Monday, July 27, 2009

What Happens in Provo...

First off, happy birthday again mom! We loved seeing you on your birthday and having a great dinner with you! We love you :)

We have officially been married for almost 7 months now which is so crazy!! Since this is our scrapbook I thought I would write some of our favorite things to do in Provo...the land of the cougars and home of the Mellors.
While on our honeymoon, Brett brought the first season of Lost. It has been one of our personal favorites and we recommend it highly...although the last season looked a lil weird...but the first 5 seasons are excellent. We also love to watch Seinfeld, Friends, the Office, a random chick flick (thankfully I married a man that will sit through those with me :)), Batman, Fletch, or an Indiana Jones hit here and there.
We try and make our weekends as fun as possible cause the week isn't too exciting. Brett works full time for a professor doing research and he starts his Masters program in August. He is so smart and he's working so hard. I'm so proud of him.
I have random work all over the place. I clean windows, wax peoples faces, do chemical peels on lots of different clients, make wall art, and lots of other random things. It has been crazy, but good. I wish the economy was better but we're making it work!
We are members of the BYU 44th ward which is a fun, funny, interesting place to live. The wards are set up by quads. Our building is building 5C of the 5A-5D set at Wymount Terrace. All of 5 is our ward. I'm the primary 2nd counselor and we have 2 primary children...Joy and Grace. Joy is a Joy! And Grace...is not so full of grace. They are both very fun though. Our nursery is alot larger, I would guess about 10-15 depending on the week. Every semester is a new adventure. People move in and out so much that there is a new member meeting every sunday in the bishops office after sacrament meeting. "Good News Minute" always gives me a little bit of laugh under my breathe with so many girls announcing their pregnancies or what sex their baby is going to be. I won't be at that point for a long time! You know you're in a young, married, BYU ward when "Good News Minute" is full of those. ;) Brett is in charge of the temple outtings. He sets up the temple visits for the ward each month and sometimes comes in primary and helps with the piano playing. I love that he can play the piano :).
As far as food goes, I am an okay cook. I can follow a recipe but I can never seem to want to eat it when it is done. It is so weird!! Does anyone else have this disease?!? I wish I wanted to eat it but I usually result in getting a bowl and a bag of Cheerios for dinner. Hopefully I'll get better and someday cook like my mom and Claire!
At night we go for walks alot around Wymount, up to the temple, or ride our bikes to the park. We love to get out of the apartment. We also love to play Scrabble, tetris, bomberman and love to play Rook with my family. Settlers of Catan comes out sometimes...but only when we're with family or guests and Brett always wins!
We're so excited to go to Spain next week! We're going to visit Bob, Claire, and Katie out in Spain next week on the 5th of August. We're so excited to come!!
Well...maybe we're boring but I can't think of much else to say. Thanks for readin!

Monday, July 20, 2009

Seven Peaks



And after Free Fall...




Today Josh, Trevor, Brett, and I went to Seven Peaks and it was a blast!! Josh and Trev came down last night and slept over and today we went to the park. We went on about every ride there and some were pretty intense! For those that have been they know how scary some of them are and Trevor did all the ones we did. He's so tough! We just played around and had a great day. Thanks for coming guys!

Friday Night Camping


Gorgeous Provo Canyon!


A candid camping photo...


The beautiful Krista and her husband the BYU football player Nick!


Us! Yes...us in camping chairs...

Last Friday we were invited by our friends Nick and Krista Alletto to go camping and we were so excited! We went up Provo Canyon and it was so gorgeous! The weather was quite a bit cooler up there which was very nice. We got up there around eight after having a little bit of trouble finding where they had staked out. It was fun to just eat dinner, talk, tell stories around the campfire, and ,of course, make S'mores. It was great to get to know them better and have a great time with our friends!

Saturday, July 11, 2009

New Carpet Too!

Getting new carpet required almost all we owned to be put in
the kitchen and Brett's closet. It was intense!!

In the end it was worth it to have our apartment totally torn apart
because we now have new carpet without any stains!!
Plus it smells better too! Ha ha... :) yea!!


FHE July 6




For family night this week we went up Provo Canyon and had fun at the river. It was a blast! Cold, cold water but fun!

Monday, July 6, 2009

Happy Birthday America!




The Fireworks Crew....Josh, Trev, and Brett

My hot husband... :)


This year's fourth of July was so fantastic!! On Friday Brett and I drove up to Brett's home and hung out with Matt and Laura. We had dinner, played some games that didn't quite make sense, and watched some Brittish Office episodes. It was so fun to be with them! We slept there Friday night and on Saturday we went to the Layton parade. Brett played in the parade as part of the Layton Performance Ensemble with some friends from Drumline in High School. My family, which included my mom, dad, Josh, Trevor, Deven and Andrea, went to watch him. Layton sure is an interesting town. There were things there that you would never see at a Kaysville parade ha ha. Brett came past near the end of the parade and they were so awesome!! Brett was the main leader and so he had them play a song where they all run into the crowd. Brett ran up to me and tapped his lips with his stick and I kissed him. It was so cute!!! :) Oh, I love him so much. My family was shocked that he did that as was I but I loved it. We watched them march off and left a little after.

Later that afternoon we all went to see the new Disney Pixar movie UP. Best...movie...ever!! It is one of my new absolute favorite movies. Within the first five minutes I cried. It was one of the most touching, moving, inspiring, uplifting movies I have seen in a long time. I recommend it!!! After the wonderful movie we grabbed some dinner at one of my families favorite places Corbins. Brett and I hadn't been there since our wedding dinner and it was a great memory to go back.

That night for the 4th party it was sad to hear that Lagoon wasn't going to set off any fireworks. Sad. I have watched them almost every 4th of July my WHOLE life. We watched the Oakridge ones but it just wasn't the same nor as good. Josh, Trevor and Brett were our firework Piros and put on a good show for us in our backyard too. Overall though it was a fantastic fourth of July!! Hope everyone else had a great time as well :).