Big NEWS!!!!

Guess what everyone.........

happy little things!

This is our dream board!

(yeah cheesy- i know.)

on it right now is a picture of OUR house!

and checks that are going to savings towards OUR house!

I altered the picture of the house for our purposes.

We use the SECRET!

"i am so happy and greatful we have a house."

Yesterday I came home to this.

Yes, my husband is am xbox 360 nerd.

Who talks to other xbox 360 nerds online.

He's teaching me how to be an xbox 360 nerd too.

I am a lucky lucky girl.

At first when he heard the key in the door he quickly

hid the headset behind his back.

I noticed his mischevious face and sneakily found it.

After about 10 minutes of laughing and mocking him,

he gave in and just openly played his game

with his other virtual nerds.

I shaved my legs in the park today.

I wore shorts this morning to work,

but forgot my legs were prickly so I grabbed my razor before I left.

Then things got busy and I didnt have time to shave

until the kids were busy on the swings.

So- what better place but the drinking fountain!?

It felt goood.

I love strawberry short cake and ice cream!

Possibly the besty dessert ever!

This little beaut came in the mail today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have been waiting for this one for quite some time!

For you healthy-lungers who don't know what this is-

let me enlighten you!

This is an NE-U22V Nebulizer!

The best/smallest in the world!

and it's MINE!

and it comes with a case too!

awwwww.... look at that high efficiency aerosol albuteral.

HAPPY!

sad news...

well... we're selling the truck.

it's a sad time (mostly for chase)- but it's the smartest thing to do for us right now.

but on a happier note....

ANYONE NEED/WANT (OR KNOW SOMEONE WHO NEEDS/WANTS) AN AWESOME TRUCK!?

we've had some inquiries, but nothing final yet! check out the craigslist.

oh boy. i HATE asthma attacks!

they are frustrating, painful, inconvenient, time consuming, painful, annoying, and leave you utterly exhausted! (and did i mention painful?!)

BUT- i do love the treatment that comes with it. chase rubbed my back and stroked my hair all night last night until i fell asleep!!!!!!!....

awe.... i love my husband.

look at that handsome man!

catch up time

Well, hello blog world! Its been awhile!

So- since most of the people that read my blog are family, and know all about me, i wil be vague!

Here are just a few pictures to depict the life of chase and bethany in the past 6 month!

The Dunes

We Got Married!

BEST DAY OF MY LIFE!

(i don't have many pictures yet! MORE TO COME! i stole these from Life Happens' blog!)

HONEYMOON! (HAWAII!)

Nash-Waters-Parrish spurr of the moment BBQ!

CHASE'S 22ND BIRTHDAY!

chase had to unexpectedly work all night on his birthday- which was a major bummer cause i had the entire day planned! But we celebrated his "22nd anniversary of the day after his birthday" instead.

check out those homemaking cake skills- i am so domestic.

FAMILY OUTING!

i vote we make this a tradition- maybe not the whole light rail and art museum thing, but we should at least do SOMETHING on the first friday!

Molly and Olen got stuck in the mesh of people!

Jacob and Chase........ well it was a long night.

movie night!

For our first big purchase as a married couple, chase and i bought a new tv! (the one i had really belonged to chels). And through the xbox, you can stream movies instantly with NETFLIX! its freak awesome rad! so we got every blanket and pillow we own and put it in our living room for an ultimate movie night!

next time everyone is invited! its a little apartment-but the more the merrier!

welll thats the only updates we have in our exciting married life!

PS! sheesh! WHAT'S WITH THESE EXTRA LONG POSTS!? 

im so sorry! i'll try to keep up so this doesnt happen again!

whoa.. here it goes.

OK!!!!!!!

so a new post is long past over due!

i will update my life for the heck of it. (not like everyone doesn't already now what's goin on...)

to start off....

