Angel's Landing Hike

The beginning of the Hike, it was kicking our butts at first, but we were still happy to be out! We were supposed to do Kolob Arch since it is Tradition to hike it in the month of March because that's when Phil proposed to me, but it freakin had to snow so we chose a worthy alternative: Angel's Landing.

Phil always it ahead of the game when we go hiking, he is the man!

Val climbing the 1st round of switchbacks

Far way down to fall! I was so Scared, I think this was the most scared I've been in a really long time! WAY TOO HIGH up for me! And without anything to catch me! YIKES!!!!!!!!!

These were taken just as we were about to head down the mountain, I said Phil could get on top of the highest peak but there was NO WAY I was going to get up there. He is so buff! :)

Blasted Cedar City SNOW!!

This is the only good thing about winter snow in March.

Yesterday evening Phil, Valerian and I dug up one of our trees

(an extra cherry tree) that was planted in the middle of our backyard. We had raked all the leaves and decided to give the extra cherry tree to Emily as a birthday present and now there is a lovely hole in the ground which is now covered in snow blah! I hope it melts so we can continue to do yardwork!

This is the view from my sink inside

And this is the lovely hole in the ground blah! the root is what is covered in snow.

The bags in the distance are from the leaves we cleaned up yesterday when there was NO snow!

Ok I just needed to vent about the snow so I hope you enjoyed it! Phil and I are just ready to start gardening and living up to our last name, Spring hurry please!

AND now to the CURRENT! 2010

This year has already been a blast and we have been so blessed. In my massive amounts of posting I forgot to mention one of our other big things of 2009, we bought a house! It is great it is a 6 bedroom 2 bath and WAY TOO BIG FOR 2 people, I guess that means I'll be having babies soon, j/k ;) Yeah for my birthday we had a double party a Housewarming/Birthday Party at our new place. :) It was great! Lots of friends and family came, I unfortunately took no photos then but I can add photos of the house itself! :)

And this next photo is what I want to do to the outside of it to make it not light pink and salmon trim.

Since we have this huge house we decided to get a foreign exchange student, Jeff, Phil's brother, had one last year and we did too for a month with Mike and Emily and it was great so we thought we would try it out as being the actual host parents.

This is from the day we picked him up from the air port.

His name is Valerian, or Val for short and he is from Belgium. He has been lots of fun and we love having him with us. We picked him up in the St. George airport in January and he has been living with us ever since. It has been great!

As for my last semester of classwork I have been using many different 'tools.' This is my toolbox idea for my painting class. We are doing psychological self portraits and I decided to focus mine on the many different roles I have been playing this year.

I am in some fairly difficult Physical Education classes and 2 art classes. It has been really hard to keep up on everything but I am doing alright I think! Since we have another mouth to feed I've been trying to cook more and once last month I cooked this AWESOME Curry!

So that was another tool that I added to my toolbox. I also will be taking the Art Praxis, a test I have to pass so I will be able to teach art, next Saturday... yikes so close! So I included the art praxis booklet too. I am confident I will do well enough on it but I have been studying as much as possible! Wish me luck and pray that I will pass so I will be able to student teach next semester!

Special Occasions and Christmas 2009

This was our traditional hike to Kolob Arch trip we take every March. This was also when my birthday camera broke so yeah we only got two photos and some crummy video footage. We decided to hike to the river spot and camped out there. It was SUPER SUPER COLD! We only packed our light sleeping bags and only one skinny mat to lay on so we toss and turned all night because our sides would get sore from laying on the hard ground. Then after we woke up from that we fall asleep briefly but then only to wake up again to change positions. BURR! It was nice and warm in the morning so we hiked to the Arch and then hiked to the car. We did come out of this experience learning something new, that it is worth bringing heavier sleeping bags to make the time more enjoyable. :)

Our 2nd year anniversary trip to the cabin, this was taken near the bristle-comb pine tree trail.

This Christmas we decided to make our presents for Phil's family. I was taking a printmaking class and thought it would be cool to make a print of the Green Family Cabin. I also thought it would be cool to give each of them a copy as a gift. So the project began! I carved out the huge 2'x3' linoleum block, it was very time consuming but phew I made it! :) Next was printing them. Phil was able to come help me make the prints at the school, it was great I think he appreciated it more once he knew the process it went through to make it. After that was done Phil began making frames for them. He had fun doing that and I think he finished most of them in the course of 3 nights. All the Greens were over at our house for Christmas Day and we suprised them all with the print. It was such a great idea I hope we can do something similar again in the future.

For Christmas Phil and I like to go to homes where children are present so we went to Jeff and Adrienne's. Braden and Casen were so fun to watch opening their presents! When they came to wake us up Braden told us all about the note Santa had left and all the cookies that he had eaten. We didn't take many photos but here is one of Casen showing off his present.

Cabin Trip Mar 2009

This is one of the many cabin trips we took. This one was in March of 2009.

