Here Comes BABY :)

Yes you read that right, we are adding one more to the Andersen Clan and could not be more excited!! I have to admit it is a little scary the farther it gets the more real it is becoming. Such a big responsibility to raise a little one but I know we can do it. Ever since the beginning of time I have always wanted to be a mom. Well and live on a farm but I now get to be the mom and that is one of the most exciting things for me. How it happened is a little funny but from early on I felt that I was pregnant but I didn't want to believe it for a while. Then later on decided to face it but I didn't want to spend 16 bucks on a pregnancy test that was going to tell me it was nothing. I got a cheap one from the dollar store and took it and to my suprise it was quick to tell me yes. As soon as Kevin got home I had to tell him, I wanted to do something cute but I just couldn't keep a good secret from him. So he got home I told him and of course he didn't believe me then I started crying and told him I wasn't lying!! Then he believed me and he was super excited which made me more excited cause I was totally freaked out. We are both so happy and excited and can't wait to find out the gender next Friday! Yayyy

Here a little there a little

Okay so I realize that it has been a while without an update but hey I am trying okay? HAha well not so much is new but I will still let you guys in on some of the things we have been up to. So one night we called up our friends the schilhabel's and wanted to hang out. Michelle was my roomate one semester and is from Bakersfield but Kevin and her didn't know each other before but they have become our very good friends. We went to Rigby and decided to go bowling at their bowling alley. It was so cool when we got there everything was old school. They had over head projectors so that you could see your score and you had to keep it manually! My lovely Michelle Kept score for us and put on some tunes on the juke box and we had a blast. The guy that owns it says it is only open certain hours because its just his hobby but it was so cool and no one was there so it was fun! Michelle is always saying that she wants to have a prom there with all our married friends and so we think that would be a great place!

Next we heard about this big celebration in Driggs called Celebrate America and it was the week of the 4th so we decided to go to that with our friends the Schilhabel's again and of course we had an amazing time! WE drove through Tetonia and all those small towns and they are so pretty I posted some pictures of the Tetons and they were so pretty. I just miss the mountains in general so it was nice to see some green trees and mountains! They had the Beach Boys performing up until the fireworks and that was so fun we sang along with the songs that we knew. Before the fire works we went around to all the vendors....There was only like 8 and there were a ton of people so we had to stand in line quite a while but I am pretty sure we cut in line because the lines were seriously soooooooooooooo long i felt bad after but we got our food. I really wanted some chicken fingers and fries and right as we got up they were all gone so Kevin got a cowboy burger that was actaully pretty good. IT had two patties and ham I think or canadian bacon but whatever it was it was soo delicious and we ate it pretty fast. Then we wanted to get some kettle corn and the line for that was ridiculous but we stood in it for a while anyways. Then the cook told us that he was running out of propane and he didn't think that we would get any but we could continue to stand in line if we wanted to. We left and enjoyed the music and then the fireworks were about to start. They had Lee Greenwood who sings "God Bless the USA there live to sing along with the fireworks and they had a video that went along with it and it was so wonderful. The fireworks was probably the best firework show I have seen in a long time, i'd even say better than the Melalueca Freedom ones....sorry Steve and Jill. At the end everyone started to sing along....Patriotism pass it on! I LOVE AMERICA. in fact I wish I had some jean shorts with stars on one side and stripes on the other that I could wear every 4th of July. The ride home wasn't even bad we blasted some music and set home it was such a fun night!!

Next my job as well all know can be a boring one, there was one day I was not feeling good at all and was having a rough time getting to work, none the less I forgot my lunch. I called and asked Kevin if he could just make me a sandwhich real quick and bring it to me! He of course agreed but when he got here he had made me chicken with cheese and ham. Brought me some corn and then he also brought some left over oreo's we had and some popcorn for a snack later along with a chocolate bar!!! Yeah this kid takes such good care of me I love him so much. Next I got an e-mail saying that I had to take a random drug test at work which I don't mind cause I knew I would pass and it would let me out of work for a while because you have to drive to Idaho Falls to get it. So my manager came and took over the store while I was gone and sent me in the Syringa van hahaha it is a huge van as you can see! IT was interesting to drive that is for sure. The other picture is of my sunglasses just cause I like them!

