memorial day

after writing this post i decided that it is actually a long one so get comfortable!it's a funny one so i couldn't leave anything out! to be honest about our memorial day weekend....i worked the WHOLE weekend! :( i felt bad cause trav had it all off and i worked the whole time but i couldn't do anything about it. so besides work, here is what we did..... when i got home on monday after work trav said....wanna go on a road trip?! i said....to where? "DELTA!" he said. delta?! is there even such place?! i had never heard of it so we looked up how far away it was and it was a little over a 2 hour drive. (there was a meaning for this trip but i'm trying to make this post EXCITING!) so we hopped in the car and started driving. i don't do very well in the car so i had to take a pic while it lasted...here is trav's excited face...ha ha ha

here is my excited face! ha ha ha! just a little too much for me....

here we are on our road trip!

so 2 hours and 45 minutes later we call these people for directions to their house and the guy said...come down this road and you'll see two lady's on a "rhino", follow them. trav being trav tried to convince me that it was an actual rhino but that obviously didn't work! ha ha ha! so we're drivin down this way long road in the middle of NOWHERE and we see this golf cart come HAULING down the road with two, (no offense to anyone) G-HETTO LADIES on it! one with a cigarette hangin out of her mouth! i looked at trav and he looked at me and i said....PLEASE don't tell me this is real!!!! tell me this is a nightmare!!! we drove ALL the way down here for THIS?!?! we just laughed the whole way to their house following them. so we follow the two ladies and pull up to this little shack! no lie! i didn't even want to get out of the car cause i was laughing and i had a bad feeling "it" was going to be in bad shape!!! so we get out and there are 2 guys and 3 ladies all with a beer in one hand and a cigarette in the other. i tried SO hard not to smile because they were so g-hetto! ha ha ha! ( i REALLY am not a rude person i SWEAR!) so we walk over to what we drove 3 hours away to see.....

this! after checkin it out for a little we wanted to see how it drove and how it would pull "tough guy" out of the water. so the super nice lady that owned it and her husband took us out on the water. trav drove it around for a little then jumped in! the guy gunned it and trav got up on the wake board with NO problem whatsoever! not to be rude but i was actually surprised he got up so fast! we took a ride around the reservoir and headed back to their house.


here's trav workin his moves on the wake board!

here's trav with his chipmunk cheeks! ha ha ha

then on the way back we were STARVING so we stopped at good ol' wendy's and had some delicious food! :) delta is LITERALLY in the middle of NOWHERE that it took us 1 1/2 HOURS to find somewhere to eat! it was a fun little road trip but we we're glad to be home after that LONG 5 1/2 hour drive all in one afternoon!

gracie may

so i was going through pics on my camera and the majority of them are of this ADORABLE little girl!!!! gracie may! remember this little one....

yep! she's adorable! look how big she's gotten since she was born! she is SO STINKIN CUTE! and that is an understatement!!!

here is trav holding gracie in her new swing gramma bought her! he put her in it and lifted her up and she was SO EXCITED! she started kicking and waving her arms in the air and had the CUTEST and BIGGEST smile EVER!!!!

here is trav with gracie in the hammock. it was the cutest thing i've ever seen! trav is SERIOUSLY going to be THE CUTEST DAD EVER!!!! i just LOVE to see him with gracie and how much he loves her!

click on the pic above to see gracie's face better! it is SO CUTE!!!!

she just LOVES her uncle trav!

here is me and gracie going down the slide! she's obviously too tiny to go down alone so i took her down! :) she loved it! sheesh! looking at all these pics you'd think that she was our daughter!!! ha ha ha! i wish! :)

livie's birthday!

yesterday was livie's birthday! i went to my sister's house earlier yesterday to help get ready for the party and what not. i ended up playin with the kids more than helpin. ha ha ha! no surprise! me and the girls went shoppin while we left mom home to clean. ha ha ha. then we came back and played and i got some pics.

LOVE these girls!!!

here is maddie bein maddie. ha ha ha! she has to be in EVERY pic!

here's the boof-day girl! :)

2 YEARS!!!!!

wow! i can't believe it! me and trav have been married for two years already!!! i can't believe how fast time flies! it seems like just yesterday that we got married! we had a great anniversary! we went down to salt lake and just played and ate lots of food and stayed there saturdy night. then on monday,it was our actual anniversay so we went to dinner. it was delicious! trav gave me these beautiful flowers! and for those of you who know my husband....he HATES pictures!!!! so i didn't get any other than these two....that i pretty much FORCED him to be in! ha ha ha! anywho, i love trav SO MUCH and i wouldn't trade him for the WORLD! he is such an AMAZING husband and will be just as good as a dad if not better! :) no....this is not an announcement. ha ha ha! here are the two pics that i was able to get out of him....

my beautiful flowers!

trav, me, and my double chin/neck.....nasty!

LOVE HIM!!!!!!!!

mother's day

well, obviously this post is about mother's day! it was a great day! first we went to my parent's house and had a bbq that was DELICIOUS then we got to talk to my little brother on the phone! it was so good to talk to him! i miss him so much! :( anywho, then we went to trav's parent's and hung out there for a little. it was a nice day. i don't really have much more to say other than my mothers are the BEST in the world! i love them SO MUCH!!! :D

here is a pic of my mom and me.....looking like i weigh 500 POUNDS!!!!!!

and here is travs mom and me pullin a total cheeser! :)

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.....