Covey Seely
6 years ago
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Rain
I just have to say after this weekends rain storms that I LOVE it when it rains hard, especially when I can stay snuggled up in bed! But despite my love for rain, I'm still not ready for summer to be over. :( The weather has been perfect these last few days, not blazing hot, not cold but just perfect!
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Boondocks Date
At the beginning of the summer we bought these discount combo passes to Boondocks (that big place just past the point of the mountain with the waterfalls, slick track and the volcano with real fire). We thought it would be a fun date to go up and play around. But summer came and went and we never made it. So Wednesday we had planned on going after I got done with school. Well, after a long, tiring, frustrating day at school, I came home ready to postpone our Boondocks trip one more time and just get in my pj's and be lazy. Well, I got home and found these...
2 dozen long stemed roses!!! I about started to cry because they were so beautiful and it had just been one of those days. Then Dustin said "Well are you ready to go?" He had just cheered me up in a matter of minutes and made my not so great day awesome already! So I changed quick and we were off. For those of you who haven't been to Boondocks... you should go. We had an absolute blast! First we got to do the bumber boats and we were the only ones out there. So we were just following each other around, squirting each other. Dustin's sprayer shot really high but mine was squirting right at him. Ha ha I was laughing so hard I could hardly breathe. Then we went over to the slick track race cars. We raced and raced and raced and raced for like 25 minutes. They just let us keep on going and going and finally we just pulled over to the side and asked them if we could come in. They said because there was no one there they were just letting people go as long as they wanted. Then we played a game of miniture golf. It was a really cool course with ponds and fountains and the course goes right through that big volcano looking thing. I was so proud of myself because I got 2 holes in one!!! (which has never happened before) And, because I tied with Dustin (who has been golfing a TON this summer)! 
Then we decided we were hungry but we didn't want burgers and fries so we drove over to Harmon's Grocery store (the nicest grocery store we've ever been in!) They had this carvers restaurant where we got tri-tip sirloin with two sides and a roll and it was only like 7 bucks. They had this nice eating area on the second floor that overlooked the whole store. And to make it better... out the big window we had a perfect view of the new Draper temple. It was delicious! We ate then went back and played lazer tag (where Dustin was the top scorer for the game), played one more game of mini golf (on the other course) and used our forty tokens in the arcade. Then to top it all off we went back to Harmon's because they had a Gelato bar with italian ice cream, it was SO yummy! I got peaches with honey and sweet cream and Dustin got chocolate, strawberry and bananna. The funniest 10 year old boy came and sat with us while we were eating our ice cream and kept us laughing all through dessert!
What started out as not the greatest day ended up being one of the funnest days we've had in a while. When I went back to teach on Thursday I felt like I had had a whole weekend. It was great. So Dustin... Thanks for being the greatest and making me so happy! I love you!
2 dozen long stemed roses!!! I about started to cry because they were so beautiful and it had just been one of those days. Then Dustin said "Well are you ready to go?" He had just cheered me up in a matter of minutes and made my not so great day awesome already! So I changed quick and we were off. For those of you who haven't been to Boondocks... you should go. We had an absolute blast! First we got to do the bumber boats and we were the only ones out there. So we were just following each other around, squirting each other. Dustin's sprayer shot really high but mine was squirting right at him. Ha ha I was laughing so hard I could hardly breathe. Then we went over to the slick track race cars. We raced and raced and raced and raced for like 25 minutes. They just let us keep on going and going and finally we just pulled over to the side and asked them if we could come in. They said because there was no one there they were just letting people go as long as they wanted. Then we played a game of miniture golf. It was a really cool course with ponds and fountains and the course goes right through that big volcano looking thing. I was so proud of myself because I got 2 holes in one!!! (which has never happened before) And, because I tied with Dustin (who has been golfing a TON this summer)! 
Then we decided we were hungry but we didn't want burgers and fries so we drove over to Harmon's Grocery store (the nicest grocery store we've ever been in!) They had this carvers restaurant where we got tri-tip sirloin with two sides and a roll and it was only like 7 bucks. They had this nice eating area on the second floor that overlooked the whole store. And to make it better... out the big window we had a perfect view of the new Draper temple. It was delicious! We ate then went back and played lazer tag (where Dustin was the top scorer for the game), played one more game of mini golf (on the other course) and used our forty tokens in the arcade. Then to top it all off we went back to Harmon's because they had a Gelato bar with italian ice cream, it was SO yummy! I got peaches with honey and sweet cream and Dustin got chocolate, strawberry and bananna. The funniest 10 year old boy came and sat with us while we were eating our ice cream and kept us laughing all through dessert! What started out as not the greatest day ended up being one of the funnest days we've had in a while. When I went back to teach on Thursday I felt like I had had a whole weekend. It was great. So Dustin... Thanks for being the greatest and making me so happy! I love you!
