4th of July

Independence Day was pretty cool. We both had the day off of work and spent the morning layin in bed watching our favorite shows and eating breakfast. 

We went to Hurricane and hit up the movie theater for the new Spiderman movie... which I really enjoyed! 

After the movie we went to my parents house and partied with them and my dog, Gus.

 My mom cooked up some delicious hamburgers with all the fixins. She also had a spread of fruit, veggies and sweets! It was AWESOME!!!! My little brothers were on the pioneer trek so we had all the food to ourselves ;) haha. We headed home and picked a spot up on the hill where the old airport use to be and watched some fireworks. It was a good day. 

I love America! 

Happy Independence Day!

San Diego trip

So, the first part of June was awesome. Why, you ask? Because I worked 2 days, left on my trip for SF for a week, came back, worked a day and left for San Diego! Yayuh. I pretty much had the first half of the month off of work. I also got a promotion in June. I am no longer part-time. I am full-time now. Insurance! Lunch breaks! My own teller station! I'm so cool now! Ha.. not really. but it feels pretty nice to be recognized for my hard work. 
Now... let me tell you about our trip to San Diego!

So, Scot's cousin Colton was getting married in the San Diego Temple and Scoty's parents decided that they were going to make the drive down to attend the wedding. Scot and I decided to bum a ride and go with. We left on a thursday and got to SD and ate some BOMB mexican food in Oldtown San Diego. It was seriously the best i've ever had. Yum. We stayed at the Worldmark timeshares in SD and it was nice. That's where we stayed for our honeymoon almost 2 years ago (!!!!!!!!!). Exept Scot and I had the room with twin beds... so no cuddles. blah.

Friday we went to SEAWORLD!!!! love that place. (not as much as D-land though) We had fun watching all the shows... except the shamoo show sucked. Since the Orcas killed those trainers a few years ago the show is pretty lame. The trainers just danced around on stage and shamoo only came out of the water like 3 times. LAAAAME. 

 We also went to the dolphin show which was like a bajillion times cooler than the shamoo show. They did crazy acrobatics and the dolphins jumped super high. The other fun show was the sea lion & otter show. Love it. 
The new rollercoaster was up and running, the manaray! it was like space mountain. but not in space... in the ocean.

 that night we went to the beach and Scot played in the ocean by himself.. hahaha. We also got food poisoning that night. Yipee! 
Saturday was the Temple day. It was really nice. 

 Colton's bride was so pretty! and the reception was out of this world. It was held at her house, which was like the nicest, biggest house i have ever ever been to. SO FANCY!!! Which was awesome, cause all the food was so yummy. 
That night we had to find another hotel, because the timeshares were all booked up. Scot didn't want to spend an extra hundred dollars so we ended up sharing a hotel room with his parents. 
Now, Cindy & Jeff... if you are reading this... I mean no disrespect when I say this....
sharing a hotel room with you in-laws is a no no. Even if it is just for one night. no. Hahaha Scot seemed to think it was normal. I was like ummm, everyone else on the planet thinks this is a little much. Next time, honey, let's spring an extra fifty bucks and a get a room of our own. GEESH. 
The next morning we drove home and spent the night in our own bed. no twin beds or beds next to other beds with parents sleeping in them. Twas nice.

San Francisco trip

I went on an awesome trip with my mom, grandma and sister the beginning of June... and i'm finally blogging about it. (Picture overload, BTW...)

We went to northern California and drove along the coast, visiting cities along the way to SF. The trip was actually put on by Dixie State College and it focused a lot on art. It was really incredible and I learned so much! 

The first day we drove forever and finally reached Santa Barbara in time for dinner... we ate at the best little restaurant. I still dream about that place.

Day 2: We ate breakfast at the same place we ate dinner at... haha it was just too good! We explored some more of downtown Santa Barbara and went to the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. 

