Sunday, December 19, 2010

Single Digits Start Tomorrow.

Tomorrow starts the SINGLE digits until the wedding.
It has come super fast & we're very glad.

These are our cheesiest smiles to show how excited we are!
Personally I don't know if his is cheesy enough. ha.

Either way though, we're thrilled!!!
10 days & counting!


Friday, December 17, 2010

Cold Feet.

Scene set up: Tyler is leaving my house after Natalie's birthday party. I walk outside with him, bare footed.

Tyler: don't you need shoes?
Nicole: shoes are overrated.

More scene set up: We put our dishes from my grandma, which FINALLY arrived into Tyler's car to take to our apartment.

Nicole: guess what? only 12 more days!!
Tyler: my dad asked if you're getting cold feet yet.
Nicole: (laughs...looks down at her feet, then back up at Tyler.) yep, i am.


Hopefully those will be the only kind of cold feet I will be getting!!!
I can't wait for December 29th!

Thursday, December 16, 2010

SEVENTEEN.

"...17 only comes once in a lifetime, don't it just fly by wild & free..."
This goofy gal turned 17 today!
I can't believe how old she is getting.
I feel like I should still be 17--can't believe its been 5 years already!
I still remember that birthday like it was yesterday.
Although I love the age and the time I am in, I can't help feel a little jealous of her. 
17 really was my favorite age. I had sooo much fun.
It baffles me that next year my baby sis will be an adult. 
Hopefully she savors and appreciates her last year of childhood!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NATTIE!

Thursday, November 25, 2010

.So Much To Be Thankful For.

I am ESPECIALLY thankful for this guy!
I can't wait to marry him.
He is amazing & has been so incredibly helpful these last weeks w/ all the crazy wedding planning.

I am so thankful for an amazing supportive family who are ALWAYS there for me.
I am thankful to be marrying in to such a great family as well, I couldn't ask for a better family to join.
I am so so grateful for the gospel and all the happiness it provides me in my life.
I am so grateful for good friends who are supportive of me and so much fun to be around.

I love this time of year, because it reminds me to reflect and allows me to see how LUCKY I really am and how many big and little things I have to be thankful for. I am truly blessed!

Thursday, November 18, 2010

No Words Needed.


There isn't a need for words but I will share a few anyway...
My Official Ring
i love it.

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Wedding Update.

So for those of you who don't know when the big day is yet, it is on Dec. 29th! Plans are coming along quite nicely. I found my dress on Friday, and lucky for me it was the second one I tried on. I tried on about 10 or so after, but none of them were it and I couldn't get the one that is now "mine "out of my head. Chelsey took our engagements on Saturday and they turned out great. I'm DYING to post them, but told myself I didn't want to. I am keeping them a surprise til invites go out. I think its way more fun that way. I don't want to send out my invites and have the pictures be old news. The few of you who have seen them--you should feel lucky! :) Now I need to find a photographer for my bridals & the big day! If anyone has anyone they'd recommend please let me know! 

Friday, November 12, 2010

He Put A Ring On It.

I'm ENGAGED!!!
Tyler & I finally decided it was time to get married!
We are soo excited & happy.

As for the engagement story...

So...Tyler and I have been talking about this for a while and we actually started planning things out several weeks before we got engaged. He got permission from my dad and then a week went by. Meanwhile, I was getting kind of upset, because there is only so much planning you can do before you make it official and announce it. I started bugging him about what he was waiting for and that he needed to get on it, but he wanted to catch me off guard I guess so he took his sweet time and definitely caught me off guard. All week long I had been dressing up--even changing out of my sweats on the days I had dance (this I never do w/o a good reason) Monday rolled around and it was no different. I got all cute and went to school. The problem was when I left my house the weather wasn't too bad. I left in a t-shirt and shrug...definitely not rain gear. By the time I got to school, it was pouring rain. Luckily I had a light jacket in my car I was able to throw on, but by the time I got to my first class...My hair was no longer straight thanks to lots and lots of rain...and my feet were soaked along with the bottom of my jeans. Everything that could have gone wrong this day, did. By the time the evening rolled around I had had it with the day and broke down in tears. So, there goes my makeup. Tyler wanted to go to Santaquin and was acting so funny, because he was trying to sell his car and had forgotten a guy was supposed to come and see it--meaning we would have to wait to go down to his parents. He tried canceling on the guy and I kept telling him we could go down another night that it was important to show the guy the car since he was driving down from Salt Lake. He tried rescheduling and the guy got really pushy and made it clear how interested he was. I thought Tyler was crazy for trying to blow him off, but in the end he decided to stick around and show the car. What I didn't know was that we were supposed to be going to dinner before heading out to Santaquin, but that wasn't possible since he had to show the car. Anyway, we went down to Santaquin...me makeup less...and wearing the biggest warmest hoodie I could find of Tyler's in his closet. We got to the house and I was upstairs with his mom, and him and his dad went downstairs, little did I know, they went downstairs and outside. They came back up a while later and sat back down with us for a bit. Tyler went to the window and mentioned that it had stopped snowing. His dad immediately was like--you should go look at the lights! (you can see a lot of the valley from their deck.) I thought it was sorta weird though, because it was foggy out. Then Tyler said I should come with him, at this point, I completely knew something was up. My suspisions were correct. He took me outside & we talked for a minute and then he walked me to the edge of the deck and had me look down...he spelt Marry Me? with glow sticks in the snow. Lucky for him, he had his dad's help who corrected it after Tyler started to spell merry instead of marry...haha. Then he got down on one knee and well...you can probably figure out the rest. :)