The cute kids we had to keep us entertained when our own company was not enough.

The boys doing what boys do best. :)

Shantae and I

Just bumming around. And it looks as though Phil just got done picking his nose... ew!

This is of Michelle with her plastic bag shoes to keep her from getting muddy. As you can see it was very VERY muddy.

The Grandma Bradshaw Reunion July 2009

These were taken at the Green Cabin during the Bradshaw reunion. This one is of Phil and Katelyn his favorite niece named Katelyn.

Shotgun shooting is a must if any of the Green boys are involved and yeah they were. I was one of the only girls that wanted to go. I think I may have beat one guy... but I can't remember.

We also went GEO-Cashing. This was not the first time I had been but it was pretty dang fun. We had a hard time hiking up to the top of this hill to find the last GEO-cash for the day so we had to document it as an accomplishment. We hope to go GEO-cashing again sometime.

McCall Parsons Reunion Aug 2009

These photos were all from the Parsons Annual Reunion. We went back to McCall Idaho, (one of the first Reunions we had was there) so it was fun to visit again. This trip made me think of my Grandma Parsons a lot and it was fun to feel that she would be happy we continue to have Reunions.

Phil and Ryan were having a competition, each won once and that was enough so....

Then they decided to push in my sisters and cousins. it was great. I was holding Jaclyn's camera so I did not get thrown in at this time but don't worry Phil threw me in later! :)

Phil, Dad and Mom on our hike to Duck Pond or Creek, it was a very pretty hike! Phil even took some of it home with him, he carried a 25lb piece of rock from about 1/2 a mile from the end of the hike. He is crazy! But the rock does make a good decoration and gets fun conversations started. :) I was much smarter and carried 2 smaller palm sized rocks.

This photo is an example of how crazy relatives can get when they all get together. My cousins, sisters and I all made a lipsync to Lady Gaga's "Just Dance." It was way fun and Phil will have to tell you how 'awesome' it was. :)

On our way home from McCall I found a place called the Shoshone Falls in Twin Falls Idaho. Since none of us were really in a hurry to get home I talked the members of my family into going there as a side trip. We took the waverunners into the Snake and had fun playing there, it wasn't too busy and Mom and Phil needed breaks from driving anyway. I love spontaneous stops that are AWESOME! :)

2008 Continued

Ok so I really am new to this blogging stuff so all the photos are in reverse order! YAY!

This was our 2008 formal Christmas picture with my family. We spent it that year with my parents and then spent the rest of it with the Greens at the Cabin.

Phil bought us both tickets to the midnight showing it was awesome. Phil may have been one of the only men in the audience but we had fun.

For my birthday Phil bought me a digital camera (that sadly no longer works) new shoes and running socks along with Ben and Jerry's ICE CREAM! :) what a guy! This was the year I made a bet that I could go a year without candy or sweets and ended up winning just last year and got a bike as my prize! :)

Summer Games 5k that I ran with Kenzie. it was fun!

Phil and I in Hawaii near the temple. We love HAWAII!! and if you recall from last post this was taken in July.

Spring/Summer 2008 in a nutshell

Since I don't really want to spend lots of time playing catchup I'm going to just post a couple of main photos that I have from the years leading up to this one...

This was what I got Phil for New Years Eve... at first I thought he was going to kill me because I kind of just surprised him by bringing him home. Phil did not say much to me all new years eve because he was so shocked/mad about having a kitten. I was only able to keep him after he said, "Well you are going to have to take care of it!" This kitty knew he had to get on Phil's good side and soon he did! We named him Sosete which means "Socks" in Romanian. Phil and he are very good friends now.

This photo was taken after we had moved into Mike and Emily's House in the SWEETEST basement apartment EVER! (before living here we had lived in two other basement apartments with much smaller bathrooms and much less room.. this place was great it had 2 bath and 3 beds, too much room for two people but we loved being that close to Mike and Emily and kids!)

This was when Lins had a case lot sale and I decided it was time to start my own just in case! We have some left over from then but we do enjoy having it.
These two photos are from Spring of 2008 when Kenzie Emily and I were all training together. We all had a goal to run the Bryce Canyon Half Marathon in July so in the mean time we did any race we could find. :) Above is the Nursing 5k and below is the SUU Indoor Triathlon. Kenzie ran, I swam and Emily biked. (so much fun!)

This was our First Cruise together (AKA second Honeymoon) We went to Cabo San Lucas on the Carnival ship Elation. We had such a fun time! (sorry for the single picture, trying to sum up a year is hard!)

After going on our Cruise Phil came back home to "graduate" even though he still had summer English classes to finish. This is him and his parents on that lovely day!

These photos were taken in Hawaii for our 2nd 2nd honeymoon. We spent 1 week in July on Oaiho. It was fun and I'll post more photos from it on next blog but I'm having troubles with the loading of photos so we shall see!