Summer 2009

OK! It's finally time to catch-up on summer. Where we've been, what we've done, and a peek into what we're currently up to. Since this posting is going to be packed with photos, I'll treat this more as a picture book than a story for the sake of mine and your time.

June:
Strawberry Day's Rodeo with the Butterworths, sisters, and AMAZING strawberries and cream. YUM!
Real Salt Lake game with the Rigbys.

July:

Peterson/Ott family reunion in McCall, Idaho. If only I had more photos of what we actually did. Family - I'll need your photos, pretty please :) Between river rafting, boating, jet-skiing, wake-boarding, wake-surfing, tanning... I think we were able to fit it all in.

It was an awesome trip though and here's the rapid where we almost drowned. Seriously.Then it was off to Maui, Hawaii with the Rigbys. Here are just of few highlights.

Lots of yummy family dinners after a hard days work playing on the beach, snorkeling, etc.
Brennan's Birthday Present - Helicopter Rides for ALL!!!
Our 1 Year Anniversary! We celebrated with a delicious breakfast date and then a 5 hour flight home. We've had so much fun this past year and life has been so wonderful.


August:

Annual DNA Golf Tournament in PC. I got to try out my new clubs and they were fabulous.

Our last day date before school started again. We explored Union Station in Ogden. It was fun walking through the museums and seeing all the trains.
Brennan's first day of school and the beginning of a very busy year preparing for medical school applications.
September - Now:

And for the final wrap-up, school is now currently in full swing. Between school, research, volunteer, physician shadowing, patient care experience, work, MCAT prep and everything else, Brennan is very busy (and therefore me too). It's going to be a fun and challenging year, but we're exciting to tackle it and enjoy the ride.

We've still been able to fit in some fun activities though so that helps keep us sane - like the Greek Festival downtown for example. That was really fun and it reminded Brennan of Armenia. We're also getting really excited for ski season. Only 1.5 months left and Park City opens. It'll be cold, but well worth it. We can't wait.

May in Review

May definitely came and went for us at a surprising rate. Brennan finished his first year at the U and we're already looking forward to a summer of vacations, weekend trips, spring cleaning, and no more homework at least for 3 months.

We were so grateful and were counting down the days until our first weekend get-a-way over Memorial Day weekend. Here are some pictures and highlights of our escapades.

1. Once we landed in San Diego we went straight from the airport to the Padres game. I didn't realize Brennan hadn't been to a Major League Baseball game before so I'm glad I got to take him to our home-town heroes - the Padres. We had so much fun with our small group there and loved just being at Petco Park.

2. Then Saturday was nothing but all wedding. We were so glad to be able to celebrate with Jon and Nicole at their wedding. The ceremony was beautiful as anticipated and we took a couple photos at the temple before the day carried on. Here are a few:

Brennan and me outside the temple. I don't think we'd been back to the San Diego temple since our own wedding. I loved the spring flowers they had out. It was such a beautiful day.

Of course I had to get a picture of all the studs. We're slowly marrying them off. 2 down, 1 on the way, and one more to go.
Alisha decided to take a quick trip down to San Diego too and met us at the temple for pictures.

Then there was a luncheon, a quick one hour stop at the beach for some boogy boarding and then we were back at the reception. There was yummy food, dancing and the usual wedding stuff.

Jon was so thrilled when he saw what we had done to his car, but we did have parental permission. I think we did a pretty good job. Good luck Space Jon!!!
P.S. sorry for saran wrapping you in, but we couldn't have passed on such a great opportunity. You'll laugh about it later :)
Then the wedding festivities were done and we were off to enjoying the rest of our weekend away.

The next day we took a trip up to LA to do the traditional memorial day tasks of visiting ancestors. I was glad we got to squeeze in a stop at the local Armenian Independence Day festival too. It was fun hearing Brennan speak Armenian and we got to try some yummy kobobs, Armenian ice cream, and pastries.

There's not much more to say than that May was an exciting and quick month. We even happened to squeeze in an end of the month BBQ at our house, but unfortunately I didn't take any pictures. It was so much fun having all the Rigbys over for dinner and lawn games. We'll have to do it again soon and I promise to take pictures that time.

Our Latest Addition...

Isn't he cute?...


...I'm not sure what they're trying to hint at, but maybe they're a bit wishful...


Now on to "OUR" latest addition :)

Ever since Spring has come, Brennan has been itching for a hammock. I wasn't sure how he was going to get a hammock to span 35 feet, but of course "where there's a will, there's a way." We love spending a little time each evening just relaxing out. It's so peaceful with the light breeze, the warm sunlight and bird's chirping. It's a dream.

Brennan practically gets swallowed up in this thing. It's supposed to fit about 4 people, but when you're alone you get a hammock and a blanket all in one. Yay for the Mayans and their XXL hammocks.


...and just for kicks. This was our adventure to the tumbling gym in Provo earlier this month. I think Alisha won this one. Sorry Julie.

Update

It has been such an eventful past month that I've completely forgotten about keeping this thing updated. Sorry to our followers; how few you may be.

So here's the update on the Rigby household:

With Brennan out of school for spring break we had spring cleaning fever and made some awesome changes to our house. I love the update. Here are some before and after shots of our exercise room and kitchen.

Before:

After:

Before:

After:

We also spent a lot of time at the grocery store and home storage center too. Finally we have our basic year supply complete. I still have a couple odds and ends to tie up, but it feels good to not have to think about that so much anymore. Now I just need to clean out our cellar so that I can move this out of our main basement.

It finally feels like spring in Utah. After a busy week, we decided to grease up our bikes and went for a ride down to the park near our house. It was great just being out without a jacket for once.


I can't believe it's been so long that I've written here that I completely missed the end of February too so here's that update.

I turned 23 last month and the Rigby clan threw a great birthday party for me. It was fun getting together with everyone. We love any excuse for a party.

Brennan and I also took Alisha, Katrina and Andrew out for a ski day which was AWESOME. I'm all for a repeat next year. Everyone in??? Here's proof of how well everyone did.

Katrina

AndrewAlisha

The Gang

No Need for Words

The Victim

The Culprit

Swoosh!

We lucked out last month and got tickets to the Jazz game. Brennan was so excited when I surprised him with them. Not only did we have tickets, but we had SIXTH ROW tickets!!! It was amazing.

The weekend could not have been any better. Jazz game Friday; Skiing Saturday. The Rigbys had their annual medical conference at Snowbird so Brennan and I joined them for a day of skiing. Here are some highlights:Proof that Brennan and I do ski together; and yes I can keep up.
It's never a dull moment skiing with these three. The theme of the day was find the largest mound of snow and see which one rolls the farthest down the mountain. I'm not sure who won.The family.
My first Snowbird shoot. It looked even steeper from up above.

It's Powder Time

Check out our latest storm! Brennan had fun taking pictures and can't wait to get up skiing this weekend.

4th folder, 4th pic

Britni tagged me to do the following

Here are the rules:
1. Choose the 4th folder where you store your pictures on the computer
2. Select the 4th picture in the folder
3. Explain the picture
4. Tag 4 people to do the same
5. No cheating (cropping, editing, etc)

Well this isn't as exciting as I was hoping my 4th picture would be, but hey... at least I tried. So I took this photo at LAX just before we boarded our flight to Australia. It was 14 hours of endless snacks and movies. What more can you ask for when you're a teenager? Anyway, I'd say this was one of my top 3 trips and I can't wait to go back someday.

I tag: Alisha P, Kim J, Samantha B