the R word

my entire life i have always hated running it just has never been my thing, in middle school i went out for track and they put me on long distance running the mile and half mile, ugh wanted to die. high school i decided to do track again mostly to be outside and hang with Nattie but no running i did all three jump events which i really loved, but NO running. until one track meet coach was like whittney i am putting you in the 200 this meet, great, here i am standing up like an idiot while everyone is crouched down in those cool start things that i did not know how to use. and the race started i may have jumped the gun who knows, half way though i am thinking this is not so bad but then it gets bad, a couple yards before the finish line my body starts to get a little ahead of my legs and next thing i know i am flat on my face.

anyways this post is not about me being an idiot in high school but that I AM CONQUERING THE R WORD, yep that is right ryan convinced me to try running a little before my work outs, even though i told him i hate running i hate running i hate running. i caved and i am running and i actually kinda like it this time. don't get me wrong i wont be running a marathon or anything just a one mile or so before i work out. i am proud of my self,

the end -whit

sticky buddies

Finally some pics for Dave and Stephs wedding it was beautiful, the San Diego temple is my fav the reception was right by the beach, I loved her colors so her! Steph looked gorgeous Dave was looking alright too. We got to see lots of are friends, Scott, MB, Dave aswell?, Chase, Levi, Jarom I got to meet Toby and see a lot of his wardrobe. Also we got to spend about 24 hours in the car with Dan and Allyx which is where the sticky buddies come in. It was B v. G, Dan and Ryan were sticky buddies for the trip and Allyx and I were sticky buddies. awesome.

beach

isn't her hair gorgeous!

some of the boys

girls rule

the married couples minus the newly married couple

a little late thanksgiving

so I found some pictures of thanksgiving, turns out they did not all get deleted! enjoy

we love eachother



Ryan in his chair
John battling the pilars
awww he is cute
the boys
our friends John and Jenna
Ryan, John, Taylor
The D.C. temple
are other friends Scott and Maribeth
us, love this temple

the end. -whit

before and after the 40 hour drive

we are back in Idaho!!! But I will back up a little bit because I have been slacking on my blog...
Thanksgiving = amazing
It was my first Thanksgiving being away from family which was different but we had such a fun thanksgiving with Scotty and MB they came down from New York and John and Jenna from Ohio we all stayed in our apt. on air mattress, toured the D.C. area, learned to play settlers, drank Mountain Dew, went to Taylor Hansen house for thanksgiving dinner which was amazing! Us girls got to watch Twilight again and the boys giggled and giggled it was really kind of silly they are in love with each other. Sadly my camera only likes me sometimes these days, so I have no pictures of thanksgiving (refer to Scotty and MB's blog for those, Maribeth takes amazing pictures i am jealous of her talent)
After thanksgiving we packed up all of are stuff into the car had our last Sunday in Virgina. We meet some of the nicest people ever out there, it was kinda sad to leave I will miss them.
And the 40 hour drive begins...
First stop Cynda's. We get there late and hang out a bit the next morning and then we are off to see the city! yes, New York City I cant tell you how excited I was, I have always wanted to go there and yes it was everything I hoped for! Scott even ditched out on work a lot for two days and showed me and Ryan all over the city! Thankfully my camera was working or this blog would be starting to get boring!

nuts

muah!



loved it
yummy

the temple




ryan's favorite Wicked song "Drummer Boy"
Times Square
Got to have a Subway pic?
the boys

And Wicked is the top picture cause I think that was my favorite thing we did there, we even listened to the soundtrack for the rest the drive to Idaho. Thanks for going with us Cynda, Maribeth and Scott!
Our next stop was Ohio to stay with John and Jenna and eat there favorite pizza, miss them! Then finally made it to Utah and got to see out friends and go to Steph's bridal shower she got so much cute stuff! I also got to do lunch with Kristi when I was there, oh how I miss her!!! Then finally HOME.
We were home for Christmas and we have been able to spend lots of time with both our family's. It is so nice to be home! oh, and I finally got to meet Ryan's brother Andy who was on his mission when we got married, which I was nervous to meet him don't know why but it all went good, he is awesome awesome.
Day After Christmas = on the road again!
We got to take another road trip this time with our friends Dan and Allyx to California to our friends Dave and Stephanie's wedding it was so beautiful... i will post the pics soon!
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Cakes Cakes Cakes for Kristi!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KRISTI!!!

so tomorrow is my dear dear friend Kristi's birthday! Kristi loves cakes, and it

was tradition in our apt. 112 to always make eachother awsome/wierd cakes, well I did not want

this tradition to die so....

