The Egans

Christmas & New Year's

2012-01-09T14:19:00.001-08:00

I will just start out by saying I have stolen most of these pics of other people's blogs and facebook so hopefully they don't mind.

December flew by. We went to see the Utah Symphony Christmas concert at Thanksgiving Point.

Went to a couple of friend's Christmas Parties. Saw Hugo in 3D for Ryan's work Christmas party. Celebrated Christmas with Ryan's family before flying to Seattle for Christmas with my family.

We underestimated how busy the airport would be this time of the year and barely made our flight. We call it our Christmas miracle. We had been told that if we didn't make this flight at 7 am the next one was at noon, and there were only 2 seats available, and since my sister was with us we envisioned a nightmare day at the airport getting split up and missing all our plans we had for that day in Seattle. We were going thru the longest security line I have ever seen, heard the final boarding call for our flight while in line, ran, (well I as Ryan says did a panic waddle in my pregnant state running was not an option,in my socks holding my boots) actually barely made it on the plane 5 min after it was suppossed to take off. Even our luggage made it there when we had been told it might not b/c of the late checkin. Christmas in Seattle consisted of going on a chocalate factory tour, playing mafia, eating out and generally enjoying being almost all together. Also, my family had a really fun shower for me and Ryan where we got to hang out with all our awesome cousins and get some really cute baby stuff including a crib!!

Baby Shower

New Year's Eve party at Ryan's sister's house

Thanksgiving!

2011-12-09T16:20:00.000-08:00

is one of my favorite holidays. Its all about one big wonderful meal and being thankful for what you have. This year my little sis. Penny stayed with us for the weekend from the far land of Provo. She was an Angel and upon arrival and my joking that I would pay her to clean my oven that I had dropped a pizza in a few days earlier she got right to work and cleaned and scrubbed it till it looked brand new while me and Ryan finished and cleaned up our painting job from the day before. I still love opening the oven and having it sparkling clean. The morning of, Ryan made us delicous beinget dounguts we got from our trip to New Orleans so that our stomachs would be stretched for the main event. We met Ryan's family at his aunt's house and had a wonderful meal, and Ryan and Penny participated in the Walleyball game. Afterward we relaxed at Ryan's mom's house and watched a movie.

Black Friday we didn't have any incliniation to wake up at 5 am again, but we did brave the shopping around noon and got a few good things.

Saturday, sister Annaliese and family were in town and we had a fun day, eating at Costa Vida, going to the Bean Museum, Byu bookstore, Penny's apartment and Baby's R' Us.

New York- 11/11/11- 5 Year Anniversary

2011-12-01T08:59:00.000-08:00

For our awesome 5 year anniversary date we went to New York. It was fun, but I probably wouldn't advise anyone who was pregnant to go. If i was to do it all over again I probably would have picked a more relaxing vacation to go on, just because of all the walking involved and my body isn't used to walking around with all this extra weight:)

We did all of the touristy things. Went to times square, rockefeller center, metropolitan museum of art, central park, top of the empire state building, statue of liberty, rode the subway and saw a parade and the Wall Street protestetors.

Our hotel.
The morning of our anniversary 11/11/11 we walked outside of our hotel to a full blown New york parade, in honor of our anniversary or Veterans Day, (one or the other)

Met

This bridge at Central Park look familiar? Its in the Cloverfield movie at the very end, probably other movies too.

Who knew there was a freakin castle in Central park, would have loved to explore this if it hadnt been getting dark

random brake dancers in the subway
From the top of the empire state building, it is crazy that you are looking down on all the sky scrapers from this buildilng

Halloween Stuff

2011-11-02T09:08:00.000-07:00

October flew by, we had a lot of fun celebrating all things scary...

We went to Cornbellies, a haunted corn maze.

We saw the Odyssey Dance Theatre's Thriller performance. Even if you are not huge into dance it is really a very entertaining show, and the dancing is absolutley amazing.

We carved a pumkin in baby Tristan's honor, whose initials are going to be....

We watched a lot of scary movies.

We went to our neighbor's Halloween Party. ( We are the typical red neck shot gun wedding, I am trying to sell it by rubbing my belly )

A Boy!

2011-10-26T16:01:00.000-07:00

While we were going thru the in-vitro process I was at the store or somewhere I can't quite remember but I saw a bottle on it or something that said Tristan on it (which was already the boy name we had picked out) and I kinda felt like it was a sign (in a non-sacreligious sort of way) that helped me think this might work, along with the fact that if this worked the baby due date is 2 days before my dad's birthday. The same weekend we found out we were pregnant we also bought some energy bars that we took hiking with us and my bar's expiration date was two days after my due date. Silly things I know, but as anxiety filled as I was, they kinda helped.

Anyways, I was pretty convinced that we were going to have a boy. But, I had always pictured us with a girl first. Probably because I am the oldest in my family, Ryan's sister is the oldest in her family and his sister and my sister and my brother all had girls first and Ryan was convinced it was going to be a girl. So, I began to think we were having a girl. The day of our ultra sound finally arrived. As the technician measured every body part, baby was uncooperatively crossing his or her legs and was very relaxed not wanting to move. Nearing the end of the appointment I grew dissapointed thinking we might have to wait several more weeks to find out. She had me get up walk around turned me over to one side and then the other and then Ryan said, Ahh, I think that looked like a boy, and sure enough it was. The technician girl said yes I am about 100% positive this baby is a boy! Since we had both names picked out it was so cool to be like ok, now we know its Tristan in there. I admit I felt like I might be a little out of my element with a boy. I am not all that interested in sports and cars and all that "boy" stuff. But I am so excited for him to come so that I can learn!! After the ultra sound appointment I immediatly went to Baby's R Us and bought the cutest newborn onesies for him.

As requested here is a preggie pic of me and my belly.

Also, this morning (Wed, Nov 2nd, I always write my blogs a week before I get around to transferring the pics off the camera) I finally felt little Tristan moving around like crazy, such a cool feeling, Ryan could even feel him move just a little bit once.

New Orleans Trip

2011-10-03T14:08:00.001-07:00

For Labor Day we went to go visit my sister, Annaliese, who just had a new baby boy, and see the sites of New Orleans. We got the true New Orleans experience as we arrived in the midst of Tropical rain storm Lee. We ate lots of Cajun food which was Ryan's main goal, got to be there for Carter's baby blessing and played a lot with my niece addie and new nephew Carter. Luckily the weather cleared up the last day before Ryan flew out so that we were able to go on a really fun swamp tour, ate Beignet, (french doughnuts) at the famous Dumond cafe, and walked around the French Quarter. We also went uptown where the universities are and walked around looking at all the houses that were so beautiful with really cool archicecture and my favorite big front porches and huge (I can't remember what kind of trees) lining the streets. I stayed a few extra days after Ryan left and ate Blue Bell ice cream to my heart's content :) and generally hung out, went to a couple of parks, tried to highlight Annaliese's hair-didn't turn out- she had to dye it dark after i left, and went on a tour of one of the old plantation houses.

And now for the pics....

Carter's Blessing Day

On the Swamp tour...

.There were a bunch of houses (I use that term very loosely) on a part of the river that some people actually lived in year round, and can only be gotten to by boat, and some were just fishing getaways. This one never recovered from Katrina

Cafe Dumond

Jackson Square

French Market
French Quarter

Cool house by the university. All the houses were so nice, there was one street that we wanted to walk down but was gated with a guard who said we couldn't get in without invitation.
We didn't take a whole lot of video, but Ryan put this little video together of our trip really quickly, I think its working...

The Happiest Day

2011-08-29T13:17:00.000-07:00

To make it official, I AM PREGNANT!!!!! After 4 years, countless dr. appointments, unpleasant testings, many, many blood draws, medications, shots, 4 failed inseminations, 1 surgery, 1 cancelled in-vitro and one successful in-vitro to say that we are excited and happy is an understatement. It actually still feels surreal to even be able to make the announcement. I still feel like an "infertile" masquerading as a pregnant woman.

As scary as it was to finally proceed with in-vitro it felt like this was the next step. The two weeks of medications, shots and daily dr. appointments were nothing compared to what is known in the infertile world as the two week wait. I envisioned both outcomes and prepared myself for what I assumed would be the worst as we had yet in all our years ever seen a positive pregnancy test. The day finally arrived. I couldn't sleep, couldn't eat, and felt as nervous as if I had to give a talk in sacrament meeting that day. We drove to the dr. appointment for yet another blood draw to find out if I was pregnant or not. We drove home almost in silence and literally sat on the couch just waiting for the phone to ring. When the call came the dr said these words, "Well, you're definitly pregnant", All I could say in shock and immediately in tears was " Really?", You're levels look good he said. Ryan literally jumped for joy when he heard my response. The next couple of hours were so amazing that we both feel like it was the happiest we had ever been and that we will never forget.

I am currently 12 weeks pregnant and feel incredibly blessed for this to work and to be able to stay pregnant and that this is due to our family and friends prayers and fasting on our behalf. Thank you everyone so much!!

We have already had several ultra sounds already, we might be a little biased but we feel like our baby is pretty darn cute already:

This was our very first ultra sound at about 6 wks to see if it was twins or not. Its not, which is totally ok with me. The arrow is pointing a little tad pole but can barely be seen.

This was our second ultra sound at about 9 wks. This was the first time we heard the baby's heart beat. The most amazing experience, I finally started to feel like this was really going to happen. We affectionatly nick named the baby "gummy" as it looks like a cute little gummy bear in this pic.

We had a little scare around week 10 when I had a little bit of bleeding, we are definitly overly paranoid and went to the ER. Everything was fine, baby was completely normal and we even saw it move its arm's a little bit.

Finally we had our first dr.'s appointment at my regular ob clinic at 12 weeks. This time we actually saw the baby moving a lot which was so cool.

Catch Up!

2011-08-14T14:25:00.000-07:00

So, I feel like for a while now I have been starting every blog with, Wow, it has been a while since I last wrote a post, but it really has been. Maybe now that I am unemployed, I can remedy that, but my last day of work was July 29th, over two weeks ago and I am just now getting around to that. For those who don't know while we were on our vacation I got a text from my boss which said to call him when I got a chance. So, when we got back from the cruise while we were in Florida I called him back expecting some minor work related question to follow but instead was shocked to hear him say that he was sorry to have to tell me this while on vacation but it had been decided to shut our Utah office down. The economy is bad, and the real estate market is really bad, and I know we had lost millions of dollars in loans uncollectable so I knew that it might happen eventually but I thought we had enough loan to work thru to get us thru this year. I was wrong. In all honesty I hadn't been that happy there for the past couple of years, it was slow, very slow, My boss that had hired me that I had worked with for 5 years had been let go (because they were not going to be doing any new loans for a while- that should have been a red flag for me) and it just wasn't fun anymore. But it is hard to let go of that security blanket, good money, insurance, 401K all gone. For 7 years time, I got 7 weeks of severance pay and a bonus, so the loss of income hasn't really hit me yet but I am sure reality will hit soon. Anyways a quick update on our activities this summer since then:

Ryan ran a triathalonn in ST. George with a bunch of friends. Unfortuatley we had just gotten home from a two week vacation consisting of unlimited food and not a lot of exercise time and the bike that he borrowed was a mountain bike (everyone else had city bikes which are way, way faster) and to top it all of his bike kept getting flat tires and since he had a mountain bike it took about 30 min to find someone with the right air pump. So, it turned out not to be the greatest of experiences but he wants to do another one for a better experience. Other than that we had a super fun trip with good friends and great weather.

We went and saw the musical Les Miserables. We both had read the book (yes, the big fat one with like 1500 pages) and loved the story. The musical was awesome! I highly recommend it to everyone.

We went to (one of) our fertility clinic's patient party which was at Heritage Park up in Salt Lake by the zoo. It was actually a pretty cool park, its kind of a re-creation of a pioneer town and the employees- I mean pioneers- actually take their roles very seriously. My in-laws decided to have their family reunion there after all we told them about it. We almost won the grand prize ($5000 off an in-vitro cycle) I say almost because when they called out the names they said Diane and Ryan long pause and some one else' s last name. So close... Really how could there be any other Diane and Ryan couples out there, none as cool as us I'm sure:)

Went on a couple of hikes with friends.

My cousin Arielle came and visited. It was super fun catching up! Oh yea, and I had a birthday. Ryan made me a yummy breakfast in bed and then took me shopping and to dinner. Then tried to surprise me with a surprise party at our neighbor's house but needs to work a little on his mischevious skills because when I asked him what the plans were for that night he just said our neighbors wanted us to stop by for a minute and that was all he would tell me. But I appreciated the thought:) and for all the friends and family who came!

