Babies, The Awkward Stage, and Blissful Marriage

Mike & I watch this video often because it just is a great representation of the both of us and it is so cute. Kudos to Mike for making it himself for our wedding reception. These are some of my favorite songs and make me feel all warm and fuzzy about my awesome spouse! I love seeing all our baby pictures together and us growing up and eventually being led to meet each other. Love is awesome!

xoxo, Ally

Amy's Baby Shower

My sister-in-law lives in Phoenix so it was so great getting to see her and chat with her when she came up to Utah! I don't have any nieces or nephews yet so we are anxiously awaiting for baby Parker to get here. We can't wait to spoil him :) 

We played the mandatory poopy-diaper-that-is-really-chocolate game which was....fun :) If you don't know what it is, it's where a bunch of different chocolate candy bars are melted and put into a diaper to make it look like poop. Then you pass them around and have to guess what candy bar it is. But here is the problem - i have the most sensitive gag reflex in the entire world. I legitimately gag at everything - Mike makes fun of me because I even gag when I am brushing my teeth. So I am trying to play this game in front of a bunch of people I don't know trying not to have a serious gag reaction. Haha let me just say it was interesting. The one picture of me smelling the diaper I was actually holding my breath so I wouldn't gag. Hahaha I am the worst. 

Other than that, the baby shower was great ;) Amy is such a sweetheart and I am excited for Parker to join their family! They will be the best parents. 

See you in January Parker!

xoxo, Ally

Lake Powell Part 1

Lake Powell!

Easily the funnest vacation of the summer.  

   Mike talked about going to Lake Powell for months before the glorious day actually arrived (we went wayy back in June. I am behind). He doesn't care for birthdays or other big celebrations, but vacations - hey - he can talk about those forever.

  We went down with his side of the family and man we had a blast. I had never been before this trip and had heard too much a little bit about it before we went. The rumors are true! :) It is the most beautiful place in the West. The water is the perfect temperature and the rocks are monstrous and a beautiful shade of orange. It is so peaceful at night and you can see just about every star there is in the sky.

   Staying on a house boat with 20+ people was definitely an adventure. We had all kinds of ages! We were on the water 95% of the time anyways so it wasn't too bad. We only were all on the boat when we were sleeping at night up on the deck under the stars - which was amazing! The stars are unreal there.

We had a few injuries - including my serious wake board wipe out in which I bruised my jaw line. Ya.....I face planted so hard that the board came up over the back of my head and whacked me in the jaw. Twas fun twas fun. We had 'the banana' which was way fun but definitely caused many an injury as everyone would fall off at the same time and kick someone in the face. Bloody noses and lips just mean we were having too much fun right?

A whole week full of delicious food, perfect skiing water, wake boarding, and sunbathing made for a great vacation! We can't wait to go back!

More pictures to come in Part 2!