March Madness!!

March has gone by so fast. Carson works and goes to school. I just work. And we both play!!!! Around the 17th the leprechauns struck, and we were left with green milk for quite a while. We also got to see lots of family when everyone came for Alex's baby blessing. We had a great weekend with everyone. There was a BBQ, swimming, games, and other fun all weekend.

On Monday after blessing, Carson and I headed up to Brian Head to teach Stacy, Parker, and Payton how to snowboard. It was a challenging day for some, but we had fun. I am posting a video of Stacy going down because at one point in the day she stated that she was too old for snowboarding, well the video is proof that she can do it. Carson and I both felt pretty bad for Stacy because she did not get as much instruction as the kids since they needed a little extra help. I must say though I have a new respect for the instructors that I work with. And of course we cannot forget about the time spent with Jimmer and the rest of the BYU team this month. Megan and Andrew would come over and we would watch the games together, I am glad that the team did so well this year. And now for our other exciting news... Carson and I get to go to conference this weekend. We are way excited!!! I love conference. We are going to the Sunday morning session if anyone wants to look for us!

Happy Valentines Day!

For Valentines Day this year Carson and I decided that we would get a photo book made of our wedding. So last week I spent 6 hours putting it together on mixbook.com. I was really fun, and it turned out super cute, everyone should come see it when it comes. I also made Carson a heart shaped brownie to go with his Valentine card and candy. It is a good thing I took a picture of it in advance because he wanted to eat it right when he saw it. Carson surprised me with a chocolate milkshake, which he had to carry while riding his bike (I was quite impressed). It was a great day!!!

What We've Been Up To!!!

Carson and I have been busy with lots of things lately. I have been working at Brianhead, and Carson has two little jobs and school. We manage to stay busy most nights with FHE, istitute, raquetball, hanging with Megan and Andrew,or whatever fun things we can come up with to do. I got to try out skiing for the first time last week. (my job is great). I was surprisingly good for my first time, probably due to the fact that I can snowboard. It was such a blast. I can't wait till we have a free Saturday so Carson and I can both go play in the snow. We have also spent lots of time playing with this little guy. He is so cute!!! In the second picture Carson said he was trying to look like Alex. Who do you think looks goofier???

Happy Birthday Carson!!!

Happy Birthday to Carson!!! This year Carson had a fishing birthday. I made him a fish cake, and decorated the house with little paper fish. Then there was a scavenger hunt for him to find his present. It was really funny watching him look for the clues, and along the way he found some goldfish snacks and some bait. Then finally he found his new shiny red, open reel, 6 ft pole. Megan and Andrew came over for his party where we had pizza, cake and ice cream, then watched Despicable Me. I hope he had a great birthday.

Holidays!!!

Carson and I were so excited to spend our first Christmas together. We went to Moab as soon as I got off work on the 22nd. It was a bit crazy going from family to family trying to make sure we spent time with both of them, but we had tons of fun. We made gingerbread houses with my family, spent a day tubing with Carson's family, played lots of games, and ate lots of yummy food throughout the week. We had dinner at Carson's grandpa's house on Christmas Eve, then we went to a birthday party for Andrew later that night. Andrew likes to pick a new cake recipe every year for Megan to try. This year it was very chocolatey and very yummy. We spent Christmas morning opening presents and playing games with Carson's family. Then later we headed to my parents house for more presents and our big Christmas dinner. We had to head back to Cedar the next day after church so that I could be back to work by Monday. When we got home to Cedar City we got to have Christmas number 3 with each other. Carson now has a new camelbak bladder and some fishing stuff, and I have lots of new cake decorating stuff. We also got two new games, so if anyone wants to come play with us and eat cake, we would love it.

I'm DONE!!!!!!!

I am finally done!!! I took my last final today. I studied lots, and still felt like the final was pretty hard. Cumulative finals should be illegal, especially since the teacher does not give the previous tests back, so anything I missed before, I am sure I missed again. Oh well, I am DONE!!!!!! I won't walk for graduation till May though, but it is really nice to be DONE.

The Formal

The weekend before Thanksgiving Carson and I got to go to the institute formal. First we went to the matinee movie to see the new Harry Potter, it was really good, although Carson who hasn't read the books, kept asking me who all the characters were throughout the movie. He has seen all the other movies, but I guess it was still a bit confusing. Then we hurried home to get all dressed up. First there was a dinner, then a very packed dance in the Great Hall. We didn't stay at the dance very long, but we still had lots of fun getting dressed up.

This year Carson and I spent Thanksgiving here in Cedar. We started cooking in the morning while we watched the Macy's parade, then somehow Carson convinced me to go running with him (it was freezing). Around 1:00 we ate a great dinner at Carson's grandparent's house. Then only about 2 hours later we had another dinner at Megan's with her and Andrew, Nathan and Tonya and family, and my parents. All the food was great, and then we spent the afternoon playing games. It was a great Thanksgiving. The next morning Carson and I got up super early... no not to go shopping... to head down to Moab where we spent the weekend playing games, watching football, trimming trees, and getting a Christmas tree for Carson's family. It was a super fun weekend. Now we are back in Cedar, after a long and snowy drive home. It is the last week of classes before finals week, and we are sure feeling it. We spend our nights working to finish major projects and studying finals. We did put our tree up on Monday, it looks great. I will probably post pictures soon, but I need to wait for Stacy to bring me the rest of our ornaments. And today we get to start my favorite tradition: reading our book of Christmas stories.

