Picnic in the Park

This past Saturday we went on a picnic with our friends Mike and Lisa. Eric and I got a picnic basket and blanket for our wedding. I love to use them. It's a perfect set-up: 4 plates, 4 sets of silverware, and 4 cups in a convenient basket. The basket is meant to carry the food, but we decided to go unhealhty for this picnic. We went to KFC and got the greasiest chicken possible, a few side dishes, and drinks. We went to a park near our apartment that has a little duck pond. The only place that had shade that wasn't taken was right by the pond. We took bread to distract the ducks, but they still found our picnic sight. It was pretty funny to watch Lisa run at them to make them go away! The food was mostly good. I wouldn't recommend the corn on the cob or the mac'n'cheese to anyone. Eric loved the mac'n'cheese, so I guess it's all about preference. After we stuffed our faces we were just sitting around talking. Eric really likes to hold babies, once the are not so fragile, so he was holding Carter. Mike was throwing bread towards Eric so that the ducks would go towards him. Eric didn't want them to come near him since he was holding Carter, so he turned to pick up the bread. Well, let's just say he wasn't holding onto Carter as tight as he should have been and the poor little kid face planted it into the blanket. He got pretty scared and started crying. Eric felt really bad. Once he calmed down, Eric picked him up again and they were best buds once more. For all of you parents out there, don't worry, Eric is usually really good with kids! It was a fun picnic. I think we should do them more often. If anyone wants to go on one, let me know. I will be there so fast!

Eric with his bud Carter:


Mike and Lisa:


Eric and I: (Eric made me do this)


Our picnic spot, after we ate. I was too excited to eat to take a picture before:

Game Playing

For anyone who has ever played a game with Eric and I, you will know that we are both VERY competitive. We take our game playing seriously. Whenever we play a game where you have to keep score, if either of us wins, we take the paper and put it on our fridge at home. It stays up there until we have another one. Recently we have been keeping records of scoreless games. Let me show you how:

Example 1: Sorry. If you look closely you can see a thumbs up. Eric won this game. I never knew Sorry could be so intense. We were yelling. It was pretty funny.



Example 2: Ticket to Ride. If you look closely on this one you can see a finger pointing at a yellow marker. This is MY score. If you look behind it, you can see Eric's score shown by the black marker. Now let me just say that Eric ALWAYS wins this game. This was the best game ever, because not only did I beat him, but I creamed him. I was so happy. I don't think he was. Sorry babe!

My mom is amazing!

For our wedding, my mom made us a quilt. When she was out here over Mother's Day she brought out some pillow shams that match the quilt. Our bed looks even better now. Isn't the quilt beautiful? My mom is talented. I hope that I can make something like that someday.

Shooting

I figured that I better put up some pictures of us actually shooting that gun that I last posted about. One Saturday afternoon we went out and shot in this field in Mapleton, UT. It was an interesting place. There were random animal carcasses just laying there. Weird! Anyways, our friends Mike and Lisa, and Ryan and Amber came with us. We all shot a little bit excpet for Lisa. She stayed inside the warm car with her cute kid Carter. Mike brought a big box of clay pigeons. Now, this is a little embarrasing, but I have always heard about shooting clay pigeons. The only problem is that I have never seen one. I was a little surprised when he pulled out this little box that supposedly held 90 or something like that. I was thinking, "how do 90 clay birds fit in there?" Well, much to my surprise, they are actually clay disks. Why don't they call them clay disks then? Man did I feel like an idiot! That just goes to show how much I really know about guns! We had a fun time. Eric bought a box of 100 bullets, and came home with 20. Poor little pigeons! Enjoy!

Eric shooting. If you look closely you can see the "pigeon."


Allison shooting. I have a strange look on my face...


We had a good time. If anyone ever wants to go shoot guns, just ask Eric. He would be glad to go.

Eric has a new toy!

