The Longenecker's

Growing

2011-12-31T08:46:00.000-08:00

Baby and I are growing quite a bit these days. Baby weighs 3 pounds and is 17 inches long and I weigh...well...quite a bit more than I used to and am almost 61 inches long :) I have made it to my third trimester and am surprised at how fast the time is going.

28 Weeks

27 Weeks

26 Weeks

25 Weeks

Thanksgiving in Virginia

2011-11-30T16:44:00.000-08:00

We surprised Kory's parents and family by showing up unexpectedly in Virginia for Thanksgiving. They had no idea we were coming until we showed up. We had a great time and made some wonderful memories.

The Longenecker girls took me out to lunch for an early baby celebration.

Kate, Kristen, Max, and Tom

Not my best hair day

Jaymes and Emmalani

Sandra and Grandma Longenecker

Casey and Logan

My nephew Jayke just turned one! He even held up one finger for the big day!

24 Weeks

23 Weeks

22 Weeks

21 Weeks

20 Weeks

Our Trip to Peru

2011-11-06T13:44:00.001-08:00

My parents usually take my family on a vacation every 3 years, but now it is starting to get more and more difficult to do with everyone's different schedules. My parents decided to take each child and their spouse on a vacation... and we just got back from ours 2 weeks ago. My parents took Kory and I on an awseome vactation to Peru. We got to see and do a lot of unforgettable things. Thanks Mom and Dad!

Park of Love in Lima

Ancient artifacts

Cathederal in Lima
Creepy bones down in the catacombs underneeth the cathederal

The President of Lima's palace

My parents drinking coca tea so they don't get attitude sickness.

We took a train from Cusco to Machu Pichu.

Machu Pichu

Profile of a lady's face in the mountains

Nice bum

Salt Mines

Moray

Ollantaytambo

Lima Temple

Boy oh boy!

2011-11-01T17:48:00.001-07:00

We're having a boy! I just had my 20 week appointment today and as far as they can see, baby looks HEALTHY and happy.

Yep! It's a boy!

Baby sucking his thumb

19 Weeks

18 Weeks

17 Weeks

16 Weeks

14 Weeks

3rd time IS a charm! so far

2011-09-21T18:51:00.000-07:00

We have told a lot of people our good news, but in case you haven't heard, I am 14 weeks pregnant! I'm feeling optimistic this time and happy to have made it this far.

What a Great June!

2011-07-03T14:36:00.000-07:00

The Princess Party! Every year my mom has a princess party for her grand girls. This year I helped out with it. It was a lot of fun dressing up with my nieces and doing girly things together. We don't look very princess like in this picture, just being silly.

Cars party with my nephews

Kory and I decided to go camping on a whim (which we haven't been able to do for the past four summers.) We packed up and headed up A.F. canyon. Our friends Chelsea, Zak, Michelle, and Christian came up and roasted a hot dog and marshmallows with us. We had quite the adventure finding a spot. It was so busy up the canyon to say the least...

Just cookin' our breakfast.

Silver Lake

My friend Chelsea and I decided to take a basic cake decorating class together. There were 4 classes, one every Monday night. We had a lot of fun taking these classes together and learned a thing or two about decorating cakes.
CLASS 2

These cupcakes turned out a little crazy, but we learned how to use a lot of different icing tips in the process.
CLASS 3

The only downfall when making and decorating cakes, is how messy the kitchen gets by the time you're finished! It's hard to see what a huge disaster my kitchen is, but there is powdered sugar everywhere!

We learned how to make these ribbon roses....they turned out pretty good considering it was our very first time making them.
CLASS 4

We decided to put pudding between our cake layers...it's always fun to try something different.

I made some brownies for my niece's baptism and thought I would jazz them up a bit with some flowers I learned how to make from my class.

Happy Birthday! Jen and I had a birthday BBQ in my backyard with some of our good friends. It was a lot of fun catching up and enjoying the nice weather together.

I thought I would try out my cake skills for my party. I did like how the little fireworks turned out...we really lit the sparklers that were coming out of the fondant covered twinkies.

Every year the poppies bloom in the foothills of Alpine in a place called Lambart Park. I look forward to seeing them every year in June.

What a pretty place

We had our engagement pictures taken here...almost 5 years ago.

Kory

We took a little trip down to St. George with our friends Michelle and Christian. We had a lot of fun. We even went on a little hike.

Our silouettes

Inside of a cave

South Rim of the Grand Canyon

With my dad at the Grand Canyon

Spring Break

2011-04-21T18:40:00.001-07:00

Kory and I decided back in February that is was time for a vacation. Luckily I got a week off for spring break so we had the perfect slot of time to go on a cruise. We invited my college roommate friend Chelsea and her husband Zak to go along with us. We cruised to the mexican riviera and stopped at Cabo San Lucas and Puerto Vallarta. We were also supposed to stop at Mazatlan, but they have been having drug problems there so we got to go to Cobo for two days.

All my bags are packed I'm ready to go!
Our first day of sun and boy did my legs get burnt!

First fomal night
Chelsea and Zak

At the Casino
This awesome statue was outside of the club where Chelsea and I danced the night away.
I just look like a dork here...I was trying to pose like my towel animal.

We took a little boat taxi out to Lovers beach

I found a little ghost in the cliff

We rented scooters for the day and headed to our zipline tour in the jungle. They didn't allow us to take pictures of the ziplining, but they will email us some that they took.
On the beach in Puerto Vallarta there were tons of awesome sand castles

Getting ready to parasail

Second formal night

Just some pictures from the past few months

2011-03-14T17:26:00.000-07:00

My nephew Jayke was blessed yesterday. Isn't he cute?

My family (at least part of it)

My mom and dad standing by some of the ice castles in Midway.

If you haven't seen these ice castles, you should. They are really awesome.

Super Bowl cupcakes! Kory helped me make these!

Hopefully 3rd time's a Charm!

2011-01-30T21:43:00.000-08:00

I can’t believe how long it’s been since I have last blogged. I guess time has been going by fast or something. Maybe it’s just because kindergarten uses up a lot of my energies  and blogging just sounds like more work after a long day of Kindergarten.
I’m usually not a very open person when it comes to certain things, but I think I would feel better if I just shared some of the things that have been going on in our lives recently.
For the past year Kory and I have been trying to get pregnant and we have actually been successful twice. The problem is, is that I have not been able to stay pregnant. Back in April I was pregnant for 5 weeks and had a miscarriage. At the time I just brushed it off because I was not far along and I knew that we had only been trying for a few months. We kept trying and trying and got pregnant again in November. Which we were really excited about and the timing seemed perfect. I knew it was possible to miscarry again so we tried not to get too excited. We went to the doctor when I was 7 weeks and everything looked good and we saw it’s heartbeat. Meanwhile I’m feeling really good about everything and hoping that things will continue going well. (I did have one concern and that was that I had and still have a cold/cough that has literally lasted me 2 and a half months.) Just when I started feeling like nothing bad was going to happen, we went back to the doctor for a 10 week appointment and my biggest fear happened. The doctor was doing an ultrasound and was not talking. I could tell right away he was looking for a heartbeat. I couldn’t see it and neither could he. For some reason “you” just never think things like this will happen to “you.”
Anyway, to say the least, I had a procedure done on Friday to help the miscarriage along. I never realized how difficult something like this can be and I have A LOT more sympathy for people who have gone through similar experiences. We are trying to stay positive about all of this, and we are going to continue trying to start our family.
Sometimes it is hard to have the face-to-face conversations about this sort of stuff. So if you were wondering about how our baby making is coming along, this should give you a little bit of an update.
Even though this has been a hard time for the both of us, we are grateful for the love that our Heavenly Father continues to show us in our lives. We are grateful for the blessings that we do have and we look forward to the time that we will be able to be parents.

Don't you just LOVE Halloween!

2010-11-04T21:25:00.000-07:00

Kory and I have been so busy this past month. I keep wanting to post about things but feel like I've always got something more pressing to do. This past month I went on a fun trip with some of my girl friends to San Fancisco....we had such a fun time and made some pretty crazy memories a long the way. While I was on my girls trip Kory and some friends went to St. George to golf....and boy did they golf. I can't remember for sure but I think they golfed 100 and something holes in 2 days. Kory had fun to say the least. Kory also started a new job a couple of weeks ago. He is working for a company called Paychex and is currently away on a 2 week training in New York.

Some friends and I put together an awesome Halloween party! We had fog, police lights, scary music, food, games... you name it and it was there.

Fun times

2010-09-20T18:45:00.001-07:00

I have been sooooooo busy this past month and a half with school starting up again...not to mention changing schools and grades. So far Kindergarten has really tested my patience, but it has also been a lot of fun too. Hopefully each day just keeps getting easier. Kory is back in Utah now and is currently looking for a job.

We went camping up A.F. canyon this past weekend with our friends. The leaves were already changing colors and looking so pretty.

Michelle, Christian, Marianne, and Kory

Happy Birthday Kory! I have an awesome cupcake book and I got the idea to make a golf course cake for Kory for his b-day cake.

We had a fun birthday party for Kory and his friend Mike in our backyard.

Colton, Kory, and Landon

Chelsea and Zac

Christian and Michelle

Chris, Kathryn, and Cole

The green

Kory and I made homemade hotdog and hamburger buns one Sunday afternoon. They actually turned out really good. Especially the hotdog buns!

Me in my new classroom on top of my cupboards.

Chelsea and Zak came out to California for a family vacation and happened to be staying in a house on Newport Beach which was only 15 minutes away from where we lived. We decided to meet up and go to breakfast...it's always fun to see somebody you know in a different place.

Quick Update

2010-08-15T13:30:00.000-07:00

I just realized that I left my camera at school, but I will just quickly write about what we've been up to.

