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Hanneli Labor Day Weekend Visit

We went up and saw Hanneli. Man this girl is still growing!!! I didn't get as many pictures this time around but man we had a blast with her!!



We took playdough up with us and we played with it. She had Jon make a penguin. He actually did really good :) We were trying to get her to eat the dinner but there was such much to do so of course she didn't want to eat so I made a french fry to 'hint' at it so she was acting like she was going to eat it. and then it became a game of tasting it and going 'ew' and then she would give it to Jon to taste and he would go 'icky' and so on and so on. it was was cute.

Swinging with daddy.

She would go down the slide over and over again. Jon would follow her up and then follow her down the twisty slide. I would catch her at the bottom and then once jon got to the bottom then she would run into his arms like she was catching him. There was once that he went up to follow her and she turned around andsaid 'Stay Here Daddy'. He was like..umm okay so she went up and then I caught her at the bottom of the slide and then she started looking around for Jon..it was really cute

She found the dirt under one of the BBQ Grills and was having fun playing in it and flinging it around.

She has a thing for Jumping..I tried to get a shot of them both jumping off at the same time but no luck..She would get her arms swinging and then jump :) Totally wished I had gotten it on video because it was classic!!!

Hanneli is so awesome and amazing and I can hardly wait to get to do more things with her!!

Labor Day Weekend

For Labor Day Weekend since Jon and I are still living in separate states then we decided that we would meet half way in Cedar City where his mom lives. It was a fabulous weekend that ended with Jon coming up to Ogden for a few extra days :)
We got to cedar Friday night and then Saturday we headed to St. George for a 24 hours of some alone time. :)

We had hoped to go and do a session on the temple but found out it was closed so we went and just relaxed on the grass in the shade (it was about 100 degrees in St. George)
Jon and I actually saw each other for the first time on these Temple Ground 8 years ago when Joey and Nicole got married (They are the ones that hooked us up, Joey is his brother and Nicole is my best friend from high school). But of course neither of us actually spoke to each other and we had absolutely no idea what God had in store for us down the road. It is pretty funny to think about because neither of us remember seeing the other there but we definitely have pictures to prove it :)

We wanted to do a little sight seeing and toured Brigham Youngs Winter Home. It was pretty awesome stuff. The home of course is over 100 years old, but so is my parents home and I noticed that some of the door knobs in this home are exactly like the ones in my parents home. I know strange fact but hey I thought it was pretty cool to think that my parents home was built around Brigham Young's time.

We stayed at the Quality Inn. It was nice and totally made it feel like we were on a real vacation outside of Utah.

Check out all the palm trees!!

We also headed to Fiesta Fun Center for some GO Carts, Batting Cages and Mini Golfing. Jon kick my butt at the Go Carts but they were very strict about not bumping into each other and how you will be kicked out and so on and it was me and 3 other guys on the track so it was hard to be careful with the speed demons on the track. Needless to say, Jon totally lapped me!! but he was very cute. it was the 2nd to last lap when he caught up with me and he just stayed at my side rather then passing me..ah!! such a sweet hubby!!

Batting Cages...Man that was fun!! I hadn't hit a softball in a LONG time and I actually did pretty good. I do definitely need to sharpen my skills but hey it was a blast!!

Monday we went to the Iron County Fair with his siblings and walked around. They had some pretty cool things on display. We then headed to Fillmore on our way to Ogden to spend some time with my family. Jon and I took the 4-wheelers out for a ride. I took Jon to Fillmore's version of the Sand Dunes. Then we ate dinner with the fam and then headed back to Ogden

Tuesday we headed to Logan to spend the evening with Hanneli and I will post more on that later...

Wednesday Jon showed up at my work with Flowers..oh I was so surprised. I had had a fetish with Sunflowers recently (Fillmore had FIELDS FULL of the wide Sunflowers and I was just at awed because they are sooo pretty) and so there were some smaller flowers but then a big sunflower in front :)

Since it was Jon's last night in Ogden I left work early and we went to the temple and ran some errands. He said that he needed to go to the mall, I asked him why and he just said that I would see..I was like umm okay, that works because I need to get my work schedule anyway. So we get inside of the mall and he was like okay where to first...I gave him this look like how am I suppose to know..he then tells me that he is going to buy me some new shirts. I was soo surprised and SO excited. My closet is mostly White and Black because of Sears uniform stuff and I don't really have much anything beyond that. So we went shopping and I LOVE shopping with him because he is like my person shopper and he picks out the cutest stuff that I would never think about picking out :)

Cutest Husband Ever!!!

