While tanner was still in afganistan. He told me he planned a Surprise birthday/anniversary since he missed those things. We successfully waited for the actual surprise. It was so fun and may i add he did a pretty good job planning. he scrapbooked the itinerary. (i love his creativity) the day we started we Went shopping at the outlets, Ate dinner at Red Banjo on mainstreet. (pizza and pasta) we ordered the silver king. then went to the rocky mountain chocolate factory for dessert. second day at breakfast at the romantic burger king. lol tanner ordered in room 1 hour massages. It was heaven. the girls did amazing job. it was my first massage and i love it. then we went back down mainstreet cause i love that place and i love the fall leaves down there. after we went to tj max for a bit more shopping. then got icecream and hot cocoa and 2 red box and went back to our hotel. I STAYED AWAKE FOR TWO FULL MOVIES. thats a big deal. lol and the next day ate breakfast at kneaders and went home. I loved my get away with him Tanner is doing awesome so far. its been a bit over two weeks and we are loving our time together. we have so much fun laughing, cuddling, hanging out, talking, and catching up on old times. I love him so much.

the sweet itinerary.
isnt this such a fun fence?

MY handsome
I love Tanner and I love fall leaves in P.C
some random vacant patio with coke stools, tables and umbrella's.
Wonderful getaway with the ONe WHom I LOvE

"OUR PLACE"

Tanner chuckin his rocks.

One friday we decided to take a walk. Now if you know me and tanner you know we love DAYBREAK. well we came around the bend and saw a million seaguls. The child in tanner just had to throw a rock at them. so He threw a small rock and sure enough all the seagulls arose all together and started flying around and squacking. well we didnt have the camera dang it. so we waited till sunday to come back. well we didnt see many birds in the first part of the lake so we kept on walking. and came to this part. well we threw many rocks and the birds must have been immune. cause they didnt do awhole lot. so i said lets just sit here for awhile im sure something will happen. a husband and wife decided to go canoeing and as soon as they threw their canoe in the water the birds all arose together and once again flew in circles. its so awesome!! I just love having tanner home with me. going back to daybreak on our weekly walks.

Ducks, seagulls, and geese chillen

Here they are right as the canoe landed in the water
Flying around in circles
Birds in Flight
AHHHH they are going to poop on me

Me just chillen in the nice fall weather with my husband.

I love you tanner

LAST GIRLS NIGHT

All of a sudden Anne and I realized OH MY the guys are coming home pretty soon we better do one last girls night. But we were both so busy and didnt have much time so we chose to have BREAKFAST FOR DINNER. it was fun and quick. Well I love these girls and the three lil ones did AMAZING during their daddies deployment. THey def had rough days but all in all i think they did great. So i decided to make them hot pink posters telling them how much i love them along with a bag of ring pops cause what little girl doesnt like those? we have had a blast during the 16 months our guys have been gone and we have had sad times and awnery times. We are BFF's
EMMA modeling fashionista
laura. and her treat was the push up sucker in the other photo and boy did she love it!
savannah she loves getting her picture taken i took about 5
Sweet emma
and Savannah also loves!!! to take photos
Cute laura
Savannah was so into her hot chocolate.

Thanks again girls for being my best friend through such a hard year. I wouldnt have gotten through it without you guys.

BEST DAY

I woke up october 15th. I felt the same exact way i did August 7th. Our wedding day. I could not have been more excited, relieved, more at peace, happy, and full of motivation than i did this morning. I sent tanner to his first training july 10th 2010, and said good bye 5 different times. It was prob the hardest, saddest, draining year of my life. I have so much pride. I love tanner so much my words could not explain. I dreamed of this day the way most girls dream of their wedding day. and it turned out 100 percent what i had hoped for. seeing tanner for the first time was soooo happy. as i watched the airplane fly into hill air force base i got all teary eyed. WE did it is what first came to mind. at times i didnt think i could make it. i prayed some days 5 times. asking for the safety of tanner and his battle buddies. I was truly blessed. i know tanner was watched after. i know my prayers were answered. Me and tanner survived our last deployment together. It feels soooo amazing. I will never have to go through that again. Tanner I love you
I love this picture.

we are so Happy to be in each others arms again.

