Graduation!!

Three graduates at one university at one time! How cool is that! Grandma Reid and I took the trip to Rexburg to BYU-Idaho to watch Chelsea receive her associates in Nursing and April her Bachelors of General Studies with a math emphasis and James to receive his Bachelors of Business. It was wonderful and the weather was great until the day we had to leave! All are planning to continue their education, but are excited for this milestone. President Uchtdorf was the guest speaker for graduation and the dinner we attended beforehand.

FW: Richie FHE

FW: Richie singing Popcorn Popping

Richie singing popcorn popping

Thanksgiving and Graduation

Well, I just completed my last nursing class! I still have to take a few tests for nursing, but other than that I am done. I feel like I have a million things to do by next Wednesday but I just keep thinking that soon all of it will be over.
Zac and I had a great thanksgiving, we went to his parents house for a few days. Zac went to a Basketball game with his Dad and brother and we all got to go to The Forgotten Carols the night before thanksgiving. I really enjoyed it. We then went to Salt Lake for thanksgiving and the few days after. It was fun to be with his family, but it will take a little getting used to. It was hard being my first thanksgiving away from the family. So Zac's sister's are obsessed with Twilight, and that is an understatement. So I decided to read it over break, and we all went to the movie. Zac hated it, but I enjoyed the entertainment value of it. I liked the book(not necessarily my favorite), but the movie just didn't do it justice.
We have both been busy the last week as Zac has been working at his old job, where he gets frustrated with his boss everyday, and working at H&R Block two nights a week. So we don't see each other a lot. He has been hired to be a manager for H&R Block for January to April and we are very excited. He is a little nervous about managing many people who are quite older than him, but it is a huge blessing for us. Pretty nice to make salary with benefits and work as a manager all for your internship. My husband is wonderful!
We are so excited for Christmas and I have been counting down the days till we go home. We are excited to play with nephews and run around. Zac says his goal is to get a tan for Christmas so we will see what happens. :)
I think that taking pictures will be a great idea. And jeans is always good, we could do two colors, everyone where red or brown. Or something, we could try the every family thing, but I think every family could only wear one color and that will just be confusing, I think for the most part we choudl all be uniform. Maybe not red this time since we did it last time. But I love red so I wouldn't mind. Black or White shirts is always good.
Well, we love you all, Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas.

I can't believe its December already! Thanksgiving was great with my family, but I missed all my girls! Gratefully Dad and Alex stepped in to go Black Friday shopping with me - thankfully we got what we needed without resorting to violence.

I can't wait until we are all together for Christmas! It is going to be so fun and a tad bit crowded, but luckily its warm enough to get out of the house, so don't forget your tennis shoes! (Chelsea) Also I'm thinking we should have some pictures taken by my photographer friend - so should we have a theme? Jeans & ??? or each family choose their own? Open for options! I figure it will be almost 3 years before we have this opportunity to again. I LOVE MY FAMILY! You are all so amazing!

Grandma and I are headed to Rexburg next week for 3 College graduations! That's right April, James and Chelsea are all receiving Diplomas. Dad was planning on going, but it looks like he's getting bogged down at work!

Tis the season to be jolly - Merry Christmas!

Pirates! Pirates! Everywhere! Ahoy Matey!

Aunt Selina was busy making halloween costumes for Richie, Jayden, and Aaryn. I'm sure they were even cuter in person. Uncle Spencer went as Edward Cullen - Twilight Vampire. Guess what I'm going to see Twilight at midnight with a bunch of young sisters in the ward. Hope I can stay awake!!

April's project

April has been taking a cake decorating class and this is her final project. She says the icing was a little soft, therefore the leaning, but the decorations are impressive. I guess we will be having cake for Christmas!

Here are our October 2008 Family Pictures. We are now living in Caliente, NV and are really enjoying it. Nick Loves working at the BLM office here and is still taking class at GBC. I am currently babysitting a 3 month old baby boy during the week so our house is full of boys. Jayden is now 2 and gets into everything. Aaryn is 10 mons. old and he loves to play with his big brother. We are enjoying life and love to be together.

