Soccer season!

GO GRIFFINS!!!

Yep the Griffins! haha

This last weekend my family came down to Utah! It's always fun when they come. Friday night we went down to Maija-Liisa's to hang out and play some wii! Saturday morning I went to breakfast with my family and Jon had to go to be to his soccer game an hour early so he couldn't go:( After breakfast we headed over to Dumke Field to watch my soccer star husband play soccer! I have a lot of fun watching Jon play, but it is so much better to have someone with me to watch him! My sister and her husband and little baby Ava came to the game too! We had lots of fun!

Sisterly love

I told my dad to try and get in the pic ha didn't work very well!

Jon played so well! He made a goal! It was the only and winning goal! He is such a good soccer player, I love him so much!

Closin up the summer of 09.

School is officially starting tomorrow for both me and Jon! It will be my first time doin the whole college thing. I am really excited and super nervous! I haven't been to school school in awhile! Just gotta get back in the groove. We'll see how that goes! Another not so great thing about school starting is me and Jon won't see each other as much:( We have been together non stop this entire summer.. minus Jon's 3 hour soccer practices everyday, but I can deal with that. It will be a new adventure. We have been busy this last little bit of summer. Just trying to get every last ounce of fun we can before the lameness of school starts.

DECORATING FUN!

My mom came into town a little bit ago to help my sister with little Ava and one of the days she went out shopping with me to help me find stuff to decorate our place with. We went to a fabric store, it was a kind of fabric store that I have never been too.. It had fabric for like fancy pillows and curtains and stuff. But I found some fabrics that I liked!! We got some boards to put the fabric on and I was ready to make all the stuff.

These are the boards I made for the living room.. They help make that wall not be sooo big and tall.. Nothing looked good on that wall all our pictures and frames were too small.. I'm glad I could kinda fix the problem.
These are the ones in our bedroom. Our room was kinda boring. We put together these wooden frame things we got from IKEA (our favorite store) and wrapped the fabric over.. Our neighbor below us got mad at us for pounding nails in..oops haha! We also got a dresser which helps a lot with all our stuff! We have lots!
I also got fabric and a frame for this cork board i put together! This was my favorite thing to make! It was a lot of fun! It is now in our kitchen!

SEVEN PEAKS!

Neither of us has been to seven peaks in a long time so we decided it was a must for this summer! We had so much fun! It was a hot hot day so it was perfect for swimming! I went on one of those steep slides that I have never been on! And I found out exactly why I didn't ever want to go on them! It was scary! It makes you go so fast that the water sprays in your eyes. At least I did it though, right? It was nice to get sun and relax with my love! We had tons of fun!

Here's Jon loungin out on our tube before we went out to the slides!
Me before we went out.
On our way home from Provo, our car hit 100,000 miles so we just had to take a pic!

LAST DAY OF SUMMER:(

For the last day of summer we wanted to do something extra fun! And we sure accomplished that. We decided to go to Park City and go on the Alpine Slide there. But when we got there we got there we decided to get the whole all day thing that you can do everything as many times as you want. We were definitely glad we did that! We had so much fun!

Us goin up the lift to get to the slide.
Here's the slide from our view up top.
Goin down the slide! The worker guy at the top told me not to go and start a race while we were going down.. He said I looked like the type.. Ya right! I was so chicken! Jon had to stop a couple times to let me catch up! haha. It was a lot of fun though!
Another one of the things to do was the Alpine Coaster! This is probably the funnest thing ever! I had more fun then on a roller coaster at Lagoon! I think it was cause it felt more risky, not as safe..But it was they assured us that. It goes so fast and winds through the mountains. TONS of fun! Here is me and Jon on the way up to the top.
This is the last part of the way up. It got so steep.
After the coaster we went on the zip line.. Not as fun as the coaster but it was still fun. It goes way fast. It was nice and refreshing.
After that it was back to the coaster! We went separately this time! I was a little bit scared to go by myself.. but I still made it go just as fast:)
The nice worker took our picture!
After we finished up at the resort place, we walked down Main Street and went and ate lunch at this really good pizza & pasta place. We had such a fun day! It was a great last day of summer... Now its time for school fun! WOOHOO!!

Happy 23 Baby!!!

