A much needed post...

Riding the light rail out to Honey Bear's BBQ

my new IPOD

Birthday breakfast:pancakes, eggs, bacon, muffins, grapefruit, orange juice...yummy!

Christmas morning at the Rasmussens

Elliott's baby blessing(everyone that was in the circle)

New Years EveThe Amazing Race:Rasmussen style on the light rail

Rock Band...New Years Eve

My niece Macy and nephew Collin wanting to help blow the candles out

So we are combining...Christmas, The Amazing Race:Rasmussen Style, New Years, Elliott's blessing, and my birthday all in one!!! I will keep it short, Christmas was wonderful! Spending time with both families and being with eachother for our first christmas was so good. The Rasmussen's were very generous! I am grateful to be apart of their family. My parents gave me and Chase our beautiful reception which was the best Christmas present ever! We participated in the Amazing Race:Rasmussen Style. Chase's dad had been planning this for a month or so. We did it the Saturday after Christmas the first day the light rail opened. If any of you have watched the show, you know that the teams are sent all over the world...well we were sent all over the valley having to use the light rail as transportation. The winner of the Race recevied $100!!! Of course Team Chatum(Chase/Tatum) prevailed once again!! We finished the race about 15 minutes before everybody else! Thanks Papa Ward for a fun time. New Years we decided to kind of take it easy. We hung out with my siblings over at my sisters house and played Rock Band all night. It was a lot of fun! Our nephew Elliott Andrew Rasmussen was blessed this past Sunday. Brent did a great job and Chase was able to participate in the blessing. I am thankful for my husband who is a worthy priesthood holder. Elliott is adorable and Im sure will be one spoiled kid! The first always is! My birthday was on January 5th...Chase woke up early and made me my favorite breakfast!! We then went and saw TWILIGHT...Chase was nice enough to go see it with me. We did some furniture shopping and then went over to the Rasmussens for some cake and ice cream with both of our families. Chase definantely spoiled me with a new IPOD!!! I love it!! We have been married for 2 months now and are loving it. I am thankful for Chase and for the happiness he brings into my life. I couldn't ask for a better best friend:) Oh ya we just got our first callings...we are the CTR 6 teachers! We get to teach together so its going to be fun!!

Our home....

Here are some pictures of our place! We are loving it and having fun being married! Thank you Staci and Sean for the couches:) we still haven't gotten couch covers but they are very comfy!

1 Month!

Wow, time has flown by. Sunday was our 1 month anniversary of being married! Its been fun to get settled in to our apartment and now get it decorated for Christmas! Auburn is done with the pictures from the actual wedding day so Im going to post a few. Once we get a camera, we will take pictures of our apartment and christmas tree:( We were able to go to the COLDPLAY concert a couple weeks ago with my sister and little brother. It was AWESOME! I have seen them before but it was Chase's first time so it was fun to get to see how excited he was. This last weekend me and 2 of my sisters and sister in law went to the Celine Dion concert! That as well was s0 much fun! I felt like a little girl cheering for Nsync or something. We were trying to be as annoying as possible! haha She is an awesome singer though! Man if I had lungs like hers...Ok the pictures are taking long so I will post them tomorrow...

Elliott Andrew Rasmussen...

This post is a little late, but its all good! Chase's side of the family had the first grandbaby born a week ago today. Brent and Amanda are the lucky parents of the stud muffin. Elliott Andrew Rasmussen was born November 26th 2008 around 5:10 in the morning. He was just too comfortable in Amanda's tummy, she had to have a C-section, the little guy didn't want to come out. Amanda and Elliott are healthy and doing good(Brent is doing good too:) We are so happy for them and Chase is so excited to be a uncle finally, and since I am family now officially, Im happy to be an aunt again for the 7th time! It was really neat to be there at the hospital and see Amanda hold Elliott for the first time. Congrats you guys! He is adorable!!!

My sweet niece Brooklyn...

This video was taken of my niece Brooklyn the night of our reception. My sister and her family live in North Carolina so they were in town for the wedding. Friday night when my 2 nieces were going home with my bro in laws parents, Brooklyn comes up to me to give me a hug and kiss bye and says, "I will see you at grandma and grandpas(my parents)house. I say, "no brooklyn Im not going back to gma and gpa's, I have my own house now. I am going out of town and when I get home, you will already be back home in North Carolina." She was kind of confused and went 0n her way. Well my bro in law realized Br0oklyn was sobbing in the car as they were getting ready to leave with his parents and pulls out his camera and starts recording...listen carefully. It made my heart melt. I love my nieces and nephews so much!

a few pictures....

Here are some of our pictures from our Bridal session that we did a few weeks before the wedding. The actual wedding day pictures we haven't gotten back yet but I can't wait to see them. Auburn Clouse Jones did our pictures(engagements, bridals, reception...) she did such a great job! She did exactly what we wanted and was so flexible to work with. If anyone needs a great photographer to capture exactly the kind of pictures you are wanting, go with Auburn! We have grown up in the same ward for years and she has been a good friend in the ward. Thanks Auburn!! We love all our pictures! We are trying to get settled into the apartment and its coming along so cute! Once we are done I will post some pictures. I am loving being married and appreciate the person Chase is. For being a worthy priesthood holder to take me to the temple, for his sincerity, love, sense of humor:), I think I laugh at him too much cause he really thinks he is the funniest person ever! haha Not to mention how handsome he is, I know he will be a great dad to our kids some day and I know he won't give up when trials come our way. I love you Chase, Thanks for letting me be your wife:) Im pretty lucky.

We're Married!

I don't have any pictures to post yet of our wedding weekend but everything was wonderful! It was such a fun week getting ready for everything. We had the wedding dinner at Chase's parents Thursday night . It was so fun! Friday went really smoothe but by the end of the night we were exhausted! The temple was so nice, Chase's grandpa did the sealing and it was really neat. We thought our recpetion was beautiful and we couldn't have asked for better weather. Our honeymoon was very relaxing and just what we needed before coming back to school/work. It will be a week tomorrow that we got married and I already can't believe it. Thanks to our families for making it the perfect wedding. And thanks to all those that came and supported us! We are getting our apartment all set up and its looking more like our home. Once its all done I will post some pictures cause its going to be cute! We are having so much fun playing house:)