New Hair Cut!

Today I went and got my hair done by a friend of the family, her name is Chelsey! So here is the before look and After Look of how well she does!

Before

After

Just playing around with my hair!

Tell me what you think....

Memorial Weekend

This year for Memorial Weekend Alan's dad rented a cabin and we all went up there from Thursday night til Monday morning. Yes all 12 adults and 7 kids! We really had a fun time, even thought it rained for the majority of the time. We were able to play some games, go fishing, play some basketball, and even relax. The cabin was big enough for each of the families to get their own room. Alan and I got the closet as our room :) Not really but the room was small enough to be a closet! ha.

This is the outside of the cabin. It was a pretty nice size cabin. It had 6 bedrooms, and 3 1/2 bath.

Inside of the cabin it had a nice little family room that had a flat screen t.v. The guys were able to watch the NBA basketball games, and the kids were able to play the WII.

The kitchen was very beautiful. It was almost as if there were two kitchens because it was split into two areas. One had the sink and stove. The other had the refridgerator and a sink

Next to the kitchen was a nice table where we were able to eat and play games.

Then when you went up stairs they had a nice size loft that had a foosball table and a pool table. The kids really enjoyed the pool table! Upstairs was where 5 of the bedrooms were located and 2 bathrooms.

And this is where we slept! It was very small but perfect for us.

Looking down at Alan from the loft. He was relaxing after a long day!

We drove from the cabin to Blue Ridge Resovior where we were able to fish. Alan was the first person to catch a fish. It was a nice size rainbow trout!

After Alan caught a fish, then I caught a fish! My niece and I actually caught it together, our lines got tangled together and we both brought the fish in. We did catch the biggest fish!

It was very beautiful!

We really had a fun time! SInce we've been married we have been able to do a lot of camping and fishing together. This is something that we love to do with each other. Thanks to Alan's dad for taking us to a cabin, and letting us relax.

NYS Basketball and The DBACKs Game

These last few weeks Alan has been able to help his brother Phil with a little basketball team through NYS. My nephews Brayden and Eli are on the team. They are really cute when they play! Its hard to teach a bunch of 4, 5 and 6 year olds how to play defense, offense, rebound, dribble and shoot. However, the team really did a great job this year. There are 5 kids on the team, 4 boys and 1 girl. Alan has really enjoyed working with his brother and the little kids.

The National Youth Sports (NYS) had a thing at the DBACKS game last night and the players and the coaches were able to walk on the field. There were so many people walking the field! People walked for about 25 minuets. It was fun to go to the game and be able to relax and watch a baseball game.

Alan, Phil, Eli and Brayden walking the field

Alan and I went to go walk around and we saw Mark Grace!!

We were sitting and watching the game!

I love my MOM

This year for mother's day Alan and I were going to send my mom flowers, but I thought she needed something better. So I talked to my sisters Kristy and Kelly to see what they were thinking about doing. I got on the computer and started searching for mother's day gift ideas. While I was looking I found a website "Hersheygifts.com" so i begin looking at stuff. I ran across a HUGE 2lb chocolate Hershey Bar. This was like no other Hershey bar it was 2lbs, and the coolest thing about it is that you could personalize the hershey bar. On the hershey bar with yellow writing we wrote "All the we are we owe to you, Our Mother!" Awww... it was so cute! She was really happy when she called me to tell me she got it, and it was from all of her children so it made it even more special. I bet she thinks she has some crazy kids :)

The Big 22.... March 10,2009

For my birthday this year we had a party at Alan’s Dads house. We had it on Sunday, Mach 8…We had dinner and strawberry shortcake. For dinner we had sandwiches, chips, and drinks. I didn’t really want a cake so I decided to make strawberry shortcake. I cut up the angle food cake into little square and put them in a truffle bowl, and then put strawberries in the middle with cool whip! It was so YUMMY!!! Then after we ate we let the little nieces and nephews play while we sat around and talked. Then I opened presents…. I got a cricut from Alan and his family! I was so excited, and still am! And I got a scentsy plug-in and a maple walnut scent. I love Scentsy :) THANKS!!!

Then this last weekend I took Friday off to go to Laughlin!! We left on Friday March 13th and came home on Sunday March15th. It was a lot of fun! Alan and Me and my mom and dad and brother and my sister in law and her husband and their kids, and my brother in law and his wife and their son all went! We stayed at the Royal Palms Hotel. My mom went so at night she could watch the kids! On friday we got there and just kinda hung out and walked around. On saturday we took the kids bowling, and walked around ate went to the mall..Played a little blackjack :).. It was a nice vacation!

Then on March 16th we celebrated it again but this time with my family. My mom and dad were down here and so we had a party for me and Thomas.. My mom got me bedding for my bed! YEAH!! We had hamburgers and hotdogs, chicken, shrimp, potato salad, and again Strawberry shortcake, but this time dad made it! We had a really good birthday! Thanks everyone for my presents!! (Thanks Kristy for the scrapbooking stuff you gave me when we were at mom’s house a few weeks ago) Its nice having Thomas back to share a party with, I sure missed him when he was on his mission, but now he is Back!!

Here we come Monticello

A few weekends ago we decided we would go see my mom and dad and brother up in Monticello. My sister and her husband were coming down from their house and so we decided that we would go there so we could see them. Alan and I and my sister and her husband and their two kids packed up our bags and headed to my parents house. We drove 6 hours to get there!! And my sister and her husband meet up with us at my parents. All of us were there except my little sister. It was a short trip but we had a lot of fun. We helped my parents with their house that they are building and then we went four wheeling. My brother-in-law brought his quad so we played around for a while.

Thomas took Kristy out for a ride.....

My dad and Thomas went out looking for some rabbits to shoot.... They didn't find any!

Thomas thought it would be funny to go through the mud, and we got me all MUDDY :)

My nephew and niece just watched us, pretty soon they will be big enough to join in on the fun :)

Kelly and Nick going for a ride

Valentine's Day

This year for Valentine's day we celebrated it one day earlier because we knew we would be busy on saturday. On friday morning I went to work and was working with a student and it was time to leave that student and go to the next one, so I was walking to go to my next student when our Nurse yelled my name. I looked over at her and she was carrying a box and she said it was for me. I was like "what, I never get anything at work!" So I went to my room and opened the box and it was flowers from Alan :) I could not believe that he had flowers sent to my work. He has never done that before and now he has... I had been teasing him about getting me flowers and he always tells me that I don't like flowers because I really don't because they are expensive and they die and I do not like that, but its always nice to get them :) haha... So that was my surprise from Alan.. So after work I went and got him his present. I got home and there was a note on the counter for me. I put down his present and looked at the note and it was a gift card to go get my toes done! I was totally excited. I gave him his gift (the movie fireproof) and then we left for dinner. We went out to Oliver Garden! YUMMY!!! After dinner we went to Walmart, then we got home and watched the Movie Fireproof. It was sooo good! It sure is a tear dropper movie... I would suggest everyone to watch it.