Summer Adventures PART TWO....

We have had so many fun times at the end of our summer! Look at the pictures and their captions to see all the fun. :)

I had to share this one, just cuz we are nerds and work at WALMART!!

I spoiled myself a little.. I had a day off to myself and went and got me a new skirt. It is so comfortable!!

We were sooo thrilled to be starting off our weekend with a day off. We went to ikea... and got a new laundry hamper!! woop woop!!

We went to Boise for the weekend and this is what my family's feet looked like when they got home from trek!!! NASTY... and smelly haha. But they said they had a really great time. I wish i could have gone, too!!

The next weekend we got to go to sweet Cooper's baby blessing! He is such a precious baby. When they are this little, I get a little nervous holding them! But he is sooo cuddly, and I love his full head of hair. We got to BBQ after the baby blessing and had a lot of good food... Thanks Josh, Hill, and everyone who contributed! Such a good memory.

The NEXT weekend, we met my family in Park City for an awesome weekend of fun. The original plan was to go to San Francisco, but after adding up all the costs and expenses, it just wasn't in the cards. Luckily, we still made GREAT memories and most importantly spent time together and laughed a ton. This is us swimming at our hotel.. silly Garrett didn't want to get in!

Our hotel was AWESOME... it had two levels, a master suite, a kitchen, and we stayed upstairs on the pullout bed :) valet parking was MANDATORY...we felt like we were living in paradise!!

Another shot of our hotel... the fireplace was awesome.

We went to the Sundance film festival the next night and saw "Annie get your gun" It was a fantastic show, very funny and Annie was an amazing singer and actress. I highly recommend going, it is beautiful up in the mountains,too!!

We stopped by the outlets on our way out of park city and Gar got himself a new pair of clearanced nike shoes! I love them and I think he does too :)

We drove to Poki and stayed a night and went to Lava hot springs. This is my mom, josh, scott, and his friend zach floating the river. They did awesome on the big rapids. 

We went to the hot springs... the pools ranged from 102-112 degrees!!! SOOO hot. but they were very relaxing and they actually didn't have that nasty sulfur smell!! After the hot springs we went to the cold pools and and swam and went down big waterslides.

All zonked out from a long day of fun!!!

These are the waterslides we went down.. Well, Garrett wouldn't do it! He says he never has and never will go down one of these big waterslides. But We still had fun and made lots of memories!!

June/July Vacation Fun!

On June 27th we went to Boise for our camping trip with our family. We had a great time! We went to the lake and swam, hung out with cousins, sat around the campfire making s'mores, playing card games and charades, and ate a lot of good food! My mom was a wonder woman, she made all of our meals which were delicious. Garrett and I loved using all of our new camping gear. It was fun to play with all my little cousins. My cousin Daxton who is 6 years old, always makes us laugh. One day, Daxton, Coy, and Tyce had dirt on their feet so my aunt Rachel took them into the women's shower room to wash them off. They all noticed that the women's shower room was much bigger then the men's, and Daxton's response was: "That's because women have small brains!!" Hahaha it was just too funny not to share. The last day of our camping trip we went in to Mccall and had lunch at a burger joint called "My Father's place." It was just really fun to have all the family together and relax. When we got back home to Meridian, I hopped right in the shower and boy it felt good! We stayed at my parents house for a few days and just relaxed and played ticket to ride with my siblings, watching glee, movies, and going to taco bell at midnight! We had dinner at uncle Danny's house one night, he made bratwursts.. they were great! We all traveled back to Utah the next day. We stayed at my Grandma Needles house and got to see my aunt Jenny and Uncle Derek and their kids from New Mexico, And also Aunt Angie and Uncle Justin from Phoenix. It's always fun to see them since they live so far away! We went to Lagoon for the day which was sooo much fun! Even though we couldn't get my mom, Jenny Kay, or my aunt, Jenny Lynn on the wicked :) It was a hot day but since we went on a Wednesday we didn't have to wait in long lines! It was fabulous. That night we went to Arctic Circle and Aunt Jenny introduced Garrett to their delicious peanut butter cup shakes. He says they come in a close second to Dairy Queen! He loves blizzards. On the fourth we had a great day, We had a family bbq and helped my grandparents clean up their yard and planted flowers in "Casey's Garden." We spent some time at Garrett's mom and dad's as well. When we got there, they were throwing water balloons over the house to see how far they would go. We played charades.. it's always fun!I got my hair done the next day! I went dark. It was very shocking looking in the mirror after! I will miss the blonde, but it was extremely hard to keep up with since my roots would grow out so quickly. I like it so far! We went to Coy's baptism on Saturday. There is something very special about watching someone you love so dearly receive such a special gift and become clean. I am so grateful for his decision, and I know he will continue living in the way his Heavenly Father would want him too!

