Update...

The move:
Moving down from Logan went perfect! Since I'm not allowed to lift anything over 20 pounds I decided to go to work instead of stand around with nothing to do...we had Brian's Aunt and Uncle come and help him get everything in the truck. Surprisingly there were no unexpected mishaps, missing trucks, or snow (although it was -10 while they were loading the truck up) which is incredible since something always goes wrong when we move. Brian was met by both of our families to help unload and move into our new apartment, by the time I got off work and drove down everything was unloaded and the unpacking had begun. Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who helped! It was very appreciated! We are loving our new place and being so close to so many friends and family. (But I do miss my Logan friends and most of my students)

Christmas:

Soon after moving down we went on a trip to Florida with Brian's family. (I don't have pictures because my camera was dead) It was a little chilly for Florida, but warmer than home. We spent the days relaxing and going to the theme parks, it was nice to be away from the worries of everyday life and enjoy doing nothing. Christmas Eve was spent doing last minute shopping and going to my family's Christmas party. Christmas day was spent between both families opening presents, catching up, and playing games. All of our siblings were able to make it to the festivies this year so it was nice to have everyone together! Yay for the holidays.

The baby:

Things are going well and growing as they should. I just started the 3rd trimester so he'll be here before we know it! Here are a few pictures to document the growth...

10 Weeks

20 Weeks

28 weeks

So all in all things are going well and we are very happy and loving life!

Can't seem to stay settled

So we're moving again! It'll be the 3rd time we are moving since May! But this time we are moving out of Logan and down to Salt Lake (the Sandy area to be exact). I am so excited! This means so many wonderful things such as Target, Training Table, Ute season tickets, friends, family, and so much more! We move on December 12th, so hopefully it won't snow that day, but with our bad luck when it comes to moving it wouldn't surprise me if it did! :) Anyway, I can't wait to be returning to the 801 area code in 7 days!

Happy Thanksgiving! (a little early)

Drumroll please...

This morning we found out that we are having a BOY!!!! We are so excited!

And in other news...

Estimated date of arrival...March 19th, 2010


These ultrasound pictures were taken when I was 10 weeks...now I'm 16 weeks!
This one is a 4D picture...It really helps to make the image easier to see.

Update...

Since school has started things have been pretty busy. Brian's little brother Brandon came home from his mission, it's fun to have him back. I met him a couple months before he left so it wasn't too awkward. Brian is back to school at Utah State, he is mostly enjoying his classes(with the exception of a few boring lectures)and studies hard. I am back to teaching preschool. I love it. The kids this year are great. So far so good with the behavior and emotional breakdowns. One of my classes has 7 girls in it, they are constantly commenting on my shoes and asking me why I wear my hair in a pony-tale everyday, they are adorable.

Here are a few pictures of our latest adventures...

I got to go to the Utah homecoming game, it was so fun to be back in the stadium and watching them play! Plus we won so it was even better!

This was the view from our row 60 seats, far away but still awesome! This is us enjoying the game!

We also went to a truck derby, it was awesome! I feel very white trash that I actually enjoy watching cars crash into eachother, but I can honestly admit that I will miss them now that it's the Fall.

Well that's our life as of now! Busy but that's how we like it!

I Love Being a Utah Alumni

I'm so excited! I can't wait for the new football season to start! (Even if I have to watch from Logan)

...At least I'll get to see how Gary Anderson does with the Aggies first hand...

We moved again...

So we moved again last week. I think that everytime we move I need to expect something to go wrong. We were scheduled to pick up our truck at 9:30, so Brian and my brother headed out to go get it...unfortunately there wasn't anyone at the Uhaul place when they arrived. After making a few calls we learned that the guy wouldn't be able to come to the store for a few more hours...lame. So we started loading what we could in our cars until Uhaul called to tell us we could come get a truck. So once we finally got the truck we loaded it up, drove a couple miles, and then started the unpacking process. I was incharge of telling everyone where to put things and tried to stay organized. Moving is not one of my favorite things to do, so hopefully we won't be doing it again for a long time. I'll post pictures as soon as I either find my camera battery charger or just go buy a new one(I think it was lost in our first move of the summer).

In other news our summer is going great. We had a great 4th of July full of fireworks, family BBQs, and the drive in. We've been boating a few times and just enjoying the warm weather. I am looking forward to school starting up again. I have loved working with the one year olds for the summer but I also can't wait to get back to teaching preschool. I will be moving up to the 4 year old preschool, so I will have my same kids as last year-which I am so excited about. Other than that we are just anxiously awaiting the arrival of Brian's little brother, he will be returning from Brazil in 22 days!

