Nicole and Kurtis' Krazy World

Recipes!!

2010-01-27T19:17:00.001-08:00

The gals in my family have created a blog (with inspiration from a family friends idea) with recipes that we'd love to share with you all! We're also planning on inviting my mom's side of the family (hence the wiser name) to contribute recipes as well! Hope to all can check it out and enjoy! It's located on my friends list under Wiser Recipes!

Catching Up!

2010-01-25T20:59:00.000-08:00

Ok so it's been forever since either of us have last posted anything, so here goes the catching up!

September - after our anniversary we went with my family to Eugene, OR to visit my sister Amanda, who lives there, and to watch the Utes play the Oregon Ducks. It was great to visit where Amanda lives and eat at the wonderful restaurants and watch the game, even though the Utes lost. It's crazy how it rains out there...the rain isn't like real rain, it's more like a really really wet mist. I've never seen anything like it, but I really liked Oregon. We actually missed our flight back to Utah and had to fly out a day later than we had planned, but it was nice because we got to stop at the Portland temple, which was really pretty! I have pictures in the slide show!

October - we drove down to Vegas to watch the Utes play down there with my fam again (minus Amanda). We were only there a couple days, but we had fun and rode the rides at the Stratosphere and New York New York. Well, actually only Missy and I rode the rides at the Stratosphere because everyone else were too wussy to go! There aren't really any pictures because I forgot to take the camera when we went places! Towards the end of the month, Kurtis started feeling sick, and was diagnosed with pnuemonia, so he was down and out over Halloween.

November - December - We stayed home quite a bit. Kurtis still wasn't feeling any better and had been having pains in his stomach that were unbearable. He couldn't eat because the pain would make him so sick. Total he's lost about 30 pounds, which for him isn't good because he doesn't need to lose weight. We finally had to take him to the hospital for the pain, which led us to a CAT scan, which led us to a cyst on his kidney, which wasn't a big deal, but the doctor wanted him to get an ultrasound, which led his physican to want to get the ultrasound on more organs, which led them to find some polyps in his gallbladder, which finally led us to his gallbladder removal surgery. It was quite the recovery time for the poor guy and he's finally starting to get back to his usual self! We were able to go to the Poinsettia bowl to watch the Utes play Cal and it was an AWESOME game!! It was so awesome to see a bowl game and it was nice to go to San Diego for a couple days and go to the zoo and have (although not extremely warm) sunny weather! It was great! Christmas was wonderful and we got to spend time with family, which is nice! We have some good pictures included in the slide show!

January - Ok so now we're getting up to date! Like I said Kurtis is getting his health back and last weekend we went up to Park City to try and see some famous people at Sundance. It was cold, but we still had fun! We only saw two famous people...Rachel Dratch from SNL...she was really nice and Alan Tudyk, who is on movies like 28 days and a Knight's Tale...I like him, but I couldn't get a picture of him because of all the people around. I also went back on weight watchers and I joined a Fit Friends group, where a bunch of gals put in money and weigh in every week for 12 weeks and and there's a first, second and third place gets part of the pot, so it's really helped me stay motivated! I've started to work out during my lunches at work because we have a gym for our personal fitness training students and the gym can be used by employees so I don't have to pay! Score! So far I've lost 9.5 lbs in 3 weeks and I'm stoked! We'll see how it goes!

So that's about all that's been going on in our lives so far so we'll try to keep this up-to-date as much as we can! Enjoy the slideshow!

One Year Ago Today...

2009-09-17T13:09:00.001-07:00

This handsome guy and I became husband and wife for time and all eternity!! It's crazy to think a whole year has gone by, but at the same time it seems like we've been together for a lot longer than we actually have. I personally think it's because we get along so well and that it's been so easy to be together, that it just feels like we've been together forever already, but I'm sure Kurtis has his own views on why it feels like it's been so long :). I'm so lucky I found someone who lets me be my crazy, LOUD self; who puts up with my snoring/weird breathing noises when I sleep, even though I know his own sleep is affected by it. I know it's cliche, but I do feel like I've married someone who I can easily call my best friend. I'm lucky I'm married to someone that I can tell anything and everything to and that I can be completely open with. I'm happy I'm with someone who is so laid back and that goes with the flow most of the time. He's such an amazing husband and I'm so proud to be his wife. This year has been fantastic and I look forward to many MANY more years to come. Happy anniversary to "my man"! :)

