Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Back to Cedar City


This past weekend I went to Cedar City to visit my best friend Haley. Haley and I lived together down in Cedar our freshman and sophomore year of college before I got married. We used to have a blast so needless to say we were both very excited for our reunion. Our old friends Timmy Cluff and Kelly Huffaker also came down. The first day there we went to dinner for Kylee's roommates' birthday. We went to an Italian restaurant called speenos. It is fairly new to Cedar and wasn't there when I went to school at SUU unfortunately, because it was very yummy. After dinner we decided to go tagging in the sheep tunnels. (The sheep tunnels are these underground tunnels that go through cedar under the interstate that used to be used to herd the sheep. Hobos do live in them and it is scary!!) The sheep tunnels started off pretty mild and not too frightening…until Kelly and Timmy decided to take off running and of course all of the girls went crazy screaming and running saying there was someone at the end of the tunnel. Luckily for me, Nick and Lani Terry came along and I volunteered Lani to share her husband with me as my guard since my husband was back at home working. So as we were running for our life through the tunnel I held on to Nick's shirt. Once we caught up with Timmy and Kelly we learned that they were only racing and that there wasn't a reason to be scared at all. Once we were all able to calm down we took our turns at tagging, or spray painting. I of course tagged the usual A + M = Love.


On Saturday, we woke up bright and early to go rock climbing. Anyone who knows me knows my biggest fear is heights and that I will do almost anything to get an adrenaline rush. So I was pumped to go rocky climbing. Haley's boyfriend, Spencer who I met for the first time this weekend is really into rock climbing so he came along and let us use his equipment, Thanks Spencer! After rock climbing we took a hike to Kanarraville Falls. For anyone who is looking for a beautiful, fun hike, I would highly recommend this one. It's not very difficult either. At the top of the hike when you get to the waterfall you can actually slide down it. We had a lot of fun! That night we went out to dinner and then went to the adult park in St George. That night I had to decide whether to stay in Cedar and Go home early in the morning so I would be back for work or just leave that night. I decided to go home Saturday night because I had homework I knew wouldn't get done if I stayed in Cedar. I loved being able to see my besties again. This weekend was a success, Thanks guys!!

PICS TO COME

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

football, family, friends and food

As you all know football season is among us and I, andrew, am once again in heaven. The Utes are off to a solid start which means so far so perfect for the season.

In between all of the football we still manage to find time in our incredibly busy schedules to spend time with our families and friends. Last saturday Randy turned 50! And so my mother in law through him a huge surprise party which was very exciting. We helped get everything set up and ready to go including the food from one of my favorite and THE BEST barbecue in utah, Pats Barbecue. (Its located about 2100 s and West Temple in what looks like a run down part of town. Try it sometime...you'll like it) any way Randy seemed to have a fun time and so did we. He received a ton of "old person" products including a cane and a walker. Some of them were pretty hilarious...it was especially funny when a certain lady said "well when we need something we all know where to get it" what makes that funny is she is probably in her 80s and the only one there who actually needs it.

Other than these things I guess there isn't too much. This friday is my moms birthday and we are trying to put together a little cake and ice cream gathering and getting her a little something special.

GO UTES!
My nickname is "mandrew"
and my wife is one foxy lady!
Peace out.

Friday, September 3, 2010

UTES GET A WIN!



Earlier this week I blogged about how disappointed I was that I wasn't going to the first Utah game of the season and Andrew was. Well, the night before the game Andrew text me and said "guess who's going to the game tomorrow?" and when I asked who he said, "YOU" as in ME! I guess Kenny and Zach had an extra ticket so I got to go and boy am I glad I did. It was an awesome game, definitely a nail biter. The Utes played Pitt and they ended up winning in overtime. We had a really fun time and I must say I am so glad that I married a Ute fan, it's one of the many perks about Andrew.

Vegas

This last weekend my parents took Andrew and I to Vegas to celebrate my 21st birthday. We stayed at Caesars palace, which is one of my favorites hotels in Vegas, the other one being Mandalay Bay. We got there on Friday, went out to eat and then my mom insisted she needed to take me shopping because I apparently didn't bring Vegas attire. I must say I was in Paradise! I love the shops at Caesars Palace and I had forgotten how relaxing shopping is when you aren't spending your own money, thanks mom!! So while we were shopping Andrew and Ran, my step dad went and did a little gambling. Ran gave Andrew and I each $200 to gamble with and we came home a few hundred dollars richer. On Saturday Ran sent my mom and I to the spa to get massages and afterwards Andrew came and we indulged ourselves at the spas steam rooms. My favorite was the Cedar wood Sauna. I also liked the herbal steam room even though I could only stay in there for about a minute because it was so hard to breath. Andrew enjoyed the shaving room, they didn't have one of those on the girls side so I don’t really know what was so cool about it but he liked it. We really enjoyed our time and had fun on our little getaway to Vegas.

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Roommate

So the title of this post pretty much explains itself but I will elaborate a bit. So I have a friend named Heather Capell. We've been best friends since we were in 6th grade, we were inseperable in high school and had planned to live together, with our other friend Haley in college. Well things didn't go as planned and it ended up just being Haley and I living together down at SUU. But a couple of weeks ago Heather, her daughter Payton and I..... and Andrew all became roommates. It's been working out really well. We live in a 3 bedroom townhome so Heath and payton got the guest bedroom and the office, which is now Paytons bedroom. It was interesting trying to find room for all of our clothes because before they moved in we were using all 3 closests but we've made it work. It's been fun to be able to just walk down the hall and have a girl talk whenever we want and also to have little payton living with us. We are really enjoying having them here.

FALL = FOOTBALL!!


So anyone who knows us, knows that we LOVE football and especially University of Utah football. So for the last couple of weeks we've been getting really excited for tomorrow, which is Utah's first game. So this whole time I thought that Andrew and I would wear our Utah gear, eat some football food and watch the game together. Well, I found out Monday that Andrew (the luckydog) is going to the game with our friend Zach. I'm a little disappointed that I will have to find someone else to watch the game with but most of all I'm jealous that Im not the one going to the game. So when my turn comes along and I get invited to a game and he doesn't... I wont feel bad :) haha love ya And!