A little Birthday fun!

Shelby had a birthday!!!  His day was full of food, golf, and more food with some work thrown in there. :)

^^ One of Shelby's favorite breakfasts is waffles.  I whipped up some for ^^

him in the morning before he had to head to work!

^^ After Shelby got off work we went to the driving range at one of the golf ^^

courses in town to hit some golf balls.  Now, I have never been golfing before and Shelby has been wanting to teach me.  That was his birthday activity of choice and it was super fun!!!  He is a great teacher!

^^ Look at that technique! ;)  ^^

^^ He is focused.  I didn't have much of a voice all day so I didn't provide too ^^

much of a distraction! 

^^ The newbie's turn!  We were loving the sun! ^^

^^ One of the first things that Shelby noticed when we moved here was that there ^^

was a Firehouse Subs within a few miles of our apartment.  He has been holding out all these months to go when he can get a free sub sandwich for his birthday.  The day finally came!  I seriously could have just taken him to Firehouse subs and he would have been happy all day. :)

^^ We had family over for cake and ice cream that night.  Shelby requested Confetti ^^

 frosting on his cake. :)

I'm so grateful for Shelby and the person that he is!!!  He adds the perfect balance to our marriage and is definitely my better half.  Happy Birthday to my Shelby!!

Just checking in!

It's been awhile!  January flew by and February is doing the same thing.  The last few months have kept us busy with life-work, school, and church responsibilities.  Here is a quick updated on some of our happenings that last few months! 

^^ The day after Christmas Shelby's trusty high school care broke down.  For the ^^

last few weeks of Christmas break we shared a care but knew that as soon as school started it would just not be very cost or time effective to continue to have one car between both of us.  We are constantly heading in different directions due to where work vs school is located.  So, meet our new-to-us car!  It is a Honda Civic with a lot of miles on it so it is definitely just our commuter car.  We are just grateful for a car that runs at this point in time!

^^ Sorry if this is too much for you...it is a shoulder.  In January I had some ^^

minor skin surgery to remove some questionable areas of my skin.  It was a very itchy, skin-irritating experience and I was oh so excited to get those stitches out!

^^ Just a blurry selfie of us hanging out. :)^^

^^ Oh and another side-note for our family record.  Shelby's car had just broken down ^^ 

and we were a little stressed about how we were going to make things work with either paying to fix his car or buying a different one...Shelby went to open one of the drawers in his dresser and the handle area came off and as you can see, it is slowly falling apart.  It totally still looks this way too!  And probably will until we can buy a dresser with more quality...Walmart/Target furniture may be a quick fix but is not always the best way to go...

^^ On a happy note, Shelby got a job!  He is working at a place called The Little ^^

Gym teaching classes to elementary school age kids.  It will be a great part-time job while we are finishing up school here and the little girlies in his class already have crushes on him. :)  We decided to celebrate his new job with a little classic Martinelli's Cider.

^^ We have had a really weird end-of-winter with weather in the 50s and 60s. ^^

These tulips seemed like a good touch in hopes that the warm weather would stick around!

^^ We are so blessed to live so close to the Boise LDS temple and have been trying to ^^

take advantage of it as much as we can!!!

^^ My competition dance teams had their first competition over Valentine's ^^

weekend.  They did so great and received 1st place in all of their team dances! I also ended up doing Pro freestyle for the first time in 6 years which was nerve wracking but somehow I survived. :)

^^ Shelby's Valentine's Day gift...reasons why I love him. :)^^

^^ One of my teams-they received an overall award thanks to all of their hard work and practice!^^

^^ My Valentine's day present-a bouquet of Kit-Kats. ^^

We are so excited for what is to come in the next three months.  Vacations, another semester down, and hopefully I will be done with my BSN program!!! Here's to the rest of February and the coming Spring!  Blog to you soon!

Ringing in 2015 & Christmas #2!!!