Yellowstone Quick Trip

2009-09-01T12:51:00.000-07:00

The weekend of the 15th was a little busy for us!! We had the Focus Four Run for Kurtis' work (see previous post) and it went really well!! I walked a mile with my mom and sisters and Kurtis, the brave soul, ran 4 miles!!! He hadn't even trained and he ran it in about 39.something minutes!! Less than 10 minute miles!! For someone who just up and ran it, that's amazing! I was pretty proud because I know I would have been crawling half the time and my time would probably have been closer to the hour mark or so at least! After the run, they had a raffle and my family made out like bandits! We all won something! I won a Tom-Tom GPS system, and even though I know the directions to my work and back home, I still use it because it makes me laugh! Right after the festivites, we drove straight up to Yellowstone (and we used Mr. Tom-Tom to get us straight there ha ha). Unfortunately one of the main roads to get up to Mammouth (sp) where all the good animals are found, was closed for the season, so we couldn't even get up there in the short amount of time we planned on spending. We'll have to try and go up again and plan ahead so we have a full day to get up there so we can see some bears at least! We did see your basic Yellowstone animals - elk, buffalo, a chipmunk or two...but that's it, so we went to the Grizzly and Wolf Center in West Yellowstone. Although the bears and wolves are in captivity, we were still excited to see them. We stayed at Kurtis' grandparents' cabin and came back home Sunday, so it was a short trip, but fun! Enjoy the slideshow of Yellowstone!

Focus Four Run

2009-08-06T13:25:00.000-07:00

Last year the company Kurtis works for (Focus Services) sent five of their employees to Guatemala. On August 24th of last year we receive a phone call from the guy from Choice Humanitarian who helped put the trip together. They were on their way to the village where they were going to build a school room when their plane crashed. We lost four of our friends and co-workers. It's hard to believe that it will have been a year since this tragic event. This tragedy was one of the hardest things we've ever had to deal with and really brought our company so much closer together.
A year later Focus and the families of John Carter, Cody Odekirk, Jeff Reppe, and Lydia Silva have decided we want to celebrate their lives. We have put together a four mile race and one mile walk to honor these great people and raise money for scholarships in each of their names for other Focus employees.
I'm hoping that by posting this anyone who reads this will walk to participate and/or help me spread the word. The race is one August 22nd at the George Whalen North Park in Roy which is located at 4200 S. 1900 W. The four mile run starts at 7am and the one mile walk starts at 7:30am. The cost of the run is $20 and the walk is $15. Participants will receive a t-shirt and water bottle then be entered into a raffle to win a lot of awesome prizes. If you are interested in participating you can register by visiting http://www.focusfourrun.com/. At that website you can register online or print out the registration paper and mail it in.
I hope to see some of you there!!

2009-07-06T13:22:00.000-07:00

Ah...Beautiful Barbados!!

2009-07-06T12:40:00.000-07:00

I'd like to apologize for posting this so late. We have a horrible internet service provider (who will remain nameless, but it's supposedly the largest 3G network...hmmm) and most of the time our internet is too slow to do pretty much anything. When that happens I get too frustrated and impatient to try and post anything on our blog, so this is why you haven't been updated on what we've been doing! Let me break it down for you...

First of all, back in May was Kurtis' birthday...on the 12th to be exact! We went out to dinner with my fam and we also went down to spend time with his parents and sister and bro-in-law and their son. It was pretty low key, which is what he likes. We're different that way - I'm a big fan of birthdays and he's not so much! Oh well, he's still fantastic even if he's not into birthdays!

At the end of May, we went on a vacation, just the two of us to Barbados! I've decided I'm super lucky to have found someone who loves to travel as much as I do and there's no one I'd rather be vacationing with! We went hiking up to the waterfalls in Willard with some friends the morning before we left on the plane! Nothing like making sure you're good and exhausted before a long flight! Barbados was beautiful...white sand beaches that felt like you were walking on packed flour and not sand, and beautiful teal colored water! That's definitely my idea of a vacation! The only thing we really signed up to do was snorkel with sea turtles, which was fun. We bought an underwater camera, but the pictures we got back pretty much suck, so you probably won't be seeing those! Other than our one little excursion, we pretty much just relaxed on the beach, ate good food, did some shopping (since the Barbados dollar = $2 US! Score) and (gasp) read a couple books! Both Kurtis and I read through two full, very interesting books during the trip. We both were amazed that we actually read so much on our vacation since both of us aren't really big book readers and neither of us had really read a book in a long time, but it sure was relaxing!! We ate some amazing seafood out there - HUGE shrimp, Swordfish, Flying fish sandwiches (seriously, you should try one sometime) and Mahi-Mahi, which they call dolphin down there. I'm not a big seafood eater, but since everything they had there was fresh, I actually loved it! It didn't taste fishy at all! We went to Crane Beach, which was #17 of the 21 most sexiest beaches on the Travel Chanel and it was sexy I will say!