After the museum we ventured on and drove to San Simeon, CA to visit Hearst Castle!  Hearst castle is the largest privately owned home in CA and was built in the 1920's. Mr. Hearst built his home to look like a mid-century castle up on a tall hill in San Simeon. He owned like 40,000 acres of land and even had a zoo and an airport on his property. His house was the "playboy mansion" of the 20's. Celebs like  Clark Gable, Charlie Chaplin and Winston Churchill hung out there on weekends for parties. 

We did the Grand rooms tour which showed us all the main big rooms in the castle. It was pretty impressive and really fun to see how rich people lived back in the day. There are 165 rooms and 127 acres of gardens, terraces, pools and walkways. Pretty cool, right? We thought so. 

After the castle we went to the beach and ate some awesome fish and chips at a little cafe. It was delish. 

Day 3: 
This day we left San Simeon and drove to Big Sur for a sweet rest stop with sea lions, haha. We drove along the coast on a rocky highway that was like 400 billion ft in the air and I feared we might topple over the edge into the sea, but we didn't. It was freaky.

We arrived at Monterey, CA and went to the Monterey Bay Aquarium. IT WAS AWESOME!!! 
It is one of the biggest aquariums ever, I guess. It was 3 stories and had soooo many sea creatures. After the aquarium we drove to San Francisco! 

Day 4 & 5: We spent our time in the city visiting museums and eating yummy food. We went to the de Young museum and the Legion of Honor Museum. I got to hangout with Picasso, van Gogh and Monet! 

the Legion of Honor Museum

van Gogh on the top, Picasso on the bottom

The de Young Museum

Japanese Tea Gardens

View of the city waaaay up high

After the museums, my uncle Dave & aunt Merrie came and picked us up and took us for a night on the town. They live an hour outside of SF so it was really nice to see them! We went to china town, fisherman's wharf, Lumbard street: the crookedest street in the world, and the palace of fine arts. 

 Day 6: 

This was the last day of our trip and we spent most of the morning at fisherman's wharf. We took a boat ride underneath the Golden Gate Bridge and around Alcatraz Island. They told stories about the history of the city and the island while we enjoyed the ride.

 We ate the best sourdough bread at fisherman's wharf. I ate a grilled cheese and tomato soup that was to die for. My mom bought enough sourdough bread to feed an army and took it home to my brothers and dad. That was their souvenir. haha. We drove home for like 45343 hours and finally made it to St. George where my sweet husband was waiting for me. He missed me so much... haha ya right. He got to eat pizza everyday and sleep in our king size bed without anyone making him share the covers! He survived without me.

I had so much fun on this trip and definitely want to go back to SF soon! 

family time

What the... more than 1 post today? Crazyyyy! I'm so awesome right now.

My little brother turned 16. I still think of him as being 11. So, when he drove me around town in search of a snow cone the other day I kinda was creeped out. It's weird. He's old now!
Ben is really good at tennis. Like really really good. I am proud of him. He does tournaments all the time and wins like a champ. He is growing up to be a handsome boy and so many girls chase him. It's quite cute.
He is a real gentleman too, he sticks up for girls and is always helping out. He is a cute boy!

We went to Red Robin at his request for his birthday dinner. He would not take a good picture with me. I think he was embarrassed because i was being all nostalgic and big sisterly.

 

^ he looks mentally challenged in this pic...

but I assure you, he is not. 

He was just being a little brother and wouldn't take a pic with me!

Love ya Benny. 

 *my hair is getting long!* 

 

Park City & Easter

I wish i was computer savvy and knew how to make my bloggy all cute and my header look adorable. But alas.. i am not hip with technology. 

Last weekend we headed up to SLC for Scot's little brother dallin's wedding. He married a really cute Alaskan native by the name of Marla and they are on their honeymoon in Cancun as we speak!

We drove up north on friday night and got to Mama Sweet's house around ten. Scot proceeded to lecture his poor little bro about marriage, money, cars, "being a grown up", and many other things i wont mention, and wouldn't let dallin go to sleep. It was funny. Dallin was like "ya ya... I know.. whatever..". 

