It was recently my Birthday...

and Brad surprised me with flowers and a cake (so not him to get flowers... all my nagging has paid off :P)BUT...Im really 26 hon! I still love ya though!

My Arizona Fam!

Me and my sister Summer. Whenever we get together we always end up dressed alike or our hair cut the same... weird freaky stuff like that. I guess we have the same taste.

Me and my Dad Greg

Pictures from up North this last week. It was fun seeing everyone! We miss you.

So there we all are sitting in the back yard and all the sudden we hear... HELP! HELP! HELP! We looked over, someone (probably either Joe buck, Brad, or Grandpa) had locked the boys in the cardboard box so they couldn't get out. It was pretty funny cuz they kept sticking there little noses up to the little handle openings and screaming for help. Haha we were all laughing.

WHAT THE %@$&!!!!

So... the other morning I'm totally relaxed making pancakes.... then I look out the back of my kitchen windows and FREAK!!! This was totally cool! I was freaking out like a little kid! Whoa!!! I think they had to make an emergency landing cuz the wind picked up and just about blew them into the mountain. I also think that I just about gave Brad a heart attack! :P Ha!

Hiking at Zion!!!

Tagged... 6 things that make me happy

I was tagged by Kortnee Nelson
6 things that make me happy are:
#1. When I pray and feel the spirit overwhelm me. I feel like everything in the world is just perfect and that I am loved so much and I am so lucky to be blessed with everything I have. I love feeling close to my Heavenly Father. Prayer is such a powerful thing.
2. My hubby putting his arms around me and holding me and telling me that he loves me so much and snuggling.
3. Dancing... dancing in my kitchen, goofy dancing with brad, goofy dancing with anyone, dancing in the rain, just dancing. Shakin' that thang, ya know. Ha!
4. Getting a phone call from an old friend just cuz they were thinking about me.
5. Going on VACATION!!! (Not to crowded places, this may cause the opposite effect:P)
6. Laying in the grass on a sunny day and feeling the sun on my skin, the smell of spring and new flowers blooming, just relaxing and hanging out with the ones I love.

I tag Krissy Doll, Kati, Tara, Amy, Jeana, and Kimi.
The rules are to write down six things that make you happy then make sure to let the person who tagged you know that you did it then tag 6 more people and copy and paste the rules so they know what to do. Have fun.

Parade of Homes

So this weekend all my sister in-laws came down and stayed with us to go to the parade of homes. It was way fun. Brad and I finished up a couple of houses today, we went and saw the big one #19 The Maison Enchante. HOLY MOLY, this house is HUGE and its totally liveable. I was surprised cuz sometimes the big ones are totally unpractical and there is no way you could "live" in them. But this house was amazing! Tara, Kati, Amy... you missed out! You totally should have seen that one before you left. My favorite though was a really small one. House #18 The Alicante. It was so dang unique and classy on the inside. It really reminded me of taking classical and contemporary and mixing them together. AWESOME. I didn't care for the outside look much though. I didn't take any pictures and I haven't added any pics lately cuz my camera is posessed and doesn't work very well, so I am just waiting for a new one to magically appear! :)

Im back to the blogging world!

Sooo, the whole facebook thing got a little crazy and was to much like a highschool reunion and I think it gave my computer a virus so I deactivated myself. I decided I like the blog better, even if it takes a little more time.
My life has been crazy lately. I recently went up to Idaho to see my little sis Chrissy and her baby my brand new little nephew Crue. He is such a cute little "Monkey" (What Chrissy calls him constantly)If you know Chrissy at all she is and was all about Monkeys when she was little.
Work has been crazy too. That HCG diet is nutso. We have between 20 and 30 new patients each day that want HCG.
CURTAINS! AAAAHHHH! I am still having issues with the whole curtain thing. If you have any ideas PLEASE, I am begging you, HELP ME!!!
My little sister Bailee is going to be coming down to live with us. She is scheduled to be down sometime this week.
We have a bishops interview tonight... I dont know what he has in mind, but Brad just got called to be the new scouts leader so we are both convinced its not about him... eeek.

