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wedding and a baby...

2012-01-15T22:08:00.000-07:00

well, not quite a baby yet...but only a few more weeks to go!!

My older brother Andy and and his new wife Bethany got married last week and we are so happy for them! As for the bride-not only do we share the same name, we also studied abroad together in London years ago...

...and I am so excited for her to join our family! They make a darling couple and we loved celebrating with them on their big day!

christmas weekend!

2012-01-03T23:04:00.000-07:00

If I had to pick one word that described our Christmas this year, it would have to be. . . . .. Ping-Pong.

Not just because we always play it on Christmas eve at Jake's grandmas house, but because we went back and forth between my family and Jake's family like a ping pong ball. Our "weekend schedule" sent us back and forth between parties and it was great! We finally got around to opening our own gifts to each other late Christmas night. It will be hard to top this memorable Christmas-next year better watch out!

happy holidays!

2011-12-25T17:47:00.000-07:00

babymoon

2011-12-04T21:43:00.000-07:00

Jake and I decided that we needed one last trip before our bundle of joy makes his appearance in March. My two qualifications for the trip was that it would not be a long flight (bad ears+no meds=no bueno) and it needed to be a place where I could relax...so for our "babymoon" Jake and I decided to vacation in beautiful San Diego. The weather was perfect! We hung out at the beach, relaxed at the resort, and even went to a NFL game.

For the game, Jake bought himself a San Diego Chargers shirt and an Oakland Raiders shirt for me. "Raider nation" turned out to be quite a rowdy crowd but we had a lot of fun cheering for both teams until the game was over and we walked back to our rental car which had been towed....

When we first found out we were prego, I decided that we would not find out the sex of the baby until birth and make it a surprise! Sounds fun right?!? Jake was not too fond of this idea however...so after months of debating/compromising the date of our ultrasound came. We had our doctor put our big news in an envelope and we decided to open it on christmas. Well, having that envelope laying around for weeks was very tempting for the man of the house so being the nice wife, I brought the envelope with us on our trip where we opened it at coronado beach!

preparing for christmas

2011-12-01T23:40:00.002-07:00

This past week we set up for our first christmas in our home. Bringing up the tree from the basement was the easy part... hanging christmas lights on the house proved to be slightly more difficult than the twenty minute activity we thought it would be. After 4 hours and 5 trips to home depot, our home was lit and ready for the season!!

happy december!

in case you haven't heard...

2011-11-22T22:48:00.000-07:00

Yeah, it's been awhile. I could say that my absence has because we've been busy with our jobs and life, or that our busy summer lead into an even more exciting fall...and well all of that IS true, but usually such business would be a good reason to blog. The truth is the little guy pictured above has been absorbing every last bit of energy I possess, and I couldn't be more thrilled about it!

Here is picture taken a week or so ago. We are currently 24 weeks along. We feel SO blessed to be pregnant!

3 cheers for us

2011-08-14T21:22:00.000-06:00

Prince Albert said to Queen Victoria: "You're the only wife I've got or ever will have. You are my whole existence, and I will love you until my very last breath."

Today is our 3rd wedding anniversary.

The past three years married to this man have honestly been the best years of my life.

I love this man more and more everyday....

it's almost scary to even think we were "in love" when we got married, because compared to what we have now-that was just silly talk.

sprinkling system

2011-07-16T17:07:00.007-06:00

When I think of summer, I think of sprinklers. I have a lot of good memories that involve sprinklers. When I was little kid my friends and I made up creative games to avoid the water, or be the quickest to get through it, or stand in the stream of water the longest. I used to think it was magic water sprouting from the ground. As I grew older and hung out with the neighborhood gang, I always had an encounter with the sprinklers late at night as I tried to run home. I knew the exact timing and route I had to take from our back gate to the door as to avoid getting wet.
This summer however, the term "sprinkler" has taken on a new meaning...

As you can see, I've learned that sprinklers are not magic, but instead a lot of hard work.

