All Grown Up!

Last weekend we dropped my baby sister off to college! She is enrolled at Westminster in Salt Lake City studying nursing. It was bitter sweet loosing my best friend but I could tell she was going to have so much fun. The campus was so cute and her roommate seemed really great. Good luck Erin!




The insanely boring freshmen ceremony



Erin in her dorm room


Sisters!

Cruise 2010!!

We just got back from our fabulous cruise to the Mexican Riviera! We went with our friends Tony and Caitlyn Carmack and her parents from Texas. We had sooo much fun! This was our big present to ourselves and we are so happy we did it!

Sorry these pictures are so out of order...I hate the uploader for blogspot!

One of the formal dining nights



The canyon in Puerto Vallarta where we zip lined


Before zip lining



In our room with our pet towel elephant



Mango! Our favorite



Dylan and the boat in Cabo



Formal again




This is right before we got on this huge boat

Annabelle's Excellent adventure!

I went on an incredible road trip with Caitlyn and her mom and dad! We drove ALL THE WAY TO TEXAS! This was my only road trip of this magnitude and lets just say, it is probably my last! (27 hours later) We arrived and we had so much fun, they showed me all over San Antonio and we shopped till we DROPPED! I was sad to be away from Dylan for a whole week, but what can I say, absence does make the heart grow fonder!

Here we are in IF, bright eyed and bushy tailed! Ready to hit the road!



Here we are in Moab, another first for Annabelle


This is the Montecello, Utah Temple around 2:30 AM







My wimpy stretch of the drive, I only drove less than two hours :) I never claimed to be a road warrior


My trusty co-pilot! (Not so much! She fell asleep 20 minutes into the drive!) Ha ha, love you Caitlyn! She was the real trooper and drove through the night! 2:30 AM- 6:30 AM



TEXAS FINALLY! This part of the drive gives a lot of false hope. At this point, we still had 8+ hours to go!


Hooray Texas! Here I am with Caitlyn's sister Madelaine and GOGO- Cait's mama


Very cute boutique- Bless Your Heart


The Alamo was TINY! Big surprise to me


Here we are on the beautiful river walk in downtown San Antonio


All in all this was indeed, an INCREDIBLE ADVENTURE! And I had so much fun, thanks so much Sanchez family!

OLE!

A Wyoming Easter

We went to see my mom in Rocksprings for Easter and had a blast coloring eggs, frosting cookies, and eating great food! While we were there it was my little cousin Evyn's third birthday. She was quite the cute birthday diva!

Here she is getting a manicure


This is me and Erin with Evyn's brother, Dalton

Stacey's Baby Shower!

I had a shower at my house a few weeks ago for my good friend, Stacey Cardon who is due next week! Here she is (on the left) with my other good friend, Randi Oswald who also just had a baby girl. I had a blast throwing this shower and can't wait for this baby to be here!





Here is the quilt I made her...not going to lie, I'm very proud of myself!

Dog Days

We watched Dylan's sister- Autumn's dogs and their house while they were in Mexico. It was a blast with all four of them! The little grey one is Fergie Ferg and the giant sized German Shepard is Ranger.


Best Friends!

Spring at last??? This one is for Kate :) I'm finally blogging again!

So I've had some serious spring fever with the way the weather has been teasing us. Fifty and sunny one day and blowing, cold, and gloomy the next! So here is my ode to the winter as an attempt to see it go away!


Here is Dylan and Tony in their prized snow cave. They built it with Caitlyn's brother-in-law who came from Texas for some snow adventures. This baby took the better part of 3 days but it was truly a marvel! It could fit three big guys and our two dogs with ease! They even slept in it like boy scouts

We ventured to Utah for Jordan and Rachel Nelson's wedding and had a great weekend away! While we were there we had the chance to go to Music and the Spoken Word at Temple Square and to the church history museum. I love these opportunities, it seems like no matter how many times you go, it always strengthens your testimony.

The happy couple!

The newly remodeled Tabernacle

We had another fun adventure to Park City for a ski weekend with my family. We stayed in an amazing cabin that had a ski ball machine that was a blast! On the way to the cabin we saw the only bar in Heber Utah called the SPICY LADY. So naturally my family stopped and bought two pink hats from the bar and two black ones which became the prizes for our ski ball tournament! And go figure, Dylan and Jordan (Erin's boyfriend) were the SPICIEST LADIES!

Here they are with their winners hats!





And just for fun, here's Erin and me on our crazy drive to Jackson..

And finally, Dylan and I pulled our wedding cake out of the freezer! We forgot on our anniversary because we were in Las Vegas so we decided to have it for Valentine's instead. It looks a little sad but it still tasted great!



So on that note, hurry up spring!

A GIGANTIC Christmas!

Christmas this year was extra fun in our new place and all the dogs! This is our first Chistmas with Sophie and Kia and we were watching our brother and sister in law's GREAT DANE for the whole month! Her name is Sunny and we had so much fun with her and we were so sad to see her go back home to Phoenix. But I will admit, 3 dogs was a little crazy in our little house! It's good to have things back to normal, 2 dogs, no tree, and no mall!

Here's Dylan playing tug with Sunny- she's giant sized!


Us with our stockings Christmas morning

Our niece Arlie in all her new princess shwag

Our nephew Deacon with his GIGANTIC bear

Kia with her GIGANTIC bone!

Oh Christmas tree...with a GIGANTIC dog!

Makoy and his pound puppy

Makoy at our New Year's Eve bowling partay