Date night with The parents

Last night my parents drove to Cedar and went out on the town with us! First my mom and I went shopping and got her some new clothes. She loves going to walmart and walking around and looking at stuff, I do too, and this time she loaded up on some new outfits...it was fun:) Then We were lucky enough to get my friend Julie, (YOU ROCK JULIE) to watch Kasen while us four went to a movie. Tate and I have both seen Blind Side before but my parents hadn't so we went to that one. They really enjoyed it. My mom really enjoys doing stuff like that, and I am not sure if my dad really does or not, but I think that they had a good time..then we went out to dinner and just visited! I love my parents so much and seriously have so much fun with my mom. She loves to chat and chat and I love to listen and chat right back with her! We are pretty close and I love it. Then Tate and I just hung out chillaxin on the couch watching football and whatever else is on t.v. I am a bit imbarrassed to say this, but I am getting pretty into "keeping up with the Kardashians". I don't even know who they are, but I do know that I want Kim Kardashian's eyes, they are so pretty and big:) It's a little silly I know!

Just hanging out watching Television. It's a little late, and I look pasty white, but it's all good:) It's just fun to have a moment to actually be with your husband!! Lately those are few and far between! So I am beginning to cherish them!

My Dad, me and MOM! Yeah!

Me and Kasen after Church! Silly Cheese Face!

Happy 27th BABE

Today is Tate's 27th Birthday. It has been quite uneventful for him and I feel bad for being such a bad party thrower for my man! He did go out and buy him some new jeans and just got to be by himself at a store for a while, and that is always fun:) (those of you with 2 year olds understand) We went to Valley last night and my Mom took him out for his favorite...STEAK dinner. I got to tag along! Today Kasen and I made him a birthday cake with Green frosthing that Kasen was very much looking forward too, seeing how green is his VERY favorite color and everything is the color green! Tate got to blow out his candles, I made a yummy chicken enchilada dinner and now I am playing on the computer while Tate playes with Kasen.

27 Reason's why I LOVE TATE....

1) He is so patient. With me and Kasen

2) He is always playing with Kasen and finding time to just be with him, even though it's exhausting

3) He loves to eat my food that I cook for him! It doesn't matter what it is, or if it actually tastes horrible, he will eat it. And that makes me feel good:)

4) Just looking at him and having him smile at me reminds me why I fell in love with him 5 years ago!

5) He is very caring towards other people.

6) He takes the time to listen and talk with anyone who wants to talk with him, and takes interest in their lives

7) He is HOT:)

8) He is the Hardest worker that I know!

9) He is willing to do whatever it takes to make sure that our family is provided for.

10) He is passionate about hunting and I think that it's cute! (most of the time)

11) He is athletic!

12) Whenever I need something, he will always be there to get it for me!

13) He respects and honors his parents!

14) He loves all his family....and he is definately the favorite one in both our families I think! He just has this way of caring for people!

15) He drives a Nice car:)

16) He is tall

17) He makes a mean hot chocolate and toast~

18) Whenever my feet are cold he warms them up, even if they are really cold.....If they are really cold, he will get his "toe warmers" and put them in my socks for me:)

19) He is MY BEST friend

20) He allows me to be me and accepts me for who I am...no matter what mood I am in that day!

21) He served an honorable full time mission and the people in CA really love him!

22) He Loves the Gospel

23) He has a strong testimony of the truthfulness of the Gospel

24) He took me to the Temple to be married for Time and All ETERNITY!!!!!

25) He honors his priesthood

26) He is able to give me and Kasen blessing whenever we are in the need for them.

27) His smile, laugh, eyes, the way that he treats me and Kasen with all the love in the world!

You are amazing Tate! I hope that you know how much I love you and appreciate all that you do for me and Kasen! I am glad that I finally smartened up and realized how great you were and married you:) Happy Birthday BABE!

Seeing old friends

Last night was a night that we had been patiently waiting for so we could see our friends Chandler and Lieren and Chan's family! Tate played ball with Chan at CEU and we have been friends ever since! His family have been so supportive of us and even went and watched a few of Tate's games while at SUU! So we love the Pearsons. He plays for Chaminade which is in Hawaii and was in St. George so we were so excited to be able to go and watch the game! He did AWESOME! After the game, Lieren and her family made a yummy dinner and we were able to go and chat and spend a little extra time with them! It's always so fun to be able to see your friends that you haven't seen in forever!
WE were able to attend the Temple before the game and it was a much needed time to be able to reflect and enjoy the spirit with Tate. We haven't been able to make it to the temple in a while with each other and so it was so nice to renew our Faith and Testimony of the Gospel of Jesus Christ!
I love our new ward and the people in it. I love that I already have friends in the ward that I can sit by and chat with, and I am excited to make new friends. There are few people that went to CEU that are in the ward so that is interesting and fun at the same time... I say interesting because today we were in Sacrament and Tate leaned over and whipsers, "remember when You were being dumb and I was dating other girls trying ot make you jealous?" I replied, "YES" and he said "well one of the girls is sitting right over there." Ha hahahahahahaa.....I looked over and couldnt'really see who it was. I remember very well the incident that he referred to when I went to his dorm room to talk with our friend Eric about some church calling that we had, I think we were the ward missionaries or somethign and I made up some excuse to go down to Tate's suite to see if he was there. But I remember seeing him in his room sitting on his bed right beside this girl when I walked in and when I walked out!!! I think I even remember what the girl was wearing and I definately remember how her hair was done becuase it was very curly and poofy!!! So that was a funny thing that happened in our ward today!! Good times!!
After the game, when we were getting ready to leave, I made sure we had a picture of all of us! I am glad I am not standing by Lieren.....she is Gorgeous!!!!

