Our Adventures Lately

Well Dean and I have been up to a TON lately and it doesn't look like it going to slow down till about June! This last month Dean and I have been able to do a lot of fun things with friends whom we love and are going to miss when we leave the area. So let me tell you about this last month and then I will tell you about things to come in the future! Well for starters I have not been snowboarding since I was in seventh grade and have been wanting to go for a really long time but knew it wasn't exactly cheap. So I finally got to go and Dean taught me a ton! He said and I would have to agree I didn't do too bad. I rarely fell down till Dean started to try and teach me to go from my toes to hills or the other way around. If I could stay on my hills I did great, but if you have snowboarded much you know that your quads start to KILL you after doing this for awhile! I do have to say it was SO fun though and I can't wait to go in the future Dean and I want it to become a family sport and get season passes.

This is a picture of Dean and I at the end of the night still smiling!

These were the friends that were able to come with us and I REALLY appreciate their patience with me. I know I took a bit longer to get down the hill.

More Pictures with the friends Brian, Daniel, Mellissa, Dean and I

The day after we went Snowboarding Dean took me fly fishing for my first time with his friend Jim. Jim moved the next day to Hawaii so it was our last chance to go. IT WAS FREEZING! March 5th 2011 but it was a lot of fun too. Dean and Jim were troopers they fished the whole time and never got cold. I fished about three-fourths of it and then sat down by the propane heater.

This is Dean catching the first fish of the day!

Dean's fish. He was happy! Look at that smile!

My first fish for the day!

This is the same fish as above but the boys said I covered the fish up too much in the previous picture. We had a great time fishing! Thank you Jim! After fishing we went to Big Judds and had a yummy meal!

The next weekend we went to Yellowstone with Dean's friends from high school and the wives! It was so much fun! We played games, ate way too much food, most of the boys went snowboarding at big sky, the girls stayed back and shopped and played at the hotel and in the pool. It was so much fun and so relaxing we truly loved the trip.

I forget to take a picture when Daniel and Mellissa were still there they couldn't stay the whole time sorry your not in the pictures guys!

So in the picture below are the remaining boys Teegan, Tyrel, Brian, Nick, Dean and Brent. I have to say it is pretty enjoyable to watch these boys. When they get together they still act like they are in high school.

These are the wives Shanna, Cynthia (me), and Shaune lucky for us our husband picked wonderful wives and we all get along great and like hangout even if the boys aren't there. We are sad Mellisa isn't in the picture and that Tiffany wasn't able to come because of work. They just add to the party. I love all the wives!
Thanks everyone for making it such a fun trip. I have to say I regret not getting the camera out when we played curses I HAVE NOT LAUGHED that hard for a VERY long time!

This is a picture of Brent right after he KILLED us all at Texas Hold em. Don't worry we played with cheerios!

These last two picture are of my sweetheart and I at Yellowstone! I LOVE spending time with him. When he is around he ALWAYS puts a smile on my face.

I guess I am getting bad at remembering to take pictures because the next weekend we went back up to Yellowstone with some friends in our ward the Heward's and hung out with them for the weekend! It was SOOOO relaxing and just what Dean and I needed. We had fun watching movies, swimming, eating, playing games, and relaxing! Thank you Victoria, Adam, and Alexis for a great weekend!


Well even though life has been busy I have really enjoyed it! and even though I know it wont slow down till June I am ok with it because the things that we will be doing between now and then are going to be so much fun! Our plans till June... Dean Graduates from BYU - Idaho, We have two sealings to go to, my brother has his mission farewell and he leaves for Texas, Dean and I celebrate our two year anniversary (for this we are going to Arizona to find an apartment and then to California for a week to do the Southern California City Pass), and last we move to Blackfoot. Busy I know but so much fun at the same time! I will try and be good and post about the adventures when they happen but if not I will write all about it in June!

Valentines Day

Well this time of year is a special for Dean and I, because Dean two years ago this time of year purposed to me with Valentine conversation hearts that said "Marry Me" Valentines Day has to be one of my favorite holidays! Dean had to work on Valentines Day so I got up with him to say good morning also because, I had a whole day of work planned for his big surprise! As I was cleaning the house getting ready there was a knock on my door, I opened it, and on the door step were the flowers below. They came in the mail and when I first looked at them they looked pretty lifeless and I was nervous for Dean to see them because he was going to feel bad that they didn't look awesome. But then I found some instructions on how to care for them so I followed the directions and with in a hour below is what they looked like.

