A Summer afternoon...

When we parked downtown today I could not help but notice this cute couple sleeping on the grass! I wished we could have been doing that, but I complain too much when its over 100 degrees outside. Maybe she does too and that's why they're not cuddling, but it was still so cute! Plus it was a shot of the top of the carousel that I saw driving by earlier today. I was on the phone telling Jeff I was trying to see if it was here yet and then I saw it and said, "OH MY GOSH IT IS THERE!!! IT IS SO BEAUTIFUL!!!! WE HAVE TO GO SEE IT WHEN I GET HOME!!!!" It is SO beautiful. I heard today from a patient that the city forked out $300,000 for it, but they'll make that back in now time if they charge people to ride it.

So this afternoon Jeff & I both got off work early and I could not wait to go check out St. George's latest attraction...THE CAROUSEL!  It isn't open yet (as you can see by the signs) but we still got to see it empty. I LOVE CAROUSELS!!!!!!! They are so beautiful and so much fun, I just can not wait until we can ride it. But I was still just so excited to even see it and know we can ride it soon.

 Jeff never will step foot inside the library...so he says! I was trying to search a book on the computer and next thing I knew he was gone. And look where I found him! Sitting on the ground with a book in his hand..good thing I had my camera to capture this historical moment! I may be having an influence on my sweet prince! 

My little toad prince! I stop and look at this adorable statue every time I go downtown. It's so cute!!! What a perfect afternoon in our awesome downtown! 

Family History

So the last year or so I have been really interested in family history. When we went to Arizona this summer Aunt Lori brought out started talking about it and said that Grandpa Rose (my great-gpa ) gave her all this family history stuff. This HUGE family tree is the most incredible thing! It is as recent as my mom's generation and goes back to the Mayflower! This is all on the Rose side, which is my mom's dad's side. I have slowly but surely been trying to enter all this information into Ancestry.com so that hopefully it can help other families find the missing pieces in their own family tree. The one I am holding up in the picture is a replica of the original. It was kind of hectic trying to get it copied because everyone I went to was so scared that it would rip when they scanned it. But we did get it scanned onto a file so if any family wants a copy of the file just let me know! (It is too big a file to be emailed but we can always put it on a disc or flash drive. )
There were some other really neat family stories from the Pioneer days, some super old letters and also some REALLY old newspaper clippings. I mostly have it all scanned in now thank goodness! So if anything happens to it we have backup. It takes a lot of time to do family history work, but man is it fun to learn about your ancestors and the lives they lived! Makes me want to keep a good journal to pass down. I should work on that.

Orangeville in June.

So it has been like a whole 2 years that Jeff has been promising to take me to the beautiful Manti Temple. This weekend his awesome parents took us! It was such a special day for a million reasons! I am so lucky to have married into such a great family, and am so grateful for the example they are to us. It was so special to spend the whole day with Jeff's parents one on one, mostly because it doesn't happen very often and also because we got to have such great talks.

Jeff is the only "outcast" in his fam to not get married in the Manti Temple...so it was really neat to get to go there with him.

The interior is even more breathe-taking than what you see here, which is hard to believe RIGHT!

Just a gorgeous place to visit, and of course uplifting, as it always is to enter the House of the Lord.

On our trip this weekend we also went up to Joe's Valley.

 You will never guess what we saw there...A MOOSE!!!!

They are a rare sight up at the property, so we were super lucky to have caught her! And even more luck to have had the camera with us. Just goes to show you have to always have the camera on hand!

Jeff used his good ol' Boy Scout skills to build us a fire so we could roast some hot dogs! His like favorite mountain man thing to do.

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We don't have any pictures from the main reason we went out to Orangeville this weekend..Kevin & Ashley's wedding! (Jeff was too embarrassed to let me carry my camera around and take pictures)

But we are so happy for them and their wedding/luncheon/reception turned out so pretty! It was really fun to meet all of Jeff's high school buddys and their adorable wives!

Kinda weird to see all those boys acting like crazy high school kids with their out of controlness but entertaining for sure. So hopefully we'll have some more laughs with some of them soon! We loved it!



Our Arizona Trip

This weekend we drove down to Arizona to visit Bobbie's family. Ash was in town from Maryland, Uncle Kevin and his family were in town from San Francisco and it was Liam's first birthday. So EVERYONE was there. This is a very rare occurrence to have the whole family together.

We did some family stuff and did some things on our own too. Jeff insisted we take his favorite dog ever (Sissy) for a walk every day. This was really fun because we got to wonder around the neighborhood and everyone there was super friendly! We found a church there to go to on Sunday and everyone was just as sweet in the ward.

We have really been trying to make it a part of our trips to visit the temples near our destination. We had a special experience this time when we went to the Mesa AZ Temple. It was such a beautiful place and was just as busy, if not more, than our temples home in Utah. It really just hit home with us that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is the same EVERYWHERE in the world. This would only make sense because the Spirit is the same everywhere and can be felt by everyone, but it really just shows how much God loves his children. Everyone can take part in the happiness of this wonderful Gospel, the Lord finds a way for all of us to have the opportunity to hear his message. We love the missionaries and appreciate their hard work and dedication in helping with this great work. Through these great Saints peoples lives are changed forever. I know mine was. This is just one of the many ways He finds a way to offer happiness to EVERYONE, He is waiting for us with his arms wide open.

Our First Trip of the Season...

Newport Beach.

Angels Stadium where we saw the Braves!(who won 5-4 in the 12th...best game ever!)

Jeff is the best ever and saved my life by catching a ball headed towards my face at batting practice! MY HERO!

Gunlock

All Nighter....

So this weekend we did not have a lot planned and it really worked out great for us! Every waking moment is usually planned out precisely so we can fit everything into our schedules, but not Friday night or most of Saturday. This was great news when a lady came into Jeff's work and asked if anyone wanted some tickets to see Sinbad performing at Tuacahn. It was so much fun to see his comedy act! We could not believe how talented this guy is! His whole show he was on his feet, coming up with witty remarks about St. George and the people of the area. If I hadn't known any better, I would have thought he'd grew up around here! It was a really clean and awesome show, we LOVED IT!!!
Before we went to the show we tried out this new place, Dickey's Barbecue Pit...which was AMAZING!!!! Not only was their food so so good, you can have as many free pickles and free icecream as you want! And there are so many things to choose from on their menu it was so hard to decide what to get! But everything smelled so good and everything we tried was delicious! Go there, you just have to try it! After the show we decided to stop and get some energy drinks to pull an all nighter! For those who know me, they know I can't stay up late, EVER.(at least since being married)
But I decided to give in and pull an all nighter so we could finish the first season of PRISON BREAK. This show is crazy and we only had like 5 or 6 episodes left, so we decided we couldn't go to bed until they broke out of that place! We did it, and now I just want to start season 2 to see what happens now!
Lessons learned from today.
1. never turn down tickets to a comedy act.
2. something being called "free" does make it taste even better (the icecream and pickles).
3. tv shows are bad news, especially seasons/series at a time.
4. all nighters aren't as torturous as i thought. (this time)
5. simple things to do become precious memories when shared with my best friend.