Everything dipped in Chocolate :)

Today I dipped about 200+ strawberries and marshmallows in chocolate with my sister Jennie for a pack meeting. Here are a few pictures of what they looked like. We dipped them in graham cracker crumbs, Oreo crumbs, mini M&M's and heath bar crumbs.

Mmmmm...

The finished product. We filled a whole fridge with what we did. That's all for now!

Who are these children coming down?

I know the title is totally random, but when I was thinking of posting about all of our new nieces and nephews, the song from Saturday's Warrior came into my head. I remember watching Saturday's Warrior on Sunday's when I was younger because we didn't really watch anything else on Sunday's other than Church movies or Musicals haha I realized that I haven't seen that movie for years and I used to love it! It's a very cheesy and ridiculous movie, but I loved it! I looked up the Movie on IMDB to try and remember what the movie was about and here's what it says for those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about.

Saturday's Warrior- "An ordinary LDS family has a teenager named Jimmy and he wonders about life and what is coming. Jimmy's sister Julie has a boyfriend on a mission who she plans to marry when he gets home. Jimmy's twin sister Pam is handicapped and is confined to a wheelchair and wants to make things good for Jimmy. Jimmy doesn't seem to care about his large family and wants to do his own things. When Jimmy hears his mother is going to have another child, Jimmy is filled with anger and leaves. His family wants Jimmy to return and love him, but Jimmy does not want their love."

Anyways, it makes me want to see it because I'm sure it will seem even more ridiculous and cheesy now that I'm older.

But back to my reason for this post...

We have another niece and I figured I would do a little post with the latest nieces and nephew from the McCorristin/Mayer family.

We feel very blessed to be apart of such "big" families. Having so many nieces and nephews is exciting because whenever we have family gatherings in the future, it will be so much more fun, especially as they start getting older!

I remember going to big family reunions growing up and being able to spend time with all of my cousins and I'm excited that our future kids will have a similar experience with having some cousins to play with!

Ryan's sister Tammy and her first little one! Sawyer was born June 3, 2010!

Ryan's sister Sarah and her first little one! Emma was born June 12, 2010!

My brother Brigham had his 4th little one today! Sierra was born July 19, 2010!


With 3 babies born this year, we still have 2 more to go! My sister-in-law Sara is due next month and my sister Tammy is due in January! (Lots of duplicate names, I know, kinda crazy!) We are excited to see the little one's when they get here!

Again, we feel very blessed to be apart of such great families and are excited to see them continue to grow! At this point, Ryan and I have 17 nieces and nephews combined! We love all of them and are glad to have so many family members close to us! We love you all!

Copycat :)

So I was looking at my cousin Kimber's blog and she copied the idea from another blog, therefore, I am copying it from her. I thought it was a cool idea. So basically the blog was saying that they took pictures of random things in your house. So here are some random black and white pictures from our apartment :) Just for fun!

I own lots of earrings...

We had candles left out from when our power went out...

Lights in our bathroom...

Stuff on our fridge...

What's left on our bookshelf, we haven't packed them yet.

We write on our mirrors :)

Hand mirror...

Our Calendar. I know it's blurry, but I kind of liked it that way.

Well that's it! I took some random pictures while Ryan was taking a nap. I actually took a picture of him taking a nap while I was taking pictures. Here's Ryan sleeping...

Aww, how precious!

Weekend Fun!

Yesterday was a lot of fun!

Jennie, Rob, Chandler, Tate, Lincoln, Caitlin, Tanner and Bailey (yep, that's a lot of people) came over to go swimming while Jen and Rob were watching my brothers 3 kids. It was a blast. We started out just relaxing in the pool, but then my brother-in-law Rob thought it would be fun to do Ultimate Frisbee in the pool with a little play Frisbee...and it was an AWESOME IDEA! Ryan and I were one team, and then Rob and Chandler were the other team. It was a lot of fun trying to "run" in a pool, especially with the water holding you down and going against you, but it was a lot of fun. The score was 6-0 with Ryan and I in the lead, and then we added my niece Caitlin to our team and Tate to the other team, and we kind of got destroyed...But then again, we added a teammate who didn't know how to swim...so it was kind of 2 against 3. But it was still so much fun and the score ended with 9-10 with the other team winning.

After swimming, we went over to Jen and Robs for homemade pizza, it was delish! I then went to my friend Heather's Bridal Shower and had some girl time. While I was at the shower, Ryan went over to his friend, Sean's house and chilled with him. After the shower, I spent some time with my old roomate Nancy and then Ryan picked me up and we went back to Sean's to play "Family Feud". It was a lot of fun and Ryan and I beat Sean and Laurie. It was a lot of fun. Wow, I think I've said the word "fun" like a billion times. Sorry! So that was our Saturday.

Today, we went to my friend Whittney's Farewell in Eagle Mountain. She did a great job and I'm sure she'll be an amazing missionary. It was also cool going out there because I was able to see my old roommate, Ashley. I hadn't seen her for almost a year! It was great and hopefully we will be having a play-date sometime soon! After spending some time at Whitt's, Ryan and I went over to Lisha's house.

