More first year pictures

Here are some more poctures of our wonderful first year of being married!!!

My amazing Husband

Shawn just celebrated his 23rd birthday and his is such an amzing guy. I am so very blessed to have him in my life and to have him for all eternity as my husband. Shawn has so many talents and abilities, he is such a good handy man always fixing things aound the house, he is also so smart, and is doing so great in his studies and classes, he is such a hard worker and worthy Preisthood holder, and best of all he does so good taking care of me, loving me and being my very best friend!!! I love him so much and love him more and more each day. What a lucky girl I am.

One year older and wiser too...Happy Birthday to you!!!

My handsome little husband just had a birthday! He is now 23 years old, and becoming quite an old man, even though he is 2 1/2 years younger then me. So, I decided to get Shawn a BBQ for his birthday, I bought it Friday morning (since I had his truck while he was at school) and since I had bought it a day early I had to try and hide it until Saturday. I hid it behind our little shed and Friday night he was insited on watering the lawn...and he spied his BBQ with a big bow on it and knew it was his. He has loved it so far, and we are both so excited to start Barbecuing all summer long.
For Shawn's birthday I planned alittle party with all of Shawn's family (except for Ben and Becky...sorry we wish you lived closer). His dad and fiance came down from Evanston with Necha, Josh and their girls, and then Garrett, Cynthia, Brandon, Mandy, Amanda, Ben, and Joseph, and lots of little nephwes came to help celebrate the day. We had a big BBQ with steaks and hot dogs, we all played volleyball (and I have to say that the 8 month pregnant, Mandy, was the VIP), we had yummy cupcakes, and ice cream, and then there was lots of visiting with eachother while all the kids played the day away.
Here is Grandpa Eugene taking care of the babies. Little Maggie, and 4 month old Jacob, the newest of the Platt clan...and so cute. Grandpa Eugene is the best, he always has a baby in his arms, and the kids all love him.
Once we brought the cupcakes out, the kids all swarmed around Shawn, they loved all of the colorful sprinkles on the chocolate frosting.

Shawn got a BBQ from his wonderful wife, along with a cute birthday outfit, some BBQ supplies and $ from my paretns, and an awsome 5 person tent from all of his family. We are excited to have our new tent. Thank you everyone for the tent and for all driving down to Provo to help celebrate Shawn's special day, I know that he was so happy to have everyone together for his birthday.

Camping Weekend

We decided to go camping, so we called up a few of our friends and we headed up the Provo canyon and up past Oakley and Kamas and decided to stop and camp close to our friends cabin. We had a great time eating yummy foil diners and making s'mores at night, then it got freezing so we decided to try to warm up in our tents. By morning we were nice and hot from the sun outside and our double sleeping bag we got for Christmas from Shawn's dad.
Here are a few of our friends with us hanging out on a bridge that crossed over a river that was next to our camping spot.
And here is my husband trying his hand at fishing, he didn't have much success...but he did catch this stick!
And he is Shawn playing an ax game with some of his buddies, I guess the point of the game was to see who could make the ax stick into the side of the tree more times...oh the joy of being a boy!
We had such a great camping weekend and we look forward to some more this summer.

Crafty-Crafty

I quickly wanted to post, my newest addition to my scrapbook/study room that Shawn and I have in our little home. About 2 months ago Shawn built me my ribbon holder and then after that he hung some wires on the wall, and I got some little clips and I thought it would be fun to hang some fun scrapbook pages...1 for each month. So, I have a page for Jan - Dec with a picture of Shawn and I on each page. I think it turned out cute. I am thankful for my handy-man husband!

Rollerbalde tragedy!

Shawn wanted to get out and do something fun this weekend because the sun is finally out and hopefully here to stay. So, I got onto BYU's "Outdoors Unlimited" site which rents out lots of fun equipment for cheap. I saw that they rented out roller blades, so I decided that would be our fun activity on Saturday. My dear husband has always bragged about his "super-cool" days in middle school when him and all his friends would spend hours and hours roller blading and doing "rad tricks." I have always teased him about his roller blading days, well now the tables have turned and he can start teasing me, because I suck at rollerblading. But before I go on I have to say that I grew up on a farm where we did not have nice sidewalks or parking lots or concrete to roller blade on, so in my defense I have never been on roller blades in my life. So, we went and got our roller blades and brought them home so we could "blade" (is that the correct word?) on the trail behind our house. I got decked out in all my gear and with all my pads on, and Shawn was so embarrassed that I took them off before I actually went out. So, we start down the trail that follows a little river that flows into Utah Lake, and I am not doing very well, so Shawn teaches me how to "push out" as he called it, I started doing better...until we hit a couple little inclines that go under the roads and freeway. I was very nervous and scared so instead I just walked down the side in the grass. Then we get to a very scary part in the trail where it curves down in a spiral down under the road...I was not going to even attempt this, especially since I still had not figured out how to use the brakes. So, I was to cross the street and go into a parking lot and wait for Shawn there while he was brave went down the spiral tunnel. Well, the dumb parking lot was at an incline itself and I started going down it, when I car pulled in and started to cut me off, I didn't know what to do so I crashed very very hard. I was on the ground and a whole bunch of people were all standing and watching me and know one offered to help and Shawn was not there. It was all very sad.

Once Shawn finally came to rescue me, I was crying and very hurt. I had scraped up my elbow, both my hands had gravel in bedded in them, I ripped my shorts, and my whole right leg scraped and bleeding and now I have a huge bruise on my bum and right hip. And the worst part of all is that I had to roller blade all the way back to our house. As soon as I got home I took my Rollerblade off and gave them to Shawn to take back...I was done. And I have now came to the conclusion that I do NOT like roller blades and I will probably never use them again, even though Shawn said "I was starting to get better!"

Exciting news!

I just wanted to share some exciting news. Blake and Savannah are officially engaged. Blake proposed last Saturday and they are going to get married in the Rexburg, Idaho Temple on August 15.
We are so excited to have Savannah join the family!!!