101 Things We're Grateful For.....

(In no particular order.......seriously)

1. steak
2. Our baby boy
3. Mitch's job
4. Ana's job
5. Ana
6. Mitch
7. health
8. Idaho
9. The United States of America
10. Ice cream
11. Freedom
12. The Sommer Family
13. The Nye Family
14. Grandparents
15. Technology
16. Our cell phones
17. Our apartment
18. The gospel of Jesus Christ
19. hunting
20. Mitch's truck
21. Ana's car
22. Rexburg
23. music
24. sleep
25. Our freezer
26. The meat in our freezer
27. shoes
28. movies
29. Date nights
30. BYU-Idaho
31. Our educations
32. Modern Medicine
33. doctors
34. family
35. Friends
36. The Book of Mormon
37. Running Water
38. snow
39. Disney
40. Sour Patch Kids
41. Fantastic bosses
42. goals
43. pudding
44. remote controls
45. candles that smell good
46. Vacations
47. Family time
48. board games
49. card games
50. Our computer
51. Our iPad
52. Sunshine
53. Boating
54. Vitamins
55. Chocolate
56. Great coworkers
57. Good books
58. money
59. Weekends
60. Birthdays
61. Holidays
62. Visiting teachers
63. Home teachers
64. Coats
65. Heaters
66. Hot chocolate
67. Sports
68. Frisbee
69. Opportunities
70. Wholesome entertainment
71. The Military
72. ROLO COOKIES
73. MISSIONARIES
74. Siblings
75. Good choices
76. Washer and Dryer
77. Toothpaste
78. Dishwasher
79. Internet
80. Our new mattress set
81. Founding Fathers
82. Our trip to DC
83. Happy people
84. Hair
85. Love
86. Eyes
87. Teachers
88. Photographs
89. Memories
90. Socks
91. Soap
92. Cabela's
93. Living Prophets
94. Animals
95. Grocery stores
96. Guns
97. Teeth
98. Agency
99. Q-tips
100. Fudge
101. Fall leave colors
102. All 4 seasons in general
103. Chances to count our blessings!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE!

Our Poor Neglected Blog

 

 

Whoops....

Looks like time kind of got a way from us. We haven't been on this blog in so long that I almost forgot how to do it!

 

Obviously a LOT has happened since last November. I think that's why I've been putting off "documenting" it on here....there's just tooooooo much!

 

 

Pictures are worth a thousand words, right? So we'll go that route. Here's a little picture recap of the last 7-8ish months. :)

Haha kinda sad.

 

 

Quick detour to September...Mitch got a slug gun for his birthday!

We went to Salt Lake for Thanksgiving with my family! For some reason
this is the only picture I can find of that trip....



Mitch spent most of the fall hunting! Sorry, blurry picture of his camo attire.

 

December...hunting indoors with the Sommer brothers.

Our little Christmas Tree!

We kind of cheated and picked out our own presents from each other this year...except a few, like this one, were a surprise! Mitch got me my favorite movie and I didn't even know he knew it was my favorite! What a guy.

 



Mitch got a camp chef grill thing. And he was really excited. :)






He also got a carrying case for his camp chef grill thing...
(and let me tell you, we've already enjoyed this present several times this summer)

I got a new coat!

AND Mitch picked out two wedding bands to add to my ring!
Why two? I'm weird and thought one looked funny. But they are beautiful and I love them!
We also celebrated our 1st Anniversary December 23rd, right before Christmas.
(Can you tell basketball was rough on my knuckle?)
 

This was actually on our official 1st Anniversary!
I've never been happier.

We kind of went crazy baking this year around the holidays. These are caramel/chocolate covered pretzels. We also made a million homemade caramels. Yummmm.

We got some snow on Christmas EVE!

 

We spent Christmas Eve and Christmas morning in Rexburg with Mitch's family, and then we went to Pocatello to spend Christmas Day with my family...and then we started our journey to ARIZONA for my little baby brother's wedding. Temple Square is my favorite!

