Finally some summer weather and HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!!

So the past few weeks here in Rexburg you would have never guessed that we were in the month of June!! Tons of rain and can you believe we had snow last week?!?!?! But on Saturday the rain clouds rolled away and gave a beautiful 80+ degree day!! We went to the Legacy Museum Air Show and had a little picnic, it was totally fun!! Although we loaded up on the sunscreen both Matt and I did get a little burned!! But it was fun and that made it worth it!!




We also made a little video of Matt riding on his motorcycle, it is pretty sweet!! You can search for it on google video...matt cafe racer, but we will provide the video, hopefully, on this post! We have had a great time lately, just hangin out with friends, I won a ice cream maker at work so today we tested it out and we are very pleased with the turn out!! We have been able to really meet new people and have had fun hanging out with new friends!!



Also, I am so proud of Matt because he was awarded a scholarship for school which is going to be such a blessing for us!! As many of you know, he is not a huge school fan but I must say that he has been very good and has done very well this semester!! I love that he has such a huge determination, so much so that he will pursue and endure through things that he isn't too fond of! He is a great guy and I love him so much!! Also HAPPY FATHERS DAY to both of our wonderful dads!! I love my dad so much and am so grateful that I was able to be his daughter!!! I love his outlook on life and his fun personality, he is such a good example to me and I want him to know that I love him so much more than I will ever be able to show or express!!! Though I will continue to try my best!!! I am also glad that I married into a family with such a wonderful dad as well. Matt's dad has always been a big support to us and we appreciate the time and love he gives his family, even with his calling as bishop! We are lucky to have the two greatest dads on the planet!!




Rexburg is treating us pretty well and we are enjoying ourselves!!!

And then there was darkness......

So yesterday I had a brand new experience, one that I have never ever ever had to deal with before...because of this I thought I would share it with all of you!! So yesterday I was soo excited because I was finally going to get my hair done and I had made my appointment for 1:15, right after work. So I got off work and headed to the salon!! The appointment went great and I was really happy with the results, everything was good. I had started to get a little bit of a stomach ache but all was okay. So I was standing at the counter waiting to pay when my stomach really started to hurt and I started to get a cold sweat and then my eyes kind of went weird. You know if you get up too fast how your eyes will go kind of weird, it was just like that. I just thought "oh maybe I just stood up to fast" and I waited for it to go away!! WELL it didn't and I really started to feel weird, so I told the girls at the counter that I wasn't feeling to hot and that I was going to go sit down for a second. So I turned and I took a couple steps....AND THEN THERE WAS DARKNESS!!!!!! I had totally passed out!!!! Luckily they had a couch right there that I landed on but not before I smashed my face into the wall. I didn't feel myself hit but I heard it and that is what knocked me back to the real world!! The next thing I saw was the two girls running over to see if I was okay!!! THIS EXPERIENCE WAS TOTALLY WEIRD!! I didn't ever feel scared or embarrassed, I just felt bad because I had freaked the girls out! The scared part came a little later when everyone started asking if I could be pregnant!! I am soo excited to be a mom...just not yet so I got scared!! But I can tell you right now that I am NOT pregnant!! There were a lot of things that could have factored into why this happened. For instance, Matt and I had donated plasma the day before so it could have been that, or I got that stomach ache bad right before so maybe it was the pain that did it! I am feeling 100% now(I was actually okay right after), and we've been able to laugh about it. I only have the left over battle wounds....a little black eye, a bump on my head, a scrape on my foot, and I nice bruise on my thigh!! It was a first for me, the passing out thing, and I wanted to share it!! :D



This is my eye right after I got home!


This is the goose egg on my forehead!


And this is what my eye looks like today, the day after!!

Happy Memorial Day!!

So Matt and I were so excited for our big camping trip we had planned for Memorial Day Weekend.....only to have our excitment dashed to pieces by big fat black clouds and lots of rain drops!!! Instead we just hung out here, Monday, Memorial Day, it wasn't too bad and Matt was dying to get out and fish so we packed up a cute little picnic and headed out to go fishing!! The fishing really wasn't good so instead we just drove and explored in the nearby forest area!! We were really enjoying ourselves, looking for animals and next thing we know we reach a sign that says..."Welcome to Wyoming!" Yeah Wyoming isn't too far away but a good two hours or so!! We had just been jabbering away and drove all the way to Wyoming!! We had a good laugh about that!! Although we didn't get to have our camping trip we did still have a good Memorial Day!!


This is a super cool mailbox we came across when we were on our little adventure!


This was the dream house locaton, in my opinion! Well I actually just love the huge field!

Other than that life is going really well! I am loving my job and I have caught on really quickly..thank heavens!!! Matt is truckin along in school...loving every bit of it I'm sure!! We do manage to have some fun though....we broke down yesterday and bought Super Smash Bros. Brawl for the Wii and we've enjoyed our Wii time!!


We have this cool little tool that hollows out a pineapple so you can have a mug as well as enjoy the fruit!! This is me drinking from our pineapple mug!!


I thought when you got married you grew up...guess not!!!

One Fun Week!!

