Belated Birthday Wishes

As Ash was so nice to point out to me, I am slacking on my birthday shoutouts(you know I'm falling behind when she beats me to the postings haha). So here they are:

First, Happy Belated Birthday Jake!
Growing up I have always wanted an older brother, not that my little brothers aren't great but hearing my friends always talk about their older brothers made me want one. Well all my waiting was worth it when I got an older brother through marriage. Ash and Jake were married last December and I have loved having him as an older brother ever since. I'm so grateful to have him as part of our family, and grateful for him being the kind of husband Ashlee deserves(he treats her like a queen!). So happy belated 28th birthday to Jake! love ya bro : )

Here's the birthday boy himself at his dinner at Red Robin last week.

Second, Happy Belated Birthday Dad!
On December 27 my dad turned the big 50! My dad is seriously the best dad ever, and even at 50 I'm sure he could still run circles around me.My dad is the most hard working man I have ever met, and has always taught us kids to work hard for what we want. In more ways then one he is such an example to us in how to live our lives through all that he does. For his birthday Dinner this year he chose to eat at Cafe Rio which unfortunately means no pictures since no photography is allowed on the premises. But the pictures would have been awesome seeing as how we got him a little hair replacement/toupee and a bald man's comb for some presents. We may give him a hard time about his bald head but he truly is so awesome.

Happy 50th! Love you Dad!!!

Together Forever!

yup it's official...Ash and Jake are going to be together forever!! On December 13,2008 they went through Manti temple and got sealed. I'm so excited for them and even more proud of both of them. They have been through a lot to get to where they are today and it was so good to see them make it there. We wanted to have some kind of celebration for them of course, so after the sealing there was an open house luncheon in Fairview. Lots of food, and surrounded by family and friends there wasn't much more I could ask for : )
Of course a blog by me wouldn't be fully complete without any pictures so here are some from their big day.

Sealing the deal with a kiss

Yeah taking pictures in this weather is pretty impossible but we tried anyways




Ash and the Brandt boys...minus Chuck

The awesome men in my life

Of course I had to do a jumping picture

J.Pate's Legal

It's official, Jenny is 21!! now we have someone to sneak us into clubs in vegas, buy us booze(If we drank), and a reason to celebrate. Which still needs to be crossed off the to do list this coming weekend since we couldn't all get together last weekend. Now that she's 21, I need to turn 21 before we go have our adventure in Houston Texas this summer(since she's decided to ditch out and leave state for the entire summer, while I'm actually going to be in Provo). Anyways happy birthday to the amazing, awesome, gorgeous, mechanical engineer, and my best friend Jenny Pate! Love you!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pin-cushion Practice

My roommate candice is in the nursing program here and two weeks ago she needed someone to be her dummy for an I.V start pass-off so of course I agreed. She was really nervous seeing as how this was her first time poking someone with a needle, let alone starting an I.V. I wasn't nervous until we got down in the actual nursing lab, signing the waiver that I realized the risk I was putting myself(basically signing my life away to a nursing student). But it went great and even though I think she poked through my vein a little I didn't bruise until a few days later, plus she passed. So now she is going to be able to start IV's at clinicals next semester. Way to go candice!
Being stuck with an IV and watching her do it got me excited for when I'm on the other side of the IV doing it to someone. I am very excited for nursing school! Which reminds me...I've officially finished my pre-reqs! I'm applying to the program in February so wish me luck!

Here we are post-IV stick, she's proud and I'm alive : )

Big T's 17

Taylor is officially 17 as of...yesterday. Holy cow I know this is another family member birthday post but tis the season for my family to be getting older. So Happy belated birthday to big T! I know Tay would probably kill me if he knew I was posting this, but I do love him and he seriously sets such an example to me and I look up to him(literally too. he's super tall!). And since he is probably the least photogenic person in our family here's two pictures of him, unfortunately none are from his birthday dinner because I had to miss out on his this year.


Happy 17th Bud!!!

Tagged by J.Love

My Best friend, the gorgeous Jessie McKinley has tagged me to list 5 random/weird things that most people don't know about me so here they are revealed:

1. I am afraid of throw up. I hate it with a passion. The sounds, the smell, the look! ew everything about it. Weird I know coming from a nursing major but seriously the only way I can tolerate it is when I'm at work and it's one of my patients.

2. No matter what the season my bed has to be loaded with blankets. Possibly some kind of security thing but I can't sleep without them. (currently on my bed and has been this way all through summer: sheet, fleece blanket, and two quilts)

3. I remember the weirdest things, mostly what cars people drive and even recognize their license plates numbers, creepy I know. Also I can remember lyrics to songs like nobody's business and usually know pretty much every word of a song that comes on a radio.

4. I'm addicted to sweet mint gum. No joke it's like smoking to me and I go through about a pack a day. I usually have to get a new piece in my mouth every half hour to the hour. I gotta have my gum.

5. I love to write things down. I love making to do lists, jotting down things in my planner, make little reminders for myself, and write in my journal. Also this love even extends to taking notes in class, I love to have pen in hand attempting to capture everything my professor is saying in class ( talk about a hand cramp!!). I love it.

well there's a little insight into my weirdness. It's now time for Ash, Jacqui, and Jennifer's turn to share : )