Decorating for Christmas!

Thanksgiving is over, now it's time to decorate for Christmas!!! But first, Brett and I went to Elsinore for Thanksgiving this year, it was as a blast! We went and shot clay pigeons out in the hills, and then went to Grandma and Grandpa LeMmon's for Thanksgiving dinner. The turkey, stuffing, mash potatoes, and pie were my favorite! Unfortunately, Moms the only one who got pictures, i sorta forgot my camera, i guess I'll have to add them later. It was fun to see and be with all the relatives, and of course Brett! Today we went to visit Grandma and Grandpa Hansen, and as we got talking they offered us some Christmas decorations that had been left in one of the storage units (they own storage units if you didn't know). As we went out to look at them we discovered 4 huge boxes full of some really cute stuff! We grabs what looked cute and what was still in one piece. Here's what we ended up with:Merry Christmas to us!
Last year we didn't get a lot of decorations, mostly be cause of the cost, but not this year. We found some great stuff, even though some of it had to be glued back together.These signs are so adorable, Brett and I really like them!
We really love the "JOY" blocks, and the snowmen in the back!
Another favorite is this manger scene, just perfect for our little apartment.
Thanks to whom ever was able to give these to us, we will enjoy them more than you know!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!

I really wanted to put music with it, but couldn't quite figure out how i wanted to do or how. Enjoy these silent singing glowing snowmen!

Summer 2011 Denver, CO

This summer turned out better than last summer in Arizona. First off, it wasn't 110 degree weather all the time. Second, i felt a little more at ease being by my self most of the day while Brett sold pest control, and Lastly, Denver is almost like Utah, so i wasn't so much out of my element! We have been living in Westminster, CO for the past 3 1/2 months and it's about time to come home, and jump right back into school! EcoFirst Denver has two offices, the West and East team. Brett is the team leader of the West team. But here are some of the cool places we have visited here in Denver.

The first weekend we had dinner at a sushi bar called Go Fish. Here is what Brett and I shared. FYI, i personally do not like sushi, Brett is starting to like it!


It was over all pretty good, and interesting!

Next weekend we went to Beau Jo's Pizza to meet the rest of the West team and the East team . It was excellent pizza and would recommend it to anyone!

We really enjoyed the time we have had with each person!

This is Brett, Jordan and Tyson

While I was in utah enjoying the Ragnar, Brett got to go to a shrimp restaurant with the team, it was called Bubba Gumps.
And Here is his plate, he loves taking pictures of his amazing plates.


Another adventure we had was bowling at Fat Cats, that was really fun!
Here is Jordan and Kelsey Blasdell!And the whole group!

Every Friday, sometimes Thursday night we would go to this indoor volleyball court that was open until 2 in the morning! It was perfect because they don't get home until 10, so we had plenty of time to play and have fun! Here's what it looked like:
We finally got to go to the temple and take some pictures of it. It's about 40 mins. from where we live so it made it difficult to go, but we were sure glad we got to. It was in a neighborhood, so it was hidden, but once you come to it, it sticks out like the sun. It's a small temple but very beautiful. Here are some pictures we took when we were there.


Here is the back of the temple, It was a perfect place to take wedding pictures!
The flowers were so bright and colorful!
Don't worry almost done! lol a couple of weeks ago we got to go to Elitch Gardens, which is the Lagoon of Denver. We got to go after work on Saturday about 4 and started out at the water park.

Here is the theme parks rides
We are waiting in line for this ride, AHH!!!The Half Pipe! It was a skateboard that would go up and down, and then the seats would also twist, a lot of twisting!!
This ride was crazy, i didn't go on it, but Brett did. It was called Boomerang, it shot your forward and then backwards the same way, with a loop mixed in!
It was going so fast that this is all my camera would pick up as they flew by. I think it's a pretty awesome picture!

It was really fun and a cool theme park!
Brett and i also got to babysit Charlie, Jordan and Kelsey's new dog for a weekend. It's a puppy still so we had to watch his every move, but a very adorable dog!
Last but not least, of course since Brett sells pest control so he finds lot of interesting bugs and spiders! CAUTION!!
These are ants if you couldn't tell, a whole lot of them! A bat on someones house!
Well if that didn't gross you out enough! Brett and I have had a great summer here in Denver, but are so excited to leave this week to Utah!! We sure have missed our families and friends! Here we come UTAH!!!