We woke up the next morning and drove to my SIL Tera's house to shower and get ready since Gma&Gpa were stayin with Cindy and there is only one bathroom in the Sweet house. D&M's wedding was great, they got married in the Draper Temple, which is beautiful! and is surrounded by mansions... the houses in that neighborhood were like the biggest i've ever seen. After the weddin we got some really great pizza that was from this expensive NY style pizza joint that i ate alot of... yeah... mmm. 

Then we drove up to Park City and got changed for the reception. Their reception was at the olympic park museum place and it was really neat! Marla had the cutest ideas and their reception was so adorable.. they had mason jars full of sticks and burlap on the tables. It was really old fashioned and simple. We drank out of mason jars and they had a trail mix bar and tons of veggies and fruit.

 Scot and his bff luke decorated their car and it was hilarious because you could tell Marla was like OMG. WHY. she did not like it! haha. 

Scot and I stayed in a sweet hotel in PC that night and it was really fun. My grandma gave us a free hotel pass that she won at some travel seminar so we were able to cash it in this weekend. We went swimming and hot tubing in the pool and went out to eat that night and he drove me around main street and showed me the ski resort.  I've never been to PC so it was really awesome :) There was snow on the ground and Scot had fun showing me around because he use to go there every week to snowboard in highschool. 

Our hotel was also the pancake house and we got a complimentary delish breakfast with the package deal, but when i woke up at 8 and told Scot it was breakfast time he said he was too tired. So we slept a little more and didn't get our free awesome breakfast. After we got ready for the day and packed up & checked out we decided to find a cute lil cafe to eat at. It was Easter sunday though and everything was closed! We found a fancy contemporary bistro and it was the only place open. So we went. and it was freaking expensive! 

We should have gotten up early and ate our free food! HA! it was really good though... just way overpriced. 

 We drove back down to WVC and played with family and had an easter egg hunt with all the Sweet side at Scot's uncle James house. it was fun! It was a really great weekend and a fun adventure to stay in Park City. 

 I love him

2012 so far

Nothing too fun happened in January so there are no pics to be seen. January is always lame anyways. 
February is where it's at, yo! Valentines day was fun. I made dinner at home (hamburgers and homemade fries, Scot's fave) and made Scoty a card. He got me some flowers that i could plant and some hair stuff i wanted. We didn't get any actual pics on Vday but i got some of the sunday before when we wore matching Valentine day outfits to church.. yeah! 

 

March has been a fun month. Scot's sister Tera and her family and Scot's little brother Dallin and his fiance Marla came down and stayed with us over this past weekend. We went to the airshow and went night hiking and got frozen yogurt even though it was raining... haha. 

The airshow was really cool and interesting. My bro in law Ben is in the air force and we got to go on the huge plane like the one he flew to Afganistan in. It cool to see all the old planes because my grandpa was in the air force. We had fun even though the weather got kinda cruddy at the end of the day. And i took some of these pics of of my SIL Tera's blog because i didnt get any good shots of the kids.

 

 

 

2011 catch up

 oh hi
I haven't blogged for like forty years, so i am going to catch you all up on my way exciting life. I will finish 2011 and do a whole new post for this year, 2012. 
Ok since I last blogged many things have taken place....

Hurricane football won the state championship and my little brother was able to be a huge part of the win! He played the whole game in the snow! He caught the game ending interception and it was awesome! We didn't make it up to SLC for the game but we had a pizza party at grandma & grandpa's and watched on tv. It was so exciting!! He is number 34. 

WE BOUGHT A HOUSE! We closed in October i think? Anyways, it's been a blast decorating and doing projects together. We are so in love with our house. I love having a mortgage instead of wasting all our dollars on rent. whoo! It is just off Telegraph in Washington and is at the end of the cutest, quietest street. 

What else happened in the Fall? oh yeah, my SIL Elizabeth left on her mission to Argentina and we miss her! 