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Pics from New York Trip
Well here are the long awaited pictures from our New York Trip (and other random pics)! Sorry it's taken me forever to put them up, life is just crazy busy! It's funny, ever since I started blogging when something funny happens or we go do something I always think "That would be great to blog about!" But then I don't have time, or I can't find my camera cord or whatever so here we go...
This is us right after we got off the Maid of the Mist (a boat that takes to right in the middle of horse shoe falls! We would have been SOAKED if we didn't have these ponchos).
Way cool pic!
This was our first time renting a car and it was a sweet one. A brand new Eclipse... My dream car all through high school! 
An older Senior Missionary Man took this pic of us with the Palmyra Temple and he was so proud of himself! He said that was the perfect picture! It was cute how excited he got (and it did turn out great! 
This was part of the padgent. It was an amazing spiritual experience and very well done. It was stories from the Book of Mormon and when Christ came to visit the Americas it was incredible! Then at the end there was a little section about Jospeh Smith and how he translated the plates for us to have. As you are watching and the narrator is talking about the Book of Mormon, the testament of Christ's visit here he says that Christ will come again to us and then Christ appears again! It was AMAZING! A feeling I will never forget. 
While at the Hill Cummorah Visitors Center I ran into my friend Autum Saxon who is serving a mission in Palmyra! It was fun to spend a few minutes talking before she was off to lead anohter group through the sites.
This was the Smith Cabin and this is the room where the Angel Moroni first appeared to Jospeh Smith. 
This is the Grandin Printing Press where the first Book of Mormons were printed. It was amazing to see all the work that went into making a book back in the day. So different from now. 
This was at the Peter Whitmer farm where the Church was organized. 
This is a picture in the Sacred Grove. The night we got to Palmarya I was so excited to be in the place where the Church was restored. It had been a long day of traveling and it was around 7 PM so we were just going to go to the hotel but before we did, I just wanted to SEE the sacred grove. The anticipation was so great just thinking about what happened there. We had a really hard time finding it becuase it is SO green out there and there were trees everywhere. We thought we would be able to see the temple spire or something but it was hidden in the trees too. We finally did find it. We went back to walk through on Sunday Morning. It was so quite and peaceful and beautiful. We found a little bench and read Joseph Smith History. 
Earlier that week when we went to the visitors center, the missionaries were talking about the first vision and asked us what our favorite part about the first vision was. My favorite part is that Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ called him by name. They know each of us individually, by name and by circumstance. They know what is best for us, they know what we are feeling, and they know best how to comfort us if we will only turn to them. This week long vacation really stregnthened my testimony of so many things but mostly of how amazingly individual the gospel is. We are a part of a universal church that can still be exactly what you or I need on any given day. This church is constantly challenging us to be a little better and overcome the world to live to a higher standard with the help of a loving Heavenly Father who knows us. And it all started with a fourteen year old boy with a sincere question. I am so grateful to be a part of this church! All in all it was a great vacation that we will remember for the rest of our lives. Thanks mom and dad for making it possible for us to go!
This is us right after we got off the Maid of the Mist (a boat that takes to right in the middle of horse shoe falls! We would have been SOAKED if we didn't have these ponchos).
Way cool pic!
This was our first time renting a car and it was a sweet one. A brand new Eclipse... My dream car all through high school! 
An older Senior Missionary Man took this pic of us with the Palmyra Temple and he was so proud of himself! He said that was the perfect picture! It was cute how excited he got (and it did turn out great! 
This was part of the padgent. It was an amazing spiritual experience and very well done. It was stories from the Book of Mormon and when Christ came to visit the Americas it was incredible! Then at the end there was a little section about Jospeh Smith and how he translated the plates for us to have. As you are watching and the narrator is talking about the Book of Mormon, the testament of Christ's visit here he says that Christ will come again to us and then Christ appears again! It was AMAZING! A feeling I will never forget. 
While at the Hill Cummorah Visitors Center I ran into my friend Autum Saxon who is serving a mission in Palmyra! It was fun to spend a few minutes talking before she was off to lead anohter group through the sites.
This was the Smith Cabin and this is the room where the Angel Moroni first appeared to Jospeh Smith. 
