Nate, Sagan, and Wake: June 2013

Camping With Friends

Terron and Swayzie moved into our apartment building last fall and it has been so much fun/exhausting having them around. They are busy bodies for sure and are always up for doing anything no matter the time, distance, work, or unfavorable elements involved. They have been good for Nate and I as far as making us get out and live life instead of worrying about everything all the time. So in March we found a spot near Cedar to go camping with them and Pratt and Darci. It felt like high school all over again but that's not a bad thing in my eyes. I'm lucky to still live by most of my high school friends and it was fun to get out and feel like teenagers again.

Pratt thinking he's a dead eye...

Nate doing work on the dutch ovens...

Terr and Sway cooking the meat...

Me waiting for my awesome stickbread to cook...

Just chillin' by the fire...

Snowboarding at Eagle Mountain

So I had no idea (even after six years of dating)that Nate was so obsessed with snowboarding. He had been wanting his own equipment and I kept telling him no because first of all we had only gone a few times in our life, I didn't want to deal with storing it while moving around a lot in college, and it is an expensive hobby (which Nate seems to take a liking to those types of hobbies haha). Anyway, I don't know how he does it but he has a way of working things out so that I can't say no. He found us screaming deals on boards, bindings, and boots so I gave in and we now own all of the stuff to go. I only made it out once this winter with Nate but he got to go a couple times so I guess all of our new gear is worth it? Haha anyway, here are some pics of that day.

We got to go with Terron and Swayzie which made it a lot more fun since Nate and Terron wanted to break their backs and Sway and I were just content with getting down the mountain.

Nate doing some smooth moves...

Me doing some average moves...

I like to think that I'm in pretty decent shape but man, after a day of snowboarding I am proved otherwise. Here's for hoping for a lot of snow next year!

Next Stop...Vegas!

At the end of January we headed down to Vegas for the day so that I could take the NCLEX and hopefully do a little celebrating afterwards. The pictures on this trip are limited because it was raining and even a little rain makes my already larger than life hair twice as big so, as you can imagine, I wasn't too keen on taking pictures. That night we got to walk the strip, see the water show, and see the Treasure Island show which I USED to love. Now the Treasure Island show basically just consists of a bunch of whores who can't sing so it was pretty disappointing. We did have fun though but had to be back that night for Nate's school which was a bummer.

Nate wanted to gamble but I can only handle about two seconds in casinos before I start suffocating from the cigarette smoke. Shouldn't it be illegal to smoke indoors? Or at all? Anyway, we didn't stay there very long because of that reason.

Us standing in front of the whore show.

Waiting for the water show to start...

Christmas 2012

Christmas Eve this year was the usual games, songs, dinner, presents, and grandkid video at my grandma Kathy's house and a second dinner (second dinners are the best) and bunko at Nate's Johnson party. We are always very busy around the holidays trying to do it all with both of our families living in Blanding but we somehow make it work pretty well.This year we spent Christmas Eve night at Nate's house and it was so much fun! Of course Dick had the missionaries over that morning for presents and Christmas breakfast. Nate's parents gave them nerf guns which I thought was a fun idea but they also gave Nate one and I may or may not have had to hide some of the bullets after a few days of constantly having to shield my face.