Happy 4th!!!



I am not doing very well on the updating the blog thing. On the Fourth this year we went to the Hyrum for their parade.


Then had a dutch oven dinner at his sister Connie's house. Where Brad and Curtis played basketball and I played hopscotch with the girls.
After Curtis and I drove down to Brigham City for their HUGE fireworks :) It was a blast ;)

I love to see the Temple!

Yesterday Curtis and I had the opportunity to go and do sealings at the Logan Temple before it closes for a month. We had a wonderful time, going to the temple is always a great experience we are so lucky to live so closely to the House of the Lord.

We always enjoy our experiences there together, the spirit is always so strong and I love the peace that is brings. I love feeling so close to our Heavenly Father and others that have passed on.

I am so happy knowing that our family is eternal and that we will always have each other. I love this gospel and the happiness it brings. I love the Temple.

Just because I love him!!!

I guess this post could be in honor of Father's Day, my first father's day with my husband, the future father of our future children, or just because I have all this love in my heart today.

This post is all about my amazing man that chose me to be his eternal companion. I had a bad dream about him last night so I need to put down all my feelings for my wonderful, amazing, loving eternal companion.

I have the most wondeful man in all the world. He works so hard to make sure that we are in a good place financally, and that we have everything we need. He loves me despite my womanly hormones and all my dumb emotions that women unfortunately seem to have. He is the greatest thing that has ever happened to me. The love I feel for him is like nothing I have ever felt before in my life. He honors his priesthood and utlilizes it frequently, he is so spiritually strong.

He is always there for me, he comforts me, talks me down when I get my feathers ruffled, he talks to me about anything and everything, we decide everything together, he is content just holding my hand, he kisses me goodbye every morning even though I am still asleep, he watches movies with me even though he falls asleep, he motivates me, he helps me around the house, the vacuums the millions of spiders that think our home is theirs, he is patient with me.

I could go on and on. So short and simple!!! I LOVE MY HUSBAND SO MUCH HE IS THE GREATEST MAN IN THE WORLD!!! Women you can agrue and say yours is the best but you are mistaken, mine is in fact the greatest in the world.

Sprinter Clean Up

There are a few days when the weather is some what warm and nice enough to do some clean up work.

Curt and I are trying to make the yard look good we started with ripping out some ugly bushes in the front yard. We hooked a chain around the bushes then to the truck and we yanked it out. It took a while but we eventually got them out and the yard is on its way to looking fantastic :)

Now if only the weather would let us do some more work.

Faith is like a little seed

Faith is like a little seed. Well you have to have faith whilst planning on planting a garden in Logan, Utah.  Well since we have this gorgeous garden space we figured we'd try.

We weeded, tilled, raked, planted, watered and PRAYED for the best. The garden looked sad to begin with. Then Logan weather took its toll :(

We got snow, rain, flooding, and heat. The poor garden is dead  :( some of our seeds never surfaced and our little plants wilted. Next year we will plant later and pray harder and hope Logan cooperates.

One Year Ago

*NOTE* I did start this on the 31st but because I had work I did not finish but I have now finished :)






I haven't posted in a long time which I will catch up on soon, but I had to make this post. For today was the day I had my first date with my now amazing husband. (Technically it was Memorial Day but it was the 31st of May so I count that as our first date.)


Let me start a few days ago.

May 28-29, 2010

This day I spent the night with my best friend Eva at her parents house in West Valley and I got a text from a number I didn't know. Which wasn't unusal since my phone that I had at the time fried itself every two weeks and I lost all vital information with no way to save it. So rather than doing the smart thing and asking who was texting me and tell them I lost all contacts in my phone I figured I would just get them to say something difinitive and figure out for myself who this was. So I asked what they were up to, they replied just at the Delta Hot Pots with my buds. So I figured it was a guy, the real question was which one. Since he said he was in Delta I thought it was this guy a dated a year ago, but then he said something about doing a Rodeo, which ruled out that one. So I thought he was a guy that I dated in High School which did prove to be true just not the one that I thought. So I gave him some sarcastic answers to questions and chatted from late Friday night to late Saturday night. I got home and told my parents that Skylar asked me out on a date. They asked when, he was going to school in Cedar, I responded that we didn't talk about it. I went back down stairs to put my dog to bed and I received another text from my would-be-solved mystery texter and he said I bet you are a good kisser. Now I know that I had kissed Skylar before now I was TOTALLY lost at who was texting me. I had the thought to check my facebook messages so I did and found Curtis Newman's message to me from January with his phone number it. I went up to my parents room and fell face first onto their bed. They asked what was the matter. I said ITS CURTIS NEWMAN!!! They said who is? The guy I said was Skylar is CURTIS NEWMAN!!! I told my mom I was going to tell him I couldn't go on a date with him, I was going to tell him no! My mom said you can't do that don't be mean just go on one date and you never have to go out again. I really did not want to, I told her no I won't go on a date with him, and I went to bed.

May 30, 2010

The next morning before Church my mom suggested that I invite him to our family BBQ the next day for Memorial Day. That way if things were awkward there would be other people around to talk to and such. I reluctantly agreed. I texted him and invited him over he said he'd love to. So with our date set I headed to church. I met with my Bishop to discuss my choice to serve a mission. I told my family that night at dinner I made my mom cry in a happy way. This would help keep Curtis at bay I was going to serve a mission.

