This weekend

Thursday night my sister, Kylie, and Ryan's brother, Eric, graduated from High School! Congrats you two! It was fun to be there with you and spend the day with you.

Ryan's family had a little open house celebration for Eric. A bunch of people stopped by to say hello and congrats. It was good to see some family again as well as ward members of Ryan's parents that we don't see often. AND Kamryn had a great day! She was willing to explore and go to a lot of strangers she would normally shy away from! We were proud of her! :)


Walking with Great-grandpa Seamons

Kamryn LOVES balloons right now AND she's letting Great-Grandpa Seamons hold her!

Linda (Ryan's mom) always has the house so decorated for any event! I love it!

This is a MASSIVE cake she got for the open house! It took up half the counter and literally could've fed over 100 people! Everyone who came in commented on how big the cake was! But...it was VERY good! :)

Kamryn with Grandma Linda!

Kamryn with Aunt Darla

Kamryn with Grandpa Kent

See...she made her way around pretty good! :)

We also went to Tucanos for lunch that day with Ryan's immediate family, and 3 of his aunts. We love Tucanos! It was fun to spend some time with Ryan's Aunt Barbara, Darla and Laurie. Laurie flew out from Ohio for the graduation and it was so fun to see her again. We were sad that she couldn't stay longer, but that's how life is sometimes!

We went to see 'Angels and Demons' on Friday night with Laurie and Ryan's parents and sister. I've been excited to see it because I liked the book a lot. I forgot how violent it was! lol I enjoyed the movie, even though my face was in Ryan's shoulder the whole time! (I hate intense movies!) No, it really was well made and they simplified the book well, but I probably won't watch it ever again because of how intense and suspenseful it was!

After all the graduation stuff, we've kinda just been taking it easy this weekend. Not much happened. Sunday was a friend's homecoming talk. He just returned from his LDS mission in Korea. It was very cool to hear him speak (although, I can't say I got much out of it because I was chasing Kamryn everywhere and trying to keep her quiet!!) Zac is a friend of Kelsey's (my sister) and now that he is home, they are dating! So.... maybe in the near future we'll hear wedding bells?!?!! :) (lol...don't tell her I said that!) :)

Graduation Presents!

So, Ryan and I have been truly blessed in the past few months for both of us to be able to finish up with school and that Ryan was able to not only get a job, but one he LOVES! (More about that specifically later!)

But with some gift money from Grandparents and others for graduation, as well as our own money for ourselves, we treated ourselves to a couple of "bigger" things: a computer desk from Office Max and a 26" flat-screen TV from Costco! :)

Ryan is such a handy-man on furniture AND computers!


Putting the desk together requires help from Kamryn!


The almost finished product: (the backside of it at least)


And tada! Our workstation at home! :)
We love it!



We also ordered a TV as I explained above, and it FINALLY showed up yesterday! We love it! It's fun! I haven't gotten a picture yet, but the coolest thing is that it has a DVD player inside it, so our room now gets a TV and DVD player! Yay yay! :)

Graduation Celebration!

So, the plan was originally for my family and Ryan's family to drive to Logan on Saturday, May 2nd for my graduation ceremony. But by May 1st I was STILL student teaching and I was just BURNT OUT! I didn't want to drive all the way to Logan, sit in a long ceremony, go out to dinner and drive back. So, I decided to celebrate graduating by taking out all the driving and the long ceremony, and go to a movie and dinner instead! :) Sounds MUCH more fun to me! :)

So, my parents, my grandma, my sister and her boyfriend, my cousin Aimee, Ryan and I went to see "17 Again". It was very cute. And Ryan and I are big Zac Efron and Matthew Perry fans, so that helped! :)

Then we all met up with Ryan's family to go to dinner at Carrabbas. (An AWESOME Italian restaurant in Orem! Ryan and I have been there 3 times now and have loved it every time!!) :) Kamryn LOVES the bread there too! :) It's a wonderful dining experience overall, so if you've never been... you should try it! :)




The whole crew! (Although, after we took the picture we realized Ryan's brother, Eric, was in the restroom...oops!) :)

Kamryn sitting with Grandad after we were all done eating!

"Who has me?" I love this picture because she really was passed around quite a bit that night! :)

It was a great way to celebrate graduation!