April 17th, 2010

So... I need to put update about Christmas, Jed's Birthday, and the New Year... but my camera is dead and I can't upload pictures until it is charged again... stay tuned for that.... but I have decided to do something that I want to share so I am accountable for it. I signed up for... A HALF MARATHON. That's right. 13.1 miles. The furthest I've ever run is 3.1 miles and that was in August and I thought I was going to die. I am excited for this challenge though and I started training yesterday... 1 day down, 3 1/2 months to go!! My mom and my sister in law Annie are both running it as well and I am so excited to accomplish this with them. Annie has been running these like mad the past year so she will toast us, but my mom has only run 1 half marathon and it was years ago so she and I are good training buddies. So goodbye Soda Pop, until April 17th! If anyone has good tips for training, let me know! I need all the help I can get :)

Goooooo Jazz!!!!

Lauren's drill team had a fund raiser over the summer and at the fundraiser there was a silent auction. One of the items was tickets to a Jazz game. My AMAZING Dad was so generous and bid on the tickets and WON!!! Lauren called me to let me know that she was going to take me, and I can tell you I was soooooooo EXCITED!!!!! I found out in July that we were going to the game and I had to wait until December to actually go. We got the tickets and they were ROW 1!!! I was soooo excited! We weren't sitting on the court (those are folding chairs and don't count as a row) so we were second row right behind the Hoop. If any of you have Jazz game knowledge, you've heard of the doctor that throws chickens in the air during free throws... we were right by him! The tickets came with a dinner before the game and snacks during half time. Lauren and I had the TIME OF OUR LIVES and I hope that one day we can do it again (doubtful thought because face value of the tickets was $700.. A PIECE!! Nuts... who has that kind of money? Don't worry, my dad didn't even pay any where near that for the tickets.)At the dinner before the game.... Lauren and I probably looked like such tourists but we didn't care! We were going to enjoy every minute of this awesome experience! :) As you can see, my cute Hubby got me a green throwback jersey as an early Christmas Present.. I was so excited to wear it! Too bad the team didn't wear their throwbacks this night, but I still love the Jersey!Two of my favorites, D. Will and the Money Man Memo warming up for the game. When the team came out for warm ups, Lauren and I were freaking out! We were SOOOO CLOSE! I could feel drips of sweat flying off Booze we were so close :)The bear's eyes are Freaky!!!

Not my favorite Jazzmen but He was so close I had to take a pictureAfter introductions before the game started... Jazz cheer! Go Jazz!We were lucky enough to get to see the Spurs play. Tim Duncan is HUGE! I couldn't resist taking a picture of Tony Parkers nicest Asset :)

This was by far the BEST game we could have gone to. It was a nail bitter all the way to the end and we won with less that 20 seconds on the clock. Lauren and I were on the Jumbo Tron 4 times (which ties our record... what can we say? The camera loves us :) and we LOVED all the drinks, popcorn and nachos that we got at halftime

After the W by the team. Korver didn't play, but other than that, this was by far the most amazing Jazz experience I have ever had! Lauren and I were sooo lucky to be able to go experience the "good" life for a night and get to see the best game of the season so far! Thank you so much Dad for the early Christmas present! Lauren and I had the time of our lives and we will cherish the memory forever!!! You are the best and I love you!!!!

Up next: CHRISTMAS!!!

Go Cougars!!

This is for all the Ute fans out there :)

This year I volunteered to have the annual Halloween dinner at my house. My family and Jed's family all came over for the tradition soup and rolls. It was a little chaotic and i learned that we can't fit everyone in our house comfortably, but it was a lot of fun! Happy Halloween everyone... here are a bunch of random pictures from the night

October happenings

October has been fun so far and I am looking forward to Halloween! Here are a few pictures of what we have been up to ...

