October

Kendall left me for 3 weekends in a row in October. Once to get wood for Grandma Richards. 

Then the next weekend he went hunting in Utah with Nick and Cortney (which is where he said good-bye to MEAG). 

Nick and Cortney have two of the cutest kids I have ever seen. Kendall was telling me M could remember she saw him last on the "RESERVATION" She is really smart.  And "LITTLE" H is so HAPPY I have never seen a picture of him when he is not smiling from ear to ear.  Hear they are with Grandpa Gib.

Then the next weekend he was hunting in Utah with friends.

I just love it when my freezer is full.  and it is to the top!!!!!!

LOVE/HATE?

MEAG

I don't know if you will be missed?!?

Kendall finally got rid of his JEEP.  I still have mixed emotions about this.  My dad tells grand stories of his jeep when he was a young hellian, at the end of the stories he would say "and then you kids came along and we had to get rid of it."

REALLY? You brought us here. (this is not a hint)

So when my darlin texted me that someone actually bought it I have to admit I was sad.  We had many AMAZING ADVENTURES in that jeep. 

 *shoulder shrug* Who cares if my love had to fix it every time he drove it ANYWHERE (seriously even to wal-mart(1.5 miles away)).

I guess I am sad for many reasons that our TOY is gone. 

MAYBE.........

•  cause when we bought it I said a car seat would fit in the backseat and we will never find out.
• cause I wanted to go on one last adventure (that would probably leave us stranded in tijeras or somewhere).
• cause my puddin pop worked so hard on it, but could never get it to work properly.
• or maybe I'm just sad cause I didn't get to say good-bye cause it left my studly hunter stranded in UTAH last weekend.

HOWEVER I WILL NOT MISS THE CONSTANT CONVERSATIONS OF BIGGER TIRES OR TALLER LIFTS OR SELLING IT OR KEEPING IT OR HOW MUCH MONEY IT COSTS IN GAS JUST TO DRIVE IT!!!!!!!!

Thank you for the many ADVENTURES MEAG!

Random?!?!

I absolutly love my phone (or myself for taking pictures of things that are weird) either way I have some funny, random, pictures of things I love.

This is the cake I made for Kendall's Birthday.

He served his mission in New Jersey spanish speaking. 

One night we went to a spanish market in ABQ and he said "I always wanted to buy that cake on my mish but it was like $5 a slice."  (cheap dude)

So secretly I found a recipe online (using my phone) and gave it a try.

TRES DE LECHE

Some days I  love living in ABQ and this is one of those days, we have CRAZY WEATHER!

(this is also a picture of my school campus)

If you ever come to ABQ you have to have some CHILI!

This billboard happens to be a great interpretation to a really great burger.

One day Kendall went somewhere and he came home and told me about this billboard.

Then like 2 weeks later I got to see what he meant.  I absolutly love this!

Then we where riding together (weird) and we had to pull over and take this poorly taken pic of our favorite billboard.  I dedicate this to my LOVE!

I LOVE MY JOB!!!!!(even if it is temporary)

For my Birthday my co-workers decorated my cubical and it stayed this way for my BIRTHDAY WEEK!

They even celebrated the birthdays for the month.   

BALLOON FIESTA!

Well I still haven't gone in 5 years of living in ABQ but my company provided breakfast for everyone and we were supposed to eat it on the roof and watch the balloons but the weather didn't cooperate.  Oh well I was so excited that they would feed us.  Have I mentioned I LOVE MY JOB! (thats for my dad)

Just Have Faith

We are having a hard time figuring out what our future holds, then I think about our past.  Kendall moved to Albuquerque about 4 months before I did.  Then when I got there we had the same calling together in church (family home evening parents).  Our friendship grew and grew until it EXPLODED, I just knew I would be with Kendall forever.  I soon was forced to quit the job I moved to NM to perform and I also knew I had to stay in NM.  So I walked into my second NM job interview and was hired instantly.  2 short months later I married my best friend. 

