Utah Trip!!!

Lots and lots went on this last weekend!!  We had a wonderful spur of the momentish trip to Utah for Karly and Craig's wedding!  It was beautiful.  Kyle and I LOVE Utah and are always looking for reasons to go back to see our family and friends.  Lots to blog about for this one so I'll break it into chunks. 

First and foremost the wonderful wedding.  I love going to weddings, especially when they are my families weddings.  It is a added bonus when this family member is also one of my best friends in the whole world!  I am so soo happy that Karly found her wonderful husband Craig!  They are so great together.  Their sealing was beautiful, I love sitting in the temple and feeling the sweet spirit there.  But listening to a sealing is just amazing!  We had a hectic morning so the peaceful calm of them temple was just what I needed!  

The happy couple!!

Tonya and Bill came!

The Beautiful bride!

Kyle and I waiting to be seated at the restaurant 

The wedding party!

Grandma with all her grandkids except Dylan, and two extras

THE RECEPTION

Their reception was at Stacey and Richards house and it was wonderful!  Everything turned out so nice!  And We got see some great friends too!

My wonderful friends Catherine and Dehn Craig came to the reception!  I love them!!!

Victoria flew out!!

My beautiful family!

Always love seeing sean and courtney!  And soon to be baby Whelan!!

All 5 of the babies born within 3 months of each other!  The order is Right to Left

Kolvin, Luke, Hesston, Mason (twins), And sweet Ember

My boys!

ANNIE!!!

We got to spend some quality time with my amazing former companion and best friend Annie Henrie!  We got to go to her grandpa's homecoming for church and then a Halloween lunch with her whole family!!  It was a mad house, but we loved it!!  We love spending time with Annie and she just adores Luke!!

We love Annie!!!

New favorite picture!!

Luke's first time on a trampoline, he LOVED it!!

HOGLE ZOO

Kyle and I decided to stay an extra day so we could go to the zoo in Salt Lake.  We had never been there before and I am so glad that we stayed.  It was partly under construction, typical Utah, but it was still so fun!  I love going to Zoos!

This Elephant was awesome!

Going on Luke's first Carousel ride

You can't really tell, but Luke's got the biggest smile on his face!!

New favorite picture of the boy!

Soooo happy!!!

MORE GOOD TIMES

We are at a place called Hatch Family Chocolates.. I think that what it's called.. but it is sooooo good!!  It's in Salt Lake and we got there every time we are with Erin and Rob!  All the grandkids again!

We got to watch Karly play her volleyball game one night.  Made me miss playing sooo much!

And then there are Josh and Mia!!!!  We love them sooooo much!  We stay with them every time we go to Utah and we are so grateful for their friendship!  I think because we stay with them so often we don't think to take pictures with them... that will change!

We also got to watch Josh agonizing over the Giants last game i the World Series!  Funniest thing ever!!!  Good thing they won!!!

3rd Anniversary!

I was so excited to surprise Kyle with my gift for him this year!  I sat there and wondered what I should do for about a week until it hit me!  I found an activity that my young women's advisors did for us about different qualities in our perfect one day husband.  They were all linked with a candy bar, and I thought Kyle loves candy, so I sent him on a scavenger hunt.  I typed up, and edited a little bit, the qualities of all of these dream guys, attached them with their candy bar and I hid them around our little apartment.  Some of them were so spot on about Kyle it is nuts! 

When Kyle came home I was hiding in our room with Luke, he opened the door and I heard Kyle saying something about brining my present in later, and then he stopped because he saw my little station set up for him to begin his hunt. 

The hunt sent him from Luke's crib, to his closet, to the spare bathroom, to the coffee table, to the fridge, to the closet by our front door, to our couch, then out to the car and finally into our bedroom.  Where I had written out a huge candy poster for him on our bed, he had to use the candy bars he found to finish the poster.  (I also had to leave him a note not to eat any of the candy because I knew he would, and not surprisingly he was going to eat the first one laid out for him.. my little garbage gut!)

He loved it, and turns out he had never been on a scavenger hunt before.  He really appreciated my gift, and all of the notes that I had written out for him.  I kinda LOVE my husband!!!

The finished product.. all 26 candy bars

I loved this saying I found online.. 'I hope you don't ROLO ver sick from all of this candy!'

He has eaten some of it slowly.. surprisingly!

Here is my gift that I LOVE and have been wanting for a long time now!!

After our gift giving we went to Circus Circus to play some games.  I had been a loooooong time since either one of us had been there so I thought it would be fun!

The boy

Neither one of us won anything here...

This was an intense game, but I prevailed!!

I sucked at this game!!

Our winnings got Luke his first hot wheels car!

Happy Anniversary my love!  And many more to come!!

3 wonderful years!!

I have been married to the most wonderful man for the past 3 years and I have loved every minute of it!

We have done so many wonderful things together, the most wonderful is having our baby boy Luke David with us!

A Little preview of the last 3 years:

Best day ever October 9th 2009

Honeymooned in Manhattan Beach CA

First time to Disneyland  

Went to England

Stonehenge! 

Moved A LOT.. 5 times so far

Ate giant pizzas

Welcomed home Elder Sorensen

Got a sweet longboard

Went to Park City

First Anniversary

1 year!!

Became crafty

Camped a lot

Went to Colorado.. twice

Went to the lake in Fallon a ton!

Went to the rivers in Cali a ton!

Hiked all over Utah

Ate lots of Sushi!!

Cooked in a bowl cause I had no dishes

Played in an ultimate frisbee league.. very intense

Went snowboarding.. I fell a lot

Went to South Carolina with the wonderful Tingey family

Piggly wiggly

Visited Kyle's mission office

Went to Missouri for an Aire-Master Training

Bought our own FRANCHISE!!

Had to say goodbye to Utah.., :(

Hiked some more

Moved to Nevada

Went to the lake some more!

Got the best news ever!!!!!!

Played some volleyball

Chopped my hair off, and now growing it back out

Hunted

Went back to Disneyland

Hunted some more

Canned some peaches

Went to Las Vegas for an Aire-Master conference 

Went to Utah for a baby shower

Got spoiled

Got huge!!

Received the greatest gift EVER!!!!!!

 

Took Luke to Tahoe, and Utah!

We live a blessed life!!!

More to come for our third anniversary!!!

(There are no pictures for our 2nd Anniversary because we don't really remember what we did... we think that we went to Sushi and just hung out :)  We had just moved and were pretty poor)