Baby It's Cold Outside

I can't believe that December is here. Time is sure flying by! We had a great Thanksgiving break. It is so nice that our families live so close together and we are able to see them both in one trip. It was a little colder in Afton & Pegram then it is in Boise but we had a fantastic time. :)

Here are a few of our Thanksgiving highlights:

-Watching BSU stomp on the Aggies

-Eating at Einstein's Bagels & Andy's in Logan

-Getting my hair done (Lindsay dyed my hair brown & I love it)

-Aggie Basketball

- Romrell Thanksgiving Party

- Armatage Thanksgiving Dinner

- Card games with the Romrell Fam

- Bar J Wranglers

- Gingerbread house creations and Monopoly with my sisters

Shonnee & Kolby at the football game

Jase & I watching BSU

Designing our beautiful gingerbread houses!

Jase & I with Raeg & Tal 

Jase has 7 days of school left. Can you believe that? We have been applying for jobs like crazy and will hopefully have something soon.  I am so dang proud of him. He has worked so hard and has done such a great job.  The time has literally flown by since we got here in Boise. It is a little nerve racking not knowing where we will end up but I am sure it will all work out. He has a few finals coming up that may be hard but other than that he is pretty much done with everything. Here are a few of his recent pictures. 

Pumpkin Carving

And the carving begins.....

This is our final product. Mine is the cowboy hat with the "W" & "J" and Jase's is the awesome bucking horse. We sure are proud! :)

October

This weekend my mom and my sister Heidi came and stayed with us for 4 days from Wyoming. It was soo much fun.  I have had the entire week off of work, so it was perfect timing.  Jase had school on Thursday so Mom, Heidi, & I spent the entire day Christmas shopping.  My mom is always extremely on top of things and very organized.  She sets a goal every year to get ALL of her Christmas shopping done by Halloween.  There are six girls in my family, and now one boy with Jase :) so there was a ton of shopping to get done. It was so fun to do girly things, and spend time with them. It made me realize how much I miss being around my family and just how lonely I get here in Boise.  I had a really hard time saying goodbye to them but I am very happy they came.

They did so much for us while they were here.  Took us out to nice dinners, which is a big treat for us because money is so tight right now. They also took us to Wal-Mart and bought more groceries then our empty cupboards have had in them since we have been here. 

Heidi is considering going to college at Boise State so while they were here we set up a tour of campus and as part of the tour they took us down to the blue turf. We all thought it was pretty cool, even though I wish Jase could have been there because he would have loved it. 

This is the latest picture of Jase climbing. School is going by so fast for him. Before we know it we will be on the road again and living who knows where. 

I have so much down time here in Boise. I only work part-time and the school I work at constantly has breaks which leaves me a LOT of time. This table was the first table that my parents bought when they got married, forever and ever ago.  My mom gave it to Jase & I when we got married and so I decided that it needed a new paint job. I actually had tons of fun priming and painting it and think it turned out pretty great. 

This is how it looks now! 

The Latest

Jase and I had the opportunity to attend my step-cousin Allie's wedding this past weekend in Idaho Falls. My dad, Cara, & Olivia drove up from Arizona and Heidi met us from Star Valley. It was so fun to see our Arizona family, we don't get to see them as much as I would like. Jase and I attended our first sealing and I enjoyed it so much. It was so neat to once again hear the sacred covenants and promises that are made in the temple. It was a great experience. The wedding and reception were beautiful.

My Sister Heidi, Dad, & I at the reception

This was a street in Idaho Falls. We sure thought it was cool. :)

I love my husband so much. I fall more and more in love with him every day.

The Big Nasty Hill Climb

We have been in Boise for almost two months. I can't believe how fast time has gone by.  Jase  just finished his third week of school and only has 12 weeks left. He is really enjoying it and is working so hard. He studies for a couple hours every night and has big tests once a week.  I have  had a really hard time adjusting to only working part time.  I really like my job, although it sometime tries my patience, I enjoy it.

One of Jase's  friends from school told him about a motorcycle hill climb about 40 miles outside of Boise. We decided to check it out and it ended up being a lot of fun! Here are some videos of some of the climbs.

Tal's Beads & Things

My 11 year old sister, Matalya started her own business. :)  She makes adorable bracelets and has some really cute beads. She made all of my sisters a bracelet for my wedding and everyone loved them. I took some pictures of some of her bracelets while I was home this weekend and told her I would post them on here along with her contact info in case anyone wanted to order some. She works on them after school and will mail them to you if need her to. 

