Our First Christmas Tree

This year is Me and Garrett's first Christmas together and we were so excited to get our tree. I love our family tradition of hunting for trees after Thanksgiving. We had such a fun time with all the kids. It was fun to watch Kyan walk around with his play saw ready to cut down a tree and Taylie getting stuck in the snow. Morgie wasn't feeling good so she didn't come, but we had fun playing in the snow with Makenzie and Mady!

It took me a little while to finally decide on the perfect tree, but we did find it!

Then on Sunday when we got home, we just had to stay up to put up the tree and decorate it. We had a lot of lights to put on it because Dad had a whole bunch of lights from a really important event this past summer and I even strung the ribbon I saved from our wedding cake on the tree too. Garrett had a lot of old ornaments from his Grandmother through the years and we enjoyed decorating our tree together. It is the perfect little tree for our perfect little apartment. I love Christmas!

Gingerbread Houses!

So one of my favorite Thanksgiving Traditions was watching all of the "Old Ladies" make Gingerbread houses at the ranch. Well this year (because I am married now) got the special privilege of making a house too! I was so excited to make one-It was finally my turn! We spent several hours Thanksgiving Evening decorating our beautiful houses! It was so much fun and definitely Mine turned out the cutest!


(Grandma made some smaller house pieces of gingerbread so Heidi and Whit got to share the fun and made their own little house.)

The Latest

So I've really been getting a lot of guff from certain members of the family (IRA!) about not updating our blog for a while. Time just goes by so fast here at the Bosshardt house. (Yes, Casey I am a Bosshardt now not a Mickelsen) And actually I guess I can't say "house" so apartment. Anyway Garrett and I are doing really well and loving life. I'm still not so sure about Ogden? But anyway I am loving school and can't believe that I am less then half a semester away from finally graduating and getting that wonderful piece of paper that says I can finally teach. I am absolutely loving my student teaching right now. My preschoolers are so awesome and I really can't wait to go to school everyday. This last week I planned so many fun activities to go along with my Theme Fall Harvest. We painted with corn, explored pumpkins and squash, raked leaves, made scarecrows, learned how things grow, ground corn and made muffins, made a classroom quilt, painted pumpkins, and even on Friday we went trick-or-treating around campus. It was such a blast! I also love my job. For those of you who don't know, I work at a child care center called Little Brigham Aggies. It is right on the BC campus for USU and we care for the professors' and students' children. Most of the students in Brigham City are parents who are coming back to school and they can bring their children to LBA while taking their classes. Most of the time I am in the infant area taking care of all of the babies ages 0-2. It is crazy taking care of 4 babies at once, but I do love it!
Garrett goes to school during the day and works in the evenings. He studies a lot and we don't get to see each other much, but it makes the weekends really great. We also have received callings in our ward. Garrett is the Secretary in the Elders Quorum and I was called as the Valiant 10 teacher in primary and an Activity Day Leader. So we are busy a lot.
Anyway that's the latest news about us. Sorry there are no pictures, but I will soon change that now that I found the camera. See ya later!

Goodbye Redmond.......Hello Ogden

Well Goodbye Redmond! It's time to start school! Saturday we loaded up the trailer and waved goodbye as we headed up north. We are really going to miss our cute little house in Redmond and being so close to family, but we are really excited to start our new adventure up in the city!

Hello Ogden-our new Home! This is our new apartment in Ogden. We live in a complex called Sun Chase apartments just north of the Ogden temple. It is a great complex and perfect for me and Garrett. Our apartment is a little small, but we don't need much room.

This is our bedroom with the beautiful temple my wonderful siblings gave us right over our bed.

Our bathroom and our big walk-in closet is right off the bedroom. (and that closet is full because it is all the storage space we have!)

This is our living room equipped with a desk for Garrett's countless hours of studying and a brand new couch from Uncle Jim which by the way is extremely comfortable!

