I’m officially an aunt! Well at least on my side of the family. On Tyler’s side of the family we have a nephew and a niece, but my sister now has a little boy. So we have someone to spoil on both sides of the family now and be their favorite aunt and uncle.

So Baby James, Welcome to the family!

(Oh and Thanks katie for the Picture from facebook.   Oh and Yes I am super late because he was born on April 23rd )

So Tyler and I have made a mistake. So most of my friends know that I do not like cats, but there is this cat that lurks around our house a lot more than we would like. So the other day, Tyler and I thought we would be nice to the cat. We gave it a little bit of lunch meat and Tyler pet it a little bit. The rest of the night we heard it meowing outside our door from 8 at night until midnight when we finally went to bed. It wouldn’t have been a bit deal except for all the meowing and the fact that it sat up on the third step so it could see our door/window (we live in a basement apartment and our front door has a window in it). So that was a little weird. This all happened on Saturday.

Today Tyler came and picked me up for lunch and it was pretty warm outside so he left the windows down a few inches. When we came out of the house and went to get in the car we hear meowing… The car and somehow got in the car! We didn’t really understand how it got in there because the windows weren’t down that far. Weird.

Through all of this I think we have made a new friend because we still hear it meowing outside our door. Needless to say, Tyler decided to call it Maui… get it…

Alright so both Tyler and I are back in school full time and don’t worry we are still working full time too… I know we are crazy.  

At the end of last semester I am happy to say I hit my 90 credit mark and I am officially a senior!  Hurray!  So about two months ago I chatted with a counselor to see if I was on track, and don’t worry I am, but I have to retake English 150… Freshman english.  (Long story)  So now I get to brag, I am taking English 150, Physical Science 100, Art something or other 201, New Testament, and then one Psych class, Leadership Development.  Geez, I cannot begin to tell you how funny it is with all the Freshman in my first three classes.  It will be an entertaining but busy semester to say the least. 

Don’t worry, I think Tyler might be a Sophomore this semester.  He is taking Humanities, Business communications, an online Health class, Ethics and Values, and Accounting which he might get out of… we will see.  This semester should be so fun.  We are trying to stay positive! 

When Tyler and I went out to our cars on Christmas Eve there was the coolest snow ever!  So I had fun taking some pictures.  And the last picture Tyler had fun editing.  What pretty snowflakes.

Tyler gave me the best surprise I have had well probably ever! So about a month ago Tyler told me not to look at the credit cards (which me working at a bank was hard to do), but I obeyed and I didn’t.  Well for a week before my birthday he kept making small hints about saturday and me not being able to do anything, homework… go to the BYU game… Well finally friday night we played 20 questions (really it was Melanie guess until you get it) but I figured out that there were people but not friends, animals were kind of involved but not water, and it was south.  Well finally I figured out it that he bought me Tickets to see The Lion King in Las Vegas!

We left Saturday morning and made it down to Vegas by 12:30ish.  So we picked up our tickets to the show and then went to check in at our hotel.  Well we got there and as they handed us our room keys the lady helping us said, since we are all booked out tonight I upgraded your room to a one room suite at no extra cost! (Those are pictures of the suite) What an excellent birthday.

The Lion King was an amazing show.  Tyler even liked it (and considering it was a musical that is pretty tough).  The costumes were amazing and the music was too!  We enjoyed walking around and seeing everything there is to see in Vegas.  Oh don’t worry we even stopped at Raising Cane’s (a southern chain restaurant that Tyler fell in love with on his mission).  It was such a great weekend!  Thank you Tyler for the wonderful Birthday surpise!

So I was reflecting on a fun little trip that I went on last summer and I thought to myself.  That was exactally a year ago… which means, one year ago today Tyler proposed to me.  It is crazy to think that one year ago we were walking through Disneyland, me just happy watching the fireworks and Tyler slightly nervous with his hand in his pocket making sure it was still there.  If you want to read the whole story… http://www.melface.com/2008/10/01/im-engaged/

So a while back Tyler and I went with my mom, dad, aunt and cousin up to Montana for my Aunt Rosemary and Uncle Don’s fifty fifth Wedding anniversary.  We thought it would be pretty boring and it ended up not being too bad.  We stopped on the side of the road outside of Conrad to take this picture of the McCracken farm… well the silo.

Montana sunset, McCracken farm

I got really board at work today so I thought I would do something to entertain me…

I found this on another blog and thought it would be fun to do.  Feel free to copy and paste it and put it on your own blog.

101 Things

At least one of us have done the bolded items:

1. Ridden in a train
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band/orchestra
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disney World- and going again in October.
8. Climbed a mountain
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang a solo
11. Bungee jumped- i wish!
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown your own vegetables
19. Had a letter to the editor published
20. Slept on an overnight train
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitch hiked
23. Taken a sick day when not really ill-when they wouldn’t let me have it off when I asked 1 month in advance… home depot is lame.
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping

27. Run a Marathon
28. Seen the running of the bulls
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise- not yet but Tyler and I are going on one for our anniversary… i think.
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community
36. Taught yourself a new language
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
38. Been on a draw-bridge
39. Gone rock climbing
40. Received a traffic ticket

41. Sung karaoke-In china in front of the head of our school.  haha
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had your portrait painted
48. Gone deep sea fishing  
49. Been a story on the news
50. Seen a wild mustang
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling

52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud  
54. Gone to a drive-in theater
55. Been in a movie- does a primary movie count. 
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies
62. Gone whale watching
63. Received flowers for no reason
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma- i passed out…go figure.
65. Gone sky diving
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten Caviar
72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job
76. Won a contest
77. Broken a bone
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book
81. Been in a cave
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper
85. Read the entire Bible or other religious book

86. Visited the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
88. Had chicken pox
89. Saved someone’s life
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous
92. Joined a book club
93. Lost a loved one
94. Had a baby
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a law suit
98. Been to the top of the Gateway Arch- just a few months ago. 
99. Been stung by a bee- on my lip… weird
100. Seen Mount Rushmore in person
101. Learned to play an instrument