May 31, 2010

Memorial Day. I woke up and started getting ready for the day. I texted Curtis to ask what his favorite color. He said it was Orange. Alise was dressing me and wanted me to catch his eye so she had me wear an orange shirt. I went downstairs and my dad was sitting at the kitchen table. He said he wanted to talk to me. He said that he had a promoniton that once I started hanging out with Curtis that we would be spending a lot of time together and I wouldn't serve my mission. I said you're telling me I am going to marry Curtis Newman!? He said I never said that I just said you would spend a lot of time together. I brushed it off and went about the day till Curtis came over. Everyone else came over and still Curtis hadn't shown up. I was beginning  to think he stood me up on our first date when he seemed so eager. When finally I was about to give up hope on him coming I got a text saying he was here. All of the sudden I had butterflies like you wouldn't believe. So I ran to the front door opened it and there stood this tall, very good looking, brown eyed, brown haired man. Not the boy I remember from High School he was different. I said Curtis! and hugged him then brought him in and he apologized for taking so long he had ridden his scooter down and it can't go on the freeway so he had to take the back roads to my house. I said that was ok I just thought you were standing me up, just teasing. :) I was worried about it being awkward still but actually everything went so well. Nothing was weird he fit right in and by the end of the night we were holding hands.

Today I am married to that man and I have never been happier. I love our life together. I love how hard he works to supports us and take care of us, he is so motivated and very helpful. He is my best friend, my world, my everything. I look back to before we started dating and I never would have thought I'd be where I am now. But, I can't imagine it any other way, I wouldn't change a thing about our life together (well except maybe the fact that Logan is FREEZING me to death!!!) it is perfect and I love being married.

I can't wait to spend the rest of all eternity with him and see all the things life brings us. I say bring it on we can handle anything!!!

Fun from Ireland

Thursday Curtis had a good friend from Ireland drop in for a visit he had come over to surprise his wife who still lives in Idaho (she is working on moving over to Ireland with him soon). But he stopped and spent the night with us Thursday night. I had to work from 12-6 and Tom would be at our apartment by 6:30 so timing was perfect.

However things never go as planned and after I got off work I went out to the truck to drive home and it wouldn't start. It didn't click over NOTHING. The buttons on the keys wouldn't open the doors. The truck didn't react at all it was totally dead. So I called Curt because he had just gotten home from work to come get me on the scooter or fix the truck which ever was possible. He is a pretty good mechanic so he thought he could fix it... NOPE. We were completely baffled so Joey (his brother) was up here with his wife and her family celebrating her birthday at Sizzler (right by my work) yay so he came over with the car really fast to come and help us jump start it. It didn't work. So Curt ran home to get some tools and unhook the battery and re-hook it to see if that helped any. Nope.

 Ultimately we had to have Joey tow us to the Ford dealership down the road a ways. We got there and they were already closed. So we found a drop box dropped the keys and it is now about 7:45. Curt had left the apartment open so Tom and Nan(Curt's mom) could wait inside for us.  So our perfect timing ended up not being so perfect. We had a late dinner but it was a lot of fun. We rode the scooter in the cold rain from the dealership, home, to Texas Roadhouse, and home again. They wouldn't know until 2 o'clock Friday afternoon what is wrong with it. :( We hoped it's nothing serious. We showed Tom our wedding photos, got his bus ticket all settled to get him to Idaho Falls, changed the address for his lost luggage to be sent to his sons house and not ours, and we talked till midnight then we went to bed. Now you saw on the list just the sentence before we changed the delivery address right? You also notice my picture at the top shows Tom, Curt, and 3 bags right? That's because they didn't get the address change so at 3:53am Curt gets a call... its the delivery guy who doesn't know which door is ours to drop off the luggage at. So Curt goes up and gets it, then comes back down and it tooks us and hour to get back to sleep. Then we got up at 6 to get Tom ready to catch the bus. But because of our unfortunate deal with the truck they had to load onto the scooter (as seen above). Thankfully the bus stop is less than a mile away.

So that was the start to what is supposed to be our amazingly, fun, fantastic weekend. Friday I worked from 12-6 Curt was already at work so I was stranded with no vehicle. Nan came to get me and take me to work, but my family came up earlier than the time I was supposed to get off work. So they came over to my work and saw all the fun stuff we have there. My brother got lost in Brigham instead of making it to Logan. So he had to call my dad to get directions. So I gave my family the tour of our place and we got the pizzas in the oven so we could eat. We showed off our wedding photos while we waited, then we ate dinner, and played apples to apples. We had some cheesecake that was left over from our reception. It was about 10 o'clock and my family had a long drive home so they left but my older brother and his girlfriend stayed to have a chit-chat. They didn't leave until 1:20am so after they left Curt and I wanted to stay awake till they got home to know that they made it home safely. We lasted till about 3 then we fell asleep. They made it home at 3:30 ish so we almost made it the whole time.

I had to work Saturday as well, I had to close up the store so I was at work till about 8ish. We were supposed to go up to Bear Lake with Curt's family for Easter so we left after work, and got up there about 9:15pm we got settled into our room then went over his mom's room to party with everyone. We played Just Dance 2 on the Wii, card games, and Apples to Apples. Had Ice Cream for Connie and Leslie's birthdays (which we were celebrating while up there). Chatted and snacked till 2:00am. Finally with me half asleep in the arm chair we all went to bed. The bed was as hard and as a board :P I was awake for another hour because I couldn't sleep.

The next morning, Easter Morning, started with a phone call at 7:40am saying they were doing easter baskets for the kids. Which meant it was about breakfast time and since we were incharge of part of breakfast we needed to head over. So Curt just went over while I got ready. Then we went over and all the kids got their baskets and played with their toys and candy. While breakfast was cooking then we all ate and had our easter egg cracking war.

Curtis won and we got a big bag of Reeses Peanut Butter Eggs. We had such a great time and we had a wonderful easter. We love all the family time we had this weekend. We hope everyone had a great Easter as well.