Whats up with us!

Wes and I have been busy, busy, busy! But for the most part its been awesome!

We are loving Logan so much even though we miss some of our Utah County friends...

We feel like we are at home and where we belong. Wes and i working at the same place and even though it isn't the most fun in the whole world we do enjoy getting to spend time with each other everyday and i am thankful for the second job. I was getting so bored after BRASC. BRASC is a special needs facility and I love it there lots. 

Wes is liking being close to his old mission companion (and one of our closest friends) and his wife and son. We have hung out quite a bit and we are loving having people our age to do stuff with.

i am especially glad to be by Alyson and Jana. Its nice to have Girls Nights Out. 

By our house we have a really cool park and with how awesome the weather has been we enjoy taking the puppies out for a stroll. 

I found out that in 2 months all this ARMY stuff will be worked out (at least thats what they say.) It will be nice to have incredible health insurance. They did pay for my surgery which i am very thankful for because the doctor said it was much needed for quite some time. I am thankful they caught it and that they only had to take one fallopian tube out instead of both meaning Wes and I will still be able to have kids. 

Wes has been so wonderful to me. We gone through some tough things together lately but we stay strong and try and laugh our problems away. It broke my heart more for him than for me when we had the miscarriage because he was so excited. He is such a wonderful guy and i know he will be a great dad! i can't believe we already have almost been married for 1 year, and we started hanging out with eachother two years ago February 22. Time has flown. 

So excited for some of our upcoming trips! I am so excited to go to Portland TWICE this year. 

We are going for Mother's day because Wes wants to talk to his stud of brother who is on a mission and doing fabulous on the phone. We also get to go in July, my family will be staying by seaside and manzanita so we get to hang out with both the Speights and the Ashtons. April 1st and 2nd we will be in St George, the whole family will be running a triathlon. (except my mom who got a stress fracture) I am going to try to do it to the best of my ability provided i heal soon enough. April 7,8,9 we are going to Laramie and Denver. we will get to see the Becky and Johnathan and kiddlywinks! We also get to see my dad and his family. We are all going to the Colorado Adoption Conference where i will be a featured speaker along with Becky. 

Well thats about it for us! Thanks for everyone's support through the good times and the bad! 

Love you all.

About us!

I saw this on my friends blog and thought Wes and I could give it a go..mostly because I don't have much else to blog about right now....

This is Wesley's answers..never been ICE SKATING! I am taking him next week!!

( ) Gone on a blind date

(X) Donated Blood

(X) Skipped school

(x) Watched someone die

( ) Been to Canada

( ) Been to Mexico

( ) Been to Florida

( ) Been to Hawaii

(X) Been on a plane

( ) Been on a helicopter

(X) Been lost

( ) Gone to Washington, DC

( ) Hugged a homeless person

(X) Swam in the ocean

( ) Swam with Stingrays

( ) Been sailing in the ocean

( ) Cried yourself to sleep

(X) Played cops and robbers

( ) Recently colored with crayons

( ) Ran a marathon

(X) Sang Karaoke

(  ) Volunteered at a soup kitchen

( X) Paid for a meal with coins only

( ) Been to the top of the St. Louis Arch

(X ) Seen the Northern Lights ( aLASKA)

( ) Been Parasailing

( ) Been on TV

(X) Done something you told yourself you wouldn't

(X) Made prank phone calls 

(x ) Been down Bourbon Street in New Orleans

(X) Laughed until some kind of beverage came out of your nose

( ) Fed an elephant

(X) Caught a snowflake on your tongue

(X) Fired a gun

( X) Been to the Opera

(X) Written a letter to Santa Claus

( ) Serenaded someone

( ) Seen a U.S.President in person

( ) Been kissed under the mistletoe

( ) Watched the sunrise with someone

( ) Driven a race car

( ) Been to a National Museum

( X) Been to a Wax Museum

(x ) Eaten caviar  

(X) Blown bubbles

( ) Gone ice-skating

(X) Gone to the movies

( ) Been deep sea fishing

( ) Driven across the United States

( ) Been in a hot air balloon

( ) Been sky diving

( ) Gone snowmobiling

(x ) Lived in more than one country

(X) Lay down outside at night and admired the stars while listening to the crickets

(X) Seen a falling star and made a wish

( ) Enjoyed the beauty of Old Faithful Geyser

( x) Seen the Grand Canyon

(X) Seen the Statue of Liberty

( ) Gone to the top of Seattle Space Needle

( ) Been on a cruise 

(x) Traveled by train

( ) Traveled by motorcycle

(X) Been horse back riding 

( ) Ridden on a San Francisco cable car

( ) Been to Disneyland OR Disney World

( ) Been in a rain forest

( ) Seen whales in the ocean 

( ) Been to Niagara Falls

( ) Ridden on an elephant

( ) Swam with dolphins  

( ) Been to the Olympics

( ) Walked on the Great Wall of China

(X) Seen a glacier 

(X) Been water-skiing

( ) Been snow-skiing

( ) Been to Westminster Abbey

( ) Been to the Louvre

( ) Swam in the Mediterranean

( ) Been to a Major League Baseball game

( ) Been to a National Football League game

( ) Swam with sharks

(X) Been White Water Rafting

This is mine! 

