Thursday, September 4, 2008

Summary of our Summer


My sister's visited for the summer from Georgia, we were so excited to catch up. Nia is sooooo tall, she's 6'0 and 108 lbs...and I thought it was hard to find a guy to marry that was taller than me, good luck Nia!


Jenny's wedding, we met in Panama. I had to take an emergency trip there when I lived in Costa Rica so that I could renew my Visa (some guideline they have for foreigners that stay in the country over 150 days). Jenny and her family let me stay and visit for a whole week. I loved it there, the shopping was amazing. I'm still biased toward Costa Rica, Costa Rica is a more beautiful country.
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Our first annual camp trip was by far the highlight of our summer. It was the first time we ever rode 4 wheelers. We camped at a secluded camp site in Manti, it was only a 3-day trip but next year we plan to camp out longer. We laughed so much during that trip, when we were 4 wheeling Simi was adventurous and got stuck in some standing water, gross! Doesn't the snapshot of his feet look like something from CSI? We spent one of the days on a lake where my sisters got so frustrated with my little brother that they jumped off the boat and walked around the whole lake! Next year we plan to have more family so we're so excited.




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Celebration of our 1st year being MARRIED!


I can' t believe it's already been a year! I've heard from several people that the first year of marriage is the hardest, that wasn't the case for me (Derek agrees). It was by far the best year in my life, I'm happy, in love and blessed to have such a great husband.
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For most of the summer we just hung out with my family. The benefits of hanging out with my fam is free laundry (or we can spend 25 cents for every 6 minutes for the dryer at our apartment), free food, free activities and fun times with our nephews.





We're pretty much do the standard, if we're not with family we're at the Gateway window shopping, we're watching movies or walking our puppy Skofeild...teaching new tricks to Skofeild...cooking Skofeild meals, we really do need to get out more.

4 comments:

Married Mannings said...

What a fun summer!!! Sorry I didnt call you back Friday, I was sleeping :) I really did sleep the last of half of the day it was great. (Cutting my hair took a lot out of me)

Lithie said...

hi there! yea am i as cool as you and susiane now that I have a blog of my own? haha miss you guys soooo much! what are you guys doing this weekend? we are going camping up logan canyon fri night you re more than welcome to come! Susiane too! my sister and law and cousins are coming. my ward will be there too. i love your pics you look great! call me soon and thanks for inviting me finally!
big hugs!
LRock

Jo Lynn said...

What an awesome post, I love to look back but it's so sad it's coming to an end. Thanks for inviting me to your blog again, LOL! I love your wedding pictures, you are one gorgeous woman. I love the picture of whoever's feet covered in mud, nasty...

Brooke said...

Hey Nativa- check out my friend Janet's blog for some great blogging tips. She put a post up on Monday called "Q & A" that talks about where to publish your book and tips for photoscape. Her blog site is ajshumway.blogspot.com