The Long Lost Blogger

Yep. That would be me, the girl who fell off the face of the earth. Anyone who once did follow this blog has probably mourned my blogger death and long since moved on (as if people actually cared whether or not I blogged..ha, who am I kidding, lets face it...I'm my own biggest fan). Anywho if anyone has not yet moved on and deleted me from their blog lists...I AM BACK. I am hoping I actually stay back too. 2013 was a totally awesome year. It started off fabulous with my new job and seemed to only get more fabulous as the year went on. Just to catch everyone up...here are our 2013 highlights.

• My new job--which by the way I still love, in case anyone is wondering!
• Trip to Arizona to watch the Braves play the Diamondbacks...I loved everything about this trip! We stayed at a great resort and I got to enjoy my most favorite thing, the sun. We also got to spend some time with my family that lives down there. We even taught primary there. This is what happens when your uncle is Branch president in a Spanish branch, his wife is the Primary president and they have lots of callings to fill but no one to fill them, so we got to teach even though we can't even understand or speak the language their meetings are in. It was a unique experience.
• We found out we were having a baby!!!!!!!!!!! This was the highlight of our year for sure.
• I went on a girls trip to St George with my mom and sister to celebrate my mom's 50th birthday.
• We did some good old summertime boating!
• Tyler got 2 internships
• We found out we were having a BOY!
• We had a little family reunion with the Hunsaker's at the Heber Valley Girls Camp. It was so much fun and we can't wait to do it again. 
• We enjoyed one more fun year of BYU football...it was not my favorite season, being pregnant and all, but still a good one.
• We went on another trip to St. George with some of the Hunsaker's...the original plan was to go to Lake Powell but the government shut down sort of ruined that...thanks a lot government!
• Tyler went with his dad and brothers to Notre Dame to watch BYU play. They froze their tooshies off but had lots of fun doing it.
• Tyler graduated with his bachelors!!! And me, I got my associates...Wahoo! Only a year to go...which probably means like 5 because I'm practically doing my school in slow motion! Slow and steady wins the race though right?
• I FINALLY surprised Tyler with a great Christmas gift...this is a really big deal because he is impossible to buy for and even more hard to surprise. Thank you GO PRO! And Tyler made all my dreams come true by getting me a snazzy camera with all the bells & whistles!
• We celebrated our 3rd anniversary with some shopping & a night in Salt Lake.
• I successfully finished my 2013 New Year resolution, one year with no soda...it felt great!

 Here is a few photos of these great events...

On our way back from Arizona..don't judge Tyler's hair..it was a travel day...he had a good excuse.

Tyler completely thrilled to finally be able to watch his team play. He's been a fan since childhood, but this was his first time seeing them in person!

 Our first ultrasound pictures at our first doctor's appointment. I was 11 weeks and it just so happened my appointment was on Tyler's birthday, it was fun to start the morning off getting an ultrasound and hearing our baby's heart beat the first time. Excuse the cheesy look on my face, I wanted to document the day but felt really silly getting it taken.

 We used onesies to tell our family.

I had lots of fun with Bubba's...its kind of been a joke that he's clueless when it comes to babies, because he's never so much as held a baby...let alone a child of any size so we knew he'd get a kick out of the onesie we made for him.

We recorded everyone's reactions which was really fun except we failed to record my Nana's and hers was by far the best, she gasped and started jumping up and down. I don't think I've ever seen her jump so it was the best!

 ...and how we told the rest of the world!

oh, and Chelsey is seriously the best photographer!

Funny story: Tyler spelt February wrong on this onesie and accidentally put 2013 for the year instead of 2014 which is funny in and of itself, but the funniest part was that I didn't notice, Chelsey didn't notice, and Chelsey's husband Mitch didn't notice. I noticed AFTER we got the pictures back from her that the year was wrong...and it wasn't til I pulled the onesie out of the closet a few months ago that I realized that the spelling was wrong. This is saying something about pregnant brain, because I am consider myself to be a spelling queen. Oh well though, what is life without a little imperfection and a story?

We took some fun ones with pink and blue so everyone could guess what we were having. When I got the balloons a lady asked if I was throwing a shower for someone with twins. I told her no, but should have just said yes, because when I tried to explain what I was doing to her she just stared at me like I was nuts.

Guess away folks! Guess away?

 Oh ya know...trying to push my stomach out to look pregnant at 13 or 14ish weeks?

 DRUM ROLL PLEASE....

....and its a boy! Such great news!

 

Celebrating on New Years Eve 35 weeks pregnant! 

...and this brings us to 2014.

Post all about welcoming our little man in our lives up next!

Here is a little sneak peak of his cuteness!

Don't you love him?

The New Job!

A few people have asked me about my job so I decided it was a good time to update. The company I am working for is called Flagship Financial. I am a LO Assistant and really love it. My boss is great and so is the other assistant that I work a lot with. After being in real estate sales for 5 years, its been fun seeing another side of it. Its also fun being in such a busy office, there are literally people everywhere and I'm loving the busyness of it. Its always very lively and its hard to keep up with everyone and everything...including where to find people! I've haven't even been there 3 weeks and have already changed desks/locations 3 times! Usually that is just a hassle but lucky for me, I kept having opportunities to upgrade so I've taken them. I'm finally in a place to stay though...hopefully!

On a side note: I've been so busy it was only yesterday that I realized how close my birthday is not even 3 weeks away...I'm kind of excited. I love my birthday! Really, I LOVE the whole month of February. Its the best month of the year! Don't you agree?

