Christmas and Basketball

To catch you up.... Jared and I had a super exciting christmas! We started the week off with a Christmas party at Jared's aunts house, it was great and we even got some home made root beer... my favorite... HAHA. That was for you Jay. Then on monday we celebrated a way exciting win against crazy Utah. We won in the last seconds even though the time didn't start and the Ute's coach threw a big temper tantrum, the big baby. It was so great, jared did amazing once again.. He looks so great out there. I suggest you all come see him play:) After the game we spent the next couple of days hanging out at the Quayle's playing the wii. Then on Christmas eve we went to the Spainhower party where we played rock band and hung out with the fam.. We stayed the night at my parents house in some killer jammers, Jared even got a pair that he loves:) On Christmas we were spoiled by both of our parents-- Thank you so much! Jared spoiled me too, he gave me a way cute iPod that I don't think i've set down since I got it. THEN... This week (monday tuesday and Wednesday) is the duel in the desert tournament. Last night they played howard and completely slaughtered them! Jared got an amazing SLAM DUNK... OH WHAT??! it was so awesome.. he looked like MIKE. He ended with 17 points, a season high of 11 rebounds and a season high of 7 assists. He's that good. haha. It was a blast and i'm all ready for the game tonight!

Christmas time!

I'm so excited because I finally got my christmas tree up. My mom really wants to see it so i'll post some pics. I'm so HAPPY! Jared has been going non stop, and really doing an amazing job playing basketball. After the games kids always come and ask for his autograph-- I love it. I had a couple friends over the other day and we decorated some gingerbread men, it was so fun.
Plus, the semester is almost over and the Utah state vs BYU game is this saturday-- Life is good! haha

JAREDS ON YOUTUBE!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3snSl_t_Sk

Click on this link to watch Jared's dunk attempt

Things I'm Thankful for...

Me and Whit

One of my favorite snapshots haha

CUTE mom

The Quayle Women

Jared- he lets me take his picture sometimes

Me and my DAD

Styling Ashley and me

Jake looking rad

Since it's almost thanksgiving, I figured I better write a few things i'm thankful for-

First off- my cute husband. I love him. I am so thankful for the time that we are able to spend together when he is actually home. He is such an awesome man, I look up to him in so many ways. I love watching movies with him, and taking our weekly trips to the zoo. I love that he is so dedicated and always on the go- he's definitley not a slacker. I LOVE him. I'm thankful for my parents- for my mom who has to listen to my daily phone calls about the most pointless things. I'm thankful for all that she does for me and for helping make me apartment cute. I'm thankful that she misses me and wants me to come hang out with her- i love her. My dad for always ALWAYS making me smile. For the random phone calls or emails where he tells me he is proud of me. For being a great example to me. I love him. I am thankful for my sisters. Ashley who makes me laugh and who never stops surprising me with her crazy life. For her occasional visits and her cute face. Whitney who is always fun to talk to on the phone. She is so smart and the best example to me- she is the sweetest girl i've ever met. I love them. I am thankful for Jake- my little brother. He is so COOL and just as goofy as his father. He makes me laugh, i love playing games with him whether it be basketball or nintendo. I love him. I am thankful for Jared's family. For ken and maurine who provide us with weekly entertainment. Maurine for always giving us goodies and taking such good care of us. Ken for those looks he gives me when i say weird things-- its the look of 'What have I gotten myself into?' Kody and Tressa for being so fun and having my favorite dog ever. Danni and josh for making me laugh and making fun of me and my blog :) I love the Quayles. I am thankful for my grandparents and Jared's. For the support they give us. I am thankful for my apartment, my job and for the gospel. I am so lucky.

One of my good friends Baylee Wheelright tagged me do the "8" Tag, where I tell you 8 things about me.
8 Things I am Passionate About. . .
1. Jared
2. Family
3. Friends
4. I love eating- oink oink
5. Probably procrastinating homework-- i'd say thats a passion
6. Church
7. Nap taking
8.Cheering for Jared at his games (Apparently I really show some emotion, not to mention my heart burn)

8 Favorite TV Shows. . .
1. The Office
2. King of Queens
3. Everybody loves Raymond
4. American Idol
5. Seinfeld
6. Simpsons
7. Apparently since I've been married I "like" ESPN
8. The worlds ugliest dog competition-- i've seen it once but now i want an ugly mut.

Favorite Restaurants. . .
1. Cafe Rio
2. Chili's
3. Red Robin
4. Olive Garden
5. my dad's sunday dinner
6. I don't know...

8 Things I Look Forward Too. . .
1. Graduating! heck i'll even take the end of this semester..
2. Which brings me to being done with finals
3. Jared's games-- love em
4. Having a family in a few YEARS
5. Getting a REAL job where I don't HAVE to work WEEKENDS
6. Eating dinner tonight
7. Seeing my family and getting my hair done...
8. The holidays!

