Snowmobiles, Sledding, and Game Time

This last week our friends Brandon and Stephanie came up from Utah. Steph's grandparents live in Ririe (where me and Dan are living) and have an incredible place. It is stocked with snow clothes, snow mobiles, and everything else related to the snow. Our friendsies the Evans, Kulischs, and us got to go play with them and we had such a blast! The snow is so much more fun when you can play in it.
This is my loving husband giving me the "fat boy". He put ALL his weight on me and smushed me! I couldn't breathe. He thinks he is so hilarious. Too bad for him, I totally beat him a snow fight after this. ;)

The Marcums are so precious.


The Newlyweds- Dave and Stephanie Kulisch.

Snowmobiling! When we cruised out to the place to sled Dan and I sat on the trailor carrying the sleds.

I was trying to look like we were in motion by 'screaming' but Stephanie ruined my ploy.

Girls Rule. We all slid down on one sled.

We found a jump on the hill and made it our goal to hit it over and over. This time pretty much bent me in half.

The last jump of the night and Brandon's sled decided to stop. Brandon however kept going over the jump and ended up flipping over it. Funny... but also painful!

Steph, Whitt, Steph, and I before we played Scum.

The whole group!

NeW yEaR- nEw AdVeNtUrEs

So 2009 has brought forth a lot of new changes for Dan and I. First and for most... we moved back to Idaho! We both need to finish school and transfering down to schools in Utah would take at least a year longer! Not worth it! So we are currently living in Ririe, Idaho. We're staying with Dan's parents until we find a place of our own to move into. It is really hard for me to not be near my family but it is so much fun to be near Dan's again.

We are both full time students this semester (yahoo!) I'm going to BYU-I and Dan's taking online classes through ISU. School is pretty stressful like usual, but its nice to be getting it done and over with. Hopefully we will both graduate by next winter!

We also both got new jobs! We are both serving at Carino's Italian Grill. Dan worked there before we left but I have never worked at a restuarant. I've been training this week which has been overwhelming but its not too bad. Hopefully it will be a good job for us. Our friends Ryan and Whittney work there too so its awesome awesome!

Welp sorry i don't have more pictures but I will try and get some to post. Happy 2009!!

Kulisch Wedding

The day after Christmas our friends Ryan and Whittney came down from Idaho and we all piled in the car and drove to San Diego! Our friends Stephanie and Dave got married Dec. 27th. It was a beautiful wedding and so much fun! I don't have very many pictures of the reception or anything but if i get some, I will post them! We are so happy for them!! Well Scott and Maribeth are at least married. There is no excuse for Dan's behaivor.
Ryan and Potter in front of the beautiful temple

Jarom's disgustingly large tongue. impressive almost.
we are in love

scotty and maribeth. how cute.

the lovely couple. how happy! I wish I had a picture of her hair. it was incredible

GIRLS RULE...

BOYS DROOL!

SOO Pretty!!!

Christmas Time!

wow I haven't posted in FOREVER! Well let me go back a ways and catch you all up on our lives. Of course there was CHRISTMAS which was such a blast. My parents and my little sister drove out from Alabama to enjoy the holidays with the rest of the kids. We all stayed down at my brother Danes house and woke up early Christmas morning to see that Santa had come! Dan and I got a 72 hour kit, SETTLERS OF CATAN (our favorite game right now!), the Dark Knight, some clothes, Dan got Swords and a remote control airplane, and we got a giant clock that says "Families are Forever" that I LOVE. It was a great Christmas and it was so fun to just be with family and not have any other worries! I love the holidays!

Dan's sweet Si's (his swords, I dunno how you spell it?)

My Dad got a deluxe version of his favorite game!

We made my mom a book with pics of the family!
Cam in her CUTE new hurley jacket
Taylor gave Kaitlyn a Jazz Jersey Onsie. It's so adorable!

SETTLERS!

getting ready to open presents in my christmas onsie.

we love Christmas!

Happy Birthday Kaitlyn!

Today is my neice, Kaitlyn's 2nd Birthday! Yayaya!

