Spring Break

This week is the beginning of spring break for ISU, but it has not started off well. Yesterday we received 3-4 inches of snow, and the forecast for the following days are not looking up. This past month we have been in our usual routine, work and school. We have gotten in a few days up at pebble and Luke has spent the last three weekends in randonnee races in Pocatello, Utah, and Jackson Hole. Those are now completed and we are heading into the beginning of running starting in April. Overall, we have not been doing anything exciting. We basically just go day to day and week to week... at least now through school, but we are looking forward to Spring.

Brynlee has been growing up a lot lately, she learns so much every day. We are getting close to 2yrs old now and she is quite the "big girl" now. We are slowly trying to decrease time with her binky, sometimes we have meltdowns, but she is gradually having it less and less. Her vocabulary is growing daily, and she is talking more and more. Her new sayings are now "Sure" instead of saying "yes," and she has been say "help you" instead of "help ME." That one has been a little confusing to her. She likes to help around the house and will cook dinner or "soup" on her little kitchen set. Her favorite movies right now are #1: shrek and #2: Nemo. We cannot get enough of Shrek, in fact she wants to watch it so much we actually had to take a break from Shrek for a week because she would wake up at night and want to watch Shrek. Who knew that a big green ogre could be so interesting for a 2 yr old. One day we might move on to princesses, but right now Shrek will do. 

I guess I should mention that we did have something interesting or crappy happen to us last weekend. We had some punk come through our neighborhood and spray painted several houses, fences, and cars. Our car, house, and renters truck were all tagged. It wasn't fun, but it did come off with some elbow grease. I just hope the ones responsible will get caught- I'm voting for lots of community service!  

Mistake

I need to mention that I have made a mistake with using Blogger. In an attempt to update my information I accidentally created a new blog. Whoops. So....you can also see us at lukeandtanaenelson.blogspot.com  I will attempt to merge these two if anyone even attempts to look at our blog. So please stay tuned.

A New Year

I am sure that it is no surprise that I have a problem keeping up with this blog. I did set a goal to at least update it monthly... so we'll see what actually happens.

We really enjoyed the Christmas season this year. Brynlee is growing up so much, and it is making life so much fun. I can't even tell you how much she cracks me up... she is quite the little character. For Christmas this year we headed down to New Mexico. Luke's parents moved there in April, so for Christmas they flew us down. Luckily we missed the major winter storms that came through the area. We had a lot of fun hanging out with the family. Luke and I got in a few days of skiing... yeah! Brynlee had a lot

 of fun opening up all of her gifts, but I think she was more interested in ripping of the wrapping paper that actually what was inside of the boxes. However, she is now enjoying her gifts now that time has passed. 

Now that the holiday season has passed, we are attempting to get back into our hectic routine. I am not excited about it because it was so nic

e to have luke home and actually spend time together as a family, but the sooner we get going the quicker he'll be done. Luke's PA school is still intense and I was hoping that this semester would be better, but so far he'll still be very busy. I hate to complain because I am thankful that he is in a good program that will give our family a promising future, and he works very hard, Thanks Luke.

We hope that you all have a great January 

and I am crossing my fingers that I'll get a few more postings this month.  

Here are a few Christmas photos of Brynlee.

Happy 4th of July

This past week Luke and my Dad and brother Casey were on the middle fork of the Salmon. Brynlee and I stayed home and hung out by ourselves. We had a fun week, and it helped that it was the 4th of July. This past week was very hot outside, so in order to cool off Brynlee and I went to the Ross Park Pool. She wasn't sure what to think about it at first, but she started warming up when I gave her a toy shovel to play with. She decided it was fun to splash it around in the water. Brynlee and I also enjoyed taking laps in the lazy river. 

To celebrate the 4th, Brynlee and I went to Inkom to watch a parade and the headed to Rigby to spend time with my family. Luke got off the river and met us in Rigby later that night and then went to see fireworks in Menan. It was fun to watch Brynlee enjoy the fireworks. One of her favorite words right now is "Wow," but it's a drawn out long "Waaahhhw" or something like that. Brynlee also started clapping for the ones that she liked. It was fun to see her enjoy the fireworks this year! 

We hope everyone had a fun forth of July!

Gardening

Brynlee helped me as we worked in the garden this weekend. She enjoyed paying in the dirt and pulling weeds, as you can tell from her face. She also liked pulling on my potato plants, but thank goodness they were a little stronger than her and should recover.

This weekend we also had the opportunity to attend my 10 year class reunion. It was fun to see friends that I have not seen for several years, and I look forward to seeing them in the future.

Graduation

In may I finally graduated with my Masters of Science in Dental Hygiene.

It was fun to walk and to finally get hooded. 

So what's in my future now?? 

I am not really sure yet. I have been visiting with ISU to see if I can start teaching there in the clinical and lab settings for the students, so I'm waiting to hear back from them. In the mean time I am enjoying my summer with Brynlee. We hope to get to the pool, and play a lot in our newly fenced back yard.