Newest Addition to the Family =)

Early Sunday March 22, Brooke was on her way to the hospital! Soon after, this handsome little boy was born =) This makes nephew #2!

PAXTON BRADLEY BIRCH

Isn't he a cutie?! :)

Still a little early, but everything is great both with Brooke and the baby.
Welcome Paxton! =)

Draper Temple

Last weekend I got to go to the Draper Temple open house with my family. AMAZING! The temple is gorgeous. I'm so excited for the day I get to go in after it's been dedicated. I can't believe how pretty it is!!

The pretty temple :)

Us in the church afterward. They had such pretty displays!

WOO HOO!

MY BLOG IS FIXED =)
Ok so I guess it wasn't my blog that was having issues....it was my computer in general! So with a sister that knows how to fix anything, I was able to finally fix my computer and can get back to my blog now! I was starting to worry!
But no more worries, I now am up to date! Enjoy!

Happy 4th Birthday Hunter!!

On Feb. 13th it was my nephew Hunter's birthday! He loves Monster trucks and the monster jam show just happened to be in Salt Lake that weekend! So Brooke, Aaron and Hunter made a trip to Utah for the weekend and we went to the show on the 14th. I was actually very impressed. It was really fun! I think the motorcross was my favorite and probably everyones! Happy Birthday Hunter! I love you! =)

Grandma put "trick candles" on Hunters cake. He thought those were great!
Kinda blurry...but I thought it was cute. On their way to see the trucks up close!

Maximum Destruction! This is Hunters favorite truck!

Hunter and Uncle Blake all up close to a truck. They're huge!

I thought this was funny. Since it was Valentines day they painted hearts on the track everywhere. How festive =)

This is the motorcross. This was like the half time show type deal but probably one of the best parts! They did a backflip at the end and nobody got it on video. But it was awesome!

Valentines Treat!

My mom sent me back to Orem one weekend with a cute Valentines Cake Mix, so Kell and I put it to use the week of Valentines Day. It was fun to make and very tasty! And look how cute it is! :)

Skittle Bowling?

Ok this seems ridiculous to blog...but this was really actually fun! McKell and I got a paper in institude of date ideas. They were all stupid of course, but skittle bowling was on there. I had heard of this before but never tried it. You get a bag of skittles and you make something up for every color. For example: for purple skittles you have to close your eyes. Or for blue skittles you have to bowl left handed. So...the next double date kell and I went on we tried this out. And believe it or not it was really fun! You should definately try it. It adds a little twist to your usual bowling =)

Bowling with your eyes closed..

Bowling a backwards granny...

Jason and I =)

Kell and Jake

Kell and I always have to bowl with the ball that says "sassy" on it.
She's our lucky charm ball!

Graduation

I graduated from my Physical Therapy Aide Program on January 29, 2009! This was just a one semester program, every morning at 7:30! That got old real quick. I passed the State Test and got my certificate. There was a ceremony that my family came to =) Thanks!!

My awesome family =)

(minus Brooke & Aaron, but they were there in heart!)

Shaking my teacher Cory's hand. He was such a cool teacher! I really enjoyed him. He also helped me find my job I am at now!

Blogging Issues.....

So I graduated from my Physical Therapy Aide program last week and I really want to post about it.....but this blog is having problems. Brooke had the same problem and it was fine the next day. Mine has been like this for a long time now and it's getting annoying!

When I go to post a new post, I can't change the font, color, alignment, or add a picture. I can't do anything!

Anyone know what's wrong???!!

Farewells

This weekend was quite eventful...with the two farewells of two of my greatest friends Taylor and Chance. I've been friends with Taylor since 6th grade and our senior year was by far the best. We grew SO close. I consider him a TRUE best friend.

Taylors talk was about influences and he talked a lot about his friends and the influences your friends have. Taylor is a great influence to everyone so as I said bye to these boys so many memories came back and I wanted to write some down!

(Like I say many times...this is a journal to me and I never wrote down these days.. so this is for my sake :) )

So...here go some memories.

Taylor took me four wheeling on the last day of school our senior year. We went up as far as we could till we hit snow and then we played in the snow and talked. It was a really good time we had to get to know some things about each other!

We went on a senior trip to lake powell. Chance is kind of a shy type of personality and he really came out of his shell here a lot. So fun!

Another Lake Powell picture-Tay and I. This was on a hike that was so much fun. We had to walk through so many bushes and trails that weren't really trails...but it was hilarious and so much fun!

This was New Years Eve 2008. David Chance and Taylor were my 3 amigos that year!

Purple and White! Best High School dance!
No more needs to be said...i know I wont forget this one.

Taylor always took me jeepin. My favorite thing to do was ride in his jeep!

HAHA! We played hide and seek around the town one night. Taylor stepped in a ditch running full speed and face planted it...right onto main street! This was his accident... SO funny though!

Taylor came to visit me in Orem and we went out to eat with a bunch of high school friends. Taylor hates the Orem/Provo atmosphere, but it was still nice of him to come give it a try!

Saying Bye ..
Best of luck Chance!

Best of luck Tay!

The people in Brazil need these boys. They will be missed =)

One of those weeks!

Well, Let me start off by saying it's just been "one of those weeks". I came back from Christmas break and had a week left of my old class at school, with lots of labs and a final state test (to determine if I graduate my Aide Program and get my certificate) while at the same time i was beginning my first week at UVU with new classes and the stress that comes with them. Along with all this going on, I have two roomates who are VERY loud and there's not really anything I can do about it. Therefore, I havent got much sleep. So...this last week was very stressful.

Friday came which I was excited and nervous for. I had no UVU classes which was a relief, but I had my state test. You needed 80% to pass...and i got 91.4% =)
So I think this day is going to be a great one!
Well...wrong. I went to work and my schedule has changed. I normally work every day mon-fri. now they only need me every other day. Which cuts back about 14 hours a week and that's way too much money to lose!

So....back to the bad day/week. At this point I just want to go sleep forever. Oh but wait....I can't ever sleep here! I'm so frustrated when I get home from work Friday. So I sit down to eat and the doorbell rang. My first thought it "Great..my roomates loud friends." But instead, it was Jason. He knew I was having a bad week so he came to take me home for the weekend. YAY! So I got to spend the weekend with Jason and with my parents at my house where I could actually get some very much needed rest!

What a relief! Nothing is as good as Home to make your week better. Thanks Jas!! =)