Thanks

Thanks to everyone who either did not get the census or did not fill it out, you helped give Ryan (another) job! I think Ryan loves part time jobs. He is now working for the 2010 Census. He gets to go around to people in the area who have not returned the census. Conveniently he gets to go to the student housing since no one got the census. I love all of Ryan and his crazyness!
I have the week off so now I feel like I need to stay up late just because I can...so here are some random pics from the last little while.

One nice sunny Sunday we were at my parents house for dinner and the boys here first hitting golf balls at one of the sheds, then throwing them...boys? And my brothers love anything that has to do with throwing balls!




Then we decided to go to the golf course to find more golf balls. Christian and Tanner, who are so very much alike! wanted to scour the hillside, the rest of us didn't so we drove down and met them at the base of the canyon, where there was a little pond on one of the holes. Leslie and Michelle were being so helpful and finding golf balls they even waded into the pond to grab them! Silly girls!




Spencer who is now 16, gets to drive around the awesome Riviera and since we were being nostalgic I decided to wear one of grandma's hats! Pretty sweet!




Tanner turned 14 this year and I have to say we are pretty darn good gift givers not only did we get him the video game he wanted he got glow in the dark silly putty!! (Last year he wanted $8 worth of silly putty, which we did!)


and how often do you see this??



Here are some more cute pictures from our last trip up to Rexburg. I just can't resist, they are too cute!




Again not really too much going on here. Ryan has one more project to finish then his semester is done!! I am sooo happy!

My Sweet Husband

I just have to say how grateful I am for Ryan. He takes such good care of me. The beginning of April I had a few lipomas out usually they just numb the area with lidocane, make a small incision and pop the little bugger out. But because of the locations of these 3 they put me out. We had to be at hospital at 7:30 in the am. Not Ryan's favorite time of day, but he drove me and hung out for a couple hours at the hospital. Apparently I didn't want to wake up! He picked up my rx and helped me hobble into the apartment. We laid on the couch and Ryan took a nap by me on the floor while I slept on the couch. He is so sweet.
That night was my brother Spencers 16th birthday and I really wanted to be there, so we drove down and Ryan went to dinner with my family while I laid drugged on the couch! He was so sweet to take me down so I could "celebrate" Spencers birthday! I can't believe he is 16. He gets to drive my Grandma's awesome Riviera around and he loves it!
I love Ryan so much he cook and cleaned and didn't even complain when I couldn't shower for 3 days!! That night when he came home from work and got into bed he asked if he could still hold me. It was so sweet if I wasn't so delirious I probably would have cried. I love it when he holds me while I fall asleep. He takes such good care of me I don't know what I would do without him!

One more thing

We did go up to Rexburg to visit. And had fun playing the Beatles Rockband with Bryce Liliya, Holly, Brad and the kids. I did get some video of Ada dancing. She is so freaking cute!

and sorry most of this one is out of focus. We have so much fun when we come up and love visiting!

Februaryness

February is over, yea! Spring is finally coming! Really not much is going on here. It is finally warming up and I LOVE it! I get to work from home on Wednesdays which I am obviously loving as well.
February 23 we celebrated our 3rd anniversary. It wasn't great. That day at least. I worked Ryan had class until 8:30. We had lunch and dinner together and then Ryan had to work that night. Since we didn't get to celebrate that day we celebrated on Saturday with a trip to the spa. Glorious! The Kura door is a holistic Japanese spa. We started our "lovers retreat" with a 40 minute Japanese bath then an hour massage. After the massage which was wonderful we got to sit in the sauna and steam room for as long as we wanted. Ryan said we needed to do this twice a year! I agree. So it did turn out to be a good anniversary! I love Ryan so much! He works so hard to make sure we are all taken care of I don't know what I would do without him. He is the love of my life!
In February I was also called to be the first counselor in the stake Primary Presidency! Very intimidating but it will be great. The President is awesome and I have to admit I am pretty lucky to be the 1st counselor instead of the 2nd! She has to do all the scout stuff!! I am over Nursery and Baptisms. So far it has been a great experience. I think that is about all the exciting stuff I have for now. Maybe I will post again this month? We will see what happens.

Merry Christmas!

