Real Salt Lake

Tyler works at Xango and Xango sponsers Real Salt Lake.  At the end of April, Tyler (and some of his coworkers) scored some free tickets to a soccer game.  We all sat in the front row!  It was totally awesome and they won!  It was a lot of fun chillin with just Tyler and no kiddos. 
Here are some pictures.

                         We've been to a couple games and                 See... front row!
                          this band is always playing in the
                        stands.  What crazy fans!... But they
                      totally make the game more enjoyable

Hey... remember us??

It's been a while since we last posted.  Yep we're still alive! 
I got a virus on my laptop and haven't been able to do much online  (I just used Tyler's work laptop every now and then).  There's a lot I want to document on here, though, to catch up on things.  I'll get down to business sooner or later.

I've been reminiscing lately because it was around this time of year (7 years ago) that Tyler and I met.  Here are some pictures of us through the (early) years...

Now how did she ↓  ...                                                        

                                                        ... score him ↑?

 

 

Catching Up

Not sure when blogger changed their format (since we didn't have internet for so long), but it's tripping me out.  Change is fun though. 
Still no pictures of our house.  I know, I know.... I'll get on that.  It's been a little busy here.

Some going-ons:

-Tyler and I celebrated our 5th Anniversary in June.  It's flown by and has been an AWESOME 5 years.  I wish I took more pictures of the weekend, but this is what we did.
*Tyler took off Friday and we took Danica to the Discovery Museum at the Gateway.  She loved it!  (lots of pics below)  *We then spent about $30 on chocolate at the Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory.  So worth it.  (I just finished the last of it yesterday).  *Dani ran around at the splash pad at the Gateway, had a blast, and got soaking wet  *We then met with Tyler's Aunt Ann for lunch.  She's Elder Bruce D. Porter's secretary so we ate at the Nauvoo Cafe and took our food outside.  Showing Dani the Salt Lake Temple and eating lunch in view of it was really neat.  *We finished the day off with a little bit of shopping in American Fork

-Saturday we dropped Dani off at Brent and Marie's place (thanks again guys!!) and headed up to the Hale Center Theater in West Valley.  Tyler bought us tickets to the musical Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.  It was SUUUUPPPPPER good!  We were cracking up.  And it was awesome to see a couple people  I know (Dave Tinney and Debra Weed) performing that night. *We then ate dinner at Olive Garden... and, let me tell you, I am pregnant... If I wasn't really sure before, I am now.  So....We originally went to Chili's because Tyler was hankering for a burger and I was craving pasta.  We thought their menu was diverse enough to have both.  Well they don't have pasta and my pregnant belly was set on pasta.  I started crying right there in the restaurant.  I felt so stupid, but I couldn't stop crying.  Tyler felt bad and suggested we go to Olive Garden.  I felt bad for making him feel bad and cried some more.  Frustrated I was crying over this, I let out a grunt/sigh thing.  It was louder than I meant it to be.  Oops.  We just started laughing.  Well my laugh made my crying worse.  It turned into some weird... sob...thing...  When our waitor came back Tyler told him we were going to go somewhere else.  I just stared at my lap and then the floor as we walked out.  I did see the people in the booth right next to us just staring at us as we walked out.  They had probably been staring at our table since that stuffed-up pig noise came out of me.

-Another fun thing happened on our anniversary.  Most of you probably know there are traditional gifts you can give that correspond to each anniversary year.  Since we didn't have the internet, my sister Eileen found the gift for a 5th anniversary is wood.  Well, I think she actually may have been mistaken on a couple of those letters.  No, the gift is not "wood," in fact, it's "poop."  That's the gift Dani gave me anyway.  I was ready to toss some cookies when someone woke up from their nap and started playing with their poop!  I came in to find her wiping it on her clothes, blankets, crib, legs, and arms!  I got her out, wiped her down, and asked her what she was doing with her poop.  Her response was "beans."  BEANS??  Sick!  I sure hope she wasn't eating it!  She must have noticed the look on my face because she chuckled as she said, "Nooooo.... clothes."  So I asked her if she was wiping it on her clothes and she said yes.  So sick.  It was definitely time for a bath and more laundry.  Oh, and Dani got a bath too. :) Happy Anniversary.

