Bradshaw Bliss

Shout out buddies who have made it!

2011-08-19T10:59:00.000-07:00

It's pretty neat to watch music videos of friends from the past. They made it! OBVIOUSLY... they have music videos! So just throwing a "Congratulations-guys-you've-officially-made-it"out there to them both! Melissa Fuller and Preston Powis.

I couldn't figure out how to embed their videos on this post but here are some links!

Money money money - Melissa Fuller

http://youtu.be/U-PbXvdi0bA

So proud of this kid! Cool to see what he's done with what he has wanted to do! Check out his Single. It's good.

Let Me In -Preston Powis

Lila & Aiden

2011-08-19T10:14:00.000-07:00

So our next door neighbors are theee sweetest people ever! Seriously! I just wanted to throw a shout out to the Wall Family.

They just brought us food and snacks from their Germany Trip ( for the second time).
Gave us a million boy clothes
Sandy magically knows when I don' t want/too tiered to cook and she'll bring food over.
They have all kinds of different people come and live in their home all the time.
Let us use their internet. So nice!

And yesterday they invited us to go out to water park on base a play! It was so fun! I had no idea that it was going on and let's face it it just wouldn't have been the same without Aiden there!

Aiden is almost 3 and Lila's new Best Bud! They are so fun to watch! They hold hands and hug and run and Scream and it is so fun to see them laugh together!

Sooo HOT!

2011-08-17T11:22:00.000-07:00

Mkay, so I can feel that it is cold in my house and my daughter might get a little cold taking her nap but I AM SOOOO HOT!!!!! Seriously dying in here! I know I have some errands to run and Tris has the car. So guess who gets to go on a really fun walk...We do!!! Yay! Lila loves walks...I usually do too but like I said "I'm burning like a toasted cheeser it's so hot here benny!"

happy fourth of July!

2011-07-07T10:22:00.001-07:00

Yay! We had Tristan's Sister Meriah and her girls in town this year for the Fourth! It was fun to all get together! I think everyone really had a great time. I know we did! Big thanks goes to the Chane and Jo Bradshaw family for getting everyone up here and organizing the whole thing! We did all kinds of fun stuff and the kids did even more rad stuff like aquarium in baltimore... I think there was a Downtown DC picnic, we went swimming the 4th here at the Bolling AFB swimming pool which is so much fun it even has a rock climbing wall there in the deepend! but to top it all off Chane and Jo took us all out to SIX FLAGS! woot! That's right! It was so HOTTTTTT but so much fun! Lila loved the Carosel! It was so much fun to see her so floored about going UP and DOWN and Up and Down. At first she wasn't impressed nor did she even want to attempt to mount a horse or Elephant or camel or whatever! But after we got going and she saw her cousin Kennedy having so much fun she let me stick her up there and just laughed and smiled SO big! That was probably my favorite part of the day! The water park was also a blast and Lila had a great time there too. She loves the water and is so brave. She put her face under the water twice on her own! I was so proud of her! What a big girl! I loved watching her and Daddy float down the lazy river together! They are the best of friends. :)

So it sure was fun to have the Gaboy girls here this weekend! Love them! And loved seeing everyone having so much fun together.

Gertrude & pics

2011-01-26T12:37:00.000-08:00

So I love my sister! Kristin, I just have to tell you how stinkin' amazing you are! I just looked at your blog that you have so nicely updated and it is beautiful!
You are beautiful! Your family is beautiful and your new house is beautiful with you all in it!
Big fat HAPPY CONGRATS for you!
Love ya sis!

So I just thought that I would try and put a few pics on here before Tris gets home and Monopolizes the computer...
Speaking of Tristan, he is theeeee best and coolest husband ever! I couldn't ask for more. He does everything poopy diapers, bath time, all kinds of stuff including dinner when I have a rough day! Right now he is doing Full-time work, full-time school, full-time husband and full-time dad! Yeah... "he's so cool." :) Love you BAybee!
Lila loves drinking out of Mom's water bottle!

My breast pump is like her favorite toy ever.... she will play with it for hours... that andThe Wii remote...shh don't tell dad.

