Anniversary, Birthday, and Baby Bump

We have been enjoying ourselves in Bear Lake. We are staying busy working and spending time with Chuck, Ginger, Zailey, Zenick, and Zaxton. On May 30th we celebrated our 2nd Anniversary. We had a lot of fun, on Saturday Chuck and Ginger took us out to get Breakfast, it was very nice of them and we really enjoyed the food. Then on Monday we slept in and Joey made breakfast. We lounged around most the morning then in the afternoon we went and got massages! This was amazing especially since it was cold outside and there wasn't much more that we could do. After massages we went to the Bear Trapper and had dinner. Then we went and hung out at a Cabin and watched our favorite TV show Psych while eating a Raspberry Lime shake. It was a wonderful day spending time with Joey.

June 6th is my Birthday so we went to Logan to spend some time with my family and to get some errands done. I got a wonderful present from Kelly, Leah, Tegan and Kayci. It is a Willow Tree Figurine, I absolutely love it. Thanks again. Also my mom is going to take me shopping for Maternity clothes for my birthday on our next trip to Logan, so if you know where to shop for Maternity Clothes let me know! For dinner my parents bought Pier 49 Pizza. It was good I miss having BBQ Chicken pizza from there on a regular basis. hehe. Then we headed back to Garden City where Chuck, Ginger, Randi, Jaimee, and Brian had cake and ice cream for us. It was fun to celebrate with them. After that we headed back to the trailer where Joey had a porch swing setup in our living room to watch a movie. He had originally planned on having the porch swing setup at the lookout in Logan Canyon when you enter Garden City but it was raining on and off all day. We did see a beautiful rainbow on our way in over the lake.

Present from Kelly, Leah, Tegan and Kayci

Gift from Laura and the rest of the Cluff Family.

Rainbow on our drive back to Garden City

Joey has finally agreed that I have a baby bump so here are some pictures of 17 weeks along. Sorry our camera isn't the best quality. Luckily we just bought one so we should have some better pictures coming soon. Also we find out what gender the baby is on June 16th! Can't wait.

Part 2: Explanation

So you guessed right and the rumors are true!

Joey and I love Prego Sauce.....oh wait no that isn't it.

Oh yeah, we are Pregnant! We are expecting a beautiful baby to become a part of our family on November 9th, 2011. Although Joey is hoping that the baby will come on Nov. 11, 2011, which we told our doctor and she said that she will do all she can to make this happen, hehe.

I am 15 weeks pregnant which means I am in my second trimester. I was pretty lucky and didn't get too sick in the first trimester, just a little bit of morning sickness but I was able to keep it calm if I kept eating little meals/snacks throughout the day. I feel like I am showing but Joey just laughs at me.

We have already had an ultrasound and seen the squirmy little baby and heard its heart beat. It was an amazing experience and made it finally feel real. We are super excited, we will start posting pictures of my baby bump as soon as Joey agrees that I have one!

UPDATE: In the graduatation blog post I forgot to say what our majors were. Joey graduated with a Bachelors of Science in Management with an emphasis in Entrepreneurship. I graduated with a Bachelors of Science in Family Consumer and Human Development with an emphasis in Family and Community Services. Joey and I are now living in Bear Lake for the summer.

Graduation: Utah State University 2011

Joey and I are officially graduates from Utah State University. I have been done since Dec. but they only do a Spring Commencement and Graduation so Joey and I were able to graduate together. He finished up his semester with all A's which I am very proud of him. He had a busy and stressful semester full of projects and case studies. I didn't really see the point in walking, but I told Joey that if we could find me a cap and gown I would walk. We both had friends with a cap and gown that they let us borrow so we did it. At commencement Joey and I sat across from each other so we were able to sit and make faces at one another. After commencement we waited for my parent's to bring us food (Thank You so much I don't think I would have made it without food). The School of Business was walking at 12 and the Education College was walking at 2. We were planning on having a long day. Well, Joey went to go get his name and find out where he needed to line up when we heard that I could walk with him. We weren't sure if this meant that I could just walk up with him or meant I could walk then and receive my diploma cover. We found out that it meant I would receive my diploma cover so that I did not have to walk during the Education College Ceremony. This actually worked out quite nicely because we were able to sit together during the ceremony, I know the Dean and most of the Professors in the School of Business where I would have only known one of the Professors in the Education Ceremony. It was definitely a wonderful experience to be able to walk together!

Joey is the first sibling in his family to graduate from college so this was a pretty big deal for him. Congratulations Joey, I love you!

