ONCE AGAIN.....

Once again I am just now updating my blog... Updating it with events that happened months ago! Who knows maybe one day I'll be on top of things! Prolly not but one can dream can't she?!?!?

New Addition!

Call me CRAZY, because I am! I kind of surprised my husband with a puppy! He had a boxer when he was younger and had talked about "Rocky" quite a bit. So when I heard from a friend that her friend's boxer was having puppies I got super excited! So a few months later the puppies were born, Nicholas had figured out my surprise, (mostly cause I'm like my mom and can't keep surprises a secret for very long!) and we were trying to pick one out. Nicholas liked one and OF COURSE I wanted a different smaller one:) Anyway I ended up just going over and getting the one Nicholas wanted and somewhat surprised him. It took us about a week to name him, (we are in trouble when we have a kid, we'll prolly call him or her IT for a month) we finally decided on JAX. He is super cute and a pain! For some odd reason we kind of like him, and even though my mom won't admit it she really LOVES him the MOST!!!!

These are when he was little, cute and innocent! He is much bigger and not so innocent now!

South Carolina Baby!!!

Nicholas and I had the opportunity to go to South Carolina in August. We went for the Black family reunion, which is my mother-in-laws side of the family. I hadn't met most of them and Nicholas hadn't seen them in like 4 years. It was so much fun! We were there for a whole week that went by so super fast! I had never been back east before so everything was new to me. the weather was actually very nice while we were there, but it was way humid. Everything was so green and beautiful. One thing I found funny was that pine needles were used as decoration. My brothers and I hated (my brothers still hate) the FHEs when we would have family pine needle pick up. So after seeing pine needles around the trees as decoration I just laughed and thought man, we should try that! Here are some pictures I took so many i could have posted a hundred more...

Boiled Peanuts:) This was a first for me and they were really really good! Granddaddy and Grandmama also had a tomato garden so the tomato sandwiches were to DIE for!

This was at the zoo... just a random picture that I thought was funny!

Nicholas and Kennedy




Had to have a kissing picture sorry!

My husband, just chillin! Isn't he HOT!?!?! Yes, Yes he is!

We had the chance to go to the temple in Columbia with the family. It was such a neat experience. I love temples and want to go to as many as I can, so I was so excited. I am so thankful that temple work is important to our family and that we took time to attend.

We also got to go to the mountains in North Carolina and go tubing down a river.(I don't remember what one) It was super fun! Like I said before everything was so green!!! We saw some turtles just floating down with us, it was so cool!!! As we were getting down the river towards the end of our journey... there was this rope swing. All the boys were jumping and swinging away. SO.....

Nicholas: Hey babe why don't you try??

Me: No, its okay... I don't think I have enough upper body strength to hold my body up.

Nicholas: Yes you do, you'll be fine!

Me: Okay, but so help me if you laugh at me your dead!

So I try and as soon as my feet hit the water, I couldn't hold my body up and just splashed! It was UGLY! I guess I felt I was more athletic than that, even though I have no upper body, so I decided to try again. This time I climbed up higher hoping to get more air or something... I really don't know what I was thinking...Anyway I pretty much did the same thing I did the first time but somehow I managed to jam my finger. It swelled up and hurt like crazy... It got to the point where I couldn't even move it. So yeah, it was black and blue no fun at all! Nicholas didn't laugh so I let him live, and he did feel really bad for talking me into trying!

Nicholas drove home after this little trip and this is the family crashed out! We had way to much fun!

Then the Beach!!!! I LOVE THE BEACH! I could have spent a whole week just chillin at the beach! It might be cause I'm an Arizona girl and am not around it a lot but I love it! The water was so warm and we had so much fun in the sun!

This was our last day, and we hadn't taken a picture with just our family so we pulled off to the side of the road, set our cameras on the top of the car and smiled! It was such an amazing trip! We had such a blast and were so lucky to get to go on this vacation! I married into such AWESOME family! I am so glad I got to go meet some of them and spend more time with the ones I already knew! I just wish we weren't so far away!

A family that plays together stays together!!!

I LOVE MY HUGE FAMILY!!! Our reunion was a few weeks ago and i had a blast! Our family get togethers are always full of fun and exciting things! Between the little kids and the BIG kids, their parents, haha there is never a dull moment! We rode horses, played in the pond and had a slip-in-slide, made cute hair flowers and T shirts, and the funnest part was just spending time together... As you can see Grandpa Tenney was ready to call it quits by the end of the weekend! As you look at the rest of the pictures you'll know why... I was in charge of picture and I took so many it was hard to choose what ones to post... so sorry family if there aren't any of you, I promise I have some, so i'll let you know when I have them uploaded.

Grandma Tenney is a COWGIRL!!!

My Hubby and I, with my sunburned, gross face!


Bubba finally found the dinner table he belongs at!

Mom on a flower bow making high, showing off all of the bows everyone made...

Everyone loves a fourwheeler ride! Thanks aunt Me-Me for taking us!

Taden and Tarly! This is one cute kid! Nicholas and I camped out on the lawn with Ub and Aunt Tiff the whole weeked, Yes, only .1 miles from our house... I flippin love this kid! He was so fun, as are all their kids, but he talks so much and has gotten so funny! He kept finding big bugs and callen them skeetos, big skeetos that bite you!

What good looking STUDS!!

The kids had so much fun falling out of the hammock, they kept taking turns getting on then tipping it over...

We are all a bunch of SCARY GOOBERS!!!

NOT forscore, but only ONE year ago...

HOLY SHMOKES!!!! It has been a WHOLE year (and some because I'm horrid at this still and i'm always behind) since Nicholas and I met! (officially) I seriously can't beleive it! It seems like we've been together forever and then at the same time it seems like it all happened yesterday... I love my husband so much, and am so thankful for all he does for me! I can't imagine my life without him!!! One year down, eternity to go:)

I seriousy miss my long hair!

Your Gonna FREEZE!!!

Saturday afternoon, Macky and Brock convinced me to take them to the pond to go swimming. We ended up not getting out there till about 2:30, so i thought we'll get out there and just end up fishing cause it won't be warm enough... Well, it was warm enough and we had SO much FUN in the water!!!

"What am i doing?"

He got AIR

Surfs Up Dude! Nicholas and I bought this little raft at Ross for 10 bucks! It was so worth the money!

Timothy Brock Slade, is a GOOBER!

I don't think it fits MAC...

Me and Nate Dawg!

A Night on the Town

I LOVE FATHERS AND SONS:) Cause that means time with mom and JUST girls... This year we went to Payson, went to dinner, then bowling, then (of course, cause Aunt Tiff came) COUPONING!!! Bowling was so much fun! It was the little girls first time, and they all were hilarious... They put all their might into it and the ball still went at snail speed! I had a blast, Thanks Mom and Aunt Tiff!!!

Amelia, Mary, and Eva is their SEXY neon bowling shoes

Our creative names:) ha ha

Is it gonna make it???

YES!!!!

Aunt Tiff and her 2 girlys

My Mom and her 2 girls!