 

Temple Square, Salt Lake City

Beautiful!

Car ride to Arizona...what a drive.

Drove 14+ hours to get to Thatcher, Arizona. Cool place, huh?

  



Playing games in the hotel room the night before the WEDDING.

Getting ready for the wedding....hey look, Jeff does brush his teeth.
hahahahahaha.

MARRIED! Hard to believe my little Matty tied the knot.
SO good to have Brianna a part of our crazy fam.

They can jump.

In January, we went to Jackson Hole to visit the Elk Ranch.
Really, it was WAY cooler than I thought it would be! :) There were literally thousands of elk.

They take you on a tour of the ranch on one of these sleighs pulled by gigantic horses.
Seriously, so many elk!

Mitch at one of the look-out points by the ranch.

Then we went and got some lunch at some pizza joint. Very good.

In February, we took up cross country skiing and went to Soda Springs to try out some trails with Zane and Shaleece.
AWESOME.
Although I have to mention, a couple of weeks after this trip, they found a dead body behind that water tower thing in the picture and said it had been there since the holidays............SO GLAD WE DIDN'T GO OVER THERE!

Shaleece, Zane, Me and Mitch
Fun people! We're glad they like to humor us with our crazy ideas.

Skiing! Good work out. We also went out to lunch with Mitch's dad and Soda turned out to be better than expected. :)
Oooohh we also went to Lava to the hot pools. It was great!

Puzzle boy. Mitch really has a knack for putting puzzles together.
I put in two pieces and then have to take a multi-hour break.

 



Valentine's DAY!





In February, we also went snow-shoed up to Mesa Falls. It is EXTREMELY pretty in the winter and something I'd never seen before.

Once again, Zane and Shaleece accompanied us on our adventure along with Zane's brother!

Walkin...I decided I prefer cross-country skiin!

OK HOLY COW picture overload. At least I got to February, right? I'll update the rest later.

Life is good! :)



Ana's Classroom

Life is so good in our neck of the woods!

I'm not just saying that either--things really do seem to be going well for both of us.

Mitch is really busy going to school and working (the end of the semester is slowly coming...then he only has 2 more if things work out!) and I am really busy attempting to teach first graders and keep our house clean at the same time. It is actually more challenging than I ever thought it would be.

 

Well, Mitch is off hunting right now, so I figured I would FINALLY post some pictures of my home-away-from home...my classroom! I meant to a long time ago when my sister-in-law asked, but then my camera went MIA. Yesterday when Mitch went to fix my flat tire, he found it sitting in our very clean (really it was) trunk.

 

So, here's the little tour of my room and what it looked like at the beginning of the year!

 

The Before:

(when I first walked in)

 

It is kind of intimidating to walk into a blank/empty/boring classroom!

 

Last year the teacher had 29 students...I'm SO grateful for my 21!
...and that I could get rid of the ugly brown tables....

 

The front of the room

 

 

Teacher's desk and computer stations

 

And then the after:

(End of August when school started)

 

The kiddos organzied tables and the apple job chart.

 

The "Word Wall"....there are actually words above the letters now!

 

I was so grateful for everyone who came and helped me! Particularly
Mitch's family! They were incredible!!!!!!!!!!

 

Front of the room....we spend a lot of time here. Sometimes too much.
But it is where the board and smart projector are!

A little more color.

Our Reading Beach!

 

And here are a few pictures of our classroom right now...after 50 days of school!

 

I'm running out of room to hang stuff on walls!



I'm so lucky.

See, the Word Wall now has words on it.

