Crazy!

So it has been quite the week. Last Friday the furnace in our house went out (we manage some houses and we live in the attic of one of them. There are two other apartments in the house besides ours) so it was freezing in our apartment! Since the furnace went out Alex and I had to go get space heaters for all three apartments. A total of 14 space heaters! So the heaters were going all Saturday and then on Sunday when everyone is trying to get ready for church the lights start to flicker and then out they go! We tried to flip the breakers, but nothing. Then we started smell a slight burning smell. So we tried calling our boss, but he was at church and didn't get back to us until like 2:00. So he called the electrician and he came out and apparently we fried the meter outside, it caused the metal siding on our house to get really hot and the electricity was arcing from the siding on our house. We are really lucky the house didn't burn down! So our house had no power and no heat so we had to move the girls in the apartments below us to the dorms and Alex and I have been in a hotel for the last week and a half. They had to go in and rewire the whole house. They went through our floor to get to the girl's apartment below us so our carpet is all torn up and I have about an inch and a half of dust over all of our furniture. It has been kinda crazy but on the upside we are get all new outlets (plus a couple new ones), new light switches, new light fixtures and new linoleum in the bathroom! So my bathroom is going to look awesome! I will have to get some pictures of our apartment in the disaster stage.

Alex is really enjoying his internship. It started out a little slow, but things are starting to pick up. He is using his Spanish skills too! I can't believe that Alex is going to be graduating in July! We can actually see the light at the end of the tunnel. It will be crazy to see where we end up!

A Whole Bunch of Stuff

Alex and I got off for Christmas Break at the same time from school. We really enjoyed the two weeks that we had together!

We had a great Christmas and we were able to visit both our families. We spent Christmas Eve and Christmas morning with my family and spent Christmas Day with Alex's family. We made sugar cookies, gingerbread houses, went snowmobiling, and of course wore our Christmas jammies!

After Christmas Alex and I went on an early Anniversary trip to Boise. It was so nice to be away from everything and just be with each other. The first day we spent pretty much at the mall. It is a really big mall and I even hurried! We also went to the movies that night. On the second day we went to the Zoo which we were really excited about. It is open year round, but they fail to tell you that most of the animals are not out! So we saw some really funny monkeys, the tigers, hyenas (which look really scary), and some fat bob cats. Then we went and walked around the Boise Temple. I have seen pictures and they really don't do it justice. It is such a pretty temple! We also went to the BSU campus since that is one of the schools that Alex has applied to. We walked around and looked at the buildings and campus.

So our real Anniversary was yesterday. We did some check in's, went out to dinner, and did our grocery shopping! It has been a great two years, we have learned a lot about each other and how to communicate with each other. I can't hide anything from him, he always knows how I feel even when I try hard to hide it. He has taught me so much, helped me to grow, and he loves me unconditionally which has really taught me the way Heavenly Father loves me. I love him more and more each day and I am so glad that we have forever with each other!

Now that the semester is back in I am back to work and Alex is actually doing his internship. He is working at a local accountant business and is really enjoying it so far. After this semester Alex only has one more then he will graduate! I can't believe it is coming up so soon. As of right now we don't know where we will be after this, but we hope to find out soon.

We're Wild!

Alex and I had a pretty wild and crazy night last night! We usually go to bed at like 10:30 (yes I know were are such night owls!) but last night we both didn't really want to go to bed. At the same time we both had a crazy idea and said, "Let's pay Life!" I know were are so wild! We went to Horkley's and got some drinks and Whoppers (my favorite). When got home we also popped some popcorn.

It was a thrilling game of me suing Alex, having twins, and losing money in the stock market. But who was the winner you ask???

It was me!!! I had like $1.7 in the end and Alex had like $1.5. It was quite the nail biter!

Alex and I have picked some names for our real future children. If it is a boy he will be Hudson Calvin and if it is a girl she will be Charlotte Olivia. During the game Alex's first child was a boy. I told him if I got a boy first too in the game then we were destined to have little Hudson Calvin first when we have children. I totally got a boy first in the game so when we have children watch out for little Hudson Calvin!

Oooohhhhh Spooky!

We had some fun and spooky Halloween festivities this week. Last Saturday we went to a party with Alex's brother and wife. We were cavemen and we looked pretty much amazing! Alex and I went to DI and found Alex an awesome grandma nightgown that was leopard all over. We cut the sleeves off and made the bottom and all jagged. It looked so good! Then I borrowed my costume from my sister in law. It was a leopard dress and I had some GIGANTIC hair! Sorry no pics we forgot our camera, but some people at the party had one so if we get some from them I will put them up.

Then last Sunday we carved pumpkins with my family.












All of our pumpkins ----------->











Pretty spooky!








Me and Alexio with our pumpkins, ya no big deal!

So just an update with what has been going on with us... Alex is in school and only has a couple more weeks until Thanksgiving break. Then a few week after that he is out for the end of the semester! During the winter semester he will be doing his internship and is really excited to do that. He is finishing up his grad school applications and we will hopefully know where we are going by the end of the year. Alex is doing so great in school and working so hard I am so proud of him! Then I am still working at the school and nannying for the same family after school that I was during the summer. I am not really doing anything else, just working on Christmas presents.

