Five's!!

This is a "five tag" or that is at least what I will call it!

Davian's answers are in purple, Jared's answers are in black.  

So sit back and relax and enjoy our five's!

5 Things I was doing 10 years ago:

1. Babysitting the Maughan kids during the summer - Aggressive skating

2. Weeding our huge garden everyday! - Working on the farm 

3. Being a 13 yr. old girl - Listening to Punk Rock

4. My bro. Justin would be getting married in Aug - Playing football 

5.  My bro. Nate would have just left for his mission to Paris - Working at Prestwich Farms

5 Things on my To Do list:

1. Change my blog background - Become an amazing guitarist.

2. Clean the bathroom - Do the dishes... as added by Davian.

3. Get back in school - Teach Davian to long board.

4. Figure out how to make a million dollars - Teach Davian to how to snowboard.

5. Go to bed! - Buy a Ibanez or Gibson guitar.

5 Favorite Snacks/Food:

1. ICE CREAM! - Red Vines licorice

2. Ruby River's Coconut Shrimp - Steak

3. Raspberry Chicken - Baccon

4. Pumpkin Choc. chip cookes (if I make them) - Burger King.

5. Soft bread - Davian's croissants.

 

5 Things I would do if I was a Billionaire:

1. Quit my job! - Buy a guitar company.

2. Build a home - Quit one of two jobs.

3. Go on a year long world trip - Finish school... debt free!

4. Do humanitarian aid - Buy Davian another huge diamond ring.

5. Pay off all debt of my own and family members! - Humanitarian aid work.

5 Bad Habits:

1. Hitting the snooze button - sucking on the soul patch!

2. Picking, I love to pick at anything!  - Working too much.

3. Spending way too much time on the internet  - Procrastinating.

4. Trying to control everything!  - Not staying motivated.

5. Putting things in the grocery cart that I may not really need  - Getting upset over stupid things!

5 Places I have lived:

1. Fremont, California - Spanish Fork, Ut

2. Gilroy, California -   Brazil

3. Springville - where I grew up from the age of 6 - Spanish Fork, Ut

3. Spanish Fork - our first place when married - Orem, Ut

5. Springville - at our current place - Springville, Ut

Now to pass on this tag.... Anyone just do it and be happy about it!  

Or I will need to mention your name here... Breanne, Brooke B., Chelsie H., Kristina!

 

Random stuff!

I really don't have anything to blog about but I am sick of looking at the Memorial Day post and pictures.... so I will just ramble!

This past week Breanne cut and colored my hair and waxed my eyebrows.  Wow!  It is amazing what a little pampering can do for a girl!  I love having my hair done, it just gives me a little boost!  I think I will need to go down to the Medical Spa in the basement of my work this week to check out what their new advertisement about "glitter toes" is all about.  Sounds fun to me! You can never have too much pampering. 

I made a new yummy dish this weekend called Poppyseed Chicken.  It was pretty quick and easy to make - so that was a bonus.  Jare and I both really liked it!  We think I will need to make it again soon... like this week!  Thanks Lisa for the new delicious recipe!

My Grandma "Grams" celebrated her 82nd birthday on Saturday!  She is such a wonderful woman.  I wish she lived closer.  Grams is the best example of a servant of Christ.  She is always looking out for those around her.  She is kind and loving to everyone.  She has an amazing love and testimony of the gospel and Jesus Christ.  I love you Grams!  I miss her so much.  When I talked to her on the phone last night she said she may be coming up in August, I hope so!!

Friday night Jared and I went to Redbox and rented 27 Dresses.  It was a total chick flick but Jare was a great sport and watched it with me last night.  I totally cried at the end!   (It was like 1 am when we finished watching it so maybe that was why.)  Jare was there to calm me down and talk to me when I was crying about our wedding.  Our wedding was amazing and so beautiful - there was just one thing that "went wrong" (that was totally out of our control) that made it a little hard for us to concentrate during our ceremony.  Jared reminded me that we had written down what we could remember and that my Mom also gave us a letter containing what she remembered as well.  

Jared is such a great husband!  Thanks Jare for using some of your therapy skills to help me focus on the good things and be happy!  Thanks for loving me even when a silly movie makes me cry like a baby!

