Picture Overload... ya know, for the book.
9 years ago
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Sad day :(
Last week Nick and I decided to head to the State Fair after work since we're both working downtown. The night before I made sure I had the camera charged, had it packed in my car ready for some State Fair Fun. Well we get there and were walking around to all the booths, waiting for the sun to go down a little and have all the fair lights on to take some fun pictures, meanwhile we went and saw all the livestock....Pigs, Sheep, Cows, Goats, Chickens, you name it. Nick being the "DETAILED Photographer" he is wanted close ups of the cutest little goats ever. He noticed that as he was taking the pictures, the end result was not what he took the picture of ?!?!??!?!??! So I'm thinking oh great, he's been messing around with the settings, we reset the entire camera and still the pictures were off. Luckily we bought a warranty for a year and are for sure extending it another year or two. We took it into the store the next day and the manager was confused too. (Not a good sign) so we had to have the camera sent in and it will be another 3-4 weeks (AVERAGE) until it's back into our hands. Meanwhile it's getting to be FALL...I love fall and the leaves changing colors and no pictures :( Nick's birthday is this Saturday and wanted pictures of the day :( I wanted my neighbor to take our pictures for an updated Nick and Shay Family picture and now that's not going to happen :( Ahhh I'm so bummed and hope it doesn't take the average 3-4 weeks for my camera to come back. Hopefully it's back in time for SOME Fall pictures.......Fall Family Pictures.....New house update.......and HALLOWEEN! Come back Camera!
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
It's my BiRtHDaY Weekend!
For any of you that truly know me my BIRTHDAY is my favorite holiday! I just love love love it! I don't know if it's because it's always a 4 day weekend and I get an extra day off or what but it always turns out to be the best ever! This year I started my birthday list about the end of July and got a lot of crap for it. I typed it up this year and even included pictures! Nick was slightly embarrassed for me as I would whip it out anytime anyone asked what I wanted. My parents and Nick both think I'm the strangest person when it comes to Birthdays because they just don't care, or in their words "it's just another day" but what I think is this "it's the day you were born, you have to celebrate, why not!" So anyways this year I went to work in the morning and my boss told me I could leave at lunch and go have fun so I did, I took him up on it and was off at 1:00. I met my mom in SLC and we went up to Swiss Days in Midway and got to enjoy some shopping boutique style! We ran into quite a few people we knew up there and this year it seemed even bigger then last year. I took Nick up there last year as we were in Park City having fun on the Coster, and Ziplines and told him that I wanted to go over to Swiss Days and he was totally stoked, thinking ah Swiss Days must be Swiss Stuff, Swiss People, Swiss everything else...we got there and he got out of the shuttle and said "are you kidding me?!?!?" "this is more like Relief Society Craft Days what am I doing up here you tricked me!" anyways this year it was just my mom and I and we had alot of fun. The booths went into the neighborhoods, instead of just the park! We ended up finding the cutest booth that had the best deals and ended up getting some jewelry for really cheap! After Swiss Days we headed back down the canyon, grabbed a quick late lunch and met Nick back in SLC after he got off work. Nick and I ended up getting a hotel downtown and got to our room and both crashed! We took a 3 hour nap! We woke up and headed over to The Gateway for some shopping and food! After all that we went back to the hotel and decided to run down to the amazing pool and hot tubs so we did that til late and then watched a movie and went to bed.
In the morning, we went downstairs to breakfast to find out that the Farmers Market was just across the street and headed over there to wonder around. It was alot of fun just looking at all the amazing fruits and veggies, breads and pastries and arts and crafts they had out. After that we went back to The Gateway to finish up shopping and get Nick's brother a Birthday present. It was such a fun day and night! Saturday we had some friends over to watch the football games.
Sunday we slept in late and had a family party at the Miller's house for Aug and Sept Birthday! Before the party we went out to West Layton and took the miles loop along the Nature Boardwalk. It was so much fun and so beautiful out there. At the party I go got a cookbook that I've been wanting, tickets to The Lion King for September 24th! A yummy Cupcake and the CUTEST Wallet/Clutch, or and Gift Card to Nordstroms!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you Miller side!
Monday we went Golfing at Glen Eagle, and afterwards hiked Adam's Canyon with our neighbors!
It was a great weekend to celebrate! But don't worry the party isn't over yet! More celebrations to come this weekend! Yay!!
PS Nick's Birthday is September 25th!
