St. George Weekend

This last weekend Brett and I joined Matt and Laura down in St. George for a wonderful weekend.

We went rock climbing, mountain biking, swimming, ate wonderful food, and just had an amazing time!!!

Yea! I made it to the top!

Matt and Laura...master climbers!

1. Great weekend

2. Holly is here

3. I kinda got a tan...

"I Spy"

On one of our first dates, Brett and I hiked to the Y and played "I Spy". Today I went up there for a morning walk and it was well worth it. I thought of how much our life has changed since our dating days. I took a pic and highlighted some differences and old memories. I Spy:

1. Our grocery store.

2. The double church that I couldn't find the time we went up there.

3. The tree we hung out in on our first date.

4. Brett's second home, the Clyde Building.

5. My second home, work.

6. The BYU stadium where we spent many hours this last year.

7. Our church.

8. Our home!!!

1. Watching the Truman Show while Brett is at his class.

2. Lunch with my aunt today.

3. School.

A Little Man in a Big World

Trevor, my ten-year-old brother, is just a little man in a big world.

He is so funny. I thought I would post about him today.

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Trev and I email back and forth with each other probably 3 or 4 times a week and each email I get from him is so funny and so cute. One of our previous emails was this:

Me: Trev, how's everything going? How was the Klondike?

Trev: whit the klondike was fun. whit the snow was way deep. in some spots i had to dig myself out. it's true. we are now on the third disc of season 5 in lost. everything is fine up here. whit i am now on a baseball comp team. it's an 11u team.

love ya

-trev

Another email:

Me: Have you seen cloudy with a chance of meatballs? Is it good? What is your favorite baseball team to be on so far? Do you like to pitch or does it make you nervous?

Trev: no i haven't seen that. i heard princess and the frog is good but i'm afraid it is a girl movie. i like to pitch on one of my teams but so far on my rec team i have pitched every game and haven't let a single run get in. well have a good day. love you whit.

-Trev

It is so fun to have so many adults and then Trevor in the mix. At family dinners he always has something to say.

This picture is from last year at our cabin. Trev is in the middle and yes, he is closer to his nieces in age than his own siblings.

(Which is wonderful because the girls love him so much! "Uncle Trevor! Uncle Trevor! Wait for me!")

Trevor sometimes asks if I ever put pictures of him on our blog so I thought I would.

He is so awesome.

I love that he is so far apart in age from the rest of us. I want one like that someday.

A little one at the end to keep Brett and me young.

1. Trev

2. School on Wed!

3. Just got another email from Trev :)

{springtime with us}

I love springtime in Provo. It is so gorgeous!!!!

{Yes, this is taken from my car....}

I love it when Brett plays the piano :)

1. Spring

2. New job.

3. Brett is done with classes for the summer!

Primary

I'm back in the primary as the primary chorister. Couldn't be more excited!!

1. Finally no more snow!

2. Getting some sun today.

3. No work tonight, get to hang out with Brettie :).

Easter Sunday

This Easter Weekend Brett and I went to Brett's Uncle John's. It is a tradition for general conference sunday to be spent at John's and it is such a treat, literally. The food is always amazing and it so fun to see everyone.

Jim playing games...

Matt, Laura and Brett playing games as well...

It was a great time!

1. Easter weekend.

2. The blossoming flowers.

3. For the future call saying that my

husband is coming home from school!!

Changes

Our new adorable niece Candace!!!! She is so beautiful. Congrats guys!

This last week of our lives have been full of changes.

1. First, Brett has decided to switch from being a Masters student to a PhD student. Pretty big and crazy change. His research professor has urged him to do so and he will finish only one year later than we planned. So, we are planning to leave Provo in April of 2012. We're really excited. We didn't expect this but Brett is so good at Electrical Engineering and he really enjoys studying it so it just makes sense to us. I'm so proud of him. He works so hard.

2. Second, which isn't even nearly as big or excited but still, I don't have to do my call monitoring job anymore!!!!!!!!!! This bring such joy into my life I can barely stand it. The company I was working for was pretty shady. I just listened to the calls that were made at the company by their sales team and made sure that they didn't lie to the customers. (Thus, I felt okay about working for them). They let me borrow a laptop and I would just listen for about 20 hours a week from my apartment. Well, this last week something amazing happened. I signed into their system and to my wonderful surprise the system said that it "didn't exist". I called my boss and he said that the company had to close because the Better Business Bureau shut them down. That = me getting unemployment and me keeping the laptop that they let me borrow. Ya!!!! Plus it came on the perfect day. When Brett came home that day I was crying and telling him I couldn't listen anymore, and poof! The job is gone....crazy....So, now I just have two jobs. The two jobs I love. Life is so good.

3. Third, which is even a smaller deal, but I'm going back to school this summer for just a few credits to receive my Associates of Arts. I have wanted to do this for a while now and so I'm going to do it. It kind of stinks because neither BYU nor UVU have the program that I want, but at least I can grab my associates for all the work I have done so far. It's pretty weird because I'll only be 34 credits away from my Bachelors, but I won't be able to receive it in what I want. I really want to get my Interior Architecture degree someday but it's just not an option right now. It's not a big deal at all but at least I won't have to do classes I have already done again later.

4. Fourth, Life is so good. I don't usually talk about deep feelings on this blog, but I have been thinking a lot lately about what God wants for us and how he really is in control. It has been hard lately to know what God wants me to do. I applied for a job this last week that I really, really wanted. I got there at 2 in the afternoon and they had hired a girl that had walked in 30 minutes before me. Bummer. I really wanted that job and I didn't get it. It really made me sad and grumpy (Thanks Brett for being so patient with me :)). But, now a couple days later I know that I wasn't meant to get that job and other things will happen that are better for me. God is aware of us! And I'm really grateful for that.

1. Sunday Mornings.

2. No more calls!!!!!!!!

3. Candace our new niece!

Yes, I have a Problem

I just realized that I have been adoring others blogs for WAY too long.

Have I neglected work? Yes.

Have I been looking for over an hour? Yes.

Am I now going to get an oatmeal cookie from the Sweet Toothfairy? Yes.

This has been a good day.

Now, back to work.

Happy Weekend to you :)

1. Friday!

2. Oatmeal Cookie.

3. Spinning at the gym.

Kater-ooskie and Stevie-Brewskie

Last night...

Classic Brett favorite, Wingers. And, a classic asphalt and concrete pie...yum!

And an attempt at going to Nickel City...no, it's not Nickel Cade sadly...

Then off to Red Box to rent "The Box". Pretty weird but entertaining.

Then...Tron (That old school Nintendo game Brett downloaded on the Xbox).

Equals a great night! Thanks Katie and Steven!

1. Brett is speaking in church tomorrow, thankfullly not me :)

2. Cadbury Eggs.

3. Tron. ;)