Costo with David

Costco has always been a chore for David but he learned that the shopping had to be done and that I really appreciated it when he came with me, so he tries to entertain himself along the way.




If I am walking and don't hear David follow behind I know that he is just trying to entertain himself in someway.
Like pretending to go to the bathroom in the middle of the store.

Or....Wearing a fur cape



I turned around just in time to see David like a nephite with a bear skin cape. This of course it just a typical visit to costco with David. I was just glad that I had my camera in my purse to capture it this time.
I got to admit David sure does make like fun!
I love him, I love him, I love him!

2 WEEKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Two weeks is all we had between semesters. Both me and David took summer school and had only two weeks before fall semester started and we were not going to waste it!



My Brother in law Matt invited me and David to go to Lagoon with him and his family since my sister Mandy just had her 5th baby.

It was a sacrifice to go spend a day at Lagoon but you got to do what you can for family. We were so excited we could barely sleep the night before.





















This is one of my favorite shots of David and the boys. Our favorite ride with them was definately the lady bug because Nathan would gritt his teeth every time the lady bug dropped it was hilarious.





























The girls were right there along for anything and everything. Eliza was tall enough to go on the rides but sometimes they would say she needed a buster seat which was even better because then we got in the buster seat line which we were usually the first in line. Loved It!
It was an awesome day I love my fam!









That next morning we left to go to a couples retreat down in St. George with all of my girlfriends and their husbands from high school. It was a blast!!!!
















Not to mention it was David and I's 1 year anniversary. I love him very much.














We went go carting and went and saw Tarzan at Tuacan. I just want to mention that David took first in go carts and I would have taken second but Harve cut me off. I won't get into it but it was ugly.


















Of course the girls stayed up the last night and played I have never. Lets just say I learned a thing or two about my friends.










That next weekend we did the annual Cottrell Bear Lake trip. It was a lot of fun! This is my cute neice Berkley playing in the sand.





































David and I decided to spend an extra night and we decided to invite Jocey because she is awsome and I was so happy when she said yes! We went and saw a movie on a huge outdoor screne and cuddled up in our sleeping bags.

We were able to get an awesome tip on a beautiful camping spot just a few miles away from Bear Lake. I am so greatful I married a man that can handle a tent and look good going it.

The beach was a lot of fun and not to mention the shakes that we get at the end courtasy of Papa Cottrell.

One of the customers at my work mentioned that he had a friend coming in town who just happened to be Dave Matthews and got us some tickets to his concert.

It was incredible. I have never scene him live but it was amazing!

He had these huge screens all over the stage. I saw a man play two sacksaphones at the same time.

We wenting shooting with Papa Cottrell and he let us test out the Judge the look on Davids face is all the explanation needed.

It was really fun watching them shoot off together. I love that I have a great father in law that lets his daugter in laws to the fun stuff too. Guns are the fun stuff fyi.

We ended the weekend on Sunday with a pasta dish that had my fresh herbs in it from my small but powerful herb garden.

can you say mmmm...........

I know life seems pretty hard for the Cottrell home. Well atleast for David he has me as a wife. Jk

Now these are just the moments with photo's we also had great bbq's with our friends like the Plehns and Tweeder (you know who you are). It was a great two weeks but it was only great do to our friends and family I love you all!!!

Soccer Time!!!!

David is an awesome banker and won us tickets to the Real game. I love soccer so I was super excited to go!

We went with our good friends Jose and Lexi who also won tickets at work. They were able to get us all jerseys so we could be ready for the game. It was a blast!

I believe this is right after Real scored their third goal which means we got free breakfast coupons. As you can see we get really into the games. This picture is sheer energy.

July Catch up

We were able to spend the 4th with our good friends, basically family, the Arbizus.

Happy 4th of July!!! We spend the first part of the day working sadly, but then we went to first works out in Sandy with the Cottrell family.

Me and Lexer were able to go and explore the tank they had on display. Surprisingly roomy

We went to San Fran and were able to go down some cardboard slides. When I went to San Fran before we spent hours looking for these slides that you slide on with cardboard. I found them though and they are crazy fun!

We also went to the boardwalk and played all day. The boys went skim boarding. We also tried a deep fried twinkie and oreo which felt so wrong but tasted so good.

My hubby getting out of the cold water after skimming with a board.

We went to this really cool fort called Fort Point that is right under the Golden Gate Bridge. It has been there since the civil war and was used during both the civil and ww2.

This one is for Ben "That is what she said"

I love food, who doesn't right? So when we went to San Fran We wanted to try everything we could. This was one of our many fun ice creams. I had this one that tasted like horchata and had snickerdoodles in it. It was so good and my bro Ricky had burnt caramel.

We took a little excursion to Alcatraz where we got put in prison. Jk. It was really fun!

This is my favorite picture of the trip! My nephew is so stinking cute but just look at his cute parents and you aren't suprised. I love love love my nephew and miss him a lot.

Bingham Family Campout 2010

Every year the Binghams go on a camping trip, it was fun that Ricky and Coreene could come and also that Jeffica was here for it this year too!

Cute Ricky and Drewby

It was fun to have both of my big brothers with me camping!

I got a new camel back and am sporting it in this picture, I love it!

My Dad is teaching David how to flay fish. It was both of our first times fly fishing pretty exciting.

Me with my cute neice Eliza during one of our many nature hikes where we looked for dinasaur bones. Shocker we didn't find any but we did find some chip munk bones.

I love my neices and nephews but I also love that my mom got all of them hats to decorate so we could always find them. My mom is a girls camp junky so their was many fun crafts for the kids. I love her!

We ended with a canooing trip that even little Abby got in on the fun. It is times like these that reminds me how blessed I am to have the family that I do. Shout out to my fam I love you!

Seagull BBQ

So last Sunday me and David decided we would BBQ for dinner. We were waiting for the charcoals in the grill to heat up so that David could put his hamburger on and I could put my chicken on. To pass the time I challenged David to a race to the swings on the playground in our court, which of course I won. No sooner did we sit down to swing when we saw a seagull on the table where our meat was sitting pigging out on Davids hamburger. We raced over screaming at the seagull but the damage was done and Davids hamburger was gone. It was at that moment that David wished he had had a gun.

This is exactly why nobody likes seagulls.

Good News Bad News

So I know I haven't blogged in a while but here is a little update about a couple good news and bad news moments.

So I thought I would try and be funny one night and put Dwight on the back of the couch and have him looking down at David while David was watching TV but David wouldn't turn around so I tried to get him too but I did a very bad job instead he got up to come talk to me and when he did Dwight fell off of the back of the couch and got decapitated. That was my bad news.
So Here is my good news!!! I know this does not look like much but this is my little herb garden that I am trying to grow in our apt. For a while I didn't think anything would grow but then I started seeing green things peep out of the soil!! I am not sure what herbs they are because my dad gave me random seeds but I will love them all the same.
PS this is my other good news David. Good news I got to marry an amazing husband, best friend and my EC David. Love him!!!!