May Days

Well school is over for the semester which is wonderful! Ryan did really well. He took a wheel pottery class and finally brought home all his finished products. I feel like a proud mom
Ryan also started working for UPS...good and bad. We will be getting health benefits in July yea!! and more money is always a plus but he works the graveyard shift, 10 pm until 3 am!! I really dislike going to bed by myself it is so lonely and cold! Sometimes he gets home between 2-2:30, whenever he comes home I always wake up. If you have seen our apt. you would probably know why it is amazingly small and squeaky! So needless to say we have both been pretty tired of late. But in June Ryan's Sky West shift will be later in the day which will be nice for him, then he can actually get some sleep. Right now he works M-F at UPS 10-3 and W-S 8-12! He is pretty amazing! And getting really nice tan arms that is more then I can say for myself! However I have been going to the gym the last week...after months of inactivity!
I got these shoes and I think they are so much fun I had to show Kelltie!!

Also we went and saw Leatherheads, which I saw with Kelltie in MN and I told Ryan how I thought it was cute and that we should go see it but he didn't want to see a "cute" show. But it was at the dollar theater so we went and he was laughing out loud! It reminded me of being with Kelltie we had a great time! Lots of things are reminding me of you lately Kelltie. Last Saturday I got to get my copy of the Host signed by Stephanie Meyer!! One of the girls at work had an extra ticket and invited me. I got a copy for me and my sister signed and my Twilight book signed. We were even in group 4 which was nice. It was pretty fun to see all the crazy people there! I have to admit I still haven't finished the book yet. But I am working on it. Hopefully we will be going someplace fun this weekend and I can read on the plane. I will update you next week (hopefully) on our exciting adventure but I can't spoil the surprise now. Just realize that we are pretty crazy! Well it is late and I have to work tomorrow :(

Our newest splurge!

So about 2-3 weeks ago Ryan and I went out to dinner and after since we just happened to be close to the Mac store we just had to go in! Ryan wanted to ask someone a question and I saw some sweet 24 in computers. Of course they put them on display next the tiny 20" computers! I thought they looked pretty cool. Next thing I know Ryan is suggesting we put our computer up for sale on KSL and just see how much we could sell it for. Less than 24 hours later we sold it! And a few days after that we walked out of the Mac store with a brand new 24" IMac and a printer. It is pretty sweet and I also have to say we do use it as our TV as well so it can definitely be justified! It was like Christmas day for Ryan opening the box!
The nice thing about Mac's is set up is super easy, just plug it in and you are ready to go!

So while everyone else is updating us on the milestones of their children's lives I will continue to update you on our random lives. And speaking of your children since most of you have darling little girls. We were at Alice's birthday party and one of the girls got her some really cute clips and said her sister makes them and she makes flowers and animals and she will even custom make whatever you want so I thought I would include the web address if you want to check it out. www.lilcritters.blogspot.com

I guess it you have already read Kelltie's blog you know I went out for a visit! It was so good and so much fun to hang out with Kelt and Camryn we had a blast and yes there are some things that are never going to change!

We still love going to the store to get treats! And seeing Kelltie with her cute hair cut and Caroline with hers inspired me to cut mine too. I don't really have a before pic. but here is what is looks like now.
So I don't really love pictures of me just standing there, but here it is anyway. It might not seem too short but I cut off quite a bit!
Ryan is done with his finals on Wednesday! I am so excited. To celebrate we are going to Ephrata (that is where he wanted to go) We are teaching primary, the 5-7 year olds, and we love it. Today was 80 degrees! and we got to drive the scooter around and didn't even need a coat--it was glorious!!!

Library...and other random updates

I know i don't post much or often. Our internet at home is quite unreliable and I end up getting very frustrated after attempting to post the same blog 3 times!! Now I am at the library with Ryan he is studying chemistry and I am just filling the time. And the site is not letting me change the background of my blog and it is really bothering me because I am definitely done with winter and the snow! Anyway...Here is a pic of Ryan studying at our little apt. I got him in for an eye exam and with my sweet perks got him a $15 pair of glasses, he looks so smart and cute in them, but he doesn't like his picture taken!

