Crazy Life!

Well I finally made some posts! It has been a month since my last one!! Our lives have been crazy this past month, I started my last semester of nursing school and it just works out that all of my clinicals for the whole semester are crammed into 1 month! Ahhhhhh! And I am still working 1 day a week at the hospital! But by mid October things should slow down. Chad started his first semester of the NAU business program, so he has been super busy with school, studying and work too. But our life is great, and we still find time to do fun things!)

Taffy!

We made home made taffy at G&G Skinner's house for family home evening the other night. It is usually a Christmas tradition so it was fun to change things up a bit! Pulln' taffy is a fun memory for me, Grandpa always pulled it because it was soooo hot!(He would get blister on his hands!) All of the grand kids got different jobs, like buttering the pans, scoring the taffy, breaking the taffy, wrapping the taffy and EATING the taffy!! Grandpa would tell us stories about making taffy when he was a little boy! Well grandpa still helps but he lets some of the other men pull the taffy now that he is sorta retired from it! He He!


Yummy Taffy!

Madi is a picky eater and wasn't sure about the taffy at first, but she liked it!

Meg working hard!

Me and Meg wrapping!

LOTR Monopoly!

It finally came!! I love the Lord of the Rings Monopoly game! The first time we played it was at Heather and Zach's house one of the times we went to visit. Chad and I both like the movies, and the game is fun because everything about it relates to the movies (like characters and properties, ect.) A great twist of the game is that it only takes about 30-45mins to play. Its the perfect amount of time! So if you like board games and LOTR, this game is a must have! Sadly it was sort of a limited edition thing and they don't make them any more. But Chad found one on EBay that was in great condition and for a good price, so we bought it! I kept checking the mail everyday to see if it had come, and it took almost 3 weeks to get here!! But finally it came!

Thatcher Eagles # 1!!

Madi is in the first grade now and she loves it! This year the booster club sold 'Eagle Shirts" that have a Batman theme. (Due to the new Batman movie, and maybe the homecoming theme, I'm not sure yet.) N-E way she likes wearing her shirt to the High School football games, and even to the EAC football games, where she "Got to Hug the Gila Monster! Yeah!" (He is the College's mascot. But Madi informed me that it was a girl in the costume!) She thought it was quite exciting!



Madi, Emma, and Chad. Madi and her cousin Emma are great friends, and they wanted to be matching! Madi and Chad like to have a constant debate about who is the #1 team. The St. David Tigers(Chad's High School) or The Thatcher Eagles! Madi says they can "both be #1" Ha Ha!

Elvis Presley!

I just wanted to do a post in tribute to Elvis! For those who don't know I am a huge Elvis fan, I have been since I was little. I can remember when I was about ten years old I was walking through the store with my dad, we were looking at Elvis CDs and talking about him, then my dad said "Ash you do know that Elvis is dead don't you?" I couldn't believe it! I asked him "When did he die?...Yesterday??" I was so sad to find out that Elvis had actually died August 16th 1977, eight years before I was born. So today is the 17th of August and I meant to post this yesterday but oh well!

Happy Anniversary!

Chad and I have been married now for three years!! Crazy Huh?! Our Anniversary was on August 13th, time has just flown by! It has been such a fun adventure and I can't wait for the rest of forever! Love you!

Just a few pics of our three years!

Our Idaho Vacation!

Ok There are a lot of pictures and posts about this trip, hope no one gets borred, but we had a blast so I had to document! (haha) We went to Idaho for our summer vacation this year. I have lots of extended family and Chad has three sisters that live there now, so it was a no brainer about our vacation destination:)

We got to Uncle Matt and Aunt Tana's Thursday afternoon. We picked up my cousin Candice in Salt Lake. The drive was a little squished but Candice thought of fun games for us to play on the drive, so it went fast.

Watching the Twilight trailer after Tana got home from work!




Chad, Matt, Dad and Meg made a four mile hike into a remote mountain lake to do some serious fishing. They were all pretty sore the next day, but chad said the country was beautiful!

Sadly this was the end of the line for our camera, it got droped in the water and so as you will see many of the pictures after these are blurry. But I snagged a lot of pictures from family members for the blog. Thanks guys!




Bella, McCade,Madi, and Grace!