Changes!

This week Klane was called to serve as the 2nd Counselor in the bishopric of the BYU 24th ward - an off campus singles ward. It was quite unexpected! Today we attended the ward for the first time and Klane was set apart, and we are excited. We will miss the 148th ward (and I'll really miss my primary kids!) but this is going to be a great learning experience and an opportunity for us to grow. We love Bishop Green, he is way cool. He is a pilot and has had a lot of cool experiences. We are also excited to serve with the the Baumgartens, Matt and Tamara, who live in our ward, just one building over from us.

Listen to John Mayer

We went to see John Mayer last night! The concert was so entertaining! We surprised Klane's dad with tickets for Father's Day, so the whole family went together. We had such a great time and the concert was amazing; John Mayer is such a talented performer and musician. He can play the guitar like nobody's business. He would do these five minute guitar solos mixed in with his songs that were mind-blowing. Plus he can sing just as well live as on his CD, plus he was pretty funny too. It was fun to watch because you can tell that he absolutely loves doing what he does, making music, and he just, i don't know, exudes this joy up on stage. It was very cool. All in all it was a fun night. We're so glad we went!
As usual you can click on the picture of John to see more.

July

It has been a busy month! I really cannot believe we're wrapping up July already; wasn't the Fourth just last week? We have had a lot of fun things keeping us busy. We had a great Fourth of July weekend with Klane's family. We watched the parade, played Slip N Slide with the boys, and had a BBQ and fireworks at Annie's. (Click the sparkler pic to see more.) We also went out to the Magleby's to swim and i just wish i had the video of Klane and Mike launching Ethan over the volleyball net in the pool. It was EPIC.
Other recent happenings: Mike and Sara kicked our butts at bowling, we had a fun "cousin date" at the cabin with Kyle, Michelle, Ashley and her fiance Matt (who we met for the first time and really liked), more boating with Grandma Marilyn, Sheralyn and Sheralee, and we also took family pictures last week with the Hardings.

I like this picture of just the girls. I just love my sister in laws, they are so much fun and such wonderful women. And I'm excited Sara is officially becoming part of the family so I'm not the only tall blonde! Love you girls, you're the best.

P.S. Running update: Klane and I ran 7 miles on Saturday. It's fun to see how much endurance we're building, last week it seemed impossible to run that far, but it felt great! We're gearing up for 8 next weekend.

Camping down South

Last weekend was mountain lakes and streams, this weekend was dry deserts. But equally fun! We camped in Moab with Dave, Kaylene, Mike and Sara, hiked to Delicate Arch at sunset, ate at yummy restaurants, and on Saturday did a 10 miler through the Needles District of Canyonlands. It was HOT but we had a fun time. We saw some cool stuff. And hey, we love these people! We have so much fun together.

Thanks Kaylene for being our photographer. :) Click the pic to see more.

Strawberry Days

I'm waiting to get pictures of our camping trip this weekend, so in the meantime I'll post our pics from the Strawberry Days Rodeo. We didn't bring our big camera so the pictures aren't amazing, but we love the people in them and we had fun at the rodeo. This year featured motocross riders doing backflips! And there's always the delicious strawberries and cream.

P.S. There are also two random pics of us after a wedding reception... notice my mom and my coordinating outfits. No we did not plan it, yes we think alike.

Evening at the Lake

We loved trying out my family's new boat on Utah lake the other night. The boat is so fun and we had time for some crazy tubing and our first attempt at wake surfing. Awesome! We're looking forward to many more boating trips this summer. This is the first year in a long time we won't be going to Powell so we're going to make up for it. Gotta get that skiing in! Check out our pictures by clicking the one above. The sunset lighting was perfect!

P.S. Running Update: I ran 5 miles today! Woo!

Silver Lake

We had a backpacking adventure with Kyle and Michelle up American Fork Canyon to a place called Silver Lake. Camping, hiking, fishing and great weather. We took our camera and got some great pictures. It was so fun.

Happy Birthday, Klane!

I am so grateful for my wonderful husband. He is so good to me and he is such a deeply good person. Klane teaches me every day with his example of patience, integrity, testimony, hard work, dedication, kindness... the list goes on and on. Thanks for being the perfect husband. Happy birthday babe, I'm so glad you were born!
We had a fun birthday celebration with Klane's family yesterday. We celebrated Lynsie's and Klane's birthdays. Delicious dinner, cake and ice-cream, and touch football in the yard. It was such perfect weather we had to take advantage of it. We love our family and we love doing fun things together. Click the picture to see the rest.

