Big news!

Nathan and I have some big, exciting news!!!

So awhile back I mentioned that after many job interviews, Nathan accepted a job in Detroit, Michigan. It is a company called ATR and it is contracted about by Ford. He will be a Technical Service Engineer, and will be helping techs solve problems on Ford vehicles. Ever since we got the job offer, back in the end of February, we have been waiting to hear back for a start date! They told us it could be anytime from June-August. It has been a very long wait but we FINALLY heard back from them last Friday! Nathan will be starting his new job on JUNE 17th!! We will be moving all the way out to Michigan at the beginning June! So we've got about a month to find a place to live, back up our home, sell anything we don't want to take, find someone to take over the last couple months of our lease and move! It will be a crazy month, but we are excited! Excited for the new adventures ahead of us!! 

       Nathan and I weren't sure if we would be here in Rigby through the summer or not, but Rigby Lake is just down the road from us, and we bought some fun things to be ready for fun days out at the lake! Sad now that we wont really have any days out there anymore, but we are moving really close to Lake Erie, so hopefully we will be able to put them to use!!

So that's our big news!! Moving to Michigan in a month and a half! Wish us luck!

Nathan's a College Graduate!

This last weekend was a pretty fun and exciting weekend! Friday night Nathan graduated BYUI with his Bachelors in Automotive Technology and a Minor in Welding and Fabrication! With a 3.7 GPA! He has worked very hard to get to this point and I couldn't be more proud of him!!

 

Nathan's brother Ben came up from Provo and also his parents came down from Washington for it his graduation! We went to the Commencement that night in the BYUI center and watched all the graduates walk in and then heard from President Clark and The Presiding Bishop, Bishop Stevenson. After the Commencement was over we headed over to the Taylor Building for the Convocation. It was great to be there and hear Nathan's name being read and watching him walk over to receive his "Diploma".... or as one of the professors called it, the coveted diploma holder! It was a long night, but it was fun and way good to have some family there to spend it with!!

 

The weather wasn't very cooperative that weekend. Super, crazy windy and freak hail storms and way freezing!!! But we still found ways to have a good time! The guys spent the morning out in the garage helping Nathan finish up my bike that he was rebuilding!

Nathan's dad brought his new Pistol and really wanted to shoot it, so even tho it was crazy windy and freezing outside we went out past R mountain and each shot a couple rounds! After that we met up with my sister Shantay and her family and went to Big Judd's for dinner!! Good ole Idaho food! Huge hamburgers and homemade fries! So so yummy! It was great spending time with family for the weekend and catching up!

Our company all left the next morning... it was a short but fun weekend!

Here is the before and after of my new and improved bike!! I love it!

March Madness...w/o the basketball!

 So quite a bit has happened since the last time I wrote! March and April always seem to be busy months! 

After Nathan's birthday, I spent a good week spring cleaning our apartment. Going through everything, reorganizing, making donating piles, throw away piles, etc. I was able to donate quite a bit of stuff and throw away lots too! It definitely helped de-clutter our apartment! Our second bedroom is finally functional! And we finally put pictures in picture frames and put pictures on our walls and shelves! Took me long enough! Haha! 

On March 29th, Nathan and I celebrated our 6 month anniversary! I can't believe it's been 6 months since I was sealed to that wonderful man! That day was so perfect! :D

 

Then the next day we had some friends over to dye some Easter eggs and eat cake for my birthday! We had quite the variety of decorated eggs when we were done!

 Nathan made me a paper mache bunny and got me flowers for my birthday/Easter!

My birthday landed on Easter this year, so after we went to church we headed over to my sisters house to celebrate Easter and my birthday with her family! It was warm and sunny that day, so we took my niece and nephew over to the park across the street and let them play while the "Easter Bunny" came to their house.  We had lots of fun with the kids! Watching Titan go down the slide and Zaylie show off her mad monkey bar skills! 

After the park we went back to their house and the kids had fun looking at their Easter baskets and going on an Easter egg hunt! After they found all the eggs, we went back inside and had Easter/birthday dinner! Then we opened presents and had yummy homemade birthday cake that my sister, Shantay made!

 That next week Nathan was super busy with school. It was the last week before finals, so he had a ton of projects and assignments due. After his crazy, busy week of non-stop school work, we decided to go down to Salt Lake City for General Conference that weekend! It was a very nice getaway! We left Friday night after work and got to our hotel around 9:30ish. We enjoyed just relaxing that night and having no homework or anything else to worry about or do. The next morning we got up early and headed down to SLC with Nathan's brother Ben for General Conference. Ben was able to get us all some tickets for the first session!! We were so excited that we were able to get into the Conference Center for a session. Such a special spirit is in there! It was great to be there and to be on Temple Square and to watch and listen to the Prophet and Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints all day! It was a wonderful, spiritual and uplifting weekend! 

 Nathan graduates from BYUI this Friday, which is very exciting! Then maybe life will slow down a little?! Probably not, but oh well! We are enjoying it and having a great time! =)

Is Spring here yet?

So I hadn't done anything to my hair since my wedding... no trim, no color, nothing. And for me that's a long time! Lately I've really been wanting to change it up a bit, but couldn't decide what I wanted to do. So a couple weeks ago I finally went to my friend Annie Cooper (who is a great hairstylist) and told her that I wanted a change, but wasn't sure what to do, and was having a hard time making a decision. I told her to just go for it and do something fun!