( X) Gone on a blind date

(X) Donated Blood

(X) Skipped school

(x ) Watched someone die (three times..im bad luck)

(  ) Been to Canada

( ) Been to Mexico

(X ) Been to Florida

( ) Been to Hawaii

(X) Been on a plane

(X ) Been on a helicopter

(X) Been lost

(X ) Gone to Washington, DC

( ) Hugged a homeless person

(X) Swam in the ocean

( ) Swam with Stingrays

( ) Been sailing in the ocean

(X) Cried yourself to sleep

(X) Played cops and robbers

(X) Recently colored with crayons

( ) Ran a marathon

(X) Sang Karaoke

( X) Volunteered at a soup kitchen

( X) Paid for a meal with coins only

( ) Been to the top of the St. Louis Arch

(  ) Seen the Northern Lights  

( ) Been Parasailing

(X) Been on TV

(X) Done something you told yourself you wouldn't

(X) Made prank phone calls 

(X ) Been down Bourbon Street in New Orleans

(X) Laughed until some kind of beverage came out of your nose

( ) Fed an elephant

(X) Caught a snowflake on your tongue

(X) Fired a gun

( X) Been to the Opera

(X) Written a letter to Santa Claus

(X) Serenaded someone

(X ) Seen a U.S.President in person

 (RONALD REAGAN.HE WAS DEAD BUT I WAITED IN LINE FOR 4 HRS TO SEE HIM IN IS CASKET!)

(X) Been kissed under the mistletoe

(X ) Watched the sunrise with someone

( ) Driven a race car

(X ) Been to a National Museum (3 OF THEM)

( X) Been to a Wax Museum

(X) Eaten caviar  

(X) Blown bubbles

(X) Gone ice-skating

(X) Gone to the movies

( ) Been deep sea fishing

(X ) Driven across the United States (TWICE)

(X ) Been in a hot air balloon

( ) Been sky diving

(X ) Gone snowmobiling

( ) Lived in more than one country

(X) Lay down outside at night and admired the stars while listening to the crickets

(X) Seen a falling star and made a wish

(X) Enjoyed the beauty of Old Faithful Geyser

( ) Seen the Grand Canyon

(X) Seen the Statue of Liberty

( ) Gone to the top of Seattle Space Needle

( ) Been on a cruise 

(X) Traveled by train

(X ) Traveled by motorcycle

(X) Been horse back riding

(X ) Ridden on a San Francisco cable car

(X) Been to Disneyland OR Disney World

( ) Been in a rain forest

( X) Seen whales in the ocean (MONTEREY CALI)

( ) Been to Niagara Falls

( X) Ridden on an elephant

(X ) Swam with dolphins 

(X ) Been to the Olympics (MENS SLALOM (SP?))

( ) Walked on the Great Wall of China

(X) Seen a glacier 

(X) Been water-skiing

(X ) Been snow-skiing

( ) Been to Westminster Abbey

( ) Been to the Louvre

( ) Swam in the Mediterranean

(X) Been to a Major League Baseball game

( ) Been to a National Football League game

( ) Swam with sharks

(X) Been White Water Rafting

Suprisingly we both learned a lot about eachother! Thanks Whit for the idear!! 

SnOw DaY!!!

Welcome to Logan! It snowed a massive amount of snow. So this morning I went out with Wes to take the dogs on a small stroll and watch them try to figure their way around the Cache Valley Snow. As you can see there is a lot of snow, it came up almost as tall as the dogs! I hate snow but it sure is pretty! The bench picture and the tree picture is taken from our apartment door!

We Moved!

I found a job in Logan! We found an apartment! And we took off to Logan! FINALLY! It took 3 carloads, 2 truckloads, and a minivan full of our stuff but we did it! (thanks to much help from family and friends)

We are so excited about it. Its in a quiet neighborhood just a few minutes away from USU on what local LOGAN PEEPS call The Island (sounds mysterious doesn't it)

here are some pics of our cute new APT! I am sad though because the pictures don't really show the awesome color we have!

                               { This is our lovely couch with slip cover and the paintings above are from Judi}

 {This is our loveseat with slip cover with our lovely friend Jason modeling how it is used correctly}
                             (I made the paintings above. They say Love and Family in Chinese.)

        {The tv (Wes' favorite part of the living room) and our lovely curtains that don't look so lovely}

 {This is Bailey enjoying our new apt, some of you may not have met/heard of her yet. she is our sweet mini australian sheppherd. We all missed Sawyer so much we got a small female version of him.}

{This is Sir Rupert getting right down to business chewing on his raw hide lovin life and soft carpet}

Thanks to all who helped us move up to Logan! we are sooo happy to be back!!

Valentines

Valentines was yesterday as you all know. We are moving this weekend so we didn't have a whole lot of money. So I decided on a cheap gift that would still let Wes know that I love his crazy self.

   First I wrote I {heart} you in mini candy bars. Surrounded by construction paper hearts and left it on the bed.  (Wes was working the graveyard so he saw it when he got home that morning.)

Then I taped hearts all over the walls of the apartment with things I loved about him...so aas you can imagine there were A LOT!

Man how I love Wes.