Graduation!

Since it has been a couple months since i've update I figured that Adam's graduation is definitely worthy of a blog post! He graduate on Friday from Weber State University with a Bachelors in Business Administration with a Marketing emphasis. He worked so hard this semester taking 18 credit hours plus an internship. We are both so glad he is done and are so glad that neither of us have to go back to school after Christmas (not to mention pay tuition a few days after Christmas). Congrats Adam I love you! Horray for no more homework!

So excited to be graduated!

We were able to go to Christmas Village in Ogden with some of Adam's family last night. I had never been but thought it was really cute and fun. It was freezing though! I thought these were some cute pictures of CJ and Mylie all bundled up.

This next picture is kind of random, but is of my youngest brother Michael. He is going to be leaving on his mission in a few weeks to Bahia Blanca, Argentina (January 6th to be exact). We will miss him, but know he will be a great missionary!

Our lives at the moment!

So I just realized the last time I updated we were still in Boston. Well we have been back for about a month now and have just been getting settled. Adam started back to school for his last semster before he graduates Horray! He will be graduating with a business marketing degree in December. It will be so nice for both of us to be done with school finally. He has an internship at a company called LSI in Layton and seems to really enjoy it. I am working almost full-time as a dental hygienist now and am loving it! It is so nice to take everything I learned in school and put it to practice. It was a little weird not having to go back to school this fall, but it is so nice to not have homework. Other than that our lives are pretty boring. We are glad to be home though and back in the swing of things. Hopefully our lives get more exciting so my future posts aren't so lame ha ha!

Almost the end of our Boston adventure!

I know everytime I blog I say that i'm going to try and do better about keeping this thing updated, but never seem to. So once again this is quite a long post. We have been having so much fun out here and Boston and will be leaving to come home in a few days! It takes about 36 hours from here to Ogden so the drive will be long, but I am so excited to get home. This summer has flown by and we have had so many fun experiences while we have been out here. I can't believe our adventure is coming to an end! We are looking forward to going home so Adam can finish up his last semester and graduate in December, and so I can finally start working as a dental hygeinist. We are so glad that we were able to come out to Boston this summer and are sad that we won't be able to just walk across the street and go hang out with our friends everyday. Here are some of the fun things we have done the past few weeks!

TRIP DOWNTOWN TO FANUIEL HALL

We rode the T line downtown with some of our friends and were able to relax and have fun.

Us on the T
Us with Chad, Vanessa, and Chloe

So this is a city toilet. You must pay 25 cent to use it. Right when we passed itAdam immediately had to use the bathroom of course. This is him waiting for the doors to close so he can do his business. I personally have never paid to use the restroom but I guess when ya gotta go ya gotta go. It is self cleaning as well and takes about 5 minutes to clean after the person is finished. Pretty good invention I guess!

Waiting for the toilet to get cleaned so Chad can have his turn!

By "Cheers" the resturant. (Sorry my pictures are flipped again, I still can't figure out how to fix them).

Adam eating a giant eclair

Us by a pretty vine archway

Cute Chloe and Vanessa!



RED SOX GAME

Before we came home we wanted to go to a Red Sox game. We are both not huge baseball fans but Fenway Park is so historic and who knew if we would ever get another chance to go. We bought some tickets from a scalper and got a pretty good deal (we think). We sat two rows up from the field and were just down from the first baseline. It was super hot that day, but we had pretty decent seats so that made up for it. They played the Baltimore Orioles and lost but we had fun anyways!

Us excited to be in Fenway Park!

Us with the field in the background

Go Red Sox!

Go Red Sox!

VISIT FROM THE GRIFFITHS

Adam's mom, stepdad, and little sister were able to come and visit us for a few days. We were sad that they couldn't stay longer but had fun none the less. Corrinne was actually able to stay a few extra days and then Susan flew back to pick her up. We had fun hanging out and swimming together. We were also able to go to the childrens museum which was fun as well. Despite throwing one tantrum at the mall (that day I decided not to have kids) she was pretty good. Adam and I learned a great parenting skill, bribery works wonders. Just kidding, but it really worked quite well I got my closet organized by Corrinne without even asking.