I had some fun cleaning up a bit at Lisha's (she just had a baby 3 weeks ago, so I figured I could help her clean her kitchen area) Meanwhile, Ryan was able to play some video games with Ricky, Bill, and Dani. I think he had fun getting his only video-gaming time in. We then went over to Ryan's parents house for dinner. We had "Soup Chicken", which is way tastey and she even let us take home the leftovers :) Ryan will have lunch for this week! Yay! We then played Skip-Bo and Judy (Ryan's mom won) It was fun. I love games!

Then, once we got home, Bethany came over for a bit to catch up and hang out a bit. We hadn't hung out for a while, so it was nice catching up with her. Once B left, Ryan and I packed a few boxes with books so we can gradually start moving stuff.And now, I'm typing this and Ryan is sleeping on the couch...as usual.

Overall, it was a good weekend. At this point, we need to start packing more things and moving stuff within the next two weeks. We're planning on moving the "big stuff" on July 28, so I can leave for California the next day :) Yep, I'll be going down to California for the 4th time this year, and Ryan is way sad that he can't come on this trip either, and I am way bummed too :( But I'll be driving down with Bethany so we can attend a friends Mom's Baptism. Yay for baptisms!! So that's what's happening with us. Thanks for reading.

I'm trying to be like Nicole Wood

Ryan and Nicole dressed up at the Church Museum.

Ok, so I've been reading my friend Nicole's blog and I am ashamed at how terrible I am about blogging. I of course make excuses like, "I don't have a life" or "Nothing ever happens to me" but I guess I'll try to blog about my boring nothingness life anyways.
So last week my friends Nicole and Jose came up to visit. Nicole stayed with me for two days and it was pretty much amazing. As Nicole's blog says, we were best friends since 7-12 grade and then once I moved up to Utah, I was lost in the "black hole" that non-mormons, aka Nicole, call Utah.Anyways, I hadn't seen Nicole for over 2 years and it was great spending time with her. There's friends in life where you don't have to talk to them for months at a time, or in our case, years at a time, but once you get together again, it's like you hung out the day before. That's how mine and Nicole's friendship is, and it's awesome. Of course, I would love to see her more often, but with her traveling to 6 different countries within the last 5 months, it's kinda hard to get her in the same country as you, let alone the same state as you. But it was great having her here for the little time that we did have.

Nicole was quizzing us on our Church knowledge.

Oh, this is a picture of Ryan right after he set off the alarm on the escalator at the Conference center. It was really loud. Good job Ryan! I love the face!

Nicole found Jesus! ...in the back of a truck...haha

The first day was really chill and didn't consist of too much activity, we went to the Draper Temple to show Nicole where we got married but other than that we went to Jacie's for a fun Bar-B-Q. And the second day was way fun with us going around Temple Square and seeing the Conference Center, along with hearing MoTab Practice, and all the other sites around Temple Square, and surprisingly, that was my first time seeing any of the museums or tours and stuff, so it was fun! I kind of slacked on explaining everything to Nicole, but Ryan answered any questions that she had and did a good job with that. I think the best part was going to the Museum of church history and art, specifically the childrens' area. We were able to color, and dress up, and then Nicole asked all the mormons Bible, BOM, and D&C trivia. Ryan was the all-star and got all the answers right. Oh and we made babies!! Well, not the real way of makin' babies, but there was a baby area and we were able to name babies and whatnot. Nicole named my child Nephi First McCorristin. So for all the family reading this, you won't be surprised what our first childs name would be...not. Either way, it was a lot of fun! And hopefully Nicole comes back up here soon.

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So today, Ryan and I watched Erin and Brooke. They are totally cute kids, but Erin can get a little...hyper/excited/loud...just like most other children. So before Ryan left, we went to go feed the Ducks and Geese. When we first got there, there weren't any birds that were visible, but the second we started feeding one bird, 50 billion, yes 50 billion came out of nowhere! Ryan actually got scared of some of the geese cuz they were getting really close to us and were hissing...kinda creepy.Then once Ryan left for work at 2, I was all on my own with two little girls. It wasn't that bad, Erin went down for a nap and Brooke did too. It took a while to get Brooke to sleep because we didn't have a Port-O-Crib/PlayPin thing, so I had to rock her to sleep in my arms. The only picture I have from today was this one of Brooke in my arms asleep.



They're always so much more lovable when they're sleeping :) Well, after their naps, we hung out for a bit, they watched toy story 1. I fed them some delish spaghetti and then Mike got here so I took Erin to the pool to swim for 15 mins or so. It was kind of nice, there was only 1 other person in the pool, which rarely happens. Man, Erin loves the water and isn't scared of it at all. If I wasn't there, she would have attempted to go to the deep end, actually, she did try to go to the deep end, but she soon realized that she didn't know how to swim. All in all, it was a good day. Well, thats all I have for now and hopefully I will update more reguarly, even if I am the only one who reads it.