I have been slaving away all week trying to make the PERFECT cake for Kristit B-day!

Love you Kristi

I started off making six CUTE cakes and then decided she need a weirder one for her b-day so...
I made her a VL purse cake! Kristi loves purses right, dang I forgot she loves Coach...so
I made a Star Treck cake? Maybe that would be more approptiate for little Cynda's birthday...

So I then made a punguin cake, and relized Nattie would love that so much more than Kristi...

Okay I only two more trys, a Mario cake! Who does not like Nintendo!!!

last but not least I made Kristi a chest of money cake!... Dont ask

Hope you love your birthday cakes Kristi, sorry you are too far away to eat them, look like me and Ry are going to be putting on some pounds. Okay so maybe I did not make all these cakes, I might have had just a little help from Google images, maybe.

LOVE YOU KRISTI HOPE YOU HAVE THE BEST B_DAY EVER!!!

Ryan at the FBI Acadamy

So, yes this is my second post today but I just wanted a post about my adorable husband because I am so proud of him for working so hard at the intership of his dreams, really he is obsessed with it. His intenship ends tomorrow and then we will being heading home after the Thanksgiving holidays so here is a little of what he has been doing the last few months. His internship is at the FBI Acadamy in Quantico, VA he working in the International Training and Assistance Unit (i hope I got that right I always mess it up) anyways they plan and do all these training things for forgein country's. It's like mini crash coarses of what agents training is but for interational federal empolyees/police. For example for two weeks Ryan was with a group of police from all over Centeral America and every day got to sit in on awsome classes about gangs, street violence, how to tactically enter a room, crimes on children and terrorist crimes scense and also got to do hands on stuff with them, like role playing with guns with paint ball bullets. So pretty much he has loved his internship and I dont really understand alot of the stuff he talks about, but it sounds really cool and he is so happy and loves it :) He has also had to do crapy photo copying intern work but he says it's all worth it. So yes pretty much my husband is awsome awsome! OH! and last Friday he got to give me a tour of the Acadamy it was so cool to see and to see where he has been working and meet all the nice people he works with! Here are some pics for the tour!

Ryan in the J Edger Hover reading room at the Acadamy
Me at Hogan's Alley, this was my favorite part of the tour, Hogan's Alley is a FAKE town of several streets buildings like post office, motel, resturats, apartments, but none of it is real! it is used for training, they hiring actors to come in and play the bad guys and they role play, its practice for the agents, so cool

One of the Hogan Alley streets, loooks like there is some role play going on

At the Acadany there is the coolest memorial for 9/11 and this is part of it there is a piece of Flight #93, the Pentagon and the World Trade Center

This is the memorial, the two black thins are obviously the World Trade Centers then if you look close Pennsylvania is printed on them, and then the gray bottom is shaped like the Pentagon, then below that is the picture from above.

BENDA in the VA

So this was like two weeks ago, I have been slacking on my blogging, but Ben and Cynda can to see us for the weekend!!! It was so good to hang out with friends and see little Cyn, oh how I have missed her!

Arrlington Cemetery
Me and Cyn

Me and Ry and Washington D.C.

Me and Cyn at the butterfly exhibit, so cool!

Ryan and the Saber Tooth Tiger, at the Museum of Natural History, coolest museum ever!

Ben and Cyn looking up the Washington, I think this picture is so funny for some reason

yay! for D.C.

at mt. vernon

I have missed my bestie so this was a great weekend!!! They got here late Firday night so we stayed up and chated the Saturday went to Mt. Vernon in the morning it was so pretty the trees were changing colors and falling, i loved it. Then we went for a little lunch and Noodles and Co., yummy my fav! The ventured into D.C. and went to the Museum of Natural history! It was so freaking cool, I want to go back! there was so much to see we did not even get to half of it the Dinosaurs were my favorite! And so was the butterfly exhibit me and cyn went to. The museum was so cool we stayed till close and then went and walked arould to all of the D.C. memorials, which was so cool to see at night all lite up! After the long day we went home order some pizza and played Rook for way to long, i love that game. Sunday after church and some dinner we heading back up to D.C. and went to Arrlington National Cemetary, it was a beautiful day and so neat I had never been there. I could not belive how many people are buired there it seems like the cermetary keeps going and going. It made me so tahnkful for all the men that serve our country and that have died defending our freedom, I love America and I am so thankful to be an American! Thanks so much for the visit Ben and CYnda and cant wait till next week to see you at your place!!!