Lisa's Birthday

This past weekend was my mother in laws birthday. We decided on Friday to head up to SLC for the night and check out Tanner and Allies new place. They recently moved into a main floor of a house. The house is old, but its pretty nice, and much better than their last place (and in a safer neighborhood). We had a good time just chatting, eating pizza and cake, and watching the Office. The next day we went golfing and had a blast. Towards the end it was getting tough because of the heat but we stuck it out and had a good time. Happy birthday Lisa!

The gift we got her is called, "Subway Art." There's a picture (more like writing) for whatever holiday you want and you change the frame depending on the holiday. We got here Valentine's day, Easter, Christmas, and then a filler one (one about home). It's a really cute idea and I stole it from my friend Caity.

We also had the pleasure of seeing Melissa Pitts this weekend...always a treat to see anybody from the Pitts family. She was here dropping Tanner off. We had dinner at Michelle and Trevors, and it was some of the best food we've had in a while.

2nd Anniversary

We celebrated our 2 year anniversary this past weekend! I seriously feel like I've always been married (in a good way). It's hard to even imagine my life before I met Tyler. We've had a good 2 years and hope to have many, many more. For our 2 years, we celebrated by going up to a friends cabin up in Timberlakes (past Heber) and just taking it easy. We watched 6 movies, did 2 1/2 puzzles, hit up the outlets (got my first day of school outfit), checked out the Olympic park (I've never been), and slept in until 10 both days...it was heavenly.

After the Triathlon

I blogged about our triathlon when it happened but I forgot to mention that we visited Grandma and Grandpa Tanner while in Idaho. We drove the 45 minutes to Blackfoot and stayed Saturday and some of Sunday to visit the grandparents. It was very relaxing and we enjoyed just lounging around. Sunday we took some more family shots (don't you just love them!) after we attended church.

I don't mean to sound cocky, but I think Ty and I look really good in this pic. I have a handsome husband :) (the one above is one I just thought was funny)

Busy, busy time!

I've been really busy lately, which always leads to a lack of blogging. I hate doing catch-up but I love having a journal of everything we've done in the year. I'll try to keep everything as organized as possible.
First off, Jace got set apart as a missionary back in July. We had the setting apart, and then headed down to the Provo temple to get some family pictures before he went into the MTC the next day. We then had a delicious dinner, as usual, courtesy of Lisa :)

Brothers

Jace gets really awkward (but I think he secretly likes it) when I get close to him, which makes it all the more fun to be close :)

The school year is here!

I started teaching on Monday. It still frightens me a little bit that I'm actually a teacher, a TEACHER, kind of scary. I am in charge of making sure 26 students learn the 5th grade material,e even though some are behind and some are wayyy ahead. My first day was overwhelming, frustrating, exhausting, anything to do with my patience being tried, etc. haha...I kept reading on everybody's (all of my 1st year teacher friends) facebook status' that they "loved teaching already," and "how grateful they were for there class." I started to think something was wrong because I wasn't having these same feelings. Luckily, Tuesday couldn't come soon enough. The second day (Tuesday) was SO much better. It wasn't that the kids were out of control the first day, or even bad at all, I just felt so overwhelmed and flustered. Today went pretty well too, and I'm hoping that each day gets better and the students start to understand the routine little by little. Fifth graders are funny though, to say the least. I really do enjoy this age, but at the same time, it's great birth control haha...well, at least I know I never want 26 10 year olds of my own. Anyway, I look forward to a good year and to many, many funny moments in Room 21.

Been a bit busy

On another note, I 've been so terribly busy these days with my classroom so my blog has suffered...BIG time. I promise that soon enough I'll have some pics of what we've been doing lately. As for now, here are some of the fun things we've been up to...

Hiked Stuart Falls
Get togethers w/family
Attended a beautiful open house and funeral for Larry (Tyler's neighbor)
Finally got to see Tiersha & Josh
Scout hike/camp-out (that would be Tyler)
Saw "Rise of the Planet of the Apes"- about a 7 out of 10 rating
Boating w/Steve & Tom (and their wives)
and...
LOTS of training and prepping for next week (School starts Monday!)

Polite or Annoying?

You know what I can't stand...?

When people hold the door open for you when you're a good 50 feet away from the door! I don't understand it... I went to UVU today to drop off some financial aid info and a man held the door open for me and I was WAY too far away for him to do this. I felt bad that he was holding it open so I ran to the door. It was awkward.

AND, we saw Harry Potter!

It was INCREDIBLE...absolutely amazing! I enjoyed every second of it, and even teared up at certain parts. Part of my childhood died that night, and it really makes me sad each time I think about Harry Potter really being over. I can't wait until the day that I get to visit "Harry Potter World" in Orlando, it's going to be magical :)

(This is me anxiously awaiting the final Harry Potter)(Tyler wishing he had different plans for 12:17 in the morning)

The Latest

We've had a busy summer, especially the last 2 weeks. We met up with my family (and the Dunyon family) at Lake Powell, and I came home with my parents...I did a lot of fun things in CA...

Beach (twice)
Ruby's...yum!
Shopping, shopping, and more shopping
Amazing shoe deals at Target ($5 and $9)
Beach Fire Grill (Taco Tuesdays)
'Sno On The Go' snow cones (ice cream and all!)
Park with the babies
Played with the babies nonstop
Lillee's haircut (cutest thing ever)
William loving Tiersha more than anybody else
Fish funeral (Gracee/Gregory's fish died after 1 day)
Singing "God Be With You Til We Meet Again" at the fishes funeral
Pioneer day with Mission Stake
Nerts (over and over again)
Hanging w/Nicole & Chris
Spending lots of time with Tiersha

It was a great week with AMAZING weather. I had a lot of fun, but missed my dear husband. It's good to be home and especially good to be with Tyler again :)

(Me & Gracee on the boat)

(Sean & Jaimie with Gracee & Gregory)(Me and Annie in the 3-legged race; we definitely didn't win)(Me with Lillee and her crazy hair)
(Lillee & Gregory during one of Gregory's treatment)
(Lillee, post-haircut)

When I came back from CA I returned to school (boo) only to find that my class had written ten words to describe each person. This was the list I came back to...

All the hard work paid off...

(The night before the race)

I finished the triathlon! I'm not really one to focus on times when it comes to competing, but I did want to finish...without a doubt! I didn't think I would enjoy the race, but being alone for the majority (the bike and run) of the race really helped me have a positive experience. Nobody was pushing me to go faster, I wasn't holding anybody back, and most importantly, I had nobody to complain to. I stayed in a fairly good mood the entire race and was extremely happy that I finished. I liked it so much I may even consider doing it again :)

Details of the race:
Spudman Triathlon
Burley, Idaho
Olympic Triathlon-1 mile swim, 25 mile bike, 6 mile run

Things that happened during the race...
-Tyler was given a size "small" wetsuit..3 minutes before his wave started, him and I switched wetsuits since mine was slightly too large; Tyler looked hilarious standing in his white, see-through spandex, it was great.
-The Snake River has a very strong current. So much so that I didn't even have to swim! It was great, I floated about 80% of the way :)
-I finished the race 5th in the family (Lisa, Shawn and Derek were behind me) and the announcer was hysterical. I ran in pretty much alone, nobody in front or behind me... he kept saying, "Finish strong, we've got water waiting for you, Tahnee, we'll take care of you, finish with a smile!" It was a great way to finish a long race!

(Right after I crossed the finish line!)