An update much overdue!

Well TONS has happened since March.  But I will just hit a few highlights!

First, Braden and I celebrated our 1 year anniversary! (Man how time flies!)  For our anniversary we decided to do a quick get away.  So we went to Midway and stayed at the Homestead! It was tons of fun!  We stayed in a newer room that was nice and cozy! We went to dinner at this very delicious restaurant in Midway ( I don't remember the name). The next morning we ate breakfast and got to play 9 holes of golf!  We were supposed to do 18 but I got tired after 9 and they let us get a voucher to come back and do the other 9 another time!

Pulling into the Homestead

Our cute little room

The nice bathroom

Second, I was so happy to have Jordan and Heather and the girls come visit during the summer!  I didn't think that I was going to get to see them until Christmas, but they decided to fly to Utah for a visit!  Of course typical me.. I didn't get many pictures when they were here.  I guess I was just so busy enjoying my time with them.  I wish I had more of Hadlee! She was so cute, and such a chunk!! One fun thing we did was going to Lagoon!  Jadyn loved it!  I didn't know how many rides she would want to go on, but she did them all!  She was so brave! Her most favorite ride was the Tidal Wave!  She wanted to keep going on it over and over again!

 Here is Jadyn's little head poking out of the whale ride, sadly this is the only picture I got!

This year the 4th of July was the big Henrie BBQ so Braden and I were in Richfield.  Braden got off work a couple of days early and we headed down with Sharidan and the boys. 

(SIDE NOTE:  For anyone that doesn't know, Braden had/has a funny relationship with Wade and Sharidan and their family.  Braden was there when Wade first asked Sharidan out. Braden was there for a lot of Wade and Sharidans dating time. Braden was there when Wade and Sharidan brought Griffin home from the hospital and helped out for the first little while. And so on and so on... Pretty much, wherever Wade and Sharidan were, there was Braden.  So, Sharidan's family knows Braden pretty well by now.)

When we go down with Wade and Sharidan to Richfield we stay in Annabelle at Sharidan's moms house.  She is so sweet to always let us stay!  This time we actually got to go to the Anderson Cabin! We had such a good time!  We ate lots of junk, hung out and talked, shot some guns, and went and played in a little stream.  All the kids loved playing in the water, but the two that loved it the most were Briggs and Braden! 

Briggs loved throwing rocks in the stream! We would gather a few for him and he would just pick them up and throw them in, pick them up and throw them in, over and over!  He could have stayed there throwing rocks all day!

The kids wanted to build a little dam so Braden decided to help.  The kids gave up after a short time, but not Braden! He was just working away at the little dam!

The rest of the 4th was great (even if the boys left to play golf)! We did the Richfield parade in the morning. We had dinner at Grandma and Granpa Henrie's with the whole family.  Then we headed to Rob and Deanne's house for floats and fireworks! It was great fun! The Richfield fireworks are the best ever! Plus the neighborhood does their own pretty impressive show.

A couple of weeks later we were back in Richfield for Robyn and Tyson's wedding!  We are so happy for them! 

At the end of July we went to the Katy Perry concert!We had such a blast with Wade, Sharidan, and Natalie!

One of our friends and Bradens co-worker Justin owns a very nice boat!  He is nice enough to let us borrow it every once in a while!  So at the beginning of August we took the boat for a week up to the cabin and Jordanelle!  We had a lot of people come visit!  Most people could only come for a day so we had different people with us everyday!  We had such a good time!

Braden wake boarding

Blenda, Stormy, and I  tubing

Kaylee, Ashley, and Amy

One weekend at the end of August Braden was doing a dealer trade for his dad.  He had to drive a car to Rigby and bring a car back.  Well my daddy was out of town so we decided to invite my momma along for the ride!  We were just going to go straight there and straight back.  Then Braden got this great idea that we should go to Jackson Hole.  Well story of my life, we were very unprepaired.  We had to find the distribution center to get underwear, find an All-A-Dollar to buy toothbrushes, then we bought sweats in Jackson.  We really had a great time! We shopped and went to dinner in Jackson. 

