Fall Lovers

All the football you could ever ask for, light jackets, beautiful leaves, open windows.... it doesn't get better then this... at least until Spring!

I'll update soon.. I promise!

Summer Travels

I can't believe summer is almost over. Ty and I were walking through Walmart today and it was filled with back to school stuff! UNBELIEVABLE! With that said, we have some serious vacationing to catch up on! Since Ty has almost a three week break in between trimesters we've decided to take a trip out to provo. On the way we plan to stop and visit some good friends in Denver and my brother in Cedar City. We may even stop in Vegas and pick up some of my fam. We are SO excited for this break I can't even explain. It is much needed!

In other news.. Ty is studying like crazy for all of his prefinal- finals (which consists of so many exams, there isn't possibly time to study for his finals) but he is taking them like a champ. The lowest score he's gotten so far has been an 80% and the highest 100%. I've been so proud of him!! He still has two more weeks, but so far so good!

We also just started moving into our new place. Although we are extremely excited to only be 7mins away from school (instead of 45) it's been hard finding time to actually move. We've decided to start taking a couple things down everyday so it'll be interesting to see how long it actually takes us!! My sisters are coming out for a couple weeks and I think I'm gonna have to put them to work!

We have a very busy August but I think it's finally gonna feel like summer! If anyone will be in Utah, Denver, Vegas, or even Idaho between August 21st-30th let us know!

The Only Thing I Could Have Asked For..

Was to have my family out here on my birthday. After a 3:30am wake up Friday morning and a 8hr round trip drive to the St. Louise Temple, I came home to the best and sweetest surprise my husband has ever given me.. my mom and dad waiting for me in my living room... on my couch... in my house!!! I had NO idea they were coming and still have NO idea how he pulled it off, but I knew it couldn't get better then that. But all of you who know Ty know he didn't just stop there.....
Later that night, he suggested that we go to one of our favorite restaurants out here so my parents could check it out. Well, we arrive and the host asks "Are you Ty? We reserved the whole patio for you." (which wasn't weird to me because we know the owner and he always takes care of us) So we walked out onto the patio and before I had time to digest why the patio was totally filled when they just said they reserved it for us, I hear a chorus of HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! Yeah... it's a good thing I have a nice, strong heart. The whole patio was filled with all our friends out here! And to top it all off, I finally got a wii fit!! We've been searching for it since my last birthday (not very hard, but still!) and a couple weeks ago they just decided to put a whole bunch out. YAY!!Needless to say, on Saturday (my real birthday) we played the wii fit for hours. It was a blast watching my parents! They're so much fun!
Although we originally planned to have a day of volleyball and grilling in the park that day, we were instead able to just relax. We went to breakfast/lunch at this new place we've been hearing great things about, then went to a movie, then Liberty jail and a couple of other church sites, then to the farmers market to pick up some fruits and veggies, then had a little bbq on our porch and played some more wii fit. It was the best birthday ever!
Thanks so much mom and dad for giving me such an awesome birthday present... YOU! And thank you Ty for all your sneaky planning and for being the coolest husband EVER!!

The New Do

I cut bangs and highlighted my hair almost a month ago now.. it's almost time to cut again! Ty's been wanting me to post this for a while but lets be honest.. I'm not the best blogger. Anyway, here's the new do....

More Pics...

We got to spend some time at the DC temple and it was AMAZING! I really love this temple. We were able to meet up with my good friend Danielle and Ty's FBI friend Rich. It was so much fun getting to hang out with them for the day!





We went up to Ty's mission on Cinco de Mayo and they had a really fun festivities!


My dad shredded the ligaments in his arm playing basketball and had to have surgery, so he wasn't able to participate in bowling, but he was a very good sport and cheered us on from the side lines :)

Vacationing...

One really awesome benefit of working at the school my husband attends is that we get time off at the same time. This allows us to do what we love most... TRAVEL!! Tyrone was able to go to Florida for a week and then we both went to PA for 10 days to see my family. It was such a blast! We were able to go to the DC temple and get some of Ty's family names done and meet up with some good friends. We were also able to go see my amazing Grandmother in New York and visit Ty's mission in Harrisburg! One thing I love about home is how close everything is! We were so busy, the trip went by way to fast and I of course didn't get near enough time with my little nieces! They are so grown up now, almost like little girls instead of little babies :( I took my camera and got a ton of pictures so I hope you all enjoy!!

Ty on his way to Florida

Ty and me on our way to PA

Pictures of the little peanuts....Giselle has orange hair holders and Dominique has the blue

So Confusing!

The weather out here is SO confusing. This past week we've had weather in the 60's all week. It's been amazing! A much needed change from the 19 below weather we had been getting a couple weeks ago (yeah, that's right...19 below). Anyway, Friday was a little chilly but nothing to crazy. We met up with some friends that night, and I only had my lab coat on over my clothes (from work) and Ty didn't have a jacket at all. We were both pretty cold, but again, nothing crazy.. with a jacket we would have been fine. I say all this to give you an idea of how surprised we were to wake up Saturday morning to the worse snow storm we've seen so far since we've been here! We couldn't even see out of our window it was snowing so hard! We found out that they don't plow our neighborhood so we weren't able to get out in our little focus and the run errands that we needed to, but we were still able to have some fun. These days really make us ready for some little ones to play with!!