Aquarium

        Last week, we decided to check out the Downtown Aquarium in Houston.  It was a pretty cool one, although aren't most aquariums pretty similar? Well, this one had 2 white tigers! Brad didn't believe me when I showed him the pictures and he just said, "those are fake". I assure you, however, that they were real and they were awesome! One was sleeping in the back the whole time, but the other one was up walking right next to the glass. My other favorites were the black and white polka dotted sting rays. They also had sting rays that you could touch, but I was too chicken. Maybe next time. It was so fun to see all of the little kids reactions to all the fun animals. 

      Here are a few more things that I have done to stay busy. I've done a few craft things, but without a ruler or a scrapbook cutter, it is not as easy as it may look. I accidentally left my calendar at home, so I just decided to make some. I also made some fun cards, just for the fun of it. One of the wives out here, Hayley, taught me how to crochet! A few others were learning as well so we had a crochet night one day last week. It's been fun and it keeps me busy. I'm making a blanket right now, but it's taking forever! And, of course, I always make sure there are cookies in the freezer. :) I take after my mom. 

    I haven't been having too much good luck with being injured this week. Monday, I started getting these little bumps. They started behind my legs but then moved to all over my legs, arms and shoulders. I really could not figure out what it was or what it was from. I finally came to a conclusion that's from the sunburn that I got last week, I guess I am just not used to getting sunburned- since that was my first time ever. Kinda weird though. Then also on Monday, I burnt four fingers on my right hand from touching a pan that I did not know was hot. It was pretty bad and I had to hold on to an otter pop all night. Tuesday I cut up my leg because my computer was falling from the couch and my hands were full, so I tried to kinda catch it with my leg- not such a great idea I know. On Wednesday, we woke up and found ants in our bed! Gross! I was itchy all day and finally when we were getting ready for bed, Brad looked at my back and found about 15 bites all over my back. We had seen a few ants on the floor by my side of the bed the night before, and now we have seen them all over our room and by the front door. Something needs to happen with those darn bugs! They are no longer my friends.

      Here is Brad in his lovely orange Vivint attire. On Monday, he got to choose a 50 dollar prize for getting 3 sells between Friday and Saturday and he chose a helicopter. He's been having a lot of fun with it.

Texas!

After 27 miserable hours of driving and 1,550 miles away from home, we made it to Manvel, TX. The drive was actually not too bad, except when we were in a terrible rainstorm just two hours away from Manvel. 

Brad's good friend from high school, Cami was nice enough to let us stay the night at her house in New Mexico. We got there around 6 so went to dinner with them, and for ice cream. It was so fun to finally meet her, since I had heard so many great things about her. :) And it was nice to be able to take a break from driving and have somewhere to spend the night. Thanks again Cami and Zane! 

   Our apartments here are way nice. We love them, and we love the area we are in. We have a washer/dryer, huge bathroom, two bedrooms, an island in the kitchen and a dishwasher! We also have two pools and a fitness center that we can go to. There is a cool pond/fountain in the middle of all the apartments. I really enjoyed walking along the trail that is around it, until they put up this sign (see next picture). I was not amused.

     I have been spending most of my days working on the three online classes I'm taking. It gets stressful at times and sometimes I wish I didn't have to worry about school during the summer so I can just relax, but I think it will be worth it in the long run. When I'm not doing homework, I usually go to the pool, find something new to cook, write thank you cards, (I'm almost done- if you haven't gotten one yet, I'm sorry, I know it's taking me forever!) or get on the internet- which we just got yesterday and it has been so nice! I have also hung out with the other wives quite a bit. They are all so fun to be around and I can't wait to spend the rest of the summer with them. We've done a few different activities including: going to the park and shopping, watching biggest loser and american idol and going to the movie "Rio". On Saturday night, we had a pizza party after the boys got home. Brad thought he was pretty cool balancing the pizza boxes on his head. Sunday night we decided to have everyone bring any breakfast food they had and have a big breakfast for dinner. We ended up with pancakes, hash browns, bacon and tons of eggs. We were shocked when we ate almost all the food.

     After church on Sunday, Brad and I drove down to Galveston to go to the beach. It is only an hour away and we were only there for about a half hour- just long enough to get some good pictures and say we had been. I'm glad we went, even though there were tons and tons of people, because Brad and I probably won't go again- with Sunday's being the only days he has off. I'm hoping that if I go back on a weekday, it won't be so crowded.

    Brad has been doing so great with selling. He had a hard few days last week, but this week he has gotten at least one sell everyday. I'm so grateful for him and his willingness to work so hard. He is one amazing man and I am so lucky to be married to him. Love you Brad! 

Easter/Arizona/Family Pictures

I know many of you are dying to hear and see pictures from Texas, but I need to do a quick catch-up first.

