Weekend in Rexburg

Well this weekend we went over to Rexburg for Memorial Day weekend. We stayed with Jake's brother Clay and his family. There were a total of 11 people in Clay and Madeline's house. 5 couples and Clay's son Landon. Speaking of Landon, he is so cute! He likes to take my cell phone a flip through the pictures and also turn it on and off and watch the Verizon Wireless logo go on and off. He thought that was so much fun and it was so fun to watch him play with it!

Jake and I left Friday night around 5 from Boise and we made it in almost exactly 4 hours. We got to Clay's house around 9 and we were the first ones there. Kristin and her boyfriend were next followed by Mike and his wife Elena. (Something really cool about Elena is that she is from Russia! She and Mike met online and she moved here when they got married in December! Pretty cool huh?) After Mike and Elena got there, Bryce and his wife Audrey came and they brought Clay and Madeline's new Siberian Husky puppy with them. It was a full house! 

All weekend we were trying to come up with a good name for the new puppy. She came with the name Coda but Clay felt like that was too much of a boys name. We eventually came up with Kya. She is the most gorgeous dog I have ever seen. Clay breeds Huskies so Kya is the new "puppy machine". He has a pure white Siberian named Duke and a Malamute Husky named Angel. He just sold his last two puppies from the Angel/Duke litter and they were way cute. The mix is called an Alusky and they were the most adorable puppies. I am excited to see what the pure Siberians look like as puppies. Kya is only 5 months old so it will be a while before she will be able to have puppies but she will and they will be adorable just like their mommy :)

Kya is black and white and has the most gorgeous bright blue eyes. Here's a picture isn't she cute!?

So now that my schpeel about Kya is done I will continue with the weekend festivities. 

Saturday morning everyone but Madeline and I went to the Ice Caves. They said they had a blast! I should have probably gone with them but I really really do not like tight enclosed spaces. Jake said he will take me sometime so I will be able to go but I didn't want to have a panic attack in front of all those people so I stayed home with Madeline and Landon. While we were there it started raining really hard and the window started to leak. Madeline and I put cups on the window sill to catch the water and we probably emptied the 4 cups at least 5 times each. We were using the little styrofoam cups but still, there was a lot of water coming in! After that excitement, Madeline went a laid down to take a nap. She's having a baby in September so I told her she should go lay down and not to worry about me because I had a book that I have been working on reading for almost a year now. She went to sleep and I read my book and then everyone came back.

We went to Big Juds for dinner that night and it was YUMMY!!!! Jake and I split the Big Jud Special which is a 1 lb. hamburger the size of a plate! It was so delicious but I could only finish 1/4 of it. We took the rest home and shared it after church on Sunday. Even the left overs were yummy! Anyway after Big Juds we all came home and then Jake and I went to get a couple of movies for us all to watch. We got the new Muppets movie which was.....interesting to say the least. It was good but it was more of a laugh at it movie than a laugh with it movie. We also got We Bought A Zoo which is such a great movie! I highly recommend it! We watched the Muppet movie and then determined it was time for bed.

Sunday we went to church and afterwards came back to the house. Bryce and Audrey had to leave right after sacrament meeting to go see his sister who lives in Victor, Idaho (the same place as my wonderful Aunt Karen :) ) and Mike and Elena had to leave around 5 to get back to Utah in time to pick up their daughter from the in-law's. That left Kristin and her boyfriend Jonathan and Jake and I. Monday morning we all got up and went out to kayak in the slew by Clay's house. It was fun to just kind of meander around in the kayaks. Kristin and Jonathan wanted to kayak to the river with Clay so while they were doing that Jake and I went into town in his trusty dirt bike (i love that thing). We picked up a few things from the storage unit, went to see where our new apartment is going to be and had lunch with some friends that are still there. It was very fun and much needed. We both miss Rexburg so much which is totally weird to say. It feels so good to go back and it will be nice when we get to have our own apartment again :)

We got back to Jake's house and roasted hotdogs and marshmallows in the fire pit in the back yard and then packed up to come back to Boise. It was a great weekend and I am so glad we were able to get out of town and do something fun!


Btw, here is a little video for your viewing pleasure of our adorable nephew Landon. He was having so much fun flipping over Clay's leg that I had to get a video of it!

See ya next time!

What We've Been Up To

Wow, I am not good at all about posting on my blog. I just redid everything, the name and the look of it. I'm still working out the kinks and trying new things but what do you think? :) Anyway, I'm going to try really hard to update this at least once a week with what's going on here in good ol' Nampa. So here we go.