Friday was Jon's 23rd birthday! Ava was cuttin it close coming so close to Jon's birthday, so Jon is happy! We woke up got ready and then we went to a movie, we had KFC for lunch, what a good birthday lunch huh.. It was at the very first KFC EVVEERR:) Then we came home and laid low for a while. Then Jon had to go to soccer practice.. Sad huh, soccer practice on your birthday! His coach should have canceled or something! Well... it was good for me! I had things to do! I had to get ready for the best birthday Jon has ever had:D So I headed to the mall and got him his gifts. Then I went to Walmart to pick up some other things, then went to get Jon a cake. I got home and had no time to make anything for dinner, so I called up Ruby River and made a take out order and in 20 minutes I set up the table. Then I had to go pick up dinner and head to get frosting and candles and as I was pulling into Smith's Jon texted me and told me he was on his way!! Ah i was rushin! So I got home and made him hide till I put the stuff in the house.. I lead him inside with his eyes closed to the bathroom so he could get ready, while I put dinner on some plates and wrote on the cake. Just in time! I only had 3 hours to do all this stuff, I was sweatin from running around everywhere! But I'm glad I pulled it off! Jon loved it:)

Here are some pics from his birthday!

Here's the romantic candle lit dinner!

The birthday boy!

He just loveesss his wife!

Never sang 'Happy Birthday' by myself, but here it is.. I did it.

Makin a wish!!

His cake!

23 candles!

A bag, a shirt and a jacket!

Jon's birthday Eve day..

Today we didn't stop till around 11 we were busy busy.. but it was a good day! After we got ready we headed to my school to check out financial aid stuff... it's a good thing I have Jon, cause I have no idea how all this stuff works! But we are slowly getting closer to the first day of school! It will be my first day of college.. I'm growing up! haha I'm a little nervous but it will be fun! And I have Jon here to help me out with my homework! He is so smart:) One of the many reasons I love him! Then we headed off to Provo to visit the new happy little family! It is so fun holding little Ava.. She is soo so tiny! Even being wrapped up in her blanket she is still way little. She looked like a little caterpillar in a cacoon. haha. And Jon finally held her today! It was so cute! We left after Ava started getting fussy and needed to eat. It was good to see Maija-Liisa Jared and the baby!

Here's Uncle Jon holding his niece for the first time. So cute.

Sorry the pictures aren't so great he was rocking her so it's

blurry and my phone camera isn't very good.

After that we went to IKEA.. It's such a fun store! So much stuff!!! We always go in to get one thing and then we come back with so much more. haha. So we went in to get a stand for dvds but we ended up getting a whole entertainment center. So that is what we did this evening! We also went into RC Willey to get a dresser finally and also got night stands.. It's fun shopping for stuff like that.

Here's Jon putting together our entertainment tv stand.

Safety first! I got some safety glasses in a tool kit I got at my bridal shower.

The finished product! HGTV, I love that channel! haha

08.12.09....Baby Ava is finally born!!!

I'm an aunt!!! Today Ava was born! She is absolutely adorable!

This morning Maija-Liisa texted me and told me she was going to come today! I was so happy. At around ten they broke her water then 2 hours later..HAPPY BIRTHDAY AVA! She is 6 pounds 8 ounces and is 18 inches long. She looks a lot like Maija-Liisa when she was a baby.. We just have to wait and see just a little bit longer to see what she has of Jared and what she has of Maija-Liisa. At Maija-Liisa's baby shower we played a game to guess when the baby was going to come, I guess Aug. 13 just so it wasn't Jon's birthday haha. So I won the game! I just knew she was going to come before Jon's birthday. Here are some pictures of the visit to the hospital. CONGRATS mommy and daddy jared and maija-liisa..and Ava coming into the world!

The happy little family:)

This one is blurry but her eyes were opened!

Me and my big sis! I love her

Rock on!!! This is how Ava sucks on her fingers..No thumb for her she's way too cool for that.

Aunty Kjirstin and Niece Ava:) She's so little..

Jaron! Haha .. He was so scared to hold her. but he's going to be a great uncle I just know it:)

Aunty Brianna.. She's so pretty.

Before we went to visit Ava, me and Jon went out to his families

property to help clean up the garage. It was way hot, but it was

nice to help out. It was amazing how many different kinds of

bugs there are! There were soooo many spider webs full of

HUGE spiders.. and lots and lots and lots of mesquitos . oh and

can't forget the wasps!

We're good helpers:)

Me by the dumpster

Jon's bro in the garage.. it was so dusty they had to wear masks.

Dumpin some garbage!

Someone built some wakeboard jumps on the water out there.. me and Jon are going to cut them down.. haha

We had a great day today! We are an Aunt and an Uncle now and had a chance to be with both our families:) We went to dinner after everything at Market Street Grill to celebrate Jon's birthday with the familes. It was such good food I love it there!

Well that was our day!!!