3 years!!!!

I am a couple days late but monday the 16th was our 3rd anniversary!!! Happy Anniversary stud muffin!
Jon,
I am so lucky to have you in my life! You are with out a doubt my hero! I would not be where I am or be the person I am without you. You have stuck with me thru thick and thin, and have always seen who I truly am even when I couldn't. You never give up on me and constantly push me to become better and for that I am so grateful! Your testimony of the gospel is so strong and your faith so sure and true and that has helped me grow in so many ways. You are such an amazing example to me and our beautiful daughter. I am so grateful and so happy that we get to be together for all eternity. I love that we have that knowledge and that you help me to live the way that we need to so we can be an eternal family! I can't believe it's been 3 years since we had that beautiful day at the Salt Lake Temple. I can still remember it so vividly. I loved you so much then and I never thought it would be possible to love you even more today, but I do!!! Thanks for sticking with me for these past three years and thanks even more for taking me to the temple so we can enjoy more anniversaries throughout all eternity!
I Love you so much!
Love,
Breanne



"Center your lives in living the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Help one another keep the covenants you have made. Attend church and the temple together. Study the scriptures together. Kneel together in prayer at the beginning and end of each day to thank your Heavenly Father for one another and to unite in asking for His blessings on your lives, your home, your loved ones and your righteous desires. God will then guide you and your daily conversations with Him will bring the peace and joy that can come from no other source. Your companionship will sweeten through the years; your love will strengthen. Your appreciation for one another will grow." - The LDS church on 'Marriage'

The salmon river aka "The River of Love" where we met 6 years ago.

Lagoon Pictures!

Lagoon was so much fun for the whole family! Olivia loved the cars and rode at least 15 times, Jon and I had a blast riding the big kid rides with Andy, Ben, Travis, Nicole and Scott. I lost my voice from screaming so hard and Jon claims his hearing was lost also from me screaming so hard. :) (I say his hearing was already bad!) Anyway it was a ton of fun being with Jon's family and spending time as a family, and Olivia had a lot of fun with her cousins!

Olivia was in line with Kindly to go on the boats but when we put her in the boat she started to scream... Kindly had to ride alone, but I think she still has fun ringing the bell and driving the boat!

Doesn't she look excited to ride the merry-go-round!?

WEEEEEEEE this is fun! haha, we were really surprised she is such a 

dare-devil we thought she'd love the rides!

more fun... Kindly was so nice she put her arm around Olivia to try to comfort her

It worked a little!

She's not crying anymore! :)

That's improvement.

We decided to take her back to the ride she actually liked and calm her nerves a little! There was another cute little girl in line in front of us that was going to have to ride alone so they went cruisin together!

Olivia also loved the train ride. She liked quacking at the duckies! Here is Taylor, Bailee, Kelli and Alli 

Yep... she is smiling! She's on the merry-go-round and smiling! YAY!

Ben and Jackson and Little Harrison next to them

Katelyn, Andy, Alli, Kelli and Taylor

Livi just being her mischievous self!

We did the bounceback pass and got in the second day for ten dollars so we hit the water rides, log flume and rattlesnake rapids 3 times. Liv even went on rattlesnake rapids with us. She loved it until she got too wet, then she just kept saying WET WET WET! It was fun. After we rode those rides we went into Lagoon-a-beach!  Olivia loved running thru the kiddie pool area and going up the stairs and down the slides! She had so much fun. When we were done in the water park we went back to our hotel for a little rest than went back to lagoon for a few more rides, Jon and I went in both the haunted houses cause Jon likes to see me jump and get scared of little plastic and rubber draculas and ghosts, then we had to hit the classic bumper cars and Olivia rode her favorites a few more times while Jon and I ran and did the big coasters one last time with Travis. It was a great time!

Jon rode a ride with Passion and Kindly

after the water park

she's all tuckered out...

but woke up just in time to get one more car ride in!

On saturday we spent the day in Salt Lake, we went Gateway mall and shopped around for a little bit after we met with Jon's boss to re-sign for next summer... yep we're coming back to Boise next summer! YAY! We then went to Chuck-a-rama for and all you can eat feast... I have always been a little skeptical about that place but it was acutally pretty good, especially the rolls and the desserts! :)Then we went to temple square and went in the visitor centers... (I have another post to talk about that) I love temple square! ) Olivia stayed at the hotel with Grandma and Grandpa to swim and play. Then we turned in for the night. Sunday morning Jon Liv and I went to Village Inn for breakfast and then headed home. It was a great vacation for us! 