For months on end Eric has been talking about buying a shotgun. At first I didn't think he was serious, but then he kept talking about it. I think it all really started when we went to visit our friends the Bakers down in St. George. They took us out shooting in the desert, and it was a lot of fun! Just in this past year his desire to be a gun owner has increased 100 fold. He would love to go to Cabela's to look at the guns. I can almost guarantee that he checked the KSL classifieds at least weekly to see if there were any great deals. Then we started hanging out with our friends Mike and Lisa more and guess what? Mike likes guns too. One week-end they went to Montana and Mike came home with a shotgun. The next week-end Mike and Eric went shopping for guns. That was this past week-end. I went on a hike with one of my old roomies while Eric went shopping. When Eric got home he told me that he had found the one that he wanted. It turns out that I had found a gun on sale randomly when I was looking for a swimsuit at Big 5 Sporting Goods here. I sent him that ad in an e-mail that he ended up checking after going gun shopping. The gun that I had sent him was the same gun that he had found but for $70 less. What a deal shopper I am. That was the first and only gun I found for him. I did well!! Anyways, we went to the store that day and bought it. However, we did have to prove our Utah residency, but since neither of us have a Utah license, it caused a little bit of a problem. Nothing was going to stand in Eric's way of getting that gun though. We eventually got it figured out and Eric is now the proud owner of a 12 gauge shotgun. Congratulations Eric! I don't have a picture of him with it yet, but after we go shooting this week-end I will post one for sure.

Has it really been that long?

I didn't really think it had been that long since I posted something until my sister-in-law Carly pointed out that my last post was from March 28th. WOW!! I have been really bad. I guess time flies when you're having fun. I don't want to make this a long boring post, so I will just list the highlights of the last month and a half. First of all, the winter semester ended at BYU which means we are that much closer to getting done with school. By we, I mean Eric. He did really well that semester. I am so proud of him. He does a really great job in his major. Second, Eric got a job a little while back for the Bradley Agency, which is the student run PR agency on campus. He was working for them for credit in the winter, but is now getting paid. It's great. Third, Eric got an internship doing media relations for BYU sports. He was just helping covering Women's Softball. He will work with them all through the summer helping with who knows what, but then in the Fall he will help with Football. He gets to sit in the press box and eat catered Tucano's. SO not fair. It will be good for him. I'm proud of him for that too. I have the most amazing husband!!! :) Alright fourth, my mom and sister were out here this past week-end for a fun little vacation. We went to a baseball game, went to Tucano's, went hiking, played lots of games, went on walks, spent Mother's Day together, and just had a lot of fun. I love being with my family. I wish that we had more family close by. Maybe someday. Fifth, we got to talk to my brother Jason this past Sunday on Mother's Day. It was the last time that we will talk to him while he's on his mission. He is actually coming home in 5 weeks. We are all so exicted. Its been so long! He sounded really happy, which was good. It was interesting to hear some stories about Detroit. It sounds so different up there. I'm very excited to have him come home. He's going to be moving out to Provo in September, and hopefully he will want to hang out with his married sister. So last but not least, May 3rd was our FIRST ANNIVERSARY!! We went up to Park City for the week-end and had a whole lot of fun! It was rainy the whole week-end but that didn't stop us. We did a little bit of shopping at the Outlets, went to dinner, walked around downtown, went to the Olympic Park, and swam. It's always nice to get away, but even better to get away when you have something so fun to celebrate. It was a great time. I wish it could have been longer though. Maybe next year! Anyways, that's all I've got for now. Hopefully I won't be such a lazy blogger this next month.

Oh wait, Eric will be sad if I forgot to talk about Easter. All Eric talked about for about a month was having lamb on Easter. Well, him and Ryan decided that they were really going to do it. Amber and I didn't think it would happen. I was really nervous the day before when Eric didn't have the meat. Well Costco came through for us, and we got a nice piece of Lamb that Eric and Ryan flavored very nicely. They did a great job. I was very impressed.

This is for all you Star Wars fans out there...

