Another First Date

On August 8, 2009 I took Randi on our first date to a Salt Lake City Bee's game. A year later we went back to see the the Bee's play Sacramento. Cassidy started off the night by trying to learn how to blow up the noise makers and had difficulty for the first 10 mins.

Unlike the first date Cassidy actually payed attention to the game rather then spending the entire time talking to Randi and not realize the game ended.

Sorry it's not a great picture, self timer is hard :)

Both of us had a blast at the game, even though the Bee's did not win.

We found a ad in the program that we found to be fun to find the adventure in Elko.

After the game we were able to go down on the field and watch fireworks that were shot off just a few hundred feet away. On an occasion we could feel the ashes fall on us.

Two Buck Tuesdays Rides Again!

Once again we took advantage of $2 Tuesdays at Thanksgiving Point. This week we went to the Gardens at Thanksgiving Point. The normal admission price is $10 for an adult so it was definitely a steal. The gardens are amazing! There are 15 different areas and all are very different from the rest. It also has the nation's largest man-made waterfalls which we failed to get a picture of. Anyway here are some pictures of our adventure.

This fountain was so cool! It was in the Italian garden and this is only have of it.

In the secret garden, we were trying to get the fountain behind us. You had to go through a tunnel of vines and then a door to get in the garden. There was also a brick wall covered in ivy surrounding the whole thing and tall trees around the wall so from anywhere else you could not the secret garden.

It is a carousel, cool huh? It was a great trip and we wish we had stopped for the 50 cent ice cream because it was about 95 degrees outside and it took us a little over an hour to walk through the entire garden.

Jamie's Wedding

Jamie and Rudy got married on August 7, 2010 in the Reno Nevada temple. They had a reception in Reno that night and another one in Elko on the 14th. We were lucky enough to be at both and got to see a lot of family and friends. Here are a few pictures from both weekends. My favorite part was that they were late to both receptions.

The one picture I liked of the Elko reception was Jamie talking on the phone while in line. She is such a multitasker :)


Pictures at the temple! The happy couple and everyone that was there to support Jamie, minus Erin the photographer because she was obviously taking the picture.

Sibling fun, we always knew we were a little weird, but now it is caught on film. Doesn't Jamie look beautiful!

No words needed, everyone loves Jamie!

Cassidy and I outside the Reno temple. Yeah for self timer on the camera.

The infamous pyramid. I don't know how Rudy came up with this idea or how they talked all of the men into letting people climb on their backs, but it made a cute picture and was definitely fun to watch them get up and down :)

The line in Reno. It took like 7 hours to set up the reception in Reno. Good thing it didn't take that long to clean up.

Decorating the car, BJ got the handcuffs and LaWayne got in on the action. She looks so happy to be terrorizing the newly weds.

One of the original sayings on their windows. We decided to erase it and write something else so that there car would not get vandalized in San Fransisco for a week.

Jamie trying to steal my man, sorry Jamie he's taken :)

Jamie really likes her cake!

A cute apron so that Jamie would not spill her spaghetti on her dress. Yeah for using my bridal shower present.

Traditional bouquet and garter toss. Jamie threw her bouquet too far the first time so she had to redo it. Rudy flipped the garter straight up in the air so he had to redo that as well. It looks like they were made for each other :)

My first official dance with my husband, the swirl and sway because we both dance like very white people.

And finally after it was all over we took a trip downtown to see the famous Reno sign. Although we loved seeing all of the cars for Hot August Nights we did not enjoy downtown. We only walked around for one block before heading back to the car.

The Land Before Time

I have recently gotten very big into trying to find good deals and be more frugal with our money so when I discovered the dinosaur museum close to us changed their admission from $11 to $2 on Tuesdays in August Cassidy and I had to go (because I have lived in Utah for 7 years and always wanted to go, but never have because $11 that's a lot to see bones). Here are some pictures from our adventure.

My old roommate Karen whom we haven't seen since our wedding came with us, too bad Ben couldn't make it. The first picture is Karen and Cassidy playing the game what do I eat and the second is Karen and I coming out of this little crawl through cave. We had to wait for all of the kids to get out of the way so we could have our turn, but it was worth it :)

Part way through there was this huge sand pit with water where you could make your own landscape or something. We made a turtle with palm trees for legs.

And finally some of the dinosaurs.

After the dinosaurs there was also an exhibit on prehistoric under-water life. This is Cassidy in front of a giant sea turtle. We had a good time, but were definitely ready to leave by the end because we were not the only ones that decided to take advantage of this great deal. There were people everywhere! We didn't even get to play in the excavation pit because there was no room.