Wedding!

I'm doing this now before I forget! This weekend was so nice. Even though the weather wasn't the greatest the temple grounds were beautiful and so was Allyson. Ben and Allyson are so adorable and happy, and we are so happy for them.

It was so fun to see Heather and Sam.

I just loved how happy and excited Ben was to be married, he is such a sweet brother, love him!

As you can see Allyson looked so beautiful in her dress,

and I loved the dresses she picked out for us. Thanks!

I wish I had more pictures, but the day was very busy and fast. The reception was perfect and it was so great to see many cousins That I haven't seen in a while, as well as old friends. The day was lovely and I wish them the best: Love you Ben and Allyson!

Who's next?

What we have been doing!

Well I have been absorbed in school and I am almost to the finish line. We have had some fun things happen over these past two months. First and very exciting Greg's brother, Lance, came home from his mission in Tokyo. It was great to listen to the wonderful stories he had, and there were plenty since he is 6'7'' among plenty of shorter Japanese people. He looks great and we surprized everyone by coming out for his homecoming. We had a blast with the fam.

Hilarious!

Still tall as ever.

Of course the boys had to go out and play ball with the neighborhood boys, they're only 10 years older them, so cute.

We took a long drive by the coast finally! It was beautiful.

Tyler, Ambyr and Luke came down for a fun weekend, love them, we had such a great time. We got up to Hollywood, and that's the last time I'm going, it's too crowded.

Luke and I got to play a round of golf in the front yard, he is very good and very cute. Ambyr looks great, and I can't wait to see the baby when she comes!

Next post will be Ben's Wedding, can't wait.

Our Irvine Place

So I finally got my act together and took some pictures of our place! Here it goes, I know you're dying to see ; ).

Yes I let Greg pick out the colors of our towels, go cougars!

Night time view

Daytime veiw

So there is the humble abode, I'm still getting used to the idea that we are staying here for awhile. I'm still doing school and learning some good stuff (especially my institute class), but excited to be finished. Greg is doing well at his job, and enjoys it. We got called to family history center trainers and are learning lots! Anyways that's life for now!

So here is how we spent our Christmas break:

We have some amazing friends we made in Rexburg and we are going to miss them all. Alisha and Adam we are going to miss you guys! We had so much fun with you guys and we can't wait to see your baby when "it" comes.

Then we made the treck to our new place here in Irvine, CA. It's all unpacked and put away now, but is was a mess when we left for San Francisco. I'll post another one when we have everything up.

We got up to the Bay area and had so much fun with my family.

My little nephew turned Three! He is so big now and so in love with trains. "uncle Greg, can blah blah blah trains!" as he brings you the iphone to look up trains on you tube. Love him.

But don't get to close if you're not the one helping him look up the trains. I like to think he is sweetly touching my chin and not pushing me away.

Just the fam hanging out.

It's not a real family get to together if there is no wrestling. Especially with uncle Ben!

This is my sweet cousin Taylor; she really is a doll.

These houses were all decked out, I loved it, the whole block went all out!




Yes we did a little rocking out to rock band.

After Christmas we went on a beautiful hike of San Bruno mountain. Great veiw.

I love having a sister-by-love from the Bay area. We got to have breakfast with Tom and Ashley before the new year, it was good to see them.


Anyway for new years Greg and I decided to get sick, so it was a blast! We got to see Allyson, Ben's fiance, and had a great time with her. We also celebrated our two year anniversary, man we are old. We had a fun break and I am so grateful for wonderful friends, family and a loving husband. We had a great 2008, we'll see what unfolds in 2009!

Love to learn new things!

Ok so I have been meaning to do this all semester long since I have been taking really interesting classes for my major of exercise science. I’m just going to throw out some random facts, and tid bits, you can take em or leave em. I just found these things to be interesting and many of you may already know them. Here goes:

1. When you are trying to loose weight the best way is to decrease your diet by 250 to 500 Calories and loosing only 1-2 pounds per week. 30 min of workout maintains, while 45-60 min looses weight. Mypyramid.com has a good food processor to help keep track of your caloric intake.
2. This is for men out there trying to bulk up through high protein diets: excess protein is converted into fat by the body. So you need more Carbs to bulk up muscle, as well as protein.
3. If you are eating a good rounded diet (fruit, veggies, whole grain, and meat) vitamin supplements aren’t needed, (unless your doctor advises you to take them!)
4. When you start to feel thirsty you are already 2-3 % dehydrated. If you work out pretty hard make sure you get fluid in you that contains 6-8 % Carbs and 110-115mg of sodium (Gatorade does the trick).
5. When your child is 8 years check them every month for scoliosis, they can change 3-6 degrees in their spine per month, till they are 10! Much easier to correct if caught early.
6. So we have a muscle on our abs that goes across us horizontally, doing sit ups doesn’t help it. Everyday you should come up with a cue (like doing the dishes, coming to a red light or doing my hair) for yourself and bring your bellybutton to your spine. Suck it in! This will help further tighten those abs.
7. Ok last one and I’m done. Don’t let your kids sit in the ‘W’ (opposite of indian sitting, their legs are all the way out) position it might cause bone torsions in their legs, meaning there legs won’t align right.

Sorry just wanted to share some fun things, Hope you learned something heck I know I did!

Christmas time is Here!

We had such a fun Christmas party this year with our friends. We did a big dinner and dessert, with a guys against girls gingerbread house contest. We also did white elephant gifts and watched elf. It was a fun filled night and I need more pictures of it! the're coming.

The club house movie theater where we watched elf.

The girls of the party.


Ok I'm done for now till I get to our place in Irvine, and Celebrate Christmas in San Francisco! If you can't tell I'm very excited, yeah!

Graduation

Wow I made it through the semester! I can't believe that I made, and it's all done. We are done with our little Rexburg town, and I'm feeling a little sad. Anyway this is major catch-up from this whole crazy semester.

Getting ready to walk.

After the whole thing.




Nicole was there, for fun!

This was all who made it out, in the freezing weather! Thanks again for coming.

This is the graduating gang, we were pretty excited and pretty tired.

Congrats Ryan. It was fun to graduate with with everyone. It was an amazing comencment with President Clark and President Uchtdorf. They had such inspirational and powerful things to say. I feel ready to take on the world and make a difference; we'll see what happens. Really though I never thought that going to Rexburg, Idaho was going to have such an impact on my life, but it did. I found my Husband and received my degree, I will never forget This place.

I know you get really cold mom so thanks for making it all the way for my special day it really meant a lot to me. You too Dad.

These are all the pictures I have, but I will get more soon!

We have awesome friends here and will miss them so much. Also the environment here in our little bubble is amazing and we know it won't be anywhere else, but we are excited to go somewhere for more than six months, and start a new adventure!