One year ago today....

One year ago today Ben and I were coming back from visiting my family in Fillmore and getting new tires on my car. We were just north of the Panquitch exit when Ben said, "Do you feel that vibrating?" I said, It's probably just the road, and he said I think it's our tires. Well, as this conversation was happening we were passing a diesel. Just after we got back into the slow lane we ran over a bird bone.... yes a bird bone.. it was 1/4 of an inch long and it blew up our back passenger tire. We started fish tailing, seconds later the diesel hit the front driver side of our car. It spun us backward barely missing the back of the trailer and another truck. We spun several times into the median, but luckily we were both wearing seatbelts. I always wear mine, because my Patriarchal Blessing says to avoid being careless in a vehicle and to also be responsible. SOOO that was a big red flag of Ashley wear your seatbelt!!! I am so grateful for Patriarchal Blessings. I really do think that it saved my life. I'm also grateful for my wonderful husband who was instantly by my side that day. I love you Ben!!!

A whole bunch of Randomness

Sorry for the picture overload. We just thought we'd update you on everything we've been up to :)

I also wanted to update you on Ben's seminary job.

So far he's done amazing. The only real criticism he gets from the evaluators is that he's to casual.. (sounds like my ben) The students love him, the other teachers love him, and he's doing an amazing job!!!

Meet Thumper.

He's the newest addition to our home. He's funny. He's definitely not shy at all, he can't find food easily cuz he's kinda a dumb dumb, but he does eat out of your hand which is fun. :) We call him thumper because when we got him he kept trying to get out of the container and he's keep falling down making a thumping noise.. so he's Thumper :)

Meet Little Foot. We got Little Foot back in June and he is getting so big. He's shy.. very shy. He was the smallest of all the turtles when we got him and we think he's a wimp, but I love him anyway :)

This was a crafty project I made a while ago. I still need to frame it, but I haven't gotten around to it yet. The picture is blurry but it says Manti Temple, Dedicated may 21 1888 by Lorenzo Snow and then the other side says Always & Forever June 27th, 2008 Ben & Ashley :)

This is a random picture of us I look funky but Ben's cute so I put it up :)

Ben took this picture.. lol You will always find these in our car. :)

next up is a bunch of pictures of the Baby shower I threw for my cousin Kimmy.

This is the baby advice book I made for her and some delicious cupcakes, and also the door :)

This is a DARLING cake I made. :) It's made out of diapers

I also made up her cute invitations and wrote on the inside of it for her.

We also went to Lagoon this summer. I hate roller coasters... with a passion but they were free and it was a company party. It was probably a waste of time but Ben was really into this police game so I had to post the picture :)

WAY Back in August Ben's parents had a little party. There were all these events that you could win money... anyway I learned I really really suck at throwing darts so when I actually hit a balloon and a dollar was inside I was pretty stoked!!!!

And this is Cherisa being a rockstar :)

The end!!!

Life is good.

Ben and I are doing great!!! He's loving Seminary and hating college but thats okay :) He's just ready to be done!! Only 7 more months!!! He's doing awesome with his teaching. The other teachers come in and see me sometimes and tell me how much the students love him! I'm so proud!!!!! :) Work for me is just dandy. It's been really busy lately but thats good! We haven't done anything super exciting lately. Except my family came down and watched conference with us and that was fun and then Saturday afternoon we randomly went up to Richfield and saw Ben's family. It was so much fun. His dad and I were really bored Sunday afternoon while everyone was sleeping and we made the BEST pumpkin cookies.. and the recipe is super super easy. If you want it let me know :)

Family Pictures

Ben's family got family pictures taken a few weeks ago. So I thought I'd share the pictures of us :)

Pictures of the wedding :)

so cute!!!!!!!

Carter's Weddin'

Carter and Stephy got married on Friday. It was absolutely amazing!! I cried, but pretty much everyone in the sealing room cried... except for Ben he's to tough to cry. Lol. I'll post pictures of it when they get back from the honeymoon and steph gives me the pics :) A week before the wedding they had an auction/dinner in Fillmore. A family friend put together the whole thing and it was amazing to see how much love everyone has for Carter.. I cried again.. the whole entire time. It was just so special. I'm a cry baby when it comes to Carter. Anyway, they got enough donations to get a van with the ramp and everything so because of that they got to go to San Diego, just the two of them for there honeymoon. It was amazing.. I loved it. I absolutely love Steph. She's an amazing girl.

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Ben's brother comes home from his mission this week! He's been serving in New York. I'm excited, but nervous because I've never met him!!

Ben also starts teaching Seminary on thursday and he's pretty much super excited. And I think he's even more excited for College to start :) ok ok jk thats a lie he's not excited, but I am!!! I just want him to be done and get a job with the church so we can move on with our lives and settle down and stop moving :)

What we've been up to

Lately we have been all over the place! We went to a family reunion in Fruitland weekend & I wen to Steph's Bridal shower that Saturday. Both we're so much fun. We didn't get to stay at the family reunion for very long, but it was nice to see people while we were there. Yesterday we went to Fillmore for an auction and a dinner for a fundraiser for Carter and Steph. It was absolutely amazing!!! I was crying the whole time because I was so happy for them and so grateful for all the donations. The people in Fillmore are absolutely amazing.. Tomorrow we are headed to Salt Lake for Steph's endownment day and then its the wedding next week!!! I'll post more and pictures once life slows down a bit!