Last night Eric and I were driving home from ours friends house. On our way home we pass by this park that we live right by. I think this park attracts some strange people, because we have seen some interesting things there. We see people dressed up in medieval cloth sword fighting with fake swords. We always laugh when we see them. Eric actually likes to drive by a few times because he finds them fascinating. Well last night we saw something new. As we were driving by we saw two flourescent lights in the park. These lights were moving around. Eric and I slowed down to look and realized that the lights were coming from two people with LIGHT SABERS!!! Yeah, I said lights sabers. They were practice fighting. Maybe it was Obi One Kinobi teaching Anakin Skywalker. Yeah it probably was. Haha! Anyways, Eric and I drove around to take a picture, and then I actually took this video of it. Oh they joys of living in Provo!

Stupid Car Alarm

I mentioned in my last post that our car was broken. Here is the full story. When we got home on Sunday from Colorado, Eric was going to move our Neon from our covered parking spot back onto the street so that we could park our Camry there. He tried to turn off the alarm, but it wouldn't turn off. I told him to get a new battery because the battery in the remote dies easily. He went upstairs to get a new battery, but when he came back down, it STILL wouldn't work. Fun huh? So then he decided to get into the car with the alarm going off and move it. Well he gets in, the alarm is going off (it's quite loud might I add), and guess what? The car won't turn on. We don't have jumper cables so I went up to our neighbors to see if they did. Turns out they don't, so Eric went on a hunt to find some. He finally found some, so we tried to jump the car, which was not a success. We realized that it wasn't the battery when the music and all of the lights were still working. That's not a good sign. We then decide to move the car to the street. Two of our male neighbors came to help Eric push it, while I steered. We got in to the street successfully where it sat for a few days. Luckily the alarm turns off after a few minutes once the car has not been touched. I really felt bad for our neighbors though, because throughout this whole faisco, the alarm was going off the WHOLE time! Anyways, so on Wednesday night Ryan and Amber came over with their Jeep and a tow cable. They helped us tow it down the street to a mechanic. The best part about this is that the alarm is still broken! So we get the cable attached to both of the cars and we're off! It was quite funny actually. Here is this jeep pulling this little car with the alarm going off the ENTIRE time. People must have thought that we were so dumb for trying to steal a broken car. Everyone who passed us was looking at us like we were idiots. It was funny. So we drop the car off and tell them that the alarm needs to be turned off before they worked on the car or else it would go off. The people turn it off and then get ready to push it. The guy got in the car and turned the key, and guess what? The car turned on! The alarm was broken, not the car. One of the security features is that the car can't turn on if the alarm is still on. So my poor little car will no longer have a car alarm... or automatic start. Hopefully it doesn't get stolen like it did before or broken into again... So like the title says, "STUPID CAR ALARM!" Here are some pictures and a video of this adventure!

Ryan attaching the rope to his car:

Eric attaching the rope to our car:

Here's Amber being silly:

Here's a silly video I took after getting the car to the parking lot:

The Longest Post that you Will Ever See.. BEWARE!

Well once again I have been a terrible blogger. My friend told me today that if I didn't post something she was never going to read my blog again. So thanks for the motivation Amber! It's been a month and a half. WOW.. time flies. So Eric and I have had a fun time this month. We have been traveling a lot. It's been fun but it sure makes you tired! Since it has been so long I'm just going to do a slide show and just briefly talk about the pictures in order.

First of all... we went to Vegas for President's Day week-end. We had a fun time making sugar cookies with my grandma and spending Valentine's day with them. They took us to Applebee's, which is their VERY favorite restaurant. We love to go visit them. They are a lot of fun. Eric bought me roses and tulips for Valentine's Day. I love when he buys me flowers. He is so romantic!

The next week-end my co-worker Cristina came over with her boyfriend to play Ticket to Ride. Love that game. She brought over some Creme Brule and a torch. It was so fun. I think we need to get one of those. The next day Eric and I went up to Salt Lake to go to Music and the Spoken Word at the Tabernacle on Temple Square. We went with The Baker's, a family Eric taught on his mission. I had never been and it was really neat. Alright moving on... sorry that this is so random!!