The Blasted Stone

This last week my poor wonderful husband was attacked by kidney stones. Here is the story. We went to the movies together and then on the way home he kept saying he wasn't feeling very good. He finally pulled over so I could drive because it was getting worse. I was worried because Dan is such a tough guy and never acts like anything hurts him. It started getting really bad and he was thrashing around. He kept saying his kidney hurt so I called my dad (who has had stones a few times) and told him what Dan was dealing with. He was positive it was stones. So I drove him down to my brothers house (this is at one in the morning!) and my brother gave him a blessing. By the time we got back home, Dan maybe lasted thirty minutes before he was begging to go to the hospital. It scared me so bad because he is ANTI-doctors all the time. But he was just heaving and throwing his body around. He wasn't crying but he was close enough to it. So I got him in the car and headed to the hospital. Dan had his head out the window throwing up over and over because the pain was so bad. He threw up so hard he popped the blood vessels in his eyes! So then for the next week he looked like a demon cuz his eyes were completely blood red. yucky. But anyway, on the way there we got PULLED OVER! Because our brake light was out! I couldn't believe it! The cop came up to the window and I was basically just crying my head off saying please officer I'm trying to get him to the hospital! the cop was like okay just go, don't worry about just go! So that was nice of him. :) Then at the hospital he got an MRI and they found the stone. The doctor said it was 5mm and that it was probably too big to pass on his own but he would let Dan try. So he loaded him up with all kinds of pain medicine and sent us on our way. The pain never decreased so Dan was stoned on percocet for a week. For Thanksgiving we were going up to Idaho to stay with Dan's parents. He still hadn't passed anything so he was still in a lot of pain. On thanksgiving day, Dan ran up to me and said, "I have something really awesome to show you!" and he held out his hand. In his hand was this stone. It was HUGE. bigger than 5mm and covered in spikes. I couldn't believe he had to pee that out! But afterwards he felt immediatly better. Here it is compared to a penny. ugh! But all is well that ends well. My boyf is such a trooper.

"I'm only afraid of loosing You"

Oh how I love EDWARD. I have gotten to go see the movie TWICE! YES YES YES. The first night it opened I went with my sisters and my cousins to the midnight premire. There was a huge party in the theatre so we got there at like 9:30 and partied all night long. It was awesome. We helped my mom out and sold some of her bracelets. We were a little nervous to just approach people at first but it turns out it was such a HIT. Everyone wanted one! It was fabulous. They are freaking cute bracelets! Oh and the BEST part of it is... me and my sis Erin GOT ON TV. I think. I never actually saw us on TV but I have no doubt we were there. :) We came out of the bathroom and I saw these girls being interviewed abotu the movie. All I could think was, "wow i HAVE to get on TV" so i just sat there staring at them. When they finished the camera man noticed me staring and was like, "do you girls want to come answer a few questions?" NO DUH! So we got to go be in front of the camera and talk about Twilight. My only answer to everything was, "Edward". But so now, not only am I a move star (hsm3) but I am also a TV star. I am just SO famous! Well anyway, the next day I went to TWILIGHT AGAIN. This time I went with my girlies, Stephanie Lonas and Stephanie Marcum. annnnd surprise surprise... the boys came with us. I'm so happy my husband loves me enough to come see that movie with me b/c he had to sit there while I was swooning and sweating over Edward. :) what can I say. But it was a lot of fun and all I want to do is see it again! I thought it was such a good movie. I was incredibly impressed with how well they kept to the book. Of course they had to take out alot of things but everything that was important in the book-was in the movie. It was awesome and I LOVED IT! Even Dan loved it! Okay that is a lie... but he at least didn't think it was the worst thing he had ever seen. Yay I love twilight!

Me and Steph in our twilight gear!

The bracelet my mom made that we sold at the theater!

We are soooo excited. I nearly wet myself in anticipation.

We had awesome seats. That might have something to do with the fact that my cousins got there at 7!

Oh we are just so happy happy.

Sisters. how adorable are we.