Our Mini Roadtrip!

Jared and I took a much needed vacation! We both have a month left of school before the summer and we were both feeling burnt out so when I found out my old roommate was getting married in Vegas we jumped at the chance to get away! We left Friday after school and got back Sunday night. It was about a five hour drive to St George where we were staying. Jared being the good guy that he is drove the whole way. I was so glad because I HATE driving!
Our first stop was in Cedar. As most of you know I lived in Cedar for three years so we stopped to visit some of my friends that I haven't seen since I moved up north! I missed these girls so bad! They were such fun friends and luckily we keep in touch but it was good to finally see them again! This was their first time meeting Jared too. Hopefully he passed the friend test. Tamara gave her approval so I'm just waiting on Lacy and Carolyn :)
This is Tamara, Lacy, Carolyn and me! Love these girls!

Tamara had a baby last summer and I had never seen her before! Emma was such a cutie and such a good baby! She was so cute with Jare!

Tamara and Lacy! We ate at Milts this steakhouse in Cedar. I used to work there and it is so good!

Carolyn Collin and Craig! I hadn't ever seen Carolyn's baby either and he is almost a year old! He was so funny! And so cute!

Us and Emma! So cute!

That night we spent the night in St George at Katie and Lloyd's house! It was so fun! The next morning me and Jare went to Hurricane to visit some of his family that I had never met! They were all way nice and we had a good time talking to them. We headed down to Vegas that afternoon with Katie. We got down there early enough to gamble. This was the first time Jared could legally so it was a lot of fun. He won $145 on the Roulette table! We were pretty excited! I won $11.60 on the video poker and then lost half of it. Ha ha!

One of my favorite parts of Vegas... the buffets! Ha

I love food!

Jared pointing to my dad's girlfriend (Marie Osmond) So we came down south to go to my friend's wedding reception right? Well we figured we left the strip early enough to make it but something happened to Katie's phone and she couldn't connect to the internet to look up the address. I called my mom who gave the phone to my little sister to look up directions and we got completely lost! We missed the reception and had the hardest time finding the freeway to get back but oh well! ha ha!

That night we stayed at Jared's cousin Mike's house! It was way fun and then the next morning we drove into Zions. We went through the tunnel which was awesome! You'd think since I lived down there for three years that I would've gone to Zions more but honestly I went there once and it wasn't even when I lived there!

We went hiking and it was so warm! We went on the Emerald Pools loop first. It was a nice little hike!

This is the upper pools

I'm gonna start calling Jared Cliffhanger! Ha ha this picture is deceiving :)

On our hike. We're in love :)

The other hike we went on was called the weeping rock. It said it would take a half an hour but it was so short!

Just hanging out! It was such a fun trip and I had so much fun being with Jared for three days! We were sad to come back to snow! Hopefully summer will come soon so we can start warming up!!

Happy Birthday Angie!

It's Angie's birthday hooray hooray! We went out to eat at Bella's to celebrate Saturday night and had tons of fun! Angie and her boys!
Me and Darcie

Grandma and Grandpa Samson (I know Jared's a freak, ha)

Corbin, Billie, Bronson, and Mike

Boston was being so cheesy! He makes me laugh!

Jared and Bostie

Big D, Jare-bear and beautiful Taylor

Dallen trying to show Jare his whistling abilities. Ha ha

Last weekend me and Jared drove down to Richfield for my old roommate's wedding. It was a fun little road trip, but Jared's driving is a little scary if you can tell!

Riley, Britt and me! Her reception was so pretty! It makes me excited to plan mine in 5 years :)

This is just a pic of Bridgie from last night. I thought it was cute! A bunch of Jared's nieces and nephews came over and we played with them. They were so funny to play with! We played basketball for awhile and Averee was the funniest! She got pissed. Ha ha! Life is great!

Puppy!

Alley had puppies about 4 weeks ago and they are getting so cute! There are 4 of them: one black and white, two brown and white and one all white! Me and Jared have fallen in love with the white one! She's so precious! Jared affectionately named her Ethel B This is her at about a week old before she had opened her eyes. Jared makes sure he kisses her and tells her that she is beautiful everyday!

This is her after she had opened her eyes! She was missing Jared because he was gone snowmobiling!

Ethel and Jared just a few days ago! She's so tiny! Jared loves to cuddle with her! I'll be sad when she gets sold!

Butter Shaking party and Jazz game!

Me and Jare have been keeping busy! Last Monday we went to the Jazz game. His grandparents got us tickets for Christmas. It was a ton of fun! The Jazz won of course! We got our 15 minutes of fame during the game. This lady came up and asked if she could take our picture for the jazz fan website and we were on the front page of the website for a little bit. I don't think we're on there anymore though!
Hooray for Korver!

My dad and Tessa took Angie and Tyler's tickets because Bronson was in the hospital. I think they saw a whole other side of Jared that they didn't know about :)

Mont and Dave. Mont worries me sometimes. Ha

Last Saturday we went over to grandma and grandpa Stokes to make butter. It was fun! All you do is put cream in a jar and shake in until the butter forms and then dump out the extra cream.

Angie of course won the award for the best shake. She really got into it!

Jared and Dallen are best buds. Jared gets so excited when Dallen comes!

Grandpa and Averee dumping out the cream.

Darcie's belly shot. She looks cute prego!

Who knew Jared was so tough! Ha

And again :)

I think all the kids had fun!

Billie had to show everyone how it's done :)

This is a random picture of Jare and my dad at Target. They thought they were cool :) Jared left Friday morning to go snowmobiling with the guys. It's only been a day and I feel like it's been a week! I miss him so much! He gets back tomorrow! I'm excited!

We live for the weekends!!

With me and Jare being so busy with school and work the weekends are our time we really get to spend time together! We had such a fun weekend and I thought I'd share some pics and memories. Friday night I intruded on guys night and went to the Monster Jams with them. We rode front runner down which I've never done before. It was cute to see Jare with his nephews! Jare, Big D, Bridgie and Bostie
Dallen wanted to take our picture :)

Bost and Bridge were so fun to watch on frontrunner!

Frontrunner again. I don't have any pictures from Valentines Day but I had an amazing day! Jare had a dozen roses sent to my work which were beautiful! Later that night Jared made me a candlelit dinner and burned a CD of love songs and then we watched PS I Love You! He was so sweet! Who knew such a tough guy could be such a romantic!

Monday we didn't have school so we went up to East Canyon ice fishing again! It was fun and I caught the biggest fish of the day. Hooray!

Us and my long fish! Too bad we had to go back to the real world today!

What we do everyday!

I wanted a new post but couldn't think of what to write about so here is what me and Jared do everyday! And sorry if these are goofy pictures, they're the ones we send each other when we're apart :) ha ha Jared (and Al) go to Weber State. He's a sophomore (I think) just finishing up his generals. He hasn't decided what he wants to do yet but he's thinking he wants to do something in the medical field.

I'm in the LPN program at the Ogden Weber Applied Technology College. I am loving it and finish up in May!

After school Jared goes to work at Sportsmans where he works in the gift bar (knives, spotting scopes, binoculars, etc.) He's a pretty good salesman :)

I work at the Olive Garden as a server. It's an okay job and they work really well around my crazy school schedule. We both finish up with work later at night and then spend time together. Life is so busy but its wonderful! We're really loving it and each other!