Holiday Reese's Have Arrived!!

My favorite candy of all-time has arrived and its probably good it is only here six months out of the year.
Some of you might think, "six months out of the year? Reese's are always in the stores." Well these are not a regular Reese's these are a million times better. It all started when my mom put the Reese's Eggs in our easter basket and our relationship began. For Valentine's day a couple years ago Greg bought me a bag of the heart Reese's and I ate a whole bag by myself in less than week. Greg says he gave me two, but I hope to believe otherwise :) I'm so excited that the holidays have arrived it is the best time of the year....FAMILY, stockings, food, REESE'S :), Snow (somewhere), TURKEY, costumes, easter BUNNIES, love letters and ROSES.....

Conference Weekend

For conference weekend Greg and I decided it would be a perfect weekend to go and visit our families since we didn't have to worry about finding subs for primary/nursery. We had tons of fun, but since we fly standby it didn't turn out to be such a great idea. Overall we missed six flights. One on Friday trying to get there and five trying to get back. On Monday morning we were at the airport from 6:30- 1:30 until we ended up making a flight. It was a long day. We loved spending time with everyone though.

We...

• Spent some time with my Aunt Katherine and Uncle Joe


• Saw the cutest kids...my cousins Caleb and Eliza. Ugh I wish they were mine.


• Saw Fame with my Mother in law and Sisters


• Celebrated Cortney's birthday!


• Watched conference...slept through conference


• Visited my Dad

Autumn in AZ

So its Autumn in Arizona and it doesn't look anything like this......... :(
and it is slightly depressing. It still feels like summer and looks like summer, the only thing that is different is I'm in school. We are missing the beautiful colored leaves and the cool weather where its not freezing yet, but nice to cuddle up in a sweater and a blanket next to your hubby. Ugh just talking about it makes me smile :) It is getting a little cooler here in AZ though which is exciting. It is still pretty hot from 11:00am-4:00pm but at night it feels good. I'm also so sick of my summer clothes. I realize that I need to stock up on more short sleeve clothes because my closet is half summer/half winter and since there really isn't a winter here, well lets just say I'm getting sick of summer clothes. Tonight I'm wearing my first long sleeve t-shirt since probably April and oh do I love it. Hopefully I don't regret it when I walk outside.

Happy Birthday Cort!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CORTNEY!!!

Today is our lil sis, Cortneys birthday. She is the big 21!! Thanks for being so amazing.

We love you Cort!

Hope you have an awesome birthday, don't party too hard ;)

Mom & Dad Weekend

Greg's parents came into town last weekend to spend some time with us. We are so grateful for Greg working at US airways, we get to see our families so much more because of it. While they were here Greg's dad, Kim helped us fix our cars since one was hiccuping and the other caught on fire. :) He is our HERO!
While the guys were fixing the cars Greg's mom, Karen taught me how to make some amazing pizza dough and use my kitchen aid for something besides just mixing cookie dough. We had tons of fun. It motivates me to want to cook more.
My auntie Kathrono :) plans what she is going to cook for the whole month and gets all the non perishables in one big swoop and then each week goes and gets veggies and stuff. I think I'm going to start in October. It is going to be a big step because as of now Greg and I eat Mac and Cheese, microwave soup, cereal, you name anything that only takes two minutes to cook and we probably eat it. So I think its time my poor husband deserved a decent dinner on a regular basic. I always make an excuse that I will do it more often when I'm a stay at home mom, but I don't think that will happen all of sudden :)
Here is our beautiful pizza we made, it was delicious and tasted tons healthier than a normal pizza.

On Saturday we wanted to go hiking so we headed to Payson to go hike fossil springs. We drove the two to three hours to get there and it was RAINING!! I love the rain, but not when you want to go hiking. So we turned back. That is the second time that has happened to Greg and I so I think we will be avoiding Payson for a little while. When we got back into town we didn't want to go home because we had been driving for over four hours and without a destination it just didn't feel good. So Greg's mom really wanted to go to this place called Nordstroms Last Chance, it is where everything goes AFTER Nordstrom Rack it has crazy good deals on designer products. So we plugged in "Last Chance" into the Garmin and headed to the store. Well we ended up here....