The next morning my momma took us to the girls camp that she used to go to when she was younger. You can also go there for family reunions and such. I had been here before but not since I was little and had always wanted to return.  My grandpa had built a GIANT slide there.  So we went down the slide a few times(thats all you can do since climbing the stairs is such a workout), and swung on the giant swings.

Braden going down the slide

 Momma and I swinging

My momma also took us to a lake that she used to camp and boat at.  Hopefully we can go back and camp as a family again.

We recently got back from Lake Powell.  Justin is so awesome and let us take the boat again!  We brought Rodger and Cortney and met up with Colby, Heather, and Colby's family and friends. We had a pretty good time.  I can't wait to go back again! I just love Lake Powell!

Probably my most favorite part of the Lake Powell trip was how I got there.  Braden left Thursday with Rodger and Cortney.  Unfortunately,  I couldn't leave until Friday due to school.  So, Braden arranged to have his uncle Rob pick me up at the Bountiful Skypark and FLY me to Lake Powell! It was so awesome!  I had never ridden in such a little plane!  Rob was so awesome and kept telling me how things worked and where were at and such!  It was so pretty to fly first over the city, then the mountains, then over the desert! 

Thanks Rob for the ride!

Well last but definitely not least I started Weber States Dental Hygiene Program this fall! I already love it! It is so much fun! The girls (and 2 boys) in my class are so awesome! It's a lot of work and sometimes very stressful but I konw it's worth it!
This last weekend was Utah Dental Hygiene Association Convention at the Little America

Karlie, Kristen and I at convention

Mckinlei, Karlie, Olivia, Kayla, Me and Megan

I am so excited for the rest of the program! So far we have learned how to probe, explore, and next week we will learn to scale! I will continue to update on my progress in the program!

March

Life seems to move so fast that I just can't keep up.  March has been very busy for
Braden and I. Braden has been to Maddison Wisconsin and is in Phoenix for the last time!  I'm so ready for him to stop traveling!  We both have been really busy working.  I have been able to pick up extra hours at my dental office and Braden has been working around the clock with insurance.  We both love it though!  We feel so lucky to both have good jobs that we enjoy!

Last Friday Braden and I went on a spur of the moment trip down to Richfield to see Bradens Grandma and Grandpa Henrie!  Braden had flown in at one in the morning on Friday and then after work we just decided it was time for another visit! We have such a good time staying with Grandma and Grandpa Henrie!  As we were leaving we called Wade who told us that his wife Sharidan and the kids had decided to go down earlier that day!  Punky and Beau were already there too!  By the time we got to Richfield it was like nine o clock at night. Bradens family has a tradition of doing Denny's runs at night when they all get together. So me, Braden, Punky, Carter, Beau and Sharidan all went to Denny's! 

 The next day Braden and I took Grandma and Grandpa to Raymond and Roma's new house in Antimoney! It was so fun to see them and see their new place!  We loved it there and we could tell they really loved it too!  It just so happened that Tianna and Gavin and their kids were there visiting Raymond and Roma!  While we were there Braden kept saying he wanted to go fishing, so Raymond let him borrow a pole and we took Ty (Tianna's boy) down the road so they could fish.  I stayed in the car most of the time cuz it was very windy and cold.  After a little while I saw Ty running towards me,  he jumped the fence that they had climbed over and ran up to my door.  He told me to hurry and come see the fish that Braden had caught.  Now Braden and I have been fishing together before and hadn't really caught anything so I was expecting a little baby fish, but boy was I surprised when this is what I saw:

Braden is so proud of his fish!

When we got back from fishing Raymond took us in his truck to go find some elk.  We ended up seeing about twenty-five elk and tons of deer!  It was pretty exciting!

