Park City again!!

So, we went to Park City a couple weekends ago. We love Park City! We feel like we're not in Utah anymore because it's just so beautiful and it feels like its someplace else. It's only a hour away but we feel like it's a huge getaway! We stayed for 3 nights in the Westgate/Canyons Resort. It was a really nice place that had a sweet indoor heated pool/sauna/hot tub/waterfall that was only for adults. We went every night because it was peaceful and not full of roudy kids although there were borderline drunk couples. We saw a matinee of the DaVinci movie which was good. We make it a point to shop at the outlets and walk Main Street. The weather was pretty crappy one day so we mostly stayed at the resort but we still kept busy because there was much to do. Our room had a sauna shower that was pretty cool. It was nice to just take a vacation and get away! Thanks to Dan's parents and Tom and Claudia for babysitting Twister!

Dan was the ping pong pro...I don't know why I even tried to play with him...

We ate at a fancy restuarant on Main Street called Jean Louis. We had a buy 1 get 1 free coupon or else we never would have gone there. We tried escargot which were actually pretty good! I kept having images of the little garden snails one of my girls brought to class to share the week or 2 before. I had to keep pushing those thoughts aside as I ate it or else it was making me a little sick.


The backdrop is amazing! We would love to live in Park City if it didn't get so much stinkin' snow!

Ha, me posing! At least all of this rain is making everything green and pretty!

While we were walking around the resort, we saw the most perfect/beautiful rainbow we've ever seen! I've never seen one so vibrant or so full! Some of the resort employees were out taking pictures with their phones but we got the best capture of it.
This was as close up as we could get!

Hope everyone's having an amazing summer and doing much fun stuff! We don't have anything more planned until Meghan, Mike, and my family come out next month. Can't wait!

Vegas!

Ok, so we went to Vegas over Spring Break. It was just nice to get away and take a break!
We spent a lot of time walking around and going into the various Casinos. We ate the yummy buffet at the Bellagio. The desserts were my favorite; they were just too pretty to eat!
Following are just a few pictures we took.




























While there, we went to the National History Museum right off the strip. We thought that this trip we would go do fun stuff that we normally wouldn't do. It was quite interesting. This sting ray kept trying to get out and would bob his head up and down along the whole edge of the water tank. It was rather funny.


This was pretty cool. The little skeleton in the middle is that of a normal shark. The huge one is of like a prehistoric kind of shark skeleton they found fossilized. Can you imagine those teeth coming at ya when you're swimming in the ocean...it could swallow a human whole!




These little fish kept trying to bite at Dan's finger...it was pretty funny! They would follow his hand around....they thought it was snack time.


So, lame-o but I wanted a picture next to the M&M racecar so, of course, I had to pose with M&M's!









So, while we were in Vegas, some friends from our ward were on their way back up to Ogden from CA. Because Vegas was on the route, they stopped by and hung out with us for a night.

Here we found the Coca Cola bear...he was so cute and a lil bit creepy!


These boys are so funny! I swear, my mouth starts to hurt from laughing so hard! They just fuel off of each other!










We stayed at the Stratosphere so we got free passes to go to the top. We have already done the rides before so we didn't want to spend our money doing them. It is so pretty at the top!



Another pic of the silly boys!









So, we went up to where the big wooden horse is (I think it's Caesars Palace? Anyone?) and I wanted to go check out the educational toys section. I turn the corner and this is what I find...Dan playing with the cars! Who needs kids when you're married to the best kid ever! :)

So, that was our vacation. Don't count on continued lengthy posts with pictures. We don't have any fun plans set up for the summer!

Update

Ok...here's a 5 second update (I'm trying to procrastinate some very important things because I really really don't want to do them...I'll be sorry by the time tonight roles around!)

