Another fun weekend

This last weekend Jeff and I made our usual trip down to Utah. This time we went home because it was my Grandma Western's 90th birthday party. My cousin Libby had the party at her house down in Kaysville. Here are a few pics from the weekend.


This is the birthday girl herself! My sweet grandma... she definitely doesn't look 90 to me.

Me and some of the fam... and Cortney and his new fiance, for those of you who were wondering.

My mom and her three girls.... oh and my niece and nephew.

Jeff decided he needed a nap too... I should have brought him a blanket!
They were exhausted! Not to mention the 90 degree heat...

And a HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Angie, Grayson, Andy, Rich and Kathie!! They all had there birthday just within the last week. We love you all and hope you had a wonderful birthday!

Tufts University or University of Pittsburgh?

So we got a phone call on Thursday from the University of Pittsburgh offering Jeff a spot at their dental school. Although this probably should be a good thing by giving us options it has kind of thrown us both for a loop. We have been planning on going to Tufts Univsersity in Boston for the last three months and now we have to evaluate that decision.....and we need your help. Let me give you the highlights.

Boston is undoubtedly a nicer city and we have friends and family that are already living there. Everyone seems to love Boston.....plus people say they would visit us there. Ü


VS.


PITT has a large population of LDS students (15 out of 80) in the incoming class. The tuition and cost of living is much less here and would save us somewhere around $100,000 in four years of school.



We really do feel lucky to even have a choice........but let's hear your input!

Father's Day Weekend

So this is what our weekend consisted of.... eating.... eating.... and more eating! Too bad I didn't get pictures of all the places we ate at!

Friday night right after I got off work (Jeff doesn't work on Fridays) we headed off to Logan (Again). It's starting to become a bit ridiculous and is only going to get worse. But I would dare say that 95% of the times we go home, there is always something going on. And we (mainly I) don't want to miss out on the fun! Maybe I'm just looking for excuses to go home. So what, I enjoy being with family and friends. We often joke that maybe we should have lived in Logan and commuted to Idaho Falls for the week days to work. We would have spent just about as much money in gas!! Oh well... we might as well take advantage of the 2 1/2 hour commute while we can. I have a feeling we won't be coming home quite as often when we live in Boston. ;)

When we arrived in Logan we planned on going to Jeff's nieces' dance review but we were a little late getting into Logan and we couldn't get a hold of Ang. So instead we got a call from Jeff's dad to come join him, Andy, and Missy at Firehouse. If anyone knows me at all they will know that I CAN'T turn down an offer to eat at Firehouse. Even if we had just eatin at Bajio's for lunch and I wasn't all that hungry. :) Firehouse is my all time favorite resturaunt! For some reason, I am always in the mood for it, even if I ate there the day before. I'm still not sure what I'm going to do when we move to Boston. I told my mom she may have to send some chicken cordon bleu pasta and foccacia bread in overnight delivery. (Although I'm not quite sure how it would taste once it got there.) Anywho, after dinner Jeff and I went over to Angie's and played Settlers of Catan with Ang and Shane. It's starting to become my new favorite game even though I've yet to win! Dang you Jeff!



Saturday for lunch we met up with Stacey and Brian at Fredricos. It was fun to get to talk with them over a very yummy lunch. It's seems like it's been forever since we've seen them! Thanks Stacey and Brian for going to lunch with us! It was fun catchin up!

And here is Stacey and Brian... don't they make such a cute couple?? :)

I was unsuccesful at getting a picture of all of us together... so you get them in peices...

Jeff and I went to dinner at Chili's with Marci and Jason, my cousin Janelle and her husband Dan. Kelli met up with us at dinner. (I only got a picture of the two of us.) It was fun to see her, even if it was only for a little bit. She had just gotten back from Bear Lake, if you can't tell from her sunburned skin! Afterwards we went over to Marci's and played Ticket to Ride and Settlers of Catan. Yes I know, we played again. And although I still didn't win, neither did Jeff. So that makes losing a little easier.

