hunting/jeepin!

Well at last the deer hunt came!!! And we were quite excited to go!!! Sat. morning we got up before the sun and went up Hatch mountain. We took our jeep and Scot brought his. Jaycen and his cute little boys Trent and Casey got to come too! The little boys were so excited you would have thought it was Christmas! We drove around Hatch mountain for a few hours but we just weren't having any luck! There were people everywhere so we decided to go try somewhere else this year which i was totally stoked about!!! So we went to this place that I had never been to, its called Purgatory! Down by kanab area and kinda close to Zions! Oh it was just gorgeous down there!!! We had so much fun just jeeping!!! It was quite muddy and we got a little wet. We saw lots of deer tracks and saw a few doe's but unfortuntly no Bucks.... But there still is a few days left of the hunt so hopefully we can find time in this busy week to get out again.

My cute hubby. His hat was the funniest thing he just cracks me up :)

Beautiful Sunrise :)

It was so muddy out getting to Purgatory so we got just a little stuck!

For a little bit I felt like i was on the show IRT Deadliest Roads!!!

Grandpa, Trent and Casey!



Casey!!! he looked so cute in his Orange!



Trent!!! he was such a big helper keeping his eyes open for any deer! :)



I hope we can go back to this place in the summer and go camping. It was absolutly gorgeous and the whole ride was a blast!!!

catch up!

OH am i behind!! Life has just been so busy for us! The beginnging of our crazy adventures started when we moved back to hatch!!! We were just so excited to be back here we both were able to talk our bosses into working us only one more week! so yet again another quick move! Joel is working with his dad and jaycen again! We are currently living with joel's parents Scot and Jill and it has been wonderful.The first week we got back, of course, we went to the sand dunes!!! the whole family came and we camped over night. The boys had tons of fun riding their wheelers! That sunday Scot got released as bishop!! And of course being new again to the ward, we were asked to speak in church!!

Big pa, Joel, Scott, Jade, and Jaycen!

          Joel was pretty excited to get to use his new truck to haul his wheeler! As always we had a blast at the sandunes!

                                                on the way home we saw this huge elk!

new addition to the family :)

Well for those of you who dont know! Im prego!! Joel and I are expecting our very first baby March 30th!!! As of today I am only 12 weeks along!! We are expecting to find out what we are having in November! We are very excited! Yesterday was my 2nd doctors appointment and we got to listen to baby's heartbeat. It just gives me butterflies everytime :) Doc said everything is looking good and we pray every day that it stays that way!!!

jarom's Farewell!!

Well i cant belive that my awesome nephew Jarom is leaving on a mission!!! I am so proud of him and I know the people of France will love him and he will be an amazing missionary- just like his sister :) We were able to go to his farewell on sunday in fillmore. He gave a wonderful talk and of course there was a farewell "party" at ephra's house later! It was so good to get to see everyone. Later that night we went to my bestest friend Danielle and Braden's house for sunday dinner and she made a beautiful dinner for us. Unfortunaly i didnt get any pics this time.

My New kitchen Table!

Finally my birthday present came!!! I was so excited to finally get my kitchen table and it is so pretty i just love it!! It was fun i even made dinner for our first night with a table!!!

                                  Burkley was very interested in joel while
                               he was putting the chairs together!

                           Every chance she gets to sit on you...she will do it!!

Our first dinner on our new table :)

Family Day at Seven Peaks

    Well its been forever since i have been able to get on here and update!!! Our internet is through verizion so we pay for so much usuage a month and we used it all up way early this month thanks to a movie website we found! So now that we have the internet again i can start my daily blogging!!!!
       Joel's family was able to come up to orem and visit us for the weekend and go to seven peaks!! We had a blast and yes amazingly all 11 adults and 5 kids were able to fit in out little apartment!!! Everyone pulled out sleeping bags and blankets and it worked out awesome!! On monday we went to the park and had a blast. We were a little sad that half of the park was closed because of some problems. The kids would have loved the little kids pool but they still had a blast going down some of the bigger slides. It was so good to get to see everyone and sad the weekend went by so fast!

                              Grandpa watching 101 Dalmations with the boys :)

                          joel and colton :) The little boys loved the purple slide!

                                                                    Beth and Colby!

Jill and Scot

We talked willard into going down the purple slide and she loved it!!

                                                                 Scotty and William

Erin and Jaycen!

Granny and the boys

Casey, Will and Trent

Me and Joel :)

                                                               Big Pa and Casey :)

Sot, colton, brooke, and william!

The guys were so brave and went down the blue, yellow and orange slides! Beth was the only brave girl :)

                  cute little William who never wanted to get out of the water :)

Joel, colton, and Trent!

Beth and Colby

We had such a blast with everyone here and miss everyone

 so much!!! Our house was way to quiet when everyone left!

Birthday FUN!!!

Well the funnest thing about our birthdays is they are only a day apart!!! Mine is august 9th and joels in aug 10th!!! It's way fun to celebrate two birthdays in a row!! This year mine landed on monday which is our day off so we went to breakfast at a place called Kneaders. We'd never been there but i heard they had amazing french toast and let me tell you they have the most amazing french toast ever!! And its all you can eat!!! After breakfast we went to the mall to get joel's birthday present! He's been wanting a new phone forever so he got the new chocolate touch!! He loves it!

After that we came home and made lunch to go have a picnick out at nunns park in provo canyon! It was so pretty out there and nice. We walked to Bridal veil falls. The falls were very pretty!

This year we decided to only get one cake since it was just the two of us. Well so i was nice enough to let joel pick the cake so he picked out an oreo cake. It was yummy!!!

22 Candles for me! :)

...and 24 for Joel!! :)