the last 2 months

wow! it's been QUITE some time since i posted last! i say in every pot that i'm going to post more then that never happens so i guess i won't sa that anymore! we have been SO busy lately that we barely have time to eat! crazy crazy! well i had a couple blogs i was going to make but instead i'll just make one big one. i'm pretty sure there were more than just these few but i don't remember what i was going to blog so oh well! march 13th trav's little brother greg came home from his mission! yay! it was actually kinda different cause i only met him once before he left so it was kinda different but it was fun! he came home to a whole new family! after he left me and trav got married, and his sister jen got married and she had a baby who is now 8 months old! so greg pretty much had to adjust to his new family when he came home! here are a couple pics we took at the airport...

tom, greg, trav

me, gracie, jen

easter! we went to my mom's for easter to have an easter egg hunt with the kids. it was so much fun! my mom hid 163 eggs for not only the kids to find but for the adults so it was fun! we were all running around like little kids stealing eggs from eachother. ha ha ha! it was fun. after we were done lookin for the eggs i went to see how many trav got and he had 3! i said...THREE EGGS?!?! what's up with that?!?! then i realized that he had maddies hand and he was walking around with her helping her find eggs to put in her bag! how stinkin adorable is THAT?!?! it was SO CUTE i wish i had a pic of it but i don't. :( anywho, easter was fun! here are a couple pics from that...

gettin ready for the hunt

maddie trying to open this starburst! i was trying

to get her to smile but she was too busy.

and i don't know what this one is about....that's

all i can say about it. ha ha ha!

well after 3 months of not making an actual post this is all i could come up with! i guess i waited so long that i forgot what i had to blog! i'll try to be better about that! we're starting to put our yard in so i'll be sure to take some pics of the progress and post them! hope everyone is doing well!

we're still alive!!!

ok, ok....i have to admit! i've been a HUGE slacker on this whole blog world! we've been so busy that i haven't had time to post anything! not only that, when i think about getting on and posting i don't even know where to START! seriously!!! so.....don't you worry! i'll post one HUGE blog and you'll be sick of me by the time you're done reading! ha ha ha! we are doing just fine tho! just super busy! don't give up on me! .....long post coming soon.... :D

bye scooby....

well, i hate to say it but my little brother is gone! we took him to the MTC yesterday and i'm not gonna lie.....it SUCKED!!! me and him are SO close so saying goodbye was pretty much horrible! he is going to the roseville, california mission and he will be such an AWESOME missionary!!! the MTC is a bitter sweet moment. it sucked to say goodbye but i know that it will be the best thing for him! we're gonna miss him SO much! i told my mom that i am not having ANY boys and if i do, i'm leaving the church! ha ha ha! not really tho. i was just saying that just because i can't even IMAGINE how hard it would be to take your son and just drop him off knowing that you won't be able to see him for two years! if i didn't know that the church was true i would have an even harder time with saying bye. i know that austin will do GREAT out there having the opportunity to teach many people the gospel. here are a couple pics from the day of his farewell and from when we took him to the MTC!

here is the whole family except for jared. he was at his grandpa's funeral. :(

here are the girls on the way down to the mtc. they are so stinkin adorable!

to cruise...or not to cruise?!?!

that is the question!!!! so....trav asked me if i wanted to go on a cruise with some friends in may. here is my delema.....i am probably the WORST perinoid person in the WORLD!!! i am SO nervous of paying for the cruise and going and being sick the whole time! i get motion sickness pretty bad and that is probably the ONLY thing stopping me from saying "YES! i'd love to go!" i obviously have never been on a cruise......so! here is the question for everybody....to cruise? or not to cruise? if we dont go on the cruise we will go to cali. so i want everyones opinion! :)

hApPy NeW yEaR!!!

well, i know january is already half way over but happy new year everyone! :) we've been so busy i haven't had time to post anything! i don't really have anything new or fun to post tho so i don't know why i'm writing this! ha ha ha! i guess i'm just writing this to let you all know we're still alive and doing well! :) i'll have some good postings coming up soon so stay tuned! :)

merry christmas!!!

hi guys! i just wanted to wish everyone a very merry christmas!!!! :)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY....TO ME!!!

