ryan & karen

Friday, July 31, 2009

BUSY, BUSY, BUSY!

I have been such a slacker at blogging! Life has been super busy for us, I feel like we never have any free time! From about May-July, we are always doing something, from birthdays, anniversaries, Holiday's, fireworks, and boating! I am not complaining, it's been great! It's not bad being busy when it's a fun busy! July has been so fun!

Julie's Birthday!

The first of July is my cute sister Julie's birthday! She is such a great sister and we love her so much! She is one of the most understanding and caring person I know! For her special day, we went and ate at The Oaks up Ogden canyon. When I was little, my dad would let me and Katie play "Hookie" (skip school) and go eat up there. I thought that place was the greatest place ever when I was little! It's actually a pretty cool place, the atmosphere is awesome. We ate outside by the river.

The Birthday girl!

Yum!

Adventures of Church History!

Most of you know that Ryan loves Church History, so we go on a lot of church History adventures! Like going on a two week Church History tour from New York to Nauvoo, then less than a year later, we went on a road trip to follow the Mormon Pioneer trail and back to Nauvoo (again). Ryan wanted to make sure we didn't miss anything! We have also made numerous trips to salt lake to see the Church museums, and the grave yard.....where a lot of pioneers are buried. It is actually really cool, we drove around the graves forever and kept seeing names we recognized from church history. One of the exciting graves we found was Porter Rockwell's! Our latest adventure is going to the New church history library. Ryan loves that place and plans on working there on day. Ryan, my cute little history nerd! We also went and saw Heber C. Kimball and Newel K. Whitney's grave site.

Bon Jovie Rocks!!

Katie was so cute and got me a this AWESOME shirt! We love Bon Jovie! I have been a fan since I was a little girl. Thanks to my brother Jeff, we were raised listening to Bon Jovie, watching cheesy scary movies, and watching him play video games! Love you Jeff! Thanks for being a great bro and having fun with us!

We've caught the BOATING FEVER!!
For JULY 24th, the family went up to Pine View and went boating ALL DAY! Me, Ryan, and Katie meet my brother Mike up at the lake at 7 AM and played till 7 PM that night! Holy cow, we played for like 12 hours!! Later in the day, our family came up to join us. I got sun burnt and my body ached for like 3 days after, but it was worth it! We had a blast! I love it!