Jolly July

We had quite the 4th of July weekend this year. It was full of family and friends and of course FIREWORKS (possibly a little bit of fire as well).

We started the weekend with Yard Sales, where we bought this jewel of a pinata. We buckled her in so she would be safe on the way to the Crown home.
She seemed to enjoy the ride. But this ride had to end somewhere. We took her out, tied her up and I began to teach Lucas about how pinatas work.
Once he introduced himself he was ready to get the candy out.Kyle swung a little too hard, ripped the rope right out of the pinata and we had to fix it up.
Turns out Tyson knows how to tie a noose. Creepy, but I guess that is what they teach you in boy scouts!
Once the noose was fixed up it was time to smash this thing.Everyone got a turn, but Dad was the one to break the thing open. But not all the candy came out! So he continued to smash it when it hit the ground.Kyle filled his shirt and the rest of us picked through to find the prizes!Needless to say there were some pretty cool things hidden in that pinata!Once we had the sugar in our bodies we were ready to play! That is when we brought out the hula-hoops!Then Lucas decided Grandpa had worked too hard with the hula-hoop and deserved a ride.Then it was time for the boys to build our grand finale of fireworks! They used a long fuse to make sure all the fireworks were connected. There are also several different army men and random toys taped to the board so we can see how they melt in the end. Bryan has made this melting of army men a tradition for the 4th.When the sun went down we lit them off.There was a small fire afterward but nothing these boys couldn't take care of!

The night was awesome. We had a great time with the Crown family! But the weekend was not over yet! Tyson and I had Monday off of work and it was a beautiful thing. We ended up going to the Bees game!We sat on the lawn, so we would have great seats for the fireworks after!We did have perfect seats for the fireworks. I wish I had taken video of the show, it was great and we saw something I have never seen before! You know how you can see them burning as they go up, then they explode in the sky? Well we watched one go up, then come back down, and it exploded on the field! Luckily it exploded in a place where people were not sitting, but green fireballs did go out into the crowd of people! It was so scary, everyone screamed. I don't think anyone was hurt but I definitely would not have liked to be down there! The show continued as normal and there were no more mess ups.

It was a great 4th of July weekend for us!

Summer Lovin

Tyson and I were tired of working, and we had built up a little bit of PTO. We decided to take a trip for just the two of us. Neither of us had been to Lake Powell before so we decided we would camp and swim and play. There were many stops along the way though!

We started out in Moab. We didn't want to drive all the way to the lake on the first day, so we stopped and camped in a random place in Moab.

This was the fire we had built the first night. It looks well and good. Little does this picture show that it was SOOOO windy that night! I really was scared that the fire was going to engulf me when a gust of wind hit it. Tyson just laughed at my non-fire-knowing ways. Silly me and only knowing about contained non windy girls camp fire (with a bucket of water and ice near by)...

We could have spent money and bought ourselves a tent. Or we could use what we have and camp in the car! You might think that is a bad idea, but this was a great set up! We were able to take out the back seats, lay down some padding and we were both able to sleep pretty well. I was surprised at how well this set up worked for us.

We were sleeping pretty no matter where we were camping. No need to mess with setting up a tent! Lets just drive and sleep wherever!

You can see I was pretty excited about this.


We spent the next day at Arches National Park. We took time to drive around and see the pretty sights, and we stopped to hike for a while. It was fun to be out in the open and see these awesome parts of nature! Tyson and I love to hike and play around outside!

This was a double arch we hiked up to. We didn't think we would be hiking when we left, so we were both in sandals, but we ran around all the same.

Tyson wanted to climb up high, so I followed him for a while, then I decided my flip flops were not going to cut it all the way up.

I did climb around a little though! It was harder to get down than it was to get up.

When we were tired of climbing and hiking we decided it was time to head down to Lake Powell. We were able to find a campground where we could drive up right near the water. So we parked the car, and went swimming!

You might think it is weird for two adults to have their noodles, but we loved it! We swam for hours and floated with our noodles.

This was the view from the back of the car. There were a few people around but not many, so it was not too crowded or loud.

We stayed here a while, and when we wanted something different we decided it was time to drive to another area of Lake Powell. I was nervous about this, but Tyson is a man of adventure and so we went exploring.

After a few hours of driving we saw this great sight! There was a canyon with water at the bottom. We saw the road that would take us down and Tyson was sure there would be camping. I was not so sure but we went on down and alas, it was beautiful.

We ended our vacation here. We found a camping spot where we could really hop out of the car and into the water! It was amazing! There were also almost no people in sight! We enjoyed ourselves very much, and expect to come back again.

Dead People and Living People

We attended quite the yard sale a few Saturdays ago. The ad asked us to come smell the history of DEAD PEOPLES STUFF. Naturally the whole family wanted to go. It was not the normal Estate Sale we have all come to love, but it was pretty neat none the less!There were all sorts of treasures!We had to try them out!There were even some really cool carriges. We explored for a while and had a great time looking through DEAD PEOPLES STUFF.

