Yes, I Took a 2 Month Blog Break... I Apologize.

So, alot has happened in the last two months! Nothing intensely extraordinary, just life, but it seems like it's been a lot so I'll try to catch you up on it! Since my last post Jared and I have survived Fall Finals, eaten massive amounts of food over Christmas (and didn't gain anything, whaa??), and started our last semester of college! So exciting!

We also have joined in this new fad called healthy life habits? It's pretty amazing and we definitely recommend it! We've been doing pretty good off and on throughout the years but this time we're re-building our lives from the ground up all over again and it's working out well! Jared has lost and kept off 15 pounds since Thanksgiving and has lost 51 pounds in the last year which is amazing and I'm so proud! And I have lost and kept off about 10 pounds since August 2011 which isn't near as awesome as Jared but I feel lots better! We've been doing P90X, eating healthy and becoming more active and it is changing everything!

Other than that, I went to visit my sister and brother-in-law to bless their new baby Autumn! She is soooo cute and such a little cuddler! It was a fun weekend and we had a blast being able to hang out with everyone!

This semester I am taking Intermediate Photography and an Art History class that covers the Renaissance to Today. They're both fun and very interesting. For my photo class, we got Holga cameras and are going to be shooting black and white all semester! If you don't know what Holga photos look like, I highly recommend Googling it and probably just going ahead and buying one :) They're pretty cheap and come in different varieties of what the pictures will look like. We're developing our first photos on Tuesday and learning how to scan them onto the computer so I'll hopefully have some images soon!

Oh, Christmas! Duh! Christmas was so much fun! We went to my family's this year and then went to Jared's later in the week. Dustin and Emily were able to come too so we had Mom and Dad, Dustin & Emily, Jared & I, Alexa, and Ethan. And Grandma! It was so much fun! We went shooting and saw Sherlock Holmes II, and played games and ate yummy food and opened presents and saw family and went on hikes. It was a blast! Here's some photos from Christmas:

On Mom's birthday hike... somewhere by the Lake? It was really pretty!

This rock formation reminded me of The Never-Ending Story!

Found an arch in this random canyon! Pretty awesome!

Jared and I with all the red rocks. Oh and Ethan being triumphant in the background :)

On top of White Dome in Valley of Fire. ECHO Echo echo.....

Jared getting ready to go tubing! So much fun!

Jared and I tubing and sitting on a snowboard haha

Aw Mom and Dad :)

Everybody at Brianhead- Dustin & Ethan snowboarded and the rest of us went tubing and I took Alexa's portrait. Pretty fun!

Shooting guns. I'm not very good yet haha

Dustin teaching Grandma to shoot a pistol. She is amazing.

WE ARE AWESOME!

Jared got me a fisheye lens for Christmas! What a sweetie!

The Fam at the Christmas tree

Jared and I on White Dome

Alexa and I on White Dome

My handsome hubby at Lake Mead

Wow that was alot of pictures! And not even close to how many I got over the break! That's ok though :) It was a blast!

Last weekend we went to visit Jared's sister and her family in Alamo. It was really fun to see them! We weren't able to see them at Christmas so it was great to finally get to spend some time with them! Here's some pictures from that weekend:

Jared pushing Paisley in the rope swing at the Perkins'

Paisley kept riding down this little hill over and over, it was so much fun to watch her!

Spur got Barbie stuck in his collar. She was rodeoing!

 

 

Paisley cuddling the Perkins' cat. Adorable.

And that brings us to date! It snowed today and tomorrow is going to be suuuuper cold but that's ok! Oh I did a little thrift shopping today and found some super cute clothes! Here's one of the outfits, more to come! Have a great week!