The next week-end Eric and I went to San Diego to go his cousin Erin's wedding. We left on Friday and flew out there. Eric's uncle got us cheap tickets because he works for Jet Blue. We really appreciated it. It made the trip a whole lot cheaper. We got to hang out with Eric's family a whole lot. It was fun for me to get to know them a little better. On Saturday we went to Breakfast with his family and then went touring a little bit. Eric's uncle Gary took us in a Limo to the Point Loma lighthouse. It was so pretty. It was fun to be in a limo. I felt like we were celebrities.. well not quite. Later that afternoon we went to their wedding. It was at a botanical garden. Very pretty!! Later that night we went to their reception and had some delicious food!! I ate some fish and liked it! That's' an accomplishment for me.

The next week-end Eric left me for a few days to go to Las Vegas to cover the Mountain West Basketball play-offs. He had a fun time. It was more a vacation than a school trip. He was playing most of the time. The team didn't make it to the finals so he got home on Saturday instead of Sunday. I missed him a lot, but it was alright because on Friday night Ryan and Amber and I had a sleepover. First we had dinner and then we went with our friends Steve and April to the Draper Temple open house. I had never been to one of those before. It was neat. I was Eric was with me though. After that we went back to their place and watched Ghost Town. It was funny. I was giggling most of them time. Then we went to bed... Ryan and Amber in their room, and me in the guest room. The next morning Ryan left to take a test so Amber and I watched "Made of Honor" and painted our toe nails. They were super cute. Then we went to Shirley's and bought DELICIOUS cinnamon rolls. I will definitely be back! Later that afternoon I went to see Confessions of a Shopaholic with Kirsten. I love seeing girly movies with her! Eric came back that night and we went to Costco with Ryan, Amber and Sean for dinner. Then we went and bought some pie for pie day and then went to play Ticket to Ride. Eric won.. again! It was fun though.

Alright so the most recent little trip was to Colorado top go to my cousin Clay's reception. We left on Friday at 2 and drover straight there. We got there at about 10 and went to our friends the Walton's house. We stayed up and talked to them for a little while. They used to live in Virgina and they are how I met Eric, so we all knew each other. The next morning we woke up before 8 to go help my family set up the church for the reception. Eric was up on a ladder putting a drop ceiling up. It sure looked nice. After we were there for a few hours we left to go back to the Waltons to get ready for the reception, but before going we HAD to go to KT's to eat. That's where I used to work for a long time!! I was so excited to eat there. After that I took Eric on a quick tour of where I grew up. I took him by my elementary school and Eric made me get out to take a picture. He liked it because I had sang my school song to him, which he thinks is funny. We then went back to the reception. It was fun to hang out with my family. I love to see Eric with them. Everyone just loves him!! After the reception we all went to Applebee's to eat. We got there right before they were closing. They were so happy about that!! After we ate, we went back to my Aunts house. My cousin and his wife wanted to open some of their presents, so we stayed to watch them open ours. A few presents turned into all of them. You can't stop once you start! We were there until 1 in the morning. It was late! We didn't go to bed until 2. SO LATE!! The next morning I got up and talked to Charlotte Walton for awhile. She made us her delicious cinnamon rolls. What a nice host! Then Eric and I got ready and were back on the road. We hit some pretty intense winds and had to dodge huge tumble weed more than once. After the eight hour drive, we came home to a nice surprise. Our other car wouldn't start. That's a story for another day though. I am typed out. Sorry it was so long. Hopefully I didn't bore you!! Enjoy the pictures!

The Mayan!

Eric and I invited our friends Kirsten and Aaron to go to this restaurant in Sandy called The Mayan. It is a Mexican Restaurant that is themed after the Mayan culture. It is like a jungle inside, with birds noises and stuff, but the best part is that every half an hour there is a cliff diving show. There is a big waterfall inside with a little pool at the bottom. Eric and I had gone before a while ago, but we were way up at the top of the restaurant and could hardly see the divers. This time we had the best seats you could have. We were sitting at the bottom right in front of the waterfall. We got lucky. We even got splashed a little but. Everytime a show started, all of these little kids would come running to see the divers, but all we had to do was sit right where we were eating! It was nice. Anyways, it was fun and the food was pretty good too! It was well worth the drive! Like i said before, I am in need of a good camera, because my camera doesn't do well in the dark. Hopefully you can pick out the divers in these pictures.