In a nut shell, the end of the semester is drawing to a close (2 weeks left) which means I'll be done teaching at Weber State for the summer. In my insane way of being too bored during the summer with only a part time job and still getting paid from Weber State, I've signed on to open a summer preschool with another teacher that I work with. It will be at her house because she is licensed and everything and it'll be each day for a few hours. Because, of course, that wasn't enough for me, I'll also be watching 2 of the cutest 4 year old boys. So, because they'll be in my class each day, I'll just bring them home with me until their parents can pick them up around 5pm! Basically, I don't get a break this summer but the income will be good! :) And it will be fun to have kids in the house again. Except I'm working on making my house child friendly again...after Meghan and her kids left, there was no need!

We're also signed up to play on a softball league! I am not good at all but Dan has an amazing hit and can hit them out of the park! I'm super excited! Thanks Shaylee and Justin! :)

Dan's looking for a job in this crappy economy...sucks! I feel very blessed to have the jobs that I do!

We painted our bedroom and installed a fan...it looks great! Also painted the hallway leading upstairs...glad it's done! Dan's been working on fixing up the house a bit which I'm grateful for. Right now it seems like we'll be here forever!

I just got a new calling! I'm a Young Womens advisor. Dan's been the Young Men's secretary for a few months now so at least we can go to mutual, Youth Conference and stuff together. He really enjoys it and I'm a little bit nervous. I was in the nursery for months so it's quite the change!

Hm...trying to think of what else to post. I need to post pics of Vegas over spring break...but alas, that will have to wait.

Ok, done procrastinating...sorry there's no pics yet! It'll have to be on my list of things to do!! :)

So, today, was graduation for Dan! Because it was the December Ceremony, they had all of the colleges all together at the Dee Events Center. It was pretty long but Dan looked so cute all dressed up in his cap and gown! Congrats baby, I'm so proud of you! Love you so so so much!!! Kiss!

So, this is for anyone who has ever been in our house or specifically lived in our house (before we got married of course). So, we always had such plain boring white walls. Well, we've decided we were too boring and just painted these 2 rooms. I had another picture of the paint in our kitchen and the other walls, but I think I deleted it on accident and our house is too messy right now for me to go take another picture : ) I'd love to paint our bedroom, but alas, that is too much work and I'm just not motivated yet...

Ok ok! I will post something! We've just been so busy and I feel like we're not very interesting and I don't take pictures very often so there's nothing to post. But, I'll just throw on some pics that I have and explain what we've been up to the past 3 months!

In September, we decided to take an impromptu trip to Slc/Park City for a weekend. Park City has the coolest outlets...I love it! It's such a pretty place up there.

We bought a car.... she's our new baby, I'll post a pic once I take one.

And, we decided to sell our Wii and Rockband :( We realized we never played it so we may as well try out something new. We just got a Xbox and it has Guitar Hero so that makes me happy!

And, Thanksgiving was fun! We spent Thursday at Dan's parents, ate some great food and saw 4 Christmases. Dan's mom is an amazing cook, I have to remind him that I'm not her and still have a lot of learning to do! I must say that I'm not a big fan of Black Friday; the first time I've ever done it was last year and it was ridiculous! I don't have the patience for big crowds of people so we had no desire to do it again this year. We left during the afternoon of that Friday to head down to my grandparents house in Oak City. My mom, Don and the kids had driven out to be there so it was nice to see them. We celebrate Thanksgiving on Friday so that everyone can come, so, got to eat good food and play games again! Just wish Meghan, her family and Dallin could've been there; it would've been complete! But no, they got to go to EuroDisney in Paris!

It was nice to see my family as we're staying here for Christmas this year. I'm sure my mom will be sad as only 3 out of her 6 kids will be home for Christmas this year. Sorry mom!

Well, we had an eventful Labor day weekend! My cousin Katie got married so my dad, Kayla, her friend, Landon and Austin drove out for the weekend. Dan's sister and her family was planning on going down to Veyo and had asked us to go too. I decided to stay home with the family and go to the reception and so Dan went camping! Dan said they caught a tarantula, crawfish, bluegill fish, a lizard, a frog, and a monstrous moth/bat! He went rock climbing and cave exploring. I wish I could've gone!

Dan is also in a softball league with his work and plays in a volleyball league with some friends. So, I get to go watch him 2 nights a week! And he has a night class too so he's pretty busy! He's amazing!! :)