Our new favorite show to watch...

I just thought i would post something about this AWESOME show! Mark and I have been loving this show! The new season just started and so we are hooked! I don't know how many of you have seen this show, but you should give it a try and if you hate it then fine.. and if you love it then GREAT! It is on Tuesday nights at 7 on fox. So that is a weird post i know, but i thought i would share our new obsession with everyone and see if any of you either love this show or haven't seen it, then give it a try!

Utah vs USU Game

For those who aren't fimiliar with Utah State Football, we aren't very good. So going to this game we knew we were going to lose, and we were okay with it. We still had a blast and LOVE logan. Mark and I went up with my two brothers, Jim and his wife and kids and Dan and his wife. Jim decided to get us tickets in the Ute Section so Mark and I were the only blue in a sea of red. It was actually fun to be the only aggie fans in this ute section because they knew we were going to lose and didn't have any problem with us sitting there and every once in a while cheer for the aggies. So i'll just post some of the pictures that we took at the game...



Me, Lauren, Angela and Katrina.

Jim and Devin with Dan in the Background.

Mark and I. GO AGGIES!!

Dan and Lauren

Angela and Katrina

Cute little Devin

Logan wouldn't be the same without two of my best friends.. Malorie and of course Mark, Mal and I were roomies two years ago and she is still one of my best friends and so of course we had to be up there together to remember all the good times we had.. and who could forget Mark my true best friend, Logan wouldn't ever be the same without him. Some day Mark and I want to move to Logan and live there for a long time.. we don't know when that time will be, but we have it in our long term plans. As you can see in Mark's picture what i mean when were the only blue in a BIG sea of Red.

Kristi that picture of my belly is for you! I finally got one taken just for you and I told you that it isn't very big for being 7 1/2 months along!

Here is some one famous in the Ute crowd... If you don't know who she is, don't feel bad I didn't know either. This is Crazy Lady, you have no idea how crazy she really is. I guess she gets up and dances like crazy at every single basketball game and some of the football games and you have no idea how much the Ute fans cheer Crazy Lady. They almost cheer louder for Crazy lady then for the game that is going on, it is NUTS! If I had a video camera i would've recoreded her whole dance but all i had was my camera sorry. You'll have to go to a Ute game to experience the "Crazy Lady."

So that was our fun time up in Good old Logan, for any of you guys who haven't been in Logan before you need to go and just see how pretty it is up there. We love it and we had such a fun time up there with my two brothers and Mal. Some day Mark and I will get our dream long term goal of living up there!

Hirst Family Pictures

We had some family pictures done before my little brother left for his mission. He is gone now but i thought i would put some of the fun pictures that show the true side of my family!
In my family, I have 6 brothers and then me! Yes i know that is a lot of brothers, but they have been the best brothers that anyone could ask for! They tease and poke and play too much sometimes, but that is what makes them so much fun. Poor Mark had to marry into a family with all boys..... but luckily he fits in great!

So here is a great picture of me and all my brothers and of course our Lovely Parents Paul and Bonnie.

I'll start from the oldest and work my way down....

So the first picture is of Matt with his wife Gina and Jared, Andrew and Christian.

Then comes Mike and his wife Jill and Lauren, Josh, David and Sam.

Then Jeff and Heather with Isaac, Joey and cute little Anna

Then Jim and Angela with Katrina and Devin

Dan and Lauren are next, then Mark and I

Finally the Last one of the whole Gang is Nate, he is gone for Two years serving an LDS Mission in El Savador! We are very proud of him taking two years of his life to go and serve the Lord! We will miss him but we all are grateful for where he is! He is a cute little brother, isn't he?

So that is my Cute family all in an nutshell! They are all fun and i love them all!

Update on our life to this point

Since Mark and I got married Last year on August 15, 2007. We have been very busy with life. I'll just give you the quick update. We were up in Logan last fall semester while Mark finished up school. He graduated in Civil Engineering. He Graduated the same day as his mom, but they went to two different schools!
Now Mark works for a engineering firm in Salt Lake called CRS Engineers. I work for a shoe store called Chandlers Walk Shoppe, we sell specialty shoes and of course the very nice shoes that you wouldn't get very cheap, for example Dansko,
Merrell, MBT, and Aetrex, etc... i could go on forever. So if you need wide shoes or narrow shoes or shoes with better support, just let me know!

I went back to school spring 07 to Salt Lake Community College and worked on getting my Interpreters Licence for American Sign Language. No i haven't finished school, but I am going to be a full time mom come November 1, 2008. We are going to have a little girl and we are going to name her Anastasia.

So before this huge life changing thing is about to happen we decided to go on a couple trips this summer. In May we went to Philadelphia/New York to visit family. It was alot of fun and we loved every minute of it! We saw so much that i have always wanted to see!








Then in June we went to Sweden/London for two weeks! Mark served his mission in Sweden, and I went to London to live with a family back in 2005 so i wanted to go back and show Mark what I had seen when i was there! Mark had an amazing mission. The people there were the nicest people that you could ever ask for to have on your mission! It was so fun to see and met all those people that call him and e-mail him. If you ever get a chance to go to Europe you need to see Sweden and of course London! They are the most amazing places with the most amazing histories, it is hard to tell you about all of it! But all i have to say is that it was amazing and we had alot of fun. I wouldn't ever do again while being pregnant but i would do it any other time! Trust me it isn't very fun it slows you down! hahaha!


This is a picture of Downtown Stockholm

This is of course the famous Tower Bridge

Stockholm Temple

Big Ben and the Houses of Parliment

So that is a quick update on what we have been up to and just a few photos of our trips. We have more posted on our facebook pages. Just ask us and we can put more up! Life has been very busy! We still have a full 3 months ahead of us before Anastasia comes! We are loving life and couldn't be more happy where we are at! We are very grateful for everything we have!

The Begining of Something Beautiful

I've always thought that married people were so mature. That they always knew exactly what to do, and what was going on in life. But now that many of my friends have taken the dive, and I am on the edge of the cliff, I realize this isn't so. I see more now that there is no one step that all of a sudden, makes you understand everything, but more little things that make up some of those big realizations. One of these big realizations came to me as I dated Julie this past year at school. I realized that more than getting married and knowing just what to do, I was on the verge of a great adventure, most likely the greatest adventure I'd ever be on. This was the begining of something beautiful. Something that I could live with and grow with forever. Many of my strengths were her weaknesses, and almost all of my weaknesses are her strengths. I know now that I know very little, and that is okay. This is where the journey begins.