Monterey, California July 27 2008

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!

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

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!"

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!