In the morning, we went downstairs to breakfast to find out that the Farmers Market was just across the street and headed over there to wonder around. It was alot of fun just looking at all the amazing fruits and veggies, breads and pastries and arts and crafts they had out. After that we went back to The Gateway to finish up shopping and get Nick's brother a Birthday present. It was such a fun day and night! Saturday we had some friends over to watch the football games.
Sunday we slept in late and had a family party at the Miller's house for Aug and Sept Birthday! Before the party we went out to West Layton and took the miles loop along the Nature Boardwalk. It was so much fun and so beautiful out there. At the party I go got a cookbook that I've been wanting, tickets to The Lion King for September 24th! A yummy Cupcake and the CUTEST Wallet/Clutch, or and Gift Card to Nordstroms!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you Miller side!
Monday we went Golfing at Glen Eagle, and afterwards hiked Adam's Canyon with our neighbors!
It was a great weekend to celebrate! But don't worry the party isn't over yet! More celebrations to come this weekend! Yay!!
PS Nick's Birthday is September 25th!
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
August Update
So my new Goal is to update my blog monthly....instead of every 4-5 months....So let the new goal being now!
I can't remember much of what happened in August but I do remember a few things. My mom's birthday was on the 2nd, and for her birthday my dad added some beadboard in the office and painted the top 1/3 a mustardy yellow...I told her she needed to be wild and change things up from her all white house...she's getting better and every time we do update and paint she loves it, so we have 4 more rooms and the house will look so much better...and add alot of color! I took my mom to Tai Pan and had alot of fun shopping with her. I think what we got ended up being perfect for her new office look! (Pictures maybe next month!)
We did South Weber Days: Adult Anything Goes again...this year our team was a little mixed up.
Whitney just had a baby so couldn't do it but her husband wanted too still so my sister stepped in, in her spot. Ryan wanted to do it again and now that Kylee is married we had to figure out a new teammate. I wanted to set up try outs but that didn't work, instead Ryan had one of his girlfriends Marie step in and be on our team, she did pretty good too! We had alot of fun and still came in middle place! 
Some of the activities were: balance your team of 6 in a canoe while standing up and not touch anyone, sling shot (yeah we sucked at it), pushing an old jeep in a figure 8 and stopping on the line, army obstacle course ect. It was a blast!
Nick had the opportunity to take some time off from the Jazz and go do a 2 week blitz in Hawaii for a Summer Sales group....yup you heard me Hawaii....and I was here in Utah...doesn't seem fair right, well the first week I was super busy with weekly plans I made prior to him leaving so I wouldn't pull my hair out. I went shopping with my neighbor Danielle, caught up on all my TV shows, spent a little money on household items to fix up the house, finished some projects, spent the night at my amazing sister in laws house, and mooched off my parents a little. The second week I was able to go to St. George to help my sister move into her new apartment and get her ready for college...I still can't believe she's old enough! I was still jealous Nick was in Hawaii another week but he kept telling me that Hawaii and St. George are close to the same place.......(NOT) St. George was perfect though....hot just how I like it. I sat at the pool and did absolutely nothing but lay out and went shopping (my kind of vacation) Nick ended up doing really well in Hawaii and we don't have any regrets that he went (except that he was gone away from me for 2 weeks and 2 days and I didn't get to go to his cousin's wedding over there) Nick is an amazing husband and I couldn't ask for a better one, he's such a hard worker and always providing for our little family.
Work has been CrAzY....and I mean crazy, we've been so busy that by the time I get home I'm pooped and all I do it sit on the couch, ok maybe cook a little dinner. Speaking of dinner I'm in this amazing group called Freezer Meal Friends and it has been a lifesaver to my wallet and my health.
we do is depending on how many girls can come that month we make that many meals (1 meal, same recipe) x (# of girls)= # of girls different meals....I think that is the right equation. It's been great, yummy meals and lots of new recipes! I've been in the group for now 2 months and next week will be my 3rd month and there have been some delicious meals!
We went camping with our neighbors the last weekend of August and had a BLAST! We woke up early Saturday morning and they had breakfast ready for us and then we were off and headed to Lava Hot Springs! We got up there and hurried and set up camp and right as we finished it started to sprinkle on us so we decided to run up to the hot springs and hang out there while the storm passed. By the time we changed and got up there we were in a DOWNPOUR and I mean it was raining buckets!
After the down pour it cleared up so we headed over to the waterpark and had a great couple hours of water slides, platform jumping, flips, and handstands, oh and a water rock wall! After swimming for awhile we were starving so we headed over to the cafe and had a hamburger and fries. We decided to just hang out and have a fire after walking around to the shops....if you can even call them shops, more like RANDOM, hippie, palm reading, swords, belly shirts, and colored aura pictures!
