MIA.

I've been gone from the blog for a while....but part of it has been because we've been so busy.

First with my birthday.....

 

My parents took me to Ruby River, birthdays don't get much better than celebrating with a yummy steak.

And then Hawaii...where we had LOTS of fun!

We had a fun at the beach. We didn't get to go as much as I would have liked thanks to the rainy weather, but the time we did spend there was great!

It was really rainy while we were there so sadly I wasn't my normal picture taking self and didn't get my camera out as much as I should have, because I was too busy avoiding the rain or too embarrassed to take pictures with my awful rain-ruined hair. Luckily I did get some though. We went hiking on one of the days and were hoping to get to swim below some waterfalls, but it had been so rainy that they were overflooded and not swimmable. We missed out on seeing some too, because they had closed off a section of our hike because of all the water, but it was still really fun and BEAUTIFUL. It was probably the most gorgeous hike and drive I have ever been on.

 I think Tyler's favorite part of the trip was this:

We got to drive around the island in this beautiful car. A 2011 Chevy Camaro...it was so new we were the first ones to rent it. It was lots of fun although we never really got to let it loose, because of slow speed limits and lots of traffic...it was pretty fun to peel out in though!


And then Vegas...

 Leave it to us to have a random picture with a San Diego State fan. Kawai Leonard's Aunt to be exact. Even though we lost we stayed after the game and watched the trophy be presented to San Diego State and watched them cut down the net. Out of the corner of my eye I saw this lady taking candid pictures of us. I looked over at her and she just started laughing and said, "ooooh yes!" Next thing we knew it she was headed up to talk to us. As soon as she realized Nate was related to Jackson Emery she was buddied right up and wanted a picture with the boys. She told us that she is fine with losing to anyone, but BYU. It kills her to lose to BYU so I guess it was a good thing for her they won.

We had a fun day on the strip and shockingly I didn't spend a dime. I learned though not to let the husband gamble...he comes home with empty pockets!


And Denver....

Sadly my husband is on his way to Denver to watch the Cougars play right now and I didn't get to go :( Its not really easy to pick up and leave your job again after being gone a week and half! Hopefully they play hard and win so it makes me missing my husband worth it! He deserves to see a good few games!

Colorado Adventure.

Friday morning we decided to go to the BYU vs. Air Force Game on Saturday in Colorado Springs. It was really last minute, but was very fun and very worth it. Tyler served his mission in Colorado Springs and so did our friend Jeff so they had connections for a place to stay. It was a great, cheap trip! We took lots of pictures so be prepared for some serious picture overload.

Seeing a game at Air Force was really cool especially because it was September 11. They made it nice and patriotic. They flew in kids who were in the Pentagon day care that day and shared their story as well as 2 firefighters, one who lost 2 brothers (also firefighters). Both died when the towers collapsed. One in each tower. 

BYU played horribly & got smoked by Air Force, but we still had a good time.

This is on the drive back to Utah. The boys got burned really bad at the game, so they both had VERY red & shiny faces. It was really funny.

Colorado is absolutely beautiful & especially beautiful this time of year so we took a break and took these pics...

 

We had just got back in the car from our first stop and Tyler thought we should take this one particular exit...I protested, but thankfully Jeff listened to him and not me. We got off the exit and saw one of the prettiest places I think I have ever seen...gorgeous trees...beautiful lake...bridges...etc. So we took these fabulous pics! and then some...haha.

So Tyler decided he wanted to throw the leaves--not very like him. It was really funny cuz he wanted a picture of it, but since it was a yellow tree behind him and yellow leaves you can't see all the leaves flying in the air which made the picture pretty funny I thought.

 

The place was seriously beautiful, I don't think the pictures even do it justice.

Don't ask why we're standing like this, I set the timer and ran and the boys told me what to do. I didn't have time to think about it. lol.

Jeff had a little too much fun with the road signs.

This video I will warn you is a little dumb, it was way funnier at the time. One of those you had to be there moments. Tyler thought I was taking pictures not filming & he was pretty into his jumps.

 

Overall I loved Colorado, it was so fun to go and see where Tyler was for 2 years. It was also great to get away...although it was way too short. Yesterday we went over to Tyler's brother Russ's. He asked me if I liked it enough to live there...and there is very few places I could say that about outside of Utah, but Colorado Springs definitely could be one of them! It was so much fun & such a great place.