tag smag...

Looks like I was tagged.. I hate these things!
How to play this game of tag: Post these rules on your blog. List: 3 joys, 3 fears, 3 goals, 3 current obsessions/collections, 3 random surprising facts about yourself. Tag 5 people at the end of your post by leaving their names.

Joys:
1. being with my hubby
2. playing games with the family
3. reading

Fears:
1. bugs
2. bugs
3. bugs

Goals:
1. write in my journal daily
2. become a better cook
3. get an education

Current Obsessions:
1. Craig's list
2. blogging
3. playing Mexican Train

Surprising facts about myself:
1. I love fashion (even though I am never in style)
2. I always speak my mind and sometimes get in trouble for it!!
3. I could read all day every day

I tag whoever feels the need to share something about themselves!
XOXO

and now we're back

for the last 2 1/2 weeks andrew and i have been at family reunions, back to back. one being in provo utah and the other at the oregon coast! and now here we are back in boise, jobless and tired...

let me tell you alittle of what happened at each. first we went to andrew's family reunion which was in provo. it was the first time that we had officially all been together since his parent's returned from their mission in brazil. it was a lot of fun. we stayed in a masion that was big enough to fit us all. (a total of ) so it was nice to see them all. so one of the days we went to the building that had a lot of those big blown up jumpy castles. it was so fun there were big jumpy slides and obstacle ones. andrew and i had so much fun. a lot of the days we swam and just hung out. it was so nice to relax! we went to BYU one day and walked around campus for a while. i had never been there so that was neat. we went to out to eat a few times and everything was really good. after this wonderful family reunion we returned to boise for one night only to embark on another family reunion the next day.

off we went to the oregon coast with my family. we drove with my parents because gas is so expensive. so there was andrew and i my mom and monte and then tonnns of food and suitcases in the back. so on the way there we saw lots of wind surfers and kite surfers. it was really cool. so we had to pick one of my brother's up from the portland airport. so then it was even more squished. we finally made it to our rental house which was really neat. it was three stories high and had everything you could imagine. it was amazing. just a few feet from it was the ocean. outside our widow you could see it and go stand out on the balcony. it was so pretty. everybody came except for one of my brothers and his family.. those party poopers. we did a lot of fun things. one day we went down to the pier in newport oregon, another day we went to the aquarim, we went to play in the ocean, we had good food and good company. we went to tillamook where there was this really cool steam train. the kiddies loved it. we then had lunch at the tillamook cheese factory and had some of their delicious jerky. everynight we would play games into the wee hours of the morning... that's something that my family does best. it was really just such a blast!

we are just so thankful for family and the love that we feel from them. we are so grateful for the support and love they give us. it was nice to renew friendships and meet new members of the family. it's hard to be back and not on vacation anymore. anyways thanks for the amazing two weeks we had moms and dads. we love and appreciate you guys sooooo much.
XOXO

WOOOOOHOOOO

it finally came! my honey's graduation!!!!! after all this time, trials, long hours of school/homework, and just plain exhaustion... he did it. so on july 18, 2008 andrew redd bertasso graduated with his bachelors in communications.
andrew's parents came into town for his graduation. it was wonderful to see them (they have been mission presidents in brazil for the last 3 years, they just came back the beginning of july.)we spent the day with them shopping and "getting to know them again," after that we went to dinner and andrew's older sister carrie and her 3 kids were there. (her husband was out of town at the time) it was really fun and i think we all enjoyed it. the next day andrew went to school and then came home to pack before graduation.
for those of you who don't know we are moving to boise for the time being. we are hoping that job hiring goes better in the fall. andrew has 2 phone interviews on monday and we are processed through another job. so things might be looking up.
i have decided that packing is the worst. we both hate it and have vowed to move as few times as we can.
anyways i am so proud of andrew and all he did and went through to graduate. he is so wonderful and i cannot wait to start our "new" lives somewhere else then college. we're going to meet new friends and experience new things together. what a wonderful feeling for us both. i love you andrew, thanks for putting up with me and putting up with all this school so we can start a family and get on with our careers.
xoxo

yummy yummy in our tummies

our friends bree and jesse had decided that since we had never been to big jud's they wanted to go with us. neither of us had never been, it's funny because they even have a big jud's in boise and my friends used to go all the time. i some how always skipped out. so tonight we went to big jud's and it was so packed but we decided that we weren't in any hurry. it took about an hour an a half just to get our fries. we all shoved them down our throats... then finally our 1 POUND burger came. andrew and i shared it and only ate half of it. we were so full and had forgotten that we even got a big ice cream cone afterwards. i couldn't even finish my 1/4 of the hamburger or half of my ice cream. i'm weak. anyways it was delicious and i would defiantly go back when it wasn't so busy!