While the Griffiths were here we went and ate some seafood at Tia's. Well everybody except for me ate seafood. Despite Adam having a heck of a time meeting us at the resturant after work, it all turned out in the end and we had ourselves a lobsta fest!

Adam with a lobsta claw!

Susan and Mark with thier lobsta's!

Corrinne being goofy with claws from the lobsters!

We were also able to go see the USS constitution and Bunker Hill while they were here. I couldn't walk for about a week after climbing to the top of the Bunker Hill monument, but am glad I did it. The view was amazing!

Pretty view.

The monument.

Corinne putting on a puppet show at the childrens museum! (don't mind her wet hair, we took the train and had to walk a few blocks in a down pour)

Rock climbing!

Playing with Ben!

Me and Corrinne before leaving the museum. Thank goodness it stopped raining!

VISIT FROM ANETTE AND RYAN

Adam's stepmom Anette and his little brother Ryan were able to come and visit us for a week. We were so glad they were able to come and did lots of fun things. We were able to go to New York one night after Adam got off work and spend the next day there. We also did lots of sight seeing and I was glad to have someone to hang out with me everyday!

One of the days they were here we took the ferry over to Marthas Vineyard which is a small island off Boston. It was such a cute little place and they had these houses they called "Gingerbread Houses" that were adorable.

View from the harbor.

The beach!

One of many Gingerbread Houses

Another Gingerbread House


Like I said we were able to go to New York for a day. We drove to conneticut the night before after Adam was done with work and stayed there and then rode the train into Grand Central Station. It was a long and exhausting day but I am so glad we were able to go. New York is definitely not a place I would want to live. It is so crowded and made me a little chlosterphobic at times but was so fun to visit.

Us in Grand Central Station

Us in time square

Adam eating a piece of pizza. I think sampling all the different types of food from the street vendors was one of Adams favorite parts/dream come true. He loves street vendor food. Me not so much.

Us with the Manhattan temple in the background. So pretty!


We were able to take a pedi cab ride around central park, which was probably one of my favorite things we did. They took us all around and gave us some history and also showed us where many movies had been filmed. It was so fun and nice to get off our feet for a few minutes.

Us in our pedi cab.

Our group! In the background is the fountain where Enchanted was filmed, one of my favorite movies of all time!

These arches were in Home Alone 2 in case you were wondering!

This bridge is famous for many movies such as Maid in Manhattan.

Us on the bridge!

This hill was off of Big Daddy where they trip the roller bladers!

Fountain where the opening to Friends was filmed!

Matt, Erin,ben and Ryan in thier pedi cab!

This is where John Lennon lived and was killed for all you Beatles fans out there.

This was once a prision but is now bathrooms!

We shopped on Canal street and found some fun things. Ben was such a trooper the entire day and finally got let out of his stroller to play while the girls shopped!

We went to Battery Park to see Lady Liberty and Ben had fun chasing the pigeons. I hope my children are as well behaved as this little boy!

Lady Liberty off in the distance!

Time Square at night.

David Letterman! To bad the Hello Deli was closed.

Me on the train ride back to Conneticut!

We were also able to go on a Duck Tour around Boston. A Duck Tour takes you around to various historic sites in the city and then goes in the Charles river. It is basically a big boat on wheels.

Beautiful Downtown!

A cool reflective building

Boston Commons, one of the oldest parks in the US.

On the Charles River in our Duck!

They even let Ryan drive the duck in the river!

After our Duck tour we ventured into Little Italy to Mike's Pastry. This is the most amazing pastry shop ever. As you can see we went a little crazy! We endulged in german chocolate cake, a fruit tart, boston cream puff, strawberry lobster tail, eclair, and oreo cheescake. Not pictured is a piece of strawberry cheese cake that Ryan seceretly inhaled without anybody knowing. Don't worry though we went back a few days later and bought 3 pieces of strawberry cheesecake and a peanut butter fudge brownie. Cheesecake was defenitely a common theme during this visit from ryan and Anette, between the four of us we probably consumed close to 10 pieces of cheesecake at various locations. Lets just say calorie overload, i'm surprised I didn't gain 15lbs.