- Over the 24th of July we were in Utah for a family reunion up Hobble Creek Canyon. We had a lot of fun camping and Kory even won the Bergmann family horseshoe tournament. We have the trophy to prove it!

-After the 24th of July weekend we headed straight up to Bear Lake for another family reunion. We had a lot of fun with Kory's family....and it was awesome having every single one of Kory's family members there. That only happens about once in every 4 years. It was kind of a big deal since he had family coming from Virginia, Florida, Las Vegas, and us from California.

-Kory and I went back to California for a week and made a quick day trip to Tijuana. Boy is that place stinky!

-I packed up our stuff and Kory and I drove back to Utah so I could get started on setting up my new room.

- Kory dropped me off in Utah last Sunday and flew back to California that same day day.

- This past week I have been working non stop on getting my new room all set up for this coming year of teaching Kindergarten. With my mom's help were were able to get everything set up in 4 days.

- Alpine days was yesterday and I had a lot of fun with my family. The breakfast, parade, booths, rodeo, and the fireworks.

-Kory will be working in California for two more weeks. I have/get to start going to school on August 23rd. School starts on the 25th. I luckily will just be testing my students by appointment one by one for 5 days. So my first "real" day of teaching with be on September 1st. Oh...in case I haven't mentioned it before, I will be teaching at Mount Mahogany in PG near State Street and sort of by Macey's.

- Well...that's all for now!

New Do

2010-07-11T14:29:00.001-07:00

This is Kory..... Marianne thought it would be fun to get fake hair for her birthday. So, we got her some clip in hair extensions. She loves them and I also think they look great. Happy Birthday Marianne! (July 3rd)

What a fun week!

2010-07-07T14:35:00.000-07:00

This past week was a lot of fun! Kory took a couple of days of to play with me. Since Kory is not managing this summer, he didn't feel a bit bad about it.

We really wanted to go boogie boarding and thought it would be a nice day since it is July 7th, but it was only 60 degrees and chilly so we found this huge hole on the beach and burrowed down and watched the mens water polo team run back and forth in their speedos instead ;)

Can you guess where we're at?

You guessed it...DISNEYLAND!
I really love Disneyland. I love the atmosphere that is at each ride. I am amazed at the details the put into thier rides.

Nobody is too old too have pictures with Mickey...right?

I love the Haunted Mansion ride! It's my favorite! I remember being so amazed the first time I went on it...I still am!

We went to Knott's Berry farm for my Birthday! It was a lot of fun!

This ride was so much fun. Kory was so scared waiting in line...I really thought he was going to chicken out and not ride it with me....like he has done before :)

Looks like Kory found a new little hunny... and I just found an old creepy man.

Happy 4th of July! I wanted to make a cake and decorate it by covering it with stars of frosting...which I did try to do but I didn't have enough frosting for my vision. At least in tasted good.

We went Tustin's (the city where we live) firework show with some of the other guys and their wives.

I love fireworks!

My my bought me an awesome cupcake making book filled with fun ideas. I thought I would try out one of the ideas by making these cute fish for game night with our friends.

I didn't have a platter to put them on...so I use this boogie board instead. I think it adds a nice touch :)

Aren't they funny?

"Are they Naked?"

2010-06-19T10:55:00.000-07:00

So I have been here in California now for almost two weeks and I have already had some fun adventures! Over the weekend Kory and I were invited to go camping/hiking with three other couples from the office. We first drove about an hour and a half to San Bernadino National Forest. Then we decided to go on a hike to some hot pots that we had heard about. So all eight of us were in search of the trail for the hot pots. We thought the trail was going to be only a ten minutes drive, but to make a long story short...it ended up being an hour and a half drive and we had to stop three times to ask for directions. I imagined the hike taking place in the forest with nice trees shading us as we hiked, but no! By the time we made it to the trail head, we where in the middle of the desert..literally. We spent another hour hiking to the hot pots...which was steep and quite hot. We finally started coming up on a big river of water so we knew we must be getting close. Then all of a sudden we saw a whole bunch a people off in the distance. We all were so excited to have finally made it after our 4 hour journey and almost giving up a few times. As we took a few steps closer to the hot pots full of people, we all basically said the same thing at the same time. "Are they naked?" "Oh man!" We had come all this way and about turned around so many times and now we finally got there and almost every person was naked!We didn't know what to do. It seemed stupid to have come so far just to turn around and go back. We walked a little ways away and sat down on some rocks and ate our lunch as we tried to figure out what to do. We were all pretty hot and there was a big river right next to the hot pots so we just decided to play and swim around in the cold water. We had a lot of fun, but still felt like we were missing out on what we had worked so hard to find. While we played in the cold water avoiding all the naked people, we glanced up and a naked hiker walked by. We all just laughed and thought it was weird to be hiking alone... naked. Then it was like we couldn't avoid it, random naked people would just appear out of no where. We got out of the cold water and sat around for awhile and.....we finally just decided to go for it! We went over to the hot pots and were lucky to find our very own pot with no naked people in it. We all were so pleased with ourselves. We weren't with the naked people and we managed to get in the hot pots. It was a bit awkward when naked people walked by wanting to get in, but realized they were out numbered with suited people...thankfully they kept walking. There were quite a few hot pots so all the naked people stayed together and the suited people stayed together.

It was a crazy and fun adventure to say the least. We ended up staying for a while in the hot water then hiking back out and camping in the forest.

Every Wednesday Kory has late start day, which means he gets to go to work 2 hours later than usual. One Wednesday we went to Newport beach and rented bicycles and rode them around. It was a lot of fun. We tried the bicycle built for two first, but that didn't work out so great!

Newport Beach Temple....It's only about 5 years old.

Before I came out here to California, I went with my parents and my sister and her daughter to Lava Hot Springs for a few days. (What's with me and hot pots lately?)

My niece Savannah and I on our way to Lava Hot Springs.

Lava Hot Springs with my mom and dad!

I guess Santa enjoys going to the hot pots too! He probably gets tired of being cold all the time ;)

Schools Out For Summer!

2010-05-29T09:06:00.000-07:00

I have been SOOO busy lately, but I will post to get the few of you who read this caught up.

Kory and I moved into our new house in Alpine a little over a month ago. We were able to paint a few rooms before Kory left for California at the beginning of May.

My last day of teaching 1st grade at Ridgeline was yesterday. It was actually really sad saying goodbye to my first little group of students. Next year I will be teaching Kindergarten at Mount Mahogany in PG. It's between American Fork Hospital and Macey's Grocery Store. I really wish I could still be teaching 1st grade, but I'm sure I'm really going to enjoy Kindergarten too! This week has been so crazy, I have had to move out all of the stuff from my Ridgeline room to my new school all while teaching and trying to make final project for my students.

I will be moving out to California next week to be with Kory and I will be there until the beginning of August. We will be living 10 minutes from the beach and only 20 minutes or so from Disneyland, so I should be able to keep myself busy:)

Update

2010-04-06T14:58:00.000-07:00

It's been a while since our last post so I thought I would quickly do a little update!

Kory will be graduating on April 30th from UVU with a degree in Business.

We will be going out again this summer to sell security systems. This summer we will be going to Orange County, California with Pinnacle.

I'm teaching first grade at Ridgeline, but will be looking for a job teaching at a new elementary since 19 teachers from Ridgeline have to leave due to the new Traverse Mountain School being built. (Cross your fingers that I will be able to get a job this coming fall)

We sold our condo in Orem and have made an offer on a house in Alpine. We close on our house on April 19th and will continue living at my parent's house until then. It's going to be really nice living in Alpine especially since the house we are buying is on the same block as my parents.

Cake #2 and Cake # 3

2010-02-08T18:30:00.000-08:00

I made this cake at my second cake decorting lesson!

My third cake and I'm already getting paid!I bought these cute little Tinker Bell fairy things at the Dollar Tree....and they even light up with a switch and everything!I have a lot of practicing to do before I feel like my cakes are "good," but I feel like I have already learned a lot just my doing three cakes. It's funny what little things I have realized while making these cakes. I have one more lesson to go. I had to miss my last lesson because of parent teacher conferences, but they said I could make it up at the end of March....I don't know if I can wait that long!

Cake Decorating Lessons

2010-01-24T13:53:00.001-08:00

I have been watching a lot of cake decorating shows this past year and kept talking about finding a class to sign up for. Well, for Christmas, Kory decided to surprise me with cake decorating lessons at Orson Gygi's Culinary Institute. I have only had one lesson so far, but after my first lesson I was so excited to get started that I came home and tried to make and decorate my first fondant covered cake. It went pretty well for my first try. Everything was going so well until I tried to lift my rollled out fondant off of the counter....I put down the powdered sugar just like I was told, but I guess I didn't put enough. My fondant was completly stuck down. I eventually got it off with Kory's help, but it end up looking like old man skin by the time I pressed it down on my cake. I made little colored circle to try and cover up the wrinkles. I guess for my first try it looks okay.

Ta da!

Frosting the cake with buttercream to use as a glue to help hold on the fondant

Rolling out the fondant.

(this is when I should have used more powdered sugar on the counter)

Well, I can now say that I have made my first fondant covered cake and I can't wait to learn more and make more cakes!

Thanks to Martin Luther King, Kory and I got an extra day off and spent the weekend in St. George!

Gargoyle

Festival of Trees

2009-12-06T14:00:00.001-08:00

I have always wanted to decorate a tree for the Festival of Trees so this year I finally did it. I just did one of the little trees, but it was a lot of fun. My first graders helped me. They painted the little gold star ornaments and the red star ornaments were painted by my friend Julie's class. We really enjoyed decorating this tree and I plan on doing another tree next year!

