DODGERS COME TO AZ!!!

Bring it on Diamondbacks! We love when the Dodgers come to town! I wanted to support the Dbacks when we first moved here because it's always fun to like the team in the town that you live in. But I just couldn't do it! In fact I HATE the Dbacks...especially because every time that they win it hurts the Dodgers. True Blue for life! Annie, JJ and their cute family just moved to Glendale, AZ. We are so excited to have them here. Both JJ and Nate are so busy in school but I am sure we'll get to do things with them. Her son Logan is my new best friend!! I also need to Welcome Manny...he cranked out 2 homers at the game we went to...as long as he keeps that up, then welcome to LA!

New Computer!!!

Yeah! We finally got a new computer thanks to Holly helping us find one. Nate and I are both not very computer savvy so we didn't even know what we were looking for. My old computer wouldn't let me load pictures on it anymore so now we are excited to re-enter the blogging world! We'll catch you up a bit on our fun summer....
1. We both had summer birthdays so we were able to get together with a bunch of our friends to celebrate.

2. The Ivins invited us and the Lameiux's to Blanding for the 4th of July. We played in an all night softball tourney, all day volleyball tourney, went to the parade, and watched fireworks..It was an awesome weekend. After Blanding we all packed up and went to Colorado to the Ivins Cattle Ranch. My was that the experience of a life time! We road horses, fished liked crazy, and herded cow. Of course Nate loved the fishing the best. It still ceases to amaze me that he can wake up at 4:30 in the morning to fish...even more amazing when he can convince me to go with him.We hope to go back to the Ranch soon!
3. We were able to get up to Utah for a short trip to see our families. It was the first time Nate got to meet Dylan. He is the cutest little guy on earth! We celebrated Susie's 50th Bday on that trip as well. It was fun to see Nate's nieces and nephews in Ogden too. On the way to SLC we stopped to hike the Orderville/Narrows hike at Zion with Kami, her hubby and some other friends. It was an awesome 13 mile hike.
4. We went on a last min. camping trip with Nate's parents and sister, Heidi, before we had to start back to school. We went to Lake Mary and found a nice camping site there. My uncle Dan hooked me up with some yummy dutch oven recipes so Nate and I bought our first dutch oven and gave it whirl.

5. Fossil Springs...we are back! This is one of our favorite hikes. You hike down for 4 miles to BEAUTIFUL waterfalls. There are all sorts of ropes swings and rocks to jump off of. The water is so clear that you can see all the way through the bottom, and you can see all the little fish swimming around!

6. Of course we took plenty of fishing trips...I loved reading my Twilight books on the boat. I read so many books this summer! The joy's of a work free summer!

7.Happy 1 year Anniversary! We celebrated our first year together. My oh my has it been quite the year of firsts and new changes in life. New jobs, schools, states, friends, families, and new adventures! We have been fortunate to do so many fun things with each other. Nate is the best husband anyone can ask for. I am sure we will look back to this time of our life and cherish the memories we've made.

These are a few of our FAVORITE THINGS!

Some of these pics are from last year. I just wanted to make a scrapbook about all of our favorite things to do together. As much as it's been hard to be away from friends and family in Utah, it has been fun for Nate and I to be adventurous together and make new friends and try new hobbies together. We love friendly (or not so friendly) competition in darts, making bets drinking weird stuff, of course fishing, hiking, wakeboarding, tennis, camping, and running races together.

Roosevelt Lake Camping/Fishing Trip

This is Nate's favorite place to fish and camp. The sunset was AMAZING on our drive up there! Arizona has awesome sunsets in the summer, that's the one good about AZ summer (it's already in the high 90's, YIKES!) I have to give a shout out to my mom for the Lloyds BBQ stuff. I used to hate that stuff as a kid and now that I have to prepare the food this is my go-to camping food. Get some buns and slap it on there, nice'n'easy just the way I like it. Nate's little boat fits nice in the back of his truck. It's perfect becaus we don't have to worry about hauling a trailer.

The Great Outdoors!

This is at Fossil Springs. It is such a beautiful place! You hike down for four miles to get to the waterfalls. Sometimes the water is crystal clear you can see all of the fish swimming. Nate was diving head first off the rope swing...I was such a chicken and it took me forever to dive off.

More dress up...yes it's a wig!

We had to dress up as a celebrity for school!

Dress up anyone?

Okay, so these pics will probably be deleted shortly so get your kicks and giggles while you can :)! Yes, I know they are upside down, my blogging skills are awesome! We have spirit week at my elementary school where I teach (I teach 5th grade this year). I am also the student council advisor and I encourage all of the class reps to dress up. You've got to teach by example, right?? Most of you that know me well know that I look for any excuse to dress up so the whole advisor thing is just an excuse! The Christmas dress up was for a family party Nate and I went to. He is not as keen as the dress up idea as I am, it took a lot of convincing.