I'm not a morning person

I have to be at the hospital at 530 tomorrow morning! I am not a morning person and I am not sure if I am going to like the life of a nurse...I hope I wake up in time!!!

Steph goes to nursing school

Steph got into nursing school at Provo College! Woot that! Way to go Steph! She will start this Monday doing her labs and then after three weeks she will start doing clinicals at a hospital. So basically if you are sick just call her and she will tell you what to do. Go get 'em Steph.

4th of July Fun!

We had a busy and fun 4th of July weekend! On the 3rd Michael went four wheeling with my family and had lots of fun! Then on the 4th we got up and went on a really long walk. Then we went to a lunch bbq with my family and Michael went swimming and surfing on the wave simulator. He came home worn out and then got ready to go to our next bbq for dinner with my dad's family. I had lots of family in town and we had fun visiting with all of my cute cousins and family. After we left there we came home and played with Andrea and Ryan for a little. Ryan came over to ride my dad's Harley. Too bad we don't have pictures of that! Then we rode scooters up to my dad's cousins house and watched the stadium of fire fireworks from a great view!!! It was a fun filled weekend here in Provo!

Thanks for staying with us!

Last night we had the best guests! Alison and David came and stayed with us on their drive through to Wisconsin for Medical School! I miss not having Alison live near me and now she is moving even further away. I love that we can just sit and talk or just sit and watch tv or just sit and do nothing together. When you can sit and do nothing together that proves that you are "real" friends. haha.I think Laura and addison are going through depression with them gone! All of my friends leave me (and I don't have very many friends so I am in trouble....Andrea DO NOT move!) I had fun chatting with them until midnight and I could have talked all night long if they didn't have to drive 12 hours more the next morning!! I am so happy they stayed with us and we got to hang out before they move so far!! I am so excited for them and for their fun adventure in Wisconsin and Medical School!!!! Don't forget about this red head in Utah!!! Sorry no pictures from this visit...it was late at night.

Good Bye ALL of my friends!

Graduation was so happy and so sad! We do everything with Matt and Chelsea and consider them some of our best friends! I guess they were sick of hanging out with us because they packed their bags and moved away to Northern California!!! But we are so excited for them and happy that things are going well in California! Congrats on Medical School Matt! We already miss hanging out with you guys!!! Don't find too many friends to replace us!!

Michael turned 25!

Michael turned 25 on May 5th. It really was a perfect weekend for a birthday. One of his best friends was in town and the boys got to hang out and catch up while Chelsea and I talked and played with baby Aimee. Like usual. Life is flying by and we are trying to absorb every minute of it! We are having so much fun. I am married to the nicest cutest boy alive. I consider myself the luckiest girl in the world to have Michael as my husband!!!

A little Update since graduation!

Michael and I both graduated in April! Finally. We are so happy to be done with BYU. My mom and dad and my sister and her baby came up for it! My other sister and her family ended up coming the week before so we had a really fun 2 weeks with everyone! Michael got a job here in Provo and it is a perfect for him. He has great hours and it is right down the street from our house! He does really well there and is loving it. And I am back in school! I thought for sure when I graduated I would never go back to school, but 2 weeks later I was enrolled again! I am thinking about going to Nursing or Ultrasound School, but we will see what happens. Plans seem to change all of the time with us! I also just got a part time job at a baby boutique and I am so excited about it! I LOVE baby clothes. Life is great and we are so thankful for how wonderful life is for us! We are loving every minute of it! There is a quick update of our life!

Steph's Super Sweet 16!!!

Happy B-Day Slugger!

Steph chose Los Hermanos for dinner













and California Pizza Kitchen(2 days later)













and got the new ice cream cupcakes from Cold Stone from Greg and Emily.

















She also took a huge humanities test on her birthday... gotta love that!

BYU-I

Congrats to my brother Ryan and Cousin Vanessa for getting into BYU-I! It is seriously the funnest school!!!!! Michael and I both went there our Freshmen year and both LOVED it! Here's a Shout out to BYU-I who's about to get two of the cutest people ever!!!

BIG JUDES
Freezing cold weather--snow fights -of course with the opposite gender!
ultimate frisbee
cute Idaho boys!
and
cute girls!
Idaho Falls trips - to the mall with NO cute clothes!
Tons of school activities-concerts, etc... (because there are no sporting events)
Smaller Campus - Really friendly people on campus
Walking to the grocery store (and getting rides home from boys) or pay $1 and they deliver your groceries!
Less nerds than in Provo
Sand dunes
Caves
Curfew---sneaking out
and SO much more!

California Weekend

Michael and I got to go home last weekend for many fun events. First we got to go home to celebrate my mom's and our nephew neal's birthday party! Neal loves spider man so he had a spider man cake and lots of spider man decorations.

We also went home for Andrea's wedding! She looked so pretty and it was so much fun to see her and Ryan get married. They are so cute and happy together. I don't have any pictures, but i will post some when i find some! At the wedding we got to hang out with Alison and David. It was a moment i have been waiting for for a very long time.

We played a lot of games and ate good food and we got to meet our new niece Breanne. She is soo cute and makes lots of noise, but is a very good and nice baby. Baby Addison and Aimee had a lot of fun playing and talking with each other. It was soo cute.

Niece # 4 is Here!

Baby Breanne Marie VanLandingham is finally here! Carinn had her on Sunday afternoon at 3. She is so adorable and I get to see her February 5th!!! I can not wait. I love her already!!

a little update

We got to go home to California the week before Christmas then we spent 2 days in Seattle with Michael's family at his brother's house and then we went back to California for a few days after Christmas. We didn't really take pictures, but here are a few... Here is Michael with our cute little Christmas tree before we left Utah...
The boys watched a lot of sports and Michael was so good with all of the babies...as usual! Carinn is trying to teach her kids to call him Big Farrell. Neal fell asleep on him while playing Wii.














