Warm Summer Days = Cold Camping Nights

The news forecasted warm summer days for this weekend and we decided to take full advantage and go camping for the first time this year! It really doesn't get much better then having tin foil dinners, junk food, fire, a river to skip rocks into, friends, and games. This weekend camping felt like our kick off to summer, we stayed up way to late playing cards and mafia but loved every minute of it. Mike would jump up and down when he was the inspector and really wanted us to decide with him, mark would make random accusations and Danielle always seemed guilty although she was almost always a citizen. The only hiccup of the trip is that none of us expected it to get so cold at night, it was probably around 3 in the morning and Jon who never gets cold looks over tells me he is cold and I said well that makes two of us I'm freezing so from there on out we squished in really close. I would say average amount of sleep on the trip was 2 hours, but then again who really goes camping to sleep!

Happy Birthday Jill

It was my sister Jill's B-day last weekend so Jonathan and I headed to Colorado to visit for the Birthday extravaganza! Jill had been celebrating all week but when we got there we continued by playing tennis, watching movies, going to the boys baseball game and having a BBQ. We love you Jill, Happy Birthday!!

You are my everything, Always and Forever!

April 28th was Jonathan and I's one year anniversary, which has been crazy to think a year has come so quickly it seems like just yesterday that I said yes and kissed Jonathan over the alter. It was truly a magical day. I love Jonathan so much and I am so lucky to be his wife, I think about that every day, man I am so lucky and so happy.

Okay so enough of the sappy now as many of you know Jon and I love any reason to celebrate so for our 1 yr. we spent the entire weekend celebrating. It started on Friday night we went to play mini golf, which was crazy busy so instead of standing and waiting behind people we went around the course and played any of the holes that were open until we hit 18! Aunt Jeanine let us stay in her condo in Salt Lake which is beautiful and over looks the conference center and the temple. So Saturday we hiked Ensign Peak which had a great overlook of the city. Then we ate yummy food at Paradise Bakery which I mention because if you haven't tried their cookies it might be a must! Then we headed over to the Red Butte Gardens which had some fun cacti that we checked out. From there we found the shoreline trail and walked over to Immigration Canyon to see the "This is the place monument." From there we took our Dragon Kite to the park where Jon had to constantly run for it to stay in the air (not as much wind as we needed!) After that we went to the Gateway for dinner! It was a fabulous evening! Sunday we went took tours around the temple and convention center, and went on a walk with Dave and Emily. On Monday the actual 28th we both had the day off and went on a long run up this great canyon we spied, and then we went to the driving range, played catch, ate yummy food, and then hot tubbed to top it off. It was an eventful weekend and we loved every minute of it.

Congrats Jon! BYU Graduate!

It's official.. Jon has graduated and we are so excited! No more finals, no more tests, no more homework.. hooray! I'm so proud of Jon, he has worked really hard, loved his classes and done really well, and in honor of this grand occasion we had a celebration! There was great company, good food, croquet, and a pinata.. now thats tough to beat! Thanks so much for everyone that came and supported Jon, we love you! Congrats Jonny!!

Running in Circles.. sorry for the long blog!

I'm not really sure where to start as it has been a while since the last post, so get ready to get a bunch of stories all mixed into one. Lately Jon and I have been running from one thing to the next not as any surprise to anyone, but here is what we have been up to this past month.
For Easter we headed to Colorado to spend time with my sister and her family, it's become our tradition as the past three years Jon and I have gone there.. we can't miss it for the following reasons:
1. We are the official Easter Bunny's
2. Jill gets both Jon and I are own Easter basket full of delightful goodies
3. We get to spend time with family.. love love
4. We get to eat good food, and play guitar hero
5. The boys are so so dang cute!
6. Many more reasons which you would have to go there to see for yourself.

When we got back the Thompson's came to Utah to visit, and we took off the weekend to go to the Canyon's. The snowboarding was amazing, two days of it, we found this amazing run that we got addicted to! We stayed in the Condo with the Thompson's, had Emily and Dave come up to hang out, hot-tubbed and played settlers , it was so so fun!





Then we headed to St. George for Conference weekend to visit the Parent's and the Nelson's. It was great fun as we went with Dave and Emily and they had purchased a new video camera so we documented everything we did and everywhere we went, even including the rinky dink Arby's. Unfortunately at this time we have no photo's of this event as we took them all on Dave and Emily's camera.
As soon as we got back my sister was in town for just a day and I got to take Karter to work with me, he was super cute! The two older boys got to have a sleep over and Jon and I acted the part of super cool aunt and uncle, sure you want to eat that.. go for it, sure you want to stay up late.. just do it! They loved it, and in the morning they went back to their parents!!
Two days after that I headed to Atlanta Georgia as a secret spy for work.. better known as competitive intelligence. I worked like crazy and learned all about Arbonne so I could report back! This was my first official business trip and I felt pretty important. Here were the perks:
1. I got to spend $50 dollars a day on food all for myself, so yes I got the Ben and Jerry's, the room service, the expensive Voss water.. it was so fun!
2. I got to stay in a sweet hotel, with down comforters, and a incredible view of the city ( I was on the 35th floor)
3. Eric Weinheymer came to as a guest speaker, he is blind and climbed all of the 7 highest peaks on all seven continents.. so motivational.
4. They had great performers, including Ribbon people that dropped from the ceiling.
5. I went to Coke World, everything Coke, I took my picture with the Coke bear, and saw how they make and bottle coke. Best of all they have a taste testing area where you could try all the products coke makes around the world, there were 60 different products.. it was crazy. Also a word to the wise if ever in France, Do not.. I repeat Do not order the Beverly, it was terrible!
6. The best part.. Tim McGraw played at this companies Grand Awards Ceremony, and I was only 5-10 feet away from him at times.. it was so so fun.
The Downfalls:
1. I was away from Jon for 5 days
2. I had a four hour lay over in the Denver airport.. oh and by the way who knew airports have big train systems/shuttles set up to get from one terminal to another, it blew my mind.
3. I worked about 60 hours and had to wake up super early as it there was a two hour time change.









So there you have it folks! I have more videos of Tim if you need me to send them your way!

Moab Half Marathon!

Jonathan and I ran our second half marathon last weekend, and it was fabulous! The weather was perfect for running, we felt good and finished strong. We also got to run with my sister Jill and their running group called the Frunners which made things so much fun, and on our way to the finish we had my nephews cheering us in.. it was perfect! Running has become our latest addiction we love the way we feel.. well when were done running, and just the energy at the races, and it's been so fun as we get to train together. We are still debating but heavily leaning towards trying to run the St. George Marathon in October, we shall see when the time comes. For now our next run is this weekend, the Rex Lee Run.. which brings back so many memories running with Jessie* too bad she is not here to run it with me. Then our next half marathon will be the Salt Lake one coming up in April! We will keep you posted.

What's your favorite recipe?

So every once in a while I try to be crafty, not usually with any success but I make my attempts and enjoy doing so! So here is some pic's of my latest treasure, which I think turned out pretty cute. I have been collecting recipes and trying new recipes aspiring to be a great cook, however I have not anywhere to put all of the recipes I have gathered and they are totally unorganized. So here it is my very own recipe box! If you have a favorite recipe.. please share!