Yo, Ami!

Ami Rose, I can truly say that I love you more today than I did 3 years ago. We've had a wonderful and exciting three years and I can't wait for the road ahead of us. Happy anniversary Ami!

-matt

Three Years and Counting

Three years ago today was the best day of my life! Everything was perfect and I wish I could relive it over and over again. Have you guessed what day it was yet? (I tried to think of something clever to say here but I've got nothing!) Yes Matt and I were sealed in the Washington D.C. Temple! I can't believe it has been three years. I remember my first Sunday in the married ward when everyone was introducing themselves and saying how long they had been married. There I was, married 2 weeks and some girls were saying 6 months, 1 year, 2 years. I kept thinking dang that is a long time but really it's not, cause I'm there and past that. In May the nursing home I work at threw a party for a resident and his wife who had been married for 70 years!! Now that is a long time. Can't wait to celebrate our 70th! How about a trip down memory lane..............

Am I Obsessed With Disney?

Last Friday was my 24th birthday. I didn't really want to do anything. I am starting to become the kind of person who anticipates their birthday but doesn't really want to embrace it. I know I am really too young to do this but when you have 5 younger sisters who tell you that you are old, you begin to wonder. So I didn't tell anyone at work except for one nurse who got me a bamboo plant, very nice of her. I know when my boss finds out it was my b-day I will hear about it. So Matt threw a little get together with some friends Friday night. We had cake and ice cream and then went to see The Dark Knight, which was INTENSE. Saturday we went and saw The Lion King on Broadway. It was great. Matt also got me the Pixar/Disney ultimate movie pack. Love it!

Family Time

Every summer growing up my family would take a much needed vacation. I have made it a priority for Matt and I to do the same (granted we have been tagging along on my family's vacation each summer!) This year we headed out to Yellowstone for the Peterson family reunion. It was so good to see all of our family (minus Uncle Cameron's family, who lives in Hawaii). All 36 of us stayed in an ultra nice cabin in Island Park, ID. We went into Yellowstone for two days, rented a sea doo for lake day, saw a play called "Butch Cassidy and the Sunburnt Kid" at Mack's Inn. We soaked up the sun, watched a movie my uncle helped make and had an awesome game night where we played Bunko, don't worry no gambling went on! It was a lot of fun and truly was a much needed vacation. Yellowstone was gorgeous and we saw a lot of cool animals....no bears though.

Family getting ready for day 1 with our awesome matching shirts!

Matt had to have that hat....Old FaithfulI love Laurens hair!Giant Elk that almost destroyed Uncle Whit's car.

Grand Canyon of Yellowstone

Time Capsule

My dad's side of the family had our bi-annual reunion this past week. 10 years ago we put together a time capsule. We put in tapes, pictures and letters. We opened this capsule last week and I just have to share some things with you.

My family decided to put in individual letters. My Grandpa started reading them but they were all like 10 pages long! It's so weird to read your thoughts from so long ago. My baby sister Hailey wasn't even alive! So my letter was a 7 page typed letter. I documented my latest Hanson concert, how I loved animals, who my best friends were, and how I disliked school and chores! At the end of the letter I predicted my future. In 10 years I predicted this....(this is exactly how I wrote it in the letter, bad grammar and all!)

"I think in ten years from now I will hopefully be married and will be almost 24. I really want to attend a mission but if I fall in love before I will get married. I wish to attend BYU and get my masters in teaching in science or English. If I can't make it into BYU I wish to attend Dixie College in St. George. I want to be a teacher and live in California or Utah. I also want to be a champion diver I'm on the diving team right now, (I know a front dive, back dive, inward dive, and I'm learning a front flip.) I want to have my own car. I think that about tells everything about me. Bye."

Oh the future of a 13 year old teenager. I did get married! Had no memories of wanting to be a science or english teacher. Still want to live in CA. Never did become a champion diver. The front flip just never caught on! Oh and I do have my own car....score one for me!

Ok i have to put in one more paragraph because I think it is hilarious!

