Bear World!

So near Rexburg there is this place called Bear World... it has a lot of bears.  It's actually pretty cool but super expensive.  Fortunately today they were having a 'Mom's get in free day' and since we only have 10 weeks left we figured that I counted.  We went with Brandon's Grandma and his aunt and uncle.  It was fun and I got a lot of great pictures so be prepared!

 This guy just sat and stared at us.

 The deer and elk look really gross right now because they're all shedding.

 WOLVES!

 The baby bears were so cute!  There were five males and all they wanted to do was wrestle and fight.  I am super excited that this picture turned out so well!

 Grizzly bears are huge!! We decided to see how we measured up.  Our little girl even got in on the picture :)

 There are bears in the background.

 Brandon and his uncle kept messing with the swan and finally it reached up and bit their toes.

 The petting zoo! The deer just sucked on Brandon's shirt.  I wasn't fast enough with the camera to get a picture of that.  

 Brandon's aunt feeding the deer.

 Petting the goat and trying to push over the large pig.

 White Elk!

 The light colored bears are actually black bears.  I didn't get a good picture of the grizzly bears.

 This little guy just sat on his house eating the leaves.  And these two bears started going at it as we came around the corner.  We drove right past them!

Yup... We're just that cool. :)

GRADUATION!!

So apparently I have this thing for graduating... I've done it at least three times.

High School!

After high school I went to Rock Springs, Wyoming where I graduated from Western Wyoming Community College with my Associates of Fine Arts!

And then I married Brandon and moved up to BYU-Idaho where I have officially graduated from with my Bachelor's of Science in Theatre Education!

Yay!! This was a long time in coming and needed to happen now!  You can see in this next picture how excited I was to be there.  The girl next to me was incredibly friendly... I've never met her before.

Our baby girl even got to be in the pictures!

Well that's about it.  I had to student teach a week and a half after I graduated which was really hard but we made it and Brandon even has an internship for the summer in Wyoming!  So back to Wyoming we go!

And the Winner is......

It's a.... GIRL!!

Yes those are her toes up by her arm.... She sleeps like her mom does.

We are incredibly excited to be having a little girl.  Brandon called it from the first day so looks like her Daddy knows her already. :)

And this is me at 21 weeks.  Not a great picture but that's okay.

SNOW DAY!!

In 13 years of public education living in northern Utah I only had one snow day.  It was in fifth grade and we had to make it up on a holiday.  Then I moved to Rock Springs, WY for two years where we didn't have a snow day.  After graduating from Western I moved to Rexburg, ID where I attended BYU-I for two years... no snow day.  Finally I get to my last semester where I am teaching at Rigby High School and I've already had TWO snow days! I don't even have to make them up!  This is what we did today besides me sleeping on the couch while Brandon was in class.

Our snow this morning!

I made cinnamon rolls because that's just what you do on a cold day.

These are before they went into the oven.

 
After they came out of the oven.  I have to say that they are pretty delicious. :)

Then we played in the snow and made awesome snow sharks.

The first picture is Brandon and the second picture is me... in case you can't tell. ;)

 This is me being eaten by the snow.  We have at least 12 in. possibly 15 and even more in some spots I would guess.

 Our snow sharks!

A little catch up!

So I realize that I haven't actually posted for a really long time and I'm about a year behind... FAIL.  But it's not like we've just been sitting around either.  Here are some happenings:

My cousin Chris got married to a great girl named Amber!

Which I have pictures of but they happen to be on our external hard drive... which is currently in Utah.

Brandon's brother Nathaniel got married to Audrey! We love her!

We moved in with my Mom for the summer and spent a lot of time with family.  I worked at Brigham Medical Clinic and Brandon worked at ACE Hardware... (PS he needs an internship this summer... mechanical engineering).

Here are some of our summer adventures:

We fed Otters! Thanks Brian!

We went to Moab with some of Brandon's siblings... it was 105 degrees... not something I would recommend.

The Brigham City Temple was built and dedicated!

We went to Colter Bay with Brandon's family.  It was the last time we were ALL together. :(

We went indoor rock climbing with my family.  Yes this is our four year old niece climbing.  She LOVED it!

My mom, sister-in-law, and I bottled 70 quarts of peaches.  Yeah we rock.

Then school started and we moved back to Rexburg.  But exciting things didn't stop there.  In October Jason came home!

... This might be the only picture I have of Jason's homecoming... oops.

In all the in between we bought a car, a couch and Brandon played some Hi-Ho Cherry-O!

Thanksgiving came along and we had lots of fun with family.  And did I mention that's when we found out we are going to be adding to our little family?  Our bundle of joy will be here in July!

Christmas came and we were blessed enough to spend time with both our families.  Now we're back in school.  I'm in Rigby student teaching and Brandon's taking 15 credits of really hard classes.  (You should see his stack of books.)  We're really excited for 2013! It will bring graduations for both of us and a new baby along with lots of crazy and fun adventures.  And just for good measure, because I couldn't resist, one last picture:

Sorry for the Delay :)

Okay so I have been really horrible at posting lately... as in something like six months, but I have a good reason!  I'm a senior.  That's right there is a light at the end of the tunnel of my formal education!  I am going to be student teaching in January at Rigby Senior High School in Rigby, ID.   For those of you who don't know it's about a 15 maybe 20 minute drive from our apartment.  This is a whole lot better than student teaching in Pocatello, where I could have been which is an hour away on good roads.  I am so excited because I get to help with......

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I LOVE this musical and am so excited to be a part of it again.  Yes, that's right, once upon a time I was in the musical at the Heritage Theatre, which is a community theatre in Brigham... well technically Perry.  Here I am! This was right after the dream ballet.

Well I should probably go back to my homework that I am working so hard to avoid... I also need to do the dishes.