A long time ago...

So a while ago I was going through my pictures and I found a folder that I wanted Chris to put in our wedding video, but I guess that he "forgot," but these pictures mean a lot to me so I thought that I would post them.

Here is Chris and I on our trip we took to the French Country

to the cute little cottage.

Here is Chris and I on our Alaskan Cruise. THAT'S AN ICE BERG!!
Here is Chris and I whale watching.

Here is Chris and I on our African safari. We watched that zebra get wasted!

Here is Chris and I on our trip to coast. To bad it was such awful weather.


This is Chris and I at school together. Its a nice little school in England called Hogwarts.


This is Chris and I's trip to area51.
THEY WERE DOING NUCLEAR TESTING THAT DAY.

And lastly:

Here is Chris and I's trip to the moon.

We had to hold our breathe for the picture.

That was all! Hope you enjoyed!!

Yesterday

So yesterday Chris and I were asked to speak about tender mercies of the Lord since we are new to the ward. It wasn't nearly as terrifying as I thought that it would be, but to my surprise I ended my talk by bearing my testimony and got a little choked up. I usually am a stone cold fish who doesn't show emotion. Apparently I just love Chris SOOO much.

The funny part about giving our talks was that the youth speaker who spoke before me went for about 5 minutes and then we sang and I spoke for about 5 min. That means that Chris had to speak for just a mere 30 MINUTES.. poor Chris. It was really nice speaking with him though! I have spoken in sacrament before and I was always super nervous and wanted to just run away but it was a lot more easier with my hubby by my side holding my hand reassuring me the whole way through. I am so grateful for him.

It was kinda fun because both Chris and my parents came and listened to us. It was nice having my parents in the audience giving me the thumbs up and smiling big at me:) sometimes I wish I wasn't an adult and I got to do little kiddy things all the time... I miss not having to wake up and having my parents just excuse my absence at school... those were the days...

Halloween

For Halloween, I decided (after stealing the idea from {cousin}) I decided to be this guy! I unfortunately didn't get any pictures of the event buuut for those of you who know my pa, all he wears on his days off during the colder seasons, is a grey sweater, jeans and tennis shoes or hicking boots. Soooo I wore a grey sweater and jeans and hiking boots and went over to my paretns house on Saturday and went to my dad and asked "guess who I am for Halloween?" He looked me up and down and said "Me?" "YUP!!" o, man it was great! (warm too!!)

Love ya dad!

My Great Weekend!

So this weekend was very eventful!

let's rewind to Friday... not much was done on Friday so Chris and I just sat home and watched different shows that we have on DVD (this weekend we finished the"the 4400" series). Chris worked on a school project and I crocheted little baby booties and a baby hat. (there is a picture coming)

Saturday Chris and I went to walmart for different crafty things for Chris's school project. Can I just say how much I like this school project Chris is working on because than Chris goes to craft stores with me AND I don't feel guilty for buying yarn or buttons for my little projects. And then it happened.....

I had my melt down, for no apparent reason I got upset and started a bawling fit. During this Chris asked me if there was anything that he could do for me to make me feel not so stressed.... with tear filled eyes, I asked "Can I bring Minnie home?"

Sunday was My father's birthday and Chris and I's 2 Month anniversary. After eating dinner with our family for my dad's birthday, Chris and I went home with Minnie in a card board "pet carrier" (although it was a lot harder and scarier than just driving home, more like having a rabid wild raccoon in a box full of dried meat on your lap) we got home and Chris and I have now taken on the title of pet owners! I just am so happy now that Minnie is here with me at my new home, I just hope that after she has been in one home for 11 years she will be ok with the idea of starting a new life here for the next couple months and then at our new home the beginning of spring... We shall see..

*** ya wanna know how things turned out our first night as a family?!****

Well Chris and I brought her home and she immediately ran under our bed and was there to stay. So I decide to stay up with Chris because lately I can't sleep without him (soo cute... gag me). However, at 11 I had all I could handle and went to bed with Minnie underneath our bed and fell fast asleep for about an hour when Chris came in.