Yee Haw!!!

We had the first annual family rodeo this past weekend. It was a ton of fun! My dad, brother and me team roped. Here's me and my brother roping together.

We then went on to the ribbon roping. This is where one person is on a horse and ropes a calf. Another person is on foot and runs to the calf after the first person ropes it. The person on foot gets a ribbon off of the calf's tail and runs to the finish line. My dad and mom were a team, then Jordan and Devan were a team, and me and Alex were a team. My dad and mom won this event with the shortest combined times.

We then went to chute dogging. This is just like bull dogging only we don't have to bail off a horse, we just hang onto to the steer as they are coming out of the chute. This was really fun. Almost every one got in on this one, even me, but I had a ton of help getting the steer over!

Alexio

Jordan
Dad
Devan
Me
The last event was the money calf. We taped different prizes on the backs of the calves. We let the calves go in the arena, then it was a free for all. You chase a calf down to get the prize. Alex and me got a gift certificate to Texas Roadhouse!

The rodeo was great and we are really excited to do it again next year. Also Brittany couldn't do the rodeo with us because she is pregnant!!! After two years of not being able to they finally got it! We are so excited, she is due in April!

A Month of Adventures

So I tried writing this ginormous post last night and when I was almost all done it disappeared! So needless to say I was very frustrated.. so here I am trying this again, but this is going to be the very very condensed version.

My brother had a rodeo down in Panguitch, Utah that I went to. It was a week long rodeo and it was tons of fun! We went to most of the morning and night rodeos so we didn't have a lot of free time, but we did manage to go to Cedar Breaks National Park. While I was having fun Alex was finishing his last week of school. This was our first time apart since we got married so it was sad, but I guess there is a first for everything.

Alex and me went with my brother, sister, and brother-in-law down to Utah one weekend. We went to Hill's Air Force Base, Lagoon, and Timpanogos Cave. My sister has most of these pictures so here are just a couple that I have of the Air Force Base.

This is a B-19 Bomber wheel, pretty big uh!

I had my b-day and Alex surprised me with nice night together, nice dinner, and even a chick flick!


We went camping with Alex's family and ended up having to come home a little early. Alex's brother brought his motorcycle and every one was trying it out and riding it. So it was my turn to try, but it was too big for me to get started. Alex pushed me to get started and when he let go I lost control and went barreling into the trees. I couldn't stop until a tree stopped me. So I ended up going to the hospital. Luckily nothing was broken. I had hit the handle bars when I crashed and hit my chest really hard. I also smushed my pinky and leg, but I don't know how that happened. So I don't have a picture of my chest for obvious reasons, but here is my leg and hand.

My pinky took the blunt of it on my hand, but I had a few scratches on my other fingers

My leg was still swollen in this picture, so don't make fun of my fat leg :)

Alex and I braved camping with my family the next weekend. We went to Mackay and Challis to see the Ghost towns there. They were so neat! We are going to make it a tradition to go every year because there is so much to see and we didn't even see it all.

This is the Dredge. They used it to mine gold in the river. It was huge, five stories tall! Even back then they mined over 2 million dollars with it!

An update for what is going on now is that Alex is on 7 week break so he is working around the complex. He took the GMAT this week and he did great! We will get his official score hopefully soon, then we can start to apply to grad schools. I am so proud of him! He will be going back to school in a couple weeks. I started school at the elementary school last week and it has been a crazy beginning, but it is getting smoother and smoother. I am still nannying for the family a couple hours a day on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays.

Yes a week late, but the 4th of July!

So we had a really great Fourth of July! It was really nice because both Alex and I had school and work off on Thursday and Friday. So we went up to Alex's parent's house starting on Thursday and helped them start to rebuild their shed which got blow over in the big wind storm about a month ago. So it started out like this:

and ended like this:


Still a ways to go, but it is coming along. So that is pretty much we did on Thursday, Friday, and some of Saturday. We did go to the Ashton parade on the fourth. Here are some of our favorite things from the parade. Of course Smokey the Bear:


This is like the only actual float in the whole parade and it was freakin' awsome! It was really big and sparkly:


Then this one is really cool! You have to click on it to make it bigger for the full effect. It is from Baxter's Funeral Home. It is a guy pulling a glass box with a coffin in it. Alex says that they still use it sometimes for the older people that die. It was soooooooo cool!

Then we went down to Idaho Falls and met my sister, her husband, my brother, and a girl that he brought to watch the fireworks. So we went like four hours early and staked out our spot, played games, and just talked. We were really ready for the fireworks to start. So they finally did and we come to find they are being set off right behind a tree. So we couldn't see anything! So we just had to move even though we had been there ready for four hours! But they were really cool. We spent the night at my parents house because we were having my dad's birthday party the next day. So we had a really fun fourth of July weekend!