We are living in Nampa with my parents because Jake got an Internship for his degree at American Construction Supply and Rental in Boise. So far he is enjoying it. He likes that he is doing something that is worthwhile and helping not only the bank account but also an actual business. He does deliveries, cuts and bends lots of rebar, cleans the shop and does pretty much whatever else the bosses tell him to do. I am so glad that he is enjoying it and that he feels like he is being a productive member of society.

I am taking 13 credits worth of classes online this semester so that I don't get behind while being away from campus. I am taking 5 classes, 3 that I need and two that sounded like they would be fun. I am taking a Family class based on The Family: A Proclamation to the World. I am loving it. My professor is great. He holds weekly meetings for the class and is awesome about answering emails quickly. 

I am taking a Parenting class which is pretty good too. We just learned about the development of babies and how their brains are still developing and they start recognizing people and bonding with their parents. I can't wait to be a mommy. I see all the parents at church and I'll admit, it makes me a little baby hungry haha

I am taking an English class called Advanced Writing and Critical Thinking and it is pretty cool. For the semester final we are writing a research paper and we had to chose something related to my major. Since I am an education major I chose to research the effects of Online education. So far it's pretty good. Just plugging along. I really like my teacher. She offers extra credit each week and so I have something like a 105% in the class. I am pretty happy with that :)

I am taking a Pakistan class. It's not that interesting. It's my least favorite class but I'll live I guess. We had to do a narrated powerpoint on a topic that we signed up for at the beginning of the semester and mine was about the death of General Muhammed Zia-ul-Haq. Say that 5 times fast. 

The last class that I'm taking is a Doctrine and Covenants class. It's ok. There is a lot of reading that is assigned for each week and sometimes it all piles up and I go crazy but we are learning a lot about the restoration of the church that is pretty interesting. 

Wow, that's a lot of writing. I didn't realize that it was that long. How about i throw in a few pictures from a camping trip we took a couple of weeks ago with Jake's friend Amberlee and her husband. We went up to Silver City here in Idaho. 

 Here's me cuddled up in our twin size tent one morning.

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The Catholic Church up on the hill

Here's the whole group

Here's a pretty cool view of Silver City. It is so cool to just walk around! Unfortunately we couldn't go into any of the buildings, but maybe when it gets closer to summer we will be able to!

There is an old cemetery up there that has some really cool looking headstones in it!

We wouldn't be camping without the dirtbike! :)

It was nice to get out of the house for a weekend and just enjoy the nice weather. It was a much needed break from school and work! 

Today we are leaving for Rexburg to visit Jake's brother and his wife along with a couple of Jake's friends that are all coming up to visit for the weekend. It should be awesome! Be waiting for my post 

about it next week! 

Our Wedding! :D

Well, here we are 3 months after the fact and I still haven't put pictures up of our wedding! So to start, here are the pictures from the reception that night. Enjoy! 

 All the pictures were taken by my new sister-in-law Michelle Smith. Didn't she do a great job?? 

Jake's Aunt Teri played the harp for the entire reception. She did an amazing job! Thanks Aunt Teri!

This one I just had to throw in because it was amazing that Michelle got a picture of it. This is my old home teacher from when I was really little and he lives in Provo so he came down to say hi. He was also my favorite home teacher so I was really excited!

This is the gorgeous cake that Jake's mom Dawn made for us. She did everything on it and doesn't it look amazing?? It tasted so good too! Thanks Mom!

 These were just a few of the decorations that we had at the reception. Jake's mom has a friend that used to do this professionally so she asked her to do it. I thought that it looked absolutely amazing. Thanks Melissa!

 Cutting the cake

Here Jake, want a piece?

 You're turn.

 Me and my bridesmaids :) Ain't we cute? 

 Me and my sisters. Awww haha

 And of course who could forget the Maid of Honor? My very best friend Valerie! 

 My new nephew Owen who called me Princess Kelsey all night. Isn't he just the cutest?

Me and Jenna 

 Megan and Jenna thought I was gross for blowing him a kiss

 All the Single Ladies!

 Throwing the bouquet

Guess who caught it!

Jenna!!!

 Aww how cute :)

The rings

 Me and my beautiful sisters! I love them!

 My Family!

My new In-Laws! They are the best!

I love my mom!

 They made a tunnel of people and then threw rose petals at us as we left

Where's the truck?

  Here I'll get the door for you

See ya!