ketchup time

summer has finally arrived! so i've been outside enjoying it instead of inside on my computer, which means that i have a lot to catch up on.

what i've been up to:
- campfire w/good friends, hot dogs, and marshmallows
- hiking w/ kath
- seven peaks w/ krystal
- tennis w/ kyle
- camping w/ andrea & reid (games, hot dogs, s'mores, and lots of fun!)
- pool & waterslides w/ kyle
- jdawgs
- babysitting for friends
- snowcones
- helping kath paint her apartment
- bbq w/ ucdh girls
- mini golfing + frozen yogurt w/ krystal & jesse
- applying for jobs and going around to dental offices and dropping off resumes
- aaand urban challenge utah

this past saturday kyle and i competed in urban challenge utah. it was put on by the make a wish foundation as a fundraiser and was a sort of a mini-amazing race around salt lake city. we were very excited about it, but unfortunately we weren't very well prepared. the description on the website made it seem that anyone would be able to do it and it wouldn't be very physically challenging and that you could walk, bike, or use public transit.

the race started at 10am and we had 5 hours (until 3pm) to complete 10 challenges,  and since we didn't have bikes, we decided to walk. yeeeaaaah we spent an average of 45 minutes walking to each challenge which meant that by 2:30 we had only completed 7/10, we spent way to much time wandering around salt lake in the hot sun trying to figure out where the different locations were. which brings me to our biggest disadvantage: not having a smart phone. at the end of the day two of the officials informed us that we were the only team that hadn't had a smart phone. other teams were able to google locations, directions, and answers to some of the puzzles and questions, whereas me and kyle had to call friends to look stuff up for us, walk into businesses and ask for directions and ask other contestants for help which slowed us down a ton.

by the 3pm deadline we were only able to complete 8/10 challenges and my legs and feet were totally destroyed. but overall it was pretty fun, the challenges included movie trivia, a planet puzzle, utah jazz trivia (which we totally rocked), a bootcamp challenge, playing with firehoses, dressing up in hockey gear, downing cafe rio salsa, and a couple others that we weren't able to get to. it was a good experience, and if i ever do anything like it again i will definitely be better prepared. but i sure loved spending time with my teammate!

Frere Poulsen

Kyle has been a teacher at the mtc for about a year and a half now. he teaches french and tahitian to missionaries going to tahiti and his students LOOOVE him! Kyle often brings home cards&notes from his missionaries thanking him and telling him how much they love him, and even more often he brings home treats, candy, chips, corned beef, chocolate covered macadamia nuts and all kinds of goodies that his missionaries give him! and last week he got his first candy bar poster, it was so cute that i took a picture. so here's to brother poulsen--best mtc teacher!

Ahoy! Fr. Poulsen there are many reasons (reeses) why we love you. you helped us during our crunch time. you let us take 5 petit pauses. we had skittles of fun. u-no your #1. love the 3 musketeers laffy taffy, beef jerkey, and starburst

games at the park

saturday was my dad's last day in town. we spent the morning cheering on kyle as his team won the intramural soccer finals! then after a yummy lunch at kneaders it was time for fun at the park. we played bocce ball, croquet, frisbee golf, football, and played w/ the volleyball. it was so fun playing together and the weather was great! then we finished off the night with dinner at outback--so good AND they serve bluebell with their desserts, i was in heaven! thanks for such a fun weekend dad!

guns + golf

with my dad in town we played all weekend! so on friday me+kyle+chris+amanda+my dad headed to the golf course. the weather was perfect and we all had a blast!

then after a delicious lunch we shot some pretty cool guns. first up was a standard 22. then a magnum. and finally: a machine gun!! and we even had some bad guy targets to shoot at--they were all sold out of the osama bin laden target.

champions

kyle loves soccer. and he's really really good at it. so every semester/term that he's ever been at byu he's played intramural soccer. and because he and his team are really good, his team has almost won the championship so many times, but they've always come up a little short.

until now!!!!!

on saturday kyle and his team (the grass fairiez) finally won the upper division soccer finals!! i am so proud + happy for him! he finally has the t-shirt. way to go babe!

happy hubby

this past weekend kyle was in heaven! 1. my dad came to town which meant fun times + free food 2. on saturday kyle's soccer team won the championship 3. and on sunday the Mavs won the NBA finals!!!!

yep i had one happy husband! and the weekend got off to a great start when my dad arrived thursday night with 2 new additions for our living room. comfy leather recliners! like i said, i had one happy husband, and these days, if he's home, he's in his new chair!

my parents are moving next month from canada to texas, so they've been selling/giving away a lot of their possessions, and they offered us their recliners! even though our apartment is a little squished now, its definitely worth it! thanks mom&dad!

before the recliners...

our living room w/ our new recliners!

color me yours

about a year ago me and Kyle went on a double date with my brother and his then fiancee Amanda to color me mine. it was our first time there and we had a blast painting our oversized mugs and those mugs are definitely our most used dishes!

a week and a half ago we decided the four of us needed to go back to color me mine before Chris and Amanda move to El Paso, where Amanda begins medical school in July.

well, since our last date to color me mine, Chris and Amanda have gotten married, me and Kyle have gotten married, Amanda got a great lab job, I graduated from dental hygiene school, and Chris graduated from BYU!

so much has changed in the last year, but not color me mine. the four of us still had a great time and now me and Kyle have cool glasses for the fruit smoothies we always make on the weekends!

one year ago--both our mugs said kyle + liz

our new smoothie cups--isn't kyle's palm tree awesome?!