The Apartment.

So our apartment looked like this at first

Yes That sink is in the master bed room. I thought I would hate it being there but its really convenient.

It was so gross! It was a boys apartment before and it was nice but dirty. They kept it as clean as they could but the walls were a yellow color and the carpet was awful! It was all really old and dirty and needed a face lift. So we ripped out the carpet and the kitchen/bathroom floors and painted the walls and things look so much better.

We also have some amazing furniture in our apartment made by Chase himself (with a little help from me). I'm so proud of my amazing husband and his craftiness. 

He made all of those shelves and tables and more that I don't have pictures of. Isn't he amazing? I love our cute little home. 

new year, new goal

Hopefully with the new year I'll actually give this tiny little page on the internet some time and effort. Ya know spruce it up a little, write more and keep documentation about the things that happen in my life.

So instead of catching up on all the big events that has happened the last, what 6 months since I've written on the blog of mine, I'll just write one sentence about it and move on, then maybe I'll pick up with juice details about events that are happening now. 

So first on the list:

• Chase and I moved in with his parents for 2 months and worked our butts off renovating our apartment, which I have to say is the cutest and most comfortable place and I never want to move. I guess I'll have to do a special post about every detail of our apartment cause it is amazing
• We celebrated Thanksgiving, Christmas and New years. Between Thanksgiving and Christmas I worked a butt load and never saw Chase so that sucked.
• Chase's birthday was January 4, we stayed up till midnight and opened presents cause I was just to darn excited to wait and give them to him in the morning. Martin Sexton tickets and a stay in Park City was a huge surprise and I could not hold it in any longer! Also with a cabin party during the day with his friends was perfect too.
• January 8, the dreaded day of Joe leaving. He left dropped him off at the MTC and peaced out for two years. So remember this recent post? Yeah well he never left in may he left today, January 8.

Boom thats all I'll catch up on right now. Enjoy the one picture of the whole family at the MTC today!

Hello?

Remember how I started this blog and remember how I was going to be really good at keeping up at it? Well good thing I failed.....lets just say I've been very busy since my last post. Like here is a list of things:

- Finals down at Dixie (old news, that was over a month ago)

- Joe is still here

- Moved from our home in St. George to Provo into the Nelson household

- Was suppose to move into an apartment but didn't happen so still living at the in-laws!

- I got a job a Taylor's bike shop

- Sarah had the most perfect baby boy Jack Even Thomas

- I quit my job at Taylor's after a week of working there, pathetic I know, but whatever

- Working for Marvells now and I love it

- I have lots of free time while the husband is at work 

- Husband and I have been obsessed with The Office, its hilarious

- We hike a lot

- Every weekend we seem to get away to either my cabin or his cabin, we are spoiled with cabins

- We finally get to move into our apartment THIS WEEK! I will post pictures cause I have loads of ideas on how to decorate, I am stoked!

Well thats all I'll probably update you in a month or two! Just kidding hopefully I'll be better at this little blog! Enjoy some pictures of us on squaw peak cause thats all I have!

2 Weeks.

2 weeks left before Joe leaves. 

2 weeks left for me to hang out with my best friend.

2 weeks and I have finals.

2 flipping weeks. I cannot believe how fast time flies. 

I am a selfish person because I don't want him to go! 

Good thing he is in STG with me so we can spend a couple of days together! So stoked! 

Just the day Joe got his call and a video of when he opened it. 

The Cactus Hugger.

The cactus hugger is a mountain biking race and it is brutal. Seriously hard. I decided to race in it about a week ago. Yep a week. I went and rode the trail and it was good. I could do it. But the race was 2 laps! 2 laps of the hardest uphill climbing ever. Ok so it wasn't that hard but I'm super out of shape and I didn't have time to train for it and I was in over my head. Luckily my dear friend Whitney (I met her on monday and she is wonderful!) who is an amazing mountain biker raced it with me! She is amazing, seriously the best. She is the first girl I have met you is actually really good! We met on monday and I have a feeling we will be the best of friends. The race was today, saturday, I'm writing this exhausted and sunburnt but it was the best time of my life. I've been super nervous for this all week. I have NEVER raced in anything before so this was my first time at it and it was terrifying. 

Chase my wonderful husband supported me and was there the whole time in the blazing hot 80 degree weather. It was so hot during the race, all I could think was HOT, I want to stop. But I didn't I finished this little race and I got third in my category, which is ok for my first race ever. Whitney got second and she was only 30 seconds away from first. Seriously so proud of her! It was her first time racing mountain bikes and I'm so glad she was there with me! Also my dear friend Jace Heger got second in his expert category. He is seriously the best. I guess his chicken legs give him an advantage. But now I am dead and hungry.

Whitney and I before the race literally freaking out. We almost missed the race.

And we are off!

This girl behind took first and she is 14 years old. Cool. She kicked my butt.

Starting the second lap and I was dying at this point.

The whole group of bike fix riders.

Chase and I waiting for the results. We are both tired of being there.

Obviously the first place winner was pretty stoked. 

Jace in all of his glory! Jace is the seriously the best and has been one of my best friends for many years!

All in all we walked away with some free stuff (just socks) and lots of tan lines. I love to mountain bike and I can't wait to race again!

Birthday Weekend.

It was my birthday April 1, on monday and I love my birthday, its my favorite day and its always perfect. On saturday the hubs and I went to Gunlock lake and played on the dried out waterfalls, made a campfire on the beach and skipped rocks and hung out. It was perfect. On sunday my family surprised me and came down and we went to the driving range and out to dinner at Texas Roadhouse. Yes we are terrible we went out to eat on a sunday...oops! But it was my birthday so it was ok. On monday my actual birthday was a normal day. Went to class and to work then I came home and my sweet husband had dinner and balloons for me. It was the greatest. Birthdays are the best!

Enjoy the pictures!

Saturday Lovin

Chase has been sick all week and today he finally felt better so we decided to go on a little hike at Red Cliffs. Everyone knows of this hike and if you don't you should definitely go check it out. Its super fun and easy you can take the little kiddies there. Its a fun with water pools to jump into, today the water was a little to chilly so avoided all chances of getting wet, which meant doing a lot of hiking around.

Like I said we did everything to avoid getting wet. Also this is Chase's artistic idea, by sticking the go pro half way in the water. Super cool babe.

All in all a successful day in the sun. We both walked away with a little more color to our skin!