New Place!!

So we are going to be moving into a trailer that my mom rents out. I am so excited to be getting out of the apartment that we live in because of the neighbors above us, but I am excited to get into a bigger place and a place that will be more like a home. We are going down tonight to start painting and making it more ours. I will take some pictures of the before and after and post them up here. I just wanted everyone to know that we are moving out!! :)

Thanksgiving and Christmas trees!

This Thanksgiving break was a nice needed break from school, but didn't seem long enough. We had Thanksgiving dinner at my dad's house with all of my siblings except my brother and his family. My brother Travis is in the Air Force and is over in Korea right now for a year tour. His family is in Virginia waiting for him to get back and we are all counting the days. So his family and him couldn't come because of that. Everyone else was there and it was a lot of fun all craming into my dad's house and sitting all at one table. When I first saw my oldest neice who is 12 I actually started to tear up. She is the same height as me and she is such a young women now. She has started to wear makeup and she is just beautiful. Then that night we went to Brian's parents house and had pie with his family and got into a big whip cream fight thanks to my brother in law Shane. I was the last one to get it and i fought hard, but Brian got me to the ground and Shane smeared it all over my face. It was a lot of fun. Then we just hung out with both families for the rest of the weekend. On Saturday we went with my family and did our annual christmas tree run. We go up to Driggs, Idaho and we cut down real trees. Brian and I decided to go a little bigger this year for ours. I will get pictures of the done decorated tree when we are finished but we only have the lights on right now. But here are some pictures of the fun that we had with the family finding and cutting down the trees.
Here is beautiful picture of the Tetons on the way to Driggs.

Here is Abby. She couldn't put her arms down very easily. Like the little brother on Christmas Story!

Here is my oldest neice Alexie with my youngest neice Abby.

This is Grant and Brian cutting down our tree.

Lexie and my dad carrying trees back to the vehicles.

This is the Scoliosis tree that we have noticed the past two years. Brian wanted to get a picture of me with it because I also have scoliosis like this tree!! It looks like my spine!

This is the part of my family that went. Starting in the back from left to right:Tyler, Grant, Dad and Brian. Then the front from left to right: Tracy, Denice holding Abby, Alexie, Tanner, Mom and me. And the dog in the picture is my brother Tyler's, Beau.

We had a lot of fun with both families this Thanksgiving and it was so fun to see everyone there. Love all of you and hope that everyone had a nice Thanksgiving!

whats new....

So not much is new with us. We both just been going to classes and trying to do in school and working. At work my bosses son has swine flu and another girl just got it as well. So we are keeping sanitized at work so as not to get the swine flu! This past week Brian's best friend Craig came home from his Marine training in Florida and it was really good to see him and spend some time with him. He was only here for the week so we tried to hang out as much as possible without taking time away from his family. While I was teaching at my after school program on Thursday the boys went shooting and had some "man" time and had fun. Here are the good pictures that they took! Some were not for this family blog!!!

Brian looks so sexy with is gun!


Here is Craig!

Brian is so short compared to Craig that he had to use the bottom of our jeep's window to shoot with....

Craig is tall enough he can use the top!

Here is Craig with the "hodgie" that he drew while they were driving to the place that they shot at! We miss him lots while he is gone and hope that he will have fun and be safe!

So other than that excitement, life is just going by with us being busy with homework and trying to still make time for our marriage. I will be graduating this April with a Bachelors in Child Development and i am really excited for that. I can't wait to be done with school and go on to better things. Brian still has lots of time, but we will get through that like we did through mine. We hope that everything is good with everyone and we love you all!

birthday and school!

So i just recently had my birthday. Brian got me an amazing gift of a brand new cell phone and I was super excited. We decided to have a family and friend party on the 9th and hung out at dad's and had a great time. Thanks for everyone that came. Then on my birthday school started so i had to go to class, which wasn't to bad because i only had 1. So then after class brian was still in class till 5 so i ran to Idaho Falls and helped Aunt Paige and Tracy cut some corn off the cob so that it could get frozen and then Aunt Paige gave me one of her amazing watches that she makes so i got to pick that out when i was down there. So then i came back to RExburg because brian was getting out of class. Then we went out to dinner to Applebees with Michelle (kendon her husband was at work). It was amazingly delicious, because that is my favorite resturant. So after dinner it was almost time for Kendon to get home so we waited and then met him at Dairy Queen and had a delicious desert. It was a good night and a good birthday. Brian really tried to make it a good birthday and he really accomplished that. Thanks so much for my family support and also my best friends!!! And of course the most important person of all....My husband!

Its been a year!!!

So i know that i have posted a lot tonight but i gotta get all caught up. So August 2 was me and Brian's 1 year anniversary. I can't believe that its been a year already and i still love being married so much. Brian is the best husband ever and i could not ask for more. So for our actual anniversary we just lounged around, went to church and then went and visited our families. it was a great day even though we didn't do much. Then Brian suprised me with a trip to Yellowstone National Park on Monday. I was so excited because it had been forever since i had been there. Little did i know that Brian had been planning with his dad where the best places to stop were. So we got in the jeep and headed there and it was so much fun. We actually did some hiking, we hiked down to lower falls, which killed me because i am not much of a hiker. But it was fun and it was silly because once we got down to the platform, neither of us could look over because we are both afraid of heights! But it was a good experience to have and i will always remember how i almost died on the way back up! But it was an amazing day spent with my husband and I couldn't have asked for a better anniversary present!
The roses Brian got me for our anniversary

The beginnings of our journey

The first place that we stopped

Us with a pretty geyser behind us!

This is the platform on lower falls...i walked up to the edge without looking over and took a picture! hehe This video is pretty sick...but thats alright!

This Tatanka....for those who haven't seen Dances with Wolves that means buffalo...was right next to the road and there were a bunch of people getting really close to it. i just took the picture as we were driving by. Its funny what some people stop for, like the Bald Eagle and a coyote! We looked at the license plate of the people that were stopped and they were all from back East! hehe It was a wonderful trip and maybe become a tradition for us and our future family!

Martin Reunion

Ok for the Martin reunion we went to Bear Lake with my parents and Bear lake is my all time favorite place, except when its way busy and you practically have to camp on the beach. But it was way fun to see my Aunt Becky's kids. I didn't get any pictures from this reunion...but i got a video of something we found out my eyes do. Its pretty crazy and it was making Brian sick so he had to record it. Let me know what you think!

Butikofer Family campout

Ok so I am going to explain my Butikofer family a little bit before i post pictures for those of you who don't know how crazy they are. Every year we pick a theme and then for one night we dress up and have crazy food and this year it was Classic Disney in Jamaica!! So each of my dad's siblings families were assigned a classic disney movie and we had to act out a scene from it. My family got assigned Robin Hood...the one with the animals and it was so much fun! I love the Butikofer family campouts it is something that i definitely look forward to every year. And Brian is slowly getting used to the craziness!!!

Me and Brian's fishes that we caught the first day camping...i also got fried the first day camping!!

Abby with her favorite uncle Brian...she has two!

This is my second family...my uncle Jeff and Aunt Paige's family...they did Snow white and the 7 dwarves! I thought it was a way fun idea.

Here is my crazy family...yes i know i do look pregnant...but i had to be fat like Little John!

At the end of our weekend with the Butikofer's Brian's sister, Krisiti, and her family were camping just down the road so we went cliff jumping and floating down the Buffalo river with them. It was great to see their family and have fun with them too. Brian jumped off the cliff and i was very proud of him, but very nervous as well. My mother and father in law also came up that day and they jumped off the cliff as well. Everyone went but me because i am a big chicken...but oh well...maybe another time!