My mom even came up to help us decorate!

High five! This is us high fiving because our tree actually sold!

BYU VS Utah

Kory had some friends over before the "biggest" game of the year!

Rise and shout the Cougars are out! This year Kory and I had season tickets to the BYU games. I can honestly say that I am actually starting to understand what the heck is going on down there on the field. I have a feeling like I will have a lot more years to learn.

Spencer and Kory.. just letting the win soak in!

The final score

Poor little Kory in the Emergency Room on Thanksgiving day. Kory and I drove down to Las Vegas to spend time with Kory's two brothers and thier kids for Thanksgiving. ON Thanksgiving morning Kory all of the sudden had sharp pains in his side. He basically thought he was dieing and we were both scared so we took him the the ER. They did all kinds of test and CAT scans and it turned out that he had a kidney stone. We spent six hours in the emergency room. I thought for sure they were never going to let us out. The doc gave Kory some pain medicine and we were on our way to Thanksgiving dinner.

We were all so happy Kory made it out of the ER in time for Thanksgiving dinner!

Ryan and Bethany

Bub and Danielle

Hailey and Alissa
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Something New to Look at

2009-11-14T18:36:00.000-08:00

Fall...Football...

2009-10-01T18:00:00.000-07:00

Well, it's been awhile. Right now Kory is in his glory enjoying college football and attending every BYU game! He has also found a bit of time to go to school in between games :)
This is the end of my 7th week of school and I can't believe it. I am really enjoying myself! Today I had to go to a training and I really just wanted to be with my students instead. It seems like there is always something fun going on at school. We took a field trip up A.F. canyan and met Smokey Bear. You are probably thinking that I left out "the" but the the forest ranger made it very clear that his name is "Smokey Bear" so I thought I would help set things straight:). We've also had grandparents day which was a lot of fun,
and tomorrow is apple day. It's amazing how fast they learn things and how much power I really have as thier teacher.

My parents decided it would be a fun idea to live in thier fifth wheel for a coulpe of weeks in A.F. canyon. Kory and I went up to visit a few times enjoying the leaves along the way. We even stayed over a few nights!Some of my other family members were also able to come up and spend some time. We had a lot of fun playing games and enjoying the campfire!

I love American Fork canyon...especially this time of year when the leaves are changing color.

My Ma and Pa at Cascade Springs.

Just an orange tree I like!

Neat... yellow leaved trees!

I love to see the patches of yellow aspen trees mixed in with the green pine trees.

I spy a little Marianne!

Near Silver Reservoir

View on our drive up to Silver Reservoir

Back to School !

2009-08-15T22:22:00.000-07:00

Well, I have been very busy these past few weeks. First getting my room ready and then teaching for the past week and a half. Teaching is going great! I'm so tired by the end of the day, but it has been a lot of fun. On Thursday I had a back to school night for my parents. I was a bit worried about it since I had to talk to 3 different groups of parents for 20 minutes each, but it actually wasn't bad at all. Lets see...I have 26 students. The school I teach at has an A track and a B track. So I teach half of my students from 8:00 to 9:15 then all of my students are there until 2:15. Then the A track goes home and the B track stays at school until 3:30. It kind of crazy, but it suppose to help give each student more one of one time with me. It's a pretty tricky schedule to get used to for me and my students. It seems strange to have a real job and to have 26 students counting on me to be there. I have to be at Ridgeline at 7:30 which means I have to wake up at 6:30 at the very latest so I can leave by 7:00. I'm so worried that I'm going to accidently sleep in and my student are going to be standing outside waiting for me to pick them up. :) I hope that never happens.

Since the day I found out I would be teaching first grade I just knew I had to use dinosaurs as my class theme. With the last name Longenecker....I couldn't resist. I made this huge dinosaur and told my students that this type of dinosaur was called a "Longenecker." I also told them that this big dinosaur was me and they were my little dinosaurs. Some of them thought it was so funny and others had no clue why I called it a Longenecker!

Meet Mrs. Longenecker! Oh yeah, I decided to go brown, thanks for your votes!

This dinosaur lists our class dino duties!

sign

These are the windows near my door. Each one of these dinosaurs will have a picture of one of my students in it.

This is my back wall where we will have opening.

My new keeva! It's not mine to keep, but a nice teacher let me barrow it for the year. Now my students will have a place to sit!

The front of my rooM. The alphabet down below is used for a word wall.

This is a special little room attached to my room where my students can hang their coats and backpacks.

Three years and counting!

2009-07-29T16:04:00.000-07:00

Kory and I just had our three year anniversary on July 27th! Crazy huh? The time has flown by. I scares me to think about how fast the next three year will go!

Lucky for us, Kory happened to have Monday off this week so we were able to take a fun trip to Virgina and to Washingtion D.C. for our anniversary. We started out visiting Kory's family in Virginia Saturday night and stayed with them until Monday morning. It was nice to spend some time with his family since we don't get to very often.

I love the Washington D.C. Temple, it's so pretty!

We stayed in Washington D.C. on our anniversary night and woke up early to do a session. I was so excited to finally go inside this temple.

Luray Caverns!!!!!! One of the most awesome things we've seen!

So...on our way from Virginia to D.C. we kept seeing huge billboards advertising the Luray Caverns... the largest caverns in the east. I read a few of the billboards to myself and thought that I would have to come back and do that sometime. As we got closer and closer to the exit I asked Kory if he had noticed the billboards. He had and we decided to take a chance and check them out. WOW, what a great decision...it always pays off to be spontaneous! The caverns were huge and filled with all kinds of stalactites....and the tour included an audio tour right on our individual headsets. IF YOU ARE IN VA, GO TO THESE CAVERNS.
We had a great anniversary to say the least.

Fried eggs anyone? Funny how these really do look like fried eggs! This was one of our favorite parts in the cavern. This picture looks like it has stalactites AND stalagmites in it, but really the bottom half of the picture is all a reflection in a pool of water. This looked so awesome in person! The audio tour said that the people who discovered the caverns called this little spot the fish market...can you see the fish all hanging in a row? We went to the driving range with a few of Kory's brothers and I actually hit some pretty good balls...or should I say...drove some good shots..? Logan, Jaymes, and Kory We had a picnic at "the river" in Virginia with Kory's family. I wish we would have had more time to throw on own our suits and go for a dip! Kory's sister Jennie and brother-in-law Alan and their kids were also in Virgina visiting so we were able to spend some time with them too!

Brown or Blonde ?

2009-07-21T07:55:00.000-07:00

I need some help deciding....Should I keep my hair the blondish color that it is now, or dye my hair brown? I keep thinking about dying it back brown, which is really the most like my natural hair color, but I also like it blonde. So, I want your vote on whether you think I should keep my hair the color that it is now or dye my hair brown. Here are a few pictures to look at to help you decide! You can place your vote on the side! Thanks ;)

UPDATE

I just wanted to include a little update about Kory and his success! For the month of June Kory's security company had a selling tournament. Each sells guy was matched up with another sells guy within the company. Which ever guy sold the most that week got to move on and be matched up again. Kind of like the NBA playoffs! You are probably asking what they guy gets when they win...well Kory went all the way to the championship round and along the way earned tickets to a Philly's game, a $100.00 dollar gift card to Best Buy, a 19" LCD T.V. and an x-box 360... which he has been wanting for a very long time, but I have been to cheep to buy for him;) The champion of the tourament won a tropical vacation for two. Kory worked so hard and was so close to winning..I'm very proud of him for going so far in the tournament. Right now Kory is on track to get 100 sells which is his summer goal.

Visitors from the west!

2009-07-02T11:47:00.001-07:00

My mom and her bestfriend Joy Alldredge decided to fly back east and visit. It worked out great because Joy's son Phil, is also out hear working for Stone Security. So they were able to kill two birds with one stone. We we able to do a lot of fun things in 9 days. We toured downtown Philadelphia, went to Valley Forge, shopped at the King of Prussia Mall, rode a bus to New York and spent two days there, saw the play Wicked, went to visist the Amish people, and went to the Hershey factory. Kory and Phil get every other Monday off so they were able to spend the day with us in Hershey.

It was nice to have visitors! Thanks for coming mom!

So... there is an Amish city in Pennsylvania named "Intercourse", we just had to get a picture!

I even bought a deck of cards that say, "I (heart) Intercourse" :)

Valley Forge

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Downtown Philadelphia

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New York City

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The Sweetest Place on Earth

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Winner, Winner, Winner!

2009-06-04T14:54:00.000-07:00

Where to begin?
Well, I flew back to Utah on May 10th in search of a job teaching in an elementary school in the Alpine School District. I had two interviews on the 11th and really thought I would get one of them. My plan was to interview, find out I had the job, and fly back to Philadelphia all within the week. I knew I had high hopes considering every place I had interviewed has had several hundred applicants per open position. I really thought I was going to get the job at Highland Elementary because the principal told me that he was impressed by me and I felt really good about my interview. So, I waited a few days and found out that I didn't get either job.

To make a long story short, after applying for 27 positions, interviewing at 6 different schools, and living out of my suitcase for three weeks, I HAVE A JOB teaching 1st grade at Ridgeline Elementary starting this fall! In the past years the district has been short teachers, but this year is completely different. I think less people are retiring and more people are coming back to teach. There were 700 people who applied for the first grade opening at Ridgeline and they interviewed 10 of those 700 people. I was one of those 10 lucky ones thanks to Mrs. Dajany, the teacher I student taught for. I first had an interview with Ridgeline's principal and then I had an interview with all 6 of the other first grade teacher's at Ridgeline. I had heard from two different teacher's at Ridgeline that they already had somebody in mind for this position and to not waste my time even interviewing there. So, walking into the interview I didn't even know if I had a chance, but I did it anyway. Lucky for me I was hired for the position! I am pretty excited to say the least! I really didn't know if I would even have a chance teaching this fall.

