Happy BIRTH Day Ryder!

My sister Jami gave birth to this little man on Monday!

He is definitely a keeper.

Kars and I got to go up and see him on Monday night. He is so tiny and so dang cute.

Congratulations Christiansen clan,

We love you all!

On the way home from the hospital... my dear car got a flat tire. Luckily we were not too far from the hospital so my dad came and helped. We have had NO lucky lately in the car department!

my first half marathon!

Yup! That's right, I did it!

I ran a half marathon and I didn't die!

A few months ago I signed up for the Provo trail half marathon in hopes to get in shape and to drop some of those unwanted pounds that have seemed to find me since I have been married! I thought it would be a great motivator to get me out and start running. I was a bit nervous because as the race approached, I wasn't training as well as I should have been. My main goal was to finish the race without having to stop and walk. I am proud to say I ran 13.1 miles without taking a break! I am a pretty slow runner so I came in at 2 hours and 25 minutes but hey at least I came in! I felt pretty good until I hit about mile 11. That's when the tears started coming and I had to motivate myself to keep on going! Let's just say seeing Kar's at the finish line was a very welcoming sight! I am so happy that I did it. It was probably one of the harder things that I have done in a long time. I can't wait to do another one in the near future! I just have to give it a while so I can forget the pain I felt a few days after!!!

One year down... eternity to go!!!!

Tomorrow is our anniversary!

I cannot believe that we have already been married a whole year! It honestly seems like yesterday that Kar's and I met. I love everything about being married. I love being able to sit in bed and laugh at each other. I love being able to spend time with each other. I love that he is my best friend. I love that he will someday be the daddy to my children. I love that Karson is the one that I get to spend eternity with.

Happy Anniversary Kars.... I love you more than you know

Park City

This weekend we went up to Park City with the Morgan clan. We stayed in a really pretty condo and had a dang good time. Here are some of the highlights of the weekend…
King size bed
Eating at the seafood buffet
Spending the day at the Park City Resort
Swimming at the condo
Arts Festival
Eating at Bandits
Eating a yummy apple pie caramel apple
Shopping at the outlets

Thanks Connie and George for the fun weekend!

Kars taught me how to play chessEating at the seafood buffet

The crater at the Homestead

Kar's flipping on the human sling shot thing-a-ma-jig!

Kars and Ellie

Ellie and I enjoying our apple!

Kars and I were racing on the Alpine slide and this is what happend. Now we know why they say don't race on the Alpine slide. Lets just say I won!

Morgan Family Reunion

Karsons grandma held a family reunion at her house over the 24th of July weekend. It was a big three day event. I didn't take any pictures of the whole weekend for some reason so these pictures are from Connie. (thanks!) One of the days we went to Fountain Green up this really pretty canyon and watched the boys rock climb. Hopefully next time I will be able to convince myself to do it! Than later that night they rented the Nephi pool and we got to swim for a bit before we headed to watch Mona fireworks which were amazing. It was a really fun weekend.

Karson rock climbing

everyone swimming

pedicures, a wedding, and a day at the park

My older sister Nikki was married on Saturday and to prepare for the big event all the girls (except the Parduhn girlies) went and got pedicures a couple days before! It was so relaxing. It was a lot of fun being with my mom and sisters too. We always have fun together.

Jadi. Mom. Jami. Me

The bride to be getting her nails done!

My niece Jadi loved getting her nails and toes painted pink


My sister was married in the Mt. Timpanogos temple on Saturday. We love her husband and are so excited to have him in the family! The wedding was very hot but very beautiful. I left my temple recommend home in Nephi and for a little while there didn't think I was going to be able to see my sister get married. It was about five minutes before the ceremony and I told Kars just to go up because I didn't think I was going to make it. I'm sure the people at the temple thought I was crazy because I sat in the waiting room crying. About ten minutes later the guy grabbed me and told me to run up and see my sister get married. I don't know if they got a hold of my bishop or not I just started bawling. It was so amazing to walk into the sealing room and see my whole family sitting there. I know I was able to get a little glance into what heaven will be like. It broke my heart knowing that my whole family was up in that sealing room, and I wasn't going to be let in. That they didn't think I was worthy enough to be in the room. It would be so heartbreaking to know that you wouldn't be let into the celestial kingdom and to be with your family forever because you were not worthy enough. I can't describe to you the feelings I felt when I was able to walk into the room and see my husband, my parents, and my family. I am so grateful for the temple and for the blessing it brings and knowing that families can be together forever. I am so happy that Nikki and Tipper made the decision to be married in the temple. It was an amazing experience to see them be sealed. Hopefully now I will never forget my temple recommend.

Tipper and Nikki

My whole family was together for the whole weekend so we decided to make a day and go to Lagoon. It was really a lot of fun. It was hot, but fun. The little kids were so excited to go and it was so much fun being with everybody. My brother and his family live up in Boise so we don't all get together a lot. I am so thankful for my wonderful family. We always have so much fun together no matter what we do.

Some of the crew

Kars and I

Ella Bella running through the water.

Mac, Sophie, and Kars running through the fountain to cool off.

Sweet little Sophie

Ella loved the water

Kars and McCord

Kars doesn't do well with rides so he sat on the bench a lot with my 8 1/2 month pregnant sister! He was such a trooper.

Waiting in line for a ride.

Riding on the Ferris Wheel. Don't mind that I'm very sweaty and Kars looks like he might throw up on me.

Doesn't he look like he is having a blast!

Kars and my brother riding the Ferris wheel. Don't they look like a cute couple?!

All the boys had a bet to see who could throw the ball the farthest. This is Kar's attempt.

and he won a bat!!!

ute stampede!

This last weekend was the annual Ute Stampede. This might be one of the most exciting things that happens in good old Nephi! We were able to go for two of the three days and had alot of fun! We went on Thursday night with the whole Morgan clan! We were not able to go friday because my sister had her endowments taken out in the St. George temple. She is getting married this Saturday and we are really excited for her! Its a beautiful temple. We had alot of fun. On Saturday we went to the rodeo with a bunch of friends! I think im getting bad at taking pictures because I only had my camera Thursday night sadly! I love the Ute Stampede and am already looking forward to next year!

Nixon's first horse parade! He is a little stud.
The hubbster.

The amazing rodeo burgers.

My BF tanner. Another little stud!

The whole family