High Five!

You may have noticed the throwback picture at the top of this blog. Well on January 4th we celebrated our 5th Anniversary! Yes FIFTH! I'd just like to document the milestone :)

We had a very low key celebration, we just took off work and spent the day together. We ate some donuts for breakfast, lounged around for the morning in our PJ's, went to dinner at Texas Road House, saw a movie, stayed the rest of the weekend at a house on my grandpa's ranch. We got eachother cards.

AJ's card actually made me cry, which I never usually do. So kudos to him! It was actually beautiful and I loved it.

See very low key, mainly because we'll be going to Hawaii in June for 9 days!!! So excited :)

And a Happy New Year!

See ya 2012!

I swear 2012 went by faster than any other year of my life. Fast and largely uneventful. So far 2013 is lasting much longer, haha well the last two days have gone by rather slowly. I'll take it.

Since my last post Thanksgiving and Christmas have come and gone, although my Christmas decorations don't get to come down quite yet. Thanksgiving was fun this year, the food was ehh, but that's good for the waistline. I had all my Christmas shopping done before December 1 which was impressive. Oh and I dyed my hair brown which is pretty epic considering I've never been adventurous with my hair. It turned out really well.

December went by quickly too. I've found that I enjoy Christmas Eve far more that Christmas though, probably because Christmas eve is a little more magical. This year there was a blizzard on Christmas Eve, so that may have been part of it.  AJ's family came and stayed with us again this year and it was chaotic and fun.  We saw lots of good movies; The Hobbit (amazing), Jack Reacher, and Les Miserables (parental advisory: don't take young children). We got and gave lots of fun presents. I also tried Starbucks salted carmel hot chocolate and am obsessed! Its so delicious.

For the New Year we took our annual trip to my grandpa's Brighton Cabin. I got to see my awesome cousins and aunts and uncles. This year there was also a baby blessing and a farewell, so very eventful. For New Year's Eve went went to dinner with my cousin Courtney and her husband Tyler at The Pie, it was scrumptious! We hadn't even been there before, but it definitely won't be the last time! Then we went to play Laser Tag, it was so so fun! I'm thinking it needs to be a new tradition or at least a recurring activity.

We finished our New Year's Eve watching The Rocker (which cool enough, ended exactly at 11:59 p.m.) and we brought in the New Year toasting our sparkling cider!

Farewell 2012! 

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!
May you all follow through on your Resolutions!

The Tree Tippers

Once upon some sand, a mountain, and a cave or 2

Last weekend my cousin Kelsie and her husband 'Tree Tipper Jake' came to southern Utah for a visit and this is what we did....

First we went to lunch and it was yummy... Sorry no pictures of this.

Then Kelsie, Jake, Rambo (Sam), AJ, and I decided to hike the Stairway to Heaven.

The Beginning

Jumping fail.

 

Showing some love <3 td="td">

Jake the Snake charmer

Busta Pose

Mountain Yoga

Chimneying up high.

Jake & Kelsie chillin
between some big ole rocks

 

My cousin Kelsie and me!

Me, AJ, & Jake

Sunsetty

cause I made em

The End :)

Quote of the Day

"A husband's conviction that his wife is beautiful, or a wife's firm belief that her husband is courageous, to some extent creates the beauty or the courage. This is not so much a perception of something that already exists as a brining into existence by belief."  ~Abraham Maslow~

I hate wholesome sunshine!

Ok, this has been a crazy busy summer. I still need to get a bunch of pictures from other people and take the time to upload them to my computer.

Anywho, anyhow, anyway...

First we had a graduation. AJ's brother Bert (Dylan) graduated from high school! AJ and I drove down to Overton for the festivities. We were really proud of him and he looked so cute in his cap and gown.

Awe, isn't he cute...



Like every summer, AJ and I were literally gone somewhere every stinkin weekend. It's fun but it gets a little overwhelming. This summer we made a few trips to stay at my grandpa's ranch. The waterfall has been one of the main attractions and has never ceased to be a plentiful source of amusement. We took AJ's parents and they played too. It was awesome.  I'll post more pictures and videos, I've just been too busy to get them off my camera.

 

 

 

Art, Bert, & AJ playing with Bert's new gun.

Boys...

Bert's belated birthday bash
(No, the alliteration was not intentional, but still fun)

Climbing up the waterfall

They love each other

Arta joining in the fun!

Mid flip... I'd say I got a pretty good shot

AJ and Bert

The Bledsoe family reunion is always interesting. The entire family is crazy in an awesome way and you never know what activity you'll be doing. The last couple years AJ's uncle has set up a huge zip line over a lake and brought canoes and stuff.  This year the family went to a different camp ground and there was a crazy huge water slide down the side of a mountain. Literally, there were huge vinyl tarps on top of carpet, water, and soap. Luckily is was really hot outside so participation for everyone was a no brainer. We all put on trash bags, wetted down, soaped up, and went for it. Of course since it was in the mountains there was no shortage of mud, but it made it waaay better.

 

Going strong

Art & Arta crashing at the bottom

Muddy, Trash Bag Beauties.

I went too and got my fair share of scrapes and bruises, but it was totally worth it. Like I said I will post more pictures later.

 

Also to come, 2 funerals and a wedding. Get it, its sort of like 4 wedding and a funeral in reverse. Haha, that's a terrible joke. Anyway, my brother Creight and his girlfriend Nat came to visit, my cousin's bride-to-be had a bridal shower so I'll tell you about her gift, a trip to phoenix to watch AJ's other little brother Diddle's (Conner, not featured above) football game at the University of Phoenix stadium where the Cardinal's play, and the last hurrahs with our friends are moving to Texas this month.

 

Pictures, baby, pictures

Okay, Below are some of the pictures I took in Houston while visiting my brother and his girlfriend.

Papacitos! Delish
Oh Harry, Creight, & Nat

Baccon Wrapped shrimp
YUM!