Finally: An update on recent events...

Ok! We have arrived to present day! Derek and I are living in Denver for the summer. He is selling pest control again. We love it here! He is doing well selling, We have an awesome apartment, the community we live in is beautiful, I have a job at Aaron's Brothers Art and Framing... Life is good! We almost didn't come out but we are glad that we did. Dan and Sarah are here as well! After only a month of living here we have decided that this is a place that we would love to end up in someday. We have callings in our ward (Nursery) and we are loving life!


We found this thing at a gas station on our way to Colorado.. We had to buy it. It was the biggest hot dog we had ever seen. We were laughing so hard!! We only had a couple bites.. it was merely for the experience (and the picture).

Derek's birthday was on April 30th so we had a party at our apartment. We had a bbq with Dan and Sarah and we had cheesecake! YUM! Wyatt helped Derek blow out his candles. Derek is now 24! He is so old!

Isn't she adorable??? Nana bought her a sailor dress and she looks like a little angel!

On Mother's Day Sarah asked me to take family pictures of them! They turned out really cute. Especially when Wyatt was happy! Aren't they a cute family??

Last Sunday, Derek and I went and visited Red Rock Amphitheater! It was amazing! There are 380 steps from the bottom to the top and we climbed them all! Apparently lots of cool concerts happen here. It was totally worth it and the view from the top was INCREDIBLE!

And, this is the view! That is Denver on the left. WOW! It was amazing.

And there is us, striking a hot pose for the camera. You can see the stage down below. On May 30 there is a concert here featuring Styx, Kansas, AND Foreigner!! How cool is that?? Dang...

Tutonka... This is a cool picture with the sunset in the background... "Oh give me a home, where the Buffalo rome...."

We went to this park that overlooks a valley and the mountains beyond and we took our little grill and had hotdogs and SMORES! Mmmm.

Happy Easter! Welcome Home Shawn!

SHawn served his mission in New Jersey and my parents went and picked him up. They spent a few days touring around NJ and NY. They came home on Easter! So, we went to the airport and picked them up with signs. It was so fun to see Shawn again! He is all grown up! It is crazy! So, he got home and we went back to the house where we had dinner ready! A bunch of people came over to welcome him back and we had a big barbeque. It was great! After everyone left the Easter Bunny came and hid all out baskets in the backyard. We had an easter egg hunt which turned pretty violent toward the end... just kidding! Haha but our Easter Egg hunts are pretty extreme sometimes.

Uncle Chip and Aunt Kris came up with Grandma and Grandpa Davis! It was good to see them.

The Easter Hunt damage..

This is probably my favorite picture. Derek and Shawn were after the same egg but shawn got there first. Derek was a little sad.. haha you can see Shawn laughing in the background.

Love.

Like I said, the Easter Bunny goes to extremes. Derek had to climb the tree to get his basket. You can see it at the top of the picture. Last year, my dad, I mean, the easter bunny... buried Dan's basket so that all you could see was a sliver of the plastic covering.

INTRODUCING: Bella Farrer! This is Dan and Sarah's second beautiful child!! She is such a peach!

Mine was in a tree as well, although not as high as Derek's was.

Friends, School, Valentines... In a nutshell - LIFE!

Came flew down to Utah for the weekend to go wedding dress shopping, so of course, I drove down to be with her. It was an AWESOME weekend. It just girls. Tammy's sisters, mom and I. So we went shopping and we giggled a lot. Tammy and I got to go on a date which was wonderful. She is getting married in June and I get to be up there with her!

This is when Wyatt accidentally threw a paint can down the stairs at my parents house... It was so funny in a horrifying way. He followed it down the stairs and so there are little foot prints. He also put his hands in it, so there are permenant hand prints on the carpet by the TV. My parents wanted new carpet anyway.. this gave them the opportunity to justify spending the money.

THis is the scooter that we bought at an auction... We did not intend on buying it, but apparently, when you raise the paddle... you have to buy things... that is a lesson that I learned from that experience. This picture was taken the night that we sold that scooter. I really wanted to keep it but it doesn't make any sense to own one when you can only ride it in the winter.

For Valentines Day, Derek and I drove down to SLC to go to Tucano's Brazillian Grill. That is our Valentine's tradition. This was the fourth time we have been together including the time we ate there for our wedding dinner. They have the best food!! When we got back, Derek surprised me with a bouquet of 50 mini roses. I didn't realize how much I love those flowers until I had them. It was a gorgeous bouquet. I made Derek a giant sugar cookie heart and I attempted to write everything I love about him on it but I wrote too big... Oh well! It's the though that counts.

I am an Elementary Ed major at school and last semester I had the opportunity to be in a 3rd grade class. It was the best experience I have ever had. Our teacher let us teach almost everytime we were there so we got a ton of experience. My partner Lindsay was awesome. We got to teach a unit on Reader's Theater. This picture was taken after the performances at the end. All the kids were so cute. It made my conviction to become a teacher even stronger.

Brandon and Christine Potter are our really good friends up at school. Whenever we go on a double date with them, we have a blast. Christine and I were roomates my first year at school and her and Brandon had been friends then even before they started dating and so we have known them for a long time. We are so comfortable around them... we are lucky to have friends like them! The top picture is when we made cookie monster's at our apartment... WhenI say monster, I mean monster. I made an entire batch of cookies, split it in half and they ate one half and we ate another. I have never eaten more cookies and ice cream in one sitting... We were sosick afterwards. The picture below that one is at my parents house in the back yard when we got together and roasted hotdogs and made smores. That was awesome. Mmm. We made them with good chocolate so it was even better.

