St. George was fun and his team ended up getting 3rd place out of 64 teams. Let me just say it was a lot of watching softball. I am glad that the games were only 45 min long. Since they kept winning they only had to play 7 games in one day. IF they lost it would have been lots more. Anyway it was nice to get away and visit with some of his old friends. We were staying at a friends house right next to the St. George temple so we thought we would stop and take a picture.

This weekend I also was busy throwing a baby shower for a friend of mine at church. It was a lot of fun and I think it turned out pretty good. We invited about 25 people and 18 of them came.. which was a lot. We had plenty of food though so it was all good. Here is a picture of the diaper cake that I made. It was super easy and actually a lot of fun to do.



Overall we are having a pretty good week. I am teaching a lesson tommorow morning on the mayflower. It is a 5th grade class and they are super smart. I have a few readings for the students to read in groups and they are goign to get the key points out of their readign adn then teach it to the rest of the class. Hopefully it wil be long enough and that it will be fun for them. Not much else is going on.. i have another 2 weeks in the school and then I go back to classes and then the semesters over. it has gone by sooo fast which is awesome. Anyway its getting late so I better get off to bed. Have a good week
everyone!

Dark Hair!

Hey everyone...
THis past week I went and got my hair done and it is pretty dark. I love it and have gotten so many compliments on it. Just a little bit of a change but you know me, I am always up for change.



Ryan also went rock climbing the other day with the young men up in Rock Canyon in Provo. He had a fun time and really enjoys working with the few young men that we have in our ward.



This next weekend we are headed down South to St. George for a softball tournement. Some of the byu baseball alumni are forming a team and competing against other softball teams aroudn Utah. It should be a lot of fun. Their first game is at 11Pm on friday night.... I think thats mighty late to be starting. If they win the last game on saturday starts at 10pm.. so it will be a long weekend of watching games. At least it will be warmer in St. George than it will be in provo.

It has been awhile since our last post so here is what has been going on in the last little while.


Ryan played in the BYU alumni baseball game. There were around 20 alumni who came out to play against the current BYU baseball team. It was a lot of fun for them since they all miss baseball so much. THey played 2 games and won 1 of them. Ryan got to pitch an inning and he got to hit as well. He hit a solo home run with practically one hand (he sprained his wrist the night before so he wasnt using it to its full potential)

After the game they treated us to a nice bbq. It was just like old times when I woudl go watch ryan play before we were married.

Speaking of marriage we had our 2 year anniversary the next day. We were able to go to The Roof restaurant up in Salt Lake City in the Joseph Smith Building. It was gourmet buffet with prime rib, beef tenderloins, chicken courdon blue and lots of other yummy stuff. The desserts were awesome but the view was probably the best part. THis was the view from our table.

Since then we have just been doing the same old. Ryan has been hunting with the boys and I have been hanging out with the girls. It has been a pretty good month. I hope everyone is doing well and wish you a happy october.

The Chaos Begins

We have both started school and have gotten back to the grind. Ryan teaching this time and me still learning. My classes are pretty good and its nice only having each class once a week. Gives me lots of time to do homework. My friend Catherine and her family just moved down the street so we have been having fun with them.

Her little boy benson is so adorable and is overall a very happy chubby baby. I think hes 7months old but he is definetly a big boy and gives me an arm workout when I lift him up.

We went to lava hot springs again with some friends right before school started and we had a pretty good time. It was 3 other couples and the girls drove up together and the boys drove up together. The boys were definetly very excited to have some manly time together and on the way home made a pit stop somewhere in idaho to go hunting without letting us girls know. We were not very happy about that since one of them had the keys to their house. It was a fun time and we will definetly do it again.

We did camp when we went and i was FREEZING... ryan didny put the rain flap on the tent sicne it was clear outside.. but I think a lot more cool night air came in and I coudlnt feel my feet in the morning. oh well... thats what fires are for right?

