Wedding weekend...

This weekend one of Jared's good friends from High School got married. I was so excited for their wedding because it is the first sealing I have been to besides our own sealing 18 months ago!

Jared and Amber were married on Saturday in the Manti Temple. It was a chilly day but pretty wheather! I have a few pictures, but they dont do them justice! Amber looked amazing! Her dress was beautiful. Jared (the groom) is so laid back and funny so I had to add in picutres that show his personality! The groom is a photographer - I on the other hand am not!

Jared and Jared

Mr. and Mrs.

This picture really lets you see her beautiful dress!

The groom doing his GQ pose...

The guys

Jed, Mike, Jared, Jared and Nick

Davian, Amber, Jared and Jared

Jared and Mike
Mike and and his wife Hannah moved to Georgia last year. We miss hanging out with them!
It was such a nice weekend! Thanks Jared and Amber for letting us be apart of your beautiful day! We love you guys!

Yeah Christmas!

It comes as no surprise to anyone who knows me well....

I am so excited for Christmas!

Jared and I have picked the couple who we are going to do for the 12 days of Christmas!

This is one of my favorite family traditions!

I have been working on my christmas cards and can't wait to finish them

so I can send them off to family and friends!

I bought Jared's first Christmas gift and wrapped it up in cute paper

that will match the Christmas tree.

I have been listening to Christmas music all day while at work. Which is a miracle because I work with some people who think "Christmas music should only be played after Thanksgiving!" No, no they are wrong! Christmas is about love, peace, service and happiness so it deserves to be played ALL year long! Besides Thanksgiving has been turned into a holiday that promotes obesity.... we are a doctors office so we should promote happiness not obesity!... BTW - I won the discussion and we listen to FM 100 constantly so we have happy Christmas music all the time!

On a sad little note: Jared and I aren't going to be able to fulfill our tradition this year that was started while dating of going to Trans-Siberian Orchestra!! sniff - sniff... We waited to see if some friends were going along with us... They are not and now tickets are over $100 each! Sadness I know! Click here or here to get your Trans fix... or if you have never checked them out they are amazing! What could be better than electric guitar Christmas Music? LIVE electric guitar Christmas music!! The laser light and pyro show is simply out of this world - the video does not do it justice... No one can do it quit like Trans! Check out this cool house decked out with Christmas lights all keeping up to the beat of Trans.... amazing!! Take a look on their site under 'display video clips' to see other songs synched to their Christmas lights!

By the way there is just 43 days until CHRISTMAS!!

Information help.....

I recently have taken on a new project at work compiling information for patients... Pregnant patients. Well, I have never been pregnant so this has been a fun task for me! I am putting together information that we hand out to patients once they have a positive pregnancy test at our clinic. Thus it is before they meet with their doctor.

So my question is to all of you who have had children:
What information would you have wanted or found helpful BEFORE you met with your doctor for the first time in your pregnancy, generally at 8 -12 weeks?

Did you have any general questions for your doctor that you would have liked the answers to early in your pregnancy?

So far I have information about: Morning sickness, Miscarriage and Ectopic pregnancy, warning signs during pregnancy - like with smoking, drinking and Toxoplasmosis and medications safe to take while pregnant.

Any help with this would be great! Thanks!!

My Day Off...

I made a "To Do List"....

I did the dishes.... Check!

Cleaned the bathroom.... Check - Check!

Mopped all the floors.... Triple Check!

Did some laundry.... Check!

Cut out some things for FHE packets.... Check!

I changed my blog background (click "background" to see where I got it) and must say it is pretty cute!.... (No check - it was not on "The List")
It is almost 1 and I still have not got ready for the day....

Better go check my to do list and shut off the ADD - blogging was NOT on the To Do List for the day....

.... I should add it so I can Check something else off of the list!....

The SIMPLE joys in life!

I am self diagnosed with OCD... when I want it! But no worries it has turned into one of the "simple joys" in life! I will focus on my "Cleaning OCD"....


I discovered Mr. Clean Invigorating Breeze about 3 years ago. It became an amazing addition to my cleaning supplies. That I know sounds like I am CRAZY.... but I have people who agree with me. Using the pretty blue Mr. Clean is TOTALLY invigorating my friends! It leaves the whole house smelling so crisp and clean. Well, I discovered about a year ago that it was not to be found at retail stores! You can imagine my frustration when my FAVORITE cleaner was MIA! What would this do to my "sacred Wednesday cleaning days?"... I would be on Mr. Clean rations! I was bewildered - the audacity of the company to yank my favorite cleaner from the shelves... Gurr!... So I went on a quest to find it..... and my hard work paid off! I recently bought it on-line from some drug store back east.... in bulk! Whew, cleaning life can resume... What could be better than a whole case of my favorite cleaner?... Ya, I know I am speechless too!

