It's been a long long long long long long long time!

So we just had our Thanksgiving break! Hurray! It was so much fun! We ended up having 4 Thanksgiving dinners throughout the week! One on Monday for our Family Home Evening with the Ward, one with my family on Thanksgiving day and then again with Jared's family that night, then one at Jared's grandparents the night after Thanksgiving. I feel huge! It was good eatin' though! While we were at my family's, mom and I went on a walk and let me tell you what, the desert is GORGEOUS! Whoever coined the term "desert waste-land" has obviously never been to Overton before. I snapped a few shots so enjoy :)


It was awesome! Thanksgiving was good, we went out to Valley of Fire like we do every year. It was good to see family although there weren't as many people as usual.

I completely spaced it, on our way from Cedar to Overton, something in the engine of the truck blew. So now we have to buy a new engine! Yay... Luckily my car still works fine so we have a vehicle but the whole Thanksgiving trip we had to borrow cars and then hitched a ride with Jared's parents back to Cedar on Sunday. It was quite the adventure! We're both very sad about the loss of our beloved truck. Hopefully soon we'll have the money to fix it!

Anyway, so we went to Vegas to spend Thanksgiving night with Jared's family. We had another spread of turkey, mashed potatoes, yams (SOOOO good), and all sorts of extras. I ate entirely too much but hey, it's Thanksgiving! The next day I would regret it though. As I was walking up the stairs I hear a riiiiiip! I guess I'd gained a few in the last week of gorging myself and totally ripped a huge hole in the only jeans I had with me! They were my favorite pair too! So guess what Bree got to do on Black Friday? That's right, hit the shops in Las Vegas, with crazy people running around everywhere. I found a super cute pair of jeans and felt a bit better, but I am determined to lose those few pounds! Okay, maybe it was more than a few... mom thought I was pregnant when I got to their house... haha guess I should lay off the turkey huh? All I could do is laugh in a situation like that though. We spent the day playing cards, playing with Paisley (our niece) and playing with the dogs. It was lots of fun.

The next morning I headed into Overton while Jared stayed at home with his family. I decided to go Christmas tree hunting with my family up on Cedar Mountain. By the time we got up on the mountain it was getting close to blizzarding and freezing cold! We searched and searched for trees and finally found some that would work. During our search we heard thunder crackling all around us! It was terrifying but exhilarating at the same time! We got our trees, got in the truck, and got out of there as soon as we could! On our way down the mountain we were sliding a lot, having a huge trailer on the back of us didn't help matters much but we made it down to Cedar, about an hour and a half later.

Overall the week was splendid! I also borrowed all the Twilight books from Mom so I'm going to read them as soon as finals are over :) Haha "literary junkfood" it may be but I am still going to read it! A bientot mes amis!

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So I haven't checked this in a while and I posted that last one on my iPod and apparently it didn't go through. I don't even remember what the title was but no, sorry guys I'm not pregnant. Haha that made me laugh when I saw that though! I guess I should check this more often! I've just been so busy! Alright, well let's give you all the update then. Jared and I moved into town (Cedar City that is)! It's been really fun having our own space and being able to decorate and stuff! Tilly is growing like a weed! She is twice as big as she was when we got her. Jared's parents have a full grown chocolate lab and I just don't know if I'm gonna be able to handle that big of a dog after having her so small! We'll see though! Hmm lets see... other than that we've just both been going to school and working. Jared took a few weeks off and went on a hunting trip to Arizona with his dad. He got an elk, not sure how big, I'll tell ya later. So we have fresh meat now! Mmm yum! I am beginning to doubt my talents as a writer, considering all the people in my classes have these intense Shakespeare-esque vocabularies and speak with them in every day conversation. It's thoroughly entertaining for me, but intimidating nonetheless because I don't hardly know what they're talking about half the time. Oh well, I figure every has their own styles right? Anyways, other than my intriguing class mates, there hasn't been much of interest to tell. Oh actually! A cat laid her kittens under our shed in our backyard and now we have kittens. But we don't want them so we've been trying to catch them to give them away but they're canniving little things and sneak away. We also found out there is a tunnel dug under our shed into our neighbors yard. Luckily Tilly is in a fence of her own that is away from but it's still a little unnerving that the shed is standing on a hole... Kind of oxy-moronic I think. But yeah, life has been interesting and always fun. Jared and I celebrated our 6 month anniversary a couple weeks ago! Haha any reason to celebrate right? We pretty much did the same thing we did every night, had dinner and watched a movie, but it was our anniversary so we just felt the difference I guess :) Well, that's about it for now. I have a midterm in my Literature Theory class tomorrow that I haven't studied for yet! Bon Voyage!

