SF Friends

New blogger and new baby....

2008-08-30T14:02:00.004-06:00

So since this NEVER gets updated, I thought I would post something. Our good friend Kandis decided to join the blogging world, which is great! And I of course had my baby--which you all know by now since she is one month old! It's so crazy that summer is already over...where did it go? I've had so much fun reading about all your fun adventures the past few months. Carly needs to update more and Lyndsey just needs to start a blog.:) Hope everyone is well. I miss you all!

Love,

Lindsay

Lindsay's Baby Shower

2008-04-05T09:15:00.005-06:00

As most of you know, I'm throwing a baby shower for Lindsay while she's visiting from North Carolina. After speaking with most of you, it was quite difficult to decide on a date where all of could attend. I know we are all busy women, so I tried to pick a date where the majority of the girls could attend. The shower will be on Saturday, April 12th at 7:00 at my house in Spanish Fork. Please try your hardest to come! We don't get a chance to get together as much as we should, so this is a wonderful event to come and have a blast with friends!

Please let me know if you can come and send me your address so I can send you an invitation.

2008-01-22T19:45:00.001-07:00

Hello all my long lost friends from S.F,

So after moving to D.C., we finally started a blog. I know you all probably forgot I even existed! What have we been up to these past few years? Working, school, a few vacations in between, and of course having our first baby. What are we up to now? Josh is interning for Senator Harry Reid in Washington D.C. and loving every minute of it. We live on Capitol Hill where Josh is able to walk to work every morning. The area is very nice and close to several Metro stops. I catch the metro with Grace a few times a week. We have gone to lots of museums together just her and I, and she really loves all of this mommy time. There is so much history here, so many things to see and do, that our free time is spent walking around the Capitol. We will be here until May and possibly longer. Josh has recently applied to graduate school and he is hoping to attend school somewhere here on the East Coast. He is looking to do a dual MBA and Masters program in bio-technology. That about sums it all up! I miss you all and hope life is treating you well. Here is a link to my blog if anyone wants to keep in touch. amiejosh.blogspot.com

Best wishes,

Amie

Kandis' Christmas Card...

2008-01-20T11:39:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone!!!

This is a belated Christmas card.....sorry we didn't get one in the mail!!!

I just wanted to wish you all a very Happy New Year!!! I hope all is going well! I wish you all happiness and success in the coming year.Colt and I are doing very well. We are still going to school and working....the usual. I am in my final year of pharmacy school. I graduate in May with my PharmD degree. (I know it has been 7 years!!!) Colt also graduates with his bachelor’s degree in May. Colt has applied to medical school, and we are getting ready to start another great adventure involving more schooling!!!! (We can't seem to get enough) We don't know where we are going to school yet, but we will let you know when we find out. Colt has been accepted to schools in Arizona, Nevada, and Missouri. He has interviewed at the U of U (they won't let us know until March/April if he is accepted), and he is interviewing in a couple of weeks at the Medical School of Wisconsin (I know, cold). I am voting for the U for a couple of reasons: to stay in Utah, and for cheaper schooling!

We recently had an opportunity to go on a cruise to Mexico, and it was a blast. Colt and I just decided to go by ourselves, and we had the time of our lives. We went to Puerto Vallarta, Mazatlan, and Cabo San Lucas. Since our Spanish skills are less than spectacular, we had to resort to our expansive knowledge of English, and especially Russian to communicate with the locals. It's amazing how universal 'Corona' is! I have never seen so many drunk people in my entire life!!! The couples we ate with every night could not get over the fact that we didn't drink, and so we got the nickname, 'Utah.' We went snorkeling (in 55 degree water...it was painfully cold), parasailing, and hung out in Cabo. Our favorite Port was Cabo San Lucas. The water was beautiful, and we were able to hang out at Colt's new favorite place...Cabo Wabo Cantina. It is a restaurant and club that has live music all day and night. It is owned by Sammy Hagar the former Van Halen lead singer, and so the entire place is themed after Van Halen. Colt was in Heaven.

We had a wonderful holiday with our families. We feel blessed for the opportunity to spend a lot of time with them, especially if we end up moving away. Its nice to have most of them close.That pretty much sums up our year. We hope you have all had a wonderful Christmas season, and took time to enjoy the festivities. Most importantly, we hope you had the opportunity to reflect upon the purpose of the season, and feel our Savior's love. I love this time of year!!

Have a Happy New Year.

Love,

Kandis

Picture at Cabo Wabo after being at the beach

New post please.....

2008-01-20T11:17:00.001-07:00

Alright ladies, it has been how long since the last post on here? We have all been complete slackers to say the least! So how about an update from everyone. I know now that most of us have our own family blogs (come on Lynds and Kandis, jump on the bandwagon) but we still need to give props to the friends blog, haha! It sounds like everyone had a great Christmas with their families. Hope everything is going well with you all. Updates soon!

