Milestone!

My friend Mikell (who happens to be my sister-in-law, but she was my friend first, so I choose to refer to her as my friend!) wrote this funny post about how she just bought her first real purse, which took her like 6 or 7 years to do! (Don't worry friends, I still don't own a real purse, or even a fake purse for that matter!) Anyway, in honor of that great accomplishment, I decided I needed to have one of my own. . . So after 23 years of being a girl, I have finally bought myself. . . .wait for it. . . a curling iron!!! Yep, I am the proud owner of a 1.5 inch diameter legit curling iron. I even kind of know how to curl it by myself too, thanks to my sister's help. I will have to post a picture of my curled hair at some point in the future. . .

I realize I have been a very bad blogger, so here's a run down of things that have happened in the past couple of months

-My little brother got engaged! We all love Melissa and we are excited for the two of them to get married on Oct. 9th!
-We have been making quite a few trips back and forth from STG for holidays and wedding preparations. It has been fun to spend time with my family down there, although the drive is getting a bit old!
-Graduate school is great so far. It's seriously like 50 times easier than my undergrad program. I am only required to take 7 credits a semester, so all that other time I used to spend in class, I now get to spend doing HW, yes!
-Jared's school has been pretty laid back so far, but that won't be lasting long and I'm not looking forward to all of the long nights he will have to put in this semester.
-We found out we will be having a baby this coming summer
-We were able to go mountain biking this past weekend which was so much fun! Biking in STG is way better than the mountainous trails of Provo!
-Haha kidding about the baby. . . just wanted to get a scare out of my mom

Well that's about it, nothing too crazy or exciting. I am going to force myself to take a camera with me down to STG during these next few weekends to document the wedding events, which will make these posts a little bit more interesting!

50 something

My mom had her 50 something birthday a few weeks ago, and my sister started a list of 50 tid bits about our mom on her blog (click here to get the list), so I decided to finish the list to make it an even 100 tid bits about this wonderful lady we call mom.

51- She used to give me back scratches every night when we were little

52- She made almost all of my prom dresses when I was in high school

53- She always came to all of my basketball/softball games even though she was more nervous for me when I played

54- She is the first person I call when I have a question about cooking

55- She is fiercely defensive of her son-in-laws and future daughter in law, me and my siblings always get in trouble if we even joke around about our spouses in her presence

56- She loves sunrises

57- She loves petrified wood (haha)

56- She always likes to go on a good hike

57- She is a very fast reader

58- She broke her leg skiing several years ago

59- She was always there to listen and comfort me through my awkward high school years

60- She loves having our friends over

61- She drove us across the country to visit our family in Ohio a couple of years after we moved out here to Utah

62- She loves horses

63- She loves those little "precious moment" statues, dad would always buy her a new one if she was having a hard day

64- She played volleyball in college before she moved out to BYU

65- She was completely sold on Jared from the very first time she met him

66- She has the most funny laugh, especially when she's watching movies

67- She supports us in everything that we do

68- She is super savvy with her texting skills

69- She has a very similar relationship with her sister as I do with my own sister

70- She is always so excited to see us, even if its only been a week since being home

71- She can understand a little German

72- She passed both of her Praxis tests, so no more tests for her!

73- She is the voice of reason in our family

74- She always has the answers to my problems it seems

75- Her favorite color is yellow

76- I was the only kid to inherit her green eyes

77- She likes to make good German food

78- She also likes to watch the Animal Planet

79- Her and my dad were "24" junkies for the longest time

80- She can always find the positive in crazy, annoying situations

81- She puts up with my dad :)

82- And loves him despite his wierdness!

83- Even though she wanted me to go on a mission, she was more happy about me getting married

84- She missed my little brother more than anybody while he was in Korea (well not counting Melissa anyway)

85- She is good friends with my mother-in-law, who happens to be just like her

86- She loves her hot chocolate in the winter time

87- She has lots of freckles

88- She is the oldest of three kids

89- She always has a tidy house

90- She gets after us if we are ever being rude or obnoxious

91- She is actually not a huge fan of mother's day

92- She was way sad to leave Whit, Chris and Drake up here after helping them get moved into their new home

93- She can't wait for us to have kids

94- She was very proud of herself when she started wearing mascara

95- She loves The Sound of Music, she thinks Captain Von Trap is hot

96- She likes going to church with Jared and I when she visits

97- She is very good at making people feel comfortable around her

98- She loves to garden

99- She is proud of all her children

100- We are very blessed to have a mom as great as her!