This is the Grandin Printing Press where the first Book of Mormons were printed. It was amazing to see all the work that went into making a book back in the day. So different from now. 
This was at the Peter Whitmer farm where the Church was organized. 
This is a picture in the Sacred Grove. The night we got to Palmarya I was so excited to be in the place where the Church was restored. It had been a long day of traveling and it was around 7 PM so we were just going to go to the hotel but before we did, I just wanted to SEE the sacred grove. The anticipation was so great just thinking about what happened there. We had a really hard time finding it becuase it is SO green out there and there were trees everywhere. We thought we would be able to see the temple spire or something but it was hidden in the trees too. We finally did find it. We went back to walk through on Sunday Morning. It was so quite and peaceful and beautiful. We found a little bench and read Joseph Smith History. 
Earlier that week when we went to the visitors center, the missionaries were talking about the first vision and asked us what our favorite part about the first vision was. My favorite part is that Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ called him by name. They know each of us individually, by name and by circumstance. They know what is best for us, they know what we are feeling, and they know best how to comfort us if we will only turn to them. This week long vacation really stregnthened my testimony of so many things but mostly of how amazingly individual the gospel is. We are a part of a universal church that can still be exactly what you or I need on any given day. This church is constantly challenging us to be a little better and overcome the world to live to a higher standard with the help of a loving Heavenly Father who knows us. And it all started with a fourteen year old boy with a sincere question. I am so grateful to be a part of this church! All in all it was a great vacation that we will remember for the rest of our lives. Thanks mom and dad for making it possible for us to go!
Monday, August 11, 2008
It's Over Already?
I seriously can't believe it! It's like I blinked my eyes and summer is over, just like that! Sorry I've been really bad about posting (Thanks babe for the update on here!) I've been trying to enjoy every minute of summer before it's gone and tomorrow morning at 8 AM it is officially OVER! :( It has been a super fun summer filled with lots of fun and relaxin' and I promise that I will post pictures soon from our NY vacation along with everything else that's on my camera. Maybe I'll try one of those slide show things if I can figure it out...
Friday, August 8, 2008
Saludos!
Caren asked me to update the blog this time...so, since she's asleep already, I figured this would be a great time to get away with posting something secret that would embarrass her. You ready for this? I'll write it in portuguese, so she can't figure it out (and I know everybody else out there is fluent in the celestial language). Voce e macaco. Okay, now that that's out of the way, how bout an update: We just went and watched the new Batman movie in Orem tonight. We were the only 2 people in this huge, old-school theater, which was pretty neat. Caren wanted to make out the whole time, but I noticed the movie control guy up there looking down at us. ha Her parents don't read this do they? Sweet movie...definitely be watching it again when it comes out on dvd. Other recent events: we went to the Hill Cumorah Pageant in Palmyra, NY a couple of weeks ago; we moved for the 5th time since we got married 2.5 years ago (with move number 6 just around the corner!); we went camping and four wheeling at the little saharra sand dunes; and we attended a Swedish crawfish boil. New York was awesome except for the trip home (30 hours in airports trying to sleep with no pillow and an airline blanket on the floor wasn't much fun). Camping out with Zach, Amber, Matt, & Dani = good times. Those power quads were a blast, and the dunes were unreal. Moving was miserable...we've still got weeks of remodeling to do at our new place too. I do like not having a bunch of barren house that we're paying for though, which is natural when you move from a 5 bedroom place to a 2 bedroom place. The Swedish crawfish were interesting. Imagine these gigantic, beautifully prepared crawfish by the buttloads that make your mouth water at the sight of them. But, you peel them as quickly as your fidgety fingers allow and pop the succulent tails into your mouth one after another hoping for the cajun flavor you long for on a weekly basis only to cringe from the disappointing taste of DILL. Unless you drowned the tails in cocktail sauce and Louisiana crawfish seasoning, the taste was enough to ruin your appetite forever. Steer clear of the Ikea all-you-can-eat crawfish buffet. By the way, I'm sorry you have to listen to this "Say It Again" song on here...that was all Caren. Please support my request to remove it from the list. = ) And, for your entertainment, Caren is talking in her sleep - no idea what she's actually talking about, but she's saying it like she means it. Welp, I'm tired, and I 've got an early round of golf coming up in the morning. Maybe you'll get to read this before the boss starts editing. Tchau!
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
4th of July (a little late!)
