The latest!!!

Ok so here is what has been happening! Riley left on his mission! That has seemed to be what everyone has focused on. And school... Tyler has finals coming up too! So he has been extra busy! Mackenzie's team took the 4A state championship.

Mackenzie's basketball team did great this year! They went completely undefeated! They won the Championship (which is something that every basketball player dreams about doing and only few get to actually experience it). She did great! It was so fun to watch (even though we almost had a heart attack during each game).

We will miss Riley so much! Maci even tried to go in his suitcase! It was really amazing how we have watched him grow into a young man... well... and ELDER! It's crazy that the little boy that used to put grasshoppers down my shirt is going out to Czech to teach those people the gospel! We are really proud of him and know that he will do great! The family has already received a few letters and he loves his companion so far, and is seeing some of his friends in the MTC!

Tyler's sister Maddi is having a little boy!!! We are so excited! Our first nephew! He is going to be so spoiled. She is due in June and is moving back to Utah next week. So it will be good to have them around (instead of clear out in Pennsylvania). We had a baby shower for her and it was loads of fun!

We have had weddings, weddings and more weddings! Chelsi and Jake got married FINALLY, and one of my best friends Laken got married (i was a bridesmaid). They got married on the same day actually!

My teammate from Snow went on a mission! So our team got together for her farewell!

Grandma Caldwell had a birthday! Happy birthday Nanna Shanna!

Here are some random picts from the last few months!

Riley's Mission Call (and stuff)

My little brother Riley got his mission call recently to the CZECH REBUBLIC- speaking the Czech language! So crazy!!! For those of you that don't know where that is... don't worry. Neither did we! Ha it's by Austria, Germany, Poland, and Slovakia. That area. Central Europe.

We are so proud of him. I just can't believe how much he has grown up and matured these last couple years. We know that he is ready to go on a mission and he is going to be a great missionary! After he read his call and was talking to everyone about it, you could see the excitement on his face. He talked to a boy in their ward who just got back from the exact same mission, and of course he said it was the best mission ever!

I just don't know how we are going to lose our brother for two whole years, but know that they will be such a great experience for him and that he will learn a lot!

So what else has been going on? We have been busy the last couple weeks. We finally moved into the house in Sugarhouse! We love it! It's a blast to be out of an apartment and have our own room!!! Once things get more settled i will take some pictures of it! I'm still busy with work and Tyler is still busy with school!!! But we are doing good!

We went to the Jazz and Cavs game with Braden and Mandi Bagley (and family). It was super fun! I bought a lucky green Daron Williams Jazz shirt. Why is it lucky??? Well because that was the game that Gaines (the jazz player who signed for 10 days) hit a last second shot for the win! Best game ever!!!

My best friend Danielle came and stayed with us a few weekends ago! We were super excited because she is going to live with us this summer!!! It was so good to finally see her! We went to the Jazz game with her and my buddy from Snow Sean! We had fun!!! Here are some pictures!

Our Christmas/New Year's Break

Our Holiday break was great! We had Christmas in Springville this year. So we went down to Richfield before Christmas to spend time with Maddi and Josh (since they were in town) and Tyler's parents. We also saw Tyler's friend Callen and his wife. They just had a new baby! So cute! It was good to see them! In Springville we celebrated my little sister Abby's birthday (Christmas Eve) and did the Traditional stuff. Here are some picts!

For New Year's we had my best friends Danielle and Laken come to our place (Danielle brought and boy and Laken brought her fiance). We had good food, we played games and went downtown for the ball drop at midnight. Then they had fireworks shooting off the roof of one of the buildings. It was a really fun night!

I'll have to post more pictures later because our card reader just stopped working!!!

And believe me... we have plenty more pictures :)

Rest of Halloween/Thanksgiving

First we will finish off Halloween! We went to Mike and Bree Bory's house for a Halloween party. It was so much fun! It was fun to get to know them better, and to get all dressed up! We just kinda winged it. Tyler was obviously a vampire and i just put on everything that i could find. The end product- we decided- was RAMBO! ha ha Thanks for inviting us Mike and Bree!!!

Now Thanksgiving....

We went down to St. George to be with some of Tyler's family. We had a great Thanksgiving dinner... did some midnight shopping (pre black friday sales), and had a good time being with family and friends. They had a "thankful tree" hung up, and everybody had to write on a leaf something that they were thankful for and hang it on the tree. I wrote mine first and waited to see what Tyler would put. It was so cute! He put me and i put him! I really am thankful every day for Tyler. I'm so glad i get to be with him forever! We are also thankful for everything we have. We have been so blessed this last year and a half since we have been married. We have great families, great friends, great church callings, and great opportunities.

On Friday we went on a fun bike ride (because it was mostly down hill :)) j/k. Then we went to the movie "Old Dogs" with everyone. It was such a funny movie. Definitely a cute family film for those of you that haven't been to see it yet! We went to Iggy's Sports Grill that night for dinner and had some awesome food! Tyler ate so much! ha ha Everyone was amazed!