8 Things I have Learned from my past. . .
1. Jared and I have the best support, awesome families
2. A crappy day doesn't have to be crappy
3. Stressful tests come and go
4. Families are forever
5. Jared is so great
6. I hate sleeping in a house alone
7. First impressions are usually wrong
8. never give up

Places I would Love To Visit. . .
1. Hawaii
2. Europe
3. New York
4. Disneyland- You're never to old to not want to go back
5. Alaska again- fun times
6. I want to go on another cruise- take me anywhere
7. Jareds away games- pack me in the suit case
8. Sacramento, California so jare can go visit some people

8 People I Tag. .
1. Anyone!


So.. i guess I need to update you all, its been forever. Jared has started playing- and he is doing AMAZING. He is playing the point guard, and is really adapting well. The are so far undefeated-- they've played 4 games, 2 of them were real, and have won every time. Jared's last game was at UC santa barbara, they left to California on Saturday and got home this morning (Tuesday) at 11:30. I was so excited to see him when i came home from school. They had a fun time in California, and won their game by 2. I was able to watch it over the internet... yelling and screaming and clapping at the computer-- I was home alone and my neighbors probably were thinking i was nuts. He scored 9 points and had 6 rebounds- the announcers were amazed that the point guard was getting rebounds- he can jump! We are so excited for thanksgiving- even though i have to work. ugh. I'll post some game pictures soon!

HALLOOOOWEEN

my dressing up for the year

Abbey, Maurines weiner

Me, looking so excited to play tripoly, right before I lost. Notice my pile of chips compared to Jareds..

My awesome pumpky.

Happy Halloween! Jared's first game is this Friday, on Halloween! Everyone better come :) He also has his 'Blue and White Game' on Wednesday, which is a little scrimmage and then people ask for his autograph after... haha funny. I'm definitley getting one. This past weekend was pretty good, we did some pumpkin carving and played a little Tripoly ( a sort of fun poker game, I just always get out first and have to watch forever while jared and kody bring in all the chips, but kody tends to cheat by taking my winnings so I don't really count me as a loser). I also went to dinner with my parents at yummy Utah Noodle which was SO good, plus i Love my parents so it was just awesome. My poor Muffy dog got her ear ripped off at the groomer last week, it was so sad! she had to have surgery and get it cut off, so now she has a stub ear and my mom says she looks like shrek. SAD.

BEST! WEEKEND! EVER!

Ha.. so my mom and sister told me about this blog, seriouslysoblessed.blogspot.com, it makes fun of people that blog... and i think its absolutely hillarious, if your bored you should check it out. But this weekend really was fun, we went to Amber and Brady Quayle's wedding dinner and reception. We hung out with the quayles so we had a lot of fun. After their reception we went to my parents house and hung out with them. We went out to eat at cafe rio, which was delicious. We were completely entertained by my dad. First off, he was cold because he said being bald makes all the heat go out of your body, so he put his hood on and ate... then, he was convinced there was a 'talon' in his burrito. Turns out it was a piece of his fork that broke off, and we couldn't stop laughing. We had a slumber party at my parents house, and the next morning my mom and I went shopping and got a ton of cute decorations for our apartment. I love it! Jared and I went to the willow park zoo to see the ducks, so thats what these pictures are from. In case you don't know, Jared loves ducks! The top one is what I got for my birthday and the second one is my favorite duck :) I'm learning my ducks ever since I got in to that family. The have pet ducks and duck hunt-

A Lame Update

My cute husband and me!
Me, Ashley and Whitney at my birthday dinner.

So, once again not much to comment about. USU actually won a football game, which is almost a miracle! We had a fun Saturday, after the football game Maurine, Tressa and Kody came up to visit us. We went to eat at Fredrico's, then went mini golfing, and then came back to our apartment and played sequence, Tressa and I make the ultimate sequence team, and whoever is on Jared's team is destined to lose. Lately, Jared has an obsession with mini golf, so we go at least once a week. We just hope Jared wins so he won't break golf clubs ;) We are both really excited because we can go visit our families this weekend since Jared has Saturday off. He's really excited about this because... he gets to work on the infamous duck pen, i think he's been going through withdrawals being stuck in Logan for three weeks straight. We're going to my parents of Friday, and his on Saturday. Basketball season is coming up, October 31st is their first home game-- I think I'm more excited than Jared is!! Other than that, we didn't do much. Maybe something exciting will happen this weekend.

WOW! School is tough. I just finished two exams, one in my tax class and one in my accounting class, and i'm pretty sure i didn't do very good! Oh well, at least they are over :) Jared and I have been very busy, and we hardly ever see each other. Usually around 9 pm is the first time we are actually home together. It's been pretty tough. Jared has basketball everyday still, and has to go to the football games on the weekends, he doesn't really have free time... and when he does he has to go to study hall. Nothing really has happened that is spectacular-- We just live a pretty routine life lately. I'm excited for this weekend because i don't have to work on Saturday!! hoorah:) But- i don't want to bore you to much- so that's it for now! Love ya!

FLAMING GORGE EXTRAVAGANZA

Gizmo and Uncle Jared getting soaked on the boat

Jared and one of the two fish we caught
Gizmo and aunt Lindsey in the red visor
Haha... nice throat.
He loves me.
Tressa and I making faces...