 Of course all good things must come to an end... today Garrett went back to work, and I go back tomorrow. No fun going back to real life! It still hurts having to say goodbye to my family. Call me a baby, I cry every time! I can't wait to be with them again. 

All about my man!

All about my man....

1. What is he doing? He is currently at work! probably showing customers the best tv to buy!
2. What dressing does he get on his salad? He isn't a huge fan of salad, but when he does have it he has just ranch dressing.:)
3. What's one food he doesn't like? He HATES pickles, and he hates olives. crazy guy.
4. What does he say his first impression of you was? He remembers me from when i was only 10 years old, but he claims he always thought i was cute!

5. Drink he orders every time you are out? either coke or dr pepper. his number one choice would be mtn dew baja blast, but that only comes from taco bell of course!

6. Where did he go to high school? CMR high school in Great Falls, Montana
7. What size shoe does he wear? 11
8. If he was to collect anything what would it be? flat bill hats.. he can never have too many of them!
9. What is his favorite type of sandwich? He likes a regular peanut butter and jelly with a tall glass of milk!
10. What would he eat every day if he could? Mac'ncheese, He is seriously addicted...
11. What is his favorite cereal? Chocolate frosted flakes, no doubt.
12. What would he never wear? He will never wear tight pants.
13. What is his favorite sports team? BYU I'm sure of it!
14. Who did he vote for? Romney...duh
15. Who is his best friend?  Me of course! And probably his roommates from college.. Dallin, Greg and Jake
16. How did he meet you? I was buddies with his little brother M

att when we were younger.
17. What is something you do that he wishes you wouldn't do? Text him when I am mad instead of calling :)
18. How many states has he lived in? Born and raised in Montana, now in Utah! Served his mission in Stockholm, Sweden
19. What is his heritage? German?
20. You bake him a cake for his birthday; what would it be? He would prefer his mom's cake to be honest..haha
21. Did he play sports in high school? Marching band! he played the drums
22. What could he spend hours doing? Playing his guitar
23 . What's something cool about him? He is the sweetest man I  know. He cares for his family and loves me with all his heart. I am soooo lucky to have him!

A few more pictures from this summer so far! Some happy, some sad. Dean and I (Garrett's dad) share a birthday! we all went to pizza pie cafe.. i was the big 19 and he was the big 50! That makes him 31 years older! ;) We also had a funeral to attend.. Garrett's grandpa Karl passed away, he will be missed. The four brothers and their dad sang a beautiful song at the graveside.. "Be still my Soul" They are all so talented! Can't wait for more great summer memories!

"Blogging" Is new to us...

 I thought that a blog would be fun to start and have one day to share with family, children, grandchildren, and so on. Garrett and I, Sammy, have been married for four months now! And we love being married.. (I guess I should only speak for myself;)) We love spending time together, no matter what it is. We like movies, netflix, walks, popcorn, Applebees, family, games, and laughing. Garrett and I are both working at Wal-Mart! On a good day, our lunch breaks will overlap and we can enjoy each other's company in the break room. As of right now, we are enjoying our summer and Garrett loves having a break from school. He recently declared his major in Information Technology, I am so proud of him. He really looks up to his brother Josh, who has earned his degree in Information Technology and will hopefully be able to help him out this next semester. This summer we have been enjoying the sunshine, going to lagoon with our season passes, having family dinners, going up the canyon, and in just a short week heading up to Boise to go camping with my family! We are mostly really busy with work, but when we get time off together we treasure it and enjoy it. This picture is from when we went to Park City for my birthday. We had an amazing time relaxing in the hot tubs and letting the waterfalls give us a massage! Another post to come soon! With love, Sammy and Garrett