For Father's Day, Angie invited all of us over to her house to have tin foil dinners. It was a blast! This is a few of us sitting around the fire waiting for our banana desserts (bananas with chocolate chips and marshmallows) to finish melting. I've never had that before... definitely a must try! Jeff added it to the top of his list of favorite treats. That's sayin something coming from Jeff!

Here we are enjoying our delicious dessert! Thanks to Steve and his kids for introducing it to us!

One more picture of us eating our dinners. Jeff made mine and his tin foil dinners with hamburger, potatoes, carrots, and onions. Very yummy Jeff, you did good!

I failed to mention that before we went over to Angies on Sunday, I went over to my grandmas with some of my cousins and my sister and her kids and had a little taste of their traditional ham and potatoes meal for lunch. So as you can see... the majority of our weekend was spent eating! Bajio and Firehouse on Friday, Fredricos and Chili's on Saturday, then grandmas and Angies on Sunday. Wow... time to burn off some of those calories I put on over the weekend. I should probably be running instead of blogging!

Even though Jeff isn't quite a father yet, I wanted to let him know how much I love and appreciate him and how excited I am for him to be the father of our kids! I know he will be an excellent dad... I can tell just by watching him interact with all his neices and nephews. It's so going to be so fun when we have kids of our own to play with! One day we will experience the joy of being parents! I can't wait! (Well, I can wait for a while)

Also, since I was unable to spend Father's Day with my dad (my parents were out of town) I just wanted to tell him thanks for being such a great dad! I really appreciate all you do for us. You've always been such a hard worker and a great example to me. Sometimes he may come across a little gruff, but he really is a kind, soft hearted, caring guy on the inside. You just have to crack the shell a little to find that out... :) I remember countless times he has been the one to stick up for me even when the rest of the family is against me. Maybe that's because he feels bad for me. Whatever the reason, thanks dad! I know you'd do anything for us, even if that means breaking your pocket book! Like I said, just crack the shell and he'll soften up.

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY EVERYONE!!!!

Barack Hussein Obama

So...this is my first post on the blog and I think it would be very valuable to everyone to watch these two videos. Kimi thinks I'm too opinionated about certain things but I'm OK with being opinionated on something as important as electing a new president of the United States. I'm posting two videos dealing with Obama. I have a hard time seeing why people are so enamored with him. The first video is pretty long (13 minutes) so when you have some spare time, check it out. The second video is Barack Obama's view on the military. Now, I'm not some military nut but I believe that we can achieve "peace through strength". We have had the most powerful military in the world for some time and all we have done with it is liberated the oppressed and freed nations. I can't think of anything scarier than to have him leading our nation. I don't know who I will be voting for but I do know it will NOT be Barrack Hussein Obama. -Jeff

My cute niece and nephew..

Here are just a few pics of my new little niece Brynli and my cute nephew Carson.

This is the first day I got to see her! She was born while I was in Hawaii so it gave me something to look forward to on the long trip home. She is such a doll! Don't ask what my little sister is doing behind me... she'll love that I put this picture on here. haha

This is Memorial Day at my grandmas house. Every year my grandma cooks a huge breakfast for all the kids and grandkids... such a fun tradition. I only got a picture of me and Brynli. :)

You'd think this was our own little family. It kinda makes me laugh to look at it, this could become a reality check in a few years... We couldn't get Carson to smile, he was too involved in his show.

This picture was taken about 5 seconds before she literally threw up (not spit up) all the milk that was in her little belly. I have never seen a baby do that before. Seriously, I've seen a lot of spit up in my day... but I would dare say she could have filled up a very large cup. I guess I shouldn't have been throwing her up in the air so much. :) jk... It was so sad... and she didn't even cry! She really is such a good baby, I've only heard her cry once.

I love this picture...

Baby Brynli... 3 weeks old.

Hawaii: Videos

Sea turtle at Turtle Beach.

This works way better than sunscreen. :) Jeff calls me Shake 'N Bake. I seriously looked like shake 'n bake chicken when I got out.

Brief clip of the fire-knife dance at a luau we went to.

