CARNIVAL CRUISE 2008!!!!!!!!

The moment I have been waiting for finally happened! I went on a cruise and it was THE BEST EVER!!!!! Here I am on the top of the ship after laying out...it was pretty rough....or should I say AMAZING!!!!!

In our friends room(we had an interior room). We had to go next door and take a picture by the window since it was a much better view than our lovely wall.

More crazy Carnival times

My friends on the deck....Tracy, Nicole W and Rashae.

Jenni, Emily and me while we were hanging out on the ship.

I was chosen to be a contestant in a game show on the ship. Imagine that! Here I am in action.

I won a medal!! Yay!

Cruisin' for a good time!

Here are our cute and hilarious waiters Iwayan and German. There were singing to us in this shot.

Me and my friend Nicole Wenzcel. We had a formal night one night where we got to dress up. It was really fun.

The whole group of girls with our waiters on the last night.

On one of the mornings they had the Susan G Komen Walk for the Cure. We had to walk around the ship 11 times, which was pretty funny. Only Jenni and I braved the early morning. Here we are in our lovely shirts.

Megan's home haircutting experience

So, we recently had a big of a trauma here at our house. I came home from a Saturday rehearsal and, exhausted, fell asleep on the couch. Steve was doing some work on the computer in the other room and Megan was coloring at the coffee table. Later on, as we were doing some straightening up, Steve came and found me with a bunch of hair in his hands. Yes, Megan had cut her hair while I was sleeping. I was too angry to take pictures then, but I did save the hair in a plastic baggie, so you can see the incriminating evidence. She made two cuts, one on each side of her face. One was about shoulder length, the other chin length. I immediately called Nicole to see when we could come visit her to take care of this little disaster.

Here are Nicole and Megan getting ready for the big haircut.

At the Salon

Here we have the lovely before picture. You can kind of see how on the left side of the photo she has a huge chunk of hair that is about 4 or 5 inches shorter than the rest of it. You can't really see the place where she made the cut on the other side.


Okay, I'm ready for my haircut!

Looks like she's not so sure now.

Nicole working her magic.

The after pic. You can't really tell how much length had to come off. I wish I would have been smart enough to take before and after photos of the back of her head, because that's where you can see a big difference. We ended up taking off 4 inches.

Easter Photos

Here are some pictures from Easter at Mom and Dad's this weekend.You should have seen these kids scarf down the potato chips. They were eating them like there was no tommorrow. We had to switch bags halfway through because they finished one off.Melissa is great photographer and a great model.Megan really liked Guitar Hero, although not that great at it. Luckily, her Uncle Michael was more than willing to help her. (This photo was not staged at all!)Getting ready to color Easter eggs.Look at all of those pretty colored eggs. Jaxton was so funny, I don't think he used any color other than blue the whole time.Here's the little kid's table. Megan's enjoying her invisible food, Gabby is enjoying her glass, and Jaxton is mistakenly flossing BEFORE the meal.Here we all are at Old Main Hill rolling Easter eggs. Nicole is looking as lovely as ever.Here's Gabby, Grandpa, Megan, and Melissa climbing the hill after rolling their eggs.Megan and Grandma Gutke relaxing on the bench between rolls. It was a great day!

DISNEY ON ICE:PRINCESS WISHES!!!!!

On Friday night my friend, Aileen and I decided that we were going to be the best aunts in the world and take our nieces to Princesses on Ice. It was SSSOOOO fun!! We went to dinner first and then to the show. Honestly, my favorite part of the whole night was watching Megan watch the show. She was genuinely mesmerized by everything. She kept waving at everyone on the ice and when Mickey and Minnie came out she threw her hands up and the air and her jaw dropped. It was hilarious. Also, when prince charming came out, he was wearing a blue shirt and a red cape and she was like, "SUPERMAN!" She definately had me laughing all night long.

Here are Katie (one of Aileen's nieces) and Megan at dinner. I love how they dressed up in their princess dresses and crowns.

We took tracks to the show and the girls loved it. In fact, Isabel(the one in the middle) when asked her favorite part of the night quickly responded, "THE TRAIN!" The saddest part about that is it was the only free part of the night cause kids ride free. Go figure!

We had a little mishap on the way home from the show. Aileen and I got on the wrong train to go back to the car. We ended up half way to Sandy and not really sure how to get back. It took us about 3 more train transfers and an extra hour and twenty minutes travel time. Here are the girls in the front of the ticket machine at a random station. Finally we found our way back and all in all had a great time. We'll just see if Michelle ever trusts me to take Megan out again!

More Fun Times

Nate and I went to Hurricane last weekend. We had dutch oven in the backyard with his family one of the nights. It was getting chilly so he went inside and got the coat from his mission in Mongolia. We were so cold that we decided to try to both fit inside and it worked! I know, I know....it's super cheesy.

We went tubing at this huge hill in Midway called Soldier Hollow. It was so much fun. The best part about it is that they have a tow rope to take you up the mountain It was so nice. Much better than Old Main where you take two steps forward and one step back the whole way up the hill!

We went mini gofing with some friends a couple of weekends ago at Trafalga in Orem. These girls are friends from way back in the Glenwood....Ariann and Aileen.

This is Nate and I with my pink ball. Out of the 6 of us, I came in dead last. I think I was at like 23 strokes behind the next person. Very sad, indeed.

Awesome Friends

Last week, I went to dinner at Thanksgiving point with some friends from high school. It was so much fun! I love the fact that I have friends that make an effort to keep in touch! Mostly because I am horrible at it. Here I am with Val and Nikki.

Leslee, Alyssa and Daisie were also there. We stayed for about 2 and 1/2 hours and just chatted about everything. I had a great time!

About a month ago, the wife of my bishop in Glenwood (the first place I lived in Provo) passed away. He is my favorite bishop ever. He has had a really hard time, so a group of some of the old ward members got together and went to dinner with him. It was so fun to get together and see so many old friends. I made some amazing friends in that ward and had such a fun time catching up with everyone!

This is a picture of the last night of hip hop. For the past 3 and 1/2 years, I have been taking a Wednesday night hip hop class and it has been SO MUCH fun. My instructor, Darren(the one on my left) is going to Kuwait for a year and so class is officially over, which makes me so sad. He has such a talent for teaching and choreography. I have made some really good friends in that class. The girl on my right is Zuly. We met in that class and she has become one of my best friends. She is married and had three kids. We are totally in different phases of our lives, but she has been such a good friend to me.

Presidents Day

On Presidents day, Aileen, Richard, Nate and I went on a little road trip. We stayed in Hurricane(Nate and Aileen's parents both live there). We went to Vegas on Saturday. Here we are in front of the Las Vegas strip. I forgot to mention the Aileen and Richard got engaged on Valentines Day and they are getting married in September.

This is a little fuzzy, but I like it. Here we are waiting for the Bellagio fountains...my favorite part of Vegas.

On Sunday, we went to Zions and had the coldest picnic of my life, but it was still really fun. This is us in the parking lot.

We had game night on Sunday at Nate's parents house. We played a really funny game called Boxers or Briefs. I highly recommend it.