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We got back last week from spending a week in Park City. Although some people may think PC is the best in the winter, there is nothing like summer time in Park City, you just can't beat it.

Green lush mountains.

Perfect warm temperatures.

Alpine sliding.

Summer sales at the outlets.

Main Street.

It's theee best!

All but a handful of my dad's side of the family was there, pretty impressive since we are spread out all across the world. From Japan to Germany, the Caribbean to Boston, Alabama, Georgia, Virginia and Salt Lake, we had an impressive attendance.

The planners were sure on top of it, cause all week we were going strong. We started out with a family picture at a studio in Provo, and luckily it was right next to Swig, so we had to stop. After that we headed up to the Park City Marriot.

We had an awesome scavenger hunt, that included getting ice cream and Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory.

 Java Cow for the win!

 We almost won the Scavenger hunt, took 2nd place, not too shabby.

Each night we had "Heritage Night" where each of my uncles would take some time and spotlight one of our ancestors. Although sometimes they dragged on, I learned a lot of cool facts about my ancestors. They lived great lives, were so dedicated to the gospel, just awesome people and wanted the same for their posterity. I know they are cheering for me on the other side for sure.

Had so much fun playing minute to win it games. And yes my team did win. Go Dream Team!

 Got our family hats.

The Park City Marriot may just have the best hot tubs around, so much fun!

 Group pic with Spence, me, Michelle, Rob, Doug and Ashley. Took us about 10 shots and this is the best one. Hahaha

 We love the Alpine Slide! So much fun, even though the fast track is closed :(

I dropped about $200 at the Factory outlets(insert embarassed face emoji), but the sales at Jcrew, Gap and Polo were just too good! My mom was a champ and followed me around everywhere, she got some great things too. 

We also went to the Olympic Park to do the zipline, alpine slide and ropes course. I lasted about half the day before I got a really bad stomach flu. My mom drove me back to the condo and I barely made it! It was the absolute worst bug I've had in a long time. My mom and Spence were so sweet. And once Aaron came up after work he sat there with my for a while and watched me just sit there and cry. Luckily I made it through the day. 

It was so fun having my parents in town, we are always sad to see them leave! 

June catch up time

I can't believe June is half way over! June is one of the best months because SUMMER! But it has also been a busy month, so here's a little bit of catching up.

A few weeks ago we went to the Romney vs. Holyfield Charity Vision Fight.

Not because we are rich and go to those sort of things(although I wish that was the case), but because I got tickets through work.

It was an awesome experience, we saw how the super swanky do it.

Yummy food served to us right at our seats.

Black tie.

Aaaaand the boxing was pretty cool to watch as well!

We took a quick evening hiking/fishing trip to Lower Bell. 

I am in love with how green the mountains are. I just want to stare at the mountains all the time since they don't last long!

 I even fished a bit, tied my line, put the lure on and cast.... but no luck.

Maybe next time.

My goal is to catch a fish on my own this summer!

Wedding season is here! I think in the past 2 weeks we have received 4 invites in the mail, with plenty more to come. 

Enjoying blowing bubbles a bit too much at my cousin Rachel's reception at This Is The Place.

My parents have been in town the past week for our Jack Family Reunion (more to come). When they are in town they always go golfing a few times, and Aaron loves it since he doesn't go very often. He's pretty good for a beginner! 

Our sweet niece Emma discovered she had brain cancer early this year. Poor thing has been through a rough surgery and recovery. She was one of the featured kids for the Brain Wave Fundraiser this past Saturday. 

We are glad we live so close so we could attend! We ran the 5k and boy am I out of shape. Aaron was doing a good job coaching me through it. Towards the end I started getting ornery cause I was not having fun and the last thing I wanted to do was push myself.

But I did.

And he did.

And we made it through. 

We continue to go to the Costco food court for lunch frequently.

Recently discovered the Carbonaro Effect- a hidden camera magic show that is hilarious.

Constantly werking in the yard. 

Forgetting to work out. 

Planning for the future.

Aaaaand enjoying summer while we can. 

Costco Pizza & Home Things

Lately I have been la la loving the Costco food court. Aar and I have been at least once a week for lunch this past month. Thank you Costco for being soooo cheap, and for theeee best berry smoothies!

The Sugarhouse Foodtruck League has started. I finally made it and Aar, Spence and Lexi even came along. I love summer nights, the city and food.

 We ended up with Art City Donuts and snow cones(yesss!). Next week we will venture out a bit more.

 Still working on finishing touches on the house like hanging picture frames, always sweeping the wood floors, hanging lights in our patio area and all the usual house things.

Next step is to actually fill the picture frames!

Memorial Weekend 2k15

Our Memorial weekend was stacked! Work has been crazy between traveling to Denver and proposals galore, so it was good to take a step back from work.

