Mr. and Mrs. Shoogs

Spring and Summer Fun...Thus Far

2010-07-20T20:59:00.000-07:00

we have had a great summer so far. we have been busy doing fun stuff, and loving it! this is a GIANT post! this is what we have been up to, photo style...

camping

the drive up.

beginning of a long 4-wheeler ride. looking pretty clean here.

is that michael jackson?! no just my husband that hates dust, gotta love him.

getting a little dusty

lookin good

super dirty

a bunch of dirty gals

clean at last :)

a little bella and edward reinactment. how could we resist with a meadow like that?

family...

our destination!

everyone says halle is my little mini me.

so my dad cut this huge stump in half and decided to put it over the fire to see what would happen (he knew ants were living in there). low and behold this is what happened...tons and i mean tons of ants came out and they just kept coming. i must say it was entertaining. (sorry kenz, they aren't nice though, they do bite)

campfire time, smarshmallows anyone?

mmm smoresnothing like a nice camping nap to end the trip. thanks for a great time dad and gaylynn, we always love this trip!

4th of july

every year, for as long as i can remember my grandpa takes the whole family down to the stadium of fire at the Y. we always have a wonderful time, no matter who the guest singer may be. it was carrie underwood this year, and she was amazing! prettiest national anthem i have ever heard, and all the rest of the songs she sang were great too.

they did a tribute to eagle scouts..yay for being an eagle scout!

a little fun with the glow sticks, we are like 12 year olds.

me and my sister made these cool flag cakes. they were fun, but not too easy, maybe we are just no good at the fancy stuff. with how much trouble we had in the process though, i thought they turned out pretty good, and they were delicious!

we are so grateful to live in this country, for our freedom, and for those that protect it. i love this holiday more and more every year.

girls weekend!

one of our good friends, we do a lot with is, garretts best childhood friend, jeff, and his wife gretchen. i have gotten to be good friends with gretchen and i love it. she invited me to go on a little girls weekend to park city/heber a little bit ago. we went shopping for like 7+ hours one of the days, it was fabulous! never had such great shopping partners. we ate, sat at the pool, ate some more, and just had a good time. hopefully there will be a round 2 at some point. thanks for the invite gretchen!

dinner at the yummy baja cantina.

yummy crepes

main street. i know i look 7 ft. tall.

we went on the scenic ski lift ride to the top of the mountain. it was fun and pretty scenery.

Las Vegas. St George. Memorial Day

over memorial day (forever ago, i know), we went down to st. george and stayed in the marshs parents condos with some great friends. it was us, the marshs, browns, stuarts, and the wings. we had so much fun, like we always do with this crowd. us and the browns went to vegas for one of the days, and ate at maggianos, yummy!!! and just did the vegas thing. the rest of the time some golfed, we swam, played tennis, ate, played volleyball (which has become tradition), and just hung out. thanks again kenz and andrew for making it all happen.

sisters.

the ladies

random summer fun

real games

Inception with the wings

boating...

golfing

eclipse!!!

we helped linds and jim out at the car show cuz jim was out of town. we worked the coke truck. it was fun, but i wish it would have been warmer, so it would have been a better turn out. this was in june, and it was freeezing!

we are so lucky for such great family and friends that we are close with. we have so much fun, and do so many fun things. it took me 2 days to finish this post, so it is now our anniversary. 4 years ago today we were married! i can't believe how fast time has gone by, we have grown a lot over the last 4 years, and have become so much closer. we are celebrating this weekend, so i will post more on that later. happy anniversary babe, i love you!

holy crap...

2010-05-21T07:04:00.000-07:00

last night was the greys anatomy finale (possible spoiler alert) and wow was it a finale! me and my cousin emmy got together to watch it at her place. it was the most dramatic, emotional, nail biter episode i have seen in a long time, probably EVER. i was almost hyperventilating i was so upset at times. garrett reminds me this is just a tv show and i don't really know these people...but that is sure not how it feels in the middle of it. i obviously have a problem, but i don't care. anyway luckily none of my favorites died but at the end of the night me and emmy had been through quite the emotional roller coaster. thanks for having me em.

now hopefully the LOST finale will not disappoint because this definitely did not.

