High School Reunion

Spontaneous activity of the week: Going to a concert last minute to be able to see my friend Zach and his wife who live in Idaho. 

I've known Zach since 7th Grade and became really good friends with him during High School, I hadn't seen him since before his mission, so it had been about 3 years. Zach and Kelsey were going to be down here for one night to see a band called Tally Hall, so we decided to meet up with them!

This is the only picture on FB that I could find from high school that has Zach, Bethany, Jacie and I in it.

Me, Jacie, Bethany and Zach

 Just to kind of explain the other pictures that we took that night, for some reason, we like to take "special" pictures, where you shake your head and relax your face and take a picture of what you look like, here's an old one of Zach and I the last time we saw each other...

Us shaking our heads and looking really weird...why do we do it? I don't know, because it's funny to see your face look weird.

Zach was the only one that had a good weird face in this one.

Me looking weird

Self explainitory

Jacie shaking her face

Zach

Ryan

Kelsey

Bethany

Me again and Zach looking like a creeper in the back.

The band that we saw, which didn't start playing until 10:45pm or 11pm, which for Ryan and I, that was way late, we are in bed by 10pm at the latest most nights.

It was a really fun night, we reminisced, had some laughs and it turned out to be a fun quick visit with an old friend.

Addison makes 20!

We have a new niece! My sister-in-law Kara had her little girl Wednesday morning and Ryan and I went to go see them in the hospital later that evening.

Here's Addison Ciel McCorristin, she's such a cutie!

Kara, Curtis and his new little sister Addison!

Now that Addison is born, Ryan and I have 20 nieces and nephews between both of our families and there will definitely be more to come!

2 Years!

On Monday, we celebrated our 2 Year Anniversary! I took the day off and Ryan always has Monday's off, so we were able to spend the whole day together! We went to Tucanos for lunch which was delicious and even more delicious because we only had to pay for one meal, thanks to my sister-in-law Kara, who wasn't going to use her Tucano's Free Birthday Meal, so she graciously gave it to us to use for our Anniversary! Thanks again Kara, I love getting a good deal! 

My hot hubby!

After having Tucanos, we went to see Captain America, which was really good. I'd say it's definitely better than Green Lantern and Thor, so I would recommend it! Now I'm way excited to see The Avengers next May (wow, I'm turning into a nerd)

We then spent the rest of the day relaxing and ended up making Cheese Fondue for dinner, which basically meant that we ate bread and cheese...mmm...it was good! It was a very enjoyable day and I love Ryan even more now than I did when I married him! I love you Ryan!

A small family gathering...

 On Friday night we got together with my side of the family while my Aunt Wendy and Uncle Blaine were in town for their individual family reunion. We got together at my cousin Lorin and Debbies house, which they pretty much have the best backyard ever!

Everyone that was able to make it that night.

Tate and Caitlin on the tire swing

Ryan was having fun on the helicopter teeter-totter!

And seconds later our nieces and nephews joined in on the fun!

How awesome is this backyard?! There is sooo much space, on this side they have the teeter-totter, a jungle gym and some open grass area...

And on the other side is a half basketball court, trampoline and another jungle gym. This backyard is a child"s wonderland!

They played a lot of lightning as well!

All of the 2nd cousins? What's it called when it's your cousin's children to your own children? Anyone? Are they second cousin's to each other, because I have no idea.

Cute kids!

It was really nice being able to see some family that we usually don't see that often and to just hang out!

Baby Shower #2

 Last weekend was my SIL Val's Baby Shower! She has two girls already and is now having a boy!

Lots of blue stuff!

Brooke definitely enjoyed the frosting on this cookie!

Brooke also helped her Mom open some of her presents.

Val was excited not to see a ton of pink when she opened the gifts!

An elephant towel for the little guy! 

It was a fun and relaxing baby shower, now all we have to do is wait to see the soon to be babies that will be added to our extended family soon!

Zombie Love

I love Zombie Movies, I have for a long time and have a fascination with anything Zombie, so Ryan surprised me with this AWESOME shirt that he found on eBay. 

The shirt is a play off of Subway's slogan, "eat fresh".

I love it! I wore it to work today and people thought it was pretty awesome too!

 Thanks for the shirt Ryan! You know me so well!

Sunday

Today we had Breakfast at my brother, Brigham's before church because my Mom was driving through. We had some yummy breakfast and chatted for a bit before church and then my Mom, Richard and Sebastian were on the road back to Cali. It was a short visit, but it was fun spending time with family.

My Mom, Brig and Me

My Mom and I

The kids loved having Uncle Ryan play with them, as always :)

He's always willing to play games with them. 

 Sacrament Meeting was fun because we were able to color, play a few games of tick-tack-toe, the "draw lines and make boxes out of dots game" (does anyone know what I'm talking about? My sister and I would play that game all the time in church. You draw a lot of dots, and then take turns drawing lines and when you fill in a square you get a point? Anybody?) Either way, it was fun!

On a side note: I finally made a book out of our blog from 2009-2010! It turned out way nice too! It was bigger than I expected and I was surprised that it turned out to be 133 pages! Hopefully I will keep it up with creating a book for each year to come! If anyone else wants to make their blog a book, I would recomend blog2print.com, I signed up with them a while ago, and got a coupon in my email for 15% off, so that definitely helped on the price, because depending on how much you blog, it can get pretty pricey. But I totally recommend it!