I had a fun time in Utah even though I had to live without Kory for 3 weeks. I was able to hang out with some of my SUU friends, go to a baby shower, see a friend and a cousin's new baby, go to the parade of homes, go camping/4-wheeling with my family at fish lake, shop for my new classroom, and the list goes on.

Graduation!

2009-05-05T10:45:00.001-07:00

On May 1st I had my Elementary Education convocation at 8:00 A.M and then the big commencement ceremony with everyone at 10:30 in the McKay Event Center. There were 146 people graduating in the Elem Ed Program and 3,743 people graduating from UVU.

Since I was one of the Valedictorians in the Elementary Education Program, they had me speak at my convocation. Okay, that was not true, I just took a picture at the podium

This picture is of me right after they read my name and gave me my diploma.

This is Julie, one of my good friends in the Elementary Education Program. Thanks to her there was never a dull moment in class.

Without Kory's help with my math classes I would have never graduated. Thanks!

Kory's parents flew in from Virginia for their son Brandon's graduation. Luckily our graduation ceremonies were on different days so they were also able to come to my convocation and commencement as well.

Thanks Mom and Dad!

These are my best buds in the Elementary Education Program. We sat together for two years worth of classes. Thanks Jill, Julie, and Hayley for the fun times in class.

President Monson spoke at commencement. It seemed strange to hear his voice at a school function.

After graduation was over, we had lunch at Tuconos with my parents and Kory's parents and then we were off to Philadelphia. We drove for 7 hours that day, 14 hours the next day, and 11 hours that last day. We finally made it on Sunday night!

Exhilarating VS Beautiful

2009-04-26T19:43:00.001-07:00

Kory and I had the opportunity to go to Miller Motorsports Park for Kory's company party. After the meeting and lunch, three people were selected out of a raffle to take three "fast laps" with a professional race car driver around the track. Being the lucky person that I am, I was one of the three people who were chosen to speed around the race track. I had so much fun! I was honestly scared for my life and thought for sure the car was going to roll. We were going somewhere around 130 MPH on the straight aways and 90 MPH around the the corners. It was so freaky, but I loved almost every second of it. The track isn't just an normal oval track, this track was had all kinds of zigs and zags throughout it which made it even more scary. The car slid and screeched around every corner. It was pretty awesome, I had a permanent smile on my face when I got out of the car!

Kory did not get chosen out of the raffle, but they snuck in a few fast laps for him too!

Everyone who came to the party got to ride in Jeep Rubicons around the Moab course. They drove us up and down some really steep hills. It was pretty cool to see what those Jeeps could do.

I got to spend a girls day out and go with my mom and my sister to Thanksgiving Point's Tulip Festival. The tulips and daffodils were so pretty! I loved walking around the gardens and enjoyed the perfect 75 degree day.

FoR ThOsE WhO LiVe OuT oF StAtE

2009-04-16T09:33:00.000-07:00

Wow, Orem got about 10 inches of snow yesterday! Even though I don't like to mix seasons, the snow looked so pretty on all the trees. I just had to take some pictures!

Being Finished with my Student Teaching or Going to the David Archuleta Concert?

2009-03-28T15:04:00.000-07:00

I can't decide if I am more excited that I am finished with my student teaching or that I just went to the David Archuleta concert last night.

I just finished my student teaching on Tuesday! My students were so cute, they all made me a card and a huge poster. They had a surprise party for me too. I really enjoyed student teaching, but it is nice to be done. Here is a picture of my students. I have better pictures of their faces, but I'm probably not suppose to display them on the Internet. I think this picture is probably okay..don't you think.

So, I only have two more weeks of school left and I only go on Wednesday nights. Basically I only have 8 hours of school left before I graduate. Sounds great huh....well actually I have a huge senior project due and a portfolio of all of my main assignments that I have done in the past two years. So far my senior projects 32 pages long and I probably have 15 to go. Some of those pages are worksheets, but a lot of them are lessons and reflections. It will be nice when it's all over with. I guess when I'm finished with that I will have something else to worry about like interviews and actually teaching. I hope to get a teaching position this fall in Alpine School District.

Kory and I went to the David Archuleta concert last night. We are not really concert goers, but when I heard that David Archuleta was coming to town I couldn't resist (and neither could Kory). I just think he is the cutest little thing and he is such a good singer. So.. when we walked into the E-Center we instantly became surrounded by thousands of 12 year old girls who probably are capable of screaming louder than any other age group in the world. His concert was really good!I can't wait to go to the next one.

By the way....don't let Kory tell you that he HAD to take me to a David Archuleta concert, because he loved every minute of it. You should have seen the smile on his face when David came out!

I have some good video footage but I can't get it to upload. Sorry. Oh, and I saw my good friend Sharmaine at the concert too!

STUDENT TEACHING and mooorrrrrreee!

2009-02-15T18:51:00.001-08:00

I'm sorry I haven't been posting lately. I have been busier than ever. I finally started my student teaching. I never thought I would actually make it to this point. I have been student teaching at Barratt Elementary in American Fork for the past five weeks. My student teaching lasts for 10 weeks, so I am half way finished. My student teaching experience has been going really well. I have been teaching little first graders. They are really cute, but definitely need full time attention and help. For the first two weeks of my student teaching a taught for only part of the day. Since the beginning of my third week I have been teaching full time, without the teacher in the room. I have learned a lot already about teaching and what it is really like. Everything seems to be going well. I really like the teacher who's class I'm in charge of and she seems to like me a lot too! This past friday we had our Valentine party. One of my students told me that he didn't feel well. I told him to get a drink. He came back up to me and told me he felt like he was going to throw up. I wasn't too worried about him actually throwing up, but I did tell him to stand by the garbage can just in case. Luckily.....it paid off! He started throwing up and it seriously looked like a fountain the way it was arching out of his mouth. I didn't let it get to me one bit, I really had no choice though with all the kids watching. As my little first grader was thowing up, I drug the garbage can into the hall and left him there. It was the last 10 minutes of school and we had to get everything cleaned up from the party. To say the least it was very choatic and the kids were upset about seeing their friend throw up. It was a fun day, but I was happy for it to be over. After Roman threw up a few times he felt much better and was able to leave the school with his other classmates.
Well, I have five more weeks to go, wish me luck.
Along with my student teaching that takes up 40 hours of my week, I still have my uvu classes every Wednesday night for 4 hours. Not to mention teaching gymnastics Tuesday and Thursday until 6:45. And there is my church calling every monday night where I try to teach advanced high school students how to do their math.

So to sum things up, I don't know if I have ever been more busy. It's been a lot of fun and the weeks are flying by. It will be nice when April 8th comes and I have basically nothing to do unitl May first when we move to Philadephia for another summer of Kory selling security systems.

2009-01-14T18:09:00.000-08:00

I found this on another blog and thought it would be fun to do while I wait for Kory to come home from school. Feel free to copy and paste it and put it on your own blog.

101 Things

At least one of us have done the bolded items:

1. Ridden in a train -china
2. Slept under the stars -like every night in the summer!
3. Played in a band/orchestra
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disney World
8. Climbed a mountain -Lone peak, timp, and Yellow mountians
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang a solo
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown your own vegetables
19. Had a letter to the editor published
20. Slept on an overnight train
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitch hiked
23. Taken a sick day when not really ill - only one time and i have felt bad about it eversince. Kory actually made the call because i was too scared
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping -at some hot pots and we had to sneakily put on our suits in the water when some radom boys showed up. It was scary.
27. Run a Marathon -(1/2)
28. Seen the running of the bulls
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person -HT
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community
36. Taught yourself a new language
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
38. Been on a draw-bridge
39. Gone rock climbing
40. Received a traffic ticket -(kory only)
41. Sung karaoke
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had your portrait painted
48. Gone deep sea fishing -yeah, didn't catch a thing
49. Been a story on the news
50. Seen a wild mustang
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling -and held an octopus and it kept inking all over the place!
52. Kissed in the rain definitely yes. -The night Kory proposed
53. Played in the mud -many times, its one of my favorite things
54. Gone to a drive-in theater
55. Been in a movie
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies
62. Gone whale watching
63. Received flowers for no reason
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma
65. Gone sky diving
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten Caviar
72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square -and got lost from my HT group
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job
76. Won a contest
77. Broken a bone
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book
81. Been in a cave
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper
85. Read the entire Bible or other religious book -BOM only
86. Visited the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
88. Had chicken pox
89. Saved someone’s life
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous
92. Joined a book club
93. Lost a loved one
94. Had a baby
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a law suit
98. Been to the top of the Gateway Arch
99. Been stung by a bee
100. Seen Mount Rushmore in person
101. Learned to play an instrument

oops!

2009-01-08T13:19:00.000-08:00

So my computer went crazy so I had to publish my last post before it was finished. I will have to add more pictures later.

Christmas Break

2009-01-08T11:23:00.000-08:00

Kory and I had a wonderful Christmas break!

I love Christmas time because there is so much to do. We went to the festival of trees which I love doing. We also got to go see the lights at temple square with some for Kory's family that were in town from Florida and Logan.
We stayed Christmas Eve night at my parents house and spent Christmas day with my family. It's always so much fun to have my whole family together.
On the 28th we got to go to Hawaii for a week with all the guys in Kory's company who sold over a hundred security systems.

Every Christmas each member of my family makes a gift for another member in the family. It's always so fun to see what each person makes. Making gifts is one of my favorite family traditions. This year I made a picture frame out of old barn wood for my brother Clint. Thanks to my dad for helping me, I was able to make an awesome frame.

