camping!!!!!

well believe it or not it's been ANOTHER month since my last post!!! i seriously can't believe how fast time flies by! it's so crazy!!! anywho! we've been super busy and we had a little time to get away and go camping!!! i haven't been camping for at LEAST 3 years and that's FAR too long for someone who went every summer!!! i'm so glad we were able to go because we had SO much fun!!!! here are some of the pics that i took!!!

here is trent, shawn, trav, and jacob. they were all suppose

to flex but i guess they all didn't get the memo! ha ha ha

ha ha ha! maddie playin in the river. her

little bum is hanging out of her diaper! ha ha

ha ha ha! is this not the funniest pic ever?! this is the ranger's dog!

here are the hurst kids except for scooby. we miss him SO MUCH!!! :(

here is me and maddie. she was so tired!!!

ha ha ha! here is trav's smore lunch mouth face!!! ha ha ha

here is me and trav before our scooter race. he won but ONLY because

i was wearing flip flops and they're pretty much hard to ride a scooter with!


here is maddie with her nice clean face! ha ha ha

here is trav holdin maddie up on the rock lookin at "chick-munks"


and last but not least look how ADORABLE this pic is!!! so the kids wanted to go look for deer so trav took them. they all started off walking and when they came back this is what i saw. ha ha ha ha! i just HAD to get a pic because i thought it was so STINKIN cute!!!! :)

latest happenings

wow! i can't believe a month has passed since i posted last! time flies when you're havin fun right?! :) anywho, a lot has happened since my last post so here we go! so i tried to move this first pic to the very bottom of this post but it was being VERY difficult so i'll leave it at the top! the reason why i put this pic on here is because i'm jealous! yes....this is me and trav. but i am jealous of how i didn't have a GUT!!! so i've made a goal to loose 10 lbs HOPEFULLY by sept 1st! :) so everyone cross your fingers!!!!




ok moving on! me, my sis, and these adorable kids got a cherry hill pass for the summer so we could go play all summer! i've only been ONCE this summer and i got FRIED so as of right now...the season pass has NOT been worth it! ha ha ha! i'm hoping to go more before the season is over so i don't waste my money but it's hard to go when you have a freakin GUT hangin out of your swimsuit! NOT ATTRACTIVE WHATSOEVER!!! it freakin looks like i'm PREGNANT!!! and i'm not even pregnant!!!! off that subject before i get more upset with myself.... ha ha ha

here are the kids cheesin it up on the way down to "the cherry hills!"

here's me and this stinkin ADORABLE maddie! i can't get enough of her!!!

june 22 was maddie's 2nd birthday! i can't believe she's already 2!!! here she is with her new baby that she absolutely LOVES!!! she's so cute with her!!

ok so funny story. maddie LOVES tutu's so gramee bought her this tutu and she ripped off her pink tutu that she had on all day and put her new one on. well....she didn't understand that she needed some little shorts or something on underneath her new tutu and she REFUSED to put anything on so here is her new baby lingerie? tutu! ha ha ha!
(that is her diaper on under her tutu if you cant tell! :))

then on july 2nd was trav's 26th birthday!!! wow he's gettin old! ha ha ha ha! i forgot to take pics all night but here are just a couple that i took.

grandpa and gracie

trav and gracie. look how STINKIN CUTE he is with her!!!! :D oh i can't WAIT! :)

is she not the cutest ever?!?! :)

here's trav layin on the couch on his boofday! he doesn't like to take a good pic so this is pretty much the only one i have! :(

and last but not least....the 4TH OF JULY!!! so believe it or not i had the whole weekend off!!! :) even SATURDAY!!! oh was i so happy! :D we woke up and went to the parade and park with the kids and my family. then we went home and took a little nap then we were off to dinner and the fireworks with trav's friends! it was a fun weekend! :)

me, tana, andrea

trav and me. i TOLD you he doesn't like to take a good pic! he better start practicing for one day when we have a baby so he will smile in all the pics that i will take! :) one day...one day...! ha ha

A-D-O-R-A-B-L-E!!!

ADORABLE! ...that's all i have to say!!! :)

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!