Today i am so THANKFUL for family do not know what i would do without them :)

So this past week Jared has been sick with Strep :( poor guy but he is much better now on his antibiotic. This past weekend Jared tried to surprise me with Disney on Ice tickets because i love it! then he got sick so he had to tell me about it cause i needed a date! So my friend Emily needed a sitter while she went out so i thought her little girl Paige would appreciate it more than anyone and she did! it was such a fun night and she loved it. She is such a cute girl. thanks Em for letting me have paige for the night! :)

Life is going too fast and i cant keep up. Jared and i are still both in school full time and are very busy but we of course find time to have fun... I couldnt be more excited for the holidays to be here. ask Jared i even skipped a class to decorate for halloween! :) For Halloween we only got 2 tricker treaters how sad! lol but it was a great time. We went out with some of our good friends jenny and rob we went to dinner and played some games it was a great night we have awesome friends out here and are so grateful. We have been so crazy busy that we didnt even get to carve our pumpkins till the day before. Last year we tried to get real fancy and it took forever and i got frustrated cause mine was hard so we decided to keep it simple this year! It was such a good night. This year we are spending thanksgiving with my family and i couldnt be more excited i havent been home for this in 3 years, then we are going on a CRUISE for christmas with Jareds family. We're heading to the bahamas and are counting down the days we're ready for both vacations.. It has gotten quite cold here and i cant say i hate it yet it reminds me of the holidays once there is 3 feet of snow i might have a different opinion but for now its great. Well theres a quick update! I will try harder to keep up just know we're so happy and loving our busy life :)

We Love you and miss you more everday..

In August we lost someone that means a lot to both of us Jareds mom passed away after battling cancer for 2 years and it has not been an easy road. We are getting through though his family is so strong and i am so grateful to be apart of it. You know Heavenly Father never gives you things you can not handle and just when you think you are about to break you surprise yourself and get through it. Family is a great thing and i know heavenly father gives them to you cause you couldnt get through life without them. Jared is so strong and I am so impressed by his testimony and am so glad he knows he'll see her again. It doesnt make her being gone any easier but it is a comfort. We love and are thankful for all the great friends and family that have sent their love and prayers during this hard time.

So last month my beautiful sister in law got married in the Boise Temple it was such a great experience and the wedding was gorgeous! Her colors were Hot pink and black and if anyone knows brittney they are totally her. It has been quite the busy summer traveling to Boise all the time but we have enjoyed every minute there being able to spend time with family. And the new addition to the family phil; fits right in, we all love him! yes phil we do :) We have a great time every time we get to be with siblings. We leave on Friday to go to Maryland to see my siblings for a week and are so excited! This week has been crazzy with studying and trying to get all our last minute assignments in but i am DONE with finals today and poor Jared has one more tomorrow but then he's done as well and we have a nice little 2 week break which we are ecstatic about! We love life and our families!

Here are a couple pictures from the wedding :: Love you Britt and Phil!

This post is all about Jared :) yes he is worth a whole post completely devoted to him.

My top 15 reasons on why i love him so much. They are in no specific order except #1

1. First and for most he loves the lord.

2. He loves me for me

3. He is the most unselfish person.

4. He loves his mom so much and would do anything for his family.

5. He is motivated

6. He wants a family and I know he will make an amazing father one day.

7. He works so hard to provide me with everything i need and most of the time things i want ;)

8. He supports in whatever i want even if i change my mind a million times he is right there with me

9.He ALWAYS makes me laugh

10. He works hard and is dedicated to school.

11. He appreciates me, my strengths and weaknesses.

12. He helps around the house, which is such a huge help to me

13. He is totally fine with Peanut butter and jelly for dinner ( which is rare i might add! lol but hey it happens :)

14. He makes me feel like princess and like a million bucks all at once everyday!

15. He lets me sleep in on Saturday's :)

Bonus: He is hot!

