Vacation Time!!!!

We went to St George for about a week for one last Summer Fling! We had an awesome time!!! Grandpa let us stay at Arlene's house, which was great! (and free)

We wanted a small vacation where we could just get away, but not spend too much money! So, this was perfect! Our first activity was to go shopping at the outlet stores, and to make a stop at the Sportsman's Warehouse there. It is always fun to go see how other stores are merchandising, and what products they have that we don't. The outlets are always fun, we found some good deals and had fun taking some pictures.

Every Sportsman's has a "bronze" out front, there's was awesome, it even had a waterfall!

We had a lot of fun in the stores! We tried on $1300 coats and vests! Yikes!




We also went to a Tuachan play while we were there. Which if you have never been, I highly recommend it! We went with Brandon and Natalie to see Les Miserables! It was amazing! Every person they got to play the characters was an awesome singer and actor! Before the play we went to dinner at the Cracker Barrel with Brandon and Natalie and Craig and Peggy and the kids. Unfortunately I only took this one picture the whole night, but it is super cute!!! We had tons of fun and were way glad we got to spend time with family while we were there!

Brandon and his adorable Halle!

One of our favorite St. George activities is Hiking on the red rocks! So, we took a bunch of great pictures up there! I love looking down on the town and the gorgeous temple from on top of the rocks! Christian was climbing the rocks, and actually got up really high! We also spent some time outside at Quail Creek Reservoir. Christian went fishing and caught about 20 fish! He loved it! His best catch was a 20 inch Large bass. It was awesome! I also caught two fishies! I more enjoyed being there for the swimming and the laying out though! It was awesome weather and the water wasn't freezing! Christian loved fishing and being outside as well! He swam a little bit, but he wanted to hop right back out and fish somemore!

Hiking the red rocks!




Christian nearly hiked to the top!



Having fun swimming!!!


Christian's pride and Joy! (looks smaller than it was)


We also got to go to the St. George Temple for the first time! It was amazing! It is so awesome to me how gorgeous ALL of the Temples are! The craftsmanship inside is so detailed and outstanding! Christian and I decided we want to go to all of the ones in Utah! If we make it to other ones out of state, that is even better, but we definitely want to go to all of the ones in Utah! So far we have 3 down, and 1 down in Washington!

We took some pictures out in front of the Temple. It is gorgeous!!!

Yes, I planned our outfits! haha

We had plans to go to the "Downtown Friday Night" party, but it was pretty pathetic, I think there were four booths, a terrible band playing (which was hilarious) and probably ten people. So, when we were driving away from it, we noticed that there was a rodeo happening that night. So, we went! It was fun! Christian enjoyed it a little more than myself, (it was very hot and it stunk!!!) but it was fun for both of us! I think my husband is a cowboy at heart, even though he hates country music. There were some pretty cool buck offs, and a 9 year old barrel racer, who got second! It was awesome! So, we add fun, even though it was stinky!

So, St George was a blast! In fact we were having so much fun, the night before we had to come home we pulled an all nighter. Well, kinda we went to bed at like 4. It was fun! We love St. George, if we didn't have our favorite house we would transfer to that store in a heart beat!!! So, since we love our house and love living close to family and friends we decided we will retire there, or have a house here and there, like my Grandpa. We love it! We plan to go there every year! We enjoyed hiking, the weather, and the shopping. Especially after we learned Brandon's little shopping secret!!! Thanks to him Christian bought 4 new shirts!!! Thanks Dino!!! That was the best Summer wrap up ever!!! Now we get to look forward to Christmas!!!! You can count down with me if you look on the side of my blog! haha get excited!!!! Start shopping!!! Wahoo!

First Day of Fall

Well, since today is the first day of Fall, I decided it was time to update my blog background from Summer to fall. I really wanted to put up Christmas, but I guess I will wait until after Halloween, I will be a good girl! Besides this fall one is cute!

We had an excellent St. George vacation, and pictures and a new blog will be coming soon! Hope everybody is doing well! Happy Fall!!!!

