Happy Thanksgiving and Holiday Season!
Hurray this is our favorite time of year!
We are truly Thankful for all of your many many blessings. We are thankful for you our friends, and family! We are thankful for the gospel, for a loving Heavenly Father, our Savior, a livng Prophet and etc. We are so blessed.
I am particularly thankful for my sweetheart, Scott. I am thankful for him every moment of every day. He is so wonderful, patient, loving, hardworking, caring, good, etc. etc. etc. The love that we have after these five years, I couldn't have dreamed of or wished for. Five years is simply not long enough...I am so grateful that we have eternity.
The day before Thanksgiving, my brother took some fun pictures of us. We decided that after nearly five years of marriage we should probably update our pictures. It was fun acting cheesy/nerdy, as if we were getting engagement pictures again.

Happy Holidays to you all!!

OHhhh, the Joy of Idaho

We woke up this morning to SNOW! It has been snowing lightly all the day! How fun! Oh, the joy of living in a cold state. At least we know that it wont last for long. (For now any way) So here's to Idaho, and to all ya'll who are nice and warm in other states. Have a great day...I'm going to sip come Hot Chocolate!

Crazy Living Quarters

Shhheesh, I haven't posted for a long time. Things are going really well. We are super busy with work and normal life stuff. But we don't take our camera with us a lot of places, so I don't really have much to blog about. Scott is really enjoying teaching, it is difficult but rewarding. He feels so great when they understand a new concept or overcome something. Hurray for him! We are moving to the other side of town in a few weeks. House hunting was definitely an adventure, we learned a lot, enough to realize that what was on the market right now wasn't for us. So we are going to continue being renters, but there are perks to renting: when things go wrong I don't have to pay for them, the lawn and yard areas are taken care of, snow removed, low monthly payments, etc. What have been some of your funniest living quarters?
We used to live above Florance's Candie Shop in Rexburg, a run down temporary apartment in a boy apartment complex and our payment was to clean it up, and an apartment with secret doors in the bedroom that were covered with wood paneling so you couldn't see where to go into our huge walk in closet/storage room. When I was about 14 my family was growing too big for our house. We had a funny big room and my dad put up walls so my brother and I could share the room, but the walls were not covered with dry wall, they were covered in cardboard. That was so we could take them down easily when we moved. So, really I could say I've lived in a cardboard box. How weird is that?
So answer the question if you would like: What have been some of your funniest living quarters?

Hurray For Today

Basically I want to say...HURRAY for a few reasons. Bare with me as a ramble...
Hurray for today because I could read and study as much as I wanted this morning because it is my day off. Hurray because of a awesome inspirational church material that is at my finger tips to read and for the inspiration to do it. Hurray for using 'Preach my Gospel' as a study guide for scripture study and that I've been able to study and read a lot about FAITH in the last few days; a subject that has been filling my soul and helping me realize what I need to do. Hurray for the continued feeling of summer and the coming of Fall. Hurray that Scott is loving teaching 9th grade math and that he is happy and fulfilled in his work (at least for the first week anyway). Hurray that I have good friends and awesome family members and a fabulous husband. Hurray that I got to grade math papers one afternoon. Hurray that even though you don't always see your prayers being answered the way you thought they should you have a feeling of peace knowing that your Father in Heaven is aware of you, your heart, your needs and desires. Hurray for my awesome younger brother who rolls with the punches! Hurray for such amazing parents and for my Mom who cooked Salmon last night for dinner. Hurray for garden veggies, visiting teaching, happy thoughts and memories, hurray for the gift of prayer, hurray for so many millions of things. So, if you made it through my thoughts hurray for you too, they might not mean any thing to you but for me today...they are my HURRAYS!

Me, Myself and I

100 Things about Me! This was harder than I thought!

1. The greatest thing I have ever done was marrying my amazingly wonderful Husband Scott! I love him with all my heart and am constantly amazed at how thoughtful, kind, patient and fun he is.
   
