Birthdays and Park City

So now to this weekend...on Friday night my friend Alexandra turned 21! I just had to give a shout out to her, we have been friends since Achievement Day years, which would be about 10 years! I have had so much fun with her over the years, I always know I am gonna have a good time when I am with her! For example, her birthday dinner was at Chuck-a-Rama only Alexandra could pull that one off and get all her friends to come join!

Here's the home town gang + Lisa's huband, Matt. They are such newlyweds I love it! (of course this is coming from me the pro-married for 1.5+ years jk)

Now on to Saturday, Chad and I just wanted to spend the day together, once again forget about work and school and act like we have no real responsibility for the day. We decided to go to Park City since the weather was going to be nice enough for flip-flops. We shopped ALL day long! We went through all of the outlets, walked the whole Main Street, ate at our favorite restaurant up there called Bandits, and then we even stopped at the mall on our way home. But guess what? I didn't buy one thing, I thought about getting this hat in the picture but ended up talking myself out of it, as usual. It was good to be outside, get some exercise and enjoy being together.

This is the best b-b-q ever! I'm not a huge bbq fan but when we go to Park City we always make sure that we stop in here!

Back to the old stomping grounds!

So it has been a while since I have updated the blog, but I have some extra time today to catch up on what we have been up to lately. I figured I'm gonna make a different post for each thing we have done its easier to upload pictures a few at a time. So two weeks ago we went back to Rexburg! We were only there for a few hours but that is all you need in Rexburg. This is a picture of the two of us maybe 2 months after we had been dating!

We walked around the gym where Chad used to get ready for football games, here is Chad stading with the Viking!

We then were able to meet up with one of my old and favorite roommates Dani! She is now married so it was good to meet her husband and see their place. I cannot believe how much has changed since we were actually going to school in Rexburg. The town is pretty much the same but campus is like a full fledged construction site. The other thing that hasn't changed is the weather. It is FREEZING there. I don't think I could ever go back, way too cold!

This is me and Dani at the end of our freshman year of college-April 2006

We went and saw the Rexburg temple and it is so pretty! When we were up there they had just put the Angel of Moroni on top, and now its been up and running! It was good to be back in Rexburg, its fun to go back and see how life still goes on even though we aren't there.

Weekend in St. George

We love to go on weekend trips to get away from work and school and just spend some time together. Even though I had four midterms to take Chad was able to convince me to put that aside and take off to St. George. Its so hard to say no to fun, I think about what am I going to remember more, studying for an exam or hanging out with my husband? Hanging out with Chad is always more memorable. So we packed up, got Chad a RedBull to give him wings to drive make the drive. We stay at his grandma's house there, unfortunately she wasn't there this weekend, so we ended up having the house to ourselves.

Of course In-N-Out was on the agenda (twice actually), it makes us feel like we are kind of in California. I felt like such a tourist though taking pictures at In-N-Out, hahah!

When we go down to St. George one of our favorite things to do is look at all the new homes. We went up to this area called Entrada, its a exclusive gated community that is literally built through the lava rock. The homes all blend into the surroundings it is so beautiful. I love the style of homes that are in St. George, I could see myself living there if we had to stay in Utah.

Overall we had a great weekend, it was a lot of fun to have Chad all to myself. He has been so busy with work lately it makes it nice to get out of our routine and forget about work and school for a few days.

Rascal Flatts Concert

Rascal Flatts came to Salt Lake City!!!! I was so excited because my sister Alyssa had never been to a concert before and I thought Rascal would be the perfect first concert they are so amazing! So we bought the cheapest tickets we could find, we didn't care where we sat we were going for the experience. So we get to the Energy Solutions arena and one of the country radio stations KBULL had a booth there and we heard they were upgrading tickets. We debated on standing out in the cold for this chance but Alyssa told me she is super lucky and always wins. So we made our way to the front of the crowd and Alyssa was screaming SSSOOO loud. Finally one of the guys got on the microphone and said can somebody please look at this girls tickets, she is scaring EVERYBODY! They looked at our tickets and realized they were horrible so they exchanged our for the 16th row! We were so excited, and I realized Alyssa really is lucky! SO here we are with our awesome tickets!

Alyssa didn't win this shirt, one of the guys that worked for the radio station dropped it on the ground and she picked it up and put it in her purse, once again though she got lucky!

This is my favorite Ice Cream and I can only find it at the Energy Solutions Arena, I was so excited for it!

Here's the band! They were amazing performers, and hilarious between songs! I never get tired of seeing them in concert! Jessica Simpson opened forthem so that was fun to see her too!

This is infront of the tour bus, too bad it turned out so dark!

UH-OH Accident!

Yesterday I was in my last class of the day and I got a call from Chad but didn't answer, he then texted me and said I needed to call him. I immediately left class and he told me that he was in an accident on his way to the office from lunch. He wasn't hurt at all, which is most important, but his truck definately suffered some damage. Here is the story: Chad was waiting at a stop light when an old man fell asleep at the wheel, or lost consciousness (the man wasn't really sure what happened) but he slammed into an older truck who then slammed into Chad. Chad was pushed into the intersection and so lucky that no one was driving through it at that time. The old man that caused the accident was taken away in an ambulence, the other guy was fine and so was Chad and his passengers. The other two cars were totaled and had to be taken away by a tow truck, luckily Chads is still drivable, but he is going to need to get the bed of the truck replaced. The old man's insurance will take care of the costs, and provide a rental car because it could take a while to fix it. I felt so bad for Chad, his new truck has had some tough times so far, and he just put his Lakers license plate cover on and that is ruined too! He is going to get an estimate on the truck today and hopefully it will be fixed soon. One of Chad's friends took pictures of the accident scene so once I get those I will post them. But we are just so grateful that nobody was seriously hurt and that we aren't going to be responsible for paying for a new truck bed.

Grizzlies Game

This was the first weekend it seems like in so long where Chad and I had nothing to do on a Saturday night. We have been so busy all the time and been out of town a lot lately that it was a weird feeling to have to search for something to do. I remembered hearing that Salt Lake had a semi-pro hockey team called the Grizzlies and lucky for us they had a home game on Saturday. So we went to Chipotle, one our favorite places, and then to the hockey game. We had a lot of fun! I like watching hockey live, and there were a couple good fights which always makes it more exciting! As you can see Chad was really into the Grizzlies, after the game we went to the Team Store and he tried on all their stuff. He was holding this little hockey stick and all these 9-10 yr old boys saw the stick and they all wanted one. Chad told them it was a dollar and they got so excited, but really they were 10 dollars :( THey were so sad when they realized this but it was pretty funny anyways! Next home game we want to get a big crowd to go, so if any of you are in Utah plan on going to the next home game!!!

Bowling!

When we were in California we went bowling with my family. It was raining so hard all day on Monday that we had to think of something to do inside. We had a blast, Tanner beat us all...by a lot. All that practice on the Wii must have really paid off. It had been such a long time since Chad and I were on a bowling team together, and it showed. I bowled horribly!!! Towards the end Chad picked up his game, only because he didn't want to get beat by his 14 yr. old brother-in-law but it happened!

Can you guess which ones Chads, and which ones mine? Not really kinda hard to tell because me and my 12 yr old sister have about the same size foot and it looks like my 17 yr old sister has the same size foot as Chad, haha!
This is Chad once he started getting into his rhythm, he was bowling great towards the end!

My cute little sister who recently started wearing make-up! Overall bowling was great, everyone was able to do it, even Landon, who I think ended up beating me! We always have such a fun time with my family, they keep us laughing constantly!