EASTER:

We had a fun filled Easter. The Saturday before we spent the day babysitting until their parents came home Sunday afternoon. We took them to church with us, which was a handful, but fun. That night, we had a progressive dinner with the Skeen's, Searle's, Bundy's, Peterson's and Erikson's. We started at my parents with an appetizer and a dice game. Then we headed out to Carol's preschool class (since she had baby chicks) and had the main dinner and a few fun games. Finally out the the Skeen's for dessert, easter egg hunt and the Royal Egg Joust. It was a great day!  

ARIZONA:

We had a fun few days in Arizona a few weeks ago. It was the weekend right before finals, so it was nice to be able to take a little break from school before studying our brains out, and to get out of the silly Logan weather. We stopped in Ogden to watch Cam's baseball game before making our 8pm flight. Friday morning was Brody's graduation, then we went to lunch and to the movie, Soul Surfer. The girls went shopping after at Charming Charlie's and then to a Diamondback's game and Ky & Brod's for cake and ice cream after. On Saturday Kylee came with us to go to Mesa while Brody stayed home with his family. We went to the Mesa temple first. I always love going to new temples and that one was especially cool since I was born in Mesa. We coincidentally ran into Jordan and Jake on our way in as they were on their way out, so that was fun! We did sealings, which I had never done. We visiting the Frost's and the Hoffman's afterwards and then went to Tia Rosa's with Paul and DeNae. It was a short trip, but definitely worth it!

FAMILY PICTURES:

We were able to all get together one last time before everyone left for the summer to take some family pictures. I think they turned out pretty good-- good job Stacie!

The 4 couples.. haha well thats how the boys feel anyways.

I love my siblings

Some family favorites

Random

Not a lot has been going on in the Wheelwright household this past month.. which is why this is going to be a random post. My Aunt Jessica had her baby boy about 2 months ago so I got to see him when they came up for dinner. He is so tiny and cute! I love him. Brad was gone to Florida selling during our spring break so he has not been able to see him yet. 

Speaking of Brad selling.. Our plans have changed. For those of you who don't know, APX alarm has changed it's name to Vivint. Originally our plan had been to go to Pensacola, Florida for the summer while he sells for vivint. Now we are going to Texas.  The team went to sell in Florida during spring break, and since they are so used to the Texas sell from being there for the past 3 years, they were not used to Florida and none did very well. So, everyone had a bad attitude and they decided to stick with Texas. At first I was really bummed. I was way excited to be on the beach in Florida for a whole summer, and when I heard the bad news and that we would probably be going to a city near Dallas, I was not too happy. But, plans changed again and now we are officially going to Houston/Galveston, Texas. I'm not sure if we will be living in Houston or Galveston, but either way.. I'm excited. Apparently I love the beach. ;) Our plans right now are to head to St. George with Brad's family as soon as I get done with my last final on Friday the 6th to visit his sister who lives down there. Then we'll take the 1,460 mile drive from there. As always, I'm sad to leave Logan for the summer. My family and my job that I love are here. But, it is only for a few months and this will be such a great adventure for us. 

 We've enjoyed going to my parents as much as we can to: watch our shows, play rook, ping pong, dinner, and much more. We're so glad they live close and let us come over so much! We've also enjoyed babysitting as much as possible. And the cooking is still going great! These are peanut butter bars and we may or may not have eaten them all in about 2 days. 

I had Lindsey come over to help me redecorate my house. I was already sick of the look of it and needed something different. Lindsey is the one to call for when in need of this. She did such a great job and I love how it turned out. I can't wait to have her help me in our bedroom next! 

We went skiing on the last day Beaver was open. It was sad, especially since I don't think we quite got our moneys worth from our ski passes. Maybe for next year we won't buy one, that way we won't feel like we have to go.. and we can go to a different resort if we want! It was a fun ski season though and I always love going with Brad. I love that we are about the same level. 

Lydia spent a few nights at my parents house while her parents were out of town. She is such the cutest little girl and I love her so much. I was at my parents house any spare time I had. I love that her favorite movies are Mamma Mia and Phantom. These are some of my favorite pictures from her stay. We drove her to Ogden to drop her off to Ryan and then did the flow rider. Jake, Cam, his friend, Brad and I all had the one side to ourselves and it was so much fun. This was Brad's first time and he loved it. We may have gotten a few bumps and bruises, but it was all worth it!

                                                            

Yesterday we went to Ogden to play some games with Brad's parents and little brother, do a little shopping and pick up a couch that Annie and Trace were so nice to give us. We were afraid that it would not fit down our stairs, since the last couch we got from my other Aunt, Stacie did not fit. But luckily, we barely fit it, after about the 3rd try of moving it different ways. Brad is such a trooper for pretty much doing it by himself. I did not feel like I was much of a help for him. 

And I love the way it looks! We threw a red blanket over our other couch, and it just happens to match perfect! Thanks Ann and Trace!

And don't worry, we are not too sad to be getting rid of this beauty. 

