Swimming at Basha...

 I've been such a bad blogger! I will start being good again! :)

We had SO much fun this weekend. My parents were able to come here, the boys went on a fishing trip to Black River ( more on that later ) and us girls stayed at my house and had a girls weekend. On Friday and Saturday we went out to Basha High School to their swim center and we all had a blast. 

Preston loved the area that had water squirting out of the ground...

They have a lazy river that we all loved...

We swam and got some sun...I was the only one who got too much sun and burned ( curse my white skin! ) So glad Preston got dads skin and tans soooo easily, I hope all our kids do!

And here is me and my baby. He really did have a ton of fun, don't let the " i hate taking pictures face " fool you!

#13- Honeymoon

Where did you go? Was it good? ;) haha...j/k

For our honeymoon we went up to Spencer's parents place in Flagstaff. They had just bought it right before we were hitched so neither of us had been there before. It's a really nice big place and it was sooo fun to have it all to ourselves for a few days. It was also nice that we had a kitchen so that we could cook some of our meals instead of eating out the entire time. We went up to snowbowl, walked around a space observatory, shopped :), went to the movies, ate out and LOTS of other fun things that are really just none of your business ;) haha! We really had such a fun time!

I love you Spencer...

#12- favorite part of the day and least favorite part of the day

 Can be anything.

Okay I'm guessing this means my favorite and least favorite part of my "wedding" day. I'm gonna share my least favorite first. Me and Spenc both got letters from the temple explaining what time to be there and what not, well we both thought that it would take the bride longer to get ready so I would just get there first. Well...they don't let you go back or anything until the both of you are there. So I called Spencer that morning ( while I was at the temple ) and he was just eating breakfast taking his sweet little time. I told him our situation and he said he'd leave that second. Well I had to just sit and wait for him to get there...some of my family started showing up and they were all kinda laughing saying "oh did he stand you up" they were kidding but really I didn't think it was that funny. I also had the little temple workers telling me if he didn't get there soon we'd miss our time slot and they were full all day so we would not be able to get married that day. It was stressful and embarrassing. But luckily Spencer came running in just in time and we were married. Yay haha!

Ummm my favorite part of the day...honestly I pretty much loved every part of that day. When we first got sealed, looking at my husbands face and how happy we both were. Our luncheon was amazing and we had tons of family and friends telling stories and giving us advice. It was really touching and meant a lot. The reception was just what I wanted and we had a ton of family and friends there as well. But I think my favorite part of the day was after the sealing and the pictures outside the temple. Me and Spenc left the temple together and we were probably the happiest we had ever been. We were finally married and it was such an incredible feeling. I just really wish I could relive that day.

#11- Your song and/or the first song you danced to at your wedding

share a music video or lyrics if you can!

Um we never really had a song...we both liked the song Brass Bed at the time and that's what we used for the last part of our video so if anything else I guess that would be the closest thing to "our song". Here's our little wedding video that Spencer's Aunt Jill made for us :). I seriously teared up and cried while watching it...we were so in love ( not that we aren't now haha ) but that engaged/newlywed time of our lives was soooo fun and to be honest I kinda miss it. I think it's time me and Spenc get away and spend some time alone... ;)

#9- The Reception and #10- The cake/food...

where was it at? show us some pictures! what day did you get married?

We were married August 11, 2007 and had 2 receptions. The first one was the day before we were married at my parents house in Show Low and the other was in Gilbert the day we were married. Again my book is lost so I can't show you any pics of the Show Low reception...but it was super cute and a lot of fun :). We were married in August...in the valley...boy was it a hot day. We had the reception at the church building close to the condo that we were moving into. 

I love food. So tell me about what you had at your wedding!

I hardly remember what we ate...I am sure Spencer does though. I know we had little sandwhiches that were really good and fruit and veggies. As soon as we got there we ate really quick before our "quests" arrived, we hadn't eaten anything all day and we were seriously starving so the food tasted divine to us haha! We also had a make your own sparkling soda station thing that was my favorite. Then there was my cake. It looked exactly how I wanted it to! Soooo cute! Funny thing is I didn't know only the top was real cake so when we went to cut it we cut the bottom first and it wasn't cake haha. It was funny but when we did find cake it tasted real good!

Prestons first tube ride!

I can't get over how cute he looks out there! 

Oh wow our Saturday was busy. It was fun but definitely packed with a ton of things to do. Saturday morning Spenc had yard work and a service project to do and me and Preston had to have our house spotless so the "bug guy" could spray. As soon as Spenc got home I ran to the grocery store and picked up pizza. When I got home Spencers friends Taylor and Zach were there along with Taylors cute kiddos. Taylor and Zach put in my ( old but new to me ) dishwasher and garbage disposal! I seriously can't thank them enough...I SOOO appreciate it! Living without a dishwasher is seriously the pits haha. As soon as they were done we rushed over to Canyon Lake. I was hoping to get some sun but we didn't really get there in time for that but we ended up having a great time. Preston had his first experience riding on the tube and he LOVED it. ( He did ride it once last year for like 2 seconds...he was so sick that trip and so we don't count it haha ). 

Getting ready to go!

He was saying Whoa here haha

Totally lovin it...

Pointing to mama :)

 

 Spenc of course wakeboarded...I thought he did awesome but he says it wasn't a good wakeboarding day. 

I tried uploading a clip but dumb blogger wont let me...plus I didn't really get too many good shots, its hard to try and take pictures and watch Preston at the same time haha. Next time I'll try and be better!

After Spenc and Dan were done wakeboarding, Uncle Dan and Preston went swimming. Water was freezing but Preston loved it anyway and kept wanting to get back in. Funny boy! He loves his Uncle Dan!

Preston watching Danny jump in the water...Preston would have jumped in too if we would have let him!

    You can tell how cold the water is by their faces haha. Silly boys!

Life...

• My dishwasher broke about 2 weeks ago...washing every dish by hand is getting old :( hopefully we'll get one soon!
• Our garbage disposal just broke a couple of days ago and the water barely drains on that side...making doing the dishes seriously unbearable!
• The fan in Preston's room broke...well the light broke, the fan still works but the light is what we need the most.
• My tires on my car are sooo bald...one of the tires is even making a weird sound. Lovely.

Those are just some of the things we are dealing with over here lately. I hate when dumb things break...and then something else breaks and before you know it we have a list as far as china! But some of the good things around here are...

• Spencer is done with this semester today! So far we know he finished 2 classes with A's and I'm pretty positive the other 2 classes with be A's too. He's seriously so smart!
• Spencer qualifies for grant money every year but this year he also got an extra $3000.00 because of his awesome grades from ASU. Thats $7000.00 in free tuition just because he's awesome :)!
• Preston is learning some new words and getting funnier every day. He knows the word baby now and calls his cousin Kam the baby, we also tell him that mommy has a baby in her tummy. Now he lifts up his shirt and daddys shirt saying baby. Haha we tried telling him that only mommy does but I think we are just confusing him haha. He also says bye to everyone, including our cashiers at stores haha. It's cute!
• My sister in law Alyssa came over yesterday and helped me paint my headboard! It's cute! Pictures to come!
• My family is coming up next weekend! Boys are going to black river and us girls are going to have fun here...cant wait!

I took these pics a few weeks ago and never posted...Preston and dada having fun at the park. So glad that we'll have a few weeks ( before summer school starts ) that we can hang out with Spenc when he gets home from work. :)