Yearly update!

If anyone wants to know what's happened in our life the past year, just look at Austin & Annie's blog, Annie did a great job at updating our lives :)

ugLy sWeaTer + sHowEr

Me and my friends decided to have a little Christmas get together and have dinner! To make things fun we all wore ugly sweaters and had a great time! We got our "ugly" sweaters from Tyler's grandma.. the DI was all sold out! Haha. We all think Austin won the contest of the ugliest sweater!! Here are some pics:

Tyler and Ash

Austin and Annie

Last weekend it was Jamie's bridal shower that me and her sister hosted. This is us after opening her presents!!

I'm so excited for Christmas I can't even wait! My sister is coming on Monday... LET THE COUNTDOWN BEGIN :) Merry Christmas!

*saRa'S wEddiNg

Yesterday Sara got married so we went with Eylse and Dale down to St. George to the temple and then we went to the luncheon down there too! The wedding was so nice and I am so happy for them! Later that night we went to the reception in Cedar and had a lot of fun!! Jared is from Hawaii so they did some Hawaiian dances and it was so interesting to watch. Sara looked so pretty and they are so cute together! Congrats:)
Here are some pics of us at the temple:

Me, Elyse, Lauren, Taniah, Janelle, the Bride, Kelcie, Julie, Jazi

Sara and Me

Squinty eyes!! Haha

UpDate*

Not much has been going on lately so that's why I haven't blogged in awhile! Here is just a couple things we've been up to:
It was Annie's birthday so we all went to PF and had dinner! It was so fun together with everyone.. we always have a great time:)
Sara is getting married so we had a bachelorette party for her. We went and ate at the Garden House and then went to Elyse's to open gifts and have some treats! Kelcie's cookies were the hit of the night.. haha!
Then of course we had Thanksgiving! We went up to Richfield and spent it with Tyler's family. We did some packing and helped his parents get moved out of their house. We ate at his aunt's then later that night we had to head home because I had to work the next day... CRAZY black friday shoppers!
HAPPY HOLIDAYS :)

Me and Tyler on Thanksgiving getting ready to go eat
Trav, Tyler, and Cregg

The girls at Sara's bachelorette party

Me, Janelle, and Sara

Annie's birthday- Ash, Annie, Me, Amy, and Sunny

Life With A Husband!!

A lot has been going on since Tyler has been home. My step grandpa passed away and the whole family got together for the funeral. It was the first time we had all been together in like 5 years.
The first weekend Tyler was home we went to Richfield to visit his family and then came home and had a BBQ at Josh and Sunny's and that was really fun! The next weekend we went up to Austin and Annie's cabin in Scofield and stayed a couple nights and road 4 wheelers and ate lots of food! We carved out names in a tree and as you can tell by the pictures that it turned out pretty funny. It was suppose to say BAAT but Austin did a cursive A so it looks a little funky! Haha it looks awesome:) Then this past weekend we went up north to Vision's Back End Party (I forgot my camera so I didn't take any pics). We went up that morning and shopped and went to lunch then went to Thanksgiving Point where the party was. The first couple hours of the party they had a casino hour where they had tables set up to play black jack and crabs and stuff like that. We had fake money we played with! We had a great time! After that we had dinner and awards. It's good to be home and have my husband back!!

Me and Annie

Lana, Me, and Annie in the SCOUT

Me and Ty at the BBQ

Sunny, Me, Annie

The boys

Me and my mom

My cute little cousins, Mya and Kapri

All of the grandkids

*VirGiniA bEacH

This past weekend me and Annie flew out to Virginia Beach to visit Tyler and Austin. It has been over a month so it was sooo good to see him! We had a long day of traveling to get there but it was so worth it! I was so excited to see Tyler!! We did a lot of fun things, as you can tell most of them were done at the beach!! Where they live is about 8 miles from the beach. The first night we went and walked on the beach and had dinner. They next day we spent the day at the beach laying out, playing in the water, and the best part was we rented beach cruisers and went up and down the board walk! It was hilarious becaues they didn't have anymore guys' bikes so Tyler had to ride a pink one!! Hahah so we were twinners... everyone was starring a little! We went to dinner at this BEST mexican resturant, thanks Steve.. I am craving it soo bad! The trip was short but sweet! I can't wait till he is home for good:)

Walking the boardwalk


Haha.. this was Tyler's doing

K so when we parked and were walking to the beach we went to cross the street and there was this random parade going on. I thought these little jeep things were funny.

Us on our cruisers!

Some bum was painting these balls haha

Laying out on the beach

Illinois

I finally made it home! It feels great to be back in Cedar and be somewhat back to normal! The week and a half before I came home I was in Champaign visiting my sister. Laci and Nate left after a couple days and went to Cancun and I stayed there to tend Bladen. It was so much fun hanging out with the little man! This is what our days consisted of; sleeping in until about 9:30, watching cartoons until noon, get ready, have lunch, then either go to the park, swimming, to the animal farm, or to the mall! While I was there I was trying to potty train him! He did pretty good... probably because everytime he went he said "I go pee pee, I get a snack!" Another cute thing he would say to me is that we were best friends! He would say it in such a sweet little voice it made me want to cry! I am so thankful I got to spend that one on one time with him! Here are a few pictures



Every night we would eat out back and he loved to color with the sidewalk chalk so we wrote everyone's names

We went to a water park one of the days and he was in heaven!

Playing at the park- don't worry that it was like 90 degrees with like 100% humidity.. I was sweating to death

Best friends :)

Sorry this video is turned but I couldn't figure out how to flip it! I just wanted everyone to see how cute Bladen is when he dances to his favorite song "Boom Boom Pow" We had to listen to it everytime we went somewhere!!

*Washington DC

On my mom's last few days here and my last few days living here we decided to tour DC. Annie came along with us and we had lots of fun!! On the first day we got on the metro and went downtown. This is us waiting for the train

The first stop we made was to the White House. It was so cool and I thought the flowers and everything around it was really pretty.

The First Lady's garden

Me kissin the Washington Monument :)

View of the Lincoln monument and WWII memorial

Me and Annie

Lincoln

I have always wanted to see this. It was one of my favorite things

Me and my mom by the Koren War monument

The Capitol

We sat on a park bench by the Capitol for a while and talked and I was surprised how active it was around there. There was a ton of people jogging, playing baseball and doing other active things right there on a huge lawn downtown. It's crazy how this kind of scenery is normal to them!

Smithsonian

Our second day downtown we went to the Holocaust museum. It was awesome but really sad. It's hard to believe stuff like that really happened.Our last stop for the day was Arlington Cemetery. My mom went on the church history tour a long time ago so she has been to all of this stuff but can't really remember so it was fun to go and refresh her memory:)

JFK's grave

It was so fun having my mom come here and visit and see where we live. We had such a great time and saw a lot of neat things! Our adventure is not over yet though... we flew out the next day to my sister's house and I said goodbye to Virginia/Washington DC forever! We will be in Champaign for the next week and a half spending time with Laci, Nate and Bladen and then they will leave for Cancun and I get to babysit! More to come later:)