Kory got to make for our sister-in-law Tiffany. He decided to sew an apron. Kory did a great job thanks to sports sewing!

Our sister-in-law Jackie made Kory a batman wallet. She made it out of batman underware. If you are ever at our house you'll have to see it. It's so cool, it has compartments and everything.

My brother Tim made me an awesome copper frame with a mirror in the middle. It's a really pretty house decoration that I will have forever. I can't find a picture of it, I will have to take a picture and post it next time.

We went to the island of oahu and stayed on Waikiki. There were 24 of us there.

We snorkeled at Hunama Bay

Dancin' Elves

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Send your own ElfYourself eCards

Elf Dancers

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Send your own ElfYourself eCards

Happy Thanksgiving

2008-11-30T20:50:00.000-08:00

This year Kory and I celebrated Thanksgiving and my grandpa's 86th birthday at one big party in Herriman. There were 70 of us there. Wow! My mom did an awesome job planning and hosting this big celebration. Thanks mom for all your hard work.

Grandma and Grandpa Dansie- My mom's Dad and Mom

That's me with Kory on Thanksgiving! (I'm a dork!)

This is my cute Grandpa Dansie

There's my mom working away like usual, making everything look and taste perfect.

My dad and brother Steve make a great turkey cooking team!

Bye Jill and good luck on you mission! My best friend Jill just left for her mission. I'm so excited for her, it's something she has wanted to do for as long as I've known her. She will be serving in the Knoxville Tennessee Mission. I'm proud of her and know she will make a great missionary.

Halloween Festivities...finally!

2008-11-15T15:07:00.001-08:00

Happy Halloween! I love halloween, i just love everything about it. The leaves the costumes, the smell of pumpkin guts, watching scary movies, and halloween parties. This year I hosted a Halloween party for my friends. It was a lot of fun. Every year at our halloween party we play the annual potato rolling contest. If you have never played you should, it's so funny

Ha, ha, I'm finally better then Kory at one thing!

Katie and Dan Tenglesen

Chris and Kathryn Clegg

Megan Hilton competing against the potato rolling champion!

I just love this picture!

Michelle and Christian Smith as hicks

We carved pumpkins at the Woodward's house with a group of friends. I just love carving pumpkins and ...I love the smell of pumpkins too.

Flintstones Meet the Flintstones...da da da da

We went to a fun Halloween party at the Morse's house and we played some crazy games as you can see.

Christmas in October?

2008-10-23T11:46:00.000-07:00

For Christmas last year my parents gave my family a cruise to the Southern Carribean. Since there were 14 of us that went, it took a lot of scheduling and planning to finally figure out a time we could all go. So...10 months later and here we are enjoying our Christmas present. We flew to Puerto Rico and stayed the night.

The next morning we went to the Puerto Rico's old town fort. It was really awesome and old!

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Royal Carribean's Adventure of the Sea

They have tons of fun activites on the boat. Rock climbing, mini golf, ice skating, and of course gambling. Bingo!

Formal nights!

Welcome to St. Lucia! Kory and I liked this island the most.

Kory and I were very happy to be scuba certfied at a time like this. We saw all kinds of awesome sea life and crazy coral. I had never seen a real sea horse, but now I can say I have. He was very cute!

My brother Steve and his Wife Tiffany are also scuba certified so we went diving together.

When we got to the island of St. Thomas we hopped on a ferry and went to St. John so we could go snorkel at Trunk Bay. I think this is one of the the most beautiful beaches I have ever seen.

We had a fun time body surfing on the waves. Believe it or not, this is the same place as the picture above. It suddenly got cloudy and rainy so we didn't stay for too long.

Family at Cokie Beach

This picture is taken at Cokie Beach. There was a lot of great snokeling here. Kory and I did another dive near this beach and I held this weird creepy puffy cucumber worm thing that looked like a big rug.

We got off the cruise ship sunday morning and spent the day in Pueto Rico.

We hiked down though the rain forest and saw this awesome water fall.

We had a lot of fun and made some fun family memories that we will never forget. Thanks for the fun trip mom and dad!

Losing

2008-09-30T21:31:00.001-07:00

Kory has recently signed up for a "Biggest Loser" type of program here in Utah at Open Court. His friend Mike lost over 30 pound doing their program. Kory signed up on September 15th and has been doing great with it so far. He goes everyday for an hour and works out with a trainer. He has a certain list of foods he can eat which is not strict really at all. Mostly fruits, veggies, lean meats, and pretty much anything else thats not greasy or sugar loaded. I have been very impressed with Kory's motivation. I have never seen him so motivated to loose weight like this. He is eating very healthy and has cut back on his portions. The thing I like most about this program is that it is very realistic and isn't something that can't be kept up. Some programs and diets are not realistic and can't be maintained for very long. Guess how much weight Kory had lost in only two weeks? Nope, even more! Kory has lost 12 pounds. I am very proud of him and his detirmination. The program lasts until December 15th and the person who has made the biggest change or has lost the most weight wins 10,000 dollars. Cool huh! Who knows, he might even win.

Since we've been home

2008-09-08T15:52:00.000-07:00

It seems like we have been running around like crazy since we've been home. We started school 12 hours after we got home from California so that was a bit crazy trying to unpack and all. Then we decided to paint out family room and clean our carpets. Luckily we have been back for many fun events like Mike and Katie Woodward's baby shower,one of my best friend's bridal shower and wedding dinner, FHE with the whole Wallentine family, and so on!

Kory's early Birthday present!

Last summer Kory found out that the U of U's football team would be playing at "The BIG HOUSE." Kory's favorite team is Michigan so for a whole year he has been talking about wanting to go to this game. I never really thought he would go through with it. Sure enough, a few days before the game he booked a flight to Michigan. One of Kory's best friends Clint Mower, plays for the U of U so he was able to get Kory a free ticket on the front row.

Go utes!

Number 39 is Clint Mower. He is the long snapper for the University of Utah.

This stadium holds almost twice as many fans as BYU's stadium. (109 thousand?)I guess that's why they call it the big house!

I think Kory said this was called touchdown Jesus. Is that bad say?

Happy 24th Birthday Kory!

Make a wish!

We had a labor day/ birthday party at the Owen's condo. I had no idea the kinds of stories these boys had from their high school days. OH BOY!

So about a year ago Kory won his fantasy football tournament so Carl Clegg ( chris clegg's dad) took Kory out to a restaurant called Ruth's Chris Steak house. Ever since that day Kory has mentioned Ruth's Chris to almost every person he knows. To surprise Kory for his birthday, I decided to take him to "Ruth's Chris." He told me it was expensive, but I had no idea! If you go, be sure to dress I little nicer than we did. Oops. I sort of look like a turtle here huh ;(

We highly recommend the sweet potatoes. They are really, really, really good! They were my favorite part of the meal.

Like I said, this is an expensive restaurant

We needed to get out of our house and enjoy the nice weather so we drove up the canyon and walked around cascade springs. If you haven't ever been here I recommend it. I always love to eat the water cress, but don't tell the rangers!
This picture turned out really well...um maybe i should be a photographer after all!

We went to Chelsea Whittenberg's wedding dinner at Snowbird's Cliff lodge.

Doesn't she make a beautiful bride!

Our last few days in California

2008-08-27T17:29:00.001-07:00

Kory has done an awesome job this summer. He has put a lot of time and dedication into managing his office and it has paid off! His office was the "Top Office" and sold more accounts than any other office in Stone Security this year. Kory worked really hard and ended up selling more than his goal. He even earned us a trip to Hawaii and a 42" flat screen tv. Good work!

This is a picture of some of the sales guys

The pool area has really nice BBQ grills so Kory decided to host his final correlation meeting at the pool and have a little BBQ. It was a fun way to celebrate the salesman's last day. Kory is "really" sad it's his last day knocking, I mean look at his face

Nate, Kirk, Linzi, Sophia, Brent, Bob, Dan, and Jimmy

I'm going to miss having a pool and hot tub to go to everyday

We realized our recommends were about to expire so we made a quick drive at 5:00 in the morning to the Oakland temple to do a session.

My new shorter hair!

Look, I had a baby while I was in California! Okay, not really. All of the wives of the sales guys got together to have a baby shower. It was so nice this year having more married couples out selling with us. It was nice having girls to hang around with for a change.

Monterey, California July 27 2008

2008-07-28T18:28:00.000-07:00

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY! WE HAVE BEEN MARRIED FOR TWO YEARS!

We took a fun little jont to Monterey for our second anniversary. Can you believe it?Two years! I was pretty excited when I noticed they had our anniversary date on the thingy.

We had a fun time riding the the cute little green trolley around town.

Kory did a great job selecting our hotel for the night. We stayed at a place called Spindrift Inn. It was right on the beach and had really pretty views. Our room even had a wood burning fire place.

Our room had an awesome bay window where we could sit and look out at the ocean.

Kory didn't even pose for this picture. He was positioned like this on his own and I couldn't resist so I snapped I quick picture before he even knew what I was doing.

We saw advertisements for the History Wax Museum and decided it would be fun to go. We thought it was going to be really cool, but it was nothing like what we expected.
It ended up being a bunch of really old wax people that didn't look real at all set in historical scenes. We wouldn't recommend going.

Kory was so excited when he realized how close Pebble Beach was. We paid the $10.00 just to drive around the Pebble Beach area. The golf courses were really well kept and the area as a whole was very picturesque. Kory was in heaven the whole drive long.

We ate at Bubba Gumps. The food was really good and it was pretty cool to see all the Forrest Gump memorabilia around inside.

Lucky for us it was a bit chilly in Monterey so we had no problem building a fire in our little fireplace.

