Yet again.

i've been told that it has been far to long since i have provided an update. weird.... i'm way good at blogging. not.

any who. wow... so much has been going on. 

first of all, mi casa su casa has a whole new meaning...

my family basically lives out at our home. and i love it. 

this is landers and i at the pool... HE LOVES the slide. 

again? T, again? again? haha

Oakly of course is just amazing as always.

 he has been picking up quite a bit lately. 

it's nice.

while we were watching Oaks rodeo they had a money cow.

this is for different age groups of kiddos.

nathen took landon out...

cutest.

thing.

ever.

he lost his boot and nathen basically had to carry the kid every where.

that was...

until the rodeo clown got to them.... classic.

every  little boy wants to be a cowboy. 

fast forward a couple weeks. family reunion in lava. 

bow chica wow wow.

first of all... oak has just finished up a rodeo in panguich the night we were supposed to leave.

yeah.

he got home at 3:30 am... 

we left at 4 am.

we drove to lava...

we have a golf tournament every year.

we had to make it to our tee time.

and.

we kicked butt.

brennen couldn't drive it passed the ladies pins....

Thus.....

aw..... love.

best. time. ever. "floating" the river.

i first thought aw... that will be relaxing.

didn't know i would be holding on for dear life the whole time.

"floating" down the river my ass.

battle wounds... it was bomb.

after our lovely fam-damly reunion for my family. 

guess what?

yeah we headed to another one. in paradise.

it was oaks fam-damly reunion that weekend as well. 

the drive was amazing....

minus the part where Oakly forgot where to go.... 

Jet skiing? 

yes.

all day?

yes.

Rope swing?

better believe it.

i had some stupid kid say i was going to break it.

i broke him. 

jk.

king pin.

dominated. 

favorites of the grand parents?

well, they remember my name now!! 

haha, i love them. 

then fast forward a bit...  we got home, Oakly started the county fair.

and died.

then he lived again once it was over. 

miracle.

then he decided to leave me again for another rodeo.

then i decided to take up something i've never really done before....

well.. kris decided to have me take up something i've never really done before...

he wanted "professional pictures" taken... by who?

ya... me...

have i ever really taken pictures before.

no.

so here is a sample of some of my "wanna-be" creative side...

did i have any idea what i was doing?

no.

did i have any cool programs on my computer to edit these?

no.

did we go at the right time of day?

no.

did landon cooperate?

hell. no.

BUT

i did have a ton of fun and really enjoyed spending time with my fam.

my dad tagged along and we got a picture together.. finally! we don't really have any.

i'm changing that.

any who. here is your update. oakly and i are in love. we love life.

all of the above.

I have a lot to update on, however I am getting better at posting.

To start this all off we were able to celebrate my Granparents 65th wedding anniversary. They truly do inspire me.

Year one only an eternity to go and I look forward to every second of it. 

Landon's Birthday Party, the cute little bugger is two. Kris asked if he could have it out at our place and of course we said yes... Pony rides? of course. 

While heading out to celebrate our anniversary Oak and I stopped off at Walmart to grab a few treats. While Oak was grabbing the IBC root beer it decided to fall out of the bottom of the box and go nuclear on us. The glass shattered and cut my face... I was bleeding every where... Three hand fulls of blood later they got us napkins.... walmart.....

Oak and I had a duel.

We found that we weren't talented fishermen. 

Ate some of the topper cake and it was actually still pretty good. 

Went golfing.

Oakly is really good.... of course. 

Love carts. 

Now... on to the Fourth of July!! We didn't do much. Just a tiny bbq and went to the rodeo... of course.

My husband still makes me twitterpated. 

Getting prepped for fire works!

YES!

I wanted to light some....

Of course Oak had to give me some "pointers" as if I had never lit fire works in my life..... Oh well, gotta let the old man have his moment... haha LOVE YOU. 

I love my life. 

One year.... ALREADY?

