The Grotto With Our friends

This was on July 24th and we went with Jeff & Heather. I had a lot of fun going with them and I love nature and I wish I could have stayed up there for a lot longer but there were people there and its a smaller area.

A Quick Catch up

Sorry to all of you that check my site so often!!

Ryan is now working at career step and liking it so far. I was able to quit one of my jobs so I can stay home with Alyssa more and I am liking it, though I am still trying to catch up with everything that needs to be done. I am going to post a bunch of pictures that I have that I should have posted awhile ago. I can't post them all on here the rest will be on flickr and if you don't have my account for that e-mail me and I will give that to you.
Alyssa is getting so big she is walking around everywhere and jabbering, thinking that she is having a conversation with us and it is so sweet, cute and adorable. She says some words that are in the English dictionary :) she is a smart little girl. She also likes to try everything out there to try, she is opening, closing, chewing, sticking everything in her mouth, and telling mommy no when mommy tells her no.
Ryan & I celebrated our 2nd Anniversary at the End of August, we were able to go to California and to Disneyland and that was a lot of fun. I have to admit after the first day at Disneyland I was wore out, but I did have a lot of fun the second day as well. It was good to get away but I was really excited to come home to see my baby. Well I am going to stop writing and start posting so pictures. Thank you all for reading. Love ya.

Life

So not much has gone on other than I am now working two jobs one is for a Police Department as well as a Beauty School I am not going to the beauty school I work there and I am not sure if I like the Beauty School thing just yet but I just started so we will see how it goes. As for the Police Department I love it, I am having so much fun working there I have a lot of work to do, but it is stuff I like to do.
Alyssa is now standing up on her own and she is so adorable. She doesn't walk everywhere just yet but she is walking for the most part. She has these looks that are so funny she will meet new people and scowl like they are crazy, it is so much funny. Well I am heading to Bed See ya good night.
I posted some pictures that my sister In-Law took and did an amazing job!!!

Alyssas Birthday

Alyssa is now one years old! CRAZY, it feels like just yesterday she was born(but at the same time it doesn't) I didn't really understand how much work it would be. I have done parties in the past but when its for your own child it is a whole another ball game. I was really tired by the time it had started but it was a lot of fun. I was really happy about the turn out. I made sure I didn't give her any treats the whole day for when it came time for cake we would have a sugar happy baby. That didn't happen like I thought it would, she picked at it slowly and only ate like 3 regular bites. She received a lot of fun toys and also she had a lot to tell people in baby talk. To bad I couldn't understand her she was probably saying mom your crazy but I love you :). When all was said and done and people were going home we had friends stay till around mid night talking and watching things on TV. Ali was so tired but really tried to stay awake to play and fell asleep in here chair she is so cute. Next year I think we are going to do a small b-day, it sounds easier. I am glad my mother came to the rescue and helped me set up and clean up in the end I was worn out!!! I will post pictures of her party later when I get my main computer and camera working! Love you all, goodnight!!!

Wedding Day Disaster

Our wedding day was one day to remember, I mean everyone remembers their wedding day but mine was very out there. The morning of our wedding day I was up at 2AM with people down stairs making noises and running around. I walked down the stairs to have my mother tell me to go to bed (in a panic voice like I would find out what was going wrong). I looked out the window, it was poring out side with heavy winds. It wouldn't matter if my wedding was inside and I didn't set the backdrop up the night before. The backdrop had blown over, the lights on it broke, and the tables were all knocked over as well. We never would have set the wedding up if we knew it would have rained or even a slight chance of rain, the forecast said beautiful weather no chance of rain but to our surprise it was still saying that when it was poring. I went back to my room like my mother insisted and could not go back to sleep. Around 4am I got out of bed and jumped into the shower and then went to Orem to have my hair and makeup done. 7am came along and they were almost done with my hair and I get a reassuring phone call that things were looking up at home. The weather was looking kind of scary but it had stopped raining. 8am came and we were at the temple getting ready and I was doing better and had calmed down for the most part. As Ryan and I were sitting there waiting, they came to tell us they were about ready and all the sudden I became ill to the stomach and had to get up and leave Ryans side and head to the rest room. I wasn't having second thoughts I just was excited to the point I was sick, Ryan was a little worried though :). After the sealing was done and I was officially a Mrs. we walked out to do pictures and the weather was perfect. As we left we had time before the reception we went home and went to sleep (honestly) we were so tired. Now here comes the best part the Reception: we arrived and it started to pore again everything is set up I am in tears and my uncle calls to make things even better, he just heard over the radio of a Tornado warning for UT County(which no tornadoes decided to join my wedding thank goodness). The whole entire night the rain was off and on and so were my tears. I designed my cake and it was beautiful thanks to my mother but the fountain never made it out to complete it, my sign in book was lost no one could find it till close to the end, I had wonderful pictures done but none of me throwing the bouquet or guarder, and none of my line or bridesmaids. My photographer was great till they left before any of the exciting things that were about to happen that everyone wants pictures of. I did have people there that had cameras and took pictures for me. By the end of the night I was ready to be done. Even through all the rain and everything the wedding still looked really pretty. We got to our car to leave and there were two blown up balloons stuffed in a HUGE bra hooked to the front of my car. That was great but there was chocolate and underwear all over our car and with the rain the chocolate ended up looking like someone had used the restroom on our car lol. We arrived at the hotel and went to check in and the receptionist was a girl that used to had the biggest crush on Ryan so you could see how it was really uncomfortable for her hehe(I married him sucks to be her) and I am not going to tell you what happened the rest of the night. The next day we checked out went to our apartment and a week later looked on our card and the Receptionist had charged us double the little .. y I outta .. OK so it wasn't that bad we called and resolved that. So that is my (long) summary of my wedding day. Oh and I Married the Hottest Guy ever and he is all mine ;)!

Ali Bean

HEY BLOGGERS!!!
Sorry it has been awhile since I have last blogged anything I have been really busy trying to get things ready for my sister in-laws wedding last weekend!
Alyssa is sick and has been for three weeks and tonight she has developed a fever so off to the doctors tomorrow! You know I have to admit being a stay at home mom I thought I would have a huge amount of time on my hands, for me that is not the case. I have been on the move almost every week since I quit my job! I do love that I can take my little girl with me seeing how she attracts a lot of attention with her cute smile! She is starting to push the high chair around the house soon she will walking and I am not going to know what to do. Well I hope to be putting things on here more often! Thank you all for checking in with the Merrell Trio!