We spent New Year's Eve with the Hyde's this year.  Since we hadn't been able to exchange Christmas gifts we had Christmas #2 with Shelby's parents and Grandma.  We loved dragging Christmas out a little bit longer! 

^^ Shelby got his dream gifts!  First, a BSU chair-perfect to watch the Fiesta Bowl in! ^^

^^ And a new Utah Jazz jersey...just what he needed. :) ^^

^^ All ready to watch the big game!  It was a close game and we were soooo glad ^^

BSU won-especially Shelby!  

^^ Friday was Lindsey and Brenen, as well as Curtis and Calvin's last day in town ^^

so we went bowling and had a family dinner.  Lindsey and I had a competition to see who would get last place while our husbands battled with Calvin for first place...some have the bowling talent, some don't! 

^^ Briggs was constantly on the go running around the bowling alley. ^^

^^ Saying good-bye to Briggs before he heads to bed! :( ^^

We are grateful for the time that we got to spend with all of our family this past week!  We hope 2015 has been treating you well so far!!!

Christmas Week 2014

Christmas 2014 was a success!  We were able to spend it with family and that is always a treat.  Lindsey, Brenen, and Briggs were visiting from Virginia.  We soaked up as much time as we could with them! 

^^  We LOVE walking around and looking at awesome Christmas lights!  We also love looking ^^

 at houses and dreaming of our future home, yard, and pets. :)  There is a great neighborhood right next to our apartment complex that has the best light displays and they even have a competition between the houses in the neighborhood.  One house even had the BSU football team as part of their lights! 

^^ Shelby's version of elf on the shelf!  I found this guy in our Christmas tree ^^

 one afternoon...apparently it had been there for several days...I'm not so observant to details sometimes. :)

^^  It started snowing on Christmas Eve afternoon and everyone was so excited-especially ^^

 Lila.  Briggs on the other hand wasn't sure what to think of it. :) 

^^ On Christmas Eve afternoon we made Gingerbread houses...we had quite the city going on! ^^

  I thought that I had more pictures but I can't find them now...

^^ Lindsey and Brenen's finished masterpiece. ^^

^^ Christmas morning we woke up and Santa had come!  He brought us lots of candy ^^

as well as some great gifts!!!

^^ After opening Christmas gifts we spent the rest of the morning playing with our new ^^

 toys which included the Frozen songbook-Lila loved singing along to the songs as I played and Curtis even jammed out to some Frozen songs on his guitar!

^^ Shelby got an indoor basketball hoop for his office so we played a lot of knee ball to break ^^

 it in. :) 

^^ Or I should say everyone except Dad played knee basketball. He had knee surgery ^^

a few days before Christmas so he spent lots of time resting his knee and elevating it so he can get back to exercising and playing basketball soon!

^^ Snow on Christmas morning!!! Not much but we still count it as a white Christmas! ^^

^^ Briggs eating Christmas dinner before everyone else. ^^

^^ This kid is such a ham and so sweet...nothing like a cute, chubby baby. ^^

^^ Playing games and singing Christmas carols. ^^

                                                

^^ On Saturday we went swimming at a hot springs with my aunts and uncles on my mom's ^^

 side and their families.  It was so fun to see everyone!  Afterwards we had dinner, desserts, and games.  We also celebrated Briggs' first birthday a few days early since we won't get to celebrate it with him on his real birthday...

^^ Not going to lie-I helped him out a little to make his cupcake mess a little messier...:) ^^

^^ This was the first time in six years that all six of my siblings were around for Christmas.  ^^

Lots has happened in the last six year-missions, marriages, babies!  

^^ Proof that my Mom was around. :)  She's playing the piano and was always busy making ^^

sure that things were taken care of.  We are grateful for her!!!

We are so grateful for the Christmas season and for Jesus Christ!  Now on to New Year's and all the excitement of that!!!!  We hope your Christmas was as wonderful as ours was!!!