CRAZY BOWLING
We were able to go on a little adventure with our friends Matt, Erin and Ben to a city that I can't remember the name of. A lady told Erin that there was one of the oldest bowling alleys there. We decided to go check it out and couldn't pass up playing a game when we saw how unique it was. The bowling balls were so tiny, and the pins looked like thin rods. We kept score on a sheet of paper, and the guy working there had to teach us how. He was a little crazy in my opinion and told us that this was the way everybody in New England bowled. I'm not sure if that is true, this was our first bowling experience since we have been here. All in all it was a fun time!

Me displaying one of the minature bowling balls.

Adam showing off a couple bowling balls!

Adam in action!

A Much Needed Update!

So I know it has been a little while since I last posted and I have so much to post so be prepared for a major overload of pictures. These past few weeks have been pretty busy and we have done some really fun things. I want to make sure were making the most of our time here in Boston cause who knows when we will come back!

NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND- MANSIONS

So about one hour away from where we live is Newport, RI. There are a ton of mansions along the coast, so one day after church we, along with a few of our friends, decided to go check them out. They are huge and I couldn't believe people actually live in some of these. It was neat to see though and very pretty walking along the coast!

One of the many HUGE mansions!
Adam & I with the coast!

Adam and I with one of the mansions!

"Uncle" Adam giving Ben a ride on his shoulders.

Sweet little Chloe being an angel in her stroller as usual.

Fun picture of Ben and Matt

Vanessa and Chole

COOKIE DECORATING CONTEST
Our friends Shawna and Nate were nice enough to invite us over to their house for a cookie decorating contest a few weeks ago. It was super fun and everybody was very creative. I forgot to take our camera but here are our lovely cookies. I couldn't resist and had to take a couple bites of my cookie, they were delicious!

WASHINGTON,DC: National Dental Hygiene Meeting

Althought I graduated in May, I was able to go present some research that me and a few other classmates worked on our last year of school. We presented the first day and then attended a few Dental Hygiene events, but mostly played! There is so much to see in DC and it was fun being able to stay there for a week, but by the end I was ready to get home and see my hubby.

Our research poster!

This is me and Esther Wilkins! Unless you are a dental hygeinist, you probably have no idea who she is. She is basically the queen of dental hygiene and has written books that students use all over the country! She is pretty old, but still manages to come to dental hygiene meetings.

The Museum of Natural History!

Me and a giraffe. (sorry some of my pics are sideways they wouldn't flip)

This is a snapping turtle! There are some of these in a pond next to our house. Some of the girls were thinking of swimming in the pond until we found out our toes might get snapped off! So that is why I took this random picture.

This is the Harry Winston "Hope Diamond" it was huge! I think it was 70 something karats! I told Adam he better get me something similar to this for our next anniversary ha ha!

While we were in DC we rode the metro everywhere. These are some of the girls who were there with me for the week!

The Library of Congress (very exciting right?)

Inside the Library of Congress was very pretty!

Our nations Capitol!

Me and the girls in front of the Capitol

Arlington cemetary! I couldn't believe how many headstones there were!

The guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

Iwojima

The White House

Me right after dining with the Obamas! Good thing I dressed up and did my hair huh!

The Washington Monument

The Capitol at night!


PALMYRA & NEW YORK CITY

A few weeks ago my family was able to come and visit us here in Boston! We had a lot of fun and were able to go to New York for a few days. We did some church history stuff and then went into the city for soome site seeing! We were also able to go around Boston and see some fun stuff too!

This is an original copy of the Book of Mormon

View from the Hill Cumorah

The Hill Cumorah Monument

Joseph Smith childhood home

A later home of Joseph Smith

Smith Family Farm

Me & my Dad

The Sacred Grove

My mom and dad

where the first Books of Mormon were printed and sold

The Manhattan Temple

Me by the temple

Central Park

Time Square

The city at night

Me and my parents in Newport, RI

My mom and dad in front of the Boston temple

On Sunday we were able to go to the beach after church and Adam was finally able to come with us. We saw quite a few jelly fish that washed up on the shore, and even a live clam that my little brother dropped a rock on and it splattered all over us. I wanted him to break it open to see if there was a pearl inside. Just my luck there was not one :(. I also forgot to take pictures of this so you'll just have to use your imagination.

