More Summer Pics...Jackson Hole and Yellowstone, Island Park Cabin Trip, BYU Football , Labor day, back to school

I decided I'd post something again, give Andrea a break!
Well, summer is over, school started this week. It was nice to just work full time over the summer, and not worry about school! It was fun to relax on a few vacations, too Here are pics from Jackson, with Andrea's fam. We went white water rafting, which was a lot of fun I must say! Andrea's whole fam went, even her grandparents! They're all hard core white water rafters. Andrea and her sisters insisted on sitting in the very front, so they got soaked! We spent a day in yellowstone national park, and saw a lot of cool wildlife, geysers, and old faithful. We spent a day shopping, always fun when you are with a bunch of crazy girls! Theres pics from Island Park, Idaho. We were there a week with my fam, and had fun mountain biking, fishing, kayaking, rafting, going to the dinner theater, shopping in west yellowstone, and riding 4 wheelers! Poor Andrea drove her 4wheeler off into a ditch though! She was trying to be cautious & slow (since she drove crazy and wreckless last year, and rammed head-on into a tree and got whip lash!) that she started rolling backwards when going up a hill. The back wheel got caught, and she and the 4 wheeler fell into a 7 foot ditch, and again, right into a tree! Luckily, she was okay, just some scraped up legs, a hole in her pants, and a broken nail. Too bad no one had a camera. Weve had a great time watching the summer olympics, go USA! We got a new, big HD tv just in time. Theres pics from when we went to 7 peaks water park with Andrea's sisters when they were here,it was fun except we all burnt! I posted pics from labor day, we went up to my parents for BBQ, hot tubbing, and also ended up driving my moms new pink mo-ped around, some random pics, byu football game day pics, and some from after we went back to school shopping, and were trying on our matching Dakine backpacks. The one of Andrea is so funny because you can still see the tags on in it in the mirror. We went all out on back to school shopping this year, to reward ourselves for working hard this summer, we got a lot of good stuff. Well, we're excited to finish BYU in April! I'm working on Law School applications right now. Andrea is still going to be working full-time as an RN, and be taking classes, I'll be doing the same. The 1st football game was this Saturday, and we won! We all got sore throats from screaming so loud. It was a great kick off to the school year, and football season. We're nationally ranked again, so it should be a good season. We all went out to eat at the spaghetti factory after to celebrate. On Friday, we went to the new movie, Traitor, which was great, and then ate at Bajios, our favorite mexican restaurant. We had our marriage enhancement class together tonight (first class we've taken together so we're excited) and afterwards went on a date, to enhance our marriage, to the movie Babylon A.D., and out to eat at Red Robin...Can you tell we're trying to cut back on eating out? Haha, not going so well. Andrea is a great wife, I love her so much... she surprised me a few weeks ago with fun passes for a Carnival cruise in November. I'm stoked! I looking forward to a week long cruise,Cabo san Lucas, Ensenada, and Puerto Vallarta here we come! Well, life is great with the Nates! I figured out how to make it so you can leave comments, so please do. Happy blogging.

Summer time

So, I thought I should actually post something on our blog for a change. We've had a really fun summer so far.We went boating with my family last weekend so I've posted some pics. Andrea was so cute wake boarding, love that girl. You can check her out in the video I posted. It gets boring because I was waiting for her to biff it, but she never did. She was just too good! We even got my mom to drive, and my dad on the tube, since he got a new life vest for fathers day. Josh drove crazy when we were on the tube and flipped us off, but its okay because both him and steph fell off more times than the rest of us combined! Well, we've been to like 4 new movies recently I have this thing about going to movies on the first day they come out. Dark Knight was definately the best one. Other than that, we've just been staying busy playing sports, softball, basketball, and tennis, hanging out with friends, going to the water park, and going to the gym (since we don't have school as an excuse not to go).

Seattle Trip

We had a fun vacation in Seattle for a week in June! Of course it rained most of the time, so we kept our rain coats on. We spent a whole day down town along the water front, and ate lunch at Ivars fish bar....yummy. We visited pike's place market, and saw the men who throw the big salmon around, it was quite the sight. We also took the monorail for a stroll through downtown, it was lots of fun being up high with all the sky rises. We had a good time shopping downtown in the big city and made a lot of purchases. Okay, so I went a little crazy. Preston surprised me with dinner at the top of the space needle for our 2 year anniversary! It landed on a day that we were up there, so it worked out perfectly. It was amazing! The view was awesome, and the restaurant rotated as we ate, so we had a great view of the Pudget sound, lake Washington, and the city at night. Preston had them put a rose at our table that was waiting for me when we got there and he gave me tickets to the Kelly Clarkson concert in October , and tickets to go see Phantom Of the Opera on Broadway in Las Vegas in September! I love Kelly, and Phantom is my favorite Broadway, so they were great presents! I love you Prest! We got this ice cream dessert that was made with dry ice, so it was all smoking as we ate it. We also had a great time just hanging out with my grandparents and little sisters. My Grandparents house in right on the Pudget sound, so they have a beautiful view. I almost forgot how green Washington is, it makes Utah look quite boring and brown. We also spent a day on the beach digging for clams...my little sisters love clam digging and go crazy with it! So that was funny. We spent a day at the zoo and at the locks, and a giant peacock at the zoo kept following us around! Preston went golfing in the rain with Caitlin and my Grandpa, while the rest of us visited down town Tacoma and went to some museums. I took Preston through Kennewick, where I grew up, and drove by my old house and almost cried. It was a wonderful trip! We also went to Jackson Hole and Yellowstone in July so I will have to start posting those pics......





























My 22nd Birthday! It was a great day. Preston took
me out to my favorite restaurant, Tucanos, for lunch
and it was delicious. He gave me tickets to the Jimmy
Eat World Concert, that was tons of fun! I also go
2 new seasons of One Tree Hill on DVD, one from
stephanie and one from Prest. (I'm notsure why, but we
are obsessed with that show!),
some cinemark movie tickets, and beautiful flowers!
My family sent me a cherry wood jewelry box
full of jewelry, and cash, much to my surprise! Preston's
family gave me a huge scrapbooking kit, with albums
and all! So I'm planning on joining the Utah mormon
fad and becoming an official scrapbooker! My good
friend, Jen Jenne, said she would help me get started,
since she is a scrapbooking freak, and since she even
has her own scrapbook paper company!