Love,
Lindsay

Oh and if any of you have forgotten the username and password, email me and I will give you the info.

Carly's Blog

2007-09-23T17:24:00.001-06:00

I finally did it! I created a blog. carlyandbrock.blogspot.com I now have a good reason to have one so that I can post pictures of our puppy! He's not a child but it sure feels like it sometimes! Hope to see you all soon!

Love,

Carly

2007-08-22T09:10:00.001-06:00

Hey girls,

Even though I already added this to my blog, I thought I would put these pictures on here too. Thanks to all of you for coming--and letting Kaitlyn eat of your plates, haha! It was such a fun night and I think Lynds really enjoyed it! We will have to get together more often--I do travel to Utah about every few months!

Love, Lindsay

And the party continues......

2007-08-21T23:31:00.002-06:00

We had a wonderful time at Lyndsey's Bridal shower!! It was so fun to meet her soon-to-be husband, Nick! Thanks to Lindsay for putting on a great party! For Amberlee and I the party didn't stop there. I seemed to push my car to the limit getting to the shower so when I pulled out of Lindsay's parents house to leave I found myself without any gas!! Luckily Amberlee came to my rescue. She followed me down as far as I could make it, then we went to the nearest gas station to fill my gas can up. When we got back to my car we realized there was no nozzle to pour the gas into!! Needless to say it was a sight to see, two blonde girls at 10:30 at night trying to fill a car up with gas in the middle of the road! Amberlee is a sweetheart, and it is so nice to know that our friends are there for us no matter what. Wish I had a picture of us, it was pure comedy! It was so good to see everyone-hope to see you again soon!
Love,
Carly

Congrats to Lyndsey!!

2007-08-09T13:21:00.001-06:00

Yeah, It is true!! Lyndsey is engaged! I am so excited for her--she totally deserves to be happy and I have never seen her this happy before! Lyndsey and Nick are getting married on October 9th. I sure wish I could be there for the big day. I am going to be throwing a bridal shower for her at my parents house so I will send you all an email to let you know when--since I am going to be in Utah next week it will be pretty soon. Anyway, congrats Lyns! Can't wait to see the big rock you are now sporting!

Grandma Afton

2007-07-23T22:27:00.001-06:00

I would like to give a special tribute to Grandma Afton...

Lyndsey's grandma passed away today from cancer. When I heard the sad news, I couldn't help but think of how wonderful Grandma Afton was! I remember the good ol' days when she used to feed us during our high school lunch hours. She was so patient with us invading her house! She treated us with the utmost courtesy and respect and I admire her so much!

Let us all keep Lynds and her family in our prayers and make sure we let our loved ones, who are still with us, know just how much we love and appreciate them in our lives.

We love you Lynds!!

Amberlee's Newsletter--July

2007-07-22T07:37:00.001-06:00

HELLO FRIENDS!!

I am so glad that Lindsay decided to start up a newsletter! I am so excited to be able to hear from everyone and the events taking place in their lives. Hopefully we can keep this going for a long, long time...

Well, Casey and I have officially moved back to Utah! We lived in Florida for a year and hadn't planned on leaving for 5 years, but a work opportunity came up for Casey that we just couldn' t turn down - so here we are. We enjoyed Florida so much and miss our family there tremendously! There is nothing like moving 2500 miles away and growing physically, emotionally and spiritually. (Linds - you know what I mean!) It was a bitter-sweet feeling having to pack up all of our "stuff" after a short year and move home. I was extremely excited to be home, but I will never forget the incredible experiences I had as a Floridian!

We are waiting to close on a home here in Spanish Fork. It is in a beautiful new subdivision up by my mom's house. I wasn't too excited to live in Spanish Fork, but our circumstances kept us here. It a wonderful home that we can live in short-term until we can build something more permanent in a few years.

Casey is adjusting well to his job. He is working up in Salt Lake right now and is not enjoying the drive every day, but luckily it is only temporary! :) After being VERY bored in Florida, I have decided to get a part-time job. I will be doing some registrar work at a charter school in Spanish Fork. I am also their Drill Team Advisor and Dance Company Advisor. It is a 2A school that is in it's 3rd year and so I'm excited to get to build their dance program. While it sounds like these responsibilities will be keeping me busy, I have worked it out to only be at the school 2 1/2 days a week and have my sister tend Talon. This way, I still get to get out of the house and not have to worry about a stranger tending my son.

Talon is doing great! He is the best little boy in the world! (I'm sure everyone thinks that about their child!) He turns 1 in a month! I can't believe I had him a year ago! Time flies! He is getting ready to stand here soon... HOPEFULLY! He is being such a "chicken" about standing by himself! I'm hoping he will be walking by his first birthday... its not looking like that is going to happen! I thought since he was an early crawler, he would be an early walker. Oh well, all in good time! My family loves having him here. I think my niece Jayden is more excited than anyone since she can pick on someone smaller than her!

