Oh the Places you will GO.......

Tyler and I are sooo excited to go to Washington for Christmas! We can hardly wait!! Unfortunately, we have to wait 3 or 4 more days... We have finals Thursday and Friday this week (Plus all the other finals I have been taking last week and this week earlier).

Ty was soooo sweet and got me flowers because I was stressed. I am impressed with how often he has gotten me flowers! Thanks sweetie! Love you lots! :)

We were going to GO to Utah for the weekend, before heading home, but now we have decided we probably won't. We will probably just head to Washington on Saturday morning early or Friday afternoon.

This Christmas season we will be in Olympia and Ellensburg, so friends from both places, give us a call and we will get together! :)

STATE TEST

Yesterday I took the State Literacy Test for Idaho. I took one in Spring Semester too. There are 3 state literacy tests that I must pass before I can be close to graduating. I passes the 1st one with no problem. Last night I had to take 2 tests. I took the regular state test AND a pilot test. Friday I take my final state literacy test and once again, I take 2, the pilot and the actual test.

I won't find out if I passed or not until January or February! I really hope I did. If not, I have to take them again next semester.

WISH ME LUCK!!! :)

Change in Attitude

I have been negative this week, because things have not gone as planned, but, Now I need to CHANGE and be positive.

I AM THANKFUL FOR:
- My wonderful Husband, Tyler
- My Family
- Tyler's Family
- Friends
- Neices that can cheer me up at any moment
- A cute and warm apartment
- Food to eat everyday
- Going on dates with Tyler
- Double Dates
- My cell phone

I feel MUCH happier now! :)

This doesn't usually happen....

This week so far has been horrible and it makes me kinda home sick. I know that sounds funny because Rexburg is my home right now and has been for 2 years or more, but when I have horrible days, I just want to be back in Washington state. I don't care if it is Olympia or Ellensburg, but something about Washington and being with lots of family just makes me feel better.
Tyler is wonderful and always does everything to make me feel better and be happy, so he does everything right when I have a bad day. It is just weeks like THIS one that make me want to be done with school and back in Washington for good.

HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD day

Monday was TERRIBLE!! From the time I got up, to the time I went to bed, things continued to go wrong...

1. Icy Roads on the drive to school left me sliding all over the place.

2. Once I got to school, the games I had worked FOREVER on the teacher said didn't look like they took more than an hour. RUDE!

3. I traded my games with others in my class and they were all fine, but not AMAZING, not to say mine was... but I did think my game was SUPER cute.

4. I got a Report back in one of my classes and got a HORRIBLE grade on it, which now gives me a C in the class, which I am NOT ok with.

5. I REALLY need to work on the next report that is due in that class, but I am so mad about my last grade that I can't even focus on writing it.

6. At seminar that night, I had my photographic Essay (Which took days to create) on a thumb drive, not a CD and so I will probably get a bad grade on that project too.

YESTERDAY was a HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD day.

I LOVE HIM!!!!

Tyler is so wonderful! I love him soooo much. There is no specific reason or something that he did. I just love him MORE than anything or anyone.

I LOVE YOU TYLER!!!!! :)

Positive Side of Winter

I am not a huge fan of the snow, but there are a lot of things I LOVE about Winter!

I LOVE SPENDING TIME WITH FAMILY!!!!

I love drinking hot chocolate and cuddling by the fire

I love watching Chrsitmas/ holiday movies

I love to look at the snow outside (not driving or walking in it)

I love Christmas morning and watching the kids get EXCITED about presents

I love making memories

I love playing games

I CAN AND WILL SURVIVE THIS WINTER!

HALLOWEEN 2010

The Friday before Halloween we went out to dinner with Andrea and Bryce in Idaho Falls. Tyler and I got a "Family Size" pasta to share. It said it is meant to feed 2-3 people and we were both STARVING, so we thought it would be PERFECT! We ate dinner that night and had 2 meals after from that pasta. It was yummy, but neither of us will want Fettechini Alfredo for a while :)

HALLOWEEN NIGHT

Halloween was on a Sunday so we had a get together at our house! Silly me, didn't take any pictures during it. We just took a few before people came. I made 7 layer dip with spiders and a Jack O' Lantern Cheeseball. Both were delicious and a hit with our friends! :)

Tyler had a cute idea for us for halloween this year. Unfortunately, not everyone has seen Prison Break!!! Anyway..... Tyler was Michael Scofield and I was Sara Tancredi, the Prision Doctor that falls in love with Micahel. It was fun! Doesn't Tyler look GREAT!!?!! :)

SpUd PiCtUrEs!