Last week we stayed in Park City with Ryan's family in a condo. Actually we had 2 condo's that was pretty fun, except when it snowed and I had to drive down parleys canyon to go to work 2 days!! I took Tuesday off and the girls (Ryan's mom, 2 sisters and my sister-in-law michelle) got manicures and pedicures. That was pretty fun, i even got some cute flowers on my toes! That is one of my new favorite things, getting pedicures, if you haven't had one I highly recommend it. The rest of the week Ryan and I commuted up and down the canyon for work and school then hung out with Ryan's family in the evenings. Of course we had to take them to Cafe Rio for lunch (that is one of our favorite places!) we swam, ate, played with Bryce and Liliya's kids. Friday night my family came up to meet Ryan's family that was nice we had a great turkey dinner. I have to admit I didn't get much conference watching done. Sat am I had Bellen who is i believe just over a year and a half with me. Sat pm after swimming with Mari and Shad, Ryan and I laid on the upstairs bed (first mistake) and both fell right to sleep, Mari even came and took a nap with us! When the men went to priesthood at the conf. center we took the kids and watched Horton Hears A Who. It was very cute. I recognize the name of the book, but don't ever remember reading it? We went home exhausted saturday night. and sunday morning pretty much slept through the am session. Ryan claims we saw the first half but I only remember up to the first half of the second speaker! and Sat. pm well we were doing well before the people upstairs turned off the internet! We pay them half of the bill every month and just use their wireless, apparently we forgot to pay last month (if you even understood our utilities situation you might understand!) so instead of maybe coming down to ask, he just turned it off! Needless to say Ryan was not too happy! We did get if fixed, though a little late, we watched the end of Pres. Monson's talk. Needless to say I am looking forward to the conf. ensign. Sorry no pic's just a boring read Brittney's babbeling blog! I will work on that!

I guess I do have some pictures to put on. Jan or Feb we flew to Denver and stayed with Friends Scott and Joyce. We skied Copper Mountain. It was my first time skiing! I thought I did pretty darn good! A lot better than my second time at Brighton in UT. Here is Ryan I did take a pic of both of us, but I look like a man in a pink hat--not attractive, even though I usually don't care and I know I am not photogenic I was a little too vain to put that pic up.

It was a beautiful day to Ski ( i don't like cold snowy days!)


Now I promise to end my sting of painfully long updates and next time make it short and sweet and include more pictures! Hope your all doing well, we sure are!

Whistler

A couple weeks ago we went to Whistler (Canada). We flew into Vancouver and Ryan's brother Greg and his wife picked us up and we drove about an hour and a half along the coast on one side and the mountains on the other, it was such a pretty drive. I didn't take any pictures this time. We went to Whistler for our honeymoon last May. We stayed in a condo right by the lifts, I think they had to walk past one other condo to get there! That was pretty sweet for them. Ryan, his brother Greg and their friend Brent skied. I would have if i was better and it wasn't so expensive maybe another year when I am better!
While they skied Michele and I walked around the shops with her baby Deagan. The rest of they guys (Greg, Alex, and Toby) just hung out. We ate japanese the first night and cooked the rest of the time.



Our condo was pretty sweet, great location, not the newest but that is ok. It had a large living room and kitchen upstairs were 2 bedrooms a bathroom and a sauna! Then there was a loft with 2 twin beds and a door to the hot tub on the roof. It was the hot tub for the entire condo but we were the only ones with private access. And we had a great view of the mountains (blackcombe and whistler) and the little village.


Sunday we drove to Bellingham, WA. and stayed the night at Toby and Greg's and had Thai food for Easter. It was a great weekend! Hopefully we can make it a tradition. That was our spring break, I took the whole week off, we tried to go to Hawaii, but we couldn't make it the flights all over the country the whole week were booked, we couldn't even go to NM! Ok so we did go to Rexburg and our pland to fly into Vancouver worked so I guess we were still pretty lucky!

Our Newest Addition

I really have been meaning to write for awhile now, but we have been busy and then when I tried to add a new post my internet was not working well. A couple of weeks ago after much careful research by Ryan and a good find on KSL we drove down to American Fork and bought a sweet scooter! I have always wanted one so when Ryan brought it up I knew we would eventually get one. It is not a Vespa ( they are expensive!) It is a Tank and it is purple although they say silver its not, but it is a blast! When it is warmer I will drive it to work. It will be really nice considering we should be getting around 80 mpg! And with gas prices going up that is sweet! The most we have paid to fill it up so far with premium gas I might add, is just under $4. Even though it is still a little chilly and when you ride the get a cold wind in your face and if you are in the back like I am a lot your thighs get really cold, but we still love taking it out.

Valentines Day

We had a good Valentines day, we both worked and Ryan actually had class from 5-9 in Bountiful which kind of sucked, but he did get off a little early. And Ryan is very sweet! He brought me flowers at work and made everyone jealous! and since we really don't do much for dinner on Thursdays since Ryan has class to late and we go to lunch everyday he decided to take me to a actual sit-down restaurant for lunch. We were going to go to Ichiban sushi but they weren't open for lunch so we went to Fridays! And the weekend before Ryan stood out in front of Kingsbury Hall to see if we could get tickets to Riverdance. About 2 minutes before he called me and told me he got some, I was driving around just about to call him and tell him it was ok we could go home, I was so excited and we even go a close parking spot which was even sweeter because we didn't have to drive over to the stadium and take a shuttle over so we made it right on time! It was an AMAZING show!! It will put a smile on your face the whole time, even Ryan liked it! So I told him that could be my Valentines present. I got Ryan a massage. So it was a good day.


Thanks Ryan I love you with ALL my HEART!!

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I apparently need to make the pictures a lot smaller, sorry and I think if you double click on the pictures it will bring them up so you can see them. I don't quite know how they overlapped?! Anyway I still have to figures out the whole picture thing.