Home from vacation

2011-05-31T19:39:00.000-07:00

Well, it has been a while since my last post we haven't been up to much, just a cruise, a week long stay in Orlando and a Triatholon in St. George two weeks later (more to come on that later). I had been waiting to post on our vacation pics because Ryan is planning to do a cool video of our trip but it hasn't happened yet so I willl give a little preview.

Leaving Ft. Lauderdale on the cruise, the first day.

First Island... Princess Cays- Bahamas- Its the cruise line's private island... we did some snorkeling abd the crusise provided a yummy bbq lunch- Itwas also Ryan's birthday that day.Birthday dinner, the cake was delicious.The second island was St. Martten, which we did a lot of sightseeing on. One side of the island was Dutch and the other was French. This was on the Dutch side.This was an actual french bakery that we chilled at for a little while.

Also on the French side a cool pirate fort we hiked up to.

In St. Thomas we pretty much camped out the whole day at Megan's Bay
This was the last island Grand Turk, It was such a fun day. Its a small island only 7 miles long and a mile or half mile wide can't remember. My pretty gel toes:)

Ryan's sister and brother -in-law came with us we had a lot of fun with them.

Since this was our last island day we hung around till the last moment not wanting to leave our little island paradise. We loved our ship too, it was so nice!

When we got back to Ft. lauderdale we rented a car and met up with the rest of Ryan's family in Orlando. We were kind of pictured out (really this is just a sliver of the pics that Ryan took and we have a ton of video) by that time so we really don't have any of our week in Fl. except for what other people took. We did one day at disney world one day at Universal studios Island of Adventure park which was way fun, the new Harry Potter ride is amazing, and a couple of Florida beaches that couldn't hold a candle to the carribean beaches as you can tell we got a little beach spoiled.

Vacation Booked- YEAAA

2011-03-30T21:10:00.000-07:00

So, we've been talking about going on a cruise, since we got married, and we're finally going! We are so excited. It's a 7 day cruise going to ST. Thomas, St. Marten, Turks & Caicos and the Princess Cays at the end of April over Easter and Ryan's birthday. Then when we get back to Ft. Lauderdale we are going to drive up to Orlando and stay a week there with Ryan's family. Two whole weeks! I have never been on a vacation that long. After a crazy busy month with Ryan working crazy over time hours for the past few weeks, like 30 hour shifts, and going down to one car, (Ryan's long term auto repair guy professionaly advised his car's not worth fixing) we decided its the perfect time to take a nice long break . And our ship was also christened by my favorite bacholerette couple Trista & Ryan, stupid I know but it just seems like this should be our cruise ship.

Moving & In-vitro

2011-03-06T17:39:00.000-08:00

Yes, both of these things almost happened last month and then neither of them did. Ryan's boss approached him with a potential job offer to go work for Donny Osmond in Vegas for what would be a pretty good raise working part time 36-weeks out of the year. It sounded like a cool opportunity and we were interested. A couple of days later we headed down to Vegas for Ryan to interview with Donny (yes we're on a first name basis now:)) The interview went well. The job was basically to be the backstage director of the show. I'm not very good at explaining all the details about the job but basically Donny told Ryan that he thought even though Ryan didn't have the specific training in that particular job that he could do it and would have 60 days to be trained by the person that was leaving. Donny wanted us to go to to the show that night and then meet with him and Marie afterwards. I wouldn't normallly go to Vegas and think hey, lets go see the Donny & Marie Osmond show, but it was actually a pretty fun show, although it did have its cheesy parts and we were the youngest people there. I kinda thought they might forget about us after the show, but right afterwards his manager came and grabbed us and took us backstage. So, Donny sits us down at a table and Marie comes over and meets us and starts telling me how much i will like living in Vegas and if we are lds and that sort of thing and meanwhile I hear Donny asking Ryan if he wants to take the job and if he can start on Tuesday, as in few days from then. We both gave him a deer in the headlights look and since we didn't really respond he said to let him know first thing in the morning. So, we go back to our hotel room in total shock. Neither of us thought we would have to be making a life changing decision so quickly and to potentially have Ryan move in a few days. We were totally stressed out to say the least. For anyone who knows me, decisions are not my strong suit. I have a hard time deciding what to order at restraunts. As scary and as big of a descision as it was we decided that if the pay was right it would be too good of an opportunity not to take. We left Vegas the next morning thinking this place was going to be our new home. Then the negotioations started, the first amount offered was a lot lower than we had been originally been told so we asked for a lot higher number and then waited and waited to hear back.

Now admist all this going on we had been going thru our fertility issues. I haven't said really anything about on this blog so far, I don't know why, lots of reasons I guess, its so emotional, didn't know what to say, have too much to say, don't know if the blog is the right place to say it, but this this is our life and if you're reading my blog I assume you are interested in my life and this has been a huge part of our lives for the past few years and I think its the hardest thing i've had to deal with in my life. But since this blog is already too long I'm going to try and keep it short. This same week we were in the process of taking a bunch of fertiltiy meds and shots in preparation of doing a souped up version of artificial insemination. We got back from Vegas about 1am in the morning and woke up the next day (Sat) to go to our dr. appt. At the appt we found out that the meds had been working too well, which is good and bad, good because it is good that my body responded well to it and bad b/c they wouldn't do the procedure b/c of too high a risk of multiples, but said we could transfer to doing in-vitro. So, now in the middle of trying too figure out possibly taking a new job and moving we have to decide if we want to pay a lot, lot of money to do in-vitro. Long story short, we decided to do it but it turned that I ovulated that night on my own so when we went to the next appointment they said it wouldn't be worth it to retrieve the few eggs that hadn't ovulated yet and thankfully got a refund of most of our money.

That same day the job offered Ryan pretty close to what we had asked for. So, he took the job. and was off to Vegas the next morning. We had a tearful goodbye (on my part) at the airport as it felt like a good bye to our life as we had known it so far. But, as it turned out the guy that was going to train him was leaving at the end of the week so instead of 2 months it was only going to be 4 days, not nearly enough time for Ryan to be able to take over running of the show. Ryan and the manager mutually decided that it was not going to be enough time for Ryan to be trained for the job. They treated him well, limo ride to the airport, compensation for his time. We are both glad that we at least tried it or else we would have always wondered what if..

So, for a minute we thought we were going to have this crazy cool life changing job and a baby but alas life is just back to normal for us. But I have to say that it was definitly a growing and bonding experience for both of us. I got a glimpse of why people say they are thankful for their trials which I have understood in theory but not in practice before this. I still can't say that I am really thankful for any of the trials i've had but i think this experience although hard and stressful was something that we needed to go through. We also realized how lucky we are to have really great friends and family that we can talk to and who are so supportive and great! So, thanks for all those who were praying for us, we really appreciate it and we still need those prayers!

Crazy 2011

2011-02-21T10:52:00.000-08:00

So, much has happened since my last blog post but before I do a blog post on all the updates I had to do a blog on what happened yesterday morning as it is fresh in my mind. My sister Annaliese and Penny have both posted blogs on their tripping/falling stories and Annaliese said in her blog that this was a family trait she had passed on to Penny, but wait, I am the eldest so I think maybe I'm the one to blame.

Story #1: Way back long ago when I was going to UVSC I had these boots where the heel was falling off. Since I was but a poor college student I hadn't replaced them yet. One day while at school I was going down the stairs in the business building and my heel caught and tumble down I went and my books and papers scattered about. Luckily it wasn't too crowded since it was during class so I was embarrassed but not mortified. A couple of weeks later while at a friend's house, a guy there said hey I remember you, he did not look at all familiar to me so I asked him where he thought he knew me from, you're not going to like this he said, but I saw you fall down the stairs at Uvsc. Great, just how every girl wants to be remembered.

Story #2: I woke up yesterday morning, just like every other morning staying in bed as late as possible and then rushing to get ready, I throw on some clothes and make up, grabbed my purse and a half glass of smoothie from the night before that I hadn't finished (to wash out in the sink, not drink) and kissed Ryan goodbye who was still all snuggled up in bed. As I headed down the second flight of stairs I realize I am no longer walking but falling down the rest of the stairs, I scream, my smoothie glass goes flying, and then scream again as I realize I am not going to be able to keep myself from falling down the rest of the stairs. Ryan hears the screaming, breaking of glass and thumping down the stairs and finds me in a heap at the bottom of the stairs in what appears to be a murder scene. There is dark reddish smoothie splatterings everywhere, and a pool of it at the bottom of the stairs by where I am laying. Other than being shocked by what has just happened I am relativily un harmed, a few bruises and a carpet burn and once I realize I am not mortally wounded I actually began to think it was pretty funny, although today I am much less amused because I am so sore and it hurts to sit down. I do so wish I had taken a picture of this scene. Again, I blame it on the shoes, I was wearing my black heels and one shoe is a lot looser than the other one, this is the shoe (culprit) who was at the top of the stairs where I began falling and my other shoe was on my foot at the bottom of the stairs or its a family curse, you tell me.

PS. The date is all messed up today is Friday 2/25/11, so I fell yesterday not Sunday, not that it matters I guess, but to set the record straight since this is the only journal that I keep.

My First Surgery

2011-01-11T08:55:00.000-08:00

Dang it, Ryan didn't take a pic of me in the hospital all drugged out, but I'm sure it wouldn't have been very pretty so I guess its ok. I had to have a small surgery to get a polyp removed from my uterus which is not condusive to getting pregnant and would very likely cause a miscarriage if I did get pregnant, so our fertility doc recommended we get it removed so that we can do in-vitro. The hardest part of the surgery was the night before. My doc prescribed me some pills to take which were not to fun considering they weren't taken orally (i'll leave it at that) . They had warned me that there would be some cramping but I was not expecting to be as bad as it was, I had really bad cramps that 5 ib profens didn't even make a dent in. We gave up trying to sleep around 2 am in the morning and just watched a movie until it was time to "get up" at 5 am to go to the surgical center. I didn't ever really get too nervous for it, until I was at the hospital with the needles and Iv being inserted and even then I was mainly just nervous that for some reason even tho I had talked to our insurance and it was pre-authorized they are going to end up denying it and sending us a huge bill and then us not being able to afford in-vitro. I know I'm kind of pessimistic, but after years of having our insurance premiums get bigger and bigger and them not covering anything we actually need to use it for (can you tell I'm a little bitter that insurance companies will pay for preventing babies and not for helping make them). Anyways thats a soap box for another time. After surgery I was pretty loopy but they gave me some perkisett for the cramps and that was great. We got home from the surgery around 9am and just slept and layed around all day. Ryan was awesome at taking care of me, getting my prescriptions filled, snacks and drinks and movies. Ryan's parents brought us over some dinner and we ended the day by watching the bachelor, yes its back on! Today I have the day off too, although I'm feeling much better. I saved all the girly movies to watch by myself today since Ryan is back at work. I admit I was looking forward to the surgery just so I could have a couple of days off to be completely excused for being totally lazy:) I'm feeling like I'm getting too much accomplished by writing this blog so I better get back to being lazy!

Holidays

2011-01-05T19:35:00.000-08:00

December is like the quickest month of the year, in some way the holidays go by so fast I feel like I barely have time to enjoy them but at the same time its kinda nice to get back to normal. Every year I say that next year I will prepare more (like buying gifts ahead of time) so that it takes out the pressure but I always seem to forget that. For our Christmas present this year we got our selves a really nice new camera so our pics quality on our blog will go up. We had both our work parties to go to, friend's Christmas party, saw Saviour of the world, saw the Tabernacle Christmas concert had our own little Christmas together where we ate at Texas Roadhouse, opened our Christmas presents and watched one of my Christmas presents Blue-ray dvd of the Princess Bride, family Christmas party with Ry's family before we went to Bremerton. At home in B-town we played lots of Canasta (unfortunatly I wound up on the losing team which was suppossed to go to the store with the fake mannican head and buy oreos- I bought some Oreos and I was leaving it up to my partner to do the rest which I am told never happened), Balderdash & mafia, listened to Penny's and Richard's original music numbers and watched Christmas movies & saw True Grit, played with my adorable niece and video chatted with my other adorable niece and sis & bro-in law. I felt like we were barely there before we had to leave again.

Me & Penny at the Saviour of the World, (Ryan was there too but he was a gentlemen and went and got the car while we were taking pics) Thanks for the tickets mom!

At home in washington...

Fam picture before leaving, I look like crap and we had some trouble transferring the one where Liberty is looking at the camera, we'll get that one to you soon Mom.
It was way too hard to go back to work the next week, luckily we didn't work too hard.New Year's eve we did a little bit of shopping, eating out, playing games and a frantic countdown where we realized 5 min till midnight we didn't have any thing to open our martinelli's with, we pulled it together in time to do the last 10 sec countdown.

