Pictures of our House

Here are the pictures of the inside of our house that I promised to post.

Update on our Lives

Okay, I know we have not been doing a very good job at updating the blog, at all. We are still alive and did not disappear off the face of the earth or anything. There's a lot I could blog about, but I'll just blog about a few things so that I don't bore you with the last six months of our lives.

Levi and I are currently not attending school, we are off for the summer. It is so nice not having to worry about homework, studying, and most of all for me, Clinicals. We are both working for the summer, I am working at the creamies factory up in Logan as a secretary. And yes, I eat creamies all the time, I'll probably be pretty sick of them by the end of the summer. I also have a job up on campus at the center for advanced nutrition helping with human feeding trials. Levi is currently doing his internship with the McPartland Financial Group. He is a financial planner and mainly deals with investing, so if you need any help with your investing talk to my husband. He loves it and is planning on staying there after he graduates. He is also working part time doing apartment maintenance, just for the summer so that we can save a little money for school next year. We both have two more semesters of school left and then we graduate! We are so excited!

Other stuff that's been going on: Levi's little brother, Aaron, left on his mission to Orlando, Florida spanish speaking. He's been at the MTC for about a month and he is doing so good. We are all so proud of him and we miss him a ton.

Levi's sister, Rose just barely got engaged last week to a really great guy. They are getting married in September and we are so excited for them.

Two Year Anniversary


A couple of weeks ago Levi and I celebrated our two year Anniversary. It is so crazy how fast time flies, it's hard to believe that we have been married that long. For our anniversary we went to dinner at our favorite restaurant, a little Thai place up here in Logan, that is so good. After dinner I took Levi to the Rodeo and somehow we lucked out and didn't get rained on. I also made Levi a CD of pictures of us from the last two years put to music. It's was fun to watch and reminisce on all the memories we have.
This is us at the rodeo.
This is a hike we went on that weekend.

Our House


I love the huge tree in the front yard, it is so green now!

So probably the biggest news is that me and Levi bought a house! We bought it a couple of months ago and we love it. It's an older house, built in the 50's I think. We got a killer deal on it because it is definitely a work in progress. Before we bought it four USU football players rented it and you can only imagine how dirty it was. I couldn't believe that people could possibly live in that much of a mess. Levi and I spent three solid weekends deep cleaning every inch of that place. We also ripped out some carpet in the living room to find beautiful hard wood floors, so we stained and varnished them. Levi also did a bunch of little jobs and is still working on whenever we have the time and money to do so. A big thanks also to Heidi and Derek who helped us clean and fix so much, they also painted the bathroom for us. They were there just about everyday for a couple of weeks to help us.

The house is located right in the middle of Logan, just east of the A&W. This fact alone sold Levi. We have walked down to A&W many times to get a rootbeer float. It is so fun having a house and a yard, Levi and I both love doing yardwork, which we have also been working on since we bought it. We planted a vegetable garden and are excited for the yummy vegetables that we will soon have. I have more pictures of the inside of the house all decorated but I haven't taken them off of my camera yet and I'm at work so I will add them later.
Since we bought a house we decided that we should go to the family ward there instead of the married student ward. This way we know alot more of our neighbors. We love our ward, it is so nice to have all the different ages. We just got called to be primary teachers together for the 7/8 year olds. We have only taught two times, but I love it. We have some of the cutest and smartest little kids. Well, that's about it for now. Hopefully I will be posting more often from now on.

New Car!!!!

I(Levi) went out to warm up the car before going to salt lake this morning, when he noticed a large puddle of coolant under the car. Come to find out the water pump needs replacing... which we found out would cost about half as much as our car is worth, who'd a thunk. To make a long story short, we decided it wasn't worth fixing it so we bought a new car. We got a killer deal on a 2003 Mazda 6, fully L-O-A-D-E-D!!! It has a sunroof, spoiler, ground effects, leather heated seats(this is what sold Amber), power everything and it's a stick shift. Amber learned how to drive stick real quick and loves it. Check out these awesome pics.

Last Weekend of Summer!

It's official summer is now over, school is back in. This weekend we had to cram in as much fun as we could for our last weekend of freedom. On Friday night we had a ward campout. It was in our bishops backyard, which sounds kind of lame, but his yard is huge. He has a great big yard, a big field, and a pasture with cows. It was alot of fun to spend a little bit of quality time with our ward.

On Saturday we went with Heidi and Derek to the Logan Aquatic Center to go swimming. This was the first time this summer that me and Levi have been swimming at an actual swimming pool. Pathetic, I know. But, we figured we needed to get some good swimming in before summer was over.


Later that night we had a barbeque with Heidi and Derek and then drove to the Preston Demolition Derby. This has become an annual tradition for us to go the the derby up there. We really enjoyed it, especially Levi, he loves the smell of exhaust.


This is a picture of the car that flipped on its side.










Well,school is officially started again, so if you don't see too many blogs it's probably because either we're too busy to blog or we're too busy to do anything worth blogging about.

