Becky, Jared and Sarah
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Blessing and Baptism
Jun 8th
On May 29th 2010 my nephew Logan was Blessed
Jared and Jocelynn at the Blessing
On May 30th my sister in law, Emily was baptized into the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Good job Emily we are proud of your righteous decision.
Lots of other fun things happened that weekend as well
We installed our car seat. It turned out to be a real blessing that we did it before she arrived because we orginally had it behind the driver’s side seat but the car seat was too long so Jared couldn’t put the his seat back as far as he would like. So, now we have it in the middle were it is just right.
We also had a girls lunch (plus Logan) at Zupas (a delicious soup and salad place) to celebrate Nicia’s birthday which would be on the fourth of June. I only took pictures with Logan sorry.
Becky and Logan
Caitlin and Logan
In-N-Out Opening Night
Nov 20th
Orem is the new proud owner of an In-N-Out Burger, which makes us the new cool people to visit from out of town. So last night was the first day it opened and it was PACKED! Check out the store! I could have taken another picture of everyone to our left and could have gotten more people in the picture.
Needless to say, we were probably violating fire code… Anyway, it was just tons of fun to be in the crowd and be there for opening day. We stood in line outside (fortunately they had patio heaters) and then ordered and then waited in the huge crowd of people, trying to hear our number called. We were order 68, and right after we ordered, we heard order 12 being called… So Becky was able to go to Barnes & Noble and look at books and such while we waited. We called Nicia and Joe and gloated that we had an In-N-Out while we waited for our food. Then about 30 minutes later, we got the food! Hurray! It was very tasty.
Halloween Fun
Oct 26th
Since Jared and I have been married we have gone to the Cornbelly’s Corn Maze at Thanksgiving Point. It is way fun! We went with our friends Taylor and Jessica Forbush. We’ve gone with them almost every time we’ve gone (except for only one time, I think). Well, we started out the day with pig and goat races. Goats are one of Jared’s favorite animals. If you don’t believe me I have videos to prove it. Then we went on a hayride.
We also went to the Halloween tree. There were crazy pumpkins there that you wouldn’t believe people actually carved. I think it inspired us as you will see later in the post.
After admiring the glow radiating from the jack-o-lanterns we headed to the jumping pillow for good exercise. It made me miss having a trampoline. Jared got way into it of course.
Then for the main event: the corn maze. Last year we got through way too fast. This year we were decently lost for a little bit of time.
But don’t worry we made it to the Victory Bridge in the end
. (P.S. This is Jared now. Side story: There was this annoying group of girls going through the corn maze that we had to follow for a little bit. They were being loud and spouting off random things, and every once in a while they would say, “We’re not drinking!” Anyway, the Victory Bridge takes you over the entrance as it takes you out of corn maze. I saw this group of girls below us, going through the entrance saying, “Finally, we’re done!” It took everything I had not to tell them they were actually at the beginning of the maze where they had started.)
The day was also full of fun little activities.
Well, we had a lot of fun but it was getting to closing time so we had to take our carriage and say good bye until next year.
Pumpkin Carving
Sunday we got together and carved pumpkins at Jared’s Dad’s house. Jared and I tried a little harder this year, but used patterns. I think this is my best pumpkin ever. Mine says Trick or Treat and Jared’s is a monster. But you tell me, does it look good enough to be my best pumpkin ever?
My mother-in-law Kathy went all out. We had a yummy soup, homemade apple sauce, and caramel apples.
This family gathering was a obvious success. Wow. All this Halloween fun and it isn’t even Halloween. Now all we need to do is decide what we are going to be for our Halloween Party. Any ideas?
End of Summer Fun
Aug 27th
I have been wanting to go to Lagoon all summer and we have been putting it off because of all sorts of things that come up. Well we finally decided to go. I even went online to check the times. So yesterday, Wednesday, we pack up our stuff and drive to Farmington (over an hours’ drive) only to be greeted by a sign saying Lagoon Closed. We couldn’t believe it! We looked on their website and everything. We talked to a guard at the employee gate and they said that it was closed because school started and it would only be open on weekends. Well… school hadn’t started for us yet. Needless to say we were pretty disappointed. So, we started to drive home. I didn’t want to waste all the time we have driven and do nothing, so started thinking about all the stuff we could do in Salt Lake. We decided to go to the zoo.
