Family

The month of July was awesome! We had family either staying with us or near us the entire month! We had a reunion for Jason's side of the family for the first part of July and almost all of Jason's family got to stay up here for about two weeks! It was SO good to see them. I loved having them here. I really wish we didn't all live so far apart. After they left we drove to down to Arizona for the week and saw them again as well as my family. Then my sister Rachel drove back with us and stayed for a week. Best month ever! I really have such an awesome family. They truly make me so happy. I am a terrible picture taker so I don't have very many good pictures of our reunion but alas, i'll post a few of what i've got. More posts to come about other family adventures

We had a blast playing Minute to Win it games. Sadly the left over balloon was the only picture i got of it.

Carter, my nephew, had a blast with the sparklers!

Riane and Kaelin are Jason's cousins. They are so cute and i'm pretty sure we're they're favorite. Hee hee! :)

Such a little model. I told her I was taking her picture and she whipped out this little pose.

This picture doesn't do it justice but i'm pretty sure Carter was dancing to the fireworks. I miss that little guy!

Anniversary numero uno!

We had our first anniversary last May. I know, like three months ago now! So I decided it was high time to post about it. We went up to Park City and just hung out for a few days. Park City is thee place to go during summer time. Everything is dirt cheap. They must make bank during ski season but the place is deserted in the summer. It was a perfect little get away. On our way there I realized the thing I'd put in my purse thinking it was my camera was really only the camera charger. So we stopped and got us a good old fashioned disposable. It was so fun taking pictures with it and I loved how they turned out. Here's a few of my favorites.

This was crazy. It doesn't look scary from the pictures but I couldn't believe how high and steep it was.

What it looks like from the bottom.

Then we went skiing and had professional pictures taken of us. In matching ski suits. And matching...wigs. And we had really cool poses.


Main Street. They had some way cool old buildings. I wish you could see them better in the picture.

Jason loved the trolley! Remember the trolley from Mr. Rogers Neighborhood? I'm pretty sure this was his cousin.

The shoe tree.

We're in love.
The end :)

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BUT! Many a post coming soon!

P.s. I'm not a blog pro (understatement) so is there a way I can make the part of the blog that I write on wider instead of writing on just a thin little strip? Does that even make any sense? Basically I want the writing to take up more space than just the little thin strip down the middle. Anyone know how to make changes like that? Let me know.

Janelle's Graduation

So, this is my (Jason's) first time posting on a blog... ever... so we'll see if I can get things to work on here. It was quite the busy week. Janelle graduated from BYU on Thursday the 21st and had her convocation on Friday. Her family and my mom came up to celebrate with us and it was a lot of fun. I'm really proud of Janelle. She's worked really hard and it was awesome to see her graduate. So here are some pictures of graduation and some good times with our family.


Already celebrating before the actual graduation ceremony!




Waiting in lines outside of the Marriott Center before commencement. They just barely missed a big storm that rained on us most of the week.




Bowling (Janelle beat everyone after she got a turkey and bumped her score to almost double everyone else!)




Janelle's Dad took second place!




I'm not sure, but I think the girl to the left is floating...?




BYU Bookstore with our families. Danger at every corner...




Walking through the new gardens south of BYU with our families. Me and my graduate. :)

Men are nonliving things

So in third grade we've been learning about living and nonliving things and how they both work together to survive. While teaching the first lesson we decided that in order for something to be considered a living organism it has to do three things: take in oxygen, grow/move and reproduce, or for a third grade way of saying it, they have to be able to make more of themselves. So we were having a really good discussion about it and we were able to look at some pictures and decide if they were living or nonliving based on our three rules. One of the girls in class who is very smart had a very concerned look on her face through out the lesson and eventually she raised her hand to ask the question that had been puzzling her. This is about how her question went.

"Mrs. Watson, I'm just a little confused because if you HAVE to be able to reproduce in order to be a living thing...how are men still here?!"

Another student gladly supplied the answer: "THEY'RE NOT LIVING!"

MmmMmm...Tasty

Cooking is my favorite!

Hallelujah!!

I am OFFICIALLY done with my Teacher Work Sample! It's the last and final big project I have to do before graduation and probably the hardest project i've ever done. But it's FINISHED! Man it feels good!

P.s. Jason is amazing. When I get stressed, I tend to complain about things and he's had to put up with a lot of my complaining lately. I need to do better at being positive when I'm stressed. Is there anything you do to help you stay positive when you get stressed about things? If so i'd love a few (or any) pointers.