What a Year!

Since I started this blog recently I thought it would be fun to go over some fun things I did this year before I started the blog. The year started out with tax season and me working at H&R Block. I always enjoy tax season and also enjoy when it is over. It also marked our trips to Mesquite to skydive in the cold months. Come March it was time to start skydiving in Ogden again.

In May I had my Polynesian Dancing Review. This year I got a new Tahitian costume and I love it.

In June I took my yearly trip to St. George with the mom, sister, niece, aunt, and 2 cousins. We always go Tuachan and see the plays. This year it was My Fair Lady and Cinderella. We also went rock climbing while we were there.

It was a fun July for skydiving because Skydive Ogden brought in a lot of different aircraft while our plane was getting a new engine. We jumped out of the Super Otter (a twin prop plane that can hold 28 people), a King Air (a plane that gets to altitude in 9 minutes, it usually take 20-30 minutes, a Skyvan and a Casa (both are rear tailgate exit planes and can hold up to 32 people).

In August we took a trip to Huntington Beach for a week. It was a very laid back vacation for us, not much adventure. We would get up go to the beach, soak up some sun, boogie board, soak up some more sun and then go get ready for dinner and then sleep and repeat. One day we went to Knott's Berry Farm. It was fun but I expected it to be better. Lagoon was just as good. Another day we went on a scuba dive. I am not very fond of beach dives, you get sand everywhere.

The worst thing that happened this year is that Keesha (our dog) died right after we got back from California. It is by far the hardest thing that has happened to Ryan and I since we’ve been married. It was devastating. We buried her at Gwen & Lloyd’s. I miss her so much. Ryan hit 2,000 jumps and every time he hits a 1,000 more jumps, he makes a base jump, so he took a trip up to Idaho and made two base jumps. He enjoyed it.

This brings us to where I started the blog. It has been a good year. I am so grateful for all of my family and friends. I am definately blessed to have awesome people in my life. Thanks to all of you for the love and support.

Busy Week

What a week last week was! Of course on Monday I had ballet. We also went and flew in the tunnel. Tuesday I had to practice my song for our ward party then head to my company Christmas party. Wednesday I had Hula and then afterwards we had our Hula Christmas party. Thursday was our friends dinner. Which I have to say was the most enjoyable part of my whole week. It is always so fun to get together. Right after that party, we had to go and set up the church for our Ward Christmas Party. Which we did with only a few people because the chair persons didn't delegate it out. Friday was the ward party. Ryan and I were running around all night keeping things going. I sang two different songs, one a duet and one a group song. The group song was The 12 Pains of Christmas. It was hilarious. Then we got to clean it all up too, because nothing got delegated out. The bishop actually came up to all the activities committee members and said, "Just beacause you're in charge, doesn't mean you have to do ALL the work. You need to pass it on to others." Hopefully the chair people got the hint. Not that I don't mind working hard, but when you have other people that can help, why not let them. Saturday was a no stress day. We went skiing to Snowbasin with our friend and my dad. It was really nice, a little cold but all our new stuff kept us warm. We also had another skydiving couple getting married on Saturday night up in East Canyon. It was a fun night since we haven't seen most of our friends for about a month. I am glad that busy week is over with.

Park City Weekend

This weekend Ryan and I went on a little get-a-way to Park City. We stayed at Westgate for free. We did have to go and attend the sales pitch, but it wasn't that bad. We also got a voucher for dinner at their five star restaurant. Westgate is right by The Canyon's ski resort and we both just got new skies, so we went skiing on Saturday. It snowed all day but we stayed warm. The snow was really nice and powdery. Towards the end of the day it got a little rocky because their wasn't a ton of snow, but we had a blast. It was nice to get away with just the two of us and have some quality time.