The next day was the BYU vs. Utah rival game. So we woke up and made breakfast for everyone. All weekend long i was teasing Tyler's hard care Utah loving uncle about how BYU was going to kill them. So we but blue coloring in the waffles. Right when we were about to do it to the eggs too, his uncle stopped me and made us to the eggs red. It was a fun breakfast! (and luckily BYU did win... which reminds me... i need to call uncle Scott to rub it in ha ha)

October Fun!

We have had quite a fun October so far! Busy but fun!

First off, i got called to be the 2nd councilor for the young womens! It has been such a blast. The girls are so cute and the leaders are so fun. It's been different for me though because there is only a few active girls, and i came from a ward with a crazy number of active girls. So it's been an adjustment but a good one! We had a pumpkin carving contest! This was my favorite one~!

Next my best friend Danielle Taylor (who plays volleyball for Utah State) had a game at UVU. Since we have moved up to Salt Lake, i was close enough to run down. Tyler didn't get to come because he also got a church calling... 2nd Councilor of the Elders Quorem. So while he had a meeting I ran down to her game. I picked up my brother Riley who goes to UVU and we had fun watching the game! It was a really close intense one and Utah State ended up winning!

That weekend we went down to Richfield and went to the pumpkin patch with a bunch of family. A tractor pulled you on a huge trailer into the patch and you picked your pumpkins and set them on the trailer. When everyone was done it took you back! It was my first pumpkin patch experience ever! It was fun to see everyone... even though it's a shame that they all live in Salt Lake and we have to go all the way down to Richfield to ever see them! ha ha That was the joke of the weekend. The kids had a blast and it was good to be back in Richfield for the weekend. We also saw some friends and ate good food!

Here is a story....

Once upon a time when me and Tyler were engaged, we went to Elsinore to a friend's grandpa's house. He had a thing they liked to call "the pentawhirl". Two people sat in in and your friend could spin you upside down. Me and Tyler volunteered to go first and after about 10 seconds of spinning, Tyler started telling them to stop. As soon as he could get unbuckled he ran to the bushes and started to throw up like crazy. We all though he just got sick from spinning and would be better after a min. I kept spinning with other people and about an hour later we decided to go back home. Tyler was still throwing up about every 5 mins. He asked if i could drive home. We had to go the back way home, and we drove 5 miles an hour. We stopped about 10 times so he could throw up on the side of the road. What is usually a 15-20 min drive was an hour and a half drive. Even then he was violently throwing up. So finally he asked his dad for a blessing because he couldn't do anything except puke and lay down. He slept in the bathroom that night! I was so worried about him!

So... Ta da! This is the very pentawhirl!

It turns out that the pumpkin patch we went to was our friends grandpa's house and they were letting people spin each other in the pentawhirl. Tyler's cousins wanted to do it so i did it with them, but Tyler steered clear. Ha ha funny memories!

It was also Tyler's mom's birthday! HAPPY BIRTHDAY DONNA! We got her a cute Miche bag (the ones that you can change the outside covers). Hope you had a great birthday and we love you!

Catch up time!

Ok so i have kinda slacked the last month in posts. This is what has happened.

Tyler's great Grandma Daisy Mackay passed away. We were one of the last people to see her alive, and we were really suprised when she passed away a few hours later. She seemed to be doing really well, and was so excited to see us. The funeral went well. I sang a song that Tyler's sister Maddi had. It was such a pretty song! Thanks Maddi for letting us use at, and we wish that you and Josh could have come. It really got me thinking about how life can take you by suprise. You can never be totally ready!

We went to Tyler's mission reunion. I heard the funniest stories about him! If you want to hear his most embarrassing one, you will have to ask him because i don't think he would want me to post it! But it involves a place called Hillbilly Hotdogs! :) It was really neat to see all his old companions and friends. Now i can put face with his stories. It was a lot of fun!

Genereal Conference was good! We went back to Richfield for the first time since we moved up to Salt Lake! It was good to be back and see our friends and family. We had a lot of good food too! If anyone wants a really good chip dip recipe let me know! I finally got the Beagley family recipe for shrimp potatoe chip dip!

Tyler has been working his rear end off with school! He has been so busy, but he is handling it well! Hopefully he gets through this semester ok! I know he will do great!

I have just been very busy with work and loving every moment of it!!!

Oh and i almost forgot!!! We got a washer and dryer! The front loading kind and i'm so excited! I love them! It's funny how you start to get excited about things like that! Here is our new washer and dryer!

The Hairport

So ever since we have been married i have heard Tyler talking about his friend that works at a place called "The Hairport". It was always really funny to think of someone saying, " Ya i'm going to the Hairport to get my hair cut!" It has been the topic of many of Tyler and his friends jokes. The other day Tyler decided that he needed a hair cut and we decided to try and go the the famous Hairport where his friend Megan Thomas works, so that we could say we have actually been to the Hairport (it really is a real life place :)) So we went! Megan did a great job on Tyler's hair especially and our Hairport experience was a great one! :)