It's Summer :)

It's been a while since our last post, so we thought we should update the blog. We have been busy working, and going to school. Our semester ended yesterday, so I finally have a minute to breath and relax, a perfect time to update :) So we had a carport on the back of our house, that only fit my car. It was built terribly and we wanted to build one that could shade both of our cars and that was more structurally sound. Bridger's dad came down for a weekend and helped Bridger a bunch. We love the carport now! It is super nice to have a place for both of our cars. 

 before...

 I thought that I had a picture of it all done, but I can't find one and it is raining outside so I might post a picture later :)

Another project! There is this little inset in our family room and I have wanted to put some shelves in them for a while. This is what it looked like before. A little cluttered and not my favorite. 

 All cleaned out :)

 Bridger built some amazing shelves for me. I love him!

 Painted black and somewhat organized. But I love them.

We had our two year anniversary in March. Crazy how fast time flies and how much more in love we have fallen in the past two years. We went to San Diego for a long weekend and had so much fun! We watch the food channel all the time and so this restaurant was on one of the food shows, it was delicious, and Bridger was soooo super excited. 

 We went to the beach everyday. Although it wasn't very warm, we still had a blast on the beach and playing in the water.

 We went to the Museum of Natural History and got to draw on this skeleton board.

 Bridger had a blast of course :)

One more project... We set up our pool (yay) :) we are building a deck around it out of pallets to have a little tanning deck and some protection. First off, I am soooo excited we set up our pool. One of my ultimate favorite things to do is float around in it and read a book. :) Second, my husband is the ultimate best at making something out of nothing. He is so creative and I am surprised everyday by all of the things that he can just whip out. So we're still working on this, we haven't quite finished it, but it looks awesome already. 

 Pallets on the ground, before we set it all up.

 Our grass. We have (more Bridger has) worked his butt off to get our property looking nice. Keeping grass healthy, well keeping grass at all in Arizona is a task in itself but we keep pushing our grass back, hoping to have our whole front part of our property grass. It looks awesome. Our baby trees we got last year are starting to grow which is very exciting. Summer is coming :)

 Another sign of summer.... Bridger shaved his head for the first time this year, meaning it is too hot working in the tire shop to keep that huge mop of curly hair on his head. He's a stud no matter what his hair is like, so I don't mind the shaved look in the summer. PLUS it is fun to touch when it's all shaved.

I went on a trip and came home to this surprise from my husband! I was soo excited! I love playing the piano and have missed it, it is great to be able to sit down before we head to bed and play the piano. My fingers have lost some technique but I am working to get it back. It is so wonderful to have our own little piano.

I just had to add this next picture, it is our nephew Case. I love this baby! Bridger's sister lives right down the street so we are able to see and hold this sweet little boy quite often. This is when he was just born, so he is bigger now but I couldn't find a picture of him. I love this little guy! 

Now that our semester is over, I have about 2 and a half weeks left of working at the school this year and then a two month break :) I am very excited to have a little break that I can do some projects and read some books! We are loving living in Arizona and we are excited that we are slowly but surely making our home ours :) I will be working at the school again next year and we are going to continue plugging along at school. As for now, we are excited to continue and finish our projects, have a little break from school and continue loving living our life. We are definitely so blessed and we are so thankful for all of those blessings :)

It's Christmas Time :)

HALLOWEEN :) WE dressed up as nerds. Adorable, right?? Super easy costume to put together. We went to the school carnival, ate hot dogs and burgers and played some games. It was a blast!

....enough said :)
These were our pumpkins! Bridgers is on the left and mine on the right. :) Halloween was so fun, definitely a good holiday.
Close up of the shirts :)
You have to look close in this picture, but all the black dots on the ground are birds getting the worms out of the ground after rain... Kind of cool
This was one of my craft projects. It's a key holder :) I really like how it turned out. We always lost our keys, so now we have a place to organize them. Love it.
This steam engine rolled through town the other day, so the elementary school went on a little field trip and went to see it. It was super cool!
This is the picture of us there, find me :)
This is another craft. I cut out magazines and made a little cityscape. I want to make a bigger one but that will be another day :) This is in our living room.
Ginger loves to climb up in the Christmas tree. Bridger HATES it haha.
We got a pool table from a yard sale and Bridger repainted it. :) We are getting pretty good at pool, it's way fun :)
Bridger won me a bear out of "the claw" thing. This is one of the things that Bridger loves :) He's adorable and finally won this haha.
Maddie had puppies. They are adorable! She had 4 white puppies. 2 boys, 2 girls. :) They are now starting to walk around and play. The dogs really enjoy them and playing around.
Christmas tree is up and presents are under it :) Christmas is so close :) We're excited.
WE GOT A NEW SINK!!!!! It's amazing. My parents were down for Thanksgiving and my dad helped Bridger put it in. :) Our other one's handle was broke and it was a pain. So we got this as kind of an early Christmas present to ourselves :)
We have been really busy working, and school. School is almost done, and work keeps going :) There's a little update on what we've been up to. :)

Here comes FALL :)

Here is a little update on the past few months, not in chronicle order (so sorry). We went to Elephant Butte a couple weekends ago. We had a BLAST fishing and swimming. The weather was perfect and it was a nice weekend to get away. This was on the last day, sorry for my hair. It's kind of all over the place

This is us by the water, us girls had a super fun time swimming around and jumping off of rocks into the water.

A little while back we painted our living room red. We got the couches from Bridger's dad, and the paint on clearance. We absolutely love it. Now we need to get paintings and stuff to decorate it up a little bit.

