Christmas

We had a wonderful Christmas this year with my family in Utah! I am so glad my family was able to travel from washington to spend Christmas with us. We had alot of family parties, went shopping, went to my grandparents cabin in Woodland, visited the Brown's and lots more! Hope everyone else had a wonderful Christmas!

Thanksgiving

This year we were able to spend Thanksgiving with Braeden's family in Arizona. It was great to see everyone! We have not seen the Keil's that live in California for over 2 years so it was nice to see them. We ate lots and lots of yummy food and went to see Blind Side (good movie!) and New Moon (also good!). Family pictures! We missed those who could not come!

Played a crazy game of spoons, took turns singing some karaoke songs (not my favorite.. haha) luckily I got the shortest song and I was glad! We also went to see the Mesa Temple lights.

Cassidy, Tegan and I at temple lights

We were so glad to be able to go visit Ashley everyday and that she loved having all the family in town. Wish we were there all the time to make her happy!

One last visit to see Ash before we left. We love her and hope she gets feeling better so she can go home!

What a wonderful thanksgiving! It was a loooooong drive home (stupid hoover dam) but it was well worth it.

A dinner worth making...

Tomato Tortellini Soup

1 can chicken broth
8 oz. tortellini
1 can tomato soup
1/2 tub of chive & onion cream cheese

Boil tortellini in chicken broth until tender. In a separate bowl, using about 1/4 cup of the hot chicken broth, combine with cream cheese. Whisk until melted. Add tomato soup to tortellini. Pour melted cream cheese and broth back into soup. Stir all together.
Makes about 4 servings
**I would double the recipe and use the whole tub of cream cheese doesn't make much and you will want more!

Yummy Breadsticks
(Read directions carefully)

1 1/2 cup warm water
1 TBSP yeast
2 TBSP sugar
3 1/2 cups flour
1/2 TSP salt
1/2 cup butter
Garlic salt
Parmesan cheese

Mix first 5 ingredients and knead for 3 minutes. Let stand 10 minutes. Heat oven to 375. Melt 1/2 butter on cookie sheet in oven. Roll out dough and cut into long thin strips. Twist and place in butter, put them very close together, they will easily peel apart. Sprinkle with garlic and parmesan cheese ( a little more than a sprinkle is good!). Let rise for 30 minutes. Bake for 20 minutes at 375. Makes lots and they are yummy for a few days!

Pictures are not very good, but these recipes are YUMMY! Enjoy!

Happy 3rd and Happy Thanksgiving!

Tuesday the 24th is our 3rd year anniversary! I cannot believe it has been three years.. time sure goes by fast. It has been a great three years and I am so grateful for everything Braeden does for me. We went for a nice sunday walk today at Snow Canyon State Park. It was nice to just relax and have some fun with each other.
Being Thanksgiving this week I was thinking of the things I am grateful for. I am so grateful for the beautiful earth that we live on that Heavenly Father and Jesus created for us. I am so grateful for my family and friends and for the gospel we have in our lives. I love this time of year! Hope everyone has a Happy Thanksgiving this week! Thanks to everyone who has made me smile :)

Still HERE!

So we have been way busy this semester and glad it is almost over! Two more semesters till we are done! YAY! We really have not been up to much so I never had anything to blog about. Yes our life is pretty boring right now, but hey it will get more exciting in years to come! The only real exciting thing we have done this last semester that was adventurous was we went repelling with our friends Nate and Rachel in Vegas. That was so much fun. It was kind of scary, but I did it and I was proud of myself!

It doesn't look like I'm scared... but I was

We had so much fun thanks guys!

Home Sweet Home

Last week I went home to visit my family. I was there for a week, but it sure went by fast! I hope it won't be another year before I can go home again. Oh how I miss the water and the green trees! Enjoy the pictures! Redondo Beach
Boy have my brothers grown!

Top of Rattle Snake Mountain

Brown's Point

Skimboarding and hanging out at the beach

Friends I have not seen in forever!

It had been almost 3 years since I have done a session at the Seattle temple. Temples are wonderful :)

Silly Girls

Having some fun with my little cousins Rilynn and Mckenna

Visiting the Brown's

We went to visit Brooke, Chris and her cute little boys, Landon and Carter. Carter is so cute and cuddly! We hope when we have kids they will be as cute as their boys! It was so good to see them. I miss living by Brooke. We grew up down the street from each other so we have known each other for a long time and I hope some day we will live close by again!

Cute little Carter

Braeden is going to be a great dad some day. He loved holding little Carter!

We miss you guys and next time we visit it will be for longer!

Someday...

I am going to get a sewing machine and learn how to sew

I want to take a photography class and learn how to use photoshop

I want learn how to cut hair. I already know some basics, but I have always wanted to go to beauty school to learn more

I want to take piano lessons again... My mom teaches piano lessons and she used to teach me, but I got frustrated a lot back then, {sorry mom :) } and now I regret quiting.


There are so many things I want to do! I hope I can get to do these things someday!

Sis. Wheelwright

My sister is on her mission in St. George right now. I can't believe she got called here right before we moved here! Crazy! She has been here for over two months and is loving every minute of it. She spends half her time at the Visitors Center/ Tabernacle and the other half teaching investigators. I am lucky to see her every once in a while. It's so crazy that she lives 2 blocks from us. It's kind of hard for me because I just want to go see her all the time! She is a great missionary and has grown so much since she has been out here. We went to the VC today to see her and to get a tour. She is a different person than before her mission, in a very good way :). I am greatful that she is able to serve a mission and to learn and grow through all her experiences. I hope someday we can go on a mission and serve the Lord.

What we have been up to...

Well hi! I know it has been a long time. We just finished our first semester of nursing school! Woo Hoo! We both feel really blessed to be in the program and that we are doing well in it. We are loving St. George. What beautiful weather, but I must say I do miss rexburg, especially our friends we left behind. I also must say I do miss living in Clearfield. We had some fun times there! Maybe we will come back someday. :) But really I do love it here too. All we really have been up to is school! So, I do have some more time and I will try to update our blog more often! I know I always say that but I will! (If anything is going on). Here are some pictures of what we have been up to...

We have been up to my grandparents cabin a few times this last winter

We went to Arizona to visit some of Braeden's family and on the way back we went to Sedona. It is such a beautiful town!


I had never been to Arizona before and I just had to take a picture of the cacti (is that plural for more than one cactus?)

We also went to the Grand Canyon. It was so cool! Braeden was done looking after 2 minutes but I just found it so facinating!

We just got back from camping in Moab with some family this past weekend. This was on our ATV adventure. It was a cool ride

Mr. cool Braeden

We went and hiked at the arches