A taste of Chicago...

We were lucky to be invited to go on a trip with my family to Chicago for a few days this summer. We left on Wednesday the 1st, and were excited to get away from school and work! Classic, "Here we are on the plane" Picture
Squishing in the back of the cab. We had 7 people plus the driver in a mini-van. It was so tight!

When we got to our hotel in Chicago they told us that the taste festival was going on and that Ne-Yo was having a concert in the park that night. After putting our luggage away we walked down town to the Taste Festival. We were able to try a variety of different foods and see Ne-Yo perform!A little bit of Ne-Yo. Yes he is out there, he is wearing a white hat and shirt. There were tons of people and there was no way to get close!Bob and I with this Rib sandwich- It was really good. You buy tickets and then pay for the food with them. They would let you get a sample for only 3 or 4 tickets. Or a full size was about 8 or 9.My family minus Andrea, at the end of our night at the taste festival.

the sweatsuit

Bob has this sweatsuit, it's not any sweatsuit, it's special! He got it from foot locker and apparently a lot of people have made comments about it. He hasn't worn it in a while, since it is hot- but when he did wear it, occasionally we would match. Both of us wearing mustard yellow! While we were in Chicago at the Taste Festival we saw this man. Wearing the same suit that Bob has. Bob thought it was pretty funny!Bob wearing his suit at ward prayer with my roommate Danielle back in November.

{guess our favorite part of summer}

Our favorite thing about summer, other than spending oodles of time together is.....

{what's our favorite part of summer?}

Our favorite thing about summer, other than spending oodles of time together is this place.....
The snow cone hut in Orem, which is in front of the Scera Pool on state street. It is only $1 for a small and that is the perfect size. We have been going to get a snow cone 2x a week. You can get them with cream on top or ice cream in the bottom for $.50 extra. Everytime we leave tasting our new flavor, Bob tells me he got the best one. We haven't picked one we don't like yet! And a goofy husband to take me there always make it fun- This has to be the worst picture of us both- oh well!
Bob accidently always wears his shirt from the Bahamas when we go, and the girl taking our money noticed! -- We don't smile very well at the snow shack, but we love it.

{Camping with the Nelsons}

This weekend we went up Spanish Fork Canyon to experience our first camping trip together. We went with our friends Mary, Russ and baby Korbin. We had the whole day to prepare, and I thought we had everything ready so I went to my classroom and organized. That afternoon we hurried and put our stuff in the car and met Mary and Russ. We realized we had left our camping chairs back at our apartment. (The only camping equipment we owned previously was the chairs and had to buy all of the other stuff- ironic that we forgot them.) We quickly got them and drove up the canyon. It was raining.... the whole drive, but once we set up the tent it calmed down.

Warning**** These pictures may appear out of order. Ooops!
Mary and Korbin in the tent before we played games. It was raining a little at this point.... A little rain never hurt anyone!
Mary found a cattepillar and Korbin was being so cute looking at it and trying to pet it. This is me with my new sleeping bag. There were a few different choices at Target, but the one that spoke to me was the pink-camo!!! Too bad they didn't have a blue-camo for Bob. It was Mary's birthday on Friday so I made cupcakes for her. Korbin loved the frosting and licked it all off in 10 seconds. How can you not have fun with this little guy?
Here we are in the Nelson's tent playing cards after the fire went out. I think that we all took turns winning a hand.
Mmmmm we loved our hobo dinners. This was one of the first dinners I made for Bob when we got back from our honeymoon. -- So easy and so good!
Bob put our 2 man tent together, yes it looks baby, and yes it was raining the whole time- But it was awesome!

Our fire at the end of the trip where we roasted our hot dogs for lunch! Below, Russ, Korbin and Bob putting the tarps away as we clean up camp. This was on the bridge that we crossed to get to our campsite. At this point we were tired, smelly and hot. Ready to go home and take a shower and take a long nap. Thanks to the Nelson's who invited us and were great company!

{Rain Rain Go Away}

The month of June passed by quickly with a lot of rainy days. With this being my first summer without a full time job, I thought I would get in a few pool days. I can't believe it is almost July and I still haven't gone to a pool yet. During one of those rainy days we made our way to Wal-Mart to pick up a few things. On the way there it started pouring, and when we got out of the car, we realized we were in a huge puddle. Luckily I was wearing my crocs (which I rarely ever wear) so I was able to roll my pants up and wade through the water. Bob, on the other hand was wearing his tennis shoes, and he would've been soaked. The water was atleast 8 inches deep. I had to record what happened next..... Enjoy!
The first picture is before we got out of the car, I was freaking out there was so much water. The 2nd picture is when I started to wade into the water, I rolled my pants up and by the time we got across the parking lot- the part I rolled up was soaked. And the 3rd is our genius idea of pushing Bob on a cart as we went through the puddles!

A little bit of this....

Bob and I enjoyed a relaxing Friday. With the semester changing at BYU Bob had the day off from work. We slept in, until 9, suprisingly late for us. And made waffles for breakfast. We got ready and made our way to the temple. It was a beautiful day outside- which was a great change from our constant cloud coverage and sparatic rain showers. We ate lunch at Olive Garden with some wedding gift cards. We picked up a few groceries at my favorite grocery store, Buy Low and then went home to watch My Girl. Bob picked stuffed crust pizza for dinner. We attempted to make it, if you don't know the secret, you put string cheese into the crust. I had to cut mine in half to cut back, but Bob wanted all the cheese he could get. Here are some photos to show our night together!
BBQ sauce for our BBQ chicken pizza! Mmmmm it was so good!
Red onions that I cut-- look at that cutting board, I have been doing my fair share amount of cutting and cooking the past couple weeks.
Our baby amount of chicken- Bob thought I was being skimpy, but I knew our pizza wouldn't be too big. BTW Bob's mom bought us some of the best pans ever. I love cooking with them.
Bob being himself as he cut up some mushrooms for our pizza. He loved using the food chopper that we got for our wedding. I didn't think to pull it out until after he cut all of the mushrooms.We became obsessed with Jeopardy- For some reason we can't get enough of it. We know a few answers each night- but it's always fun to guess!
* Verdict- It was good, but the crust that we made didn't work that well with the stuffed crust!