Thursday, June 25, 2009

So if any of you know me well you know that Footloose is one of my favorite movies. Well my sweet husband decided he would sacrifice and take me to the play at Tuachan. It had Thayne from the show "So You Think You Can Dance" from a couple of seasons ago so I was pretty excited. Any way it was a really good play and I recommend it to everyone.



Monday, June 8, 2009

Camping


Zach loved the BBQ chicken

A couple of weeks ago we decided we wanted to go camping. Every year we say we want to but we never end up going. This year was the year. We were a little chicken to go stay in a real camp ground because we didn't know how Zach would do so my mom was very generous and let us camp in her back yard. It worked out great because she even has a fire pit to dutch oven. We had lots of fun and Zach was so excited and slept really well. I had worked four nights in a row and couldn't sleep so Preston kicked me out of the tent at 1 in the morning so it was a good thing we were at my mom's or I would have been sleeping outside.


Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Birthday, Graduation and Stitches


Well time keeps flying by. We have been very busy and I just decided not to blog on Easter because it has been too long and not very interesting. Zach's birthday was on the 26th and we went to Las Vegas to pick up my dad from New Zeland. Zach missed his grandpa who is also his best friend so picking him up at the airport was a great birthday present. We went to the Shark Reef and looked at all the animals at Bass Pro. He is just getting so big and so smart that I don't even know what to do with him. He carries on full conversations all the time now. We are very blessed to have him.
We also had Preston's graduation on May 2nd. I had to be the proudest wife in the audience. It was so nice to see Preston finally accomplish what he has worked so hard for four years for. We still aren't done with school, but it was a big stepping stone for us. President Monson spoke as well as a man that was 104. It was a pretty impressive day. I must brag for moment. Preston graduated Summa Cum Laude (high honors), 3.88 GPA and his last semister which he had the most credits he has ever taken he got a 4.0.
Finally last week we were getting ready to go to Parowan and my crazy baby got too excited ran in the livingroom and fell cutting his head open. We spent a couple of hours in Beaver's ER and then 3 stitches later we were done. Well thats been our lives lately. Sorry for the long post.




This is Preston, Zach and Preston's brother Parker-all the boys together

He only cried for 10 min. and then ran around the ER with blood dripping down his face thinking he was funny.

Monday, April 27, 2009

ipod touch

We got an iPod touch for preston's graduation and we are attempting to post this blog entry from it. It is pretty much the coolest invention ever! You can get online with any wifi connection and do pretty much anything a computer can do. Preston downloaded the scriptures onto it and it is sooo cool! Now I can blog-stalk from anywhere! We celebrated Zach's birthday over the weekend, I will post more about that later.

Saturday, April 11, 2009

We're adults!

Well it's 2 in the morning and I worked Thursday night and have to be at work in 3 hours so needless to say my body is screwed up. What better thing to do when you can't sleep but blog. Well Preston and I broke our long streak of not being in debt last week. We bought a new car. Preston's jetta that he bought a month before he met me had the water pump go out. They said this usually wasn't expensive but in a jetta it was. This hasn't been the first problem so just jokingly I said we should just buy a new car. I've been saying this for probably three years now but the answer is always the same except for this time he said "ya probably." After two days of stress and me signing away what felt like my life we bought a new car. I won out and got a bigger car because I hated putting Zach in the carseat in the jetta. So this is our car and we love it.


Wednesday, March 25, 2009

The past month

I keep telling myself that I'm going to update this more than once a month, but it never happens. We have been so busy lately. I have just switched to working the night shift again and I love it. Preston has been so busy with school and even when he had spring break he kept busy doing extra stuff for me and my family. Zach has been growing up so much. He learned to climb out of his crib so we had to switch to a toddler bed. He slept really well for his first nap, but then for about a week after he would gather all of his stuffed animals, pillow, and blanket and go sleep in front of the door. I am happy to say that he sleeps all night in his bed and even has naps there too.


This is a picture of my little monkey who thought he could climb on his dresser. He fell off and hit his head. I am very surprised that this is the only blood shed we have had since he is very adventurous.





Preston and I spent the first of the month getting his bulletin board put together. This was a project for one of his education classes. I'll have to post closer up pictures to show how detailed it is. I think for the first time Preston was very glad I bought myself a cricut!

Tuesday, February 17, 2009


We had kind of a different Valentines this year. I should start off by saying that we never have a really good Valentines day so this was a pretty good one. Anyway my cousin was getting married in the Salt Lake temple so my mom, sister, nephew, Preston and I went to Salt Lake Friday. Since Zach isn't that fun to travel with we had Preston's family watch him which we were very grateful for. We went to eat at Macaroni Grill and then went swimming Friday night. The next day we woke up and headed to the temple. It was snowing like crazy, but the wedding was really nice. We waited for them to come out and when my mom, nephew and me couldn't wait any longer we went to the Joesph Smith building and watched the movie. It was a really good movie but I was worried because I had left Preston outside in the snow with my family. He was a really good sport because he walked all around the temple in the snow helping Amy take pictures. On a side note the best part was when we were waiting for my cousin and his new wife to come out Preston was holding the door open as people went in and out of the waiting room. As Preston held the door open for a family they went through and then Preston said I think that is the Osmond boy off of American Idol. I took a second look and then I said and that's his father. I ran to check with my mom because she is an Osmond expert and she confirmed it. Then my aunt told me that my other cousin and her had had a whole discussion with him in the temple when changing shoes. Preston wouldn't go stand by him outside of the temple so I could get a picture though. Anyway, I think that is a pretty good place to meet someone famous.

This is us at the reception and yes I do know my hair is really big and wavy thanks to the snow!

This is a picture Preston took while he waited for us to come out of the movie.

We had planned that we weren't going to get each other anything for Valentines Day because all I wanted was to eat at the Melting Pot. Unfortunately the Melting Pot didn't have any reservations so I was pretty upset. Preston got these flowers for me from his mom. It wasn't a surprise but it was still very sweet.