My husband has been putting up with a lot of trials on my behalf this past year and let me tell you i could not have gotten through it without him. If anything they have strengthened our relationship with the lord and with each other so we are grateful. He is amazing and am so blessed Heavenly father sent him my way. He is one of a kind and i LOVE him :)

Summer TIME

We have so many festivtities coming up including going to see her.. On JULY 3rd! yayy! :)

Ok and of course it being summer time that means we go boating! We LOVE the water so much. Jared got a more advanced fin for his airchair so he is thinking he is going to bust out a backflip but i am not so sure about that watching him wipe out on that thing makes me hurt. We'll see though we have all summer. We spend a lot of time in Boise for all the fun things there are to do. We went white water rafting this weekend and had a blast. So schoool well i just finished my first block of summer classes and me other ones started today and i have to say it went really well as much as school sucks i do enjoy being in it to get that much closer to being done sometimes i feel like it will never end. Jared has finals this week and then starts his other classes next week so we are both studying away but finding plenty of time to have fun!

We also get to take a visit to Maryland this August we are so excited! I am counting down the days i get to go and counting down the days mom and dad move our west to be closer! hint hint. i know its a long shot but a girl can dream cant see! lol. I sure do miss them sometimes.

SO we have a lot of undating to do. Jared and I are both in school full time and well both want to still enjoy our summer so we have been way busy. But to start things off My brother came to visit for his birthday! He turned 22 and LOVES cheesecake so i made it..yes made it for him, i do have to admit i have become quite the cook just ask Jared! :) but we had a great time and went to the Salt Lake Bees game to celebrate. I love having family in town. Happy Birthday DREW like a month ago lol. LOVE YA!

So these last couple of weeks have been filled with lots of changes! Jared is finally done with the semester and has had a couple days off to regenerate and starts right back at it on Wed. I am not working anymore and have started back in school and was rethinking my decision after the first week. haha but i am excited to be getting closer to being done. I started last week, so it kind of stinks getting up and having to leave when i wanna stay home and hang out with Jared but he deserves this break so its ok. :) So i have to tell you this ridiculously embarrassing story about myself. So last Monday i woke up got all ready for school, trudged my butt all the way up the stairs of campus get to my class and sit down, I was a little early so got my book out to read, well then 15 minutes go by and then another, so i start wondering that maybe class got moved so i went to the hallway and asked a professor out there what the deal was he, yep classes didnt start till TUESDAY! I just laughed at myslef and text Jared and this was his response, " WOW. thats embarrassing." lol i love you to babe. So school for me def did not start out on the right foot, but i got the hang of things now! We are heading to Vegas this weekend with Jareds whole family and we are SUPER excited we have both been there before but never together so we are excited to get away and have some fun! I have not been very good at taking pictures but i promise this weekend to get some!

So we did it! one year.. and have loved every minute of it. And of course like always i was totally spoiled. We went up to Park city for the weekend and had so much fun. It was so nice to get away from school and work. We left Friday around 2 and i was so proud of myself because at the last second i remembered the camera, got all the way there and forgot the memory card. I had to document though and so we headed to the walmart and got a ghetto disposable one and laughed pretty hard every time we had to wined it up. So you guys wont be able to see pictures of our beautiful room or view, but trust me it was gorgeous! Well anyways we decided to go to dinner at a "nicer" kind of dining, one look at the menu i was like great weird food lol but it was delicious, Jared got Steak and potatoes soaked in duck fat not sure how that was gonna be but they were so good, i got pork, the beans tasted funny but the pork was amazing! not so sure our manners were up to the fancy status but we tried our best. lol We got the bill and decided we should probably cancel our massages for the next day. hahaha oh the joys of being married in college lol. We LOVE it though! The next day we got up and went to the outlets and bought new summer clothes! this was our gift to each other. We had a lot of fun and are ready for the many more years to come! Love you Jared :)

Ok so life lately has been super busy! Jared is at school like 4935 hours a day, but this semester is almost over! Then we both start back in school full time. whatt? hopefully i know what im doing lol. So i recently had a hair catastrophe.. in the above pictures i chopped it alll off and of of course made Jared have a photo shoot with me! The next week I planned to get some red and blonde highlights added in well didn't exactly go as planned. You see i washed in and it turned PINK! as you can imagine i kind of freaked out a bit but my sweet husband tried to calm me down and i went to get it fixed, but there was no hope i had to go dark, sad day because summer is coming but ill have blonde in it again soon!! So that being said Easter was this weekend. And conference was of course GREAT i learn so much every time i watch it, and grow a stronger and stonger testimony each time i do. We also go to spend it with family what a greater way to celebrate Jesus and all his sacrifices than with family. It was a great, we got to meet PHIL which was exciting, Jareds sister Britt has been dating him and we couldnt wait to meet him! Me and courtney went and had girl time. I am so happy i get along so well with my sister in laws it is truly a blessing i just love them :) But of course we cant forget the Easter bunny came and its great even being married we get spoiled :) Here are some pictures from Sunday morning not many but a couple!

