Fantastic weekend!

Wow, what an awesome weekend we had! It was so relaxing and uplifting! Friday night after work, my mom and I went to the temple... so awesome! It was fun to go with her. My dad took Chris and Lili to the cabin for the weekend to shut it down for the winter so my mom was home alone since she was working. Preston had a lot of studying to do Friday night so I invited my mom to go to the temple with me! When I got home from the temple, Preston and I watched a movie when he was finished studying. Saturday we got up and made a big breakfast and watched conference! Wow, conference was amazing. I was able to watch all 4 sessions and loved every one of the speakers... Elder Wirthlin was one of my favorites. He's so sweet and had a great message on laughing more and not taking things so seriously which was good to hear and he had some hilarious stories! Preston went to football practice after the 1st session so, while it was raining outside I cuddled up and watched the 2nd session! I absolutely loved the primary choir... such sweet kids! They sounded so great! I love that Preston and I teach primary. The kids are so adorable and so smart and we learn so much from those kids! We have our primary program coming up and I hope the back two rows in our primary were watching those kids in conference and how it really is possible to sing! haha. We have such sweet kids in our primary! Then Saturday night while Preston stayed up north to go to Priesthood session with his dad, I met up with my sister Heidi and my mom and little baby Cade and we went to Ladies night at Deseret Book! We were one of the first 100 ladies in line and got the cutest door prize! They had awesome deals going on there and it was so fun to go with my sister and mom. After ladies night, we got Cafe Rio!! Yummy! Then we hung out at mom's house for a while! Then Sunday, Preston and I went nowhere... which on Sundays we always go to one of our parents which is always so fun but it was also very nice to hang out at home all day and relax. We made the traditional cinnamon rolls my family always does the Sunday of conference. We watched conference, took naps, I took a bubble bath, read some of my book, did a whole lot of nothing! It was fantastic and so relaxing! And we of course watched football. Conference was again awesome... I can't say that enough! I had such a great time hanging out with Preston all weekend! He's the BEST. I just had to share our awesome weekend! This week is a busy one with 2 birthdays and 2 baby blessings. So my next post will probably have pictures!

8 Thinks from Kalee!

8 things I'm passionate about:
1. Preston
2. Our families
3. The Gospel
4. My testimony
5. Fall time
6. Cooking
7. Holidays
8. working out
8 words/phrases I use often
1. I love you
2. for real?
3. It's all good
5. That's hott... yeah, I don't know why.
6. I know, huh!
7. This is Andrea (at work)
8. I'm hungry
8 things I want to do before I die
1. Travel all of Europe
2. Go on a world cruise (thanks Kalee)
3. Sky Dive
4. Have a big happy, loving family
5. Have my kids stay happy and strong in the gospel and raise their own families in the gospel!
6. Be famous for something... admit it, it'd be cool =)
7. Invent something
8. write a book.. about something.
8 things I've learned in the past
1. My mom is way smarter now than she was when I was in High School, or maybe I'm just more willing to listen... good one Kalee!
2. All the crap you go through in dating just leads you to "The One" and makes everything worth it
3. I will never be good at math (thanks again Kalee)
4. how to become a good cook... thanks mom and dad.
5. Family always comes first.
6. My destiny is to teach primary for the rest of my life haha
7. I love Preston more and more every day
8. You never know the good until you've had the bad. (in some cases)
8 things I currently want/need
1. A new car (Want)
2. Preston to be done with school (want and need lol)
3. To see allll of my friends. Old and new (want and need)
4. To stay in shape through the holidays... (want and need)
5. To go back to Hawaii (NEED)
6. To go to Europe (NEED)
7. To see my baby Cadence... Okay, my sisters baby! (want)
8. Preston to Ace his math test he took last night (need)
8 places I want to see/visit
1. Hawaii again
2. Europe, especially Germany
3. Forks, Washington... haha I agree with Kalee again!
4. Disneyland (going in March yippee!)
5. New York... love that place!
6. Africa... to go on an a safari
7. New Zealand/Austrailia
8. Alaska
8 people I tag
1. Katie
2. Alli
3. Colleen
4. Catherine
5. Kristyn
6. Nichole
7. Vanessa
8. Melyssa
And anybody else who wants to do this.

So Long Summer!

