Memorial Day Weekend

So last Friday we went to the Payson cemetery to find some of the ancestors from the Griggs line that we knew were buried here.  This guy, James Henry, fought in the Civil War... for the south.

 Searching for the other graves...

Took us a while to find it... this is probably why.  No lovin for this grave in a while I guess.

But we cleaned it up a bit.  This guy, Anderson Irvin is James Henry's father.  He was the first in the family to join the church in 1841.  Jedediah Grant taught him the Gospel (Heber J's father). The S was added to Grigg later, a nice addition I think. Grigg looks unbalanced.

Some other family members we found and were reading about. 

Then on Tuesday it was a lovely day so we decided to go on a walk in Provo Canyon.  We walked from Will's Canyon Stop to Bridal Veil Falls and back.  Not sure how far that is, maybe 6 miles round trip?  We encountered this guy on our walk...

 Somewhere along the trail...

 A carcass of... something just off the path... a dog maybe?  Or some other creature.  It was pretty gross so of course we had to take a picture.

 And our final destination.  The falls! 

wedding pics... several months later

Some of my favs from our wedding. I liked so many but I tried to keep it brief so you wouldn't get too bored... Sorry if you've already seen these. These are in no particular order... mostly because blogger is driving me crazy and won't let me arrange the pictures. you should be pleased to know that you've been spared of any kissing pictures.



All the nieces and nephews. Chaotic. Segregated.  haha



My side of the fam.



Sister.  I think she's trying to steal my flowers.

 

Bestie.

 

the bros



daddy-o

 

 the parents

 

his side of the family



his siblings and their spouses... minus one brother and his wife, and a sister's spouse

 

his sisters!

 

the press

 

AWESOME flowers thanks to Heather :)



shoes.



 the next several are just some of us...



adorable :)

 

the cake

 

centerpiece.  i just thought this picture was neat-o

 

i just thought this was so endearing! my niece and nephew

 

our rings stuffed in some of our favors

 

i think this picture is so funny.  one of his nieces



my two darling nieces. cute outfits thanks to Annie!



this was taken in an elevator.  our reflection in the ceiling

who needs an appendix anyway?

so adam got his appendix removed on wednesday the 23rd.  the surgeon kindly documented the procedure.  Box 1: inflammed appendix.  Box 2: clamped for removal.  Box 3: removed appendix in a bag.  Box 4: insides sans appendix.

here's Adam after surgery just after being taken to his room.  he looks a little dead.  his voice sounded crazy because they had to stick a breathing tube down his throat during surgery.  and he had no color and his lips were all dry.  he was very awake saying lots of things, nothing crazy, but just a lot of story telling.  later he informed me that he did not remember how he got to his room, or half of the things he said.  oh well. 

And this is later when he was a little more coherent but right before feeling nauseous from drinking apple juice.

 

anyway, he's back at home now recovering nicely.  March has been an interesting month for us.  it started with a huge canker on my uvula of all places.  then Adam lost his wedding ring for almost a week.  we searched everywhere for it, gave up for a couple of days, and it finally turned up.  then he got accepted into a grad school in NYC (yay! we are moving sometime in August, probably to NYC but there's a chance we could go to boston as we're still waiting to hear from another school).  then a new participant at work who has autism told me i may not be able to be trusted because i'm chinese. very amusing. Then came the appendectomy.  and there are still 5 more days of March left.  we anxiously await other exciting things that may happen.

monster jam!

...i'm married to this guy...

so we went to the monster jam for work as part of an overnighter in SL this past weekend.  it was different than i thought it was going to be.  most of the 2 hour show was setting up, talking, advertising, and doing give aways that took forever.  the actual monster truck show probably added up to 15 minutes. maybe 20. maybe.  i probably wouldn't go again.  but Adam got to see Grave Digger... a truck from NC that he's heard about for most of his life.  that would be this truck below (i think) 

 i guess it was pretty cool when they were actually doing stuff. otherwise it was just a really loud place to be, even with ear plugs. and dusty. very dusty. 

eggs

 just in case you were wondering what 75 eggs looks like...

santa claus came to town!

well, he came to work anyway... and let's just say he did a pretty good job as santa for our guys... they LOVED it!  the staff on the other hand... not as enthusiastic (though we sure showed our enthusiasm!).  most of our guys sat on the extra chair we set next to him... but he had all the staff sit on his lap.  and not just sit like you did when you're a kid. more like this (pretty much word for word): "ok, sit right here on this leg, put your leg up on my other leg, cross your other leg over, put your arm around santa's head, give me your hand, and lean your head in against santa's."  voila, this is what you get...

picture 2: "who's that?  is that your friend?"  "um no, that's my husband."  "oh, well get him over here, one of you on each leg. put your leg on your husband's.  now you put your hand on her leg. higher. higher.  higher. now both of you lay your head on santa's head."  and there you have it. 

welp, merry christmas!  i hope i never have to sit on a santa's lap ever again.

life lately...

well let's see. we got our wedding photos back. if you haven't seen them and want to, you can look here until january 2. oh, and happy thanksgiving! we went up to Logan to be with a couple of Adam's sisters and their families. while we were there, we built our first (edible) house together.  here it is... from the front (cool wreath, yes?)

so you can see this side of the roof...

and the other side of the roof... did you notice the tootsie roll log pile?

and the back... um, well maybe we just wanted those cadbury chocolate balls and so made a design for the back. this is called maximizing the amount of candy we get to take home without making it look incredibly tacky (maybe just a teeny bit...)

and i found this random picture on my camera. it's from when we went to the aquarium. i think it's telling us to swim with the jellyfish...