The most interesting thing is the mode of transportation down there. Bus rides are only $.75 per person BDS, so super cheap and we decided to go that route instead of rent a car and try our luck at driving on the wrong side of the tiny roads AND on the wrong side of the car. Now, when you hear bus rides, I'm sure you picture a big bus, which they have, but they also have something extra, and if you look at our slide show you'll see what I'm talking about. They have small vans - smaller than mini vans, to also transport people along with the bus system. In the "vans" they would pack with about 16 people not including the driver and the dude taking the money! No joke! All you had to do when your stop was coming up was raise your hand and they'd just stop and let you out - sometimes right in the middle of the road and stop traffice! The best part was they all blasted their reggae music loudly and some were pimped out with tinted windows and blacklights that would blink with the beats to the music! At first we were a little scared to ride in them, but after our first ride that we survived, we took those most of the time. One fantastic ride was made even better when I noticed our "bus" driver had an empty beer bottle sitting next to him! It was amazing!! Really though the people there were really nice and we were only offered ganja a few times! I hope you enjoy the first slideshow, which is full of our vacation photos!

After we got back we were able to go boating for the first time this year! The only brave people to get into the cold water were Amanda and Kurtis and Kurtis was the only one who did any wakeboarding during that trip. Hopefully we can get back out there soon so I can get some boarding in! It was nice and warm and a lot of fun! I have a random slideshow on here too (the second one) - some pics of our hike to the waterfalls, Kurtis wakeboarding and some of our dogs. Dozer has been having some allergy issues and the vet put him on a steroid, which made him gain 10 lbs in a month, bringing him to a grand total of 96 lbs!! I about died when I read the scale! We're trying to get him to lose some weight because the steriods made him gain fat, not muscle. We take our dogs on a lot of car rides and so some of our pics show Dozer's usual stance with his head out the window! They keep us entertained!

We did take some photos from the 4th of July, so hopefully I'll get those posted soon, but there aren't many! We had fun hanging out with our families over the 4th weekend, even though both me and Kurtis have been dealing with sickness lately...ugh!

Birthday Cheer!

2009-04-03T07:38:00.000-07:00

Today is Nicole's birthday, so if you haven't already, leave her a comment or call her and tell her how wonderful she is because she deserves it. Nicole is the most wonderful, selfless person that I have ever met in my life and I still have no idea how a person like me was able to marry someone like her.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!

2009-03-09T21:09:00.000-07:00

Yes. We are still alive!!! It's funny how life gets soooooooooooooooooo busy sometimes. The last few months have been just that. Outside of work, school and passing sickness back and forth we haven't really done much. Kurtis' classes this semester are pretty demanding and it seems like he's always doing homework. Luckily we got a Wii a while back along with Rock Band 2. It's a nice break for him every once in a while. We also got a Fit last week with a gift card that I got from work. It's pretty much amazing. I am more than ready for spring to get here. I thought we were well on our way but today we got slammed. Our dogs love the snow though. Dozer will run back and forth and randomly dip down and eat the snow. It's pretty funny to watch. Poor little Daisy is too short and fat to get around most of the time. Here's a vid of them outside today. Kurtis got home to about a foot of snow.... UGH

Much of our life consists of these two.... they are pretty funny. This month marks our 6 month anniversary of being a legit family! Yippy!!!
Sorry this post is so short... get over it. I am!

