Called to Serve!

Well, another missionary out! Between Nate and I, we have 3 missionaries that we are related to, out in the mission field! Elder Hunter Louden (brother) Birmingham, Alabama mission; Elder Justin Traasdahl, Ukraine mission;and a nephew who just recently went out as well, Elder Jeremy Traasdahl serving in the Moscow, Russia mission! Crazy stuff!Not to mention my baby brother is putting his papers in, in about 4 months! And that doesnt even include close family friends that have just left as well! This picture is of Logan Gillespie (close family friend aka my 3rd brother) the night before he left to the MTC! What a stud! He has been called to serve in the Minnepolis, Minnesota Mission! I will post pictures of all these amazing missionaries soon!

SanTan Moutain...

So over the last couple of weeks, Erin and I have been venturing the hiking trails up the SanTan Mountain, and its been not only a great workout, but such a beautiful way to workout. Here are a few pictures of her daughter (Gracen), Erin and I right before we went up one morning! Usually the husbands go with but since they bombed out we turned it into a girls day!




By the time we got back to the car Gracen was out like a light!

Busy Busy Busy!

So over the last month, my life has been nothing but hectic! Going into my 3rd month of school, getting ready to test out onto the floor, work (real estate AND health insurance sales), husband, neighbors, and not to mention, trying to get SOME excerise in...I really havent had much time to update the ol' blog! But the two people that have helped us through these last couple of month and putting up with our overactive schedules, is none other than our WONDERFUL neighbors aka. best friends and the best darn neighbors a person could ask for...Brandon and Erin, they are such great people, I seriously question and think "how did we get so lucky!" Here are a few pics over the last couple of months that I havent had time to post!The first two pictures we took right after I cut and colored Erin's hair! She's a hot mama! :)

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FuN iN tHe SuN!

We just got back from Rocky Point, Mexico last night! We went with our friends Adria and Mark! It was an awesome trip! We arrived late monday night and got home late last night! Our friend that I do alot of real estate transactions with, cut us a sweet deal so that we can go and stay there for the week! The condo is absolutely amazing! The weather was great, definitely some good tanning! We are hoping that we can go back soon!

Family Pics!

These are the only two pics that Ive gotten so far of Nate and I from family pics! And its because his brother took them with our camera! Once I get pics in, i will post asap!

**Best Prank Ever**

We had a bunch of families stay with us for the week of our mini family reunion, so you can only imagine the fun we had! Throughout the whole week we never went to bed before 3am and lived it up while we were all together! One night 6 of us got together and pulled one the funniest pranks ever! Nate was tired and so he went to bed early (like 1am early!) We grabbed the saran wrap and saran wrapped nate to the bed! It was Hilarious! Then we took whipped cream and chocolate syrup and put it in his ears! haha! These pictures dont give it justice!! Nate had the funniest face on, and acted like a champ!

This past week the Birch family had the oppurtunity to hang out ALL together! That hasnt happened in quite some time! It was so fun! We had families down from all over the us! UTAH, IDAHO, and ever MAUI! Thanks so much guys for the great week! We love hanging out with family and cant wait to have another reunion soon! I posted some pics of the fun things that we did! Unfortunately I didnt get pics of the AMAZING RACE that my very talented sister in law put together for us at Freestone park! It was an awesome experience! Thanks again guys!

March Madness!

COED Slumber Party!!

A couple of weekends ago, we had 4 couples come over for a huge co-ed slumber party! We had a blast! Everyone got there around 7:00pm and we never went to sleep until 4am! It was mostly because of rock band that was being played up in the theater room (i hope our neighbors dont hate us now! opps!)All of that combined with youtube videos that we couldnt get enough of! When we woke up the next morning we had waffles and then headed out to Adria's to go swimming and to catch up on our tans! Nothing is better than spending time with the ones closest to your heart! I love these girls and somehow we always find a way to have so much fun! Cant wait for next month!

Batter Up!

So, I am going to be one of those proud wives...and show off my hubbys mad skills! This is a video of Nate playing softball and totally knocking it out of the park on his 1st swing of the night! It looks like swinging a broom stick at bottle caps in the D.R. on his mission paid off...He had missed playing ball so when he found out that his work had a league he jumped on the opportunity... it was like a little boy on christmas morning when he walked out onto that field! Nate was born to play ball! A wife couldnt be anymore proud!:)The picture below is Nate playing bitilla(broomstick and bottle cap baseball)on his mission. In the video you cant really see where the ball went because the field lights were blinding me, but it went waaay past the fence and he sent everyone on base home! His first night of ball he hit 2 homeruns!!! Way to go sweetheart! Cant wait 'til next wednesday!

**Mama's boy**

This is the other love of my life, Charlie! He is a toy/teacup size maltese, he now weighs just barely 6lbs. I thought I would post a couple of pics of him because he is just so dang cute! He's got something going on with my purse, everytime I turn around he finds it, brings it to his little spot and sleeps on it! He use to do this with my shoes, but i think he got tired of that fast because they were super heavy! We have had him now for a year, and it has been quite an adventure! He is the most loyal little dog that I have ever seen, and I wouldnt trade him for the world!

This can't be healthy!

Nate and I have a new obsession! 24...we cant stop! My parents got us the first 5seasons for christmas, we started watching them last week, and now we are staying up every night until 2 and 3am! We just completed season 2 last night...i cant believe how amazing this show is! Tonight we start season 3...I cant wait! Anybody that has watched this show knows exactly what I mean!

Snip, Snip!

As of March 31st I will officially be in Cosmetology School! And I am so excited! I was going to attend school when I first got married and didnt because of the hours that I was committed to for work, so now that I work out of our home and my schedule is little more relaxed, I enrolled a couple weeks ago! I'll update you on how it goes when I start!

Picnic for Two!

For Christmas last year my mother in law got us a really nice picnic set up, so we decided to take it out last sunday for a family picnic! It was fun to get out and change the scenery up a little bit...we also bought kites but since there was no wind, we couldnt fly them! Hopefully, for our next picnic we'll have a little breeze come our way!