She is really into the cabinets and starting to walk!!! She's been working on walking for a while now but just doesn't seem too motivated... she just does it like it's normal and not anything new. It's so fun to watch her grow!
This one's for you Kris... thanks a bunch for the jackets and stuff!

Just a cute one. I love my little baby girl! We have so much fun together! thankful to be a Mommy

Arlington Fun

2010-03-18T09:31:00.000-07:00

The other day my friend Stephanie Bowen and myself were able to go and see our husbands hard at work. They work at The Arlington National Cemetery.

Our husband's had tried to explain it to us a few times but it was really neat to finally see with our eyes what they were talking about.

There is a kind-of parade... hmm I guess it would be more of a march to the gravesite.

See the really heavy-looking one with all the ribbons on it? Yeah that is the USAF(united states Air Force Flag). That is what Tristan carries around most of the time. That isn't him this time. This time he is on "flight".

These are the pallbearers. They are the ones that... well they're pallbearers. but one of their special duties is to fold the flag and give it to the family of the deceased.

Can you find Tristan? He's in the front row. It's hard huh? He's the second guy in from the right. He's so handsome. :)

This is the "Firing party". At the end of the funeral they sound off... 3? united shots to honor the fallen.

it's really neat!

The whole thing in all was very touching. The Honor guard band is there and they did a beautiful job. The taps at the end is what really got me. Gorgeous!

Anyway. I really enjoyed going with Stephanie to see our babies at work to honor the fallen of our country.

LiLA

2010-02-17T19:24:00.000-08:00

Yessss i love technology...........

2010-01-20T13:17:00.000-08:00

So just a quick update on us and little Lila...

We went to the Hospital to get another ultrasound!

Lila is doing so good! She was sleeping and we loved seeing how stinkin cute she is!

Below you can see her adorable little face!

She weighs 3lbs and 12 oz give or take 9 oz.

I'm guessing GIVE.

I loved listening to Tristan's gasps of excitement while looking at his sweet girl.

WE are so excited.

Here is a belly shot for all those who want to see how "healthy" I am looking.

love you all.

Washington friggin DC baby!

2009-10-14T10:19:00.000-07:00

So I know that it has pretty much been a year since I've kept up on this thing...but I am turning a new leaf! Yeah beating the New Year to it and gonna start keeping up on the Blog!

It's been preeeety crazy the last few months...

We moved from FLORIDA...

Tris dropped me off in CHEYENNE and there I stayed

while he was off to TEXAS for Basic Training for the Air Force!

He was there for about a week end a half when I found out the I was PREGNANT!!

So I sent him a card in the mail letting him know that he was going to be a Daddy. "Snail mail" is right it seemed like forever before I heard back from him! But I finally got a call... He was SOOO excited!

EIGHT AND A HALF WEEKS LATER he graduated BMT(basic military training)!

And I got to fly to Texas to se him!!!

He's so cute!

COOL NEWS: Tris made the Honor Guard in WASHINGTON DC!

Great news because his original job training would have lasted through April 2010...uhm I'm due april 3rd. yikes. But for Honor Guard it is only 8 and a half weeks. phewf! He should graduate Nov. 6th! whoo hoo! Thank the Lord for that!

So Dad packs the car for me

And ellie and I are off to see what there is to see! off To DC!

So it took us 27 hours and we finally get there to meet Chane... Tristan's oldest brother and his beloved wife Joanna! They are awesome! SO fun! and I have loved staying with them!

They have 4 of the coolest kids that have been so fun getting to know.

Ellie and I went to see the sights and got

so lost! woops! It was really a lot of fun... we just didn't know where we were.

I love my little sister and miss her bunches!

So I started this blog a little while ago and I am finally finishing it so here is what is currently happening!

I'm Pregnant... 18weeks

Tris is BALD... :) the handsome devil graduates Tomorrow!

and we got a house on BOLLING AIFFORCE BASE!

348 March Ln

Bolling AFB, Washington DC 20032

tucking in my shirt to my outrageously high prego-pants

ah... we're so happy! I love you schnuppy!