Haha we were getting a little skeptical when we were driving in farm land. So all that driving and we finally just ended up going home jumping in the pool and showering for the day :) We decided to google the store this time cause you obviously can't always trust the Garmin. We finally found the store and got there an hour before it closed. It was fun. I found a cute belt for only four bucks. I think the trick though to finding more stuff would be to go early in the morning, I can't wait to go again. To end the night we ate at a great Mexican restaurant across the street.
We decided that every time Greg's parents came into town we would make it a tradition.

Sadly before we knew it they had to leave. Weekends are never long enough. We love you guys!! Hope you come visit again soon.

Kally's Baby Shower

Today I went to Kally's baby shower. She is having her third boy and is due October 9. She is the cutest thing.

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Kally and I were orginally in nursery together, but she recently was released because of obvious reason :). I have heard that is the only way to get out of nursery. It was a lot of fun. We played a couple games and one of them was to make a baby out of gum and Kally had to choose the winner. Here are all the master pieces.......

Than she opened presents, Lindsey and I made a diaper cake for her. It turned out really cute. It was all Lindsey's idea, I can't really take the credit for it, but I helped :).They are alot easier to put together than I was thinking. We went shopping together and got all the little gadgets for it and went to her house to put it together. Here is the finished product.....

Afterwards we sat around and just talked about everyones labor and after math stories and HOLY COW. I think my eyes were wide the entire time. I was the only one there that wasn't either pregnant or already had kids. So now being in nursery and hearing what they all had to say about it I think I will be waiting for a little while to have kids. :)

Happy Birthday Erin!!

Today we celebrated Erin's birthday! Her birthday was on 9/9/09 cool huh.... Happy Birthday Erin. We hope you had fun and know how much we love you!!!


Today was also 9/11 and I didn't even realize it until late tonight. Crazy that is has been eight years since it happened. I remember I was getting ready for seminary my freshman year in Washington when a friend called us and told us to turn on the news. It sure makes me grateful to be able to live in America and have all the privileges we have and protection we have compared to other countries.

Come On Over for Dinner

WE GOT A TABLE YAY!! Now we feel like we can actually invite people over. I love Craigslist I don't know how we could afford cute stuff if it wasn't for stocking craigslist. I'm considering painting it a different color and changing the fabric, for right now I'm just glad we have somewhere to eat instead of the couch.

Lifes Simple Pleasures

Last night I got to fall asleep to rain :) one of my favorite things.

Strawberry, AZ

To start our memorial weekend we went hiking and walked around the small city of Strawberry Arizona with the Low's.

The cute little Low family

We hiked to a natural bridge. It was a really hard hike :) ....well we thought we would be hiking for at LEAST a mile, but you basically drove to this area and than just hiked down. It was really pretty and there was what looked like a refreshing area to swim but you weren't allowed. So we were going to drive to Fossil Springs where Greg and I went on the fourth to go swimming, but it started raining.

So we decided to just walk around the small town of Strawberry. It was really cute we went to a bunch of antique shops, got ice cream and went out to eat at a little family owned restaurant.

Brady was so cute begging for ice cream and Erin was nice enough to share :)

I love that Erin is sticking out her tongue as well.

Mallory's Birthday

Last week we finally celebrated Mallory's 23rd birthday. We had a dinner over at Erin's new apartment and it was absolutely delicious. HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAL!! We love you!

The PHANTOM of the OPERA

YAY we got our Phantom of the Opera tickets!!! I can't wait. We are seeing the play in November. I think I might just have to go buy the movie tonight.