I know without a doubt that heavenly father has a MAGNIFICENT plan for us.  I just wish he would just pick us up and put us where we are suppose to be. Maybe we are where we are supposed to be but I like to think he would like us in Utah.  I know that the next year is going to be interesting while we figure out our future, and I know that we will go where ever heavenly father wants us to go. 

Kendall is thinking about going to school, which buts me in a limbo like state.  I'm going a little crazy thinking about the possibility of going to school in Utah or stay in NM for my bachelors.  I have to keep reminding myself that heavenly father has taken such great care of us this far there is no way is going to let us make this decision alone.  For now I have applied to Anderson School of Management at the University of New Mexico and every time I look at the criteria I get more and more excited to progress with my education.   

Where were you 10 years ago?

I was trying to remember what I was doing 10 years ago when the planes hit the twin towers.  I remember taking a bath and listening to Kix 96.7 while I was in the tub, avoiding school at all costs.  Brittney gave me a ride, and the TV's where on when I got into my sewing classroom.  I don't remember feeling much. 

However, I asked Kendall what he was doing 10 years ago (knowing he was already a MARINE by then) and he said he was at the chow hall at camp pendalton.  He was talking with a fellow MARINE who also happened to be from New York.  They then started to discuss "what happens now?"  Pack your bags and leave them packed. Get ready for IRAQ.

I can't even to begin to express my thoughts of how grateful I am for my MARINE, who has risked his life for this wonderful country.  I am THANKFUL to our heavenly father who has protected Kendall so he may find the gospel and then find me.  On this date 9/11 I am sorry for the people who lost loved one because they risked and offered their lives to help people on that awful day 10 years ago.

Fall Semester has STARTED

This is going to be a short post, I just wanted to tell the world I am grateful to be alive after JUST walking through the parking lot of main campus of CNM.  I cannot wait until the student body who only enroll for classes to receive money from the government, get their checks and leave school.  I know I know I sound really awful but the parking lots are CRAZY and I look forward to them not being so crowded.  I also look forward to passing CALCULUS and STATISTICS this semester (Imma dummy for taking 2 math classes in 1 semester).  I am sorry I don't have any pictures.  Thanks for stopping by!  Oh BY THE WAY!!!! I FINALLY GOT A JOB (pending my background check and drug screen pass)!  I will start as soon as I get my paperwork done.  I will be in the AP department.  YAY ME!

Trip to UTAH

My favorite place in the world is WELLSVILLE, UTAH.  And my next favorite place in the world is ANDERSON BROTHERS RANCH, in between Lava, and Bancroft IDAHO.  (well they can be interchanged)

We left Albuquerque 8-11 @ 6 p.m.  then we drove and drove.  We went through Aztec NM this time to get to Cortez, CO. (I wish we would have seen it in the light, I sensed it was beautiful farm country).  Then we finally made it to our camp spot in an area between Monticello, and Moab.  We slept in the JEEP.  Then bright and early we continued our journey to WELLSVILLE.  When we got there my dad was ready for us to help him get ready for a REAL camping trip.  So we went to see my mom who was still at work and to the grocery store and napa auto parts and a few other places.  Then we got the camp trailor ready and OFF we went to IDAHO!

We set up camp and went to sleep.  In the morning we went to Blackfoot, ID to a POW WOW, parade and HORSE RELAY RACE (awesome).  The relay race consisted of 1 guy and 3 horses, BAREBACK.   The rider had to ride the first horse around the track then jump off at a run then jump on horse #2 also starting to run.  Then off they go around the track then he jumps off again at a run then jumps on horse #3 also starting to run. Whoever does this in the shortest time WINS! I thought this was so exciting to watch these natives jumping on a horse BAREBACK at such an alarming rate. CRAZY!!! Then we went back to camp for some HOTDOGS and MARSHMELLOWS. (and John and Ali SAVED us with some grape salad and sandwiches- love you)  Then my brother, sister-in-law and NEPHEW came.  I just love BRAXTON, he is getting so big and I am always missing him.  That night we slept in my Aunt and Uncles trailor, in their nice comfterble bed.- THANKS AGAIN BRAD AND VAL!

The next morning we fished and Brad put my worm on my hook and I tossed it over the bridge and let the current take it!