New Year's resolutions forth coming....

Anniversary, Lighting, St. George, Vegas -again

2010-11-29T19:58:00.000-08:00

Our anniversary was 11/11/10 (Veteran's Day) Year #4. We had really wanted to celebrate by going to New Orleans and visiting the Cox's. We thought we had a free flight by signing up for this credit card but of course there were restrictions. I repeatedly asked them before I signed up if there was any and they said no black out dates but failed to mention that there were seat restrictions. So, of course on the days that we wanted to go we couldn't get the flight out that we wanted and Ryan is in the middle of a big project at work so we couldn't be flexible on the dates and prices were too expensive on the days we wanted to go. So, instead we ate at this cool new restraunt in Provo called Sparks where the food is in smaller portions but very good. Then we stayed at a hotel near Park City, went hottubbing and the next day was spent doing some shopping and eating at the delicous cheese cake factory.

Ryan installed some cool lights over our bar. It so nice to have some extra light there so we can actually see the dishes were washing. Ryan spent several hours with the help of our friend & neighbor Kyle and it looks awesome.

We took my sister Penny and drove to St. George for Thanksgiving this year. We had a delicous Thanksgiving meal, played some pickle ball (life size ping pong) which was fun, played games and watched a documentary of the "best worst movie ever", and then actually watched the best worst movie, Troll 2, if you are ever bored and need a really good laugh this is the movie to watch, I haven't laughed that hard in a really long time. Again, we tried getting up early to get a tv we tried getting last year on black Friday. I didn't totally wuss out this year like I did last year, but again we got there about 1/2 an hour after the sale started and did not succeed. I've decided its not worth it. You either have to fully commit to the whole thing by not going to bed at all and actually waiting in line instead of thinking you can just go when it opens. That night Ryan went to a Pink Floyd concert in Vegas. Tickets were extremely pricey so I did not go to it, he went with his sister and parents and said it was the coolest concert he's ever been to and is still talking about it. Me & Penny decided to tag along to Vegas with the group so I could introduce Penny to Vegas for her first time. I know she will want to put some pics on her blog so I'll just do a few.

At the MGM Grant right before the concert.
Penny's first glimpse..
Look at us in these cool unpaid for sunglasses...

ha ha I actually started this post Monday and its now really late Thursday night... Yea, for the weekend is almost here

Octoberness

2010-11-01T19:24:00.000-07:00

It has been a busy month. A couple days before Penny's birthday, my sister-in-law Becky and adorable niece Liberty were in town for a few days. So we met them at BYU and watched

Penny's championiship intermural team put another win under their belt and then pigged out at the all you can eat cafeteria near penny's dorm as you can see from our millions of plates on the table.

Ryan's goint to make an awesome dad some day....

Then we headed to Vegas because we had a couple of free nights stay at the Riveria (not the best rooms but at least they were free, although we had to go to a travel sales pitch to get the free stay so we definitly paid for it.
Every time we go to Vegas we go to the Bellagio gardens, this month of course it was a creepy Halloween theme.
Ryan's band played at Velour.

It was a really fun show especially since a lot of our friends came and supported, here are the fans in their cool Egan's Theory band shirts.
I just realized this came thru sideways and I cant figure out how to rotate without re- loading it and I am not feeling up to it. But this is our first Halloween party at our neighbor's house. We kind of threw these costumes together last minute. For anyone who doesn't know Ryan does a hillarious gay guy impression so we decided to go with that theme. I am kind of a crazy model and he is my gay fashion designer:)
Played some fun games at the party and had yummy really creative Halloween treats.
These are the girls... I thought i got a picture of the guys but I guess I did't.
This is our second Halloween Party at our friends house. I am crazy haired-Ryan's guardian angel.

I'm back

2010-09-26T16:48:00.000-07:00

Whoa, It has been a while since I have last posted a blog. I feel like we have been really busy but I can't find enough pictures to evidence that. I can't believe summer is over already although we have been having some great weather the past couple of weeks, I'll be sad when that is over. For labor day weekend we went with our neighbors to Solitude Ski Resort. It was such a fun get away. My neighbor had such a better camera than me that I didn't take hardly any pics and haven't had a chance to get them from her. Here's a few that I took, when I get them I'll maybe post some more or if you want she's got them on her blog at Hadleypage.blogspot. com. Here is the nice pool.

we went on a really fun hike called the Donut falls hike as you can see the water came thru this hole like a donut.

You had to do a little bit of rock climbing to get up there, this was the view from below so if you didn't climb up to the top you would never see the actual donut falls.

The resort was pretty close to Park City so we also went there and did some shopping at the outlet stores and ate a yummy dinner on main street.

My sister Annaliese, niece and her husband came in to town for a little bit and this is Penny's first day to Utah to stay since she started BYU a couple of day later. You can't tell from this pic but she seemed a little shell shocked her first day here. But since then I think she's quite warmed up to the place and is having a blast at BYU and comes to our house on Sunday's and shares her college life stories with us.

We went to the drive in movies which is one of our fave summer activities unfortuantly we only made it there once this summer.

In other news we were quite proud of this new recipe we tried- frozen lemonade pie and Ryan did an excellent job prettying it up

July

2010-07-27T21:37:00.000-07:00

My favorite month of the year for the following reasons:

1) 3 holidays= 3 days off work

2) My birthday- which is included in #1

3) Its finally summer- my fave time of the year

4) hot sunny days- perfect for reading a book at the pool

What have we been up to this month you ask, let me tell you:

4th of July weekend: minature golfing, bbq, hanging out with friends, a few fireworks, volleyball, hiking, watching the bachelor.

My birthday- Got way too spoiled by Ryan, got we too many gifts and we took the day off work and went and ate lunch at the Garden restaraunt in SLC then went to Park City where we walked around main street, looked at the museums, ate some heavenly gelato, rode a cool gondola ride up the mountain and ate at a yummy mexican restraunt on main street on the deck, came home for cake & icecream with friends and family, so a really good day.

Went hiking to pick out a camping spot for a future camping trip and rafting one saturday and had the best sno cones that came close to being as good as the ones in Hawaii but not quite

Saw Inception at the Imax, really liked it, Penny & Orson now you can fill me in on your thoughts about the ending.

24th- Went down the provo river with Ryan's family, unfortunatly we got a late start so it was kinda cold, the river was a little faster than we were expecting and poor Ryan's parents both got knocked off their tubes into the river so it was quite the adventure. After that we watched a movie outside in their backyard and while everything was being put away a snake was found sleeping under the pad where we had been watching, freaky, I hate snakes, I actually didn't see it or feel it so I am going to pretend it never happened.

Italian night with our neighbors: yummy alfredo, ,italian cream sodas, delicious bread, dang it I didn't get a pic of this on my camera....

Note: Its late and I'm having issues getting the pics in order and in the right place and I'm givin up... so sorry, and I'm also wishing I was better at taking more pics.

rafting & hiking

THis is in Park City on gondola ride-

My birthday spoils-

Enjoying my gelato-

Blowing out my birthday candles

hiking

also hiking but different day-

Our New House

2010-06-22T19:17:00.000-07:00

We've nicknamed it "the castle". My mom came into town this weekend for a family reunion and we entertained ourselves by going to the Parade of Homes (for the non Utahns- builders show off their homes before they sell them and/or to try to sell them- but they're not just the typical homes as you can see- some are but most of them are unique in some way). The Castle, pictured above was actually even bigger than the picture shows it was hard to get the whole thing in. It had an indoor pool, workout room, dance studio, movie theatre room, guest suite, and the master suite was like bigger than my whole house practially, an actual suit of armor guared the entry way to the Master suite. The whole house had kind of like a modern castle feel and was amazing to see. We actually started off the visit by going to the Thanksgiving point gardens which I always love going to.

Random thought: I don't think I ever made a blog about this but last summer Ryan's company spent a whole day at Thanksgiving Point getting footage for their stock footage department. So, I got to be a "model" for a few hours, although I never got paid as promised so really that makes me more of free laborer. It was kinda cool being followed around by camera but also awkard cause I never know how to act or where to look and seem natural.

Thanks for coming to visit Mom, we had a fun time!

Memorial Weekend 2010

2010-06-08T19:26:00.000-07:00

Unfortunatly we had such a fun weekend we didn't really take any pics. We left town right as a storm was blowing in and headed to, yes you guessed it, where we always go, St. George. It was beautiful every day we were there, 90 degrees and sunny without a cloud in the sky. We stayed at the condo with our friends April & Clint and Ryan' s sister and brother-in-law. I got plenty of pool time, played tennis, volleyball, raquetball, basketball, played games, and ate good food, including Ryan's grandma's famous breakfast memorial day morning. We hung around as late as we could soaking in the sun and hanging out with friends and famly till we finally made ourselves come back to the real world of having to wake up and go to work. The only crappy thing was that we had left Ryan's car at his work during the weekend and he had some stuff stolen out of it. Speakers, keyboard accessories, and worst of all his temple clothes including recommend. We feel extra bad about that because we had a goal to go to the temple once a month, but got so busy during May that we kept putting it off and then thought about going to the St. George temple and then at the last minute decided not to bring them, so moral of the story if we had gone to the temple when we were suppossed to the clothes wouldn't have been in the car that weekend. Guilt trip.

I don't know why we took this picture of ourselves at this gas station of our reflections, random, I know. Also, It looks like I am pregnant in this picture, which I am Not. You might be able to see us playing volleyball in this pic but it so dark we could barely see the volleyball while we were playing, but we had to fight our way into getting our turn on the volleyball court so we played regardless of being able to see or not.

B-Town & Girls week

2010-05-17T21:14:00.000-07:00

Sorry for those of you who have already read Annaliese's blog, I'll try to post some different pics. We were able to go to Bremerton for Mother's day weekend and my little brother's baby blessing for the newest addition to the family Liberty Bell. We had a really fun time. Saturday we went to Port Townsend and ate at a cafe that had some amazing yummy cookies and walked around to the little shops and then went to Fort worden.

At the cafe...
Fort Worden, we also got to go up to a cute light house why didn't i take a picture of that.
It looks like we have matching jackets but they are really quite different...

Me and Penny as prisoners...

Sunday was the baby blessing...The guys before blessing Liberty..
The girls, except we are missing mom.. we're all kinda color coordinated, i like it.
Monday, we went to Paulsbo and ate at this yummy seafood restaraunt, yes I actually am sorta starting to like some sea food, I really only like to eat it when we go to washington though. We caught the ferry to Seattle and got to Pike's place market just in time to buy some flowers to take back for Ryan's mom and do a little shopping before heading to the airport. We realized that that day we had taken almost every mode of transportation: car, ferry, train and plane.

The day after we got back Ryan left me to go to Dallas (which I would have loved to go too) and Indinia for work. I kept myself pretty well entertained while he was gone by hanging out with the girls. Went to my friend's baby shower, ate dinner with the girls at Texas Road house, went to Aimee's birthday bbq, and of course did some shopping and went to a chick flick with Ryan's mom. I did still miss my husband and was glad when he came home.

Birthday Extravaganza

2010-04-26T16:19:00.000-07:00

I love this time of the year when for a few months me and the husband are the same age. Friday night we went out to dinner in salt lake just the two of us and did a little bit of shopping at the out door Gateway mall and then went to our friend's house to watch the game. That would be the Jazz playoff game. There is a lot of basketball watching goin on in the Egan house hold as of late. Saturday was our neighbor and good friend's 30th birthday so we did a combined birthday celebration day consisting of a delicious break fast, fun movie "Date Night" & bbq.

Look closely at the mirror....Looks like the ghost of Ryan watching over them.... creepy

Ryan did his best fruity pose:)

Sunday, the big day, we had dinner with Ryan's family with his mom's famous home made ribs which were wonderful and then had his family and a few friends over to our place for cake and you guessed it another Jazz playoff game. I tried making a peanut butter cake recipe that my friend had made and Ryan loved. He had been talking it up for months in advance. I definitly should have done a trial run before the big day because it was a disaster. Actually, I think it tasted ok it just looked terrible, like if there was some contest on the worst looking cake I could have entered and won. Its hard to tell in these pics but it was bad. It turned out to be more of a peanut butter cobbler look.

