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!

Corry Reunion!

Every year during the second weekend in July is the BIG Corry reunion and when I say big... Over 200 people show up at this reunion every year. It is always a blast and I'm bummed out whenever I have to miss it! Preston and I went the year we got engaged/married. Everybody brings the person they're going to marry before they get married to be approved by the Corry family it's pretty funny. Whenever somebody brings a bf or gf we know that the next year they'll be married. Unfortunately for some reason we couldn't make it last year when we were married but we went this year and I LOVED IT! We didn't go the whole time but got there early Friday just in time to help with the HUGE 2 hour work project everybody works on. There are various projects we work on for those two hours from cutting down old wood and adding it to the wood pile, fixing the fence, killing thissleburries (whatever those are called) Fixing up the basketball court, the stage, the horseshoe pits, the bathrooms, cleaning... and whatever else might need to be worked on! The cool part is, we all get paid for doing it! We'd do it for free but it's a fun little incentive! The Corry family is like a business too, they have stocks through Corry Enterprise and what not, Pretty cool! Anywho, after the work project was the horse shoe tournament, it's always fun to watch/play because everybody gets SOO into it but it's all in fun! During the tournament we got a major downpour of rain which was great. It smelt so good and we haven't seen rain in a while and it made it so everything wasn't so dusty and it made it fun taking a nap in the tent. I love being in tents when it rains! That night we had dinner and it's always such good food! We were on for helping with that meal so we helped with dishes! Then everybody hung around for a while and played games until the testimony meeting which is always amazing, the spirit is so strong. The people in this family are amazing. Everybody is so genuine and so kind and loving and giving! THEN it poured again so after the testimony meeting instead of playing games for hours on end around the camp fire we all scattered to our tents. We have a big pavilion we gather under but it was raining so hard and it was so windy you got went hangin out in the pavilion. So we went back and dad and lili came in our tent to play some card games! I was worried our tent wouldn't make it through the night but it did! Come to find out, we were lucky, there were about 4 tents that collapsed during the night! Saturday morning we had a delicious french toast breakfast with eggs and bacon and hot chocolate! It got really cold Friday night, but it cleared up really nice for most of Saturday we got a game in of Frisbee golf before the talent show with about 20 people throughout the whole property. The property is 140 acres up Cedar Canyon (just so ya know) then during the talent show it got pretty rainy again. We decided to head out so we wouldn't get stuck in the mud somewhere going down the mountain, Preston and I drove down with lili and dad and everybody pretty much leaves Saturday anyway. It was SO MUCH FUN! I love that family and Preston loves it there too and we always have a blast! Sorry this is a novel! But I just had to tell you all about it! Here are pictures!

Lunch time!

Dad playing in the Horse shoe tournament.Dad and Preston workin on dishes!

Kaylee and lili in their SH (secret hideout)

Tuckered out after the work project watching the horse shoe tournament.

On the way home we stopped at the overlook to Cedar Breaks... Gorgeous! Mini (very mini) version of Bryce.

Overlooking Cedar Breaks.