At this point I think that Minnie said to herself, "everything is quiet and dark, its ok for me to come out and 'explore'"... I say "explore" because what ended up happening was NOT what I would call exploring. She proceeded to jumping up on my nightstand getting in our window, jumping back on my night stand, running around on our bed, going to chris's night stand, jumping up on our dresser, then jumping three feet on to our bed ON TOP OF CHRIS and then running across our pillows and starting over. This continuted. All. Night. Long.

I thought maybe she wanted to get out and explore the rest of her new home, so I opened our bedroom door WIDE open and went and got a "glass of water" for myself. (really I just took a swig of sprite from the bottle, I just wanted to sound healthy). When I turned around to see if Minnie had come out to explore she just stood at the door and just coward. When I went to pass her to go back to bed she ran as fast as she could under the bed and coward until I laid down, than she started all over again with the jumping around.

This continued until around 6am when all the sudden it got very very quiet, naivly Chris and I used this chance to get an hour of sleep and when our alarms went off we reluctantly got out of bed. That's when I asked it: "where's Minnie"... we didn't know. She wasn't under the bed. so I went to the living room, I thought that she was behind the TV... I kept calling her and couldn't find her. I had no idea where she went until I heard a little tiny scared meow from INSIDE our heating duct. F my life... I found where she had be hiding and it took Chris and I an hour and two cans of wet cat food to coax her out (I called in late for work and when I told my supervisor what was happening she just laughted...)

I called my dad and told him what happened his response: "Ashley wait, let me put you on speaker phone and I want you to tell me about your night one more time so mom can hear." I told them and they both started laughing. You guys this isn't funny, we are very very tired, this just is not humorus in anyway!

After this Chris and I both were very exhausted and had no patience so we (chris excitedly, I reluctantly) packed up all of Minnie's things and her and took her back to my parents.

While at my mom's to drop Minnie off my mom said, "you should talk to Danielle about not getting any sleep and being tired, since she has to take care of Ella all night." ....Chris and I will never reproduce. This is awful.

This is the story of how Chris and I were pet owners for 12 hours.

Honey, I'm home!

When Chris and I got married we had discussed where we wanted to head in our lives. He decided that we wanted to rent the home we are in now until we are both done with school and maybe a little after so we could build up a little nest egg. That is until Chris's mom caught wind of a new subdivision in downtown Kaysville. When Chris's mom told Chris about it and then Chris told me about it and I said no downtown Kaysville is already developed. So Chris and I got in our little car and drove over to were this alleged subdivision was. We found it very easy and fell madly in love with the neighborhood. It wasn't according to our plan but Chris and I just felt right about it. Soooo... we put down money on the lot we wanted and are starting the wonderfully fun building process. Wish us luck...

Last night's conversation...

This was right before Chris and I fell asleep....


Chris (C): Did you hear that they found a planet in another galexy that can sustain life?!

Me: I sure did.

C: We should move there...

Me: umm... that wouldn't work, its not possible to get that much water and that much food into a space shuttle, and what about fuel.

C: ummm yeah they could do it

Me: than why haven't they gone to Mars yet?

C: because it would take to long

Me: then how would it be possible to go to another galaxy we would die

C: well yeah, but we would just take our children. It will take generations to get there.

Me: That's an awful idea....

C: ..... sad...

Me: Chris,

C: what?

Me: if there can't be fire in space, how is the sun on fire?

C: why can't there be fire in space?

Me: no air...

C: is the sun on fire?

Me: ummm yeah have you seen it?

C: I think its just burning gas.

Me: yeah but then how is it burning?

C: Go to sleep.

once upon a time...

I came home from school around 930PM and was so very tired. I walked into the family room/office and found Chris playing his computer games and the tv was on. I didn't have the best day at school so I just stormed in to the bedroom and started to get in my pj's and Chris came in to the bedroom and I started to rant about how super not fun school was and thats when I heard it. It was the sound of a little baby kitten meowing. and I got so excited.

Chris knew how much I wanted a pet and he went out and got me a kitten!!!

I started to jump up and down and say "You got me a kitty! You got me a kitty!" and started opening all closed doors trying to find it. That's when Chris informed me that the kitty I was hearing was on the tv, and he didn't really get me a kitten. after that disappointment I went straight to bed...