Pictures

2009-01-11T22:41:00.000-08:00

Since it's been so long since we've last posted anything, we had a great Christmas and New Year for the most part. I didn't have to work from Dec 24th until Jan 5th, which was so very nice! I slept in every day (while Kurtis had to get up early for work) and I tried to clean most of our house. Kurtis was sick over the holidays with what we think was the flu...it's always horrible when you're sick, but I think it's even worse being sick over Christmas, but he was a trooper. My parents got a Wii for the family for Christmas so Christmas day was spent playing Rock Band 2 and eating. Kurtis and I had to use my dad's truck to get home that night because of all the snow that had fallen and my car wouldn't have made it. Whoever decides to have the snowplows out decided that since north of Ogden was so windy and since it was snowing so bad they would just stop trying to plow the freeway so it was an interesting drive. New years we went down to my parents to hang out with them and my siblings for a New Years Eve party, which was way fun! The pictures we have here are of Christmas day playing Rock Band and the last two Saturdays where Kurtis and I went up to Hardware Ranch (by Logan) to look at the elk and the Jazz vs. Detroit game that we went to as well. Kurtis is now back in school for the semester and has some pretty hard classes this time around, but I'm sure he'll do just fine. We're both done with our associates degrees and now he's onto the hard core accounting classes. I don't think I could do it!!

Amanda as our lead singer!

Amanda and Missy playing some guitar and bass

Jeff trying to concentrate hard playing the drums

My dad even got into the action!

Kurtis and I are getting to be pros at this game

On the way up to Hardware Ranch

This is up at the Ranch. There were so many elk I couldn't get them all into one pic!

The elk on it's back legs was about to fight with another elk. I was so excited I captured this!

At the Jazz game... I happen to be an Allen Iverson fan, but I cheered for the Jazz don't worry!!

The kid behind us kept kicking the backs of our chairs the ENTIRE game!!!

Dipping Chocolates

2008-12-07T23:17:00.001-08:00

Back when Kurtis and his sister's were young, the Koch side of his family would dip chocolates for Christmas every year. Well, his family decided to bring the tradition back and we dipped chocolates yesterday. We each brought our own things we wanted to dip and pounds and pounds of chocolate. (Seriously, we used about 4 packages of Almond Bark and I swear somewhere between 8-10 packages of real milk chocolate!) It was so much fun and now we have chocolates to give coworkers and neighbors for Christmas goodies!!

Table one of chocolates....

And tables two and three full of chocolates...

Close up of the Isle Idles and peanut butter cups.

Yummy truffles and chocolate cinnamon bears...

White chocolate and sprinkle pretzel rods...

Susan (Kurtis' mom) with the girls (our neices)

This is Kaylee, our neice, just after getting back from the ER after putting a bead up her nose!! Poor thing!

Cute little Pearson (our nephew!!)

Thanksgiving in Florida

2008-12-07T22:26:00.000-08:00

For Thanksgiving this year we went to Orlando, FL with my family to hang out in the warmth at Disneyworld. We went park hopping to the Magic Kingdom, Hollywood Studios, Epcot and the Animal Kingdom!! It was go, go, go the whole trip and we felt like we needed a vacation to rest after this vacation but it was a lot of fun and a great way to spend Thanksgiving!! Thanks mom and dad for taking us and we missed not having you there Jeff and Amanda!!!

Disney's Animal Kingdom park - this is a Safari ride at the park in which we get to see wild animals close up!

This is us about to do the Bug's Life 3D - It's Tough to be a Bug! Our glasses are awesome!

Expedition Everest roller coaster ride at Animal Kingdom...best roller coaster ever!!

Eating turkey legs on Thanksgiving day at Magic Kingdom...They're huge and so good!

Tower of Terror ride at Hollywood Studios...it's like an elevator that drops you 13 stories!

The street of dancing lights at Hollywood Studios...the street was covered in millions of Christmas lights and they had fake snow coming out of machines on the top of the buildings to make it feel Christmasy!! We sat there forever enjoying the Christmas music and watching the lights blink along with the songs....it was the best!

The last day it rained and we went on the Expedition Everest in the rain and got soaked!! Here's Kurtis soaked and a shot out the car window of the downpour!!

U of U Blackout Game!!

2008-11-09T19:26:00.000-08:00

We were there!! What an awesome ending!! Go UTES!! 10-0 baby!!

Reception/Wedding pics

2008-09-29T21:18:00.000-07:00

Our reception/wedding pics have been posted. Check them out if you get a chance
go to julieparkerphotography.com
click on weddings photo
click on proofing on the lower right hand side
password is Kurt and Nicole (don't forget the spaces!)
We are really pleased with the results!!

Enjoy

Honeymoon Pics!!