 So for a long time Tyler has always joked that he was going to propose with a watch with diamonds rather than a ring...so when we began talking about getting married he asked me if he could propose with a Nixon Player because it has a real diamond in it. I told him no way, but that I would settle for the Nixon Chalet even though it's diamonds weren't real. So since it has always been our joke, he got me my watch too!!!

A Birthday Post.

It's this girl's birthday today!
YAY for being 21.
I told her she could come with me to the liquor store, but strangely she seemed uninterested.

I could not have asked for a better friend than Chelsey. 
We have been through everything together...that in and of itself sums up how great she is.

She has got the cutest sense of humor, she can always say something to make ya laugh. She is very quick witted. 
She knows what to say to make you feel better on a bad day. 
She has plenty of blonde moments which make knowing her all the more fun! 
(Chels, I'm never gonna let you live down Moses & the Arc. And most recently that test you took.)

I can't count the fun moments we had growing up.
We were always brewing up ideas & occasionally getting into mischief.

I Love You & Our Amazing Friendship!
I hope you have the best birthday ever!

Thursday, October 28, 2010

It's That Time Again

It is officially the time of the year that really truly feels like football season, yep, rain, snow, and freezing cold.
It was pouring rain at the BYU game last Saturday, luckily it stopped not long after the game started, but I sort of enjoyed it. Something about cold weather just makes football better!
 ...so mom, in case you're wondering, & I KNOW you are, you did miss out by sitting up in that fancy suite.


Monday, October 18, 2010

President Monson

I wasn't with Joseph, but I believe him. My faith did not come to me through science, and I will not permit so-called science to destroy it. -Thomas S. Monson

Tyler is officially certain that there must be sports in heaven, because the Prophet attends Jazz Games! My cousin's husband, Mitch, was two suites down from the prophet and sent us a text telling us so. We couldn't see him from where we were sitting, but then LUCKY us. On our way out we walked right past President Monson getting into the elevator. It was so neat to see him even if it was literally only for a second or two.

I told Tyler later that the Jazz game was fun, but what really made it worth it was seeing the prophet!

With all that is going on in the world today, its so great to have an amazing prophet to help direct our lives and be such a great example of faith. I love listening to him speak, because he always has great advice and he always has a great story to share. He's also such a cheerful person. When he first became prophet I went to the conference center for conference. I was fairly close to the front making it so much easier to see his smiley face as he greeted all the apostles on his way in. After the session was over he walked down into the congregation and started greeting people. It was so neat to see him do that. He was instantly swarmed with people, so I didn't bother to try to shake his hand, but still cool to see how personable and loving he was with everyone.

In addition to seeing the prophet, we had a great time at the game seeing the Jazz beat the Suns.
Tyler also attempted to win us tickets to the next game by doing a bunch of pull-ups for the Marines, but he didn't do enough for the tickets. He did do lots though and his biceps looked big doing them, so I was still very proud! haha.

Sunday, October 17, 2010

Fall Break.

Our fall break was super fun...
We went to the Jazz game.
Carved pumpkins with Tyler's work friend, Scott, and his cute wife Sharlyn.
 Left to right: Scott's pumpkin, Sharlyn's pumpkin, my pumpkin, and well, its BYU, do I have to say who would have carved that one?