Halloween came and went... we dressed up at work :)  

Scot and I celebrated our one year wedding anniversary :) we went to Las Vegas and stayed in the Rio. We went on the effiel tower ride a few times and went to a show at planet hollywood. 

In December my fave cousin Heidi came home from her mission in Ohio and we were reunited. I love her! 

 

 Did i happen to get any pics from Christmas at my mom's house? No of course not. I forgot!!! I also can't remember what we did for new years eve... if i can't remember it wasn't too exciting was it. 

Our first year of being married has been a blast. I love Scoty! We have accomplished so much in the year 2011 together. I am most happy about our home. I love it. I am so happy we own our house and don't have to rent anymore. It's such a blessing being able to have a house at the age of 21! 

Coming up next is my catch up of this year... :)

memorial day weekend

For memorial day weekend we went up to WVC to play with Scoty's family.

On saturday, Scot, me, Liz, and Dallin went to the Oquirrh Mountain Temple and did some initatories. It was nice to go in the Temple with Elizabeth before she left on her internship to Missouri and then to her mission in Argentina!

I forgot to take pictures of the rest of our trip... but we had a BBQ, everyone went to the movie Soul Surfer, and we went SHOPPING! ... or at least I did. Yay for any mall that is not the one in St. George!

We played with Scot's neice and nephews too. We had a lot of fun.

 

We were really happy to be home after our trip... up North was so cold!

Well peeps, I shall see you next month ;)

Easter & other tidbits

I am not really that consistent with blogging, am I? I always forget about my little blog... poor guy. (Yes, my blog is a boy.)

I guess I should fill you in on what's been going on in my not so exciting life!

Last week I helped my little sister pick out a prom dress. I also did her hair for prom and took pics of her and her date :) I never was asked to my senior prom... my good looks must have intimidated them. They didn't want me to out-shine them on prom night... or at any other dance. dangit.

Anyways.. here's some cute photos of her on the day of the dance.

I mean how could you not want to take me to a dance? My beauty is overwhelming!

Seriously.

Oh, and my little sister is taller than me.

:)

Easter was a lot of fun this year with Scoty dear. I woke up Easter morning to Scot staring at me saying, "I wonder if the Easter bunny brought you anything?"

I went into our living room and there sat an Easter basket filled with candies! & deoterant "the easter bunny is practical" and a stuffed puppy dog with bunny ears on :) I almost cried when I saw the little toy puppy. I had this awesome dream the other night-- the whole entire time I was playing with so many puppies! I was in heaven. Cause I love me a cute pup. Some people find this dream kinda weird (my coworkers) but it was the best dream of my life. Besides the one where I was queen of Disneyland.

Off topic for a sec- To satisfy my longing for cuddling an adorable doggy, I ventured over to Sue's Pet Castle on saturday and saw this little boy:

Ahh he was so cute! I almost stole him and put him in my purse.

Just kidding, Sue!

Back to our topic- 

After eating a large helping of jelly beans and chocolate, we headed off to our 1 o'clock church meeting. Our ward is so gigantic, I bet there is like 800 people in relief society alone... okay exaggerating, but it is giant and I don't know a soul. It makes it seem so much longer!

We went over to my parent's house and ate even more candy from our adorable Easter baskets my mom put together and waited for my sister to get off work- yeah she had to work on Easter! We ate more food of course, and had an Easter egg hunt.

Emily wins literally every year no matter how hard my brothers and I try to beat her, she always prevails.

Until Scot came to town.

He totally won and my little brothers were so peeved! Haha, it was so much fun!

Buddy helping Scot find eggs

Buddy and Gus helping me :)

My little baby Gus :)

The hubster and I with our Easter baskets

We had so much fun, our first Easter being married! I can't wait for the many more holidays to come.

Well, that's about it for the Sweets... 'cept I went to the DMV today to change my name on my lisence and I dislike that place very much. Ugly people convention.

See ya.