Docking 2011

The Young family has a tradition that every memorial day we go Docking. For those of you who don't know what docking is.. it is castrating sheep. It has to be done every year and so we have a get together to have lunch with all the family. It was Ryan's first time and he did really well! So we went up to Promontory and had a day of docking. It was really windy and cold and then when we were all ready to eat it starting pouring and hailing. We all ate in our cars and under a canape. Here are some pics....

 Ryan Docking

 Promontory 

More of Ryan 

Me and Mom (it was her birthday) 

The Girls Showing Their Best Sides  

He is doing so good!  

Me with our niece Taycie  

 Ryan and I when he was done

 GROSS!!! :)

Ryan with our nieces Alaina & Marlee  

 You can kind of see the rain coming done... It got so miserable 

Maybe next year I will try to do it too.... Maybe :) 

Fun In The Sun :)

So last week we had some beautiful days so we decided to take advantage of the wonderful sun and do things outside. On friday we went hiking with Anthon and Jenelle on the R mountain. It was a pretty tough hike but we made it to the top! Ryan and I ran down to the bottom, though I was scared the whole time doing it, we had fun!

Then the next morning on Saturday we went rock climbing. It was us, Anthon & Jenelle, and Jordan. The boys picked a hard spot this time so Jenelle and I only made it half way up. I was glad just to make it that far with how hard it was. It was a way fun morning though!

 Jordan, Anthon & Ryan

Me & Jenelle

Anthon Climbing

Jordan Climbing

Me Climbing

 Jenelle Climbing

Ryan Climbing 

Anthon & Jenelle

Me & Ryan 

Our New Apartment!!

We just moved into our first apartment, in Rexburg Idaho. We live at a place called Hyde Park Apartments and live on the top floor. Its fun to decorate and use all of our new things we got from our wedding! We went and bought a couch, bed and table. It was fun picking them out and now our apartment looks great! I even did a little decorating.

This is our bed, we got it here in Rexburg. The quilt on it was made by my sister Kayli! We love it.

Here is our living room with our couches and coffee table! I put up pics from the wedding, it looks really nice.

Here is our kitchen! Its been fun to cook for Ryan. We also have had some friends over that I cooked for!

And our new table! We love this a lot :)

Our bathroom!

And Ryan's favorite... our office with his new desk and chair!

We are excited to be back up here to finish school, I will be graduating this December and Ryan is planning on graduating the following December. Our semester is full of classes so we are going to become super busy. Its great to be back! :)

Busch Gardens

On March 26th we went to Busch Gardens. Opening Day! It is a huge amusement park with 4 different really big roller coasters and shows. It has the theme of different countries in Europe. Like Italy, Ireland, Germany, and England. Ryan and I went with his mom and brother Brandon. It was such a cold day which meant not very many people went and we got through the lines so quickly. It was the best!

So here we are at the entrance.

The first roller coaster ride we went on was Apollos Chariot. Which is behind us in this picture.

Then we went on Alpengeist, Griffon and Lockness Monster. 

We went to two different shows there! The first one was a Celtic show which was amazing!! Then the other one was called Mix it Up. It was a band dressed up as chefs. They were really good! 

The park was just so amazing with awesome buildings! 

 Ryan got his hand stuck in a trees nose! hahaha :)

Ryan really wanted to go on the water ride so he convinced Brandon to go with him! They got wet but had fun doing it! 

To end the day we had to get Funnel Cakes of course... we got one's that had caramel on them! They were delicious! It was an amazing day and we had so much fun!  The End! :) 

A Wonderful Day in NEW YORK CITY!

Ryan and I decided we needed to get out of Manassas for a day and do something fun. So what's better than making a trip to NEW YORK CITY?! Nothing. I booked our tickets just 6 days before we went. We decided to take the bus there since it would be faster and save on gas. We needed to be in Arlington, VA at 6:40am so we woke up around 4:30 and got ready for our big day.
Here is where we the bus picked us up at...

The bus dropped us off right downtown in front of Macy's. The perfect place to start our long fun day of walking. The first place we went was the Empire State Building. We had only a 25-30 min wait to get up to the top. We were so high up but it was an awesome view and we loved going up! Here we are there...

                                                 

Then we walked all the way to the Statue of Liberty! It was a really long walk but so fun. :) On the way there we saw some cool things. The arch in Washington Square Park had lots of people sitting around and also people performing. It was a fun place. Here we are walking to the Statue and at the Statue... 

Now it was time to walk back to where we got dropped off. So on our way back we walked down wall street... 

 Then we walked all the way to Times Square on Broadway! This was way cool to see...

We then ate the Famous New York Pizza! Yummy!

We then went back to Macy's and walked around there for a little bit. Ryan wanted to go on every floor, there ended up being 8 and a cellar! :) So fun! We then went outside and waited for our bus to come. It picked us up at 6:40pm and then back to home! It was an amazing day! We had fun and plan to go back sometime to do Central Park and the Zoo!! :)

On the way home Ryan listened to the BYU game! I tried listening too but fell asleep in the middle of it. They won which made Ryan happy. We were exhausted so we ended up sleeping the rest of the way home. What a great day!! THE END! :)