Summer Adventures

We will let the pictures do the talking because I'm not really in the mood to explain our trips at the moment. . . enjoy

Trip down to Cedar Breaks

View from the top of Brianhead Peak

We went with our friends Adam and Aubrey

Aubrey and I being models :)

Jared was enthralled with the rocks for some reason. . .

We climbed through a cave by the light of our cameras!

Stewart Falls

The rest of these are pics from our Gibbons family

vacation up to the Oregon Coast

Blake and Sheena's puppy Lucy

Andrew needed a bath after playing in the sand!

Our sweet tent!

A cute video

A couple weeks ago my family came to visit and we got to hang out the whole weekend. We captured a cute video of Drake "talking on the phone" with his daddy

You're what???

The latest funny conversation we had right before Jared was walking out the door to go on a bike ride tonight with a friend. . .

Stacie: I might be asleep when you get home

Jared: What?! You can't be asleep when I get home!

Stacie: I've been really tired this whole week. . . I must be pregnant. . .

Jared: Tiredness is not a symptom of being pregnant

Stacie: Yes huh!

Jared: Well crap

Stacie: What if I'm pregnant??

Jared: Maybe you'll have to go get one of those test thingys

Stacie: No, I don't want to be pregnant, I'll get fat

Jared: You'd be a cute pregnant lady

Stacie: No, I'd get fat

Jared: Okay, well I'll see you when I get home

Haha and then he was out the door, kind of made me laugh!

Hardcore!

We've been planning on going to Moab with some of our ward friends for the past month or so. We had decided to go last weekend with and we were both really stoked about it. . . Enter large thunderstorm of doom that ruined our plans! Well luckily Mikell and Dan are both genius and suggested that we all go to STG instead, so we packed all of our gear up and headed home for the second weekend in a row, yes! Jared was a little bit disappointed because he's been wanting to break in our tent for the past year, and it didn't happen due to the rain. Honestly, I was somewhat relieved we got to go to STG and stay with my parents, I'm not above a real toilet and a nice warm shower! It's not that I don't like camping, but considering the torrential downpour that was bound to happen, I was all for sleeping inside. . . Anyway our friends Blakely and Lindsey Cragun came with us as well as Kell and Dan's-the-Man. We headed down Friday night so we could get a bright and early start on Saturday. We decided to start with the Bearclaw Poppy trail thinger out in Green Valley for our first ride on Saturday. I was a little nervous, given the fact that I've only been mountain biking twice before, and this particular trail has things called "Acid Drops" "Clavicle Hill" and "Three Fingers of Death" incorporated throughout. It ended up being a perfect ride though. The boys (and Kell at times!) did the crazy stuff while Lindsey and I watched and took live video footage for posterity haha!

The second ride was a bit more technical, but it ended up being pretty cool, minus the fact that we got poured on during the last 20 minutes of it. The trail was out in Snow Canyon, and it's seriously so pretty out there! If you've never been to STG I really suggest going sometime soon, well maybe wait for a couple of months until it cools down. I don't know how we got so lucky because it was only around 75 degrees while we were there. . . pretty much unheard of for June in STG, but it worked out great for us!

Anyway, here are some videos of Jared, Blakely and Kell doing sweet things during our first ride. Sorry, but I was too lazy to take pictures. . . besides, nobody wants to see pictures of gross sweaty bikers anyway! (for higher quality videos, you can watch them on my facebook page)

Jared's crazy mountain biking skillllz

Blakely is hardcore!

Kell is amazing!

Birthday Weekend

Another year has gone by and I don't feel any older to be completely honest! Jared and I went down to STG to hang out with my family last weekend for my birthday. We had a good time just hanging out with and not doing anything crazy. I have a feeling that it will be like this most years anymore because we'll celebrate our anniversary the week before, but I really could care less! We've never made a huge deal out of birthdays in our family. I can't even remember the last birthday party I've had, I think it was my 8th birthday, haha. We just like hanging out together as a family and having dinner, it's the best. Anyway, I am getting a mountain bike as a birthday/graduation/late wedding present! We'll be getting it this week hopefully! Jared's parents got me a sweet sleeping bag which will be put to good use this summer and in the future, my parents donated money to the bike fund, and Jared donated to the bike and also got me a book I've been wanting to read for the past month.

We are really lame and don't take pictures even though we take our camera everywhere. So the only pics I have of this weekend are of Drake of course. The dude is totally cruisin around and talking so much, it's insane, kids grow so fast! He discovered the drawer where my mom stashes her plastic wrap. . . bad news!

He loves sliding down the stairs on his belly

He's so funny!

We played "loves" for like 10 min straight

Playing with plastic wrap

And of course my parents got him a Nascar toy thinger!

Listen to my dad's commentary in the background

it's hilarious!