ESPN the Weekend at Disney World

As Janae posted a while ago, for spring break we went to Orlando/ Disney World. As has been in the past it was an absolute blast!! That place is so much fun and I was in for a huge surprise when we got there and I realized my childhood idols, favorite athletes, commentators and so forth were all going to be there when ESPN the weekend was on site! I love sports, probably a little too much but they have carried me throughout a lot of my life and I wanted to post some pictures of the studs, beasts, and athletes that I appreciated seeing, hearing from, and some even meeting!!

Here we GO!!


The one and only Dickie V, he was so awesome!


The Dr. J - Julius Erving



The Mailman, with Arms bigger than my head and thigh combined



Karl and the Glove, Gary Payton


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Dr. J and Kevin Mchale - LEGENDS


Now onto Football Studs...keep scrolling you might even see a Tim Tebow Sighting!!


Amazing sitting in front of these beasts...until I saw Frank Thomas


Bart Scott - #57, Stud LB for the JETS!!



Memphis product, Deangelo Williams, Asian style



Ladanian Tomlinson



TEBOW!!!


Now onto some baseball legends...it was a glorious day!!


All three - Ironman Ripken, Frank the Big Hurt Thomas, Burt Blyleven




Burt Blyleven


Cal Ripken Jr.


Frank Thomas...he is HUGE



the three again!

Spring Break Hangover

Well we have been back from spring break for two weeks and it is still really hard to get back into the swing of things. It got me so excited for summer, and warm weather. I am really having a hard time cracking down for the last few weeks of school and pushing through to the end. We had such a fun spring break though! We were lucky enough to go to Disney World and for those of you who know my family you know how big of fanatics we are. Especially my parents, they love that place! My mom is probably one of the most fun people to go with because she has the most energy there! She knows the parks like the back of her hand and is usually one of the last one's to leave, even if it's two in the morning! We got to go with Jared, Emily, Halle, and Eli too and that was so much fun! There was also some new things in the parks that i didn't know about this time. My absolute favorite was they got a new light show on the castle at night. It is hard to explain but basically they have a projector that puts images on the castle and can make it look like its different colors, made of different, materials, pictures of people in the park that day, or like it's shrinking and expanding! I am not doing it justice but it was amazing!!! Also we were surprised by ESPN being in Hollywood studios one of the days we were there! (I'll let Jason blog about that.) and my new favorite thing is in Epcot they set up these Kim Possible missions in all the countries and you have to solve crimes. You get a small cell phone that calls you and sends you video messages of where to go, and what to look for. Things you wouldn't expect if you weren't paying attention are all interactive like doors, window displays, statues! I am not even a kid but i thought it was super cool! An entire window display would spin around revealing some message, that i had passed a ton of times and never noticed before! Way cool!


ooh this is one of my favorite things at animal kingdom. Her name is Di'vine and she comes on stilts on this path with a ton of trees and wraps herself around them so you can hardly see her. I don't know why but I think she is soo cool, and I want to be her! lol




We love Mickey and Minnie!

I love this pic of Emily and Eli in front of the castle!



Oh man, oh man did this little girl make our trip a blast. She is at the perfect age where everything is sooo exciting and magical. She was so much fun to go with! This is her in her signature princess pose!





Haha I love this picture! So Halle's favorite ride was Tower of Terror! I was shocked when I found out! She went on it so many times I lost count, but can you see her and grandma in the back row? LOL!!! You will never find anyone who loves Disney more than these two!!!



Good thing she had a comfy uncle to carry her while she took an afternoon nap!

One of the things we did a lot of this trip is look for hidden mickey's. We had a book to help us but were surprised at how difficult some of them were to find. You can't tell from these pictures because my mom had a good zoom on her camera but a lot of these mickey's are very far away or very small! These are just some of my favorites we found. Can you see them all?




This one's the hardest, mickey is looking through the leaves...

Character Breakfast



Epcot is always beautiful but this year we got to go during the spring garden festival, so they had a lot of extra gardens and characters made out of flowers. It was really beautiful. One of my mom's favorite things is working in the garden with good soil and flowers. She says the best dirt she has ever worked with and seen is at the temple and Disney world. It is true there flowers are always gorgeous and they have the prettiest arrangements in their gardens.






Meet the newest chef of the restaurant in France(Epcot France) Chef Remy! Chef Remy comes out to make sure your meal is going well and visit with everyone at the table! I thought this was so cute, Disney is really good with coming up with little fun things to put in there parks.


We are so blessed to have been able to go, and we had a lot of fun! Thanks to our wonderful family for making it so memorable, love you guys!

