Easter 2014 in pictures

Saturday morning Shelby ran the Falls to Falls 10.5 mile race. He did amazing coming in 2nd place overall and 1st in his age group! Saturday evening we had dinner with the Hyde's to celebrate Jeremy's birthday. On Easter Sunday we went to church, stopped by Shelby's parent's for a little while,then came home and found our Easter baskets, had an Easter egg hunt, and decorated Easter eggs. We are kids at heart. :)

I am so grateful for our Savior Jesus Christ and that we could celebrate His Resurrection this weekend. I know that because of Him I will be with my family forever and my weaknesses will be made strong. We hope everyone had a happy Easter!

Life Lately

I haven't been so hot at updating the blog regularly-full time work and school will do that to ya. Here are some pictures of what we've been up to lately!

^ I found this cute frame on sale at the store and decided to buy it and completely repaint it. I love it and it adds a nice touch of color to our living room!

^ We fed the ducks after General Conference on Sunday. It was super windy but we wanted to get out and enjoy the sunshine after sitting so much this weekend.

^ My eyes are closed but you can see all of our little ducky friends. :)

^ Shelby has been running like a mad man training for the half-marathon that he has coming up in May. I have been trying to run also but haven't been quite as successful...let's just say that running is not super enjoyable for me...I'd rather be in a dance studio to get my workout in!

^ We visited baby Myla, Amy, and Jesse a few weeks ago. It was so fun to see them and hold their little one! We wish that they still lived closer so we could try to see them more often. :)

^ During the last part of Spring Break we went to Middleton to visit the Despain's. We played darts and had lots of fun just hanging out. The first part of spring Break was spent with the Hyde's. I had to work the majority of the time but from what I hear they had a blast!

^ Just more evidence that Shelby is running like crazy...his toenails are even falling off! Here's to more warm weather and Spring activities!!!!

Birthday Fun!

Shelby had a birthday this week! He had a Chemistry exam the next day so we kept it pretty low key since he needed to study most of the day. I made Shelby brunch after his morning class and sang him Happy Birthday over a pile of french toast. :) We both studied and Shelby went to work for a few hours that afternoon. After work Shelby's parent came over and brought him his favorite chicken patties from Costco. He loves his chicken patties! We went to Sizzler for dinner. We had coupons for all you can eat Shrimp but apparently they were old (although they had no expiration date-whatever.) Note to self: if you get coupons from Sizzler in the mail use them within at least a week or else they'll be old...We ended up getting steak and salad bar instead.

For one of Shelby's presents I gave him a slinky. Inside the slinky I put a piece of paper stating that he had money to put towards a GPS running watch (similar to a Garmin.) Shelby got online that night and promptly found a great deal. He is anxiously awaiting for his birthday present to arrive!

Also within the last few weeks we got our new sectional! We love it and are enjoying not having to sit on the floor anymore! :)

Spring is slowly arriving in our neck of the woods. We planted some bulbs that will hopefully come up in a few months as well as this nice little flower (I think it's a primrose...) Sadly, just like typical Idaho weather, our flower froze one night! There are still a few buds on it that are coming and we are trying to keep the little plant alive despite the rough start it had.

We are excited for this warm weather to stick around consistently so we can get some more apartment gardening going!

July can't come soon enough!

Today has been full of catching up on laundry, grocery shopping, and life since I worked all weekend. I am always grateful for days off, especially after working several 12 hour shifts in a row! I'm also grateful for Shelby and that he puts up with the Sundays that I end up having to work. Yesterday after church he put away all of our winter/snowman/Valentine day decorations and put up our Spring ones...it was cute and nice to come home to bright, happy decorations. :) Anyways, on to even cuter things- I am getting excited for the summer to come! Especially July. Mostly because we will finally get to meet this little guy!

Briggs is our newest nephew and the first grandchild for my family. My sister and her husband live in Virginia while he is going to Dental School. Briggs was born in December in Virginia and the most we have seen of him is over facetime. He is a little cutie and I can't wait to hold him and see Lindsey and Brenen in action as parents. I wish that plane tickets weren't so darn expensive or else I would just fly myself out there. We are grateful for technology so that we can facetime, skype, see pictures, and videos of Briggs while Lindsey and Brenen are off on their Virginia adventure. :) I can already tell though that it is going to be a great Despain family reunion this summer!!!

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Lately...

So, let's face it-I don't even know if very many people read this blog but it is our family's journal. I am working on being better about taking pictures and updating more often so that we can have all of our memories recorded. So for those of you who do follow our blog-if you haven't seen a post in a while bug me about it! :) Here are some images of life lately:

Shelby made me a candy gram for Valentine's Day. It was so cute and all the candy is eaten! We love our sugar around here! I also gave Shelby some candy and treats. We are all sugared out for the next little while...or we should be at least. :) I worked on Valentine's Day and Shelby was crazy busy with school and preparing for multiple exams for that next week so we didn't get to do much on actual Valentine's Day. I made some Valentine's muddy buddies which we gave to some friends and our family members-even though some of the treats were delivered as a late Valentine's gift. This past weekend we finally had some time to go on a date to Hands On, a local pottery shop. We picked out some pottery and painted it together-we did the same thing last Valentine's Day and we are planning on making it a tradition!

President's Day weekend we made a quick trip to Middleton to visit my family. It was a quick trip but we were able to spend some much needed time with my parent's and Cameron and Lila. Shelby also got an early birthday present. Almost everyone in the Despain and Price families have owned a pair of these crocheted slippers. Shelby's were specially made with Utah Jazz colors since the Jazz are his favorite team!

We sold our sectional this past weekend...kind of. It is a ridiculous story of how we got rid of it-ask one of us if you're interested...anyways, we got rid of it and found a sectional that we liked. We didn't realize that the particular sectional we wanted had a 2-3 week delivery time. So needless to say, this is what our living room looks like right now:

We do still have our chair to lounge in but the floor is also getting lots of love! Can't wait for our new sectional to arrive!!!

And last but not least, I painted some letters for our room. They didn't turn out quite like I had envisioned-spray paint is not my friend. I'm working on getting them rearranged so they can look a little cuter. For now though it adds bright happy colors to our bedroom. Shelby is in the thick of school and I start my RN to BSN(Bachelor's) on March 1st. The thought of full time work plus full time school makes me a little nervous but I am confident that the sacrifices that we are making now will be worth it in the long run. We are so blessed with the opportunities we have been given! Until next time-be good out there!

Family Motto

The first few months after we got married we threw around ideas for a family motto. I love the idea of having some type of saying or scripture that describes what your family is all about and I wanted our family to have one! Shelby and I dug up scriptures and quotes. During one of our discussions about a family motto this scripture came up: "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." Matthew 6:33. We decided that this would be our family motto. I have always loved this scripture and have found it to be so true throughout my life. It perfectly describes how we want out family to be. We want to always seek God first because as we put God first all other things will fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives. Seeking God includes loving, serving, working, respecting, obeying commandments, etc... It includes everything that we want our family to do and become. We finally have our family motto hanging on our wall to remind us each day of the kind of people that we are trying to be. I'm so glad we finally have our motto hanging on our wall!