Christmas Celebrations!

Jared and I had a busy Christmas! We spent a lot of time with our families and each other. It was great! So here's our celebrations We started out with Aunt Pam's Christmas party. We ate dinner and had a gift exchange and talked.
Grandpa Samson, Paylen, Grandma Samson and Billie

Mike, Mont, Darcie, Rick and Jacee

Dave and Staci

Angie and Tyler

Angie is styling!

Monday we went to temple square with my family and then picked up Cami and Jared from the airport. These are my cute parents.

In front of our temple :)

My dad, Tess, Abby, me and Jare

We went to Ligori's on Christmas eve and ate pizza with the Stokes family and then we went back to Jared's parents and got pajamas from Santa. This is Jared, Bridgie and Staci.

Darcie and me

Mont and Darcie

Darcie, me and Jare

I love this pic of Jare! He looks so good!

Christmas morning me and Jared opened presents with his parents and then went over to Grandma and Grandpa Stokes for omelets, presents and lots of family. Here are the guys!

Billie, Staci and Bronson

Me and Jare. I love this sweater that he gave me for Christmas! He did good picking it out!

Jared's grandparents have this tradition where they throw all of their loose change into a bag for the year and then give each of the kids a ball that they get to fill up with the change. It was really cute! Jared was helping Dallen.

Tyler helping Boston.

Bridger thinks I stink!

Christmas afternoon we went out to my parents and had dinner and opened more gifts. The power was out when we got there at 2 and it never came back on the whole time we were there! We went sledding and tried to make a snowman but the snow was so heavy that we couldn't lift the snowballs up so we just ended up with three big snowballs. It was a great Christmas and I'm glad I got to share in the traditions that the Stokes family has had for lots of years!

Cami's wedding!

My oldest sister Cami got married on Saturday. It was a little hard for me because she's one of my best friends and was sad that she was moving out. It was a beautiful day and her and Jared looked really happy. I'm excited for them!

Me Cami and Rachel

Me and Jare

I like this picture of me. Too bad Jared is closing his eyes ha!

Just us

Cami and Jared and their parents

Coming out of the temple

My mom made Cami's dress. It was so pretty!

Happy Birthday Darcie!

Hope you have a great day!!

Thanksgiving Weekend, Park City and IFly

Last Saturday me and Jared went out with Darcie, Mont, Tyler and Angie. We went out to dinner and went to Temple Square to see the lights.
Me and Jare

Darcie and Mont

Angie and Tyler, I've never seen Tyler smile this big!

On Thanksgiving me and Jared started out with dinner at his parent's house then went to my grandma Palmers and finished up at my parents. I realized there wasn't any pictures of me and Cami and our Jareds together so here we are :)

At my grandma Palmer's house. Abby called this out deer in the headlights look.

Jared and his daughter Ali AKA fat one, special needs, down syndrome. Ha! Jared is so cute with her! Everyday when we get to his house he sees her and says "There is our child. Oh look she's precious. She is a child of Heaven. Look Kate she looks just like you." Ha Jared makes me laugh!

Us at his parent's house

A couple weeks ago I went to Park City with Jared's mom and sisters. We saw Twilight and shopped at the outlets. It was so fun! They are hilarious to be with! This is Staci, me and Darcie.

Angie and Billie

For Jared's birthday my parents paid for us to go indoor skydiving. I was way scared but it was fun! Here is Jared with our instructor.

Me with our instructor

Us in our cute jumpsuits.

HaPpY BiRtHdAy JaReD!!

Jared is 21 today! Hurray! So here are 21 things that I love about Jared :)
1. He loves to hunt! I never thought I'd be so attracted to a guy in camo but hunting is his passion and I love that about him!
2. He loves the outdoors! Jared would rather go outside and do something rather than stay inside and play video games.
3. He is so good with kids! I love to see him with his nieces and nephews! I'm excited to have kids of our own.. in 5 years!! ha

4. He makes me laugh everyday! Jared is the funniest person I know and he's always doing something to put a smile on my face!
5. He has a strong testimony. I knew I needed to find someone that was strong in the church and I'm so glad I found that in Jared.
6. He promised to take me to the temple! Before me and Jared even got serious Jared told me one night that I deserved a guy that would take me to the temple and promised me he would be that guy. He's holding true to it and we're planning on getting married in the temple in May!
7. He is sensitive. He won't admit it but he's a teddy bear!
8. He's good looking.. Need I say more??
9. He is a hard worker. He loves his job at Sportsmans and takes pride in his work.
10. He's a good student. There has been tons of nights that I wanted to go out and do something but Jared had homework and we couldn't do anything until he was done with it.

11. He is so unselfish! I was struggling to carry my pack out of Havasupai and even though Jared hardly knew me he took my pack and carried it all the way to the top.
12. He's a family guy. He would rather spend all his time with his family then with his friends and that's fine with me!
13. He loves his mom. I was always told to look at how a guy treats his mother because that's how he'll treat you and I can really tell that he loves and respects his mom.
14. He's good with money. Jared told me one day that he wont marry me until my credit card was paid off. I was a little mad but I know he'll be good with our money!
15. He's so easy going. I know I can just be myself around him because he's just laid back.
16. He let's me express my emotions! When I'm frustrated I cry a lot and Jared just lets me and is so sweet about comforting me.
17. He's my best friend! I can tell Jared anything! He's seriously so good to me!
18. We are so much a like! There have been so many times that I said something and he looks at me and laughs and says that's exactly what I was thinking!
19. He knows what he wants out of life. Jared has told me his goals and he knows exactly what he wants.
20. He is so easy to get along with! I was nervous for him to meet my parents but he and my dad just clicked. He's so easy to talk to and be friends with.
21. He loves me for me. I can be a brat at times and maybe a little hard to live with but Jared puts up with me and loves me just the same.
Happy Birthday baby! I love you and I'm so excited to be sealed to you for time and all eternity!

Muskrat Trapping

Look what we got!
Jared

Just us

Gross! I swear with Jared I have been doing things I've never even heard of. Jared has started trapping again with his friends and he invited me to come with him the past couple of nights. I never knew there was such a thing as a muskrat! It's been fun to set the traps and then go back a couple times a day to see if we've caught anything. Last night we only got this fat sucker. Life with Jared is always an adventure and I love it!

Go Jazz!!

We went to the jazz game last night with my family! It was way fun! We had tickets in the lower bowl. They beat the Oklahoma City Thunder of course! I was sad Deron Williams wasn't playing still. Oh well. Go Jazz!

Jared is such a stud. Just look at him!!