CHASE IS HOME!!!!!!

praise the Lord.

anyone who has known me, or have had an actual conversation with me since august 2006, probably knows who chase is. But just in case you don't, he's my best friend.

so after two loooong, years of no communication except letters, packages and the occasional secret phone call on christmas, he's back in the good ol' U S of A! We have played EVERYDAY since that blessed day he got off the plane. happy happy happy. In the little more than three months he has been home we have been on road trips to St, George, Provo, and Salt Lake Utah, to The Rogers' Ranch, been quadding, to the AZ State Fair,

gone to the lake a handful of times, and the list could go on. I probably could have blogged about each of those, but i am busy girl! my deepest regrets.

^SLC Temple^

^Park City w/o snow^

^On top of the Conference Center, SLC^

In case you didn't already know, we are really cool.

On to my next "big thing"...

I MOVED!!!!!!!!! after a series of random events.... i am now living ON MY OWN. literally.. ALONE!

at first it was scary, but i am getting braver. [only 10 more weeks anyway.... :)]

i have a sweet table (thanks mom) and a sweet TV hutch (thanks chris and katie) and a sweet awesome huge couch (thanks shaina's dad and step mom) and a sweet bookshelf (thanks chels) and a sweet desk (thanks chels again) and the list goes on and on. as you can tell, i am loved. (feel free to lend/give me anything.)

It is so much fun!!!!! i have the best neighbors surrounding me ever! it makes living alone feel safer.

GUESS WHAT!!!!!!!

i have a new job! i am still a nanny. now serving a new family in TEMPE.

I miss BRODY like KA-RAZY! but i do like these little boys alot too..... OWEN AND CARTER.

owen is 4. carter is 7. they love NINJA TURTLES, POWER RANGERS, and STAR WARS.

THE LAST OF MY INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN MY LIFE......

I'M ENGAGED!!!!!!!!!

I bet no one saw it coming.

Let me tell you how this came to be. So, we talked about getting married for the first time probably

about...ummm... three years ago. The only thing that had to happen first was (a) graduate high

school (hahahahahhaha) and (b) serve the Lord on a mission for two years. Now that both those

things have been hereby accomplished, what else were we waiting for???

So, we have been 'dating' since he's been home and we both knew what was coming. He had been

plotting with Katie and Molly for awhile now (i don't know if i was supposed to know that?) but i

knew i wasn't allowed to look at his phone just in case i saw some secret combinations going on

between him and my sisters! All i knew was that when he popped the questions, it was gonna be

BIG! he asked crazy questions all the time! and now i see he was just trying to lead me off the trail!

So when we went to the Temple on wednesday to eat a pizza from papa john's (woot woot). Even

though the Temple is a little cliche, and it seems obvious enough to foreshadow such an event, i

honestly wasn't expecting him to do ANYTHING! for real. But he really wanted to stay for a long time!

so finally when he said let's go. i said okay, grabbed my bag and started walking to the car. I didn't get

too far when he said "hey!" I turned around and there he was down on one knee and little box in his

hands. He opened the box and said "will you marry me?" i said...

"are you serious?!" he said uhh yeah. is that a yes? . I said absolutely!

We are getting married JANUARY 15TH 2009! you all are invited. buy us lots of presents.

anyone thinking about getting married/engaged- i highly recommend it. freaking awesome fun!

MORE WEDDING PLANNING UPDATES SOON!

My Mosaic

This was freaking rad on katie richards' blog! so i tried it! ha

The Concept:

a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search (www.flickr.com).

b. Using only the first page, pick an image.

100. c.Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images intohttp://bighugelabs.com/flickr/mosaic.php

corresponding questions to picture in order!

1. What is your first name? BETHANY

2. What is your favorite food? POTATOES

3. What high school did you go to? HERITAGE ACADEMY 

4. What is your favorite color? ORANGE

5. Who is your celebrity crush? JOHNNY DEPP

6. Favorite drink? DR. PEPPER

7. Dream vacation? BRAZIL

8. Favorite dessert? CHOCOLATE CAKE

9. What you want to be when you grow up? I DO NOT KNOW

10. What do you love most in life? BEING HAPPY

11. One Word to describe you. RIDICULOUS

12. Your Pet Name. IMAGINARY FERRET