Coming Soon. . .

{Coming Soon}
I have decided to take a leap into the craft blogging world. The blog will have yummy recipes, quotes and tutorials. It is not quite finished yet I am still working on the look. I am excited it will be fun. I have a lot of time on my hands and I figured I would put it to use. I just have old post so far but there are some way cute tutorials soon to come! You can click on the button on the right side bar or the pic below and it will take you there.
What do you think of the name? I thought of it myself. . . :)

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Oh and how could I forget about my Birthday! It was a good day, my parents took us out to lunch. It was delicious, might I mention that Kneaders pumpkin chocolate chip cake is a little piece of heaven. Oh and I had my first taste of fall, Kneaders pumpkin bread, so good. We made late night french toast with it. MMM amazing. 

It was kind of a bummer that Aaron had to work that night but I guess it is all being part of a grown up :) Yeah I have a hate/love relationship of growing up! No worries, he is a wonderful hubby and came home early. We also have the weekend to celebrate. Dont forget I have a "Birthday Week" that ends Sunday :)

Up To

What have we been up to? Well if you take one look at Burrows it doesn't look like much. This is what Burrows has been up to and I don't see his schedule changing anytime soon.

I have been doing a couple projects {posts soon to come} I have about 6 that I am doing right now. I did  finish a few headbands. They turned out so cute and they are so easy to make. My modeling skills aren't that bad either! LOL

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Circus
As of Sunday it was the first day of my birthday week. :) So we jump started it off with going to the Circus. When I was a little we would go all of the time and we hadn't gone in forever. I am pretty sure this a start of an old tradition. The Circus was amazing. So much fun!





















After the show we were able to go and see all of the animals. The tigers were fun to watch and they were so playful.



So that is what we have been up to. But don't worry more is sure to come I still have 6 more days of my birthday week :)
Thanks for taking us to the Circus Mom and Dad
{Happy Monday}

Outline via Milestones

Aaron and I always say, "Do you ever wonder if we ever crossed paths before we met?"  That is a thought that always seems to revisit our conversations. It is something to think about. Did we ever walk by each other at a grocery store? or Did we ever pass glances at the carnival? or even "If I saw you, what did I think?"
We always wonder.

We may always wonder but I also love the way we did meet.
There is nothing like seeing a young Mr. Turner for the first time in church. {Only in Utah :)} Oh how I liked him! The sad thing is young Mr. Turner was not fond of me at all! Yes, I was the annoying 16 year old girl with a crush and he acted like the 17 year old boy who hated it but I know he secretly loved all of the attention.  I do recall making all of the big moves. It was me that hinted to Aaron I was turning 16 and was waiting for my first date, it was me who braved up the courage to call him and ask for rides to school, and I am glad I did those rides to school started out as awkward 30 min of our day to thank you for traffic, that means 10 more minutes. Oh how we came to love those rides to school.

{August 2006, First Photo}
I love how fun the first year of dating is. I love that everything is a first. I loved our first year of dating.
I also love that while slow dancing to "Faithfully" by Journey at Homecoming Aaron knew at that moment he was going to marry me. I love that we are high school sweethearts.

{Prom 07', Aaron's Graduation 07'}
We love pictures, even more we love taking pictures of us. Yes sounds vain I know! While dating that seemed to be a fun past time for us. Oh and it still is. I can only image our picture collection in 10 years.

{Sundance 07'}
Holidays are absolutely the best. We love spending time together but even more we love dressing up together for Halloween, decorating our Christmas Tree together, even more so I love receiving flowers on Valentines Day :). There is noting better than a holiday with loved ones.

{Halloween 07', Christmas 09'}

Vacation: a period spent away from home or business in travel or recreation. And boy do we love doing that!

{Yellowstone 09', New York 09'}
Camping is defiantly a vacation but it is defiantly a different kind of vacation. I guess it is kind of funny to think  bug infested, dirty hard as a rock beds, pooping in a hole, and ashy food is an idea of a nice get a way vacation. In some strange way those ingredients  to a camping recipe is what makes it delicious.

{Moab 2010}
Now the beach is a vacation I could take any day. I can't believe it took me to age 20 before I finally shook hands with those crazy waves. I honestly could never get enough of the beach. Oh and might I mention it also took me that long to become a kid again in Disneyland.
Vacations are amazing and they are even more so when Aaron and I share them together. Oh the vacation adventures we have shared.

{California 2010}
Now there is also those special moments, moments that only happen once in a lifetime. Such as a first kiss, first time you say "I Love You", the first time you meet the future-in-laws. :) Yes alot of them are FIRSTS. But I only plan on having one proposal. Oh and it was perfect. You can read the story here. That night I don't think anything could of gone wrong.

{Gateway Nov. 2010}
It is fun to celebrate the milestones with in the major milestone of marriage. Such as engagements, bridal showers, moving in together and buying house stuff together.

