Pecan Pickin'

It's time for some good old fashioned pecan pickin' in West Texas! All the trees are letting go of their precious nuts and we got to have some back breakin' fun :) We picked up over 50 lbs of pecans in 2 hours! Thanks to some great friends all we have to pay for is to get them shelled! What a deal! Shanam's extremely excited to have a year's worth of pecans. He loves his whole wheat pecan waffles with real maple syrup on Saturday mornings :)

Our Wedding Video!!

We finally got our wedding video after 6 months!! Check it out and relive that beautiful day! Some of the facial expressions our videographer, David Perry, caught are priceless! It captures the feelings of that day perfectly and is exactly how I remember it :) Viewer discretion advised...lots of kissy scenes. Hehe. When we get our actual DVD, our ring ceremony will be added on at the end...haven't seen that part yet! That's what I really want to see, cuz we don't even remember what we said to each other :)

Halloween Fun

I'll give you a few guesses as to who we were for Halloween. Nope, you didn't get it :) The girls at church that I teach wanted us to dress up as Barbie and Ken since that's the joke at church, so we decided to give in, but put our own twist to it. So we were "Sport" Barbie and Ken. Nice, eh? The girls enjoyed it, and Shanam enjoyed not really having to dress up, since that's what he wears all the time anyway (minus the backwards hat :) Although someone did call him Ken's brother the bum. Haha!

Michigan!!

This past weekend we attended a conference for Amway Global in Grand Rapids, Michigan and had a fabulous trip!! These pics are at the headquarters where the products are manufatured and distributed world wide. We were excited to be there :)

I wish I had taken pictures of the actual conference, because it was more like a huge motivational party! We heard amazing speakers, including the man who's life was made into the movie "The Pursuit of Happpyness" as well as political and business leaders. So cool!! We loved being there together to experience it and learn side by side :)

Surprise trip to Utah!!

We decided to surprise our family by flying in for conference weekend. LOL! It was great!! My parents had no clue and it was so fun to get my brothers in on the surprise. They helped in devising ways to jump out and surprise them when they came home Wednesday night, and we got them good!! Shanam and I hadn't been home since we got married 5 months ago, so we enjoyed being with our fam again.

BYU game against Utah State with Shanam's parents
Fully enjoying conference :)

My family drives through the Alpine Loop while we listen to the Sunday afternoon session on the radio. Guess what we found at the top of the mountain!! SNOW!! Shanam was very happy, to say the least :)

During priesthood session the girls all got toether for a little shopping. Guess how much we saved during their sale at Shade!? $176.00!!! Now that's definitely some conference upliftment! So fun to spend time with family and friends (especially my newly pregnant best friend :) Congrats, Bre!

Well, we made it! We had a fabulous trip and enjoyed every minute! Even the minute we got rear-ended within 10 minutes of being in Mexico. Lol. A little ironic...don't you think? Don't worry, everything was fine and our car wasn't damaged at all, thank goodness! All of our prayers worked :) Above, is a beautiful waterfall we off-roaded to. I have never been more happy to be on smooth ground after that little adventure!
This is the little bed and breakfast we stayed in for two nights in the town of Creel. Get this! All four of us in one room with breakfast and dinner included was only $45!! I love Mexico!

These are wonderful little hot springs at the bottom of a canyon. So amazing!! So were the scary, steep switch-backs leading down to it! You weren't allowed to drive on it unless you had 4 wheel drive. Guess who was first in line :) I was very grateful that we didn't have to walk back up, though! It takes 4 hours!!

And the most beautiful sight of all...Copper Canyon! We hiked as high as we could go and enjoyed the breathtaking views (and drops) all along the way! Wish we could have stayed up there a little longer! The weather was gorgeous for the whole trip and it was neat to experience a different culture as well as enjoy their yummy food!

Labor Day Weekend Trip

This may be the most adventurous adventure yet!! And hopefully we'll return from it...we're going to Mexico...we're bringing guns...and I wish I had some body armor. j/k It won't be that bad :) But I'm sure it'll be exciting! We've got some friends who have a house in the canyons south of Juarez, so yes we'll be driving through Juarez...but it will be during the day, we'll be staying on the highway, and we won't be making any stops. This was assured me after I expressed my concerns, so hopefully this will calm your apprehension as well. We'll be with people who are from there, so that makes me feel better, too. We're pretty excited to go and can't wait to see the beautiful sights! We'll make sure to take lots of pics!