So in celebration of sprinklers everywhere, I hope you all find a sprinkler to run through on this hot July weekend!

we like fireworks during the day too!

2011-07-15T12:50:00.000-06:00

jackson hole

2011-07-09T11:05:00.000-06:00

road trip pictures part 2...

yellowstone

2011-07-06T19:33:00.001-06:00

road trip pictures part 1

looks like old faithful is still pretty faithful, even if she is smaller than we remembered...

*we get giddy about geysers*

(and clearly my jump is way better)

road trip

2011-07-05T13:11:00.000-06:00

Husband and I just got a new car...so we decided to take a road trip, and cruised up to Yellowstone and Jackson Hole. It was a quick trip that consisted almost entirely of driving, but it was way fun! As for our new car...it is a Kia Soul-also known as the Hamster car. Jake talked me into getting one because it is bigger than a car but still gets awesome gas mileage. I love it!

fourth of july

2011-07-04T23:15:00.000-06:00

Happy 4th of July! We had a great day celebrating america.

We slept in late,

made waffles,

went to a movie,

BBQ'd with friends and family,

and topped it all off with fireworks!

god bless america.

strawberry picking

2011-06-28T18:47:00.000-06:00

We hand-picked the strawberries from the strawberry patch, added a little of this and a lot sugar, and our results were perfect- a homemade strawberry jam that tastes like summer.

75 days of building our house

2011-06-27T00:13:00.000-06:00

Six months ago TODAY we moved into our house. It feels like yesterday.
I've been waiting a long time to post about our house because I wanted to wait until everything was finished, but I finally realized today that even if I waited 6 years, our house would still not be ready for show. oh well.

The building process was new for us, and we both learned a ton. We are so grateful for this lucky opportunity.

We love being back in Lindon!

rodeo time

2011-06-16T17:42:00.000-06:00

We have always loved the strawberry days rodeo! This year, Jake's work decided to make a team to compete in the 'wild cow milking' competition, and they got first place! No major injuries reported, but they get to go again on Saturday with the finalists. To say I'm worried would be an understatement-Luckily I have prayers and strawberries & cream to help keep me from freaking out...

yes, those ARE Jake's boots in the air...

back in bermuda

2011-06-12T21:58:00.001-06:00

Just over a year ago we had the chance to go to Bermuda, and absolutely fell in love with the island. Since returning home, we have bragged about the beauty of Bermuda to many people we know. It was our favorite place and we only hoped that someday we would have the opportunity to go back. We figured that opportunity would come when we were MUCH older, but this past week the stars somehow aligned and we returned to our beloved place! We rented scooters and rode the entire island on the wrong side of the rode. We visited our favorite beaches we found last time, and discovered a few new favorites. Bermuda is OUR place. We hope we make it back again someday.

15 seconds of fame

2011-06-06T22:00:00.002-06:00

We weren't planning on a trip into manhattan when we bought our new york airfare,

but 15 stops later on the subway we found ourselves in times square,

After shopping and walking we glanced up and what did we see?

some very familiar faces on a rather large big screen tv!

(even if it was a short trip to new york, we had to make time for the metropolitan museum of art)

a favorite pastime

2011-05-25T21:44:00.000-06:00

Last fall when Jake had his knee surgery, and we were confined to the bed or couch, we stumbled upon a great discovery....The discovery was that Jake and I read at exactly the same speed. Because of this finding we are able to snuggle up and read books together. It makes our pillow talk/book club amusing as we analyze what we are reading as we fall asleep. In the last couple of months we have read the following books, and we recomomend all of them!

thanks mom for passing along the fun reads...

not so scary goblins...

2011-05-15T22:00:00.001-06:00

This weekend we took off on Thursday and went to Goblin Valley with our good friends Trevor and Melissa. They are some of our best friends and are moving to the windy state later this month, so we decided we needed to go camping as one last hoorah!