Lake Powell

This last weekend was the annual Anderson Lake Powell getaway. Me and Levi took off work a little early and drove down to Cedar City on Thursday to spend a little time with Robynn(Levi's sister) and James(our nephew). We spent a couple of days just hanging out and playing with James. Then on Saturday we drove to Lake Powell and met the rest of Levi's family there. We rented a boat and found our own private beach. It was a lot of fun, but after we had been there for a few hours we were hit with a big thunderstorm. Luckily we had a canopy on the beach that we all hid under for a couple of hours, which was actually pretty fun. It was a little disappointing that we couldn't use the boat for longer, but we still had a really good time with the family.

Here's Levi showing off with one hand.

New York CIty

Last week we had the wonderful opportunity to go to new york city with all of my family. We flew into Cleveland, Ohio the first day and drove to kirtland. We spent all day in kirtland. While there we visited the Newel K. Whitney Store, which is also where the prophet Joseph and his family lived for quite a while. We were also able to go into the school of the prophets which is above the whitney store. We then went to the Kirtland Temple which is now owned by the community of christ. It was such a different feeling in this temple compared to the other places we visited, there was a definite lack of spirit.

The next day we got up and drove to Niagra Falls, Canada. It was so fun for us to be able to go into Canada. Levi went crazy and bought all of his favorite Canadian candy bars, all dressed chips, and we even made a stop at Tim Hortons Doughnut shop. Levi made me write this so that all of his family would be jealous. Niagra Falls were absolutely beautiful. All the pictures I have seen and all the pictures we took don't do it justice at all. We also took the maid of the mist boat which went right into the falls. We had ponchos on, but we still got drenched. It was really cool.

Then we drove to Palmyra, NY and spent a day there. There was so much to see there, this was probably one of our favorite stops. At Palmyra we were able to visit the Hill Cumorah, the Smith Farm, The Sacred Grove, and the Palmyra Temple, and the Granden Printing Press where the first book of mormons were printed. It was amazing the spirit we could feel in each of these places. It was particularly strong in the Smith home where Joseph was visited by Angel Moroni and especially in the sacred grove. It was a testimony builder to me to be able to walk through the sacred grove and feel the spirit so strongly.

Our next stop was in Fayette, NY where the Peter Whitmer Home was. This was the home where the church was first organized. In this small home they fit approximately 70 people for the organization of the church.

We then spent 3 1/2 days in New York City. It was so weird the contrast from where we had been this whole time to actual New York City. There were so many people and so much noise it was crazy. The first night we were there we went to Carnegie Deli which just happened to be a world famous deli. The food there was amazing, Matthews sandwhich had about 2 pounds of meat in it. We also got to visit Central Park and Times Square and fifth Avenue. On Sunday we were able to ride in the Subway to get to church. It was so weird going to church in what looked like a regular office building. After church we went to the Statue of Liberty. We got to go up inside to where her feet are which is actually pretty high up there. As soon as we got up there is just started pouring, that's why we look so funny in some of the pictures on the statue of liberty, it was freezing. We then went to ground zero. There was much there to look at, just a big fenced off area with a building showing what the monument will look like when it's done.

The next day we went to the museum of natural history which would have been kind of cool, but we were all so tired from walking that we just wanted to get back to our hotel. we also went to F.A.O. Schwartz the big giant toy store on Fifth Avenue, which was way cool.

The last day we were there we went to the Manhattan Temple and did baptisms as a family. The temple hardly looks like a temple, it looks more like a church office building. It was nice to get away from the noise of the streets and be able to sit in a nice quiet temple and feel the spirit. Then that night we went to the broadway show, Wicked. This was an amazing experience, my favorite thing we did in New York. The Actors and Actresses were so good. I would go back to New YOrk just to see another Broadway show.

It was alot of fun to spend so much time as a family and to be able to experience some of these great church history sites and New York. We also give a special thanks to mom and dad for inviting us and paying for most of it for us. Thanks!

I will add pictures later tonight!

Fourth of July

Okay, I've done a very bad job at keeping this blog updated. This is the first time writing in a month. Well, basically my camera broke, we got it fixed enough to get the pictures off of it but it is still broken. So, it looks like that's what I'm going to be getting for my birthday. So, here are a bunch of pictures of what we have been up to the last little while. Most of them are of the fourth of July weekend.


These pictures are from when we took our couch and tv to the park to watch a movie. The sprinklers turned on us, so we ended up trapped under the pavilion.




This is the at the rodeo we went to in Hyrum.





On the third of July we went to the fireworks up here in Logan with Heidi and Derek and my cousin Brett. We borrowed Aarons truck so that we could put Heidi and Dereks couch in the back. Way better than laying on the grass. We also brought the barbeque and had hamburgers and hot dogs.



On the fourth of July we went down to Centerville and spent the day with my family. We went to the fire works at Davis High and found the perfect spot. Nobody seemed to want to sit there so we had the whole field to ourselves and played croquet.
The next day we were able to go to a wedding of someone that Levi taught and baptized on his mission. It was really neat to go to that and be able to meet his family. Later that day we met up with my family and went to Cherry Hills and went swimming for the rest of the day. Robynn and James also came. James was so cute in the water. Not scared of it at all. And then the rest of the weekend we went to Sandy and spent some time with levi's family.