Last but not least of all some of you know that Kevin coached competitive basketball this semester and had a blast with it. His games were on Friday nights and he would coach the boys who he picked to make it to his Varsity team. He had a friend coach the JV. Turns out that his team was pretty good I am not positive but I only remember them losing 2 games and they made it into the playoffs where they lost there second game and then were out but they did such a good job and I think Kevin really enjoyed it. After the season had come to an end they had a basketball banquet for all the players and coaches and then there dates so I got to go. It was really neat they had a little spiritual meeting and then had a dinner. I can not even begin to tell you how hungry I was and how good the food was. They has garlic mashed potatoes and then this was kind of different but they had either a cheesy broccoli sauce to out over it or a beef tip sauce. I chose the cheesy Broccoli and it was bomb! They had a salad to go along as well and at the end they had all different kinds of desserts! They were divine, kevin got a chocolate cake that was dang good and I got a cheesecake but instead of nasty cherry sauce on top it was rasberries and rasberry sauce! It was so divine I may or may not have had seconds on everything!! Anyways after the dinner they had an awards ceremony for awards for all the players. At the end Kevin got the coach of the league award! He was so suprised, he didn't know they did anything like that so it was really special for him. He definately deserved that award and I am so proud of him! Well that is about it, stay tuned next month and we should have some exciting news and we will be back from all our trips so i am sure lots of stories and lots of pictures to come!

ARIZONA SUNSHINE

Okay I realize it has been a long time but let's be honest I think I am the only one who has updated in a very long time,,,,besides Candi. Anyways so let me start where we left off, So we ended school Kevin and I both finished off the semester with straight A's Go us! I am just chipping away a little at a time as I work and Kevin works his butt off taking 17 plus credits a semester, he is working so hard! So the semester came and ended and on the Thursday of our week long break from school Kevin's parents came down to watch Blayne and Rachel's kids and his mom was not feeling good, ended up that she had shingles so Kev and I spent a decent amount of time in Idaho Falls trying to help them out and helping out with the kids and we still had a blast. Amanda had her little girl that week and unfortunately with the way work is right now I don't really have anybody to cover my shifts so I wasn't able to go until the weekend. Then when I went to go see her and the baby and the kids on my way I heard on the radio there was a huge 20 car pile up between her and me and the roads were closed! So I have yet to see little Ava Burt yet! Then the coming week was well anticipated for, our trip to ARIZONA!!! IT was finally here and I was so excited to get some sun! Rexburg is still freezing and snowed on May 1st so stupid. Anyways we got to Mesa and Jill picked us up and took us to this awesome place called like farmer Joe's or something like that and it is on a farm! It was so pretty they had grapefruit and orange tree's that I was trying to pick I need to get the pictures from Jills phone of Kevin trying to lift me up to get them. Regardless he couldn't lift me so I think someone has put on some weight! Oh well haha so then we headed to Tucson and we stopped on the way and got a in & out shake and got back pretty late that night! It was just a long day of traveling so we went home and passed out! The next day we woke up and hung out a little bit and then went to get Steve from work cause he got off at noon. We got to experience Peter Piper Pizza that we have been hearing about and it pretty good. Then we got to spend the afternoon at the pool! Man it was so nice I was spraying on the tanning oil in hopes of burning and then having beautiful tan skin for at least a while when I got back to Rexburg! I don't really remember the days now and what exactly we did so I am just going to tell you all of the things we did do. We went to some batting cages which we love to do in Tucson and then we went to a little Indian cowboy town and it was so cute! They had a steak place where if you wear a tie in they cut it off! Anyways the next day was Sunday and we had to send Kev back to Rexburg so he didn't miss any school! He is so studious I definately would have missed the first week of school for Arizona. From then on it was just me, addi and JIll and not to forget Jayce man! (haha jill :) Addi is still in good standings of my best friend or I should say that I am in good standings of her best friend! Jace is so cute I would not mind to have taken him back with me! HE IS ADORABLE! He is such a good baby he never makes a fuss unless he needs changed, food, or sleep and that's pretty good I would say! Made me a little baby hungry! Addi also told me " Aunt Shayla if you would have never married Kevinator or never ever ever ever ever got married I would come live with you in Idaho." Thanks addi! hhaha she always keeps me on my toes I love that little girl to death. Me and jill and jace went for a little adventure out in the desert and I saw a frickin Jack-a-lope and it was HUGE like a kangaroo bunny. Then I found a Horny toad that I was able to keep watch of until Jillian could run home with Jace and run back with a bucket to capture! That was pretty interesting and her neighbors sure loved it! Then I got introduced to her boarder patrol neighbor and he brought over the dvd of all the footage they had of the camps and people they had come across. After that I was pretty sure I wanted to work for Boarder Patrol. Those Mexicans would not even know what to do with themselves. HEY VATO YOU CAN RUN BUT YOU CAN'T HIDE! Actually the sucky part is he said you had to be very respectful to them. STUPID THEY ARE CROSSING INTO MY COUNTRY I WOULD NOT BE NICE which is why I will probably never be Boarder Patrol. But they are everywhere in Tucson! We pretty much just hung out and laughed a lot for the rest of the time until I had to come home! On the way to the airport in Mesa we stopped at this burrito shack that was literally just a shack and it had the best burritos! That was a good send off also while there we found out Steve got accepted into BYU for his masters and how great of news is this! Now they can live really close to me again! Then Jill went to drop me off at the airport I was pretty sad and ADDI kept telling me. Just stay here you don't have to get on that plane if you don't want to! IT was so hard to say no to that little face! So then I go into the airport and I am up checking my bag and ADDI came running up to me and whispers loud...My mom needs to talk to you! That girl is so funny! It was a good last laugh. The plane ride home was terrible we even nose dived for a while and I was sure that was it and I was going to die. When we landed I was so thankful and pretty sick to with all the bouncing up and down we did. Anyways my hubby picked me up and we went to eat at Olive Garden and relax a little. I had such a rough week when I got back and I got really sick with what I will just say a little bug was going around! Anyways I wasn't feeling well but Sunday was Kevin's Birthday and he ended up taking care of me for most of the day and cleaning and sanitizing everything! Then I was feeling better and made him a cake. Poor boy his first birthday wasn't exactly fantastic but he is so sweet and told me it was just what he wanted! His brother took us to the Snake Bite in Idaho Falls which is Kevins favorite restaurant in Idaho Falls. Then I went and showed him the falls because he has never been down by them just saw them from afar! So that is pretty much it sorry this is a lot of writing and no pictures but I am just going to upload all of them together! Welp we are off to another semester of school! We are so close just the summer and another semester to go! GO US! LOVE YOU ALL! HAPPY MAY! OKAY ILL ADD PICTURES TONIGHT IM AT WORK