And in more recent news,
*Tyler and I both got callings.  Tyler was called as the Elders Quorum Secretary and I was called as the RS Meetings Coordinator.
*I am 20 weeks pregnant today.  Half way there!  We find out the gender on Monday!  I'll be sure to take a belly pic soon.  I was so good with taking belly pics with Dani... not so much this time.  I'm also a lot bigger this time around than I was with Danica.... I guess that's sort of to be expected... that's what I tell myself.
*Dani will be 2 years old at the beginning of August!  My how quickly time goes by!  She's learning so many new things each day.

Here are a bunch of pictures of our Sweetie Pie when we took her to the Discovery Museum and the splash pad at the Gateway

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How we met....

I thought I'd share the story about how we met.....

SHORT VERSION - We met in our Single's Ward in Provo, UT.

LONGER VERSION -
(names have been changed to protect the innocent...or guilty, depending how you look at it)

Once upon a time (2004) in a strange land called Provo, a boy (Tyler) and a girl (Emily) moved to an apartment complex called Centennial (into two separate apartments, that is).  They began attending the same Single's Ward.  Although the boy had been a home teacher to a couple of the girl's roommates, the boy and the girl somehow didn't meet for almost a year.  (Unless you count the time the girl sat by the boy in Sacrament meeting and said "hi.".... but she doesn't remember that happening, but then again she doesn't remember a lot of things.)

During that year, the boy started dating Hildagard and the girl started reciprocating flirtation behavior with Archibald.  After a while the girl's roommate, Aretha, decided she was interested in Archibald, and the girl decided she wasn't, so she went on an awkward walk with Archibald to tell him that she, the girl, wasn't really interested in anything serious with him.  A little while later the girl started dating Biff.

In the meantime, the boy ditched Hildagard and started dating Bertha.  The girl dumped Biff and finally met the boy....As was mentioned the boy was a home teacher to a couple of the girl's roommates.  After one home teaching visit, while the boy sat chatting with the girl's roommates, the girl came out to do the dishes.  Her roommate Ivana, mentioned that the girl had just broke up with her boyfriend and the boy asked about it.  The girl, probably talking way too much, told much of her break up story.  (what a great first conversation)  The boy said he didn't mind though because, hey it got them together.

A little while later (February 2005) Aretha became interested in the boy so she invited him to choir and game nights.  The boy started coming to things.  Soon the girl and boy took notice of each other and started liking each other.  (Aretha started dating someone else and the boy decided to dump Bertha.)


Somehow, during this time, the girl let slip to Aretha that she might now sort of be interested in Archibald while at the same time liking the boy.  Archibald and the boy started vying for the girl's attention.  Really Archibald was trying to get her to notice him more, while the boy was getting the girl to notice him.  The girl liked survived the attention.  All along she knew she'd pick the boy over Archibald, and finally did (June 2005).

Archibald found out that he had lost when one day he walked into the girl's apartment and saw her holding hands with the boy.  To make things more complicated...shortly thereafter another roommate, Darla, started liking Archibald and Archibald started liking Aretha, now that she was single again.  Confused?...  Much to Archibald's dismay, Aretha wasn't interested in him anymore and Archibald wasn't interested in Darla.  Darla, having lost interest in Archibald started dating her future husband, Herb.

So.... the boy and girl started dating, had lots of fun, got engaged (March 2006), and were married (June 2006)!!  They had a baby girl (August 2009) and are living happily ever after (at least they were happy at the time of this post).

(rolling through the end credits.....)

Darla married Herb and now have a baby girl.

Aretha married Walter and now have a baby boy.

Archibald was recently engaged and seems very happy.

