This is the Place

For Labor Day weekend we went with Lydia, Nate, Sarah and Ty to the This is the Place Monument! We are so happy that we live close to them and have someone fun to do stuff with! they are so much fun! I had been to the monument before a long time ago when our family went with Aunt Susan, but I guess that was a really long time ago because there was a lot that I didn't remember. The little village was cool to see, including the people that looked completely legit with there old fashion outfits AND hair! It was also a very great learning experience for Mike who thought that the whole village was an original and wanted to leave when he found out that all of the buildings were duplicates!! Funny Mike!

We even saw our relative B.F. Johnson's DUPLICATE house/leather working place. There was an especially funny guy inside that house, when we would ask him questions I couldn't tell if he was answering them for this day or the olden days! He was a very good actor and a little stuck in his part!
Sarah and Ty were very cute! Sarah got scared when we went to a house with cows in the back and then a little freaked out by the geese that were running around, needless to say we did not go to the petting zoo! Ty just hung out...and then fell asleep!

Snails

We keep finding snails outside our appartment, or I guess the shell of snails, they wouldn't ever come out. One time Mike's Dad told us to pour water by them and they would come out, and they did! Well the other day it rained and there were a whole bunch of snails crawling all over. Snails look really cool so we put them all next to eachother and took pictures! While taking the pictures I noticed this nasty looking thing and said that It looks like another snail that got stepped on or something. Then Mike looked and said, "o yeah that was me!" HE KILLED THIS SNAIL!! Yes it was an accident but pretty sad/gross/funny!

Talon's Balchelor Party!

Yes we did have this little party for Talon before he got married.....which was more than a month ago now! But I am finally getting them on here. The night before Talon and Natalie got married Natalie had a bridal shower with some of her cousins so we had Talon come over and play with us! Lydia made really yummy pizza's and we all made him the coolest cake ever!

(I don't know how to flip the pictures!)

Then we all went swimming in our surprisingly cold swimming pool (they said it was heated, they lied!) little Ty was shivering like crazy it was very cute! Then we watched a movie and Natalie showed up towards the end to join the party! (I don't think soon enough for one of us!!)

Cleaning the Conference Center

Last Sunday in gospel doctrine a guy passed around a sign up sheet for four people to help clean the conference center. I thought that sounded cool and would be really fun to do, but since we were all of the way in the back of the room and they only needed four people I thought our chances would be slim....well apparently this is a semi-normal thing for utah wards (not to mention the time was 9:30 to midnight) so when the list got all they way back to us there were only three people signed up! So even though they only wanted four people we both signed up and they got five!

Mike got to wear this cool vacuum and clean the seats and the backs of a bunch of chairs. We were there for about two hours and he probably cleaned about 300 chairs, not missing one inch because it had to be good quality cleaning! But, even 300 chairs looked like nothing with the room full of 21,000!! It is a pretty huge place.
I got the cool job! (Being pregnant does come with some sweet deals!) I got to dust the whole front of the stage, everything wood and since there was a lot of wood and we had to get every inch it took me almost the whole two hours. It was really cool to be right up in the front of the conference center where I had never been before. They did have a lot of security rules though, no one was allowed to go on the stage, so I got lucky to be the closest but still I wasn't allowed to go passed the top step of those stairs you can see behind me and I couldn't TOUCH anything but the base of the pulpit!! Kinda funny, but I obeyed! The pulpit was pretty cool. I new it was from a tree out of Pres. Hinckley's backyard but I didn't realize that it was a completely different wood than all of the rest! It really sticks out when your dusting!

It's a boy!!

We did find out that we are having a boy! Even though I was hoping for a girl I am starting to get very excited for a boy. This little guy seems to be a pretty good kicker so for that fact alone I am glad that he is not a girl. I know girls kick too but I imagine they would be a little daintier than his!

We are having a hard time thinking of boy names...or should I say we have NO idea what to name him, so any ideas we would love to hear!

Change of plans

I was informed by my friend Erin earlier this week that even though I have a blog I should not consider myself a "blogger"! In order to become a true "blogger" I have to post things a little more often than I have. So in my effort to become one of these "bloggers" here is our newest bit of news!

As of a week ago Mike and I decided against him going to grad school right now. We hate the idea of getting way into debt and with a new baby coming not to mention the insane amount of money for grad school we thought it a good idea to work for a little while first. So last monday Mike started looking for jobs. We were surprised when we quickly got a call for an interview thursday morning, and then even better a job offer friday night!! I am so lucky that I have a talented husband that is able to provide for us. We are so grateful at how blessed we have been!

Finally, after being homeless for two weeks (even though we have had lots of fun staying with our families!) we will be moving to Midvale Utah this saturday, and then Mike starts working on Monday. Hopefully I will find a job somewhere doing hair, but for now I am excited to be close enough to go play with Lydia, Sarah, and Ty.

Our newest addition!

We are expecting a new member to our Ryan family this December!! Somewhere around the 20th and the 26th! Yes, perfect timing, we'll have a Christmas baby! (The accountant in Mike really is thinking perfect timing; right before the end of the year for taxes!) We don't know if it's a girl or a boy yet, probably another 4-5 weeks but we are keeping our fingers crossed for a girl!