Vacation...

We haven't blogged in awhile, we have been busy being on our vacation! I graduated and then we set off for jackson hole Wyoming, california and then to washington and back home here to Idaho. It was so much fun being able to see family and friends and to spend some time together. Here are some pictures from our trips

It was freezing cold at the Lake and so I wore my sweatshirt, I don't think it ever came off it was too cold!

That is Jared fast asleep next to me! he was pretty beat at the end of the day!

The Alpine slide! Way fun in jackson Hole!

Yellowstone- Old Faithful!

This was my first white water rafting trip and it was a blast!!!

There was a bunjing jumping ride at the Snow king in Jackson Hole and Jared just loved it doing all sorts of flips on it! it was pretty fun

Here we are in California at my family's cabin Bucks Lake

This banana tube/boat was the funnest tube ride ever!!! We were on this all day long!

And here is my graduation from Brigham Young University Idaho with a Bachelor of Science in Child Development!

My in-laws came out to support me which was so sweet of them! My family came with my grandma, it was a full apartment in mine adn Jareds two bedrrom apartment. haha

it was so sweet to have family there to watch my graduation and even better to have a long vacation afterwards. Now its back to real life and trying to find a job to supprt my husband through school. Wish me luck!

4th of July

Jared and I had Thursday and Friday off of school the weekend of July 4th and we took it and ran away from Rexburg! We drove up to Coeur D'Alene Idaho and met up with his Brother and sister-in-law and stayed there for a few nights. I always forget to take picutres whenever I want to take them and so unfortunately I took pictures at the end when we were leaving.

here is our goofy picture with jareds older brother

*notice the cute little girl on the bottom right looking at us like we are crazy people! Funny story with little Jessica. Jared and I decided to jump off the dock when we went to the lake the day before and little Jessica was brave enough to jump with us. Jessica doesn't know how to swim yet so she has a life jacket on. The dock is in a U shape and so we were at the bottom of the U jumping and swimming back to the beach(the top) So I jumped in first and Jared threw jessica in to me. It was cold so as soon as she popped up from the water she grabbed and clung onto my head. Naturally I started to drown, it was all I could do to get above the water to look at Jared letting him know that I couldn't hold her, he quickly jumped in and saved the day. Good thing!

And here is our good picture

Mom and Dad Roberts came down to visit and we were able to chill with them for a little bit. It wa so nice to see family!
Friday morning we drove to Moses Lake Washington to meet up with another one of Jared's brothers and to camp with them... this picutre below was one of the first things I noticed that was right above where our tent was going... yucky

Jared was really excited about his awesome job setting up the tent!!

At the beach that day waiting for hot dogs to get done -I look totally pregnant in this picture!(i'm not!) but talk about a freakin bad angle to be standing to take a picture. It probably didn't help that I am slouching over to Jared either... haha how funny1

Jared going for a bike ride the next morning

So this cute girl comes striding over to where I was sitting with these diva pink sunglasses on and I couldn't help but click a picture of her

Mikayla doesn't like to get her hair done ( if you couldn't already tell) i almost felt bad for taking a picutre of her so upset but I thought when she is older I can have proof that she really didn't like having her hair mesed with when we tease her. She looks so sad... :(

Our tent set up and ready to roll!

Jared LOVED these wave runners all weekend he had a blast with them. I'm sure he was wishing he could buy soem now for us to take out everyday

Me and some of my new neices

After a long day at the beach, the ride home for Hanna was just too much... ;) haha she is a cute girl when she is zonked out cold Our trip home was a 10 hour drive, the way over was hard for me to stay positive and lively because I hate riding in the car. My husband being the genius that he is popped in a book on tape for me to listen to on the way home! WHAT A SMARTY PANTS... I seriously felt like the drive was an hour long it made time fly! I knew I married a good one.

We had a blast and were so sad when we had to come back for school :( but only a few more weeks till I graduate and then another vacation!!!

Drive-ins

We discovered that Rexburg has a Drive-in movies and of course we absolutely had to go. We went with three other couples and had a blast. $5 bucks each for two movies, "Night at the Museum 2" and "X-men". Jared and I made a cool bed in the back of our durango that composed of every pillow we have so of course since it was so comfy I barely made it awake through the first movie and then we headed home cause we were beat. I guess that is what happens when you get married, you go to bed early so your late nights are no more! haha but it was a blast and next time we are bringing an air mattress so our backs don't hurt and a picnic to stay awake :)

Here is the group right before the movie started

Our first attempt at a picutre that we were obviously not prepared for... ;)

so so so much fun...