Another cleaning love that I have is vacuuming. I really do ENJOY it! As a little girl I would go to Sister Hepners almost daily while my Mom was at work. There we did 2 things daily - or at least that is how I remember it - we vacuumed and made jello. This must be where my love for vacuuming came from. (I will be at my parents home and just randomly get out the central vac just so I can vacuum...) I sound like a nut case... Well, our first apartment was 100 % slate flooring besides our bedroom so we had a smaller sweeper thing I used just in the bedroom. Since we moved and now our apartment has carpet we have needed a vacuum. I have been researching for a few weeks and this is what I have found....


So last night we went down to Wal-Mart and bought this blue Bissell vacuum. I have vacuumed now twice and am amazed (and grossed out) at how well it picks stuff up... it really sucks! Yahoo, I now have nice straight vacuum lines in my carpet!... and you thought I was hard to please?...

Now I must go finish some cleaning... REMEMBER THE SIMPLE JOYS IN LIFE, like a clean house... Unless you have kids (then leave the OCD cleaning to me) and remember what you learned in Genereal Conference... too soon those finger prints and toys will be gone!... (or something to that affect!)

Thankful

So I have always thought that my blog is lacking spice, fun and quality text. I realize now that this is just my life... and I should be thankful for it. Thankful for the life that I have and not take it for granted even though to me it seems ordinary and uneventful!

Jared and I have very opposite schedules but we have learned and grown so much in the past 17 months of marriage. I wouldn't trade in what I have learned and experienced. I am thankful to be married to such an amazing husband who works so hard for us and is striving to better our life on a daily basis and working toward our future. It has been a long road so far but the road is only longer, greener and beautiful. I am glad to have him by my side through the whole journey. He keeps me going and reminds me to stay focused on the important things in life. There is always light, we just need to look to see it and watch it become brighter. He helps me to see this light - to see our future as a reality not just a dream or a wish.

I am so thankful for the family I have been blessed with and for the family I was blessed to marry into. My parents are model citizens when it comes to being a model of service and Christ like love and charity. A week never went by growing up that I could recall my parents not being involved in service of some kind. They have been faithful members of the church my whole life and have shown me how to love, serve and care for others. They taught me well and I hope I can make them proud of the woman that I have become. I love them so much and am grateful to be in the same ward while my Dad is serving as Bishop. This has brought a new respect and love in my eyes for him. I know I don't tell them often enough how wonderful and grateful I am to be able to call them my "Mom and Dad." Mom ,I know you will read this so for this is for you.... "Love you too!!" "Be smart!" "Anticipate the idiot...."

I am so grateful for the church in my life. I loved watching Conference this weekend. What a magnificent opportunity I have been blessed with to listen to the words of a Living Prophet, Pres. Thomas S. Monson and other inspired faithful servants all weekend! Their words were so eloquent and the music so heavenly... I sound cheesy but it is true! If you watched conference you know what I am talking about. It was an amazing spiritual feeling. I have felt a deeper sense of love, compassion and need for service while listening this weekend. I am excited to put into action those impressions of the spirit. I hope a noticeable change within myself will come about from this!... Yahoo for the spiritual highs in life!

Family Update

Jared's Dad recently bought a new sports car... A Pontiac Solstice.

Like good children should - we took it for a spin.

It goes fast..... like REALLY fast! It was so much fun.

This would be Jared's "Please can I have one too?" face!...

I told him Yes... go ahead, you would need to get a third job though!

This sun is in our eyes but we were at a stop light so I tried to get a picture where we were both looking.... it didn't really turn out - but has a nice wind blown hair look huh!

So this is Elder Paea. Elder Paea is from Australia. Jared's brother Tye is serving his mission in Australia. Elder Paea was friends with Tye and the other missionaires who are serving in Australia before being called on his own mission. Elder Paea was called to the Philippines, but while in the MTC injured his shoulder and had to have surgery. Long story short he was assigned to our area and was able to come over to Jared's parents home last Sunday with this companions for dinner. It was really neat to meet him and talk to him about Tye and Australia. He is a really nice, friendly guy and we had such a nice visit with him. We look forward to 2010 when he will be able to come back to visit again after completing his mission!

Thanks Jare!

So I will just start out by saying my husband is the best man ever! Sorry ladies, he is taken and is mine... for eternity! For our date night tonight my amazing husband bought me a new {pink} laptop! I love it!!! I know it is super cheesy but my only requirement for the laptop was that it needed to be... pink! I made him make all the other decisions - you know all that computer humbo jumbo that girls don't understand. I hope now I can be a better blogger.... don't hold your breath though. Jared thinks I will now be motivated to go back to school next semester with this fancy new pink laptop.... but for now it will be my trusting blogging and FHE packet making companion! THANK YOU BEAR!