Our Next Chapter

On Friday morning Cody got an email from Salus University in Pennsylvania and he GOT ACCEPTED! We will be making our move to Pennsylvania the end of July and couldn't be more excited. How this will all happen in a nutshell: He will start school the beginning of August and he will do one full year of book work there. Once he is done with that we will come back to the Idaho Falls area where he will do his rotations for another year and where ever he gets hired on thats where we will end up.
This has been an answer to our prayers and we both know that this is where we need to go and what we need to be doing in our lives.Yes, we are going to be clear across the country, but we are going to love every minute we are there. We have so much to see and so many places to go, but more importantly this is an adventure we will never forget! I am so proud of Cody and I know he works so hard with everything he sets his mind to.

Girls Trip!

Every year in November my mom takes my sisters and I to Utah for a girls trip for our birthdays. It's probably one of the best birthday gifts and we all look forward to it every year. We go to a lot of places in Utah; pretty much you name it, we go there. We do have specific places we like to go to, but we are willing to go just about anywhere when it comes to shopping. We also have a tradition of going to the Cheese Cake Factory and some of us try to make sure we try something new everytime. When the trip is over we always talk about the funny things that happen to us and laugh until our abs hurt. This year we got a journal so that we could write down everything that happen and then read them next year when we go. These are the things that I will always remember and be thankful that I have such a wonderful family that I love to be with. Thanks for such a good trip Momma we can't wait to go again next year!  

Our classic picture we take everytime we go to the Cheese Cake Factory.

Halloween

For Halloween this year Cody's side of the family decided it would be fun to have a Halloween party and get all dressed up and play some games. The party turned out to be a hit and everyone had a good time. Big thanks to Michelle and Carrie for planning and everyone else contributing to make it such a fun night! This year Cody and I dressed up as nerds and lets just say they turned out far better than I expected. Cody's nerd outfit looked like a real nerd and mine looked like an 80's nerd. I found my mom's old pants and knew I hit the jack-pot so I couldn't pass it up.

It's A......

Earlier in one of my posts I mentioned that my brother and sister-in-law were expecting a baby. Well, we had a family get-together to reveal what they will be having! Yesterday our family and Emily's family went over to Trent and Em's house for a little celebration. For the celebration Em made some cupcakes and in each of these little cupcakes was a certain color of what the gender is. The funny thing about this was that there was only one cupcake that had the color in it and, surprisingly, no one grabbed it the first time! So, we all had to exchange cupcakes. Once we did that, we all got in a circle and at the same time we took a bite. Em's mom got the lucky cupcake with the color and that color just so happen to be BLUE! It's another BOY! This will make 5 boys in a row for my side of the family and the first boy for Em's side of the family. We are so excited and can't wait for the arrival of this little one to join our family. Before we did the celebration, we all guessed what we thought it would be and lets just say everyone was thinking it was a boy except for 3 people. I was one of those 3 and thought for sure it was a girl, but I was wrong. We will get our little girls sometime; I guess we just need a bunch of boys to make for some good missionaries!

Family Pictures

We got family pictures with Cody's side of the family the end of August and they turned out awesome! Probably because my talented sister-in-law Michelle took them :) here is just a few of Cody and I that I wanted to share.

 

Happy 1 Year to us!

I can't believe that Cody and I have been married a year! I feel like we have been married much longer than that, but at the same time I feel like it was yesterday that we got married. I am so lucky and blessed to have Cody in my life and he fits me perfectly. He is someone that can only deal with my weirdness, he is the only one that can put up with my moodiness, and he is the only person that can love me for me.
I wanted to do something for him this year, but I didn't know what since I didn't know if he would be gone or if I had to work. Instead I decided to get him a card from Wal-Mart which this leads to a funny story.

Me, my sister, and my mom had to get a few things from Wal-Mart the Saturday before so I thought this would be a perfect time to get him a card. Well we were looking through the cards and a lot of them were cute, but they didn't seem to express how I really felt. After awhile of searching my sister pulls out this one card and she was like "oh man you gotta read this". I read it and half way through I started bawling like seriously almost sobbing. I turn to my sister and she is just laughing at me! There we are in the isle both laughing so hard and I'm crying like a baby. As you can see this card was exactly what I was looking for and I was definitely going to be getting this card. I don't know if it was just my "special time" or what, but even if it wasn't I still think I would have cried because Cody is so special to me. Now take a look at the card for yourself.

 

 

I love you Cody and I can't wait to see where our future takes us!

So it's been awhile....

Well... I am quite behind on the blogging and so much as happened so I don't really know where to start! I guess the easiest way will be to go by the month:

July:

•     I graduated from BYU-Idaho with my Associates degree in General studies with a custom cluster in Home and Family Studies. I haven't technically graduated yet, I just walked a semester early.
•     I applied for the Esthethics program at Austin Kade. 
•     We moved back to Shelley! For now we are just with my parents until we figure out what will be happening with Cody's school in Pennsylvania. We both love it and don't miss the late night drives back to Rexburg.
•      We added two sweet little boys to my side of the family named Payson and Jace. This makes four boys in a row. I'm nervous for when they get older.....
•   And my brother and sister-in-law are expecting their first little one in February! We are excited and happy to see our family growing. (I sense it to be a girl, but that's probably because I want it to be.) :)
• We went to Lagoon with Cody's family and had a blast! 
• Cody applied for the PA program in Pennsylvania

August:

• We climbed Table Rock for Mamma Lu's birthday. I thought I was going to die, but we all made it and it was totally worth it!
• Cody was one out of the ten that got chosen for an interview to the school in Pennsylvania! I am so happy and excited for him and can't wait to see if we will be moving back east.
• Cody started working at Idaho Steel and has enjoyed it so far.