(P.s you can see Tristan's sweet tan line from working all the time so we can have our house! nice huh?)

Airforce BMT graduation

2009-09-16T16:11:00.000-07:00

This is me waiting to see my baby run down the street with his flight! It was awesome! I saw him for the first time in FOREVER and my tummy was going crazy!

There he is, AHHHHHHHHHHHHH! hottness!

The actual graduation. I totally took pictures of the wrong flight at the graduation! woops... they ALL look the same! It's crazy.

I love my baby.

ode to kitty

2009-05-29T17:06:00.001-07:00

So, you know how there are those couples that can't hardly stand being away from each other for like a couple minutes. Yeah, you know who I am talking about. The couples that when the other one is not around the present only rants and raves about how WONDERFUL the absent is?

Then when they do get back together they both can't stand next to one another without touching or kissing and they both can't wipe off the most ridiculously huge perma-grin you have ever seen before?

Well friends! That would be me! Yehp. Married 6 and a half months and loving it!

BUT.... I just can't help missing my little "Kitty". (that's my tristan, I call him my kitty) " a little inside I know!" ANYWHO... He doesn't have his phone right now and is on a sweet "buisness trip". I like calling it that! He moves people in and out of there house and gets paid for it.

he went to Tennessee and comes home Tomorrow!!!! Can't wait! I love you Tristan and miss you tons and tons... and tons! :D

Bugs, heat and summer time when the living is easy?

2009-05-13T15:03:00.000-07:00

So I haven't put a blog up FOR-EH-VER~! Holy cow! So this one is for sure going to be a BIG, FAT, JUICY one!

Let' s see here! Lots-n-lots of things have been going on these days! Where to start?

Summer has started! Get out your brots and grills cause it's summer time!

Anyone up for a swim?

This week we have 3 of our energetic nieces over to hangout with Grandma and Grandpa! So we are having all kinds of fun! Arts and crafts, movies and popcorn, & cooking with grandma! Busy, busy, busy! Yesterday we went swimming in Grandpa's pool... aka the pond out back! Grandma, Grandpa, Tristan and I were out for TWO whole hours! Around high noonish! I am TOASTED! Even my eyelids are burnt! Yikes! But hey, it was wicked fun and I got to wear my new bathing-suit!

This is me after 3 days filled with coloring, (even delving into my own personal collection.) listening Emily's made up songs for an hour, swimming aka Throwing my nieces over and over into the water, swimming to the center of the lake and back, oh and how could I forget playing Mermaids!

How is it that I don't look sunburnt in this picture? I totally look like a lobster in real life! NO JOKE!

Service.... BAhumbug!

So you may be asking! Why do I have a picture of some Sister missionary randomly in the middle of my blog about summer. Well If you look closely you will come to realize that this is no regular "sister" missionary... this here is an Hermana! Not just any Hermana either! This is Hermana Cammack from the Barcelona, Spain mission! woot woot! She was my wonderful companion and this was the very beginning of our summer. Hot? Yes. Humid? That too. Lots of random things happening to us? All the time.

but I want to take the opportunity to share one special experience that has been engraved upon both our memories FOREVER!

It all started with deciding to serve missions. We got a bug! The bug lead us to want to serve as many people as we could or die trying. So there we found ourselves giving up our lives and some morning study time to go and teach a woman that otherwise would not be able to visit with us. Well, the area we worked in was on the other side of the city from where we lived. So we started the 30 minute walk out to her house. Upon arriving to the Gypsy ghetto, we were greeted by a few men shouting "Guapa"(hott stuff) as loud as they could. Very common over there... and for some reason they these random cat-calls seemed to be directed at us with more vigor than usual. I always found it funny because we just looked like little american Nuns. :D

Anyhow, we are nearing her home and the smell of turkish kebab is getting stronger and the women seem to be wearing more "gold" jewelry and sweats, with bigger ratted hair the deeper we get into this area that we weren't aloud to visit after nightfall.