All I can say sit that I have a pretty neat hubby!!! SO Last week we were texting back and forth and I had a huge text that I wrote him that was kind of all over the place and I said something about being all over the place... this is the conversation that followed..

Him: Or Bipolar
ME: BIPOLAR?!?!?1
HIM: It was a joke Sweetie!
ME: Bipoloar Huh? I will Show you Bipolar
HIM: NOOO!! Please...NO!! I'll do anything if u just stay the way u r. I was only kidding
ME: You will do anything?
HIM: Name it!!
ME : *Evil Grin* this should be good
HIM: Bring whatever it is on

I really wanted to do something he wouldn't expect because he is so rocking awesome that he literally would do anything for me. SOooo I called my fabulously smart oldest sister for some fun creative ideas :) She told me the first thing that came to mind and I LOVED IT!!! SOoo I told him what I wanted him to do. He was SOOO shocked and had to ask me a couple of times to make sure I wasn't playing with him. And I don't know how many husbands would actually do this but mine did!!! LOVE this man soooo much!! I did tell him that he could recruit the bishops daughters to help him. Of course he didn't tell them that I told him that he had to do this so they were like..oh that is sooo cute and to this day they still think that but I am okay with it :)

Yep if you haven't guessed, the thing I wanted him to do is to put cups into a fence that has some kind of phrase with my name and he had to be in the picture :) OH he is sooo cute!!

Hanneli July Visit

Jon and I hadn't seen Hanneli since February. I can't belive how big she has gotten in just the 5 months!!! She was way excited when she saw Jon. We had a blast at the park. I got some fun video of them both swinging and kicking their legs. I wish I could figured out how to load it.

Yeah!! I figured it out!!! :)

She is definitely a climber. She had Jon chasing after her all over the place..up the stairs...down the slide. But man he loved every second of it!

Jon bought her some dora sunglasses that she loved and also some Dora Sandles. She was way excited to get them.

BUBBLES!!! She had a blast with them. Jon would blow them and she would chase them until they hit the ground and even after they popped she would stomp on them.

She wanted to try and blow the bubbles herself, so we tried to show her how to shake the wand to get the bubbles out...this the result :)

Jon is a big golfer and so when he saw ths little toy golfing bag he had to get it for her...she had a blast

4th of July weekend

The 4th of July weekend was a fabulous weekend. Jon arrived on Weds night to move all his stuff up since he had to be out of his apt by the end of June. HOLY cow we have a ton of stuff!! Thurs night I planned a date night and took him to Texas Roadhouse for dinner. Then we went to the Ogden Temple and walked off dinner and thought about how amazing it would be to be married in this awesome temple.












Jon and his smelling ability. haha he just sat there smelling all the different flowers










We then walked over to Farr's Ice Cream for dessert and then headed to Frog Rock to check out the view of the Valley.

Friday for Lunch we headed to Beau's Pond and relaxed in the grass and enjoyed just being together











We took a walk around the pond. Shortly after I took this picture the ducks started to run like something scared them...then I realized that something was in the water that didn't seem to belong...yeah someones dog had jumped in but it blended in pretty well so all you could see was this head bobbing and something that looked like ears :)







That night we met up with Britt and Eddie and headed to Toad's for some Mini Golf. I really wished I had gotten more pictures but it was already dark by the time we got started so this is the only one I took. Yeah I really sucked at this game but Jon of course beat us all but it was a blast!!





Saturday morning we headed to Logan to see Hanneli my adorable new Step Daughter..I will do a separate post on it :)
After that we drove the 3.5 hours to Fillmore to spend the night of the 3rd in Fillmore with the family and hit up the awesome fireworks. It was soo good to see Laurel and her family, I only get to see them about once a year so I soak up every moment.






Emry, Laurel and Audry












Aaaaahhhh!!! :)














Emry & I showing off our amazing sparklers










Spinning circles and making myself dizzy

Laurel's girls wrestling around on the grass at the baseball fields waiting for the fireworks to start
















Sunday morning we headed to Cedar to spend that Sunday and Monday morning with Jon's family. It was fun, LOVE the new in-laws!!! Heber and Jaylynn had some left over fireworks so we went outside on Sunday and shot them off. Kai, Jaylynn's 2 yr was sooo funny with them. They would make a screeching noise and he would take off. The first time he did it Jon ran after him thinking he was scared, well he turned around was was laughing. it was pretty hilarious.





