MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

This is my Christmas tree.

This is Bella on Christmas Eve morning waiting for Blake so we could go to my mom and dad's. We got up at 4:00 to leave.

Christmas morning We didn't get up until 7:30 it was kind of nice.
I gave Blake a new ipod, his old one bit the dust.

I got two pairs of Ariat boots brown and black from Blake. I am so excited.
We (me, blake and my sisters) went in and bought my dad a double skeet thrower from Cabela's. If you can't tell by his face he was super excited. We shot it later that day but I forgot my camera, so no pictures. It was snowing anyway so I am not sure how great they would have been
This is one of my sisters Morgan (17) In case you can't tell she is Florida Gator fan.
Whitney (16) is a Texas fan.
I think that maybe that causes some tension on game day but they get over it.
I have one more sister( I know my poor dad) Paige (21) who I somehow failed to get a picture of.
(Sorry Paige I really thougth there was one)

This is the magnet board I made my mom.
It says "Family those you live with laugh with love"

Grandma Kay (mom's mom) with a book about the Mountain Meadows Massacre.
You can see the side of Paige's face in this picture.
I don't know if you can see out the window or not but they had about 2 inches of snow when we got there and then is snowed all christmas. We still don't have any snow here just 3 feet of wind as dad would say.

TWO YEARS!!!

Yesterday was our Two year anniversary. We took the afternoon off and went to Denver to the temple. It is a little bit crazy to think that we have been married for two years already. Sometimes is seems like a lot longer ( in a good way).

Primary, Truck & Thanksgiving

For those of you who don't know we teach primary . We teach the sunbeams (most of them are 4). When they are all there we have 7 of them it is crazy but they are fun. Here are some pictures from an activity we had just before thanksgiving. Me and Adri Bassett, her dad is our home teacher too so we see lots of her.
Drew Green she is a handful sometimes.
KeKoa Ah Loy. He loves Blake obviously. If Blake is not at church he asks me where my dad is and one week he asked Blake where is your mom ( referring to me). His parents are from Hawaii so he sometimes uses Hawaiian words for things which makes life interesting sometimes.
We also have two of the members of our bishoprics kids in our class.



This is Blake's new baby. It is a 1972 Ford F250 Hi-Boy ( if you know what that means give yourself brownie points I had no idea) He bought it for $1400 it actually runs really well it just needs front turn signals to be totally street legal. I think it looks like a piece of crap but he likes it so as long as he is happy.


This year Thanksgiving was a little bit different. We stayed here because of work, so instead of cooking for just the two of us we went to dinner with Blake's boss and her family. We ate at this restaurant called Perkin's. I had an actual turkey dinner ( it in no way compared to one you would cook at home but such is life) Blake as you can see (hopefully) had......
CHICKEN FRIED STEAK!!!!! (YUCK)
Later that night we went down to the event center and played around with some of the staff and their families. This is Blake using the golf simulator. It was a very different holiday then I am used to but it will make a normal christmas just that much better I think.

Just Life

I know it has been awhile since I have updated but that is mostly because we have kind of boring lives and I forget to take my camera lots so I don't have very many pictures. Life is good, Blake may be getting a promotion at the start of next year so that is exciting. We are trying to save some money to buy a house I will post when that happens. With the holidays coming I will have pics and updates more often. I promise.

Labor Day

For labor day weekend we went camping in the snowy range (west of Laramie) with Russell and Rashell. The first two pictures are of our camp site. We were back on a really rough side road so we had no neighbors.

This is a little pond that was right across the road from our camp site.
This is Sand Lake about 10 miles from where we camped. We went fishing here on Sunday.
This is the fish I caught.
We shot pop cans. This is Rashell shooting she hit more then all of the rest of us.
Me shooting
Blake shooting.
This is Bella with her toy lizard.
This is the end of a tree Blake cut down with his hatchet. We didn't have an ax to split the big logs that were left at our campsite.
This is the stump of the tree.
I thought this was a cool looking rock and I got bella to hold still on it long enough to take a picture.

Blake's work and life updates.

GOOD NEWS . I finally got a job actually two. I am working part time for the city in the rec department at the front desk, and I am teaching one junior high shop class. No exactly what I want to do forever but it is better then nothing. My class is actually pretty good for 7th graders and I have an in with the district. Blake works at the event center the city bought and they just put in their ice a couple of weeks ago. It is pretty cool. Here are some pictures.
This is the finished ice from the bleachers.
The University of Wyoming hockey team plays some of their home games here so this is their logo. Most of the logos are painted on the ice.


This is Greg marking the lines to be painted. They paint on the bottom layer of ice and then put more ice on top. Greg said they use something like 10,500 gallons of water to make a 1 1/2 inches of ice.
This is Blake's boss Mandy. I don't think she knows he took this picture.
Some of the maintenance guys doing whatever maintenance guys do.
This is someone on the Zamboni. They use it to smooth out the ice after it has been used. I think it also adds water.

Graduation

I know this is a little late but Blake just finished his internship the first of August so he is offically graduated. Us with our Diploma covers. They are mailing our actual diplomas.
Me with my mom and dad.
Blake with the dean of the College of Ag. He technically graduated in the College of Education but he came to our graduation ceremony.
Me with Dean Cockett.
Both of us with the Dean. Sometimes I still can't believe that we have graduated it is kind of weird.

Frontier Days

For those of you who don't know what Frontier Days is.. It is a big rodeo and old west celebration . This year was the 112th. The rodeo goes for ten days. This is the first year I have ever been. My family came over and we went to the pancake breakfast and rodeo on Monday. (but I am an idiot and didn't take any pictures.) It was fun. I was amazed at how fast the breakfast was the line was blocks long but we had our food in less then half and hour. The Local Kawanis club and boy scouts put it on. The people cooking the pancakes flip them off the grill and the boys catch them on cookie sheets it was pretty cool to watch. They have concerts and stuff at night. On Thursday Blake and I went to see Marianda Lambert and Jason Aldean with some of his friends from home. That is what these pictures are of. We were in the standing room section so we were pretty close to the stage it was really cool. And as you can see we were outside which I have decided is the best place for concerts to be. This is Marianda Lambert. Thursday was tough enough to wear pink day. So there were lots of cowboys in pink shirts. And she had a pink guitar. She rocked by the way.

This is her bass player with a mohawk. Which I thought was kind of weird for a member of a country band.
This is Jason Aldean. He also rocked I would highly recommend seeing either one of them in concert.
This is Jake trying to get Blake to dance. It didn't work though. He is not much of a dancer. It was a great concert and a fun week. If you ever get the chance to come over it is worth it.

Memories

Heres how to play:

1. As a comment on my blog, leave a memory that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you know me a little or a lot, anything you remember! If you don't have a blog, please comment as anonymous (but include your name).


2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. It's actually pretty funny to see the responses. If you leave a memory about me, I'll be sure to write one about you..

Bella

For those of you who don't know and even those that do, we have a dog. Her name is Bella, she is a black lab mix. We have had her since April she was five months old yesterday. So here are some pictures and video of her.
She was about six weeks old when we got her. I just looked at this picture again today I can't believe how little she was.
Bella sleeping in the sun at our house in Cheyenne. As you can see
she is not so little anymore.
Blake and Bella at the Night Ranger concert for Super Day. I love the Hawaiian shirt don't you ;)

This is a video of bella swimming ( well trying to) over the fourth of July. We took her to a reservoir over here a couple of weekends ago and she did a lot better.