There is probably so much more, but that's all I can think of. We have had such a good summer so far and we are excited for the fall!
    

Oh that Dam Marathon

So I bet you're all thinking, "Wow Kinzie ran a half marathon good job!" Well if that's what you're thinking I'm sorry to tell you that you are completely wrong. I did not run a half marathon nor do I plan to run one anytime soon. From the comments I heard and the funny walking I saw from my in-laws experience it really made me appreciate my spot as the photographer. So I am really hear to blog about the troopers from the Fowler family that ran the half marathon. Good job guys you finished 13.1 miles!

    The crew that ran. (They are secretly scared out of their minds.)

 Getting ready to go to the starting line. Good thing Chels used the rest room she didn't want to be "one of those stories".

Cody was a little freaked he won't admitt it out loud, but from this picture thats probably what his shoulders really felt like. Tight as a rubber band!

 Michelle gettin' ready to go run her little heart out and I know she is so thrilled about it

   I'm pretty sure Chelsea is the only one that is actually excited to run this marathon!

                          Right before take off

     Here comes Chels finishing strong in all tie-dyed she looked legit.
         

                                    There's Jared!

     And there's Michelle! Her first words coming in were "I'm never running again don't care, I hate it, I'll never do it again" Hahah!

Ha! What a Goof :)

I bet you're all wondering where are  the pictures of Cody coming in. Well here I have a confession to make. So I'm told that it takes a little over an hour and a half  to run this thing if you have about 8 minute miles, so I was thinking I could go home for a little bit and get stuff ready for when everyone came over after. I left exactly when I was told, even a little early, and I missed Cody come in. Yeah, bad wife award for me. I missed him by 7 minutes. Seriously, 7 mintues.... Come to find out this guy was running about 6 minute miles and finished the race in 1 hour and 32 minutes! Good Job Lover! I wanted him to run through again so that I could at least get a picture, but I'm pretty sure that's illegal and it would have messed everyone up so I settled for these pictures instead. Over all Cody got 7th place and took 2nd in his age group, what a stud. :) Chelsea even got a few medals herself she placed 2nd for the women in her age group! Everyone did a great job and represented the Fowler Family well. Maybe next year I will be supporting in the Dam Marathon again!

       They look fine now, but I feel sorry for them in the morning.....

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday Cody! Last Wednesday was Cody's 22nd birthday and lets just say it probably wasn't his favorite birthday because we were in class ALL day long. I wanted to do a few things to make the day special so I was going to make breakfast, but then I realized he doesn't eat a huge breakfast before 9a.m so that would be a waste. I also wanted to decorate the house but then I decided to toss that idea out because he isn't 5 so we had muffins instead and no decorations. We did have most of Cody's family come over on his birthday and share his "favorites" and we had a pretty good turn out since half of the Fowlers are in Rexburg. P.S. I forgot to get some candles so we had to use what we had around the house and he got to blow this big ol honker out instead. We are so domestic!

If any of you know Cody he loves cereal. I don' think I know anyone that loves cereal as much as him! So for a birthday gift, from his parents, he got a few boxes of his favorite cereal. He was pretty excited :)

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Cody has been begging me for a few things for awhile now and a golf set has been one of them. So I decided a golf set would be the birthday present this year. I didn't even try to pick it out so I let him do that one on his own.

Tryin' out the new clubs! He looks official.
Thanks everyone for coming to celebrate Cody's birthday!

Arizona and Easter

The Fowler family had the opportunity to go to Arizona and can I just say that was a much needed break after a busy semester. We got on a plane the day after finals and were on our way to the wonderful state of sunshine and palm trees for Jared and Chelsea's wedding. It was perfect weather the whole time we were there and while we were there it snowed here in Idaho. Perfect timing? I think so!

We went to the Zoo, which was so fun, thanks to Troy and Carrie

We saw some lions and started quoting Lion King the rest of the day!

Cute picture of Mitchell and the girls

Katelyn and Kylie and their fearless act of jumping out of a tree

And the names some people call animals......

We had to take a picture of this! It says Dragon Bridge in Slovenia

Ok, so I'm not the best picture-taker and that's one thing I wish I was better at so I don't have anymore pictures and no pictures of the wedding, but it was a fun trip and I am so glad we were all able to go! The next day was Easter and that is always something we look forward to. Every year my mom and aunts put money and candy into easter eggs and the adults do an easter egg hunt. There is also this weird thing that happens every year which seems to be the newly weds that always win and no one does anything to let it happen, it just does. So this year, since Cody and I were the newly weds, we made out like bandits with the most cash and got a few prizes. Next year we might be so lucky so we definitely enjoyed it while we had the chance.

Cody Showin' off our money! Hopefully Hayden doesn't steal it....

Hayden and his loot

Cade was clearly too concerned about the candy inside to want to find anymore eggs

The mad dash out the door to find those eggs!

Thanks Mom, Aunt Connie, and Aunt Kay for a great Easter!