And this picture is just of our main room in our apartment. It was taken from the kitchen. It was a good apartment. We were sad to move from it.

Caribbean Cruising!

Every night we had a towel animal on our bed. They were all so cute!

This was game night with Homeshield. We have a panoramic feature on our camera so this is kinda a result of that but it didn't work well...

Derek got a plaque because he has been in the company for two years

This is us the last night. We got every dessert... don't worry, we shared.

This is the main lobby of our cruise ship. Pretty huh?

THis is the night we watched the cowboys play.

Our ship, the Carnival Destiny.

Our ship is on the left. I thought this was a cool view of the dock.

HAHAHA!! He looks like a little boy!

Derek sacrificing me to sun god with an umbrella... It was a wet day.

Derek using his tracking skills. We were following the foot prints of some unknown Myan mummy...

We stopped off at this beach on our way to the ruins. It was windy but it was lovely!

Us in the back of the lovely jeep we rented. Brrr.

Ummm.... I couldn't help it. This was at the pier in Cozumel

We did this a lot.

Dinner with the captain! Don't we look good! By the way, we didn't really eat dinner with him, that's just what the formal dinner is called.

Virgin strawberry something. It was delicious. Especially the creamy stuff at the bottom.

This was a Kermitt's Key Lime Pie store, and that is Kermitt himself. Hitting on me!

There were a lot of these trees on Key West. they are the COOLEST things ever. I have never seen anything like them! I want one in my front yard

Riding the scooter around was so much fun! Although it didn't have ffot pegs and so I had to hold my legs on there. They got tired after a while.

COOL!

This is at the port of Miami right when we got on the boat!

This was our second cruise together and it couldn't have been more different than the first. We left from the Port of Miami like we did the last time but this cruise stopped in Key West, FL and Cozumel, Mexico. The destination wasn't the only thing different about our cruises. While we had good weather on our first day in Key West, it rained the rest of the time. That didn't stop us from having fun though! In Key West, we rented a scooter and drove around the entire key. It was soooooo FUN!!! The weather was perfect. we drove down the coast, we visited the southern most point in the U.S. That was weird. We saw both the tourist parts of Key West and the residential parts. I'll tell you what.. I wouldn't mind retiring there. Mmmm. We saw all the statues and the little shops lining the streets of the town. We also got the original Key Lime pie! WOW that was amazing. Mmm I swear I can still taste it. It was a beautiful day. That night we had a nice dinner with the captain. We got dressed up nice and had a really fancy dinner. It was delicious. The desserts were incredible. Of course, I would remember the desserts the best... :)

I believe it was that night that we watched the cowoys play out on the big screan on the top deck. That was so much fun!! the ship had a few ice cream machines that were always on, so that was good, we hit that up probably too much than was needed... Oh well! its a cruise! We slept well that night and woke bright and early the next morning to rough water and rain, LAME!! But, we were determined to have a good time none the less. When we got to the port in Cozumel we docked next to another large ship and walked to the tourist area where we met up with everyone in our group (Homeshield). Because it was raining we decided to rent a jeep with another couple and we got a map and started to drive around the island. It was the nastiest vehicle I have ever been in... There were no back seat seat belts so we had to hang on for dear life. My window leaked and so I was the only one in the car who got wet, which meant I was wet for the whole day... But, it was AWESOME! We stopped by a little beach to check it out. Then we made our way over to some Myan ruins that we hiked around for a couple hours. That was COOL! It was amazing to see all the ancient huts and roads and stuff.. for real, it was pretty weird to know that people actually lived there hundreds (if not thousands) of years ago.

After that, we made our way back through town (the creepy parts as well) and we found a restaurant that someone suggested that we go to. So we did. Umm... yeah, it was amazing mexican food (duh). We bought a couple souveniers and then made our way back to the ship!

The next day was called "Fun Day at Sea" because we had to make our way back to Miami and it takes a while. So we slept, and ate, and explored, and ate, and slept... There were a couple activities going on around the ship but nothing to extravagent because it was still cold and rainy. I got a little sea sick which was unfortunate but oh well! The waves were huge and that boat was rockin that is for sure. That night we had a big homeshield game party where we were in a tiny room and we played mafia with cards then another game with dice and money that i dont know the name of... It was fun. We ate some more food.. duh.. and we watched a movie on deck again (not sure which night this was but it wasn't raining) I can't remember the movie but it was good!

Basically, the cruise was incredible, despite the rain. It was a great experience! We spent the whole semester of school catching up (mentally) but it was worth it!

Missing Pictures :(

Well, now there is a break in pictures... unfortunately, I tried to use the memory card that we had in our old camera in our new camera (which should have worked) and it corrupted the memory card! I cried for about a week. It still makes me sick to think about how many pictures I lost. Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas... Everything was on it. I am still SO sad. So, that is the reason there is a large break in the picture updates. We were in Idaho Falls for Thanksgiving, and Mesa/Farmington for Christmas, plus we went to Las Vegas to visit Clarke and Bethany who were there with my parents. It was a wonderful Holiday season.

Baby Ashley is Born!

Derek is so good with babies... look at his face... He is in heaven.

In October Derek and I traveled down to Mesa for Ashley's (Brittani (Derek's Sister) and Tyler's baby) Baby blessing. That was amazing. She is a beautiful baby. That was a wonderful trip. All of Derek's family was there which is always so much fun. We went shooting with Brandon and Crystal. That was an adventure. Plus it was so warm!! We love Mesa so much. We wouldn't mind living somewhere where it is warm year round... So, yeah, Ashley is gorgeous and she just gets more and more beautiful as she gets older! I am so glad we got to go down for her blessing.