They were beautiful! They even came with a little box of Chocolates I thought they were cute. The box said they would last a week and today is one week later and most of the flowers still look pretty good! I have to say I was very impressed!
After the house was cleaned I put Dean's present together it was a basket of goodies and a pair of Basketball shoes. He LOVED it. and I was SO happy!

This is what Dean saw when he walked in.

I also made Dean Dinner his favorite, Mexican food! This was the dinner table for the night.

For Dinner we had Rice, Beans, and enchiladas. The rice was my favorite it tasted JUST like a resturants.

It was a wonderful Valentines Day, I am SO lucky to have Dean in my life. He is SO good to me and I ALWAYS look forward to the time we get to spend together. Below are ten things I love about Dean. There are SO many more then that but I if I wrote them all, I would be blogging all night so here are ten things I love about Dean.

1. He is kind.

2. He is so supportive of me and all that I do.

3. He encourages me to be and do my best.

4. He is ALWAYS there when I need him.

5. He is so fun to be around.

6. He holds is priesthood worthily.

7. He is constantly trying to be better.

8. He is VERY motivated.

9. He Loves me with all of his Heart and he tells me it often.

10. He is my BEST FRIEND

A WeeKEnd get away!

Well I have been missing Dean like crazy lately and it seemed like with work, school, and other things that occupy our lives we hadn't spent much alone time together. The holidays were great and we saw each other a lot but we were never alone. So I asked Dean to plan a weekend get away, because he had Monday off of school. This is what he came up with! He used our time share and we were able to stay in West Yellowstone! SOOO much fun! The first few pictures are of the place we stayed. It was wounderful, not pictured was the swimming pool, spa, game room, and exercise room!

This is the whole resort.

Below is our bedroom.

This is the Kitchen in our room so we could save money and not eat out All of the time!

And this we our living room with the fire place! Loved it! and the view was so pretty especially in the morning.

Dean surprised me and took me snow shoeing it was a ton of fun but a lot more work then I thought. I was so hot and sweating, and my hip flexors were killing me when we got back, but I loved the work out. This was where the trail ended for snow shoeing it was beautiful.

So glad we went.

This was at the main entrance at the resort. I thought it was cool so we took a picture.

We ate out twice while we were there, we each got to pick a place. We ate at the Wild West Pizza. (IT WAS SOOOO GOOD!)
My favorite meal to eat out is Breakfast so this morning we went to trappers. It was pretty good also.
Below is a couple of pictures of us at trappers.

Since January is almost over I decided I should write down the goals I want to do this year.

Spiritual
1. Read all of the standard works. (it is only 7 pages a day)
2.Go to the temple every other week.
3.Search for more ways to serve people
4.Learn more about Christ
5.Continue to have nightly scripture study with Dean

Physical
1.Work out at least 4 times a week
2.Better obey my biggest loser diet.

Personal
1. Write in my journal daily, including things I am grateful that Dean does for me and how I have seen the Lords hand that day.
2. For every discouraged thought I have. Trade it with a positive one.
3. Blog at least monthly
4. Go through and organize my whole apartment
5. Put all my pictures in a photo album and write what they are, then scrapbook all digital ones online
6. Continue to go on a weekly date with Dean!

Here is to a great year!

December and the HoLidAyS!

Ok Bare with me I need to Blog ALL of December and it has been a FUN one! These first pictures are a little out of date because this work party wasn't till the 27th of December but it is so hard to move pictures around in the blog, so I am leaving them.

Below is a picture of the Nurses I work with and the one in Red by me is our scrub tech Brittney she is awesome. All of the People I work with are awesome!

Below is Brittney, me, and Wendy my Nursing Supervisor!

Brit and I

At the begining of December Katie and Mckay came up to go through the temple with Mckays little brother and I got to watch the kiddos. We made a FORT and this is them playing in it!

The Next few pictures are of Dean's Birthday! Dean doesn't like cake so I made him a blueberry cheese cake pie.

Dean's family chipped in and we got him a new Briefcase for when he starts his job in JUNE!

For Dean's Birthday I decided to suprise him and have all of his friends show up at Texas Road House. I was sooo happy he was truly suprised! A big thanks to all his friends for not spilling the beans! He even got a special Viking hat made! As shown in the picture below.

