Ashley Nelson

When thanksgiving is getting closer, it is a sign that my favorite holiday seasons are coming.  Once thanksgiving hits a whole string of events happens.  We have Birthdays and Christmas and more Birthdays then New Years, so as you can see this time of the year is my favorite! All we do is party and hangout with family, what is better than that? This year to start off the holiday season we went to Utah to be with Michael's family for Thanksgiving. They had to come down to Utah anyways to get somethings done for the business and so on, so it was a lot of fun being able to be with them for Thanksgiving. What we did: First off we visited with Michael's aunt and uncle who we are staying with for the weekend and got all settled in.   The next say was Thanksgiving and I made my favorite dish!  Sweet potatoes casserole(the kind with brown sugar and pecans and coconut).  This is my absolute favorite dish for the holidays, I could eat the whole pan if I wan...

TREVOR IS HOME!!!!  For those of you who didn't know, Trevor is my cousin who served a mission in Tonga for 2 years!! And he is finally home!! Trevor is like an older brother to me.  Even though we didn't grow up close to each other, with him being in Washington and me in Idaho, we would always be able to pick up where we left off.  Trevor has definitely always been there for me and I know he will still be there for me.  When he left for his mission though I was so proud of him and happy for the choices he was making, but I was sad that I would not be able to see him for 2 years, I new I was going to be able to e-mail him whenever I needed to, but I was still sad.  While Trevor was gone on his mission I met a guy in my Basketball class at BYU-Idaho and almost a year later I married him.  I was sad Trevor could not come to my wedding, I did feel like one of my siblings was missing.  A week or so after the wedding when I got my pictures done, I was a...

In preparation for halloween me and Michael went over to our friends Cameron and Jennie's house to carve pumpkins.  Me and Michael picked a spider to carve onto the pumpkin and cam and Jennie did frankenstein. Once we finish carving it we decided to put a glow stick in it instead of a candle this year. Got the idea from Pinterest of course. Halloween fell on a Wednesday this year, so we didn't know if we were going to be able to go to the traditional Wade family halloween party. Luckily our class schedules made it so we could go to Driggs for the night.  When we got to my parents house my mom put me straight to work making yummy halloween candies. We made carmel chocolate dipped pretzels and carmel apples.  They were soooo good, I crave carmel dipped apples all of the time. Here are some pictures of our creations. The finished product! Normally after all the kids have gone trick-or-treating or trunker treating at the church we all head over...

While in school I found this really cute old desk at a yard sell and wanted to fix it up and put it in our spare bedroom.  The lady was wanting $30 for it, but I talked her down to $15 because one of the legs was broken and I was going to have to re-paint it, so she gave it to me for that price.  I was so excited to get started! The best part about all of this is that ACE Hardware had there free pint of paint day going on, so I even got some paint for free it was awesome!  I started on my project literally 2 days after I got the desk.  I was so excited to get started on it.  Here is a picture of before and after I finished it. After having it for maybe 2 weeks, I got online and looked to see how much a BYU game would be.  When I was looking OSU happened to be playing BYU in Provo, I checked to see how much it was going to be and it was around $40.  You are probably wondering how this has anything to do with a desk I fixed up? Well I got this great ...

Our first week back into Idaho we went to Driggs to hang out with my family for the weekend before school started.  I love being able to see my family before school starts and before everything gets crazy busy. For our visit back we took Michael up to Darby Canyon, which is where we have girls camp.  It brought back so many memories of when I went there for girls camp. It was fun showing Michael around to all the camp sites we stayed in.  After showing him around we started playing on the famous Darby slide and swings that are in the meadow.  Here are some pictures of our adventure there. Oh and here is our friends the raccoon!  As we got closer to it we realized it was only a log.

We have wanted to go on a back packing trip for a long time now, so this summer we finally made plans to.  Granted it was not a very far back packing trip, but you need to start somewhere right?  We figured we better start small before we can go bigger.  Anyways we had an amazing time on our trip.  We went to a place called Opal Creek in Oregon with Cooper and Jen Trost.  The hike was  about the three miles to the spot we picked to camp out in.  I think we got the best spot out of all the places you could stop at.  This is because right below us was a river that was a few feet off the trail.  This river was the most beautiful river I have ever seen!  It was so clear you could see every little rock in the water. Also the main reason we went to this place is because it had what we called a butt slide.  There was literally a slide made from the water rushing down. Let me tell you the water was soooo cold(this is because it was glacier ...