so...as some of you know, my birthday was on saturday! yay! happy birthday to ME!!! :) any who....i hate to brag but i can't not brag about what my amazing hubby and family got me for my birthday!!! :) we went to trav's parent's house for dinner and it was delicious and way fun!!! :) about my birthday....i'm not gonna lie but i was very surprised with trav's creativity! he did SUCH a good job at surprising me for my birthday this year! :) funny story...i've had my digital camera for a good five years and it's getting G-HETTO! ha ha ha! when you turn it on the screen is all blurry and you have to hit the camera against your hand a couple times for the screen to appear. ha ha ha! pretty ghetto if you ask me! :) so trav surprised me with a NEW DIGITAL CAMERA!!!!! :) it's the new nikon coolpix camera and i LOVE it!!! here's a little pic of it...

so i was just so happy after i got it i didn't even want to open anything else!!!ha ha ha! then he had his sister copy all of her digital scrapbooking discs for me to have so that i could start doing all my scrapbooking on the computer! i am SO excited!!!! he did an awesome job!!! :)

my parents,in-laws, and jen and derek got me gift cards to tai pan which is pretty much my favorite place to shop!!!! i absolutely LOVE that store!!!! my brothers and grandparents all gave me money so that i could go buy some new clothes!!! YAY! it's about time i get rid of some of my clothes from high school!!! ha ha ha ha!

and last but not least.....for "medicinal purposes only"...........

my all time favorite PEANUT M&M'S!!!!!

i pretty much love peanut m & m's! :)so this year, when it comes to my birthday, it was by FAR the best birthday EVER!!!:D

christmas time is finally here!!!

it's been a while since i last posted so i thought i'd post a little somethin', somethin'! well, thanksgiving was great! we had delicious food at both of our parent's houses and i pretty much am still fat from it. ha ha ha! oh well! i had saturday off so i decided to pull out the tree and put it up. so.....i pulled the tree out and began to put it together and as i was doing that i just sat and laughed at it. it's pretty much a midget tree! my sister-in-law told me she had one of the sections to the tree and that she'd find it and bring it down. well, after looking, she couldn't figure out which piece was missing so she told me to take a pic of the tree and send it to her. i did just that and got a phone call from her laughing her HEAD off as she said.....shae, you're tree S-U-C-K-S!!! ha ha ha ha! i laughed with her and agreed. hey! it was free and it looked perfect in our town home last year! so she told me that she would give me her old tree cause it was too big for her house. so they brought it down to me. so after jimmy-riggin' some of the branches onto the tree, i plugged all my lights together, plugged them in, and began to put them on the tree. i finished a while later and began to put the rest of the decorations on the tree. i also decorated my mantle, "the hole" (for those of you who don't know.....i have a hole above my fireplace/mantle that is RIDICULOUS to decorate), my railings and the tree...obviously!!! so after decorating ALL!!! DAY!!! LONG!!!.....around MIDNIGHT, i sat on the couch and watched tv with trav for a minute. i looked over at the tree and saw that H-A-L-F of the stupid thing was no longer LIT!!!! i was FUMING!!!! trav just laughed at me cause of how mad i was over something so little. so the next day i had to take half the tree apart to figure out which stupid light strand was out. after finding the "DUD", i put the lights BACK onto the tree as well as everything else!!!! talk about christmas tree from you-know-where!!!!! ....no offense jen...! i love the tree now! :) any who. my house is finally decorated and i love it! :) i absolutely LOVE christmas time!!! :) well.....here are a couple pics of my decorated house....

ha ha ha ha stupid midget tree!!! ha ha ha!

here is my tree and the mantle....this tree is SO much better than the charlie brown christmas tree! thanks a million jen and derek! :) and thanks a ton shar for the lights!!!! :)

a little table i have with a cute TINY nativity scene that you can't even see in this pic. ha ha

and here is one of my banisters that i decorated! (fyi....that is a hand made bow just if you were wondering why it looked like crap! ha ha ha!) any ways....this post basically ended up bein story!!!! ha ha ha! i'll try to post more often especially this month with my B-I-R-T-H-D-A-Y and all the holiday activities that we'll be doing!!! :)

a year and a half

me and trav have been married for a year and a half today. i can't believe how fast time has gone by! we have had so much fun since we've been married! we've moved three times and we now live in a house that we'll be in for a while. :) thank goodness!! ha ha ha. being married to your best friend is the BEST thing in the whole world! i can't even imagine where i would be without trav! he is such an AMAZING husband! he does so much for me and cares for me SO much! i couldn't have asked for a better husband! i love hims SO MUCH!!! i am so happy we were married in the temple so that we could be together for time and all eternity! i am so blessed to have trav in my life! i am so excited to start a family with him! that will be the next step in our lives and i can't WAIT!!! :) i know he won't ever read this but i love you babe!!!