Today our Sunday school class was so fun!  Sister Wilson is a total spaz!  I had so much fun learning in her class.  After church we ate dinner at my parents.  My sister and her family were there too.  Xander now says my name, it comes out more like "Dee-a" but it is so cute!  He kept chattering "Dee-a chicken!" (He wanted me to go put on the Chicken Run DVD) or "Dee-a treat!" and then would lead the way to the kitchen for a fruit snack.  It was so cute!  Millie snuggled between Jared and I on the couch to watch funny animal clips on youtube with Jared.  It was really cute.  I am so glad the little ones like us because we love to play with them and be with our family!

Memorial Day!

I've been telling Jared lately that we need to have some traditions and to make fun memories. Well today we did both.  Our new tradition is to go on a Picnic for Memorial Day.  So original, huh.  The point though is that we are starting traditions and being together as a family!

Jared worked his 12 hour graveyard shift last night so this morning he came home and slept for a few hours.  I woke him up at 1:30 he got ready while I finished packing things up for our picnic.  Jare is not a fan of picnics, but I have been wanting to go on one for a long time so he agreed.  

First on our list was to go visit Jared's grandpa's graves.  They both looked very nice - with lots of flowers!  Jared told me his Mom had been to her Dad's grave and cleaned it all up using 

some chemical and a tooth brush! It looked just like new.  It was nice to see the graves and think about families and to remember their service for our country so many years ago.  

(All of our Grandpa's served in some way with the Air Force.)   My Grandpa's  grave is in Nevada so we couldn't go out to see it today, but hope to go see it sometime this summer!

We then drove to the park and had our picnic!  It was SO cold.  Somehow we got lucky and the rain stopped while we were at the cemetery, but was very windy and cold while we were at the park.  

Jared is freezing cold here in this picture!  He was such a good sport though suffering through the cold for me. (I offered him the blanket I was sitting on but he said No!)

During our picnic this sea gull was determined to eat lunch with us!  We threw him some chips and watermelon on the ground, he just kept getting closer and closer.  He jumped up on the table right next to us - so we threw him another chip.

As we were leaving the sun started coming out but it was still really breezy! 

 It was a lot of fun, just the two of us having a little

 picnic in the park, talking, joking and laughing. 

 I love that we are starting our own traditions! 

This isn't the best picture of us but it was windy and sun was in our eyes!

 On our way home I pulled over on the side of the road by this pond to take a picture of this cute little Swan family!  When we were going to our picnic we past the pond and they were out there swimming - it was so dang cute.  So on our way home they were just getting out of the pond and I had to take some pictures.  Just look at these cute little fuzzy baby swans!

Technology

So after many late nights of writing, picture loading, schedule tracking, finance sheet tracking, school assignments and power point presentations Jared's laptop bit the dust! A little frustrating I must add but hey, we now are the owners of a new, nicer and faster laptop.  Thanks to our wonderful President George W. Bush for giving us "free economy stimulation" money so we could quickly spend that money on a much needed item! Woot-woot here I am posting on our (mostly Jared's) Mac!  So far we love it.  

Just incase you have noticed my drastic lack in blog communication, I am still here and doing well. We just have been very busy with moving the past month and then finally when we got the internet here at our apartment a few days later the laptop decided it no longer would be with us as a trusty working companion and died!  What has the world come to when you get depressed over a silly electronic device?  So today I have decided if it was that important I will give it (the new laptop) a name.   

No need for suggestions - Jared and I just figured it out.  The newest member to our little Johnson family is Lil' Mac Johnson or for short "Lil' Macky J".  Better enjoy him because there will not be any other additions to this family of three for a few years - at least not any that need to be fed, clothed and potty trained!

Anniversary Weekend

So I thought I would share about our anniversary weekend adventures! We started things off on Friday (May 2nd) by going to lunch at Red Robin and going to see Iron Man. Mmm, the food was so good - we love that place! Jared really liked the movie and well I didn't! I thought it was pretty lame and slept right in the middle of it for about 20 minutes. I will give it credit for the last few minutes of the guy flying around in his cool iron man suit. (I told Jared I am done with comic book movies! I have suffered through too many (Spiderman, Batman, Transformers etc.) and I don't need to see anymore. So if you are taking pitty on him please invite him to see the next cartoon/comic book movie with you. I think there is some movie like that coming out in June or July?) Jared went to work that night and I came home and went to bed.

Saturday morning Jared got home and slept for awhile and I got some things put away in the house and got ready for our weekend. When Jared woke up and got ready we decided to open our anniversary gifts so we didn't have to take them along with us to Salt Lake.

