Happy Birthday 21st Ashley!!!!!

All right I thought I would post on Ashley since it is her 21st birthday!! (there is other things exciting about 21 than being able to drink!! :) I decided that Sharese's idea of the 21 things is amazing so I decided to try it!

21. She is old enough to drink.....water!

20. She always has cold hands and feet, but luckily she has some magic gloves!

19. She has the coolest nicknames like shlee, shlee-son, stokes, stoker, and last but not least, chiles!!

18. Ashley loves little kids and is so great with them!

17. She makes really good Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies.

16. Shlee shares everything and I really don't think she has a selfish bone in her body!

15. She needs to follow our bathroom rules more carefully........ :D

14. Ashley has some serious skills in talking fast... her "dibs not!" when the phone rings is just amazing!

13. Chiles is such a great role model to me, her family, her dance students, or anyone around her.

12. She made the Varsity Soccer Team for IF as a freshman.

11. Ashley is so creative. She choreographs all her dances and designs her costumes...(whether or not the turn out white instead of black :D)

10. She is obsessed with oatmeal, magic gloves, and the Redskins.

9. Her favorite pie is pumpkin!

8.She comes up with the coolest names for little kids.. Cameryn, Daphnie.

7. She has a serious issue with stealing my toothbrush....so i got her one for her birthday!

6. Ashley cares. Everyone can relate to ashley, or be dealing with a problem and we can all just go talk to her.

5. Shlee is such an amazing runner! she is so determined and I have a dard time trying to catch up with her!

4. When she reads this she will either say a) unbelievable, or b) nats!!

3. She needs to stop watching scary movies.....no comment needed.

2. She teaches me to love all her favorite shows so that we can be obsessed together!!

1. She is an amzing sister!! I love her so much!! happy birthday ashley!!

Happy Birthday from nat-a-shlee

You Know you love me!! haha

Parker's Birthday

Happy Birthday Parker!

Monday I got invited to Parker's birthday party. She picked Leo's place for her birthday dinner, good choice Parker. They got to play on the toys, and even I did, it was so fun to spend some time with Matt's family. Parker has always been such a sweet heart to everyone. I can't remember a time that she has ever said a hurtful thing to anyone. Seriously I don't think she has. She is a peace maker and such a sweet older sister and daughter. Never in a million years would you think this girl was only turning 7 because of how sweet and responsible she is. Love you Parker!

Matt, Landon and Parker getting ready to go down the slide.

Landon just playing, every time we put a camera on him he would just stop and say cheese. The kid never ceases to make me laugh.

Debbie, Scott, Matt, and lil Press, just getting ready to eat some salad. I'm pretty sure Presley ate close to every pineapple in sight.

Parker's star cake made by the infamous cake maker Jill :)

Scott and Jill, (some proud parents)

Here is a video of Matt and Presley, (aka Darlin) going down the slide with Landon to follow, and sweet Pacie who was so excited for her sister to have a birthday! Sorry its really dark!

Flag Football

Ok don't get me wrong I love the snow its a grand time, but seriously I'm done with it. I'm pretty sure it snowed like 10 ft. this past weekend and its just COLD. Snow is great for Christmas but now I'm ready for some sunshine and flip flops. Here are just some old pictures from last sememster playing flag football. My team was pretty good we got to the championship game, but lost to a really good team. Not too big of a deal though I'm slowly still recovering I mean it was a serious game! BYU-Idaho sports are no joke (;. Anyways it doesn't matter cause our shirts were the coolest ones ever. All the teams were named like....ok I can't even remember exactly, but they were things like blondes, hippos haha I don't know, but I do remember that our team had the coolest shirts and name...Restrained. Even if we weren't very good just the name alone makes you wish you were on the team huh. Anyways it was the best team I have been on maybe we'll come back in the summer and take the trophy (which is actually just a t-shirt) but still!

The good ole' days

Recently I came across these old pictures of the good old high school days. Soccer was my favorite thing in high school. Usually my whole team would hang out on weekends at school meet up for lunch together. Talk about good times! When I was a freshman two of my friends and I made the Varsity team at IF we almost passed out we were so excited. We had been playing together since 6th grade. I miss those days that all that mattered was whether or not we won a game or that a "big deal" was when someone would miss practice. Everything is so much different now but taking in the good and the hard times when you have good friends, (boyfriend :) and family that are with me no matter what! Thanks to everyone that make me so happy I love you all so much!

Well seeing as how I have a little more time now to blog I guess I can add some pictures that I took at the beginning of the semester. So yes I am a little behind but hey speak easy ok. These are just some pictures of my apartment when I was going to school. Pay close attention to the white tiger rug that we have it was probably the best feature of our apartment.

Finals are over!!!!

I am so happy that finals are all over with this semester. I usually love school and learning, but it feels so good to be done. Now I get a couple months to work and take a break from school. My favorite class over the semester is a toss up between my ballroom class and my visual media class. I love both of them, and love learning more about them. Now I have more time for myself to work on some things that I've been wanting to over the semester.

Here is a picture of me and a girl named Alex right before our ballroom competition.

Vegas!!

Ok so this is going to be a huge blog I've been dogging it for a couple of weeks with finals and Thanksgiving break, but I did take some pictures!

Over Thanksgiving break I got to hang out with my family and eat some good amounts of pumpkin pie. I also was invited to spend the weekend in Las Vegas with my boyfriend's family. It was so so much fun! We got to visit Matt's brother, Mitch and his wife, Sara and their little girl Arie it was so fun to get to know them better.

This is from inside the Bellagio, they had the coolest set up for Thanksgiving, we are standing in front of this tunnel with water tunnels going over us it was really cool.

This is just some of the plants and flowers it smelled so good.

Its kind of dark but here is a tree that would talk and blink his eyes.

This was a part of the ceiling inside of the Bellagio, and all of it is made out of glass it was so pretty.

This was probably my favorite thing we saw the water show that plays music and the water shoots up depending on the beat of the music. I even got lucky enough when it was doing it to a Christmas song.

I can't remember what building this was I just thought it was really cool, and we were waiting for the Tram I think thats what its called.

This is my favorite picture. One of the nights matt and I got to hang out with Stan and Debbie, and I realized they were just a goofy as us :)

Here is Matt in front of that tunnel again you can see the water really good in this one. How cute is he!

Here I am this black man really wanted to be in the picture, and we tried to get him to smile but he was really shy.