Janelle's Graduation

This past weekend my sister Janelle graduate in food science from BYU. My family came out from Oregon and we all got to spend some time together!
Chris and I stayed at my grandparents with them and while we were there my Grandma introduced us to her neighbor who has an antique book collection and even has a first edition of the Book of Mormon! It was cool to see and actually hold books that have so much history!
Later my family and I all came down to Provo, we had a BBQ for Janelle at the park. The Georges and some of her friends came. The next day we went to the graduation. I'm so proud and happy for Janelle! Right now she's working hard developing flavors for local resturants. She's really talented and has a great future ahead of her! After the graduation our family went to Macaroni Grill to celebrate. It was so great to have everyone together. I had a great time and was sad to see them leave. It's hard having your family live so far away! But I'm greatful for the time we get to spend together and can't wait to see them again when we go to Nauvoo in July.

Easter

This year for Easter we had everyone come to our house, a little stressful knowing I was gonna have 9 people over for dinner in our apartment, but we pulled it off well! The day before Easter I made Chris an Easter basket and he had to play hot and cold to find it! This was a tradition in my family growing up, so I figured I'd keep the tradition alive for my new family :) Later that night Chris, my sister Janelle, her roommate Kirstin, my cousin Schyler and I all dyed eggs. Janelle had alot of creative ideas for decorating involving fire and candle wax... Then on Easter Sunday Chris parents drove all the way down from Logan to take part in the festivities! Janelle and her roommate Kara came, so did Schyler, and Jaclyn and Tyson. We played Wii....Chris and I bought a it over the weekend...impulse buy...but so far we love it and had fun playing it with everyone. We had an amazing dinner, Chris and I made the ham (It was our first time making one and I think it turned out great!) and everyone else brought something too. After dinner, we had our traditional Easter pinata!! Janelle made it all from scratch, she did an awesome job! It was so funny to watch everyone try to hit it blindfolded. Especially Jaclyn, she had NO IDEA where she was with the blindfold on! Watch the video below, it's so funny! If having a pinata isn't part of your Easter tradition, it really should be! Thanks to everyone for coming over and helping out, we're excited for next year!

General Conference Getaway

This weekend Chris' parents invited us up to Salt Lake City to stay the weekend and go to conference with them. We had such a fun time! They take really good care of us and love to spoil us :) We spent time on temple square, listening to general conference, playing games, and eating lots of yummy food. Chris and I had a really good time, thanks Mike and Barb for giving us a fun weekend getaway!

Arches National Park 2009

This weekend Chris and I went to Moab to go camping and visit Arches National Park. Chris had never been and we were both ready for a little vacation. It was such a fun trip and the weather was awesome! So much warmer then here in Provo, we even got a little sunburned.

The trip started out well, we packed up the car, plugged in the GPS, and tuned up the tunes. About 40 min later... Chris noticed that on the GPS our arrival time was getting later and later. It tuned out that we somehow missed the exit because the music was so loud we couldn't hear the GPS! So... we turned around and drove back the 40 miles! It wasn't too fun, but diffidently something to look back on and laugh about later.

When we got to Moab we set up camp and went into town, it was to dark to go into the park, but we had fun looking at all the cute little shops. Saturday morning we woke up and got an early start. The weather was so good, we hiked every arch but two! It was so much fun, we hiked twelve miles and saw some amazing views. If you haven't been you should. Once it was dark we went back into town and ate a huge bannana split, so yummy!

Sunday we packed up camp and headed for Canyonlands National Park. It was so beautiful there as well, but it was very windy! We couldn't hike around much cause the wind was picking up the sand and it was kind of dangerous. The canyons were so amazing!! We had so much fun and I'm glad we were able to go on this trip and spend time together!

We Got The Internet!

Finally after months of waiting we got the Internet. I'm so happy, and now I can keep up with all my blogging :)

I know this is really late, but I'm still gonna add some of my wedding and reception pictures so everyone can see.