We passed the Drive-In on our way home from camping and took some SPUD pictures :)

Houston.... We have a PROBLEM!

After we had been in school for a week or two, Bryce and Andrea, a couple we are good friends with decided we NEEDED to go camping before the weather got too cold. So, we packed up all our stuff and off we went to a camping site near a natural hot spring. We were all SUPER excited! By the time we got to our campsite, it was DARK. We had decided to only bring one tent, because we knew it would not be light and we didn't want to set up TWO tents in the dark. so..... we brought Bryce and Andrea's tent. Then and layed it out.

After laying out the tent.... we realized we had a problem..... NO TENT POLES!!! Andrea's Mom had given them the tent and apparently, they forgot to put the poles back in the bag, so the poles were still in Washington state. Yep, there was not one single pole for ths tent ANYWHERE. So..... Tyler and Bryce went to work on a solution. There were trees all around our site and we had Bryce's truck. None of which was helpful without rope or twine or SOMETHING that could hold our tent up. Bryce went and asked the neighbors and they had string/twine and were willing to let us borrow it.

We ended up stringing the twine across 2 TREES, tying it to Bryce's CAR and using wood and an AX to make stakes to keep the tent up. They men did a great job! I think the tent looks pretty good for what we had. No bears attacked us during the night and the tent did not fall in on us! :)

Below are a few shots after we woke up in the morning.

When we woke up, we ate cereal, then headed to the hot spring! It was lots of fun, but we didn't want to get our cameras wet, so no pictures..... sorry!

After the Granite Hot Spring we went to a beautiful waterfall and took pictures. We had lots of fun climbing the rocks and going in the canyon.

Tyler and Bryce climbed up to the top of a ledge.

Getting Up Off Our LAZY bums!

Tyler and I have both gained some weight since we have been married and decided this weekend (during Halloween) that we wanted to start working out again. The gym at our apartment complex is always SUPER busy, so we bought some of the school's APPROVED clothing for the gym and started going on Monday. We are usually at the gym for an hour and it feels great! There is another couple in our ward and they live a few doors down from us, and we have been going to the gym together and trying to make it fun and more like a double date, than working out....It has been a TON of fun! Hopefully we can stick to working out and drop the few pounds we've gained. :)



P.S. Eventually I will update about camping, halloween and whatever else I have missed :)

FlOwErS! :)

Tyler got me flowers on Monday! I asked him why and he said, "I got them because I love you, nothing else. Do you like them?" Of course I LOVED THEM! What girl doesn't LOVE to get flowers from the Man she loves? There is ONE thing I know for sure:



Have have the best Husabnd ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

THIS WON'T LAST FOREVER..... right?

Ty and I have been in school now for about 2 weeks. Yesterday was the first time I have had a chance to breathe, blog or do anything for myself. I blogged our whole summer. Well, the reason I am doing this post, is to say..... don't expect me to be blogging as well as I used to. This semester is CRAZY!

Tyler and I start class DAILY @ 7:45am and usually get home around 7pm. We are both in school full time and we are both working on campus. Needless to say, out time is limited. After we get home we EAT DINNER and then do..... Take a wild Guess....... If you guessed HOMEWORK, you were RIGHT! Then we spend some time together watching TV or relaxing, then it is midnight and we HAVE TO go to BED.

This is our LIFE for now. We just have to remind ourselves.... THIS WON'T LAST FOREVER.

1 YEAR ANNIVERSARY!!!

For our anniversary, I had a small cake made in our wedding colors by a friend. We ate the top of our wedding cake on our one month anniversary, because we did not want it to taste gross from being in the freezer for a year. So... the new cake was a replacement. :)

Tyler got me BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS and my Mom got us a Bouquet too!

This was the best TRUCK I could afford to get Ty for our anniversary!

For Dinner, we went to OLIVE GARDEN!!! YUMMY! :)

Our New Apartment

We are still living in the Village Apartments, but we switched to a two bedroom. We love all the room we have in this new place! Please ignore the mess. These pictures were taken while we were still moving in and organizing! :)

Utah here we COME!

Us on the plane. This is the view from the airplane window. Pretty, huh?

We went to a place called Ruth's diner. It was a fun experience! Tyler was not really in a picture taking mood, but Sandy kept taking pictures of us anyways, so we could have the memories :)

We had a surprise 80th Birthday party for Tyler's Grandma McGee. The Griggs, us and Tyler's parents were all in one hotel room and had a blast playing and laughing together! :)