Dear Grandpa,

We love you and are so grateful to have had your love and example in our lives.

You and Grandma are like second parents to us kids.

You were always there for us,

with your smile and your laugh.

We are going to miss you so much!

This weekend we had a tribute for you...all your boys put up the flag

and the girls wore green on their nails and in their hair, we know it's your favorite :)

We cried together and laughed together.

We will strive to follow your example of love,

laughter,

and service.

We will miss hearing your voice, seeing your smile, and getting your hugs.

I love you to forever and always Grandpa.

~Cassie

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It's been awhile...

since we've been gone:

*Cassie has been surviving classes

*She also has been offered a job at the preschool...twice...and can't accept it until she graduates in Dec. 2010...if it's still available

*Scott got guitar hero world tour

*he also transfered to the night shift and works from 5-10 p.m.

*he signed up for an awesome semester of classes next winter. Cassie is jealous, he will be done everyday at 11:15!

*Cassie will be taking classes. It will be her last semester before doing her student teaching this winter semester

*She is also going to walk at graduation in April of 2010! (but she technically won't be done until finishing student teaching...they just let you walk before student teaching if you choose to)

*Scott found out that he will be graduating by 2012! (We WON'T be here forever! :) )

Life is good!

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This year has passed by so quickly!

We really enjoyed our anniversary getaway, we went to Downata Hot Springs (near Downey, Idaho) and stayed in a little cabin. It was so perfect!

Isn't it amazing that all that fit in this little cabin? We were pretty amazed! When we got to the outside we were both a little nervous at how small it was but it was so nice inside!

On our way back to Rexburg we stopped at Red Robin for some tastyness of life. They were having a great deal so we planned on taking advantage of that (yeah, we are penny pinchers. Get over it Timmy! ;) ). Scott had a shroom burger and I had a blu cheese burger. We both got bottomless fries yet again...

and this tasty treat. It was a great weekend, a wonderful way to celebrate this amazing year that we have been blessed with :)

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Scott and I went on a bike ride a few weeks ago in the EARLY, FREEEEEEZING morning. We survived and enjoyed it...at least we both enjoyed the end of it. The beginning was a little rough. Uphill and real cold. Scott was fine and I did survive, even though I didn't think I was going to live through it.

For Scott's birthday a few weeks ago we had some chicken lasagna with family...

some carrot cake with friends and family...

and some homemade mango and orange ice cream too!

We also got some free burgers from TGI-Friday...well, one free burger. I don't want to go there though...(it was my fault, not the restaurants)

We got to go to Las Vegas for Sarah and Larin's wedding. We were blessed with some awesome help and were able to rent a car so as to not kill our poor little car again.

It was so nice to be there with the happy couple and family.

At the reception I got to help with the treat platters. It was so fun using my catering abilities :)

It was a fun weekend with over 20 hours of driving and 1500 miles...

We loved the gadgets in the car...it told us what the temperature outside was...

and my favorite part was there were two separate controls for the AC. This was so awesome because otherwise I would have come back an icicle.

Life is good. I'm going to go do the homework I've been putting off now...

Dang Gina...

My friend, Brittney, has started a really fun giveaway blog. You should go check it out!

http://www.dangginagives.blogspot.com/

Just don't try to win the things I want to win ;) lol

~Cassie

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While we were on our honeymoon Scott took me to a place that sells a tasty treat called a fat sandwich. Friends of the west coast, meet:

The fat sandwhich.

Friends of the east coast, please put your hands together for:

The Wise Guy. This is the closest thing to a fat sandwich on our end of the country :)

It includes: three cheese sticks, a hamburger patty, pepperoni, marinara sauce and banana peppers. MMMMMMM, tasty!

So for Scott's early birthday-ness we went to Red Robin to redeem his free gourmet burger. He chose the Bonzai burger with pineapple and tomato and lettuce and goodness. He got a free one for becoming an efan here http://www.redrobin.com/eclub/ (DO IT! It's soooo worth it!!!!!)

He got a burger, bottomless fries and...

an ice cream sundae :)

It was a fun way to start celebrating his birthday :) We don't go out to eat much so that made the experience even better since we could really appreciate it :)

Hooray for free food!

In other news, my camera is not dead. In fact, I think my brian was. haha. You see, I had bought lithium batteries months ago and they had been working great until a month ago when they died and I tried to charge them and the charged a little but...they are not supposed to be recharged. oops! I thought I had bought rechargable batteries but in the end they were not so when I put them in my camera and it didn't work I thought it was my camera's fault (we had put the batteries in other things and it seemed to work for other things). So in the end, I still have my wonderful camera!

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Crazy highlights of our week:

-Cassie survived the second full week of classes (barely)

-Scott read some good ol' Leven Thumps (and enjoyed them)

-Cassie started working with a new client (hooray!)

-Scott worked three double shifts (tiring...but good!)

-Cassie & Scott saved $18.91 and spent $12.42 (coupons rock! My personal favorite was 2 Klondike ChocoTacos for FREE!)

-Scott received and reassembled his BMX bike (and is a pro in Cassie's eyes)

-Cassie & Scott made tasty pizza and got free treats (yummy)

-Our camera broke (boo!!!!)

sorry, no pictures for you

But isn't our life still so fun?! I thought so :)

Preschool Highlight

So like I mentioned before, I am going to share my favorite funny stories of other people's kids. I am currently kind of like an aid in a 1st grade class (not a big fan, I like younger kids. They are funnier!) and working in a preschool. At preschool this week I was asking a little girl to name the professions of the plastic toys we were playing with. When she got to the fire fighter she said, "You know what? This one time I saw a lady firefighter and she was totally using her princess hose to put out a fire! Isn't that so cool?! And then there was smoke all around her but she still looked like a princess to me."

Kids are so cute!!!