Easter Weekend

Oh how I miss those Easter Weekends of making sugar cookies and decorating eggs. This weekend I have accomplished staying in my pjs the entire day! Now that the day is over I realize it wasn't as cool as it sounded.
Inbetween conference sessions and after my cousin Katy came over and helped me start boxing up my appartment. I believe we did about 5 boxes today. Then it hit me... I am going to be out of here in less than a month! I can't wait to move back up north and be closer to family.
In the next month and a half, things I have to look forward to: 5 more days of work over the next 3 weeks, 16 days of school and 4 days of finals, 28 days left until I graduate!!! I am not looking forward to Isaac leaving on a backpacking trip this next week but on the up side my sister Jessica coming down to visit me! She has always been the one to put others before herself and I can wait to give her a day at my salon from her hair to her toes!

NEW YEAR!

WOW hello everyone! It's been awhile I know. Since my last post I have finished one more semester at SNOW College with A's and B's started my last semester here!

I am so excited for this semester, I am taking all classes that I want to well besides Human Bio. I am taking Creative Activities for Children, Playground Education, Personal and Family Health, Family Relations and Sign Language- 18 credits and all. Isaac still wanting to work his fourty hours a week decided to take 10 credits this semester which include: Math 1010, Organic Chemistry, and Fit For Life.

I am so looking forward to this year and the new adventures it will bring. Isaac and I will celebrate our one year anniversary on March 6th, my best friend Charlotte is getting married a week later. I will gradutate from SNOW on May 1st and Isaac will transfer to the USU Brigham Extension to finish his Associates and then apply for the nursing program at WSU. In may I will try 21 WOOT WOOT I would really love to go play some slots in Vegas but we will see what actually happens. At the end of May Isaac and I will be traveling to Penn. to visit Isaac's brother's mission. And as far as babies go..... Well we aren't prego yet but we will see what this year brings.

Peach Days!

To quote my mother Peach Days comes after Christmas in our family calendar year. Me and Isaac were lucky enough to get to go home for Peach Days. He ran the 10k unforunately I didn't get any pictures of that. However this one picture I did get I believe sums up everything wonderful about Peach Days.

Palisades

Well its been about a month since I updated my blog. Not because there hasn't been much going on I just wasn't really motivated. So the first week after school started down here me and Isaac were trying to decide what to do with our Saturday. Then we got to thinking it would be fun to go and use the paddle boats at Palisades (a little lake about 15 miles south of ephraim) but we didn't want to go alone. Thats when I had the brillant idea of inviting my sister Jessica and her husband Ivan to come down and join us as a surprise to my brother Ben. They argreed and came down for the day. Altogether there were my two friends Bridgette and Rochelle, my cousin Katy, me and Isaac, my brother Ben and my sister Jessica her husband Ivan and their baby Jacob. Made for a great first weekend of the start of school!

Jessica warming Jacob up after his swim

Shel and Bridge eating our BBQ

Ivan and Isaac cookin up the burgers

Can you see the family resemblance?

poor kid haha just kidding jess is beautiful

Jacob ready to dive in!

Me and Ben swimmin

Isaac pulling back a float away boat

Walker Weekend Gettaway

Kids playing on the dock at our camp site trying to fish

This past week me and Isaac got to get away for a whole week! It was marvelous :D Last Saturday we drove up to Idaho Falls and got to spend some time with my grandparents and spend the night.

Nate teahing the little ones how to cast a fishing pole

The next day we went to sacrament with them before heading down to Lava Hot Springs for a Weekend Getaway (as my mother in law calls it. they don't say family reunions because in the past when they called it family reunion there was family issues-for lack of better word.) So we got there Sunday evening and stayed there until Tuesday afternoon. We shared at tent with Isaac's sister Mariah, her husband Kyle and their 4 kids. While sitting around the campfire their youngest daughter Kasie who is 2 years old fell asleep in my lap and I told Mariah she could sleep on the air mattress with Isaac and I so they had enough room on their airmattress with their 3 other kids. Well sometime after just falling asleep Kasie started fussing so then I passed her off to Mariah haha. I was joking with Isaac and I said the best form of birth control is coming to a big outing with your family. (I really do love those kids don't get me wrong but i really like my sleep too).