Then it happened we turned down an alley and fixed in our view this small, absurdly dark, shriveled woman basking in the harsh early morning sun!

"She dropped her lap blanket," we both thought.

Without saying a word we hurried over to help! duhn-duh-nuh-nah! We picked up the blanket and placed in on the non-responsive -had-to-have-been-at-least-98 year old woman. Then the valiant Hermana Cammack noticed that this old woman's bootie covered foot had fallen off the foot-thing of her wheelchair. She quickly remounts it to its proper place and then we were on our way again. I was quite happy that we had had an opportunity to help this poor unfortunate soul. (little mermaid reference anyone) when I realize my companion had stopped and was holding her hand as if she had leprosy. I looked closer and she did have leprosy! okay so it was just this nasty, yellow discharge from the lady's old, crusty leg!!!! You should have seen this thing it was nasty! I saw the yellow goo oozing to the surface of the crusted leg skin but had no idea that it had somehow transplanted itself on my companion's hand.

So there we were... we had no water. And to just do a "wipe-off" on the side of some building would do no good. Our cita ( appointment) fallared(fell through) on us. Yes indeed, this was a situation we found our selves in. Luckily for us there lived a recent convert 5 minutes away!

My poor companion raved that by then she would have already conduced all three types of herpes, cancer and mad cow from this nasty puss!

"You try and do one nice thing for someone else... a poor defenseless old gypsy and look what happens! I get aids from a mysterious, yellow puss!"

It was so funny. You have to know Hermana Cammack! She said something along those lines.

"Service! HA! I swear I'm never gonna do that again! Stick my hand out to care and tah-duh magic, yellow love juice all over my hand. That'll be the day when service gets the best out of old Katie Cammack," "Never AGAIN!"

Anyway just threw that in for old times sake. She obviously didn't mean everything because she is a companion that really taught me about service.

I would fall asleep reading the handbook at night before prayer or while I was saying the prayer at night. Seriously I was so tuckered out and She would always tuck me in and get me to bed. one night she put me into my pj's and brushed my teeth and brought me a cup to spit in! Insisting that I not get up! I love that girl! She taught me how to receive service. I miss my little Cammackcita!

Toju(from Nigeria) and Hermana Katie Cammack

I love my mommy! and moma-cita!

2009-05-10T18:38:00.000-07:00

So I just threw this sucker on here without even explaining what it is! WELL... if you notice the date it was mother's day and as you all know I pretty much have the sweetest mom ever!

I really wanted to do something nice for her and my ideas definitely weren't as good as Kristin's. She did a cute decoupage for all her moms the same colors as their home decor! Amazing for real huh? So seeing that I didn't have any crafty cute ideas coming to me I just started to write this little diddy.

It is the way that I feel when I talk to/am with my mom.

Hush now sweet babe the shadows all will fade

I'll show the way and lead you safely home

Rest now my child the winds and rains have come tonight

I'll stay right here and hold you tight

You've come so far just keep carrying on

You've fought today with all your might

against all odds you've done what's right

so keep the faith and you will have great peace

Sleep now my love they're looking out for you above

I'm here tonight so don't you fright, lay your head to sleep

You're home now dear one your work on earth is done

I'm glad to have you back again with me.

Sometimes I feel defeated. Like the world has just knocked the air out of me, kicked me in the face and then left me laying in the middle of the huge dirt road we live on! Only to be eaten by the black vultures I see eating roadkill all the time out here.

So when I just can't take it anymore I call home. My mom is always willing to talk to me for however long it takes! She makes me so much better! I am sure if I were there in cheyenne she would give me a huge hug, make me a smoothie or some tea or something, and listen while I talk her ear off!

yeah, so I am very thankful to have a mom that takes such good care of me and makes me feel like a million bucks! I love you mom! happy mother's day!

I love my man!

2009-05-06T08:10:00.001-07:00

Poor Tristan is sick! He stayed home from work yesterday and today to get better. We think that he has a kidney infection or somesing. So we have time to just chill at home together and it has been really fun!

