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!

Blessings in Life

Blessing # 1
Well we have had some wonderful blessing in our life this month! First Dean got his Dream Job working for Edward Jones Investments. HOOORRAY!!! He starts after graduation either in April or June that is still up in the air for another week or so until we hear what Edward Jones wants us to do. We will be moving to Tempe Arizona area for about eight months for a training program and then we hope to move back to the Boise area and settle down. However that is far in the future and we will see where we get placed and we'll see what Heavenly Father has in store for us. We are very excited and look forward to all of the adventures in store!

This is a picture of the area we will live in.
(a little bigger then any other place I've lived, SCARY BUT... SOOOO EXCITING!)

Blessing # 2
Well a few days ago Dean lost his wedding ring : ( He looked for hours and hours and prayed to find it. He couldn't I came home the next day from Blackfoot and work and looked for it for about three more hours and I couldn't find it either. I was getting discouraged we had prayed and thought we knew where it could be. I took my whole room apart and still nothing. It was late and I need to get up the next morning for work so I decided to go to bed and the only place in the apartment I didn't look was the garbage cans so I was tired and told Dean just don't dump them I want to look in them. It was Wednesday and I wouldn't be home again till Friday and I knew Dean wouldn't wait that long to dump the garbage and I wasn't sure he would actually look in it before he threw it away. SO... I got out of bed and went and got a pair of gloves and started to dig through the garbage. A few minutes later and a gasp from me I found the ring in the kitchen garbage Dean didn't believe me for a second but, then he saw it in my hand. He said he didn't look there cause he honestly thought it couldn't be there! I am just so grateful I was prompted to look there and that it didn't get thrown away!

I believe the Lord knows what we need in life and that everything works out like it should. Our job in it is to just have the best attitude we can have and take life as it comes because... IT WILL ALL WORK OUT!

A new Life lesson!

I know TWO blogs in one day! I NEVER do that but this is more for me and a life lesson, I learned this last weekend. I want to remember it so I will not make the same mistake and I will be humbled.

Ok so here it is I AM NOT PERFECT. I know SUPRISE! No I am kidding but I did realize how unperfect I was. So the story is, I went to a womens conference with my sisters and mother last weekend. So Dean decided to have a guys night out. I thought that was a Great thing to do while I was gone so he invited his guy friends. Well as I was on my way to Boise Dean called and asked if he could by a video game and then sell it later so he would only get back about two-thirds of what be bought it for. I let him know I didn't really like the Idea of spending 65 dollars on a game and only getting 50 of it back when he only used the game for one night. So he tried to convince me and finally I grudingly said fine. I guess it is only money. If you can't tell I wasn't the nicest to him. A little bit later he went to say something and stopped himself and said it wasn't very nice so he wouldn't say it.

However the next day I was at the conference with my family and I really wanted this book on CD so I could listen to it on my to and from Blackfoot and he said, "sure if that would make you happy then YES"! Then He asked if he could tell me what he was going to say the day before that was not that nice at the time. I agreed. He said you know I was a little hurt when all I asked to spend was 35 dollars, cause the confernce cost you 47 dollars plus 80 to get to and from Boise and now I am happy to tell you Yes you can buy the CD. Do you think next time you could please see both side of the story.

I felt about an inch tall. How could I have been SOO mean! How could he be SOO Kind! I couldn't say Sorry enough times, and all I wanted to do was give him a hug but I was 300 miles away. I know this story may not seem like much to you guys but it hit my heart pretty strong and has made me be a better person. Please if you are married and reading this try your best to see both sides of the story!

Extra Events

In this blog I will start with the current event that my SISTERS and MOTHER went to and then I will talk about a few events I forgot to blog about earlier this summer.

My Sisters, Mother and I went to Time Out For Women this last weekend! I was a blast even if I missed Dean a little. It was a conference on HOPE and there were many motivational speakers. It was SOOO up lifting and we are planning on go to the conference every year from here on out, as a MOtheR/Daughter weekend! I came home so Happy and uplifted Dean gave me permission to go every year but, he wants to find a couples one to go to also. I think it would be a blast. The conference just makes we want to be so much better!

At the Conference! With my Mom and Sisters.

At PF Changs It was AMAZING!

Me and My Sisters!

My Niece got a hold of my camera and wanted a picture of me so this is Ashlee and me.

This summer Dean and I went on a camping trip I was so much fun!

We Really Enjoy being outside and being together!
The morning of this picture we are fishing and we were rained on many times.

But... you can't tell by the picture cause it turned out beautiful. We were soaked!

It seems to always happen that way. EVERY time Dean and I have gone camping we have been rained on!

Dean caught this fish. Pretty GOOD!

This is the hill we walked down to get to our fishing spot I was a long ways down. And Quite the hike back up. One thing that happend was on the way down Dean got bit by something or hit something the reacted to his skin on the way down, cause when we got down there I looked at him and there was a Huge white spot on his face that was making the side of his mouth droop due to the swelling from the white spot. I automaticly got really scared cause he said it was numb and everytime I looked at it, I could swear it got bigger. Finally I told Dean if it didn't start to get better very soon we were headed back to the car cause we would have to hike up the big hill, walk a mile to the car, and then drive 20 min to the hospital if he needed it. He of course told me not to worry and he wasn't leaving cause he was fishing. Thankfully the swelling started to go down about twenty min later.

Another funny story about this camping trip was as I was setting up camp in a very private area with not a lot of people around. Dean told me there were beware of Bear signs all over! GREAT I thought! There is no one to get help from. So as long as I was 20 yards from the car I was great but when we would go fishing or on hikes I was always looking for Bears and I swore I was going to see one. Don't these camping pictures look like Bears would be in the area. Not to mention as I was hiking down the hill to fish there were Berries all over the sides of the hill. I was sure it was a trap. Dean kept turning around like the picture below to see what I was doing finally he asked why I was so slow and I told be I was scared of the Bears! He got a laugh out of that one! It was a great camping trip! I swear also I am not a whip even though I totally made myself seem like one by telling the stories. As you see I still tagged along for the enjoyment. I figured if I get killed by a bear I was with my one true love! ;)

Last this is a canoe trip Dean and I went on. It was small and relaxing but we loved it!