Fish Tales!!!

Carson was so excited when him and Dallen went fishing and they caught these!!!! There is a new lake here and it has been well stocked with large catfish, and both albino and regular trout. The albino trout look really cool, but they are fiesty, they jump in and out of the water the whole time while you reel them in. Anyway these were the big catches for the day. It's the biggest fish Carson has every caught at a whopping 18.5 inches. Dallen's was 18 inches. After he caught it he called to tell me, then he called me later when he had gotten home to ask where the camera was so that he could take a picture of his prize catch. He did find out that the guy next to them had caught a 24 inch fish, so we will probably be going back to try for some bigger ones.

Halloween Fun!!

We decorated sugar cookies with Megan and Andrew the other day. We had lots of fun, and the cookies were very yummy. We also found out that Carson is very creative, though not conventional at all. Can you guess which cookies he decorated?

We also had a lot of fun carving pumpkins. I did a mummy this year, and it was pretty complex and took FOREVER. Next year I will be choosing something easier. Carson did 2 carvings on his pumpkin because the rest of us were taking so long.

Birthday Fun!!

My Birthday was tons of fun this year. Carson was so sweet and he tried so hard to make it the best birthday. On Saturday night we went to Winger's with Megan and Andrew for a birthday dinner, then had a pumkin carving party. On my actual birthday Carson and I made a yummy breakfast together, then I got to open presents. Carson got me a silver watchband, Home Alone 2, and some stuff to do cookie decorating. Then we went to church together. My Mom came on Sunday to stay here in Cedar temporarily while she does her radiation, so her and Megan and Andrew came over to our apartment for a big chicken fried steak dinner and some games. We played a new game called Pirate's Cove, and it was lots of fun. Carson is ruthless and he won both times (but I did beat him once when we played again). Andrew also made Megan and I a yummy brownie cake. It was a great Birthday. There is also a picture of the cake that I made Dallen for his birthday yesterday.

I love FALL!!!

Fall is the prettiest time of year! I love the leaves changing to beautiful colors and the perfect weather. I love all of the fall and Halloween decorations. I love the festive food and getting my jackets out for the coming cold. And we can't forget that my birthday is in the fall, and fall also starts out the fun assembly of all the best holidays: it is just the best time of year.

Last week Carson and I drove up to cedar breaks to see all of the fall colors, it is just so pretty.

Other things we have been up to lately include: job hunting, school, the hot air balloon festival, trying out the fishing at some new lakes, and spending time with Megan and Andrew. We had a great time camping with them last week at 3 Peaks. Carson and I won the bocce ball tournament, although I didn't contribute much to the winning, luckily Carson is pro. My new obsession is rock climbing though. Carson had a rock climbing class, and so we would go to the climbing wall on campus a few times a week. I love to try the new routes, and gradually progress to harder ones.

We also dipped carmel apples with Megan and Andrew. They were very messy, and I think we will probably change a few things next time we do it, but of course we still had lots of fun.
I am going to try to be better at blogging, but since we do not have internet at our apartment, blogging gets quite limited.

Timp Caves

The first weekend in August, Carson and I headed up north for Carson's mission President's homecoming. We decided to make a fun weekend out of it by starting with Timp Caves. We bought our tickets ahead of time, but then unfortunately we got there 45 minutes late. They give you an hour and a half to hike up to the cave entrance, and we had to go pretty fast in order to make it by our tour time. We didn't stop to rest a single time, so we were a little sweaty and tired by the time we got to the top. The caves were way cool, and it was fun to hear all the history of how they were found. Our tour was with a whole group of really excited kids, but lucky for us their parents insisted that the other 4 of us a the group go first for everything, so we got to be front row for everything. There was a fun story about the drips in the cave, if one hits you they say that you got kissed by the cave and you will have good luck. One lady in our group looked up and got kissed in the eye. We decided that was worth double the luck. The rest of the weekend we spent doing a little bit of shopping, going to see Toy Story 3, having lunch at Mountain Mike's Pizza with my China friends, and going to the homecoming BBQ. It was fun to meet some of Carson's mission companions. The homecoming sacrament meeting was great, there were tons of missionaries there, and they had them all get together and sing their mission song. It sounded awesome, and it was a way fun weekend.

This is supposed to look like a St. Bernard. We could see it in the cave, but not anymore.

A New Look!

So on Sunday Carson comes out of the bathroom looking like this. He had started shaving, and decided that he wanted to try some new things. (The picture is not great, but it gives you an idea) Anyway being Carson, he of course could not decide whether or not he wanted to keep it that way. I told him that it looked "Cool" and that he could keep it that way if he wanted, but that was not good enough for him, he wanted me to tell him yes or no. After much debate I asked him how he even gets dressed in the mornings and he told me that he can make decisions just fine if I am not around, my response,"Well then pretend I am not here." He did finally decide to leave it so this is his new look for now. However we did discover that I am the reason he is so un-decisive. Maybe I can get him to decide my next hair style for me... probably not.