Scott's First Post...a milestone.

The bird and where it...landed.
It probably had over a 4 feet wingspan. It was pretty heavy for a bird.

Us on a plane ride flying around AZ

Uncle Tom's Cessna 4 passenger plane

camping at the grand canyon

Picture of us at the Grand Canyon at the end of a hike.

So...we went on a little adventure for spring break. First stop, Lawson Home. We had a great visit with Nama and Papa Law and Sarah and Ash-smash-con-dilly-dash. It was way fun to visit! Next stop, the Grand Canyon. We got there late our first night, around 11pm. We set up our tent amidst all the snow and slept with cold feet. The next morning we went to pay for our stay and the Ranger for some reason decided to give us a deal and we only had to pay for the next night, so we had two nights at the Grand Canyon for $18. Normally, it would be $25 to get into the park, and $18/night for the tent site. Oh, and the canyon was cool.

After that we went to Gilbert/Mesa area and stayed with our relatives the Kokaliares family.
We:
1) went flying with Uncle Tom twice in his little 4 passenger Cessna.
2) rode bikes with Uncle Tom
3) went golfing with Tom
4) went to Alice and Wonderland with Cory
5) attended Catherine and Ben's wedding and reception
6) rode go-carts at F1 in Phoenix (Julie almost won!)
7) ran into a hawk or a falcon on our drive back to L-town. (it was big and pretty, before it got wedged into the hole in our car for the fog light)

Christmas and New Years

So, our Christmas was incredibly fun!
*Our break started on Dec.11 with me going to "The Best Christmas Ever part 2" an all girls party with a bunch of my girlfriends at my old house, the boat house.
*Then Scott and I went up to I.F. to celebrate my mother in law, Sonia's birthday with her and Randy on the 12th. That was fun and we loved spending time with them before our Christmas apart. We also celebrated an early Hill family Christmas with them.
*Dec.13th was our ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY! which we celebrated in I.F. with Randy and Sonia
*Dec. 14th we drove to SLC and spent the night at Scott's aunt Dal's so we could get to the Airport early enought to make our flight to Pittsburgh.
*Dec.15 fly to Pittsburgh to see Sarah, Micah, and Ash bash. So fun! We went to the science museum, worked out at Carnegie Mellon fitness center while Scott and Micah played some B-BALL with the bros, went to the Carnegie Art museum, and played loads of Settlers! We had great bonding time with the Keiths!
*Dec.18 we attempted to drive the supposed 7 hours from Pittsburgh to Raleigh, North Carolina but got stuck in one of the most serious snow storms I have ever witnessed, which is crazy for a Utah girl. So we were so lucky to get a room at a motel in Virginia and waited out the storm.
*Dec.19th arrive in North Carolina and spent the day at Ala's house with the whole family sledding, hugging, talking, and loving every minute with the family!
Highlights from Christmas in North Carolina:
-home church with testimony meeting and great lesson given by Addy
- sledding in Ala's and her neighbors front yard which was a huge hill
- rockband at Lisa's
- Amish farm
- ice skating (especially with the little kids and Micah John, hah)
- bowling
- Raleigh Temple with Addy,charity and T.J, Sarah and Micah, and Scott and I
- Lisa nearly burning her house down 3 times
- Christmas morning with the kids... Lily loved her scooter!...Addy can film even while asleep on the couch... Eden and Faith scampering to see the piles of cutely wrapped presents under the tree...Eden and Faith waking up Lily so early that she could barely see or walk...
- Mom surprising everyone with amazingly cute aprons (mine was the cutest)
- Asher starting to walk alone
- Duke gardens
- Glee musical numbers
- the kids playing D and D
- family nativity scene, Scott as the donkey and Julie as the Angel

New years Was a blast for Scott and I too. We went up to Sundance with some of our friends Catherine and Brad. A bunch of my good friends came up as well and it was just a party. We had dinner and games then went sledding and snowshoeing on the Sundance resort to bring in the new year. It was a great time and the little bum sleds were the best because with the two person sled I got blasted with snow in the face and my hair froze in a nest on top my head. It was so good to spend time with Katie, Cambri, and Taryn who I love and wish I saw much more often!

Well, HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010!

Love life.

Our little summer

Bike races with the Lawson family in Orem! We won! woo hoo for the Hills!



Vegas in May with the Hill family!



We went to Arches on our way from Texas back home to Logan. It was very picturesque and so were we!



Mamma and Pappa Hill came to visit us in S.A. and it was so fun!



Our primary class in San Antonio!

Primary is the coolest!

So, here is a fun story..... Scott and I are teaching in primary for our calling and we teach the 6-7 year old kids. We have some smart and fun kids in our class and there in one in particular who is extra fun. Here is a little taste of the fun he brings. It's our second Sunday teaching the class and as the lesson in coming to a close every kids starts NEEDING the bathroom, and a drink, and cheerios from their mom's bag, so us being little pushovers let them go one at a time. Luckily they are all good and returned to our fun and amazing class quickly. SO, then this particular boy gets his turn. I ask him to hurry back after using the bathroom because we are going to have treats. Well, he takes a little bit and I ask a little girl to say the prayer, she is new to the gospel and her mom was very recently baptized so praying is new for her. Well, she starts her prayer and I notice this kid peek in our classroom an shut the door again. About 10 second later he kicks open the door with his two hands making guns and screams, "GET DOWN ON THE GROUND! PUT YOUR HANDS UP! POW POW POW!" By now everyone should definitely be dead, luckily they were hands, not guns. In the midst of this the little girl rushes to the end of her prayer heads for her seat, but because no one hear more that 3 words of the prayer we ask her to say it again. OH MY. What a fun class. So I had a chance to talk to him a little after class about how happy we are that he is in our class, but that it is important to not take away from the class and the spirit. HA. I am excited for next weeks lesson!

My first post! Woo HOO!