St. Patty's

On Thursday night, we invited a bunch of friends over to my parents house for the USU game and everyone brought green treats since it was also St. Patrick's Day. We had sprite & green sherbet, green caramel popcorn, green cookies, Mt. Dew, and yellow oreos (since green could not be found anywhere). We were all very sad when USU lost by just about five points. If they would have played like they were in the last ten minutes of the game, they could have won. We had to bring out all of the love sacks so that everybody would have a seat, and there still was not enough room, since two more showed up after this picture. I was pretty excited when I found my green and navy shirt- perfect for the 

Aggie game and for St. Patrick's Day. 




We went to Crystal Hot Springs Last night. I would suggest to everyone not to go there on a friday night. It was very crowded. But we still had fun. Until we were on our way home... Flat Tire! There was not much room on the side of the road to pull over, so luckily it was on the right side of the car so that the boys were not in the middle of the road trying to fix it. What a handy boy I have. I am glad he knew what he was doing! A guy stopped to help us, and he was so nice- he even looked like Santa Clause. :)

 

I couldn't stand not putting this picture up. Look at that beauty! This is at my parents house. They get so much more snow then we do. I'm a little sad it is all disappearing, but I am so excited for it to start warming up! 

And of course I couldn't do a post without posting a picture of a baby! :) This you have to watch. It almost made me cry. It is hilarious! 

Since you've been gone

Alright, so I guess I've had a little too much time on my hands this past week and I spent a few hours trying to figure out a new editing program. We went snowshoeing with my parents, Trace, Jamie and Ryan one Saturday. It was a BEAUTIFUL day!

Brad's birthday was on a sunday so I got up early, made him french toast with special syrup, then we went to church. We had our home teachers over and I made brad his request of chicken roll-ups and then we went to my parents. Brad watched TV/took a nap while my mom and I made his request of costa vida sweet pork burritos and better than anything cake. The Bundys came over as well. We ate, played who knows Brad best (Lindsey won!- not counting my mom), opened presents and had cake. I gave him a wii, but we decided to return it and are gonna put the money towards a new flat screen. My mom gave him a game for the Wii (but we exchanged it for a PS2 one), the movie inception, and a head lamp. I think he was pretty spoiled! It was a great day.

So, as you all probably know.. Brad has been in Florida since monday selling alarms for spring break. I've been so sad without him, but I have kept myself very busy. I worked everyday for about 6 hours, I have done all of our returns from the wedding. We got in store credit for just about everything we returned, and look at all of those cards! I counted them all up and it is over $800. WOW!!

Ok- a few of them were from Christmas and apx parties, but still! The nordstrom one is a good story. We went to Provo a couple weeks ago for an apx party and there were about 8 prizes, and 50+ people there. Brad and I both won something AND were in the final 2 for another. I got the $100 nordstrom for sliding my phone closest to a bottle without hitting it and Brad won a gift card to a hat place for winning rock-paper-scissors. It was a great night!

I've really tried to finish my thank-you cards.. but I am only about half way. I guess Brad will have to help me with them when he gets home.

And.. my wedding scrapbook. I still have 7 more pages to do, but considering I have done 13 pages, that is pretty good. Hopefully I can finish that today and tomorrow.

Random

Brad and I babysat some kids from my work about a week after we got home. The twins have just started crawling within the last couple of months. Well, I guess I should say- Ruby has started crawling. Lucy, scoots and I love it!

You have to watch this- It is the cutest/funniest thing ever! :) I hope it works, I've never put a video on here.

Aren't they the cutest, most chubby little twin girls ever?

I have loved cooking so far. I need to be more organized like my mom, I'll get there one day hopefully. As you may have noticed.. I have a new look on the side of my blog. I made a list of goals. Ok, I got this idea from Kylee and I'm not going to lie, I stole some of her goal ideas. Sorry Ky, hope that's ok.. I just wanna be just like you! ;) But I have a goal of cooking at least 3 times a week. That may seem pretty easy, but considering we go to my parents for dinner on Thursdays, we usually eat leftovers, something easy, or go out on Fridays and Saturdays and we are at our parents/grandparents on Sundays, I only have Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday to cook. So far so good though!

All until my failed creamy potato soup. I may or may not have stirred the flour in too fast. It tasted alright, just didn't look great. Oops.

We love going to basketball games and cheering our Ag's on to victory. Who needs a Jimmer anyways? I'm sure most of you heard about the amazing Aggie game last week, but I'll tell about it anyways. During half time, Tai dunked it, and shattered the backboard. They had to bring in a new one and it took about a half an hour to switch. As they were getting the new one on, it shattered again. They must have tightened it too much or something. So then they brought in a replacement hoop and standard. All in all, we were waiting for about 45 min. It was a crazy game!

This is what we found after the game: about 7-8" of snow. Plus we got about 8-9" four days later. But it make for great skiing days for us! We love skiing/snowboarding. We try to go every Saturday and we have gone a lot of Wednesdays afternoons. That's the best, because nobody is there and we can go for a few hours without having to wait in line for half the time.

My good friend texted me on Wednesday and said that she had some exciting news. She is going on a mission to the Marshall Islands. I am so beyond excited for her! She is going to be an awesome missionary.