Mariah the following Morning after Kasie fussed all night

On Monday we rented 2 big tubes and one 2 seater and floated down the river in lava. It was a blast! After the 5th run down I called it quites and sat out on the last run down. My cute little neice Annie just loved sitting with me on the tube so when I got out so did she. When we got back to camp I showered up and then played some card games waiting for dinner to cook . We had HOBO dinners and that took me back to those oh so fun years of girls camp. That night we made smores and told scary stories (after all the children went to bed of corse). My borther in law Adam is a Highway Patrolman and really got into my head with some twisted story. I made Isaac accompany me to the rest room and the tent and didn't let him leave my side. That night while I slept my nephew Eric Crawled over his sister Lilly and was laying on top of me shivering. I was too scared to move (after that scary story and all) so I started wispering to Isaac to wake up and get him off of me. This happened again 2 more times that night.

Pregnant Kimmy (can't even tell yet she's not due til March)

On Tuesday we went to the pool at Lava and swam around for an hour or 2 before heading home.

My very dirty husband after a few trip down the zipline/mudslide

The rest of the week I helped my mom at her school and went shopping with her. Me and Isaac went to 2 receptions for friends of mine. On Friday night Isaac's cousin Jacob had his bachelor party out at Adam and Tina's barn, Tina and I were the pizza runners for all those hungry men all night so got to stick around and watch all the festivities. Adam had the brilant idea of hooking up a zipline from the top of his barn to and cable hooked between 2 posts in a near by field with a mud slide and a puddle to drop into. I took a few pictures to kinda show what it was like but they just don't do it justice.

The fourwheeler that pulled them down the zipline for more speed. Isaac and his best friend and cousin Jacob Walker

The mudslide and spectators

On Saturday Isaac and I went and did baptisms for the dead at the Bountiful Temple with my brother Ben, sister Jessica and her husband Ivan. Afterwards we got shakes at Jakes over the top, went to a reception then finished the night at the stake social swimming party with my Parents, Jessica, Ivan and baby Jacob.

Justin Taylor, Isaac Walker, Jacob Walker, Adam Walker and Kyle Auble

Well thats all thats new with us until school starts this next week and Jacob's wedding :D

July 24th Weekend

We had so many big plans for the 24th... camping out together, seeing the fireworks in fairview, just spending time together since Isaac just finished and passed his CNA class... well then work happened. I had the whole weekend off due to the holiday and Isaac worked the whole weekend due to the holiday. SO as a little treat to me Isaac told me to up to my parents house for a few days and help my mom with some of the cleaning I promised her (since my room was a mess from when I left for college and getting married I never really had a chance to clean it.) So on Thursday night I drove home and that night my mom went to a reception with me for a fellow hairstylist down here in Ephraim.

That night I spent some time with my friends Leslie and Rochelle and their lovers. I hadn't really spent time with both of them since I got married so I was thinking it would be similar to our old times together. Sadly I was wrong. I felt so out of place. I'm not sure if it was because Isaac wasn't there with me or the fact that I had been replaced by several new faces I didn't know. Rochelle was so cute about it and tried to make me feel like I was back in the gang but There was some sort of invisible wall between me and everyone else. Like I had a big MARRIED STAY AWAY sign on my head. When my mom called to ask me a question I told her I could come home and help her figure it out (which she really didn't need me to come home but that was the best escape I could find hehe). So when I went home I hung out with my brother and our good friend Chris and his wife Elise. Friends may come and go but your family is always there for you.

The next day me and Rochelle went swimming suit shopping and finally I found the one I love! It has my 2 favorite colors sky blue and lime green in it! Then that night I went mini golfing with Ben and my Parents. It's funny me and Isaac play to have fun and my mom and Ben like to take things a little more serious and actually keep score. Needless to say me and my dad lost :D here are some pictures of that night.

The Fourth of July Walker Weekend!

This is for you Tina! Wow can't believe it was what... 2 months ago I started this thing lol you would think something has been keeping me to busy to update. But no my friends I have just forgotten about it :P But this time I actually have something to write about! Me and Isaac just returned to little po-dunk Ephraim after a fun filled weekend up in Gooding Idaho visiting Nate and Suzanne (Isaac's brother and sister in law) not to mention all the Walkers that joined us up there. Our main reason for going was for the blessing of new little Hyrum into the Walker family. But I would have to say the funniest part was the jet sking on the snake river on saturday the 4th! Poor Isaac didn't sunscreen his face and woke with blisters the next morning. It never fails for me to forgett the sunscreen but come to the rescue by aloe vera. Needless to say we have one container of sunscreen and about 3 tubes of Aloe! Haha so there is the most new and exciting thing going on in our lifes right now :D LOVE YOU ALL!