So I married a Handy Man

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

#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

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

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

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

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?

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?