Tommy Comes to Town!

One of Garett's very best friends form the mission came to town this weekend! Tommy and his wife live in Georgia, so we were so glad to be able to get to spend some time with them.  We got together with some other boys from the mission and their wives (Tommy and Megan, Josh and Danna, Jacob and Valerie) and met up for dinner at Tucanos. I love their yummy Brazilian Lemonade! After dinner we walked around the Riverwood's and looked at all of the cute shops. Then we headed over to the Provo Beach Resort where the boys had some fun playing basketball. . . .

Once the boys had enough of shooting hoops we headed over to Jacob and Valerie's house and played this hysterical game called The Game of Things. We had so much fun, our faces hurt from laughing so much :]] And to top off the whole night we just had to get some ice cream!

the girls

It was so much fun! I am so glad they came into town and we got to meet Tommy's cute wife Megan! We hope they visit again soon :]] Thanks guys for all of the fun.

xoxo, Pres

Thank You Sir :]]

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." 

-MLK Jr.

Valentines Day Craft

So there is this super cute wood cutout store like right by our apartment called Crafty Wood Cutouts and they have the cutest stuff! So I decided to get my craft on and make a cute decoration for Valentines :]] This is what I came up with. . .

I love the feathers :]]

xoxo, Pres

Christmas in Washington

This year we got to spend Christmas with the Kofoed's in Washington! We got to spend a whopping 11 days there!  We flew in to Spokane on the 22nd, and of course we had to have lunch at the famous Dicks, haha Gare loves it.  Then we we headed to good ol' Moses Lake, where we began to help set up for Kamille and Ben's wedding! We were so happy that we got to be there with them on their special day, Kamille looked beautiful :]] We spent the rest of our trip just hanging out with family all of Garett's siblings were able to be there with their families as well (except for Derek, lil' stinker). We had so much fun, and had a nice relaxing christmas :]] I feel so blessed to have such great in-laws, and am so glad we got to spend this Christmas together.  Here are a few pictures of our trip!

Spokane

The Newlyweds :]]

Woody's = yummy caramel coke

Cute Gare and Carter at Chico's

Four-wheelin' on the farm with Marley

Bowling :]]

We had fun :]] Thanks family for the fun memories!

xoxo, Pres

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to all from the Kofoed's in Washington :]] We had a great day, opened gifts, went to church and now we are relaxin watching movies on papa Garth's new bluray player! Hope everyone had a happy Christmas and was able to celebrate with their loved ones.

:]]

This is what I did this evening. . .

all organized

xoxo, Pres

Almost Done!

Hello! It has been a while since I have blogged. Thats because we have been super busy with school and work. However, we are both excited because we can see the light at the end of the tunnel, the semester is almost over! We both have turned in our major assignments and projects and just need to make it through finals week. Luckily I only have one "real" final, and Gare is feeling pretty confident about his.  I  am really enjoying the elementary education program at UVU. I finished up my "field experience" last month and had such a great experience. My cooperating teacher and my field partner were great to work with. I feel super lucky because when we got back to class I herd some horror stories about crazy cooperating teachers and terrible field partners. I got lucky, and the 5th grade class we got to teach was just chuck full of cute kiddos. After this experience I know that I am definitely on the right career path, I just love it :]] We were at the elementary school for a half day every day for the month of November. Our last day was right before the kids left for Thanksgiving break, so we had a feast/goodbye party for the student teachers. We ate "turkey stew", corn bread, apple juice, and dessert. The students got to choose three leaves from the table and write three things they were thankful for, it melted my heart that every student put "cool/awesome/nice/pretty student teachers" on one of their leaves :]]

The desks all set up for the feast.

I also have finished a book series; Midnighters, and I loved them! They were a quick easy read and the story was really original unlike anything I have ever read before. I had crazy dreams while reading these books, where I was one of the Midnighters! Haha that must mean they are good right? Anyway they are written by Scott Westerfeld who also wrote the Uglies series, which I also loved, so I would definitely recommend them :]]