Fun days in Oregon

Shawn and I pulled into our home at around 2:30 am on a very rainy Monday morning. We had just had another amazing trip to Oregon, but we were happy to be home. Blake, Savannah, Jared, Amy, Shawn, and I all came back home for a few days to celebrate Blake and Savannah's Oregon Wedding Reception. We were also joined by all of our aunts, uncles, cousins, and all of the Woodley cousins too. We had such a fun time and the weather was perfect. We brought along, Melissa Weed, one of my mission companions and favorite friends in the world. I have added some random pictures of our fun trip home. We love going home, and will not be back until Christmas, so sad. But we love every oppurtunity we have to spend time with our family.
Here is Shawn wakeboarding, his first time boarding was in July when we went out for the Fourth of July, he went out again this trip and is doing so good and loves it! Here is Melissa Weed and I on the boat.

And here is Shawn right after he got out of the water. We drove out to the beach to spend a day with our grandparents and to take Melissa out to the beautiful Oregon Coast. It was such a clear and warm day. Even though it does not show it in this picture, Shawn really did have a good time.
Weed and me on the beach
Here is a picture of Savannah, right before the reception. The night was nice, it was fun to see lots of our family and freinds and Savannah looked beautiful.

Here is a cousin picture, my Grandma Nelson wanted to get a picture of almost all of the Nelson cousins that were together for the wedding. We were missing a few but it was so fun to have everyone together. It is crazy to see that our oldest cousin, Kjerstin is in her 30's and the youngest is baby Charlie, and he is just 2 months old.
While we were in Oregon, my youngest brother, Kyle had his first varsity footabll game. He got to start both ways and did awsome even though he was nervous to have all of us there to watch his first game.
And we stopped by the Beautiful Portland Temple on our way out and on to Utah, we are so blessed to have such an amazing Temple so close by!

Again our Oregon trip was perfect and full of lots of fun memories. We always want to thank mom and dad and Kyle for taking such good care of us when we come visit. We cant wait to see you all soon....(hopefully for October Conference)

Shawn's first day back to school

Here is a picture of my handsom man on his first day back to school. He is all ready to go. Tonight I am making him a special "first day of school dinner" he thinks it is kind of corney, but I love to celebrate everything, and today is a very speical day since it is the first day of another school year-and we will only have 7 more of these to go before he is done with school!

Tubing down the Provo River

Shawn and I went tubing down the Provo River with Shawn;s MTC companion, Mike Johnson and his wife. It was a perfect day, very warm and sunny and we were so excited to go. Tubing down the river was one of the things we wanted to mark off our "Fun Things To Do List" We got into the water and it was freezing cold and the current was very strong where we entered the water. Since the water was so freezing I was still trying to adjust to the water and being alittle bit slow and everyone else was way ahead of me. Well, I was on my way down when we came to a bridge in the water, the current took me to the left side of the bridge and made me hit one of the pilings that went into the water. I got flipped off of my tube and sucked under the water, the water was so powerful in that spot that it took me a few tries but I was finally able to make it to the surface to grab onto my tube. While being taken under water I lost my shoes and my hat (my favorite hat too) and I scraped and bruised my legs really bad (now I have 4 big bruises on my legs and my whole left leg is all one huge gash from my knee to my ankle). This was a very scary experience for me especially since I was by myself and everyone was way ahead of me. Shawn realized I was not behind him and he stopped and waited for me. But by that time I was freezing, wet, bloody, and a little scared to continue on. But Shawn promised to stay by me the rest of the way down the river and even let me hold onto his tube most of the way. By the time we reached the end of the river I was having fun and was happy to go and even happier to mark this off our list of fun things to do. Mike and his wife Kesha Johnson.

Braydens Blessing

Sorry but I have been slacking on the blogging lately. We had lots going on recently, but things will be slowing down now that Shawn is back to school and the summer is coming to an end. Here are some pictures taken a few weeks ago in Ogden as most of the Platt family was able to get together for baby Braydens Blessing. We met everyone at the church, Brandon did a great job on the blessing and it was so fun that Joseph (who just got his mission call to Knoxville, Tennessee) also got to stand in for the blessing. Then after church we all met up at a fun park and had some yummy food and lots of time to talk and watch all the kids play.
Here is a great group shot of almost all the Platts (sorry no Ben and Becky, Cael, or Brecon....but we do miss them alot). And here is a picture of Shawn holding cute little baby Baryden (I hope I am spelling his name right) . He is the newest addition to the Platt family and such a good little happy baby.
And here is a cute picture of Grandpa and Grandma Platt.
we love getting together with all of the family for special events like this, its always great to see everyone and especially all those cute little nieces and nephews. Shawn and I love to see them!

Olympics 2008

I just have to mention how much I love the Olympics! I have always looked forward to the Olympics every few years. I love the winter Olympics (especially since they were in Utah and since I got to go to a couple of events) but I really really love the summer Olympics. Shawn and I stayed up half the night watching the amazing Opening Ceremony and now we both look forward to wasting away most of our evenings rooting on the Americans in swimming, basketball, gymnastics, and beach volleyball (some of our favorites). I get my Olympic updates on my computers at work and then watch the "while you were sleeping" updates while I am working out at the gym, then I will call my mom and we discuss the different events and cool stories we get to hear about each night. Like this morning my mom and I were discussing how the American Women's gymnastics team fell apart in their last two events...I was sad. I was rooting hard for the Americans to overcome the Chinese.

These dang Chinese are good at gymnastics and diving and it is causing me to hold a little bit of prejudice against them, because I hate them beating the Americans ...I know thats not very Christ like or good of me (and it is the opposite of the whole point of the Olympics; which is to unite the whole world together) but I am sure I will get over it when the Olympics are over. Until then I am loving the fact that I am wasting so much time watching and keeping up with the Olympics. GO USA!!!

Blake and Savannah Nelson

Blake and Savannah were married in the Rexburg, Idaho Temple on August 1. It was a beautiful sealing and wedding. We all met at the temple at noon and my Grandpa Nelson did the sealing and he did a great job. Savannah looked beautiful in her dress and Blake looked smitten with her, he is so happy. After the Sealing we looks some pictures and then headed to Plano, Idaho for the Family Lunch-which was yummy. Then later that night we went to the reception at Savannahs house, which was beautiful as well. The night was perfect, the couple looked happy and anxious to leave...now Blake and Savannah are in Costa Rica for the next week. It was so great to Blake so happy and in love, he has always been such a great brother and friend to me and I am excited for the both of them and for Savannah to join our family. Here is a candid shot of the siblings (minus Brock on his mission and Shawn at this dad's wedding). I thought it was a cute one

Blake, Savannah, my mom and dad The Nelson family...growing and growing. Again everyone except for Brock and Shawn.
So, my husbands father also got married on August 1, but in the Mt Timpanogas Temple. We had to spilt up for the weekend (the first time we were apart since we have been married...very sad). Shawn went to his dads wedding and then up to Evasnton for the family dinner and reception and went up to Rexburg for Blakes. I was sad to miss my father-in-laws wedding, I would have loved to be there, especially since all the family was together. But I was also sad to not have Shawn with me while we celebrated Blake's wedding. Either way both weddings turned out great and I am hoping to get some pictures from one of my sister in laws of the Platt wedding.

Now, we just have the Oregon reception at the end of the month!

Hi-Tech Woman!

Check me out, I am becoming quite the Hi-Tech Woman. I just got a new Blackberry Curve from work this week, and I love it! Not really sure how everything works, but don't you worry I have been reading up on my little booklet that it came with. I want to make sure and maximize all of the cool little features that I can.

*pictures from Blake's Beautiful wedding on its way...