But first we had lunch at Costa Vida. YUM!
The zoo was pretty fun.
We saw lions (drinking fountains), tigers and bears, oh my. We have never been to the zoo as a couple. Jared’s favorite animal was the Red Panda also known as the Firefox. It made us want to watch Kung Fu Panda again since Shifu is a Red Panda. And even though they were boring, he liked the Snow Leopard for the same reason.
He also liked the penguins.
The turtle was pretty fun too.
I liked the giraffes
It was hot so we got some snow cones.
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Since there was a geocache within walking distance we had to find it. (SPOILER ALERT, this will give the location of a geocache away)
Also we stopped by This is the Place Monument and just looked around. If you don’t know your LDS/Utah history. It is the place where Brigham Young said “This is the right place.” This was important because it meant that after 1,300 miles of walking or riding in a covered wagon they were finally at their destination.
Then on our way home we went to IKEA and looked around. It was Jared’s suggestion. I got ideas of how I am going to decorate my future home. We also got some more chocolate and meatballs. If you haven’t tried their chocolate and meatballs with cream sauce (not together) they are delicious.
Then to finish our day we got a Redbox movie and watched it (Escape to Witch Mountain).
So, even though we didn’t get to go to Lagoon we had an amazing day.
P.S. For more pictures click on the “pictures” tab on the top
Pasco Fun So Far
Aug 7th
We’ve done a ton of stuff in Washington so far and wanted to write it all down before we forget.
Geocaching
Of course, the first thing I need to talk about is the geocaches we’ve found. Becky’s mom had read about some of our geocaching adventures on our blog and was curious as to exactly what it was and where you found them and everything. So we took her to a few caches close to where they live (and by close, we’re talking 30 minutes away closer to town around the Wal-Mart). We found a cache in the middle of a sage brush field, and we found one in more sage brush by a Lowe’s, and found a skirt-lifter behind a grocery store. So she got a pretty good idea of the different kinds of finds there are out there. She thought it was pretty fun.
We returned home and told Becky’s dad about the caches we found and he wanted to try finding some. I told him there was one that we could only get with four-wheelers. I told him the area the cache was hidden, and he said he was going to take us on a trip there anyway. So the next day we went out on a four-wheeler trip to find this very remote cache (Green Island GC19WCE). It took us a few minutes to find it, but sure enough, it was there. We all signed the log and continued on our trip.
The last notable cache we came across was a micro (almost a nano). We spent a decent amount of time finding this one. The day before, we found a cache in a cement barrier close to the entrance of a freeway. When we got to the cache location, we found the same cement barriers there so I automatically thought it was in there. So we looked around and couldn’t find anything. Then I took a second look at the GPS and we were about 20 feet away from it. So I moved 20 feet and was at this tree. We looked all over the tree and couldn’t find it. Then we looked all over the cement barricades again. Then went back to the tree. As I was walking around the tree, I was looking down at the GPS, looked up, and spotted it. Here’s how small this bad boy was.
Family Fun Times
As you already know, we went four-wheeling. We did some crazy stuff on them. After we found the geocache, we played in the mud by the river. Katie got stuck in the mud so we took our shoes off and helped get it un-stuck.
Then we continued on and found a nice hill to try the four wheel drive system on the machines. We went up some pretty steep hills. Becky said one time I was only on two wheels for a few seconds!
Then I actually got to do something productive (besides playing) out here. Somehow I found out Amy’s computer had died. So I offered to take a look at it. Somehow, Windows had corrupted itself and pretty much had to be reinstalled since it wasn’t offering any options to try and repair the system files. She had taken it or had someone look at it before and they said they couldn’t do anything for her. Fortunately, they gave her an external enclosure. I took the hard drive out of her laptop, put it in the enclosure, and used my Mac to read all her files. I was able to recover everything she wanted: documents, pictures, music, movies, that sort of thing. Fortunately #2, she had the operating system recovery CD. So I put the hard drive back into her computer and reinstalled the OS. Then I installed all the software and updates and put all the files back on her computer. She was so surprised and delighted at what I had done that she offered to take us to lunch, so we went to Mongolian Grill!
Then you already should know about my ER visit. So that’s all the good times for now (at least that we have pictures of!)