My First mini Triathlon, REAL Season has begun, Tennis, and some other randoms...

2010-05-18T18:35:00.000-07:00

i have not posted in FOREVER. i just have been super lazy and have not even wanted too...well now here is an overload.

i did my first very mini triathlon on may 8th.
150 yard swim - 2.4 mile bike ride - 1.4 mile run
my sister ashlan called me the week before and had a couple people not able to do it anymore and talked me into filling in one of the empty spaces. i did pretty good for not "training" for it (i have not swam or ridden a bike in like a year) but i do workout at ozonefit so i know thats what allowed me to do ok in it. so ashlan, gaylynn, and i did it and it was fun. i had a good time, and will definitely consider another. it was the perfect size, MAYBE i will work up to a real one...one day???

here i am swimming

at the finish line (garrett missed me on the bike)

my honey was cute and came early with me to carry my bike in and out of the truck and to take pictures of course. hopefully he will be doing the next one with me. :) my cute mom came too which was very nice of her to get up early considering it was her birthday.

REAL season began!! now if it would just warm up for the games.

my little brother Jackson came with us last week and i had to post this picture, because it looks like he is totally shirtless under that red and blue jacket. he really was wearing a shirt but we got a good laugh when we saw these pictures.

of course some tennis with the wings.

we had a girls night a LONG time ago (priesthood) and made lots and lots of treats.

my mom just had a birthday and we celebrated with some yummy dinner, and this delicious cake. it is a bundt cake from the store nothing bundt cakes in sandy. they are delectable, i suggest you try one. this was the red velvet and it was really good but not as good as the chocolate chocolate chip we got the first time (and i'm not a chocolate lover).

and i just wanted to post this..i love his smile.

we have also seen some good movies. iron man 2 of course and robin hood this past weekend. we enjoyed both of them quite a bit! gotta love the movies. p.s. has anyone been to the century in bountiful since it got redone? if so how is it? worth giving a shot? we are sooo ready for summer, can't wait for some HOT weather!

Happy St. Pattys Day!

2010-03-17T19:52:00.000-07:00

today i had my first meal of corn beef and cabbage in honor of st. pattys day. i was surprised to find out that i enjoyed it as much as i did. i thought i hated cabbage but i actually liked it. it is amazing the things we find out we like once we actually try them...i guess i should speak for myself. so thank you to gaylynn for having us over for this st. pattys day tradition!

now i really want some of these red velvet cupcakes with a little green food coloring going on. they are oh so cute and look delicious! i got these pictures off of bakerella. i just discovered this blog last night off of another friends blog, and i am loving it. it is bringing out the inner domestic goddess in me.

i just thought this was a cute little hat and shamrock.
happy st. pattys day everyone!
p.s. happy birthday to ashley on last sunday, ashlan on monday, and lindsey today! hope you all had great birthdays!
p.s.s. soooo happy about this spring weather we have been enjoying! keep it coming!

Wonderful Day

2010-02-10T19:26:00.000-08:00

this last friday my cousin emmy got married. i did her hair, so the day started bright and early at 7:15 a.m., and then it was off to the ceremony, the luncheon, and later on the reception. she has been living at my moms house for the last year and a half while going to school at the u of u, so we have gotten to be pretty close. she made a beautiful bride, and they are a great couple. we are so happy for you emmy and aaron! we love you!

it was also a very fun day, because i got to spend the whole day with my sister, and when i say the whole day i mean like 15 hours! our husbands weren't able to get the day off for the ceremony and the luncheon and were going to meet us at the reception so we drove out together to save on gas. she picked me up at 9 to go to the ceremony, then after that we did a little shopping at nordstrom! always fun. then came the luncheon and the reception. after the reception we decided to go see a late show of dear john. so we sent our husbands home and continued the girls day with a sob fest at dear john. it was fun to get some sister time. especially now that we get along, growing up...not so much, but now she is my best friend (you too linds). love you ash, hopefully you didn't get too sick of me :)

the last couple of weeks...

