Our New Hobby:

GEOCASHING!!! :)

For Phil's Birthday I had help from others and bought him a hand held Garmin GPS! Ever since our new hobby has been finding geocashes around the Cedar City area. We have discovered some pretty cool places, my favorite was back in May; we found a cool man made tunnel with GEO cash that you sign at the end. Around there there is also a cool little cabin thing that we saw. Here are some of the photos from our geo-cash adventures :) (most of these photos were from May and June)

These photos were from the first time we went with our new found friends, Sami and Brant Palmer! Val was still living with us then, we had lots of fun!

The next set are from when we went up to the cabin, we took a bunch of kids (nieces and nephews) with us and Jacee my cousin came too! :) it was fun!

Garden Blog

I started a Gardening Blog because this is my first real time having and taking care of my own garden so if you want to please follow! :) it is called Kaylee's Green Garden and the address for it is kayleesgreengarden.blogspot.com please come see what's growing at my place! :)

Graduation 2010

Even though I still have student teaching to do and a few summer classes the college decided I was close enough to walk. So I am graduated without being truly done but hey, at least I'm close! :)

Here are some photos from that day:

Phil, Val, and Me

Jessica (my Art Ed buddy), Arlene Braithweight (our Art Ed advisor), and Me

Dad, me and Mom :)

These next photos are from the PE graduation, the one that was much longer and much more boring! Art was the best! So Phil and his bro Mike did get a little bored...

as you can see by this photo of Mike

Grandma Tippets, Dad, me and Phil 

My grandma Tippets was such a good sport she tackled the stairs and massive amounts of walking just for me! Thanks Grandma you're the best! :)

Val and Mom shot

Me and My favorite Professor, Jean Lopour! :)

Me next to the painting I sold at the BFA show in the Braithweight Gallery

 Thanks everyone who sent their congratulations I can't wait to get into the classroom this fall! I'll be doing my student teaching at Canyon View Middle School YAY!

The Return

Well May-mester hasn't been too bad, I probably should keep it up but I really enjoy updating this with my life because I live far from my family and this is one of the ways they are part of my life so more to come soon hopefully!

Easter Break and self ban

Why hello fellow bloggers I'm here to give a brief report on our Easter break festivies! Phil, Valerian and I all went to the Green Cabin near Panguitch Lake! It was a lot of fun! All of the Green's were there even if it wasn't for a really long time, minus Garth and Wendy of course (they will be home in July of this year). It was so great to hang out with all of my nieces, nephews, bro in laws, and sister in laws. Family is the best! On Friday we made a trip to Brian Head and went everyone was skiing except me, I borrowed my sister's board and snowboarded instead. Phil ended up teaching Casen, Jeff's son how to ski and had a great time doing that. He is going to make such a great Dad someday, watching him and Casen learn was so much fun for me! I ended up budding up with Allison, Lori's daughter and had lots of fun with her. We took the longer bunny hill, Navahoe and she took me a way where we went under a bridge, it was way fun! She had been on Navahoe many more times than me, even though she is only 11 years old! Fun stuff.

On Saturday we watched/listened to conference and also sent all the "dad's" out sledding with the little ones. It was fun playing Easter bunny while the kids were occupied and after that I enjoyed watching Phil play with his nieces and nephews. He again made me decide he will be a great dad someday, even if he sometimes blended in more with the kids rather than the adults!

Sunday was the day of cleaning and watching conference, it was so busy I am afraid I didn't really listen to much of conference but do remember hearing the Mtab sing "I know that my Redeemer Lives" it is my favorite song from the hymn book! It made me feel good and made me realize I may be lacking in showing that I know He lives. I plan to work on this from here on out which brings me to my next part of this entry.

"There is no STRENGTH without a STRUGGLE"

I have had an extremely hard time with my classes this semester and have finally decided to cut some things that I enjoy doing so I can stay focused, meaning I will not be writing any more updates until the last week in May. So if I do not respond to comments or to your personal blogs it is because I need to focus and get back on track! I will be graduating April 30th and May 1st if any of you are in Cedar please stop by and come support me! To get more information on when and where call or text me. Until the last week in May!

-Kaylee

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.