A lot on my mind....

From Cherstin:

My grandpa passed away a couple weeks ago and this past monday was his funeral. It was a sad time, but I am glad Jordan and I were able to go. I was able to see many cousins that I hadn't seen in a long time. Also to services were beautiful. We really celebrated Grandpa's life. He was a great man. Always smiling and telling us he loved us. I am so grateful that Jordan was able to meet my Grandpa. I will miss my Grandpa terrible, but it is good to know that I will see him again someday. My Grandpa served in the navy and therefore had a military salute at his burial. It was incredible. He was a faithful member of the church all of his life, and never wavered. He is a role model to me. I love him, and will miss him.

A crazy weekend.

Wow. so this last week has been interesting. We told everyone that we are going to parents!  Cherstin is due September 8th. We are very excited. Cherstin has been feeling great. She just is always hungry!

On a sad note, this past week, Cherstin's grandfather passed away. Gayle Morgan died Friday the 12th around 5:30pm. It has been a hard weekend because of this. Cherstin's mother was in Rexburg this week, and left Friday on a shuttle to go down to Salt Lake, where he was. She didn't get there in time, but is now there with the rest of her family. Thoughts of my grandpa have been with me all weekend. I will sure miss him. He was a great man, a great role model and a great grandfather.

Valentine's weekend was fun. We went to a Broadway review show, a dance and a group romantic dinner. It has been nice to have monday off too, so we could get a lot of things done.

Sorry its a random, short post.  Its been a crazy weekend.

Jared and Che visit!

This past weekend we were blessed to have Jordan's brother Jared, and his wife Che, come visit us!
They arrived Friday, in which we played Ticket to Ride and visited for a while. Saturday was the big day!  Jared, Jordan, and Bobby went to play basketball with some people Cherstin's brother Curtis knows. They came back to a big breakfast, then off we went to the movie Avatar in 3D!  It was incredible!  On the way back from Idaho Falls we stopped by Big Judd's. Bobby completed the Big Judd Challenge by himself!  (It is a 1lbs hamburger).  We finished off our meals with ice cream. Delicious!  later that night we went to a show on campus. The Peking Acrobats!  These were Chinese performers who were amazing!  They did a particular awesome act were a guy stacked chairs over 30 feet in the air. He then preceded to do acrobats on top of a leaning chair, which was at the top of the stacked chairs. It was incredible. Just when we thought they were doing great, and it couldn't get any better... It did! with them doing even more impossible acts! We continued to be in awe and talk about the different things the Chinese Acrobats did, even through Sunday. Sunday we went to church with Cherstin's brother, Curtis, at his family ward, because our Sacrament isn't until 3pm. We then had lunch with Curtis and Anna's family. Jared and Che left around 3pm and we were so sad to have them leave!

Cherstin's parents Bob and Gay came up to Curtis' later on Sunday. It was good to catch up and talk with them. Cherstin's dad had to leave Monday morning, for work. He was just dropping Cherstin's mom off to help Anna with the new baby.  Sadly, Jordan got very sick Sunday evening, with a stomach flu of some sort. He is still hurting very badly and is sore all over. Please keep him in your prayers as he has hard classes that he is afraid of missing.

We love you all

January 2010 in a nutshell

Well, school has started and is already a month over!  We have been on a crazy ride with it!  It is Cherstin's last semester and she is taking some fun classes as well as her nursing classes. She finally fit in guitar, Tap dance, and introduction to Foods class, into her schedule and has been enjoying it. Jordan has many hard classes and is found studying a lot for important test and projects. He is doing great!  We have been able to have several couple dates with other couples in our ward. They have been fun, to get to know other couples and have our weekends booked!  We had some people over for Bobby's birthday.
 
A couple weeks ago, Cherstin's sister Anna had her baby girl Leila. There were some complications and so Cherstin and Jordan helped to watch Arden and Maile for a couple days.  We have been able to go to a Barbershop festival on campus where we saw an international quartet perform. They were hilarious and just incredible!

Last weekend Jordan's friend, Travis, came up for the weekend with his girlfriend, Stephanie. It was fun to have them and Ryan and Courteney Wall up for an evening of full.

Well, we have been super busy and yet have been enjoying our life together!  We are going on 6 months already!  We are still madly in love and look at each new day with excitement for new adventures!

New Years

We traveled back to Rexburg for New years, with Cherstin's parents.  We spent New Years with Cherstin's brother Curtis and Anna!  Jordan's parents them came up to drop his brother, Bobby, off at school.  It was fun to spend a little time with both sides of the family!

Christmas Break

Yes, we are late at this... but we thought we would post just a bit...

We went to Cherstin's folk's home for Christmas, in Longmont, CO. We went caroling, made lots of treats, went to a couple movies, played with the nieces and nephews, played a lot of games, and had an over all blast!   We were also able to go Skiing!  It was so perfect and so fun!

 

 

December 11-12

This weekend we went to our ward Christmas Party and then on Saturday we went to a small mission reunion for Jordan. It was fun. besides that, we have been studying hard for finals and the end of the semester!

December 4-5

 This Friday we went to the play 'Pioneer Song' put on by BYU-Idaho

Saturday we went back up to get our tree... We ended up finding a better one!  So, this is our future Christmas Tree

In the Apartment....