2010-02-02T13:51:00.000-08:00

we have been up to quite a bit the last couple of weeks, here is a little sampler.

garretts good friend nic turned 30, and his wife threw an awesome party with tons of yummy yummy food. it was a fun night, most of garretts friends have kids which makes them much busier than us so we don't get to see them very often, so it is always a treat when we do! the two pictures below are some of garretts best friends from high school.

from the back..

from the front..

we also went to sundance with the wings. we had an always delicious dinner at baja cantina, love that place! then we went and walked around on main street. it was FREEZING, but fun to be up in that atmosphere. it snowed the entire time we were there, so the drive home was an hour and a half, with about an hour + of that being in the canyon. needless to say thanks jimmy for your patience and getting us home safely!

-here are some pictures from the evening-

we saw "chloe" from 24. not even sure of her real name. she was pretty nice, and let us take a picture with her..too bad she is blinking. ah well.

and of course it would not be an outing if garrett did not make a new friend. even better they bonded over there love of star wars.

and yay, my little brother got home from his mission on last thursday 1/28/10, at 2:15 p.m. the whole family was there to greet him an the airport. here are all the nieces and nephews waiting to see unlce jackson.

there he is! (you can't really see him, i know)

welcome home elder broderick!

it has been a good couple of weeks. garrett also had a cousin get married this last weekend, and we were able to attend the wedding dinner and also the wedding reception. and this weekend my cousin emmy gets married! so excited for her, only 2 days left! more to come on that later.

Snowmobiling 2010

2010-01-20T14:47:00.000-08:00

so in the winter garretts family goes on a snowmobiling trip in the uintahs. this is year number 3 so i think we can consider it a tradition by now, that will hopefully continue. we stay at a place called bear river lodge in christmas meadows, utah, about 25-30 min. outside of evanston. it is a cute little group of cabins, that are homey, clean, and well kept. they also have a LARGE hot tub, that is wonderful to soak in at about 1:00 a.m. (that is davis time for most peoples 10:30-11:00 p.m.). luckily i am a bit of night owl myself. the past couple of years we have rented a snowmobile for one of the days, but we decided to save the money this year. anyone who knows me, knows that i have grown to hate the cold and the idea of being bundled in that many layers with a giant helmet that makes it impossible to hear anything except the noisy engine for hours (what seems like an eternity to me)...so needless to say i was none to sad about the idea of saving some money and skipping the snowmobiling part. now i know i sound really boring and negative, i really do enjoy being outdoors, just not in the cold anymore. i wish i did. anyway, it was really nice garrett and i got the whole cabin to ourselves all day saturday. we watched a movie, took naps, had some cheese and sparkling cider, and just lounged around all day. so so nice, that is a vacation if you ask me. sunday no one rented snowmobiles, so we all slept in, had a big breakfast, watched a movie, played games, ate some more, and just enjoyed each others company. oh and the hot tub, way later on. then it was home on monday. it was a very nice relaxing weekend, just what we needed!

garrett with the sparkling cider

me with the sparkling cider, cheese, and yes that is a pink snuggie-thanks ash and brady!

the candy bar game

the ladies doin' a little cooking.

garrett with all of his green skittles

he was lucky with the dice that night

i have to talk about the famous "skittle game" - you have a large bowl of skittles in the middle of the table, everyone has there own smaller bowl and a straw. you quickly go around the table rolling a pair of dice. if you get a 7, 11, or doubles you get the big bowl of skittles and then you suck as many skittles into your own bowl with your straw, until of course someone else rolls 7, 11, or doubles, and they take it away. i must say i usually dominate as this game, until ginas husband teaguer came along, then i had some good competition. but not this time, first of all i NEVER rolled what i needed & every time i did (garrett was sitting right next to me) i kid you not he took it right away so i had time to maybe suck 1 or 2 skittles. i was furious!!!! and the worst part is, is that garrett only sucked the green ones..what is that about, and he won!!! he is usually not even a competitor in this game. just goes to show you, you never know whats going to happen. still mad at him..oh ya, he also got his highest score in yahtzee that night and rolled two yahtzees. he should have been in vegas instead.