2. One day I would love to learn how to yodel
   
3. Would love to aspire to be a great runner
4. Love the Great out Doors!! Camping, hiking, rafting, just being outside, etc.
5. Love to go to new places that I have never been to
6. Love to eat foods that I have never tried before esp. those from exotic places
7. I love to cook and bake
8. Love to go on LOOOOOOONG walks at night with Scott.
   
9. Love to Star Gaze
10. Love to read from the Scriptures, in fact it changes my daily demeanor, if I haven't read Scott can always tell because I am more emotional and ornery (is that how you spell it?)
11. Love to Journal
12. Love to get new PJs
13. Love to go out to eat
14. Love to make blankets
15. Christmas is my very most favorite Holiday
16. Love the First Snow!
17. Love the smell of each new season and how you can tell it has arrived by just sniffing outside your front door.
18. Love to eat fresh Garden Veggies
19. Love to exercise
20. Love to wake up early
21. Love all types of Fresh Fruit
22. Love to Travel!
23. Love History, art history, humanities (I graduated from BYU-I with duel cluster in history and humanities
24. Love Reeds Dairy Ice Cream
25. Love to Attend Plays and Mellow Dramas
26. Love decorating and used to spend a lot of time watching decorating shows
27. Love to play with Kids
28. Love Reading
29. Love music of all kinds and wish that I was even more diverse in my collections
30. Love to dance really crazy and make my brother and Scott laugh
31. Love Love love to make people smile
32. Love to squish my toes in the sand
33. Love to laugh
34. Love to dream with my Husband about future plans (drawing up house plans, travel plans etc.)
35. Love to get great ideas
36. Love to watch movies
37. Love to have a good healthy cry
    
38. Love re-runs of old classics
39. Love comfy clothes
40. Love to have my toenails painted
41. Love the smell of things baking
42. Love canning: peaches, pears, pickles, salsa, jams & jellies, beets, applesauce, pie filling
43. Love gardening
44. Love Giggling and snuggling with my silly sisters
45. Love that Scott adores me even when I seriously don't deserve it.
46. Love spending time with my Family and In-Laws
47. I am not very good at keeping in touch with old friends, I think about it a lot but somehow I never get to it. I love ya'll sorry I stink at it
48. Love writing lists and marking them off
49. Love a clean house
50. Love making cards
    
51. I really like to make up cooking shows to myself while a cook
52. Sunday is my favorite day of the week
53. Love to read and take cat naps in the hammock out back
54. I hate scary movies and stories!! I am a chicken liver with an over active imagination
55. Love cottage cheese and mixing things in it: tomatoes, fruit, etc.
56. Love the Oregon Coast!!!!
57. I love that my husband wants to be a teacher and is so passionate about helping people
58. I am #2 of 6 kids
59. Love to take baths in the winter to get warm
60. Been married for 4 years 7 months 13 days and one 1/2 hour
    
61. Love Thanksgiving: I love the cooking all day l0ng the smells, the comfort food, the pie, the leftovers, he family gathering the excitement of Christmas coming next, the rich fall weather! Love it!
62. Love picking raspberries and snitching
    
63. Love pulling warm stuff out of the drier
64. My favorite weekends of the entire year are conference weekend
65. Have a strange musical appetite for Jazz
    
66. Love attending the temple and would love to travel the US and world visiting all of them
67. Really dislike taking our car in for repairs: tires, oil change anything car related, I hate it
    
68. Love the smell of rain and Summer time Thunderstorms
69. Think fireworks are fabulous
70. Love animals and for some crazy reason would love to own a goat one day
71. Used to wish that I was a pioneer
72. Love how only Scott can surprise me! He is the best at surprises
73. Love tree lanes: those streets you drive down and its completely tree covered.
74. Love wild flowers
75. I am famous for telling stories to Scott's nieces and nephews. I have always been good at telling stories. Probably because I have an over active imagination.
76. Professional massages!!!!
    
77. Love to sing
78. Love to play the piano even though I am not that proficient (lack of practice)
79. Love Pride and Prejudice
    
80. My husband says that I am very flirtatious. Now only to him but truly before he came along I could have won blue ribbons!
81. I like to be in-charge but am learning to follow gracefully :) one of those life long challenges
82. Also like to argue, not even about important things, just like a good debate (with me being right :) ) Weakness: my mom has told me my entire life to think before I speak! Still working on it
83. Have always longed to visit the Holy Land!!!!
    