FEBRUANY

So to be honest not to toot my own horn but I thought I had let my blog go but turns out I updated it about a month ago so looks like I am staying up to date! TOOT TOOT!!So last time we all talked we had just finished Christmas and how fun was that? So we started out on our new year! Kevin started another school semester and is still working! I am as well STILL working! I enjoy it though and I feel pretty blessed to have the job I do! These days me and Kevin feel like the Lord has been showing us so much in just these short past months. We feel as though there is so much going on around us that he is showing us look at how lucky you are and how much I have blessed you with and this is true! I love this Gospel more than I could ever tell anyone or show anyone for that matter! Just to share a short story here I remember one time in my life where I feel Courtney(my sister) and I were just going through some hard times in life! We were trying to figure out how this grown up thing goes and where and what exactly we were doing in our life's. I remember Courtney once telling my mom I don't think I believe in Joseph Smith or in our religion. I remember hearing here and just starting to cry because I couldn't deny what I knew and I just didn't understand. To this day I still think about that moment and that time in my life and think how could I ever deny that! I don't think I can! When me and Kevin started in our ward I hated it. I kept comparing it to my last ward and even my Alamosa singles ward and how there weren't so many people and everyone was friendly and here they just already had there clicks and I hated it! Over the months me and Kevin have tried to submerge ourselves in our ward and have realized HELLO wake up call the people in our ward are so fun and our Bishop is AMAZING!! We are really starting to love Rexburg and the lifestyle that comes with so the least I hope you get out of this is that me and Kevin have been blessed immensely! I have really felt the love of my Father in Heaven and know he knows Kevin and I's personally needs! Okay onto other matters of business. So Kevster and I have been on the search for a car since November and these were our standards. It had to be below 4,000 the cheaper the better. 2000 or newer and have less than 115,000 miles. Let me tell you that is so hard especially because Kevin and I are both very stubborn whether he will admit that or not. So we put it off for a while then in January I just decided to start looking again and we test drove and test drove and then we finally found thee one! We test drove it twice and took it to a mechanic and everything checked out we just had to get new tires and we offered them less so it worked out right! Wrong the day we got it I drove it to Idaho Falls to get new tires and in the midst I tell Kev that I think it is overheating! Of course he can't believe I didn't say anything sooner but I just wasn't sure if I was right or not but then finally I spilled the beans and good thing I did because we took it back to another mechanic who said it had a blown head gasket and finale.... it would cost 1200 bucks to fix! SHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAA right! Not happening so my fiesty little but got on the phone and told those people either they would pay for it or it would be sitting in there drive way with in the next 5 min! Long story short they hesitantly decided to pay for it and don't worry they just needed me to give them a little push! LIKE I SAID EARLIER HOLY BLESSING!! We definitely did not have the money for that so none the less it is now our little car and is all fixed up. It needs new rotors and struts really bad to but we are trying to put that off for a little while. HERE'S OUR LITTLE BABY!! HAHA YET TO BE NAMED PLEASE COMMENT WITH SUGGESTIONS.