We went to Pumpkin Land with Chelsey and Mitch just to re-live our childhood.
Notice who finally shaved off his nasty mustache :]
Our break was fabulous until Saturday afternoon rolled around when Tyler got some really Bad News! Saturday morning we dropped Tyler's car off to be looked at because it had been making a funny little thumping noise since Wednesday night. When we went back to pick it up I new something was wrong, because I dropped him off and waited in my car. I waited and waited and finally after he had been gone 45 minutes he came out and told me that LOTS of stuff is wrong with it and its going to take $4,000 to fix it! Needless to say, if we find a cheaper bid than the pricey dealership one, Tyler might be trading it for something else. And of course, his warranty is no longer good, because he hit 90,000 miles this week! All I know is cars suck.
It is really too bad this happened, because we both really love his car :( We will miss it if it goes!

Friday, October 15, 2010

My Dream Home

I believe I jinxed myself by posting about crickets and how one was once on my bed. Well shortly after I was sitting on my bed doing some good old homework and out of the corner of my eye, I saw something black moving. I sometimes see things that I think are bugs...I'm sorta paranoid like that. So I didn't panick at first, but then it moved more into my line of vision and I freaked out. Luckily I had a quilt laying on my bed and it was on the quilt, not my actual bed. So after I calmed down a little bit, I knocked the quilt onto the floor which meant I no longer knew where in it the cricket was. I begged my little brother to come downstairs to find it and kill it for me, but he wouldn't. Thankfully hours later my mother came to the rescue--the cricket was still hiding int the blanket. The next morning I woke up to find a spider on my floor in almost the exact spot the cricket was. Eww. I hate bugs. They are one of the few reasons I don't like fall.

In case you don't believe me, I managed to get proof.


I decided I need to live somewhere bug free!

...do you remember this guy?

 ...or this movie?


It's pretty much official, I want my own Bio-Dome, but mine will have absolutely NO bugs in it.

Thank you Pauly Shore for the great idea.

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Oh Happy Day.

It's fall break and I am HAPPY! 
minus the fact that i found a cricket on my bed this afternoon. eww
Its been a stressful busy last few weeks so this break feels amazing. 
I am excited to have no homework and actually have time to breath!

Two thumbs up doesn't do my excitement any justice, so instead I went for 8 thumbs!
Props to my MacBook for making this possible.
Yay for Fall Break.
My sympathies go out to all you BYU students who won't be celebrating these next few days with me.
Guess you should have thought of that before you decided to go there :).

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

How to Get a Win:

If you want your team to win, just bet AGAINST them!
We are VERY loyal to our Cougs!
Tyler is extremely loyal to the team, but after the recent losing streak our faith was diminishing.
So much in fact, Tyler chose San Diego state on his pick 'ems last Saturday!
And what did they do?
They pulled out a Big W.
Needless to say, Tyler's pick 'em lost, but he was still a way happy camper!
Our cougs looked like a different team out there so we hope they keep up the good work.
GO BYU!!!

We were both in a great mood for the rest night so we celebrated like this.
Yay for winning weekends!

Monday, October 11, 2010

They're Baack!

I had NEVER ever heard of people getting crickets in their houses until they started showing up in MY house. 3 falls ago, I started noticing them in our basement. And not just occasionally, they would show up DAILY! Several new ones everyday, then I noticed, they were practically waiting for me. They love to chill at the bottom of our stairs. They REALLY crossed the line when one showed up IN my bed. I'm a complete bug wimp, so let's just say I didn't sleep in my own room for a week, I stayed in Kev's old room. I was very glad it was there for me. Luckily that year was the worst of them, last year there were way too many but none in my bed thank goodness. But this year, I'm getting concerned. I spotted 4 this weekend. One of them was HUGE. It looked like it was on steroids. I tried to catch it to kill it but it got away and hid before I could get to it. I hate that they can do that, and worst of all...I hate that sometimes I will kill them and think they are dead. Then I will go to get a vacuum to suck them up with and I will come back and they will be gone. I really don't understand why of all bugs, we have crickets in our basement, but we do. And I've mentioned them to other people in our neighborhood who have said they've had them too, but is this really a common thing elsewhere? Anyone else ever had them? I think it's disgusting. One reason that I hate fall.

Would you be ok sharing your house with something as disgusting as this little guy?

Saturday, October 9, 2010

Sister Blackburn

I hope they call me on mission, when I have grown a foot or two.
I hope by then I will be ready, to teach and preach and work as missionaries do.
I hope that I can share the gospel, with those who want to know the truth.
I want to be a missionary, and serve and help the Lord while I am in my youth.