I can't believe summer is over! It went so fast! We did a lot of fun things and we kept super busy! Preston took the summer off school as his last break until he's completely done with school. It was fun to have him around all summer! Now he's back in full swing with school! This summer we did a few little camping trips including one to Bear Lake. We went to Vegas at the beginning of the summer and just got back from our family cabin down in Hatch, Ut. It's a half hour from Bryce canyon and an hour from Zion N.P. We had a blast up there! We also had a couple of family reunions this summer! Now I'm ready for fall. Fall is by far my favorite season. The smell, the colors, the decorations, the holidays. Here are some pictures of our recent activities!

Over Labor Day weekend we went down to the cabin and went into Bryce and Zion and had an awesome time. Preston, dad, Chris and myself hiked Angels Landing to the very top, I did that hike a few years ago and remembering it being soo awesome so I was excited to do it again and have Preston come! It was amazing! My favorite hike I've ever done. Preston and Chris also loved it! You hike up to a cliff and it is 5 miles and about 4 hours round trip. You go through some awesome parts like the "refrigerator" "walters wiggles" And the coolest part of the hike is the spine... It's about a 4 foot wide path with a 1500 ft drop off on each side and just a chain to hold onto! Talk about anxiety rush but its awesome! Yes, people have fallen off that hike, but the people who have fallen off were either drunk or just being stupid, If you're drunk on a hike up a cliff... you deserve to fall off! hahaha jk jk. (kinda). We got a lot of rain Sunday night that picked up right when we got back from Bryce canyon so weather worked out in our favor and we were able to do and see everything we wanted to. It got pretty chilly so we started a fire and hung out in the cabin relaxing, playing games and watching movies listing to the pouring rain. We missed Heidi, Chase and Cadence! We wish you guys could have come! We drove home Monday and now we're back at work! Here are some pictures of our fun adventures at the cabin!

Playing games at the cabin!

Big horned sheep in Zions

Bright and early, ready to start the hiking!
Chris!There she is, Angels Landing! The hiking crew!

Going up Walters Wiggles!
Such studly men! (Especially the one on the right =))There is the spine! Check out that view!Here we are on the tippy top!
All crashed out after the hike!
Bryce Canyon Preston, lili, mom
Relaxin in the cabin during a rain storm!

A few weeks ago in August we had a family reunion for Preston's side (his mom's side) up in Syracuse it was Friday night, and we had a yummy dinner and attempted a movie in the park but the wind was so bad and it got pretty cold, everybody took off early. The next day we got there around 11 for more fun games, food, an auction and a drawing for 2 family quilts that Grandma Lynada worked so hard on. They turned out great! (too bad we didn't get one this year, maybe next year!) Here are some pictures of the reunion!

Me, Preston, and his dad.Some of the kiddies attempting to watch Cars.. The movie didn't last long with the wind.He looks quite excited to be doing the fishing pond!We were in charge of the fish pond!Some of the kids goin fishin!

I just have to say real quick...

GO UTES!!! Way to start off the season and beating Michigan!

Alright, that is quite the blog! If you made it this far, congratulations! Hope you enjoyed the MANY pictures!

Bear Lake, Camping, Trouble

This past weekend, we went camping at Bear Lake with Shawn and Katie! It was a blast. Never a dull moment when we're all hanging out. We had a nice campground (thanks to Katie for reserving it early for us) and it was perfect weather with some rain the last night! We had some intense games of "Trouble" we played that game over and over, it was so funny that whenever we were at the campground that's all we pretty much did was play Trouble! So fun! We roasted marshmallows and hot dogs. Pigged out on snacks and of course played at the lake all day on Saturday. We all got some good sun! It was Raspberry days while we were there so we walked around a little fair they had going on there and got invaded by a bunch of drunk guys with machettis (however you spell that) at our first spot at the beach, we got lunch at a way good pizza place and went back to the beach! It was a blast! Here are some pictures of our fun weekend! Burning army men! muahahaha
Nothin better than roasting marshmallows!
Making our hole we were going to be buried in!Haha we're all so cool!Okay, so I look like a loser! But we found these hilarious hats at the fair!We took a tour of this lighthouse! Quite... short. But it was on the side of the road and free (it had better be free, you walked up like 20 stairs) Just somethin to do!Here we all are at the beach! So nice!

Here we are "gettin into trouble" As you can see, it was pretty intense!