Kevin wants to name it Rocky cause it had a rough start but heck no I think that is lame so yeah we will wait! We mostly share cars just whoever is driving more that day gets little whitey and the other gets to keep rollin with big spender Hunter Stetson Jack ( our Isuzu Rodeo that I LOVE) So anyways thank goodness that all worked out to out benefit. I am trying to tell you what all Kev and I have been up to but I feel like we just eat, sleep, work, repeat. Oh yeah this semester we set up a bowling league with some of our friends who recently got married and that is a lot of fun. Kevin and I joined the ward volleyball team and Kevin joined the ward Basketball team. Kevin loves to go to the gym and play pick up basketball games and while he does that I go to Zumba! My old roommate teaches a class at campus and she is so great at it! I love when she teaches she always picks fun songs and not just the mexicany ones. It's so hard to get all pumped up when all you hears is AHHHHYYYYYY YYYYYYYYIIIIIIII YYYYYYYYYIIII hello I don't even know what that song is saying how am I supposed to get all pumped up by that? Oh yea right I can't! So anyways she is really great and we have fun doing that it keeps our lives sane! Oh another project me and Kevin completed this year was our dresser we bought through his work and had to build it turned our great actually and I love it! It is dark black and has 3 drawers on each side and holds the T.V. at just the right level for me to lay in bed and watch all my favorite shows!! hahaha! Love my shows. Kevin and I have taken the privileged of having Blayne and Rachel near by and go to see them to have some fun! They are always good for some entertainment as well as their kids and Rachel always makes something BOMB to eat. This week we went up on Saturday and they took us out to eat at a place in I.F. called SMITTY's OH.MY.GOODNESS. There french toast is the bomb.com and let me tell one thing more to make this blog longer than it needs to be! I HATE,LOATH,DESPISE birth control. It's these little blue pills that keep you from having a baby but make you feel like you just want to PUKE every single day of the week and make you sick and just wanna lay in bed and be a lame-O but don't worry I'm not lame I still go and do things but Kevin just has to listen to me complain about how they should make boys take it and I hate it so on and so forth. Anyways I was feeling nasty but that french toast straightened me right up. So maybe I was just hungry and NO everyone I am not pregnant trust me you will all know when that happens cause I can't wait til I have a little Bentley Ty or a little Colt Lane. ALso those names I dibbs mine and no one reading this thinking about having a kid or having a kid may not have the privileged of stealing my kids names. GREAT GREAT! Well I hope you all are doing well. We love you all and again are so blessed! HAVE AN AWESOME FEBRUARY!

A California Christmas & Other Happenings

Things have been CRAZY but I feel like I say that all the time but now things have kinda of slowed down but not for long. Let me start off with what we have been doing since my last post. As soon as school finished one of my old roomates was getting married and I really wanted to go and it turned out I was able to get time off to make it! Kevin wanted to stay behind and work and so I let him. I went to Draper Utah and stayed with Carlee and her family. My goodness I have not been fed that well in ages and let me tell you her and her mom can cook. They are Italian so that figures..right? Anyways on the night that I got there her friends were throwing her a little shower so me and Carlee were able to make it to that and it was so fun! Here is Carlee, Rachel(the bride) & me aren't we cute?