I got to play with my family and loved every second of it. I love going home! The babies change so much every time I see them. Michael is such a good sport when we go home because I get so excited to see the girls in my house and he just plays with the boys. We are so excited for niece # 4 to be born in a couple of weeks!!! Here is Amelia and Addsion. Minnie thinks she is 10 now when she is only turning 4 and Addison eats like she is 10 when she is only a little baby. She isn't chubby she is her optimal weight and soo cute. When Carinn and Eric left to go home I was so sad not to have her little babies running around the house and I always miss them all so much when I leave. But we are lucky now and we get to come home to baby Aimee all of the time now! She is so cute and funny and crazy!

I won!

So I won a serious amount of Lucky Charms this year in a sales competition with General Mills.


Here is my prize. If anyone wants some of the "Lucky" Lucky Charms let me know and I will pull some strings for you.

The 411

So this past month we have done a lot of fun stuff in between school and work! i got to go dress shopping with my best friend from before i can remember! she looked so pretty in all of the dresses and ryan is one lucky guy to have such a cute, little, fun, nice, super smart nurse as his future wife! here we are after she finally decided on one!!!



Michael and i also got to babysit baby Aimee while her mom and dad went to the temple! We took her on a long walk and had fun playing with her! we love our upstairs baby! here she is just sitting on our couch being a good baby!

An excellent video

I hope you enjoy... it is a great video.

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My Halloween Babies!

Here are all of my favorites on Halloween. Michael and my cute nieces and nephew! I am the luckiest auntie in the world! Michael was a Wii Remote Control for Halloween. He wore it to work and on campus when we walked to the testing center. A lot of people were laughing and making comments! haha. I have the cutest husband ever and I love him and how he always makes me laugh!!!

Here is baby neal the cutest man alive! He was a cowboy for Halloween and a dang cute one!

Here is Amelia the cutest Minnie Mouse ever. No niece is ever going to be such a cute Minnie Mouse because nobody can embrace being Minnie like Amelia can!

Here is the cutest pumpkin ever Aimee. She was a hit at their ward Halloween party. Her mom made her costume and it turned out so cute!

And last here is Addison the cutest pink monster with her nanny and poppy adoring her and all her beauty! Now can everyone see why I am the luckiest aunt in the entire world! I love all of my cute babies so much!!! They grow so fast and I am so sad I don't get to see them all everyday, but we are grateful we get to see little Aimee everyday!

Camping!!!

We went camping! By Squaw Peak!!!















All I did was eat and play with fire!!!

Matt and Chelsea came along also... their tent holds 85+ people in it!

More Prop 8!

Most of my feelings about Prop 8 can be summed up in this fantastic article. Enjoy...

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/05/california_decision_will_radic.html

Cayman!

We also went to the Cayman Islands this summer. The nice part of being married is some summers both families take you on vacation. Steph was already scuba certified. So I (Michael) got scuba certified this summer. Scuba diving was probably the best part of the whole trip. I went every morning. Steph was my scuba buddy along with bring my eternal companion. One thing I need to work on is not running out of air after only 20 minutes. Also, I drove around the Island. In Cayman they drive on the left side of the road. It was quite the experience. Overall we had a great time and want to go back. Here are some pictures:

Prop 8

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Central America

So we have had a busy summer and haven't blogged very much and now we are going to catch up! In between working this summer we had a lot of fun! Michael's dad got released from being mission president in Honduras so we went to pick up his parents the end of June. It was my 2nd trip down there and Michael's fourth! We went to Honduras for a week and then to Guatemala for a week. We spent a few days in Roatan, Guatemala City, Copan, Tikal, Antigua, Los Flores,La Ceiba and LOTS of time on buses traveling to all of these places! We had a really fun time, thanks Farrells!

Aimee Jean

We have a new house mate/niece. Aimee Jean. She is 6 days old and so cute. It is fun having a baby living upstairs that we can play with whenever we want and then give back to her mom and dad when we are done. We love her!!!

Went to a baseball game...

<---Here is Steph at the BYU baseball game last Friday. I think her favorite part of the whole game was the fact that they sold this like 2ft long maple bar donut. She kept insisting that I get for my breakfast the next day. There is nothing that says I am happy and health like a 2ft long maple bar in the morning. Steph also had some special moments with Cosmo but did not get a back rub from him like the girl in front of us. This is me and the sell out crowd. ---->

Go Cougars... they won 10 to 4.

Best Guacamole In Town

Steph makes an amazing bowl of Guacamole... you should try it.

Since this is my first post i thought i would put only my favorite people in my picture. There are a few things I like about this picture. first. it has my cute husband in it. second. it has two of my cutest best friends in it. and third. we are eating on a basketball court. Michael says fourth. we are eating in it. For everyone who doesn't know, michael loves eating.
so right now at the Farrell home, michael is studying for our physical science final that i should be studying for, but i am not. law and order is on in the back ground. michael is talking about golf because that is the only thing he has wanted to talk about for a month now.
GOOD NEWS MOMENT FOR TODAY: matt and chelsea gave us 10 free dollars for a pizza place so we only paid 2 dollars for dinner tonight which was so good.

Bikers on 9th

This is how I feel about the people who ride down 9th E. in the street when there is a huge sidewalk right next to the road. I almost killed some poor girl the other day in front of the MTC.

On a side note Steph says no one cares what I write, people just want to see pictures... So Steph (Who has never made a comment on this blog) these pictures are for you even though they have nothing to do with my post.
















This is me golfing with my clubs while they are still in the box. The second picture is Dave Hansen confidently giving Steph chocolate before we take off for the honeymoon.