After celebrating the glorious stuff of the dead, we thought it would be a good idea to celebrate some life. The life of Kyle that is! We had to have a family celebration for this young lad! Okay, he is becomming an old lad, but he will always be my little brother (even if he is much taller).Kyle wanted a surprise for his cake this year, so my mom whipped out her neat Hello Cupcake book and we made hippos and crocodiles! It was so much fun and don't they look great? Of course, by the end we all had the song "Never smile at a crocodile" in our heads.Kyle received some great gifts from Bryan and Nikki. They know just what a future missionary will need. Including some sweet sheets! (Unfortunately I don't have a picture of the sheets, but they are sweet.)Tyson and I thought Kyle would have fun hunting Werewolves and Vampires. Pretty sweet game, for a pretty cool guy.

All in all it was a great day full of life, and death.

Month of May!

We have had a busy and big month of May!

Tyson took on a second job for a few weeks. He was making sales for the company we coach for. It was working out well (except for the long days) then the company decided they didn't want coaches selling as well and that ended.

I have been experiencing the life of Relief Society 1st Counselor. It has been an adventure getting used to the calling. They gave me the calling the first week I was in the ward! They didn't even know who I was! Things work out for the best though, it has been a real blessing for us. I have really enjoyed getting to know the girls in my ward and finding out I am not the only one figuring out this married thing.

Last week I had my first snow cone of the season! I was looking forward to it for a long time! It was delicious and I loved it! Then.... two days later it snowed outside! At least I got one snow cone in before the last snow, and hopefully it really is the last snow of the season.

We have had weddings galore to go to! All of the brides I have seen over this last month have been glowing and so happy! I am glad to see so many of my friends finding their partners and starting their lives off right! Love is definitely in the air this spring. This is Ben, it is not a bride but he sure is excited to see the bride!

Along with all the weddings there have also been a lot of fun bridal showers! It is so fun to sit with my friends as they talk about how excited they are to be married! I love to see all of us growing up, plus it is nice to have friends in the same stage of life. Somehow it makes the adjusting process a little easier. Anyone who says getting married is not an adjustment is lying. It is so much fun and so great, but it is definitely different from anything else I have ever done!

We have started working out together. It has been really hard and my muscles are always sore, but it feels good to be working together to get healthy. I enjoy having Tyson by my side as I sweat to death with these home workouts.

Even though my Birthday is in June, we were able to celebrate with my family about a week ago. It was so great to be with my family who loves me so very much! They gave me a scrapbooking starter kit! I am so excited and have actually already started to use all of the fun things! I will be a scrapbooking queen in no time!

Nathaniels Graduation was great! He graduated with honors and we are all very proud of him! He looked so happy to be in those robes and be moving forward with his life. We are glad to see him moving up!

That sums up the month of May!

P.S. Our turtle has not eaten her two crab friends yet!

We had quite the adventure a few nights back!

Our tank for our turtle has been having some trouble over the last little while. We have found that one of the side walls was slanting. We both were dreading the day that our tank broke, flooded the house, killed our fishies and our dear turtle.

We have been longing to buy a new turtle tank but have not had the means for it, so we began our bargain hunt for a new tank for our little Brigadear. She is such a good little turtle! We just wanted to take care of her.

We found a steal! This is our Brig
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So we found this really nice tank with a nice stand for dirt cheap! They were clearing out their stock and we asked to take the display tank. They let us have it and we set it up that night.
Brigadear and our two fish seemed quite happy in the beginning.....
They were not happy for long. The next day I came home from a hard day at work and found one of our fishies was upside down. That was my first time fishing for a dead fish and it certainly made me quite sad.
Even with the death of our fish, we are happy to have a new tank!
We are sad to have lost one of our little ones, but we did have a splendid surprise this week as well!

Tyson's car has been acting up and we were expecting things to cost a pretty penny to fix! We took it in and it was only a half a pretty penny! So while we were getting it fixed we bought two little crabs for the tank. They will help to keep things clean and plus they look cool.
I don't have any pictures of the crabs, but they kind of look like spiders with claws! Their bodies are only about as big around as a quarter. They are creepy little guys but we like them.
That is all for the adventures of Candace and Tyson, I would say it has been a big week for us!

Our Story

We want to begin our blog with our story!

Tyson and I met in the early summertime of 2008. We worked together and began our friendship. We talked all day at work and really began to create something special. I had a crush on him by August of 2008 but would not tell him. Others at work seemed to notice though! He was dating someone else and so was I. So we continued developing our friendship.
By the end of December we were both single. We continued talking and we were just friends. We started to hang out outside of work in January of 2009.
We had our first date on Valentines day in 2009! That is when it really began! We dated on and off for a few months. I broke it off for a few weeks because I was scared. I was having a bad day (during this time we were not really talking) and he sent me a random text "What do you call a fish with no eyes?.... fsh" I about died laughing and knew I needed him in my life!
We began to hang out again and pretty quickly realized we were in love and needed each other!
During the Oquirrh Mountain Temple dedication I knew he was the one I should marry! We had many big kid talks and decided to go for it! Picked out a ring and were engaged on December 7th of 2009.
We were married on March 12th 2010. Now begins the Happily Ever After!