He loves playing Tiger Woods Golf on the Wii. He just started the season and got 25th in his first amateur golf tournament. Not too shabby! That game is really intense! It's hard and pretty realistic! I even made his guy kinda look like him. It took me forever but I finally got it close.

So this morning we got up, ate some golden grahams for breakfast and sat down to watch some sweet BYU tv. Then all of the sudden I look over and see this...

Tristan wearing his sweet X-men jacket, reading an X-men comic book! He is so cute! (Well he wasn't making this face when I looked over.) He had his gatorade and was hunched over his book and blurted out... "Man, cyclops is such a good leader!" " I love X-men!"

And I love my husband! Thanks for letting me take a picture of you to publish for all to see.

for dad

2009-05-02T07:17:00.000-07:00

Nature!

2009-04-28T20:17:00.000-07:00

I have never been much of a screamer. I have always thought that I wasn't too giddy or too girly. I didn't think that I got too nuts or overemotional whenever my Grandma came to town. ( grandma was code for menstral cycle when we were kids.) Nor did I cry too much.

And I liked it that way.

But guess what! I have totally turned into a girl!

Yes, I get so giddy and excited when My husband gets home from work I run out to give him a big hug. My tail even shakes a bit.

I push back my cuticles and do my nails. Sometimes I find myself crying at random and when I am asked," Lethe, why are you crying?" I have no clue.

So ladies and gentlemen... "Man-cuz perez" slash "George" has finally become a GIRL!

The other day Tristan and I were in the car and I saw this huge, I mean HUGE thing in the middle of the road! I got so excited that I just started screaming and pointing! Well, it scared the heck out of Tris and he's like, "WHAT?" what's wrong and then he saw it... the biggest most gigantic squirrel we both had ever seen! Seriously, it was like 2 feet tall and had a tail to match! crazy huh?! I wish I had a picture to show you!

Brian Fellow's "Safari Planet" has got nothing on Florida!

One of our favorite hobbies now is looking for sweet animals

COWS... because well we live on land that has cows. one of the mama's just had a baby! It is so cute!

DEER... you gotta be careful driving at night. They're crazy!

SQUIRRELS... lots and lots of 'em even these huge ______ squirrels that are like 2 ft tall with the biggest tail you have ever seen!

POSSUM... usually dead on the road, but I have seen some live ones too.

we saw a WOOD PECKER the other day cool!

4 OWLS... 1 huge one at night that looked so cool... and then three more all at once! neato!

TURTLES... they are sooo rockin'! We were at a friend house and I looked out into their back yard/forest and there was this turtle chasing their chiuaua around the yard. It was really amusing!

Tristan saw a white faced WEEZLE the other day on the way to work!

We went to the beach last weekend and I even saw DOLPHINS! 4 of them! so exciting!

This one is our favorite though! his name is Henry... Prince Henry! He is our frog that comes and eats all the bugs off of our porch. we love him very much and I love going out to look for him every night! here are some family photos!

Life in General

2009-04-26T18:37:00.000-07:00

Welcome to our humble abode.

This is where we live. 136 woodbine lane. We live out in the BOONIES! Being from a small town in Wyoming I totally thought that I understood the term boonies/boondocks. I didn't.

We are 7 miles to the nearest gas station and like a mile of that is harsh-nasty dirt road! boo. other than that I enjoy living out here for the most part. We live with the Bradshaw Family

This is Luke Bradshaw (17) rockin the sweet suit in this picture! He was a sweet heart for homecoming for the National Honor Society! yeah... he's a stud! Love this kid. he continues to make life more enjoyable and lightens things up with his humor everyday. He is good at everything! plays soccer and will tear your face off with his mad-bass voice!

This is the lovely Ileah Bradshaw (15). She loves to put on make up and do her beautiful hair and go to town taking pictures of everyone. She is a mad-student (so good at studying and homework)! She is acing all her classes including the online Latin class that she is taking! She is great at making cookies and therefore has a gift to make the house a happier place!

Finally we come to our beloved mama and papa Bradshaw. Gwen and Robert that is!

