a year and an update

well folks, i think that it is time i give you an update. our lives have been absolutely CRAzY! i have wanted to post pictures for the past FOREVER! in fact i havent even posted pictures of our way home from CHICAGO! i am pretty pathetic! but still i want to show you the fun time we had on our way home! Also MONDAy was our ONE YEAR anniversary! I cant believe that time has gone by so fast! it feels like we have been married for foreVER, yet ONE YEAR? i cant believe it! it has been the greatest year of my life! I love sam so much! he is such an amazing man with so much potential! i know he is going to go FAR in life... and lucky me ill be right beside him! also we have been freakishly busy with school and work. if any of you know sam and i very well you know that we dont spend much time on school work, but this time around it is inevitable! also sam got a job working with the ISU ALUMNI (i think) ha and i am working as the marketing manager for Farmers insurance. so to say the least we are busy with that too! LIFE is so great though! dont worry we still have TONs of fun.... and we have made a new addition to our family! :) look below to find out! ha we love you guys! ps these pictures are COMPLETELY backwards, but i didnt want to take the time to change them... :) Flowers my love got me for our anniversary

Heavenly Father is pretty cool.

YEP here they are! THESE ARE OUR BABIES! the newest addition to our family! i tricked you all!

KIMS WEDDING WAS BEAUTIFUL!! she was a MAGNIFICENT BRIDE!

THE FIRST TIME I SAW CARLI!! YAY! this was at kims wedding

sorry some of these pics are sideways..

ME AND KIM WU!

IN JACKSON we saw a mama and baby moose.

my first time to BAR J! we went camping with rob and brittany to jackson for a little get a way!

After we got engaged we carved our names into this tree look closely and you can tell.

right by this building is where sam proposed to me! how fun!

the view from Snow King mountain in Jackson this is where he proposed

on our way up the mountain

RIPLEYs BELIEVE IT OR NOT

ROb and Brittany making breakfast

Kims wedding shower it was so fun to see everyone so close to sarahs! i love friends!

OH my sick faces! i could not stop laughing i warned them that it would be on my post

i know i got really ready... ha we just got home from camping in ISland Park

what a fun date night! we went paintballing! any one want to come with us next time?

THis is us at the celebration center in logan! this was the night we got home from chicago! we went with sams family for some fun! this was the FREAKIN most scary ride i have ever been on! it is so old and rickety! and only a little seat belt holds you in! i almost said a few swears!

the boys!

Gabe and Sam just monkeyin' around!

this is the first time sam ever saw or held victoria! it was so cute to watch him with his new niece!

so this was in wyoming and i was taking pictures of the wind mills and got this pic going 75 mph i thought it was pretty cool!

the MOTEL we stayed in was PRETTY GHETTO! it looked like it had been broken into a few to many times!

sick. what were we thinking

ON our way home we went to OHIO to see the PALMERS! it was so much fun to spend some time with them! we lOVE RAISING CANES!

The start of our 35 hour drive home! dont we look thrilled!

we left on my birthday but stopped in chicago to play and had some birthday cake with our good friends! these little kids were so cute! lots of street entertainment

Larry and Rebecca! we miss them they are now living in IOWA.

here we are on the top of the sears tower!

a view from the sears tower



WEll, i know it was alot to take in, but that is what we have been up to the past month! like i said we have been way busy and crazy! but we love you guys and hope your doing well! since we are back we would love to hang out with anyone willing!

ONE YEaR DOWN

WEll everyone its about that time! Sam and i have almost been married for one year! i cant believe how fast its gone by! but what my one year mark that im going to talk about now is... ONE year since i have been an endowed member of the CHURCH of JEsus CHrist of Latter Day Saints! i cant believe it! what a WONDERFUL blessing it has been to be able to go through such a holy and sacred place! I have been able to recieve so many INCREDIBLE blessings because of my decision to go through the temple. I am so thankful to my HEavenly Father for allowing such BEAUTIFUL blessings into my life! the Temple is SUCH an IMPORTANT place, and i know that all of our lives get busy and hectic, but it really is VITAL for us all to attend regularly! i hope that Sam and I can work on getting there more frequently! what a wonderful blessing to have so many temples so close to where we live! IT will be one YEar tomorrow that I recieved my endowment in the Logan Utah LDS temple. wow how FABULOUS! :)

HApPy FAll Ya'll

So By the title of this post and by the look of my new background, you may already know that I LOVE FALL! it is my favorite time of year! with the crunching leaves, their changing colors, the time of my wedding, HALLOWEEn, sweaters, the beginning of school and so forth! I just wanted to right this post in CELEBRATION of our HEAVENLY FATHERS wONDERFUL creations!! i love you all!

SchoOl DayZ ScHool DaYz DEAR OLd GoLDEn RuLE Days...