The Inn provided a nice breakfast which they brought right to our room. It was really funny because we didn't know they were going to bring the breakfast INTO our room. As soon as Kory opened our door the lady walked right in, all they way across the room, and placed the platter in the bay window. I was a bit embarrassed laying there in bed watching her tip toe around all of the chocolate kisses I had put all over the floor, not to mention the other things laying on the floor. It was really funny and awkward to say the least.

The past two years have been more fun and exciting than I could have hoped for. I couldn't ask for a better husband. Kory is the perfect person for me in every way. There is no one else I'd rather spend the rest of forever with than him. I am so blessed to have him in my life. Thanks for everything sweetie! Love you! Happy Anniversary.

JULY has been BUSY, BUSY BUSY!

2008-07-14T18:08:00.000-07:00

Happy 22nd Birthday Marianne!

I can't believe that I am actually 22 years old. When I think of a 22 year old I think of some mature person who has everything all figured out. Instead, I feel like a 17 year old who just likes to goof off and have fun.

Kory was so cute for my birthday, he popped out of bed and made me a really yummy breakfast. He also surprised me by taking me to get a pedicure and manicure at a really nice nail place. Later that night he left work early( which he never does) to take me out to dinner. Thanks Kory for a fun Birthday!

Bergmann Family Reunion 2008

We were able to fly back to Utah for the 4th of July and stay for a few days.

Every year for the 4th of July my mom's side of the family(Bergmann= my great grandma's last name) has a big family reunion. This reunion has been a fun family tradition since before my parents were married. No matter what activities we participate in and how the reunion has changed from year to year we can always count on three main attractions to occur. The horseshoe tournament, the table of counting jars, and the endless fireworks.

Kory is a pro at horseshoes even though he is one of the newest players in the family!

Kory and my Uncle Glen competing to move on to the next round.

Scroll down to find out who won the whole tournament. You won't believe who came in first and second place!

My mom set up this game for the younger kids to play. She put handfuls of change in a big bucket of saw dust and the kids had only a few minutes to find as much money as they could.

The kids had a lot of fun so some of us older girls also decided to give it a shot. We had a lot of fun and had a lot of saw dust everywhere.

My niece Savannah counting jars with some of her cousins.

My wonderful Grandma and Grandpa Dansie.

KORY WON THE BERGMANN FAMILY HORSESHOE TOURNAMENT 2008

I am very proud of Kory for winning the whole tournament. This year is the first year in the history of the reunion for a Longenecker to win. On the back of the trophy is a list of all the previous winners. I am very happy to know that Kory's name will remain on the back of this trophy as a permanent record of his achievement. If you enlarge this picture you will also notice that I made it all the way to the finals. I can't believe that I had to play against Kory. He is the most competitive person I have ever met. Of coarse he won!

My brother Steve and his wife Tiffany distributing the sparklers.

Some of my cousins with my Grandpa Dansie.

I love this picture of Kory and my niece Savannah. Aren't they both little cuties!

This is a picture of me right after I lite the fireworks. I am trying to qucikly walk away before I catch on fire.

Happy 4th of July. I just love fireworks! They are one of my very favorite things !

Golfing at Thanksgiving Point

The few, the proud, the Golfer boys ;)

Kory loves to golf! Thanks to our hook ups with Stone Security, Kory and is buddies( me included) were able to get a tee time at Thanksgiving point golf coarse for free! The four boys all golfed very well, and I did a great job driving the golf cart!

Liz and Jonathan July 11th 2008

My good friend Liz Blackwell got married on July 11th. I was so happy to be in town for her reception the night before. It was so fun meeting up with so many of my good friends. Thank goodness for wedding receptions.

Don't I have such cute friends! Katie Stapp Tenglesen, Liz Blackwell, Jen Williams, and Sharmaine Stucki Howell.

A day off

2008-06-15T14:28:00.000-07:00

I would like to announce to everyone that this is Kory making an apperence in the blogging world for the very first time. I have seen Marianne spend countless hours "posting" and reading other peoples blog, and after reading many "posts" myself, I felt that it was time to show everyone that I can do it as well.

We are having a lot of fun living and working in San Jose. My office here is staying very busy and doing very well. It is a lot of work to manage an office, but we couldn't ask for things to be going any better. As a company we take every other monday off from work and usually do some pretty fun things. We set a sales goal for our office for the month of May, and were successful in hitting that goal, so we decided to take off a Friday rather than Monday, and take the whole office out to a San Francisco Giants game. The game wasn't until Friday evening, so we went down to the beach in Santa Cruz before the game and had a lot of fun.

Marianne and I found some cool cliffs on the drive around Santa Cruz, we drove up Highway 1 and enjoyed some awesome views and found some great look out spots. Its fun to hike down into these little spots and see the huge waves crashing. We also saw some sea lions, or seals, or whatever they are swimming around.

We were at the beach with some of the sales guys and their wives and families. I got burried in the sand and then Marianne and the other decided to add certain features to me that made me into a sand woman. I let them have their fun even though I thought it was really really immature......ha ha.

While we were at the beach, me and one of my buddies rented a skim board and a boogy board. I wish I would have been able to take some pictures of Marianne boogy boarding, because she is actually really good at it. I think she is so good because she is so light and it is kinda like there isn't even anybody on the boogy board when she is riding it. Everytime I try to catch some waves, i usually just kinda sink and the waves pass me by. Oh well, we still had fun.

I love Sand Castles. I forgot how cool it is to make a sand castle. We spent a good amount of time on this one, and weren't even done when it was time to leave. One of these days we are going to get to the beach and I am going to spend all day making an awesome castle.

There is a pretty cool pier at the beach in Santa Cruz, we were able to go underneath the pier and look at a bunch of the sea lions that were just chillin on the wood underneath. We were seriously about 5 feet away from them. They are really loud, stinky and annoying.

After a fun day at the beach, we drove back home and cleaned of all the sand from our bodies and got ready to go up to the game. We were fortunate enough to see the San Francisco Giants play the Oakland A's in the Battle of the Bay. This is a picture of the stadium from the outside. AT&T Park is an awesome stadium with an swesome view of the bay from the inside.

You can see the the Bay beyond the right field bleachers. It is a cool stadium, but the weather in San Francisco at night is really cold. It is the middle of june, and everyone was buying hot chocolate at the game.

"Kory got into Stanford!"

2008-06-07T13:50:00.000-07:00

Okay, actually both Kory and I got into Stanford! Yippy! Well, let me explain. Since we have until 1:00 each day before work starts, we are able to go exploring. One morning we used mapquest to find our way to Stanford University and it only took 20 minutes to get there. Once we got "into" Stanford, we took some to walk around the rather large campus. The buildings were very old and beautiful.

Don't worry, we will be returning in the fall to attend UVU!

We found a stadium and well.... you know Kory and sports. We had to take a glance!

San Francisco

2008-05-28T21:16:00.000-07:00

Kory and I had a fun Memorial Day weekend in San Francisco! We did all kinds of fun things. We spent some time at Pier 39 where we watched the sea lions, ate at some good restaurants, and went to the Aquarium of the Bay. We also went and shopped around in China Town, which I liked because I really felt like I was living in China all over again. We continued own our way down the most crooked road in the world and then GPSed our way to the Full House house. I can't tell you how excited I was to be standing in front of the house where Michelle Tanner grew up! I really was super happy though :) While we were in San Fran we met up with Phil and Tiffany Alldredge and took and awesome little boat tour under the Golden Gate Bridge and around Alcatraz. To say the least, we had a really fun time, Oh yeah.... and Kory and I both got sketched and my sketch looks just like me and it's really freaky!

Check out my Slide Show!

2008-05-28T21:13:00.001-07:00

2008-05-16T14:01:00.000-07:00

I don't start working at The Home Depot until the 27th and so I have a lot of free time on my hands. It's actually really weird to have so much free time, but it's nice for a change. San Jose is currently experiencing a heat wave. Yesterday my car thermostat said 101 degrees. Today I watched the weather and it's suppose to be 96 degrees. It's a good thing we can take regular dips at the pool.
So since I have had extra time, I have been experimenting with my camera and taken some sepia pictures.Here they are.

2008-05-10T12:53:00.000-07:00

This is where we live, there are over 3,000 apt. in our complex. Kory and I got lost a few times trying to find each rep's apartment.

Sorry we haven't updated our blog for awhile. Things have been a bit hecktic moving and getting the Internet up and running. Things are going really well for us so far. We love the apartments they got for us. They are super dooper nice. We live right in the middle of every technology based coorperation's head quarters you can think of. Like Yahoo, ebay, Cisco, Cannon, Micon, Scan Disc, Hitatchi, and the list goes on! My favorite part about living here so far is having to pay over $4.00 dollars a gallon for gas! Okay, my favorite thing about California is how there are so many cool and unusual plants growing everywhere. I really like how every shrub and bush are so well groomed. As for being an "office girl," I really like it. It's fun for a change. I have never had a job where I can just sit on my tush and work :)I think I could get use to not spotting girls at gymnastics and not standing on concrete all day. But on the other hand, it is difficult for me to just sit still all day in a chair. I should be starting part time at The Home Depot on Wednesday, so hopefully I will have just the right amount of sitting and standing for a weeks work of time. Kory is doing really well selling, a lot more people pass credit compared to Denver.
From here on out I will try to post more so those of you who click on my link everyday and check for a new post (you know who you are!)will have something new to look at :)

Yippy we are scuba certified!

2008-04-23T20:05:00.000-07:00

After several years of wanting to become scuba certified, I finally took lessons from Scuba Ted's. I completed 4 classes at the Springville pool and then did my two certification dives at the Crater in Midway. Kory actually certified when he was 16, but they still let him take the classes with me for free. We both add a lot of fun and can't wait to go on a real scuba diving adventure.