To my wonderful husband:

I can't even being to fathom how lucky I am to have you

You are my everything, my life

I'm so happy to be with you

I'm so grateful to be your wife

I know this passed year was hard

Yet, you've mended all my scars

You've been my one support

AND You got me two new cars! ;)

You're so patient and loving

I really am so blessed

You are my world

You really are the worlds best

I cannot believe its already been a year. It feels like just yesterday I met you and your whole 'cowboy-ness'.

 I really am so happy. Everyone says marriage is hard and that its a challenge and the first year is the toughest... honestly. I love being married. I love everything about it. I love being able to wake up to my best friend every morning and to be able to tell you about my day.
                                           

 I love when you hold me and when we discover more and more about each other. I really do love that we have disagreements. I love that we talk. I love everything about you, Oakly. I love that your good at EVERYTHING (i secretly also hate this), I love that we laugh every day of our lives at each other.

 I love that you think its hilarious to scare me to death. I love when you write me notes on the mirror. I love your random messages. I love that you bought me Gerber daisies and they look awesome on our porch. I love that we are building our lives together and our house along with it. I love that you swear occasionally. I love that you know I am not perfect but pretend I am anyway. I love that you remained cool, calm, and collective when Walmart decided to bomb us with IBC rootbeer and the glass cut my face, resulting in mass amounts of blood. 

 I love that you are so honest even when its hard to be. I love that you are so warm and friendly to people. I love that we finished our yard and that we did it together.

I love that we both hate sprinklers and that we still finished doing them. 

I love that you love me. I love that you will eat anything that I cook... even if I wont. I love that we play. I love that we are sealed together for time and all eternity. Oak, I LOVE YOU. I look forward to the next eternity with you and am so excited for every moment of it. I am so lucky to have you. Happy one year Anniversary my sweet heart!

Love... life...

i am so in love with life. i can say that i literally love everything about it. i love discovering things about myself. like who knew i would ever end up actually enjoying country music. who would have ever thunk that i would be able to install sprinkler and know what eco lock and 10' nozzle means. i can cook. sometimes. i love baking things. like cookies and goodies. not so much the good for you stuff. i can... i just lack patience. which i work on daily. i am grateful that my eye was swollen up to the size of a baseball because now i have more sympathy for those who have hay fever. i. am. so. sorry if i ever made fun of any of you. which i know i have. i love that my house is not perfectly clean every day. i am real. i love that i am getting tan. i love that i mowed our forest on saturday on a freaking ghetto riding lawn mower. i love that oakly and i are obsessed with each other. i love that i love him more and more every day. i love when he calls me. i love when he texts me. i love when i leave him messages around the house. i love my nephew that called me to tell me our horse bucked his friend off and he was laughing his face off. i love that i laugh at myself every. single. day. i think i am the funniest person ever. i love that i live in grantsville. i love that i have horses. i love that i am a beautiful person. i love that i see beauty in everything and everyone.  i love that i am married. i love that i am skinny. i love that i love food. i love that i am as fun as i am. i love that i have an amazing work ethic. i love working from home. i love knowing medical stuff. i love my family. i love church... not all the time... actually i don't really like church. i like the way it makes me feel and i love god. i love my heavenly father so much. i love our gospel. i love acknowledging people who do good things. i love my family. all of them. i love that i make graham crackers with frosting in them. i love that i am honest. i love that i love kids. i love being who i am and being fine with it. my flaws my mistakes my passed and my present. i love it. life i so good. don't let any one tell you other wise. you determine how your life pans out. i determine how mine does. its none of my business what others think i should be doing because all that matters is what i think and what my heavenly father and husband thinks. life is beautiful. trials are amazing. i realize how strong i am with them. i love deep conversation. i love connecting fully with amazing interesting people who don't complain. i hate complainers and i can be one sometimes. i am grateful for all i have. and i love my life....it is beautiful.  now pass it on....

YAY KRIS!