Vegas Baby

2010-04-14T18:15:00.000-07:00

What happens in Vegas usuallly stays in Vegas but I guess I'll break the rules. It had been forever since we had been down south and I couldn't stand another cold weekend, so we drove to St. George last friday after work. Immediatly upon entering St. George we stopped at my favorite ghetto fast food restaruant Jack in the Box. We then tried hitting up the hot tub at the condo but kicked out about 5 min after getting in due to the pool patrol who closed it up right on the dot of closing time. Not too long after that our friends showed up and we watched a movie. Saturday morning we made our way to sunny warm Vegas. On our scout to find somewhere to eat, always so hard to do in Vegas cause there are so many options and none of us were decision makers we stopped by Tiffany's (never been in one before). I was eyeing a gorgeous diamond ring and the sales lady asked me if I wanted to try it on. No, no I'm just looking I said, (obviously, like I'm ever going to buy anything at a store where armed security guards in tuxedos greet you at the door) then she says, are you sure it looks better on or something to that effect so I gave in and tried on a $34,000 ring. Didn't look to bad on either, hint, hint husband:) Yea right I wouldn't even want that a ring that expensive. Anyways, we found a PF changs to eat at and sat on the patio. After that me and Aimee went to the pool and soaked up the sun and took a really wonderful nap while the guys went to the casino and promptly lost their allowance. After that we headed to the factory outlet mall where I found the coolest jacket at Armani but it was still on the expensive side so I used all my will power and resisted it. After all the shopping that my husband could handle we went to the Venitian/ Pallazo hotel for dinner and at a place called the Grand Lux which is owned by the same people as the cheese cake factory so of course it was delicious. After walking around for a bit me and Ryan decided to go to our favorite Vegas activity the Bellagio water show and gardens. We walked and walked and got there just as a show was beginning and it just happened to be our song "Your song" by Elton John. It is our song because when we were first dating Ryan took me to St. George/Vegas (don't worry mom we were staying at his grand parents house :)). It was a little early in the relationship and I thought that this trip was either going to make it or break it and it definitly made it. We waited forever at the Bellagio for the water show to play that night and when it finally came on I think it was really windy or something that night "Your song" was the one it played, anyways that night was when I really started to like Ryan so Vegas is always fun for us cause it brings back lot of good memories. If we had danced at our wedding this is what we would have danced to. Anyways back to the present day after our

Bellagio jaunt it was about 1am in the morning and we thought a good time to drive back to St. George. Our friends were staying in Vegas thru Monday so we thought we would just head back to St. George so we could have the day there to relax. Luckily Ryan was driving because I was so tired I could barely stand it and thanks to his good driving skills we made it back alive so that I could write this really long blog post. Sunday we slept in, relaxed in the sun again, visited Ryan's sister and headed home. A Pretty nice get away but it made me want to go on a much longer one and with a beach. This is a taste of the water show.. .

Muse

2010-04-06T20:29:00.000-07:00

For Christmas I got Ryan tickets to see the band Muse and so yesterday the day had finally arrived. We had a really fun time. We ate dinner in Salt Lake and then went to the concert. Unfortunatly we missed the opening band. But they played all our favorite songs and had cool light show.

I really want it to be spring, (hence the new spring like blog background) it was snowing so hard yesterday I couldn't believe it when we were making the trek from parking to the stadium

Painting Fiasco

2010-03-15T20:10:00.000-07:00

So, I've been wanting to paint an accent wall in our master bath for a while now, (ever since I was dying my hair and accidentaly splattered it on the wall above the toilet). So we made a pre-visit to Home Depot to check out the options. I wanted to do that Ralph Lauren textured paint same as Annaliese did for our downstairs bathroom but they didn't have any samples to take home. All our previous painting adventures took me at least 5 agonizing trips to look at paint but I was determined to be more decisive this time but still lets not get too crazy I couldn't do it on the first try. Saturday we went back debated between three shades ( at first I was thinking of doing a teal color but couldn't get up the nerve) so then what I wanted to do is a sand color since we have a little beach theme going. We looked at a couple of darker colors and then decided to play it safe, this is what no risks get you=EXACT same color as our current walls. We look at our walls everyday how could we not know it was the same color? And I hate wasting, we just threw $30 down the drain, I can't stand it. If you take it back can they add more color? I would gladly give it to some one to avoid this terrible waste but who needs beige paint or should I say desert taupe? -they throw you off with those creative names

Fun in the Snow

2010-02-16T19:39:00.000-08:00

For the 3 day weekend we went to Preston, Idaho (home of Napaloen Dynamite) with our friends who have family that live there. We had a really fun time. We did some snow mobiling, snow shoeing, and playing of games. I haven't done any activities that consist of going out side and staying outside for longer than it takes to get to my car for the past I don't know how many winters, so it was fun to actually enjoy winter for a change.

Here is us snow shoeing on V-day, it was such a nice day and I was wearing so many layers I actually had to start taking them off and this view was so pretty.

Here are the husbands trying to get one of them un-stuck. The snow was so deep in some places, it was crazy.

Penny's Visit

2010-02-01T18:45:00.000-08:00

So, my little sister Penny came to Utah this weekend to audition for the BYU music piano program. I took the day off on Friday from work to hang out and do girly stuff. We did each other's nails in the morning and then Penny finished up some last minute college scholarship applications while I went and got my hair cut. That afternoon we went to lunch, shopped for Prom dresses, and saw the chick flick, Leap Year. That night we played our new favorite game, Ticket to Ride, which me and Ryan play every sunday night together but some how manage to get beaten by any new comers we teach it to including Penny, twice. We also played some Wi tournaments of Tennis, me and Penny are actually pretty evenly matched but Ryan is practically unbeatable at Tennis. Saturday morning I took Penny down to Provo to BYU and let her roam the campus while me and Ryan went to Draper for Ryan's sister's wedding. After the ceremony we headed back to BYU to pick up Penny unfortunatly we did not get there in time to hear the audition:( After that we had just enough time to grab a bite to eat, change & freshen up for the wedding dinner and reception. Ryan made an awesome wedding video for his sister & fiancee Jake but they couldn't get the audio to work on the projector screen at the reception place so unfortunatly they just had to play it on a small tv and it was hard to hear. He also played the piano for a song Jake made and sung to Erin and did an awesome job on that too. Such a creative guy. The reception was at a Nursery (garden place) so we amused ourselves by having a mini photo shoot.

Also, I need help from the face book experts, I tried posting these pics on face book but I'm not sure they showed up on the wall. Can you guys see them on face book on the wall? How do I do it, just attach some pics on the main wall thingy? I just don't want to re-post them if they are already there.

Chaos

2010-01-17T11:36:00.000-08:00

This is how I would describe my first experience in nursery. We were walking to sunday school a little later than usual today and as we passed the nursery rooms got grabbed to be a substitute. There were about 3 parents in there trying to wean themselves away from their kids and 1 kid crying and was not to be consoled, (we finally had to have the nursery leader find his parents). There was a total of three room changes throughout the process, the snack room was my favorite. One of the kids found a smaller kid to bully, whenever he found him alone he would come up to him, at first sight you think he's hugging him but then he pushes him down. Another of the kids was autistic and was really interested in the walls, chairs and especially the door and kept trying to leave the room so one of us always had to be on door duty. It was an interesting experience, all the kids definitely had their own personalities and were all cute in their own way, but I was exhausted by the time church was over, so hats off to everyone who is or has had a calling in nursery.

Earthquakes in Lehi

2010-01-10T15:35:00.000-08:00

I have been told that Utah is supposedly going to have a big earthquake one day but I never really thought much about it before. Well, I think it was Monday night, we ended up going to bed later than usual, Ryan had just fallen asleep but I still had not yet, it was about 1am in the morning when we heard/felt it. Ryan woke up in a panic for some reason thinking it was some one in our attic and actually opened up our attic for the first time since we moved in to inspect, luckily finding no intruder. I on the other hand have actually already been in two small ones while I lived in Washington so I thought it felt like the ones I had been in before but just never expected there would be one here in Utah. Come to find out it really was one (2.9 ) and it originated in Saratoga Springs, the next city over and there has actually been three in the area the past month. Our ward has been very focused on emergency preparedness of late and had actually dropped by a preparedness packet just the day before. I know its important to do, I just have such a hard time doing it and really believing it will actually be needed but I am sure it will be, or they wouldn't tell us to do it, I just hope its not too soon, cause we are definitely not ready unless we plan on dining on canned corn for every meal in the event we can't go to Walmart 3 times a week like we do now.

The Bachelor

2010-01-04T22:32:00.001-08:00

Ok, who is watching the bachelor this season? As you all know I am a dedicated bachelor fan, but even I admit, this one was so cheesy, Jake is cheesy and all the girls are cheesy too, they all had these one liners & awkward opening speeches. If I was on the bachelor I would just be like Hey hows it goin, nice to meet you, see you inside, something short, sweet, casual, try to make it as normal as possible. Anyways, as usual there is the token crazy girl who confesses her undying love for this guy she has barely met but is already desperately in love with and ready to bear his children. I wonder, when they go home and watch the season do they die with embarrasement because they recognize how desperate they seem or are they really crazy and don't even get it? Don't get me wrong I am still a loyal fan so I will still be watching the "most dramatic season ever"...

New Year's Resolutions

2009-12-30T17:09:00.000-08:00

I decided my last day of this year at work that I do like New Year's and got into that organizing mood, where you want to get everything organized. I would have previously listed New Year's near the bottom of my favorite holiday's list, mainly because it seemed like in the past New Year's Eve was usually full of high expectations and ended up disappointingly (in the single days). I realized though its nice to have one day a year set a-side for new beginnings. Its perfectly timed too, since December is full of over eating ( I've consumed way too much chocolate the past week), over-spending and general busy-ness. So, its nice to have a specific time to think of what you can/should change in your life to make it better. As I start thinking about my resolutions, I realize they are exactly the same resolutions I had last year and the year before...etc. Does anyone else have this problem? Also, how do you follow through? Lets be honest, who lets say by June is really thinking about what their N Y resolutions were? I think this year my resolution is going to be to figure out how to make them stick. Anyways, Happy New Year to everyone!

Christmas Things

2009-12-13T16:51:00.000-08:00

So, you can just call us little social butterflies, last saturday we attended four different parties: Our ward Christmas party, my work party, (dinner at the cheese cake factory), Ryan's sister's engagement party, and our friend's April & Clint's Christmas party and in between Christmas shopping, so a busy but fun day. Then sunday we tried making cafe rio pork recipe, it was our first time ever buying or cooking pork and also the first for using the crock pot (that we got 3 years ago for our wedding), but it actually turned out pretty good. Its so nice when you find something new to make for dinner.

Also, two weekends ago we went to a Jazz (basket ball) game with our friends Aimee and Justin and afterwards we went up to the top floor of where Justin works that over looked Temple Square. That was my version of seeing the Christmas lights because it was a lot warmer than walking around in the freezing cold :)

Me decorating our little Christmas tree.....

3rd Anniversary

2009-12-02T21:20:00.000-08:00

So as some one once said blogging tradition dictates that you have to write a post for your anniversary, not that I don't want to, I just haven't yet. We did kind of count Hawaii as part of our anniversary, so we had a pretty low key anniversary day, just a few days after we got back. I had the day off since its Veterans's Day and we bankers get those random days off and I am in no way complaining about that. Ryan had to work so I offered to do the planning for this year and he gets to do it next year. So, of course I did some shopping and got Ryan a tool box which he has often complained about because we were previously keeping all that kind of stuff in a flimsy box and he also complained of not having enough tools. I say I've been just fine with out them for 30 years and so has he but I guess a man has to have manly tools, like a hammer since he usually hangs up our pics in the house with my high heels, so thats what he got along with a black v- neck sweater cause I like to buy clothes, tool boxes aren't that much fun to shop for.
Then I made a romantic candle light dinner with his favorite food (that I cook at least), Chicken Alfredo. And Ryan brought me home roses and made a good effort at picking out some clothes for me and a very sweet card. It was kind of nice to stay in for our anniversary for a change.

Thanksgiving's past now and I just realized that I think I've forgotten to be grateful for the blessings I have and tend to think of all the things I want or don't have and on Thanksgiving I admit I mainly just think about the food, but I am very thankful for the season and for family, friends, a home, having a job, and for a very loving husband who I probably don't tell often enough that I love him.

Finally the Internet & other random thoughts

2009-12-02T20:53:00.000-08:00

I finally broke down and purchased the internet! I've been talking about doing it for I think like a year now (we've never had internet the entire 3 years of our marriage) and finally I am sitting here at home in my bathrobe writing a blog and surfing the internet and connected to the real world, I guess, if being connected to the real world means only communicating on-line:)

My mom and Ryan's mom both had surgery today and both went well:)

I was watching the news for a bit last night and watched a little bit of Obama's presidential address and I don't get it. We're deploying 20,000 more troops and there will be troops there for many years to come I can't remember the exact year they predicted but it was like 2020 something. Let me just say I am not very well informed at all about this and I don't even know where I stand on the whole war thing so forgive me if I don't know what I am talking about, but it seems to me when Bush was president everyone (and by everyone I mean the media) was way against the war, right? And then the election last year one of the big issues was the war, Republicans wanted to go stronger and Democrats (obama) wanted to get out of it, at least thats what I thought. It seems to me like the minute Obama was president the war all of sudden became not a bad thing and lets support the troops (which I totally agree with), but why was it bad when bush was president but now that Obama's president its good? Anyways, again these are just my general impressions so inform me if I'm way off base here.