84. Kind of lazy but have a hard time sitting still
    
85. Think it would be a blast to travel throughout Canada by Locomotive! choo choo
    
86. I am a terrible speller and find myself being very creative with word-ages. Hurray for spell check, eh!
87. Love to stay in Hotels!!
88. Would love to be a great photographer, it seems so romantic
    
89. Love Christmas lights
    
90. Don't like to follow recipes completely, I think it is because I am naturally a little defiant. And because when you are newly wed college student you have to work with what you've got. Good thing we always bless the food. :)
91. Love alternate medicine and natural cures
92. Love desserts but stopped eating sugar at the end of March
93. I have naturally curly hair and many times strangers will scrunch it, also once a guy said that I should never cut it because it was "delicious"... creepy!
94. I am a little over dramatic
95. Love little towns and living in the country. Truthfully I don't love being in big cities. I enjoy visiting them but don't really want to live in one
96. I love to talk, to anyone about anything can talk and talk, in school my teachers would get frustrated because they could move me any where and I would find someone to talk to
    
97. I have a nervous tick when it is too quite during awkward moments to hum
98. Love hearing about peoples problems and talk with them about them
99. Talk in weird voices to certain people
100. I have a difficult time driving on the ice because I was in a really scary accident once.

Yellowstone

This week Scott and I went on a family vacation, with my family to Yellowstone. We loved it! I haven't been there for years and Scott has never been; he was like a little kid at Christmas. We love the great outdoors and Yellowstone is the best. We started our adventures with the Bar J wranglers, in Jackson Hole, camped the night there and set off for Yellowstone the next morning. It rained a lot but it was worth it! We had a blast! Here are some pictures from our adventures. My brother Jeremy took all these pictures...he is amazing! Sad note: we had to leave a day early to go back and work....so we didn't get to see the bears. But my fam did! So, much fun worth the trip over and over again!

My Mom is Fabulous

Hurray for my AMAZING MOM! Last week my mom finished a long awaited goal. For the past 26 years she has been taking classes here and there, raising 6 children and millions of other things. But finally she is a College Graduate. She has dedicated the last year to her education. I have never seen a more diligent student. She put my entire college experience to shame with her dedication. She studied night and day! We are all so proud of her!!!!! Not only is she a college graduate but an amazing mother. She guided our footsteps every day of our lives, holding off on her own dreams, but never letting them go while she helped us achieve ours. I am so proud of her for going for her dreams and never letting go of a goal that for years seemed impossible. She has always had an attitude of learning. She has self taught herself so many skills and taken a few little classes here and there, but always learning something new: Calligraphy, sewing, crocheting, ceramics, re-finishing furniture, family history expert, scrap-booking, institute, religious studies, painting, decorating, cooking, reading, musical studies and etc.!!! She is the greatest example of an educated person. I love her and adore her and I am so grateful for her example. Way to go Mom!!!!! OH and my awesome older brother also graduated! It is really cool that they were able to graduate together because he is the first reason that she decided to put off her own ambitions and devote her life to others.

Whaaaahoooo We've entered the blogging world

Hello, I am so excited that I have finally sat down and made our blog. I have soooo enjoyed reading the blogs of others and have wanted to start one of our own for several months. Hurray today is the day that I branch out into the world of blogging.

So, a little about how we are doing:

I finished college two years ago this summer and have loved working as my sister-in-laws, personal assistant/office manager. We were the managers for a little housing complex in Rexburg while we were going to school and early this spring we decided to leave. So, we have been living in Idaho Falls for the past few months, while Scott interviewed for teaching positions and while we have been looking in the market to buy our first home. Scott graduated last Dec. and has been hired to teach 7th grade math at a Jr. High here in Idaho Falls. He is really excited to teach 7th grade. I think he is nuts, but he loves that age group. Some time in the next year he will start working on his masters degree.

Well, that is our little update for now! I will be posting some pictures very soon!