Our first Christmas!

Here are some snap shots of our first Christmas together. It was a good weekend.

This is the Lego Black Pearl that Tyler gave me. It took me a long time to put together...I'm slow.

As we were taking our tree down we noticed that it had started sprouting at the top. It was pretty cool. We didn't really take any other pictures over Christmas cuz I'm bad with a camera and forget these things. But this is what went down.

First, we started on Christmas Eve. We drove down to my Grandma's house after I got off work and had the traditional dinner and cousin gift exchange. That was exciting. :) Then we drove back up to Logan to have our Christmas together. We got up at 6 AM and had all of our gifts open by 6:15. It was pretty quick. I got the Lego boat pictured above, an Aggie T-shirt, and best of all Black Diamond earrings with a matching necklace. (Yeah I have the greatest husband ever!) Tyler got a Lego Lightning Mcqueen with bonus Guido, a doctor kit (ya know prep for the future, I thought it was clever), some dinosaurs, a remote control helicopter, and the Zelda game. He got spoiled that's for sure! After a couple hours we thought we would drive down to Taylorsville (ish) to spend some time with Tyler's mom and siblings. There we got a book, collapsible mini garbage cans for the car, and knit gloves you can use with a touch screen phone (so cool!). Then we ate some breakfast and then went to church. After that we hung out for a little while then headed out to Tooele to see Tyler's dad and step mom. That was a good time too. I got a couple sweaters, and Tyler got some Hobo Gloves. After gifts we watched a movie and then just chilled the rest of the day. The next day (Monday) we went to do Christmas with my family. There we got some movies, I got a sewing machine, and Tyler got a ratchet set and some white shirts and black pants (the ones he had were from his mission and were looking pretty hammered). It was fun to see the nieces and nephews with their toys from Grandma and Grandpa. Little Dain got Mack (the semi from Cars) and carried that thing around the rest of the day. It was cute. Hunter on the other hand was sick and just laid on the floor and slept most of the day, poor guy, it was sad. All in all it was a great weekend. 

As for New Years, we went to a party with some of Tyler's friends down in North Salt Lake, we played games, had food, watched a movie, and then lit a few fireworks. After those festivities we drove out to Tyler's dad's house to spend the night since his sister Charity and her husband Greg were flying in from New York the next morning. So we spent some time with them and had Christmas again! :) Four days of Christmas I'm ok with that. Anyway, they gave us both a pair of awesome slippers! They're so soft on the outside and then furry on the inside, so comfy! She also gave Tyler a subscription to a magazine. That was cool. 

Now we're just hanging out waiting for next semester to start on Monday :( Not looking forward to it at all. This break has not been close to long enough...I don't want to go back yet. Oh well, ya do what ya gotta sometimes. I hope it goes well, it's not off to a very good start already...I'm still not fully registered. I'm still waitlisting one more class that I HAVE to get into or I'm stuck with nothing left to do cuz the rest of the classes require me to be declared first. Here's hoping I can get in, keep your fingers crossed!

It's that time of year again.

It seems like Christmas was just here...but nevertheless it's upon us once more. This time around it's especially exciting because it's mine and Tyler's first Christmas together! :) Such happy times. I'm so excited to see his face when he opens his presents (even though he's already guessed one...oh well I've guessed one of mine so I guess we're even). When I bought his present I felt like someone would approach me and say something along the lines of "It looks like your little boy is going to have a fun Christmas." Yeah...my "little boy" is nearly 25 years old and goes by the title of My Husband ;) and that is one reason why I love him. He's as much of a little kid as I am. It's wonderful. We have good times. Anyway, the picture above is our first Christmas tree together, isn't it pretty! I was going to compare to last years disaster of a tree...but...I can't find the picture :( Oh well I'll just tell you, it wasn't pretty. This years experience was much better as you can see. Plus WE got to find it, cut it, drag it back together. Fabulous! This year is bringing a lot of changes to my usual Christmas traditions...I'm excited though. Since we have 3 families to negotiate time with we get Christmas for two days instead of one. Christmas day will be spent with the Shumways, first with Tyler's mom and then later with his dad and step-mom. It should be fun. Then on Monday the 26th, since I won't have work, we'll do Christmas with the Coleman's. I'm excited to start our own Christmas traditions, which I'm sure will grow even more when we have kids in a few years. I'm glad I get to spend the Holidays with Tyler and our families. I have a feeling it's going to be a great year!

How time flies!

So...remember this?

And this?

How about this?

Well I remember. I can't believe we've hit 6 months already! It's been wonderful too! We had a great summer and now we've been busy with school. We're looking forward to Thanksgiving next week and then the Christmas season after that. We've had some good times and here are a few of them.

This was my birthday cake.