Ok, thats all for now....

Hawaii

2009-11-12T09:23:00.000-08:00

We're back to the real world and I've been racking my brains how to figure out how to get back and live in the tropics somehow. Here are the highlights.

Friday- 2:45 am. We board the plane from Las Vegas to Hawaii. I was so worried about falling asleep so that I could play all day when we got there that I couldn't go to sleep. We get to Hawaii about 6 am and find our way to Ryan's cousin house on the North Shore. We're all so exhausted that we have to sleep for a couple of hours before we can start to enjoy the sun and ocean that on high tide hits the beach house. This is our first beach day.

After playing and body boarding at the beach most of the day we go to the grocery store on our way back to pick up some groceries. After putting them in the car we decide to order a pizza and grabbed an ice cream and sat out side eating it while we waited for our pizza. When we got back to the house we went to get the groceries out of the trunk. And there were no groceries. They had been stolen along with a few other things. So, from that time forward no one left anything in the trunk anywhere. Lesson learned. I had been warned about the theft problem but I didn't think it applied to groceries.

Saturday- We randomly stopped at this beach on our way to Waikki beach and it was by far my favorite beach. It was gorgeous and the waves were awesome. Like a little scary because they were so big and of all the signs posted saying strong current and the life guards making announc ments to only swim if you're a strong swimmer. But we had a blast playing in the waves and the water was really pretty and the moutains in the background and light house.

Afterwards we stopped by this cool place where Ryan's cousin said he had been a week before and seen cameras there filming for Lost. So, I can't wait for the new season to start so I can see if I recognize it.

We finally made it to Waikki and ate here at Cheese Burgers in Paradise. I was never really sure it actually existed as it was always the office joke to eat there when we were thinking about where to go to lunch. And it was definitly paradise.

Then we walked along the boardwalk, watched the sunset and saw all the crazy Halloween costumes.

Sunday- We checked out the temple, relaxed, walked along the beach played some cards.

Monday- We hiked the Sacred Falls hike, which has actually been closed for 10 years because of a rock slide that killed 7 people. The only way we knew we were on the right trail or not was by following the warning, area closed due to dangerous conditions signs along the way. It was a pretty crazy hike, pretty jungly and we had to climb over rocks across the river, but really amazing.

Later that day we went on the tour where they filmed some scenes in Jurassic Park & Lost, not as cool as I was expecting but still fun. Here's ryan trying to be like Jack (from Lost).

Here's the group at dinner that night.

Tuesday- We went to the famous surfing beach Pipe Line, no swimming allowed, you can't see from the pic but the wave were big.

And got some yummy pastries at this popular bakery everyone goes after surfing.

Afterwards we were off to the PCC. (Polynesian Cultural Center)

We learned the Hula

Got lei'd

Ate an authentic luau dinner.

And me and Ryan got to dance up on the stage in front of everyone because they were celebrating Nov. anniversaries. Unfortunatley the pic is a little dark.

Wed. - We totally got hooked on the shaved ice. Its not just shaved ice it has ice cream at the bottom and they drizzle the shaved ice with sweetened condensed milk. I think we had one almost every day. But this place was the coolest place, there's all sorts of pics of celebrities eating here and it was the coolest little surf town.

We went to the Swap meet, thought it was great, like a big flea market where you can buy a bunch of cheap stuff and Pearl Harbor.

Also, Ryan and Josh thought it would be cool to catch crabs on the beach. Crabs are so creepy looking.

Thurs- Went snorkeling at Sharks Cove, really fun. And then more swimming at Waimea Bay.

Friday- Our last day. We did some more body boarding, went to Chinaman's hat, started paddling out to the little island there and then realized how long it would take.

Then decided to head back to our favorite beach and stayed until got dark.

And then took our final pic in Hawaii before heading to the air port.

Vacation Time

2009-10-28T18:32:00.001-07:00

This month flew by. I don't know what we've done. We went to St. George for a weekend trip, watched scary movies, went to a Haunted House, decorated Halloween cookies, work of course, and now its snowing here and we're going to Hawaii tomorrow!! Yea! I think its going to be really hard when we get back and have to deal with the fact that there is no more escaping the winter. I don't expect anybody to feel sorry for me since I will be in Hawaii for a full 7 days. Ok, I think i've rubbed it enough. I was just at the library so I'd thought I'd take advantage of the internet and say good bye:)

"Wicked" Seattle Trip

2009-10-04T18:02:00.000-07:00

Well we had a really fun trip to Seattle last weekend. I think most everyone who reads this was there but for the few who weren't... We went to see the play Wicked in Seattle with my family and all my cousins. We all got dressed up and took the ferry over to Seattle. We met up with everyone at the Cheese Cake Factory and had a delicious fun dinner with everyone. After dinner we walked a block over to the theatre. The theatre was beautiful inside and we loved the play it was a really, really fun night. The next day was beautiful day which is rare in Washington. So, we went to Poulsbo, a cute town on the water and on our way stopped by the Submarine Museum. Addie refused to pose for my picture taking. We walked along the waterfront of Poulsbo looking at all the sail boats and ate lunch at a yummy fish restaraunt. After we walked along and shopped at the antique and little boutique stores. That night we had fun doing our usual family past time... cards.. and hanging out in to the wee hours of the morning talking with my aunt and cousin. The next day it was already time to go home. My mom and Penny took me and Ryan on the ferry to Seattle where we ate at our favorite Seattle Thai restaruant and walked around Pike's Place market that we bought some flowers from to take with us home, they actually made me put them through the scanner thing at the air port. All in all we had a really fun trip, we had good weather, good food, awesome play, and of course seeing and hanging out with my awesome family:)

Labor Day

2009-09-12T15:28:00.000-07:00

I love 3 day weekends, as I know everyone does and this Labor Day was such a nice day. Sunny and warm but not hot. We've talked all summer about hiking up to the Timp caves but the last time we tried it was a 2 hour wait (you have to buy a ticket and go in with a tour guide) and this time it was completely sold out. But we decided to hike the trail up to the caves even though we couldn't go in. It was a really nice hike, the weather was perfect, good exercise, cool views so nice to be in natue for a little while a change from just walking/jogging around our neighborhood. After the hike we ate lunch at Kneaders bakery, very yummy.

After going home and showering and relaxing for a bit we headed up to SLC to do some shopping and then went to our friends house for a yummy dinner and bowling. Believe it or not, me and Ryan have never been bowling together so, of course I was a bit rusty and didn't even break a hundered, actually didn't even come close to, course I think may have only done that one time in my life, bowling is not my strong suit but I still think its fun, I'm much better on the Wii.

Music Man

2009-09-05T16:35:00.000-07:00

I have not been able to blog very much because I can't get on to the blogging web site at work anymore and since we don't have internet at our house it makes blogging and feeling connected to the rest of the world hard. I might have to actually break down and buy internet for our house.

Ryan's band played in Provo at this place called Velour which also happens to be the location of our first date. I realized I had never taken any pictures of him playing before. He got so into his performance that he actually injured his thumb on his keyboard because he was playing so hard

Also, here is the finished video of the commercial we did where we got to drive the mustang around town.... You have to watch very closely, no blinking or you might miss us. Also, look for the Jazz basketball player with the huge biceps (its Ryan).
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Gaming, vacay plans & more...

2009-08-11T14:40:00.000-07:00

My bro, Orson, little sis Penny stayed at our house last night after a long drive from Seattle. Orson is on his way to law school in Houston and Penny is along for the ride and to visit Annaliese and Addie in New Orleans. They taught me and Ryan Canasta. Ryan and Orson don’t look terribly happy in this picture seeing as how me and penny totally beat them.

We have also after months, many months actually, of researching a bunch of different places, (mostly in the carribean) and trying to decide where to go and when, we have finally planned (and bought our airfare- so its official) our vacation. Ryan’s cousin who(m?) he roomed with for a couple of years in college is moving with his wife and newborn baby to Hawaii to teach for a semester at BYU Hawaii in September. They invited us to come visit them and so we are. October 30th- Nov 6th. This is the beach house we will be staying at. Its right on the beach on the North Shore of Hawaii right by the Polynesian cultural center, 10 min from where they filmed Jurassic Park and the tv show Lost. Yea!! Its so nice to have a vacation to look forward to, I had forgotten, the last real vacation we went on was our honeymoon. I may be jumping the gun a little bit but I am already starting to shop for our trip and bought a cute dress for Hawaii.

http://www.vrbo.com/194918 - This is the link to the cool place we are staying...

Also, my sister Annaliese and Spencer and Addie were here for a couple of weeks and I thought i'd post a few pics that she didn't....

Addie has the cutest frowns.... I swear I think she likes me although this pic would suggest otherwise.

Here are Annaliese and Addie looking a little TC (too cool:))

The Big One

2009-07-16T13:18:00.001-07:00

I can’t believe it, I am now 30. I don’t think it has quite sunk in yet that next time some body asks how old I am I have to say 30. I’m no longer in my 20’s. It’s weird, It seems like I should feel more adultish because there is no denying once you hit 30 you’re an adult. When you are younger you envision that you will feel differently when you are at certain ages like 30 or be different, I don’t know but you’re always you I guess, you just have had more experiences that have you taught you more things… k, enough ponderings about growing up.

I actually had a pretty fun day. I took a half day off work, Ryan took me to Tucanos (brazillion restraunt) for lunch. After stuffing myself with lots of garlic sirloin the best steak ever (and I’m not a big steak eater) we went to the city pool by our house and worked on our tans and read our books. Then got home and got ready and opened up my presents from Ryan. A GPS for my car, which I have been wanting for a while (sorry Orson), a really cute (too expensive) black dress from Express & hot pink roses. Then we met up with some friends and Ryan’s family at the cheese cake factory for dinner and ate outside on the patio.

All in all a pretty good for my first day as being 30:)

Also, I hadn't gotten around to posting our 4th of July Festivities, Amber and Christian pictured above asked us to go on a impromptu trip to Vegas with them. We stayed at the Mandalay Bay hotel, which has a fun beach/wave pool, did some shopping and saw the cirque de solei show Ka.

Our Acting Debut

2009-07-02T10:53:00.000-07:00

So, Ryan's company has been working on shooting a comercial for the Salt Lake Palace Convention Center which will be shown nationally and then at all the conventions they do. We got to drive a black convertible 1964 Thunder bird around downtown Salt Lake last night for part of that commercial. We had a camera strapped to the front of the car and then on the back of the car as we drove around. It was pretty fun, we got a lot of attention as we drove around everyone was staring at us and yelling out things. It was a little bit stressful at first because the lady that worked there that was in charge of the car told us like 3 or 4 times to be super careful plus we had to watch the camera strapped to the car to make sure it didn't loosen and fall and all while looking happy and care free as we drove around and not looking directly to the camera. I'm pretty sure my acting career is going to take off pretty soon....

These are the pictures we took with ryan's iphone.

Moab River Trip

2009-06-22T15:49:00.000-07:00

My boss has been going on river trips for about 30 years now. There was some cancellations on a trip he was doing in Moab this past weekend so me and Ryan got invited along. Friday after work we followed Stan (my boss) and his long time friend down to Moab, stopping at what looked to be a small town's biker's hang out called Ray’s Tavern on the way for a delicious burger and then slept under the stars by the river. Saturday morning we got up with the sun and helped get the rafts ready for the trip. About 10 am everyone was there that was going on the rafts ( a bunch of people we didn’t know, they were in some kind of art society but a pretty friendly group) was there and we loaded into the boats. Of course that was when the clouds came so unfortunately it was a little cool. We leisurely went down the river, stopped for some cliff jumping, lunch, water fights and a few fun rapids. So all in all a pretty good day. We went in to town to eat dinner with my boss and his friend and of course the sun came out just as soon as we got out of the river. After dinner we walked around town for a while and then decided against our camping plan (we were tired, had forgotten our flash light and hot) and rented a hotel room for an absurdly high price considering the quality of the room. Sunday we woke up early (due to the fire alarm that went off at 7:30 am (there was no fire)). Ate the hotel’s sad excuse for a continental break fast and went to the National Arches Park and hiked up to the delicate arch and explored a few other places around the park. After that we came back to our hotel and jumped in the pool which was really small got some sun ate a late lunch and headed back up to rainy/cloudy/cold utah county.