ReaDing and Writing and Arithmatic... That is what we are up to now! IT seems as though we have had no CHanCe of a brEAk! WE officially got back into POCaTellO on SunDay MOrning at 1 AM! And Started school on MOnday! My house is still a disaster! but it is SOO gooD to be HOMe! we are lOVing lIVing in pocatello again and dont worry Sam HAs already taken WELL the ADvAntaGe of 2 FriSbeE gOlf courses close by! WE are just getting back into the grove of things and are ready for organization! It will get there eventually... SLOWLY but suRely! WE are really excited because tomorrow we are heading to ISlAnd PArK! YAY!! we LOVe LAbOR dAY! it will be so much fun to spend some time in the wilderness with good company and as always good fooD! We are sad many of you dont get to come this time and wish you were! By the way who is coming?? ANYOnE? WE hope everyone else is enduring the start of school and enjoying getting back into the groove of things! IM so glad to be close to FaMily and FriendS again! I need to Post some PIctures of our adventure home, but im at school now and dont have the camera or the cords! it will happen soon though! Just wanted to say hi and let you all know we made it home safe and sound!

a summers end

WEll, today is the day! IT IS MY LAST DAY WORKING AT POINTE!! YIPEE! I cannot express enough how excited I am to be done with that job! I truly am so excited! Chicago has been a WONDERFUL place and I have really enjoyed this summer with Sam and many of our close friends! I am however really looking forward to being back in Pocatello with family! What a great experience these past few months have been! They have really allowed and helped sam and I grow closer together and what could be better than that? They have also been a very trying few months too... hard work, a new environment and lots of other elements. But all in all it has been a good summer! Its really hard to believe that in 2 days we will be heading home and then SCHOOL starts! it feels like i havent even had a break yet! I am really excited for my program though and begining new classes should be an adventure! (for those of you that know me well-this is a weird thing for me to say) but i really am excited for school to start! Also tonight some of our good friends from pocatello are coming to visit us! Larry and Rebecca just moved to IOWA for chiropractic school and will be staying with us the rest of the weekend! it will be great to see them and enjoy one last whoorah! i hope everyone is enjoying the end of their summer and if holding on to every last minute! we love you guys! see (most) of you sOOn!!

*A WEEk of WeDDinGS*

What an EXcItIng couple of weeks! Weddings have been happening EVEryWhere! Recently I was able to go to DENVER for one of my BEST FRIENDs WEDdINGs! BRiAnnE PRICe was the BriDE! It was so much fun to fly in and spend a couple of days with great friends! Erica and Samantha flew in at the sAMe time as me so we were able to take time and help Brianne and her MOm with the lASt few things for the wedding! AFter the wedding, I flew to SALT Lake to head home for ANOther BEsT friends wedding! This time the Bride was SARaH NOorda! AGain it was great to be able to spend time with FAmilY and old FRiendS! I will admit that it was a little WEiRd staying a week at my PaREnts house! But So much fun! It was really hard to be aWAY from SAM for 11 days... i WiSH so bad HE could have come with me! While I was HOme, I got to spend a Few Days in the DeSirED BeaR LAke! my FIRSt time at the BEAch all SUMMEr!!!! it was wonderful! i was also able to spend some time with SAms family and Say GooDBye to his brother DeCker because he is moving to SeaTTle! also i was able to Go to the ALL FamouS PrESTon NIght RoDEO!! what a fun time that is! along with ALl of that, my Niece ViCtoRia was BleSSed so I was able to witness that! What a GREat 11 DAys, I cant Wait till we are home for GOoD!! NOt ToO much LongER!! My fLIght home however was a little HeCTiC! i was supposed to get to CHicAGo at 3:00 pm... tuRns Out i Didnt get there till 2:30 AM!!! My fLight was CANCELLEd so i Found a New ONe! It was supposed to get there at 8:00 this time! I was able to Fly from SLC to ATLANTa in FIrST CLASS!! wow we will NEVer fly COach AGAIN!! :) but then while on my FLiGHt From aTLANTa to ChicaGo... we sAt on the RUnway in the PLANe for 3 hours... finally they let us back into the airport... supposedly the weAtHEr in ChicaGo was hORRiblE! So once we Finally got in the AIr... the AIr TraffIC was HOrriBle and we couldnt lAND... We FLew around IN CIrCLES until we ALMOST rAn out of GAS..... So we HAd to Land In St LOuis.... we WEre there for ANOther HOUR!!! so.... literally i was TravELing from 7Am to 3Am! What a FLight ScHedule! by the way that FLight SHOuld have been 3 HouRS... :) well IM home and with My sWEETheart and Ive NEVer been HAPpIEr! LIFe is SO gREat and Marriage is even GReATer! I have a FabUlOUs Husband, FamILy, and FrIends!

BACheLorEtte PArty

JuSt a FuN DAY

BRIAnNES NIeCES

ERICa, ME KyLEe, SamAntha

THE BEAUTiFUL BriDe

BRIanNE and BRANDOn

SARAhS BrIdaL SHoWER

IF YOu CANT TELL He is WeARing 50CEnt BLINg.. Sick.

SARAh And AnDY StUckI!

ME and KIm... the Next BRiDe

TreLLe, ANG(bItty), AShLey, Kim, Me!

WE Love FAmILY REUnIONS!!!!

FAMOUS PReSTON NIGht ROdEo!!! Yee HAW!

Me and ShauNA