Jared opened his gifts first!

Yes, we look way too excited! It was like Christmas again.

We somehow always get one gift that is exactly the same for eachother...

this time it was August Rush!

I got Jared a new DVD/VHS player.

He loves to watch movies and our other one just decided not to work a few months ago!

Jared also got an exercise ball to help him stretch and exercise his back when he is unable to go to the gym. Doing the stretches on the ball really help strengthen his back and help it not to hurt so much due to his work injury earlier in the year. I also gave him an alarm clock. He has been setting the alarm on his cell phone but will turn it off and not know it due to being familiar with the sound that it makes. My camera however was not out at this point of the gift exchange so we don't have any pictures of those two gifts!

Jared got me a new Ipod!

I look like I am a total goober or like I am going to sneeze or something in this picture!

I love my new Ipod! Thanks Babe!

We left around 2 and got lunch then drove to Salt Lake. We checked into the Radisson Hotel and got up to our room on the 11th floor. We walk in and see two twin beds! Funny, our reservation was for one king size bed! So Jared was just like um, alright our First Anniversary and we will spend it in a twin bed. I was a bit annoyed and thought NO WAY!! So I call down to the desk and they send a guy up and he gives us keys to the room next door that has the King size bed like we had reserved. Whew! We decide to go to Hollywood Connection. I looked it up online and it looked like a fun place with mini-golf, games, a movie theater etc. So we take this little map that was in a magazine in our hotel room and take off to find this place. Well, our little map was just that... little. We drive around SLC pretty much lost for like an hour!


We finally find where it is at and go inside. Yep, like 8 kids were having their birthday parties there. It is more of a kid place than what the website tells you. So we get some icecream and go look at the movie times. We went out to the durango to call and see what time Macaroni Grill closed so we would make it in time for dinner. As we are walking in the parking lot a lady asks us "Hey, do you guys like Hockey?" I just say "Uh, we have never been to a game or watched it so I don't know!" Jared was thinking that this lady wanted to sell us something and was ready to ignore her. She said "Well, I have 2 VIP tickets to the Grizzlies Playoff Ice Hockey Game and I can't use them. I am trying to find someone who will. Do you want them?" (If you are thinking this is so random - we were too!) I ask when the game starts and it is in a half hour. So I look at Jared and we decided to take the tickets. We offer to pay her but she said no and jumped in her truck and drove off. I totally wanted to take a picture with her but she was too fast!

Lets just say we now really like ICE HOCKEY! The game was awesome! It was so intense and fun. We were on the eigth row just to the left of the goalie. Talk about a fun time though! I loved the adrenaline rush just watching those guys play. It was a really fun atmosphere, people get into the game of hockey. The people in front of us were like diehard hockey fans. They knew all the players names and were really into the game. The lady was getting so annoyed that I kept taking pictures - but hey I didn't care it was fun! I had my camera out and was ready for a fight to break out, I was going to capture the action! Well my patience paid off and there was a little fight and a player from each team went into the penently box, but my camera did not do it justice!

The little fight between the Grizzlies and the Salmon King's from Canada.

Well the Grizzlies won! I have never heard so much noise and excitement over making a goal in my life as we did during the ice hockey game! We had such a good time and will go back for sure the next chance we get. Our new favorite sport to watch is ice hockey, thanks to a random lady that gave us free tickets! It was so much better than going to a movie. Go Grizzlies!!

Here we are outside the E Center by a hockey statue.

We drove to Salt Lake and went to dinner at Macaroni Grill. It has become a tradtion for us to eat there. We went to dinner there on our first date. (On our first date when we walked in Jared knew the manager and talked to him for a few minutes. When it was time for the bill our waiter told us it was on the house! How cool is that? It made a really good impression on the first date that the manager liked Jared so much that our bill and Brady and Kristina's bill was all on the house!) We also went to dinner at Macaroni Grill the night we got engaged and on our way home from our Honeymoon.

After we ate dinner I wanted to get a picture infront of the Macaroni Grill sign. Jared was beyond being done with taking pictures for the day so this is what I got!

We got back to our hotel and enjoyed a great night rest in a Sleep Number bed! Oh, my if you have never slept on one you need to. It was seriously the BEST sleep we both have had! We choose the hotel based on the bed and it was so worth it! We now think we need to buy one from just one night! All of the beds at the Radisson are Sleep Number beds so go check one out!