Friday night we ended up at Red Robin, and ate way too many french fries... the seasoning and fry sauce is just too good there! We also played a few rounds of mini golf at Fat Cats, we love the cheap mini glow golf at Fat Cats. Also I won in a close match!

 Saturday morning we ran the 5k Stunt Run with Madi and Gavin and their in-laws. It's basically the Wipeout course stretched over 3 miles. Wished we could have done the race in July when it was nice and warm. I was freezing cold between jumping in and out of the water, but still so glad we did it.

Poor Ashley kneed her eye falling down from the zip line, and they saw me shivering too much so I got a foil blanket. Other than that we were fine......

Promise the punch below didn't hurt, and hey I stayed up! I think Madi and I deserve the MVP awards, since we stayed up on all the hardest obstacles. 

We had the Kamas Kabin this weekend, so obvi Aaron had to head up immediately after the race. 

 Spence quickly caught on to fishing.

 And caught his first fish.

Aaron caught a few as well. 

Owen was the happiest little baby, such a trooper. 

 Besides playing UNO, cards, cooking, roasting smores and drinking Diet Coke, we had to grab some ice cream at the "Medicine Store" with some pizza to go along.

 We visited the gigantic Fairy Forest up by Mirror Lake. There were the cutest little rocks painted everywhere.

We finished the weekend watching the Bachelorette and falling asleep on the couch.... solid weekend.

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Spending the night at the Holiday Inn in Denver, soooooo glamorous. 

Quick [or not so quick] work trip, 5:40 am flight out this morning with 11:30 pm landing tomorrow back in good ol' SLC. 

Expensive dinners I could never afford if it wasn't involved with work. 

Backpack full of media proposals.

Emails piling up. 

Sleepiness kicking in.

O N E Y E A R

Aaron and I celebrated our 1st wedding anniversary this past weekend. It's crazy to think we've only been married a year, and known each other for 2 years, seems like we've known each other forever.

We had planned to switch off Valentine's Day and anniversaries, and since Aaron took care of Valentine's it was my turn to plan the anni. But wait..... he wanted to plan the anni too, fine by me!

He booked the Bumbleberry Inn for us Friday night in beautiful Springdale. I entered us into the lottery for Subway permits in Zion NP and we won! We packed all our shorts, water shoes, sunglasses and were good to go. Until it didn't stop raining. And was 40 degrees.

So between our lack of preparedness and rain- which is a no go since flash floods are very dangerous in the canyons in Zion. Instead we took it easy. 

We Slept in.... zzzzzzz

Ate at Wildcat Willies. 

Visited the gift shops. 

Packed on up. 

.....And went for a drive.

 Through the windy roads. 

And inside the tunnel. 

 The rain still hadn't cleared up. 

 So we took lots of photos.

 And some GoPro footage.

 And headed to St. George.

 Where the weather was much better.

 Looked at the view.

And took more pictures. Obviously we aren't that great at kissing pictures. Promise Aaron wasn't in pain.

We went shopping at the outlets and got loads of clothes.

Visited in laws (when you have 20 in-laws on the Pugh side alone, there is ALWAYS someone to visit).

Ate dinner at the Rib and Chop House.

In between all that we made 2 visits to Swiggy Swig Swig in one day. Word of advice- don't have them make you a shake... stick to the basics i.e. drinks and a cookie. I hated the "shake" they made me so Aar was sweet enough to stop by another place to get me some ice cream.

We spent the night at my in-laws so we could celebrate Mother's day with Susanne. Aaron and Lee made us a yummy breakfast in the morning too.

After church we packed our bags up and headed up to Salt Lake.

It's been such a great year, and I think this year can only get better as we are getting settled into our home and getting used to married life.

Here's to year 2!

Forgetful

It's been just one of those weeks. 

Yesterday I did all my makeup and forgot mascara.

Today I got fully dressed, but forgot to put a bra on[insert embarrassed face emoji]. Made it all the way til work and went through some meetings before I could head back home. 

Don't wanna know what I'll forget about tomorrow........

I am so drained after work that I have no motivation to work on and clean the house. 

.... Luckily (or not so luckily) Aaron does, so this week we tore out one of the side garden beds and filled it in with rock. I'm actually glad he made me help. He may not be the best indoor cleaning helper, but he sure is a good yard helper! 

I am counting down the days until the weekend. We are celebrating our 1st anniversary in Zion National Park! I have grown to love Zion. We are spending the weekend at a little hotel in Springdale and I can't wait. 

In the meantime, I want to start taking pictures of Aar and I on the pedestal in front of the temple to mark each year. It took a little convincing, but we did it!

We both went to our first live session which was great. I love the temple. And May 10th is my favorite day ever.