So that was a lot of fun and then the next day me and Carlee had some downtime to just hang out and do whatever we wanted to so she took me to some stores I wanted to go and we were just able to have some fun

After that Carlee wanted to go get her nails done and while I was there with her I decided to get mine done too. We decided to get this new stuff they have come out that is gel polish and it is called shellac and I absolutely adore it! I received so many compliments on it and i am so hard on my nails that this actually stayed on my nails and is still on! I love it anyways that night we went to Salt Lake area and saw our friend Molly who was their and hung out with her. On the way home I got a call from Sam and Lexi our cousins and I knew they were moving to Provo that day. They had called and said they forgot to give us our Christmas present and asked if we could meet them on the highway. Carlee made sure that we made it and as I got there all i could see were these basket ball shoes hit the pavement as they went to get the gift our of their truck I was so confused and then out popped Kevin!! I was so thrilled. I find it kind of funny but I HATE like HATE HATE and LOATH to be away from Kevin especially if it's at night! SO you can imagine just how happy I was to see him! Also The next day was Rachel's wedding and I really wanted him to go with me. So we got to go and just guess who was their sealer??? GUESS? okay did you guess? Okay it was Elder Russel M. Nelson. It was so cool her parents and family had just gotten sealed before Chase and Rachel were married and when the sealing was done I went in for a handshake and he shook this hand of mine it is true. First Apostle I have ever met in person and so cool! Anyways the wedding was wonderful and dinner was great, we had a ball at our table and laughing. We all went around and introduced ourselves and how we knew Rachel. My husband being the comedian he is stood up in front of all her family and His family and says I'm Kevin and I used to date Rachel..... Laughed just erupted the room and just to make it clear no they never did date! So after dinner we headed home in the freaking freezing weather and made it home alive thank goodness! After that we just had to get through the week until we left for California. It was so nice, the week just flew by. On Thursday night Kevin said I could open one of my presents because he figured I would want it and I did so here I am Styling my new Cheetah scarf!!!

So Friday came and we left I.F. around 12 and got into L.A. at 1 their time. Lori and Aaron so graciously stayed to pick us up and they had brought us Cafe Rio and it was so good and we were starving! It didn't seem like to long of a trip to Bakersfield and it was so BEAUTIFUL when we got there. It was so weird to me, this was the first time I had ever been in nice weather in DECEMBER PEOPLE it was t-shirt weather and I LOVED EVERY SECOND OF IT! So the reason of our special little trip is because Keri and David were having their reception but before we get to that we got to do a lot of things like go caroling meet more new family and hang out with the family. It was so nice to hang out and get to know Kevin's family better and share some laughs. Along the way people starting getting sick and that was rough but we made it through. Christmas came and Kevin was so adorable. He got me two or three of everything so I could choose what I liked best. WE ended up realizing we had kind over done ourselves and so we took almost everything back except for the few things we had really wanted and budgeted for. We just hung out for most of the day and enjoyed our time. The next we woke up early and Kevin took me to get a facial. I had never had one before but it was really nice! I don't know if it was worth the price but definitely a once in a lifetime experience for me. Then as the day went on we went to the mall to hang out and that's when I started to not feel so hot so we went home and took a long nap. We woke up and had to hurry and get ready to take pictures for Keri and David and we woke up at like 2:45 and pictures were at 3. Woops my fault so we got up and got going! I think all the pictures probably turned out really nice and then we went to Keri and Davids reception. This thing was over the top and beautiful. Cecil decorated for their reception and for those of you who don't know Cecil he is extremely talented at what he does and also decorated for Kevin and I's reception. He had gone in so much depth for this reception as to watch youtube video's to teach him how to make an ice sculpture! He is so awesome so they had a wonderful reception and we had a blast visiting with his friends and family! That night we got home and packed up all our belongings. We left that next morning around 4:30 in the morning and so we were all a little out of it. We got to the airport and got through and headed home. It took an extra hour because our plane was having issues as Allegiant planes always seem to have problems when we leave our destination. BUT WE MADE IT BACK TO IDAHO and boy is it cold as EVERRR!! We got a taxi from the airport to Blayne's house got in our little RODEO and took off to Rexburg. So now here we are back to normal everyday life in freezing cold weather. It was nice but it's nice to be home and back in the swing of things! I'll post pictures of Keri's reception! The Ice Sculpture!!