I have so many people to thank. My mom and dad supported perfect. My mom never let me leave without giving me a huge hug since tanner wasnt here to do so. my dad was always so upbeat and happy. and always asked how SWEETY (tanner) was. tanners parents and family. His mom always hand delivered my flowers for tanner each holiday. i could not have survived without these to families. always took care of me. My room mates for always checking on me and keeping me involved. whitney especially. She cooked me dinner so many times and always came to my house to keep me company. of course tanner. he called very often and did his best keeping our marriage afloat. and my church members. going to church each week would motivate me for the following week. and so many other people. i love everyone who helped me. i will admit i was not always the nicest person. you would be able to tell if i was very stressed or had a bad conversation with tanner cause would be very awnery. but i am now very happy and motivated. i can now say I LOVE MY LIFE.

rest in peace ARRUDA

I am a proud wife of Tanner Nelsen. I have been supporting him in the army for 7 years now. He is my Hero. I am sooooo in love with him. He is such a sweet husband and has done a wonderful job of supporting me through 2 deployments. I can always feel his love for me. He has lost One of his Amazing battle buddies. what a strong set of guys he is with. Every one of them are amazing. It will be a rough road ahead, how ever CPL ARRUDA Will never be forgotten. I love our soldiers and will always support them.

I hope you enjoy this movie i made of the funeral. I got permission from his father to video tape and take photos. I made this on behalf of our soldiers still in afghanistan fighting. we pray for your comfort and safety.

Tanner I love you with all my heart. You are my best friend and forever my HERO

P.s I hope this copy will show up good. The one i have on my computer is the actual one.sometimes blogs dont present the best quality.

Flowers for grandma and Ring

So me and tanner decided to get his grandma some flowers. I had been wanting to do so for a few months. well I finally did. Isnt she so cute? and she just loved them. And i was able to sit and chat with her for a while. i love talking with grandmas especially about when they were my age its so great to hear how it was in their generation. Tanner I love you so much and your grandma absolutely loves them.

Ok so Me and tanner both suck at surprises. WE just get so dang excited!!! so one day he said so i bought you a surprise and the next day he said "so do you want to know what i got you? cause im so excited." lol i just love him. he told me he got me a ring. Now tanner Loves getting me authentic jewelry from where he deploys and i SO love it. He just puts so much thought into what he gets me. When he was in iraq he got me awesome necklaces and earings i love them. so luckily our friend tim came home on R.R and tanner sent the ring with him so i would get it sooner. Well friday came and TA DA isnt it so cute? hand made from afghanistan. Tanner told me they go hunting through the mountains around there for the gems. I Just jewelry from places like iraq and afghanistan knowing the conditions of the place. And i love tanner so very much for his thoughtfulness in always thinking what he can get me. Tanner if you read this your my best friend!! thank you so much.

VINTAGE STEREO CABINET

DO IT YOURSELF PROJECT DAY

It was so much fun to get together with my dear friend Keesha. We explored many D.I's this day. One in salt lake and then one on Highland drive (which was so hard for us to find. Luckily we didn't give up cause this is where i found My awesome find. A lamp. We spray painted frames, made a lamp and i tried to get a mirror out which ended in me breaking the mirror and slashing my thumb. dont worry i got it all on film. for tanner of course. ( again im sorry for breakin it keesh:)
I love Blog land. I have seen these super cute stereo cabinets all over different blogs. Well i decided i really wanted one. i was done having that large entertainment center in my house. so I had been searching the D.I. for a while and ksl. No luck for a few weeks. one morning i thought ok i guess i will call jen ( she is the ksl queen and can find anything. see that green end table she found that for me for just 5 dollars) anyways i call her and explain what i want. Her reply "oh ya i found one yesterday for 25 dollars." oh my heck are you serious? luckily i found out that yep it hadnt sold it was totally meant to be mine. So here is the before. I love it.
got so excited about this that i didnt get a total before. the whole thing was hideous brass. 6 dollars at the highland D.I
And same with this frame. brass. I got this from a yard sale for 2 dollars. OH HEY!!!!
Almost done. I am loving it.
The beginning of a huge project.

First things first i had to sand the whole thing. I then vacuumed most of it before washing it.
Two coats of primer.
Two coats of cream. Don't ya just love the record player and Vintage radio? I do.
Then every idea i had for the speaker boxes had cost alot so i came up with this idea. This is plastic shield for your ceiling lights. 4 dollars I was going to leave it clear but then i thought maybe it would look cheap so i decided to test and see if it was paintable. of course it was. so i primed it and painted. and antiqued a bit.
Here it is all done. I love love it. However we have an old box t.v so it looks ghetto on top. Possibly tanner will want to buy an updated tv when he arrives home to see me. 29 dollars total. Gotta love projects that keep me busy for 2 weeks while tanner is serving our country.
Dont you just love the detail. I sure do however it is a pain to paint it. I didnt enjoy that part.

Here is my finished lamp. dont those blocks make you smile? they put a huge smile on my face
And here is my 2 dollar frame. So freakin cute.
The End.