Murder Mystery Dinner Party

This one is a little out of order, but Andrew and I went to a murder mystery dinner party! It was based in the late 60's and we at cheese and chocolate fondue while sitting on the ground around a table. My character was Burnette DeBrah a polititian and Andrew played Nate Ashbury a college student and political activist. It was really fun...and we both were not the murderer! Here we are in our CRAZY costumes!

Washington Trip!

We spent June 11-19 in Puyallup, Washington with my family. My brother Ryan was graduating High School. While there we celebrated my brother's graduation, my grandfather's 70th birthday, and my 21st birthday! It was a whole week full of parties and celebrations. We also went and watched my dad's umpire game, and kayaked in the Puget Sound. While kayaking we saw sea otters, great blue heron, harbor seals, bald eagles, a mama duck with 12 ducklings, and some hawks! It was a really fun adventure!

Bees Game!

We went to the Salt Lake Bees (a minor league baseball team) game with adam, lauren, austin, and some of adam's friends. It was Weiner Wednesday and we got hotdogs for a dollar. we sat on the grass behind third base. Although the Bees lost, it was really fun!! Go BEES!

Cabin Weekend!

On February 20-21 Andrew and I, along with Adam and Lauren, Austin, and our friends from the ward the Woodland's went to my grandparents cabin in Ophir, Utah. We ate Korean food for dinner, played ping pong, pool, and went four-wheeling in the snow! It was so fun...and the best part...Adam and Lauren got ENGAGED!! :) yay!

Courtside Cougars!

Andrew and I had the AWESOME opportunity to go to the BYU v. New Mexico Lobos basketball game courtside with my relatives Dennis and Rosemary. We got catered Tucano's dinner in the Courtside Cougars Club and then courtside seats at the game! It was awesome..and we WON!!

This is how close we were, Go Cougars!

Andrew and I courtside :)

We Love BYU!!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day! This day was so much fun! In the morning i made andrew french toast and heart shaped pancakes and sent him on a scavenger hunt to find his gifts. I got him a box of Hershey's pot of gold pecan clusters, a personalized chocolate caramel filled heart that said i love you in chinese on top, a shirt, and guillotine (a game he has been wanting). I kept finding cute notes everywhere i looked that Andrew wrote for me. Andrew then pretended he needed to go study for an hour in the anatomy lab...he fooled me! When he got home we went to the Confessions of a Shopaholic movie. We then went to Chili's for dinner and then home where i had to wait outside while andrew set up. when i came in, i found a paper heart trail to a dozen roses, white chocolate truffles, hershey's hugs, the Tale of Despereax ( a children's book i have been wanting to read and add to my teacher library), and a cute card with some money for me to buy some shirts at the Shade sale (only $5 each!). There was also a cheescake and martinelli's apple juice to snack on! Andrew is the best hubby ever!!! The next day we made valentine's cookies! here are our results:

Here are Andrew's beautiful creations:

Here are Ashley's finished products:

This is the plate we took to the neighbors of our favorite designs. we love decorating cookies!!

These are the roses andrew gave me!! I love him!

Our First Christmas!

It was our first Christmas as a married couple in 2008. We had a mini Christmas at our apartment with gifts from Andrew's family, saw the temple lights in Salt Lake, and then spent actual Christmas with the Matekel family in Washington. We love Chritmas time! While in Washington, we saw the musical seven brides for seven brothers at the fifth avenue theater, went bowling, at lots of yummy treats, and saw lots of movies! There was more snow in washington than i have ever seen! It was so bad that the airline lost our luggage, as they took half of it off to make the plane lighter, and we almost were snowed in on our way home. Our flight got cancelled, but we were lucky enough to catch an earlier one...barely...


Temple lights at temple square are gorgeous! We went with our friends Lindsey and Josh Nardone. This same night we also went to do sealings in the temple and to body worlds. It was three great things in one night!! it was awesome!



Here is Andrew showing off some of his new clothes his mom gave him for Christmas...he got a mountain of stylish new things!
This is our first Christmas tree, that would only fit in this corner. It is a little sparse, but it brang Christmas cheer to our home! We had so much fun decorating it!Christmas in Washington! Here we are waiting to go downstairs to see what Santa brought. Andrew's favorite gift was his GPS and I loved the restaurant gift certificates, robe, and new slippers! Andrew and Jordan got matching eskimo hats that they both didn't take off for a week!