Day One

All right everyone, I am doing it. I'm going to run the Top of Utah half-marathon in August. Today was officially "day one" of my training schedule. To those of you who are marathoners, I applaud you, because just doing half will be the hardest thing I've ever done. But I'm excited! So cheer me on and if you want to run with me, please do! I'm pretty sure Lynsie's already on board. Yeah!

Lonely...

We were feeling abandoned this weekend. Annie, Chris, Lynsie and Nathan are on a cruise; Mike and Sara are at Yosemite with her family; Kyle and Michelle are in Israel with her family; my dad, Justin and Brandon were at Zion's Camp; and my mom went to visit her parents in So Utah. It was just us, Klane's parents and Lynsie's kids yesterday! Come home everyone, we miss you!

I did find something to occupy me though... I started reading The Host, Stephenie Meyer's new book, and I am officially sucked in. It is really good. I read all day Sunday. Love it! Can't put it down! Definitely recommend it.

Engagement Rings and Princess Crowns

This weekend we had some exciting family things going on. First, Mike and Sara got engaged! We are so excited for Sara to officially become part of the family; we love her! Plus, it will be so fun to have another married couple to hang out with. We love you guys!

The other fun event was our niece Tessa's first birthday. We all went over to Lynsie's house for a Princess Party, complete with pink presents and a princess crown cake. We love this little girl, she is our cutest and most favorite niece! :)

Cruisin

I had so much fun with the girls from work on our cruise last week! It was so much fun to have a break and just hang out with everyone. I absolutely love the people I work with and we had so much fun together being crazy, ordering room service at 1 am, riding bikes on Catalina, shopping, taking pictures, talking, dancing, and being silly girls. I also got to go to Sea World and for some real mexican food in Ensenada with my parents. I had such a fun time. Our bosses are so awesome for taking us all on such a great trip.

And thanks to my sweet husband Klane for holding down the fort while I went off and played; he was so busy with school and work while I was gone! I think it was actually good because he could stay up till 2:00 am working and I wouldn't have to worry about him! Love you so much babe.

we're kind of just in love with each other

We just can't stop celebrating, what with our anniversary this week and with a break (however short) from school. What's not to celebrate? Our actual anniversary was the 28th, so on Monday night I fixed us a yummy 'gourmet' dinner - complete with Martinelli's sparkling cider - and for dessert we shared a piece of our wedding cake top, which has been in the freezer for a year. (Who thought of that tradition??!) There is no picture of the cake, but don't worry, it wasn't too scary. Surprisingly enough, it was actually really good. After dinner we did something we love that we haven't been able to do for a while. We packed up all the pillows, cushions and blankets in the house, put them in the back of Klane's truck, drove up to a lookout point where we had a good view of the city lights and watched a movie on the laptop. May sound kind of random but we love watching movies in the back of Klane's truck. It really is so fun! We haven't done it since last summer and on Monday it was finally warm enough. What a fun evening with my favorite boy.

The Dinner. (yes we take pictures of our food. see recipe to the side.)

Our little movie-watching spot. How cosy. I realized we should have turned around and got a picture of the view! We had a good view of the valley, and once it got dark it was cool to see the stars and the city lights.

I love this boy!

I had to soak up all the time I had with him before he went back for Spring semester. It really was so great to have that week after finals when we had nothing to worry about and could just spend time together. I am glad he'll be graduating in a year, but his schedule is going to be CRAZY until then! He started classes on Tuesday and I realized I really am not going to see much of him for the next couple months. Night classes, lunchtime classes, extra projects and meetings on the other nights and of course Calle. I love my hardworking husband, he does so much.

One Year Anniversary

We celebrated our one year anniversary by visiting the Tulip Festival at Thanksgiving Point, going to do a session at the Salt Lake Temple, and eating at The Roof. It was such a fun day. We had our reception at the Garden Visitor's Center on the last day of Tulip Festival last year, and I haven't been inside the Salt Lake Temple since we were married there, so everything was very reminiscent of our wedding day. I got to practice my photography skills on the tulips, which was fun. Klane was a good teacher and was patient with me. He is such a perfect husband and I have loved every minute of being his wife! The first year has been amazing and I can't wait for more.

Us at the Tulip Festival last year