The big 2-7!

I'm a little late posting (as usual), but Brad's birthday was on February 20th. He's an old man now:) We slept in, made breakfast, went shopping in Park City, and went to dinner and a movie. It was such a great day! Then, on Sunday, we had my parents over for breakfast and went to his parent's house for dinner and a birthday dessert. I'm so grateful I got to celebrate his birthday with him... love you Bradley! Here are some pictures...

I think he was counting to three before he blew out the candle so I knew when to take the picture? My parent's gave him a mail box... He's pretty excited about it, and if you've ever seen our mailbox, you know why:)

One of his favorite breakfast's are breakfast jacks (from Jack in the Box) so we have to make them at home since we don't have one here, so I got him to one egg wonder to make it easier! I left it wrapped on the bed, so you can see his excitement in the next picture...
I'm not very good at remembering to take pictures, so here we are walking back to our car after our fun-filled birthday date.

...One year older, and wiser too... Happy birthday, TO YOU!

I did it!

Last Saturday, I graduated with my Masters in Business Administration! It was a fun little celebration with my amazing husband, his parents and my parents. Any time we can get together with family is always a good time! It was a pretty good ceremony, but the best part happened after when we went to California Pizza Kitchen for some mac and cheese:) Thanks for all of your support and I'm SO glad to have it out of the way, just in time for the baby. Love you all!

Happy Valentines Day!

It really is such a great day, being able to spend it with your loved ones! I'm so grateful to have the best valentine in the whole world! I love you babe. I surprised Brad with a special little dinner on Valentines, and even though we just stayed in, it was fun:)

A post well over due!

Bear with me, (and yes, that is the correct kind of bear, I googled it:) I haven't updated our blog since August of 2010... Considering it is now 2011 I thought it might be appropriate to recap the last few months of last year! SO many fun and new things happening with the Merrill's; and I have a lot of fun pictures, so enjoy!

Last September, we bought our first house!Brad (and Rico, who is Mandy's dog and loves Brad!) moving our lawn for the first time... ...and of course, Brad's must have for our back patio:)

This is the BEST PART! The morning after we moved in, we found out we're adding a new member to our family (I'm clearly pregnant, because I'm tearing up as I type this... I'm so emotional!) due June 2nd, 2011. Hurry little guy, we can't wait to meet you!
(it's a boy)

I'm 19 weeks, almost half way!
That same day (when we found out I was pregnant) our family crashed Brooke and Trav's family vacation and all went to California. It was SO fun and I wanna go back!Who wouldn't wann go to Disneyland with these two little kids!?!

Grandma and Grandpa

On October 18th, 2010, we celebrated our 3rd anniversary. Time goes by so fast! Brad is the best husband and we truly couldn't be happier. I had to be in Park City with my students for a competition that night, so Brad came up and stayed with me and my student's brought me this giant cookie from Mrs. Field's. They're so sweet!

In November, we went up to Logan to celebrate Brookie Sue's birthday (the 5th) and these two just can't get enough of each other!

We were at Merrill's for Christmas this year, and it was SO fun! (Especially because I got a Snuggie!)and Brad got a ping pong table! This is after we got it all set up in our basement and we love it! Everyone is always invited for a game of ping pong:)

5 days after Christmas, I got the best Christmas present of all... My Master's degree!!!

This is just a really cute picture...

Our new car!!! ;) Just kidding, but they have 4 door all wheel drive mini's now! Maybe our NEXT car!

This is the lastest and GREATEST home project (It didn't require too much remodeling and with Brad and my parent's, we got it done in about a day and a half). We still need to paint, but now instead of having to haul our laundry from our closet down to our laundry room, we can just open this little door...

...drop the clothes through this hole......and they'll land IN our laundry basket in our laundry room! Like I said, we still need a few finishing touches and some paint, but at least we have a laundry chute now!!!

phew... What a year! We love living in Woods Cross and both of Brad's sister's also live out here, about a mile away. We love getting together with family! I'm in my second year of teaching and love it, but can't WAIT for this summer! I get to spend the whole summer with our new little angel (who is yet to be named)!

Coming to a close...

This is not the most exciting post, but I haven't updated it in so long and felt like I needed to put something up! Anyway, my summer is officially over tomorrow! Here a few things Brad and I have been up to in the last couple months...

We had a family renioun with Brad's mom's family in Beaver, Utah... always a good time! Hangin out with Uncle Vernon... You can't see it, but his belt buckle says "Vern"

We had a birthday part for Coop, but for some reason this is the only picture I could find from it:)

Took the kids to Lagoon, or as Cooper says "thegoon"

Bailey CRIED when the guy took her out of the car... she loved it!

Played in the crazy rain storms we've had this whole summer... (in a lightning storm, probably not the smartest thing to do)

Went on a date to the best place EVA!!! (If you notice, I'm eating maccaroni and cheese and if you've never had it at California Pizza Kitchen, I HIGHLY recommend it... and if you know me, you know that you can trust my expertise in that area). Love you babe, thanks for the fun night!

That's it for now... I'm sad summer is over, but I'm so excited for the fall and everything our future holds!

Memorial Day in Lake Powell... What could be better?

Another beautiful vacation in Powell! We went just for the memorial day weekend, and the weather was PERFECT! We also had my cousin Kenzee come with us, which was a bonus!Sittin back in the sun with the waves crashing at our feet... it doens't get better than this!Needless to say, the water was a little cold=) Thanks for the pictures Kenz!Mandy's awesome backroll that she LANDED! Love you Mand!Brad riding upside down, as usual...and DanCute cute cute picture!!um, yeah...
Dan's the best surfer!

and Brad... isn't=) He was trying to do a 360.

This is what happens when you forget to out the buoying when you start going. Kenzee, Danny, and I got SOAKED! and it was at night, with freezing cold water!

Thank goodness for the heaters! My backside got more wet than the front of me!

It was such an amazing trip! I love these kinds of pictures, where you just get to soak in this beautiful planet we live on and realize how blessed we are to enjoy so many of the Lord's creations! Thanks Merrill's, I love you!