Up to date events!

Here is an up to date on the life of Brett and Natalie. School, finals, work and moving make it very hard to keep up on a blog. Brett is now officially graduated with his Bachelors degree in accounting. Here are some pictures!

Brett was excited but knew it wasn't the end. Starting class two weeks later isn't exactly a celebration, but now he just has his masters to do! Brother Christensen from the Seventy was the commencement speaker, and did a great job at it, ask Brett if you want details from it.

Brett and I left for Denver that evening, we didn't leave until about 4:00, which put us in Denver by 2:00am. Very pretty but long drive. Our new address is now

4746 Bruchez Pkwy #102

Westminster, CO 80234

We really like our apartments, they are called The Links at Legacy Ridge. Just so you know, we have a golf course right outside our door, you can come visit and golf anytime!! :) Here's some pictures of our new place:

We live on the bottom floor

The Living Room, finally got our furniture on Wednesday. Oh and it has a fire place, too bad we'll hardly use it! Good Bye air mattress!


This is our kitchen, the laundry room is that room off in the distance.

And our Bathroom

Thanks for everyone that helped us move from one place to the other! Brett's started to sell, and loves it. Too bad it's been so rainy here, he hasn't had much luck, but he will! I started two jobs this week. I will be babysitting a 19 month old boy, he is adorable. The other job will be the Ecofirst office like i did last year. If i find myself bored, i'll probably get another job somewhere else too. Each job will only be 4-5 hours a day! We are doing good though, and like Denver so far, more pictures will be coming! :)

Festival of Colors

Hey everyone, i wish i had more time to tell you more about what Brett and I do everyday and every week. Last weekend Brett and I got with some friends that went out to Arizona with us. They wanted to go to the Festival of Colors in Spanish Fork, Utah. I had never heard of it before, but we decided we check it out! Here are some pictures of the fun we had.



This is after the party heading home!
We had a blast throwing chalk at each other to celebrate the Hindu religion. We sure can't wait for General Conference this weekend, it will be really fun to hear their messages. Congratulations to my little brother Derik for receiving his mission call to Eugen, Organ. I guess i should say Congratulations to Brain and Sharon too!! Watch for another post soon, I'll let you know what we have planned for the summer and pictures of where we are planning on living.

Hey Everyone, thought i would just update the blog and tell you what's happening in both Brett and Natalie's lives!

Brett and Natalie are still attending Southern Utah University. We live in a cute 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom apartment in Northfield Village on Northfield Road here in Cedar City. We love it, but also can't wait to live closer to campus next year.

Brett will be graduating with his Bachelors in the Spring in Accounting. He stays pretty busy studying and reading for each class, but loves what he is learning. He is planning on graduating with his Masters in the next year or so here at SUU and then finding a job. Brett has two jobs right now, one with EcoFirst Pest Control. We are planning on going out this summer and doing sales with a team. So far we have a couple of people to come out, but if any one knows someone that would have time to do summer sales, make some good money and of course have some fun with us, lets us know! We think we are going to Denver, not too far from home. Brett's other job is an accounting tutor. He works only 10 hours a week, he loves it because he can get his homework done most days, plus earn a little money. Brett is a good husband, he takes such great care of me, and loves to be active!

Natalie is slowly pushing through school. I think I've finally decided what to get my degree in. My major will be HRHM(hotel, resort, and hospitality management) and then minor in Exercise Science. With that i will hopefully be able to do some Event Planning! This will take me about 2 years thought to complete. I'm still working for the campus as you can say as a custodian. I love the people i work with, so it off sets the job! I'm now officially in the Triathlon club as of this week. I told the President that i wanted to do Event Planning and he roped me into it. He said it's a great way to get started doing Event Planning and so i signed up. Next thing in know I'm sitting in the office of our City Event Planner with the President of the club discussing what we could do better for our club and if the city could help us advertise.I guess you could say I'm the President's right hand man now. It all happened so fast, but it was very exciting, and i loved it! I can't wait to see what events i get to help with, I'll keep you posted.

We were called to be on the Activities Committee in our Marriage ward, we haven't done much but i think we will soon! We love our ward, every Tuesdays and Thursdays we has kickboxing and Zumba workouts. I'm already sore!

So this is what's going on with us this semester, I wish i had more time to keep up with the blog and tell you what we do every week other then studying! We miss you family!