When it's raining on Sunday...

Tonight we had a great dinner with the Elliott's and the Mock's (both families in our ward) and while we were all hanging out and talking in the living room afterwards, we noticed some crazy lightning outside, which got us pretty excited about the big storm coming in. Who doesn't love a good, warm, summer thunderstorm? We left their apartment just as the torrential downpour started and this was what we looked like by the time we ran from their apartment to ours:

Nah Nah Nah Nah....

On Sunday, Ryan and I headed up to SLC for a family dinner. We all went to visit my grandpa's grave site. A lot of my dad's side of the family is buried there in the Salt Lake City cemetery, so it was neat to go around and see them and learn more about these relatives. My grandpa is buried just across from President Hinckley, which was quite a popular gravesite that day... all the flowers were beautiful!!

Anyway, as we were all quietly looking around, we heard a bunch of voices begin to sing in unison "nah, nah, nah, nah.... nah, nah, nah, nah.... hey, hey, hey! Gooooodbye!" We turned around and saw a family gathered in a circle around a grave singing that. At first we thought they were just kidding, but then we realized they were serious. It was weird.

Well, we forgot to take any pictures this weekend, but it was pure bliss sleeping in 3 days in a row. We normally don't even get one day. Plus the company (our families) was great, the food was fantastic, and it was nice to relax. Here's hoping for some warm, sunny, swimming weather soon though because that is all this weekend was missing!

Trash or Treasure?

I just opened up iphoto and as I was searching for a picture I discovered that every picture I have ever "deleted" still exists. I had no idea. We're talking some BAD pictures that were purposely trashed and meant to stay that way. You know, pictures where you look completely hammered...

or pictures where your head is cut off...

or pictures where you wish your head was cut off...

or pictures of your roommate's awesome bed-head in a camouflage trucker hat advertising Big O Tires (why was this one in the trash?? clearly a keeper!)...

or all 462 of your old roommate's wedding pictures because she needed to use your computer to burn copies of all of them for family members....

I realized that with a little bit of time, one man's trash can become a treasure again!

(Okay and in all seriousness, does anyone know how to really delete all of these? When I right-click on them, there's no delete option. I can't get rid of them!!)

**Update: Ryan showed me the "empty trash" button that I've apparently missed this entire time and I was finally able to delete the 865 pictures that were in the trash!**

It's Old

Okay. The whole baby email thing is real old now. I have new accounts all over the place. The profiles even list an address and so I called the apartment complex (in Indiana) and asked about it. They don't even have that apartment number. Whoever you are, if you're reading this, please stop now. It's no longer funny. At all.

Oh baby!

Ryan and I are now an uncle and aunt (respectively) times 6! Congrats to Kevin and Amy who had sweet little Amyah on May 10th. She came about a month early and was in the NICU for a while, but she came home just in time for us to see her at Kevin's birthday dinner and so we got to cuddle her up yesterday. I forgot how tiny a little newborn can be!

Our other niece, Suzy, who is 3 years old and such a girly-girl, came up to Ryan while he was holding Amyah yesterday and looked down at her, took a big gasp of air, and then looked at Ryan and said "Isn't she soooo cute? She's so pretty." Oh, the sisterly love!

Takes the Cake

I pretty much love anything that has to do with cake. I thought I was in heaven when I was at Tiffany's house once and her dad whipped up some cake batter, poured it into bowls, and passed it out to us (apparently that's a tradition when her mom goes out of town). Oh, and once I discovered Coldstone's cake batter ice cream, my cake craving grew even more. I LOVE that stuff so much I could probably eat it everyday and never get sick of it. The only problem is that it's a little pricy. But luckily for me, I found my new favorite store-bought version of it. It tastes similar and it's way cheaper. Go get some. You won't regret it (unless maybe you're on a diet).

And while we're on the topic of cake, it looks like my niece Ashlynn loves cake as much as I do (proof that it's genetic):

She's got her eye on the prize.

I, too, feel this happy when eating cake.

What? Just saving some for later.

Our two week long celebration

I've come to realize that if you try to plan something, it probably won't happen. That's just life... and what happened for our first-year wedding anniversary. First, at the beginning of the week we cashed in a See's gift card and got ourselves a pound of chocolate, which we happened to do this same time last year so that we had some good chocolate on our honeymoon. It will most likely be a tradition now (and a very good one!).

Since our actual anniversary was on a Sunday, we were going to go out to dinner and a movie on Saturday and then just hang out at home and make a nice dinner on Sunday. Well, Saturday morning Ryan had to take a final, which took ALL day (it was already long and he had missed two days of class- out of 8 total- so it took forever). By the time we were supposed to leave, he was only halfway through and his computer froze on him and we thought he had lost most of his exam (which was in essay form). Luckily, we were able to retrieve it all. Once he finally finished, we were starving and the wait at every restaurant we wanted to go to was at least 2 hours long... so we did the next best thing and picked up some Pei Wei (great idea!) and a redbox and hung out at home. The next day, Ryan made me dinner which consisted of chicken cordon bleu, salad, and broccoli. It was AMAZING, but I wasn't surprised because I've always known what a good cook he is.

And of course, dessert was the traditional top layer of our cake. The whole time it's been wrapped up, we couldn't remember what the big bump on top was, and we finally got to see that it was a flower. Thanks to Amy's awesome wrapping skills, our cake was preserved well and it tasted really moist and really good still (which I was very surprised about)!

Finally, we made it to The Cheesecake Factory on Monday for dinner and it was delish. Of course we couldn't leave without getting some cheesecake to go... lemon raspberry for me, and white chocolate raspberry for Ry (but we split them half and half so we could try both).

All day Monday I wasn't feeling very well and by the time dinner was done, I didn't think I could handle watching a movie, so we went home and saved the movie for the weekend. Friday night we went and saw How To Train Your Dragon in 3D, which was SUCH a good movie and so funny... it was definitely not just a kid show!

That concluded our anniversary celebration that was one day stretched across two weeks, and I loved getting to celebrate it for so long!