Lagoon IT'S WHAT FUN IS!

I just want to say... I love Lagoon!  We are here in Utah right now with Jon's family and we are having a blast! I didn't bring my camera cord so I can't post pics yet but I will as soon as we get home! Olivia's favorite ride is the little cars, she loves driving around that little circle and she rode it 5 times yesterday! She keeps chanting cars cars cars! She went on the Merry-go-round twice... the first time she screamed the whole time and the second she was just a little uneasy...I think we are making progress! She liked the train tide thru the animals and kept quacking at the ducks. She wouldn't even let me get her on the boats she started to scream so poor cousin Kindly had to ride all alone. She did ride on the helicopters with Kindly but started to cry halfway thru. Lagoon is so different when you have a kid, still fun but very different. We did get lucky and got to hit some 'big kid' rides. My favorites are Wicked and of course the classic Colossus! It has been a very fun trip! We are heading back there today to hit Lagoona Beach, and ride our favorites a couple more times! :) Then saturday we are either heading down to Provo to hopefully see some long lost friends or hitting Temple Square... OR BOTH! We'll see how it goes! It has been so nice to be able to spend time with Jon, he's been so busy I miss him!  It's been so fun so far and I will tell you all about the rest of our trip when we get back on sunday!

OK... I Promise I am going to get better at this!

Hey....I'm back to the blogging world, it's been a while since I updated but I have been blog stalking all of you! :) So I am caught up on most of your lives now it's time to catch you up with ours. We are living in Boise now, well we only have a few weeks left here but we have loved being here for the summer! It's been so nice to be able to attend all the family parties and functions and I have had a blast hanging out with my mom a lot more. We are definately going to miss being around the family so much and Olivia is sure going to miss all the attention she gets from all her aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents. It has been a great summer. Jon has been selling pest control door to door and has been very successful with it. I am so lucky to have such a hard working stud muffin husband. He's great! At the end of the month we are off to optometry school in Forest Grove, Oregon for 4 YEARS!  All you coast lovers out there better come visit us! :) We are anxious and excited to head out there and start the next chapter in our lives, but also sad to leave the family. We are hoping to be able to come back to Boise and do this all again next summer. Well here are some pictures of some of our summertime fun starting with the beginning! We have a couple more family trips ahead of us so more fun pics to follow! :)

We were very happy that we got to attend JuJu's high school graduation... (we have missed a couple of those due to having to work in other places) Isn't she cute!?

ZOO BOISE:

One day we took a trip to the Boise Zoo with a bunch of Liv's cousins. It was a blast... Liv loved wandering around and her favorite part was feeding the goats. 

can you tell Olivia loved this hut? She was not a happy camper! 

Isn't it funny how we buy these strollers for our kids and then they just end up pushing them around themselves! :) This is Alli and Kindly, Liv's cousins. 

Olivia was very interested in the lions, she wouldn't leave this window. 

Olivia, Passion and Grandma driving the big safari truck!

It was a fun day, after the zoo we had a picnic at the park, and Liv and Kindly played a little tag with Uncle Travis!

SWIMMING AT GRANDMA DOREEN'S:

Liv loves to swim. We have gone quite a few times this summer at my grandma's house, she has a really fun pool with a shallow area where Livi can just walk around she loves it. 

Here she is all geared up and ready to go

Don't you just love her suit? Grandma Doreen got it for her for her birthday! She knew that we would be spending lots of time in her pool!

Grandpa Bill gave her an ice cream sandwich! YUM! She was quite the mess when she finished it! 

Fourth of July!!!

For the 4th my grandparents had a big swim party with the whole clan! It was so much fun and ended with some pretty amazing fireworks!

Liv loved going down the slide with daddy. I swear she made him go down it like 20 times!

Jon's Graduation!

Yep... for those of you who just don't believe it... Jon graduated! Isn't he amazing... well I think so! :) Here are a few pictures of the festivities!

Me and Livi waiting for the commencement to begin!

Livi is so proud of her Da Da

Look there he is!

Oh he walked so good... didn't even trip!

Jon with his parents

Kassie, Jon and my Mom

Livi is all tuckered out after a long two days of graduation!

Congrats babe! We are so proud of you!