You never know what's around the next corner

Lately our life has felt like this road, we head down a path when suddenly there is an unexpected turn and change in our lives. To make a long story short Brian decided to change his major to Business so we aren't moving to Arizona anymore and will be staying at Utah State. Right after he decided on that I was offered the directors position at the preschool I teach at, I accepted it and was going to start training on May 26th, but when I got to work that day the owner called me into the office and told me that they had decided to "go another direction" and hire someone else to be the director and keep me in the preschool because I am such and "asset" there. It was frustrating to say the least. Brian has also had many job leads that turned into a dead end. We just aren't sure what we're supposed to be doing these days. So we're just going to take it day by day. I am still working at my preschool. I am in the one year old class for the summer and will be back to teach the 4 year old math class in the fall...I am hoping that our road doesn't make anymore sudden turns for a long time. :)

To cut or not to cut...

So I'm debating on whether or not to cut my hair...I think my long hair makes me look older, but my short hair is just to quick and easy to do. Let me know what you think
Examples of long hairand a few of short hair...I'm just torn on what to do...

I'm 23!

One year older and wiser too! Happy birthday to me!
It was my birthday on the 18th. We went down to Salt Lake for the weekend to celebrate with our families. We went to dinner with some of my girl friends on Saturday, went to church with Brian's family and ate lunch, then headed to my parent's for some grilled hamburgers and birthday cake. I love birthdays! I spent my actual birthday at work and then out to dinner with Brian that night.

My funfetti birthday cake.

It took me a few trys to get all the candles out, 23 is just too much for me :)

Kimberly, Adrienne, Heather, and Heidi joined me at my favorite place Training Table.

One Year Anniversay

Our year anniversary was on Thursday! I can't believe it's already been a year. Time has flown by. Our first year was full of a lot of adventures...I moved to Logan and had my first office job(which I wasn't fond of), we went sky diving in Hawaii, swam with dolphins on the Bahamas, visited Arizona a lot, and got to know the drive down to Salt Lake very well. We also go used to the day to day life of being married. It's been great. Being with Brian makes me the happiest that I have ever been. I am very lucky and blessed to have him in my life.

We got all dressed up and went to dinner at Hamilton's. The food was delicious, and the desserts were to die for(I got cheesecake and Brian had Creme Brulie)

Afterwords we went home and danced in our living room to our song(When you say you love me by Josh Groban) and got out the top from our wedding cake, complete with sparkling apple cider. We felt fancy using our fake wine glasses.

About to eat the cake...

The after affect, turns out our year old wedding cake was discusting. I mean really really gross.

Overall our night was very simple but very romantic and relaxing, I loved it!

Demolition Derby

We went to the demolition derby this weekend. It was our first it's almost summer and finally feels like spring activity. It was pretty fun to watch, it's one of the only events that you will find people actually cheering when cars crash into each other, the harder the crash the louder the cheers. I'm looking forward to the truck derby-bigger cars mean bigger crashes!

Just enjoying the atmosphere

There was so much smoke coming from the cars-I'm not sure how the drivers could see where they were going.
The blue car hit the black car with enough force that it actually flipped over (with a little pushing help from the blue car) The crowd went crazy! And don't worry both drivers were fine.

This turned into a 6 car pile up-the drivers kept waving the other cars onto hitting them and hopefully knocking them free.

Moved...

Brian and I moved to a new apartment for the summer. My parents came up to help us out-we decided we'd save some money and not rent a uhaul. We borrowed a pick-up truck from my cousin. We thought it would be a good idea-and it was, until it started to rain and snow! It was a memorable move, all of our stuff got soaked and our furniture had to air out. We got all moved and settled in one day, mostly thanks to my mom who insisted on unpacking.

Here are a few pictures of our new place...
This is our family room

The teeny kitchen The bathroom This is our extar room that is full to the brim of all our stuff...we like to shut the door and pretend like it's not there... ;)

Always check your pockets

I was doing laundry this weekend, I went to bed before one of the loads was done, I asked Brian to switch it before he headed to bed. Unfortunately he made a very sad discovery when he put the clothes into the dryer. Turns out Brian had left his iphone in his cargo pocket...which I didn't check. So his iphone went threw an entire wash, obviously it no longer works and he had to go back to his old phone. I feel horrible about it but Brian was very nice and didn't get mad at all. From now on I promise to always check our pants pockets, especially the cargo pockets.