2008-09-27T22:20:00.000-07:00

Ok so this is going to be a little backwards since we haven't gotten our wedding pictures yet, but here are some pictures of our honeymoon! We went to Kauai and it was a blast, but it felt way too short! The weather was perfect...it would rain at night so we played in the sun the whole trip, well except for the last day... that day we'd drive and it'd be sunny and then bam it'd be a giant downpour and we wouldn't have the top on the Jeep up! It was so fun!! Enjoy the pictures!!

The view from our hotel room!! Woohoo!

Spouting Horn

Tunnel of Trees

Our sunset dinner cruise of the Napali Coast

A dolphin swimming alongside our boat!!

Ok here's the story with this picture. We ate at this place that we figured would be pretty good. Well, Kurtis ordered the Asian Ribs and this is what he got...the purple goo is supposed to be potato salad!! Yes potato salad!! They sat it down and we're both like...um what is that? Hence the picture... we tasted it and still to this day can't figure out what exactly this "potato salad" was made out of and why is was purple...

The random drenching rains!!

Kurtis warming himself up in the dry cave!

We went on an ATV tour through a sugar plantation! It was a blast! We got so dirty!

It was an amazing honeymoon an we're finally married!! Yay!

A Tragic Event

2008-08-26T13:43:00.000-07:00

Some of you may or may not already know this, but a very sad story hit way too close to home this weekend. If you watched/read the news you may have heard about the plane that crashed in Guatemala that had humanitarian workers on board from Utah. (http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=148&sid=4095091)
Five of the people on that plane were from the same company that Kurtis works for (and I used to work for) and two of them that didn't survive actually worked rather closely with and around Kurtis. It is such a tragedy that this happened and my heart goes out to the families of those amazing people on their way to do such a noble thing. I can't imagine what they are feeling right now and I hope I never have to experience first hand something like this. There is a small miracle in this story and that is that the COO of the company survived this horrific crash, which we are grateful for. This is a hard time for everyone at the company as well as many of the people who use to work there. John, Cody, Jeff and Lydia will all be missed by so many people. I ask for all of you who may read this to keep the families of all who were on the plane in your prayers. I am a firm believer that people who experience sad events like this can feel the prayers and caring of those who they may never even know. There are also accounts set up for the families of these amazing people. I encourage those of you, who are able, to donate. Here is how you can help.

At any Zions Bank Branch in the names John Carter and Cody Odekirk. Donations can be made in person, mail a check to 2302 Washington Blvd, Ogden UT 84401, or if you have a Zions account you can call any branch to transfer money.

Any Sauk Valley Branch in the names of Jeff Reppe and Lydia Silva. Donations can be made in person or be mailed to 201 W 3rd St, Sterling IL 61081.

If mailing a check or money order please specify which memorial fund you would like the funds to go to.

One thing I will take from this, and I hope others do too is to show your love and gratitude for everyone in your life always. There are no guarantees that you'll have time later to let that person know how you feel, now is the time to do it. With how busy our lives get it gets harder and harder to spend extra time with a loved one or to give that good friend a call. We need to remember what's most important to us and not let other things get in the way. Again, my heart goes out to the families of those on the plane and I pray for their comfort at this time. I am so grateful for the people that are in my life and I want them to know how much they mean to me. I love you all!

Daisy's Turn!!

2008-08-21T20:44:00.000-07:00

Since we have video capturing Dozer's personality it's time to capture Daisy's. Here is her trick...she always does this when we get home or if we're not paying enough attention to her. She's so adorable!!

Sneak Peak...

2008-08-20T09:25:00.001-07:00

Our wedding photographer has put some of our pictures on her blog as a "sneak peak." I have her blog listed under "friends and family" in case you guys want to look there, but here are the sneak peak pics! Hope you love them as much as I do!!

We have a date!!!

2008-08-09T21:24:00.000-07:00

We finally were able to set a date!! We're officially going to get married Sept 17th! We have the Eldredge Manor booked for our reception and I'm going to call the Bountiful temple on Tuesday and get all of that squared away!! Now it'll be easier to plan because now I'll have a date to tell people, but we did get a photographer. It was actually the one I originally wanted, but I wasn't sure if she'd do our engagements and my bridals without being officially booked for our wedding because her pricing is an all-in-one package, but she was great and was willing to work with us and did tell me she'd be available for the 17th if that ended up being the date we get married so now she can do all of our photography! We have our engagement pics scheduled for this Friday (the 15th) and my bridals are scheduled for Wed, Sept 3rd!! Woohoo! I am so excited and today is an excellent day!!