I just love the 4th of July! Parades, BBQ's, carnivals, seeing family and my favorite... FIREWORKS!!! It's just such a fun day to realize how blessed we are to live here, and to celebrate just that. This year we had a cram packed day of fun. It all started at 9am when we went to the Provo parade. We had parked Dustin's van at Provo High the night before so we went to check on it first and it wasn't where we had left it. Turns out that parking lot is where half the floats took off from and so they picked up his van and just moved it (nice of the towing company huh!) Some of the floats were already gone and there were tons of open parking spots so we just parked there (really close to the parade!)
We watched for about an hour then took off to go to Bekah's birthday party. We had a picnic lunch, opened presents and ate cake. She had the COOLEST cake ever as you can see from the pics. It was a flag cake and instead of candles we used sparklers.
It looked SO cool when they were all lit but when they burnt out, the cake was all black. Oops! So we didn't really eat cake, we just looked at it! Ha ha! These are the pillowcases I made her for her birthday!
Then we came back to Provo and positioned the Monster Sak van where it could get some good advertising, then headed home to catch a quick power nap. 4 o'clock rolled around and we went out to Springville for Dustin's family BBQ. While we were all eating we heard a knock on the door and Mom and Pop Robison came walking through the door. SURPRISE!!! We had no idea they were coming. Then we went over to the park and played water baseball where all the bases are little blow-up pools and you have to slide into home on a slip and slide. It was really fun. (I was too busy playing and getting soaking wet that I didn't get any pics but just know... it was really fun!)
That night everyone came over to our house to watch the stadium of fire from our roof. We lined that whole roof top.
While we were waiting for the fireworks this field at the bottom of our hill caught on fire. It was pretty crazy looking. When the fireworks started we didn't know what to watch. Some people went down to check it out and the cops told them to get away because something was about to blow up! Luckily the firefighters got everything put out and no houses were burnt. Then we went inside to have cake and icecream for Roxanne's birthday. 
After everyone left we went down to pick up the Monster Sak van and got stuck in Hannah Montana traffic. Somehow Dustin ended up home in about 15 minutes but the way I was turned, after dropping him off, it took me about an hour to get home! Crazy! It was a long, crazy fun day and we both slept really good that night. Happy 4th of July!
We watched for about an hour then took off to go to Bekah's birthday party. We had a picnic lunch, opened presents and ate cake. She had the COOLEST cake ever as you can see from the pics. It was a flag cake and instead of candles we used sparklers.
It looked SO cool when they were all lit but when they burnt out, the cake was all black. Oops! So we didn't really eat cake, we just looked at it! Ha ha! These are the pillowcases I made her for her birthday!
Then we came back to Provo and positioned the Monster Sak van where it could get some good advertising, then headed home to catch a quick power nap. 4 o'clock rolled around and we went out to Springville for Dustin's family BBQ. While we were all eating we heard a knock on the door and Mom and Pop Robison came walking through the door. SURPRISE!!! We had no idea they were coming. Then we went over to the park and played water baseball where all the bases are little blow-up pools and you have to slide into home on a slip and slide. It was really fun. (I was too busy playing and getting soaking wet that I didn't get any pics but just know... it was really fun!)That night everyone came over to our house to watch the stadium of fire from our roof. We lined that whole roof top.
While we were waiting for the fireworks this field at the bottom of our hill caught on fire. It was pretty crazy looking. When the fireworks started we didn't know what to watch. Some people went down to check it out and the cops told them to get away because something was about to blow up! Luckily the firefighters got everything put out and no houses were burnt. Then we went inside to have cake and icecream for Roxanne's birthday. 
After everyone left we went down to pick up the Monster Sak van and got stuck in Hannah Montana traffic. Somehow Dustin ended up home in about 15 minutes but the way I was turned, after dropping him off, it took me about an hour to get home! Crazy! It was a long, crazy fun day and we both slept really good that night. Happy 4th of July!
Jet Skiing
We thought that we would go out and enjoy the sunshine by spending a day at the lake on some jet skis. The weather was perfect, the water was warm and we had SO much fun! I got to try knee boarding for the first time. I had no idea that you could pull a knee boarder or a tube behind a jet ski. I was really fun!
We played around with Dani, Matt, Destiny and Jake for a while. Then they all left and Dustin and I decided that we would go as far south as you could go. It was about a 30 minute ride and we found this pretty farm. Then we came back. We were EXHAUSTED that night and Dustin actually fell asleep the same time I did which is unusual! We're in love with being out on the lake, and look forward to the next time we can go!
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