This is a picture of Kory and I in the Crater. We look at little different because we are under water! He,he :)

This is a picture of the inside of the crater. It was completly different than I expected, but still very cool.

The Crater is a nice 95 degrees and is 65 feet deep. It was pretty awesome being able to beath 65 feet under water!

Getting Ready to Leave For the Summer

2008-04-13T22:02:00.000-07:00

Well, as most of you know Kory worked for Stone Security selling security systems in Denver. Last year was very successful for us so we are going to try it again. This summer Kory is the assistant manager and we will be going to San Jose. We will be leaving on April 26th and are so happy our friends Jake and Bryton will be living in our condo again. Of course I will be transfering to The Home Depot, but to spice things up a bit, I will be an office administrator part time for Kory's office. We are excited for our new adventure and know it will be a great summer.

April Fool's

2008-04-01T22:57:00.000-07:00

April Fool's!
So... Kory and I are not expecting a baby. I have always loved April Fool's day and so I just had to pull some sort of prank for the day. It was pretty funny listening to my cell phone messages and reading my text messages throughout the day. Thanks for your excitement for us anyway. Hope you all had a good day full of jokes and pranks. For some reason the big prank for second graders this year was to tell someone the either had a snake, spider, or something slimy on their head. I am doing my three week field experience in a second grade class and 10 different students told me I had something on my head. After school was over, I taught gymnastics and I had 3 different gymnasts tell me I had bugs on my head. Oh boy, kids these days. What will they think up next!

2008-03-19T21:25:00.000-07:00

For Spring Break Kory and I took a road trip with my parents to Washington to visit my brother Tim and his family. Here are some pictures from our jouney.

We had a lot of fun walking through the farmers market

Talk about a wet kiss!

Kory made a new little fish friend in the market

I was just standing there watching the men throw fish around in the market when all of a sudden one of the fish sales people tells me to put my arms up. I didn't really know why but I did it anyway. The next thing I knew he had me up in the air and was trying to throw me over the counter like some sort of fish :)

While visiting Seatle, we were able to make it to the top of the Space Needle

This is my brother Tim and his cute family looing out over Seatle.

My sister-in-law Jackie and my nephew Joshua had a fun time on on top of the space needle. I have never seen such a happy baby!

Even though Kory is scared of heights, he managed to stand outside on top of the Space Needle just long enough to take a picture.

Lousia and Jackson love play dough!

This is my cute niece Louisa. She will turn 5 in June. While we were visiting in Washington, Louisa was singing us all kinds of songs she had learned a her Lutheran Preschool. It was so funny when she starting singing the hokey pokey! These are the words she sang. "You put your head in. You put you head out. You put you head in and you shake it all about.You give your heart to Jesus and you turn your life around. That's what it's all about.Louisa couldn't find a LDS preschool to go to, but it looks like she is learning good things at her Lutheran preschool.

Look at these nifty houses we found in Eureka

We decided to drive the long way home so we could stop and see the redwoods. If you have never been to the redwoods in Califonia you should definitley go see them. The pictures don't show how big they really look in person. They are super dooper cool and big.

My mom's suburbin barley fit though the "drive through tree."

It was pretty funny watching my dad guide my mom through the tree. They were both a nervous wreak.

Kory looks pretty good here considering he threw up 2 minutes before. Both Kory and I caught a bug and weren't feeling so great on our way home.

Look how huge this redwood tree is. Those two little blobs are Kory and I!
This redwood tree is 315 feet tall. Crazy huh?

Moab Half Marathon 08

2008-03-09T21:12:00.000-07:00

Running for Our Lives

Well, where do I begin? Kory and I began our journey down to Moab on Friday afternoon. Almost the entire way down Kory was trying to convince me to change our regisration from the half marathon to the 5 mile run. I was concidering this option somewhat seriously since neither of us had ran since the beginning of February. During our break I was trying to let my IT bands heel, and Kory was having really painful spasms in his back. The thought of running 5 miles did sound quite nice, but I wanted the satisfaction of knowing I ran a half marathon. We got to the check in place and we felt sooo out of place. We were surrounded by tall skinny people with really long skinny legs...you know the type! They gave us our bag of stuff we told them how un-trained we were. They just kept saying, "Well you are runners though, right?" It was really awkward and funny.

Kory and I went back to our hotel and and tried on our gear. At this point it was really setting in, we were about to run 13 miles and we were scared. Kory kept trying to sprain his ankle and making up all kinds of crazy reasons why I would have to run without him. He was mostly trying to be funny, but deep down I think he would have done almost anything if he thought he could get out of it. (It was actually Kory's idea to sign up for this)

I asked Kory why he had such a sad face in this picture and he told me it was because he thought it was going to be his last day alive. :)

We woke up Saturday morning and waited with over 4,000 other runners to be bused up Moab Canyon to our starting point. Kory and I ran together until Mile 10 then I had a sudden burst of energy when I realized that I only had 3 miles to go. I started running super fast and left Kory in the dust. I finished 13.1 miles in 2 hours and 45 minutes and Kory finished in 3 hours. We didn't set any records, but we did pretty good concidering our lame bodies and lack of training. All and all we had a fun time and are sure glad to be alive to tell about it. Today we are really feeling the consequences of running 13.1 miles. You should see us trying to walk up and down our stairs :)

We made it to the finish line

2008-02-22T13:09:00.000-08:00

First off, I want to start out by telling Megan sorry for taking so long to respond to her tag. Second of all, I think after doing this tag I will be all tagged out for awhile :)

1. What was the best thing you cooked last week? I made a really good crock pot chicken dinner. It was really easy to make and it lasted for several meals.

2. If money, time and babysitting were no object, where would you go and with who? I have always wanted to go to New Zealand and lately I have been thinking abut how cool it would be to go to Egypt and tour through an ancient pyramid. I would for sure take Kory. Wait, wait, wait! I changed my mind. If money were no object I would for sure go to space!!!

3. When was the last time you cried?I got a bit tearey eyed while watching President Hinckley's Funeral.

4.- Five things you were doing 10 years ago? Well, I guess that means I was in 7th grade. At that time I was involved in a lot of extracurricular activities. I was taking gymnastics, soccer, piano, and karate. I also probably a scared little 7th grader.

5 - Five things you were doing 5 years ago?Five years ago I was in 11th grade. I was dating, driving, having fun at school activities, retiring in my gymnastic adventures, and running for student body historian.

6- Five things you were doing 1 year ago? Going to UVSC and applying to get into the elementary program, figuring out if Kory and I were going to move to Denver for the summer, going to Arches National Park for presidents day, living in Orem, and shopping at macey's ;)

7 - Seven of your favorite hobbies: scrapbooking, taking pictures, hosting friend and family get togethers, camping, hiking, watching TLC, and making decorative crafts.

8 - Five favorite foods: Lasagna with garlic bread, oreos, Alice Spring Chicken at Outback, brownies, and a BBQ chicken salad at Rumi's

9- Five places you've been: Disneyland, Hawaii, England/ France, Virgin Islands, and China.

10- Five favorite memories:I have a lot of fun memories but I'll just name a few broad areas. Getting married, elementary school, my senior year in high school, going to cedar city for a year at SUU, and family trips

I am not sure who has been tagged to answer these questions, so if you haven't and you would like to, feel free to answer the above questions?

2008-02-19T21:54:00.000-08:00

I was recently tagged by my sister-in-law Jenny, and I am supposed to list all of the items that are currently in my purse. This could get scarry! Here I go.

1. One dried up wet nap
2. Library reciept of books checked out.
3. Rough draft of Valentine Poem I wrote for Kory.
4. Three hair elastics
5. Seventeen bobby pins (Thats were they all went)
6. Two Chapsticks, and Three Lip Glosses
7. Five pens and one mechanical pencil
8. Ripped up voided check
9. Chinese coin purse
10. One whole comb, and one broken comb
11. One stale and shattered piece of Winterfresh Gum.
12. Two wrappers with old chewed up gum.
13. Fingernail Clippers
14. Wallet ( Credit and Debit cards, Receipts, Library Card, Expired Drivers License, Current Drivers License, and two expired temporary drivers permits, a little cash, UVSC ID card, etc.)
15. Check stub from Home Depot.
16. Cell Phone

WOW! That was really good to finally clean out my purse!

I am going to tag Michelle Watkins Smith, Jill Jackson, and Ashley Sorenson.

2008-02-08T12:01:00.000-08:00

My sister-in-law Jenny tagged me on her blog. I am suppose to list 6 habits and then tag 4 more people. I am having a hard time figuring out my habits so I am going to list some weird things about me and maybe I'll think of a habit or two as I go.

1. So you know in musicals like "Hairspray" and how throughout the movie the actors break our in song and dance? Well, I have always thought it would be so fun if that actually happened in real life. I would love to be walking along and break out in song and have everyone around me just happen to know that song and dance that went along with it and join in with me

2. I have a bad habit of creating scrapbook pages and never journaling on them. I don't like my hand writing so I tell myself that I will just type up what I want to write and print it out. Well, that rarely happens and so about 50% of my scrapbook pages do not have writing. I am really going to work hard on correcting this habit!

3. This shouldn't bother me but it does. I don't know why but I get annoyed by people who are so worried about getting assignments done super far in advace. It's a good thing to not wait until the last minute to get things done, but to worry about them way before it even matters just is weird and annoying to me. ( sorry if i offended anyone)

4. Okay, so I am super fascinated with outter space. Since I was little I have always wanted to be an astronaut. So far I have not made it to space, but I have recently discovered that the stars and planets actually make sounds. The sun and stars pulsate like a heart and make beating sounds and the planets make constant sounds made by natually sound frequencies. It's confusing to explain, but very interesting. (go to NASA's website to find out more!)

