Bear Lake Reunion

 This week was our annual snowmobile trip with the Wood family and we had so much fun!  I am so glad I married someone who loves to spend time outside and who loves to snowmobile!  Colton sure is a crazy one when it comes to snowmobiling but I guess if he enjoys it then it is worth it.  I just enjoyed staying in the cabin and spending time with my Aunts.  I loved getting away from school for a week and relaxing with the family!  We sure did have a good time and nobody got hurt so I would say it was a good week.
 

I love my cousins!

Me and McKayla playing Just Dance.

Colton and Caden playing Just Dance.  Colton was showing off.

Valentine's Craft

I don't have school on Thursday's so I decided today would be a perfect day for a craft!  Valentine's Day is coming up soon and thought it would be nice to have a little love in the air.  This is my only Valentine decoration but hopefully this is just a start to my collection! 

Be Mine!

Cows

I absolutely love the cows.  It is that time of year again when the cows need to be fed and I love to go with Colton.  This year we have about thirty baby cows in the pin by the house and we have to feed and water them.  The one day Colton left me to fill the water bin by myself.  I had only watched Colton water them once so I didn't really know what to do.  He just told me to keep the cows away until it is full because they will all crowd around and drink all the water before it is full.  I was like okay that doesn't seem too hard so he left to check on something else.  I had the bin maybe a third of the way full until the cows got impatient and then they started to crowd.  Once one starts drinking then they all think they need to drink and it is impossible to get them to stop.  So, I let them drink until all the water was gone and started to fill the bin up again.  This attempt was more successful but I didn't think watering the cows would be this difficult!  I still loved it though.

I just love when they have hay on their face from feeding them!

They were just so thirsty I couldn't help but let them drink a little.

New Year

It's a New Year and I feel like we are going to have some great things happen to us this year.  Colton and I are both really excited to be applying to the Nursing program and we are very hopeful that this time we will both get in.  I am ready to start with what I will be doing everyday for the rest of my life instead of being at a standstill.  My New Year's resolution this year is to keep track of our finances!  This is a big one but I love math and being organized.  I think this will really help in the future and it is a great thing to start now!  It is amazing to me how much money it takes to survive these days.  I just want to make sure that my family and I will always be okay financially and 2013 is the perfect year to start!

Christmas in Arizona

After our Disneyland adventure, we all headed to Donelle's house for Christmas.  We opened presents on Christmas and Alex and I hit up some stores the day after for some Christmas sales.  We all loved spending time together and had a great time together.  Christmas Day we went out to the desert and rode four wheelers and went shooting.  I loved doing that!  I don't do that very often so it was fun and it was the first time that Alex had ever been shooting.  It is a Christmas tradition to see the Mesa Temple lights so we all did that the last night we were in Arizona.  Christmas was wonderful this year and couldn't have asked for anything better.

Opening presents.

Decorating cookies for Santa.

Opening Christmas presents. Santa found us!

Just love this picture!  Something was obviously really funny.

Shooting!

Temple lights.

DISNEYLAND

Our family decided to go to Christmas this year for Christmas.  I am so glad my Aunt Donelle had this wonderful idea!  Colton had never been to Disneyland before so I'm glad after 25 years he finally got to go!  The first day we were there went went back and forth from park to park from 8 in the morning when they opened to midnight when they closed.  Lets just say that was the longest day I have had in a long time!  It was a blast but we were dragging the next day.  I loved every minute of it though and had so much fun with the whole family.  We never get to do anything like this so it was great to get away.  We rode just about every ride at Disnyland that we wanted to, and a few times.  There was this one ride, the big mountain railroad, that I went on over and over again.  Jake would just laugh at me for riding it so many times.  We all had a great time though and hopefully we will make it back one of these with our kids.

Let the FUN begin!

Riding Matterhorn.

Visiting Radiator Springs.

Mickey and Minnie during the parade.

Yes, I waited in line an hour to see Cinderella because she is my favorite!

The whole group!

Colton and Brooklyn.

Our Disneyland experience was a success!

Early Christmas

Jake and Alex came tonight and we opened presents before our trip to California.  I am so glad when my family comes to visit me and so glad the spent the night with us.  We had a nice little dinner and then exchanged our presents.  Jake gave me some things to help me clean cars which I loved and they gave Colton a new hat!

Colton LOVES his new hat!

Alex opening her present.

Jake got a Kinect for his xbox!

Thanksgiving with the fam

 I was able to go to Idaho to spend time with my family for Thanksgiving.  My Dad and Deb came to Grandma and Grandpa's so we were able to spend some time together.  Colton had to work Friday so he was unable to come with me.  He has never been to Idaho before so hopefully one of these days we will be able to go visit Grandma and Grandpa. It was so great to spend time with everyone and I need to make a note to myself that I will never go to Walmart again on black Friday!  It was so crazy busy!  But, if it's a good deal I might not be able to pass it up.  I also was in a light parade Friday night and ended up in the Pocatello paper with my cousin!  That was fun and I'm sure the last time I'll ever be in the paper!  I had a great trip and can't wait to see everyone soon!

Playing cards.

Getting ready for the parade to start!

We were all lit up!

Family time!

Emily's having a birthday!

My best friend Emily and her husband Josh came down to spend the day with us!  Emily's birthday is tomorrow and I suggested that she should come down and hang out.  We had a wonderful day and I am so glad that they decided to come!  We went four wheeling, went for a little hike, saw the baby turkeys and played a lot of games.  I am so glad that I was able to spend the day with my best friend and her wonderful husband they are both a lot of fun and can't wait until they come down again!  Emily and I have shared quite a few birthdays together but I'm looking forward to spending many more birthdays with her!  I love you best friend and I am so thankful for your friendship!   Happy birthday! 

Our ride up Maple Canyon.  We are at the very top!

The birthday girl and her hubby!

I love you best friend!

1st Snow!

Well, today was our first snow!  It's only October but I guess the weather has decided it's time to snow.  I like the snow I'm just not looking forward to the colder weather.  Oh well, I guess Utah does have four seasons.  It was sure pretty though and the flakes were so big!  I sure do love when it snows I just wish it could be warm when it snowed.  Then that would be perfect!

Halloween Party

Kylee's in-laws always have a Halloween party every year so we decided to join the fun!  I'm not really sure what you would call our costumes but I guess we would be a flashback from the 70's or something like that.  Colton borrowed his uncles prom suit and I wore one of Grandma's old dresses.  I'm not really one to go all out and dress up but it was fun.

Halloween Craft

Today I crafted with all my in-laws and had a blast.  I love to craft and we all made a "monster" today.  I had the hardest time picking out all the paper though and that should have been the easiest part!  But, I had a fun time and it turned out super cute.  I thought it would only take an hour or two but it took me about five!  It was fun to say the least though and  I can't wait until the next time we craft. 

MONSTER