Reminder: Christmas is 100 days away!!!! Woot Woot!!!

Familia!!!

On Sunday Sept. 14th we had my aunt and uncle's baby blessing for Little Baby Taya. Afterwards we had a luncheon and took some family photos. It was great fun! We don't get to see the whole family very often anymore because we all live far away. Some in Layton, some in Salt Lake, some in St George. So, it was good to see everybody. Our family pictures turned out great! We also decided to have a little fun with the pics too. As you can see below. It was a great way to end the weekend! Now I'm just super excited to go to St. George!

My family, in our pinks and browns

My mom and me!

Silly boys!!!

Me and my bro!

My sis and me!

Fishing Fun!

So, Christian and I have been wanting to go fishing for awhile now! We finally had time to go! just east of Saratoga Springs on the way to Lehi is a little river that connects Utah lake and the Great Salt Lake. I have no idea what it is called, but it is gorgeous, and we had fun! We didn't catch anything unfortunately, but it was nice to relax outside with a cool breeze! A couple of days ago we went to America's Premier Outfitter, Sportsman's Warehouse to get me a new fishing pole. Well, since I am such an avid fisher-woman (some say I was a pro) I decided to get the pink and purple disney princess pole! It is super cute and it came with my very own tackle box! haha Well, it was only 12 bucks. Christian bought some good curly tailed jigs, some billy bobbers, marshmallow powerbait, and some spinners (I got a pink spinner) The reason I am telling you what he bought is because of the names for these things, they make me laugh! Aren't they hilarious? Anyway~ we had a good time! Even though we didn't get any fish. Maybe we will have better luck in St. George. Here I am with my cute new pole! You are all jealous!

Mine and Christian's pose.

Aren't we cute!

Christian having the time of his life!

He loves fishing!

Thorpe Family Din Din

Every month we get together with the Thorpe family and have an excellent dinner, great conversation and tons of laughs! Oh my goodness do we laugh! I was hungry by the time I left because I had worked off all of my food! It was great fun! We celebrated Tiffany and Bricker's birthdays while we were there too! Happy B-day guys! We only got one picture (which isn't that great) because unfortunately our photographer Devin, and Gail and Dayton couldn't attend, but hopefully we will catch them next month. The rest of the family did get to come however, Christian's brothers and sisters and all the little kids were there, and even our "almost" new addition Jon who, according to Emerson, "Has the coolest job, cuz he makes toys!" So, it was great to have that many there! We went to Sweet Tomatoes in Sandy. All 22 of us! We all enjoyed the food and had an excellent time! I love getting together with them. I had a blast!

Summer Fun, Having a Blast!

Christian and I decided to go on a little adventure today. Try things new. So, we went to a restaurant we had never been to called JCW's it is a burger joint by Thanksgiving Point. It was actually very tasty! Real barbequed, juicy hamburgers.

So, I would recommend it!

Next we went to this new place called Liberty Fun Park. If you have heard of Boondock's or Fiesta Fun in St George, it is very similar. Just opened a month ago. It is right off the freeway in Lehi, great for the little kids because everything is miniaturized. Small rollercoaster, small racetrack, small "Rocket" ride and "Tidal Wave" ride. It also has bumper boats, a carousel, a covered pavilion where you can eat, and a very small train track ride. The miniature golf course is 18 holes, and was pretty fun! We love miniature golfing! It was a great atmosphere and since it is new, not many people know about it so there were only two families in the whole place!

Christian decided to show you just how miniature things are here...

So, this I would definitely recommend for parent's! It is 16.50 for an unlimited pass! That is a pretty cheap day, especially with how expensive Lagoon is now. They are still in the process of building the inside, but it will eventually be an arcade and lasertag area.

So, we added to our summer festivities. We didn't exactly complete all we wanted to this summer with our work schedules, but it has been quite fun! We may be taking a vacation to Pheonix to visit some friends in October, so that will be fun! Hope everybody is doing well!