Lately..

It's harder keep up on these things than I thought.
Since I last posted in the summer here is what we have been up to since then!


Nic and I picked the places for our wedding and reception :)

Boise Temple

Little White Chapel

The Bishop's House

The first couple weeks of August I got to visit Brendan in Annapolis Maryland! He is going to the Naval Academy and graduated from Basic Training.

Nic and I were FINALLY re-united after what seemed to be the longest summer in all of history..
Two weekends later was Labor Day (gotta love an extra day off from school and work) and the perfect time for a last little summer vacation. We hopped in the car and off we went to the fun little town of Bear Lake. I had never seen Nic's cabin or been to Bear Lake so it was quite the adventure for me and I think Nic had fun showing me around!

Save water, shower with a friend!

Nic and his little brother :)

In the morning we hiked for a ways to get the best view.

We drove for an hour and went on a hike and had a picnic at Bloomington Lake. It was gorgeous!

Nic's favorite part: the cliffs.. this was 1 out of 50 that he took of them haha

My favorite picture from the whole weekend :)

I thought these were a bunch of little pebbles on the shore, they were THOUSANDS of shells!

We were sad to leave we had so much fun!


3 Weekends ago we got to go HOME. Oh how I love being in Meridian... not because the of the amazing weather or all there is to do there but because we got to see my best friend Bara Dawn and my family!
Saturday morning we played games with Bara before she had to work :( We were so sad it wasn't longer... 1 HOUR with that girl is never enough. We had so much fun though and will always remember Nic saying during clue: "I think it was Proffesor Plum, in the Lounge, with the Rope ORRRR the Revolver" HAHA
... and we didn't get any pictures oops...

Later that day we got the BEST news of our lives so if there was a good reason for coming home.. that made it all worth it!!!
Then later we celebrated my adorable neice's 2nd birthday and my sister-in-law's too!
We got her a Mr. Potato Head, which was her favorite present I might add!

Her favorite part? yep the frosting!

Nicole refused to blow out the candles so Jared gave some assistance

2 weekends ago we took an adventure to Utah..
and what did we do there??
ENGAGEMENT PICTURES!
and hit a few stops along the way....

We visited the most beautiful place - Salt Lake Temple

To spend some time with Jesus :)

This was probably the 3,001 picture we took that day so needless to say, our smiles weren't as perky as at the beginning of the day!

ENGAGEMENT PICTURES TO COME :)