We had our fire and hung out and laughed a bunch, later we went back up to the hot springs for a relaxing night. I really don't think I've ever laughed so much in my life! One of the greatest camping trips I've ever been on.
I think that's pretty much all for August. Oh wait school did start so Nick is no longer fun to hang out with...instead he's buried in 4 inch thick books! Next up....September....yay for BIRTHDAYS!!!
I can't remember much of what happened in August but I do remember a few things. My mom's birthday was on the 2nd, and for her birthday my dad added some beadboard in the office and painted the top 1/3 a mustardy yellow...I told her she needed to be wild and change things up from her all white house...she's getting better and every time we do update and paint she loves it, so we have 4 more rooms and the house will look so much better...and add alot of color! I took my mom to Tai Pan and had alot of fun shopping with her. I think what we got ended up being perfect for her new office look! (Pictures maybe next month!)
We did South Weber Days: Adult Anything Goes again...this year our team was a little mixed up.
Whitney just had a baby so couldn't do it but her husband wanted too still so my sister stepped in, in her spot. Ryan wanted to do it again and now that Kylee is married we had to figure out a new teammate. I wanted to set up try outs but that didn't work, instead Ryan had one of his girlfriends Marie step in and be on our team, she did pretty good too! We had alot of fun and still came in middle place! 
Some of the activities were: balance your team of 6 in a canoe while standing up and not touch anyone, sling shot (yeah we sucked at it), pushing an old jeep in a figure 8 and stopping on the line, army obstacle course ect. It was a blast!Nick had the opportunity to take some time off from the Jazz and go do a 2 week blitz in Hawaii for a Summer Sales group....yup you heard me Hawaii....and I was here in Utah...doesn't seem fair right, well the first week I was super busy with weekly plans I made prior to him leaving so I wouldn't pull my hair out. I went shopping with my neighbor Danielle, caught up on all my TV shows, spent a little money on household items to fix up the house, finished some projects, spent the night at my amazing sister in laws house, and mooched off my parents a little. The second week I was able to go to St. George to help my sister move into her new apartment and get her ready for college...I still can't believe she's old enough! I was still jealous Nick was in Hawaii another week but he kept telling me that Hawaii and St. George are close to the same place.......(NOT) St. George was perfect though....hot just how I like it. I sat at the pool and did absolutely nothing but lay out and went shopping (my kind of vacation) Nick ended up doing really well in Hawaii and we don't have any regrets that he went (except that he was gone away from me for 2 weeks and 2 days and I didn't get to go to his cousin's wedding over there) Nick is an amazing husband and I couldn't ask for a better one, he's such a hard worker and always providing for our little family.
Work has been CrAzY....and I mean crazy, we've been so busy that by the time I get home I'm pooped and all I do it sit on the couch, ok maybe cook a little dinner. Speaking of dinner I'm in this amazing group called Freezer Meal Friends and it has been a lifesaver to my wallet and my health.
we do is depending on how many girls can come that month we make that many meals (1 meal, same recipe) x (# of girls)= # of girls different meals....I think that is the right equation. It's been great, yummy meals and lots of new recipes! I've been in the group for now 2 months and next week will be my 3rd month and there have been some delicious meals!We went camping with our neighbors the last weekend of August and had a BLAST! We woke up early Saturday morning and they had breakfast ready for us and then we were off and headed to Lava Hot Springs! We got up there and hurried and set up camp and right as we finished it started to sprinkle on us so we decided to run up to the hot springs and hang out there while the storm passed. By the time we changed and got up there we were in a DOWNPOUR and I mean it was raining buckets!
After the down pour it cleared up so we headed over to the waterpark and had a great couple hours of water slides, platform jumping, flips, and handstands, oh and a water rock wall! After swimming for awhile we were starving so we headed over to the cafe and had a hamburger and fries. We decided to just hang out and have a fire after walking around to the shops....if you can even call them shops, more like RANDOM, hippie, palm reading, swords, belly shirts, and colored aura pictures!
We had our fire and hung out and laughed a bunch, later we went back up to the hot springs for a relaxing night. I really don't think I've ever laughed so much in my life! One of the greatest camping trips I've ever been on.I think that's pretty much all for August. Oh wait school did start so Nick is no longer fun to hang out with...instead he's buried in 4 inch thick books! Next up....September....yay for BIRTHDAYS!!!
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