Thanksgiving!!! Turkey...fail.

Potatoes and Stuffing

This Thanksgiving was the first we've been without family. Work only allows us to take off EITHER Thanksgiving or Christmas. So we had one of my best friends, Virginia and her husband and brother-in-law over and another couple we know from work. We started cooking our Turkey around 12/12:30 ish. I think our oven is crap cause it got to be about 7 and the dang Turkey STILL wasn't cooked. We tried detaching the legs earlier and letting out some of the juice...still never cooked...we gave up and just ate the rest of the food. We had mashed potatoes, macaroni salad, deviled eggs, olives, stuffing, veggies, ROLLS *which looked like little butts and so I just HAD to take a picture of them!*

and pumpkin pie..I think it sufficed. :) We played games for a couple hours and then we watched two movies...Fried Green Tomatoes and Shallow Hal.

HA! It was fun though. :) Definitely a memory to remember. :D

Grazing food leading up to Dinner.

Aly nice and comfy on the couch

Trying a fishtail braid on VA

Austin (VA's brother in law) pretending to be asleep

Our Turkey after 7 hours..not cool.

We gave up...

We still had food and fun and ended the night happy! :D

Halloween!

Ok...It's blog catch up time...haven't blogged since August?! WOW!!! So Tyler and I didn't do many fun things for Halloween, but it was fun to do pumpkins. I went to the ward party...Tyler wasn't feeling good, just really tired, so he stayed home and rested up. I painted a pumpkin and had a blast seeing all the cute tinys in their costumes! We had a yoda, and a bam bam, and a curious george...their parents matched them too...like bam bam had Barney and the lady...forgot her name. And curious george had the man in the yellow hat. hahaha! It was awesome! Then on Halloween we carved a pumpkin and toasted the seeds. :)

Date Night In I.F.

    So we wanted to go on a nice, fun date and we've pretty much done everything in Rexburg. ...This was a couple of weeks ago by the way....Soooo we decided to go to Idaho Falls! What should we do there!? There are SO many things to do there! What we really wanted was some REALLY good food...not the junk they have here in Rexburg...we decided on Olive Garden. Then we thought, Hey! While we are there we should go to the temple! 


   We got ready to go to the temple. We listened to the BYU I radio station, talked about the things we would like to be pondering while at the temple...and then our radio station got all fuzzy. I guess we were too far from Rexburg! So in my mind I am thinking, we can't listen to regular music on the way to the temple, and I HATE driving anywhere without music...so I made due with the classical station. When I got to that station, I was actually quite pleased to hear a song that was Irish, yet classical at the same time....this might not seem so important to you, but having good, appropriate music on the way to the temple is a MUST for me. We had a great sealing session there. I loved it! 

Mmmmm My food!! I was pretty full already from salad and bread sticks...kills me every time!

Tyler's dish

Our lovely drinks
 Then we went to Olive Garden! We had a great Waiter. I got lasanga rolls which were nice and cheesy! They were sooo good!! Tyler got Chicken Fetuccini (but I think he secretly envied my choice). He said he wanted to get what I got for next time. We also got dessert, but I ate mine too fast to get a picture of it. But trust me when I say it was delicious! (: 

Having quality time together is very important to us, and this was our first big "splurge date" we had, and it was a blast. We are so blessed. Heavenly Father has definitely been listening to our prayers and has been watching out for us. 

How was my week?

This week was so crazy and so stressful! I had a final to take almost every day! The only day I didn't have one was on Friday. This was my pile of books from the library.

I also spent most of the week doing white glove checks for the dorms. Today we finished checking out all of the girls from their rooms and did our final walk through. I collected most of the cleaning supplies they left, I got an ironing board, and iron, and a duster! All of it for FREE!!!

But I am SO glad it's over! I am sooo tired! So is Tyler. He started working at D.I. this week, full time. He is doing physical work all day long. Moving furniture and stuff. He comes home exhausted! :) But we are so blessed to have gotten this job. I will be starting up with D.I. soon too! So we will both be working full time. Yay! :D

4th of July Weekend...Finally posted haha

We went home for the weekend. The family had planned a picnic for the celebration of my mother-in-law's birthday. Sooo I made a pie! I wish I would have taken a picture of it sliced. It had red, white and blue stripes of jello and whipped cream. It was really really good! We left at 5am or so to get there soon enough to prepare for the picnic. 

The newest babies! Emma and Riley

The picnic was a blast. It is was like a family reunion! haha! Lots of food and family and friends.

Kierra was super excited to see Tyler! High five! :)

There was a fun fountain for the kids to play in too!...okay, we played in it too. ;)

Tyler with Emma

Ethan loooved his water gun.

Mama and her boys :)

Kierra chasing Grandma Tutu with the water gun. haha!

Nathan chasing Ethan

Ethan getting Mandy :D

Kierra got Tyler good! 

We had a family barbecue and Tyler's sister, Brittany, and I worked really hard on these cake ball pops. We had such a hard time keeping the chocolate the right consistency. But they tasted great....oh! and btw, we stuck them in the foam we used from my mother-in-law's fake plant haha!

Then on 4th of July morning we went to a ward breakfast! It was really good! I loved it! There were lots of people that came.

After we all took our showers and were ready, we went to the Middleton parade. We had lots of fun there. The kids loved getting the candy of course. Tyler got to go to the "wet zone" where the firefighters take their hose and spray everybody. After the parade, we went and got free snow cones. I think I ended up having, like, 3! Ha! I love snow cones!

 Then in the evening we went to the Melba fireworks show. I was able to briefly see my family, and then the show started. The fireworks were so beautiful. I loved getting to spend it with my hubby. :) The traffic was awful getting out of there though. It took us about an hour and a half to get out of little old Melba. 

This one's my favorite firework picture. :)

It was a super fun trip. It was the first time I got to meet Tyler's older sister, Brittany and her husband and kids. We had lots of fun bonding and I loooved getting to spend time with their kids!! :D

Was it Worth it?

Tyler and I went to flag at the dirt bike track on Saturday for some extra money for about...ohhhh...9 HOURS! I don't know if it was worth it or not. We are finally starting to peel. 

My legs

Tyler's arm...mine looks the same. haha

I don't think the pictures do it justice...but I am thinking we are going to invest in some sunscreen! 

There's a First for Everything!

Tyler let me attempt to cut his hair. I asked him for his numbers for the razor. . . it cut shorter than he thought. So it's not his style . . .  not the one he's used to...but for a short summer cut, I think I did a pretty good job! What do you think?!

Memorial Day Weekend

On Friday Tyler and I went on a Wagon Ride. It was DANG cold, but it was a lot of fun. 

We had the opportunity to go home for the weekend. We got to see lots of family.We saw my dad and stepmom one day. 

My stepmom, Terry and I

My niece was there which just put the cherry on top of everything. I love that girl so much!

My niece, Raimey, and I

Hanna getting her diploma! Congrats!

Then we got to go to Tyler's cousin's graduation!


















We stayed with my mother-in-law and on Sunday after church we went around to all of the cemeteries that Tyler's family had been. I have never been able to do that, so that was really cool for me. Then on Monday morning my father-in-law took Tyler and I to breakfast and we visited. Another plus was that I ran into on of my former Young Women Leaders, Wendy! That was a great surprise. We had a good drive home and to top it all off we got to see a rainbow!!

This week has been a beautiful week in Rexburg! What do we do when we get a chance of good weather?? THIS!---------------------------->


Oh yeah! Bring on the summer! PALEEZE!!!!!