Yeah I think we love each other. :) My life is so great! I love Tyler with all of my heart. He's so sweet and good to me all the time. Here's to the last six months, the next six months, and the many many years to come!

I am Grateful

So as I'm sitting here waiting for Tyler's class to finish I thought, since it's THANKSGIVING (NOT Christmas yet --> for all the retail stores that ALREADY have their Christmas stuff out) I'll post a few things that I'm grateful for.

1) First off, and probably the most obvious...Tyler. He's the sweetest husband a girl could ever ask for. He makes me want to be better in every way. I'm so happy I have him in my life. I'm so glad he's my husband.

2) My family, all of them. They may be crazy most of the time but I still love them.

3) School. Yes I'm grateful for school even though it's not fun all the time...or most of the time. I'm still glad that I have the chance to get an education.

4) My job. I love the people I work with and how well we get along. It's a great place.

5) My Home, Logan. I love Logan. It may be freezing cold and snowy for about 8-9 months of the year but I love it here. Once we're done with Med School I'm hopeful that we can move back, and once again relive our Aggie days. :) I love being an Aggie!

There's more but I won't bore you with every little detail. You're welcome.

I hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving and eat lots and lots of food! It's the one day a year where you can give in to the glutton inside and not have to feel bad about it. ;) If I remember, which is highly unlikely, I might get some pictures of our first Thanksgiving together at the Grand America Hotel with the Shumways. I'm so excited! It should be a good time.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!

She Lives!!!

Celine is alive and well! All we had to do was replace the battery. I'm so glad that's all it was and it didn't cost us a lot to fix her. Let's be honest here...a '93 Toyota Corolla with 262K miles on it, not really worth putting more than a couple hundred into fixing. If that were the case we would have said, "Well...she's lived a good life and it's time to put her to rest." But, she's a tough old bird and isn't going down that easily just yet. Hopefully we'll get a few more good years out of her before she finally decides to kick the bucket. :)

Break Down...

So last night Tyler told me he would be home from work around 6:00. I got the house cleaned, the dishes and laundry all done, and dinner made. I look at the clock and it's 6:30...and no Tyler. I go look at my phone and I have 4 missed calls, 2 text messages, and a voice mail. Tyler's car wouldn't start and he's stuck on campus! Luckily he was able to get ahold of a friend to come rescue him (because I didn't hear my phone over the washing machine, dryer, and dinner cooking) Anyway, he was quite sad that his beloved Celine wouldn't start. It has no signs of life. So she gets to spend a few days parked on campus until we can fix her. Hopefully it won't be too expensive or difficult. We can manage with just Oscar (my car) but it's going to be a rough few days. Here's hoping that all goes well...

I'm still alive!

So I realize I'm a horrbile blogger. I just get busy and forget about it. :) Anyway I don't think I've posted anything since my birthday...which was AWESOME by the way. I basically have the greatest husband of all time. Believe it...it's true. I love that boy so very much.  :) And now I have to stop that before I induce gagging in all my wonderful readers causing them to never come back and read about my rather boring life again. ;)

As for an update...school started...again. It's never going to end I swear. Hopefully it will go quickly and according to plan. This semester shouldn't be too bad for me as far as classes go, the only one I'm taking that's required for my major is Stats and it's a retake because I crashed and burned last semester. In my defense though...it's hard being a full time student, having a full time job, and planning a wedding all at once. Last semester was awesome for me (*cough cough*). Good thing I won't have to do that again.

Speaking of marriage...we're coming up on 4 months already! How crazy is that?! It does not feel like it's been that long already. Time flies when you're having fun I guess.

Speaking of fun. We've been having lots of it this summer. Most of it has just been getting our house organized and feeling like ours and spending time with each other. But, this Labor Day weekend we went up with my family to our cabin in the Uintahs. It was so wonderful to get away from everything for a few days. We took our homework with us, but did any of it get done? Of course not! We felt a little better about ourselves just bringing it though, it's the thought that counts right? Instead we played games, went 4-wheeling, walked down to the river, and watched movies. It was a good time and helped Tyler come out of his shell around my family a little bit. That was great...they haven't quite grasped the magnitude of his ridiculous-ness yet. So that was a good thing.

Speaking of good things. Me and Tyler had some time between classes the other day so we went and checked out Day on the Quad (since it was the first week of school). There was a booth for SE Needham Jewelers and they were having a drawing for a Wii. We put our names in just for fun to see what would happen. I got a call at work from Tyler later that day...that's right WE WON! Well Tyler's name was drawn so I guess HE won. Funny part of this story though...we already have a Wii...so we have a brand new, never been used, still in the box Wii if anyone wants to buy it from us. :) It was pretty funny. We laughed about it for a long time.

Anyway I think that's all the exciting things we've got right now. I'll try to keep up better in the future. :)