Don't mind the PJ's, I had just gotten up.

Then MOM made us breakfast. We played on Brad and Val's FOURWHEELERS, and FLOATED THE RIVER!

Needless to say we had TOO much fun at the RANCH!

On the way home we stopped at an ELK RANCH near Preston and we got to see some HUGE (say in a braxton voice) ELK!

Kendall said this was a 10X9 BIG BOY!

Monday is a BLUR (for me but I will have to get Kendall to write about his EXPERIENCE), monday night however BRAXTON spent the night with us and Tuesday we spent the WHOLE day getting wet in the ditch and even WATER BALLOONS- Love you Buddy! Wednesday Me, Kendall, MOM, DAD and BRAXTON went to BEAR LAKE! HOLY COW it was soooooo HIGH! I don't think I have ever seen it that high. 

you can't tell how high the water is from this photo because my dad is sitting under a tree by the road in charge of the camera- Love you dad!

Thursday Kendall and I went on a HIKE!

After our hike we went made a DELICIOUS lunch and watche "how to marry a millionare" with Marilyn Monroe.  Then we went to visit my GRANDMA Leatham.

Friday Kendall took me to porcupine dam to see how high it was and it was just BEAUTIFUL up there in the mountains of AVON.

  But first we had to play in the mud!

AMAZING!

Friday night we went to my aunt and uncles house to watch an OUTDOOR MOVIE!  We watched "megamind"  I absolutely loved it and Kendall bought it for me the next DAY- Love you Karma and Carl!

SATURDAY is our last real day in WELLSVILLE so we had to make the best of it!  We went to some yard sales, and the DI and to hastings, taco time for lunch.  RANDOMLY we ended up at the Franklin County Fair for about 20 minutes.  I found my future RIDE

Then to the grocery store (MACEY'S i just love to go i always see someone i haven't seen in years).  Our last supper was papa muphy's pizza ( i know lame but it was good).  - Thanks for such a FUN day MOM, ALI, AND KENDALL- LOVE YOU!

Sunday we say good-bye to my favorite place full of my favorite people(of course i bring my MOST favorite with me).  I will miss you UTAH! - Til we meet again! (I'm hoping for Christmas);)

Again I am soooo sorry this is so long but what can you expect we were gone for a week and 2 days.

New Blog for the Browns

Hey! I’m a Blogger Now!  I really hope I can keep this up, mostly so I can figure out where I’ve been and where Kendall’s money goes. HAHA.  I have been taking summer classes and I had my last final TODAY (sing today).  I was going to start this blog last week but how dumb would I be to start a blog during finals week. RIGHT real dumb. I have been asked by a friend at church “what have you been up to your never here.”  I had to think of it where have we been it seems like we are only in church every other week.  I had to think of what we have done this year and why is it FLYING BY.

Even though it didn’t (but we were there for Christmas) but I’m going to say our year started in my favorite place, WELLSVILLE, UTAH.

 

Then in January my Darlin wisked me away to Toas, New Mexico.  We had so much fun we had a suite that had 2 beds, 2 tvs, a fridge and a microwave.  Something I love about Kendall is he looks for Hotels that offer breakfast.  We went to the plaza and walked around, and to the Rio Grande Gorge, then to the ski resort to see it.  When we first got there we ate at a Mexican restaurant, Kendall of course ordered Menudo.  It was tons of fun to get away for our Forth Anniversary.

Ok so when you think of the south west you think of a huge cactus that have the giant arms, RIGHT? I thought New Mexico would have them, but it doesn’t.  So in February we went to meet Elder Tinoco in Mesa Arizona. Kendall was mission companions with him in New Jersey. I had a lot of fun hearing about New Jersey and mission life of my darlin.  He made us this tilapia and shrimp soup, delicious.  We went to dinner with them at the Bass Shop Restaurant (I clearly can’t remember what the restaurants name really was).   His mom made us breakfast of menudo (Kendall is in heaven) and we went to church.  His mom made us dinner also of tacitos, delicious.  We had a wonderful time with his parents and it was awesome getting to know him and his wife Cindy and little baby Joanna.

