3 Years!!

Our finished basement!! Last year at this time we were just beginning.

My how the time has flown by! We had a good anniversary...well as good as it could be after spending all day at work. Life is so comfortable with Brad. I'm so happy I'm not single anymore. I made life so much harder then it needed to be. I would worry about stupid stuff, and I never really was at ease with myself. Now crap will happen during the day and as soon as I walk in the door I forget about it. It's nice to be with someone who makes you feel good. I can always count on Brad, he is my best friend!! I couldn't have done better:)
The beautiful flowers Brad bought me!! Lilies are my favorite:)

The Month of Love!

I really like February! Not only do I love Valentines Day, but we get to celebrate our anniversary too! Today I was thinking about how I have a pretty good life. Now of course I have my days...or months (January!!) but for the majority of time I've got it pretty good.
I love my girls in the Young Women’s and I get sad on the weeks we have combined lesson. I love making handouts and studying the lessons each week. They are such good girls and its fun to teach them and hear about how the gospel is blessing their lives.
My job is always a challenge with the goods and bads! I'm trying to only focus on the good and last night I read an article in the Ensign that really helped me out! It talked about having Faith and focusing on the good in life and if you have Faith the bad will work it's self out. That's something I already knew but its funny how easy it is to forget, and get caught up in the worldly things in life!!! I'm just grateful to have a job and do what I love to do.
Brad!!! He is amazing and such an awesome husband! I work late on Fridays and when I come home he has the house cleaned and the laundry done and put away!!! He has done that the past few weeks! It's so sweet! I couldn't ask for a better person for me. We have so much fun together and yeah I'm a lucky girl. It's been the best 3 years and I know it's only going to get better!

Hair and Happy New Year

I finally got my hair cut and it's been almost a year which is pretty disgusting. My sister-in-law cut it at her beauty school and did a great job. My ends were so nasty and scraggly I needed it bad!! I feel like a new girl now because I was carrying all that extra weight around for a year (I have a lot of hair!) I was bored yesterday so I decided to straighten my hair, it's easier now that it's shorter and more manageable. I don't think I will ever be able to get my hair silky instead of scarecrow like but it was fun to try something new!

I'm being a baby about going back to work. I've had two weeks off and it's been amazing. Brad and I have been spoiled having so much time together. We saw 2 movies, went bowling, went out to eat, went shopping with Christmas gift cards, and slept in. Now I have the back to work blues. Hopefully once I go back to work and get back into the swing of things then it will be ok.

Straight hair! Wish I knew how to fix my hair in a different hairstyle then what I always do.

Tis the season...

Christmas this year was wonderful!! We had a really fun time going back and forth to both our families. I love living next to both sets of parents, and I'm so lucky to have such awesome in-laws!! Pretty sure we went overboard with gifts for each other this year but we were celebrating the fact that we are done with our HOUSE!!!

My mom made us cute aprons


My card display

The aftermath

Fall!

My favorite time of year is here! I love watching all the seasons change, but there is just something so magical about the fall. The leaves on the trees are changing, the air is fresh, and not to mention all the excitement for the holidays to come. I just get so excited when it's fall! Halloween is so much fun too, I like dressing up and carving pumpkins and getting to see all my little students come to dance in their cute costumes. I also love any reason to get to decorate our house; I have had my Halloween decorations up since the middle of September!
I'm looking forward to the rest of 2010. My job and classes are awesome this year, I love being in the Young Women’s, and we are done and enjoying our house!! I'm so blessed, and grateful for all that I have in my life!

Vacation Time Baby!!

We went on our first trip this year,and it finally felt like summer. Brad took off a few days from work so we headed out on a much needed vacation. We took advantage of every free park and lake we could find. Who says you have to spend a ton of money to have a great time, and we both were shocked at how many cool free places we live by.


One of the highlights of the trip was watching Brad float around in this kiddy pool. No store in the whole Tri-Cities had a blow up mat so this was all Brad could find. I was skeptical at first but after watching him in it decided I needed to try it out too. It worked great and even was big enough so we both could fit. It was fun watching people laugh as we got in and out of it, glad they were laughing as much I was. Brad was very proud of his purchase.



The beach we hung out at for the day was super crowed, but pretty much every place we went to on the trip was. The water was not much cooler then pool water so I actually had fun swimming in it.

There is this awesome resort next to the beach, it looks like a castle. We snuck in and went swimming in the pool. It reminded me of a Grecian bath. It had huge pillars in the pool and hot tubs, and turquoise tile on the walls and in the pool. The hotel sure was swanky. I didn't take any pictures because I didn't want to draw any attention to myself.

On the way home we stopped at a park. They have free beautiful gardens you can go to. I didn't even know there was something that cool in the city we were in. We went to the rose garden, an old formal garden, wildflower garden, a green house that had tropical plants in it, and a Japanese garden. We could have spent all day here and I'm dying to go back before the summer is over. It was amazing.




I have 2 more weeks off then it's back to the grind. This summer has gone by super fast, so hopefully that means work will too!! I just need to relax and make the most out of the time I have. My niece Elizabeth asked my today if I ever wished I was her (hahaha random and really cute) I told her yes because I miss playing all summer. Those were the days, making a huge barbie house with my sister and playing all day. Anyways... it was a great trip!!

Fun Photo Shoot

A friend in my ward is starting up a photography business and asked Brad and I to pose for her, and I'm glad she did. We had a lot of fun and probably talked more then we took pictures. We never had real engagement pictures taken so I treated this like the real deal. I was kinda stress out though after because I thought I was going to look stupid, and then I was worried she wouldn't get any picture she could use. But man she must be really good because they turned out great. You think all those years of posing for ballet pictures would have payed off but I was in my element I guess. I think I have camera fright but Brad looks like a stud in all the pictures. He is just a born model. Anyways...here are some of my favorites!







I love this picture, just wish I didn't have a lazy eye.