We are so thankful to them for having us in their home for such a long period of time! They are just the greatest! So jolly and so willing to help!

Rob is so great! He just had knee surgery like 2 weeks ago. But that couldn't keep him down long! He was out and about tending the garden and painting the Northrup's home in no time! He puts his mind to something and nothing can stop him!

Gwen "the amazing" Bradshaw seriously never ceases to amaze me! She knows so much. Her food storage is like nothing I have ever seen before! She just taught me how to make bread and preasure-cook/can MEAT the other day! MEAT folks! That is just nuts! whether it's her fabulous food storage or her extensive knowledge on Family History she will rock your socks right off ladies and gentlemen!

So there you have it... good times with the Bradshaws!

S.O.S!

2009-04-26T18:16:00.000-07:00

So I am really trying to be good at blogging but every time that I get up the courage to try it again I spend like forever trying to get cute little things on here like a slide show thing... or the music that I think is just so fun but no matter how hard I try I just can't do it!!!!!

HELP!

How do you girls do it?

movin along

2009-04-11T05:13:00.000-07:00

So guess what?! We finally know what is going to happen to us and when we are getting out of Florida! YAY!

A couple weeks ago Tristan finally got the goods from his recruiter! He has a job as a... what was it again? integrated avionics specialist perhaps... I am pretty sure that is what it's called. something technical. Basically, what that means is that he gets to make sure that all the computer stuff on the planes are working well and correctly! We both think that he is really going to enjoy it! He is so smart he will do a great job with the new challenge I am sure!

He will report to the Lackland, Texas air force base July 14, 2009 and will be there for his basic military training! It is a total of 9 weeks I do believe and then we will find out where he will go for his job training... I should be able to go with him for that. AND THEN we shall find out where we are to be stationed for a while! GERMANY is on the list! We are kind of hoping for that! So we are very excited!

Hooray for good news!

AIR FORCE BABY!

2009-03-02T12:46:00.000-08:00

So, we have been waiting for like a buhjillion years to get into the military and it finally happened! YAY!!!

This last Thursday we went to Jacksonville, Fl. to swear in! Awesome! the trip was about an hour and a half and we left right after he got out of work wednesday night. so we got there at about 1:00am. good times eh?

So at 5:00am we awoke and made our way over to the "swear-in place". I hung out in the car until about 12:00pm-1 o'clockish. then finally went in to watch the swearing action!

We then waited a little longer and then were directed in to a little room where about 8 guys and 2 gals marched into to enter into the air force.

they all raised their right hand and swore in declaring their dedication to our country and making an oath to protect it, family and nation! neat-o!

It was very powerful hearing those words being proclaimed so loudly by so many young ones.

Tristan was so serious. I am glad that he takes his duty seriously. He was so cute marching in! It will be fun to see how he changes after graduation from basic.

So YaY! we are in!

Tristan wanted to go into linguistics and so he took a test called... THE D LAB... what it does is it test your skills on how fast you can learn a made up language. It teaches you the rules and then goes on seeing how proficient you are in the language with the rules and stuff.

so as we all know... tristan is really smart and speaks German like perfectly right! well he took this test and Tore it up! whoo! He did a great job. Told me he prayed before and was totally chill. So after the test they were pulled into this room and were all told their scores.

"so and so... you recieved a 72 on the test"

"yada-yadda... an 80"

"blah-blah-blah... you scored an 88"

"and Tristan you scored a 99"

" in order to qualify for a linguist the requirement was 100... I am sorry."

Crazy! huh! His calling must be somewhere else! so we'll just see what has opened up this month for careers!

next step- we are just waiting on final details.

1. His recruiter will receive a letter in a few days with all his job options

2. We will go in to his recruiter.

3. Look at all the jobs

4. Choose a job

5. Sign a few more papers

6. shake his hand probably

7. say thanks (I am sure)

8. and then 2 things can happen here.

a. the recruiter will know when & where Tris is going for basic and will tell us

b. we will have to wait to hear from him to see when and where Tris is going.

So there we go! That is everything that we know! we love you all and hope that everything is going fabulously!