The next day we went to church with Grandma and Grandpa Henrie and afterwards went to dinner at Robin and Deann's house.  Wade had driven down the night before to be with his wife and kids and we all ate dinner together!  What was originally just a spur of the moment trip ended up being a big family reunion weekend!

Backing up to February I never got to brag about what a good husband I have! I was supposed to get this on Valentines Day, but of course being me I ruined my surprise!  So I got it the night before Valentines Day

Balloons, a card, flowers, a shirt (it says "Give me what I want" haha) and in the box is a bracelet that braden made while he was on his mission!

So behind!

Wow! I can't believe it has been over a month since I last posted! Sorry there aren't any pictures..like I've said a million times... We are going to get better at taking pictures! So lets start from the beginning...Christmas! This was our very first Christmas as a married couple! For Christmas Eve we went up to Bradens families cabin for dinner and opening presents.  Bradens parents gave everone sweats (I wear mine pretty much all day everyday).  We also got Electronic Monopoly, and the family got the new XBox Kinect (So FUN)!  Christmas morning Braden and I got up really early to make it to my parents for breakfast and opening more presents.  I was so surprised and excited when we opened our presents, my parents gave us the Willow Tree nativity set! I have always loved to put the nativity set up at my parents house and have hinted A LOT that I wanted the same set that my mom has.  I love it!

The week before New Years Eve we spent a lot of time up at the cabin.  Bradens little "cousins" Amy, Ashley, and Kaylee came up to visit for the week.  We had a really good time with the girls!  We spent a lot of time playing Dance Central on the Kinect.  We always love when the girls come to visit!  We just love them!  For New Years Eve our friends Rodger and Courtney came up to the cabin. we played games and went sledding behind the fourwheelers   Later that night Wade and Sharidan also showed up! The next day we went tubing in Midway and had a blast!

January has been... interesting. Braden started his training to get his own American Family Insurance Agency.  He is now a full blown agent, and will get his own office within the next year or two.  All this is great news, unfortunately however, Bradens training is in Phoenix.  He leaves every monday and comes home every Friday.  I did get to go with him one week and we had so much fun!  It was nice to have weather in the 70's instead of the 30's.  We went out to eat a lot, went shopping (amazing shopping in Phoenix), and one night we even had one of Bradens friends take us to the clubs to experience the night life of Phoenix.  Of course we were the only ones not drinking, but it was fun to people watch (one of my favorite past times)!  Finally, Braden is almost done.  He is gone this week and then only two day next week and then he won't have to be gone again until March! :-)

This past weekend was really fun!  Friday night I got to go out with two of my best friends Kelsi and Mari.  Mari is getting married in a couple weeks, and Kelsi just got engaged and is getting married in May!  We had a lot of fun at dinner and chatting about all the fun things they are planning!  The next night Braden and I got to babysit Wade and Sharidan's kids while they went to dinner.  We love watching Griffin, Tahj, and Briggs!  Briggs is such a crack up.. during the few hours we watched him he ran into a mirror and smacked into Braden's leg while he was playing the Kinect, Briggs flew half way across the room!  Sunday night was my night alone with Braden!  So for dinner I set up our little coffee table with chinese plates and chopsticks and a griddle and Braden and I had our very own Tepanyaki style dinner.  We had chicken, steak, onions, zuccini, and mushrooms and we cooked it all as we went!  It was so much fun!

That's all for now!

Our Cruise!

This year for Christmas Bradens parents gave us a cruise! We went with Bradens parents, his brother Camren and his cousin Punky (Robyn)! It was so much fun! We left out of Puerto Rico and visited St. Thomas, Barbados, St. Lucia, St. Kitts, and St. Marten!  I loved every place we went!  We also had lots of fun on the cruise boat, but most of those pictures were on another camera.

First Island, St. Thomas.  Bradens family has been on a lot of cruises over the years so they know where the good spots are.  From St. Thomas we took a ferry over to St. John to this amazing beach!  It's rated like the second best beach in the world.  It was so pretty with the blue water and the white sand! Definitely the prettiest beach that we visited the whole trip! 