First Day of School

This morning I woke up and went to work like usual but today was different cause I was leaving early to go to school. I was so nervous not really knowing what to expect. Once I left work I was going to catch the light rail to campus but I couldn't find the exit and I was getting nervous. I eventually found it and some girls in the parking lot totally helped me out and I made it to class early. THANK YOU!!
My two classes went great. I ended up meeting Emily in my first class who was an angel. After class she showed me around. She took me to get my books and we ate lunch together and went to our last class together. Overall the day went great. I'm really excited for new classes and a new school. School with out Janna and Mallory though wasn't the same I miss you girls!!!!

So on another note holy cow is ASU different I have totally been in a bubble....a bubble that I miss.
1. First of all walking to class I was soaking in my own sweat it was disgusting it was SO hot I don't get how people do it.... oh never mind I know they don't wear white insulators and girls wear anything and everything.
2. Students walk to class smoking... they have ash trays in the outdoor sitting areas.
3. You have to put your backpack in a locker before entering the bookstore cause students steal the books.
4. Sororities and fraternities. They are everywhere!!!

Sisterly Bonding Continued

After I got back from Georgia Greg's sister Valerie was in town for work so we got to hang out with her for a little before she headed off to North Carolina. A couple days later Greg's other sisters Cortney and Kelsey came to visit :).

We took them to go see the Mesa temple....

They took us out to eat at the amazing Cheesecake factory..... Thanks girls!!!

Then before we knew it we had to take them to the airport.... We miss ya girls!! Thanks for spending your vacation with us. We love you!

Sisterly Bonding

Last week I flew to Georgia to spend some time with my little Bub aka my sister Lauren. It was really nice to get away for a few days and goof off. Some things I got to do that I never have time for....

- slept in

-painted my toe nails

-laid out at the pool

-read a book

-played with my blog

-watched "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" and ate picksey sticks

-watched TV ( Greg and I don't have TV)

-went shopping, Lauren is super stylish so she helped me find some cute clothes.

It ended way too fast, but it was fun to hang out with my sis I don't get to see her enough.

Love ya bub!!

ASU Here I Come

So its official I am a non-degree seeking student at Arizona State University(ranked as one of the nation’s top 20 party schools, I'm going from one extreme to the next), which means I'm still going to get my diploma from BYU so that's exciting. School starts on August 24th and I am taking two classes. It was really hard for us to decide If I should go to ASU because tuition for a non-resident for two classes is 4500 and full time at BYU is 2100. Quite a difference, I definitely feel blessed to have had the opportunity to go to BYU and I'm so excited that I still get to graduate a COUGAR!!!

Megan's Birthday!

Today was my cousin Megan's Birthday she turned the big 7. So after work I headed over for the celebration. Greg never ended up coming because he got stuck at work all night working on some project, my poor baby. It was a lot of fun hanging out with all my little cousins. I have really enjoyed living in Arizona because as a result I have gotten to get to know my cousins on my Dads side better.

Birthday Girl ( she did that pose all on her own :)

Addy and Jake trying to hide from me

Taylor and I

In Love

i LOVE this swimsuit. They have it in a coral color as well which I would consider getting. The only problem is this swimsuit is crazy expensive and I can't get myself to pay that much. Even though I do have birthday money left over there are so many other things I could get. I have three options:
1. Buy it and maybe regret it later. .
2. Don't buy it and be sad and always think about it.
3. fall in love with a cheaper one.
So I need your help. If anyone has any suggestions as to where I can find a one piece similar or just as cute please let me know.

Oreo Truffle Experiment

For FHE on Monday night we decided to experiment with a recipe I found on Better Homes and Gardens, which is one of my favorite websites. I get daily emails from them with awesome recipes, cute decorating ideas and one day garden ideas that will be useful. If you are interested in making the truffles here is a link to the site: Oreo Truffles Recipe

So this was the goal.... they were fairly easy to make but mine didn't turn out quite as pretty as theirs.



If you are interested in making these I would suggest a couple things that I think I will do next time to get a better turn out. If you have a blender use it to blend up the Oreos before you add the cream cheese. Also I would recommend covering the whole Oreo ball with chocolate. I think that way they would look prettier. We had a lot of fun, its a fast and easy recipe, and they taste delicious.