You know Christmas must have been GOOD if it has taken me a month to get this post out! Actually it was really fun! Ryan worked until about 2:30am Christmas Eve morning, came home picked me up and we drove to Rexburg to carpool with Bryce Liliya and the kids. About 1/2 way to Rexburg at 4 in the morning the car overheats! We are practically in the middle of nowhere and it is 2 degrees outside!! But we managed to fix it quick and never had anymore problems.
Mari, Shad, Bellen, and Ada are really the best nieces and nephew we could ever ask for but I was a little nervous to drive that long in a car with kids, memories. Driving to California with my family growing up, not fun. It was ALL I could think about, fighting over space who is touching who...................... The drive up was awesome! I drove with Liliya and we talked the whole time it was so much fun! And the girls were perfect! We got to Ephrata about 6:00 pm and everyone was there! That is what Christmas is all about. Christmas Eve we did the Nativity program. The kids "acted" it out. Actually they mostly wandered around in their costumes while we read scriptures and sang songs.
John played the guitar while we sang hyms.





Ada as Mary



Belen as and Angel




Some of the Family and the rest of the Nativity





Cute Shad

Sorry this is out of order, but I almost forgot our Christmas tree! We went to Wyoming to cut it down. Bought a tree stand that turned out to be too big for our little tree which ended up falling over one night and instead of putting it back up we just leaned it against the wall! Ghetto!



And a cool picture of our ornament Ryan took.

Back to our Christmas trip. Sorry this post is going to be long, I will try not to take anymore detours!

There were 18 people in one house for Christmas and it was great! Christmas morning the kids were so patient to wait for Ryan and I to get up since we were sleeping on the hid-a-bed in the family room! We didn't sleep in too long! It was so much fun to have the little kids at Christmas, seeing how excited they were about everything! Here is Christmas morning...
Of course we had to have breakfast before we opened presents. I'm not sure if Ada is trying to figure out what Deagan in eating or if she wants some? And the presents before the it all began.


Liliya was the creative genius behind the calendar, it turned out great! As well as the winning emotional gift for Carol.




Bryce Liliya and the kids opening presents, of course there was a little drama.





Shad got Bakugan for Christmas, I think he was excited every time he opened a Bakugan present, even though the one before was bakugan! It was great! He even got a bakugan wii game and was super excited to watch Bryce and Ryan play it for him! Awesome!


Brad got an I Phone. Nice.

They also got a wii!

Ashley got a jumper (Holly seemed to love it!) and Deagan was worn our from all the excitement and presents!






I know I look amazing, but it was early. We got Ea Active for the Wii and Ryan got a sweater...hum... Carol did put the receipt in the sweater.

We played with all our new toys, had a delicious turkey dinner. The boys played football and we enjoyed being together.
Saturday was Melissa's Birthday and Mari asked if we could go iceskating for her birthday, it was Mari's lucky day because we did! Mari and Shad LOVED it! They kept saying it was the best day ever.






We also had fun playing Melissa's dancing game on the Wii. And just so you know Bryce killed everyone!


The kids dancing are adorable, and notice pregnant Michelle going for it as well! Michelle and Ashely are both pregnant and due at the end of March it was fun to see them. Sunday was Bryce's birthday and since we were leaving sunday morning we celebrated Saturday night. Carol made 2 cakes from scratch. A german chocolate and an angel food cake. I am craving the german chocolate cake right now! yummy!! We ate so much good food I am sure I gained at least 5 pounds the short weekend we were there! I am still trying to find the motivation to work it all off, that is what EA active is for right?





Ryan took some family pictures since we were all together. It was a very sunny day though! But we got some pretty good ones!



Sorry so many of us, we don't have very many we haven't taken ourselves.
Here is the whole family!

Even though it was a short trip it was so worth it. The drive was long, but the kids were amazingly good.
I had a little cold before we went up and thought it was getting better, but Saturday after Christmas I started having a hard time breather and it kept getting worse. Finally Ryan told me I needed to go to the doctor. I think I was scaring him. So Monday when we got back I went to the doctor and it turned out I had bronchitis. I felt so bad being around everyone the whole weekend and being sick, but fortunately I don't think anyone else got sick!
These holidays have been some of the best since we have been married. Ryan quit SkyWest before Thanksgiving so we had thanksgiving together with my family. He didn't have a ton of time off for Christmas but he did have Christmas Eve, and Christmas off so we had a nice weekend, then he had New Years off! That was the greatest present of all! New Years day my grandparents take the whole family bowling it is always something we look forward to.

Oh yes and one of our presents was a remote start for our Four Runner and we got it installed yesterday. It is AMAZING. We were kind of nervous it might not work, if we couldn't park close enough, but when we pressed the button and it went green I have to admit I jumped up and down and screamed! I know kind of lame. But it is so exciting!
Sorry about the super long post. That is why I don't do it too often! 3 hours later at 1:30 in the morning I am definitely done.