4th of July Weekend

Andrew and I were really excited for this Holiday weekend because for the first time in a while, we didn't have to work on the holiday.  I had a three day weekend and Andrew had a four day weekend so we wanted to do something fun.  Friday night was grantsville's annual Dusk to Dawn tennis tournament.  Andrew  plays in it, every year but I never had before.  At the last minute Andrew was able to convince me to play I had been contemplating it all day.  I love playing tennis and we had been playing alot, but I still am not very good, so I as a little nervous.  I'm really glad that I decided to play, even if I did get embarrassed a few times.  It's funny because some people are there just to have fun, like myself, but then there were people who took it way too serious.  The tennis tournament ended up ending pretty earlier, probably around 11, which always makes Andrew a little upset because he says it feels rushed.  After tennis we headed to his parents house and at around 11:45 I got the bright idea to make up a dance to do for his dad's birthday which was in 15 minutes.  So we hurried outside with his sister and her friend Mandy to get started.   This is what we came up with.

Ok...  After many failed attempts to upload this video I'm finally giving up and am just going to post this without the video , so unfortunately you wont be able to see our amazing dance moves.

Later that night Bailey, Andrew and I slept out on the tramp.

On Saturday, we went camping up South Willow canyon.  We hadn't been camping in Utah since we'd been married so we thought it was about it. 

On Monday, July 4th we started off by watching the Grantsville parade at Andrew's Aunt Jens, afterwards we went to the park for all the festivities, went to his parents house for a BBQ and spent alot of time riding around on the scooer. Later that night we went back to the park to watch the fireworks, which were pretty legit, possibly the best firework show Grantsville has ever put on. 

 My mom and I at the Parade

It was so nice to spend the whole weekend together and to be able to do whatever we wanted to do.

Summer Basketball Camps

A couple weeks ago Coach Ashby and I took some of the basketball girls down to St George for a basketball camp at Dixie College.  We left for St George monday morning at 6 AM and got back to Tooele on Friday around 2 PM.  We only took 12 girls down and those 12 girls had to make up two teams (JV and Varsity) so each team only had one sub.  Needless to say the girls were fatigued after the first couple of days, especially after tuesday's four game schedule.  When the girls weren't playing basketball we were either relaxing at the hotel, laying by the pool and getting frozen yogurt at Menchies MMM so good.  Our last night in St George we hiked to Dixie Rock to take "team pictures" per the seniors request.  It was a nice week of basketball and I think all the girls got something out of it, but by the end of the week everyone was ready to get home, even if we would only get a 3 day break before our next basketball camp at SLCC. 

Eating at Golden Coral.  This was taken after everyone sang for Ashby's "Birthday"

Dixie Rock

Scooter Rides

Now that summer is FINALLY here Andrew and I have spent lots of time riding around on the scooter.  It doesn't quite compare to the motorcycle, but until we buy one of our own it will suffice.  We usually just ride around stansbury and Grantsville and just recently we have started to enjoy driving around looking at houses. Here are a couple of pictures of us getting ready to go cruisin'.

2 Years Already?!

It seems like everytime I blog I'm trying to catch up on the past few weeks and the next few posts wont be any different.  Since the last time I blogged, Andrew and I celebrated out 2 year anniversary.  This year was a little less organized than last.  We decided that since we are going on a cruise in Decemeber we would just stick around in Utah and keep things small.  The initial plan was to go to the rock on the Salt Lake.  Andrew and I have lived here most of our lives and neither of us have ever been, but due to the rainy weather we were unable to go.  Instead, we went to Tepenyaki, Andrew's favorite restaraunt, stopped for ice cream at Nielsons Frozen Custard and then headed home to spend the rest of the night relaxing. 

                    My flowers that I came home from work to.

I can't believe we've been married for 2 years already!  It's been such an amazing adveneture.

Catch Up

 It's been a few weeks since I last posted and honestly I don't have an excuse.  Last time I posted I was in the middle of my Nebraska vacation.   I consider my trip to be a complete success.  I was able to spend alot of quality time with my dad, I spent a day with my Grandma Pat & Aunt Julie, I visited with Grandma Sonya and spent a day with Kyle riding horses and eating Sushi.  The only thing that could have made it better would be seeing all of my other grandparents and Stacey & the kids. 

While I was in Nebraska I got a job offer for a job I had applied for.  It's at the same place I currently work (the treatment center), but I was able to switch to full time days, which is a huge blessing for us.  Before I was working the swing shift three days a week, but since I'm not taking classes this summer I really wanted to work full time and the fact that I get to work during the day makes it even better. I love my new schedule at work. I work from 6 am to 2 pm. I'm still having a hard time getting up that early, but I love getting off at 2.  After I got the job I made my fall school schedule and all of my classes will be in the afternoon after work. It's going to be busy semester but I'm excited for the challange.

Random Trip Pictures

 My cousin Zach and I

 Roasting starbursts on the fire

There were bald eagle nests along the river.  I saw about six eagles on the day I took these pictures.

Hole In The Boat

Most would disagree, but since I've been in Nebraska the weather has been amazing!!  The first few days were extrememly HOT (2 days in a row temperatures were record high).  While everyone was complaining about how hot it was, my dad and I would be out airboating on the river.  On Tuesday, after being on the river for only 20 minutes, my dad was getting ready to go under a bridge and was paying attention to whether or not the boat would fit under it when the current got a hold of the boat and took us into the side of the bridge and put a hole in the side of the boat.  At first I was a little nervous because water was spraying in the boat.  Fortunately, there's a pump in the boat that just pumped the water out and we were able to go from sand bar to sand bar.

Our attempt to stop the water was to plug the hole with a t-shirt, that helped for about three seconds.

Mushroom Hunting

I think it's considered a sin to be from Nebraska and never have gone mushroom hunting.  Both of my parents had told stories of their mushroom hunting experiences, but I never really knew what it was all about.  So my second day here in Nebraska my dad took me out on his airboat and we stopped at his "mushroom hunting" spot.  Unfotunately for my legs, I was not informed that I would be hiking through a forest full of poison ivy, ticks and sharp bushes.  I was wearing shorts and flip flops.  I think I was more worried about looking for poison ivy than mushrooms.  I don't know exactly what poison ivy looks like, but I've been told it has four leaves on top,so I tried to avoid anything that resembled a four leaf plant .  We hunted for about 20 minutes and only found old mushrooms.  (There's only about a week span that the mushrooms are good and we were a few days late it looked like)  So though I've been mushroom hunting, I've still never eaten these mushrooms.



Me sporting my sceptical face



The forest we hunted in



This is what the mushrooms look like , this ones a little old but you get the idea  (Not was I expected)



Birthday Pictures

                                              This one makes Andrew's hand look like my own.... SICK!

                                                      Just playing around

Finals

This week was finals week.  Finals are something that I usually dread, but at the same time look forward to because it means the semester is coming to an end.  That couldn't be more true for this semester because for the first time in two years, I'm going to get a summer break!  I had contemplated taking a full schedule of classes over the summer and quickly decided that I NEEDED a break even if that meant that I might not finish as soon.  I took my first final last Friday in my Physiology class and then wrapped it up this morning by taking my Psychology final.  My summer break will officially start tomorrow when I arrive in Nebraska for my week long vacation full of lots of boating, fishing, friends and family.  I can't wait!