California Trip

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.