Seasonal Disorder

2009-06-10T15:44:00.001-07:00

Its probably lame to post a blog about the wheather, but its been cloudy and rainy here for the past two weeks and its driving me nuts. This is why I can't live in Utah for the rest of my life. Its the second week of June it should be warm and sunny by now. It always teases you, gives you a few nice days in March and then snows, then gives you a few really nice days in May and then rains the first couple of weeks in June. Now I understand that summer doesn't officially start until the 21st but growing up in Texas for 16 years for some reason I feel entitled to June 1-August 31 should be nothing but perfect hot summer weather. I should be at the pool this saturday but the forecast is 74 and cloudy not quite pool weather, i feel cheated.

Note: I know that 74 doesn't sound too bad but today (its thursday now) and its 50 outside and still raining and supposed to be for the next week...I guess I shouldn't expect any sympathy from the Washingtonians (except for Kirsten- Thank you!)

So I married a Handy Man

2009-06-05T10:41:00.000-07:00

When Ryan inspected our dishwasher to see why it was broken he said, "ok what I think I need to do is cut this wire and re-connect it over here, etc...." And I said "Um maybe we should just call a repair man." What I should have said was, sounds great, I know you can do it Honey or something like that (except for I've never once called him honey). This blog is to say I'm sorry I doubted your handy man abilities because you are an awesome, wonderful, Sexy- Handyman. I should never have doubted you. Total repair cost- $4 for supplies.

And, I usually don't think this but I can't wait to go home and do another load of dishes, so I can finally use the kitchen as I have this weird phobia, I'm not a neat freak or anything but if the kitchen is dirty I don't cook: Hence- a lot of eating out this week.

Also, totally un related to the topic of this blog I never posted our Memorial day Hike pics. We went up American Fork canyon with Ryan's family and did a little hike.

Updates

2009-06-01T11:25:00.000-07:00

#1 Our dishwasher & micowave is now broken. I opened up our dishwasher sunday morning and heard a loud popping noise and a huge spark and the electrical cord thing that snapped seems to be connected to the microwave because it is also not working. I think i'll start taking bets on the next thing to break down.

#2 We have not been as diligent on our P90X program this month as we were last month. And our junk food intake/stash at our house has increased, not a good combo.

#3 We've been trying to decide when/where to go on vacation, (this is a contributor to the motivation for item #2) We've considered, Jamaica, Hawaii, Barbados but I think we've narrowed it down to the Dominican Republic and Tahiti ( which will probably be twice as expensive as the DR but Tahiti looks amazing, really, really incredible) My boss who has been everywhere attests to the fact that it is the most beautiful place he has ever been to. My justificaton on considering the Tahiti option is : tax refund- kids = Tahiti (also factoring in ignoring yesterday's entire day of church learning about being frugal, food storage and the economic crisis)

Car-less in Lehi

2009-05-20T11:16:00.000-07:00

So, i'm stuck here at work with out a car and I'm bored. I was leaving this post up to Ryan to do but since thats not happening I thought i'd share the current goings on. As the saying goes, I'm not sure if its really a saying or not but it should be, but when one thing breaks so does some thing else and then something else. Well, much to Ryan's joy he some how managed to get two Iphones given to him. One is the older version and one was the newer version. Anyways, he can't use the new 3G phone until June due to technical details I won't bore you with. So, he gets the old one working with tmobile and then promptly runs into problems with it. Mean while he has given me his “old” phone which is new to me and better than the one I was using. He figures out how to get the iphone to work again involving a new battery opening it up and messing with wires. After all this work he drops it on the concrete a few days later which is the last straw for the phone and its broken past all hope for repair. Mean while we had traded back phones while his Iphone was under repair#1 and during our St. George trip Ryan jumped in the pool and swam for about 30 min with his/my phone in his pocket which is now completely out of commission as well. This leads to the next adventure…

Shortly thereafter as Ryan gets in his car to go to work (he leaves after I do) it makes crazy noises/overheating etc, and he can’t drive it. So, now my poor husband’s car is broken and he can’t even call me for a ride because he also has no phone. (Don’t worry he’s a resourceful guy and he finds a phone to call me from at the model home in our neighborhood)

Luckily Ryan and his dad do know how to fix the problem in his car, which I find amazing because I don’t know anything about cars, and I mean really nothing, and when I am told the problem I can’t help but let my eyes glaze over while I just nod and act like I understand what I’m being told.

I started this blog yesterday waiting for my ride (ryan) to come get me but didn’t finish until this morning and ironically I left my phone at home today so today I also have no phone & no car. But really the moral of the story now that I think about it is, although we are short a few phones and a car, we are still alive and surviving without and actually its really not all that life changing just rather inconvenient at times.

Ryan's Birthday in St. George

2009-04-30T15:53:00.000-07:00

So, we decided to go to St. George last weekend since it was supposed to be cold and rainy here last weekend. We even heard reports of snow but that was never verified. So, Friday afternoon we left work early and drove to St. George, it was pretty nice when we got there sunny and in the 70's. We ate at the Texas Road house (they have the best rolls ever) we usually will share a meal and just stuff ourselves with them. Then we headed over to Ryan's sister house which they had just moved into which was super nice and that they got it for almost 50% off. It makes me kick myself that we bought when we did if only we had waited 6 months. Anyways...Saturday morning we woke to a somewhat cooler windier day. We decided to go hiking anyways up Snow Canyon. It was a pretty nice hike but we had to cut it short as we got rained out. (The only time it rained for the rest of the day of course). Then we ate lunch at this little coffee shop place and it was so delicious they had the best italian cream sodas ever. Then we went to the Rec Center and played some raquetball and then met up with his family there and played Walleyball. My first experience with the game. Hard to get used to cause its kinda like volleyball but different. My main complaint with Walleyball and Volleyball is that when I hit the ball with my arms, I can't remember the correct term, not setting but something else, it kills my arm and they are red for like hours afterward. But its definitly easier than Volleyball for me. That night we had dinner with Ryan's family and watched the Jazz lose terribly to the Lakers and then the two of us went hot tubbing . I may not have mentioned before that me and Ryan are now doing the famed P90X work out program for the next 90 days so we will be ready for the summer and our vacation (not yet decided on).. So this program is pretty intense, so sunday morning when I woke up I was so sore from the P90X and a Saturday full of physical activity . I still managed to make it to the pool of course (where I got sunburned) which made for an even more sore/uncomfortable sunday night.

I thought these were so cool, I never knew cactuses could grow cute pink flowers.

Another nature pic from our hike, I never think to take those kind of pics but Ryan is really good at them.
Ryan trying to blow out his candles (he thought they were the trick ones- but they weren't) I can't talk of course since I will have even more candles on b-day cake this year.

Fun to go but nice to be home

2009-04-09T11:22:00.000-07:00

So, Last weekend I left my husband for about 5 days and met my mom and sister in LA where my brother is living for a weekend of fun. We went to six flags, the Getty museum, Santa Monica Beach, Hollywood blvd & Ripley's belive it or not musuem, did some hiking and of course got killed in games by Penny. Unfortunatley I forgot my camera at my house after carefully setting it on my bed so as not to forget so I don't have any pics right now. My plane got delayed on my return flight home so I didn't make it home until about midnight but my wonderful hubby had some beautiful roses with him when he picked me up at the airport and had cleaned the house so I came home to flowers and a clean house, it doesn't get much better than that. I guess I'll just have to go on vacation by self more often;) Just kidding babe!

Old news

2009-03-13T11:38:00.000-07:00

Well, I wish I could post a blog with as much exciting adventures as Orson, really cute baby pics like those of you with kids or at the very least some thoughtful insights about life but nothing much is coming to me right now so so I'll resort to what we've been doing recently.

A few weekends ago we went to the jazz game in salt lake which was pretty fun. We spent the day in Salt Lake doing some shopping and then met up with some friends for dinner and then headed over to watch the game. Larry H. Miller owner of the jazz had recently passed away so they did a little memorial to him which was kinda cool to be a part of and then we watched the Jazz beat I think it was New Orleans. (our best player and their best player have a long standing competitive thing going on and although I prefer watching games that are a little closer it was still good) This picture is really bad by the way our heads are really really big and the game looks really really far away and little which it kinda was :)

We've also recently been to the Draper temple open house which was pretty cool. You park at a church near the temple and then they have you wait in the gym for a while and then you go into another room and watch a short little movie about it and then you bus up to the temple. You walk thru a big tent covered walk way thing to get into the temple so unfortunatley we couldn't get any pictures of us. We tried to take picture of it in the bus but it didn't really work out. There was a ton of people there, you kinda shuffle along thru all the rooms. Anyways it was pretty cool to see all the rooms there was an amazing chandlier in one of the rooms. After you've gone thru all the rooms you end up in a church right next to the temple where they have cookies and drinks and then they bus you back to the church where you parked. There are some huge and I mean mansion homes surrounding the temple which is basically on top of the mountain, so the view around the temple is pretty cool.

PS. Happy Friday the 13th today

Coincidence?

2009-02-26T10:58:00.000-08:00

So, I moved to Utah, I'm thinking its been about 9 years ago. One of the first girls that I got to be friends with was my friend Aimee. I think we've lived together at least half of those years. So what are the chances of two really good friends getting proposed to at the same place, same way?

My Proposal: We had gone ring shopping together the past few weeks, so I was expecting a proposal at some point. Ryan texted me at work and said not to eat he wanted to take me out somewhere nice to dinner. So, of course I knew what he was up to. He took me to the restaruaunt the Roof in slc which has a really cool view of the temple and really good food. Afterwards he took me to Liberty park. (We had gone there together on a date in the first couple months of dating- where we actually broke into the bird sanctuary next to the park thinking it was a playground and he told I think it was my family when he was on the what they call the "hot seat" a little later that was when he started thinking I could be the one) As we were walking along the path way in the park there was a blanket with roses, sparkling cider, and candles lit up and he popped the question.

Aimee's proposal 2 1/2 years later: They have been ring shopping for a while so she also was expecting a proposal some time. It started out as a regular night. They ate dinner together and then planned to meet up later to go to the gym. But he called her later and said is it ok if they went some where to talk. He told her he wanted to go to the slc temple but really took her to, you guessed it Liberty Park, where he had a blanket, candles and roses set up and asked the question. I think she said the reason he proposed there because that is where his grand parents got engaged there or something like that.

Other similarities- They were both mid-week proposals, tues for aimee, wed for me.
Both our rings were too big and we had to get them sized after the proposal, (its hard to part with your ring when you've waited so long for it) and both happened about the same time of night.

Anyways I just thought it was crazy that two good friends got proposed to at the same place with the same blanket, rose, candle plan. I mean 5 years ago when we were hanging out complaining about guys and not being able to imagine marrying anyone, would you think it was possible that both of our future husbands would propose to us at the same park in the same way? Really what are the chances?

Recent Activities

2009-02-17T11:34:00.000-08:00

So, last weekend we went to my friend Aimee's boyfriend's parents cabin in Midway. We went to an outside skating rink where I tried to ice skate. I'm definitly not very balanced on skates but I didn't fall either probably because I was going so slow. I never really ventured out on my own either I was always holding on to somebody. Afterwards we went to the hot springs and when I say hot I mean it felt like your skin was going to be burned off if you moved at all. Slowly we made our way to a little cove where the water wasn't quite as hot and then afterwards we had some dessert and played a few games so overall pretty fun night.

This weekend: Saw the movie "Yes Man" with Jim Carey at the dollar theatre with our new bachelor buddies (April & Clint) and a couple of their friends, the movie was better than I thought it was going to be actually. Valentines Day Ryan made me breakfast got me some roses and a pint of Haag & Daas ice cream and I got him some Jazz tickets and a sweater. That night we went and saw the movie Slum dog millionaire, It is rated R but it is a really, really, good movie, ( there is no language, no sex scenes, no nudity, no graphic violence) I'm guessing it is rated that because of the seriousness nature of parts of the movie. But if you want to see a really good movie I highly recommend it. Then we went to the Outback for dinner. So to sum it up a pretty good V- Day. Made even better because of the nice 3 day weekend. Sunday is so much better when you know you don't have to get up the next morning and go to work.

Also, I've decided to get into this whole face book thing, because I've realized lately, everyone is on that thing, even my mom. (no offense mom) It might be time we get the internet at our house so we can join the 21st century.

California Trip

2009-02-05T11:23:00.000-08:00

Work out place at Venice Beach.

This is Ryan's creative photography work (above) I like the pink flowers, this is right by our hotel.

