Holidays

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.