Wedding Update

2008-07-28T08:51:00.000-07:00

For those inquiring minds (aka our good friend Christina) I thought I'd take a minute to update everyone on the wedding situation. Obviously since we haven't said anything yet as far as an exact date goes, August is now not an option. There has just been a bunch of things that have come up preventing us from setting a date yet. We're now hoping for middle of September, but realistically it may be moved back further, which sucks, but there's really nothing we can do about it, so we will make the best of it! I have started planning and getting things ready because once we are able to set a date, it'll be a really quick thing. Here's an update of what all has been decided on and done so far:

I have my wedding dress and it has already been altered!! I bought my wedding dress from Kathleen's bridal in Kaysville and it's kind of nostalgic for me because my very first dance I went to in high school I rented a dress from Kathleen herself, but she was doing the dress thing out of the basement of her house and now she has made two old houses in Kaysville into two stores - one for wedding dresses and the other for prom dresses. The dress I got was the very first one I tried on - actually my mom and sister had gone in there a week earlier to look at dresses and had picked that one out as one I would just love, and they were right! The dress was perfect and when I tried it on, my sister started crying, so we know it's a keeper! Anyways, I've now had it altered so it fits perfectly and I'm going to leave a recommendation for anyone who needs a dress altered. I went to a lady in Syracuse name Terri Renner (I think that's her last name) and she was so nice and very knowledgable. She estimated she'd have my dress done in a week and actually had it done in just over one day and did it perfectly!! She's amazing! She also made my sash that I'm wearing with my dress - an aqua color to match my shoes. She did an amazing job and I'd highly recommend her to anyone - if you need alterations, let me know and I can hook you up with her number. All in all I'm loving my dress!!

We've also decided on wedding colors - we're doing shades of blue - mainly aqua, dark blue and light blue and then we'll have a green accent - the green is hard to explain. If any of you have seen the orchid flowers that are green - that's the color, but for those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about - it's like a charteuse (or however you spell it). I also know what I want the decorations to look like depending on when we do get married. My sisters have ordered their dresses in the colors already and mom has ordered hers, so that part is done and Kurtis' family has been updated on the colors as well. I'll probably be ordering my dad, brother and Kurtis' dad's clothing today or tomorrow. The guys will be wearing a shade of blue dress shirt and then tan/sand colored pants. Depending on if we're able to do the wedding in mid-Sept, they will not have to wear ties at the reception and will get to wear sandals. We're still working on what Kurtis will wear. I want our reception to not feel stuffy and formal, but still look nice.

I have also called a photography place I want to go with to see about getting our engagement pictures done soon so we can have those ready to go once we can send out invitations. They weren't in the office on Saturday when I called so hopefully I can get in touch with them soon. I've also found someone to do our cake, so I'm excited about that...now we just need to decide the details on the cake.

I have ideas of where the reception will be held, but that can't be a for sure thing until a date is set, but we are planning on getting married in the Bountiful temple - that will be a for sure thing. We are doing a different kind of invitation for those invited to the temple ceremony and that invitation has been started to be created, which I am super excited about!

All-in-all, things are slowly coming together and we're hoping to get as much as we can planned or completed before having a date so that once we do finally set the date and have to rush, it won't be so stressful!

Big News!!

2008-06-28T09:16:00.000-07:00

WE'RE ENGAGED!!!

Yes that's right folks! Kurtis proposed! I wanted to take this moment to apologize that this is just now getting posted...we've been engaged since Thursday! I was very surprised! I mean, we were making plans, but I didn't have a clue when he was going to propose and even during his proposal I was still oblivious! It was so cute! He put a bandana around our (well more my) dog Dozer and strung the ring on the bandana. Well, I was upstairs getting ready for our co-ed softball game later that night and he came up to the top of the stairs and asked me when I'd want to start telling people we were engaged. Well, I thought it was kind of a random question, but didn't think anything of it so I just told him I don't know and asked why. So then he asked the question again. This time I stopped and still said I didn't know and then asked, "Why, do you have a ring or something?" He said, "Maybe..." So then I was confused but still not really paying attention to my surroundings. The thing was, Kurtis was looking down at the dogs pretty much the whole time we were talking!! So, finally he calls Dozer's name and I look down and lo and behold there's the ring! I was so excited that I didn't even really say yes! I said "Yay!" and then we put the ring on (which is completely gorgeous!!). About a couple hours later, I realized I never actually gave him an answer, so I told him (in case he didn't already know) that my answer was yes. So...all in all it was a very sweet proposal and funny at the same time because I didn't even get what was going on!

