oh my goodness

we have been busy busy.
andy graduated and his two sisters, a bother in law, 5 kids and his mom were all staying with us in our 2 bedroom apt. it was really good to see them all. enjoy the very cute pics below of some awesome things we did. going to the sand dunes, checking out the caves, ice cream eating, swimming in the river, parade and picnic in st anthony and best of all andy graduating. my family also came up and we went to bar j and lava hot springs. too much fun!!


story time with all my little friends


Caves


ice cream that makes me want to be a kid again


swimming


Sand Dunes


waiting for the parade


my big graduate


andy me and his mama


matt, kris, bess, andy and his mom


ernie, sam, hank, me, andy. my mom and dad


family at bar j wranglers




andy jumping off the high dive at lava hot springs


climbing wall at lava

fun

we have been busy! these past saturdays have been too much fun! we have been active in making eastern idaho exciting and eventful. we hiked "r" mountain-finally. everyone does it so we thought we could handle it. it was beautiful and found out something interesting. the buttes in the eastern idaho, are a volcano that blew up like a thousand years ago. it is now a big crater you can hike up and then down into. it was definatly a steep hike but well worth it. we saw all kinds of butterflies, birds of prey and huge bumble bees-the really fuzzy kind. the flowers were my favorite. then the nest weekend we went to mesa falls and hiked to both the upper and lower. b-e-a-utiful. andy loves the waterfalls. we also just got done with floating the warm river. we decided to go in the "heat" of the day. we ended up drifting through two storms and freezing our butts off. it was still fun. enjoy the pics!



at the top



on the way up and up and up...the cars are very far away

pretty flowers

real cactus!

the bid crater at the top

andy looking at the waterfall at mesa falls

lower falls

the river we followed to the lower falls

things

fun filled life has come now that the snow has melted and we only get the occasional flurry. we went to west yellowstone on national park free day and we also hit up jackson hole wy. it was really ritzy and steered clear of all the places that looked like their might be a fee just to enter and breath their air but we did see a good street show. we are trying to see everything that we need to see over here before we leave this place forever. if any person has a suggestion please feel free to speak up. here are some pictures to prove how out going we have been lately! enjoy


andy loved this mud volcano-infact after seeing it he said "I am the mud volcano" whatever that is supposed to mean.


great wild animals...including the Asian people we saw in droves...


we got really close to some buffalo


lots of buffalo!


great water falls and fun rainbows!


awesomeness


super pretty views!!


awwww


me next to a thin crust part of west


the groesbecks came along for the ride



andy and i in jackson under a ton of antlers!


hank ate a lot of the yummy ranch pizza


but we also got a piece or two

May, flowers, spring...snow?

why must i live in a place where in the morning i can plant flowers but by 5pm they have a nice layer of new snow on top?

march madness

boy are we happy that march is done with. we found out we were being kicked out of our apt 4 weeks ago. this was not due to anything we had done, it was becuase the owner of our apt complex stopped making his mortage payments. so, the government being as they are, decided that money would solve the problem. they let our land lord out of his mortgage and started throwing money at the situation. us being poor newly weds bit the bate and decided to move for mula. a very stressful and long, busy month later we are in our new place. our new place is pretty big and soooo much better then our last place. we have more room and its not tecnically in rexburg any more. :) this is the best part. we are outside of rexburg in a place called salem. from what i understand its a voting district of 10,000 people-or it could have been 1,000 (i past the sign really fast and i need a new perscription). by the way things look out here it may have even been 10,000-1,000 cows not people...anyways-its closer to where i work and we shop in sugar city, "where sweet things grow". i thought that was cute.

one thing that seems to be a little odd about our new place is that the lights in the kitchen go on and off on their own and then they'll come back on and another one will go out. i have decided that it must be a new way of saving energy-not having all the light bulbs on at the same time...andy says we just need to replace them...we'll see.

so after arguing for 15m about who would go get the camera out of the 4-runner i have the camera. :) (its cold outside! lol) here are some pics of what march has been like. enjoy!

this is the kitchen with the lights that are sometimes out. they take turns, its odd

living room-not too bad for just moving in-right?

got to love the midnight pics! this is the midnight 5k andy decided to run the day we moved. our other friend andy called him up and asked if he wanted to join the party-andy immediately thought "what would sam bremmer do?" and then replied yes. we were up till 1am and then got up later that day to move all of our stuff-love it.

this is andy and andy afterwards. they got their butts kicked but did impressively well for just running an impromptu 3.2 miles!

this was a primary activity that we did for st. patricks day. we made little hats and had a cake walk and then went on a hunt to find the missing shamrocks. while they were hunting a leapercon came and put candy in their shoes. too much fun! i am going to miss these guys!

With the new place comes a new ward-wish us luck!

ps-we have lots of boxes. come and get them-please!

updates

so i thought i should up date my life a little.

... :)

ok so my life is that exciting. i am still at salt lake express as the operations manager. the other manager just got back from a month long vacation to mexico/irland. sooo jelous but i never put any of my mexico pics on here so maybe i'll do that and relive my old vacation rather then pay another rediculous about of money on a new one. it should work right!?

so here are some....

breakfast-yum!

beach at tulum mx

tulum ruins

drinks by the beach

andy at chichen itza

our towel animals

eating at xel-ha

we had a really good time there and hope to make another trip like that soon. :) for now we are stuck in rexburg in the snow. boo