Sunday, August 25, 2019

July & August 2019

This is a long post so I'm not going to write very much. Put it off too long again. 
Look how cute. One video is of Jake talking in his sleep and one is a slow motion video of Josie and how happy she is playing fetch.



Dal's utah visit

Shilo at work
Brian and Chad went to the philipines and got us all this stuff because everything is so much cheaper there. They also had so many massages and adventures because it's so cheap.
Jake fell asleep on dallin

New TV!

This is a pic of dallin in the best buy debating about all the different options, and then this was the one we got. He's in love.

Scottsdale Art Museum

We're not normally museum people but this was seriously so cool
This was my favorite one. Basically a big tarp with holes that replicate the night sky and the lights streaming through it was so magical. 

we went to dinner before at the yard house

This is nick and G doing the VR thing

The videos were things that only look that way because they're spinning under a strobe light. I don't really understand it but it was amazing.

Pool Day with Friends

We grilled and swam and had a good time


before we hung the tv we had to watch it on the floor lol




A different point of view

Finally got to go to this restaurant after wanting to for a long time. It was sooooo amazing. The view, the company, the food, the service, the price. It was all outstanding. We went to celebrate our 5th wedding anniversary and dallin got to open the letter I wrote to him in october of 2013 when we weren't even engaged yet. It was surreal to say the least. It was a really good letter too.


















Firebirds 

We went to this restaurant in gilbert back in july some time for date night. Obviously it was the time before I was using heat on my hair lol

Boating adventures

haha Im a dork and scrubbed the boat with that thing

This is jess getting up on the wake board for the first time

Trent (Lyle's brother) wake boarding


This is dallin 
This was us at sandy beach

We went with jody and lisa that day



me wake boarding


Me and G with our classic face

Pretzel's circus audition

He failed unfortunately. 

Pool Days

I think they're cool. 

Marie Kondo-ing it

We filled my whole trunk with clothes and stuff and donated it

AC scare

our 15 year old AC unit went out and we got to choose between 12k for a new one or 600$ to fix it. We got away with the cheaper option luckily. 

Jake's surgery

We got his growth removed. This is the before
This is the after


He was so drugged up we couldn't get him to move or eat. we've never seen him like that it was scary

Toby moved to AZ

He came to live with my dad and go to cochise college. we hosted him for the weekend while my dad and shelly were at her brother's funeral. Our hearts go out to shelly and her family during this tough time. He isn't in pain anymore, so they're taking comfort in that. I never met him, but it was hard for shelly.
Anyway we did a game night, swam, went to cafe rio, and he helped us mount the tv.
 This is us at mod pizza

 Dog babysitting

Cesar bit us a few times and Josie was fighting jake, so it wasn't easy this time. 

Time for everyone to judge us

We forgot that there was an air filter upstairs and we never changed it. So it was at least 2 years without being changed. Isn't it gross?

 Mila & Max first birthday party

We went to jackie and Alex's for their twins 1 year party it was carnival themed

More boating adventures

We always have so much fun







 Bootcamp with Lexi


 The Newly Wed Game

It was so fun! This was the scoreboard before
 The group shot

 During the game
 The score board after
 Our little "white boards" to write our answers on. I kept them and i'm going to use them at school this year.

 Last few weeks of freedom before going back to work

I wish I didn't have a job.... haha



Josie and cesar's first time in the pool


yoga class with the girls

 babysitting harley

 More boating pictures (because we might not have taken enough lol )

 

 Girl Date

We went to a cute place in scottsdale and met some new girls. didn't work out with them, but we didn't mind that much lol 

 Dallin working from home

 Aged photos

These are so funny!
 

 New Hair

more blonde this time


 The Stand-Off Everyday to get Jake to Eat

He's anorexic. I won't let him come out of there until he eats it and he just sits there like "Joke's on you, I can do this all day."



They're Scared of Storms

So they have to cuddle with me when they hear thunder

 BFF's 

We got matching necklaces and she sent me the cutest letter ever. We have officially been friends for a whole year now!

 Jake's birthday!

We can't believe he's 8! He got a feast and a toy and petsmart!


 Back to School Night

The parents come, we dress up, so of course we have to do a photo shoot to celebrate haha

 My new reading room!

After the piano left it was too empty so i got a fireplace and new couch!




 Back to school Training is riveting.... lol

It's so boring we caught them falling asleep! haha
 This is the same Clint that I dated in college and we watched a video about him with the whole district in training. Apparently now he's a motivational speaker and he may come for assemblies and stuff. Crazy right?

 Utah trip for 2 days

We went up to utah for only 2 days so it was really busy. My 10 year HS reunion, kim, shayle, tom and my mom and my aunt kim for a few minutes. It was fun because I surprised my mom and tom completely. They had no idea I was coming. It was Toms birthday!

Shayle and her kids picked me up from the airport, we went to breakfast and the park




 the old weight room
 It was so weird to be back. More people remembered me than I remembered them. Which changed my whole perspective of feeling invisible in high school. I probably was just keeping ppl at arms length and not reaching out.
 After we went to dinner at daybreak

 Free concert in daybreak after the reunion
 It was really good to see people again and the school again. It was really low key but in the end I'm glad I went. It helped me realize that more people were my friends than I remembered. It's easy to exaggerate in your head when you're a teenager that you don't have friends. But I think I did. And it was good to see them.
memorial table for those from our class that have since passed away
flew allegiant

 First Week of School

This was my 5th first day teaching and I got my letter again :)
 First day athletic dept. pic

 Fancy socks friday!

 This was from forever ago and I forgot to put it in here....

 Getting Fit!

Dallin went to bootcamp a few times and this was us with our trainer at DF wendy

 Game night!!!

We played settlers and a dancing game

 Isn't this a glorious picture of me?

 Dave Visits

We pulled the boat out, swam, and went to a dinner and movie


Learning about Nutrition

I went to a few classes about macronutrients at the bootcamp place and also talked one on one with someone about it and it was very informative. It was actually nice finally feeling like I understood everything that was on the nutrition label. We made these black bean and quinoa tacos and they were so good. 
 
I started tracking it on my phone because as it turns out, I was eating mostly fat. So even though I was keeping track of calories I still wasn't improving. What they want you to be is 40% carb, 30% fat, 30% protein. And this was mine lol
This was us trying to be healthy and eating spaghetti squash instead of spaghetti
This is what I'm supposed to do
This was another day

I hung up these pants in the kitchen to remind me of my motivation because it was so freaking hard.
To be honest with you this diet thing is already over, but it was good for me to learn about that stuff anyway lol

RIP Sammy Sue

 Sammy unfortunately passed away. They had to put her down because she was to the point where she couldn't move or eat or drink. I think it was for the best because she was so old she wasn't having a good quality of life anymore. We will miss you sammy!

 Babysitting Josie and Cesar again

This was them playing without fighting lol apparently it is possible!

 Trenden was on call at the hospital when the shooting happened and was called in for  a lot of surgeries and stuff. He said it was really stressful and sad. I felt bad for him and all those families that were affected- that would be a really rough thing to go through because you'd lose faith in humanity.

 Flashback from 2013

This was James Murphy and Dallin singing karaoke together in Provo lol good times. I can't believe how fast the last 6 years have flown by. 

Happy 5 year anniversary to Dilly!

This was 2010....
 Whit woo! what a hottie!
 And our wedding day!
There is no one else I'd rather build a life with and I am overjoyed with the way everything has turned out. I would even venture to say we are even happier and more in love now than we were back then. 

-See you next time! Sydney G 😍