for the fourth of july we went to go to island park to hang out with my grandpa. he lives all by himself in the summer. so we took him to yellowstone. we went through the yellowstone park some more and then they were having a BBQ at the rec park. we ate and settled in the park to wait for the fireworks show. it was our first time in the west yellowstone seeing the fireworks, the show was better then we all thought it would be. this dumb girl kept standing right in front of us all, ah i was so mad, but than had to remember why we were even celebrating the 4th.
here are a few pictures of first experience....
xoxo

dear ol gramps
my name written in my favorite thing ever... fry sauce

pop goes the air bag

just like every morning i head to the gym do my workout and get ready to drive back home so i can begin my day... today was almost the same as every other day, but we had a little set back. in the gym parking lot, there is a lot of construction going on, as i went to grab my water i looked down for one second. all the sudden i hear scraping of the bottom of our little suzuki then POP, the air bag exploded on my arm. i screamed bloody murder and pulled over. i was afraid i had broken my arm since it is so fragile (i have broken it 3 different times) i searched for my phone and finally found it. i called andrew crying like a crazy woman. since we only have one car and live on the other side of the freeway, andrew told me to stay there and he'd be right over. my poor husband had to jump the freeway and run over to where i was. he got there and i was a mess. now that i think about it, it's kinda funny, but at the time i was shaking and freaking out. everything is ok my arm isn't broken but i have a rash and bruise.
we went back to take some pictures just in case we decided to do something. we found a part of our car there. haha seriously this would only happen to me... when i talked to my mom she was worried but she when i talked to her later she said she had been giggling all day cuz she knew this would never happen to anyone else.
anyways i thought i would just share this little mishap with you..
xoxo

good ol gramps

wednesday my grandpa called me and told me that ever since i married that boy i haven't been to visit that often. (don't get me wrong he loves andrew, but misses his family) so on friday andrew and i left to go to island park. my grandpa lives in his cabin during the summer and he gets pretty lonely. andrew loves to take pictures and so we left extra early knowing that dinner was at 6 for grandpa. we took some other roads and andrew took pictures. it was a nice drive and we actually got to talk about everything we wanted to. (it's hard with andrew being in school and me working. we are always super busy and never get to spend time together so it was REALLY WONDERFUL!!) we arrived at the cabin and grandpa was ready to go. he wanted to go out... lets see, so our options were cafe inn and subway. awesome. we decided on cafe inn. it was seriously delicious. we went home and watched the news and gramps was off to bed. andrew and i had a tossful, turnful night. it was awful... andrew got up at 5 and went to take pictures. so when he got back i got up and we went to yellowstone. gramps decided he wanted to go as well. so when it was getting around lunch time gramps kept saying, "up here they have a really good biscuit." we finally got to the the little town inside yellowstone. we ended up at the general store to get our biscuits. gramps favorite was the frozen cheeseburger that he had to heat up in the microwave... ps he has no teeth and didn't bring his dentures. he's so cute and chowed it down like a pro. andrew and i shared the most horrible sandwich. oh grandpa and his biscuit. we headed back to island park and everything was so much fun. i'm pretty sure grandpa had a good day. yellowstone was so beautiful and there was elk and buffalo everywhere.

now we're back in rexburg and am hoping for a good night's sleep. my pictures are never as good as andrew's but i like sharing my lovely work ;)

this video is of the upper falls in yellowstone. it was amazing!

these lovely buffalos were just walking in the street holding up traffic for like 30 minutes. they decided to just mosey on down the street. it was pretty fun.

xoxo

love is in the air

saturday our one of our best friends got married to a really amazing guy. the date was 06-07-08 which is really cool i think! it was kind of a cold day but everything turned out beautiful. we had a nice BBQ after the wedding and it was a lot of fun. the wedding party was small and so you could feel the love.

everytime i go to a wedding it always reminds me of the vows andrew and i made on our wedding day. i am such a cry baby and i was bawling during the whole ceremony. i just love weddings and the way they remind me of how right it was to get married and how much we loved and still love eachother. here is some pictures of the wedding....

this is bree and jesse before they become husband and wife

during the ceremony when they just exchanged rings

now the mr and mrs dexterhere's a picture of andrew and i at the BBQthis is jana, bree, and of course me. we are bree's besties
xoxo