life!

Well nothing really new happening with us. Just working, school, eat and sleep. We are getting ready to go on our cruise in a couple of weeks and are really excited! We leave on Oct. 2 I am a little nervous about getting motion sick so if anyone has any good ideas, medicine or anything that helped them LET ME KNOW! When we get back we are moving our stuff into a storage unit and moving me in with my parents (well a couple weeks after we get back). It will be a busy next month or so. Matt leaves on October 26th. It has really snuck up on me! It will be hard when he is gone but luckily I have a great family to keep me happy and I will be crazy busy with school and work. My school is going good so far, it has been an adjustment because I forgot how stupid some classes are. I have one class where we only discuss actual class material for 20 minutes of the class and the rest the time we are talking about random stuff. I guess I shouldn't complain because it will probably be an easy A but it is still frustrating because I am paying alot for the class and I bought the book too! Anyways blogs are always boaring without pictures but I am at work so no pictures sorry :( Just trying to keep you updated with my boring but wonderful life!

Well its been a while!

I have gotten so far behind I kindof gave up! So I am just going to give highlights of the past little while!

-Matt graduated from the University of Utah with a Masters in Urban Planning.
-I got a new job at StubHub which I am really liking!
-Matt joined the National Guard and will be a linguist for Military Intelligence.
-Matt will be leaving for basic training on Oct. 26 and I will be moving in with my parents.
-I will be starting school full-time in the fall, attending UVU
-We are going on a cruise at the beginning of Oct. as a going away trip before Matt leaves for 10 months
-Matt went to yellowstone with his family but i couldn't go cause I was working.
-We went to McCall for the Thomas family reunion.
-We went to Bear Lake for the Marler family reunion.
-We have a new niece Lexi (Natalie and Andy's daughter) born on the 4th of July.

Well I think that is all for now.....I will add some pics in no particular order.

Side Note

I really want this hat...isnt it AWESOME!

Rambling!

This post really has no point, there is nothing uber exciting happening in my life so I am just posting random thoughts.

1. My hair is really dry, I mean Sahara desert dry, and I was wondering if anybody had any tips? I googled and found some tips: examples, do not wash hair letting natural oils repair dryness, use mayonnaise as a mask ( YUCK that one made me gag) and different treatment products so off to the store I went. I bought this product coconut milk (only .84 at target whoot whoot) hopefully it will work the reviews online look promising. I also went a whole day without washing my hair (don't worry I still showered) and it was horrible I felt like my hair smelled all day and looked greasy, so I am not doing that again! On a side note the smell of this product makes me want to eat it, soooo delicious!

2. My parents bought me a beautiful new sewing machine for Christmas and I have not even used it yet. I have these projects running around in my head but after my last FAILED project I am scared. If anybody has any cute easy projects (I really like making clothes and stuff) then send them my way cause I really need to get over this.

3. I found this dreamy duvet cover at anthropologie I want it soooo badly! I cannot stop thinking about it, I even have dreams about it!

So if anybody want to buy this for me I will gladly accept :)

4. For one of my new years resolutions I wanted to try a new recipe once a month and thought I would share. For January I tried this cream cheese chicken crescent rolls and it sooo easy and delicious! here is the recipe
http://www.bakespace.com/recipes/detail/Cream-Cheese-Chicken-Crescent-Rolls/18593/
I also got a delicious recipe from my neighbor for a tasty pasta and tomato salad it is sooo good but the recipe is pretty detailed and would take to long to write on here but you should all come over to my house and I will make it for you :)

5. I think I would be really fun for a bunch of ladies to get together and do a craft night, recipe night, quilt night, play bunco or something, especially sense I may or may not be moving soon so let me know if you are interested. Sense quitting my job I have more time on my hands and could organize a get together.

Well I think that is enough rambling for today!

WARNING! May be long post!

