BUSY!!!

Life has been so busy lately!  I know I am so bad at blogging but I really haven't had the time.  I am in my last semester of school and I can't wait to be done.  I graduate on April 29th, so just one more month!  The bad thing is that this has been one of my busiest semesters.  Not only is school super busy, but I am coaching two teams which has been so crazy trying to juggle practices and be to everything for both teams.  I absolutely love coaching though!  In February, we went down to a tournament with my 17's in St. George and we had a blast.  Unfortunately it was awful weather and really muddy, but we still had fun and they took 2nd.  My grandparents just bought a house down there so we got to spend some time with them.  The homeshow was also going on at the same time so we went and saw tons of amazing homes which made me want to buy our own!  Last weekend was our spring break and we had another tournament down in Vegas.  Again, it wasn't the best weather but it was still way fun getting away!  In between all the soccer, we did a lot of shopping.  I didn't get to spend any of my birthday money yet because we have been so busy so we literally went everywhere, the outlets, the forum shops, and the fashion show mall!  Even though Vegas is so dirty, we still love being on the strip because of all the lights and crazy people!  On Sunday morning, we were done playing so instead of heading back home, we went to St. George and stayed with one of Chris's friend at his parent's home down there.  We spent a couple hours in Zion's which is beautiful.  We did get out and go on a little walk and saw some desert sheep which was cool.  We got home Monday morning and are back to normal life.  Chris is still working at Chili's which he loves, and will graduate in December.  YAY!!!  We are super excited for the changes that are to come in the near future.  

Winter Fun

Chris and I went snowshoeing this weekend with our friends Dave and Jen.  We went up AF canyon by Tibblefork and hiked around for a couple hours.  It was a beautiful day, the sun was shining and there was no smog up there!  It was so peaceful and just fun to enjoy the mountains.  Here are some pics! 

New Years!

For New Years this year we spent a week in Dallas, Texas for a wedding.  Chris' cousin Ashlie got married on December 28th in the Dallas Temple.  They are the same age and were close friends all growing up so we were very excited that we got to be there.  Two of Chris' uncles live there as well as my aunt so we got to spend lots of time with family.  It was a very busy week but we had tons of fun!  On Monday, the 27th, we flew in to the Dallas airport and had to change in the bathroom into our nice clothes in order to make it on time to the wedding dinner.  We had an amazing dinner at Maggianos and afterword headed back to Uncle Mike's for an after party for the bride and groom to be.  The next day they had the ceremony at noon at the Dallas Temple and after pictures we headed to the Galleria mall which is huge!  They have an ice skating rink and three stories of shops, I was in heaven!!!  We made it back to Uncle Matt's just in time to leave for the reception.  We were at the reception for almost five hours but we had a blast!  The food was great, there was a dance floor, and lots of good company.  The rest of the week we spent going to the gym, hanging out with Matt's four crazy boys, and visiting my aunt Collette in Allen.  Our New Year's Eve was actually pretty lame.  We went to Uncle Mike's and had take out, played games, and just hung out.  We were all pretty pooped by the time midnight rolled around but we shot off some fireworks and did some sparklers and that was about it.

Chris and I at the wedding dinner

Chris and I at the reception

Chris and his cousin Ashlie

Aimee, Chris, me, and Grandpa at the Galleria

Aunt Collette, Cassandra, Ali, Scarlett, and me at their home in Allen, Texas

Chris with his cousin Brooks

 

'tis the season

Christmas time is one of my favorite times of the year!  After a flood in our little basement apartment, we finally got everything put back together and got our skinny little tree decorated.  We are so excited to spend time with family and remember our Savior. 

Thanksgiving

This year for thanksgiving my mom took us to California.  We stayed in the Marriott at Newport Beach and it was so amazing!  The weather was amazing and it was absolutely beautiful there.  We spent Thanksgiving day at Disneyland.  On Friday we slept in and got to relax a little.  We then drove around and looked at all the amazing yachts and then spent some time walking around the beach.  Saturday we got to do a session at the Newport temple.  It is a gorgeous temple.  We also did some shopping, played tennis, hot tubed, and just relaxed.  It was so warm, it was hard to come home to the snowy weather.

Us at Disneyland, The Happiest Place on Earth!

They had all the Christmas decorations at Disneyland and it was absolutely amazing how much they spend on decorating!  If you haven't been around Christmas, you definitely need to go see it

This is the view from the pool with the ocean in the background

The Beach, the water was FREEZING!

The Newport Pier

The gorgeous temple

Chris, me, Amber and Spencer after doing a session at the temple

I can't believe it is already October!  I have been so busy that I haven't even had two seconds to blog.  But.....I am now officially an aunt!  My cute little nephew Kaiden Nielsen Johnson was born on September 13th.  He was 7 lbs and 11 oz and 19 1/2 inches.  He definitely has some Nielsen in him, his feet and hands are sooo big!  He is healthy and happy and just such a cute baby.  Here is a picture of him next to my cousin Allison's baby Scarlett who is two and a half weeks older than him.  He is way bigger than her but they are both so cute!

 This is me and Kaiden, he was getting hungry!

We got to go up and see the Lion King last weekend with my parents and sister.  It was so amazing!  All the costumes and music was so good!  We really enjoyed it even though we aren't huge on theater.

July 2010

This past month has been crazy busy, it just flew by!!!   We had so much family here so tons of cousins and family gatherings.  For the 4th of July we were able to go to the Stadium of Fire with my family and see Carrie Underwood.  It was so good and she is just so amazing and talented!  

The week of the 12th the Lohner's always go to Bear Lake and my family was going to Lake Powell so we decided to split and go to both.  We went to Bear Lake on Monday and did just about everything we could until we had to leave on Wednesday morning.  We went skiing, went golfing, played tennis, went for a bike ride and of course had the famous raspberry shakes!  On Wednesday I had soccer practice at 2:30 and then right after that we headed to Powell with Melissa and my cousin Nate.  It was a Carter family reunion and none of them have ever been there so they had a blast down there!

The next weekend we celebrated our anniversary on friday, even though it was really on Monday.  We went up to Park City for the day and just enjoyed the fresh mountain air!  We went shopping, strolled main street and rode a lift up the mountain and back.  It is so pretty up there!  Then on Saturday the 24th, we went to the Bees game with Amber and Spencer, Sean and Ariel, and Katie and my cousin Nate.  They did an awesome firework show after the game.  

The last event of the month was Amy Jill's wedding!  The last of the fab four is finally married!  After dating since the 8th grade, her missionary is finally home and they tied the knot at a beautiful ceremony in the Salt Lake Temple on July 30th, 2010.  The dinner was the night before at the Sleepy Ridge golf course and then the reception was the night of at the Sun River Gardens.