 

The beginning of March was Kaleb’s First Birthday! We picked up Reece and Shelbi and went to Crownpoint. 

I have been unemployed since November (by choice, I have a good man), anyway I get a phone call from one of my favorite people January 21, 2011.  (Yes this is out of order for good reason).  Una is on the phone she said “do you want to come to my wedding?” Me “UHHHHHH yeah” “when?” Her “I’ll come get you in 20 MINUTES.” Me “uh ok.” So my dear friend cousin Una wants me to be a witness at her wedding.  Can you say HONORED, I was so honored she would think of ME.  But she didn’t really celebrate her wedding until March 12^th.  So we went to Window Rock to celebrate with Una and Aaron Pesata (love you guys).  We then brought Troy home with us, we wanted to help him with school. 

Also in March we went to Lupton for a very sad funeral, and in this picture is Kendall, Grandma Brown (Kendall’s paternal grandma), Grandma Mary Loy (Kendall’s grandpa Brown’s sister) and Gilbert (Kendall’s dad).  Funerals are never fun but it was great to see family. Lots of family I haven’t ever met even after 4 years of being a BROWN.

At the end of March I drove to UTAH all by myself.  I went to be with my mommy, I was there for about 3 weeks.  I love this picture of my mom reading a TRACTOR magazine with my nephew.  I can’t believe he is 4 already.  Sorry I still missed your birthday buddyL

Kendall tells me that he used to spend EASTER at his Grandma Richards house.  So this year we headed out and we got there late so we camped in the Jeep just outside here area.  And we had a cookout with Gilbert, Michelle, Bennie, Zepher, Onyx, Benjamin and Grandma.  We had a blast to spend a special holiday with a special GRANDMA.

For spring break we kidnapped Chad and we all went on a really AWESOME Jeep trail near Monticello, NM.  The trail was so cool you had to cross the river several time and we got out to play in it in some places.  Shortly after this picture was taken the water pump went out and getting out of the canyon was an adventure all on it’s own.  Una came to save the day but we still had to spent the night in T or C, NM.  Thanks Una

I thought for sure he was going to get rid of it after this. 

Way back when Kendall first started his job he would carpool to work with this lady named Fran.  She invited us to her 4th of July party in DECEMBER! (I thought that was funny). So we went to her home for the celebration and she fed  us this.

In July 8-10 we went to Castle Rock, Colorado to see my best friend from my youth.  We drove half way one night and this is where we camped.

Castle Rock is really close to Denver so we got ice cream and gelato at this place.  Isn’t that milk can amazing? We also saw where the Broncos and the Rockies play.  The streets in Denver are really weird and narrow, and diagonal, I’m glad I wasn’t driving. We also went to the  Temple it was so peaceful and tiny.

I am so glad I got to spend time with my friend.  I was fun to reminisce of old times and discuss new goals. There isn’t many of my memories that doesn’t have Martilyn in it.  Thanks Kevin and Marti for such a fun weekend.  (And Kevin you take good care of them;).

 

We invited ourselves to a cook out our friends Benita and Utahna were having at the park, for the forth of July.  While visiting, Utahna mentioned a cattle drive her family was doing to brand and immunize in a couple of weeks.  So we again invited ourselves to the cattle drive.  This was AWESOME! I had absolutely no CLUE, my Marine/sk8r boi/Registered Nurse Darlin was a C-O-W-B-O-Y! Can I just say how lucky I am, EXTREMELY!  Anyway I rode with Utahna’s cousin in the car to deliver food to the hard working ranch-hands.  This was such an amazing opportunity thanks Utahna! On our way home we kidnapped Chad again. 

JULY 29, 30 & 31 Was the BROWN FAMILY REUNION!  I love being a BROWN, I love being with the BROWNS.  We had tons of fun at the lake my neck and feet are the only areas that got fried on me.  Kendall’s little love handles got it ;( sorry my bad.  Thanks to whoever threw this together it was really fun. Darlin thanks for getting us a room with extra cold air conditioning.

Now the semester is over and I get a short break until next semester starts. 

So this is my year so far, sorry this is so long this blog is more for me, than you.