"The things I dislike are school a lot, My school is really evil and I hate it. I also dislike chores (probably because my dad is a chore fanatic.)"

Life was way too simple back then! I mean it's definitely hard being a teenager but I can think of 100 more things I dislike now. I wish I could just post the entire letter because to me it is hilarious. Let's just say I was way too obsessed with Hanson and I loved to go on AOL haahah.

My sister Lauren, 20, wrote a letter for the time capsule and in it I found a new word for my vocabulary. I am sure it will catch on! Here is what it says, (again bad grammar and all)

"My sister Crystal who is 11, and I share a room with, always call me a Morsk wich means moron and ugly and fat and a boy and stupid, and mean and a brat and other words like that but mainly fat and brat ugly."

I know that is SO mean but I cannot stop laughing. Oh the joys of sisters! So if I call you a Morsk....you now know what I mean. ;)

I think we are all planning on making another 10 year time capsule. Crazy to think what my life will be like in 10 years......

"I Thought You Were Just Getting Fat!"

My lack of energy/no posting is not because we haven't been doing anything fun lately.....well compared to the 10 days of KA we haven't! I am currently on day 6 of post surgery...ok ok, it was just my wisdom teeth but still, if you have had them out you know how hideous it is! The procedure went well and all 4 teeth came out with no problems. Here are the 5 things I learned from this experience....

1. I am allergic to Hydrocodone....isn't everyone?? The toilet was my best friend for day 1.


2. I love the show 'Family Feud'. I watched it every day at 11am. One day I aspire to be on that show!


3. Even though I have only eaten soup, smoothies, yogurt, pudding, and Popsicles for 6 days I have lost NO weight. I guess anorexia would not suit me well.


4. I do not have an attractive chubby side. My face BLEW up....I might be tempted to post pictures just to prove my unattractiveness but then I would just stress about it. Every time I looked into the mirror I was well reminded of my looks. My sister told me I looked scary every few minutes and my mom kept laughing at me. Now I am not offended by any of this because I was laughing too!

I went back to work yesterday and everyone kept telling me how cute I was and that I looked like a little chipmunk. The best comment was from my favorite nurse, Rosie. I was sitting at the nurses station going through some charts when someone started to ask me questions about my experience. My dear nurse Rosie looked over and said, "what happened?" I told her I had had my wisdom teeth out....she paused and then said, "I have been looking at you all day.....I thought you were just getting fat!!!" HAHA I love her. So if you see me in the next few days....no I am not getting fat...or at least I don't think I am. Although another lady told me I didn't look any different to her!


5. And last but not least I learned that I have many wonderful caring family members and friends. I had texts, phone calls and visits from friends and family. I know most people get their teeth removed and it's not that big of a deal. But I am a baby and a drama queen so it was a big deal to me! I felt very loved so thanks to all who thought of me, I am very glad to know I have so many wonderful people in my life.

Wednesday...Girl's Day Out!

I was able to take off Wednesday and go see a matinee showing of Hairspray with Karen and Amy. We purchased our tickets at the TKTS booth and then had 4 hours until the show! We walked all the way over to 5th and 58th street (we started out at 42nd and Lexington!) We wanted to go see the world famous FAO Schwartz and play the giant piano. Many of you will remember the piano from "Big", with Tom Hanks. We saw the show at 2pm and after the show we stood outside the stage door waiting for the cast members to come out and sign our playbills! We got signatures from the guy who played Seaweed, the lady who played Motormouth Maybelle, and the girl who played Tracey. We took pictures with the cast members but our camera tricked us into thinking it was taking pictures when in reality the memory was full:( Oh well....we know we met them! Oh and the lady who played Motormouth Maybelle was on "The Fresh Prince" so we felt pretty awesome! Afterwards we tried to win the "Wicked" lottery but there were like 200 people there so no go. (BTW Amy and Karen won the night before!)

You can kind of see the girl who played Tracey in the background. She has a brown dress on.
Karen and Amy saw "Phantom", "Wicked" and "Hairspray" so we thought this was a fun picture.