This is before

 And this is after! I GOT BANGS!! I love it! :)

So the weather here in Idaho, likes to tease us! We have been getting small glimpses of Springtime coming, and those small glimpses have been very nice! So one of the first glimpses we got, Nathan and I busted out our cruiser bikes that we got last fall and went for a bike ride to the lake! It was still pretty chilly, but the sun was out and it was warmer than it has been in a long time!

It was great to be outside, and out on a bike ride! It made me really want the warm weather to get here!! I'm ready for summer!!

Happy Birthday Nathan!

Happy 25th birthday to Nathan!!

 So some of you might already know this about me, but I LOVE birthdays, and I LOVE to make a big deal about them. Nathan found that out last week! :) I threw him his first ever surprise party the Saturday before his birthday! It was at my sisters house in Idaho Falls and had it a Duck Dynasty theme, which was pretty fun! I decorated her basement all in cameo, and made Nathan a Duck Dynasty poster for his man cave garage. I also got him a pretty cool Hunters cake for the party! We had a good time hanging out with friends and watching some fun Duck Dynasty episodes!! It was fun to see how surprised Nathan was when we got there! I'm glad I was able to keep it from him till then!

 
On Nathan's actual birthday I only had to work in the morning. So when I got home we had some lunch and then met up with some of his buddies so they could go trike drifting! They found this hill, that they love and they are always wanting to go there, but they need a driver to pull them back up the hill! So that's my job.... haha! These guys have so much fun with these drift trikes, it is so fun to watch! 

After a couple of hours, we headed back home so I could make Nathan his favorite dinner (lasagna) and finish his birthday cake (German Chocolate). We spent the rest of the night with just the two of us, eating lasagna and birthday cake and snuggling while watching a movie we rented (Here Comes the Boom). It was a fun, and eventful, yet relaxing day!

Where did February Go?!

I can't believe it's almost March already!! Where has February gone?! 

It has been a fun and busy month for Nathan and I! It was full of school, work, job interviews, road trips to Utah and Boise, Valentines day, snowmobiling, and spending time with family and friends! 

So it was Nathan and I's first Valentine's Day together, so I wanted to do something special and fun for it! So for the week of Valentine's Day, everyday I put out a candy bar with a fun little "love" saying for Nathan. Then for the day of I made a poster of a candy bar poem for him, and had it in his car when he left for school that day!

After work, I came home to a bouquet of orange roses and my favorite chinese dinner!

The day before Valentine's Day Nathan had a job interview in Spanish Fork, UT. So we took a quick day trip down to Utah that day. We got up early and left Rigby around 7:00 that morning. When we stopped in Thanksgiving point to fill up on gas, Nathan got a phone call from another company (in Detroit, Michigan) he has been interviewing with and they offered him a Job! So, needless to say, the rest of the drive down to Spanish Fork, our minds were going 100 miles a minute! Talking about pros and cons, and everything! Nathan was excited to know that they were very impressed by him and wanted him! Helped give him more confidence for his next interview! Around 11:00 ish we rolled in to Spanish Fork and I dropped him off at his interview! A couple hours later he had finished up at the interview, feeling pretty confident that they would offer him a job as well! So we had lots to talk and think about! 

Both Nathan and I have brothers that live in the Provo area, so while we were in town we wanted to see them! So we first dropped by Nathan's brother Ben's house. We caught up and hung out with him for a couple hours, which was so great! Then around 5 we headed to Lehi area to meet my brother Jason for dinner before we headed back home! It was so good to see him and catch up with him as well! Finally around 6:30 we started making our way back home to good ole Rigby! We pulled in around 10:30 ish, and were glad to be home! It was a long but good day! We were really glad we were able to see our brothers for a little bit at least! 

 On the road again!!

Then two days later, on Friday, after work and school we packed up our car again and headed to Boise for the long weekend! Nathan's old roommate and good buddy invited us to go to Boise, with his finance and another old roommate and his wife, where his family lives and spend the weekend snowmobiling! It was a blast! We had such a great time with everyone there! We went up to Cascade and spent a good chunk of Saturday snowmobiling!

 

All geared up and ready to go!!

 

 It was a beautiful, sunny, and warm day! Couldn't have asked for better weather!

 The gorgeous view from the very top!!

  Me with the sled I drove most of the day!

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  By the time we got back that night we were all pooped! We spent the rest of the weekend just relaxing and having fun with everyone! It was a great weekend, and so nice to get away for a couple of days to just play and relax!! Oh and on our way to Boise, Nathan got another job offer from the place in Spanish Fork! Crazy!! So the weekend was really good for us. It helped get our minds off of things for a couple days! Then of course, every good thing has to come to an end, and the weekend was over and we had to head back home to real life, and making a decision on a job!

We had a busy week, with school and work, and trying to decide which job to take, and also my mom and sister came to visit for the week from Atlanta, so we spent as much time as we could with them!

 It was fun to see my mom and sister, and to spend time with my family for a couple of days! We had some good times, and really enjoyed having my niece and nephew entertain us!!

and now.... without further ado...........

With much thought, and pro and con lists, plugging in numbers, looking at google maps street view,  and many, many prayers, we have decided to accept the job in.......................

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Detroit, Michigan! 

Scary place, I know. But we have looked at some suburbs southwest of Detroit that look really nice and safe! We don't know yet when we will start, but we should know in the next couple of weeks! I will keep you posted! We are excited, and can't wait for our next adventure together!!