Our sleep numbers: Jared 35 Davian 40

What's your sleep number?

Lame? Yes, but so true! It is like heaven sleeping on one.

Sunday, May 4th our offical anniversary! We got up and ready then got some Breakfast and came home. It was so relaxing to not have any real plans and just be together all weekend. I loved the time we got to spend with each other! It was such a big difference from just the year before with all the stress and things from planning a wedding!

On Monday Jared had school in the morning so when he got home we had planned to go to the temple. So we get all dressed up and drive over to the temple. Did you know that on Monday's the temple closes at 10 am? We now know too! (Does it still "count" though? We did make an honest effort to attend!) Because it was like 2 in the afternoon we went to the mall and walked around and did a little shopping. Like four people made comments about how we were dressed (I always have Jared's tie match my outfit when we are dressed up) it was pretty funny! We ran over to Sam's Club to grab a few things, we stopped at a tasting station and tried some BBQ Pork. It was so good that we bought a package of pork ribs and I made pulled pork sandwiches for dinner, it was really yummy! We played tennis together for our FHE activity and just had a fun night to end to our extended celebration weekend! We had such a fun random weekend together celebrating our First Anniversary! It was just what we needed... Time away - but not too far and long - and time spent with eachother!

Home Sweet Home!

It has been so long since I have been able to put a real post on here - I am SO excited!! Our internet is now working at our new apartment. Yeah! I can blog again!! We got all moved 2 weeks ago and LOVE it. We have a lot more space, peace and quiet. Jared and I both think that it feels more like "home" here. It seems that our home now has more of a warm and cozy type feeling to it. We hope this feeling will carry over to those that are in our home and they will feel welcomed and loved and will visit often. We love having visitors - we now have space to sit and chat! We are so grateful that we are here. We are excited for this new chapter in our lives.

Here we are in our new apartment!

My Random "Three's"!

I have been tagged by my super talented Scrapbook Instructor Liz.

JOYS
1. Spending time with Jared
2. Being with my family - especially my neices and nephew!
3. Sleeping in

FEARS
1. Jared dieing (no joke, I seriously panic about this if I don't hear from him!)
2. Being hit by a train while driving - Just because there is lights at the crossing doesn't mean that they are always working! I always check the tracks before I cross. I am totally freaked out about dieing this way or being seriously injured. That is why I usually drive will my cell phone on my lap or in my jacket or shirt pocket so I can grab it if something happens!
3. Drowning (I don't know how to swim...No laughin! I can back float and doggie paddel!)

GOALS
1. Get really fit - like Gladiator style! Gladiator starts again this month!
2. Attend the Temple monthly
3. Save money to buy a new Mac computer - this is more Jared's goal than mine but hey this is his blog too!

OBSESSIONS/COLLECTIONS
1. How I present myself - Won't go out without my hair and makeup done! Never know when I will see someone I know or meet someone - first impressions are the most important right!
2. My favorite Papermate Profile pens
3. Extra stuff - I always need to have extra make-up, hair products, toothpaste, soap etc.

RANDOM FACTS ABOUT ME
1. I am learning to play Tennis - one thing I have always wanted to, just call me Venus Williams!
2. I have a SUPER sense of smell - I can smell ANYTHING from like 6 miles away. It drives my family and Jared crazy!! Want to know what your house, car or something else smells like? Just ask - but be prepared if I tell you it is a combination of green beans, dirty gym bag and wet swim towel!
3. I don't like feet! I have never seen anyone that has "cute feet" and don't try to think you have cute feet because trust me you don't!


I now tag... My sister-in-law Tiff, Chana W., Amera J., Hannah A. and Laurie G.

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!

HAPPY FIRST ANNIVERSARY TO US!!
Today is our first anniversary. It is hard to believe that we have been married for a year. We have learned so much about each other and have enjoyed being married. It has been so much fun. We love to know that we will be married for eternity!
Jared is such a great husband! He works so hard to provide for us by working a full time and a part time job plus going to school! We are so opposite in almost every way, but it makes our marriage better. I never would have thought from our first blind date that we would be married 10 months and 3 days later! Jared always makes sure I am alright and that we talk about our feelings and problems, I joke that he is just practicing his psych therapy but I really appreciate that he is always willing to talk! He is the best husband ever! I love you my Jare Bear!