Kaylene has little puppies, and her son brought this one to the game! They are so dang cute!

Me and Meagan! It was so fun seeing her and catching up with what she is up to!

Kaylene, Meag, and Me....during half time:) (Kaylene...I needed to be farther away from the camera more than you did...trust me:)

School has now officially started and I have been super busy already. I am taking a very full 18 credits this semester with the intention of Graduating this May with my PE Coaching degree. I am really liking my classes so far, mostly because I haven't had to go to my #1 hard class that is in the mornings but starting Monday I will be going to that one, so we will see how we are doing after that. I am excited to be graduating. Tate is able to stay at home and work and be with Kasen so that makes things for us a whole lot better! Kasen is growing too fast and is learning his numbers and geting pretty good at them. Tate works with him everyday and I am amazed at what an incredible father and friend Tate is to Kasen. I sure am lucky.
So, in the meantime of me not posting and blogging anything fun, you all will know becuase I have to go to school now and not just hang out with Kasen all day long:)
I am excited to be busy and doing something productive! It's already been a change:) Although I do think that motherhood is busy and productive! Life is good here in Cedar City! We are loving it!

In a Nut Shell

The last couple of weeks have been very very FUN for our family. Tate and I celebrated our 4 Year Wedding Anniversary! I would have never dreamed my love could grow so much from 4 years ago, but it has...I love Tate more now than I did when I married him! Now we have a 2 year old little boy in the mix and that certainly adds to the love. My best friend Celeste came and watched Kasen for us until sister Linda stopped by and took over for her:) We went to the Garden House, which we discovered that we have gone there, Every year since we have been married to celebrate our anniversary! I was very excited to have that tradition and not even know it....I can't wait to celebrate 50+ years at the Garden House. Then we went and saw the movie Invictus....we really enjoyed it...it was a good movie! Very uplifting! IT was fun! Happy Anniversary Babe! You're the greatest.
We have very much enjoyed being together during this last month and I am not too excited for when I start school to have such a busy life again! Although I am very excited to be in school again and finish my degree~ It will be a great thing:) We have visited Santa Claus a few times and both times were not very happy. A few pics of the 1st visit to Santa Claus in Orderville.

Waiting in line outside the bank!

Clinging on for Dear life!

Not Very happy

His usual cheese~ Sometimes:)

St. George Expedition

This last Saturday I went to St. George and ran in a 50 mile relay with the one and only Betty C. and Mindy and some of Betty's friends. It was a 5 person team so we each ran 10 miles. It was alot of fun. It wasn't as difficult as the wasatch back and REd rock relay's where I did 3 different legs of different miles...I only did 2 legs and I got my hard 7.4 miler done at the first so that was nice...I didnt' have too bad of legs so it was an enjoyable time. The weather was pretty good, a bit chilly at times, but nice for running! I love doing stuff like this cause it keeps me going and excited to stay in a little bit of shape! Plus it's the best when you can go out and accomplish something with a bunch of your friends! Nothing better! It was fun...thanks Betty!

I can't believe that I am so lucky to have Betty as a friend! She is the BEST!

Our New Place

Well, we have decided that we are ready for somewhere to call Home. We moved back to Cedar City a week ago and it's been full of fun already! I have finally gotten most of our stuff cleaned and put away. We got our family pictures taken over Thanksgiving so I am excited to be getting those back and hanging them in our house. I am going to be going back to school and finishing this semester and Tate will be working on a few things here and there. It took us a bit longer to decided what we were going to do becuase we werewaiting on a few things, but decided that if what we want to work out does work out then I will still be able to finish school in the meantime. I have loved being in Cedar seeing my friends and hanging out at the good ol' City league games. We are in a Great ward and tons of our old friends are in the same wards so we are excited! WE went to the Christmas party last night and it was catered by Costa Vida, so we figured that we should stay in this ward just in case the New Years party is like the Christmas party:)
It's interesting being parents now with Kasen getting so old. He is learning how to sleep in his own bed, with help from a little bribary on our part. We tell him that he will get fruit snacks if he sleeps in his bed all by himself....it works most of the time:) It's nice and cold and wet here, something that we will just have to get use to.
WE are excited to be going to Talmage this Christmast season to be with the in-laws. I am excited to have Jerry and Casey and Fam coming in a few weeks and can't wait to spend a week or so with them. I miss those guys like crazy!
Life is fun. I am enjoying spending time with Tate and Kasen and am so spoiled to have those two guys in my life:) I am working on getting out Christmas cards so please will you text or write down your addresses or e-mail them to me! I have gotten a few peoples addresses but not alot!!
Merry Christmas!