Memorial Day Weekend

On May 29, Sam and i were invited by some friends from work to go see the Bar J Wranglers in Jackson Hole. I'll have to admit, i didn't expect to enjoy it particularly much...

But I loved it :) even if you don't like country music you must go see them. Plus it's dinner and a show for about $20 a person, not bad at all :)

Then we decided to spend the night in Jackson because my family was already there for the weekend with some friends, so they got us a room in the same hotel they were staying in.

The rooms were the absolute smallest hotel rooms I've ever seen! lol

The next morning we went to Bubba's barbeque for breakfast. I had the best breakfast burrito of my life, and Nathan had pancakes the size of hubcaps lol.

Then we went to Yellowstone National Park. The last time I was there was when I was quite young, and I ended up sleeping through most of it, so this time I was determined to get something out of it.

We drove for a while without anything particularly interesting to see, then we went to see Old Faithful. I remembered from when I was little how spectacular Old Faithful was, so I was pretty excited. Then after standing around for 15 minutes or more, it started to steam... then it made a bigger steam cloud... then... squirt... that was it? lol

Then, much to my excitement, on our way out of the park we saw much more wildlife, so we started counting. In total we saw:

• 1 antelope
• 1 eagle
• 19 elk
• 7 deer
• 1 wolf
• 1 swan
• 26 buffalo/bison (there's some debate over what they're actually called lol)

Rockin' Awesome Patio

Sam was at drill from May 18 to 28, and while he was gone I planned a little surprise for him...

(unfortunately I don't have photos right now, but I will post them as soon as I can)

I Decked out our little patio and made it the coolest one in our complex :)

When he came home and I showed him my suprise, we lit out little charcoal grill and cooked up some of the best burgers I've ever had.

Cirque du Soleil

On May 19th Mom and I went to see Cirque du Soleil in Salt Lake.

IT

WAS

AMAZING!

It was the most beautiful, entertaining thing i've ever seen. The accrobats make swinging from the ceiling and bending over backwards look as easy as walking.

My favorite act was the aerial high bar. It was insane!

Here's a link to watch :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgLdrDFuaHg

The Kids: R.I.P.

Our poor little fishies. We had them for only a week, took the best care of them that we knew how, then one day Thedwick was floating belly-up, then, the next day, Magnus followed suit.

Left to right: Magnus, and Thedwick

They were the best kids one could ask for. We fed them, changed them (their water at least), and in return they never made a mess of the house, never cried at night and never needed a babysitter.

Though there may be other fish in our lives, Magnus and Thedwick will always swim on in our hearts.

Kite Festival 2010

Every year, about this time, there's a kite festival at Sandy Downs. This year we went with my parents as a group date.

They seem to loose something in photos. They looked so beautiful in person.


Sam flying my wonderful kite. You can't see it in the picture, but the tail is at least 15 feet long.


My parents are so cute! lol


Sam's stealth bomber. It's pretty sweet.



Pose!


A good day :)

Easter

Between sessions of conference we made (and dropped. oops.) these works of art.

Sam's Birthday

For Sam's Birthday we decided to go to Destinations Inn again. We stayed in the Athens room.

This guy made me laugh.

Honeymoon

Here are some photos from our Honeymoon.

Right after the reception we were picked up by a stretch hummer. It had fiberoptics in the ceiling that looked like stars and static disks on the walls.

We spent the first night at AmeriTell.

Funny story: At the hotel someone knocked on our door and we didn't know who it was so we didn't answer. It turned out it was the houskeeping lady and she unlocked our door and almost walked in on us!

The next two nights we stayed at Destinations Inn in the Rio De Janeiro room.

Married Life

So, it's been over two months sence we got married, and i've just decided to start a blog. Needless to say, there's a lot of catching up to do.

We got married on February 4th 2010, in the Historic Shelton Chaple, and everything was wonderful. I couldn't have asked for a better ceremony and reception.

We live in Rigby at Tralee apartments and, aside from the worn out, sea foam green carpet, it's perfect for the two of us. With a little creativity, and a lot of help from my mom, we fixed it up cute and made it feel like home.

Sam is finally done with this semester at BYU-I and managed to pass all of his classes. Now he doesn't have to wake up so ridiculously early in the morning to get to school.