Lauren, Elisse and I went to Thriller with the Drill Team. If you haven't ever been, you need to go! It is fun and makes me miss dancing.Then it was Elisse's 24th birthday! All the girls (minus Kaitlyn) at the birthday dinner at my moms
On her actual birthday, she didn't have any plans, so I invited her along to lunch with my mother-in-law Joanne and me at the Lion House. The company was great and the chocolate cake was delicious!
We had a good hard laugh because of Elisse.... she found a fly in her salad dead on a hard boiled egg (GROSS) so on the comment card they leave on the table, she put "there was a bug in my salad" and then took the bug and a piece of egg and stuck it on the comment card so whoever read it would know that she wasn't lying. Joanne and I were rolling on the floor we were laughing so hard :)

After lunch in front of the temple

Joanne works at the church office building so she took us inside to check it out. I have never been on the top floor, but it was so neat up there! You could see everything. I took this picture of the temple.. I thought it was a fun view that you don't see every day. They were also having a health fair at her work so Elisse and I got to go around and get a bunch of free "healthy" stuff like hand sanitizer and a go green "save the earth" snoopy doll that Wrigley just loves.

It was a fun little outing... thanks Joanne for the tour!

Yesterday our Friends Jen and Mike invited us over for family home evening. They were nice enough to get Jed and I a pumpkin and we did some carving. I haven't carved a pumpkin in years and I forgot how much fun it can be! After a lot of frustration, my pumpkin turned out looking like a Frenchman.

The finished product. It was really cold and windy and for some reason my camera flash made it look like the middle of the day, but this was late at night and the candles wouldn't stay lit. I think they still turned out great though

Thanks Mike and Jen for the fun evening!!

PRIVATE

Hello everyone to the new private blog! I hope everyone got their invite, so please leave a comment letting me know you can get to my blog.

I had a bunch of creepy people leaving me comments so I decided going private was probably the safest idea. You never know who is on the Internet!!

New House Pictures (FINALLY!)

Be prepared! There are a lot of pictures!!!

Jed and I were so excited to buy our first house. This process was very stressful especially since our house was being built, but we finally got everything done, signed, and funded! We moved in two weeks ago and we are loving being on our own again. My Parents were so nice to let us live in their basement rent free.. without them we never would have been able to do this. I have spent my nights trying to get my decorations and paintings up, but we are still working on that. We can't afford blinds at the moment, so I got some really pretty drapes that my darling mother in law is sewing for me... I will post pictures of those when they are up... So here are all the pictures!View when you first walk in the front door
My beautiful kitchen. Jed did ALL the cabinets in our house (the kitchen isn't quite done yet.. he still needs to put lighting in the upper cabinets and do the crown molding and a couple pieces of glass are missing)Dining room... I want to get a new table eventually so that we can have people over for dinner. My drapes are always shut because I don't want my neighbors always looking in my windowsIslandOur family room view #1 -- Jed also made that entertainment center for me... He made a huge coffee table to match as well, but it won't fit with the ottoman in there as well. He is so talented and I am love that I have a Husband that can make me pretty things!Family room View #2.. our couch takes up the whole room and I am still trying to decide what we are going to do with that huge two story wall... right now it is just blankOne of my favorite projects. Jed put these shelves up for me going up the stairs and I am going to put holiday decorations on themMaster BedroomOne of my favorite features, my big soaker tubSecond bathroom upstairs view #1second bathroom view #2view out my bedroom window

view out the front bedroom

I haven't gotten the front bedrooms together yet, but we have 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms and a 2 car garage. We plan on staying here for a while, and we are very excited to start a family here. We are right down the street from the new temple, and we can see angel "baroni" (my cute nephew Boston calls him angel Baroni... he loved going through the open house and seeing the temple) from our or bathroom window. I am excited to be so close to the temple and hopefully we can take advantage of our close location!

Hopefully you feel like you had a tour of the new house now. We had so many people help us move in and we are so grateful for all of them! So many people helped us move boxes and unpack and hang up clothes. Thank you so much to you guys! You know who you are!