Weekend in Provo

Ken and I just returned from a weekend in Provo. We went to Parents Weekend with Alex. Melanie, Nick and boys drove in and had family pictures taken in the canyon. (I got to see a quick sneak peak of them - and they turned out really cute. Nick should be posting some soon). Picture of Aaryn is his Halloween Costume Aunt Selina and Grandma made for him. Chelsea and Zac came down friday night as well. We went bowling, out to eat a few times, and attended the BYU - UNLV game - which we won!! - on Saturday. Looks like we were the only ones that high in the stadium, but not so it was a sold out crowd, not everyone likes to be as early as Ken. Sunday we spent with Alex and his roommates. He has a great group of roommates - I wish I had taken a picture at dinner. Just by chance he was paired up with 4 other Arizonians? in his apartment - the 6th person has moved around alot so he's adopted in to "The Arizona Boys" apartment as one girl told me they call it. By the way in Relief Society when I announced I was Alex's mom, several (I mean several) "Awwww's" were heard. Alex said I should have gotten names. I had planned on taking pictures, but as usual I only got a few. We had a great time reliving the old days at BYU and noticing how everything has changed and how we don't really belong anymore, but oh well we love it anyway.

Zac and Chelsea

Well, I guess this is just an update on us from what mom wrote. Zac and I are doing well, and enjoying the married life. I think we often wish that we could have some time off from school so that we could spend more time together, but hopefully that time will come soon enough. I am almost done with Nursing school, at least my Associate degree, and will be an RN in January, hopefully. School is stressful, and clinicals are a nightmare, but it is great to know that I am really accomplishing something with my education. Zac is in his last year of Accounting school and sadly, just about as stressed as I am with school, so needless to say we keep busy. He recently got a job helping this Entrepreneur in the community who owns a bunch of businesses and is an accountant himself. But he is getting old and going blind so Zac spends his Tuedays and Thursdays helping run the books and things for the various companies. He probably doesn't make as much as he would like but it is a great experience for him. He will do his internship this winter in Idaho Falls and then will graduate by next December. Who knows where we are going after that. He has started to look into a few schools but we are not sure yet where he will do his MBA or CPA whichever he decides. We are enjoying our time together, and are excited for what life brings ahead. We send our love to you all.

Here are a few picture from our Honeymoon. We went on a cruise to Cabo san Lucas Mexico, it was tons of fun just to be together, I didn't enjoy the sea sickness too much, but Zac loved the ocean and everything about it.

Reception

Chelsea's Wedding

Well its been a month since Chelsea's wedding and I thought it was time i updated our blog. I have been very busy the last few months getting ready for the wedding, and then I was involved with some time consuming Relief Society activities - Super Saturday type thing. I have also been working at school. We have a break for two weeks; so we are trying to get thing caught up.

Chelsea and Zac's wedding was wonderful. The first day seemed like the perfect wedding. No problems everyone where they were suppose to be on time and so forth. No problems at the temple - everything was smooth as smooth can be. She looked beautiful and radiant. We all made it to the reception in Idaho without any problems. It was a quiet, but very nice reception. We left early the next day to head to Ely for the 2nd reception. (I was wondering how I was going to make it look decent in a few hours and detract from the elk heads on the wall at the Elks Lodge - all the churches were booked) We received a call from Chelsea earlier than expected saying they were on their way to Ely and she was pretty sick. She threw up all the way down and felt she needed to go to the emergency room. Ken left to meet her and Zac and we continued on with our preparations, wondering if we should cancel or what? The emergency room took a long time and she came out with nothing. They said she had a virus and there was nothing they could do for her.

The reception went forward. Chelsea did the best she could and was a real trooper. It was a great reception and everyone enjoyed it. (It's too bad the bride and groom couldn't enjoy it a little more.)

Chelsea and Zac stayed in Ely a few days to recooperate and then headed to California to go on their honeymoon cruise. She was still a little under the weather, but doing better. Some of us got a little sick after the wedding, but nothing like Chelsea.

All is well now the newlyweds are in school and doing well.

Here's a few of our favorite pictures.

Enjoy!

Summer Fun

Summer Fun in Arizona


Grandma & Aaryn

Pay's

Aaryn Pay