The Weekend..

Me, Paxton and Brianna


Daniel, Paxton and Dean

My amazingly HOT husband

Ravinia Festival

Another weekend in Chicago has gone by... This last weekend was a lot of fun... better than last weekend when I was home sick in bed! Dean and I were invited to a Ravinia Festival.. we had no idea what we were doing when we went but we were told it was a "must do" while being in Chicago. It's kind of like a concert except nobody really cares to watch the people perform.. It's more like get your blankets and chairs and some yummy food and chill...for most everyone else it was like get your glass of wine and beer and you're good.. haha people had their candles lit and and even had table cloths on their tables.. it's kind of like a hippy thing.. but, they sit there and listen to the music and play cards or whatever... The people that were playing were the Moody Blues.. dont even know who they were.. that's way before my time. but it was a fun experience!
then on saturday we went to the Glenview city pool. it was SO nice to relax and catch some sun rays! (except now we are burnt!!) but, that wont stop us from going again next weekend! haha we love hanging out with our friends... Brianna, Daniel and of course PAXTON! :) We love them!
Then Dean and I finished off our weekend with a date to the movies.. we saw Grown Ups. It was funny! Then.... we went and ate food at this Italian restaurant down by the Lake. It was a great weekend! :)

St.GEORGE- I love you...

back yard fun


All the kids attacking Uncle Brandon on the tramp


hanging out in the backyard... Papa, Sidney, Bailee, Tiffany, Andy and on the tramp Becks & Will


SO much fun at Grandma and Grandpa's!
Beckham, Brydee and William in the back and in the Cadillac Jay Jay and Corben.
They have races!!



My little family... we miss Roxy so much!!
hahahah I love how Dean is forcing her to look at the camera!


Dean and Allie


Dean went over to my dad's to help him lay cement, my dad has another project of course! :) I love his backyard!! (also in the picture, my grandpa Visser, my dad, Dean, my cousin Cameron Visser and his friend, Marc my brothers friend)


Corben, William, Heather, Bailee, Sidney, Dean, Brydee


Bailee Jane with strawberries all over her


SIDNEY GIRL


Heather, William, Grandma


Papa, Grandma, Brittany, Bailee Jane


Dean, Kylee, Tara and Allie, Tiffany and Sidney


Beckham, Jay Jay, William, Corben, Dean's brother Chandler, and Brydee


Aunt Mallory, Allie, Dean


Uncle Dean and baby Allie


Bugaboo and Lucas


Dean, Bugaboo, and Lucas
(that's what all my nieces and nephews call me, they dont even know who Mallory is! haha)


Baby Lucas

Auntie Bugaboo and Corben!
I LOVE HIM!

WHAT A WEEK!!! Dean and I had SO much fun visiting home last week! We didn't realize how much we love St.George until we left! Mainly because we miss our family! Normally when you take a vacation you GO SOMEWHERE... but our vacation was home! And we loved every second of it! We just hung out with family the whole time! We went swimming at the pool just about everyday considering it was over 100 degrees everyday! And we were finally able to meet our NEW niece and nephew. Allison Jane Hilsmann is Dean's first niece on his families side. She was born May 3rd and is just absolutely adorable. And then we met our new nephew Lucas Alan Stott my sister Heathers baby. He was born April 29th and is a little stud! We love them both so much! Lucky for us it worked out perfectly that we were able to be here for his baby blessing! It was so nice! :) Then, we did something special that we don't normally get to do very often is... we all went out to dinner... and when I say WE I mean the ADULTS.. no kids! :) even though I LOVE being around my nieces and nephews it was nice to have adult bonding time! We went to Chillis and just had a blast! We are always so loud when we all get together and are just always laughing! I love my parents and all my siblings! Thanks for an AMAZING WEEK!!!

Birthday Weekend!!

I had such an amazing birthday weekend!! Dean definitely spoils me! We went to Six Flags on Friday the day before my birthday with our best friends Daniel and Brianna Bryner! :) They were celebrating their anniversary so we decided to all go to Six Flags together! If you know me, you know that I am terrified of roller coasters... but, I over came my fear and went on all of the HUGE RIDES! I had a blast! And the best part about it all is the longest we had to wait in line was 15 min!! It was awesome! We had this thing called the flash pass and it was sweeet!!!

Then Saturday morning is my actual birthday and I woke up to breakfast in bed.. (I didnt feel like anything big to eat so he brought me up some cereal and we ate together in bed. It was so nice... Then, we drove down town and went to the museum of science and industry. I know when you hear museum you're like uhhh.... fun? But this place really is awesome! It's huge and it has everything you could even imagine in there! We had A LOT of fun. Dean and I bought this thing called the City Pass that has tickets to all of Chicago's biggest attractions so we are experiencing it all!!! We love it! Then that night Dean took me to The Cheesecake Factory! It was DELICIOUS and we shared a piece of our favorite Banana Cheesecake.. YUM!!

Dean is SOOO bummed because my present that he got me got shipped in the mail, and it got delievered on Friday but we were gone all day at Six Flags so there was a note on the door saying we couldnt pick it up until TUESDAY because it's Memorial Day Weekend! He even paid extra to ship it here in two days!!! He is SOOO bummed!!! but that just means my birthday is spread out longer right? :) hahha but I already know what it is.. I got a second band to add to my wedding ring!!! I cant WAIT to get it! It's going to be beautiful!! I love Dean with all my heart! He treats me soooooooo good!!!

oh, and the last picture with me at my desk... is my work back in St.George sent me a package with all of these decorations and treats... It was so thoughtful! The ladies I work with back in St.George are SO awesome!

Thank you everyone for making me feel so loved!!! I LOVE YOU ALL!!

downtown adventure...

Dean and I had so much fun this last weekend. We went downtown with the Leavitt family and went to the Sears Tower (which is now called the Willis Tower) We rode the elevator up to the 103rd floor. Which if you know me you know I am terrified of elevators.. I am just really claustrophobic. But it wasn't that bad. All though we were packed in there like sardines. But the boys had a brilliant idea to stand BIG so they took up a lot of space! haha I was closest to the door and got out as fast as I could! ok, that makes me sound horrible. But it was fine! It was SO cool looking out over the city and seeing the big tall buildings! They have this thing up there that is a glass floor and a glass wall that you can walk out onto. It's called the skydeck. It was SO FREAKY. It took me a while to take a step onto the glass. So I had to turn around backwards and step onto it. It was soo crazy. Dean told me to look down and I was terrified. HAHAH there was the city right below me. But then I got used to it and was able to take a few pictures! It was actually really neat!!! Then after that we went down to Dean's work site at Navy Pier and rode Dean's bosses boat up the Chicago river. It was soo awesome to ride in between all the huge tall buildings. What a fun experience. We are enjoying our time out here in Chicago and are so grateful for our friends.

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!

Dean and I celebrated our 1 YEAR anniversary yesterday!!! I can NOT believe it's been a year! That was the fastest year ever!! Not to mention the BEST year ever!!! I LOVE being married to my BEST friend! He is so good to me and we have so much fun together!!
We went downtown on saturday to celebrate... we had dinner on Navy Pier it was so much fun. It such a different life style downtown... there are some WEIRD people in this world!! HAHA we were entertained!
I know it's kinda lame but I dont have any pictures to post from saturday night!! But, Dean bought me a NEW VIDEO CAMERA!!! I LOVE IT!!! So, we recorded a little bit while we were down there!
I am so blessed and I look forward to many many more anniversaries with my love!!!