We should have gotten rid of the 2nd 'E' in 'MEET' :)

Do you like Joey's green shoes?

Celebrate good times!

Whoopty wooo!

Us sitting in the Spectrum about to walk.

Thank you to my mom and dad for taking our pictures! Also thank you to Joey's parents for coming up and sharing the day with us! 

Part 1: The Video

Joey and I made a video a while ago on YouTube and wanted to share it with everyone.

Here is the link in case the video doesn't work. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWwnZ-Aa2qg

Part 2: The Explanation will be coming in the next couple of days as well as a Graduation Day post. Joey is finally done with school and we were both able to walk together on Saturday.

What are we doing this summer? Bear Lake Cabin Rentals and sun

My brother and sister in law, Chuck and Ginger, own a cabin rental/property management business in Bear Lake called Bear Lake Cabin Rentals.  Last year they were very busy and now they have added even more cabins to the rental pool, so they have hired Emily and I to help take off some of the load.  We are very excited.  Our first summer after we were married was spent in Bear Lake, so it will be fun to be back up there.  I am especially excited.  As a soon-to-be college grad with a degree in business entrepreneurship, working in a start-up company is a lot of fun for me.  I get to wear multiple hats, implement some new things I've learned, and all that good stuff.  One thing I will be helping with a lot is doing more online marketing, especially through social media such as Facebook and Twitter.  Chuck and Ginger work really hard to make their customers happy, so it will be a great working environment.  If you know of anyone who needs a cabin this summer in Bear Lake send them our way (www.BearLakeCabinRentals.com)

We may not get out on the lake much this summer, but we'll definitely have fun and get a nice tan.

Follow us on twitter: @gobearlake and @bearlakecabins
Like us on Facebook: Bear Lake Cabin Rentals

And come to visit us if you can!  Life is good.

Sandbagging for homes along the Logan River

Emily and I signed up to go help sandbag along the river in Logan.  It was good fun.  We made about 700 bags.  I sat by the big truck with the sand and put the bags in the right spot for the sand to fill it up and then passed it off to be tied shut and then the bag was passed down (with Emily's help) to the stack.  If you've never sandbagged, it's a fun little activity.

Emily and the sandbags she stacked, with the river in the back. If you can see the orange stick, that is how high they need to stack the sandbags because that is how high the river might get.

Spring Break and Good News

This past week was Spring Break for Joey so we headed up to Bear Lake to work for the week. We actually had a lot of fun. We have been going up to Bear Lake on our free weekends to help Chuck and Ginger (Joey's brother and sister-in-law) work on their house. The original remodeling was for the master bathroom but since the house is full of construction supplies and they are living somewhere else for the time being they decided that they wanted to change the texture of the walls and do some other small projects. We spent the week painting closets and skimming and adding texture to the walls and ceilings of the master bedroom, kitchen, and the living room.While there we had a power outage one night, it didn't last too long but it was still fun to sit around in the dark talking about how long we would last without electricity.
Spring Break can't all be about work so we had to have some fun. We invited a bunch of people up to Bear Lake to stay at a cabin and have a movie marathon. Friday ended up being Joey and I just hanging around watching Psych but that night we had some friends show up and we watched movies and chowed down on snacks! It was a lot of fun.

Saturday Morning we saw Moose on the side of the road.

Saturday night we had a Birthday Party for 3 babies turning 1 year old. It was a lot of fun to see all the presents they got and to watch them "eat" their cake. Zaxton and James were a little hesitant and didn't want anything to do with the cake, while Gracie was having fun shoving her hands into the cake.

Zaxton, Gracie, and James with their cake.

Acting a little more interested.

Now to the Good News:

  While we were in Ghana, Joey gave a loan to Dompreh who was the manager of a Pharmacy in Abomosu. We got news the other day that he has paid off his loan! We were super excited to hear this wonderful news! We have also got updates on the other loans, almost everyone is making their monthly payments only with a few who have missed a payment here or there but everything looks very optimistic except for the loan for a Sugar Cane farm for Ben Boadu. The rainy season was very bad for him and his farm was flooded and he was unable to save his crops. His family has moved to Accra the Capital of Ghana to find work and Ben still travels to Abomosu once a week to check on his farm and see if there is anything he can do. We knew the farm would be a hit or a miss but since many of the loan candidates were looking into expanding their farms we thought it would be worth while to loan one farm to see how beneficial it would be.

Dompreh's Pharmacy

Abbie, Spencer, Dompreh, Joey, and Em