If you want to place an order give her a jingle or write her an email. Most of them are about $3 a piece...and she is DEDICATED. :)

 

Matalya Erickson

(307) 886-0181

tallye.10@gmail.com

My husband the lineman

Jase started school on Monday.  I woke up to make him a sandwich and prepare his lunch and insisted that we take a "first day picture." Isn't he handsome?  I was so excited for him and couldn't wait to hear about his first day. He came home, arms full of binders and textbooks, and feeling a bit overwhelmed. He is already sooo dedicated. I am just so proud of him.  

Tuesday night he came home and showed me all of his "treasures." We were like two kids on Chirstmas morning!

Idaho State Fair

Everything has been going great here in Boise. Jase starts school on Monday and I FINALLY got a job at a charter school in Meridian. It is a great job and I already love the kids I work with. 

One of the highlights of our time here has been the Idaho State Fair. I was soooo excited to go to the fair, but because they charge admission, we had to be very picky about the days that we wanted to attend. We decided to go to the Rodney Atkins concert on Wednesday night. You didn't have to buy a ticket, but just stand in line to get in and arrive early enough to get a seat in the grandstand. We had so much fun! 

His big entrance! There were so many people down in the standing area. 

This was one of the songs he sang. I just loved it. Try to ignore my horrible singing in the background. 

This was our favorite. I just love this song.  I can just imagine Jase riding around with our future son and saying this about his daddy. :)

Even though we aint got money....

Well we are officially living in Boise, ID! It has been quite an experience thus far. We got here a week ago. Our days have been filled with job applications, getting lost on one-ways, too much t.v., and phone calls to our families. Jase's parents packed up a horse trailer with all that we own (which isn't much) and brought us down. They helped up pack everything up to our little one bedroom apartment, on the third floor! We were all so sweaty and exhausted by the end. We went to Cabelas with them and grabbed something to eat. After a word of prayer together and a few tearful hugs, they were on there way. After they left, Jase and I stood in our apartment with all that we own in the front room staring at the door. I immediately began sobbing realizing that this was it....we are on our own! Jase tried to console me and tell me that it was going to be so fun, and it was all about us, and we needed to enjoy every minute of it. But I realized at that moment that Jase Romrell was the only person that I knew in this big town full of people. It was terrifying to me. But even though we ain't got money, and we are unemployed, living on mac and cheese and sandwiches, I am so in love with my husband. I am so happy and I have faith that the Lord will help me find a job and everything will work out great! I am sure he is just trying to teach us a little patience. :) 

I decided I would put some pictures up of our apartment. We didn't decorate it too much since we will only be here until December, but I couldn't stan

d to not put anything up! 

This is our kitchen. You can't see much of it but this is the bar, a

nd to the left of it is our table. 

Here is the living room. There is also a love seat and recliner.

And our bedroom. I actually really love our bedroom. It is so much bigger then our old apartment.

We have had such a great week.....living the dream. :) We have been mooching off of our sets of parents for the last week and have thoroughly enjoyed it. We were in Star Valley for four nights and then went to Pegram for four more nights. It has been so nice not working, although it stresses me out to not have a paycheck coming in.  My parents took us to the temple in Idaho Falls while we were there. It was my first time going back since the wedding and it was really fun. It was so nice to see my family and walk around the Lincoln County Fair, as silly as that may sound. We went to the lake one day with Jase's family and although it was a little chilly, we had tons of fun. I have been thinking a lot today about how nice it is to have such great families. We are SO blessed. I have tried really hard to be brave and act tough about this moving to Boise deal, but I think today it really hit me that we will be in Boise without any of our family. I am sure it will be a great experience, but it will take some adjusting to. AND we are not that far away, and I am sure we will make the trip more than we think. It is nice to have our families so close to each other.

New Bloggers!

 Yippy! We have a blog! :) I have been wanting to start us a blog since we got engaged but Jase wouldn't let me until we got married so here we are! Here is a little update about what's going on with the Romrells.... Jase and I were married on June 19, 2009 in the Logan temple. We are currently in the process of moving to Boise, ID where Jase will go to Northwest Lineman College to become an electrical lineman.  We are a little nervous to move... but we know it will pay off in the end! I will continue to take classes from Utah State and hope to finish my degree in Special Education. We will be in Boise until the end of December and then we will go wherever Jase can get a job. Everything has happened so fast that I am not sure it has really hit us yet, but we sure are happy and in love.