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.

Here's an Update!

Here are some updates:
-We're moving at the end of July.
-I'm going to miss my new calling of being Relief Society Secretary.
-Ryan has a new schedule (6am-2:30pm Tues-Sat)
-We have a new nephew Sawyer, and a new niece Emma, they were born 12 days apart and they are both adorable! We now have 16 nieces and nephews and 3 are still on the way!
I think those are all of the updates that we have?

Hi!

California fun

So a few people kept asking why I was down in California, so here's the answer. My sister-in-law Sara won the Young Mother of the Year award for California, so she was flown out to New York to participate in the Nationwide Award and Conference for Young Mothers and Mothers. So Serge, my brother, asked if I could help him out with the boys while she was away. So I did!



I had a lot of fun while I was down there. I was able to spend a lot of time with Serge, which was really nice because he is always busy so it was fun spending time with him and the boys.





Plus I was able to get to know my nephews a little more. Hayden is a very smart kid. He's only 4 and he's reading amazingly well. As we read the scriptures each night he was able to read all by himself, including the big words like, "iniquities" and "wilderness" and tons of other hard words that I still don't know how to read, ok, well I can now, but not when I was 4! Anyways, he was a lot of fun when he wasn't talking back to me or Serge ;)



And I was a little worried about how Landon was going to react with me around all the time and not his Mom, but he did a lot better than I thought. Towards the end of the week, I was able to get him to laugh and play with me and not wimper at all. And that's a big deal! Landon is such a cutie. He says a few words and is really doing a good job for all of his physical and mental disabilities. I think my favorite thing that he does is "Quack" when you ask him, "What sound does a Duckie make?" Here's a little clip that I was able to get on video.






He's such a sweet boy.



I was going to add all of the pictures from my California trip to the blog, but it takes forever to upload on this thing, so I added them to my facebook. So if you really want to see all the pictures, then take a look at my page (Suzie's) if not, then here are a few!

Serge and Hayden washing the van.

Landon smiling :)

More smiles!

Serge and Landon on a tire swing at the park.

We went swimming at my friends house.

Hayden shooting his Bow and Arrow.

More shooting at trees at the park. Don't worry, his arrows didn't stick into trees. They were sticks with erasers at the end to make a point.

Serge shooting the Bow and Arrow

Hayden on the swing.

Serge, Hayden and Landon on a Tetter-Totter.

Serge and Hayden on a Tetter-Totter

Hayden on a slide.

Hayden climbing up a slide.

Fun at the park.

A small pond at one of the parks we went to.

A lake that we drove past by Hesperia.

Serge and the boys with my Dad and Peggy.

Hayden, Serge and my Dad.