Check it out!!

I know its DARK! But just wait till I get done. It looks alot darker now cuz I took the picture at night so no light was coming throught my windows. But if you wanna see what I want to do just look in the new Ikea magazing on pg 163. Im accenting in red and white so it will really look awesome when I'm done. Brad has done such an awesome job doing the "honey do list". Everything is still in the middle of the room but we FINALLY got the painting done in the living room, now we just need to tackle the rest of the house...Oops (Note: Do not go througout your house painting randomly on the walls in almost EVERY room until you really know you will be painting that room within the following few days!) I am actually going to put the curtains that I have in our dining room in the Living room instead and find darker curtains for the dining room to match the black baseboards... I know... I was daring, but I ended up loving it. I am considering painting all my baseboards black throughout the whole house. Haven't got Brad talked into that one yet but we'll see.

Cool new plants!

So Brad and I were totally mezmerized by the pineapple plant, so we had to get it, I don't know why but I thought they always grew on trees. I know... I should have been born a blonde. And the other plant is my "hairy plant". Thats what I call it anyways. My sister in-law kati has this same plant and she inspired me to get it. Her's is huge and she says she has to give it hair cuts all the time or it would over take everything. So maybe my hair cutting career isn't quite over yet. (;

Thrown together Family Pictures

So we were up at Brads parents this last weekend in Lehi and the colors were gorgeous so I had to throw a family picture together, besides this is the only way that I will get Brad to do them, quick and just a little painful. He wines the whole time! But I still lub him so much! I think we will probably need to do some retakes cuz I look like an army soldier standing at attention. Thanks again Kati for buying the awesome camera (after brad lured you into buying it), going with us randomly to take the pictures and for offering to do our Christmas cards! You Rock! By the way just so everyone knows go to Kati's website www.pinkpaisleys.com and look at her amazing cards that she can create for you. They are way cute and totally affordable!

IM A MEAN AUNT ASHLEY! :(

So Im laying in bed trying to sleep but I cant cuz I feel bad! I'm a mean aunt Ashley! Let me explain... So earlier I was checking my e-mail and totally forgot about doing the Relief Society Program for our ward for Sunday (tomorrow) and I didn't tell anyone I would be out of town. So I was trying to re-create a format to email someone, I didn't know who yet, so they would have a program. Well, it wasn't working so well and I was getting upset. Meanwhile my nephews were just being crazy boys, which they are most of the time anyways, but tonight they were being EXTRA naughty for some reason and the BYU game was on (I dont care for the game at all) and everyone was yelling and just making enough noise to make me go NUTSO especially with the kids running around screaming. There's a computer room upstairs and my brother-in-law who just got home from his mission, bought a brand new really nice laptop yesterday and told me to keep the kids out of the upstairs. So here I am clear across the house in a dark and somewhat quiet room trying to get my relief society program figured out and I hear someone say to the boys to get out of the computer room, which I had already told them earlier more than once not to play up there. I jumped up fast to go make sure they werent torching the brand new computer and maybe I got a little carried away cuz I ran up the stairs and grabbed all the boys and told them to get their butts down stairs! Dax was the last one that I grabbed and I gave him a little tap on the butt, this is the kind of tap that guys give each other as a "good game" tap at the end of baseball games, so it totally wasn't even hard. Well as I tapped him he tripped and it kinda looked like I pushed him down the stairs and I think Tara, his mom, thought I pushed him down, which wasn't the case but I still feel really bad. So, Tara I'm sorry I would never push Dax down. I may look like I'm being firm with the boys but I'm really not. The truth is I'm a push over and I'm sorry.

Down Memory Lane tag

The way this works is you leave me a post of one of the memories we had together. If I see your post I will assume you are playing along and leave you a memory on your blog. Kinda fun.