Well, I finally got Ryan on an airplane. And as nervous and anxious as he was- he made it across the country for his first visit to The West!
We went to Utah for Christmas to not only visit my family and friends, but for Ryan to meet them all for the first time! The first day we got there, we met up with my parents, sister Shauna and my sister in-law Samantha on temple square.
(Time for a quick typical Mormon shot in front of the Salt Lake City Temple!)
We ate lunch together and then my brother Greg met up with us and the boys went on a tour of temple square while me, my mom and Sam went wedding dress shopping! After a few stores and driving around we FINALLY found a shop that had the most perfect dress for me! I wish I could show you, but Ryan checks this daily! So it'll have to wait until after the wedding! We both survived our adventures and that night, we met up with Ryan and Kate Webb, Andrea, Travis, Christina and Marin for dinner at the Pizza Factory and had some good eats and good laughs. I REALLY miss the good ol' days with those kids. We really had so much fun together and still do whenever we get back together.
The next day we went to my brother Greg's and hung out with he and his girls, including Sam. It was snowing and Ryan was super excited about that. He's only seen Georgia "snow"... not the real kind! So we went outside in the yard with Alyssa and Brooke and played in the snow and "sledded" down their itty bitty (but fun) hill.
Here is Courtney too... she really took a liking to Ryan. She wouldn't even come to me- but decided she was okay with him! He's got a way with kids... he'll be a good daddy. Aren't those girls just so beautiful? Why thank you! Flesh and blood baby!
We did a little running around and visitng friends before we made our way up the highway to Logan to see my parents.
We ate lunch together and then my brother Greg met up with us and the boys went on a tour of temple square while me, my mom and Sam went wedding dress shopping! After a few stores and driving around we FINALLY found a shop that had the most perfect dress for me! I wish I could show you, but Ryan checks this daily! So it'll have to wait until after the wedding! We both survived our adventures and that night, we met up with Ryan and Kate Webb, Andrea, Travis, Christina and Marin for dinner at the Pizza Factory and had some good eats and good laughs. I REALLY miss the good ol' days with those kids. We really had so much fun together and still do whenever we get back together.
The next day we went to my brother Greg's and hung out with he and his girls, including Sam. It was snowing and Ryan was super excited about that. He's only seen Georgia "snow"... not the real kind! So we went outside in the yard with Alyssa and Brooke and played in the snow and "sledded" down their itty bitty (but fun) hill.
Here is Courtney too... she really took a liking to Ryan. She wouldn't even come to me- but decided she was okay with him! He's got a way with kids... he'll be a good daddy. Aren't those girls just so beautiful? Why thank you! Flesh and blood baby!
We did a little running around and visitng friends before we made our way up the highway to Logan to see my parents.
Emily and Deb Hatch and Andrea and Christina
(love you girls!)
We didn't do much of anything that night, but the next day we went on a little drive up to Idaho so that Ryan could say he'd been where Napoleon Dynamite was filmed and that he'd been to Idaho... two states down in the West.
We didn't do much of anything that night, but the next day we went on a little drive up to Idaho so that Ryan could say he'd been where Napoleon Dynamite was filmed and that he'd been to Idaho... two states down in the West.
I don't really remember much of what we did after that except for maybe shop and hang out with my parents and stuff... just stuff. Oh yeah, Ryan made a snow man. He REALLY wanted to do that while we were there- but the snow wasn't wet enough. So this had to do. But let me tell you, he had lots of people comment on it at church!
The next day was Christmas Eve and we went to Sacrament meeting and enjoyed a beautiful and very Spiritual Christmas program. It really helped bring the true meaning in. We relaxed a little more and waited anxiously for my sister Delinda's arrival from AZ. She had just spent about 3 or 4 days in a moving truck driving all the way from here in Atlanta to Texas to pick up a friend, and then onto Phoenix and then picked up the next day to drive to Utah. In the meantime dad, Ryan and I took a drive up Logan canyon for Ryan to see the "hills" as he would call them, just to annoy me.
At Bear Lake, such a beautiful very COLD day!
Delinda got there right on time for our traditional Christmas Eve routine.
Merry Christmas! We woke up and opened presents and had a good breakfast and did the whole "burn the roast for dinner" thing were our clothes smell like burnt roast for the rest of the visit. Sick.
Here's a couple of our enagements that Delinda took. It was so stinking cold.
It was such a fun trip, I'm glad we got to go but it was too short that's for sure.
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