Family Day

So I had forgoten about our Cross Country Skiing adventure we had on Family Day this year, with the Orr family. Jared and I had gone up for the long weekend and before we headed home on Monday we went out to the Strathcona County Wilderness Centre and went cross county skiing something I had never done before, but found it to be a ton of fun!

So here are some pics...


Here is part of our group, we were still waiting for a few people to get their ski's on.


Emily, Dallin, and Brother Orr


Mom and Dad, true champions who beat us all (they claim they didn't take the short way around).


And of course my hunk of a husband.

It was such a nice day! Everyone who had bundled up ended up strippin down, such a good work out. We had a pic with the whole group, but of couse I didn't think to get it on my camera.

Valintines Day

So I feel like I'm in a bit of a rut lately, you know when your routine gets alittle bit too routine, and filled with too much work and not enough excitment. Ya thats me right now.

I keep wanting to blog but once I get home from work I just feel too tired and lazy, even though sitting with my computer, typing letters isn't that difficult. I just honestly want to be an utter and complete vegetable.

But this weekend we went to Edmonton since we got an extra day off. I just needed a break from Lethbridge. So know I am feeling up to blogging.

So this picture was taken at Robyn's and Bevan's wedding, and I LOVE it!

Let's spot the similarities...



...eyes, lips, chin.

Feel the love, Happy Valintines Day!

Birthdays and ipod socks

So in the month of November my two favorite sisters have Birthdays, so I was searching and searching for the perfect thing and where better to look than Etsy, I first discovered this sight through a friends blog and I love it!

So I found these cases for ipods, I like to call them ipod socks. So I found this really cool one that was had a treble cleff on it and I thought it would be great for Emily, since she is so musically talented. But it was going to cost alittle too much for my budget with the shipping and what not. So I decided to make my own!





So I made one out of scraps at first just to make sure I could actually do it, I lined it and every thing I think it turned out pretty good, so I went and bought some fabric.







So it was Emily's Birthday was on the 7th and she loves music anad the color purple so Im not gonna explain what I did instead I am going to tell you somethings I love about Emily.
She has such an amazing imagination and is very creative, she is scared really easily and she will find the humor in it even though she is the one jumping and screaming. She is herself even if people don't like it. She is very fashonable. And she trys and succedes and making people feel loved and important. So happy 14th Birthday Ems, you deserve the best in the world!







This one is the one I made for Robyn she turned 23 on the 20th, and there is so much I can say about her. She is so intellegent and also very creative, she inspires me daily in so many ways. She is also very fashonable and I have always enjoyed shopping with her cause she always seems to find things that look good on me. She understands me better than anyone else in this universe including myself at times. She is supportive and caring and always has a listening ear. I love her and she also deserves the best in the world.

I love both of my sisters and I am so glad we have been able to stay close over the years regardless of our diffrences and the distance. They are truly inspiring and amazing women.

Halloween (alittle late, I know)

Alright so even though our Halloween wasn't too exciting I thought I would post something. Jared and I didn't dress up, for one we're not much the dressing up type people, and we didn't have anything to dress up for i.e. Halloween Party. Maybe next year I will have to host one.

But I did decide to make some cute Halloween cookies this year that I saw on Bakerella, and I couldn't help but make them, mind you mine are a little diffrent but they tasted awesome and looked great I thought.





They were super easy and I handed them out to my trick or treaters, since the only ones I really had were Hesston and Payton, I should have snapped a pic of them in costume, they were so cute! Especially Princess Payton with her Hair colored pink! And Hesston with his HUGE 6 pack being X-men and all. I also had made up some deliciouse popcorn balls with gummy worms in them. Jared really enjoyed the extras we had left over (okay I might have too).

5am wake ups and hard work.

So back in Septmeber I joined a bootcamp, it was for 4 weeks from 5:30 to 6:30, 5 days a week. I know lots of people think they could never get up that early and then go work out, and some mornings I had the same thought but I was mostly motivated by bragging rights and the money I had paid in advance for the program. I never missed a day, and I worked really hard and I am proud to say I lost a total of 7 1/2 total inches, that includes my arms, chest, waist, hips, and thighs, and a total of 4 pounds, I wanted a little more lbs than that but I have to remeber that I gained alot of muscle.

I have been done the boot camp for a week, I got a gym membership at the Unuversity and can still say that I have now gone 5 weeks, five days a week without missing a day! I must admit it's harder going to the gym vs. the bootcamp, I don't have a trainer or any kind of motivater but I am determined to continue to loss weight and most impotantly become more fit.

