Memories

So I was going through my pictures on my computer and I came to a realization of just how much I have changed in 4 years. You don't think much time really has past or that you could possibly change so much, but believe me, lots can change (for me it has at least).

In High School, I would never cut my hair shorter than my shoulders. In college I tried the a-line bob, and now find myself preferring short hair. I have always wanted long thick hair, but God blessed me with thin hair than must be kept short.

I use to prefer drawing inanimate figures in color but now I prefer drawing faces in black and white with the eyes being the only part that is colored.

When I was younger, I always wanted to have dark hair. I always thought that women with dark hair and light blue eyes were gorgeous. Since then, I have tried different hair styles and colors and now red is my favorite color as of now (I have yet to go blond).

In High School I was outside all the time, for soccer, swimming, boating while learning to wake board. I use to be the darkest member of the family as shown in the picture, with my cousin Sarah on the left and my sister Kalee on the right. In present day, I am so not dark anymore. I have Rexburg to thank for that, having to wear pants all day and such, my body doesn't get to see much sun these days :(

And no I have never gone tanning.

I would never be caught dead wearing a ton of pink when I was younger, and now pink is one of my favorite colors to wear.

I use to prefer being outside playing sports and such, now I find myself loving to read and cross stitch baby blankets inside.

A lot has changed for me in the past 4 years and who knows what could happen in the next 4 years; children, a career, and possibly a permanent house. I am excited to see what these next years bring.

Fire Wire Grillers

Ok, so I know that this is a little late, but better late than never right. So as many of you know, Jared is graduating in Business Marketing. He is currently in a Web Designing class and so far he seems to be loving it. This class teaches Jared how to build a website and be able to make a business out of it. So in other words, Jared has to build a website and sell products.

So for days on end and hours every night, Jared has been spending

just about every

waking moment(other than when he is in school or work) building his website for the ground up, and I will say that he has done an amazing job. If any of you would like to check it out and see what an amazing job he has done, click here and any comments or advice of what he could do to make it better would be great.

So, what Jared is "selling" for his school assignment are these FireWire Grillers.

They are grilling skewersds that are used for making Kabobs. They are a flexible cable of sorts that you can stick on the grill, yet are used the same as any Kabobs. They are like 30 inches long so they can hold quite a bit of food. They are great gifts for Father's, Husbands or anyone who just loves to be outside on the grill. Jared bought some for us a while back so he thought it would be a good potential business for his online class, so he is going for it. Hopefully this will be able to be a little side business for us while we are in school.

Freakin Hilarious!

Ok, so, some time ago my dad showed us this little video. He and a couple of guys from this work like to send each other funny clips and videos. Lets just say that it is amazing what people will do to be on television. This clip is a Japanese Game Show that does Tongue Twisters, and if they mess up, lets just say that there are consequences :) The guy in the Red is my favorite, you won't be able to understand ANYTHING but you can usually guess what is going on. Enjoy!

My New Fav.

Ok, so, several weeks ago I started watching this show on TV. My normal time to wake up is around 8:30, and I have no idea why, but I just wake up then. On certain days of the week Jared would sleep in cause he didn't have class until 11:00. So, while Jared was asleep, I would turn on the TV and this TV show "Supernatural" would be on. So, I watched it and I thought it was interesting. Turned out that ever weekday morning from 8-10 this show would be on. So, it become a habit. Now I am almost addicted, but not quite. I've limited myself to how much I can watch. I got the seasons to Supernatural, cause I realized that when I was watching it one TV, I started in the middle of season 3. So I figured how about I just start from the beginning. So I have been watching Supernatural, and I am loving it.

So this TV series is about these two brother, Dean and Sam, who go hunting for demons, dark creatures, that sort of thing. Well to start at the beginning, Dean and Sam's mother got murdered by a demon and since that moment, the brother's father goes searching for this demon for many years. Dean and Sam continue their father's hunting, its sort of the family job you might say. As the series continue, Sam has been chosen by a certain demon to bring to past a war of the demons, he is suppose to be their leader, while at the same time Dean is trying to save his brother from potential death taking him to hell.

