Art

When we were in our student ward my calling was to make the bulletin for sacrament meeting each week. Although it was stressfull at times I loved it because I got to pick a picture to put on it- and so all week at work I would look for cool pictures to use. I found some of my favorites and thought I would share :)

The salt lake temple is my favorite...if you couldnt tell ha ha

4th of July

My family was camping up at Scout Mountain for a family reunion

I of course made everyone pose for pictures :)

Miley loved it, she loves getting dirty

(Mom, Grandma, Marshall, Jackie and Cooper)

Ha marshall doesnt look very happy....maybe it was cuz we hadnt eaten yet? ;)

(Me, Joel and Derek)
(Marshall and Cooper)

(Mom and dad) I love them! :)

Random Shot

(Derek, Marshall in the corner, Alene, back of Coopers head, Joel, Rick, Mom and Dad)

We went up to my cousin Jordans new house and watched the fireworks

They were awesome

Joels parents, little sister and her friend joined us

Perfect company :)

This was my attempt to get a group shot after the fireworks ended

ha as you can see it didnt turn out

but I thought all the stuff in the air was crazy

and I also blinded everyone haha oops
(and Joel has glowing eyes) haha

It was an awesome weekend

and due to that fact,

work this week has been extra terrible

On a happy note- Our Tastee Treat team did AMAZING at our game on Tuesday

I made it home TWICE! that is huge ha ha

We have another tonight, wish us luck!

Fence

We finally finished the first side to our fence!! wooohoo! ha ha and when I say I, I really mean Joel... :) not that I didnt help...but I wasnt strong enough to drill the screws into the vinyl, or dig the holes fast enoug...So I did alot of holding things, and getting things...ha ha so basically Joel did it. (and thanks to Tyson and Joels dad for helping way more than me!)
Now we get to start on the back...looks fun huh?

our backyard neighbor is a TOTAL jerk, and likes to threaten Miley with bad words and death threats when she is barking in our yard at him through the broken fence, lets just say we will be VERY happy to put the back part up

The last leg will be to somehow attach our fence to our other neighbors vinyl fence...their driveway is at a weird angle, so we will have to cut one of our panels and make a jog over about 2-3 feet from theirs. joel says he knows what to do...ive learned not to question his methods

And to think all of this hard work, money and stress just to keep this little girl from chasing the mailman, running after cars, and scaring the neighbors kids.

P.S. We won our softball game on Tuesday!! yay! AND Stephani and I went and waited in the rain for 2 hours to see Eclipse that night...and it was AWESOME!!!

cute.

I love this picture, and this boy.

and the goat was pretty cute too.

Babies.

We took Jack to see the baby goats...sooo funny ha ha I love this boy.

At first he didnt want anything to do with them...

Then as we were leaving he decided he loved them :) ha ha

What a freaking cutie huh??

And our adorable new nephew Talon James. love him already :)

We are so glad Talon is now home and doesnt have anymore tubes in him :)

p.s. love you steph and kelly, you guys are amazing and always in our prayers

Rainy Jackson

I was so excited for last weekend. more like super excited.

My work was sending me to Jackson Thursday night to work in the store friday due to them being short handed.

So since Joel and I both had Saturday off we decided once I got off work friday that we would camp Friday night and sight see on Saturday.

So we got all of the food in the cooler, sleeping bags, flashlights, tent, etc. in the car and left for our exciting weekend.

The weather had other plans however.

It seriously rained, no wait, POURED all Thursday night and Friday.

MISERABLE.

So we decided to get dinner and just drive home.

LAME.

It was raining so hard I didnt even want to make the effort to take a picture in front of the antler arch...ha so I stayed dry and took it from accross the street.

BUT, It was fun to have a weekend off with my wonderful husband :)

(isnt he adorable?!)

Dating and what not and stuff

So my friend Stephani and I were texting today and talking about how much fun and exciting dating was, and the fact that we were both nicer to our husbands when they were just our boyfriends. ha ha totally random I know but it really got me reminiscing about when Joel and I were dating, the trips we took, the looooong drives between here and Salt Lake, the buttflies the first time he introduced me as his GIRLFRIEND ha ha This then made me want to look at pictures....a few of my favorites I have posted below...

This was like the first pic we took while dating, and the first time I at at 5th Street Bagelry...mmmmmm so good! ha ha

This was on vaca with Joels family in California, I loooove this picture for some reason

First time to San Fran, SOO fun

ha ha classic right? (I totally didnt need help either)

While I was thinking about all of this it really bugged me that I am like this, I should be treating my husband like the amazing, loving, hardworking, bestfriend that he is!? what is wrong with me?? I have been slowly reading Dr. Lauras book, "the proper care and feeding of husbands" (courtesy of Stephani) And aside from the fact that she is a total Biotch, she makes TOTAL sense. She talks about how men are really quite simple, and only want a few things from us as wifeys. These things include RESPECT, AN OPINION, PRAISE, and SEX. (of course) ha ha thats not to hard is it?

So these are the things I will be working on this week.

1) no raising of the voice, and no negativeness, oh and no nagging (im the worst)

2) no assuming, ASK what he thinks before doing

3) when I think, "he looks so good today," or "that was so nice of him to make the bed," I will say it OUTLOUD TO HIM, Also even if he didnt clean the kitchen the way I would have cleaned it, he still cleaned it, so be grateful!

4) Be more spontaneous ;)

I loooove this quote, and Elder Nelson :)

"Marriage brings greater possibilities for happiness than does any other human relationship. Yet some married couples fall short of their full potential. They let their romance become rusty, take each other for granted, allow other interests or clouds of neglect to obscure the vision of what their marriage really could be. Marriages would be happier if nurtured more carefully." Elder Russell M. Nelson