Me and Adam

Cute Family Picture

My brother Michael trying to act cool!


4th of July Festivities

For the fourth of July Adam got of work early at 6:00. We went to the beach with all our APX friends and ate chipotle burritos and just relaxed. It was fun and nice to spend the evening together!

Us on the beach

Although we did not see any fireworks that night, we made some of our own ha ha! Actually we did this to embarrass Chad, for some reason he is opposed to PDA!

Finally a normal picture of my husband. Every time I take a picture of him he thinks he has to pull a face or something. I did however have to tell him to look noraml for this picture.

The boys playing ultimate frisbee!

This is ben and his gorgeous eyelashes! I would kill for lashes like that!

Cute Vanessa and Chloe, they were both very patriotic that day if you can't tell!

CAPE COD

After church we decided to head up to Cape Cod. We packed a picinic lunch to eat on the beach, but ended up eating it on the lawn of an elementary school, cause all the beaches were making you pay 20.00 just to park-Lame I know. After eating our lunch, we found a place to park for free and walked to a nice little beach.

My cute hubby!

Me with the cape in the background

Both of us!


HAPPY HALLOWEEN... IN JULY?

That is right! One of the sales guys out here has a halloween party for his birthday every year in July. It was so fun and everybody had really creative costumes. We played some fun games, had some yummy snacks and just hung out. I think we confused a few people in our apartment complex. Seeing people walking down the streets dressed up in july could be quite shocking.

Aloha! We dressed up as hawiann people cause we already had the lava lavas. Adam worked out every day that week just so he could show everyone how hot he looked in coconut shells and a skirt j/k.

Me and Hannah Montana...aka Erin

Hannah Montana and her bodygurads!

Bret Michaels, his girlfriend Daisy off the Rock of Love Bus and thier illigitimate child!

Our friends Brye and Michelle as Hefty and Glad bags!

All the Girls!

All thy Boys!

Boston Fun!

FREEDOM TRAIL

We were able to go downtown and walk on the Freedom Trail. The Freedom Trail goes throughout downtown Boston and takes you past many historic sites. We were not able to get through the entire thing becuase it is quite lengthy and Adam was getting over strep throat so he didn't feel like walking all day. It was really neat to see some historical sites and of course I forgot to take pictures of everything we saw. Hopefully we will beable to go back and see everything we missed! We also were able to see Fenway Park where the Red Sox play. It was a fun afternoon! Us in front of Paul Revere on his horse

About Paul Revere (in case you were wondering)

Adam knocking on some midgets door!

Boston has tons of bridges and tunnels. This is one of many bridges that goes over the harbor.

Adam and I with the harbor

Fenway!

Us and Fenway Park! Hopefully we can see a Red Sox game before we leave!

The famous CITGO sign! I had no idea there was a famous citgo sign, but apparently there is over 5 miles of neon lights in this sign. Just a useless fact but pretty cool I guess.

We were also able to go to the beach again! We decided to pack a little lunch and headed over after church. Our friends came with us so that made it even more fun. We put our feet in the ocean this time and the water was freezing! Hopefully it warms up as the summer goes on. Cute Ben & Erin

We Are Back!

So I know it has been months since I posted anything, hopefully over the summer I will be more consistent at posting. So here's a little update on us-Adam and I are both finished with school, I am permanently finished and Adam (temporarily finished) is going to return for his last semester in the Fall. I graduated the first week of May with my Bachelors in Dental Hygiene, and it sure feels good to finally be done! So since we have all this free time on our hands, you are probably wondering what we are doing right? We have gone on a little adventure for the summer and are living in Boston! Adam is working here for the summer and I am just relaxing which is a little wierd. I never thought a day would come in my life where I could just sit and relax. I have always had something (mainly school)to keep me busy and now to have absolutely nothing is crazy, but i'm not complaining and know this "relaxation time" will come to an end faster than I think. It has been fun living in a different part of the country, Boston has so much to see and do!