going private

hey guys! sorry to say this but i am going private! i've heard way too many scary stories lately so i figured i better protect myself and family! so please send me your e-mail address so i can add you!!!! i will be changing my profile to private in a week so that should be enough time to get your email address to me! thanks and sorry for any inconvenience!

october has come and gone!!!

wow! i can't believe how much has happened since my last post i made! we've been SO busy i haven't had time to post anything! so here is a post of the past month and everything we've been so busy with! so as most of you know...october is hunting season! ya....not my favorite! actually.... i hate it! i hate not havin trav home and havin him always out in the mountains where he doesn't get service which means i do nothing but worry all day long that he is out there! so when he's up in the mountains and i get a text from him saying he got a deer i am SO happy because that means hunting season is OVER!!! :) and i'm also happy that he got one cause i know how bad he wanted one. :) so here is trav with his 4 point that he got this year!

my little brother scooby (austin) was finally able to send his mission papers in!!! it took a little while cause he had to get his tonsils out then the week after that he had to get his wisdom teeth out but he finally got them sent in! :) he got his call last week and he got called to serve in the roseville, california mission! we are all so happy and proud of him! he'll be a GREAT missionary!

(....that is my mom BAULING in the background! ha ha)

halloween had finally come and to be honest...me and trav hate halloween. i know, we're party poopers! but ever since i was in first grade when my mom painted my face GREEN because i was a witch i have ALWAYS hated halloween! so the last thing i was expecting trav to tell me was to find a costume cause we had parties to go to. well....he told me two nights before halloween to find a costume because we were goin to a party! i was VERY surprised! :) i had NO idea what to do! i had to force him to tell me what he was going to be so i could try and do something along the same lines as he was. so he told me he was going to be an 80's rockstar and i decided to just be his girlfriend. so here we are in our costumes.....

and here is some of my family. my mom had a halloween party and we had to dress up so here is what we all ended up lookin like....

after everything was said and done....it was pretty fun. :) well! i don't think i have any more news to say so i guess this is it! :) i'll try and keep up on the blogging a little better! :)

...maddie...

so it's been a while since i actually sat down and wrote a real blog. so i decided it's time to take a minute and do so. i was over at my sister's house and i was helpin her out with the kids and what not and i gave maddie a bath and couldn't help but take some pics of how stinkin ADORABLE she looked. you can't really tell but this is a little frog towel. she looked SO CUTE!! so i just had to make a little blog about her a do some braggin about how CUTE she is! :)

here is maddie again lookin like a superstar! she was sittinin her high chair and i looked over at her and she had put these on and looked up at me and gave me the biggest grin! she is absolutely adorable!!!

and here she is again....i accidently left her alone too long and she OBVIOUSLY found my purse that i actually hid from her so she wouldn't empty it! that is probably her favorite thing to do is find a purse and take EVERYTHING out piece by piece!!! ha ha! she's so stinkin cute i couldn't even get mad at her!

it was like an early christmas for her!!! ha ha! here is a list of everything she found....my phone, keys, sunglasses, planner, wallett, bag of recipts, tissues, lip gloss, alieve, i.b. profen, eye drops, (no i'm not a druggie!) a fruit roll up, a pack of fruit snacks, a bag of licorice, mints, sour mint thingys (no i'm not pregnant!! ha ha ha!) a necklace, bracelet, ear rings, a gift card, a pen, and some coupons. i think that was everything! probably not tho! ha ha ha! i should probably clean it out.....

couch for sale

wow! i didn't realize it's already been a month since my last blog post. time sure does fly! anywho, we are selling our couch! it's a cream colored microfiber couch in VERY good condition!! not to mention...it's WAY comfy! i'm kinda sad we're sellin it to be honest! but we have no room for it. so if you or anyone you know is interested, you just let me know! :) it even comes with these cute pillows!! :)

free handbag anyone?

interested in a free handbag? :) go to handbagplanet.com and you'll be entered into a drawing to win a free handbag!!! :)

my new hidden talent

ha ha ha! so i can't help but laugh about this one....i think i might have found a silly little talent in me! so my sister in law was having a baby shower and i wanted to get her something that nobody has really ever heard of or seen. so i made this silly cake and it's made out of DIAPERS!!! it was actually pretty fun to make! anyways, i gave it to her at her shower and everyone LOVED it i guess! ha ha! so i decided to put some pics up of my new talent! :) if any of you would like one let me know and i'd be glad to make you one! :)

the pic on the right is a pic of the cake with nothing on it.the pic on the right is a pic of the finished product! it has flower clips, headbands, and beanies for the baby! :) i thought it turned out pretty cute. :) and i can still make one if it's for a boy! he'll just get different stuff on his cake. :) anywho, i didn't want to post this to brag but to show you an example of what you can buy for baby showers that nobody will have heard of or seen! :)

visiting gracie

me and trav were finally able to go visit gracie at home!!! :) we couldn't believe how big she has gotten since last time we saw her! she is SO CUTE!!! :) we love her to death! i took a couple pics so i decided to post them. :) here they are....