A little while back we had a huge rainstorm and it flooded the roads. It was unlike anything I have ever seen. We rode around in this big yellow old army truck and looked at all of the rivers that were flooded. Definitely a fun time!
We went to a carnival and went on a ride, had some authentic carnival hot dogs (the absolute best), some french fries and looked at all of the fair animals. I had NO idea that animals were a major part of the fair. It was way fun to walk around and see all the different animals and had a fun carnival experience.
I took a week vacation to Colorado, during which we went to Time Out for Women. I got to see my Aunt Jessica, my sisters Angela, Melinda, Andrea and my brothers and their families :) It was such a good week!! The conference was very uplifting and edifying and it was GREAT to see all my siblings. :)
This is Me and Caleb, my brothers son (he's an amazing little boy!) He has crazy curly hair, and is such a sweet heart! That smile just melts your heart :)
Last but not least, the last main thing that happened lately is we went to my cousins wedding up in Phoenix. We saw a lot of my cousins and had such a good time! The wedding was beautiful and the reception was such a blast! (sorry the picture is blurry)
Last but not least... These are just random things about my husband :)

As we were driving to Phoenix the other day we started talking about things we loved as a kid. Here are some things that Bridger said and I need to know if all his "fads" were really fads. haha

These things make my husband so excited-

-Anyone heard of Slammers/pogs/or torpedoes??? He just lit up as he started talking about them and how you were the king if you had the coolest and most. I have NEVER EVER heard about any of these things. Have you? He said they were like the coolest things ever. He tried to explain how they worked... I still don't quite get them.

-Space Jam dolls. When they came out in happy meals, him and his brothers would say what characters they were. Totally made his childhood highlights :) I guess Space Jam was a little before my time, I think I've seen it maybe once in my life.. but I can't say I remember it.

-The 3 ninjas movie. I have never ever ever heard of the 3 ninjas movie. But it was a big thing in his childhood.

All of these things made him totally light up. He got SO super excited when he brought them up and they definitely made his childhood highlights. I love my husband. He is adorable.

One more thing- Does anyone say "throw a brohdi" in referring to a "donut" that you make by spinning your car, etc in a circle? Bridger says it, and I have never heard it. Anyone else refer to it as that??

That's the update :)

-XO-

p.s. I LOVE fall weather. I get to wear cute jackets to work now, and boots! :) My two absolute favorite things :) So excited for fall to begin.

Nothing much

• The past two weeks have been GREAT. Lots of Yard work, and family time. The rain has brought TONS and TONS of green. They are more weeds than anything, but they are green :) and we love that. This is behind one of our sheds that we are working on. We ripped off the front metal so it is more open and we can park the boat under it, etc. We are working on the weeds behind it. As you can see they are getting pretty tall. The dogs had a BLAST in them. :)

• Last weekend, we spent a couple days in Thatcher. Went to the temple and relaxed.
• Bridger's sister got sealed to her husband this weekend in Mesa, AZ. We had a blast going and spending such a special occasion with so much family.

• I got to kiss my prince charming.....

• and a frog :)

We walked down to the river last night. We can get to it from the back of our property. We took the dogs and got some pictures but they are on Bridger's phone so I'll post them next post maybe :)

I am continually grateful for our wonderful home and my amazing husband! We have so much making our house a home that is perfect for us. The hard work continues to pay off and we love working side by side. We are going to be decorating our living room hopefully this week so pictures will come on next post.

-XO-

More rain and Ruidoso :)

SO I wrote a whole post and I did something and it deleted it all. So I'm just going to do a fast one. It is continuing to rain nearly everyday here. Mostly at night and it is so NICE!! What a blessing it is to have rain. This is a rainbow we saw the other day while we were driving one night. It crossed almost the whole sky! I started work last Tuesday and I love it so far. I am a teachers aide at the elementary school in town. It is a blast! I love working with the kids, and the teachers. It is a job I could see myself doing for a while. I really REALLY enjoy working with the kids.

On Friday we drove to Ruidoso, NM. Bridgers dad was going for the weekend so we went along. We left Friday after Bridger got off work and came back Sunday night. We spent the majority of Saturday and Sunday at the Horse Race Track. It was a lot of Fun! The horses were beautiful and we enjoyed watching the races. When we weren't at the race track we were just relaxing and playing games. We had a lot of good food that Bridger's dad cooked for us and we enjoyed having a little get away. It was so fun for us to hand out with Bridger's dad's family and his brother. We had a ball.
The phone in our room. SO COOL!

The view off of the back deck. We stayed in a condo that was surrounded by a golf course. We went golfing on Saturday evening. (My first time and I totally stunk!) It was still a blast.
Bridger and me at the race track Saturday :)
The horses.
Bridger in his golfing attire! ha
A deer by the golf course. The golf course was really cool because it went through the condo's and houses. It was hard though because you didn't want it to hit the houses. I had no problem with this has my ball hardly went 10 feet :)
Us at the race track on Sunday :) My hubby is such a stud :)

• As many of you will notice Bridgers head is shaved! This happened for 2 reasons. Bridger has been joking around that he wanted to shave all his hair off because it makes him quite hot at work. He needed a hair cut so I started to cut his hair like I normally do and he told me to try to do a zero fade. I was doing super good and then totally messed up one side. It looked AWFUL!!! So we just shaved it all off. He's still sexy ;)
• Bridger and I really have enjoyed this summer. With no classes we have a lot more free time. This will end in about 3 weeks. SHOOT ha. We have had a great summer traveling and we're still planning more fun weekend get aways :) It might be our new favorite thing to do. ;)

-XO-