.::He's a Quarter of a Century::.

Blake is 25!!

He's 6-7 years older then the true freshman on his team.

Wow!! =)

Just some pictures of us celebrating & for your blogging enjoyment!

Love you babe!

The world has been lucky to have an amazing guy like you here

for 25 years!

.::3 Years & 40th Celebration::.

This cute guy & I celebrated 3 years of marriage on August 2nd. My little brother and sister were in town staying with us so we took them to Bananas Fun Park for some lazer tag, water boats, and mini golf before we left them at home with a movie and a pizza so we could go out! We went to dinner and over-indulged in yummy food and went and saw the movie Crazy, Stupid, Love. We really liked it! :)

Blake did not love the water boats. All the kids ganged up on him & he was soaked!

For our anniversary we don't usually give each other gifts but this year we decided to get a big gift & get a BBQ. However, I work all the time and we haven't been able to actually go buy it!

This year I also wanted to do something a little different and I made us a time capsule for us to open on our ten year anniversary. It was pretty fun to put together. We put in pictures of our day together & our apartment, we wrote each other letters, did an "All About Me" quiz, and put in little knick-knacks that kinda represent us and our last year together. I think it turned out pretty sweet and it will be fun to open in 7 years.

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My mom turned 40 on the 9th and we wanted to throw her a surprise party.

It was a lot of hard work since I live in Colorado and the party was in Utah but I think it turned out pretty great and I hope my mom enjoyed it!

I never realized all the work she puts into having family get togethers and after taking on such a huge project I can't believe she single-handly does it mulitple times a year!

I can tell you now I don't plan on doing surprise parties in the near future.

But all the hard work was worth it. The place looked great, we had good food, and great company!

Her cake was made by Erica Dixon at Purple Paisley Designs and I think she did a great job and made the cake the exact way I had it in my head! Also surrounding the cake we had cupcakes that matched...it was pretty cute...if I do say so myself!

The birthday girl!

Love you mom! Blake & I appreciate all the wonderful things

you do for us and are so grateful for you!

.::Family Time In Utah::.

We're very fortunate to live so much closer to family. Granted we still have to drive 3 1/2 hours to see them but it's a lot better then buying plane tickets. We wanted to just hang out with family this time we were home and we had so much fun.

We took pictures for Mother's Day and I think they turned out pretty cute. I know I am posting the pics a day early but my mom happened to find them early so that went right out the window. However, I think they turned out pretty cute.

All of the kids..

Me & my sisters <3

The boys..

On Saturday, our nephew Hank had a gymnastics thing so we went to support. It really was a bunch of kids showing how they can do cart wheels, jump on trampolines, and cute stuff like that. After we went out to eat with some people from both sides of the family.
After dinner we went over to Mark & Rachel's to play games and our 5 YEAR OLD neice, Charlotte, made us chocolate muffins all by herself...like everything by herself..pretty impressive if you ask me. Oh and they were delicious.

The baker doing her thang..on a foot stool of course.

Just before they went in the oven...

On Sunday we celebrated my dad's birthday with Cafe Rio pork burritos/tacos that my mama made...seriously the closest thing to actually Cafe Rio..and I made my dad a Laker's cake and cupcakes.

After we played some Bocce ball and then we left to Blakes parent's house where we celebrated our neice Hallie's birthday with cake and ice cream and played games.

Thanksgiving 2010

So many pictures and blogspot does not want to cooperate with me right now! This last week was a lot of fun! My family and some of Blake's family came out for Thanksgiving and his basketball tourney which you can read about under the Mesa State tab above. We celebrated my birthday, ate a lot of food, played Just Dance 2 almost every night (which I am the bomb.com at), went shopping, and found out that Blake and I are way too laid back for Black Friday shopping! Enjoy!




 Blake making me steak fajitas for my birthday! I'm lucky to have a man that can cook! =)

  
                                                           



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Happy 24th Birthday babe!

Blake turned 24 on the 21st.We ate dinner at Texas Roadhouse with Colton, Chandler and his wife, Erica. TRH had him saddle up while we clapped and sang Happy Birthday!
We moved to Grand Junction, Co. on Friday. Our apartment is bigger then our place in Cali but it's fully carpeted....like even in the kitchen and bathroom...haha so funny! Anyways we're busy trying to get settled in and Blake starts school on Monday....time to begin our new adventure! :)

**Signed!!**

Yesterday was the first signing day for college basketball and Blake and I decided where we'd like to go and so Blake signed with Mesa State College in Colorado! So Grand Junction, Co. Here We Come!!! A BIG plus moving there is that we are only like 4 hours away from our Utah family & friends! Yay! :)

Blake signing his Letter of Intent

Ignore the fake smile...I wasn't in a picture mood

Also on Tuesday we celebrated this cute guys birthday at Chuck E Cheeses. Happy 1st Birthday Noah!

And it was also Crystal's (Noah's mom) birthday a few days before so I made this for her. I think it turned out cute!

Parent's Visit

Last week my parents came to visit us! It was so good to have them here and show them around. They also got to see Blake play!

Me and Blake at Texas Roadhouse
Me and my mama

Hartnell playing Gavilan...we won by the way!

At the beach

Blake's team is doing pretty well and they have 3 games left til the end of the season. This season has gone by pretty fast! So crazy!

Also on the 4th of January it was Ryo's birthday! We made him a cake and I think this picture is hilarious with the guys wearing sombreros.

D.j, Colton, Beau, and Ryo

Thanksgiving & my 21st birthday!

So yesterday was Thanksgiving and also my 21st birthday! And I was a little bummed out because Blake and I weren't able to go back to Utah to spend Thanksgiving with our families. And even worse I had to work! :( While having my own pity party I had time to think about the things I am grateful for.
First, my wonderful amazing husband Blake who is my rock and who I have grown even closer to since we have been married and out here in Cali. by ourselves. He has done so much for me and he is so patient with me even when I take things out on him when he hasn't done anything to me. I've been so very blessed to have him as my husband and I am indeed very grateful for him and all that he does.
Next would be both of our families! They are both amazing and they always show us so much love and support. They have helped shape us into the people Blake and I are today.
Our wonderful friends would be next, the ones we left in Utah, and the ones we've made here in California. And like our families they have given us so much support and their friendship means to the world to us.
The next on my list would be the Vasher family, who we spent Thanksgiving with and the family who always has there doors open to Blake and I and the team for that matter. They truly care for us and it meant so much to me when they had us over yesterday. They even had a birthday sash for me to wear. :) We had so much fun with them and since we couldn't have Thanksgiving with our own families we definitely had the next best thing! :D

Starting with me, there's Blake, Grace, Cameron Gardner, Matt, Chris Lee, and Kyle.
Playing some Yatzee!

Playing Wii tennis!

I have alot of things I am grateful for like church, the apartment I live in, the things we have, our health, love, humility, the job I have, and much much more. But this post would go on and on and on...
Finally, for my 21st birthday, Blake knew I was pretty sad that I couldn't be with my little sister Keila (pic. below) who I always share my birthday with, her birthday is the 26th, she turned 18 and since 18 and 21 is suppose to be a big deal it was hard for us to be apart since we never have been. But having Blake with me was great and he made my birthday special, out of everything he gave me, I loved the card the most, it meant so much to me and it made me cry! Haha! I'm a baby! But overall I did have a good birthday and I'm glad I was able to spend it with the people I was with!

One of Keila's senior pictures