true love

The sweetest older couple(probably in their 80's) came into Amici's(Italian restaurant i work at) the other night. I wasn't their server, but every time i walked passed they were just smiling at each other. The husband kept taking pictures of everything...even their bread..haha..He just wanted to treat his sweetheart to a nice dinner. The next thing I know I was walking out to check on my table and he pulls me over to be in their picture with one of the other servers. He says, "stand over their by my bride. This place is wonderful and you guys are the ones that make this happen." They were so sweet. It reminded me of my grandma and grandpa when they were still living. It put a smile on my face for the rest of the day.

life of ryan

Here is ryan's list of things to get to know him better!

1. Birth Place

Charleston, SC

2. Favorite Vacation Destination

Mexico

3. Favorite Color

Blue

4. Dream Career

Chiropractor

5. Guilty Pleasure

Double stuffed Oreos

6. Favorite Hobby

Jet skiing

7. Favorite Restaurant

Chick-fil-a

8. Favorite Actor

Will Ferrell

9. Favorite Actress

Jessica Alba

10. Favorite Car

K-1 Attack

11. Favorite place to shop for yourself

American Eagle

12. Favorite TV Show

The Office

13. Favorite Flower

Dandelion

our new bed

We are grateful for our hand-me-down mattress, but for the last week or so we have NOT been able to sleep AT all! Most of the time either I go to the couch or ryan does because our couch is so comfortable! So last night ryan and i got he idea to push our couches together and it worked out pretty well...so i guess this is our new bed until we can afford a different mattress..haha

I take the love seat side..haha

father's day

For Father's Day we decided to have a BBQ at beaver dick park(it's basically a camping ground 15 min out of rexburg)..Ryan and Weston went shopping the night before and decided they wanted to do hawaiian chicken burgers. So on father's day we headed out for beaver dick and found the perfect spot for our purposes, but as soon as we stepped out of the car we were covered in bugs...and this was our conversation-

wes: are those mosquitoes? ryan: no..i don't think so. whit: yeah...don't mosquitoes have..? ryan: no! those are mosquitoes!!

Ryan started flailing about running as fast as he could from the car, as we all did, but they were EVERYWHERE! there was no escaping them. I wish someone could have videotaped it because we probably looked like idiots jumping up and down, failing our arms, trying to swat at the mosquitoes. It was hilarious! We all booked it back to the car and decided that plans needed relocating. So we drove around to every park in rexburg, but the grills were all taken. Finally we went to the last park we could think of and got lucky! It was a perfect little closed off picnic area where we thought we had some privacy, but as soon as the boys started prepping the grill and getting everything ready...along comes this kid(maybe about 5 or 6 years old) and he drops, his pants about ten feet away from us right by the grill and he proceeds to pee on the tree there. Ryan was like-"hey! don't do that there! we going to be eating over here." The startled kid looks up at ryan and pulls up his pants and then only moves to this bushy hill no farther away and finishes peeing..haha..i pray my children never do that in strangers company! While waiting for the chicken we all called our dads to wish them a happy father's day. I love my dad and wish i could have been there on his day! After all was said and done..it was a pretty eventful day, but over all we enjoyed ourselves as much as we could without our families.

ryan and weston-the daddy's of future children

Author?

I had an epiphany the other day. I've decided that I want to write a book. crazy idea? I dunno. But since I don't have a lot to occupy my time, i thought it would be a really fun idea! I thought a teen type novel could be interesting, but none of the sci-fi stuff or fantasy. I don't think my imagination is big enough! haha..but if anyone has any suggestions I'd gladly accept!

saves the day!

So a few weeks ago ryan was on my computer and a window popped up to do the whole windows update thing. It asked him to restart the comp so it could finish updating and when he did..the computer just kept restarting and would stop. So my computer was BROKEN. i thought...awesome..all my stuff..GONE. Ryan decided to go into the pc computer fixing place in rexburg and they told him nothing helpful. So..ryan, being the computer savvy person that he is, somehow figured out how to fix it and backed up my files and all the technical mumble jumble..but when he restarted the computer ryan couldn't find any of my pictures/videos/documents..pretty much thought they were gone for good! Me being the memory and picture queen was pretty upset over this. I had FOUR years of memories on that thing(roommates, family pictures, bridal shower, wedding, family trips, my best friends wedding, honeymoon..you get the picture)! Ryan felt really bad because he knew how it felt to loose those kinds of memories..he had lost two years of memories from all of his mission pictures. So again we decided to go back to the computer place and they figured it out!! i'm so GRATEFUL! As we speak, ryan if backing up my files/pictures on his hard drive so if we have another dreaded mishap like that again..i won't have to worry about it!!

SOLD

Last week Ryan finally sold the monty! the monty has been in the hayes family for a while..and when i say monty i'm actually referring to a montero sport. He's been trying to get it fixed up to be sold for quite a few months now..and finally last tuesday a guy came over to look at it and it was a done deal. We even got our asking price for it! Ryan's pretty grateful to have it off our hands. So long monty!!

i AM my father

So last night ryan and i went over to weston and whitni's to hang out. Whitni bought this new game at deseret book and has been wanting to play it forever! so we decided to pull out settlers of zarahemla. i'm sure most of you have heard about this game or of settlers of catan. nobody, except for whitni was especially excited about playing the game and grumbled the whole time, but i ended up liking it! once you get the hang of it, it can be a fun game! Here's where i knew i was my father's child(as if i didn't already know this)...those of you who know my dad know that he is a VERY organized person..and that's an understatement. so as i was gathering my pieces together i didn't even notice what i had done until i had looked around the table at everyone else's scattered pieces.......

tagged once again!

5 things

5 things I was doing 10 years ago:

1. i had just finished 6th grade

2. i was starting puberty, growing somewhat of a figure and trying to fit in

3. i was singing in hillsdale middle shool's choir

4. i was "in love" with brady..haha

5. i was hanging out with my best friend ann marie all day, everyday

5 things on my to do list:

1. find a place that allows pets, has a washer and dryer, is in rexburg and is in our price range!

2. read this new book i bought called When the Bough Breaks by kay lynn mangum(a fellow co-worker)

3. find me a cute short brown bolero for this cute new dress my mom just sent me!

4. read twlight series again before the 4th one comes out!...aug. 2nd baby!

5. save money for our anniversary get away in myrtle beach AND finland/paris 2010!

5 favorite snacks/food:

1. orville redenbacher's popcorn-(kettle corn)

2. little debbie swiss cake rolls

3. mc donalds french fries

4. cookies and cream ice cream sandwhiches

5. crab legs

5 things I would do if I was a billionaire:

1. travel to hawaii, bajamas, italy, cancun, finland, aruba, england, switzerland, france, mexico, ireland, basically everywhere...haha

2. buy a house of our own

3. be more generous

4. have mini dachshund and tea cup yorkie puppies

5. get pregnant and have children of our own

5 bad habits:

1. picking at my fingernails

2. never putting my clothes away after trying something on, after laundry, or putting them in the dirty clothes after wearing them..so i basically just have huge piles of them in our room

3. eating junk food at midnight

4. procrastinating...EVERYTHING

5. rambling on when telling stories and giving unimportant information

5 places I have lived:

1. el cajon, CA

2. bountiful, UT

3. north salt lake, UT

4. rexburg, ID

5. -

5 People I'm Tagging (Yep! You guys gotta do this now)

1. Brittany

2. Whitni

3. Anna

4. Heather

5. Lisa