Year Three and Many New Adventures!!

2006 was a fun and exciting year. It included first-ever snowboarding, the Sundance Festival, big surprises and more babies!

So, in January 2006, Ryan taught me how to snowboard. No I can't turn or do any fancy tricks, but I can stay up for about 2 minutes, ok, maybe 30 seconds!!! I can also fall on my behind, back and face! Pretty neat huh! My biggest fear before we went the first time was getting off of the lift, but Ryan held my hand and pulled me right along. After a few times I got used to it. I really enjoy snowboarding and hope we get to go more this winter. Ryan is a pro at snowboarding! He can do all sorts of fancy stuff. He doesn't get to do much of it with me there though since he spends most of his time helping me get up!
For some odd reason, I love going to the Sundance Film Festival. I love walking up and down Park City Main Street and just people watching. I also love going in the shops to see what interesting things we can find... The following pictures are of us playing dress-ups in one of the shops.... and you thought dress-ups were for little girls!!?

We have gone to the Sundance Film Festival a few times, but we have never seen anyone famous or been able to get into any of the films. Except for in 2006! This particular year, I was determined to see someone famous AND get into a film. You see, Jennifer Aniston was in one of the films and she is one of my favorite famous people! I went online and got tickets to one of the shows (but, of course the Aniston movie was already sold out). We took work off and went up early in the morning. But, instead of going to the show we already had tickets for, we decided to stand in the 'hopeful' line for tickets to see the Jennifer Aniston flick (I can't even remember the name of it. I just remember she was in it)! We waited in line for a couple hours and ended up getting in! I was sooo excited and Ryan was way excited for me. But, the greatest surprise came after the movie. Experienced Sundance goers probably already knew this, but I didn't..... After the show, they brought in the cast. Yes, Jennifer Aniston was there and I was absolutely thrilled. Now, the film festival was exciting, but the most exciting event of 2006 was March 17th, also known as St. Patricks Day. Here's the story...

Ryan had the day off work, but ended up coming in for a couple hours to take a test for his promotion. I was supposed to have a potluck with the people at work, but decided Ryan and I would go to lunch to celebrate instead. Well, after his test, we were headed to lunch but ended up being stopped by our bosses who asked us to stay for the potluck... so we did. We decided we would go to dinner instead. When Ryan got home, he called me at work and said he decided to make reservations at the Melting Pot. Sounded good to me! The Melting Pot is one of our favorite places to eat! When Ryan came to pick me up, he had a huge bouquet of flowers... roses, daisies and sunflowers! Now, that's weird, he got a promotion and I get flowers! Sweet! Anyhow, we went to dinner and it was delicious! After dinner, Ryan asked what I wanted to do... of course I said 'I don't know'. He suggested we go for a drive and we ended up driving to the place we went on our first date. We got out, walked around and went to see the view. After a while, Ryan said some cute things, got down on one knee and asked me to be his wife. My answer? 'You are crazy!" Followed by 'Yes!' I definitely didn't expect him to propose the night of his promotion celebration. I was very surprised and excited!

And three months later, we had 5 more babies. Yes, our Daisee had more puppies on June 2nd 2006. We ended up giving all except one away to complete strangers... the last one, stayed with us. We now call him Oreeo and I am glad we kept him. He adds a whole lot of humor to our home!
Poor Ryan always has to fight for his spot on the bed! Oreeo ALWAYS takes over his spot!

Wow, what an eventful year huh?! It sure was a lot of fun! Good Times!

The Second Year

Ok... so here's a few more pictures and stories from our beginning. These ones are from our second year together (2005).



Ryan and I love to vacation. One of our vacations took us to Bryce Canyon. We had sooo much fun. At one of the trails there were some cute little squirrels hanging around so we decided to try to feed them. Ryan got down on one knee and held out the food and the squirrel ran up his leg. It was so cute. Kinda scary, but cute! We had a lot of fun watching and playing with them.

Ryan and I also are a little spontaneous... (probably more than we should be!) After Ryan sold his scary 3-wheelers, we decided we wanted to buy some 4-wheelers. So after work one Friday we went out to Tooele and picked some out. Then next day we went and picked them up. Ryan's was yellow and mine was red. We mostly drove them around my mom's yard and neighborhood, but we sure enjoyed having them. When we bought our home, we didn't have room to store them, so we decided to sell them. Boy, that was a sad day! But I try to remember the fun days with them. One of the places we took them was to the Coral Pink Sand Dunes in southeastern Utah. We went on Easter weekend so it was WAY cold, but it was still a lot of fun. We went with my mom, my sister Steph and her kids Kamryn and Kaden. That is definitely a place we want to go again when we buy more 4-wheelers and when it's warmer!

On Halloween 2005 (Steph's 27th birthday) we had 7 babies. Ok, WE didn't have 7 babies, but our little shitzu Daisee had 7 babies. I had sooo much fun with those little puppies. It was soo hard to give them away. Although, four of them are still in the family thanks to my mom, Ryan's mom and Tawnie (my sister-in-law). I love being able to see them still. Oh, and I must mention, two of the others went to my mother-in-laws co-worker. So I know those two are being well taken care of also.

I know a lot more happened in 2005, but for some reason these are the only pictures we could find from that year.

Stay Tuned!! We will soon get to the current happenings... :)

Back to the Beginning

These are a few photos from our first year together.

Ryan and I met March 2004 at work. We both work for Questar Gas and on Ryans first day of work his foreman, Bob Swiatocha, brought him through the office to introduce him to the office staff. When they walked away, one of my co-workers said "Wow, he's cute" (she's married so she wasn't going to be any competition for me!!) I agreed and kept my eye on him for the next few months. I knew there was something about this guy that I just had to get to know...

Every year Questar Gas has a Gas Rodeo and the day before the Rodeo in 2004, I asked him if he was going. He said yup, and asked if I was going. I didn't have anyone to go with, but if he was going to be there, so was I. I showed up an hour late, but he was still there waiting (that is the ultimate meaning of 'Waiting on a Woman'). We sat together and talked the entire time. Close to the end he asked me what I was doing that night. I told him I was probably just hanging out with my mom. (Ryan later found out that was true, I really did just hang out with my mom and sister when I wasn't at work...).

Well, he finally asked me out. We went to the Pie for dinner and then to the Gateway to see Shrek. After the movie Ryans friends went home, but we weren't ready to leave each other... oh how cheesy!! We went to a coffee house and got an italian soda and some hot chocolate and then just drove around. At 5am I made it home. We have been attached at the hip ever since that day.