The Joy In Your Heart...

Most of you know or have heard of the stand up comedian, Brian Regan. He is one of my favorites, just hilarious. Scott got us AMAZING tickets to see him in Idaho. So a couple weeks ago we ventured up to Idaho to see him. We were seriously about 4 rows from the front and right in the center. It was so awesome and Brian was hysterical. Got some pics of us waiting excitedly to see the man...

(Totally did this by accident. It looks like I am kissing his cheek and I didn't even mean for that to happen. Thought it was awesome.)

One of my favorite jokes Brian told had to do with children. I probably won't relay this very well, but I had to share: He was talking about how kids are so funny and are always doing the craziest things to get into trouble etc. He was talking about dinner one night at his house- and it was spaghetti. His son put the end of a noodle in his mouth with the noodle trailing down to the plate and Brian thought he was going to slurp the noodle into his mouth and make a mess. Instead, his son started twirling the noodle around and around his head and splashed spaghetti sauce everywhere. Then Brian says, "What am I supposed to do? Tell the kid to stop because their is a big mess in the kitchen?? Tell him 'Can't you see the paint on the walls is more important than the joy in your heart!?'" Ha ha ha ha. I loved it.

For the 4th of July this year, Scott and I decided to throw out all our regular traditions and try something new. Again- we decided to go up to Idaho. We heard that Idaho Falls puts on a pretty spectacular firework show, and fireworks are my favorite. So we made a short day out of it and went up. We sat right on the lake and found the best spot to camp out and wait for the show. It did not disappoint- it was so great! Really awesome firework show.

We are all so blessed to live in this country and enjoy the freedoms and liberty we have. Thanks to all the men and women who serve our country and protect us. Hope everyone had a Happy Independence Day!

Vegas

We have the greatest friends in the world. I can't believe how blessed we are to know the people that we know and to have them in our lives. Two of these people are Eric and Colleen. LOVE them. A couple weekends ago they invited us to join them in Vegas for a weekend getaway. We stayed at the Hard Rock Hotel and enjoyed a day in Vegas.

In the morning we decided to go to a little Pawn Shop that you may have heard about. We had to wait in a long line that went down the street, but we finally got in and had a look around. I have mentioned before that Scott & I love to watch "Pawn Stars" on the History channel, this is the Pawn Shop that we went to. It was a blast and all 4 of us had fun looking around the shop, buying some shirts and mugs from the show and meeting Old Man. He is the coolest. If you haven't watched this show- give it a try. It's hilarious and cool and really addicting!

After wandering around the outlets for a while we wanted to go to the Vegas Temple before heading home. It is SUCH a beautiful temple and we are so blessed to be able to go inside!

Needless to say, we highly enjoyed our quick trip to the city and can't thank Eric and Colleen enough for the good time and hotel!

Other goings on include our siblings. My sister-in-law Angie is awesome. She has been training for a triathlon that took place in American Fork for MONTHS. The day finally came for her to reap the benefits of her training. We drove down to show our support and got to the race just in time to see Ang zip past us on her bike and cheer frantically even though she couldn't hear us. We also saw her start the run. She finished and did a GREAT job. We are so proud of Angie and her daughters were very excited and proud of their mom. (Autumn kept saying, "I hope my mommy wins!!")

Also, we saw this little jelly-bean on Sunday and she had her older sisters t-shirt on that we gave her when she was her age... anyone know Trogdor on Strongbad/Homestar? How cute is that!?

The Master

Holy cow! Finals are over and we are back to normal life for 1 whole week until summer semester starts. We are loving the break.

Last Friday was quite the event: Scott graduated with his Master's Degree. I am so proud of him and all the hard work he has put into school. He has been an inspiration to me and has been so supporting and helpful in my pursuit of school and hopefully someday a Nursing degree. I am so proud of you honey!

Broken...

So this weekend was pretty insane. Friday was full of work, homework and trying to take care of my house and sick kitten, oh and did I mention more homework? After all that fun stuff, I was looking forward to Saturday. We had plans to go out to dinner with my family for my siblings birthdays! (Happy Birthday Dusty and Boots!) We had a great time with the family and ate some yummy food. Well during dinner my honey got a text from our good friend Todd. He invited us to go to the Utah Blaze football game at the E-center. So we left after the festivities and headed up to Salt Lake.

As we headed to the game we all of a sudden saw the car in front of us swerved to the left into traffic. (We were both in the far right lane about to exit off the freeway) And there was a big ol' trash can sitting in the middle of our lane. Split second decision and we swerved to the right. Our car started fish tailing. fish tailing some more. starting to straighten out. And then out of no where, our car decides to start spinning in circles. and run into the cement wall. and spin again. hit the wall again. and stop. So there we are on the freeway having spun in circles and smashed into the cement wall. We hadn't hit anyone else (A miracle!) and we were only a little banged up. Very lucky indeed. This guy who saw the whole thing stopped to make sure we were ok. So nice of him. And said he was shocked we did not roll the car we were spinning so fast.

We survived! I am so thankful that Scott is such a good driver. I know he kept us as under control as he could. If I was driving- who knows what would have happened. Our poor car is totalled and we have only had it for 10 or so months. It was brand new. *sigh* I am glad we are ok though! You can always buy a new car... but you can't buy a new honey.

Sealed

Scott and I were sealed in the Salt Lake Temple this February. I can't explain how happy I am to be with my man for all eternity. I couldn't be happier.

