Going through some photos...

I was going through pictures and these stuck out to me today!
















Ty & I's first christmas! :)

Kenyon & I in England! He tried to throw me in the COLD ocean after this.

These are lions on the joseph smith memorial building. April was teaching Ty some in's and out's of photography and her camera. :) I like it a lot!

Dad's grave last fall. I really like the wreathe on it now, we put it up Sunday! *MOM said that her top priority now is to get the headstone. Watch for it coming to a grave near you... spring 2010! :) -Mom I had to put it! FUNNY story behind that phrase. lol!

This one explains itself. :) Happy Day!

This was a tree that is out infront of the Rexburg temple. One day while waiting for Ty to get out of class I was taking pics. I love it. So pure and white! -It was 10 am and still -6 outside!!

The Green Belt in IF. They have a trail that goes all the way around this area of the River & the Falls. We often would go walking there. When we were dating and would go up to IF we would ALWAYS go there, every time. The IF temple is right there too, its very pretty any time of year!

This was my halloween costume from last year! A lady bug! haha.

One of our engagements... I just love it. :)

Today, Yesterday and the Day Before!

So today I like this from the book Strangling your Husband is Not An Option.

" In your marriage, you must choose to be a partner in the marriage relationship- not a limited partner, not the general partner, but a full and active equal partner...
"One full partner with one full partner equals true one-ness in the marriage...
"This is the doormat principle. If a spouse (usually the wife) chooses to be a doormat- that big fat sero- the relationship will be a big fast zero as well. Do not become a doormat spouse! Do not be dependant, apologetic, weak-willed nonpartner. This is crucial for a wife. Men do not feel good about themselves when you let them be overly controlling. And they have no respect for you. A good relationship cannot result...
" The best wife is a true person... She develops own unique gifts and abilities and is constantly evolving and growing... If we make effort to truely value ourselves, nothing can stand in the way of our developing into not only a great wife nit a great woman as well. One of the great mistakes wives make is to stop growing. "


I really like that cause we do need to be continually growing and increasing our knowledge and skills. I really like the way she put it!

Well we went camping and FROZE our behinds! It was fun though and we enjoyed hanging out with Kenyon and Jeannette and Karl and Kendrea! I'll get some pictures posted soon!

Saturday Ty also helped me with cleaning our house! It wasn't disguisting but it needed some cleaning! We did the blinds, fans, bathroom, floors, I detailed the kitchen and all. It's SOOO nice to go to sleep and wake up with a nice clean house! :) Then Sunday I relaxed and caught up on much needed rest! :) Hope you all are doing great!

It says "I may not strangle my husband"... :)

So this past few weeks have been kinda crazy. I started working full time (between 2 jobs) and work late 3 days a week and I seem to be exhausted every day! haha. I know I am not a lone.
But for Ty and I this is new stage in life. First part of our marriage I didn't work. Ty worked and was in school. Then we moved and I was working and then Ty was at home doing shool. Then he got a part time job and I was just working part time. So we spent a lot of time together. It was nice and we work very well together when we spend a lot of time togther. So then last week I started working 5 days a week, and Ty was working 4 or so days a week. AnYwAyS- Long stupid story...short. I was feeling overwhelmed and was bottling it all up. Frustraited over stupid little things and I was moody and PMS'ing. To say the least. I was chatting with my sister and kinda telling her (not everything cause it's not everyones business, lol) but she said that it was just a new stage in marriage and evreyone goes through similar stages. I was feeling bad because I hadn't ever been so frustraited with things like that before. SO- I was walking by our bookshelf the other day and I Ty has our books arranged by Topic. So I just happend to glance at the "marriage" section and we have a few we had gotten for our wedding and such. So this one caught my eye. "Strangling Your Husband Is NOT an Option" and I remember getting it and kinda thinking "Great people already think were going to have problems in our marriage" haha. lol So that day it kept coming to mind. So the next day I finally picked it up one morning after Ty had left for work AND I didn't want to put it down! It is a GREAT book! It's not what you think it would be. It goes through duties as a wife and how to better ourselves and overall goal is improving your marriage. But I really like it cause it takes it from the Prophets point of views. It's not sitting there telling you to do this and do that and what your doing wrong. But suggests to read through the stories and serts from talks ect. and to listen to ponder and listen to the spirit on things you can do for your situation. One thing I really like that it hit upon was not to take your spouse for granit... That after time you just go about day by day and the same thing. You need to keep working at it and do the things you did when you were dating. Keep that spark alive. Just cause your married doesn't mean you have to stop flirting and getting excited to spend time with your spouse and all. I've heard these things a lot in my life and now more than ever they ring true. Its so easy to get caught up in the day to day and taking care of kids and work and just come home and expect your spouse to just make you happy or whatever. You need to do your part too and even if your spouse isn't responsive at first if you keep doing those things they will pick up on it. It's a good book, I think every wife needs to read it! :) I love being a wife and I'm realizing that there is nothing in the world to prepare you for it! You just have to keep working at it and when you know your self isn't perfect, you can't expect your spouse to be either! But yeah anyone can bowrrow it when I'm done! lol