This is awesome! So proud of my Brother and he is finally getting recognition!

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ouch, thank you.

    

ever had one of those "ouch, thank you" moments? I share a love hate relationship with them. yesterday I was provided the opportunity to receive one. Aunt flow came to visit me yesterday (no, I'm not one of those sickos that goes into detail about it) and I literally turned into a crazy person. I never in my life have been so... well... crazy! and not the good kind of crazy. I recognized myself just really being a complete beee-yotch to my wonderful husband who did absolutely nothing wrong!! and you know what? part of me felt like I just didn't care and I wanted to be that way and the other part was saying "Holy Hell Tiana, what in the world is your problem??!!" of course the latter grew to be victorious which was awesome however, it really made me look into myself to see what the heck was going on? I didn't like me that way...at. all. why did I continue to act like that? The whole day I had been craving compliments from Oak because I truly was not my number one fan. thus I realized that i was living off of the love Oakly has for me to fill the love i didn't so much have for myself yesterday. so as I looked back I realized, wow. I am so happy that I was able to learn about this. I was a crazy phsychotic person for a bit and I hated it and I hated that it was pointed out (the ouch) and then the thank you, i never, ever, ever, ever, ever, will act like that again. i am a beautiful person. i am a loving person. i am a happy person. though i know that i can be other things, i choose to be the person i truly am. i love me, i love my hubby, i love my life and i love everything about it. i am amazing and i am joyful and i am kind. so if ever you have one of those times were you can honestly look back and say wow, why in the world? or if you feel regret, rather than feel that cope with what you are unhappy with and learn from it.

i live a wonderful life...

alright alright, I know. It has been far to long.... So another lovely update are you ready to rumble?

Found the worlds best recipe for cookies. Oakly actually made most of these I was so proud of him!!

I decided to throw a surprise party for my wonderful husband's 30th birthday... (yes he is old) and I got him

  a full sheet of this beautiful cake that we then carried around with us the whole weekend to get rid of... I didn't know how big a full sheet of cake really was...Bless. My. Heart. 

We love each other. he has just gotten back from shooting the whole day with Kris. Thank you so much Kris for pre-occupying my honey!

Easter. One of my most favorite and unexplainable holidays. Think about it. A huge easter bunny lays eggs and candy around to celebrate the resurrection of Christ. Just sayin. 

Landon had to wear a dress, but it was amazing. 

Oakly decided he wanted to open up a pretend restaurant. I'm his only customer. I'm fine with it. 

 

For mothers day I decided to make some decorative blocks for the wonderful women in my life. of course Oakly was my right hand man. he had the lovely task of cutting out the blocks and sanding them. Which I am more happy to do. However, he wont let me without supervision, something about me being ADD, I don't know... Whatever. Any way.... look closely at these blocks and see what my surprise was.... :) I love him...

Yeah, pretty much awesome. 

Katie was gracious enough to come over and help me modge podge these suckers all together. It really turned into an awesome group effort. Happy Mama's day! 

 

Skip a head a bit to Memorial Weekend. yes. We went to Moab. I. Heart. Moab. This is me attempting to lead climb a 5'11... I was feet from the top when my body decided I was done....

My mom is 50 and she rock climbs... no big deal..

Happy early Anniversary to us. Our new climbing shoes... love. <3 

When putting sunscreen on Landon on turns into a smurf... of course this is after 4632 coats of it. 

Oakly defeating angry birds... Pretty important moment. look at that concentration. 

Wheres Houdo??

The men... oh and Brennen. 

The crew rockin it. 

The crew jeepin it. 

Oakly and I creepin it. 

Oakly is a stud.... I love that he is good at rock climbing...

I love that I'm better at rock climbing... Haha

We've great life-d it up by staffing part 2 brilliance, met amazing people, moved my lovely family... yes... again. :), still have not finished our basement bathroom, we are starting on our landscaping this month and still love each other every second of every day more and more. I. Love. Life.