Manti Pageant

Last night we had the fun opportunity to go down to Manti with my family. We haven't been to the Manti Pageant in years and thought it would be fun to go before Boyd and I leave Utah. It was really cute because my mom packed us all sorts of fun snackies for the trip down. It was great! I haven't had a capri sun in years. Playing games was super fun, but then we got to the Pageant part. . . It was really (I'm going to try to put it nicely) Weird! The story line was really confusing and then the narration was extremely absurd! Boyd and I keep quoting it and every time we just end up laughing because throughout the pageant they would use phrases like "spiritual ecstasy" or "economic utopia". Boyd's favorite part is when they would narrate what the characters, mainly Joseph Smith, are doing for example. "climbing, kneeling, bending, burying, covering, stooping, gripping the fireplace" were all words used as the character was doing the action. My personal favorite part was at the end of the Pageant when the couple is "reunited" the first thing that came into my head was ZOMBIE! The girl was trying to put out her arms to welcome her husband, but since she was on a really steep hill she was kinda waddling down and it looked like a zombie!
Overall it was fun. We had a great time spending quality time with my family. I'm super glad we had this opportunity to go before we move to Ohio.



















"hands on waist means 'I love you'"


It was 29 years ago that my parents decided that they wanted to spend eternity together and it was at the Manti Pageant that they fell in love.

I HATE the DMV

I got my big girl driver's license today! Can I just say I hate the DMV. It is almost impossible to renew a driver's license these days! You have to bring in your whole life! Literally, birth certificate, SS card, marriage certificate, two forms of proof of address (which I think is STUPID!) Everything Boyd and I do is online, banking, school, bills, etc. Plus, everything is in Boyd's name. . . I was in a pickle. I didn't have two forms of address. Now I have to send myself 2 letters to “prove” I live at my parent’s address because I was using their address as my permanent address. Anyway, to get to my point, the guy at the DMV didn't warn me that he was about to take my picture, took it and my left eye was half closed! ARRRGH! Now I have a stupid picture on my driver's license! I hate the DMV! I'm just glad I get a new picture and license when we move to Ohio.

Hiking The Y

Boyd and I have been wanting to hike the Y for quite sometime. I have been at BYU for 2 1/2 years and STILL haven't hiked it! For the past 2 years we kept telling ourselves that we need to hike the Y. Obviously we hadn't gotten around to it. Tonight, at 8:00 p.m. Boyd said, wanna hike the Y tonight, and I said Sure! So we did! Finally! It's a good thing too because Boyd is moving all of our stuff in a week and won't be back till my graduation and Megan's wedding. Anyway, to tell you a little bit about our adventure. We didn't leave our house till 8:45ish and started our little hike around 9. I had never hiked the Y and didn't realize that it wasn't easy. After the 2nd switch back I was done! For some reason my back was killing me and I could hardly walk. But I was determined. This is our only chance to hike it and I wasn't going to just give up. Boyd is amazing and is the most patient person I know! He stuck with my whining, complaining, whimpering, crying, waddling, and everything else I put him through. He even offered to give me a piggy back ride! Boyd is the strongest person I have ever met. After a lot of pain (If you ask Boyd he will probably tell you that I was being a pain in the butt), we finally made it to the top! Go us! I'm just glad we finally did it!



This was our first attempt to take a picture.


Second Attempt




Boyd, Why are your eyes almost closed? "IT'S SO BRIGHT! AHHH"


"Is that better?" - Boyd
"Yes, but now we have to turn the camera the other way so you don't keep cutting me off"- Allison




There we go, that's better!



"My eyes are closed!!!!"- Allison

This happen about 3 times before some random guy who had been hiking all day came to our rescue! The random hikey guy had been all the way to the top of the mountain. I couldn't believe it! We, I mean, I barely made it to the Y. I couldn't even imagine going all the way to the top of the mountain! What a crazy guy. But we are glad he came strolling by because now we have a good picture of us!


Ever wonder what Provo, Utah looks like at night?

Fishy, Fishy, Fishy

Saturday was Free Fishing Day. Nathan has been planning on this day for months. It is kinda a tradition for our family to go up to the Ranger Station up in Midway, so we decided to keep this little tradition going this year. When we got there the whole pond was lined with little kids everywhere! It was really funny because Nathan kept saying "what do you want to do" since the pond was ridiculously full. Boyd, Megan and I all kept saying "Um" and didn't give him a real response, so as he was pulling over to park Nathan asked again "what do you want to do, do you want to stay or go somewhere else?" and then as he was stepping out of the car to get the fishing poles he once again said "So what do you want to do?" Silly boy haha he was totally planning on staying at the kiddie pond the whole time. So we stayed. After the first half hour Boyd caught the first fish!
After Boyd's first fish we all had hope that we were going to catch something. We thought wrong. We fished and fished and fished and after 2 1/2 hours and nothing. Megan and I got bored and the pond cleared out because of some drawing going on, so we moved to the middle of the pond. After we moved I hooked two little fishies, but they kept getting away. But they were sure biting and jumping in that area so I ran back to tell Boyd and Nathan to come over with us.


After Boyd and Nathan came over to the middle of the pond we just kept catching fish left and right. Boyd caught another one right away!
(It literally took him about 2 casts and he caught one!)













Nathan and I were just as lucky! We were catching fish every 3-5 minutes! Here are pictures of a few of the fish we caught in our luck spot!

Lily would get super excited when I would catch something! She would run up to the flailing fish and get slapped in the face. Even though she got slapped every single time, this still didn't stop her from attaching the fishies every time they came flying out of the water.


Boyd caught a whopper! He was so proud, as he should be because he was catching the most fish out of all of us and they just happen to be the biggest ones!

Poor Megan still hadn't caught anything ALL DAY LONG! She did not want a repeat of last year. She was the only one who didn't catch anything last year and she was determined not to have this happen again. But after 4 hours of hot blazing sun, casting and reeling again and again, and still nothing Megan was starting to lose hope. We all felt bad and offered to let her reel in ours as we caught them, but she was determined to hook one all by her widdle self. After Nathan's 20 minute reeling lesson, switching poles with every single person, she still hadn't caught anything. Finally Boyd told her to cast to her left. She tried and failed because she couldn't aim to her left. She tried over and over and as soon as her spinner hit the spot where Boyd had been telling her to cast to she got a bite! "Luckily the thing made it to shore. With her luck I was sure it wasn't going to make it all the way" - Boyd.

Can you see the excitement in her face!

Lets take a closer look at Megan's lovely fish. . .



Free fishing day was a blast, minus all the sunburns. . .

Memorial Day Weekend