There is my post for the week! Hope your all doing good and enjoy your weekend! Were off to camp for the night with Kenyon and Jeannette and Karl and Kendra! Going to be fun!

New Layout

I have discovered how fun it is to put new layouts on and all. lol
So for this week here it is!

Life is Life! Things are going great!
Feel like all I do is work and nothing at home gets done. haha
Ty has been great at helping around the house! It it weren't for
him this week our house would be a dump!

Can't believe its fall! We need to go take a good drive around
to get some awesome pictures! Well happy fall!!

It was Ty's birthday on Sept. 22. I made meatloaf! It was yummy yummy! I have been working making more things from scratch, instead of from a box. lol Doing good so far. :)

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Well I just wanted to post. :) I'll get some pics on here soon! :)

What a weekend!

We had a wonderful weekend!
We started off with a busy week, getting moms garage sale ready!! Mom made over $500! Just what she needed! I think it was a little motivation to keep de-junking things and all! I felt great cause it was my idea and at first I wasn't sure if it would happen, but it did!

SO much thanks to Ty, he worked on it EVERY day last week, between the 2 storage units and the garage PLUS we went through lots of our stuff at home to sell too! Plus all the siblings that helped! Brando helped Ty lots too! I feel bad cause in my eyes he's still my little nephew, but in reality, he is a grown up! I remember being 18 and being treated like a little kid. But Brando did ALOT too! Even if it was telling me to get out of the way so he could lift something or do something faster than I was. ;) Mom was so happy with the outcome, which made it even better!

During the garage sale, Ben invited Ty and I to go down to Mt. Pleasant with them to meet up with Wendy's parents who were down there! We hurried and packed up after and headed down! It was a BEAUTIFUL drive! Brought back a lot of memories of Dad. He loved driving down there! I couldn't for the life of me remember where it was at. Ben kept telling me and then Jill told me, and I still couldn't picture the area. THEN we pulled into Fairview and it all came back! lol. It was fun though! I wish I got more pictures! We got down there just in time for dinner, and then campfire! Wendy's parents bought into the Camper World. It was WAY nice! Glorified Camping! Nice showers and swimming pool, flush able toilets too! They had other family there too, so we went to their trailer for the campfire, and we sang songs and roasted marsh mellows and starbursts! Then Sunday Morning I got up early and had a nice warm shower, and then we had a wonderful breakfast! Mary Jo (Wendy's mom) is so nice to us! Craig & Mary Jo are also our landlords. But offers us meals all the time & doesn't mind us crashing their parties. lol. But then we had a little Sunday enlightenment of watching a Church History DVD and then off to the pool!

THE FUNNIEST PART was Ty. haha. He sometimes is accident prone! We all got ready, changed and got sunscreen on, we all had our arms full of either a little one, towels or pool toys. Suddenly Ty stumbled...he ran into one of the sprinklers that stuck up out of the ground 12 inches! But it didn't just bump it, it BROKE! Water was coming out so Ty tried to screw it back down, when the whole pipe broke! Suddenly water was coming out like a rocket!! Seriously 7 or 8 feet in the air! Ty's face was PRICELESS! Ben went running to get someone to turn it off, meanwhile Mary Jo tells him to keep trying to stick the pipe back on, and so Ty in the middle of the Geyser, soaking wet, trying to see what the heck he was doing, kept trying! lol Man it was good! I felt bad! But I was laughing so hard and Abby started crying cause she was scared. lol. Good times! It was a fun last minuet camp out!

I remembered Dad driving us down there, in the big red van. Either visiting Amway people or Jill down at college. He loved that area greatly. Here is a pic of Dad... my favorite. This was taken in March of 2007. A month before he was diagnosed with Cancer. Ty and I loved the trip with him! He always talked about Moab & we had been down to Family Reunions but never to camp out! Anyways- I just had a flood of good memories and wanted to post something!

Well I will post a few pics I got this weekend! Look for them in a few days! :)