My friend Maddie took these gorgeous, amazing, beautiful photos for us. These are only a couple of my favorites. Maddie has more on her blog. Take a peek... www.maddieephotography.com

Can't thank you enough Maddie!! Love them. Thanks for making us look good! ;)

I love you Scott and am so blessed to have you forever.

New York

We went to New York almost 2 weeks ago now, neither of us has ever been to New York and we were pretty excited to go. We had a whole list of things we wanted to do and see, and we got most of it done. Sadly, there were a couple items we did not get to do. If we ever go back some day, they will be top priority.

We went to New York for Scott's work. He was sent there for training and sadly had to spend Monday through Friday from 9-5 in class. So I slept in, did homework (some) and wandered around the city alone during the week. Every night we went out and got as much done as possible. We ate a lot of yummy pizza. Ray's is known for being in the movie Iron Man. It is pretty good! We also went to the Hershey Factory and bought the largest Reese's Peanut Butter Cup in the world. They were almost as big as my head and DELICIOUS. And we went to a lot of fun restaurants. I was sad tho, I am a big fan of the TV show Kitchen Nightmares and Hells Kitchen. I love Chef Ramsay. Kayla and I watch them every now and then and we saw an episode with the Restaurant called Dillons. Well it is in New York! So on our last day I begged Scott to find the restaurant so we could eat there. We found it- now called Purnimas. (Watch the episode on Hulu!) And it was shut down. Sad day. But still cool to see!


We also saw famous people! I didn't post all the pictures we have, because there are hundreds. But these are the 2 coolest run ins we had. We went to a few plays and one of them starred Christopher Walken. Afterwards he came out to sign posters. We got his signature and I snapped this awesome photo. We also saw Abigail Breslin (from Signs and Little Miss Sunshine) in a play. She is adorable and I got her autograph in the Play Bill and this cute pic. Love her. Other famous people we saw include Sam Rockwell, Anthony something- from The Hurt Locker, they guy that played Gomez in the original TV series of the Adams Family, and Cameron from the TV series House. Pretty fun!
As I said, we went to some plays: Wicked, A Behanding in Spokane, and The Miracle Worker. We really loved seeing all the shows and totally caught the bug. I wish we had more time and money, we wanted to see EVERY show. It is such a blast. These are of the Ed Sullivan theatre- we saw David Letterman and got an "audience upgrade". We were put on the FRONT row. It was so awesome and exciting. I wore that lovely bright green rain coat and we were easily spotted on TV. Watch it! (It's the episode with Jessica Simpson) We also saw Wicked at the Gershwin. LOVED it. It was so fun and the stage was decked out. We really enjoyed it.

We did a lot of sight seeing as well. We saw Grand Central Station, the Chrysler Building, Times Square (our hotel was on Times Square), Central Park, The Metropolitan Museum, the LDS Temple, and the Statue of Liberty. I also went to a lot of stores: Tiffany's, Saks, Macy's and FAO Schwartz. Really cool things to see and stores to wander in. We missed Ground Zero and I was very sad about that and also the Museum of Natural History. We just ran out of time.

These pics are the view from the top of the Empire State Building. It is so windy and cold up there. We had great timing tho- got there for the sunset!

We also ventured to the Statue of Liberty. Totally cool. However it was pouring rain and winds were 50 mph. (If any of you saw the news that weekend, it was all sorts of flooding over on the east coast that weekend. We were in some of those storms) So we didn't last very long and we didn't get any great pics. Here is one of us all bundled up and trying to get a picture with the statue. Ha ha.

We had a great time in the Big Apple!

Hey You Gu-uys!!!

Scott and I are known for being spontaneous and random! This weekend we decided to take a short trip up to Oregon. We have never been there before and one of Scott's favorite bands was having a concert in Portland. We left Friday and drove all day (it is a 12 hour drive) and spent the night out on the town in Portland. Saturday morning we drove out to Cannon Beach to see Haystack Rock that is famous for being in the movie, The Goonies. I love that movie. My friend Ashlee and I used to watch that show literally ALL the time. Such a great flick. It was windy and freezing cold on the beach, but we got a few photos.

After Cannon Beach we drove to Astoria (also where Goonies was filmed) and saw the museum, jail, bowling alley and houses that were in the movie. It was so fun because all of these places were marked for Goonie's fans.

Bowling Alley where Chunk is eating pizza and a shake at the beginning of the movie, watching the car chase

Museum where Mikey's dad works. He's putting a flag up on the flagpole in the movie

Jail where the bad guys bust out of at the beginning of the movie and light a fire around it

Mikey's house. The sign asks you to do your own truffle shuffle. Scott wouldn't do it.

We also happened to watch Kindergarten Cop while we were in Portland. That movie is ALSO based in Astoria and we had no idea. This is the school where Arnold teaches. Scott loved it.

We still had a ton of time left before our concert and so we decided to drive to Washington and see Mt. Saint Helen's. It was cloudy that day, so we didn't get a great view/picture of the volcano. It was still cool to see it tho!


After our trip to the coast and to Washington we wanted to see the Portland Temple. It is SO pretty and it is always a relief to see our beautiful temples in the middle of a big, crazy, wild city. It is comforting to see all the great people doing work at the temple on a Saturday night. I was bummed that we forgot our stuff!! All our pictures are dark and fuzzy-- so I didn't bother posting one.

The last event on our agenda was the Two Ton Boa concert. They did a fabulous job and we even got a shout out from Miss Sherry Frasier! We met her afterward and got our cd's signed and a photo. She is the sweetest. (If any of you know the band Marcy Playground.. he has a song about her!)

I am glad my honey is so spontaneous and fun to travel with. We had a great weekend!