The Rebuttal

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-Natalie

Anything but Monopoly

Natalie and I played Monopoly today. It did not end well! This is basically a play-by-play of what happened. Two competitive people playing a game by themselves is never a good thing. You gotta love stripgenerator.com!

Owlz Excitment

Yesterday was so much fun, just being able to hang out with my hubby all day was wonderful! Bryan, unwantingly, took me to the Farmer's Market here in Provo that I have been wanting to go to for a very long time now (for some strange reason), but it turned out to be quite pointless because we didn't even think of bringing cash with us so I couldn't buy corn or anything I wanted to. So that lasted about 5 minutes, but now we know for next time. Afterwards, another unwanting Bryan (he's the best), took me to see Julie & Julia. I felt so bad because I practically begged him to go with me to see it and to be honest, it was quite a dissapointment. Imagine my guilt after that. It was a cute movie though, I just wouldn't choose to see it again. After eating our traditional Pretzelmaker, we headed home for a much beloved nap :) My favorite! For dinner, we decided to try that Zupas place that has just soups, salads and sandwiches and holy cow, it was so good! And cheap! Bryan got the ever so delicious Lobster Bisque and I got the delightful New Orleans Style Gumbo. I thought it was great because they give you each a chocolate covered strawberry, which is quite random to me, but yummy as well! After, we were going to see a movie at the dollar theater, but when we got there, the line was just ridiculously long, so instead we headed out to the Owlz baseball game. I LOVE going to baseball games with Bryan! It's possibly one of my favorite things to do. (Of course it would be better if it was a Dodger's game, but what can you do when you are stuck in Utah). I love spending time with Bryan. He just makes me so happy and no matter what, always makes me laugh and I just adore him with a passion!!!




This was the first Owlz game that we've been to where they've won

The mascots, Hootz and Holly, got married. It was kind of awkard.

But they had fireworks!!

2 yrs come and gone

Yesterday was our two year anniversary and it was wonderful! Bryan got me the prettiest pink flower and brought it to me at work, which made everyone jealous :) He also bought us both the new BYU Football shirts for the season, Go Cougars! We actually decided to celebrate part of our anniversary early by getting each other's gifts like over a week ago. Bryan had been begging for his MVP Baseball 05 game for the PS2, since his is all scratched up. We just happened to be at the mall and saw it for only two bucks, so how can you pass that up and not buy it? Exactly! I was a little jealous, admittedly, so we went right ahead and bought my gift which is one of my new favorite movies, Coraline! Anyway, back to our actual anniversary yesterday. After Bryan got off work, we went to Red Lobster. We have been dreaming about going there for the longest time and already knew what we were going to get. We decided to share one of their new location inspired dishes, the Maine Lobster and Crab bake and holy cow it was so good! Lobster tails, crab legs, shrimp, scallops, potatoes, corn on the cob, and broccoli. What more could you ask for? My mouth is watering just thinking about it. Unfortunately, I forgot I had my camera so I didn't get a picture. The night ended just as perfectly as it started with my mom's signature home made cherry cheescake. Yumm-o! What a fantastic day it was :)

Oh, I love you Bryan...

Bryan is going to hate me for this, but I just couldn't help myself!

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California Dreaming

Last weekend Bryan and I were able to go to the wonderful Southern California! Oh what a MUCH needed vacation that was! Last term was probably the toughest term/semester that I have had here at BYU. Word to the wise, do not take PdBio 220 (Anatomy) unless you absolutely have to!!! Needless to say, an hour through my two hour final, I was done! But we finished finals and headed off to sunny California! Oh how we miss the place! The drive down was long, but we decided to take our precious time, stopping in St. George for In N' Out and buying a new camera at Best Buy (it's about time!). We got home at about 10pm, but didn't get to bed until 12pm, because my parents were just so excited to see us that they kept us up till late (and vice versa). We spent Thursday mostly with my family, visiting my brother's new house and having barbeque pork for dinner. We did have the chance to see Bryan's mom that morning to, which was really nice. Friday, the beloved of all days, we went to Disneyland!!!!! We have been waiting for SOOOO long to finally go there again, that we didn't waste one minute of our time. We woke up about six in the morning to eat at the Original Pancake House (which is a tradition for Bryan's family to go to before Disneyland). Bryan's mom was supposed to come with us and then his dad was going to meet us at the park later on, but his mom couldn't find her annual pass and we were forced to leave her behind. It was such a bummer! We got to the park later than we hoped, so we decided to start our day at California Adventure and be there when it opened. After lunch, we headed in to Disneyland (doesn't that name just make you all giddy inside?)! The park was open from 9am-12am so of course we made sure that we were in line for our last ride by 12 at night. (That's the secret, as long as you are in line for a ride by the time the park closes, they don't kick you out). I think we ended up leaving the park around 12:30am. Our feet and my back were KILLING us by the end of the day. Saturday we did NOT set our alarms to wake us up in the morning. We were SO tired! We spent the majority of the day with Bryan's family and had a huge barbeque with both families (can you tell we love barbequing?). It was so nice just to be able to watch movies with his parents and spend the day relaxing. Our time in Riverside was way too short, so we plan to go down again in August! Somehow, we only managed to take pictures at Disneyland, but here are a few of our favorites:

On one of our most favorite rides: The Matterhorn!


After dinner where we had a much needed rest. Isn't he just so cute?!




This reminds me of Hawaii (so did the yummy fresh Dole pineapple whip we had here at the Tiki Room)


Sporting our 3D glasses for Toy Story Midway Mania (such a good ride!!)


The beautiful Sleeping Beauty's Castle at night

Stuck on Dodgers

Sorry this is so late but it's about time we talked about the Dodgers for a little bit. The new season started about a month and a half ago and they are not only in first place, but they are 18 games over .500 with the best record in the major league! Needless to say we are more than a little excited about the way things are going for our boys in blue! Even though Manny Ramirez is gone for 50 games because he is retarded, the Dodgers are doing just fine. Juan Pierre has been quite impressive, while filling in for Manny. Thanks Pierre! Also, Orlando Hudson has filled in the gap of the missing Jeff Kent quite well and has been a very valuable addition to our team. Thank goodness! Being in Utah, we were so bummed that we wouldn't get to see very many of the games on TV, except for when they played the Rockies. Last year, we solved this problem by paying for MLB.TV every month, but this year decided that we couldn't fit it into our monthly budget. However, a miracle occured! Bryan's dad called Bryan out of the blue and said he would pay for us to have MLB.TV! Amazing!! SO we have access every game, right here on the internet :) We are also VERY excited for June 19th to come. We will be going down to Cali for the weekend when the Dodger's will be playing the Angels at Angel Stadium. Bryan's wonderful uncle has season tickets to the Angels and being the generous man that he is, has agreed to give us tickets to one of the games! If we're lucky, they will be the ones right in the second row next to 3rd base! Can you tell we're excited!!!!!!! Also, we have saved up enough money to be able to go to the wonderful, amazing, fantastic, happiest place on earth...DISNEYLAND!!! It has been way too long since we've been. I've decided that when Bryan and I are rich, we are going to go to every Disneyland in the world. We have Anaheim and Orlando down, so now all we have left is Paris, Tokyo and Hong Kong. It will be an adventure indeed!