Sister Kim

Kim came up a couple of weeks ago with her family, and while her oldest was enjoying a week of EFY I got to hang out Kim and her other kids.... That she loves more.... (sorry Romney, but that's what she told me)

The first day we hung out in Provo waiting for Kim to figure things out and for her to get the courage to finally leave Romney on her own. When she finally got the strength, we ate at Brick Oven, then had my first experience at The Creamery on 9th. Which let me tell you, has the LEAST efficient workers I've ever seen in my life. Kim and I decided that the place could have been run better by monkeys.  Then we headed up to Thanksgiving Point to go to the Dinosaur Museum. Oh, before that I had the pleasure of introducing my niece, Tatum and her cousin Audrey to The Beatles and Pink Floyd... which they did NOT appreciate. Such a sad state these days are... With the Jonas Brothers and Miley Cyrus, the music industry has gone to hell.

Anyway, at the museum we saw some stuff, and the kids played in the sand river for a good hour giving me plenty of time to sit. Which is awesome because I was really tired and lazy and didn't really feel like learning anything. 

Then on another day we went to the ZOOOOOOO!! I don't know why I capitalized that, I guess I was excited because I had never been to the Utah ZOOOOOOO! Sorry again. 

  

And this last picture is one that Tatum took while the younger ones were playing at the park. She had my camera quite a bit that day just taking pictures of everything. She thought I would just delete all of them, but little did she know I posted the Nerds one that she took. It's a good one Tates!!

This is why I shouldn't be a housewife.

I could probably watch infomercials all day. It's a little guilty pleasure of mine. I woke up earlier than Ryan one Saturday and probably spent a good hour and a half watching informercials on P90X, and Slim in 6. But the one that REALLY convinced me that my life is not complete until I have one is the Haan Steam Cleaner. I mean, this thing sounds like it would change my life by owning it. It kills 99% of germs and bugs, AND I can use it on carpets, sofas and EVEN mattresses!!!! I can't even believe how much I need this... Ryan can't either, and won't let me buy it. But one day, I will get the steam cleaner of my dreams and succeed in finally enjoying sanitizing the house. We can all dream, right?

Three Whole Years

It's Ryan and my anniversary today. I actually forgot until this morning resulting in dinner at Macaroni Grill and that's it... It's good enough for me though, because I'm exhausted.

Ryan, I love you and you're amazing.

The end.

Boston, Oh Boston!

These are the oldest seats in baseball and they are part of Fenway Park. Now I'm not a fan of baseball AT All, but taking this tour around the stadium was probably my favorite thing we did this trip to Boston. 

Other things I got to do on this trip: 

1. The Freedom Trail  - we did the WHOLE thing in one day this time. It took all day and was quite murderous, but making it to Bunker Hill and walking up the 295 death steps was so worth it. I feel like we got jipped on the USS Constitution because it was being remodeled and didn't have sails or masts up.

2. Lexington-Concord AND Walden Pond = Amazing

3. GHOST TOUR - Pure awesomeness, mostly because of our ridiculous tour guide that took us through grave yards and informed us about the Boston Strangler (who was never caught).

I'm so glad that I had the opportunity to go back out there for 6 days. I can't believe that Dr. Feller decided to take the whole office out there for a concert, but I'm sure happy he did. I got to play the tour guide for our group because I was the only one who had been there before, but having my SUPER FANTASTIC iPhone this time sure helped with navigating. 

Focus

Just a good day

One more reason I can't wait to have a kid....

General Conference Activity Packets!!! I can't believe how helpful that thing was today. I've never got so much from watching one before. I've found it so hard to concentrate before and take anything from the speakers, let alone remember them past 10 minutes. But not today! I can tell you who each speaker was AND what they talked about. 

I think my favorite talk was President Monson's from the first Sunday morning session. (I'm about to get deep so look away if you can't stand it) He spoke about having faith that will get you through tough times. Although is story about the German woman that lost her entire family was super depressing, I loved his end statement. "The future is as bright as your faith." During these tough economic times I think this is important for people to remember.  This won't last forever, everything has an end.  Stay faithful and righteous and you'll make it, God will help you make it. He'll never leave you alone if you continue to do what is right. Something that I heard in church a long time ago and has stuck with me all these years goes along with this theme. "God will never giver you any trial that you can't handle."  I've have periods in my life where I thought I would never be able to dig myself out of the hole that I had dug for myself. I'm thankful for the atonement and the ability to repent for stupid decisions. 

And as long as I'm on this super ser

ious note, I thought I'd let everyone know that I really do like Ryan despite my previous post about the cinnamon twist and grocery shopping. 

Oh!! AND because of the fabulous Activity Packet I noticed that President Monson was wearing a different tie the second Sunday session... and the second would have been MUCH easier to draw... 

* the picture is from the walk that Ryan and I took the dogs on today - continuing with the REALLY good day theme.

Wow.

This is possibly one of the funniest pictures I've ever seen. My iPhone had this free app where you can swap faces on two people... Fantastic. Or absolutely disgusting, you choose.