Tyson & Bridgett

Sunday, May 1, 2011

April 2011

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April has flown by! I really can't believe that it is already May. It seems that time just keeps going faster and faster. We had a lot of fun this last month. Every weekend there was a party going on somewhere and with me starting my new job, it made for an EXTREMELY busy month. Even though things felt a little crazy sometimes, it was still a great April!

This year, my brother celebrated his 27th birthday. We are all so grateful for what he does for our family and Bree and I decided we would treat him to something a little different on his birthday this year. Growing up, our brother really like monkeys and so Bree and I pulled up our sleeves and made a birthday cake that looked like a monkey!

We had so much fun doing it. I never realized all the anxiety that comes with making an out-of-the-ordinary cake! I have a lot more respect now for people who make cakes for their profession.

Throughout the month, we celebrated many things... Birthdays, baby-blessings, Bree's goats being pregnant... And of coarse there was Easter. Every Easter Bree and I have this tradition of watching the 10 Commandments. You know... The one that is 4 hours long! They play it on TV every year and it sure took up a lot of space on our DVR but it brought back memories of watching it every year on Easter growing up.

Easter morning, we woke up and had a little gift exchange.

After church, we had some family over for dinner and an Easter Egg Hunt in our yard.

Fancy Cheesecake Cups

Front Yard

Back Yard

Carter already eating his treats

Taylor and Jaxon with lots of good finds

We had a lot of fun getting together and celebrating the day.

On the 29th came the big day of my college graduation. The ceremony was at 8AM! But once we got there, I started to get more excited about the idea of graduating. I was able to finish my college degree in less than 4 years. It took me a while to find out what I wanted to study and I don't even remember how I decided on my major, but I am so glad that I ended up in education. Though I am not working as a teacher right now, I know that it will we a great field to work in and has benefited me greatly in my current position I hold at the school now.

We arrived at the school bright and early! I was excited to get the whole ordeal over with, but it was a lot more enjoyable than I had anticipated.

This is when we first got to the school.
I laughed so hard when I saw the kreepy face Bree was making in this picture.

Part of why my schooling and graduation were so enjoyable was because I was surrounded by great people and friends.

McCall, Me and Jenny (we lost Allyce somewhere)
I'm lucky that I got to graduate with these great girls!

My fan club:)

Thanks a million to my family who has supported me throughout my education. I couldn't have done it without you!

As the month ended, we came upon "National Doofus Day" as Bree would call it. Otherwise known as... PROM! After some complicated situations (2 boys asking one girl to the dance) the day finally came and Bree had a great time.

Bree and Danny

She looked very beautiful for her senior prom!
Can't believe this girl will be graduating in a month!

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

New Job!

Posted by Tyson and Bridgett at 10:59 AM 2 comments

So I got a new job that I will be starting in a few weeks. I went in to PG Junior High to get signed up for their sub list and I ran into the vice principal who is in our ward. He told me that they had a position available for a tracker and that I should apply. Yesterday I had the interview and they called me later that evening telling me I got the job! I'm really excited to be starting something full time (with the exception of summer vae-k of course) at a school. Hopefully it will be something to open doors for a teaching job in the future.

In other news... We are getting new carpet next week! Whoo Hoo! Buh-Bye blue carpet!!:)

Sunday, March 27, 2011

Ohhh Blogging....

Posted by Tyson and Bridgett at 7:59 PM 2 comments

So I'm really bad a blogging because I feel like I always need a bunch of pictures to prove that we do more with our lives than just work and be bums. Well.... I've decided to think of our blog more as a Journal as a way to record our own family history because just like blogging, I'm also bad at journaling! ( I think that's a word...) So hopefully I will be a little better and keeping this up to date. You might notice that I put up stuff from last year because I'm hoping to make note of the things we've been doing with our lives! Enjoy!

Lava Hot Springs

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Every November we go to Lava Hot Springs to celebrate Marnae's birthday but this last year she was pregnant with Roman and so we postponed the festivities. This weekend, we went with Marnae, Dennis and two of their friends up there to hang out in the hot "mineral pools". We had a lot of fun. It was nice to just relax in the hot water and hang out with each other!

Check out Dennis's heart shaped chest hair

Maui 2011

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We were SO excited to go to Hawaii again. We feel really lucky to get the chance to vacation every winter and this year Bree came with us!

Car ride to airport

We started out on Saturday by flying to LA. Flying standby can be a little tricky and nerve racking, but we lucked out by getting first class seats!

Unfortunately, our plane to Maui did not leave until the next morning so we spent our nigh in luxurious LA airport...

We had a blast and we did WAY to much stuff to post about so here are some pics from our trip..

Bree LOVED snorkeling. We saw turtles every time we got in the water.

Bree's a fish out of water! She was always swimmin, even on land;)

Tyson started burying Bree, what bree didn't realize was she wasn't going to have any hands to prevent tyson from putting his foot in her mouth:0

We found a coconut tree outside of our room and we spend the night plotting on how to get a coconut. When I started comparing tyson to Bear Grylls he ran at the tree with his bare hands and feet and snatched a coconut! He's "Boss" as Bree would say..

Our favorite hike in the Bamboo forest

After hiking the falls in the bamboo forest, you come to a river where you have to ditch your stuff, swim upstream, hike that small fall and then it opens up to the most beautiful waterfall I've ever seen! It's our favorite spot but since we had to swim upstream, we couldn't bring a camera to take any pics. But is sure is an adventure!

Tyson's favorite thing to do is spear fish. Here are some of his (stinky) catches;)

On the coast

Sweet waterfall we hiked to and swam in

The whole trip Tyson was scouting out coconut trees and plucking fresh coconuts for himself

Hawaii is so beautiful and full of the funnest stuff to do. We are so grateful for Ave and Erin and my parents in helping us go on this trip. Love you guys!