For labor day weekend the quayle family set out on another flaming gorge adventure. When we got there Saturday morning, it was scorching hot. We were dumping water on us to stay cool, and my nose got way fried. We fished all day on Saturday and I think we caught one lake trout... gross. Sunday rolled around and ended up being a lot cooler, we fished all day again and caught one Kokanee and one Rainbow.. the boys were the ones who fished, with the down riggers. We didn't have very much luck. While we were out on Sunday it started getting really windy and there were white caps everywhere, so captain Ken started heading in.. we got drenched! The waves were going over the boat and soaking us.. it was really funny, and entertaining. Sunday night there was a flash flood warning where we were.. and they weren't kidding. It poored all night, and poored some more. Jared and I have a little tent, which was leaking all night and everything got wet! Somehow we stayed warm though, so other than the noise and the drip drip drip on our faces, we were doing good! On monday morning, we woke up, packed up and went home because it was still rainy! Gizmo (tressa and kody's doggy) and I are best friends, and I'm also his favorite aunt. We love each other.. haha. Tressa Maurine and I spent a lot of the vacation reading and relaxing- and entertaining each other. It was pretty sweet! ps.. i know i look quite lovely in all of these pictures... haha... not!

Utah State Aggies!!

So the first week of school has come and gone! We are so busy and hardly see each other, but we're still having fun. I finally landed a job at the Anniversary Inn, and I love it. I work until 9 about four nights a week, which is keeping me busy. They are letting me go to all of Jared's games, and I can do my homework there.. so it's pretty nice. Jared is constantly going going going, with school and basketball. Just the other day they made him get up and run 2 miles at 7:30 in the morning-- he finished 3rd on the team in like 11 minutes... that's so amazing to me, it would've probably taken me a half hour.. haha. Now he just works out and has to attend all these meetings and stuff. Jeremy, Jared's friend, has been living at our house for a week now, and I think Jared enjoys not being the only boy.. but when Jeremy moves out i'm sure he'll still be over all the time. They have all of their classes together, and have the same major.. so, if anyone wants to be Jeremy's girlfriend so that I can have someone to hang out with, that would be great! But Life is good here in Logan-- We love you all!

Marysvale!

Last Monday Jared and I went to Marysvale, Utah for a few nights with my family! We went and stayed at my great aunt's inn, Moore's Old Pine Inn, from Monday and came home Wednesday. It was a blast! It's in centraly Utah, down by Beaver, and is the oldest running hotel in Utah. Her and her husband own and operate it, and they do a really amazing job. Every morning they made us delicious breakfast, and even more delicious dinners at night! We were spoiled rotten. Jared and I stayed in the Miner's room, which was decorated with mining tools and pictures, and it even had a little coal cart in the wall, pretty cool! On our way there we stopped at Fort Cove and checked out what the Mormons did back then. It was pretty fun, and really interesting. While we were in Marysvale we went Four-wheeling on some pretty fun tracks up to a waterfall. We hiked down to the waterfall, and took lots of pictures because it was gorgeous! Then on the way back-- jared took me on an adventure... we were cruising on the 4 wheelers and going off these little hill/jump things, and i thought for sure I was going to die. It was a blast. The next day we went river rafting, it was hilarious. Jared almost fell out a couple of times, one time he even grabbed on to my arm for support-- how cute? haha. I was cracking up. After river rafting we went to Bryce Canyon, which was beautiful, and played typical tourists. It was so much fun, and we had a great time with our family. We are thankful that my aunt katie let us stay at her inn and that she spoiled us rotten! If anyone is looking for a fun place to visit-- little Marysvale is the place!

HOME SWEET HOME!

So as most of you know we just returned from a great, adventurous, 9 day long vacation to ALASKA! It was so much fun. We left on the 24th of July, and arrived in Anchorage at about 3 PM. We drove a long way to Ninilchik, where we stayed for most of the vacation. We stayed in cute little cabins, and were quite entertained by the 3 brothers. The next day we went on a charter boat out halibut fishing.... and guess who caught the biggest fish out of the 12 of us.. ME!! Jared was jealous. It weighed 59 pounds and was so hard to real in! We did a lot of fishing while we were there. We went fishing on the Kenai river almost every day-- and for the first few days we had a hard time catching anything, but it did pick up and Jared ended up catching quite a few fish, along with all of the boys. I caught 4 fish, but I only got one in the net... but who cares! One of the days we went to Homer, and did a little sight seeing. A week later we drove to Seward and stayed the last three nights there. I loved Seward, it was a cute little town! We went silver fishing on charters, which was way fun and we caught lots of Silver Salmon. We went on a day cruise the last day and saw lots of wildlife and a huge glacier! We did a lot of laughing and had a wonderful time, it was a great vacation!

This was on the day cruise- all of the kids :)

his is the whole family in front of the HUGE GLACIER

Here's uncle Steve trying to be like Jared.. ha

This was in Ninilchik holding my first fish... my first slimy gross fish
The girls in front of the pretty trees

Me and my huge halibut- and Jared holding it up.
The whale we saw! It was so close