What road trips are all about...

Long story short Harry and I headed to Phoenix after a nice visit with Kate in San Diego. The bug decided to over heat on the border of Mexico in el centro, California at about 12:00pm. After a trip to the local mechanic, 2 trips to the auto store, countless phone calls to Harry's Dad and a mechanic friend back home, 5 hours of Harry fixing everything he can, 3 times getting back on the road thinking the car was fixed but after about 10 miles figuring out it was not fixed and heading back to el centro, eventually the bug not even going 2 miles before way over heating, 1 aaa call, 60 mile tow, 10:30 pm finally getting to yuma,1 night in yuma, AZ, and a trip to the u-haul. We are finally back on the road to Phoenix! Where we will meet up with cousin Seth and take the bug to a VW dealership. Yay!!

Loving Fall Break

It is fall break this week and I am loving every minute. I had sleep in till 9 on my fall break to do list, I definitely checked that off the list this morning... it was heavenly. Monday night I went up to the cabin with my dad we drove to Heber and had dinner at a fun little old breakfast cafe called The Hub. On Tuesday we had a HUGE pile of chopped up cedar and pine wood dropped off. We carried it down the stairs and made pretty piles with it. I tell you what, we are ready for winter! Yesterday I went to lunch and a little shopping with my newlywed best friend Ali it's so fun to be old married ladies together :) Tonight I think Harry and I and some friends are going to the movie Social Network which is another thing i can check off of my Fall break to do list! I reallllly don't want Monday to come....

Perfect day on the lake

My family and I went boating at Utah lake today. It was the perfect day! Perfect temperature, Perfect water, Perfect water temperature, and we practically had the whole lake to our selves. We all went wake surfing, wake boarding and got nice tans/sunburns.

Ali's Home!!!!

My Bestest Friend Ali came home Tuesday from the New Jersey, Cherry Hill Mission. I got to go to lunch and and hang out with her all day! It was so much fun! It's always nice to have your best friend around again. =)

Harry Proposed!

Yes yes it finally happened... Harry popped the question last weekend on Saturday March 20th. He knew he wanted to to do it that weekend he just didn't know how, when or where... he just figured he'd play it by ear. Harry's really good at just wingin things so that's just what he did. So the story goes like this... we were headed back to Cedar city from his cousins wedding in St. George. I was driving the big King Ranch truck because of Harry's broken foot. Harry saw the exit for a scenic detour up Kolob canyon and thought this will be good. So asks if i want to go for a drive and I'm always up for a scenic drive so I said sure... so we drove all the way up looked at the pretty views and headed back down the canyon. On the way down harry said I should pull over so we can take some pics so I did. We got out of the truck I sat on the back tailgate while harry scootered around on his little scooter for his foot. He then asked me to take his pulse and boy was it HIGH! I was like yeah... your pulse is pretty high maybe it's because you were scootering around... I don't know... and Harry (while "kneeling" on the scooter) then pulled out a seashell from his pocket with a ring it and said "It's because I want to ask you to be my wife" And naturally I screamed in happiness then while flailing my hands and arms I knocked the ring and seashell right out of harry's hand (that was funny) so Harry scootered over and got the ring I said yes and he put the pretty ring on my finger! I told harry that Kolob canyon had quite the deep symbolism to it.... he thought about it for a minute and said "oh... yes... yes it does... I'm awesome." Then it even got better when I told harry that Three years ago on this day he took me out to lunch to the blue plate for helping him with math so technically that was our first date. So for not planning this and for just wingin it He did a fantastic Job. I love you Harry, I'm so excited to be your wife!

Walter

Harry's Brother Dallas and his wife Shannon just had their 3rd baby boy. We went to go visit the cute little guy this week. So fun!

super successful ski day

Had a fabulous day skiing with my younger brother T.J. He was so much fun to ski with and helped me with my skiing skills. I have a bad habit of using the pizza/wedge to stop and turn so he helped me wth keeping my skis together and using my edeges. I had it down by my 3rd run which made for a very fun successful ski day. Thanks Teej!!!

Park City Weekend

Park City was awesome this last weekend! My whole family was able to come including my Dad which is a great blessing. We had many friends come up Friday night including Harry's parents that just stopped by for a few minutes to say hello so that was fun. All day Saturday we went skiing. This was the first time Harry and I had been skiing together and I'll be honest I was a little nervous knowing I was going to be slower than Harry but Harry was very patient and it ended up being really really fun! Saturday night we went to Alice in Wonderland. I wasn't expecting much from this movie but it turned out to be a great movie and I highly recomend it. We were even sitting on the front row, it was in 3D and we all still thoroughly enjoyed it even though our necks were sore after the movie. Sunday we went to the park city visitors ward after we relaxed, ate lots of food, took a Sunday nap, then went home. Twas a lovely weekend.

A Happy Dog

Gracie's just lovin the dog bone harry got her for valentines day.

Give a day get a Disney day!

Disney is giving free day passes to people that sign up to volunteer for a day. It's called Give a day get a Disney Day. There are organizations that register for it and you can sign up with one. When your done with your service the organization you volunteered for will verify that you served, then poof you get a free Disney pass. Luckily for me Rocky Mountain Hospice, a company I've been volunteering for for almost 2 years, was registered and I had already done a few days of service in January so they just verified it and I got my free pass today! Woo hoo!! Now when to go is the question... hmmm

mmm pineapple!

I am in Hawaii with the Smiths. Today we spent a few hours hanging out at the beach and snorkeling then we went to the Dole plantation where we saw lots of pineapples, rode on the Pineapple express train and ate some yummy Pineapple whip ( Pineapple ice cream) sooooo good!!! It's been a wonderful trip so far!!

Tradition!

When comparing the pros and cons of a live tree and a fake tree I know that the pros list for a fake tree is A LOT longer than the pros list for a live tree. My family though, feels that for us the small pros list for a real tree outweighs the long pro list for a fake tree. Mostly just because Picking out a real Christmas tree has been a fun and long tradition in my family. We go to a little tree lot called Cummings down 4500 south. They always have a nice warm fire to sit by and peanuts to eat. I know the daughter of the guy that owns it and Ever time I go I think he won't remember me but he always does...we were really late getting our tree this year and he even mentioned he was just thinking he hadn't seen us yet this year. It has been a great tradition that I hope will continue for a long time.

Happy Halloween!

I dressed up as Marge Simpson today for work. My friend Lynda is very talented and crocheted the Marge wig. With out her this great costume would not be possible so THANK YOU LYNDA!

At St. Anthony's

George, Harry and I are hangin out at the sand dunes this laborday
weekend. It sure is crowded here and pretty loud till 3am but still
lots of fun!!!

Gone truckin to Wyomin

Harry needed to take the back hoe up to a guy that bought it up in WY
and since I had nothing too important going on today I thought I'd tag
along and keep him company. We've been on the road for about 3 hours
now and are having a splendid time.

Alex is Home!!!

After three years we are all together again! It's been a very happy day. =)