Happy Thanksgiving

We spend Thanksgiving with my family this year so the day started with the Hogle Zoo.

Did you notice that Tessa is in like every picture? She's the cutest

And of course I made Doug take a picture by this gorilla thing. He and Alex have super long monkey arms. It's crazy

I didn't get pictures from the rest of the night but it was awesome. Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!

H a L l O w E e N

We had a great Halloween. It started with pumpkin carving at Cole and Jocelyn's cute house.

The finished projects (left to right) Dallas - wolf in the moon, Cole and Joc - U logo, Doug and Leslie - scary ghost, Trevor and Brad - haunted house, Kit and Kim - Xmen sign, Cade - I think it is a "C"

This picture is a little fuzzy but I still love it

I made cookies for a lot of different parties (work, friend, family, etc) I made pumpkins, spiderwebs, bats, and brains

Next we had a party with my family. Tessa didn't love the inside of a pumpkin. She looks pretty stressed out.

All of the family with our pumpkins. Mom is taking the picture.

My mom had the awesome idea of a donut contest. Alex won this round. Don't we look attractive.

I think Jordy won this round. I hate to say it but Mom and Dad also joined in this game but my camera died before I could get any pictures. They looked way cool

To finish Halloween night off Doug and I went to the U game. It was not as cold as I thought it would be and it was a lot of fun.

There are few things in life that make me want to punch someone square in the face. One in particular -

CLAPPING IN THE MOVIE THEATRE
There are a couple of times when this is okay: It is perfectly fine to clap in a movie theatre ONLY right as the movie is starting or right after the movie has ended but ONLY if it is opening weekend.
Never, never, never is it okay to clap in the middle of a movie!!! No matter how cool you think something is - just don't clap.

This has been a pet peeve of mine for a long time and those who know me best know to hold me down when some idiot starts clapping in the middle of the movie.

"GET IN THE HOLE!"
This pet peeve has been added to my life very recently. If you know Doug at all, you will also know that he loves golf. I have watched more golf in the last year of my life then I ever have in the 23 years I've been alive. Every Sunday Doug will usually have the weekend golf tournament playing. As I was listening last week I noticed how irritating it was when someone would yell "Get in the hole!" It seems to be a game for those who go sit all day at a golf tournament. As soon as the golfer hits the ball (mostly while putting) someone in the audience without fail will try to be the first person to yell "Get in the hole!" After that one person yells more people will yell it again. Sorry golf tourny watchers - what is the point? The ball cannot hear you! I just don't get it and so alas it has become my second "punch in the face" worthy pet peeve to go along with movie theatre clapping.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Y3UAA4rVO8

If you already watch golf tournaments then you already know what I'm talking about but for those of you who don't the link above is not exactly what I'm talking about, but it will give you a feel of what I mean when someone yells "Get in the hole!"

P.S. If you are reading this and you currently do either of these things - I won't hold it against you

FIRST ANNIVERSARY...

To start the day off Doug got up while I was getting ready and put up the "Happy Anniversary" banner and gave me a cute new charm for my Pandora charm bracelet

I gave him his first ever plaid "cowboy shirt" he had to put on his cowboy hat to go with it for this picture.

When I got home from work he had gotten me these pretty orange roses

We then headed up to Park City to celebrate. I didn't get any pictures of that but when we went back to the condo we were staying in we ate the top of our Wedding cake. It was perfect. The cake tasted just as it did on our Wedding day. It was so good

Eating the cake...

The next morning we got up and I made breakfast

Then we went shopping at the Outlet stores. The only picture I got here was of Doug in this little car with Kermit the frog. It was excellent.

Overall, we had a great anniversary!

One year ago today we were here...

Today we are happy couple who can finally say that we have passed the "Newly Weds" stage. This first year of marriage has been great, I couldn't have asked for anything better. We are happy, healthy, and loving our life together.

HAPPY 1 YEAR ANNIVERSARY!!!

Weiler Family Vacation

In August we went with the entire Weiler family to a lodge just outside of Zion National Park. It was way fun. We had - oh I don't know - maybe around forty people all in one lodge. Good thing we're family and it was a pretty decent sized lodge. We went swimming one day (I didn't get any pictures of that) and we went to Zion's another day. We hiked Angel's Landing and to be honest at first I thought we were all going to die (a person died hiking that the week before we had gone) but it turned out to not be as scary as I thought. It was pretty awesome actually.

Lots of switchbacks (bottom up: Jason, Grant, me, Rob, Michelle, Kevin, Emily, Harley, Johnathon. Doug was taking the picture and Blaire was a bit behind - ha ha)

Doug looking down the deadly abyss

Two things to point out in this picture 1) the sheer drop on the left side of the picture 2) the people you see hiking all along the right side of the picture to the top of the cliff (the picture is a little small but there are people hiking all the way up to the top of the cliff)

The Mark Weiler family siblings

Remember - What goes up must come down...

And down...for a really long time!

It was a great trip and no one died hiking Angel's Landing. Although, we almost lost Grandpa Weiler when he decided to hike a ways up the Narrows by himself. Keep in mind he just had a knee replacement a few months ago and is like 80. Good thing we found him :)

St George Trip

So we went with my family to St George in June but I never posted about it because I didn't have all of the pictures - well I got the pictures and now I'm only posting two so it didn't really matter anyways. Oh well.

It was a super fun trip. The whole family was there (except for Lance of course - he's in Chile) and we had a blast.

The first day we went to Sand Hollow. My parents had rented wave runners and we played all day

The second day we went to Zion's National Park. It was Free National Park Day so we didn't have to pay a penny. It was funny

I didn't have too many pictures after that. Just lots of swimming, tennis, and other stuff like that. I have the best family! THANKS MOM AND DAD!!!