{Engagements Dec 2010, Wedding Feb. 10, 2011}
Once married it seems activities and family get together have a whole different vibe. We love being married. I love the changes it brings. I love the new responsibilities that follows.

{Honeymoon, Family Pic March 2011}
As far as milestones go, we have had plenty of them. Thank heavens for the more less milestones that fill in the gaps. Such as our yearly visits to Thanksgiving Point, Gardens. We have been going to there for about 6 years now and it seems we never get bored of it. On the other hand we only need a once a year visit to remind us of its beauty. :) But it is hard to stay away from their amazing cafe' with heavens sweet nectar of raspberrie lemonade

{The Gardens 07', The Gardens 2011}

I am defiantly one that follows and appreciates the milestones in life. I have been looking at pictures lately and I decided to put a few milestones together and here I got my outline. So crazy how much life changes and how all of our little decisions, decide the big ones.
So I am sure Aaron can thank me for making that brave phone call years ago for those rides to high school. :)
I also look forward for the many more decisions and milestones to come.
{Happy Tuesday}

Fall Has Arrived

I hate bugs, I hate anything with 4-8 legs that crawls or hops. So when I was walking out on our deck and I was greeted by this beetle by the handle. You can understand why I freaked out.

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I am so in love with Fall. I love the fact that Fall has arrived at our doorstep. The air is much more crisp and cool. I love that the leaves are starting to change. I love the holidays that are soon to come. Oh how I love fall.

We decided it was time to visit the canyon again. I can't believe we have only been up there twice this whole summer. Now that summer has come and gone, we have to visit a couple more times before the winter comes.

The Canyon was so beautiful. The leaves are starting to change and the air is so fresh and clean. I love the canyon especially in the Fall.

Cascade Springs

We found this little guy trotting among our path

I also spotted this creepy thing, of course the guys picked it up







It seems I married a monkey

Alpine Loop

We also took a detour to Tibble Fork
Can you see the little white buts that belong to the deer we spotted

Aaron had something else on is mind in this picture LOL

We defiantly love the outdoors
{Happy Sunday}

Time Will Change All

7 months has gone way super fast. On Saturday Aaron and I had our 7 month anniversary. The time has flown by I can't believe it. We are still loving being married, but I think this picture sums up how we feel about each other every once in a while. . . :)

We really do love being married so much. All the little moments we have together add up to be priceless. I have been telling Aaron a year ago I never would of guess we would be where we are at today. So much has changed, we are married, we have a cat, I have a different job, family lives in a different state, we love staying home vs. not going out all the time, we have family come over and hang out at {our} house all of the time. There is so much more that has changed, I just never would of guessed a year ago this is where I would be. I am so glad though. I am grateful for all of the wonderful changes life has given us. I am also grateful for Aaron and all of the craziness he puts up with :) I love my hot hubby and we love being married.

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I can not believe that it has been 10 years since 9/11. To think 10 years ago I was driving to elementary school listening to 101.9 the end and hearing Chunga and Mr. talk about the 1st tower being hit and not even knowing what they where talking about. I honestly had no idea what was going on or what that meant and how much this would change the world. I can remember seeing adults sad and scared. I remember being scared and not knowing what was going to happen next.
 I have been lucky enough to be able to go back to ground zero a couple of times and I am telling you there is a certain calmness and reverence all around right in the middle of NYC.
Watching videos and seeing pictures yesterday brings so much sad and heart-breaking emotions but to think how united this country has become, because of it. I am so grateful for all of the men and women who are fighting for our freedom.
I found this great printable and it is staying up in our house for a long time. You can find it here at Less Cake {More Frosting}

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I do believe I come a crossed this situation much to often. It seems to be a trend if one of them is out cold the other is soon to follow

I suppose it is back to the work week
{Happy Monday}

You Can Never Go Wrong With Family

You can never go wrong with family. Family is always going to be there. You can fight, laugh, cry and always have a good time.
It has been so much fun having the Smiths Family home for the week. We have done so much for one week.
Night Out On The Town

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Onion Days

There is nothing better than a hand dipped corn dog with fresh cut curly fries from the carnival. I will say it was amazingly delicious. To top it off we had Boston cream style funnel cake. It doesn't get better than that. It is a good thing we only get that meal once a year at the carnival or we would be in trouble :)

We can't get enough of the little ones



Oh yes the slide is by far the best ride at the carnival. I only had to beg my hubby once to let us go on it.

Backyard Fun





This is what happens when husband think they are being funny when their wives are trying to take pictures

They finally backed off



It has been quite a week with the Smiths. We have missed them and the visit is bittersweet, super sweet for the week long stay but bitter to have to say good bye again.



You can never go wrong with Family. We will miss those crazy Floridians.

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On a different note Burrows is back to him self. He is back to being a crazy kitty. I am so glad. He still is our little baby Burrows. Hence all of the blog posts he is involved in. :) We are so happy to have him back.

Hope everyone has a great week