HAPPY 6 MONTH ANNIVERSARY!

Well, today is our 6 month anniversary and time sure does fly! I've loved every day of being married to such an amazing person. Six months down, and eternity to go:) I love you Kyle.

A very overdue post...

I've been meaning to post these pictures for about three weeks now, but haven't gotten around to it. I'm beginning to wonder who has time to blog anyway? I just received an email from my sister who said I need to blog more. I'll be better, I promise. A few weekends ago, Kyle and I went up to the High Uintah's and hiked around a bit. It was fun, but talk about cold! I had forgotten several times during the trip that we were in the beginning of June! It felt more like February, but that's Utah weather I guess. There was still snow up there, so we couldn't hike as far as we wanted. Nonetheless, it was a fun adventure and we took some cute pics!

Pre-hike picture. This was the beginning of the trail.

Lots of snow!

I was FRRREEZING, so Kyle let me borrow his nice little windbreaker jacket. It helped. Does the color make me look cheesy though?
Kyle and a lake.

"Save a forest, hug a tree" Is that the saying?

Kyle wanted in on the action too.

How precious. If you aren't too focused on our beautiful faces, you will notice the falling water in the background. These are the "Provo Falls" Didn't know that they even existed before, but man were they perdy!

Just a thought or two......

Kyle and I made a trip to Logan this weekend to visit the family. I have two inspiring thoughts that came from this weekend getaway. (okay, maybe not so inspiring, maybe just random and important to me.) I just have to say that Logan is the most peaceful, beautiful city in the world. Okay, so I may be bias, BUT, what I am trying to say is that after living in the "big city" (Salt Lake), and experiencing the apartment living lifestyle, where you look out your window to traffic and five Mcdonald's on one block. (so unhealthy people), I have come to appreciate the "not so big" towns. Yes I have even succumbed to the idea that living in Fillmore, Utah, my husband's home town (population of 2,253...more cows than people, if you know what I mean), would really be an ideal place to live. Why? PEACE. QUIET. NO TRAFFIC. SPACE. NATURE. Seriously though, I believe I have taken for granite the luxury of just walking outside and going for a run up the canyon or to a nearby park. Yes, smaller towns have their downfalls, but the pros definitely out weigh the cons. In conclusion, I believe I have learned over the past 4 months that I am not so much a "city girl" as I may have previously believed.

Second thought. Sunday morning, I was looking through some old journals of mine in my parents house. Inside a notebook only five pages full (a journal I attempted to "start", but lost ambition to do so, I seem to have a lot of those), was a paper that I remember filling out in a Young Women's class when I was about a Junior in High School. On the top it read, " My plans for the next ten years....where will I be" As I read it, I chuckled to myself for two reason. I laughed at how detailed it was first of all (including everything I wanted in my future husband, down to hair color and all). Second, I laughed because boy was I WAY OFF! It went something like this...

1. Graduate from High School.
2. Go to BYU Hawaii for a year.
3. Come home, go to college in Salt Lake for nursing.
4. Meet my husband, get married when I turn 21.

Then I precede to write what my husband will be:
returned missionary
Business man.
about 6'3 and blonde
graduated from college, 26 years old.

5. Start a family, have 6 kids.

Well, didn't quite make it to BYU Hawaii, got married 4 years later than I'd planned,I hate needles so I'm a little confused as why I wanted to be a nurse, definitely didn't marry the first, second, thrid guy I dated, (thank heavens), threw in a mission before #4, and I have yet to bare children.....

I guess my "inspiring thought" is that sometimes we get something totally different then what we plan, but that it turns out to be perfect for us. It seems everyone likes to "bear their testimonies" on these blogs (still getting use to blogging thing), about their spouses, but seriously. My husband is the BEST. I couldn't imagine having married anyone else. And I'm glad I had to wait for him because he was definitely worth it. On top of that, it gave me time to grow and learn, I'd never trade serving a mission for anything because of what I learned. For me, I couldn't have learned any other way. And before this gets any cheesier, (tear) and plus I'm at work and suppose to be working, I will end this. The end.

A weekend at Bear Lake

Last weekend my family had a big get together at our cabin in Bear Lake. It was so fun to have the whole family there and especially to see my little sister Susan. She lives in Vegas and I don't see her very often:( We also celebrated Kyle's birthday! It was a great weekend. The lake was too cold to swim in but we still had fun playing on the beach and of course, eating lots of food. Here are some pics of the weekend.

A little canoeing

Nate and I sporting the shades

Stacia. She is a character that's for sure.

playing a little bocce

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KYLE

Just wanted to wish my husband, Kyle a HAPPY 25th BIRTHDAY! I love this picture of him...how could you not love that smile!

WELCOME HOME JEFF!

What a better way to spend memorial weekend than welcoming home our troops. Kyle's older brother, Jeff has spent the last year serving our country and we are so proud of him. Jeff spent his time working in a place called Camp Bucca Iraq,as a military policeman. Kyle was pretty excited as you can see from the cheesy picture, we all were. It was a really neat experience to see all 80 troops walk off the plane, one by one, all happy to be home, and grateful to live in such a blessed land. Everyone was waving flags and calling out their loved ones names, there was such a great spirit there. We heard all sorts of stories and experiences from Jeff when we picked him up and then ate at Sizzler, (Jeff's choice, apparently, he missed eating real food and especially shrimp.) We are happy he's home.

WEEKEND IN VEGAS

So Kyle and I decided to take a much needed vacation last weekend and we headed down to Vegas. My sister Suzie and her husband Clark live down there so we hung out with them and we had a blast! Friday night we walked around the strip and found all sorts of fun things to do. My personal favorite was playing on the BIG piano at Ceasars' Palace. We were entertained by this for quite a while. In fact, Suzie and I began to play a tune, putting all of our concentration into it, when Clark rudely interrupted:) Now that I watch it though, it's kind of a cool ending:)

More Vegas Pictures

Hey, the "Reject"

photo was Kyle's

idea, not mine.

A Hike Well Worth the Pain 

On Saturday we went on a hike. We thought it was only a two mile hike but found out quickly that it was a lot more than that. We only had an hour of daylight and we didn't want to hike back in the dark so we booked it up to the top. Kyle was practically running. We sort of lost the trail and just started climbing the steep hill. It was a difficult hike, but we made it to the top and the view was SPECTACULAR! We took some amazing pictures.