While we were there we went snorkeling!

Here is Punky! It was so much fun to have her on the trip with us

Even Amber got in the water!



Weird coincidence.. our good friends Rodger and Cortney ended up being on the exact same cruise with us! We didn't even realize it until both of us had booked the cruise!

Then there was formal night

 

One of the bar waiters made Punky a rose out of napkins! He was awesome and he came back everynight to teach us new tricks!

The second island that we visited was Barbados!  I really loved Barbados! We had an awesome cab driver names Nigel who took us all around the island on a little tour and then to the beach!  We got to see some fun places like where Rhianna grew up, where Tiger Woods got married, and a bunch of places that celebs stay at when they visit.

On our drive we saw some wild monkies that we got to get up close to

We got to see the oldest church on the island

Then we went snorkeling again with the fish and sea turtles!

Also at the beach we went waverunning on the ocean!

Third island.. St. Lucia!  The whole day was taken up by one thing.. Ziplining! It was awesome to zipline through the rainforest! We looked super cute in our hair nets and helmets!



The fourth island was St. Kitts!  We hired another driver for the day, he called himself Dr. Elvis.  He took us all around the island, but my favorite part of the island was the people had pet monkies that they would let you take pictures with!  Now I want a pet monkey! Love them!

The monkey is eating my sunglasses! 

St. Kitts also had a really beautiful garden that we stopped at

The last island we went to was St. Marten! Wow did we have an interesting time there!

We visited a partially nude beach, rented a dune buggy, and went parasailing!

(I'll refrain from posting the pictures of us by the nude beach sign haha)

I'm so excited/nervous to parasail

Braden in the dune buggy!

Overall we had an amazing trip and did some amazing things!  Thanks Amber and Steve for a great vacation!

Our vacations!

Braden and I were both lucky enough to take our own special vacations!  Braden's vacation involved somethings he loves, and mine involved somethings I love!  Both of our vacations were short, but we both had a great time! 

My vacation.... Ohio!  I was able to fly to Ohio and spend four days with my brother Jordan, my sister-in-law Heather, my mom, and my TWO nieces Jadyn and Hadlee!  I timed it just right so I would get to be there for all the Halloween festivities! It was so fun!

Here is Hadlee all dressed up in her lady bug costume! It was way too big for her, she's actually all wrapped up tight inside, and throughout the night she would slip down into it and it would almost cover her face! So cute!

I even dressed up too!  I thought it would be fun for Jadyn if I dressed up... I don't know how much she really cared..  ha ha but it was still fun!  Here is a picture of me and Hadlee in our costumes.

When Jadyn came home from trick-or-treating she got to have one treat, she picked nerds. This is how she ate them.

Her face was covered in nerds!

Here are just a few more pictures from my trip (unfortunately I didn't take very many). 

Here's Jadyn with her bff Whitney

One more picture of me and Hadlee

 

Hadlee in her Halloween outfit

Jadyn just waking up from a nap

I flew home late Sunday night. Braden and I got to spend all day Monday together, and then Tuesday morning he left for... Vegas!  Braden got to go to the SEMA car show with his dad! They saw lots of cars, went golfing, ate lots of food, did a little gambling, and even met Snoop Dogg!  Braden is worse than I am at taking pictures so there aren't very many from his trip.

This is a LP670 Lamborghini that Braden go to ride in! TopGear is coming out with an American addition. 

(I donno.. this is Braden's love)

This is Ken Block's (the best rally car driver) Ford Focus

Braden also got to go golfing with his dad at an amazing tropical golf course! It was called Bali Hai Golf Course.  Braden loved it because he played really well and even beat his dad! 

(That hasn't happened for a long time)

 

 

  Braden, so happy to be golfing!

Braden's dad

 

The Golf Course