Two More Weeks!!

School is winding down thank goodness. I am in need of some serious motivation to end the semester. Its so hard to keep that drive to go to class when its summer, everyone is going on road trips and staying up late, and I can't join in! Any words of encouragement would be awesome.



As for my picture of the week I thought I would show everyone some of the things that Matt has been working on over the summer break. It is amazing what he can do from scratch. All he does it draw something up and get started its crazy.


For Father's day my mom asked him to build my dad a desk for the computer to sit on. It needed to match the other desk in the room, and fit exactly in the corner between the window and the wall. This is what he made in his garage in a couple days.




He brought it over to our house and after setting up everything in the office it looked so much better especially compared to what was in there before.


The next project that he has been spending the majority of his time on is at his parents house. I could set up a separate blog of what he has done on the house. To list a few of the things: move the stair case, raise the floor, vault the ceiling, took doors and windows out and cut new holes in the walls to relocate new ones, add a whole section to the house, built the deck, roof, arch way, corner pantry....all from scratch no plans! He and his dad have spent countless hours doing all this and I don't think anyone but them realize what kind of work it took to do all of it. Good job you guys you are a talented duo!

This is an old picture I will have to get one that has the finished result.

I'm Doggin it

Me and Matt at the fire works, it was the best day hanging out with the Landon family so happy they let me come and be with them for the day.

Ok so I know I missed last week for the picture of the week, but its only my second week so I will post two today from the fireworks thanks to TL for the photos :)

I can't get enough of this kid.

Picture of the Week

So I decided that to make myself not only take pictures, but actually keep up on my blog I am going to start doing a picture of the week. So to start out I have to put this picture of Matt's game cause it was a sweet interception. He has mad skillz ( skills spelled with a z only means that their skills are top notch. For real look it up) haha

My life = homework = stressed out = no sleep = tired + teaching dancing = really sore = exhausted = no time to do anything for myself.....Not tonight though I got out of class early today (6:00) and I was just going to lay down and think about an assignment and do it...seriously I was. Then I fell asleep and I finally got up at 11:00, so now I am sitting here after sleeping for 5 hours wondering what to do. I figured I haven't blogged for a long time, so here are some pictures that I have had in storage since my last blog.

Here is me and Matt at one of his games, this was like the last nice weather game of the season, and my mom, dad and little sister Natalie got to come watch.







Here is Matt on his birthday, and my sweet cake that was my first attempt at fondant, and stacking tiers so don't hate.






















Matt my favorite I hope he had a good birthday, we went to Olive Garden for dinner then came home and had cake.












This picture just cracks me up Pacie let me stick pretzels up her nose it was awesome.














One of my favorite tackles, look at that leg :)


















Matt shaved a mohawk, and I am not going to lie I liked it a lot. Thanks Jill for doing that no wonder we are fellow TLs.

Missoula, Montana

Well since I have been in school I haven't really been able to post anything. This past weekend I finally remembered to take some pictures while I went to good 'ole Missoula, MT. Matt had a football game there on Saturday, and they were nice enough to invite me.


Our first stop was Dillon, MT we took a little driving break and Stan and Debbie showed us the famous prison. It is now a museum, but back in the day it was a pretty scary place. There was even walk-ways on the top of the surrounding walls that the guards used to keep a watchful eye on the prisoners.
Here is an real life guard and prisoner that we just happen to see :)

If you look close you can see the walk way steps on the right wall.











We continued our way and made it to Missoula where we went to Mckenzie River for some tasty pizza and salad that was so good. We actually ended up going there for lunch on Saturday, before Matt's game and they gave all of us our lunch for free. We felt pretty cool.


Matt's game was crazy they were missing 15+ starting players, but they still managed to pull off a win in double over-time. Their defense saved that game. Matt plays free safety, and had some really good plays, I wish I could have got all of them.








Just walking towards the stadium, it was so cool that Matt was able to play in a stadium.















Matt has been trying to gain some weight. His goal is 200 lbs, and since then he has grown out of his belt, so he tends to lose his pants throughout the game.












Me and Matt after the game, so happy they won!

This was a really cool play, Matt hit someone so hard their helmet flew off. Its kind of hard to see.