WE went to Temple square last sunday after church to just walk aroudn and stuff with cat, blake adn benson. It was a beautiful day and we are really happy to have good friends to spend time with. Anyway.. not much else is going on in Utah... were just busy trucking away at school and work adn tryign to have fun on the weekends. I hope everyone else is doing well!

End of Summer

Well last weekend Dave and Marilyn (Ryans Parents) and Betty (Ryans grandma) came for a little visit to see how we are suriving here in provo. We were able to go to Temple Square in SLC and hear Music And The Spoken Work with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. It was a lot of fun and that was actually the first time I had ever been in the conference center so it was really exciting. There were lots of tour groups there with old people and foreigners so it was fun to see that too.


We had a great dinner on sunday at our apartment.. Hawiian Haystacks.. mmmmm... matt, angie and the kids came along with tahra and a friend who is a boy... haha... and then Mike and Penny Bergeron came down from upstairs and then of course Ryan and I with Dave, Marilyn and betty. It was a full house but a lot of fun.


On monday we were able to see Ryans Classroom.. we still need to get decorations for it though. Kinda boring right now. He is excited but nervous to start teaching this coming week. He has 6 classes that he will teach, 3 for Health and 3 for Health Occupations. He will have sophmores, juniors and seniors... and hopefully good behaved ones.





We also went up to Snow Bird, a Ski Resort that does summer activities in the canyon and were able to do some fun stuff there. THey had a Zip line that we went down, and alpine slide and we went on a tram up to the top of a mountain. Ryan and I also were able to ride the mechanical bull. It was nice just to enjoy the outdoors and the beautiful scenery.




Other than that we are just enjoying what time we have left before school starts. Next weekend we are going back up to Lava Hot Springs with 3 other couples to camp and have fun. We are having dinner tonight with all of them to plan all the activities we are going to do so that shoudl be fun. Everyone have a fun week and enjoy the rest of your summer!

For Christmas Ryan got a chefs hat and an apron from me and this I think is the first time he actually put them on. We were trying to decide what to cook... he wanted creamed tuna over toast which is similiar to the Kohls "Tuna Wiggle" but we didnt have all the stuff for it.. so i made the executive decision of making shepards pie. Anyway he was saying that it was his idea and we kept adding different things to make it our own creation... we are really weird I guess but it turned out good... so he leaves the room and comes out in his little chefs outfit and it was cute. On the apron it says
"Become one with nature... then marinate and grill it"



So I just found out today that I got Associate of the Month at Sams Club.. so thats exciting. For all of my 2 years working there this is the first time that I got recognized for the great work that I do. Its about time... I get my picture on the wall and I think I get a $25 gift card to wal-mart....


Here is our baby girl in her favorite spot of the house... she would sit at that window all day if she could. She is getting much bigger than she was when she was a kitten.. but she is still as playful. Thats it for today! Have a good week everyone...

everyones doing it...

Well we figured that everyone else is doing blogs so we might as well jump on the bandwagon... As you all know from matts blog we went to Lava Hot Springs for 2 days and had an absolute blast. We are actually going again in a few weeks with a couple of our friends out here which should be a lot of fun.


Ryan is starting his internship at Spanish Fork High School this year and is getting very nervous about it. He has been working on lesson plans like crazy. He is supposed to teach a 3 Health classes and 3 Health Technology classes so it should be interesting. Were going to set up his classroom tomorrow which will be fun as long as the previous teacher clears out all of their stuff.


I am starting another year at UVSC on the 22 of August in the Elementary Education program. I will be going to school monday thru thursday from 8 till noon... and working about 4 days a week at Sams Club. Hopefully I will be able to keep up with all my school work. It shouldnt be too much of a problem cause I work better under pressure. If I have tons of time I just lounge around and do nothing.

Ryans Parents and grandma are coming out for a few days next week so we should have a good time visiting with them. Were not sure what were going to do yet cause its so hot out here during the day... hopefulyl we will do things inside with the AC on.

Anyway hopefully I will be able to keep up with posting on this thing... usually I am bad at things like this... but I will try hard, I promise