Us at Hunington Beach Saturday night

Ok, this blog is for Penny since she said my last blog entitled "Updates" was no longer valid, which she is right about. So, last weekend Ryan's company was sending him to Anaheim to film a covention for one of their clients and I decided to tag along at the last minute. A very good decision on my part since we left slc on friday morning and an hour and half later we were in 83 degree weather with palm trees. We stayed at the Hilton Hotel where the convention was right next to Disneyland. Our room actually over looked part of the park. Friday afternoon when we had checked into our hotel we walked to this outdoor mall place and ate at the Cheese cake factory for a late lunch, so yummy. Then unfortuantely for Ryan he had to go do some work for a couple of hours and I relaxed at the pool. That night after he was finished we went back to the outdoor mall did a little shopping and ate at this old fashioned hamburger place that cost as much to eat there as it did for us to eat at the cheese cake factory, go figure. Anyways, sadly Ryan had to work all day on Saturday starting at 7am and wasn't done until 6pm that night. Meanwhile, I leisurely slept in, went to lunch with my bro Orson and then we headed to Venice Beach. (see Orson's blog for additional photos) which was really cool. The weather was sunny and nice, we walked on the beach for a while and then walked along the boardwalk, saw some street performers and some weird people and a bunch of ways to "legally" get marijuana for medicinal purposes if we had been interested. Then we headed back to the hotel picked up Ryan and decided to eat dinner at Hunington Beach at this mexican restraunt across the street from the beach. It was so hard to leave the next day, I was beating myself up for not planning better so we could have stayed another day. Oh well, I guess we'll just have to go back again. ...

updates

2009-01-17T12:37:00.000-08:00

Ok, its been a while... so here is what you've missed. We went to St. George for Christmas in hopes of warmer weather which did not happen. We had a surprise visit from Santa at ryan's grand parents and no Santa's not drunk, but its a great picture. Then for New year's eve we had a small get together at our place which was fun. Addie enjoyed herself on the love sac before the party. I went to Spokane for a quick work trip. There was so much snow there it was crazy. I found out that all the flights got cancelled a few hours after i left. Anyways, I just wanted to do a quick post since its been so long, i'll do a better one soon.

Our First Christmas present & Tagged

2008-12-19T11:28:00.000-08:00

1.) For our Christmas present from my sister, Annaliese, offered to paint a room for us. The room she painted was our main floor bathroom and we gave her an extra challenge because we picked out this really cool looking textured "suede" paint which we had really liked in one of our friend's house. So, Annaliese came over and slaved away for hours while I got to play with my adorable little neice, Addie, they spent the night and she slaved away again the whole next morning. It turned out really awesome. I don't know if you can see the texturedness from the picture but it looks really cool in person, so THANK YOU ANNALIESE!!

2.) I have been tagged several times on this 8 things tagged and each time I have had good intentions of doing it but never followed thru, so here I go. (They have also all been different 8 things so I am going just do the ones I liked)

8 Favorite Books

1. Ender's game

2. Pride & Prejudice

3. Count of Monte Cristo

4. I have liked a lot of books by Harlan Coben recently

5. Kite runner and another book by the same author that I can't remember the name of right now.

6. I can't think of any more right now, I've read so many books that they all tend to get blurred after a while, I am sure I am forgetting one of my favorites.

8 things that happened yesterday

1.) went to work in a blizzard practically, was tailed by a snow plower that wasn't plowing

2.)went to Walmart, finally bought some tights, I was much warmer the rest of the day, amazing how dressing warmer makes the winter a little more bearable too bad it has taken me like 8 years to figure this out.

3.)drove home from work

4.) offered to baby-sit Addie for Annaliese so she could have girls night out

5.) got invited to enrichment by my neighbor I am trying to be friends with.

6) asked Ryan if he wanted to watch addie while I went to relief society dinner, (and asked Annaliese if that was ok)

7) Went to the dinner with my two neighbors ate yummy food and then right as the spritual part was going to start got a call from ryan saying to come home as he wasn't sure what to do with a crying baby.

8) came home calmed Addie down much to Ryan's amazement, it must be a girl thing, watched re-runs of the Office, hung out with annaliese when she came to pick up Addie, then went to bed with the kitchen messy from our cooking adventures of our first time making sugar cookies the night before.

8 things to look forward to

1.) Christmas

2) New Year's eve party we want to have

3.) starting a new year- crazy how fast time goes- following thru on my new year resolutions

4) hanging out with my friend Nicole in town for the holidays

5) hanging out with my cousin Arielle coming to town in Jan

6) our new tv we are buying for our christmas present to each other, admittly Ryan is way, way more excited about this than I am.

7) my work trip to Spokane, get to hang out with orson while I am there.

8) California trip in January, I'm tagging along on a work trip of Ryan's

8 things on my wish list

1. a million dollars :) (if I got this item it negates the following)

2. cruise with my husband ( and friends if any of them want to come)

3. new pair of jeans

4. house decorations

5. A baby (this list is not in order I should add)

6. I'm feeling greedy, should I say world peace now or solving world hunger

7. better economy would be nice although I am enjoying the gas prices lately

8. if I get some of the above I'd be pretty happy

8 things I love about winter

I don't think so, any one who knows me knows anything I put here would be a lie, I'm ok with it until after Christmas and then I hate it.

8 restaraunts

1. Outback

2. Tree Room (a once a year opportunity)

3. Red Robin

4. Olive Garden

5. Thai village

6. Texas Road house

7. Goodwood BBQ

8. Anything mexican

9. Kneader's bakery

8 TV Shows I watch

1. The office

2. 30 Rock

3. Oprah

4. Grey's Anatomy

5. What not to Wear

6. HGTV (sad but true)

7. Chuck (Annaliese has got me into liking this as of recently)

8. Kath & Kim

8 places to visit

1. Tahiti

2. Italy

3. Paris

4. Ireland

5. England

6. Hawaii

7. New York & DC again

8. New Orleans because of their rating of the #1 Murder Capital in the US, Oh yea and to visit Annaliese, Spencer & Addie while they are there.

8 People I tag

1. Ryan

2. Orson

3. Penny

4. Mom

5. Nicole

6.Kirsten

7. April

8. Richard

The Best Meal of the Year

2008-12-14T18:21:00.000-08:00

and no its not Thanksgiving or Christmas. So, for the past several years my company has gone to the Tree Room for our Christmas Party and it is honestly the best meal I have of the year. I look forward to it all year long. I felt a little silly taking a picture of my food but I had to do it. Now that I am a blogger I take way more pictures than I ever used to. Anyways, for those who don't know the Tree Room is at the Sundance Resort up in the mountains and it is a 5 star restaraunt and I don't know what half the things on the menu are but they are delicious and is served in courses. One main entree alone (what i get every year the Pepper steak so tender you could cut it with a butter knife and the most delicious mango sauce comes with it, sounds weird but its not) is way more expensive than what me and Ryan would spend going out to dinner for the both of us. The dessert that I took a picture of is this amazing chocalate truffle cake with a warm pudding inside and this yummy bannana ice cream. I think this meal is also so wonderful because its free. If we went there on our own for a birthday or anniversary or something with every bite I would be thinking this bite cost me $5, so half the fun of this dinner is not only is it absolutely delicious but I can order what I want (and believe me I don't pass up anything, drinks, beginnings ( their fancy word for an appetizer), salad, dessert) and it is free. We eat hardly anything the whole day in preparation for this meal and dinner lasts almost 3 hours. The great thing is the portions are small and they serve each part separatly so your stomach has time to get ready for the next course and you get to try so many different things. Ok, I am done bragging about our wonderful dinner but I had to because it was wonderful.

Washington Trip

2008-12-02T10:43:00.000-08:00

all the guys in their blue shirts (un-planned)

ryan helping set up for the reception

the cutting of the cake

all the siblings

us on the ferry ride (above)

at the park

at the park still

we had to put addie by this huge tree, so cute.

hiking with Addie in the stroller at the park

So this is to follow up Annaliese's blog about Richard's wedding with pics. We got a new camera for our anniversary so we took way more pics than we normally would. We did some hiking the first day at Ilahee park. Thursday was Richard's birthday we went with him to go get his tux and shop for a wedding present for his bride to be. (I've never seen Richard's romantic side, I'm still getting used to it) had some Thai food that mom brought home from Seattle and went to the Stake Center to put up decorations for the reception. Afterwards we all went to Shari's (for those who don't live in seattle its like an all night restraunt place like Denny's or Ihop) for dessert to celebrate Richard's 22nd birthday. Friday was the big day. We took the ferry over to the temple, it was a really nice ceremony. Did the picture thing, ate buffet lunch and went straight to the reception. It was nice to see all the family at the reception, wish I could have hung out with my cousins more, I'll have to plan better next time. Thanks to Aunt Beth for letting us stay at her house while she was trying to pack it up. Saturday I went with my sisters to see Twilight ( I thought it was pretty good overall, a few cheesy parts) and Ryan and Orson saw the Bond movie, we helped move the couches into Richard and Becky's new apartment and did some shopping in Silverdale. Sunday we saw Paul and Rachel and the kids before we had to take off to the airport. It was a quick trip, I wish we could have stayed longer for Thanksgiving. Also, I haven't figured out how to post the pictures very well yet so they are all out of order but I can't figure out how to move them now that they are here so sorry.

Our 2nd Anniversary

2008-11-13T11:14:00.000-08:00

Well, two years just flew by. It seems weird I have been married that long, it doesn't seem that long ago when I thought I was never going to meet the "one" or get married. Being single was fun and I wouldn't trade those years but it is really nice to be where we are at right now together. Anyways, this year we decided to go to Park City. I had the day off because luckily I work for a bank and we get days off like Veterans day, and Ryan took the day off. So, we drove up to Park City that after noon and walked up and down main streets going into all the little shops and art galleries, man if money wasn't an issue it would be so cool to buy some real art work for our house, then we checked into our hotel right on main street and relaxed for a little bit and got ready to go to dinner. We realized that November is the off season for Park City so it felt like we were the only people there and unfortunately a lot of the restaruaunts were closed. We found a nice Italian place for dinner and it was pretty romantic since we were the only customers in the restaruant literally. After that we we went to the heated outdoor pool at the hotel and hot tub which was fun. When we got back to the hotel Ryan had set up blanket and pillows by the fireplace in our room with the mormon version of champagne "sparkling cider" and roses. So it was a pretty nice anniversary.

Famous people in Lehi?

2008-10-24T11:37:00.000-07:00

So we went to Costco on Saturday, mainly because we spent all morning cleaning our house and then didn't feel like cleaning again, so we decided to go eat at Costco and then go shopping and eat all the yummy samples, which as is turned out Annaliese had the exact same idea cause she showed up there like 15 min after us. So anyways after we ate all the samples Annaliese noticed there was a bunch of people outside by the Verizon store with one of the radio stations there so we went over to see what all the fuss was about. We were offered wristbands to stand in the above long line to get an autograph by Timbaland (the guy One Republic sold out to get their Apologize song on the air, you can't really blame them since it worked, but the original version without Timaland(I have no idea how to spell his name)) is so much better, and also Chris Cornell, I guess he was in the Sound Garden band back in the 90's and them two have a new album coming out hence the visit to Lehi, Utah Verizon store with about 50 people. Anyways we took the wristbands stood around waiting for about 20 min realized we didn't really care about getting an autograph although we thought it would have been cool if we felt like standing in line to get a picture with one of them holding Addie and send it to spencer, just to freak him out. We decided against this gave the wristbands back and just watched them get out of their RV and Suburban, of course they couldn't come in the same vehicle, that they had been hanging out in forever, got our cool picture of their backs and decided to go home

Tagged by Kirsten

2008-10-14T13:03:00.000-07:00

Tell 6 things no one knows about you, so its probably going to be more like 6 things most people don't know but some people might, but here it goes...
1) I found a snake in my office fax machine, i couldn't get my papers to go thru the machine, so I opened it up and see a black snake all cozied up and screamed so loud my co-workers thought I was getting electrocuted. Everyone in the whole bank knows about it even the CEO and president when they visited our office asked to see the video of it, any ways the point is that before this I was tolerant of snakes but have now moved in to the really hate them and scared of them stage, I've even had a few night mares about them so it doesn't really make sense seeing as how I wasn't physically harmed in any way but thats what happened. Snakes and roaches are the worst luckily I haven't seen a roach since the Texas days.
2) I sucked my thumb until the third grade, I remember my teacher had some kind of code she gave me when she would see me sucking it, I was embarrassed thinking all the other kids knew the code to so I can't remember if that is why I finally stopped the habit but I did, obviously.
3) I have a love/hate relationship with chick flicks, I like to watch them but then I always rip on them afterwards because I think they are always so predictable and unrealistic but I still like watching them.
4)I tried out for the flag team in high school with my two best friends and i was the one who didn't make it. (thats what all the cool, cute girls did was the flags and they got to wear a lot more flattering outfits than the band uniforms, of course anything is more flattering than the band uniforms)
5) I love dairy products, everyone knows that, but i love drinking whip cream from the carton, (not whipped, although I love that too) some people think its gross, like for instance my husband, but its like a little treat to have a little sip everytime you have to get in the fridge for something.
6) I love hair products, I can spend a really long time in the hair section of the store , half the products i buy are for curly hair and the other half for straight hair, always a constant dilemma for me, and then there's the hair dye colors...