headed to the hot tub
(not sure why the picture has lines in it)

on the way home :(

Christmas & New Years 2009

2010-01-05T16:08:00.000-08:00

the holidays have come and gone. hard to believe they are over yet again, they go by way too fast every year. they are busy, but it is always so fun to be with family. some of our events for the month of december included: family parties with my moms side, dads side, and garretts dads side, garretts company party, christmas concert with the mormon tabernacle choir, the buds 5th annual sweater party, and of course garretts 30th birthday party! unfortunately i really didn't get too many pictures of the birthday party but it was fun. we ate fettucine alfredo for dinner and better than sex cake for dessert, and enjoyed great company all night long. here are some pictures from some of our outings.

at the sweater party we are fortunate enough to be invited to

garrett won for his whole ensemble!

most of the davis family

a glimpse of christmas eve day & night
(i don't know why it is so blurry if you click on it, its better)

for new years we first went to garretts sisters for a crab party. it is always good to see some of garretts friends that we don't get to see very often. then we went to lindsey and jimmys to ring in the new year. they are always gracious hosts and always have red vines. :)

the browns

happy new year!

the wings

new years day was also fun. it is so rare when garrett and i get a day off together because i work on saturdays when he is off, so it is fun to get to spend the whole day together. we went to the outlets in park ciry with my family and did a little shopping with christmas money. then we lunched at baja cantina...yummy mexican food. then we met up with some of garretts family and saw avatar. which i was very hesitant to see but i actually did enjoy it and garrett loved it. so we would suggest that, maybe not in 3d though, the glasses bugged.

the fam at baja cantina

2009 was a good year, a few great trips, new job for garrett, me becoming an independent stylist, and just spending another year together. we are blessed with wonderful friends and family surrounding us and just feel blessed with life in general, really not too many complaints. our big new years resolution for 2010-get a house! and many other things as well. we hope everyone had a happy new year and hope for the best in 2010-a new decade! crazy.

Little Darlings & 1 Sweet Sweet Angel

2009-12-09T20:36:00.000-08:00

look at these little darlings:

the girls

wyatt kennadee
halle bronson ryker
(they look a little chilly)

all of them again but a little warmer

the boys

and look at this little angel..i couldn't resist putting this on here
she is so precious and has stolen garretts heart

we have THE cutest nieces and nephews we are so lucky, i am bias but i just don't think they come cuter than this. sorry ashlan i stole these off of facebook...thanks for posting them though!

cute husband...

2009-12-04T20:50:00.000-08:00

i am sitting here watching my husband play with my little niece and nephew, wyatt and halle, and he is just so cute with them. he is tossing them around in the bean bag and is having just as much fun as the little ones are. earlier on in the evening he came to the light parade in front of my work, just for me, and then we went to dinner and laughed a lot, now we are just hanging out with the kiddos. he is such a great husband and is going to be a wonderful dad...some day. i am fortunate to be his wife.

happy thanksgiving

2009-11-29T14:16:00.000-08:00

i know this is a few days late, but happy thanksgiving! i hope everyone had a great holiday enjoying family, food, and friends. i know we did! it was my moms year, so we borrowed the church for the day and ate, played games, talked and hung out with all my aunts, uncles and cousins. later in the evening we watched transformers 2 in my dads new theater - great work by the way dad!. a wonderful way to cap off the evening.

this thanksgiving season i am grateful for many things, but these things especially

my wonderful husband
ALL my family
the gospel
good, loyal friends - we are lucky to have a lot
a job i really enjoy
nature and music
movies and my tv shows
all the cute boots this season-i am in love!

happy thanksgiving again, bring on christmas and all that comes with it! read on..there are a couple new posts, we have been busy having fun.

Seattle and MLS Cup Championship Game 2009

2009-11-29T12:08:00.000-08:00

this past weekend garretts whole family (excluding his parents) and i borrowed my grandpas 12 passenger van and drove to seattle. the purpose of the trip was to go to the MLS cup championship game that real salt lake played in (more on that in a bit). we left friday night after work and drove through the night, got to seattle at about 10 am seattle time, saw the sights in seattle the rest of saturday and sunday morning, went to the game, ate yummy pizza in our MOTEL room, went to sleep and drove home all day monday after repairing the van window that jj's head went through (no permanent damage done). it was a whilrwind weekend but lots of fun! p.s. garrett and i LOVED seattle, it is so pretty there! here is a glimpse into the weekend...

