Thank-you For Your Worms

Last weekend Ryan and I had some great times with my family. It started off with catching "Dancing with Our Students' Stars" put on by the Logan City School District's foundation. I was super excited to see my kindergarten teacher dance. She did a great job and even earned perfect 10s across the board for her performance. It was pretty disappointing that she didn't win overall!
After the performance we went back to my parents' and hunted night crawlers. The fabulous rainstorm on Friday brought the worms out in droves. We filled a bucket which we figured would be more than ample for our fishing expedition on Saturday afternoon.
Saturday we did the usual chores, picked up some groceries, got my re-sized ring back (all sparkly and pretty), and then we headed to meet up with my dad to go fishing. My dad, Ryan, and I went out to Blacksmith Fork for the afternoon and spent our time missing bites and fighting the wind in order to cast our lines. Though we didn't bring any home, we were successful in actually making it out to the river--a real feat!!
Once we got home, we lit a fire in my parents' backyard and spent the evening roasting and eating. It was a great night! The hot dogs were delish and oh my those s'mores were sure tasty!!! I'm glad Ryan thought of the idea. It definitely was a great weekend. And to boot, I'm sure Pres. Hobbs would approve of the activities we did for our "dates" this week!

Busy but LOVING IT!

Wow-eee!!! These past few months have been crazy busy! Here's the run-down:
In March we celebrated Ryan's birthday. I made mini puff pancakes for breakfast--so tasty!!! Gave him some presents and then sent him off to school. After I finished work at 9 that night, we had a steak and "Uncle Kevin potatoes" dinner with his family where he also opened more presents and we ate some tasty cake.
We also celebrated St. Patrick's Day with the extended Cooley Family in Newton, marked the 25th wedding anniversary of Allan and Kristie and surpassed 100 days of marriage! (The last two just happened to fall on the same day--awesome!)

In April, we celebrated our four month anniversary, Easter, my mom's birthday, Kira's birthday, took a trip to Hogle Zoo--my first--and Ryan wrapped up his classes.

A Crazy Life

Yes we're still alive but so crazy busy that I have about a million things on my to-do list every day it seems. Since I last posted we've celebrated 3 months of marriage, 100 days of marriage, Ryan's birthday, Easter, and done a lot of other things. I'm hoping one day soon I get to catch up on all this and document it with a couple photos. Until then my blog readers...we're still happily married and loving life! Even if it's full, full, full!!!

2 Months and Valentine's Day Recap

Ryan and I celebrated our two-month anniversary last Friday. I love celebrating these little milestones. It's so fun!!! And to add to the fun we included Kira in our festivities. I picked Kira up from school, strategized about her history fair project and then we went to pick up Ryan. We grabbed some Subway ($5 footlongs--it's Februany!) and headed back to the Cooley home to watch Beauty and the Beast on their awesome new TV. It turned out that it was the diamond edition of the movie so there was even an extended scene! Allan and Kristie came home from dinner and joined our festivities. We ate popcorn, Ryan played Zelda, we did a Tim-Tam slam... It turned out to be a great evening!
Then for Valentine's Day we got to sleep in ('cause it was Tuesday and we can do that on Tuesday and Thursday), I made Ryan's favorite muffins for breakfast and then filled his pockets, shoes, and notebooks with cheesy Valentines. He had fun trying to find them all, which wasn't accomplished until late that evening! We parted ways about 10 am--Ryan to school then work, me to work, class, then work again. For dinner at 9:30 that night (yep, that's about when we rejoin each other at home), we enjoyed one of those heart shaped pizzas from Papa Murphy's and a S'more pizza for dessert. It tasted fantastic alongside a couple episodes of Fringe! All in all, I'd say it was a great Valentine's Day. Low-key is just what we needed with our hectic schedules!
P.S. The only picture I have is of our Tim Tam Slam. Thanks Kristie!!! I'll try to do better with my own documentation!

Disneyland! Oh my what a fabulous adventure!!!

Once upon a time I was a girl who married into a family of Disneyland fanatics. Love you Cooleys! ;o) I myself, had never been to this magical place and therefore could not quite grasp the reason for this, shall we say, obsession? But that all changed on the 25th of January....
After an eventful departure from Logan, a super-early flight to Long Beach, and a warm welcome to sunny California, I set my two little feet inside a magical adventure. And for the next four days, I walked, and stood, and ate (A LOT), and rode, and basked in the world of Disney. Needless to say, I had a fantastic time and dare I admit it???? I CAN'T WAIT TO GO BACK!!!!