Easter morning :)

My cute sister in law Courtney opening her basket :)

All of our baskets, britt and phil left the night before or else theres would be there too! lol

opening our basket :)

I asked Jared to pretend to open it and this is what i get lol. Gotta love him <3

Heres our family collage going up the stairs to the top floor

This is the upstairs bathroom

I think this is my favorite wall in the house i love brown and blue together this is our Room!

Going down to the main level.

They are al out of order and i dont know how to fix them lol this is the basement

Basement bathroomBasement Bedroom

Hallway going down to the basement

Front entry way please excuse all the shoes and backpacks lol

The living room!

My kitchen that i love :)

The Dining Room :)

ok so im really bad at updating this but here we go, these last couple of weekends i have been sick :( lame i know but thats what happens when sick kids are left at the daycare! come on parents. But this weekend we got to meet Jordan! She is the girl my brother has been dating and i must say i really like her, she fits in to the family quite well. Im sure all of you reading this know how paranoid i am when it comes to my brothers and girls, i have been the only girl they ever worried about so now to have them bringing one home always freaked me out but i love Jordan so i am totally fine with her coming around :) Jared has been busy busy with school i must say im even ready for this semester to be over. Summer cant come soon enough, im ready for warm weather too. AND what you have all been waiting for pictures of the house, i know i know its about time but here they are! There are a couple more things i want to do with the house but Jared says we are poor lol so maybe this summer ill get them :) but i love having our own home. And am so grateful Jared works so hard to give me everything i have he is amazing. I sure do love him :) We'll gotta go get Andrew and Jordan!

So we have a lot to catch you up on last week was crazy busy but we managed and in the crazyness CJ my little brother left for Army boot camp and it was bitter sweet for me. I was excited to see him go because he was so excited and ready to get there, and what he is doing is such a good and brave thing, but i was sad to see him go because he was my friend out here lol i enjoyed having him 5 minutes away. I guess you gotta grow up though i'm not so sure i like growing up all the time. Jared and I have definately had some experiences the past couple of months that have forced us to grow up and grow closer so i guess sometimes these experiences are necessary even though we might not like them at times they help you in away. So anyway this weekend we took a trip up to Rexburg and had a great time! We took family pictures and sat around Grandpa Murdocks house and talked and laughed and just hung out it was really fun. Jareds family is great we love spending time with them and Andrew came over and finally met the whole family so that was nice too. Grandpa owns a horse ranch so we decided to have some fun on the horses at first i was a little nervous but after while i loved it! Other good news it was Valentines and i was of course spoiled like alwasys i got a new willow tree to add to my collection and an hour massage! I love Jared he knows me too well :) I got him a new pair of shoes he had been wanting and was totally surprised those are always the best presents! AND we got our camera back! So heres some pictures from the weekend!

Ok so everyone has been on me to get a blog, so i am finally attempting it, but its very confusing, I'm not very computer savy. So in the next little while i will try to get the hang of it! Our life latley has finally calmed down with thanksgiving and Christmas life got a little crazy. We went to Boise for Thanksgiving and took the big trip to Maryland for Christmas, both were great its always fun being with the family :) then we came home and got right back to work for me and school for Jared. Jareds semester is already difficult trig and chem are making the library his new best friend, but i am ok with that even if it does mean i dont see him as much he works really hard and gets really good grades so i am proud of him. As many of you know we also bought a house and we LOVE it! It is coming together nicely i still have a couple more things to do and i will be ready to call it finished. I love decorating our home it is so much fun. On a sad note i lost the camera :( have no idea where it is so once its found there will be very many pictures to upload! My mom also came to visit this past weekend which was great! I love my mom she is the best, we did some girl stuff and hung out with Jared and CJ he leaves for boot camp in 2 weeks so it was fun being together Andrew even drove down and hung out for a day. It was nice she left in Tuesday which is always bad i always cry im a baby i know. lol Well i guess thats enough for my first post!