WE MADE IT!!

Jared made it through the busiest semester of college! I'll be honest I was wondering if it would ever come to an end! Jared did so well this semester he has worked really hard and the hard work has paid off! Now we have a few days to relax before I go back to teaching and he goes back to school! Oh love we have for school! Jared threatens from time to time that he is going to get his PhD.! I have no comment about this. :0 I'm just grateful we are done with this semester! Although we have had a really busy semester we have had a lot of fun. I think I left my camera cord at school so I haven't been able to post any pictures but I will. Jared and I ran the Deseret News 10k on the 24th of July. Jared ran ahead and my sister-in-law Sarah M. ran the whole way with me my brother Darren ran it too and we were able to run the first half with him, but unfortunately he ran ahead and finished before we did! Sarah was great she kept my mind off the running and we had fun chatting the whole race. (Needless to say it was much of a run for her, more like a jog) but we had a lot of fun anyway and she helped me make my goal time! Exactly one hour! Thanks Sarah!

An Update!

We have finally moved! We lived in our one bedroom for quite some time and finally decided we needed a change and a bit bigger place. We found a great 2 bedroom basement apartment and moved in in the middle of May! We have loved the change our new apartment feels a bit more like a little home and we even have a dish washer and a washer and dryer! We are so excited about this new change but we are sad to be leaving our ward. Jared and I have loved working in the Young Men and Young Women. The youth never cease to amaze us! As far as the rest of our summer goes I complete my 2nd year of teaching and had a wonderful year. I have loved working with our new Early Childhood Special Ed director. She has been so supportive and helpful and this year was a complete 180 from my first year. I'm grateful for the summer break but I'm excited for another year! Jared is taking a full load this summer to get more of the pre-reqs for the accounting program. He is so driven I just wish I had even half of the drive he has. He has been studying like crazy! I've been impressed by how well he balances it all. We still have had plenty of time to hang out together. Just this last Wednesday was the 4 year mark of our engagement, but since I left for girls camp the same day we didn't celebrate until Saturday when I got home. We went to dinner at IN-N-OUT and then took a drive up to South Mountain Golf Course where he proposed. I of course was a pansy and didn't want to get out of the car because I didn't want to get cold and the golf course wasn't closed yet. Needless to say Jared was nice and we just stayed in the car. I wish we had taken a picture but we forgot the camera! I promised myself I would be cheesy on this blog but I'm grateful for Jared, it's been an amazing 4 plus years! We have learned so much together and all I can is...I am blessed!

Jared and Ashley's Winter Adventure

This past Saturday we decided to take advantage of the beautiful spring weather and go snowshoeing. We decided to do Donut Falls the hike wasn't too long, but just great for a spring stroll up the mountain. Snowshoeing is our new found hobby I think next winter we are going to have to invest in some snowshoes of our own.

We have succumbed to the pressure!

The McGavin's have succumbed. The pressure has just been too great! I think all my blog stalking has finally gotten the best of me and I have broken down and finally started a blog for others to stalk if they so choose to! I can't promise that this blog will be worth stalking because we are new to this thing, after all our lives are not nearly as exciting as the rest of yours but we will do our best to make it worth your viewing.