Puppy!

I almost forgot to mention that the puppy in the below pictures is Whitnee's and Derick's puppy. Her name is Mia (M-I-a) and she is so fun and cute!

Our Home #2

So, I finally decided that my house doesn't have to be perfect to take pictures of it so that my family and friends can get a look inside. Here are some pictures of our house, messy as it is, but it is home. We enjoy it. I haven't quite got everything set up how I'd like. There are some wall hangings I want for the front room and my craft room and the extra room are not set up. In fact, they're a mess. I really need to motivate myself to get things done around here.

Oh, here's something funny and off topic. I stayed up all night working on this project for illustration class and finally finished around five thirty, got up an hour and a half later for class and what do you know....class was canceled. Ugh! Funny right?! I've been laughing at that all day. I guess it's a good thing we had a lessons on 'learning to laugh' in Relief Society yesterday. Ha Ha!

As an update, TJ and I are doing just fine. School is past midterms but there is still six weeks left. We're getting excited about going home and visiting family in December and going back to school in Winter...not as exciting. : S

TJ seems to enjoy his job pretty well. He works with a good friend so they keep each other entertained enough. TJ is such a good worker and provider. It'll be interesting to see what happens next semester....we're wondering. : )

Happy day greetings to all!

Yellowstone

Camping at Henry's Lake and spending a day in Yellowstone was so fun. We camped for a couple of days and there was beautiful calm weather. The calm before the storm. The storm blew in across the lake and broke our tent. TJ and I were camping with two of my old roommates, the Brown sisters, Kelly and Julie. It was so fun.

Saturday night, in a huge windstorm, starting to rain, we tried packing up all of our stuff into the car. We made sure to leave room for the sisters incase their tent demised also. We got all of our stuff moved in to the van and were bedding down in the front seats when, wouldn't you know it, more wind and we were all four in the car. Two front seats, one big back seat and a ton of stuff thrown in the car everywhere. Wow! What a night! We got up early enoght the next mornign to find and eat some cereal and drive to west Yellowstone to church. We had to wear what we had one, jeans and sweaters, becasue our stuff was all somewhere in the back.


After sacrament meeting we drove into Yellowstone. The weather was beautiful again! Figures. We saw all kinds of animals and guysers and beautiful things and just as we left, hours later, the sky darkened and the rain came. hmm! We were lucky. It was a fun weekend.

We got back to Rexburg and Kelly and Julie stayed the night with us that night. We watched a movie and played games. It was fun!

what a memorable weekend it was!

Our New Home

We have three bedrooms, two bathrooms, living room and kitchen. I've claimed my craft room already and the third is storage right now...and I have all my stuff in there too. Quite a mess right now but to think it use to be so bare, as the pictures show.

We'll get updated pictures on as soon as we have time. Being married is wonderful! We love the evenings because we get to see each other again. I miss TJ when he is at work all day and I'm at school/work. It's so nice to see him walk through the door.


We are so excited to have our new apartment. It has been so fun to fix it up. It's harder work than we both thought though but we love out place. It use to be student housing for 4-6 people so there is plenty of space.

We are doing well. We spent General Conference weekend in Rupert, Idaho with Grandma and Grandpa Hunter. Our prayers are with them as Grandma is not feeling well. It was a wonderful weekend. Grandma even got cake and my favorite ice cream so we could celebrate my birthday which was on General Conference Sunday. It was such a nice visit. They live on a farm and Grandpa has his garden. They also have a dog, Ralph(y), and so many cats running around. There's only one that will let you pet her and a couple litters of kittens. It was fun to mess with them.

School is going all right. I have to start pushing myself more for my illustration class. It's all about getting concepts right, painting it right and deadlines. It's hard for me because I've never painted this style before. My other classes are Literature, oil painting, piano pedegogy, guitar, and intro to finance. An interesting array of classes for now but it is moving along steadily.

I can't believe I applied for fall semester too. This is the third semester in a row and I'm starting to feel it. Ugh!

TJ has been working his job for a few weeks now and seems to enjoy it. He is starting to work longer hours as they have a lot of seasonal work there. Our good friend from Kansas, Cody, just started work there also. I think they'll enoy working together.

One of our favorite things to do, when we have time, usually on weekends, is to go to the Lundermans and play theri x box. I was skeptical but they taught me how to plaly Halo a little and it's pretty fun. TJ likes it especially....A LOT!

Well, that's all for now. I have to work on homework some more or some thing... Bye.

Married Life

Well Hailee has started school. She takes her time doing homework but it does get done. She is excited for the is up coming semster and being here in Rexburg during the fall. We have heard a lot of how it is beautiful here in the fall, well we will see how long the fall lasts and how soon winter wants to come.
I have been in the job search. Yeah, the job market is not very good for a college town, especially a four year. I do not want to go to Idaho Falls because of gas so I am trying to hope that something will appear here in Rexburg. There have been quite a few places that are full and other places that say to come back in a week or two. I am still keeping my eye out for openings and been searching the community for anything.
Other than Hailee at school and me trying to find a employment, everything has been going good. We finally were able to find our ward we belong to and went to the right church building. Turns out a good friend and his wife goes to the same ward and he even lives a block away, so we have been hanging out more often.

Wedding pics

A few pics from our Wedding and Reception!

We're Married!

Eight and a half months and we're finally married! Woo hoo! We're so lucky to have found each other! So much planning and stress and the whole thing only lasted twenty minutes. Huh! Who knew?

Well, we're happy now and enjoying our new life together. It took us a while for the feeling of being married to set in.

I am so grateful to all the family and friends that made everything so special. It was truly a wonderful day!

Wedding Announcement

The Beginning

We have survived two weeks of school! These past two weeks though, have been filled with homework and work.
TJ decided to do inter. track and field and Hailee is going to try intermural soccer. This will fill out schedules and finding time to spend together. But hey we will be trying to get into shape and be able to exercise.
Today we started to take our engagement pictures. Unfortunely we still to do some work with the pictures and want to take a few more. We are just beginning to put the invitations together. Crazy how fast time has gone by?! All the past planning is now coming together.
This is only the beginning. There are three months till we will be married, crazy to think about but exciting!!!

School starts again

Greetings! Happy Summer....almost.
TJ and I are starting our spring semester tomorrow. I don't know if we're more excited because the wedding iis getting closer of stressed because it's school time again. We just had a two week break from school. TJ spent the break with G&G Hunter and I joined him at their house for the last few days of break. I went to Mona, Utah with Katee to G&G Nielsens house. It was overall, a very fun, relaxing break.
Church today was pretty great. We had an awesome sacrament meeting, our bishopric members are pretty much amazing and fun and we're both looking forward to this semester. I just moved down to Greenbriar apartment complex which happens to be where TJ lives. what a coincidence!
We just looked at Ashlee's blog. Giddy is getting so big! and talking! so cute!
Well, we start off the semester with Eternal Marriage class together which i have only heard good things from. I'm pretty excited!
I got my job at the library still. it's the best job on campus. I listen to old devotionals and transcribe them. It's so cool!
Mom and Dad are talking about adopting these two boys that around DUstee's age and we're all stoked, praying that it might work out.
Katee is starting school tomorrow too and enjoyed her break adn Whit is earnign big bucks as a waitress. she is good at her job! wow!
Well, that's an update from Rexburg. Sorry I'm typing so fast but I need to finish some things up before school in the morning....not to mention seeing what classes I'm supposed to go to tomorrow. yeah, i should probably do that.
Have a great week all. Lots of love
Hailee and TJ

104 days until the wedding!