Watch these people getting taken out by the waves at Waimea Bay. I had a blast just watching everyone. Jeff almost gets taken out himself while trying to get a good video of the waves.

Hawaii: Week Two

Beware: This is a long one. The second week in paradise we stayed at Jeff's parent's condo at Ko Olina. This location was quite a bit different than Waikiki. It was very, very nice and isolated so it really felt like an exclusive resort. Our rooms were so nice and everything was beautiful there. We had a car this week so we were able to go to the north side of the island and go to different beaches and see stuff up there.

This is part of the golf course right by the condo.
The view of one of the swimming pools looking down from our balcony.

Arriving at the condo.....and the view from the lobby.

Aren't we a cute couple? :)

Outside the condo....Jeff didn't want to get in the pictures with me. I think I wore him out the first week with all the pictures.

See? Just me again at the lagoon outside our condo.
Playing Phase 10. I mean "winning" at Phase 10. :) This is the only game we could get Tony & Kathie to play with us....Oh, and golf. We played it a lot.

Just before church. We went an hour early/late....who starts church at 8:00, 10:00, and 12:00???

Chief Sielu doing his fire-knife dance at the "Fia Fia" luau.

Jeff and I at dinner on our 1 year anniversary. We made it our first year! Thanks Jeff for putting up with me! You are such a great husband! I love you!

Me and Kathie at the condo. We got Lei'd! Haha!
Me being me....again. :) Jeff and Tony.....apparently the got lei'd too.
We went to turtle beach and saw tons of sea turtles. We were able to get real close to some...it was awesome.

They were huge and they didn't seem to mind that we were right there.

My friends think Jeff looks like Ariel from the Little Mermaid in this picture. They didn't even notice the turtle!

Here we are at Turtle Beach.

I was talking on the phone to my friend Laci and before I knew it Jeff had completely buried me in sand.

I had to get off the phone so he could finish his work.

The pretty sunset we were able to catch during a luau at our condo.

Here is another one...
Jeff is proud of this picture. He took it off our balcony...what a photographer!

Here I am at Sunset Beach on the Pipeline. We made a quick stop to check out the waves on our way up to the Polynesian Cultural Center.

The Hawaii Temple.

Here is another picture of the temple. Notice how hazy it is. This is how it was for the last few days because a volcano was erupting on another island.

The canoe show at the Polynesian Cultural Center. We were able to go to a lot of different villages and watch a bunch of shows. Then we went to a luau and had some yummy food.

Waiting to go watch the night show at the Polynesian Cultural Center after dinner. This was a really cool experience....I would highly recommend it to those going to Hawaii.

We met Jeff's mission companion and his wife at Waimea Bay. I mentioned earlier that the waves got big here. Well, here you go. Jeff claims they can get twice this size. Look at Jeff's face in the picture, it makes me laugh. :)

Here is a better angled picture of the waves. You can get a better idea of how big they were. I'll admit... I was too chicken to get in the water, Jeff thinks I was a wuss, but I don't care, I wasn't about to get taken out by those things! People were getting wiped out all over the place! It is a good thing Jeff had his companion with him to play in the waves. I will post some videos of this later.

Dinner on the golf course at the condo. We watched the Jazz lose to the Lakers here....poor Jazz.

Me and my Aunt Vicky hangin out by the pool. Her and my Uncle Don happened to be staying at the same resort at the exact same time as us. Crazy! It was fun hanging out with them in Hawaii.

Jeff's companion, Paula Nonu and his wife Lose, came down to the condo and hung out with us for a day. They are both from Tonga and are currently going to school in Hawaii. It was fun to meet them. My uncle Don played water basketball with them....he took my spot because I wasn't much of a match for the three of them!
The Nonus and the Wegeners

One last picture before we took off to the airport....such a sad day. We weren't looking forward to the LONG flight home!! We flew all night and arrived back in Logan around 1:00 pm... what a long day! A BIG THANK YOU TO TONY AND KATHIE FOR TAKING US TO HAWAII WITH THEM! We appreciate all you did to make the trip a memorable one! We'll never forget it! Jeff would like to add....Aloha...and Mahalo. :)