I feel so good lately and love the way my clothes just seem to fit better, and I hope that if there is someone reading this who feel like they've gotten in a slump lately to make the sacrifice and sign up for some sort of class to help motivate them and commit yourself to it. I was sick the first week of camp with nausea and vomitting the whole works and I refused to miss a day, I knew if I allowed my self to miss one I would justify others. Commit and follow through, the accomplishment feels so amazing!

Summer time, and the livin's easy

Alright so I this may be a long post since theres been alot going on, but I will try to make it short and sweet.

One of the big accomplishments recently is that I graduated from my course at Reeves College in the Medical Office Assistant course. I don't have any picttures of it because I didn't go to the grad, which I don't regret as far as I'm concerned it was lame. But I graduated at the end of May and even though it took a good solid month to find a job after that, I got a job working at the family clinic in Taber. It is a great clinic, I'm really happy working there. It seems like it's always busy, but it's good cause it makes the day go faster.

Alright so now for the fun summer activities so far.
At the end of June we went camping with our friends Matt and Des, we camped in the Crandell Lake camp ground which is in Waterton, it is a really nice site, and not far from Red Rock Canyon. This is Crandell lake it was about a half hour hike from our camp.
This is at Red Rock Canyon, Matt and Des decided they needed to cool down alittle.

CanadaDay! So for most of the day we spent time with Hesston we took him to Henderson Lake for some of the activities that were going on this was just at the park, there were tons of kids on this thing, but he was perfectly content with playing on it, thats pretty much all he wanted to do. They also had those blow up jungle gym things, which you had to wait in line for about 20mins, but Hesston was really good about waiting and happy once he was on it. We also went to Thunder In The Valley this summer in Blairmore. Larry came up from Utah for it and Ammon came down from Edmonton. It was fun we camped from Thursday to Sunday. And got LOTS of sun! At Franks Slide. We found this little diddy in Bellvue, it was parked infront of a house, we never saw the owner, but we deffinantly had a good laugh! Alittle Rock Climbing (without any safty gear). It was so hot the whole weekend it got up to 31 F, Ammon was in that water for a good 20 min, and that water was freezing cold! So while we were waiting for the fireworks to start there were a couple of people in the group infront of us who were having a birthday, they also happend to be YSA kids from Lethbridge, one of which Lars knew from BYU. We thought it was kinda cool because my birthday was the day after. So we are sitting there watching them take pictures with these cakes they had brought and I realize that one says "Happy Birthday Lindy" and I was like Whoa! Her name is Lindy. So Lars goes and talks with the girl he knows and tells her whats up, so we take pictures and they even shared a piece of cake with all of us! It was pretty awesome! And this was on my actual birthday, I am 21 this year. It was an awesome birthday, we got home from Thunder in the Valley at like 4AM that morning, and Robyn, Bevan, and Emily came down and surprised me that day! It was so cool, I had no idea they were coming. And Karmyn cooked me a deliciouse roast dinner.

Alright so I will definantly try not to be a slacker and will get posts up sooner, next one Robyns Wedding!

Canmore Trip

So I've actually been meaning to write this blog for about a month now, since thats when we went on this trip. But life gets busy and time has to be used differently, but I am writing it now.

Every spring, for many years now, my family packs up our ski stuff and we head to Canmore area and take a week to spend time with family and friends. Fortunantly I have made every year even if just for a couple days.

It is so relaxing to be able to be up in the mountains and to enjoy the peace. So this year Jared and I made it out there for 3 Days and 2 Nights. And I even got to snowbaord on one of them, lucky me!

So here are a few pictures. Robyn and Bevan couldn't make it this year, but hopefully they don't have too many more years where they will have to be in Toronto.


So from Left to Right. Emily, Riley (Bates), Brittney, Kaden, Riley (Saunders), Me
We have always gone with the Oviatts, and usually ski with them, also Emily's friend Riley Saunders cxame with us this year.


Agian Left to Right is, Riley, Riley, Emily, Mom, Me, and Dallin.
This is one of those classic pictures, we get one by this sign every year. Dads not in it, cause he took the picture. Colter and Karmyn went home that day, so their missing, and Jared got sick the day we came out, poor guy, so he stayed back at the cabin.


This was at the cabin, out on the deck, the boys were wrestling with snow, and Payton wanted to go see.



So there are always a couple days we take off of skiing/snwbaording and we go hit up the town of Canmore, and Banff. Of course the favorite shopps are the candy shops and some one always gets the wax lips. So here is Riley and his sexy lips.


I honestly don't know how we all ended up on this couch, but we did. I'm just glad Emily and Jared didn't feel the need to jump in on the fun, cause then we really would have been pushing it.
I love how Payton is chugging back the pop.

It was a fun few days, hit the mountain during the day and sit in the hot tube and visit with family at night. Those are some of the best memories I have with my family.