FALL

I love Autumn, it is my favorite time of year. The leaves start to change color to vibrant reds, oranges and yellows, the air becomes crisp and cool and I enjoy the smell in the air that signifies a change from the unbearable heat. It becomes so pretty here as the season changes and the whole landscape changes in a matter of days. It is the best time to take breathtaking photos. I love pumpkins and corn mazes and Halloween.I can finally wear comfy jeans and cozy sweaters, at night I can curl up in blankets and am able to cuddle with my honey without heatstroke! Yes Autumn is my favorite time of year!

August Full of Fun!!!

See I kept my promise and did a post and a long post at that! So, like I said earlier I really didn't do anything this summer, everything that happened was in the month of August!!! We had all the birthdays in August...Me on the 4th, Anya the 14th, Preston the 20th, Heather the 21st, Mom the 24th. So it was the typical Christmas in August. We also went to the family reunion at Bear Lake, and then there were weddings and parties and dinners.
Now that it is starting to cool down and my hours have changed at the gym I am hoping that more fun is awaiting us! So here are all my pictures from our summer full of fun.



Ashley's Wedding!!!
My best friend Ashley got married on August 29th and I was able to go to her sealing in the Logan temple. She was so gorgeous and Brett was so handsome. It was a perfect day for them and the reception was just breath taking! This is just a shout out to my very bestest SAAB and to say how incredibly happy I am that she has found her eternal love and is happy. No one deserves it more! Love ya Ashley!!!




Here are some cute pictures from mom's birthday dinner at The Oak's Preston and I took her out to dinner since dad was in Isreal.




Bear Lake!!!
My favortie place in the world is Bear Lake! Every summer we have a huge family reunion and get to spend time with all the cousins and family while we are camping and sunning ourselves down on the beach. This was the only vacation I was able to take this summer so we went longer than usual and spent 6 days camping. It was so fun we got to play with tatter tots all day long and hang out with the family. We had a BLAST!


Anya and Emory being cute in front of Minitonka Cave, we went there for Anya's birthday which was on August 14th!


Mom and the three cutest tatter tots I have ever seen!


Poppy and Anya taking a ride on the bikes


Preston and I and our cousin Michelle at the anual Saturday night get together


Heather and RaeLee trying to stay warm while the big boys are playing football


This is a picture of the floating train we made by having all the adults grab a kid and then hook onto eachother! As you can see I was the watchman and also the person to pull the train around.


Ok this is a funny story. At the begining of our camping trip I was playing on one of my mom's razor(skooter) bikes...well long story short I fell very dramatically and took and beating and gashed open my hand and banged up my knee. Well, when my little tatter tot Emory saw that aunt Tara had cool bandaids he wanted one too! So the next thing we know he was out in the middle of the road scrapping his hand on the concret to make himself bleed so he could get a cool bandaid like me! So this is a picture of Emory and I with our way cool skull with lighting coming out of his eyes matching bandaids!!! I love that kid!




24th Birthday!!!
Happy Birthday to ME! On August 4th I turned 24! Preston bought me a huge bouqute of flowers made out of fruit (it was yummy), and my parents took Preston and I to a James Taylor concert, it was so much fun to sit out side and listen to the music.

Yes I am Alive!!!

I know, I know, it has been many months of the same thing, SORRY! I wish I had some awesome excuse to explain my absence but really there isn't any stories. I have been working at gym and have only gone on one vacation (just downloaded the pics, I will post them this week). That's it all I have done is work, same as Preston. Pretty uninteresting summer. Hopefully things will pick up again and I promise to blog more this week. :)

New Job!!!

I just got hired as the new MANAGER of my gym Anytime Fitness!!! I am so so excited for this job. It's a good fit for me because I am so obsessed with fitness and health, and one of the main reasons they hired me was because I practically live there already. My whole life focuses on being healthy (just ask Preston, sometimes I go a little nuts!) Some of you might ask how this goes with a Family Studies degree...well I want to be a life coach with a focus on adolescents battling obesity. So, this job gets me into the industry and gives me some experience that's more than just my own. So, wish me luck I start Tuesday :) I will let you all know how it goes. :)

Twilight

Preston won't be very excited about this blog, but I had to do it! I am a huge Twilight fan, I LOVE LOVE LOVE those books! As much as I love them I'm not to sure if I want to watch the movie that's coming out because it is so perfect in my head and nothing can come close to how I have everything pictered. However, today I was blog surfing and found this...maybe it won't be so bad. I'm not totally won over yet but this does spark my interest just a bit. What do you guys think? It gave me goosebumps!!!

Eternal Bliss!

On Saturday May 10th Preston and I were sealed together for all eternity in the Bountiful, Utah Temple. It was the best day of our lives other than our wedding day. The temple is so amazing, I am so excited and blessed to be able to attend them now, and I am ready to go Temple hop'n! Our sealing was beautiful and all our Friends and family came to support us. The road we took to get there wasn't easy in fact it was very hard and seemed like forever, but the blessings we have received are innumerable. The month before we were sealed we were asked to speak in our ward and in stake conference, being able to feel the spirit continually throughout the month was wonderful. I am so happy to be sealed to my husband for eternity! He is the very essences of me, I love him so much that I don't even have the words. I know that I can handle anything with him at my side forever!

Happy Birthday EMORY!!!!

We had to wish a Happy 5th Birthday to the best nephew in the world! Emory, Uncle Preston and I love you so much! You are such a blessing in our lives. Hope your birthday is wonderful and full of joy and fun! Love Uncle Preston and Aunt Tara

Champions of the World!

Ok, so maybe not the world but definitely Young Womens basketball CHAMPIONS of the Davis Region. For those of you who don't know I (Tara) am the Young Womens Sport Director (Coach) for my ward. My girls went undefeated ALL season and won the Championship game 30-27! WA HOO!!! And not to mention that there are only 6 girls that did all this! It's such a fun calling and I love the girls so much. They are so awesome I had to post and say how amazing these girls are!I do just have to say that for someone who has never coached a team and has never played basketball in my entire life, going undefeated and winning the championship isn't half bad if I do say so myself!

Sorry this isn't the best picture but I had to post it anyway! Way to go girls!!!