I have a roommate who got married this past weekend and we were able to go. I went down Wednesday night and stayed through Sunday and Jared met me down there Friday night. It was our first time apart from beign married and it SUCKED!The weekend was fun., It was exciting to be there for Calee and Keenan.This is Jared and I at the reception, we didn't plan to match but thought it was cool. She had a double reception because her younger sister got married the day after her. It was crazy!
Here is Calee, Kelsey and I being silly. I look like a pig! HAHA, we are goofs

Here we are two days before her wedding at her Bridal shower.

Jared and I have set up a softball team for the semester. We have so much fun playing for fun. Here I am running home, Jared was out becuase of his surgery, which he has healed extremely well! He is quite the trooper and tough kid.

Memorial Day weekend blues...

Since early January, Jared has had severe stomach pains on and off. We went and got a gall bladder ultrasound for stones and they found nothing, so we tried our own experiments and found when he ate greasier foods he hurt more. So again we went to the doctor and ordered a Hida scan of his gall bladder. We found out his gall bladder was mal-functioning and does not work and that is what causes all of his pain. So Tuesday may 26th at 6:00am we were headed to the hospital for surgery to remove his gall bladder. It went well and we left at 1;30pm and had a roller coaster of a day and night. Vomiting, pain, immobility, nausea, sickness, tiredness etc. The doctors poked four small holes in his stomach and used machines to get the Gall bladder out. Amazing what technology we have come up with it.

This is right before they took him in for surgery, I had forgotten my camara and I was so mad at myself but luckily they pushed his surgery an hour back and I had a chance to run and get it. Whew! Heavenly Father loves me!

We had enough time for me to beat him in Phase 1o!

Here is the four pokes they made on his stomach they are all very small, for some reason the white bandage just happened to ooze a little more.

Here is us leaving, it took a few hours for Jared to be "ok" enough to leave, but once we left the hospital it seemed like everything was going wrong, we barely made it home before he was going to throw up, and then he was out once he hit the bed. My poor baby!

He is doing better today, he has decided he hates surgery, I keep reminding him that it will be better once he is healed and then he will realize surgery is good. Its hard when it hurts all the time. I feel so helpless at times but its slowly getting better.

In the meantime I have accomplished a few projects around the house. I have made a few trips to D.I. over the past few weeks adn found some awesome stuff!!! I love D.I. I wanted to make this Proclamation frame for awhile and we found this beautiful frame at D.I. so I finished it today!

I found this "home sweet home" at D.I. for $2 and I painted it to match my house, it was perfect for this wall, I needed something to fill it and this was perfect! I have found a key holder, a family plaque, a calendar holder, a banana holder, wooden spatulas craft things for scrapbooking, and so much more! I have spend $20 bucks in everything at D.I. It is so awesome!

Stitches!

Well it has been quite the weekend. Jared discovered a bump on his right forearm Friday morning. He went to the doctors and they said it was just a blood clot and to keep it warm and take some Advil. So he did that and it got bigger and bigger everyday. So Monday he went back in and the doctor said that he thought it was a sist or a benign tumor. So today we went in to have it removed.

This is what the bump looked like before we went in. kinda big for a blood clot... dont ya think?

Here is jared during the procedure, He watched the WHOLE THING!!!!! he was so interested to see the inside of his arm! I on the other hand had to tlook away the whole time and even without looking still had to talk myself down. I'm such a wimp!

Here is what they pulled out of his arm. It was a big ball of fat that accumulated right there in his arm. They said there really isn't an explanation for why they form in certain places and no way to prevent them. Interesting. We were sure glad it was not a Tumor or Sist.

He got stitched up with four stitches and a band-aid and we were sent on our way.

We are so grateful for friends who gave Jared a priesthood blessing. I'm sure that things would have gone a different way had we not had that blessing. We have been blessed and we are so thankful to our Father in Heaven for his watchful eye and love for us!

On a happier note Jared and I had a ward Cinco De Mayo party and made some salsa for the salsa competition and we won 2nd PLACE!!!! Woot Woot! We went to eat some of the salsa today and it had marinated all night and is very VERY very spicy!! It is now just for Jared, i can't handle that spicyness. Jared also won the Cinco De Mayo extreme musical chairs, we were full of prizes when we left! It was a blast!