My friend Hope got her mission call this week and I couldn't be more happy for her.
She has been called to serve in the Cochabamba Bolivia mission.
She leaves on January 26 and I'm going to miss her.
She's been a great friend and been a part of some great Schaefer Beer & Grandma Joyce adventures.
They won't be the same without her.
But she's definitely ready to go serve the Lord.
And she has definitely GROWN a foot or two.
And as she recently put on her facebook status, she might be a little tall since the average Bolivian woman is only 4 1/2 ft. tall. (Hope is 6ft. tall)

Congrats Hope & Good Luck!

I had to post this picture, because 1. blogs are always better with pictures. and 2. because I asked Hope to take a picture with me before I left and she instantly asked if I was going to put it on my blog. So how could I not?
Pardon my gross hair, it was the result of dance class followed by a long walk to my car in the rain...followed by a sad attempt by me to fix it.

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Blog Stalkers Annonymous

Good old technology has allowed us to pour our lives onto the great and glorious world wide web!
Facebook, Blogging, Twitter, Buzz, you name it--we do it!

And deny it all you want but we're ALL guilty of either blog stalking or facebook stalking. It's funny how it happens, on facebook, you look at a picture that a friend of yours is tagged in...pretty soon you're going thru the whole album and then you look at another album of there's and pretty soon your clicking on people in the picture and so on and so on....pretty soon your are looking at pictures of someone 5 states away & you don't have the slightest idea how you got there! Same goes for blogging, somehow you run across a blog and the person doesn't know you but you read their blog and feel like you do KNOW them. The best is when you finally meet one of these people, say a friend of a friend, and in the back of your mind, your like I do know who you are, but only because we have 80 facebook friends in common and your in all the pictures...we've never actually met!

Today I had a funny conversation about blog stalking with Chelsey --how we've seen someone in the grocery store & they don't know us, but we follow their blog. How funny it is, how we stumble upon blogs and then even though we don't know the person we read them cuz they're cute or they are great writers, or whatever the reason be. Then we wondered people do the same thing to us (blog stalk). I don't find my life very exciting or STALK worthy, but hey you never know!!!

And then there is the debate, if your going to someone should you leave a comment, or "follow" them so they're at least aware you're doing, making it a little less creepy. Or would they find you doing that more creepy/weird? I'll admit, I've got many blogs I read that have no idea I read them, some that I decided to "follow" even though they don't know me.

So here is our question...what do you do? and have you any funny stories of run-ins with people you stalk on social networking site or on blogs? and thirdly, if your going to stalk a blog are you brave enough to add a comment? ...p.s. if you do happen to stumble upon my blog & stalk it, now would be a perfect time to admit it! And I promise I won't think your weird or a Chester (unless you really are in fact a Chester), heck chances are I'll be flattered people actually read this!

Monday, October 4, 2010

CornBelly's

 Friday Night we went to CornBelly's at Thanksgiving Point with Tyler's sister's family. My sister & sister-in-law both work there & we were lucky enough to land some free passes off of them. We had lots of fun & were so glad we invited little kids around, they made everything way more fun! There was lots of fun activities for the kids & we all enjoyed trying to get through the corn maze! We eventually gave up & decided to come back out the exit once we ran back into it. I guess that is what we get for not grabbing a map on the way in! It was a perfect way to start October...although it felt a little strange to be at a Corn Maze & not be the slightest bit cold. It was nice & warm out & I sure didn't mind. I was also really glad to get away from the awful BYU game...& I think Tyler wastoo. We saw the first part of it before leaving and it was enough disappoint us & be ready to get out for the night!

Me & My Mustached Date! 
Something about fall always makes Tyler want to grow him some facial hair.
 Lydia & all her cute kids with us. 
(Sadly, we don't have a picture with Dustin. He was kind enough to take the picture for us.)
  Chaston loved this ride. He kept waving and giving us a thumbs up!
 I think Tyler & Dustin had as much fun on the tricycles as McCall did, if not more!
 Tyler was very eager to hop up on this tractor.
Brinley loved going down the slides, she could have stayed there all night.
McCall was such a cute big sister to take her down with her.
McCall, Chaston, and Brinley on the fire truck.

Sunday, October 3, 2010

Girls Night with the Hunsaker's.

Tyler's mom had all the girls over for a girls night while all of the boys went to priesthood session.
We gave ourselves pedicures & had lots of fun doing it!

Friday, October 1, 2010

Its clear he's NOT an Eagle Scout YET!!!

