& it truly was an adventure with 4 babies & a toddler. However, we all survived & minimal tears were shed 🙂
Category: Adventures
An Anniversary Well Spent
September 7th was our 4th anniversary (CRAZY!). Even though we went on our “babymoon” without knowing it earlier this year to Universal Studios/the Bahamas (just take me back now please…), we wanted to take a little trip before the baby comes. So, we took a little weekend trip to St. George. Our lazy weekend included seeing movies (Man from U.N.C.L.E. and Ant-Man), hitting WAY too many restaurants, swimming and visiting the St. George Temple. Walking around the temple grounds was really the only thing that was photo worthy during the whole weekend 🙂
Happy Anniversary to my forever best friend. We have so many wonderful adventures ahead & I truly can’t wait.
Renaissance Fair 2015
This year, all the Horn siblings made it to the Renaissance Fair together! If you don’t recall, May was the month of rain, which made this years fair pretty interesting. Some of the shops either closed early or weren’t there at all the day we went, but it was still fun to show off our costumes that we had worked so hard on.
Clint’s shirt and vest, and my little peplum vest was made from a floor-length dress/vest thing 🙂 We cut the bottom of the dress off and used the extra pieces to make the peplum ruffles.Â
Payson Lakes
A couple weeks ago we went up to the Payson Lakes with the Clark family & the kids had an absolute blast. Growing up, I remember swimming, fishing and floating around in tubes at this lake with my siblings every summer. It was so fun to reminisce as I watched my little nieces & nephews dig mud holes & skip rocks.
Bahamian T’ings
I’m going to start this off by saying, we loved our trip. I don’t think we would go on a cruise again, but it was beautiful and we enjoyed our time in the Bahamas.
The weather wasn’t too ideal in January. The wind was so strong that we weren’t able to go to one of the islands, which was really disappointing. After 2 days straight on the ship, we spent 2 days in Nassau instead. We were both really grateful when we pulled up to Nassau. We were starting to feel really claustrophobic and stir crazy. However, it was nice to spend a couple days straight on land because we were able to explore a little more.
Royal Caribbean was wonderful. The dinners were amazing! The duck, seafood and fancy appetizers were to die for and we had the most amazing group of people at our table. We looked forward to dinner with our newfound friends every day.
We spent almost a full day exploring the Atlantis resort, which is just straight up insane. Their aquarium was full of hammer head sharks and lobsters the size of golden retrievers. Their beach was private, so no one was bombarding us & trying to sell us cigars. I wish the wind would have calmed down for just a minute so we could have spent a little more time at the beach. It was still beautiful to watch.
I didn’t take too many photos, because I really just wanted to enjoy some down time with Clint and really unplug.
Without further ado, our cruise.
Welcome to Hogwarts
In January, Clint & I went on a cruise, but before we visited the beautiful beaches of the Bahamas, we spent a couple days in Orlando at Universal Studios. I fulfilled my dream of drinking as much butter beer as I want, walking through Hogwarts and getting my very own wand (yeah, that happened).
Hogsmeade & Diagon Alley were both incredible. We went to The Leaky Cauldron, The Hogs Head and The Three Broomsticks, Ollivanders, Honeydukes, and a bunch of other little shops. The main attraction was obviously Hogwarts. There were projections of the characters, talking paintings and snow falling from the ceiling. I was definitely nerding out.
I’m sad that I didn’t get any photos of the food. We downed some delicious fish & chips for lunch. Clint got a cup of Pumpkin Juice that he wasn’t a huge fan of, but I thought it was dang good.
3 Years
A week ago, Clint & I celebrated our third anniversary.
In just over 3 years, I have learned so much about myself, my husband, our marriage, life, and the Lord’s timing. Yes, they’ve been challenging, but moreover, they’ve been so rewarding. They have been full of adventures. They have been full of memories. Here are just a few.
- We vacationed in Mexico with my sister & brother-in-law to celebrated our first anniversary.
- We were sealed for eternity in the Draper LDS Temple.
- We got our two amazingly adorable and obnoxious puppies.
- We bought our first home last year.
& within the next year, I will graduate from the University of Utah and Clint will have his associates from SLCC. Life is good, people.
To celebrate our anniversary, we went to the Salt Lake City Comic Con and Texas Roadhouse. I didn’t take ONE photo on my phone of the Comic Con, just with my big camera. You’ll be seeing a post later this week with a little project I’ve been working on.
My gem of a husband surprised me with a Kitchen Aid Mixer for our anniversary which made my gift, the Salt Lake Comic Con tickets, super lame in comparison. I tell you what though, Clint had no idea what was coming. I have made something in my mixer every day since it was gifted. Bread, endless amounts of cupcakes and cookies. YUM.
Here is a snippet of how we celebrated our day.
Annual Family Reunion 2014
Every summer, my mom’s family gathers up Payson Canyon. Some of my favorite childhood memories were created at that camp ground. Playing “court” on a fallen tree, eating pizza that my grandma and grandpa brought up every year, reuniting and catching up with all of my incredible cousins. We would sit around the camp fire for hours and play “guess the movie or song” and listen to my mom tell hilarious and mostly inappropriate stories. As the years have passed, the number of us that make it to the campout have dwindled, but it’s still one of my favorite summer events.
It’s just amazing to see the legacy that my grandparents created.
Sadly, I only got out my camera on Saturday morning at the campout, so for the most part, these are just the early risers. :]
Our First Renaissancian Experience
At the end of May, my sister invited Clint & I to tag along to a renaissance fair up in northern Utah. At first, neither of us were sold, but it was something to do & somewhere to go. They told some awesome stories from past years & that’s all it took.
The morning of the fair, we went over to my sister’s house, got out their bucket full of awesome costumes from past halloweens & we put together some amazing barbarian outfits.
There was some prime people watching, delicious, freshly made root beer, and handmade armor and weapons. Also, there were mermaids, which I didn’t take pictures of because they were all…too revealing & it was not pleasant.
Without further ado, behold my adorable niece and fun little snippets from the day.
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