Christmas/New Years Break!

Side note: The next few posts are me trying to catch up from where I left off on my blogging. Sorry I have been super slacking! I will try better this new year :)

We did so many fun things over the break! We went shopping, partied, made puzzles, played games, did a lot of tubing/sledding/snowmobiling, sleeping, eating, gift giving and getting and lots more! It was so fun to spend a lot of time with the fam! Here are some fun pictures from our wonderful Christmas break :)

We didn't have many Christmas decorations so I had to be creative haha

Cute Christmas front door! I made the wreath and my friend gave me the vinyl lettering :)

Dan the donkey

Mary and Joseph

Jack was baby Jesus

Kade the shepherd and Cindy the sheep

Jordyn the angel

The three wise guys

Way to much fun to ride (Dan) the camel

Thanks Mom and Dad for dinner at the Dock of the Bay for  New Years!

Dad is becoming a softy :)

Forgotten Carols

I sent a message on Facebook to Michael McClain to see if Dan and I could get tickets to one of the nights of Forgotten Carols in Idaho Falls. He called me the day of the performance and asked if we could come that night! We had a lot to do but we couldn't resist not going. He gave us front row seats! The show as absolutely amazing of course. After the show, he told us to find him and come and say hi. There was a huge line of people getting autographs from him so we just patiently waited. He saw us and stood up from his table and said, "Sorry everyone, I promise I'm not leaving you but I just have to hug some people that I love so much!" He came and gave us both huge hugs and took time to chat with us for a few seconds. That really meant a lot to me that he would get us tickets and step away to even see us. He is such an amazing guy! We had a wonderful time :)

Rock Star SEATS!

Fun Happenings

First day of Fall Semester 2013

We made a pirate ship so that we could properly watch Pirates of the Caribbean

Our friends gave us a bunch of tiny strawberries so I made jam! It is SO good!

Dan said that our home wouldn't be a real home if we didn't get ABC fridge magnets :)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!

Dan woke me up early on my birthday and surprised me with a wonderfully decorated apartment. He  had seven little presents placed on the couch and he said open them in order! While I opened each present he filmed me (note that I had just woken up so I didn't look very film worthy). I was super confused because the first three presents I opened were electrical cords. Once I got to the sixth gift I knew it had to be a camera or something. Then the seventh was a Canon t3i!! I seriously started to cry because I was so surprised and SO excited! Dan and our family members pitched in to get me this amazing gift! I was the best birthday EVER! After we opened presents, we went to church and then Dan through a surprise birthday party with a bunch of friends. I have the bestest husband ever! I really cares about me and wants me to be so happy. Let's just say he is really good at it :)

Moving Back to REXBURG!

We couldn't move into our apartment in Rexburg until the saturday before school started because it is a brand new, furnished apartment! We love it so much and it is absolutely perfect for us. My birthday was the next day so we hurried and unpacked everything, then went to Idaho Falls for a birthday dinner at Famous Daves then grocery shopping at Walmart and Winco.

James Taylor and MOTAB Concert

Dan entered to win tickets to the James Taylor and Mormon Tabernacle Choir Concert. He got an email confirming that he had won them and so we got to treat ourselves to an amazing date night! It was so amazing! James Taylor is so wonderful live and to have the Utah Symphony and the choir join in with him was SO great! We were so impressed and James Taylor even came back for two more songs at the end! After the concert we went to Ihop at midnight. That's like my favorite thing to do :)

Three Amigos!

Katie Wilde Jones, Treesa Grose Creps and I have been such good friends for so long! Treesa was my first Heber friend when we moved in. We took these pictures at Treesa's wedding and then at my wedding with out remembering that we had pretty much taken the exact same picture! So at Katie's wedding we did the same thing and I can't wait to put all three of them together. I sure love these two girls and am so glad that we are still friends and I hope that we will be for forever!

I made bread...All by MYSELF!

I was really craving a warm slice of homemade bread so on Saturday I decided to try and make bread. I have never done it by myself and look how pretty they turned out! It was a easy white bread recipe and it turned out super great for my first time!

We are going to be the coolest parents!

Friday night for our date night we pulled out our mattress into the living room and made a fort over it. We watched a couple movies and had a good old time! It was so much fun! We felt like kids again haha. We found out that hair ties, hair clips and the big kitchen clips that go on the fridge and keep chips fresh are amazing for making blanket forts. Just fyi.

RODEO

We went to the Heber rodeo with Roger's fun family and Mom and Dad. It was a good ol' time! We got all dressed up and everything!

 Dan thinks he is a good looking cowboy ;) haha

Trip to Virginia!

Dan's parents have a week off every July so the whole Barzee family got together for a whole week! They haven't all been together for a little over five years so this was a big week for them. Our flight was at 7 a.m. on saturday. We drove to dad's work, caught the first trax at 6 a.m. and got to the airport around 6:08. We went to check our one bag and it was 63 lbs.! They wanted to charge us $100 extra for being over weight. So we hurried and stuffed stuff into my purse and Dan's backpack. We got down to 55 lbs. and the guy let us go. We got to security. Dan made it through but I took a little bit longer because for some reason, Dan put Pearson on my plane tickets...I have Barzee as my last name on all of my ID's now! So that was fun to explain to security haha. By now it was about 6:40. We  walked speedily to our gate and they were boarding our section right when we got there. We literally walked on the plane! It was a close call. Our flight was 3 1/2 hours and I practically slept the whole way. We arrived in VA around one and hung our with the family the rest of the day. Sunday, Melissa and Albert blessed our new nephew, Mathis. He is SO cute! We had a wonderful sunday dinner and had good family time.

Monday we all piled in the cars and went to the metro to go to Washington DC!  This is us having lots of fun on the metro.

 We went to the amazing National History Museum first. It has SOOOO many cool things! We spent many hours in there.

 Huge squid!

 We then walked to the capital and we were already getting so tired from the heat and humidity. My hair was already getting super puffy! After the capital we went to the air and space museum and then headed back home.

 Tuesday we went to a fun little water park in Purcellville and had a blast. It was so hot so swimming felt super good! After that we had a fun barbeque at Kim and Scott's house. They have an old plantation house that they fixed up and it is so cute! Grandpa Barzee also took us all on horse and buggy rides. Then all the grandkids put on a little talent show.

Wednesday, Dan and I went and did our own thing at a little town called Leesburg. We just walked around and went to a bunch of little shops. We went to a little cafe to have lunch and it was quite yummy! Once we got back, Dan and I were in charge of Barzee Olympics! We came up with a couple of games to play as a family and then made up funny awards for everyone afterwards. It was probably the highlight of the week. Everyone had so much fun!

Thursday, we went back to D.C. because Dan and I still wanted to see more stuff. We went to the WW2 monument, Washington monument, Lincoln Memorial, Veterans Memorial, American History Museum, walked past the white house and we also went to the Holocaust museum. Dan and I wanted to take a really cool tour in the holocaust museum but the tickets were sold out. I was kind of nervous to go but I really wanted to experience it at least once in my life.

 Friday, Dan and I got to spend a day with just his parents. They took us to the Luray caverns in Luray VA. It was AMAZING! We got to take this amazing tour where we walked a mile underground looking at these amazing stalactites and stalagmites. They had formed billions of years ago! It was so crazy!

 The bottom part of this picture is water. It is reflecting the ceiling! Isn't that crazy!

Saturday, we went to the D.C. temple with Dan's parents and his sister Kim. That temple is very beautiful! We then went to Cheesecake factory and then they took us to the airport. The flight long but we were glad to be back. We had a very great trip and I had so much fun getting to know Dan's family better!