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for all of you who have been DYING for an update of sorts,
(since it's been nearly a year since my last post)
here is what we've been up to in the year of Dragon
(if you're in to the Chinese Zodiac)
JANUARY
My BEAUTIFUL little sister got
MARRIED!!!!
Aren't they precious?!
Karl is from Idaho Falls so that's where they will probably live forever
It's still crazy to me, and hard to think of her as married since I dont' get to see them often,
But we LOVE Karl and couldn't be happier for them!!
Also in January, my FAVORITE, cutest, sweetest, best little brother
GOT HIS MISSION CALL!!
He was called to the Germany, Frankfurt Mission!
Of all the places in the world he could have gone, this was his DREAM!!!
February
I just asked Joey what we did in February, and he said
"we celebrated Valentine's Day and Black History Month"
haha thanks captain obvious
according to facebook :
we had good food for the superbowl
and i made mini german pancakes
exciting right? haha moving on......
MARCH
we had SUCH a fun time in March, we were able to go to
DISNEYLAND
one more time with my little brother before he left one his mission
we also hit up all of our favorite beaches,
and stumbled across an awesome car show and farmer's market
in Huntington Beach
we also had the joy of visiting with our dear Metcalfs.
we went to dinner and sat in the hot tub
we failed to get a pictures of ryan and joey reuniting.
forgive me.
we rounded out our month watching the Jazz play the KINGS,
really we just cared about Jimmer :)
APRIL
we spent the month trying to fit in all the things Nater wanted to do before he left
(most of which i failed to take pictures of)
We went to Lagoon, The Hogle Zoo, watched a TON of movies.
isn't he the CUTEST?!
we also went to the drive in movie in
welcomed Amanda home from her mission
and upgraded from my very first car
to this little beauty
MAY
joey and i celebrated our 2 YEAR wedding anniversary
he surprised me with a weekend getaway in
St. George. It was just what we needed.
we went shopping, had too much yummy food, went to
a farmer's market, saw a movie, and got some much-needed sun!!
JUNE
well in june i apparently sucked at taking pictures, but it was
SUCH a fun month!! We went to the drive in twice, we had the Hamilton family reunion at the cabin,
Celebrated my 23rd birthday with an outdoor movie
(man i wish i had some pictures!!!)
Maybe taken after my birthday dinner?
and the drive in movie with Cali!!
JULY
july is one of my favorite months.
We celebrated the 4th with the BEST cake in the world!!
FLAG CAKE
it's life-changing
fresh blackberries from the garden
We went camping at Starvation Reservoir.
it was BEAUTIFUL.
This was the view from our tent!!
for the 24th we went to Heber with our friends Jay and Jess,
had some DELICIOUS mexican food at Tony's Tacos,
shakes at Granny's and watched the fireworks over Deer Creek.
AUGUST
this is the time i stopped taking pictures altogether. whoops.
but there were some highlights this month!
We got to see Steph for about a day.
We ate a lot of really good food, including too many of these:
we went on lots of drives, and stumbled upon this gem
We went up to SLC for one day, and finally got to go to City Creek.
We also went and visited the Magleby Family who i used to Nanny.
we also went back to Starvation for one last campout.
we rented jet skis, and were able to have some fun before we
were struck by not one, but TWO HUGE
rainstorms!!
SEPTEMBER
we started out September with our annual trip to
Midway for Swiss Days and dinner at Dairy Keen in Heber.
Labor day we woke and went to breakfast at Magleby's,
and spent the afternoon with Jay and Jess at 7 peaks, getting snow cones,
and watching Bachelor pad! haha
Joey started in a flag football league....
of course the first games i went to it rained the whole time! haha
i found a FANTASTIC pumpkin cake recipe
if you're into that sort of thing i highly recommend going here for the recipe
(i left out the pudding mix because i didn't have any on hand and it was still divine!!)
we got to watch our niece and nephews one night,
and got to go to cy's last soccer game of the season
they won 2-0!
we also got to go the the Brigham City Temple
open house. It was so beautiful!
my dear friend Karlee got married this month too!
We are so excited for her and Jordan!
Joey's highlight of the month:
Getting all this sweet stuff signed by his man-crush
JIMMER FREDETTE
This picture may or may not be by the side of his bed.
(it's not)
other things of note:
Joey has been taking real estate classes and should be a licensed agent by the end of October
Nater has officially been gone for 5 months, which means only 3 more months until i get to
skype with him on Christmas!!
oh and since when did blogger finally update?
adding pictures was a dream.
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