Who cares about Hildagard, Bertha, or Biff?

Dating/Engaged:

 Wedding:

Marriage: 

....Getting to know all about you

I liked the idea on a friend's blog of sharing random things about her and her husband, because well, while a lot of you know one or both of us, there are some things you probably don't really know... unless you're a family member or an old roommate or something.

Today I thought I'd tell you about our pet peeves/things that bug us (in no particular order)...

*Note : Maybe pet peeves weren't the best thing to start off with, when getting to know us. This list is long and makes us sound like really negative people, or like we think we're better than others. But I'm sure (I hope anyway) a lot of you can relate. It was sort of therapeutic to type out and I sort of couldn't stop once I started. :)

Emily - nails on a chalk board or even just chalk.... or thinking about either of them. (Yep just typing this is making me all squeamish. I have to flick my fingers or scratch my legs to make me feel better... strange, I know!)

Both - when people don't use blinkers

Both - when people park bad... and don't fix it.

Both - when drivers do something stupid and are definitely at fault, and then when you honk at them, they honk back at you.

Both - when people don't yield to pedestrians

Both - when drivers ride your tail

Both - when drivers don't pay attention to the lights... especially the left turn light... and make you miss the light

Both - maybe I should have just said bad drivers

Both - overly affectionate couples... especially at church. If this is you, STOP IT (Tyler added that last part)

Tyler - when students take up class asking ridiculous questions

Tyler - when some random guy calls him "dude", "bro", "man", or similar word

Tyler - when someone interrupts your story and finishes your sentence wrong (ok, ok.... maybe I'm the only one who does that to him. I'm working on it!)

Tyler - when people wear too much perfume/cologne

Emily - intentional misspellings in texts, emails, or facebook statuses ("lite" kwik" "R" for are)

Emily - when people have bad sickness etiquette

Tyler - when people leave their shopping carts in the middle of the aisle or randomly stop in your way (you wouldn't drive your car like that, would you?)

Tyler - people who go the wrong way in a parking lot

Both - when someone with a full cart of groceries gets in the "10 items or less" checkout

Emily - when you have an itch on the bottom of your foot, but you can't scratch it because you have shoes on.

Emily - when people say they have a scratch when they should be saying "itch." Right-I have an itch. To make it better I will scratch it. Wrong-I have a scratch. To make it better I will scratch it...

Emily - not clipping you nails over a trash can

Emily - when you pull a string from your shirt and it doesn't break... it just becomes longer

Tyler - skinny/woman's jeans on men

Emily - when people pull their food out of the microwave early and don't clear the timer

Emily - when people don't RSVP

Tyler - guys who wear wifebeaters (and nothing else for a shirt) in public

Tyler - people who use the self checkout lanes and don't know what they're doing so they slow everyone down

Tyler - when people send a text when a call is what is needed

Emily - how commercials are so much louder than TV shows

Emily - not letting things go the first time someone says stop

Tyler - manpris.... when guys wear really long shorts that hit mid calf

Emily - using the toilet paper down to the last few squares without getting a new roll

Tyler - when commission based employees won't back off (really any employee won't leave me alone. If I need help I'll ask)

Emily - when people say "you and I" when it should be "you and me"

Both - people trying to enter the elevator when the people inside haven't left yet

Emily - people who try to talk to you when you're going to the bathroom

Tyler - girls wearing their pjs to the store or school. Is life so busy you can't put on real pants?

Memories

Christmastime always gets me thinking of tons of fun memories from my childhood and with my family.
After seeing my friend's post I thought it'd be great to follow suit and post this:
 
Answer about Emily, or Tyler, or Danica, or all 3 of us:

1. As a comment on my blog, leave one memory that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you knew me a little or a lot, anything you remember!

2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. It's actually pretty funny to see the responses. If you leave a memory about me, I'll assume you're playing the game and I'll come to your blog and leave one about you. If you don't want to play on your blog, or if you don't have a blog, I'll leave my memory of you in my comments.