5. Whenever I get excited I do a little jig without even knowing it. Kory told me about this...that's how I know i do it.

6. I have a bad habit of loosing my chapstick. There was a certain period of time in high school when i was loosing my chaptick all the time. I kept buying new chapstick over an over again and loosing it. One day before church I was trying to find some chapstick to take with me. I couldn't find any, but while I was at chuch I felt like organizing my scripture case. Guess what I discovered? I found (honestly) at least 7 chapsticks in my scripture case. I felt like such a dork.

2008-01-30T16:26:00.000-08:00

Well, It has almost been a month since our last post so I thought I would get typing. Well, Kory and I haven't done anything super exciting lately but we have been training for the Canyonlands half marathon on March 8. Neither of us are runners, but we thought we would try something new and get some exercise while we are at it. We are running about every other day at the Orem rec center. The past few times we have gone running the sides of my knees and the bottoms of my hips have been hurting sooo bad. I finally decided to slip on my protective eye goggles and do some research! After looking at countless leg diagrams and reading several medical journals, I have come to discover that I have Iliotibial Band Syndrome. This band runs from your hip abductor to the top of your tibia. Every article I have read said to stop running for at least 4 to 6 weeks to allow them to heal. Since the marathon is going to take place in just over a month, I don't think that is going to be an option. Oh well! If I end up walking the whole thing it will still be fun anyway! We are actually running it with my brother and sister-in-law so it will just be a fun memory making experience if not anything else. Wait a minute....did I just say FUN memory making experience? It might just turn into a painful memory making experience instead:) Either way I am looking forward to the whole experience. ( If any of you know about IBS or how to cure it fast, just let me know!)

Christmas in Virginia (part 2)

2008-01-01T21:18:00.000-08:00

This is one of the main buildings at Southern Virginia University. Isn't it beautiful!(above...not the temple below :)

The Washington D.C. temple is so pretty to see at night. We didn't know before going, but the temple grounds are covered in Christmas lights just like temple square.

We spent New Year's eve day in Washington D.C. visiting all the sites. We had a lot of fun. My favorite part was going to the Air and Space Museum. (I have always wanted to be an astronaut !)

We had a lot of fun spending time with Kory's family this holiday season. We were lucky to be able to ALL meet in Virginia and spend so much memory making time together! We were there for Casey's basketball games, Kristen's birthday party, Jaymes's homecoming talk and Christmas.

Christmas in Virginia

2008-01-01T19:05:00.000-08:00

Our 10 day Christmas adventure in Virginia all started when we left with Kory's brother Bub, his wife Danielle, and their little girl Hailey to Las Vegas to catch our flight. After a 6 hour drive to Vegas, and a 4 hour delay, we were on our way to Michigan. Because of our delay in Las Vegas, we missed our connecting flight in Michigan. After waiting another four hours in the airport, we were able to get stand by tickets on a flight headed to Maryland. Once we got to Maryland Kory's dad picked us up and be were finally on our way to Buena Vista, Virginia. At this point I thought our traveling was finally over. Boy was I wrong. We still has 3 hours of driving to go. By the time we got there we had traveled for 24 hours.

Reunited at last!

We couldn't all get together and not have some family pictures taken!

On Christmas Eve we went to the local ice cream shop and met up with Santa Claus. Luckily he had just enough time to let us sit on his lap before he had to leave!

These are some of our cute nieces and nephews! Jaden, Hailey, Max, and Alissa

Every year on Christmas Eve the Longenecker family acts out the nativity story. This year I got to help with the directing and Kory got to be the photographer! This kids all did a great job acting out their parts!

Santa Came!

We gave to Jenny and Alan this Year

Turkey Day

2007-11-30T07:18:00.001-08:00

This year we celebrated Thanksgiving a bit different than usual. My parents have a time share in Park City so we used our "share of time" over Thanksgiving week. We had a lot of fun...it's too bad there was no snow!

Happy Turkey Day! It was a great day for us, but not so great for the turkey :(

Thanks Mom and Dad for the great dinner!

This is our niece Savannah, she discovered the fun of olives!!!

Kory is really good at making new friends...
he even like to make friends with the hardest ones to get along with.

We invited some friends up to spend the night. We went out to dinner then headed to the hot tub for a quick dip. Little did we know the hot tub closed five minutes after we got there. The security gaurd came and kicked us out. We were pretty disappointed until we came up with the great idea of going back to the condo and smashing all six of us into a two man jacuzzi. Let's just say it was the best human puzzle ever made!

"A rub a dub just a splashin' in the tub, thinkin' everything was alright!"

As soon as we got home from Park City our tree was up and decorated. We had a lot of fun decorating our house and listening to Christmas music.

Good thing Kory is taller than me!

I love Christmas!! I can't wait.

This year we are going to Virginia to spend Christmas with Kory's family. His whole family is going to fly in to be there. Bub and Danielle from Logan, Ryan and Bethany from Las Vegas, Jenny and Alan from Florida, and Jaymes just got home yesterday form his mission in Oklahoma. The Longenecker family hasn't all been together since Kory's mission fairwell, more than 4 years ago. It's going be to be quite the reunion. We are really looking forward to it!

Check out my Slide Show!

2007-11-17T15:38:00.001-08:00

2007-11-03T16:32:00.000-07:00

Happy Halloween

Kory and I dressed up as Toy Story Characters this year for Halloween! As you can see Kory was Mrs Potato Head and I went as Little Bo Peep. We ended up winning best overall costume!Rock on!

Dwight and Angela... i guess they're on the Office...?

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles...Ninja Power!

We played a game to see which husband could wrap their wife in one roll of toilet paper the fastest and if you know anything about my husband you know that he is very competative. So without saying anything more, we won with flying colors

I got a little carried away with the toilet paper again!

Jake and Bryton, what are you doing? :)

Eat, Eat, Eat, Eat, Eat!

This year we carved pumpkins in Herriman with the Dansie side. I carved a haunted house and Kory carved a bat.

"Flip That House"

2007-10-06T18:43:00.000-07:00

Lately Kory and I have been watching a show called, "Flip that house." This show is on TLC and is basically filming people who buy old ugly houses and remodel them to"flip" them for a profit. The reason I mention this show is because it inspired us to flip a house. Okay, so we couldn't actually afford to buy and flip a house, so we thought we would it would be fun to redo our second bedroom instead. I wanted to have one reddish maroon wall and Kory wanted to paint the other walls a light grayish color. We headed down to our local home depot and bought our paint. Our "Hiking Trial" paint which we thought looked gray, actually turned out looking very purple on the walls. We gave it a day to dry hoping it would look more gray as time went on....24 hours later we invited some friends over to tell us what color they thought the walls looked. Without saying a word about the color being gray or purple we asked them what they thought. Two friends said it looked purple and another called it lavender. Disappointed with the color, we decided to buy some new paint and repaint the three walls again. We chose a tanish color and kept the maroon paint for the forth wall. After another day of painting we were finally finished and this time is wasn't purple!

Purple

Purple

Not So Purple

Despite our experience with crazy purple paint, we are very pleased with our final results and hope to one day really "flip" a house.

Happy 23rd Birhday Kory!

2007-10-06T17:53:00.000-07:00

Well, it's been over 2 months since by last post and I'm sure you guys are sick of checking my blog to find the same ol same ol. Since my last post a lot has happened, but I'll just go over the basics. As most of you know by now, Kory and I are back in Utah. Kory had a successful summer and plans on managing next summer. We are both back in school going to UVSC. I am in the education program and have two years left. As for Kory, he also has two year to go in business and finance.

Kory had his 23rd birthday on September 3rd which also happened to be labor day. We had a birthday BBQ for him and Mike Woodward at a Park in orem. It was a lot of fun having so many of Kory's best friends together at one time!

I have to let you guys know that this BBQ grill is Kory's pride and Joy!(Besides me that is!) He talks to it as if it were a little baby:) Don't tell him I told though!

Happy 1st Anniversary !

2007-08-03T19:15:00.000-07:00

Can you believe it? Kory and I have been married for over a year! For our first anniversary, we went and stayed a few nights at a nice hotel in Boulder. We spent the day at Rockie Mountain National Park which was very scenic. We hiked to Aspen falls where we took some fun pictures and managed to carve our initials into an aspen tree. I feel just a tad bit bad about carving into a tree, but it's something i have always wanted to do. So...if you are ever in Rockie Mountain National Park look for our initials!

The next day we went shopping on Pearl Street which is pretty much where everything a hippy would want and more is :) You will also find one of the coolest candy shops ever. Later that afternoon we headed up boulder canyon and found another awesome waterfall to hike to.

Colorado Rockies Game

2007-08-03T19:00:00.000-07:00

Stone security was nice enough to take all of their sells men and their wives to a Colorado Rockies Baseball Game. We had a lot of fun and the Rockies even pulled out a win for us!

E.S.P Annual Vacation

2007-07-19T22:58:00.000-07:00

Before coming out to Denver we came up with this great idea to go on an annual vaction with our friends. This was our first year and it was a blast. We all met up at the Green River for a rafting trip. The rapids were pretty scary and we almost lost Kory, but luckily he had his life preserver on! he he :) We also went to goblin valley where we played some hide an seek and hiked around. We all had alot of fun and hope to recruit more of our friends next year!

Presenting Kory and Marianne Longenecker

2007-07-19T22:32:00.000-07:00

We are currently living in Denver Colorado. Kory is working for Stone Security selling ADT systems. He is doing very well so far. His goal for the summer is to sell 100 systems and by the looks of things....he will reach it :) As for me, well, I am working at The Home Depot where I have made some fun, but intresting new friends!