Boating Again!

We planned our 3rd Annual Boating Trip with some old singles ward members.... And we had 11 of us all on Brother Linton's boat at Jordenelle!  It was beautiful and VERY fun to be with some old friends and their significant others.  I just LOVE being out on the lake!  And actually having some "friends" is nice, basically we haven't really found new or too many married friends, so it's nice to meet up with friends from the past.  They're so fun and great!  We all were able to take time to ski or wakeboard and then tube.  And since I've been able to wakeboard a few times this year - I got in and out of the wake this time!!  If only I had been a few more times, I could have jumped it maybe but I wasn't jumping too high this time.  But I was still pretty proud!  And, David totally got up on the wakeboard this time!!  It didn't happen the last 2 years but this time it was success!  Saying 2 years sounds like he's tried a lot but we don't go out that often, especially in snow country here...  I was totally excited that I missed the best pictures, but I still got a couple.  It was nice and sunny and warm even in this cool lake.  Dale Linton was just AWESOME!  He takes us every year and then always busts out the tubes and tries to through us all off eventually :)  He did pretty well, except he was nice to me.  David & Eric C. went out together and I went with Melissa and later Shayla and we screamed the whole time.  We drove to Bro. Linton's house early that morning and helped him get the boat ready and then he drove 4 of us to the lake with him.  So we had a great time chatting too and since he's a dentist we were able to catch up about that too.  David's been shadowing him and has taken him to dental classes, etc too.


All in all a great time out on the lake!!!  Not ready to wait another year to visit the lake :(

 She's so stinkin cute!

Me...

 David... sweet!!

 Eric being silly...

 I think this one is Shayla and Julie-Ann, Bro. Linton couldn't get JA off!

 My boy and his friend, David & Eric

 Shayla & I...

 All of us :)

Whoops...

Just had to add this to our many memories... The story: We pulled up to our home but needed to move the green car off of the driveway and swap with white car in the middle of the street. One of us was rushing (as the other requested) and left the white car in the street and got into the green car to back it out. While backing out that one person still rushing, accidently crunched the side mirror into the tree! The other person watching from the street... hoping all was okay and yep all was... except for the whole side mirror!!!! Glad everyone was okay though, easy mistake.

Nothing that can't be fixed. Poor green car... now though it's new and beautifully painted, it looks a lot better than the rest of the car!

Which one of us did it?? Well, lets just say he won't be named :)

Everyone's gettin hitched...

Yep, we've had 3 family weddings so far this year! I think we started a trend or something in our immediate family. And we were able to attend them both!

March 12, 2010, yep, exactly 1 month after ours David's sister, Amber Clark & Brandon Morrell were married in the SLC Temple. They had a luncheon at the Lion House and then the reception was at Regency Garden in the Sandy area. Their main color was PURPLE... I felt like I was at my wedding but that the RED color I had just changed to purple. We had the same family there, and a lot of the same ideas and traditions... it was a beautiful day for them. It was so fun to sit in the temple thinking that just 1 month ago I was doing that very same thing. What a great way to celebrate our 1 month huh?!?! I have to document a funny experience. While waiting outside the temple I noticed this guy and had a total blank out moment - who is he? I think I know him right? Hmm... - So like 30 seconds of this... and finally... Oh...my...gosh!! I know! It's the previous guy I dated, not like years ago, but just the last guy before I fell in love with David. WOW - he obviously totally left my mind. After dating him I never thought about him again, I didn't have a chance since I quickly fell for my David. I've decided that it was actually really telling and good that I forgot that man. Anyway, it was a funny moment for me. Back to the wedding - David & I had fun being more in the background at this event and during breaks we took the kids to the museum on Temple Square and just hung out. Of course we took lots of pictures of the events of the day:

May 29, 2010, my brother Eric Everts & Amanda Cox were sealed in the Mesa Arizona Temple. Yes, we flew down for the weekend and had a blast hanging out with family the night before the wedding at my dads house and then the day of at the Mesa Temple. I flew down with Grandma Ginny and Steph & Tony and David came a few hours later. We visited both of my families while we were there. Being in the temple on Saturday was a special experience for me because half of the people we were surrounded by again were the ones who attended our wedding and now we were on the other side of it all. And still very happily married. It was deathly hot outside so that was the downer of watching the pictures. And then we had about 6 hours to kill till the reception, so we went to lunch with my Evans family and then watched a movie even. Weird to have such a break! So then the reception was fun and I liked dancing at the end and just re-chatting with a few familes in the ward that I like.... all the questions of "how's married life" :) And then Sunday we spent at Dads and went to his church and had dinner with them and they took us to the airport the next morning. You could tell that my brother had found his mate - they even sang a duet together and you could just see it. I'm glad they are married and so happy. He and I always tend to do things at the same time: mission, marriage :) Love you bro!

SO.... who's next? My family got them all done in 6 months... :)

Easter 2010

First holiday as the married... well, besides Valentine's Day & St. Patrick's Day...

We celebrated Easter!!

We had a lot of fun coloring our hard boiled EGGS :) We found a kit at Walmart that even gave us some fun sticker faces.... oh we're so going to do this every year.

The above were David's eggs he did... Below are mine. When there's only 2 people, we could die 12 eggs! Wow....What a fun holiday! Besides the eggs we visited family and that sort of stuff but this was the best part for me....

Honeymooners

It's honeymoon time!!! So, we've had 2, yes TWO, honeymoons so far since we've been married :). #1 was Park City in the snow. #2 was California Disneyland & Newport Beach!!

At Park City we watched and walked in the snow, went ice skating, had a Valentine's Day dinner, went to the outlet mall, and had a great break from regular life. It was a great weekend to have time for David & me. Here are some pics:

About 5 weeks later during David's spring break we flew to Cali for a whole week!!! I had a few days planned for Anaheim with 1 day at Disneyland as well as a few days at Newport Beach about 20 minutes away. Disneyland was 1st. We didn't have a car, so we walked to a ghetto Mexican market to stock up on food, walked to church the next day, walked all over in downtown Disney. Then the next day I followed David's advice to get up early as we ran from ride to ride at Disneyland. We basically hit all the rides we wanted to by 10:30am. No way! We still rode a bunch other and then went to the Blue Bayou (Pirates) Restaurant as our expensive dinner. It was great to share with David the fun family tradition of pirates food and now our new tradition of sorts. We rested for a bit and headed back for the evening rides and the fireworks show. I was completely worn out by the end. My knee/foot had been hurting since we got there and basically it only got worse even when we got to Newport Beach. But it was wonderful to be on total vacation where we could also just relax and not have any cares.

We picked up our rental car and headed to the beach! Got there just in time to watch the sunset as we dipped our feet into the sand. Awe... perfect. We found the Newport shopping mall, found the Balboa Island and Peninsula to walk around on and check out the frozen bananas and little shops. We also had planned for a seafood dinner, and I took David to a place right on the water. It was perfect with my fish & chips and his seafood gumbo. I sure didn't want to leave our little vacation place, but school and work needed us. We headed home and still had the weekend to relax and catch up on all our errands. It was great to come back and still have a bit of time before it all got hectic again. I sure love my David. It was a great vacation... it's so amazing to realize that I'll get to vacation with him forever now. We have many more Disneyland's and other trips to take with us and our future family :)