Back to Real Life

We had a fabulous summer, besides the part of me being nauseous. Good thing I am in my second trimester now! We are back to school and work again. Matt just started the MPA program at BYU and is loving it! I am enjoying my new job alot as well. And we just grow increasingly excited for the baby! We find out in 3 weeks if it is a boy or girl. I am glad we took some pictures this summer so we could remember all the joyful times we had!Matt hiked Timp this morning with some mission friends. They left at midnight, so while he is sleeping I finally get a chance to update our blog!

It is so fun to have Rach at BYU with us now. We hope Amy will join us real soon!

August

Camping at Raft River with Jules and Nate and Chels, Ty, and Saylor. They have these huge water slides and zip line in the middle of farm fields. We had a blast!

Rachel is home!!! We are so happy to have Hermana Briggs back! She hasn't changed at all. She is still full of life and happiness. This is her and Matt at the SLC airport. WE are so proud of you Rach!



I think every single snow cone I got this summer was with Kaylynn, Matt's aunt.

Duck Races. Kinda weird but they race these rubber duckies down the waterfall in front of the Idaho Falls Temple. Out of the thousands of duckies, mine did not win.

Hawaii was totally unreal. It was the best vacation we have been on. We made so many great memories. It was so good to spend so much time with the in- laws. I love them all so much. Thank you Rand and Karla for everything. We could never thank you enough. Here are just a few of the many wonderful moments we had together. So here we are chasing the dolphins. It was amazing there was a little family of dolphins swimming out in the open ocean. Out of all the cool things we saw under water, my favorite was the dolphins. It was a dream come true actually.

Hawaii Temple

Luau at the Polynesian Cultural Center

I got to see my trainer, Jinah, from the mish. She fed me a great Korean meal. It was so fun to see her.

Diamond Head hike.

Famous snow cones.

Scott bought me an oyster. We picked one out, cut it open, and there was a beautiful black pearl inside!

Also one of my favorite things to see were the sea turtles. They so chill, just like in finding Nemo. They will just let you swim right next to them.

We snorkeled every day!

The sunrises in the morning were amazing. Oh I wish we could go back. We didn't even mention the many card games of Scum that we played, surfing with Scott, swinging on the vines like Tarzan, eating amazing meals everyday, playing in the waves that stuffed your swimsuits with sand, jumping off the cliffs, all the performances at the PCC, the beautiful rainbows, and Chinese salad in the parking lot, night snorkeling, and so much more!

July

Scott came to stay with us for a week! It was awesome, we absolutely loved having him here. We can't wait until he comes to BYU!
Trying some Spanish food just so they could tell Rachel they did it!

My favorite part of the 4th is Sparklers. Really!

Watching the fireworks out in front of the Provo temple. We had a great day swimming and golfing in the morning with the Robertsons. Then we went to a BBQ at Brittney and Montanas, and then played games as we waited for the fireworks.

Scotty also loved the air balloons and parade the morning of the forth! Can't you tell!

My mission President finished his mission and took a trip to Utah! It was so good to see him and his wife. I love them dearly.

Hurray Brad is married! We are so happy for them. Brad is a great friend and we love Kristin too. Good luck in Med School.

This is after out first doctors appointment. It was such an amazing experience. We got to hear out baby's heart beat and see him/her wiggling all around. I was amazed at how big our baby is already! It made me so giddy I just couldn't stop smiling!

Court came to town. It is so fun when we meet up. I have such wonderful friends. She looked so happy. I am so glad that her and Tyson are doing we well.

June

Family Trip to the Oquirah Temple open house. Boy do I miss my sisters now. Cami has moved to Minnesota where John is in med school at the Mayo clinic and Emi moved to Logan where Jeff has his first job as a Lawyer. I am proud of them, but I sure miss them a whole lot. I probably will not get to see my cute mom nearly as much either.


YEAH!!! We are pregnant! Matt and I are so excited to be parents. We were over joyed when we found out. We have been wanting this for some time now.

My first cravings- salty, buttery popcorn!

Chels and Ty made us a cute little congrats bag when they found out we were pregnant. We have the best friends ever!

Matt's mission president came in town, so we took him to the ranch. We had a great time, until one gun backfired and hit Matt right between the eyes. Ouch!

Look who is tough now!

Another Zions trip, only this time we did the Narrows!

Drying off in the sun with Brittney and Rachel.

Rachel and Micheal, Amanda and Wesley, Brittney and Montana, and Matt and I getting all pumped up for our all day hike!

We had several fun obstacles. This one probably topped the rest though just because the water was the coldest thing I have ever felt. I think all of us suffered a little after this one.

May Update

Playing with the cousins! They loved our lava monster game!

