January 15, 2011
Huh?
September 2, 2010
Where Have I Been?
So, I will start off with a funny story. Luke and I were driving towards the mountains the other day and I decided to tell him about the funny dream that I had. I proceed to tell him how in my dream he was leaving for school and before he walked down the stairs, he told me that I should update my blog. He then told me that that wasn't a dream. I guess he told me that when I was in my sleep drunk phase and I just assumed it was a dream because I just didn't see my husband encouraging me to blog. Okay, maybe it isn't that funny of a story, but it got me here didn't it? I realized I haven't done anything on here in almost a year! Wow, a lot has happened in this past year. Everything ranging from going to Europe to visit Turkey, Greece, and Italy to quitting my job and moving to Colorado so that Luke can start medical school. It has been lots of fun, and hopefully I will get more posts up here soon.
September 19, 2009
A Good Fall Drive
September 23, 2007
Wow, it has been a long time since I have written anything...too busy with having fun I guess. Well, I was looking through pictures and found this little adventure. Luke had never been to the Provo Falls up on the Mirror Lake Scenic Byway so we decided we would take a little drive. We didn't see any leaves changing colors but we did finally find the falls. It wasn't flowing as much as I had remembered it, but that just comes with the
season I guess.
April 24, 2009
The Honeymoon...
So Luke surprised me on the location and hotel that we stayed at. He actually did a really good job keeping it from me. We flew out to Cancun and stayed in the nicest hotel I have ever been in. If you ever have the chance to go stay in a J.W. Marriott, do it! You can guess what we did the whole time...yep, played at the beach, the pool, at water parks, ordered room service and visited old ruins at Tulum, and yeah, basically had a blast. Here are the highlights of the pics from this amazing trip.
This is Luke and I at the airport getting ready to board the plane from Salt Lake City to Cancun
How could we not go to Senior Frogs?
One of the entrances to Tulum
Look at the size of that iguana...there were all over the place and they were just chilling
This was one of my favorite buildings in this place. The area was actually pretty big. It took us most of the day to walk around.
Another cool view of the watchtower. You can see the storm rolling in, it was so hot and humid
My good lookin' husband hanging out in the infinity pool. The pool was so perfect!
Unfortunately, the red flag was out for the duration of our trip meaning we couldn't go play in the water...we were watching the weather channel every night waiting for the update of the hurricane that was headed our direction...we got lucky and it didn't hit Cancun while we were there
Here is my standard picture that I need to take whenever I am on a beach
My cute new husband being way cheesy!
Here is the view from our 13th floor ocean view room...jealous yet?
Our favorite place to eat
What more can I say...I just want to go back. This was a small beach that we stopped at on our way home from one of our other adventures that didn't go so well. We learned that if we want to get anywhere in Mexico, we should just take a tour bus there or something besides driving ourselves around. It was the biggest nightmare. One day we tried to drive to Isla Mujeres and got all the way up there and couldn't find a dang place to park except in some back alley. We didn't feel safe leaving the car there so we went back to the hotel and hung out at the pool. The day this picture was taken we were on our way back from attempting to go to Cozumel. The drivers out there are absolutely crazy!! We would just be driving down the highway when all of a sudden, the cars in front of us would just slam on the breaks and slow down to about 10 mph! For some strange and stupid reason, they put a series of speed bumps in random spots on the freeway. So people would have to slam on the breaks and almost cause accidents left and right. It was very stressful and I am happy that I was wasn't driving!
Look at the talent of our housekeepers! The first day we got there, we walked into a room with a bottle of champagne and passion fruit! We decided to open up the wine, make a toast, and dump it down the toilet
I really like this picture, but as you can tell, it is a little blurry. Partly because of the humidity, partly it was user error. 
This was probably the best tasting steak I have had in a long time. I think we should make Ruth's Chris an anniversary tradition...
It was so much fun to get away with my husband and just have fun and enjoy life. I hope that we get to have many more trips like this all over the place!
March 21, 2009
It was (is) Awesome!
Okay, I am just getting lazy and am going to post some pictures from our wedding day and a couple of my bridal pictures. Don't judge me too hard, I worked until 0330 the night before, I was a little tired. It was a perfect day and the pictures do a good job portraying that. Enjoy the pictures.
I did the pictures up Provo Canyon by Sundance and then at the State Mental Hospital...they should have admitted me. 
This was dinner up at the Silver Fork Lodge.
Don't worry, I have plenty more pictures if anybody wants to see...hahaha. Can anybody explain to me how to do a slide show...it would save a lot of space on here...
January 18, 2009
The Week Before the Big Day!
The morning started out with us setting up the park. The Shelton's all pitched in to get it all set up so it would be perfect. My favorite part of the set up was the lights that we hung over the stage. It took so much work but in the end it looked so good. Luke spent a lot of time making these massive photo boards. We decided that instead of doing a video, we would just put up a bunch of pictures from our lives. It was a fun idea, but after the hours of scanning in old photos, it wasn't so much fun anymore. In the end, it turned out like we thought it would though. Candace was our fabulous photographer. Thanks so much for taking such good pictures.