FANIEUL HALL/DOWNTOWN

On the first Saturday I was here a bunch of the girls went downtown to Fanieul Hall which is in downtown Boston. It was a really fun place to visit and had tons to do. There were street performers, shopping, food ect. I want to go back when it's warmer and see more!All of us that went on the adventure downtown. As you can see we had multiple strollers, people probably thought we were crazy taking this many kids. We took the "T" (that is what they call their subway) into downtown and it was crazy having to pack all of these strollers up and down multiple flights of stairs and on and off the T.


This is Fanieul Hall. It was pretty crowded that day.

Buildings downtown!

This guy was walking around and told us he was in movies, so some of us decided to get a picture with him.

This place was crazy! All of the signs you see in the picture are different resturants. They had everything from pizza, sushi, pasta, indian, chinese, mexican and more. I had a piece of zuchinni pizza that was really good!

This was inside the resturant place, I just thought it was a cool building!

Here is one of the street performers. He climbed this ladder without anything supporting it!

Here is a performer riding a huge unicycle!

Fanieul Hall

Downtown is so pretty!

Waiting for the T! There were some pretty creepy people on it and this guy kept talking to me telling me that he wasn't trying to pick me up, but that it was my job to pick up on him. I just ignored him but he kept talking. Psycho! I'm just glad there were a bunch of us together on there.

PLYMOUTH ROCK

On Sunday after church, we decided to go see Plymouth Rock with some of our friends. We also saw a replica of the Mayflower, and this really huge statue of the Forefathers. It was a great afternoon and we had a lot of fun!

Some of our fun friedns who are here with us in Boston.

In front of the Mayflower.

On the pier in Plymouth

Trying to get a picture with Plymouth Rock. Our heads are both quite large however so the picture did not turn out as planned. Oh well what can ya do?

And here it is! The famous Plymouth Rock! If you are looking at this picture and wondering why the rock is so small, don't feel bad I thought the same thing. I was imagining this massive rock, not a rock that looks like it got taken out of someones backyard. It was still cool to see though, maybe back in 1620 this was considered a "big" rock.

Adam and I next to an indian statue.

The National Monument to the Forefathers. This was one of the largest statues I have seen!

BOSTON TEMPLE

On Sunday we were able to go see the Boston Temple that is in Belmont, MA. It was really pretty and we were the only ones there. It had been raining really hard that day, and we actually almost turned back because of the rain. I'm glad we didn't and suprisingly it was really nice weather when we got there. We also went and drove through Cambridge, MA where Harvard is at. I forgot to take pictures, but it was a really nice town as well.

The flowers were so pretty! I really liked these yellow ones and I thought the purple ball ones were really pretty as well.

This was a cool walk way that was on the temple grounds. Adam insisted on being in the picture, he thinks we won't care about looking at pictures in ten years if one of us are not in them. Who knows, maybe he is right.

NANTASKET BEACH

We went to Nantasket Beach in Hull, MA on Memorial Day after the boys were done selling. We had a bonfire and made S'mores. It was a lot of fun, but a little cold.

We're terrible bloggers!

So, we are not good at this. We posted once and were all gung-ho (?) about starting a blog and thought that we would have all kinds of interesting things to write. We just knew that all of you would be so enthralled by our wonderful lives....It hasn't quite worked out like the way we planned. We felt that our lives aren't very exciting. We like to look at other peoples' blogs though. Megan is a secret "blog stocker" as she calls herself. She knows everything about all of our friends that have a facebook account or a blog. She and I like to look into other peoples' lives and find out everything about them, but we never write anything about us. So, to all of our friends, we know everything about you. I'm sorry that you know nothing about our lives.

Our lives are about the same. We both just finished school for the semester. I got my first D- ever. I had an online class that I neglected and just assumed that I would do ok. I was very incorrect in my assumption. So, there is one class that I have to retake. Megan, the more studious of our family, did very well. She graduates in May in Dental Hygiene. I'm looking forward to her supporting me in my goal to one day be a stay at home dad. Ha, I wish. No, actually I will have to find a good job because she is not much for working. She wants to have many babies and stay home.

Other than that we are doing great. We hope everyone has a merry Christmas. We will committ to posting regularly and eventually do pictures and all of the fun things that you love to look at.