Our Favorite Things to do in STG

I have been fidgeting around with this blog for a week now. Having this blog is a big deal I mean it has to be cute and have some kind of personality to it. So I had Chase take a wack at it and this is what he liked and I like it too. I love it. He is cool, I'm glad he likes the idea of this blog and will help me with it cause I have no clue what I'm doing so everyone bear with me on this. 

Basically Chase and I do everything together and we always have fun. We love to go mountain biking, hiking, canyoneering, climbing, ya know the usual fun stuff that you can do in St. George but we also love to go to museums! Yep thats our favorite Saturday activity. Ok so we have only been to two museums down here but they are the coolest things ever. Like my favorite is the air museum. They have the coolest jets and the men who volunteer there are so sweet and smart and I could talk to them for hours, ok I so I have talked to them for hours. Chase and I took our bridals there and it is was so much fun! It was a little awkward at first cause there was so many people there but everyone had fun. My parents loved the air museum and one cute old man asked if he could take a picture with his phone and send it to his wife. Basically awesome. I love it there, I might go and just hang out there cause I'm bored, its that cool. Its also free, you can't beat a deal like that!

My dad was so excited to be there. 

Also today we went and checked out the dinosaur museum, still super cool. You learn so much by going there and its crazy to think about dinosaurs being here. The dinosaur museum did cost money to get into but its worth it. Chase and I spent two and a half hours there and we learned so much so its worth it. 

Besides going to museums Chase and I on Presidents day went hiking over by Snow Canyon. It was so much fun and we got so much needed sun. We were hiking along just talking and Chase goes do you know what would be fun, if we make a cairn. Cairns are stacks of rocks that help mark the trail. So we did and we made it BIG. 

   

I told you it was big. Now we are going to be making cairns every where we go.

Also on the hike we found some petroglyphs! I have done this hike many time cause its the beginning of Arches canyon and last time I did this I noticed there were signs for petroglyphs and I have been determined to find them. You had to be in this narrow canyon and it didn't look like there was anything on the walls. 

But once you looked closer you saw this and so much more! There was stories written on these walls and it was so cool! 

 Its a goat or ram of something.

Thats basically what chase and I do with our free time. We learn and explore cause we are cool! So if you are ever bored in St. George go check out those museums they are great, especially the air museum!

Also I get married in 2 weeks! So much to do! 

My First Blogging Attempt

Well here goes nothing, I am starting to blog. What has the world come to? Me, Amy Francis (soon to be Nelson) blogging. First off I'm not a writer, I'm also not creative, I don't have or take any cute pictures but I like to have fun, especially with my soon to be husband Chase Nelson, and of course my never failing family. So this is my life and the things I do. 

Why did I start blogging? I have the best job in the world, seriously. I work at the Outdoor Recreation and Adventure Center or ORAC. Basically all I do is sit on the computer and hang out with the awesome people I work with. Don't worry guys I occasionally rent things out, fix bikes (mostly flat tires), clean and on saturdays thats when the fun starts, I get paid to go on activities. Like rock climbing, cayoneering, rappelling, paint balling and my favorite mountain biking. But anyways back to why I wanted to start a blog, when I'm sitting at work all bored and have finished all my homework I read blogs and I love it! All the blogs I keep up on are amazing and so cute! So they are what inspired me to do it. The blogs I am currently following are people I know but only from their blogs, which is so incredibly creepy! My favorites of course is Riki Laws or now I should say Sanford. I love her blog, its so fun and she is gorgeous! Also, Something Devine I don't know her but her photos and videos and her work is amazing. Seriously she is so cute. Like I said I'm a major creep! But thats what got me started. So here is my sad, sorry, pathetic attempt at my blog, I am determined to get better. Like I said before this will be about the things in my life, all the fun things I have the opportunity to do. 

I feel so blessed! I have the absolute best family in the entire world. My parents are by far the most amazing, perfect examples in my life. They do so much for me and I cannot tell them how much I love and appreciate them. My sister will always be my best friend. We don't have to talk everyday but I know she cares and loves me and I would do anything in the world for her and my brothers. Sarah also married Sam Thomas who by the way is the coolest brother in-law, he's kind of a big deal and they are expecting a little boy! But now Joe holy moly he is my bro hoe. I don't know what I would do without him. He is my best friend too. We do lots of things together but we also butt heads a lot. I might hate (thats a really strong word, more like really dislike) any and all of his girlfriends. I'm sorry to all of you who have dated him but its true. I don't like you because you take him away from me. So all girls stay away. He is my best friend. Then we have Jake. The odd ball baby of the family. Jake is nothing like what you would expect, seriously this kid came from no where. He comes off as a stinky teenage boy who only like football, video games and being lazy. But he is more than that, he is hilarious! Like seriously I've never laughed so hard when I'm around him. He is more of a sarcastic, blunt funny. Don't worry he is still my best friend. He is the most helpful person I know! He complains a lot and its takes a lot of persists to get him moving but once he does he is awesome! If you didn't catch the pattern my family is my best friends and I love them. I would not be the person I am today without them. I also have been blessed with a large extended family, packed full of uncles, aunts and cousins and we all came from the most amazing grandparents, Larry and Ann. I LOVE MY FAMILY. 

Now moving onto Chase Nelson, my true best friend and the love of my life. I know most everyone is taken back by our relationship because it came out of no where. Trust me I'm the most surprised. Now I have a lot of guy friends, friends who I had crushes on in the past but have always found it best if we stayed friends, so now and what felt like forever I was "one of the guys" best feeling ever (not). So when I had my first date with Chase I was smitten, seriously after he dropped me off I knew it was something different, I wasn't going to become one of the guys! It was the best. Basically after our second date we saw each other everyday until I had to move down south for school but we still managed to see each other every weekend. Guys, I can't begin to tell you how miserable the long distance relationship was. It was the worst. On the weekends one of us couldn't come up or down, we would meet half way in Meadow. Our meetings in Meadow were the best. Who knew that little town would mean so much to me now because I love that town for being there so Chase and I could have long drives talking on the phone with each other, sitting in the back of his truck with a picnic and having the leaves be all fall and pretty and of course lots of kissing that would be interrupted by scary guys knocking on the window asking why we are parked outside their barn. Meadow will always be a special place for me. Fast forward to now, I am 22 days way from marrying him (my best friend how lucky am I) and I cannot tell you how excited I am! March 11 needs to come faster. I'll share more about our dates and the proposal and stupid wedding plans and things. But I have never been so happy and have felt so blessed in my entire life! 

Also I'm going to share lots of pictures cause pictures are the best and Chase and I took our bridals yesterday and I am in love with how they turned out. I've only gotten to see a couple of preview pics but I love them! So enjoy the pics!

All four of us after the worst/best job

The whole dam fam at Sarah's wedding

Just a peek! You will see lots more pictures of Chase and I