i hate....

moving!!!!

but i love love love our new apartment!

brown and pink

so i had a problem because we are moving into a new apartment this week (which we are super siked about by the way because it is way better than the apartment that we are in! but more about that later...) anyways. moving into a new apartment and the only downside is that we have a lot less closet space in the new apartment and we have a ton of blankets in our closet that i had no idea what to do with. my friend mal, who just got married, lives in the same apartment complex had the same problem and she got a cute basket/coffee table for her blankets. but i couldnt find a basket that big in our price range right now so i had to get a little creative and came up with this guy for our new apartment......

not going to lie......didnt know exactly how my idea was going to turn out but..... i love it!!!!!!

so all i did was take a big tub that we had been using for storage and covered it with fabric (brown and pink....i know. i cant help it...they are totally my favorite!!!) i put some quilt matting underneath the fabric to help get rid of the tub shape and make it a little more kooshy. bobby was even happy about how good it turned out and he usually doesnt care about this stuff haha. it is the perfect box for blankets and i have been feeling quite proud of my craft and wanted to show it off!

we are moving into our apartment on thursday and we are so excited! we are going to be living in the same ward as our good friends the judy's and our new apartment is going to rock! we are going to be on the first floor and we get a dishwasher and a washer and dryer! cant wait!!! i'll put pictures of our new apartment up when we get settled in.

right now our life is all about packing. the summer semester is over and bobby and i both rocked our classes even with our busy summer of traveling. we cant wait to move and then take a vaca to iowa the first week of august to visit with bobbys family! we love both of our families and love being able to take vacations with them! this last picture is of us just hanging out at the drive in...waiting for the movie to start. we love our life! :)

oh what do we do in the summertime?

we have had a crazy busy month of june! but it has been a blast! we have been juggling vacationing and schoolwork but i've remembered exactly why i LOVE summertime! last summer i worked and missed bobby and had basically no time for playing, so it has been so fun to relax and go on trips.

vacation numero uno....family reunion

we started out the party month by hitting up the ashton family reunion. this consists of all of my grandma ashtons 8 kids and their families so it is full of aunts, uncles, cousins, horseshoe competitions, crafts, talent shows, and 4 mile hiking trips that turn into 6 miles! we only got to go to the second half of the week because of school but it was still a super fun time! here are just a very few of the many photos...

boch's bridal shower that we gave her...she was oh so excited! haha

picture with my super cute sisters

the whole fam damily...kind of far away

2 week long vaca!

after the reunion....my immediate family came and stayed with us! we rushed home and went to my best friend mals wedding reception in idaho falls and then the family squished into our apartment for a week while my brother and sister went to EFY. they were here for my birthday too which was awesome! we went to the titanic exhibit at the museum of idaho, we went to bear world, we saw loads of movies including night at the museum at the drive in, went on picnics, went to resturants, ate big juds hamburgers, bobby got to go fishing, and we basically just had a blast!

picture with the newly married judy's

birthday pic at the titanic exhibit...which is awesome!

the boys and their big jud burgers...b-ray had the double, kyle had the triple, and pres and spence both tried the singles....so funny watching them scarf it down!

being bears at bear world....the one place that cc really wanted to go! haha

after dani and preston got done with efy, we took a trip to yellowstone national park and hiked and saw all there was to see there including tons of buffalos, two bears, elk, and old faithful! it was really fun to be camping. then we drove for 8 hours to south dakota to see the famous 4th of july fireworks at mount rushmore. so cool! or else.....it would have been so cool if we would have been able to see them!!! they did the fireworks on the 3rd of july because it was a friday night and it rained and was foggy all day so when the fireworks came the sky just turned different colors. luckily when we went back the next day on the actual 4th of july...it was clear and beautiful! it was really fun though, we were able to meet my dads younger sister and her family there and wait all day in the rain together making memories haha. plus...mount rushmore has the best soft serve raspberry ice cream that i have ever tasted!!! delicious! all in all, a great trip!

here are 2 quick pictures from yellowstone and mount rushmore....we took so many fun pictures on this trip that it was hard to decide which ones to put up! i'll probably end up adding more later!