CALIFORNIA

At the beach in Oceanside

Dusty and I on the beach eating our gelato

Sunset at Coronado. Gorgeous!!

My HOT husband

San Diego Temple

This pic is for Trae. It's Mickey and Minnie!

Me at Disneyland with the Mickey Flowers

Dusty had the opprotunity to go to Carlsbad, California for 11 days for training for his new job. I was lucky enough to go join him for a long weekend! (thursday-monday) We had so much fun. We found where we want a beach house, Coronado, CA, and we were able to go to Disneyland and California Adventure. They were both very fun, but it was super hot! And I don't know if it was the smartest thing to go on a roller coaster with my head, but I did it anyway. Then we just spent time on the beach and enjoying California. It was so much fun, and we both needed a little vacation.

Which Disney Princess Are You?

You are Esmerelda!

Mysterious and passionate. You are a survivor. Even though life has swung you some difficult situations you have a strong intuition that gets you through. Also, you ahve the capacity to sympathize and relate to a variety of different people.

http://www.greatestjournal.com/quiz.bml?Q=16354

The Host

For those of you who know me you know that I love the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer. So good! But she is coming out with a new book on May 6, 2008. It looks pretty good, but also a little weird so it will be interesting to see what it is like. I always love to find new books to read.

50th Birthday

So, this was the big year for Dusty's Mom she turned 50. Dusty figured it out a week before and decided that we just had to do a surprise birthday party. So I say "k, let's do it."

Here are some pics from the party

Karen walking in. She didn't know what to do. It was great.

Karen blowing out her candles

Trenton, Amy and Aiden. She is getting pretty big.

This is me and Dust after the party. We were exhausted!

Brain Surgery

So, a lot has happened in the last couple of months. The biggest thing is that I had brain surgery on February 16, 2008. I had been really sick for a couple of months and we could figure out what was wrong with me, so my amazing husband decided it would be a good idea to do a MRI. Well, guess what? We found something! It was a brain cyst, and the doctor said that it had probably been there since I was born and it had just started to grow and started to cause me some problems. Everything went really well, we got into the doctor quickly (not 6 months that it normally takes) and the recovery went so well. I was back to work part time within 3 weeks. So, Dusty and I have been very blessed and know that without Heavenly Father's help it would not have gone so smoothly. But here is a pic of my scar when I got home. And the next pick is of a Get Well message from our Bishop's family. They live across the street from us. They have such great kids.


So, that is the most exiciting news by far, but I will try to get a pic posted of my hair growing back in. I just haven't taken one yet.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TIA J

I just needed to tell my sister Tia "Happy Birthday!" She is the best sister ever and here are a few reasons why!
1. She always makes me laugh
2. She gives great advice
3. She is a blast to dance around with (and I love that she teaches her kids to do the same thing)
4. She is an amazing mom, so I will know where to go for some tips
5. And the best thing about Tia, is that she has me as a sister!!!

Love you Tia!

Brad Paisley Concert

Dusty and I at the concert.

He was a little blinded by the light!

Our friends Shaun and Tammy that we went with

The man himself, Brad Paisley

This past Thursday Dusty and I went with our friends Shaun and Tammy to the Brad Paisley concert in Salt Lake. It was a lot of fun! He came with Rodney Atkins and Chuck Wicks who were both very good. But Brad was a great entertainer! So much fun to watch and so down to earth. We had a great time.

Ice Fishing

Dusty got the chance to go ice fishing last weekend with his dad, brother, uncle and some cousins.

They hadn't been since they were all little so it was a good time for them to catch up and

do something that they all used to love to do. This time it wasn't all about the fishing though.

They all were a little older and more adventerous. They decided to create a jump.

They had a snowmobile drag a snowboard behind and they went off the jump.

They all said that it was a blast!

The Building of the Jump

The Jump Being attempted

The real purpose for the whole trip!
They only caught 3 the whole day!

Fun Times with Friends

The past few months we have been able to have some pretty good times with our friends.

Dusty and I at the Utah Flash game. We have been able to go to a few tickets

through Dusty's work, and we get some pretty good seats. Thanks sports medicicine!

Tammy and I hanging out at the Flash game.

Bowling at Fat Cats

I think that was a strike! Go Babe!

Amber was kicking our butts there for awhile

Peter and Amber

Ali and Dusty - he is pulling his sexy face!

GRADUATION

On December 14, 2007 Dustin Robert Batty graduated

from Weber State University with a Bachelor degree in

Radiologic Sciences with an emphasis in MRI

I was so proud of him. I met him when he started

the program, so it was exciting to see him finish!!

Dusty's family came to the graduation. In this picture I am

teaching his dad how to pose. It looks like he is doing a pretty good job!

A Little Catch Up

This is just a little new for me, but Tia really wanted me to get a blog so that Trae could see updated pics of Dusty and YaYa. How do I say no to that? So I thought that I would do a little recap.


In June we moved into a new house that we built! It took about 6 months and we are so excited to finally be in. The newest update is that we just finsished our sprinkler system. Yeah!!! Dusty had a lot of help from his dad, brother, and Tyler. Thanks!


We also got to go out to Virginia to see our favorite nephew! It was so much fun. We visited Washington DC and Virginia. It was really great to be able to see all of that history and see family. That was the greatest part.





One of the most exciting things this year has been that
we were able to go see Celine Dion in Las Vegas at the end of August. We went with Shayla and her friend. It was awesome. I had always heard how great the dancing was, but it was even better in real life.

And since we couldn't get enough of Vegas the first time, we went down at the beginning of October. Shayla came with us again, and we had just as much fun if not more. It was fun being able to see my mom and hang out with her. Dusty, Shay and I also went to the Tournament of Kings and we had out of control fun!

So that is just a little recap of our life and what we have been up to. I'll try to keep this entertaining!!!! Funny, funny.