Last week was quite an exciting week for Matt and I!!! First and foremost, we got our kitchen done!! Yay! It actually turned out to be really fun!! The wallpaper wasn't as bad to remove as I thought it would be and I found out that Matt is quite the wallpaper remover!! Then we got to paint it!! We painted it green, I know most people cringe when they think of painting a room green but this actually turned out really nice!! I then got really creative with our decorations!! I have always wanted to have a huge clock on one of the walls and I was able to come up with something pretty cute! We haven't completed all the decorating yet, we are still trying to accumulate kitchen decor but what we have we like!! It is definately a huge improvement then what it was before! This is the kitchen before we removed the wallpaper! This is me removing the wallpaper above the fridge and cupboards....such a pain! This is my clock creation! And this is the final product....almost! Next Matt and I got to do some fly fishing!! Matt actually did a ton more than me but I did manage to catch a nice brown trout.........after I had hooked and lost like 5 big ones!! It was a lot of fun! On Saturday Matt headed the school fly fishing clinic and had a good time teaching newbies the skills of fly fishing! Not only that but he was able to enjoy the beauty of Idaho! We love that it is starting to get warm and everything is becoming green! It's hard to see me in this picture but this is the brown I caught! After Matt's big trip on Saturday, we headed out to go shooting with our new gun, Remington 7mm magnum! Matt had already been shooting with it and was anxious for me to give it a try!! I, too, was anxious!! When we got out far enough we set up a milk gallon full of water and a appletree apple juice gallon full of water about 150-175 yds or so for our targets! We also gathered some things that had been left there from other people, a brown glass bottle and some small water bottles!! Matt was the first to shoot and he blew the milk carton to bits, then I took over and nailed the apple tree carton and the little glass bottle! It was a fun day and we really enjoyed each others company!! This is our damage!!
This coming week is normal school for Matt and I start my job!! Unfortunately my training is from 4 to 10 PM!!! We aren't too excited about this but the fact that it is a good job is more important!! Life is pretty good for this little couple!!

Home Sweet Home!

I wanted to share our new little home with everyone! I have pictures before and after we painted, I don't know if you will see how much better it is after we painted! I am seriously turning into your typical homemaking house wife. Nannying last semester gave me the opportunity to watch A LOT of HGTV (home and garden tv) and boy did I get the bug!! I love to decorate now and this is what I have come up with so far!! Now we don't have a whole lot but I was pretty pleased with our arrangement!! Matt and I really like our place! You may not realize how big and roomy it is with the pictures, they never seem to really show how spacious places are!! I don't have pictures of the bedrooms or the bathroom yet, they are still under construction!! But they will be darling when I am through with them!! The kitchen has a lot of work for us, as you can tell the wallpaper is a little on the old grandma side so we will be removing that and painting!! Maybe that will be next weeks project!!









Other news...I got a job at Melaleuca!!!!! Hooray!! I don't start for a week but I am okay with that, at least I have a job....we won't starve after all!!! Well Matt and I are great...he's off fishing with our buddy Pedro, which means I am cleaning and watching the girliest chick flick ever filmed!!! We are super happy!!

Good Ole Rexburg, Idaho!

I changed our look to reflect the feeling of our new home....Rexburg, Idaho. This was actually a very exciting thing for Matt and I, we actually really like Rexburg! We love our apartment, much larger than our former apartment, and we get to paint! I am going to Walmart today to get the paint to begin the masterpiece!! I don't have any pictures to post of our apartment right now but I will for sure do some before and after shots!! Off to the store!!!

A Lot of Catching Up To Do!!!

So I have been kind of a flake with updating our blog lately but I've been busy with life!! So to start off....about 3 weeks ago Matt and I went down to Portland to visit my awesome family!! We played a game called "Quelf", it was hilarious!! It was a fun weekend.


The following weekend me, Matt, and his sister Molly, all met up with our friend at the Evergreen Speedway!! Matt and I went here in high school when we were dating and loved it! Imagine a bunch of rednecks, then add school buses, boats, and a demolition derby.....and you get the Evergreen Speedway! It was hilarious and we enjoyed every little bit. Really its one of those things you'll never really know the beauty of it until you go!!



That next Monday, we went to a place called Paint Away and painted cereal bowls! It was super fun and we were pretty excited with how they turned out!! I am sure you can all guess which one is Matt's bowl and which one is mine..!










So last weekend I flew to Utah to be with my sister Cass, my niece Brylie, and new little nephew Brody, while my brother in law was in Texas!! It was quite the adventure! First, I missed my plane there and had to come back to the airport the next day at 4:30 a.m., then when I get there we all got sick!! It was still a lot of fun and I loved seeing my niece and two little nephews!




Last of all it was super hard to leave Washington this past weekend!! I got so attached to little Jacob (I was a nanny) and it was really hard to leave him! But all is well! Matt and I moved to Rexburg, ID this past weekend so Matt can start school again!! The 12 hour drive from Seattle was actually not bad at all!! We talked and laughed the whole time which made the drive go by really fast!!




When we got here we were a little nervous about our apartment because we hadn't seen it, since we had to do everything over the phone!! BUT we were pleasantly surprised! It is definately dated but huge compared to our old little apartment, we get to paint it however we want so the ugly floral wallpaper in the kitchen will not stay long!! We are happy and are actually really glad to be back here in Rexburg!! We are really happy and are definately loving life!!