 

 

Birthday Chart and Stations Chart

 

The newest edition...I changed my beach to a fall reading corner...
this is actually unfinished...I should take a picture of it now

 



Our Little Apartment

Mitch is at the Priesthood Session of General Conference right now, so I decided it was a great time to update the blog. I was actually reminded tonight that we're using this for our journal...guess I better...I mean WE better....do a better job at it! :)

 

So it is finally October, and as much as I hate to see summer go, I really love fall! The leaves are amazing and its just nice...although I think Mitch likes it a little more than I do. Fall=Hunting=Second Love....I'm first of course. And then someday our children will be second so hunting will have to be number 3. But I think he's okay with that.

 

Ok Mitch is home now and all he's doing is making fun of my writing and telling me a I'm "some teacher" because I didn't know if "of course" was one word or two. Hahahahaha.

 

Back to serious stuff.

I just had Harvest Break last week which meant a whole week off of work! Best part...I still get paid due to the whole having-a-salary-thing-now.

 

It was great!

I had time to bake stuff....so I made some brownies and some cookies!

 

The cookies. (Pumpkin Chocolate Chip)

The Brownies (...uh just brownies)

 

 

Then one time we went and got Jamba Juice.

During my break.

 

 

 Ok... well this is a pointless picture because you can't see our Jamba cups.

The other pictures had the evidence of the trip but they were ugly. Except for Mitch.

(I'm not sure why I added this Jamba Juice part to this post because it really doesn't have much to do with anything, but I had to put the picture on somewhere!)

 

And during my break I decided I want to change our apartment around--you know, mix stuff up a bit.

But then...I realized the other day that I had not posted anything about our little apartment. Not that it is that significant, but it IS our first apartment together! And we do really love it.

It is kind of amazing how we ended up with it. By someone else's misfortune, we were able to get a contract for our apartment that began the week before we got married back in December. We've been here almost ten months and it definitely feels like home. So anyways, here are a few pictures....

 

...basically so we'll remember what it looked like someday when we look back on our lives as we sit in our mansion and reminisce about how we started out....

Here's our living room! That's a pile of really amazing blankets/quilts in the corner.

 

This picture shows our two couches. The funny-looking-multicolored-one is SUPER comfortable
 and we'll probably still have it when we're 58 years old and 59 years old respectively.

There's our nice little tv and entertainment center. The picture above it is one of my favorites!
It is a bunch of puzzle peices we had people sign at our wedding for our guestbook.

 

Here's a close up of it. Granted, it is only a SMALL portion of the puzzle peices we have from our receptions. Someday when we have a bigger place we'll put a lot more of them in a frame and hang them up. Right now a bunch of them are in the other room. But don't worry,  I know yours is up there!

Here's a close up of our wedding pictures above the couch. The little flower things are actually a project from Pinterest I made a while ago and Mitch helped me spray paint. It was kinda fun and FREE! (They're made out of toilet paper rolls...how cool is that?! ...ok well we think its pretty cool.)

 

And this is our kitchen! Yes there are dirty dishes on the counter...don't judge.

And I think that's all the apartment pictures I'll put up for now! I feel a little weird posting my home on the internet. :)

 

New subject...

Last night we went to Taken 2 in Idaho Falls with Shaleece and Zane. Yes, it is a good movie! For being a sequel I thought it was excellent. I'll stop there though because I wouldn't want to ruin it for you if you happen to want to see it!

We also went to dinner before the movie. None of us had been to Firehouse Grill so we decided to try it out. The food was excellent! The service...well let's focus on the food. I will admit that I'm not a huge fan of french fries.................but theirs were delectable. Take a look at Mitch's burger.

 

Its a monster. Actually its real name is The Widow Maker.
He found out later why.
He had to run across the street in front of a white truck and almost didn't make it cause he couldn't move.

Zane had one of those too. Shaleece and I both had mushroom burgers of some sort...but Mitch thinks they are nasty and so we can't post a picture.

Hahahahahaha. Wanna watch the boys try to eat it?

 

 ...Ok the video won't upload....maybe later!

 

 

Alright, well I'm sure you've had enough of us by now.

Bye.

 

hi.