He's home!!!

 

 

Elder Zach Dastrup has returned home after a 2 year mission in Fresno, California. He was greatly missed!!! Here Nate and I are waiting anxiously for Zach to come down the stairs... never been so excited!

It's SUPER dark and blurry... but we were obviously too excited to see him to pay any attention to the camera. He's home!!! Greatest hug of all time!

Zach filling out the last circle on his missionary count down

At his homecoming. He did an AMAZING job!

And of course... Roxy had to come and play too.

My husband

Yesterday I had the best birthday I've had in 24 years. I honestly have the most amazing husband in the world. I can't thank him enough for all that he does for me. He made my birthday SO special that I want to share it all with you. Here is each surprise he did for me throughout the day.

Surprise #1- He decorated our house so cute!!! (mind you, he woke up early before I woke up to do all of this... very sneaky)

Surprise #2- Nate surprised me with my favorite NFL team hoodie! GO COLTS! (and yes, he made me wear that birthday hat...)

Surprise #3- He told me to be ready by 11:30 am so we could go to our next activity. He then pulled up to Jordan Commons with tickets to "Easy A" (The show I've been wanting to see for a very long time!) Picture taken while waiting for the movie to begin. Surprise #4- Nate earlier in the day had asked me where my wallet was. It wasn't until this moment that I found out why he wanted it. He put $$$ all fanned out inside my wallet and wrapped it up. He gave it to me when we got back to our car after the movie. He then drove me to the mall to spend all the money!!! He knows how much I LOVE shopping.

The money Nate gave me shortly turned into this...

Surprise #5- Nate took me to my very favorite restaurant, The Olive Garden. SO YUMMY! As we were waiting for our table to be ready, my 3 best friends walked in!! Nate had made arrangements for them to meet us there to celebrate my birthday! Jess, Katie, Addie and her hubby Sam all made the last part of my birthday the best! We had a blast sitting at dinner for hours just talking and laughing.

I am the luckiest girl in the world. I have a wonderful husband who I love with all my heart and friends who I couldn't live without. Thank you to everyone who made my day so special and memorable.

Some of you may laugh at this post... however it is no joke. :) Last week we celebrated my puppy Roxy's 1st B-day! Until Nate decides to give me a baby, I will probably continue to treat my dog as a baby and spoil her like no other. Kinda sad, I know :) ha ha But we love her so much. She has truely become apart of our family that we could never live without. She brings so much joy into our lives. HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROXY!!! Here are just a few of the pics we took of her opening up presents and celebrating her big day.

She loves to open her presents. So cute!


More bones... of course.
She HATED posing for this picture. But she did it just for her mom :)
One happy little puppy!

Pround Parents. Love you Roxy girl!

Lately :)

I've been SO busy lately to even think about updating our blog... but realized how much I love looking at other peoples' blogs. So here it goes, our life lately has consisted of:

*We celebrated my little brother Tanner's birthday. He's 17 years old! So crazy. Happy Birthday Tanner! Love you tonz.

* My dad, Tanner, and Nate went on a last minute trip to California to pick up a new boat. It's so sweet! So we took it out for a spin the day after they got home and had a blast!

It's a tradition that whoever surfs, has to wear the neon orange hat.

* On the 4th of July, Nate and I decided to our own thing this year and just do fireworks ourselves. We brought along Roxy for her first time to see how she'd react to it. This is what happened.

Here she is VERY interested in what is going on.

After the first firework went off, she FREAKED OUT!

Followed by her jumping on my lap for some comfort from the fireworks.

And then... ended up under the car. ha ha poor thing.

*Nate works downtown, so every once in a while when I'm off of work, Roxy and I will meet him for lunch at Memory Grove. Roxy loves to play in the little pond and with all the other dogs. This is her favorite thing to do. It is so fun to watch her.

* Nate has a new hobby that he has become, well, obsessed with. It's fishing! He goes any few second he has. Not gonna lie, I got alittle jealous. So I bought myself a fishing license! ha ha. Next thing I know, Nate bought me a bright pink fishing pole! It's so stinkin cute!

*Last, but not least... I have the most amazing husband in the world! After almost one year and a a half of marriage, we have yet to have cable tv. This has been very hard for me, considering the family of all boys that I come from where the TV is on 24/7. Anyways, we finally ordered DISH. Nate decided to make a fun night out of it. So when I got home, this is what I walked into.

The red carpet with all of my favorite actors/actresses names on stars.

With ours at the end :)

Then with a TV dinner to watch in front of the TV. (This was my very first TV dinner ever... and it was NASTY. But the thought was so cute! )

At th end of the red carpt, there was our table in the middle of the family room with candles. So we sat in front of the TV and ate our TV dinners. It was so cute and thoughtful of him. YAY for TV!!!

Our HUGE fight!

So the other night, I noticed Nate was in our den reading. I decided to sit at my desk next to him and write Zach on his mission. Before I knew it, this is what happened...

He OBVIOUSLY got me so much worse than I got him, but it was a blast! I'm so grateful I have a husband who is fun and can play around. I love him so much.

A little worn out after the fight! ha ha

BAHAMAS!!!!

Last week, I surprised Nate (well almost a surprise) to a Bahamas Cruise. It was SO much fun! It's always nice to get away from the real world and spend all week together. We get along best when we are on vacation :) So first of all, many of you knew that i planned this all by myself and was going to surprise Nate. Well, I made it 4 months of planning and telling family and friends about this trip without Nate finding out. I was very secret about everything. It was kinda fun. Well, we landed in Florida and Nate still had no idea. I go and talk to our taxi driver while Nate was grabbing our bags and I told the taxi guy where we wanted to go and that it was a surprise. He nodded and seemed like he understood... WRONG! As soon we got into the taxi, he blew it! "You goin on a cruise" he said. I was so upset that I wouldn't even look at Nate. It was kinda funny that he found out that way though. Oh well. The trip turned out perfect and I wouldn't have changed it for anything! Here are some pics of our adventure. Enjoy!

Our room was decorated for our anniversary!

The sweet statue we found :)

Formal night where our server sang "Happy Anniversary" to us. It was so sweet. :) They even gave us a piece of cake to celebrate.

Our ice cream that we ate ALL DAY LONG! So good!

Best night ever!

ATLANTIS... SO COOL!

Gettin our tan on at Coco Cay