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.

B-Town & Girls week

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

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

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.. .