SEATTLE!!!

the LONG drive

in and around pikes place market-

the famous space needle, of course.

the whole clan eating dinner at the revolving restaurant
- sky city -
at the top of the space needle.
very expensive food and know that if you are going there you are paying for the experience. in my opinion the food was not great (i don't like fish though), but the experience was worth it, and the service was great.

seattle by night - on top of the space needle
thanks to husband for this picture as i was sleeping inside on the table since i had been up for about 22 hours at that point.

one of the highlights of the trip was this place called snoqualmie falls, they were huge and so misty! in this first picture you can see a little resort that looks over the falls and the river, garrett and i are determined to get back there for a anniversary or something and stay there.

we stopped by to look at the seattle, washington temple. here are some pictures of the temple and, in my humble opinion, some of the prettiest surrounding temple grounds i have seen. it is so green there, and there are so many huge trees full of color and life. they have this little area off to the side that is like a little mini forest with tucked in benches to sit on and an arch made out of trees. simply gorgeous.

real salt lake are the MLS cup champions 2009!

end regulation
real salt lake 1 - 1 la galaxy
penalty kicks
real salt lake 5 - 4 la galaxy

it was so exciting to be there and made the 13 hour trek well worth it! hopefully this will mean good things for the team and they will get even more support from the good citizens of utah!

the game, and the beautiful stadium:
we were up there, but i would say our seats were pretty great. we could see the whole stadium, the whole field, and had a great view of the city.

we win! we win! so happy. as you can see by garretts attire he was conflicted because he is such a big beckham fan. but i am here to say that he was genuinely excited and happy for rsl.

some of garretts friends who are also big real fans drove up for the game as well.
we met up with them for a quick picture.

back home in sandy at the celebration rally at rio tinto staduim

ole ole ole ole real salt lake
ole ole ole ole real slat lake
ole ole ole ole real salt lake...
until next year!

New Moon!

2009-11-29T11:21:00.000-08:00

on thursday november 19th, 2009 we went to see new moon at the gateway. one of my clients rented out an entire theater for a pre-screening at 9 pm and so i proceeded to get a total of 56 tickets for family and friends. it was a blast, and so nice to not to have to stay awake into the middle of the night, although i glady would have done so.

we went with some of the fellow twilighters to the yummy olive garden before the movie.
that food is so stinkin good!

we were able to talk my mom into coming with us
isn't she the cutest mom?! i love her

here is some of us at the movie. my sisters in law and i had some really cute sweats embroidered to say "new moon" on the bumb and "twilight" on the back of the zip up hoodie. they turned out really cute, thanks to ginger for putting all that together. i had a few people call me wanting to get some made, had we known they were going to be such a hit we would have put a patent on them and made some money! jk i am certain we were not the firsts. also, so good to have our good friends jeff and gretchen pettey with us! i know it was a sacrifice jeff.

my personal favorite photo of the evening:
my own personal edward!

we had a fun time and i LOVED the movie, way better than the first one. and unlike some of my fellow team edward friends i did not switch to team jacob..tisk tisk. thanks lisa for renting out the theater and letting me buy 1/4 of it! only 7 short months till eclipse! make fun all you want i know i am obsessed and am not embarassed.

happenings as of late...

2009-11-09T21:54:00.000-08:00

we have been up to some fun stuff lately here is what we have been doing,

ashlan and nick martin welcomed baby boy
bronson pearce martin
11/9/09 6:34 pm
8 lbs. 9 oz. 22 in.

he is a cutie, and you can't tell in this picture but garrett was nervous holding him. every time i looked over at him, his face was classic-a little frightened. he hasn't been around a ton of babies and it is cute when he is because he is so gentle and just so worried about how fragile they are..he will be a very good dad one day.
happy BIRTHDAY bronson!

today is garretts nephew, spencers birthday! i don't know if it was sweet...but it was 16!
we celebrated saturday night with a surprise party with his high school friends and all the family. his dad got him a jeep cherokee..watch out salt lake city! i guess we now have 2 nephews with the same birthday.
happy birthday spencer!

we went golfing this last saturday afternoon with the wings at bountiful ridge. it was lots of fun and a beautiful day, the last two holes got a little chilly once the sun went down, but it was a great afternoon! thanks for inviting us guys.

the ladies

they boys.

there were tons of deer on the course, linds was worried she was going to hit one..luckily she did not.

can't wait for new moon..only 10 days!

ashley and brady took us to the jazz game the other night..
they played the spurrs and they won! (can't remember the score but it wasn't too close)

sisters

the browns, thanks again for taking us! we always have fun with you guys

Happy Halloween!