Surprisingly, it is beginning to come together here for us. We took a big leap of faith coming back here, and I think it was worth it! I look forward to the future and what it holds for my family.

I look forward to seeing all of you soon. I would love to have a lunch date once a month so we can at least see each other! Let me know if you are interested.

Amberlee

Julie's newsletter--July

2007-07-22T07:29:00.002-06:00

Hi!

It's great to hear from everyone. I have to admit my life hasn't been as crazy as everyone elses. I guess I'm the lucky one that hasn't left SF.(maybe I shouldn't say lucky). But my life has definitely been changing.

So Richard and I have been very busy. You guys might get bored being home and not working but let me just tell you that you're pretty lucky. I wish I didn't work so much. I guess it will all be worth it later. I'm still teaching dance at the studio. I've also been working with Richard. His business has grown a lot thru the last two years. We have been very blessed! I schedule his work for him for window washing and we've gotten into the construction side of windows and final cleaning. So on top of that and dance I stay pretty busy. I wish I had a little more time to stay home with Ammon. I too love being a mom. But like I said it will be worth it.

We are just getting ready to move. Don't worry it's just across town. Like I would leave SF, Haha. With the business growing our townhome just isn't quite big enough. So we've built a house down by the new ballpark. I have to say I'm pretty excited. It's really nice down there. I will be in walking distance to my parents and Jaimi. Richard's a little nervous about that!

I've been serving as the Junior Primary chorister. You think they'd call someone that can sing, but nope. I've been doing this for 2 years. It's actually pretty fun. It might be one of the best callings. Richard has been the Young Mens President for a year and a half now. It keeps him pretty busy. Lots of meetings. I will be happy to finally be able to spend all Sunday with him.

Ammon is growing up fast. He's six months now. Just getting ready to crawl. He actually already does an army crawl and gets around pretty good. He is a happy baby. Only cries when he's hungry or in his car seat to long. Lately he's been crying a little more. I think his first tooth is coming in. It is so fun to watch him change and grow up. What an amazing experience. I love it!

Anway, things are going great. Having my own little family has been so much fun. It's kind of crazy to be at this part of life, but I really love it. My family has been growing. Ammon was the 6th grandkid and Jaimi is exspecting a boy Oct. 23rd. I'm glad Ammon will have a cousin his age. It's not fun being younger than everyone and being left out, although the girls love to play with him. Matt & Liz sold KMA, kind of sad but what can you do. Other than that I can't say that much has changed. We're all still here in good ole SF.

I'm always up for getting together. I was bummed I couldn't last time. Give me a call when you're planning on getting together. August it perfect. It's my vacation from dance. Talk to ya soon,

Julie

P.S. I don't really know what I'm doing, but I tried to attach a couple of pics.

Carly's Newsletter--July

2007-07-22T07:19:00.001-06:00

Hello Ladies,

It has been so fun reading the newsletters! Great idea Linds! First, I hope everyone is doing well and I can't wait to get together and have lunch. August works great for me. Brock and I recently graduated from the University of Utah. I graduated with my Mass Communications degree in Broadcast Journalism and Brock graduated with an Exercise and Sports Science degree. Although he does nothing in his field of work right now. He is in the CSD (Church Security Department) for the LDS church. He loves it and he comes home with some inspirational story every night. Most of what he does is supposed to be confidential but needless to say he is in good hands. Unfortunately he was wakeboarding last week and tore his ACL and meniscus on his right knee and will go in for surgery on August 3rd. He made it through four years of football without an injury and now this!

As for me I am working at UVU as the Artistic Director of both the Dance and Cheer teams. It is a new position so it has been fun the last couple of months to work with the school on moving to University status. I love working with the girls and it keeps me young! I also teach dance a couple days of week at Progressions- my aunts studio. And on the side I sell designer jeans! I sell everything from True Religions to Rock and Republics. It is really busy but I get to do it with my sister in law who lives in Spanish Fork so it brings me back to SF town every once in a while.

We live in the north end of Saratoga Springs. We really like it out here, although it is not another state is definately far enough out here to sometimes feel like it! Brock and I are sunbeam primary teachers. I am pretty sure I will not be baby hungry any time soon. Our families are doing well. My little brother Trevor just had eye surgery due to a detached retina, he is doing much better now. My dad is still single, what's new! Landon and Jenny live in Springville and my Mom and Mike moved to Orem.

I have talked to some of you about this but Chelsea Chipman has asked if our group of friends would help organize and plan our 10 year high school reunion. I need to get more details from her but I thought it would be fun and of course the coolest girls in school will have the best party!! Let me know if any of you have ideas. Can't wait to see you all!

Love,Carly