SAILING

A couple of Sundays ago, Ryan's Uncle Gary took us sailing on The Great Salt Lake.

He actually lives on his boat in the marina, that is his home.

It was really cool and perfect weather. He let us help put up the sails and steer the boat. The boys thought it was so fun.

I did not actaully take any pictures while we were on the boat because you basically sit on the roof of the boat and he warned us that anything you bring up there will probably fall off.

Captain Gary

Me, Ryan's grandma Marge, Ryans mom Leslie and his Aunt Tina

Grandma Perry with the boys

Memorial Weekend

Memorial Weekend- The Spruces campground

Me and Ryan and our boys, Chris and Marley and Ryans brother Brennan went up Big Cottonwood Canyon Memorial Weekend for our first camping trip of the year. We had a good time but ended up leaving a day early because of rain.

We were suprised when we arrived and there was a huge snow block about the size of a car on our campsite, but that didnt stop us.

Chris, Marley and Colton chillin by the fire.
It wasn't as cold as it looks I thought it actually felt really nice.

Of course we forgot our axe, so we had to use a shovel to cut our wood. :)

Chris' turn

Venturing out into the wilderness

You can do it Marley!

Colton thought it was so cool he had to walk across logs and jump across streams, he had so much fun!

Chris and Marleys tent

It was ridiculously huge, and high tech. When it started raining in the middle of the night our tent was leaking and dripping on my face, I called Chris to see if there tent was doing the same and theirs was still dry so we all moved over to their tent and fit fine and still had room for possible two more people. Good pick of a tent dad! It even had like a little vent/opening in the back that said in case you wanted to reach out of it in the middle of the night and grab a drink or something out of the cooler. I dont think I have ever seen such a cool tent!

Woops Ryan you got smore on your face.

And this is how our camping trip ended, at my house with treats and sleeping bags and games.
We tried to stick it out but everything was getting soaked, we couldnt start a fire, our food was all wet and chairs and I dont think the kids could handle sitting in the tent all day.

We had a good time!!

Night Night

Happy Birthday Ash!!

It was Ashleys big 30 birthday May 21st so we decided to take her to GOOD THINGS UTAH.
It was a blast, we had so much fun and they announced her birthday at the end of the show. The funniest part was coming home and watching yourself on TV not knowing if you should look at the camera or watch yourslef on the TV monitor or where to look, we are big geeks.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ASH!

The hosts we way nice and talked to us and let us take pictures with them.
After sitting and watching the show on the most comfortable bleachers :)

Waiting to get into the show

Sitting in the car beforehand because we arrived about half an hour before anyone else.

So yeah yeah I know its been a while but I am ready to play catch up.
We went to Ryans parents on Easter and had the easter egg hunt and the whole shabang!! It was a good time. And Ryans cousin Nicole is into photography and brought her camera and took some pictures of the boys and they turned out real cute. So here are a few of them........

Our little Family :)

Can you find the egg in this picture?

REACH

Best buds

Hanging on for dear life

Grandma and Grandpa's pond

My Little SUNBEAM

Man I just love them.

HAPPY EASTER

HAWAII

Me and Ryan just got back from Hawaii with his family. We didnt take our kids and it was so much fun, I wish I was still laying there on the beach listening to the waves crash.

The view of our lagoon, it was awesome. You felt like you were standing in the middle of a postcard.

View from our room looking out at the marina.

Pro Bowl at Aloha stadium

With the colts? mascot

David Archuletta singing the National Anthem

Brennan and Ryan. Ryan doing the Heissman(?) pose

Me and Ashley people watching, waiting for the game to start.

Close up of home town boy David Archuletta watching the halftime show

Enrique Iglesias and Cierra preforming at halftime

In Waikiki going out to catch some waves

Ashley coming in after a long day of surfing

Ryan was able to get up 7 times and was worn out after about an hour. It was a good workout!!

We went whale watching one day, I was a little nervous because I get motion sickness by doing anything other than walking :) But I took a dramamine and it was actually really fun. We saw a bunch of whales and we really enjoyed it.

Brennan, Ashley, and Leslie on the boat whale watching

It was hard to actually catch a picture of them because they were very quick. But here is one diving back into the ocean.

We drove by DOG THE BOUNTY HUNTERS place.

At the North Shore at Waimea there were huge waves because a storm had just passed.
Ryan Brenna and Brent deciding if they were brave enough to go in.

Ryan and Brennan catching a wave

Mine and Ashleys turn to try. The waves would calm down about every 20 minutes for about 10 minutes so thats when I would hurry and try to catch a little wave.

Ryan getting swallowed by a wave.

The beautiful sunset

Ryan and me on Valentines Day :)

Brent and Leslie

Thanks for an awesome trip.