Guess where we are going this summer ;)

We found out where we are spending our summer! Here are a few clues...

1. Think southern hospitality...


2. This is the downtown skyline...



3. THis is the temple...

4. The 9th most populous metropolitan area in the U.S. with 5, 278, 904 people...



5. Location of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (just had to put that in for public health reasons :))



6. Turner baseball field...


7. "Gone with the Wind"...



8. The city was burned to the ground during the Civil War.


Any ideas??











AtLAnTA!!

Draper Temple Open House

Isn't it beautiful? Jared and I went to the open house last Friday with my friend Elly and her little boy Luke. All temples are beautiful of course but I really liked the painted panoramas of mountain scenes in the ordinance rooms (one of them is of the Draper's Corner Canyon and its view of the Salt Lake Valley), and also the wood that was imported from Africa that is throughout the temple. If you have the chance I highly recommend a tour! Anyone can go to the open house and you can reserve a spot online at http://www.lds.org/reservations/0,10751,1619-1-501,00.html.

I just wanna say how thankful I am for the privilege to have these temples here on the earth so we can learn, make covenants to serve our Lord and neighbors, be sealed as an eternal family, and do ordinances for our beloved ancestors. What a great blessing!

CANCUN

Cancun was a blast! It was a short trip but worth it. Although it rained most of the time we were there it was still warm. We spent most of our time playing in the ocean and riding the giant waves. After awhile though I got tired of being tossed around, drug under, and slammed into the beach. I had so much sand in my hair that it took me several days to get it all out! LOL. We also went on a snorkeling adventure in some national park. We were snorkeling for two whole hours and we saw lots of fish, coral, and even a sting ray. Jared and I LOVE snorkeling. The resort we stayed at was all inclusive so we had all the authentic Mexican food and pina coladas we desired. yum! So here are a few of the pictures we took...it seems like most of them we took at nighttime, I guess we were too busy playing during the day to take time for pictures:). Above is one of the crocodiles we saw on our way to snorkeling. The other one we saw was 3 times this size. Yikes.
Dinner...
Ole!
Under a palm tree...



Our view from our room.
The Fiesta Americana Condesa resort (where we stayed)

Jared just didn't know what to do with all of the food:)

LOVE...


Above is us waiting to go snorkeling...
And this is my favorite picture of all...look out Jared!

Pictures from the holidays

Santa baby...
A new Christmas tree ornament??...
Leslie the bowler and crazy Uncle Duke...
Jared bowling...
The boys new guns...

Boston and Cooper playing with their styrofoam swords...
Boston riding the bouncy horse...
Us at temple square by the old tabernacle...

Doin' fine in 2009

So I have really slacked off in posting to our blog...so a late Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you all! We really enjoyed our Christmas break and are back to studying already. Right now I am waiting for Jared to get done with his class so I thought I would write a little bit. Unfortunately I don't have any of our pictures with me so I will have to add them later.
We visited lots of family over the break, including Jared's Grandpa Ray and Aunt Val who live in Laurel Montana. They spoiled us with lots of good eats:) Then we headed to Fairfield and had a blast playing in the snow, eating mom's delicious cooking, feeding cows, and playing with Jackie and Mark's kids. Our nephew Boston just loved Lenny, our cat, and Leslie our niece, was a sledding and bowling machine. Might I add she almost beat me in bowling! :) We also got stuck in a huge drift due to all the wind and snow by mom and dad's on our journey back to Utah. Dad had to pull us out with the truck and we shoveled snow for quite awhile so we could get through. It was quite the adventure.
New Years was spent with the Weishaar fam in Shelby. It was very snowy and cold the whole time we were there, but we enjoyed being there with Jared's family. His brothers Ryan and Jorden were able to make it up there too. We went sledding a couple of times where the snow was up to our chests! We also played water spoons which if anyone knows how to play that you know you really want to get a spoon or else you'll be up all night using the bathroom like me. Ha
So far school is going good, I have a couple of fun classes this semester. Jared and I are in a ceramics class together which we're excited about and I'm also in a volleyball class. I figured I might as well take some fun classes since I just need some more credits.
And the thing we're most excited about... Saturday we are headed here!!! Cancun here we come!

November goods

November has been a busy month so far...

The first thing I want to say is congratualtions to Jorden Weishaar and Ariel Staples!! They are engaged! I stole this picture from the ladie's website who did their pictures so shhh! Don't get me in trouble:) Jorden is Jared's younger brother and we are so excited for you!

We enjoyed spending a Saturday with our friends Elly and Daniel. Daniel learned to drive on Jared's bike. He is quite the biker dude now:)

We also celebrated my 21st birthday! Jared spoiled me like always. We went out to eat breakfast at Kneaders in Provo. They have really good home-made, all you can eat, french toast for $5. The french toast is super thick served with strawberries, whipped cream, and carmel syrup. Need I say more? It's so filling that really all you can eat turns out to be 1 or 2 peices.:) After that I had an apointment with the eye doctor and when I was done, I came out of the office to find Jared with flowers and a carmeled apple. Then for dinner we ate at Macaroni Grill. Delicious! It is my new favorite restaurant. They have the best Italian sodas I have ever had, and we got to eat in front of the fireplace. And our couches finally arrived yesterday! I absolutely love them. They really make a big difference in our living room. Now we just gotta find some side tables.

One more thing...we have enjoyed having season tickets to the BYU football games this year. This will likely be my last season watching as a student-I plan on graduating in August. Yay! I really feel quite blessed to be a part of BYU. Here are some shots from the last home game of the season. BYU v San Diego State. I also had some cool touchdown videos but I couldn't get them to load. Oh well. And this coming saturday is the big game, BYU v Utah, so nobody better wear red this week!

Happy Halloween!

Our friends the Bridges held a halloween party last night. We had a good time! It was our first Halloween pary that we've been to together. We played games, ate good food, and told scary stories. Jared and I didn't put much effort into our costumes cuz we went straight from school to the party. There were some great costumes at the party! Next year I promise we'll come up with something better:) Here are a few pictures that I got from Kassidi's blog..thanks Kassidi!

Scary costumes Corban and Teneill!

Brandon and Kassidi Bridge..or should I say the Iraqi royalty?

All of us playing games