t have anything to do and if I didn’t feel guilty for sitting in front of the TV for long periods of time, I would spend hours and hours watching the Food network. And sometimes when I cook, I pretend that I am the host of my own cooking show and I narrate everything that I’m doing. Not only do I narrate it – but I do it in an accent sometimes. LOL It makes cooking more fun and it makes Dan laugh so I enjoy it!

Random Fact #2 – Dan sings in the shower LOL HAHA but he only sings ONE song – and that is the National Anthem, so needless to say – I get sick of that song.

Random Fact #3 – Most of you probably know this – but my food CANNOT touch on my plate. I will go back 2 or 3 times to get everything I want before I will let anything on my plate touch. Everyone makes fun of me for it and I’m sure it drives people crazy – but that’s the way that I am!

Random Fact #4 – I hate brushing my teeth – yep that’s right – hate it. I gag pretty much every time I do it and I am currently working on a way to have clean and amazing teeth/breath without brushing. When I come up with something I’ll let you all know.

Random Fact #5 – Speaking of coming up with something, about 2 years ago I was talking to Dan and I was telling him about this amazing idea that I had to make a cell phone that had a mirror in it… well guess what – if you haven’t seen it yet, they have one now. So basically someone stole my idea and is making millions off of me. Just think, if I would have been serious about that and done something with it – I could have been a millionaire right now. I know, sad isn’t it?

Random Fact #6 – Dan has found a new passion and love besides me… and that is golf. He loves golf – he breathes it. When he watches TV he watches golf. When he reads, he reads golf books, when he is on the computer, he is looking at golf clubs, and in his spare time he is either on the golf course, at the driving range, putting green, or at a golf store. And I’m not going to lie – I enjoy it as well, but not to the extent he does hahaha.

Random Fact #7 – This is one of the things that I have always loved about Dan, whenever we are watching a movie or TV, and something comes on that has women dressed inappropriately or a sexual scenes come on, Dan will look at me rather than watching or looking at the beautiful women on the screen. How cute is that?!?!?! Now now... don't be jealous girls :)

Random Fact #8 – My favorite store in the whole world and where I love to hang out more than anywhere else is Costco. My mom tells me all the time that I am deranged – but I love going there – I find excuses to go there every week.

In conclusion, my life would be very boring without Costco and the food network. (ha-ha, ok not really, but it’s always fun to pretend.)

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Cant Sleep & 4TH OF JULY!

So if you are looking at the posting time… it is almost 6:00 in the morning, but the problem is, I have been awake since before 5 and I can't sleep. I don't know why either because we partied so much this weekend, we didn't go to bed until 2 on the 4th and we woke up early and partied all day Saturday so you would think I would be exhausted right??? WELL I AM! But I can't sleep! So annoying! But I have been reading all of my friends blogs so that’s been fun - I mean what else am I supposed to do as this time of day when everyone else is sleeping?

I didn't take any pictures over the Holiday weekend. I am so bad at remembering to take my camera places, and when I do remember - I forget to get it out and take pictures. I always kick myself later when I realize I did it again. But the 4th was fun. It started off with a round of golf. It was amazing golf weather.... well it was a little windy... but it was overcast so it wasn't too hot - and thank heavens because I am still recovering from my way bad burn last week!!! After golf we went to Ihop and had brunch and then met my family at the dollar theater and saw Maid of Honor. I really liked it and Dan kept making fun of how excited I was getting towards the end of the movie because it was so cute. :) Then we went back to my parents house and played a hilarious game of pit! Then we ate dinner and headed out to Sandy city hall. For those of you who haven't been there before - they have a parade earlier on in the day and then they have entertainment and booths set up to watch and do until the fireworks go off. My family and I have been going for the last 5 or 6 years. We didn't go last year because Dan and I had just gotten back from our Honeymoon to New York and we were opening all our presents with both families and then we all went to the Bee's game. But anyway - so when we got there we ran into my aunt and uncle and their family. So that was fun because we ended up hanging out with them too and we played pit while we waited for the fireworks to start (as you can see, my family loves that game). I'm sure the people around us were getting very sick of us yelling numbers and ringing the bell... but we had a blast! Then we went back to my parent’s house and watched a movie and FINALLY went home around 2am.

Saturday started with a round of golf as well but my family came with us this time. It was fun. Then we went and had a bbq at my parents, played games, went Costco shopping lol and went and saw Get Smart.

I love the 4th of July. I love fireworks and as cheesy as this is going to sound, I love the "feeling" of the fourth of July. Everyone has so much fun and there just a feeling of pride in our country and where we live and the freedoms that we have. It’s just awesome. The 4th of July is my favorite holiday and it was so much fun this year - I can't wait for it to come around again next year and I can't wait for the 24th!!!