here is trav and gracie. he is SO cute with her!!!

and here is me holding gracie.

my flippin HUGE hair is bigger

than she is!!! hahaha!

our new addition

so i figured that since i can't talk trav into havin a baby anytime soon that i was gonna see what our baby look like for when we DO actually have one! i've always wanted to know what our kids will look like! i found this on one of my friend's blogs and i couldn't help but brew up a little timothy baby! :) so here is what our little one will look like! i was actually pretty impressed and i'm hopin my kid looks like this! ha ha ha!

so adorable

is this not the CUTEST picture

you've EVER SEEN!?!?! i absolutely

LOVE IT!!!! this is little gracie may. :)

and we got the BEST news ever today!!

she gets to come home tomorrow!!!

we are so excited for jen and derek

to be able to finally take their baby girl

home!!! :)

update on gracie may

i just wanted to give ya a little update on gracie may. :) she is doing AMAZING!!! she is 4 pounds now and she is 9 days old today! she no longer has the oxygen,breathing tube, or the i.v.!!! all she has is the feeding tube wich i bet you anyting will be coming out very soon! she is SO CUTE!!! we got to put her first headband on her and it was SO cute!! she loved it! :) here are a couple pics of her with her new headband! :)

pretty much the cutest baby ever!!!

gracie may

our little niece gracie may is doing SO good!!! she is no longer on her breathing tube and she's doing it all by herself!!! she is amazing!!! i was VERY lucky and was able to hold her! yep...i cried and she's not even MINE!!! she is SO beautiful! mommy is doing very well and should be able to go home today! but gracie has to stay a little longer cause she's still so small. but you just wait, she is gonna SHOCK all of the nurses with how fast she grows and is able to get out of there!!!

look how stinkin CUTE this pic is!!! she put her finger on her lip while she was sleepin and just left it there!! it was ADORABLE!!!

here is me and gracie meeting for

the very first time! :) i love her SO much

already!!!!

my new ADORABLE niece!!!

gracie travis 3lbs. 13oz. & 12 in.

our new little niece has finally

arrived!!! :) she came six weeks

early and she and mom are doing good.

they will be in the hospital for

a little while due to how TINY

she is. she is ABSOLUTELY

PERFECT!!! not to mention how

BEAUTIFUL she is!!! when we

went to see her i got a little nervous

just cause i didn't want to bring

in any germs or anything to the

NICU but it was WELL worth

going in to see her! i have never seen

such a perfect baby! and i'm not

gonna lie...i cried a lil' bit just

thinking about the overwhelming

love that her mommy and

daddy have for her!!! it is just

AMAZING!!! i can't even imagine

how it would be to bring a little baby

of my own into the world!!! we are

so happy for jen and derek!!! we love

you guys!!!! :)

CUTEST BABY EVER!!!!

oh my GOSH!!!!! so i was at

my sister's house and we were

just hangin out and i looked over

and saw maddie rocking her "baby"

in maddie's carseat!!!! (note: she

is ONE YEAR OLD!) she was

rocking this bear back and forth

and singing in her own little

language that none of us quite

understand!!! ha ha! it was BY FAR

the CUTEST thing i've EVER

seen!!! and i'm not gonna lie...it

TOTALLY made me want to have

a baby myself!!!! she is absolutely

ADORABLE!!!!!

here is maddie again. she got her

"blanky" and put it on her bear

and then held one next to her face.

click on the pics to make them

bigger to see how freakin CUTE

she really is!!!!

jacob's party!

jacob's 6th birthday!!! i can't believe

he is already SIX!!! it feels like

YESTERDAY when i was wipin'

his little bum!!!! ha ha ha! anyways...

he is probably the BIGGEST star

wars fan EVER so his creative

mom made him this SWEET cake!

ha ha! we went over for cake and

ice cream and a little fun.

here are a couple pics that i took...

here is jacob and his mom (my sis)

here's jacob with one of his presents.
i would quote...."luke, i am your father"
but i'm pretty sure this is not who says
it! ha ha ha ha ha!!!!

and here is jacob, me, and livie.
not a cute pic AT ALL but what-ev!