Everything was perfect. We had lots of good food, good fun, and hung out with a lot of fun people. I had to make sure that I kept Luke away from the sign in book because we put on display some of the pictures that Candace did of me in my dress in Jackson. Luke was good though and he didn't peak. One of my favorite parts of the night was talking to some of Luke's neighbors. Luke had kept the location of our honeymoon a huge secret. It was a week before our wedding and I still had no idea where we were going. Luke was going to have my sisters help me pack so I would know what to wear. Meanwhile, we are chatting with these neighbors and I hear "You guys are going to love Cancun!" And just like that, the secret is out! I felt so bad for Luke. He worked so hard to keep it a secret. I guess to keep it interesting, I still didn't know where we were staying in Salt Lake or in Cancun. The rest of the evening consisted of eating, talking, bacci ball out in the grass, music, dancing, did I mention the food? The night was a huge success. Again since I can't figure out how to do a sideshow, I am just going to put up some of the pictures. 
This is me finding out where I am going on our honeymoon...
The view from the bocci ball court
Us up on the dance floor. Notice the cool lights up overhead.January 12, 2009
A New Tradition
Jackson Hole - August 3 - 10, 2007
The girls were so great and they did my hair and makeup (I know, me in makeup...)
You can see from one of these pictures it is pretty stormy. I was so scared that we wouldn't be able to do any pictures because since it was so close to our actual wedding day, we didn't want to get it dirty. But it actually turned out to be a great day. The lighting was fantastic after the storm. We drove all around the park and would just pull over where ever we wanted. I felt kind of like a park attraction while I was on the fence. People kept honking at us. It was interesting. After driving all over the place, we ended up at one of the many lake that they have up there and took some more pictures at a bridge.
It was a good place to end. After we were all done, I needed to find a place to change out of my dress because we were meeting the rest of the family at the Ox Bow and we couldn't let Luke see me in my dress (you know, the whole bad luck thing seeing the bride in the dress before the wedding). The options were the bathrooms that they had there at the lake and....oh yeah, there weren't any other options. I decided against the bathroom for the obvious reasons and chose the parking lot. It was quite the feat the change without exposing myself to the rest of the park-goers. I really enjoyed playing in the park with the girls. It was even more fun playing in the park in my wedding dress.
Here is me and my sister in law Candace, aka the photographer.After we got done playing dress up in the park, we were going to meet up with the boys at the Ox Bow. This is something that the Shelton's introduced me to. After all the years that I have been to Grand Teton National Park I have never really noticed the Ox Bow. It is absolutely beautiful there.
Here is one of the pictures that I took while we were waiting for the boys to come around the bend. They started kayaking at the dam and would go and play with the beavers and otters in the Ox Bow. We got done before they did so we had another little photo shoot. 
Here is my self portrait. 
I mean, does it get any better than this?
Look at that good lookin' guy out there. 
While we were there, it started raining on us. This is a choice spot to see moose and other large animals. 
So after the boys got done loading the kayaks. We ate garbage salad out of the cars. To the Ford/Pace family, we all know this as taco salad. The Shelton's have put a new twist on things though. We had to feed around 11 people and that is no small task when we are at the Ox Bow. So we did garbage salad in an actual garbage bag (don't worry, it was clean!) It was so tasty. Remember this picture, it is important later on. The next day, we drove all the way through the park to see all the sights. It was so much fun to drive through the park and just remember when I came here with my mom. 
This is us at the top of one of the many look outs. 
This is me getting ready for bed and Luke thinking he is pretty funny taking pictures of me.
One of my other favorite parts of this trip was playing at String and Leigh Lakes. We took out the kayaks and packed a good lunch of sandwiches and chips. It was fabulous. The water was perfect and I almost got standing up and paddling on the kayak done, but of course I just ended up in the water. I love vacations like this where you can just relax and do really whatever you want. We also went into town and did the whole shopping thing. Of course, Luke and I did not last long so we ended up hanging out in the middle of town square which was fine by me.
During the days up there, Luke kept having some weird pains in his chest. Doesn't sound good right. We thought that it would just go away but he kept having pains. The day that we were all supposed to go down the river, we figured that we needed to go to the hospital to get him check out. Luke, Dean, and I headed down to the local ER and checked Luke in. At the registration desk we were answering all the questions and Luke said that he was having chest pain. Bam, next thing we know we are being ushered back to get a full work up. The time passed and our reservation for the river came and went and we were still waiting on results. I was sad to miss the river but Luke is my top priority. In the end we were discharged from the ER and had a diagnosis of pleurisy. Basically a fancy word to say that the lining on his lung is irritated. Remember that picture of the boys lifting the kayaks into the trailer. We think that he might have pulled something with all that repetitive lifting of the kayaks. So I got to see what the inside of the ER in Jackson Hole. Very exciting. Luke was given specific instructions to take it easy for the next couple of days. Don't worry, Luke recovered from his bought of pleurisy and is doing fine.
The next thing we did, besides take it easy, was go to Jackson Lake Lodge. It is a beautiful building that has this fantastic view of Jackson Lake.
Again, it is a good place to look for wildlife.
After a good couple of days of relaxing, it is now time to go home to finish up all of this wedding stuff. I am so excited to continue this tradition.
