The M&M Trio

Hey Everybody,Just like everyone else I'm sure, we had a wonderful Christmas! Did lots of fun things with lots of fun people! Unfortunately my mom was sick on the day we were with my family.Poor thing! We went over to my mom and dads on Christmas Eve for a little bit. We went over to my grandmas later on for some Christmas craziness! : ) After we went back to my mom and dad's house where Santa came a little early. It was so fun seeing Aaron's reaction to his RC that Santa just brought him. He was hyperventilating! : ) My parents and I gave Mike a Dremel which he could wait to tear into. : ) Later that night we went to my mother in law's to spend the night so we could be there nice and early Christmas morning. Ended up only getting 4 hours of sleep. Awesome! :) It was fun to open presents with everybody. The presents were followed by a delicious Christmas brunch. The next day was filled with some crazy RCing. On Sunday we got a wonderful surprise that Rachel and Jake and kids were coming from Montana. It was so good to see them, and I absolutely loved holding little Bridger! Mike even got in on the baby action (cause I forced him too. : ) ) The week then proceeded with Monopoly, and other fun games. : ) New Years Eve was also a blast. We went over to Brock and Savannah's house for a game of Curses, Catch Phrase, and other fun ones. All in all, the holidays were awesome, and I'm sad to see them over. Thanks to all of our family and friends for the fun times and good food. : ) Ps. A lot of my pictures were either blurry or got deleted on accident. So sorry cause a lot of the fun didn't get caught on photo.

Mike and I at Brock and Savannah's house on New Years Eve

"The Boys" We got a picture of "The Girls" but my stupid camera was blurry most of the time.

I graduated from my LPN program on Thursday! It was a good time. I kinda felt bad for the fam though cause it ended being 2 hours by the end of it. It's kind of weird that I won't see some of the people in my class anymore. Next step, RN! PS. I'm sorry I don't have any pictures up. We took a whole bunch but they were all blurry for some reason. Tata!! ; )

I hope that everybody had a wonderful Thanksgiving! We did! The food was fabulous! (Thanks mom!) The family was wonderful! It was all good. Mike and I have so much to be grateful for. We want to thank all of our family and friends for everything they do for us and for being in our lives. We're so blessed! : ) P.S sorry I kinda got busy later on and didn't take very many pictures.

Copy and paste this link below to see how Mike and I are getting ready for the holidays! : )

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BOO! Halloween was so fun! I was kind of feeling yucky Friday night/Saturday Morning (No it wasn't morning sickness!!) but luckily I got feeling better that night. We had a good time going to the corn maze on Friday night and yes I'm a huge wimp! It was haunted and I got pretty scared a couple times! Then on Saturday night we went to Mckade and Stacies for a little Halloween shin dig. Good food, good friends, good fun! : 0 )

This is Cleatus and Ellie May!

I just thought I would share a few pictures of what we've been up to the last couple of weeks. We've made a couple of dunes trips. Always fun. It was my dads birthday on the Sept. 23rd so we went over there for a little birthday fun. One thing that Mike and my dad like to do is Play with their E maxx remote control trucks. They're really cool actually. They have tons of fun with them. My mom bought my dad a new body for his e maxx and painted it with his favorite band, RUSH, and the theme. She did a really good job on it. She kinda painted his old one that is way beat up too and gave him that one as a joke. So now that's his bashing body and he has is RUSH one that he doesn't even dare drive with. Anyway here are some pictures of their

little e maxx time. : ) TTFN.

Hey everybody! Sorry I haven't posted anything for a while. It's been kinda busy this last little bit. So I have to tell you how my husband is the master at jimmy rigging. I needed to take a little break before I started my studying again, so Mike and I decided to go mountain biking up green canyon. (Please ignore the fact that I look like a man in the first picture!!?) So the night before we went biking, Mike had the idea to make a homemade bike rack for the truck. We had bought these little things that are supposed to go in the bed of a truck that you can attach your bikes to, but they have to screw directly into the bed of the truck. Since we tend to cycle through vehicles so quickly, Mike did want to bolt them to the bed. So he came up with an ingenious idea. Instead of buying a bike stand from Al's for $250 per bike, Mike being the rigger (and cheap : ) he is decided to go to Home Depot for a solution. One shower curtain rod, plumbing bolts and some screws and bolts later, we had a bike rack! And it actually worked pretty good. : ) Silly man! ; )

Yikes! Please ignore this picture!