Matt getting ready for a play, he is basically the defensive coach for his team, Matt tells them how to run their plays, and where and when to play zone. The only game they have lost is when he wasn't there, and it wasn't even a hard team. His team needs him!

Stan and Debbie after the game. They were so nice to let me keep them company on this trip. I wish we could have stayed longer!

Me and Matt after the game ready to go eat at this cute sports restaurant. They had yellow sign in front of it that is usually used for a deer crossing sign, but they had a person on their hands and knees for drunk people crossing... only in Montana.

Easter Weekend

Sitting at the game, Mitch, Sarah, Stan, Little Ari, Deb and Chief/Tyler.








Easter weeked went by too fast! Matt's brother Mitch, his wife Sarah and their little girl came up from Vegas to spend a couple days during their spring break. It was a lot of fun to see them again, even though I'm sure that our weather right now puts us at the bottom of the totum pole if you want to actually enjoy your spring break. Regardless they came and we actually had a fun time.




The girls just eating at the tasty Snake Bite, Pinewood Derby, TL, Sarah, Rach and TL jr.









The semi-pro league that Matt is on also had their first game on Saturday against Highland. If you are from Eastern Idaho you can understand Highland is a tough team to beat, but of course we are tougher! They ended up winning the game 18-10, a good way to start the season! Matt is play safety, and made some pretty sweet plays, and almost had an interception....so close! Even though my camera isn't very high tech I still managed to get some good shots. (He is number 24, red and gold)



Matt just waiting to start.










He is the one on the far right taking down the Highland player!

Valentine's Day Weekend

Well where do I begin. This past weekend was a blast! Matt and I decided to take a road trip to Utah and spend some time with his sister Rachel and her family and his brother Tyler and his wife Ashley. We also got to see My brother's Jeremy, Devin and his wife Julie. They were all kind enough to let us stay at their houses and hang out with us.

First we went to Rachel's on Thursday night, and even though I wasn't feeling very good and kept Matt up all night being my slave getting me medicine, food, water etc. the next day was really fun. Rachel made us swedish pancakes in the morning and homemade syrup, it was so good. We got to spend some time with her kids Niamh, Ryan, and Bergin.

Niamh, Ryan, Matt and Me
Lil Ryan, Niamh, and Matt
Ryan was having so much fun with the remote.
Niamh was so tired she was trying so hard to stay awake.
Of course Matt is being a handy man even when he is on vacation.

Next stop, Friday, Devin and Julie's. We all went to Red Mango which is one of my favorite places, and then rented In the Name of the King. FYI don't ever see that movie I fell asleep within the first five minutes, and Julie was quick to follow after me. Which left Devin and Matt to suffer through the movie, they ended up just making fun of it the whole time.

Devin, Julie, Matt, and Me

Julie, Devin, Jeremy and me

Valentine's Day was spent with Chief and Pip aka Tyler and Ashley. We met for lunch at Chipotle and then headed to grab some movie tickets for, Paul Blart, Mall Cop it was funny I'm going to have to admit. We went to Sports Chalet while we waited for our movie and looked around and shopped for a bit. I found some running pants that I really liked, but didn't want to fork out $55 for them, so I passed sadly. We had dinner reservations at seven at a surprise location that ended up being the best Valentine's day dinner i've ever had. We pulled up to Chik-fi-let and walked into a transformed restaurant with black table cloths, flowers, chocolate and strawberries for the chocolate fountain. We were lucky enough to listen to the love station while we ate it was so much fun seriously. I opened one of my presents and sure enough Matt had grabbed those running pants I wanted to badly some how with me still in the store, I had no idea.

Chief and Pip, Tyler loved that chocolate :)
Getting fed some chocolate covered strawberries.
I decided to return the favor.
Our little dinner table.

Tyler and Ashley tried on these ridiculous hats at Sports Chalet.

Last of all I just wanted to thank everyone, but especially Matt! He made the weekend 10X more fun, and special. I wish everyone could see all that he does to put up with me and still keeps a smile on his face. Thanks for making valentines day so special!

Here is a little peek of our night, Tyler got Matt to fill up a hollow piece of chocolate with even more chocolate and he had to drink it all! It was probably 1/4 Cup of chocolate at least, but of course Matt still did it :)