Spring Break

Over Spring Break we packed up and flew to Colorado for a few days to see some of our best friends the Templins. Jeff met Kurt at BYU Idaho and then he and his wife Emily moved to Arizona after they had graduated. Jeff spent many nights before we met with them and became best friends with them. I only got to spend a short amount of time with them before they moved so this was such a treat being able to visit. Our first day we saw the Colorado Temple, had donuts and walked around downtown Denver. Denver legalized pot and boy could you smell it every where. Eeeeh!

That same day for lunch we wanted to try something local and they took us to Crave Burger. OH MY GOSH. Best burger of my life! I have to describe each burger below or I will hate myself.

This is the burger I got. Its the Popper burger. That big deep fried thing is a homemade jalapeño popper, to die for!

This is the burger Jeff got. Don't remember the name, but the bun is grilled cheese sandwiches!

This is what Kurt got. Hamburger with ham, pulled pork and candied bacon....uh meat attack!?

This is what Emily got, similar to mine, but instead of jalapeño it was cheddar cheese. So good! That night we played a loong game of Apples to Apples.

The next day we went to Tucanos. YUM! We needed to be rolled out of there after lunch. We then stopped by a landmark which unfortunately I can not remember the name of. So pretty though. Look at that ^ That night Kurts mom watched their little girl Elli while we had a date night to Dave and Busters.

On our last day we woke up to snow! We were expecting that our whole trip so I planned outfits around being cold. The first two days I was hot! It was fun. We were able to drive around town see all the cool houses (famous people like Peyton Manning) and see where Kurt grew up. That night before our flight we went to Kurts sisters house for his moms birthday dinner and then off to the airport we went. It was such a fun and NEEDED trip for us. We don't vacation much and it was great catching up with friends and seeing how big Ellie had gotten!

January/February Photo Dump

This is honestly the only picture I can find from January anywhere on my phone or computer. Pathetic huh? January brought my sister in law Jills birthday, my niece Harlo's, my sister Brianna, my nephew Bentley and my Mom's birthday. We have a lot of birthdays between December and January. Followed closely by my brother in Law Brian's birthday in February.

We got to enjoy taking a tour of the Gilbert Open House (if I have my dates wrong I'm sorry. My computer says I took this pic in February) I got to go a couple times to see it. Wow! It is magnificent inside and I have since had the privilege to go inside after the dedication. So beautiful!

In February also the school I work for had a school Carnival and the Ground Breaking of their new school location. Both times I had the opportunity to take pictures for them. The ground breaking actually made it into the newspaper which was cool seeing my name as the photographer. Not gonna lie, that crossed off a bucket list of mine. 

Leonard Family

In February I had the chance to take Alyssa and Gareths Family picture before they became a family of TWO! No one knew besides family that they were pregnant and they wanted to make a little announcement. I love this location and they were sports trying different poses for me.

Christmas 2013

Christmas Eve is spent with the Perkins every year. They always play big games and this year Greg my Father in Law decided to add an obstacle course. I declined on that event and held the baby instead. I am not big into competition but I enjoyed playing the sling shot game and ghost in the grave yard. After the obstacle course Santa came to visit which was my Sister in Laws step dad Richard. Then came Ghost in the graveyard which ^ you can see ended well. Jeff was hiding under a tree and got up too fast trying to chase us and went head first into a branch. Thankfully his sister saw him and we got him cleaned up and iced up. This would be his 2nd concussion of the year. I told him next time he is wearing a helmet.

On Christmas morning I had to sneakily convince Jeff to go upstairs because his present was on my parents porch. Thats his ^ reaction when he saw I bought him a mini bike (this is pre concussions) I kept that bad boy a secret and could not wait to to show him. He was amazed I got him such a cool gift. After presents because that thing was his while Christmas we went over to my sister Alyssa's house for breakfast and Birthday for my grandma. How cute is Papa Chuck ^ pushing Rio around in the back yard. The boys played some new game Brian had gotten for Christmas. That afternoon we all joined back up at my parents (we rent the basement) for a late lunch, presents and games. We opened presents and played a white elephant game. It was such a memorable Christmas!