Dear Jane and Emily

All the way back in December I came home one day to find a cute little bag of goodies on my door step. Keep in mind this is the Christmas season so getting goody bags from your neighbors is common. I was excited and took the bag in and started to read the note attached. It was one of the nicest thank you notes I have ever received. It talked about how they wouldn't have made it through the semester without me, and how much they would miss me, and hopefully our paths would cross again, and signed love Emily. I immediately got this sick awful feeling inside because I had no idea who this Emily was. Granted I have a sister in law named Emily and a few friends on campus but not to the extent of leaving me this kind of note. What kind of person am I that i can't even remember a person I left this sort of impact on? The weirdest part was there was four dollars attached to the note as well. Over the next few hours of feeling disgust for myself in forgetting this person I took a closer look at the note and saw it was not to Janae, but Jane! A flood of relief washed through me as I realized this person obviously really didn't care for me that much if they didn't even know my name, or this wasn't for me at all. I figured it was probably the second one and a small memory came to mind when a girl showed up at my house returning a textbook to Jane and we found out her apartment was actually behind mine but we both had the apt # 305. So I set out trying to deliver this small goody bag (unfortunately before I found out this was not for me Jason ate some of the goodies) with the nice note and $4 dollars over the next few days but Jane was never home. After the Christmas break I forgot about it for a while...(2 months) and then guiltily found it, (by this time i had to throw away the treats) and tried to take it to Jane again. Someone finally answered but it was not Jane! They informed me the former tenant moved December and they don't know where.
So the point of this whole story is Jane and Emily if you are out there somewhere I still have your $4 dollars and nice note, and I feel so bad Jane never got it! and I hope you don't think Emily was cheap because she did try to give you back your $4 dollars, and if your paths ever do cross again I hope you figure this out and don't hold it against her!

CAUTION: This post may contain mushy, lovey-dovey, sickening confessions of love! Read at your own risk!

Happy Valentines day!!! I have always had a love for V-day and being able to celebrate how much i love all the people in my life. I even love it more now that i get to spend it with my sweetheart! For those of you who know us we are truly a mushy couple, and find joy in making others uncomfortable! hahaha jk we try our best to keep it rated G!
Every Valentines you can count on the lonely people trying to ruin it for the rest of us by whining about how its single awareness day. I think we need to put a stop to that. My family has always made Valentines day a day to celebrate everyone you love including friends and family! You do not need to have a special someone to make Valentines day worthwhile! So if anyone reads this that is single i challenge you to mix it up this valentines day and let all the people you love in your life know it!

Ok well this next part is about my unconditional love for Jason so if you get naustious easy i am warning you to not read anymore!

The first time I met Jas i knew there was something special about him and for weeks i tried to figure out what it was, well turns out he is just the most incredible person in the world! lol He really amazed me in every way possible and i found myself constantly wanting to improve so i was at his level! (I am still working on that) By the time me and Jas were engaged i was so gaga in love I probably scared a lot of people. When we were married i didn't think it was possible to be anymore in love then i was but incredibly I am. Our love has continued to grow and develop in ways that I never imagined. Even though i am still gaga about him i know that over the past months through the good and the bad our love has grown stronger. He has been such an incredible husband to me and i look forward to spending every day with him for the rest of our lives and eternity!

Jason thank you for all you do and making me feel like the most special person in your life every single day! I love you!!!
Happy Valentines Day!

For those of you who did not listen to my advice I apologize for any sickness this may have caused, but maybe you should
listen next time!

Baby Blessings, Logan, Birthdays, and Muskrat...

I am definitely due up to write on here, Janae has been doing awesome on keeping everyone updated and I decided to pay my dues today!! We had the privilege of going and being a part of Jared and Emily's Baby Blessing of Eli Jared Hurtado on Jan. 16th. It was great having Aunt Janene, Uncle Richard, and GPA Stastny all come out not only for this occasion but to see and spend time with the family. Jared did a great job and it was a very spiritual sacrament meeting, they have a great ward. Eli has already grown so much and we can't wait to see more of him and Halle. No one can complain about the food afterwards either!!





Paul, my Dad and I also attended a Jazz game against the Cavs this weekend - it was fun game and we got a steal on lower bowl tickets..way excited as like five of the plays were featured on SportsCenters top 10 that night. So I will post a pic on that too!



On the 29th we were able to head down to SLC for Jer and Jenn's blessing of Cole Preston Nelson - It was so awesome seeing the Floridians and being able to see our nephew for the very first time that day as well. There is such a spirit that comes from these little ones and what they just left before coming to this life! We had a great get together and dinner the night before so it was great to catch up with them..we can't wait to return the favor when we go to Florida in March and spend more time in their promised land!





Janae had her BDAY on Jan. 24th as she wrote about last time and I will post a few pictures of that to show just much she was loved and was able to celebrate her special day. We were super blessed to spend Joan's BDAY with us on Friday as we went to a session in the Logan Temple Fri. with her and Jess followed by a wonderful dinner at our beloved Elements restaurant in Logan. She is still very much young and has more energy than ever..we are grateful for these memories and being able to live in an area where we can still see family and friends within just a few hours of each other!!

Then yesterday and today my parents came up to spend some time in Logan - we visited Hardware Elk Ranch up the canyon in Hyrum to catch a sleigh ride with all of the Elk at the preserve, which was inredible!! WE also convinced them to get their first taste of Sushi at Takara Sushi here in town. The deep friend tasty sensations of pot stickers and sushi made our mouths happy and our stomaches very pleased. Janae has made me quite the lover of sushi and because they were brave they were able to enjoy and love everything they ate as well!! We then hit up the sold out USU vs. BSU basketball game...we absolutely crushed them so they got a very good piece of the Spectrum Magic and the school unity we have here at USU! It was special to have so much fun with our families over the last couple of weeks, a tremendous blessing!!!







Janae saw a little critter scurrying in our backyard so we had to go find out what it was...it hid in our neighbors junk and once we fished it out we found out it was Muskrat, what a creepy tail they have!! Janae wanted to keep it as our pet but it booked it and jumped into the icy river.. you will see the pic of our little friend below too!!



Life, school, and work continue to keep us busy but with our marriage, the gospel, and keeping life interesting we are as happy as ever!! Life is incredible and never fails to bring something new that we can apply, use or work for to help us progress and become who need to be!