So yesterday afternoon I called home looking for my sister who wasn't answering her cell phone. Nate answered & talked to me for a bit before he decided to inform me that he had STABBED himself with a knife. Yes, I said STABBED. I didn't even think it was for real. He's kind of turned into an onoxious little tween lately...so I thought he was pulling my leg. But I asked and he was serious. Then he proceeded to tell me it was bleeding really bad, but he didn't think it was too bad of a cut.

He was home alone but luckily my dad works semi close and rushed home to take him to the ER. 10 stitches later, and his leg was back in tact.



Funny thing is on the phone with me while he was waiting for my dad Nate thought the whole thing was sooo funny! This is how the conversation went.

Nate: Nicole, want to know something sooo funny?

Me: Sure.

Nate: So I was sitting there with my pocket knife & thinking about the scout motto and all that good stuff, and how we're NEVER supposed to cut toward ourselves...and right as I was thinking I should stop cutting that way I stabbed my leg....(he then proceeded to laugh).

Needless to say, he's still got to learn a few more things before he gets his Eagle.

I think he learned to be more careful with knives though...he learned stitches hurt WAY more than actually stabbing your leg...and the Emergency Room is no fun!

...however, he did think it pretty cool that his knife had blood on it. And was very excited to show me the blood on his shoes this morning! --gross!

Thursday, September 30, 2010

Midterms

I've never hated midterms so much as I do this semester. Usually I don't find them very stressful at all, but this semester they've all landed back to back & make me want to pull my hair out.

Today I'm relieved, because I finally took my Chemistry test. My score wasn't good at all, but I didn't expect it to be. I got a lousy 52%.

Confession: I came out of the testing center and laughed about it. I'm pretty sure that makes me a bad student. But seriously, I think that class is a joke. I did what I could, studied...did some practice problems...what else was left? ...So at the end of the day, after taking it...I really didn't care. I was just happy to have it over with.

Tonight I'm get to take another one...joy. But this one, I will Ace! Got to love Psychology!!!

Then this weekend, I get to read a history book...and by history book...I don't mean fun, interesting stuff...I actually really like history and enjoy my lectures in class, but our assignments make me want to pull my hair out. I actually read my TEXT book for the class and enjoy it...but this so called literature we're supposed to read is beyond awful. And then to make things better, I get to write a fun paper all about it.

Needless to say, fall break can't come soon enough.

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Happy Birthday "Joyce!"

It's my bestest friend Jaynee's birthday today! She is seriously one of the funniest, genuine, caring people I know. Since its her birthday I'm going to brag about her, so here are some of the greatest things about Jaynee.

-She's very optimistic
-She's was an awesome roommate!
-She is gorgeous.
-When you ride in her car, you can always guarantee and adventure--she's the only person I know who buys several set of tires a year, has been pulled over for wreckless driving and then been asked if she stole the vehicle, and once she flew her car off the freeway and it survived it...no scratches, and no injuries from her many passengers.
-She is always willing to help & support me whenever I need her.
-She can "Joyce it Up" better than anyone I know.
-She has serious talent when it comes to random injuries--both giving and getting them. In high school Jaynee somehow managed to put a straw thru her forehead at a football game & cut her head on the bleachers at the very same game. Luckily, I haven't been the victim of too many of the injuries she's given, but right after she got engaged she managed to cut me w/her wedding ring--I guess it serves me right though, because I told Cameron he was doomed and he better watch out, because if she hit him with that ring it would leave a mark. I didn't know I would be the victim!
-She is very very entertaining
-She, like me, needs very little sleep--which means we've had great times decorating cars at odd hours of the night, pulling all nighters, and making runs to Walmart for ingredients to make Brownies, and even cutting out snowflakes til 4 am! She didn't bother to sleep the night before her wedding, we played to late hours of the night when WE called it quits...she wanted to keep the night going, I later learned from her dad that she went for a 6 am run the morning of!
-She's the greatest friend anyone could possibly ask for!

Happy Birthday Jaynee!
Thank you for being such an awesome friend all these years.
Joyce it up!!!

Monday, September 27, 2010

Happy Birthday!

I know I'm really late in the day, but just wanted to say...


...I hope all your birthday wishes came true!

Losing Streak

I feel that no one blogs anymore & its really depressing. I get on here and have very little to read. I get excited whenever someone posts...so fellow bloggers...please make my life more exciting by giving me something good to read!!!