2009-11-03T21:33:00.000-08:00

halloween was fun this year, it started off for me at the trunk or treat on main street in bountiful. i work on main street so i always attend that, and it was jam packed this year with lots of cute little ones. i was sad i missed the real salt lake playoff game with garrett, but at least he got to go. they won 1-0! they play their second playoff game this thursday, go real! then we headed to the "senior brown residence" (bradys parents) for a little party with some friends. everyone came in costume and the browns made great hosts with great food!

the cute festive items of food and decor., done by my cute sister, ashley brown.

my love and i were
sweeney todd -the demon barber of fleet street -
and mrs. lovitz - the meat pie queen -
from the broadway play sweeney todd.
we thought it fitting with me being a hairdresser.
i truly look evil and am really not this unhappy all of the time
garrett really does not want to kill me..i don't think

the marshs and the wings went as polygamists
they were both surprising each other and showed up as the same thing,
i guess cousins think alike!
some classic portraits of the happy family...

my cousin and one of my favorite people - emmy (the blue fairy)
and her FIANCE - aaron (pinnochio)
they got engaged on halloween, so happy and excited for these two!

the rest of the group:
another duplicate two sets of the swine flu - the christensens and the browns
the thomas' as themselves, the stuarts as 80's rockers,
and the brodericks as clowns.

all in all it was a great halloween. thanks again ashley and brady for all your hard work! p.s. does anyone know why my pictures upload kind of blurry? i don't get it they are not blurry on my computer at all, just when i upload them onto here..if you have any advice please help me!

Wedding times 2

2009-10-20T21:18:00.000-07:00

garrett had a brother and a sister get married recently. one in september and one a month later in october. they were both special and wonderful in there own way. here is a glimpse into the two days not so far apart from each other.

grant and audra davis

09/09/09
LeJardin sandy, utah
yay grant, you did it!
a beautiful night.

the beautiful reception center:
if you are looking for a
gorgeous garden
type place
then look no further

the tippy cake

how cute are they? my family is so cute
and came to both weddings, i have
the best family around!

my cute sister-in-laws

just us hanging out

the gentlemen

cake, toast,
garder, dancing, etc.

goodbye to utah, aloha to hawaii!

gina and teaguer 10/10/09 slc lds temple
we are so happy for these
love birds.

all 7 bridesmaids

the ever important details

the ladies
(since the last lady in the family got married
we decided to take a picture of all of us in our wedding gowns)

the gentlemen

just hanging out at the reception...

the traditions:

the happy couple saying there goodbyes

the weddings were a lot of fun, we are so happy for both couples, although it is nice to get back to regular life..that is for at least 5 more weeks till thanksgiving and the holidays! geesh this year has gone by fast. that means only 4 weeks till new moon! yipee! up next..ashley and bradys halloween party. what to be, what to be?

Mexican Riviera..and welcome to blogging!

2009-10-04T13:47:00.000-07:00

we got back a couple of weeks ago from a much anticipated cruise to the mexican riviera we had a great time...

cabo san lucas,

mazatlan:

puerto vallarta..

here is a glimpse into our personalities

introducing us:

everyone

the ladies

sisters and brothers in law

the handsome husbands

browns

marshs

wings

activities that kept us busy onboard:

garrett won the gold medal

for free throws!

our wonderful assistants on the ship..made us feel like royalty

going home :(

wow, that took forever i can see why some people don't post lots of pictures all the time. speaking of lots of pictures, i know that was a ton, i guess i am no good at condensing. well we now have a blog, we are not too exciting but i figure this is a good scrapbook/journal! so world of blogging welcome..Mr. and Mrs. Shoogs!