I should be studying...

but instead I'm blogging. I mean it really has been too long since I last blogged, and I have a ton of pictures to share....so I guess I can put studying off one more night.

First on the list is Lake Powell 2012 Davidson Edition!

This honestly is one of my favorite vacations ever! I love being out on the lake for a full week with 40 of my closest family members.

 Ryan's famous Tiger Shirt was a huge hit!

 This year in honor of the 2012 Summer Olympics we held our own Games in Lake Powell. Here are the 3 top athletes competing in the rock-put. Jace won, of course.

 I married a STUD!!!!

 Don't mind me, I'm only surfing! ;)

 What do we do on a houseboat all day? We take pictures, duh!

 Ryan had some help driving the houseboat this year.

This is what happens when I jump off the houseboat and leave my camera behind. There were about a thousand random pictures of my sister and my cousin Devan.

"Here take my picture with this Mussle Free notice, because I'm mussle free" That is a direct quote from my darling grandpa! 

This is my great-grandma June, she was born in 1916! Yes, she is at Lake Powell with us! Yes, she did go out on the boats with us! Yes, those are the cutest twins you'll ever see. 

YES my family is AMAZING!!!

Next on the list is, the Brigham City Temple Open House.

Ryan, Marie, and I met up with my aunt Jill and her family for the Brigham City Temple Open House this past Saturday. It was an amazing temple to go through. There were peach blossoms everywhere you looked. It was also an experience to go through a temple with children. They are so amazing, and hilarious.

 Here are the girl cousins. (Kela, Sarah, Rachelle, Marie, Kate and Savanna)

 Awwww cute, the Woodburys! PS as you can see it was SUPER crowded.

 This is Marie and Kela trying to be as cute a wife as I am. 

 The whole gang! (The Woodburys, Davidson, and the Hansens)

This is Ryan on the drive to Ogden. He was so happy to be in the middle of such cute cousins, who never got on each other's nerves. ;) 

This is the only way to get off a Houseboat!

And this is the only way to drive home in a motorhome! 

Well thats our little update. I'll hit the books now. 

UP-date!

(please sing that post title...I did)

There aren't many photos to share with this post but I thought it's time for a quick update before we move on to bigger and busier things this summer.

1. My husband learned how to be a boating man. He learned to back up the boat, drive it, drive with someone behind the boat (me skiing...which was a fun experience), and park it. I am amazed! 

 Look at this stud!

 I like to ski. When my husband drives me for the first time it becomes especially fun. I think Ryan got down to 14mph! What a fun memory.

2. Another fun thing that has happened recently was lots of time to hang out with cousins. Here is my cousin Kade holding a very sad kitty. Kade spent the whole afternoon stalking this poor kitten all over the yard. When he would finally catch it and hold it his face would turn bright red from the effort to hold the small beast. You can't really see the cat's face over in the corner of the frame, it had decided to try to play dead. 

3. Look at my husband all tuckered out after early church. I love the fact that he was dead asleep in this position not more then 5 minutes from getting home from church.

 4. I've been getting my craft on this last month. My dear Father-in-law was excited to model my lovely headband. 

 Another fun craft I made for my classroom. I'm excited for it! It's already August, I can't believe my new little tykes will be walking into my classroom in about 25 days! AHHH!

This summer is quickly coming to an end. Our ward at Wymount is changing weekly, with people moving in and families moving out. It makes me excited about moving next summer, yet sometimes I get sad about it. Everyone loves to ask us where we are going for Grad School, the answer is we don't know yet. Ryan will be applying this fall and by January, February we'll know where we'll be headed. 

The top choices right now are: Notre Dame, Clarks University (Mass.), Tufts University (Mass.) and two schools in Canada who's names escape me. 

Ryan's last day at Vivant is next Saturday and then we are off to Lake Powell for the big Davidson Vacation! We are excited to get one more wonderful vacation in this summer. 

Ryan is amazing eh? I love him! 

U. S. of A!!!

I had just gotten back from Jackson Hole on Sunday and then we were packing up our apartment and trying to catch up from all our vacation days; so our Fourth of July was very laid back.

Ryan worked from 12-8pm (getting paid time and a half!) so I stayed home and packed and studied for my school work. After work we buzzed up to South Jordan to celebrate with the Woodbury family. Clayne is kinda a firework-fanatic (I think Ryan is too) so we had plenty of ammunition.
We all went to Tyler and Melissa's house to light the night sky!

 The boys with their toys! ( please note Ryan's patriotic shirt)

 Sophie had lots of fun playing around.

 This was Ryan's Firework-Face!

What a good uncle protecting Sophie's ears during the show. 

DWorld part dos!

This will be a picture OVERLOAD!!! I thought about splitting it up into 3 posts but then decided against it. I have other things that need to be blogged and I kinda wanna just get DisneyWorld blogs over with.  Here we go....

 We were there over the famous tropical storm Debbie. 

We got very good and whipping on our rain slickers at a moments notice. 

There was an amazing aquarium in Epcot that had dolphins, turtles, manatees, and tons of other fish. 

Ryan was so excited to see Captain Eo! It was so amazing. Last time I watched it I took of my 3D glasses for most of the movie(it was pretty scary for a 9 year old). I was proud that I kept them on the whole time. 

Playing around in the countries at Epcot. 

Some French street performers. 

We watched some fire explosions at Hollywood Studios.

5 points to whoever can name the movie this prop is from.

Ryan had a lot of fun playing around with this Tower of Terror worker. 

You can't see it but the Hollywood Studio hat is behind us. 

This is the golf course Ryan and Clayne played the last day of the trip. It was pouring on them.

Goofy liked me best!  

 We saw Fiesta Donald! 

 Funny story, Ryan and I love Duffy the Disney Bear. On our honeymoon we were walking past the Duffy stand and no one was there and everyone looked super sad so we went over and a Duffy hug and a Duffy sticker. We then went on our merry way to the Screamin' California Roller Coaster on the way we saw Jessie and the Green Army man from Toy Story. The Army man was hilarious. In a very military voice he said "I see that you just got married." (we had 'just married' pins) and "I see that you just hugged Duffy" We died laughing and now its a cute inside joke between us. 

 For lunch one day we went to this nifty fifty's diner.  

 This was the most amazing intense roller coaster I have ever been on. It was Aerosmith themed with their music blasting in your ears while you went on a crazy fast ride through pitch black "streets" SO FUN!  

This was the typical Disney look on this trip...soaked! I did manage to hang out with my good friend the Pink Power Ranger.

I am so thankful to my in-laws who made this whole trip possible. It was so fun for me to get to know them better. Ryan and I have been married for about 18 months now and I know the Woodbury's pretty well but going to a new place was so much fun with them. They are truly amazing people and I can't wait for the next time we get to play with them.