Secondly, BYU is on a losing streak & it really stinks--so much in fact, that Saturday we left the game with 9 minutes left in the 4th quarter...how lame is that? Luckily I still enjoy going to the games & hoping they win. If not, its still fun being at the game with T!!!

Saturday, September 25, 2010

{Funny Story}

Jaynee's super awesome husband Cameron, threw her a surprise party on Friday night! They live in her grandpa's basement & he's got a fire pit out back so we had a fire--roasting hot dogs, starbursts, and making smores...you know, all that normal stuff would expect at a bon fire.

Well, if any of you know Jaynee, you know, her birthday or any event involving her can't be mellow...or normal. She likes things crazy and exciting...

This party was no exception. Her grandpa has a sunroom that connects to both the front of the house & to the backyard. We heard pounding on the door to the front, because we had left the back door open. And who was there? None of other than the fire dept.--apparently they got a call about a fire from a block away so they had to come out to inspect. There was two of them, who came and looked at our pathetic fire (it was so small it was barely putting off any heat at all.) They chuckled a little--and were like well that fire is DEFINITELY legal. But unfortunately legal or not, since they did complain we have to make you put it out. We hate to ruin the fun.

Talk about a random visit, to make things better they told us that it took a long time for them to find out where it was even at and they had to get a spotlight out just to see the tiny smoke cloud it was putting off-- so how someone saw it from a block away is beyond me!

To make things better we followed them out and turns out there were a bunch of firemen outside all suited up in their full gear--not to mention there was the fire dept. suv out front, a fire truck, and an ambulance!!! Needless to say, the whole neighborhood & Jaynee's family were either showing up or calling the house to find out what was going on.

I've been to lots of bon fires and such, but I'm not sure if any will be more memorable than this one. --Next time, I think we'll just invite the fire dept. to come join us to avoid any future 911 calls, we offered them some food and drinks last night but they declined. haha.

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Toes.

Tyler has many talents and this is one of them.


Last night we were bored...should have been doing homework but we weren't, so I asked Tyler if he wanted to paint my toes that needed to be redone. I was totally kidding, but he was like yeah, sure! So I kinda thought it would just be something funny, because he's never painted toes before, but he actually did a really good job. He did a base coat, 2 pink coats, and a top coat. I was really impressed...the cotton balls between my toes were even his idea. They look better in person than they do in the picture, I was very proud. Forget paying for pedicures, I'm hiring Tyler!

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Colorado Adventure.

Friday morning we decided to go to the BYU vs. Air Force Game on Saturday in Colorado Springs. It was really last minute, but was very fun and very worth it. Tyler served his mission in Colorado Springs and so did our friend Jeff so they had connections for a place to stay. It was a great, cheap trip! We took lots of pictures so be prepared for some serious picture overload.
Seeing a game at Air Force was really cool especially because it was September 11. They made it nice and patriotic. They flew in kids who were in the Pentagon day care that day and shared their story as well as 2 firefighters, one who lost 2 brothers (also firefighters). Both died when the towers collapsed. One in each tower. 
BYU played horribly & got smoked by Air Force, but we still had a good time.
This is on the drive back to Utah. The boys got burned really bad at the game, so they both had VERY red & shiny faces. It was really funny.
Colorado is absolutely beautiful & especially beautiful this time of year so we took a break and took these pics...
 
We had just got back in the car from our first stop and Tyler thought we should take this one particular exit...I protested, but thankfully Jeff listened to him and not me. We got off the exit and saw one of the prettiest places I think I have ever seen...gorgeous trees...beautiful lake...bridges...etc. So we took these fabulous pics! and then some...haha.
So Tyler decided he wanted to throw the leaves--not very like him. It was really funny cuz he wanted a picture of it, but since it was a yellow tree behind him and yellow leaves you can't see all the leaves flying in the air which made the picture pretty funny I thought.
The place was seriously beautiful, I don't think the pictures even do it justice.
Don't ask why we're standing like this, I set the timer and ran and the boys told me what to do. I didn't have time to think about it. lol.
Jeff had a little too much fun with the road signs.

This video I will warn you is a little dumb, it was way funnier at the time. One of those you had to be there moments. Tyler thought I was taking pictures not filming & he was pretty into his jumps.
 
Overall I loved Colorado, it was so fun to go and see where Tyler was for 2 years. It was also great to get away...although it was way too short. Yesterday we went over to Tyler's brother Russ's. He asked me if I liked it enough to live there...and there is very few places I could say that about outside of Utah, but Colorado Springs definitely could be one of them! It was so much fun & such a great place.