And last, but not least is my kitchen. It was tough finding a place for all of my stuff, but it is the perfect place for me to cook up extremely delicious meals for Garrett. (and yes Cody I am a better cook then you!)

So we're all set and cozy here in Ogden. Garrett is enjoying his classes at Weber and I am going to start my student teaching on Monday and I'm so excited! I guess we'll see what new adventures we run into up here!

Cabin Get-a-Way!

As much as we don't like it, the summer has come to an end. Because we will soon be getting to school, homework, jobs, and responsibility Garrett and I decided to end the summer with some fun. Our final summer getaway was the Bosshardt Family Cabin on Beaver Mountain.
Garrett and I drove down for the weekend (and yes we did go to church at the ward in Beaver) to this beautiful cabin tucked away in the Mountains.

Of course we had to go on a four wheeler ride. We went on a trail that took us all around the mountain and we saw some great views. (no elk though)

We did a lot of this....relaxing! And may I say that I cooked up some really incredible meals!

And also we ended our trip with a Fishing Trip to Kent's lake! Of course I caught the most fish! What can I say...it's just in my blood. Actually we didn't catch any fish just a few snags and a really fun time!

It was a great way to finish out the summer! What a busy summer!

Bosshardt Family Trip to Durango

This past week the whole Bosshardt Family went on a Trip to Durango, Colorado.  It was a long drive there, but definitely worth it.  We had so much fun!  We rode the Railroad train up to Silverton, went river rafting down the Animas River, when to the Bar D Wranglers Chuck Wagon for dinner and a show, toured down town Durango, watched a Vaudeville Melodrama, went to a mountain resort with rock climbing, horseback riding, alpine slides, bungie tramps, scenic chair lift and on the way home we stopped at Mesa Verde National Park and toured all the cliff dwellings.  WOW!  What a trip!

Honey Moon!

We went to San Diego California for our Honeymoon! It was such a fun time and we tried to go see as many things as we could.

We visited the San Diego Wild Animal Park. In this park they have all of the animals running around together. We took a tour ride through the park and got really close to many different animals. I was upset cause the tiger was taking a nap when we went to see him.

We also went to Sea World! It was way hot and both Garrett and I got sun burned, but it was fun. The best part were the sharks! Also during the dolphin show I ran into our cousin Amy with her two little girls! It was fun to see them.

We also went to Old Town San Diego and visited the Mormon Battalion Visitor Center. This was one of our favorite places! We took a tour and learned a lot of really neat things about these faithful and courageous saints.

Of course we couldn't go to San Diego without visiting the Zoo! We spent hours looking at all of the cool animals. This zoo was amazing! Garrett's favorite thing to do was look at all his "kitty kats" (jaguars, panthers, cougars, lions).

We visited the Harbor in Downtown San Diego and toured the USS Midway. This was a huge, famous battle ship and it was pretty cool to walk through. I never realized how big these battle ships were!

It's not a trip to Cali if you don't go to the beach. We went to Lahoia Shores in San Diego. It was kinda windy that day so we didn't go swimming, but we had fun wading in the ocean, playing in the sand, and enjoying the sunshine.

On the way back home we stopped in Las Vegas. This was my first time walking down the "Strip" and it was pretty cool. Also to end the Honeymoon with an enormous BANG, Garrett took me to see..... The Phantom of the Opera at the Venecian! It was so AMAZING!

Thanks Garrett for a great trip!

The Perfect Day June 11th, 2010

Garrett and I were married in the Manti Temple for time and all eternity on June 11th 2010.

                                                   

It was a perfect (rainy, windy) day.  We had a lot of family there which was so great! 

(p.s. My photographer isn't quite done editing all of my pictures from the wedding, but when she does I will get all of the family pictures and send them to anyone who would like them.  I think they turned out really good!)

After we took pictures with the family, Garrett and I took some at the temple so here is just a few that I really liked.

It really was the perfect day and we want to thank everyone in our families for all you did to make our day so special!  Thank you! We love you!