Hiking the Subway with Bri and Lisa. Boy was that an adventure! Somehow we made it through without freezing (swimming though icey mountain water without a wet suit), starving (because our sandwiches got all soggy), or falling off a cliff (we didn't bring any repelling gear). It was way fun!

Yeah the good weather is here and it is time to break out the rollar blades!

We has a great Easter FHE with some friends where we created an Easter sculpture.
A baby chick just cracking out of its shell

A snake? "...that he may have power to bruise thy head" Genesis 3:15" I guess that is where it all started.

A crazy bunny with bulging eyes and a cross and a egg on a stick?

I had an awesome birthday, thanks to everyone who remembered and shared their love. All day on my Birthday I was at a Rec Therapy Conference, but I was with a good friend Tayci so it was all good. When I got hope Matt had balloons, flowers, and 2 new plants waiting for me and thenhe took me to get ice cream! We went home to Boise the next day and had a huge party with my whole family and then another party the next night with Matt's family. We are still celebrating with all the free ice cream and dinners you get on your birthday. Tucanos was amazing!

We went with my greeny and her boy to the color festival. It was way fun!! You take this color flour and throw it at eachother while your dancing to music and stuff! I also went crowd surfing for the first time in my life. It was wild (well like good little mormons kinda wild).

Happy Birthday Kaylyn! We had a great weekend at the cabin playing games and eating great food!

Weekend with BRE!

Bre finally came to visit us for the weekend, and it was the best ever! Now we are just trying to convince her to move here. We went to go-karts, mini-golf, dippin-dots, and got Edward Vampire teeth. She even made us banana pancakes with Coconut syrup in the morning.

Matt gave me a water color lesson, and I really enjoyed painting! I painted fruit, bananas, peaches, grapes and strawberries.

Over Christmas we piled up a bunch of snow balls and made a slide. Then we put black bags over us so we could be super slippery sliddy down the whole slide. :)

Matt's boys came over for New Years, it was fun to be with Josh, Seth, Sue and Heather.

Awwwww.

At the Hotel

We went to the Church Hisotry Museum and then played WATER UNO in the Hot Tub. Chels could only put her feet in because she was preggy. Ty had the good idea to use the "life saver" floaty thing as our rotating table. It was awesome.

My Valentine's Date!!!

This Valentine's day we had a blast! Matt even took me to Rodizios the Brazilian Grill. We had so much fun, Juels and Nate came down for the weekend and Ty and Chels met up with us too. Juels hooked us up with a hotel room and we partied. This is us at the Churassco, they even gave us flowers.

For our girls night we went to Christmas around the world together, went to Olive Garden, got matching earrings, watched the babies, and did all the fun girl stuff that you just ache to do with your sisters. Thanks momma for the fantastic time, I loved it!

We were able to go to the First Presidency Devotional on Sunday and it was so so good. It totally brought that wonderful feeling of Christmas that I wish I could be surrounded by every day of the year. After that we went around Temple Square and looked at the lights with Brad and Kristin. It was great!

So we went to this live Nativity and there was a real Camel. It was sweet! His head is like the size of my whole body. It was quite an experience.

It is a tradition in the Tanner Family to make gingerbread houses at Thanksgiving time. This was Matt's first time to join in. Didn't we make a beautiful house? The roof is the coolest!

It was so fun to see a few friends over Thanksgiving break. Jules is getting married in less than a week and I am so excited for her. We are excited for Nate to join that Friends Club and be our life long friend as well. I concider these girls my sisters, they are so special to me. Love ya!

My sister Cami had a beautiful baby boy named Daniel. I am so excited for her!

We took a trip to St. George to hang out with Rach and see Steve play football.

This semester we have spent so much time in the canyon playing with friends and family, long boarding, biking and rollar blading. We still go almost every week. Chels and Ty got me my very own long board for my wedding present. I love it, it is so cute!

We would hop on a scooter and tour the island going to all different beautiful beaches!

We went to the bahamas on our honeymoon at the end of the summer. It was a blast. Our favorite thing to do was snorkle in the ocean. It is pretty easy to fall in love with. It looks just like Finding Nemo- amazing!

We meant to go watch FC Dallas v Galaxy soccer game, but we accidently got tickets for Nigeria v Paraguay or something. I think we were the only white couple there, but it was still fun.

The Horse Races!

So as typical newly weds we had no furniture. Really I was preparing Matt for Korean... we slept on the floor, ate on the floor, pretty much did everything on the floor. It was great.

Doesn't Matt look so Texan?

Right after we got married we drove to Texas where Matt sold Pest Control and I completed my internship at Baylor Hospital. You can't go to Texas without seeing the Longhorns.