Me and my new niece Maggie








































Cedar City did their parade on Monday instead of Saturday. It was fun to actually get to see a parade since I missed Fillmore's on Saturday. They had a ton of water guns and the kids got soaked but loved every moment of it.

June Trip to Flagstaff

Since we didn't get the temple clearance we had expected to get then we decided that we really didn't want to wait another 4 weeks to see each other, so I quickly booked a ticket and looked forward to a tip to see my man.






Jamming out on the couch

We took a walk in downtown Flagstaff, they have some awesome shops down there. Man this city is definitely a hippy town.

Jon had his HUGE final exam back in April and they told him it would take about 6-8 weeks to get the results. The results just happened to come when I was there...YEAH!!! HE PASSED!!! he was so relieved and was so happy!!!

Saturday Night was the elders Quorum BBQ. It was definitely interesting to see the looks we got since most of the ward had no idea that he was dating nonetheless engaged! :) we had a blast. There was a small pond and there were a few families catch and releasing cat fish. Jon and I played around at the hoop and threw some football...yeah I was pretty impressed with my football throwing skills.. One of the hoops you can lower to really low, so we did it for the little kids. Brent (Bishop's son) was having a blast and I got he perfect shot of him trying to slam dunk!!

So let me tell you about my fabulous plane flying experience!! It started in my connecting flight in Phoenix to Flagstaff. The plane that goes to Flagstaff was one of those smaller ones that you actually have to walk onto the tarp mat to load. Well there were 2 planes sitting there and boarding. Well there was a couple in front of me and they stopped and asked one of the crew and I heard him say something about Flagstaff and then pointed to the 2nd plane. I thought, sweet! SO I followed them and boarded the plane. Well the lady kept counting and then said something about Yuma and didn't think anything of it. Then a little bit later she said..this plane is going to Yuma, is there someone on a wrong plane..OOOPS! yes that was me!! She was actually really rude when I realized had boarded the wrong plane. Luckily neither plane and left so I quickly changed planes and was off to get to my man!

Well then on Sunday, we got to the airport and they they told me that the plane was delayed that was coming in due to mechanical issues and it would probably be only 30 mins..I thought well that sucks but totally okay because I had an hour lay over in Phoenix. They told me they would pull everyone through security about 20 mins before It got there. My plane was suppose to leave at 6:10, they took us through security about 6:40. I thought..okay..I will be okay..I will just have to run from one plane to the next. Well the plane that we would board didn't even come in until 7:10...ummmm okay this is getting a little closer then I like but was thinking that if they board us quickly we will be okay...there were already a lot of people who would miss their flights. Well they didn't load us and actually leave until 7:30...luckily the flight to phoenix is really short, I would have to run but should be okay to make it. We landed at 8..sweet....so I thought. We they ended up sitting on the runway for 15 mins waiting for a spot to open up...in this 15 min time frame there were people checking flights and my flight actually left 7 mins early!! so needless to say everything on the plane missed their flights and was stranded in Phoenix..

The good thing is that U.S. Airways does at least treat their flyer's really good and put me up in the Courtyard Marriott for the night and SOO glad I had extra clean clothes on me. Here are some pictures from the awesome hotel

$3.00!! this is crazy stuff!!!!

Balcony:)

Very comfy beds!!

So I had to call my boss and let her know that I was stuck in Phoenix for the night, and the earliest flight they could get me on was at 7am. So I got up early and headed to the airport. They had given me my new ticket the night before so it was nice to not have to stand in the icky lines. Well I get to the gate and sit down...it was empty and seemed a little off...Then I had a feeling to check the flights..yeah they totally changed the gate on me to the other end of the airport..luckily I had a little bit of time to run to the right gate. When I got there they were pretty much done except the last few stragglers...well I gave them my ticket to board and the guy called me back and said I wasn't in the system...ARE YOU SERIOUS!!! Whoever did the ticket didn't finish putting me in...Luckily there was still room for me on the plane. We did take off and landed in Salt Lake with no further problems. It was definitely a weekend to remember:) It was hard to be stranded in Phoenix, especially since I would much rather have been stranded in Flagstaff with my honey. :)