Where has the summer gone??

We've had a busy summer and it's gone by way too fast!! Jared had one class to finish up before he started the program so that's probably what made it fly! We've had fun at the family reunion, baseball game, working around the house and a lot of other things. Here's the pictures to prove it :)


The boys at the Raptors game

Jared and Sky

I love Boston's face!

Fishing up in Manti, look father like son

Jare's huge fish

Me and Jare at the Manti pool

The girls at Yuba

Me and Jare at gma and gpa Stokes's 50th anniversary party

Jared and Skylee at Gma and gpa Stokes

One Year!!

Jared and I hit our one year anniversary on Thursday! We had so much fun celebrating! We went on Wednesday to Park City and stayed over night. While we were there we did the zipline and alpine slide, shopped at the outlets and of course ate good food! Thursday our actual anniversary Jared had his last day of class so we had to head back for that. After class we went to the batting cages and hit a bunch of pitches and then ate our cake. So much fun! It was such a great anniversary and I'm looking forward to an eternity more!


Eating our cake!

Jared at the batting cages

P.S. We found out this week that Jared will be doing clinicals at the same hospital that I work at! Kind of random but we met the director of radiology at Davis up to East Canyon when we went to celebrate our brother in laws birthday. We talked to him and he was impressed enough with Jared that he said he'd check and see if there was a spot to do clinicals at Davis so Jared wasn't driving to West Valley three times a week. Turns out there wasn't a spot but he arranged with Weber to have him come here still. It's amazing the way everything works out!

Weekends

First off.. I love this picture of Jared and his dad! They were over at the barn cutting cows one weekend. Aren't they handsome?!?

We had a great 4th of July weekend! Spent Saturday at Willard (without Jared-boo!) But had fun boating and tubing with the Stokes's!

We had a little barbeque at our house on the 4th with my fam.

I love these guys faces! apparently something was hilarious!

Me and my man

Mom and Cami

Our little house to this point..


That's about it for now! Jared is just finishing up his last prerequisite for the rad tech program so summer has been a little slow. There is a possibility that his clinic site will be closer than West Valley but we find out for sure in August. And our anniversary is less than 2 weeks away! Crazy!!

Life changes fast!

Crazy how much life can change in just two years!! Me and Jared met about two years ago when we were headed down to Havasupai on a trip with a bunch of friends. Who knew it would evolve into this! And then a year ago over Memorial weekend Jared "took the plunge" and proposed to me! I love it! Now we are making a house into our little home and Jared found out last week what he's going to do with the rest of his life! He applied for the radiology program hoping to just get an interview, which he did. Got a letter the end of April saying he was an alternate and then found out last week that he got into the program! He's so smart and so driven! I am so lucky to be his wife!!
This past weekend we went up to Yuba lake to do some camping. Enjoy!

Us on the beach

Jared and Bronny

I love this kid in his train conductor hat!

The water was so cold! Someone dared all the guys to jump in so they were showing how tough the are. HA!

Must've been bad because they were swimming pretty fast to get back in the boat!

The guys after jumping in the cold lake!

The only room I felt was done enough to take a picture of.. the master bedroom

Love this picture! These two loved to help! Big D and Grandpa Samson painting

Family room downstairs right after we painted it.

Front Yard

Our Front yard was a little overgrown but Jared took care of that!

quickie update

We are finally moved into our house and I love it! We (meaning Jared) have just been working on little projects since we have been in, like installing light fixtures so once we have the final product I WILL post pics! I love the color though! I think it really updates our house! And our jetted tub is amazing!!! The only problem I have with the house at this moment is we haven't put our blinds up so we have no privacy! It kinda sucks to have to think to cover up before I walk out of the shower (sorry TMI.. ha ha). Jared, me and Darcie ran the Ogden half marathon about a week ago and all ran it in the times that we wanted! Jared did awesome for his first! I was jealous! So there's a quick update and I promise pictures are coming soon! P.S. I am so grateful for eternal families and love mine!!

House and graduation

Our updates on our house are coming nicely! We have all of the upstairs painted (well minus the bathroom and kitchen, but everywhere that carpet is going) and downstairs have mudded the walls and rebuilt the wall in the spare bedroom. I really love our house! It was a long process and it was frustrating at times but now that it's all coming together it was totally worth it! This house had everything we were looking for! We wanted something that we could grow in so that when we decide to have kids we wont be cramped in, something with an open floor plan, something a little newer (our house was built in 1991 so its new enough)and a good neighborhood. The way we actually found this house was we were driving around neighborhoods that we liked and saw the for sale sign and called our agent about it. I definitely would buy a HUD home again. I thought HUD was a house that needed work but it actually is a FHA loan (first home buyers loan) that someone could not pay for. We ended up getting a good deal since it is a HUD home and really all it needs is cosmetic work. So here is a tour of our house (and remember these are the before pictures)!
The blue room

Living room. It looks so good right now with the new paint, just waiting on carpet!

Love the dining room! Love the natural light and how spacious it is. The doors lead out to the deck.

Really like the kitchen!

Downstairs bathroom, blue cultured marble

Colorful downstairs bedroom

One of the downstairs bedrooms, it had some water damage. We just had to reframe the wall and it looks good! Jared and his dad did it Saturday morning.

Family room downstairs, I think this will be my favorite room to hang out in!

Family room downstairs

Storage/wash/mud room! Lots of storage!

The walls in the master bedroom, I was worried that black would be hard to cover up!

Master bedroom closet

We pulled out the cupboard and desk from the family room

Darcie doing what she does best...vacuuming!

Billie pulling up carpet

The blue room was really beat up if you can't tell. All those white spots on the wall are mud from patching the walls!

Pink cultured marble in the master bath, hey at least we do have a jetted tub in there. That'll be nice!

Grandpa Samson came out to help

My mom graduated from college with her Bachelors in Business on Saturday! We were so proud of her and all her hard work. She's been going to school I think for 8 years.. And what is she doing next... More school! In the fall she's going to be teaching and working on her masters degree at USU! Congrats Mom! She graduated summa cum laude which means she had awesome grades!

Dad, Mom and Logan (one of my dad's former employees)

The family minus Jared St

Graduation Dinner at Maddox

Jared, Me and Abby

Pictures of the house coming soon!

We have been homeowners for over a week now! It hasn't really hit me since we haven't lived there yet but at least we're working on it finally! It has been a lot of work so far and there's still so much to do! We've ripped up all the carpet, mudded and sanded all the walls upstairs and painted the front room and our bedroom. The people that lived there before did some weird things to the walls in our bedroom! And the people that built the house must have had a fetish with pink and blue because our bathrooms are pink and blue cultured marble! Who does that? Anyways I'm excited to get the upstairs finished and then be able to start working on the downstairs. We have new carpet coming next week so we're trying to get everything done! We've had so much family help us so far and it's been great! Even Jared's grandpa is showing up to help! Anyways I'll post our before pictures pretty soon and then hopefully we'll have after pictures in a couple weeks!