Friday, July 11, 2008

Rach's Detroit Trip

Rachel just took a trip to Detroit. She works for this accounting firm ...
Some of their clients are in Utah, but some are around the country and require travel. This week Rachel went to Detroit to perform an audit on a beef jerky company haha. She went on a tour of the factory and got a little more than she bargained for ... and I guess it smelled really bad!

But they do make good beef jerky, if you're into that type of thing..


Big Room all to herself



Not much to see in Detroit, this was the only picture she took - 8 Mile ... Eminem Movie I guess.

First half of July

July has been a blast so far, and it's only going to get better!! The night before the 4th of July my family spent the night up at my aunt and uncle's cabin in Heber. Tyler had been planning on being at the Parade House all day on the Fourth, but he decided to take the day off when we put together these exciting plans! It was fun being up there with the family. That night I went to the Oakley Rodeo with Steven and Uncle Todd, Katharine, Annie, & Nell. It was Steven's first Rodeo so it was alot of fun being there with him!









On the Fourth of July itself ... we started out the morning with some yummy breakfast, games, ATV rides and then went to the Lake. It wasn't the greatest day for skiing / boarding, but we got some good tubing in! Let me just say the water was just colder than anticipated and little Arizona girl needed a wet suit haha.





Then, that night we went to the one and only country club buffet dinner and fireworks! My dad was there somewhere... he just avoids the camera!


Now We've got Troy coming home from his mission in less than two weeks, and a family trip to Huntington Beach in less than three weeks! Yay for summer!!

Monday, June 30, 2008

One Down ... Three to Go!!

Utah Valley Parade of Homes -- DONE!
Northern Wasatch Parade of Homes -- (June 27 - July 12)
Salt Lake Valley Parade of Homes -- (August 1 - 16)
Park City Parade of Homes -- (August 23 - September 7)






The Utah Valley Parade has come and gone! Tyler hung out in this media room in Lindon for about two weeks! There were tons of great contacts who walked through and were interested in Imperium. Tyler and the guys have already started preparing bids and meeting with several people they met.




On June 20, I went home to Mesa to see my best bud Carly Higginson get home off her mission! She's doing so great and I'm excited for her to move back up to Utah in a couple months. (I need to get the other pictures of just the two of us from her...) Here is a pic of Brook, Hillary, Carly and me. We were pretty dang colorful!



Now Tyler is spending his time at the Northern Wasatch Pardade of Homes. They've got 5 homes and he's rotating between Mountain Green (near Ogden) and Bountiful. He took some pictures of the houses last week when they were getting finishing touches...
We're busy but doing great! Now we're excited for the 4th of July and Rachel's family visiting Utah this week..

Monday, June 2, 2008

June

Wow! It's June -- how did that happen??

Summer has begun and now Tyler will spend the next 3 months of his life in Parade Homes in Utah! From Utah Valley to Northern Wasatch to Salt Lake then Park City ... busy summer but they've done a lot of homes this year!!

Right now we've got the Utah Valley Parade through June 14th. Check him out, he'll be in home 14 & 16 with the system they installed!

Monday, May 19, 2008

WE MOVED

It was sad to leave our little apartment in Provo. We'd lived there ever since we got married! But now with both of us driving to SLC every day -- it didn't make much sense to waste hours driving & hundreds of dollars on gas each month. So... for the summer we are living in the Papa's house in Lehi. They are in Cali this summer, so we're just renting it from them while we find out where we really want to end up in SLC.










Upstairs we've got all our bedroom furniture, but downstairs it's mostly their stuff. We're enjoying living in a neighborhood and excited for this new phase of our lives!

Sunday, May 18, 2008

Vegas Take 2!!













So, there was an earlier post about Tyler going to Vegas and leaving his wife behind.. well this last Vegas trip, the wife was invited! A week after graduation we stayed at the Luxor for 2 nights on the strip. Tyler did a little work while Rach did a little sun bathing. We saw 2 cirque de solei ?? spelling ?? shows -- KA and Le Reve. Both awesome and very different from eachother. Ka was the fire picture, and Le Reve was a water show.

It's been a crazy two weeks since that Vegas trip, Rachel went to Arizona for 3 days, Tyler went to St. George, & we moved to Lehi! So it's been crazy and we'll update in the next day or so with some more pics of our temporary house in Lehi...

Monday, May 5, 2008

GRADUATION

I'm a BYU Graduate! We had a fun weekend with family & friends in town for graduation last week... It's kinda crazy that now we are both BYU Grads, leaving Provo and joining the young professional crowd. Salt Lake City -- here we come!