Some things are better than money

These things are a lot better than money...

Watching a brothers football game in a gay hat ;) haha jk I made him put that on because my mom brought it to the game and we thought it was so ridiculous we just had to take a picture wearing it.

being the best man in a good friends wedding

 Building an awesome fort in our living room

 hanging out with each other

 Visiting family and doing fun things like move a car on a trailer

 carrying this cute babe around at the zoo

 Zoo

 Playing with nieces and nephews

 my turn to hold the cute babe 

(I stole this pic from Jamie, Thanks Jamie)

Mountain biking with good friends

 Among a lot of other things that I have no pictures for like movies, game nights with friends, attending Sunday meetings, having my Saturdays wide open, playing at the park having barbecues with friends. All these things are better then money and I am so glad I have time to do them because I finally QUIT MY JOB!!!!!!! Yeah! Life is so much more enjoyable, exciting, happy, and stress free since I quit. Money? who needs it some things are just a little more important.

Busy Bumble Bees

WOW! My last post was 3 months ago? What is going on here... oh I know we have been super extremely out of control busy! So many things have happened I don't even know where to begin... My wonderful Husband finished up another semester at BYU-Idaho with phenomenal grades, We applied to Dental School and took the DAT, we went camping with  family and are now enjoying time being with my brother who just returned from a mission. busy busy bees we have been.

We took my two younger brothers to 6 flags Marine World for the day. It was a lot of fun, 2 things to remember- we wont go on a Saturday again it was way too busy and I will take motion sickness pills for the drive there. I got so carsick I couldn't go on any of the rides. Totally stunk. 

Here we are in front right before the entrance to the park.

Celebrating my other younger brothers 21st birthday! Whooo Hoo happy birthday Kevin!

This is what vacation looks like for Jared and I... hehe

My mom bought this cat to replace one that ran away, We aren't inside pet people but the cat cant be outside till its older otherwise it will be a snack for other animals outside. For some reason the cat just loved Jared. And the funny part is Jared was probably the meanest to the cat haha weird cat.

It was cute and all until I noticed a smell that wouldn't go away and then I saw this and the cat will no longer be cute to me... poop yuck!

We were able to hang out with my wonderful friend Megan ( who is pregnant with twins!YAY) and her husband Ben on his birthday. They took us out on the lake and out to dinner... I thought maybe it was our birthday instead of Ben's. We had so much fun hanging out with them and celebrating Bens 24th! ;)

Jared and I hard away at work for a sign for the garage door for Kevin's welcome home banner.

waiting at the airport for the flight from Uruguay and the arrival of my brother!

HE'S HOME!!

Swimming for the first time home

We went to the younger boys football scrimmage and my mom had this silly  hat that she was gonna wear to keep the sun off, Jared was sporting it for us in such a fashionable manner.I got the worst sunburn on my face with the worst raccoon eyes from those big sunglasses. haha

Jared teaching Kevin how to use his new laptop.

It has been so nice being with family and seeing my brother again. He has changed so much in so many ways and it is so nice to see him with such a strong conviction in the church. 

Right before Jared took his DAT we had some good friends of our Tony and Jamie stay with us for a night with their cute cute cute cute cute kids! I miss not being around these cutie pies.

This is a pic of Britt at Applebees and so cute Ash in the morning right when she woke up. I snapped this awesome picture because of her awesome hair she is so cute you just wanna give her big hugs and kisses all day.

Here is Jared doing some last minute studying in our Hotel the night before the big DAT. 

Here he is leaving to go take the DAT. I felt so bad leaving him he was up all night with food poisoning throwing up and didn't get any sleep for this huge test that our whole life is riding on. HA figures right?

Here are a few snapshots from our camping trip with Jared's family, the last night we were there a very loud long and wet thunderstorm came through for about an hour. I have never felt so close to thunder I was on an air mattress on the ground and I could still feel the earth shake. it was a little frightening at times but pretty darn cool. Here is a pic from our tent in the middle of the storm.

We went to the cheap theater with our pals Ally and Carsten to see Despicable Me in 3D i haven't been to a 3D movie since i was like 11 and I forgot how fun they are. The movie was totally awesome and we couldn't keep from laughing every 5 minutes. And I think these glasses are very fashionable and am considering adding them to my daily wardrobe. What do you think?

We have enjoyed these past few weeks having so much fun with family and friends and we are very excited to start our final semester at BYU-Idaho. We can't wait to leave Rexburg and the cold and to begin our next journey and adventure in life.

Mountain Biking

For Memorial Day  I had the day off and so did Jared, so we wanted to plan something really fun to do together for the day. We have another couple that we do a lot with ( Jay and Leanne) and we all decided to go do some Mountain Biking up at Kelly Canyon. The plan was to leave around 10:30 so Jared and I got up at 9 and went and rented me a Mountain Bike and a helmet and went shopping for some food to have a barbecue later. Well 10:30 comes around an passes, we are with our friends J and L now and we didn't get going till around noon. we stopped for gas and Leannes car wont start... HA it was the perfect thing to happen for this day. So we tried to jump it and nothing was happening. We finally got it to start and we were on our way.  We drove up to Kelly Canyon and behind the ski resort there are dirt trails we went about ten miles down a few dirt trails till we got to our parking site and then we were unloading the bikes and getting ready to go when I accidently lock the keys in the car... which has our helmets, water and food in it. So we couldn't just go and leave.

Here they are chilling in my helmet in the locked car right in the front seat... it took AAA 2 hours before they would come out to unlock it. Thankfully it was for free cause Leanne has coverage from them. And in the mean time our beautiful sunny day has now gone cloudy and is raining.

Here is AAA unlocking the car... we were so happy to finally get going

Here we are at the beginning of the trail, we were doing a ten mile trail "mostly downhill" according to our book we had.

Here we are after  like 5 miles of tough uphill. Jared and Jay go mountain biking a lot so this stuff was easy for them, this was mine and Leannes first time and it was kinda hard.

Once we got to the top and then we started the down hill the rain and cold weather had created a long trail of mud/snow/water and it was dirty and very hard to ride through, but what fun is it if you cant get muddy right?

 

We finally made it to the end with only a few trips and falls nothing too major, at the end of the trail Jared was a little ahead of me and it was really rocky so I had gotten off my bike and I hear Jared yell "there's a bear!" I freak out and go "WHAT!!?"  He says it again, and I am getting adrenaline shot through my system, I noticed he looked too calm he was pointing ahead and I realized he had said "We are there!" telling me we were at the end. HAHA I almost cried mostly due to fear of the bear that wasn't there.

I had a blast on this trip it was so fun to be out with Jared doing something that he loves and enjoying our time together. At the end we were mostly by ourselves and got to enjoy the scenery and beautiful meadows and the quiet. By the time we finished our trail is was 8PM!!!! Yikes out there any longer it would have been dark and that would have been bad. It was so fun, and we will probably go back and do it again once every muscle in my body isnt aching, i think i will be confined to the house today i had trouble sleeping cause i was so sore... well worth it though. Thanks babe for such a fun day.