New Years!

Our new year is already off to a great start...

We partied it up with some family on New Years Eve and had lots of fun. We ate food...unfortunately it wasn't very good food...thanks to my nacho cheese disaster. Note to Self: Try out the recipe before deciding to make it for company.  We enjoyed some way overdue sparklers! (We bought them with Misty & Russ on the 4th of July, because we were dying to do them and then ended up waiting 5 months to actually use them.) And yes, as you can see, we struggle. Our logic was that we could just do normal 2's and then flip the picture...didn't think about the fact that when they flip, they say 2102. We enjoyed playing/watching the kids play Just Dance on the Wii. By eleven our place was quiet and empty but I insisted that Tyler had to stay up and wasn't allowed to go to bed before midnight. We watched the ball drop and drank us some bubbly! No pictures (besides the firework ones taken by Misty) because I thought I had lost my SD card for my camera :( turns out it was where I had it all along.

On new years day we went to church and it was our first week as Sunbeam teachers. We got to move up with some of our nursery kids to primary. It was a fun new experience for us and they're super cute. In sharing time we had learned about choices and consequences...one of the examples of a good choice was cleaning their room...so when we got to class that was definitely engraved in their minds, because when we asked them what they liked to do for fun they said things like clean their room and pick up their toys...haha. Guess their parents will be pleased? Hopefully they will learn something from us...at the end of class Tyler asked them if they remembered what they had just learned and they all shook their heads no. Looks like we're going to have to step up our game. For dinner we had fondue, which is a Schaefer family New Years tradition...one of my favorites!!! Only now at our house, we do it better without any gross shrimp!

On Monday Tyler had to go back to work, but I had the day off so I went to a movie with my family. We went and saw War Horse because my dad has been dying to see it. I loved it! I expected that I would, but didn't expect it to be quite as good as it was. I know a bunch of people who thought it looked so boring (including my husband) but its far from that. Its a pretty long movie and I hate long movies...even if I'm enjoying them I usually get super anxious for them to be over  but I didn't feel that way at all in War Horse. I didn't cry, but it definitely gets to your emotions. After the movie I was thinking about it and decided that it was the best movie I'd seen all year. And then I realized the year had just started so that wasn't saying much, haha. So I guess we'll see if any movies can beat it this year. After that we went to dinner with the family and then called it a night! Spending time with family is always great!

As you can see...Nate really loves pictures.

Next week we will start school up again, which I dread but am also really excited for. Last year at this time we weren't in school because life was just too crazy, so I'm excited we will be going this semester because it means we're one step closer to being done...unfortunately we still have lots of steps to go but progress is always good! Tyler finally has a major and is all done with his generals so that has made things a little more exciting!

I told Chelsey a few weeks ago that I feel like 2012 is going to be a year of change. I honestly have no clue what is going to change, I'm not even sure why I think it, but for some reason I just do, so I guess we will see!!! It is 2012 so who knows, maybe the world will end ;)

A Year In Review.

2011 has been a great year. One of the best in fact. We got to start off the year as newly weds. We had only been married 3 days before the new year. Marriage has made this year very fun and quite the adventure.

 

 In March we went to Maui and had a blast seeing the island, hanging at the beach and driving around in a 2011 Chevy Camaro. The only disappointment was that there is no where in Maui to let a car like that lose!

Right after Hawaii we took off to Vegas for the basketball tournament.

Immediately after getting home from Vegas, Tyler was off to Denver to cheer on the Cougs some more. You may have seen him on tv a time or two.

Our summer was filled with rodeos, family reunions, boating, 7 peaks, baseball games and a quick trip to Arizona. We also celebrated Tyler's 25th birthday!

 In September we went on a trip with my family to St. George and went to Tuacahn and saw the little mermaid.

Fall was full of lots and lots of football!

 For Halloween we had a blast in our old school cheer outfits.

We had an excellent Thanksgiving. I think its safe for me to speak for both of us based on Tyler's face?

Natalie turned 18 in December. We celebrated at overnight at the Little America and went to see the lights. (T had to miss out, thank you bronchitis.)

We had a great Christmas and even had two Christmas trees. Tyler had the flu for Christmas but we managed to make it enjoyable anyway. Sadly I didn't get a picture of us together. I've been awful at pics this year. 2012 I'm going to improve, I promise!

We celebrated our first anniversary on the 29th and it was a great way to end the year! 

And again, I stink I didn't get a picture of us to document the day. I told Tyler so many times that I needed to before the day was over and even told him to help me remember and it came and went and I forgot. More pictures...definitely going on the new years resolutions.

Happy New Year Everyone!

Hope 2012 is everything you hope it to be!

2010

How did I ring in the New Year, you ask?

...by dancing of course!

My Family & Bunker's & The Grandparents got together for a fun party!

We played Just Dance on the Wii, which is SUPER FUN!

I suck at it...I've onlywon once and I've played it probably 30 times now.

My excuse: this game has no clue how to judge REAL talent.

...or I might just suck, all I know is I get really intense and into it when I'm playing so win or lose it is a blast. We even had a "Drill Team Challenge" for all past & present drill girls.

All of us pretty much rocked.

It was like pulling teeth but I finally got Tyler up there, and what do you know?

He beat me, but what else can you expect from the son of a dancer?

 

Someone fell to sleep BEFORE 11. Just Dance must have worn him out.

 

...lucky for me I had a goofy sister & a new camera to keep me entertained all while he slept.

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!