Our 2 Year Anniversary!

Wow, I can't believe two years have already flown by! We were married on August 10, 2007 in the Portland, OR Temple and these past two years have been the best of my life! I know everyone thinks they have the greatest husband in the world, but I'm sorry, mine is the BEST!

This pic is from our dating days...

Engaged...

Married...

Our 1 Year Anniversary...

Happy 2 Years...here's to many, many more to come!
I love you Russell

Joseph & the Technicolor Dream Coat

Russell's parents took us all to see Joseph and the Technicolor Dream Coat a few weeks ago, at the Scera Outdoor Theatre. It was really fun! I'd seen it before in high school, but this rendition was very different but very entertaining! Thanks again!

A bunch of us on the lawn

Spencer, Becky, Chris, Sophia & Evan

Brittany & Carsten

Me & Russell

Thai Kitchen

Our good friends Matt & Stacy have moved to Arizona for Medical School! We are really excited for them, but really sad they are gone. We hung out all the time and now we seriously have no friends...We went to Thai Kitchen on one of our last nights out with them. The Pad Thai and Masman Curry are to die for!

Stacy, Matt, Me, Russell, Josh, Brittany (and their new baby was there too!)

We've Moved!

We are no longer residents of Provo...we now live in American Fork! We moved about a month ago and are very settled and liking our new place. With most of my internship being in Salt Lake and Russell working in Orem we figured this was good middle ground for us. But before I talk more about our new place I have to post some pics of our old place...for my own nostalgia. I really loved our first apartment and we had completely made it our own.

Our dining room nook

Our living room

The back walls in the living room

The very small but oh so cozy bathroom :)
I guess the bedroom and kitchen were not the cleanest when I was in a picture taking mood.

Moving day!

Our new bedroom has 2 closets! And yet I still had trouble fitting things in :)

The best things about our new place? A dishwasher AND a washer and dryer!

We got these dish soap pellets for our wedding, we were SO excited to finally use them!


Eating zucchini, the first Sunday in our place! More pics of our house to come!

Happy 24th of July

Growing up outside of Utah, I'm not very accustomed to the traditions of the 24th of July. But I'm slowly getting into it, and who doesn't love the excuse to throw a party?

Ashley & Andrew eating pulled pork sandwiches..mmm, mmm!

My sad attempt to beat Andrew in the boat races. My boat is stuck against the side by the latter! But I did manage to place first in the Women's Novice Division (I may or may not have been the only woman competing)!

Little Sophia helping water the grass!

It's tradition in the Stephen's family to make "modified tanks" every 24th of July. The goal is to see who's tank will go the farthest! This is Russell and me with his tank! I believe our little 4 year old nephew, Spencer was the big winner this year!

Spencer & Chris

Check out Evan's HUGE tank!

Here a quick video of Russell's tank in action. He was in first for a little bit :)

Take me out to the ball game...

My boss gave me some tickets to an Owls game a little while ago and despite how hot it was that day, we had a lot of fun. Of course a baseball game wouldn't be complete without a hot dog...but we dont settle for any kind of hot dog...yes, we went in style and had J-dawgs!

My plan for a big bite didn't really work out

But Russell's did!

Swing batter, batter!

Weekend @ the Cabin

Gandolfo's breakfast on the road

Ready to ride the four wheeler

She's such a cutie

Roasting hot dogs over the fire was a great idea...until it started to rain!

Russell's Work Party

Russell's work has a huge party every summer at the Veteran's Memorial water park. The Bamboo Hut, which we have always wanted to try, catered and it was WAY good! Russell and his friend Jay competed in a badminton tournament and I'm not quite sure how they lost (I was surprised at how good Russell was), but they did...and Russell was mad about it all night haha!

Russell in action!

Our friends Jake & Courtney

Courtney playing Aeroball-There's a trampoline at the bottom and you try and score on your opponents side...looked pretty fun!

Russell & Jake playing Aeroball

Me & Husby!

Fourth of July

It's never too late, right? At least I'm slowly getting us caught up :)

We went to my cousin's in Jerome, Idaho for the 4th of July. My parents came down from WA and we all had a blast. We did lots of scrapbooking and cricut cutting while the boys golfed, watched baseball and napped. Thanks for a great weekend Cindy & Britt!

Russell & Mandy vs. Cindy & Mom
Pool volleyball - net

Chillin in the pool

At the Walter family bbq


Waiting for the fireworks to start

Underwater Camera: Florida

After using an underwater camera on our Honeymoon I insisted we get one for our vacation. The pictures from Mexico turned out perfect, every single one! Well...this was not the case in Florida. I'm pretty disappointed, most are super blurry but a few turned out.

A school of fish...i swam in the middle of them for a long time! Probably my favorite part!





Brad and Kim kayaking on the ocean-the one of us didn't turn out!

Kim, this one's for you! I think it's hilarious!

This is for you Kylee & Kennedy..."Peace Out"