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Silly Tilly

I always thought people were weird when they sent around pictures of their pets doing funny things. Until I got a dog. She does some of the strangest things, I can't help but laugh! She loves to sleep on her back with her legs flailed in the air. She eats more of her "sister's" food (Jenny, my in-laws grown chocolate lab) than her own. She sleeps in Jared's arms while he drives and buries her head between his body and his arm. Tilly just cracks me up most of the time. Here's a couple moments we caught while she was sleeping. The flash woke her up for a second :)


She actually loves sleeping like this. This is a little bed we set up for her so she could sleep by us. She sleeps alot better when she can hear us breathing.


She had so much fun playing she went to eat and fell asleep in her bowl. Haha She slept like that for over an hour. Poor girl was plump tuckered out.

Well, that's the updates so far. Jared and I have just been busy at work and getting ready for school. We just found out we got our financial aid so we'll be just fine to go to school. Yay! Hopefully I'll find some creative things to write about as I'm going to be taking a LOAD of writing classes this semester. It'll be fun!!

SURPRISE!!!

So Jared texts me and says, "Hey, when you get off work, let's go to St. George, I have a surprise for you."
"Oooh goodie!" thinks I, "I love surprises!"
As soon as I get off and book it home and we head down to St. George. I'm prohibited from looking in the back seat, as it will give away the surprise. So, here I am, racking my brains for what this surprise could be! A picnic? Perhaps, but why travel so far? A dinner/movie/night in a hotel surprise? But why on a Monday? I'm puzzled beyond belief. We get to town, run a couple errands to my irritation as I want to know my surprise. Then we head to Dixie High School. What on earth are we doing here?! He says we're meeting someone. Now I am flabbergasted. I have no clue. A truck pulls up next to us, a high school age girl is driving. I follow Jared out the truck and the stranger pulls out......


A PUPPY!!!! She's a purebred lab, black lab and she's all ours! Her name is Tilly and she is wonderful! She's about 3 months old and very well mannered. She's got a bit of teaching ahead of her, as all pups do, but it will be fun. Jared's such a sweetie!

We are also moving into Cedar City here soon, so that we can be closer to school and work. Cute little Tilly will hopefully have a yard to play in! She's a cuddler so her and I get along just fine. I've never raised a dog so it will be an interesting learning experience! Luckily Jared has much more experience with dogs. So exciting!

Here lately...

In the last couple weeks Jared and I went camping down in Arizona, visited Jared's family in Vegas and visited my family in Overton.
On our camping trip we saw a bunch of elk and deer and even a baby bear! He was so cute! We spent an entire day (practically, it felt like an entire day!) on a four wheeler our scouting spots for Jared to hunt his elk in September. We were on the Mogollan Rim down by Flagstaff. It was beautiful! There were a few lakes there that we visited but they were jam packed with trailers and people all trying to "go into the wild" as they say. It was the most civilized I'd felt all weekend! We spent most of the weekend out scouting spots but my favorite part was coming back to camp. We'd start a fire, get dinner going, and I could kick back and write to my heart's content. *sigh* my favorite part about camping. I don't know what it is about the smell of campfire, the sound of the wind in the trees and the howling of distant coyotes that just stirs the soul. It is the best place to be on earth. On our way back home we stopped by the bridge by Lee's Ferry. It was gorgeous! The desert can be very brown and drab, but it can be surprising! As we drove across the bridge and I looked down into the azure colored water 150 ft below I was enthralled. It is amazing to me that you can look across the desert and see nothing but expanses of sand and then BOOM a river surrounded by immense cliffs. It was breathtaking.

We visited Keri (Jared's sister) and her husband Josh and daughter Paisley in Vegas. It was really fun! We visited the Lied's Children's Museum. I had never been there and let me tell you, that is an interesting place to go. Paisley was having the time of her life! She loved all the games, characters and rooms. There was a little bedroom and she crawled on the bed and laid down. Only to jump up and run to the giant plane nearby.

Jared and I made paper airplanes and stood in the Hurricane Simulator. My hair was all over the place! It was a ton of fun to explore with Paisley. She is so energetic!

Well, that's been the big news for the last little while. Updates soon!

Introduction

Welcome to Jared and Bree Tanner's Blog! We figured, since everyone in the family is spreading out into the world, that we'd make a blog to keep everyone updated with our goings-on. Jared and I are living in Kanarraville, UT right now. We're both working until school starts at the end of the month, then we'll be doing both. Jared is pursuing his Bachelors in Integrated Engineering and working at AGEC and I am working in the Admissions office at SUU and pursuing my Bachelors in English: Creative Writing or Teaching. I haven't decided which yet. We both have our Associates so we're well on our way! This summer we have been working alot but we still left time for play! We've gone on a few camping trips with our families and have had smaller adventures throughout the week, driving around and causing mischief. Jared won 2 tickets to Lagoon on the radio so we're hoping to go do that soon! Not a whole lot of exciting things happening but every day events can be interesting if looked at in the right light. I hope I can provide a little window into our lives for you, as we don't get to see everyone as often as we hope. I'll be getting pictures up shortly of our adventures this summer, so look for them. Thanks for sharing our life with us!