We even picked out a "chrome" show curtain rod. ; )

So Mike's birthday was on Tuesday the 18th. He got spoiled! It started with a lovely dinner on Sunday with Mikes family at Cindy's house. We had a good time just hanging out with everybody. Mike got some cute clothes from his mom and grandparents. I unfortunately didn't know that we would be celebrating his birthday with them that day, so I didn't bring my camera. Dangit! The next day we went to El Toro Viejo in Brigham City with Al, Jake, and Mckade and Stacie. The waiters at the restaurant made Mike wear a sombrero while they sang Happy Birthday to him is Spanish, then in English. :) We went to go see "The Travelers Wife" after that. (Yes we went to a chick flick on Mikes birthday. Unfortunately we had seen everything else, and no I don't recommend seeing The Travelers Wife! It was horrible!) Then on Tuesday we went to Quizno's for a quick birthday lunch with Kate, Cindy, Nate, Tyler and Kristen. After lunch, Mike and I, Mckade and Stacie, and Danny went for a little 4 wheeler ride up to Mt. Logan. Fun as usual. : )That night we went to my mom and dads for dinner. We had some delicious navajo tacos (Mikes request). Mike and dad had fun E maxxing as usual. I made some birthday brownies. My stupid camera pooped out on me after only a few pictures. I think the best part about Mikes birthday was mom's birthday present to him. She made some "balls" for his E maxx remote control truck out of scone dough and nylons! You know those balls that you see on the back of trucks, she made some just like those for his E maxx! He loved it.

: ) Mike had a wonderful birthday. Thanks Everyone!

Here's Jake and Al at El Toro Viejo

Kade, Stacie and Mike. Cute! : )

That's a sweet sombrero!

I got Mike one of those rolly things to go underneath cars with. Yeah I don't know what they're called!

And I got him some new shoes. He needed them!

Quizno's. Mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, Toasty! : )

A cute Trio!

So sorry that my blog is so boring!! Unfortunately lately we haven't had much time to go play. That or I just haven't taken pictures of anything. We're still just kinda the same old same old. I've dove right into school and things are going well, and really fast!! I'll be graduated before I know it!! (Thank goodness) Mike is still trying to look for a job. : ( He gets really frustrated sometimes about not being able to find anything. At least not around here. But he's doing well. He's been a little stressed though. : ( We're doing a lot better than some of our extended family has lately! We've had extreme endometriosis, colon polyps and dead intestines!! It started out with Erin (Jake's (Mike's brother) girlfriend). She was over at Cindy's house and just doubled over in extreme pain. We were thinking maybe it was just a kidney stone or something like that, but they preformed surgery and found that things were kind of a mess in there. They ended up wrapping all of her organs in some sort of saran wrap material and putting it all back in! She's doing great now. My sister in-law who has been having some problems of her own had to go have 50 polyps removed the next day after Erins little episode!! 50 is a lot! But she's doing fine now too. And last but definitely not least there is Kevin. He is Mike's uncle who has been having quite the ordeal. He suffers from Chrones disease, and as a result has had to have part of his intestine removed. Well so that means that he only had about 10 feet of intestine to work with. That sounds like a lot but it's not really. Anyway he went to the hospital where they found he had a perferated bowel which had caused a huge infection to the rest of his insides. Because of the infection they had to remove 6 more feet of intestine leaving him with 2 feet altogether! That 2 feet then became infected as well. They tried to repair it, but it died off anyway. So he had to be life flighted to Pittsburg where he had some kind of advance surgery which I had never heard of before. He is still in Pittsburg now. The surgery went how it was supposed to and now Kevin just has to live at that hospital until they can find donor intestine for him. Talk about nuts!! Just makes me grateful that Mike and I are healthy! Hope everything is well with everybody! : )