Diane and Meredith

2008-09-12T15:55:00.000-07:00

Hello Everyone,

Okay, Diane says that she doesn't see the resemblance, but I think she looks a lot like Meredith on Greys Anatomy (it's a tv show). Does anyone concur?

Labor Day

2008-09-02T11:21:00.000-07:00

I hope everyone had a good Labor Day weekend and rested from all their labors we certainaly did. We we left thursday night for St. George. Friday we went to the pool and were there for most of the day, I read Breaking Dawn (from the twilight series). Friday night we had a bbq with ryan's family and played some games. Saturday Ryan went golfing with his friends and went to his high school reunion picnic, and I went to work out at the gym and to the pool with Ryan's mom. That night we went to Ryan's high school reunion dinner, ( I've never been or heard about mine and don't plan on going to any) and met all his high school friends so it was interesting to put a face to the stories I've heard. Sunday we went to Ryan's sister's baby blessing and had a picnic in the park. The weather was really nice the whole time we were in St. George, it rained a couple of times for a little bit which cooled things off and only in the evening and morning so it never interfered with my pool plans. I was a little worried about the Hurricane Gustav that gas prices were going to be like $5 a gallon for the drive home, luckily that didn't happen. Monday we went and did some hiking which was fun and got a smoothie at this really yummy smoothie place they have in St. George. We went and ate lunch with Ryan's friends and then went to the Marriot pool where Ryan's younger sister works and had a bbq at the pool. (Yes we ate very well this weekend as you can tell). The weekend went by so fast before I knew it we were driving back, and we started thinking we don't have any more vacations planned to look forward to. We think it might be time to plan a vacation to somewhere besides st.george, like Hawaii sounds nice, or a cruise.

The System Sucks

2008-08-08T11:42:00.000-07:00

And here's why.
1) You buy a new car which you pay taxes on when you buy it. Then every year you have to pay the state money (the newer your car the more it is) just to drive it in the state where you live. Can anyone explain why this is? I understand it is good to register the car so that if someone commits a crime you can trace them via license plate (at least that is the only reason I can think of and that is because I read a lot of mystery books). But why every year? Once you register it once shouldn't it cost like $20-30 bucks for the paperwork involved, in my case $187 +$35 for the safety inspection + emmissions test. Now if you have a new car wouldn't it be safe to assume that 2 years later its still in pretty good condition. Also, is it really fair for the state to control wheather or not your car is safe enough to drive? Shouldn't the person driving the car be the one to decide that or suffer the consequences, are they hurting anyone else besides them selves? So, those questions aside, let me tell what happened to me. As you may have guessed the registration on my car expired in July. Now July was a busy month for me, holidays, my birthday, sister having a baby, family in town so believe it or not I do not get around to registering my car. So, come August 2nd, I have my car parked in salt lake city at the mall and come back to find a cop with way too much time on his hands and way too anal has given my a ticket for the sole reason of not having it registerd, 2 little days after the expiration. Ok, fine so the next week I pay all the costs register my car on line print off the temporary permit. The next day after registering my car I have to go to Salt Lake County court house for work and I am planning to then go the other court house to protest the ticket I have received. So, I park my car do what I need to at the courthouse come back to my car and Lo and Behold I have received another ticket for the registration of my car being expired, and this cop is so anal they have also written a note on it that the temporary ticket has to be taped on to the back window of my car in view. So that means the cop has seen the temporary registration permit sitting on the front seat of my car and still feels that it is such a violation to the public of Utah that I have not properly placed my permit on the window of my car. Really, do these people have nothing better to do? Shouldn't they be on the side of the average citizen? I will note that I did take my now two parking tickts over to court house #2 (about 1 block a way) to see what could be done, the second ticket was waived and the first cost me $20 (still a rip off) but the point I am trying make here is the principle of the thing. I mean gas is still over $4 a gallon in Utah, I hear we still have the 4th highest gas prices in the country, I have yet to receive my economic stimulus from the government and the cops are honestly going out of their way to see how much they can nickel and dime you for violations that are unfair in the first place. these are my views if anyone has any differnet opinons I will be happy to hear them but i doubt my views can be changed on this subject:)
Now for #2 (this is my longest blog to date by the way) Insurance I don't believe in it and I think all insurance companies and a lot of doctors/dentists/eye doctors are trying to rip you off as well. So, I have been without contacts for most of this year and have been waiting for my annual eye appt to get a new prescription. So, I go in for my appt, take all the tests, talk to the actual eye doctor for about 10 min he recommends a new kind of contact that you can sleep in and says he'll give me a trial pair. He gives them to me an assistant lady watches me put them in all by my self on the first try and then i walk out to pay what I think is going to be my $25 co pay and am charged an extra $139 for the doctor advising me on these new contacts and the fitting which took all of 1 minute. Don't you think you should be told these things in advance? I was fully prepared to pay for the contact lenses out of pocket since my insurance won't cover it this year of course, but I had no idea I would get charged to have them give me a trial pair and "show" me how to put them in. Well, I could go on and on about this subject but I just don't have enough time right now. So, I will just say this: Everyone (friends & family excluded of course) is trying to rip you off and you have to fight tooth and nail not to get ripped off in this country. Anyone agree or is it just me?

Summer Time

2008-07-25T14:00:00.001-07:00

Well, I am sick of looking at our blog post so I thought i'd write a new one. I just want every one to know how much I love the summer time. I love the sun shine, and being able to wear cute summer clothes, not being cold and I love taking a walk in the evening and it being just perfect outside. I admit it makes it hard to be at work during the day especially if the air conditioning is on full blast. I feel like while I live in Utah I should be able to take the summers off to enjoy it more fully, if only I could win the lottery or something. Anyways, we've tried enjoying the summer as much as possible so far, we floated down the provo river one saturday, we have gone to the Lehi Rec center to the pool a couple of times. We are going to Brian Regan in August which is at Thanksgiving point outdoors by the water falls so we are super excited about that and we are also going to see a Midsummer's night dream at the Sundance out door theatre in August. Also, we have gotten good use out of Ryan's new grill. I've gotten to go see Addie, who is now 4 days old and very cute, I am afraid she already favors me as her first aunt to see her:) We went and saw Batman at the Imax theatre yesterday on Pioneer day (Utah State Holiday) with our friends Amber & Christian, very good movie. The only thing I don't like about summer is how fast it goes, I can't believe we only have a month left. I've heard the older you get the faster time goes, and I am scared that is coming true. Well, thats all my thoughts on this subject for today.

California Trip

2008-06-17T15:22:00.000-07:00

Well, we went to California the week of Memorial day. First we went to St. George and then Monday we went to Vegas. We went to an outlet mall there and ate at the Cheesecake Factory (Where we always eat when we go to Vegas). Tuesday we headed out to california, after we got there and got checked into our hotel and Ryan and I went to the beach, which unfortunately was pretty chilly, but still fun to hang out at. Wednesday we went to Disneyland and I finally got to see what all the big fuss was about. Thursday we went to Universal Studios which was probably the highlight of our trip, a couple of days later a lot of the stuff we had seen there burnt down, so I am glad we went there. We stayed saturday in St. George to lay out at the pool which was nice and then headed back home (we had fun on our trip, but we also missed our new house) it was nice to get back and sleep in our own bed. In other news, It is finally summer weather here which is awesome! We also met with our bishop in our new ward and got called to be in the primary, he didn't say where- he just said it was going to be in the primary, there's probably a million kids in this new ward so it was a pretty safe bet on our bishop's part that there is some available calling in primary. Annaliese's baby shower that I am throwing is this saturday so hopefully all goes well, I'm hoping as long as we have enough food, things can't go too wrong. Anyways, I think that's all for now.

Phoenix Trip

2008-05-20T10:24:00.000-07:00

Hello again,

Just posting a few photos from our trip to Phoenix. It was a quick yet fun trip.

I look really fruity in one of the pictures.

-Ryan

Our House Pics

2008-05-14T12:20:00.000-07:00

Hello Everyone

It's been pretty busy lately, but finally has slowed down. I finally ended my 7 year quest to get a bachelors in digital media. -man that felt good to get that out of the way. Diane and I are just working now and things are good. We're heading to Phoenix this weekend to do some work for our jobs, she is training someone for Washington Trust and I am filming stock footage for my work. Diane keeps telling me that she wants to move to Arizona were it's hot, but I don't know if I like being sweaty all day.

Well, we took some pictures of our new place. I think the lens on the camera had a smudge on it because all of them appear to be a little fuzzy on the top left corner, but all well.

Everyone needs to come visit now, since I finally got a grill! We've got plenty of Bratwursts so we need to grill it up.

-Ryan

New address

2008-04-17T15:13:00.000-07:00

Well, For those of you who care, our new address is 589 East 1590 South, Lehi, UT 84043. We finally moved in, we have been there for almost a week, The first night was really weird to be finally there, unfortunately we have tons more to do before it really feels like home. They are not changing out our countertops until next saturday so we can't really unpack our bathroom stuff or kitchen stuff so that is frustrating. We are still working on getting a fridge and blinds/curtain for all the windows, get cable and internet, but i'm really happy we are finally in there. Then maybe I can finally start writing about something other than our house, maybe not, I don't know. Anyways, that is our housing update for the week. Ryan is finishing up school he graduates next Friday, April 25th which is also his birthday. Anyways, as soon as he finishes school we will have more time to decorate our house and get our life back to a more normal relaxing pace. Well, soon as we have internet at our house I will be able to keep up on my blogging better.

House Again

2008-04-02T16:11:00.000-07:00

Well, just to update everyone, our loan was approved last week so we get to close a lot earlier than we thought we would. We were hoping to close tomorrow so our loan would fund on Friday and we could move in over the weekend but such as life is that plan is not to be. We can't close until Friday now so our loan won't fund until Monday so after work on Monday and Tuesday will probably be our moving times. Anyways, it is starting to seem more like a reality now so we're really excited, we have started packing up our condo so it is a total wreck right now.

Ryan got another new job, hopefully that will be the last time I say that for a while) this one he is really excited about, it is at a place called CMG (creative media group) and he will be doing video editing on a new project for the company, and be making more money. Anyways, I hadn't written a blog in a while so I just wanted to write a quick one, next time I will post pictures of our new house :)

Housing

2008-03-04T11:02:00.000-08:00

As most everyone who reads our blog will probably already know we have decided to take part in the wonderful world of home ownship. We made an offer on a townhouse in lehi that we really like and after a few back and forth counter offers and such it was accepted. Now we have to make sure we can get the financing for this lovely purchase and move in (probably not till end of April). I am constantly back and forth in my mind being scared about this huge new commitment and also excited. This means of course that we are commiting our selves to live in Utah for the next few years but have decided this is ok. Ryan would actually be happy living in Utah for the remainder of his days but I have other ideas that are warmer such as Las Vegas (suburbs) and Arizona, and I feel that my constant complaining of the coldness over the next few years will wear him down enough to want to move :) Now that our house hunt is over we will have to find a new hobby for Saturdays and change our internet surfing sites. Also, our goal is to sign up for internet at our new house and also Tivo (which we feel like will make our lives much better.) Well that is all for now.

I don't know

2008-02-13T15:53:00.000-08:00

I don't have anything in particular to write about, i just wanted to feel what it was like to write a blog, (since Ryan wrote the first one). Well, I woke up today with the sun shining and started thinking hey, maybe the worst of the winter is over and we will have an early spring. No, not the case it is snowing again as I speak. We did get to go St. George this weekend and got a little taste of sun and short sleeve weather, I am not sure if it helps or hurts my morale when I come back to winter. Anyways, I don't think I have anything else to say right now, nothing witty or clever comes to mind like everyone else's blogs are, and I have got to do some work before I leave.

We are in!

2008-02-06T07:45:00.000-08:00

Well, we have finally stepped into the mysterious world of blogging. We decided to retire our old ways of using the pen and paper and go with this great new technology called a "keyboard" and "mouse". Hopefully, we will have things worthwhile to write about, otherwise I will just write silly nonsense.

To update everyone on our status:

I am on a winning streak in Wii Tennis against Diane

Thats about if for now.

-Ryan