Well I have not blogged in quite a while so I will just start with Christmas, we spent Christmas Eve with my (Leslie's) family and Christmas day with Matt's family. I had to work Christmas Eve but I got off at 5 so it wasn't that bad, I just headed to my parents house right after that and met my Matthew there. We had a big Mexican fiesta it was delicious pretty funny though because my mom probably made enough to feed a whole army! After that we read some Christmas letters to remind us what the season is really about and opened our one Christmas Eve present, which is always pajamas. Sense Matt and I were not going to be there for Christmas morning we opened all of our presents and had them open ours, I am pretty dang excited because my parents got me a sewing machine now I won't have to borrow my mom's every time I do a project! After that some of us played some ping pong and watched the Christmas Story (what a funny flick!). Then we headed home, we had decided to open our presents to eachother on Christmas Eve because we were trying to get to Farmington at like 9 and I am not a morning person so it is best if you wake me up as late as possible. Christmas morning we headed up to Farmington (Matt's parents house) we opened presents and had a big breakfast! Both mine and Matt's cameras had broken so Matt's parents were nice enough to get us a new camera! Now we just have to be better about taking pictures haha! Matt's sister Lara got us catch phrase which I LOVE! We played that ALOT on Christmas and have played it a lot sense hahah! We stayed until like 5ish just playing around and having fun and then we went home and watched the proposal which I got from my little brothers (such a good movie!). Later that night we went over to my parents and played 1-13 with my parents and brothers and I didnt come in very last so I was happy! My absolute favorite thing about Christmas is the wonderful music, especially done by choirs at church it always get me tearing up (which I guess isn't that big of a deal haha). Matt was in our choir at church and did an AMAZING job on the Christmas program, Christmas sunday is one of my favorite sundays of the year :) All in all we had a pretty AMAZING Christmas! We hope you all did too.

Note also in the pictures I made our stockings this year :)


Well next on my list of things to blog about, we bought matt a new car! His truck was pretty much falling apart and even though we had planned on just running it until it died I was about to strangle "someone" with my frustration on having to get it fixed about every single month. Matt had wanted a Subaru WRX but we new we couldn't really afford one of those but went to the Subaru lot to look anyways, they were having a pretty good deal on a Subaru Impreza and we took it for a drive and decided we couldn't pass it up so we took it home with us. Here is a picture of it, we are hoping it lasts a LONG time! It is an 09 with 11,000 miles on it so keep yours fingers crossed for us that we don't have anymore car problems for a while.










We also had a really fun New Years Eve! We had some friends over and just played games (catch phrase, disney scene it, and charades mostly) and ate a TON of food! Here are some pictures of that.


Last on my list, Matt and I took my little brothers (Jon and Tyler) to a Jazz game for their Christmas present (it has kind of become a fun tradition). We went just last night to the Jazz vs. the Denver Nuggets I am pretty sure haha, if you know me at all you know I only go to sporting events for the yummy treats so for the most important information of the game yes I did get a churro and yes it was AMAZING! Besides that the Jazz didn't play very well and lost (also becoming a tradition to go to a game where the Jazz lose I guess) but we still had a TON of fun!



That is all sorry so long, but I am in protest because nobody ever comments so I don't think anyone is reading it making it a waste of my time but my friend Kylie told me I needed an update so here ya go!

Thanksgiving!

I love thanksgiving so much, it is my favorite holiday! It makes you realize how very blessed you are and I just wanted to share some things I am thankful for. I am so very thankful for my husband, not only is he the most supportive and caring husband but we also have loads of fun together and he always keeps me smiling and makes me feel like a comedian (which is good because I think I am pretty funny). Matt is so important to me and I love him so much, he is the very best thing in my life and I don't know what I would do without him. I am also very thankful for all of my family, boy do I love families, who else is there for you no matter what. They are the absolute best! I love all of them to pieces! I am also very thankful for the gospel and the fullness it gives me in my life, it directs me in every way and makes me so happy :) I am also thankful to have a job, a car, an apartment, friendly neighbors, amazing friends, kisses, hugs, nieces and a nephew, and love! I hope everyone enjoys their thanksgiving, I sure am going to :)

Remembered my password!!

So it has been a while sense we have blogged because I forgot my password and couldn't remember it for the life of me. Finally I remembered what email address I had set it up with so I could reset it YAY! Anyways me and Matt have been having alot of fun the last little while, we went up to my grandparents cabin in Bear Lake with some friends for the weekend and had a blast! I love going up there and playing on the wave runners, laying in the sun, playing lots of games, and eating TONS of snacks! We were happy our friends could come have fun with us and I will put up a few pics that I got. We also made a trip out to Washington DC which was such a blast! Matt was going so he could do some work for the sierra club so they flew him out for free and Matt's brother Myke (who lives out there) was nice enough to let me use his frequent flyer miles so I could go out there with him. We went early so that Matt could take me around to all of the fun places and I had so much fun. It was my first time going to DC so it was really cool to see everything. We went and saw most of the monuments and memorials on the mall, went to a couple museums and went to the DC temple all of which were really AWESOME! We walked soo much I even had bloody socks a couple of times (just in case you wanted to know hahah) all in all we had an amazing trip! Oh and on the way home was my first time flying alone and I was pretty worried but it was totally fine I am just a worry wort I guess haha. Besides that we have just been doing the same old thing and loving life!