Its a very intriguing show, granted it is pretty intense and has some dark events, but none the less, intriguing. Right now it is my favorite TV show. :)

My Eccentric Husband, Jared

Ok, so most of you know that Jared and I have been married for a year now and we are loving life. Jared is the best thing that has ever happened to me, and has never ceased to amaze me with his personality. Ok, so, we have church at 1:30 p.m. (the most horrific time to have church if you ask me). So whenever we are done with church, we usually just head home, change into PJs and I start making our Sunday dinner. That is usually our typical Sunday; sleep in late till like 10 or 12 depending on if its me or Jared (Jared is the one that sleeps in the most), church, home, PJs, dinner and bed. So today, we got home from church, and I realized that I forgot to turn on the dishwasher before we left for church, so I was a little ticked about that. Jared went back and changed out of his church clothes. I yelled back to him and asked him to bring me my PJs into the kitchen, so I could change while getting the dishwasher filled and going.

Well lets just say Jared definitely brought me my PJs, in an unexpected way.

So Im in the kitchen doing what Im doing and I turn around to see Jared in my very own PJs, talk about hilarious, right. I just about died laughing. Surprising to say that my bottoms actually fit him alright, though they were flooding just a little bit. Though I must say, that my shirt was much tighter on him.
Of course we had to get a butt shot. Just FYI, Jared's butt isn't really this big. His is sticking out his butt and he has hit basketball shorts underneath my pajama bottoms which only accentuates his butt just that much more :) I just can't help loving this guy, with his bubbly personality and surprising attributes.

Family Reunion 2010

So it has been about 2 years since I have gone to one of my Family Reunions, and I finally had the opportunity to be able to see everyone again, well, most everyone cause many did not come. This year the theme of the Reunion was Family Survival. If a major crisis is to come within the next 10-20 years then we would be able to go to the Family Farm and live off the land there. We created a time capsule were we put survival things (knives, "How to live in the Wilderness" books, D.O., seeds, etc.) and letters to ourselves to what we are today to where we think we will be in 20 years.

Here we are signing all of our names onto the Time Capsule before we put in our letters and survival kits.

Sunday morning we had our famous breakfast at the farm. Since Jared is the newest member of the family, Uncle Bruce and Dad decided to pick on him and have Jared make the entire breakfast, for the most part. I think Jared has fun.

After breakfast we had our mini Sunday church service. Uncle Steve gave the lesson on the meaning of "One" coming from the word "Uni" and how many of the words we use today include "Uni" (Uniform, Unity, commUnity, etc). We had to run into the house in the middle of the lesson thing cause it started to rain. At the end of the lesson, Uncle Wade and Miss Liz renewed their vows in front of everyone. They figured it would be good since none of us were able to make it to their wedding. They have been married for nearly 10 years, time certainly flies by fast. From there we got ready for our hay ride.

Brandi, Meagan, Kalee, Kaleb and Baby Lane getting ready for the Hay Ride.

Along with Camille and Shani.

Also a new member of the family Baby Lane. This was the first time I got to see Baby Lane and can I say adorable.

He looks just like Lauren when she was her age. It was funny, while on the hay ride, Lane kept looking into the wind so he kept making this hilarious faces, trying to keep his eyes open in the wind.

And then there was the famous family marshmallow fight. The one thing everyone waits for at the end of the day.

The men, Jared was everyone's prime target. I wonder who got Uncle Wade right in the eye, it was quite funny.

I was happy that I got this action shot. Austin came up behind Meagan and completely nailed her in the face. This year rather than using flour which is what we usually do, Uncle Wade and Miss Liz put powdered sugar in with the marshmallows.

So I can definitely say that we all got pretty sticky in the end. Thankfully I was one of the cleaner ones of the group, but I got nailed right at the end. I wiped most of it off before the picture.

All in all I think we had a great time. Yes, we were sleep deprived once we finally made it home and crashed for several hours. And need I say, we traveled a ton; flights to and from Dallas, 8 hour trips to and from Arkansas, 4 hour drive from Rexburg to Salt Lake with stopping point in Logan, UT., and however many 30 minute drives it took to go from Grandma's house on the farm to Margarets and back. Yes, we did do a TON of driving, but it was all worth it, I believe.