Fully Decorated. We don't have any ornaments, and so we did a chain and popcorn strand, which neither of us had done before,...

Haha, it is still a work in progress though, I think...

Thanksgiving Week!

Thanksgiving week was so much fun! To start the week, Jordan and I went caving to the Ice Caves on the 20th. We had a blast and there was hot peach cobbler ready when we came out of the cave.

That night we drove to Draper, UT where we stayed with Cherstin's brother Shawn and his family for a couple days. We went to the BYU vs. AIR FORCE football game, which was so much fun!

Then on Monday morning, we drove down to Fruita, CO where we stayed a couple days with Jordan's family there. We went bowling... Where Jordan bowled a 195!

On Wednesday, We headed down to New Mexico to where Jordan's sister Kassie lives. We went via Moab, where the guys all went Mountain biking. The women went on to New Mexico!

As this was Cherstin's first Thanksgiving away from her parents home, she was a little nervous.

But, she had a wonderful time and is very grateful to the Morris family for welcoming her into the family. She had a great week!

These are all the desserts we made!

Cherstin even made her first homemade apple pie completely from scratch for Thanksgiving dinner!

One day we went to Jordan's Grandma's place where we got to pet and feed several horses!

On the last day in New Mexico, We all went to the Aztec Ruins. They were fun to walk around and to see!

The week was incredible!!  It was hard to come back to school!

November 13-14

Tonight we went on a Wagon ride with BYU-Idaho outdoors activities. They took us on a wagon pulled by two horses. Then we stopped by a fire where we had stew and cobbler made in dutch ovens.

 Jordan's siblings Kammie and Bobby came up for the weekend On Saturday we went to Mesa Falls. It was all snowy and really cold but it was absolutely beautiful!

Later that night we went to Collegiate Dancers, which was great

November 7

Jordan and I taught 'Crime Prevention' At a Boy Scout POW WOW today.  It was held at BYU-Idaho and we had two classes with about 17 boys who were ages (12-17)... 


Wow!  That was a teaching experience for sure!

Halloween Weekend

We went with our friends Ryan and Courteney to some land that Courteney's parents own. We went and picked out our future Christmas Tree! We spent the night up there the day before Halloween.!

This was similar to the cabin we stayed at. We played games and had Dinner and then Breakfast here with them.

The next morning, we went up to the top of the mountain even on 4-wheelers. It was bitter cold!

Masquerade Ball

Last night Jordan and I wend to a Masquerade Ball!  We doubled with my friend Sara and her husband Brad. We both got all dressed up and even made our masks.

These are our masks... aren't they awesome!  There some pretty neat masks at the dance.

There was even a live band!

We sure had a blast, and we were even able to dance the Foxtrot, Swing, Waltz, and ChaCha, as we have been learning them in our dance class.

October 17 weekend!

This weekend has been a blast! Friday night we went canoeing with a group from school. We went down the Teton and snake river. We ended up at Beaver Dick park where there was dutch oven potatoes and chicken, and dutch oven cobbler. It was delicious!  We also saw Curtis and Maile and Arden camping!  It seemed they were having fun!

Then Saturday evening we went on a hike up by Kelly Canyon Ski Resort. It was beautiful and was a wonderful little hike. We were happy to get out for a little bit!

October 10 Weekend

Last weekend we went camping on Friday night!  It was so cold! But we had a blast!  We had chilli and hotdogs for dinner, with hot chocolate with a warm fire!  The next morning we had oatmeal and enjoyed the morning.  Then we went to a service activity where we helped to make felt blankets. They gave us lunch there. That afternoon, we went to a corn maze with Curtis and Anna and their family!  It was so much fun!  and we made it through!  That evening we celebrated 10/10 day where Taiwan gained their independence day from China!        ( Jordan's dad served his mission in Taiwan, which is where that tradition started) We got amazing food and returned home to watch the last half of the third movie of Lord of the Rings: the extended version.  It was a great weekend!

We got our pictures from our photographer from our wedding!  Stephanie Carstens did a wonderful job and we are so pleased with the pictures!! Here are some of them! We couldn't put them all up, there were too many wonderful ones!

I love this picture of Jordan!  I think it really captures the happiness we both had that day!

These Pictures we just loved!

 

Oh, what a wonderful Day

Cute Shoes!!!

This is everyone who came to the temple!  Thank you everyone for your support!

 

 This is all the brothers on both sides. Man, they look sharp!

These are the beautiful sisters!

All the brothers and sisters, and their children! Thank you all for your support, you were wonderful!

The wonderful Parents!  

This is Michael. He is just so cute!

And darling Julie!

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Ok, this was just an awesome picture!

 

This one made us laugh!

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Oh, My wonderful brothers, It was great to have you there

 

Thank you Anna for the wonderful Cake!

It was gorgeous and just what I wanted!

This picture of my dad, made us laugh.

Thank you so much for your love dad!

This next series of photos were so funny!

It shows my brothers holding on to me,

fighting Jordan.

Now, you have to look closely at Jordan's expression, so perfect!

 

And yes, we lived Happily Ever After!