We had such a great time! Some of the highlights from our trip include:

an incredible camping spot, 9 mile hike through the saweet slot canyons of little wild horse,

mountain man breakfast, tinfoil dinners, smores & bannana boats, shooting competitions,

and lots and lots of not so scary goblins.

cinco de mayo

2011-05-05T22:56:00.000-06:00

5 traditions we celebrate on the cinco de mayo:

1.      The husband will ONLY speak Spanish to me all day (including texts)…until I go muy loco.
2.      I get to sign a paper saying that “I will be fluent by the next cinco de mayo”…this is the year, I just know it.
3.      We share a yummy dessert called “never on sunday” from the pizza factory in lindon. Yes, we know this tradition is not very festive, but for some reason we started it when we were dating and you can't break a tradition, right?
4.      We drive up to our favorite look-out point up the mountain and listen to spanish music while we talk about life and how fun our summer is going to be.
5. We make a homemade pinata with goodies inside-jake made ours this year and he did an exceptional job!

Me gusta el cinco de mayo.

love birds

2011-05-02T12:00:00.003-06:00

Dear Love Birds,

I am happy that spring has finally sprung. I love that the flowers are starting to bloom. I love smelling the fresh air, and I love the fact than I can start wearing flip flops again without getting weird looks. I know that you sweet love birds like spring too. We love listening to your chirping every morning as we leave for work. We’ve obviously enjoyed your chirping so much that we failed to recognize where you two wanted to start your little birdie family until the other day, when we caught you flying into our BBQ…hmmm so we opened the lid and sure enough we found your humble abode. We have decided to let you stay-consider it our gift to you…but be warned little birdies, come next spring, we are charging rent.

-xoxo

ps. Since you are living in our BBQ, we are currently counting you as food storage. If we happen to have a natural disaster, we won’t hesitate to fire up the grill…

a royal celebration

2011-04-30T00:07:00.000-06:00

...we may not have been in the "official" wedding party, but we partied like we were...and it was brilliant!

coming out of hibernation

2011-04-26T15:41:00.023-06:00

I guess it is finally warm enough to come out of my cave. Oh wait, did I say warm? Yeah, pretty sure this morning I woke up to a blizzard...oh well, I'm sick of hibernating...

So what's been going on in the Hoyt Household as of late?

Well, in January & February we worked on decorating our house, saw way too many movies, and read lots of books together-

In March all we could think about was Youth Conference, Youth Conference Youth Conference... in our callings we get to work with the youth but we got an extra calling last December to be completely in charge of YC-holy smokes-so much work, but it turned out to be so rewarding!

...and this month we took a trip to Disneyland, and had a wonderful Easter!

Bring in on Spring-we are ready to rock and roll!

a few things worth blogging about

2010-12-21T12:47:00.002-07:00

Jake and I have been busy lately, but we are LOVING this holiday season. Here are a few things that we have been up to...

1. Jake had his knee surgery over a month ago and his recovery has been well...memorable. The surgery and recovery has been a lot longer than we anticipated, but no worries because Jake has learned to have fun with his injury... For example, Jake used his 'cane' to cast spells at me on a regular basis (he believes that his cane resembles the elder wand-maybe you harry potter fans can agree)- He also thoroughly enjoyed using the scooter at walmart & home depot on multiple occasions. Anyway, he is currently going to physical therapy every other day and I am just grateful to have a walking husband again!

2. Last night we returned home from a delightful vacation. For Christmas Jake's parents took the whole family on a week cruise to the western Caribbean where we were able to visit Honduras, Belize, Mexico, and the Cayman Islands. We had a blast and we loved creating some fun family memories! The weather was perfect and having a tan in December is not to shabby. Thank you so much Randy & Susan!

3. Our house is finished!!!! It has been a fun and semi-stressful process to watch it go up. We have learned so much during the building of it and we feel so blessed for the way things have turned out. We are so excited to move in this week!

4. This last week Jake took his FINAL final making him done with his undergrad! Hooray! I am excited to spend more time with that handsome hubby of mine! I am so proud of him working full time and going to school full time. He is AMAZING, I don't know how I got so lucky! With that being said, we are now ready for some serious christmasing! Merry Christmas!