Recent Activities

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

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Ok, this blog is for Penny since she said my last blog entitled "Updates" was no longer valid, which she is right about.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

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

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

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

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

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.