Excellent wife? Or torturer?

Tyler and I both had small boughts of the Flu. Nothing life threatening, but enough that Tyler was willing to try anything to make his go away. Well, some of you may remember I used to work for YLEO. Of course I still have many wonderful oils laying around so I decided to make him a delicious tea! I knew this tea would help and I also knew he would not want to drink it because the smell is a bit strong. But I swear taste isn't!!! Well... He suffered through, making this face most of the way and dumping out the rest, but guess what! He was healed!!!!!! It may not have been what he wanted, but it was for sure what he needed. Sometimes we just have to suck it up and drink the tea.

Dinner at a Pub

Cory had a school assignment to eat at an European restaurant. He picked McCools in the district. I was pleasantly surprised by their yummy food and excellent service. Ken and Emily were in town so they came too! After all was said and done and I looked at these pictures I realized two things... 1, I am way too white, and 2, I need to ditch these braces soon!!!

Cory and Julie are so dang cute!

My best friend since I was a teenager (forever ago!) Amanda and I went on a short road trip to California to see this beautiful couple be sealed in the temple. We were lucky enough to actually get to be in the sealing room and attend all the activities afterwards. I love going to things like this in California, not only is it exciting to see friends get married, but it's also fun to see old friends that I don't get to see too often! We also went to Brittany Warners wedding since she was kind enough to get married the next day.

I got to spend a few days with my family, and Amanda with hers. I love visiting my family, especially because I have an adorable neice who used to live at my moms! She is hilarious and never ceases to make me laugh.

Grace loved Sydney! I loved being with Amanda! She is such an excellent mom and I am so happy for her and Jeff and their beautiful baby! Tyler and I wish they lived closer then St. George!

Family reunion.

Tylers, moms aunt own a beautiful piece piece of land out in Nephi. It is amazing! There is a cabin and a dining area. We enjoyed hanging out on one of the many hammocks, playing on the kids toys, swinging on the swings that hang over a small stream, sliding down the HUGE water slide (in our clothing) and playing games with the family. I am so glad the invited us to come along! i'm also glad Cory isn't afraid of being.... funny :)

Tyler and I have the same favorite shirt, and will often be found wearing it at the same time. Like it yourself? I know a guy who will sell you one!

Update # 3

A few months back a friend of mine gave us some discount coupons to Lagoon (so nice of her). I have never been there and I just tried asking Tyler if it had been his first time, but he is too busy blogging to answer me, so I will assume that it was. We knew there was a good chance we would be bored going just the two of us (don't judge, we love eachother but standing in lines for a long time is not our strong point as a couple) so we decided to invite Cory, Heather and the always entertaining Chris along for the rides. We made the right choice... My bro-in-law Chris never lacks interesting topics of conversation. He and Tyler also won me some prizes throwing a baseball. We filled up on Cherry ICEE's which I had forgotten about and haven't had since, but loved.

We didn't stay long and didn't ride much, but had a good time.



Unfortunately we were not impressed with the park and decided to never go back... oh well!

Update #2

Toby.... I know everyone is wondering how he is doing.... right?

Well.... HE IS AMAZING! Toby is probably the best dog in the world, not even kidding. :) We are even a little impressed ourselves. Tyler has taken a liking to him (surprise to everyone) and works with him daily to become the best he can be. Toby can do what is called a double T, it is a hunting technique, funny enough we don't hunt, but it makes him listen better which is all we can ask of him.

Our trainer, John of Arrow Kennels, is nice enough to invite us to all of his home and garden shows to show off the tobster. Toby absolutely LOVES these things, why you ask? Because he can sit on a table for 8 hours and be pet by every single person who walks by. What dog wouldn't love that. We are so proud of how well trained he has become. Who agrees it's time for a second?

Update #1... of many!

Seeing as how I never blog, I thought maybe I could just have a goal of one blog post a year! This post will officially meet that goal!



Tyler and I have done so much this year. I probably cant blog about all of it, but maybe I'll do more blogging later... who knows!



It also may be easier if I work backwards as I seem to remember the most recent things MUCH better!



So... Last Monday we jumped the gun with some neighbors and decided to go get some pumpkins and carve them. It was soooo much fun. We have a few couples in our ward that are about our same age and we LOVE having them over. We planned on going to a pumpkin patch, but we all work too late so we ended up just going to Smiths which was alot more fun then I had expected. Once home we got to work! Carving pumpkins, even small ones, is a lot harder then I remember. I definitely needed help gutting them out, but I did the carving all on my own! Having never attempted anything other then a scary pumpkin face, I would say my puppy turned out great!































Unfortunately... Thursday morning my puppy was pumpkin mush in the street. I guess thats what I get for putting carved pumpkins out over the schools fall break. Dang kids!!















Aj and Lacey, are our neighbors down the street and they practically live at our house, which we love! However I have picked up a gaming habit from them and it has taken over my family room... we had to rearrange so I could see the TV better. Gaming is ok if you play with neighbors right?
















Tyler and I both celebrated Birthdays, but there is only one picture(of my b-day cake given to me by Cassie) as evidence. Tyler improved my quality of winter living by purchasing me some wonderfully warm snow pants! I can't wait to go tubing this winter.