I also got Dean a shirt and Tie for his Birthday!

Below is a picture of our Christmas TREE and PRESENTS! The Holidays were GREAT!

This is Deans family Christmas morning we had Christmas at my house because of what I got Dean. ( you will see below). I knew he would want to set it up and use it as soon as possible.

Dean's present from me. A BLUE RAY SURROUND SOUND SYSTEM!

Deans Present to me! A PICTURE OF THE BOISE TEMPLE! That is where we were married!

I LOVE IT!!!

These last picture were of my side of the family in McCall for our First immediate family reunion.

Dean and I ready to play in the snow.

The nephews Taylor, Payton, and Kayden

Little Kayden!

Mckay and Kenzie ready to go down the sledding hill!

Katie and Taylor

Mom and Dad smiling away!

Payton!

Michelle and her family minus Ashley who is Probably with Dean because that is where she usually is. She LOVES Dean!

Brian and Whitney! SO cute!

Dean after he crashed into the TREE! hahah it was funny but scared me for a second!

Look at the ice on the eyebrows!

Dean and I loving eachother!

Time for family pictures!

The family again!

Dean and I. Best Friends!

Thanksgiving!

Ok lets try this again... I just wrote a twenty minute post and lost it... So anyway after work on Wednesday Nov 23rd. Dean and I started out on our Journey to Oregon. As many people know there was a total white out blissard the two days before we left. So a trip that takes 5 hours took us 9 hours. It also didn't help that it was below ZERO so our windshield wiper fluid froze and we had to stop every 30 miles and wipe the window off because of all the dirt the semis would throw on it as they drove by. So when we reached Oregon we were quite happy! ThAnKsGiViNg DaY was great Dean went hunting with the boys while I stayed home and cooked with the women (family tradition) Dinner was great and there was a TON of food! After we ate we hungout as family then went to my Aunts house and visited and play games for a bit before we had to go to bed for the DAY AFTER THANKSGIVING SALES. Dean and I love going! We got up at about 3:30- 4ish and headed out! I saved a ton of money, hit GREAT deals, got ALL of my ChRiStMaS shopping done! After we were done shopping we headed out to WaShInGtOn to see some of Dean's family. First we stopped at his Grandma Roos house and visited her in Wanatchee then we stayed with Dean's Aunt Lisa and she gave us some sweet hot chocolate we took regular hot chocolate and put add ins, in it. I had butter pecan, and cocunut in mine and it was SOOO good! The next day we got up and had swedish pancakes (a family tradition in Dean's family) and then spent the rest of the day with Grandma visiting and reminising great times. See the pictures below!

After visiting with Grandma, we went to the Tri Cities area and visited Dean's aunt Sharon and Uncle Richard and their families. After laughing and having a great time. We headed back to Oregon to stay the night with my parents. The next day we got up and headed back to Rexburg so Dean could go to school and I could go to work.

Dean and I are doing GREAT! Dean has one more week and then he will be in his last semester at BYU-Idaho I am so excited for that because it is a light load so maybe I will see him a little more. I am still loving my job at the Surgical Center and the People I work with! Scentsy is going good. I have a few parties coming up and I am excited about them! SO life continues to be busy and it is great because Dean and I try really hard to focus on the important things in life and make sure that they come first!

Happy Holidays EVERYONE!

Bring on SCENTSY

Dean and I, like everyone else I am sure, have ran into a few extra bills this fall and we are finding ourselves a little low on money. Dean has been so busy lately with school and work that there was no way I could ask him to pick up another shift. I work Tuesday through Friday, I thought about picking up another job but didn't want to work every weekend so after much thought and research. I have decided to Sell Scentsy! I am very EXCITED! I love when my house smells good and want others to enjoy the same experience. SO.... if anyone of you, or anyone you know is interested in Scentsy products, then please let me know, we can schedual a party and you can get the host benifits which I think are a pretty good deal. Or if you don't believe you have time for a party in this busy part of the year let me know what you would like and I will order it for you. I can't wait to hear back from you all. If you have Question please call me at 208-881-8338. I may not know all of the answers because I am new but I will find them out and get back to you. Remember Scentsy as you are shopping for Christmas they make GREAT presents.
Have a great day!