Slight Change of Plans

So we've decided to stay in Logan for the summer. We found a place to rent for a few months...now all we need to do is find a job for Brian...

I am Loved

Brian sent these flowers to me at work today...all of my coworkers were jealous

I love him :)

Spring break=Winter activites

This week was spring break for Brian, today I took the day off and we headed up to Beaver Mountain with some friends and went snowboarding. Last time I went boarding it was not a good experience. I spent the majority of the time falling down and struggled to have a good time. But today it was a totally different story. I was able to stay up and maintain control. Brian was also able to teach me how to go on toeside. I can now go from toeside back to healside without falling. It was great. The snow was good and it was really warm. I kinda feel like a snowboarder now...

12 inches felt more like 24

The storm that hit us on Monday was insane! It felt like it snowed more in one day than it had all winter long. I managed to get to work on the slippery roads and park there all day and just watched the snow pile up more and more on top and around my car. By the time I left for home this is the mess I had to get out of...the snow was up to my knees! The Mazda is pretty low to the ground and light so unfortunately I was only able to back up about 3 feet before I got stuck and then it took 4 people to get my car out it was crazy!

After this storm I finally feel like I am living in Logan...

You can hardly even see the Mazda!

The snow was up to the bumper!

...Arizona here I come :)

Relocating

...688.58 miles south to Prescott, Arizona

This past weekend we drove down to Prescott to tour Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. After being on campus for a couple of minutes Brian was in love and had made up his mind that this was the school for him. During the campus tour all of the labs, classrooms, and projects that we saw just confirmed his decision. We met with an admissions counselor and he helped us understand the admissions process and what we would need to do in order to get accepted.
We walked away from the campus and Brian was literally skipping with excitement.
Then we went and looked at some apartments close to campus and found one that we fell in love with, it lets you have dogs and has a dishwasher! We filled out an application and a couple days later found out that we were approved and have a tentative move in date of May 1st.
This will be quite the adventure for us but we are both excited and scared. Who knows what experiences Prescott will bring us-but I am ready to face them.

We also took the opportunity to go visit one of Brian's mission friends and his wife that live in Peoria. We went to dinner and took the time to catch up-they are pretty excited about us moving down. At least I will know 2 people in Arizona! Then we went down to Phoenix to meet up with Brian's family for one of Natalee's soccer tournaments, we only got to see one game but her team played well. On the way home we stopped in Salt Lake and spent Presidents Day with my family. We went to lunch and then to a movie. It was a great and very productive weekend.

Pet friendly apartments

While looking for a pet friendly apartment I found out that it's rare that they allow you to have a dog-but if they do let you have a dog it's a 20-25 pound weight limit. That doesn't work for us, since we want to get a husky which are like 35-50 pounds...not exactly small. So this is our new plan, get a smaller dog now while renting apartments and a husky when we have a house with no weight limits... We're thinking on getting a Beagle. Aren't these cute? Beagles remind us of the dog Copper from the movie the Fox and the Hound.
"I'm Todd I'm a fox!"-Todd
"My name's Copper I'm a hound dawg, bowowowowowo"-Copper
"What'da make that sound for?"-Todd
"I don't know, that's what I'm supposed to do when I found sum-um."-Copper

...I am crossing my fingers that I will get a puppy for my birthday...

Math test widow

Everyday this week this is what I came home to. Brian had his first Linear Alegbra and Differential Equations (try saying that 5 times) math test on Friday and he studied really hard for it everyday. I spent my nights trying not to distract him and tell him good job everytime he solved a problem and would say "I'm a freaking genius!" We'll get the results back sometime next week-until then, we are just keeping our fingers crossed.

She's Home!

One of my best friends in the whole world came home this weekend. I can't even describe how happy I am to have her home. The second I got to her house she hugged me so tight and I felt so relieved to finally be with her again. She is the most amazing girl, I feel so lucky and blessed to be her friend. She instantly makes anyone feel loved and needed. She is the most loving and caring person I have ever met. Another special thing about Heather is that she was the one that set Brian and me up on our first date and was constantly telling me how great he was and how much I should like him. Obviously she was right. I love her so much.

We took this picture on the day of her farewell

And this is us on her homecoming, we've all grown up so much