I'm so excited!! We don't have an exact date set just yet, but we're hoping for August so this will be a stress filled time while I plan, but luckily have a lot of people willing to help! I can't believe we're getting married and I feel so very lucky to have such an amazing guy that I'll get to spend eternity with!

Weekend Fun

2008-06-01T18:54:00.000-07:00

Yes.... we are still alive. It's been a while but nothing exciting really has been going on in our lives much. We play in a softball league on Thursday nights but other than that nothing has really been worthy of blog material. If you ever want to laugh your guts out you should come watch the coed league on Thursday's that we play in. It's amazing. Anyways this weekend was good times in Roy. Every year Kurtis' work does this charitable deal where they choose 5-10 employee's to go to Guatemala and build a school and get some school supplies for the kids. To raise money for the deal they have a bowl-a-thon and it gets a bit crazy. This year we made our own shirts. We went and bought some white shirts from Walmart and a tie dye kit and went at it. We bowl once a year at that so it's obviously for fun. It was really fun though. We got a TON of great prizes including Kurtis getting a 3 month pass to Gold Gym.... and a few coupons for some dry cleaning... so the raffle God's think we are fat and dirty... awesome!

Krista's strike form

lovin the shirts

Hyram and Krista livin it up

Pearson

2008-04-15T14:52:00.000-07:00

Christina gave me the good idea to create a shrine for Lil P. Those of you who know my sister Kasie will enjoy this one. Those who don't... well... just enjoy the pic then. Pearson Hadley was born on April 3rd and shares his birthday with Nicole!! yeah!!! He was born 5 weeks early and weighed 4 lbs 10 ounces. He is still in the NICU but doing much better. No offense to anyone but usually I think babies are UUUUUUUUUUUUUUGLY... but check this kid out! He is rad...

When Dogs Attack PT 2

2008-04-06T21:24:00.001-07:00

Nicole got those punching balloons for her birthday and so she brought them home from work and we went out back with Daisy and Dozer.... Good times

2008-03-25T12:44:00.000-07:00

Every once in a while Dozer our American Bulldog gets in this mood where everything and anything that Nicole does bugs him so he repeatedly jumps on her. We were watching either The First 48 or Intervention and we had to take a little break because Dozer went psychotic. It was pretty entertaining.

Fun in the sun

2008-03-21T21:40:00.001-07:00

We got back from Europe on the 11th of November and left on Nov 18 to Maui with Nicole's family for a week. I really don't know of any better way to spend Thanksgiving. It was rad. The week we were back was a week from hell. We were buying a condo in Perry and we were going to be doing our own flooring. We had to get the floor done by the time we left on the 18th. It was a crazy week but with the help of Rich who did our ENTIRE tile and with Nicole's brother and dad we got the wood done. It was so nice to finally be able to sit and relax on a beach for a week. November was an exciting month for us!!

THIS is why I'm hot

Getting ready to go up. I am pretty much soiling myself at this point

500 ft up in the air courtesy of Lucy and Dave signing us up for the longest rope! Thanks GUYS

PRETTY

Cruisin Times

2008-03-21T21:20:00.000-07:00

One week in our singles ward (yes..... singles ward... yuk) a beautiful spirited young lady stood up and said they were going on a cruise to Europe and needed a big group to go with so they could get some sort of group discount. So we thought about it for oh......3 minutes and decided we needed to go.... BAD..... Europe half off... it was a no brainer. Well long story short.... the entire group backed out except for us and we still got the big discount. So we went on our Mediterranean (?? I went to box elder so please excuse the spelling) criuse which began in Spain and went on to France and finally Italy. We went from Nov. 2-11th 2007. It was my first cruise and it was awesome. All except the final day of cruising. We were cruising back to Spain the entire day and it was windy and well..... you get the picture. We can forget that day. It was a good time had by all though!

The French Riviera

Street in Nice, France

Leaning Tower of Pisa

Maximus...... Maximus.......Maximus