Weekend of Celebration

Darren has been studying for the DAT since May when Winter semester ended so he hasn't had much of summer. The last couple weeks were intense for him - studying every free moment - which meant little play time. Wednesday was the big day and he did fantastic. He scored a 23 which is above what he was even hoping for. So to celebrate we played this whole weekend. We went out to eat at Outback, saw Lonestar in concert, and spent all day Saturday at Lagoon going on rides. Tomorrow we start school again, but it's my last semester of the public relations major and the Italian minor - then it's off to New Zealand!

Catching up on blog posts

I lost my camera cord for about a month so that's why I've been slacking on my posting, but I found it today-yeah! 

This has month has been the month of weddings. We were at wedding up in 

Rexburg, Idaho and were able to stay with my old college roommate and Allison and her husband Matt which was a ton of fun. The wedding was on Friday so Saturday we went to Yellowstone for the morning and then went white-water rafting on the Snake River in Jackson Hole that afternoon. 

In Yellowstone we did the bottom loop and saw

 Old Faithful and a few other pools and geysers along the way. This one geyser White Dome just looked cool so we stopped even though it's eruptions are not predictable or frequent. We walked around it and then asked the only other fellow tourist to take our picture. As we're posing for our picture, the geyser erupted--so cool! The water shot up super high and went for a few minutes--we

 were lucky we caught it. After it was over a tourist bus full of people pulled up--they just missed it. 

Water rafting was so a lot of fun too. It was pretty cold and started raining about 20 minutes before we were out of the water, but it was a blast. We'll have to do it again sometime on warmer day. 

The second wedding we went to was in San Diego. We stayed with our brother-in-law's extended family there which was a lot of fun to get to know them better. The day before the wedding we went to San Diego Zoo. I've posted some pictures of our favorite animals. 

We spent the afternoon on the beach and walking around the Embarcadero--a fun relaxing day on the coast. 

Pete and Carly's wedding was beautiful. The weather was perfect, the San Diego Temple is incredible inside and out and their reception was at her grandpa's house on the lake. We had 

fun celebrating with them, dancing, eating, and seeing them so happy together.

 

Summer Lovin'

So Darren and I are both in school and working right now, but we're trying to not let that ruin our summer fun. We've been off-roading in the Manti-La Sal National forest, hiked the timpagnos caves and this week were heading to Monticello for more summer fun and some family time. Darren is taking anatomy right now which he really enjoys and he's doing really well in the class. I'm taking beginning tennis (watch out for my backhand) and a business marketing class which are both a lot of fun.

Hawaii Vacation

We've been back for a while now, but everyone loves to look at photos so I thought I'd throw some on here. We had a wonderful trip (10 days in Hawaii what could be more wonderful!) Darren caught an Ono, I surfed for the first time (not too successful but fun!), we hiked a lot, played in the ocean, saw a tiger shark while diving, kayaked with dolphins and ate delicious seafood everyday - it was a blast!

Just married!

Darren and I were married on December 30, 2008. We met at Brigham Young University our freshmen year - same family home evening group in our ward and stayed in touch ever since. Darren left on his mission to the Ukraine in May 2005 and then I left on a mission to the Baltic states in January 2007 - six months before he came home. He came to visit me a week after I came home and we were engaged two months later and married six months after I got home - kind of quick I know but we were already best friends and we love being married. No fights yet...(everyone keeps asking)it's just not our personalities.