We're Home!

We are home!!! Yes we have been home for a couple of weeks now, but we have been so busy that I haven't had time to blog. We came home From Texas to surprise both our families! It was so great! We were able to see our oldest Nephew get Baptized. It was so great to see all there shocked faces! We also got to meet our new nephew and see him get blessed this last Sunday. We also were able to go camping with Chad's family and go to Yellowstone with my family. One day in Yellowstone we floated a river and were able to see 5 MOOSE up close! That was so great! We also have been enjoying as much of the Utah scenery as we can get! We love Utah so much, I don't know why we ever leave this beautiful state. Also big news, Chad and I will both be graduating this coming May! Well, Chad will be graduating and I will be walking with him then graduating after the summer semester. We are loving life and just trying to catch up on all we've missed, and that is what we have been up too.

Busy, Busy, Busy

Life has been crazy these last two weeks! We went to Palo Duro state park in Amarillo,
moved to Colorado springs (which took 6 hours), drove to denver for some amazing pasta at Pasta Jay's, and have been living in a hotel room ever since. Even with all this craziness, Chad and I are having fun seeing all these new places and making new friends. Besides all that, we have had a blast! We have seen X men First class, Pirates of the Caribbean 4, and today I went and saw Water for Elephants. I have to say all of these movies were great! I forgot how much I miss going to see movies. Even with all that we have done, we haven't come close to what we still want to do in colorado.

An Attitude Of Gratitude!

I seem to always be on my blog during the summers, mostly reading other posts or finding cute layouts for my own. Today I was looking at my blog and was wondering how I could make it cuter, and I notice my little button, or whatever you call it, which says An Attitude of Gratitude. I started thinking how that is such a great quote. It made me start to think how if we aren't grateful and have an attitude of gratitude, we really don't accomplish much. if we are not grateful we can never move forward in life and we will never enjoy it either. After thinking about that, I started thinking about all I was grateful for, I of course thought of my family, my husband, my testimony, the Internet so I can keep up with the world, and so many things. with these new thoughts I started thinking, everyday that I get on my blog I should update what we are up to and what we are grateful for that day. I feel that this will be a great goal and task for Chad and I. I know when I am actively acknowledging what I am grateful for, I will be a more positive person. So today I am going to start this goal. Today I am so grateful for music, I know its not a very big thing to be grateful for, but if I didn't have music in my life, I really do believe I would be a different person. There have been so many songs that have changed my life. Music lifts my spirits, it can heal my heart, and even answer questions that I'm longing to know. Music is one way that I have learned about my savior and his eternal love for me. There has been so many times where my testimony has been strengthened by the words in a song or by the melodic rhythm. So in ending this post I want to thank my Heavenly father for putting beautiful music on this earth, I am truly grateful for it.

Amarillo & Cadillac Ranch

It's been a while since my last blog so I have some catching up to do. Chad and I are In Amarillo this summer selling alarms for Vivint. They are a great company and we have a great manager to work under. I am doing the OA job here with another girl who is way nice and was very patient with me while I was learning the new system. I'm not going to lie, being as OA for Vivint is great and a lot easier too. So we are in Amarillo which is the third windiest city in the United States! To my shock it beat out Chicago, which I thought was suppose to be pretty windy since its called the windy city. It is so flat here! in Houston you couldn't really notice how flat it really is because of all the trees, but here there is no trees but dirt, cows, and cow dung. Haha it really isn't that bad, but if the wind blows from the directions of the cows the whole city smells of cow dung. So this last weekend I was able to meet the rest of the wives out here and they are all really nice and seem to be a very fun group. For an activity we went to the Cadillac Ranch which is pretty famous out here. when we arrived to it I was a little bit shocked because I was thinking it was going to be a field full of hundreds of cars. I was right about the field, but for the count I was way off, there were only 10 cars. I was a little disappointed at first but when we got closer and saw that they had all been spray painted on and we could do the same, I got really excited. of course I put my initials on one of the cars and a big U for the University of Utah. the rest of the girls wrote things and it turned out to be pretty fun. So far Chad and I are having a blast and i'm hoping that since we are living in tornado ally that doesn't mean we get any tornados this summer, so I will be praying every night for no tornados this summer.

Cute Summer Clothes

I would not mind having some of these cute summer clothes from DownEast Outfitters.

CuTe HeAdBaNd!!!

If anyone wants to buy me one of these, I would love you forever!

Fall Photos!

How do you center your banner on your blog?

Ok anyone who knows how to center the blog banner I really need help! I switched to the new template and now I can't fix it. I tried to reverse it back to the old template and now I can't even do that. So if anyone knows how to fix it please email me or something.

ThInGs I LoVe RiGhT NoW!

2010

Things that happened in 2010...

January- Celebrated the new year, started a new semester of school, me at SLCC and Chad at the U
February- Celebrated valentines
March- Celebrated 2 years of marriage in Heber, UT, went to Moab with Platinum Protection
April- Enjoyed the spring weather
May- Finished classes and headed off to Houston, TX for 3 months for Chads work
June- Enjoyed Texas living and met a lot of great people, came back to UT for a Ali's Wedding
July- Celebrated the 4th of July with some great people from our office in Texas, Chads Sweet grandmother passed away
August-We came home from Texas and started school, Chad at the U, and me at SLCC
September- Celebrated Chewy's birthday
October- Celebrated my birthday, Chad ran the St. George Marathon, my dear, wonderful grandfather passed away
November- Celebrated Chads birthday
December- Chad and I finished school, and I received my associates at SLCC, Celebrated Christmas, went to Carlsbad, Ca, and rang in the new year with Chads family by playing games.

This year has already started with so many things happening, I am starting up at the U this semester and I am so excited and nervous. Life has been crazy trying to get ready for school for me. Besides schooling, Chads last remaining grandparent had been struggling and pasted away yesterday. He was such an amazing man and has left such a wonderful legacy on this earth. It has been a very crazy year for Chad and myself. We have had losses on both sides, struggles that have tested us, and pure joy that has lifted our hearts. We are so grateful for the gospel in our lives. We are so in love and love that we get to be with each other for eternity. We love our families so much and would be lost without them. We are so grateful for wonderful friends who still want to hang out with us even though we are kind of weird. We are so grateful for everything and we hope to continue to grow, learn, and love.