April

So many fun things have happened this month. In the beginning of the month there was graduation and Bear Lake but since then there has a lot of opportunities to take pictures with my new camera. Click on the pictures to view the albums.

First there was Hunter's 1st birthday. If you don't know Hunter, he is my best friend's boy. I spend a lot of time with there family and they call me Auntie and Zak, Uncle. We have plenty of pictures of him because he is the most interesting thing to photograph. Anyways, first birthday's are always fun.

On Sunday the weather was the nicest it has been since last summer so we decided to go to the park. I couldn't believe all the people that were there. We just sat and watched all the people playing games, skateboarding, biking, flying kites, playing on the playground and swings and soaking up the sun. I got some fun pictures of Hunter and Ally playing ball.

The next Monday we (me, Zak, Brad, and Ally) started clearing an area for our garden. I'm so excited. It was a mess at first but after we cleared away the dead stuff and started pulling weeds it looked much better. We are going to plant a tone of stuff and although it will be quite a bit of work I hope it will pay off. We have never grown a garden before but we are all hopeful.

Over this last weekend Zak and I went out to Warm Slough. It is out by the river and there isn't much around. We got there right as the sun was going down and it made for some great pictures. There was another group of people that showed up about the same time we did and they had about 30 pallets with them. We watched as they lit their fire. We couldn't believe how big and hot it was and we took some cool pictures of it. We will be going out there again on Monday so Zak can shoot his shotgun and we can have a fire of our own.

Bear Lake

After graduation we all headed down to Bear Lake to spend the weekend in Zak's grandparents cabin. We were all grateful for their generosity. It was the perfect place for all of us to spend time together. It was like a family reunion. We were only missing a few siblings but they were greatly missed. Hopefully we can get everyone there at the same time some day in the future. We spent hours playing in the snow, playing games (including hide and seek with everyone and ping pong!) and the boys got to go snow shoeing. Everything went well and even though several of us ended up with the flu we survived and created plenty of memories.

Graduation

I'm done! I can hardly believe it but I have finished and am now a college graduate! Elder Ballard spoke at graduation and I got to shake his hand! There is no where in the world that is like BYU-Idaho and I feel very blessed to be able to say that is where I graduated from. I'm so grateful for my family who always stood by me and believed in me. SOOO many family members came just for graduation and I know I could never have made it without their support and faith in me. I'm also so grateful for my husband, who for the last year has stood by me and never doubted my abilities. Thank you to everyone and I love you all so much!

My Husbands Crazy Hair

A few weeks ago the Bishop told Zak he had to cut his hair for school. Last night he decided it would just be easiest to take the buzzers to his head. There was hair everywhere. He doesn't even look like the same person but I still think he is hot!


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St. Patrick's Day

We had the best St. Patrick's Day party ever! Ally made dinner and all of us contributed. It was delicious!!! Brad was at the table eating long after everyone else left; it was great. We played the most awesome games thanks to Jocey (Ally's niece). Ally got some great videos of us playing one of the games where we had to catch something between our bodies, race across the room and drop it in a box. Watch the video below.
After games we watched Darby O'Gill and the Little People. It's kind of a crazy show but it's tradition.

Fun Times

I was just looking at some of my old pictures and created this album for all of you to see. It has almost been a year and we have had some great times. Click on the picture to see more.

Cross Country Skiing

Last weekend Zak and I decided to try cross country skiing. It was so much fun and I recommend it to anyone. We went with people he works with. It just so happened that his boss used to do cross country races and he had some of his old "uniforms" if you can call it that and Zak decided to wear one. It was quite a sight. We had a ton of fun and can't wait to go again (hopefully without the ridiculous outfit).