Update!

Hi everyone!
It's been a while...sorry. Still no new camera. Maybe for my birthday...in July.

ANYWAY, I just wanted to post that my amazing husband, John got a job recently! He quit Papa John's back in December and spent this last semester focusing on school. Which was hard for me being the only provider. I was feeling a little pressure and also feeling like I deserved to quit my job! Things are better now. I'm happy to stay where I am for at least 1 more year (maybe 1 1/2). John has been a certified nurse's assistant (CNA) for a while now but only just started doing something with it! He got a job at this place called Trinity Mission Health and Rehab Of Provo. He takes care of the elderly and handicapped people and he loves it! Really! He's surprised at how much he enjoys it and I'm surprised too! I could not bathe and monitor or whatever else he does to people, no thanks. Handling their hair is as far as I can go... But he comes home with great stories everyday. It's very humbling in a way. A lot of these people can't do much for themselves but they have great senses of humor and the ladies even flirt with John a little bit. So cute! I'm very happy for my husband and so glad that he chose to do something so meaningful. He gets a feeling of worth everyday. He's making a difference! What a great guy!

John is in school this summer and will apply for Nursing school in the fall. Wish him luck!

As for me, I too am going to school this summer. I am slowly working on getting an Associate Degree. I still work full time at Fantastic Sams. Just hit my 5 year mark back in March, crazy! I don't think I mentioned yet that I will be going to Girls Camp this summer. Yep, also crazy... I'm in charge. It's going to be a very busy summer for me!

Just felt like updating. I promise when that new camera gets here I'll start posting a lot more! On the topic, what's a good camera to get??? I will post a pic from just last night... I got bangs! I might cut more...getting used to it. This is a cell phone pic, don't judge!

More Jewelry!

Some bracelets...


And a very cool bird necklace


still needing a new camera...

New hobby sprung from an old hobby

It's been a long time since I posted anything. Sorry! I haven't been taking any pictures because my camera is stupid! Most of the pictures come out blurry or have terrible flash lighting. Someday when I get a nice new one I will take lots of pictures and post every week! I feel strongly about documenting and so I will start saving money for a new camera!

One thing I'll share with you that I've been up to lately is making jewelry. Back in junior high and a little in high school I made necklaces and bracelets. I proudly strutted my craftsmanship around school always showing off the bundle of choker length necklaces around my neck! It was very trendy to wear lots at a time (and I was totally hip!) These necklaces and bracelets were strictly small beads. I accumulated hundreds of these small beads and carried them with me throughout the years. They've been tucked away for so long because that cool fad that I once owned is totally out now! It's all about bulk, big and bulky. Which is cool actually, I love it! So a couple months ago I pulled out the old bead organizer storage dilly and dived back into my past. I discussed the makings of with fellow beaders and began incorporating some of the little stuff with the big stuff. I started adding chains to the mix and even feathers! I have just indulged and it's been soooo much fun! Of coarse some of the stuff I've made I really like and others I brake down and start over with. It's teaching me patience for one thing. It's hard not to spend all your money on beads too because shoot they can be expensive! Now all I have to do is be able to part with some of it and put it up for sale. So, I thought it would be a good idea to put up some pictures and show ya'll! Enjoy!

first off, feather earrings...that's right!




I have lots more but like I said, my camera is crap so I will put up more pictures at another time

The End to Two Thousand Ten

This is long overdue...
First off, after that sick discovery in our storage closet, John and I made an effort to clean out the closet and organize it really really well. That Tupperware is a dream. Although the best part was after everything was organized and put away, John looked down and saw some stuff on the ground. That stuff was ornaments! That's right, the angels didn't get thrown away like I thought. They must have fallen out of the box with the hole in it and I didn't notice at the time cause it was kinda dark out. Anyway, I jumped for joy! Also, my wonderful mom sent us new stockings of the same kind we lost and so, everything worked out! It's a Christmas miracle! Here's our cute tree and wreath. (Thanks to my brother Brett and his wife KT. Its still glowing you guys!)


The week of Christmas was a VERY stressful one. It started with a work crisis that lasted almost 2 days. Thankfully nothing tragic happened. Well on Tuesday, the 21st was mine and John's 3rd anniversary... and I had to work because of the crisis. So, we decided to celebrate it the next Tuesday... which I'll get to in a bit. The rest of the week was just busy busy busy. Christmas day was nice. I got John a waffle maker, he's been wanting one bad and so we had waffles. We went to his parents house and had waffles for breakfast! After chillin at the in-laws for a while, we met up with my brother Aaron and his wife and kids. We went to a movie and that was about it. We then went back to the in-laws for dinner and then went home. It was low key and way nice to relax.

So then Tuesday came around and we decided to celebrate our anniversary. We basically got errands done in the morning and afternoon then headed up to Salt Lake to see the Temple Square lights. John had never done that before and it had been about 8 years for me so we thought it would be nice and hey, free! After the lights we went out to eat at a place called Buca di Peppo. It's Italian and really good. However the service was not that great! Aren't my ear muffs cute!! (Thanks again Brett!)

As for the rest of the week we just played it low key as well. We stayed in for New Years Eve and Day and ate waffles and watched TV and played Tetris. Lots and lots of waffles and lots and lots of tetris... and its still going on...

On a side note, I found this picture of John and I on my Sister In-Law's blog and thought I'd share it. It's from my sister Cody's wedding open house thing so John and I were very serious at this time but not quite engaged yet. I wanted to write more about our story and everything but I'm tired so I'll save it for another time. Look how tan I am and how young John looks!

a sick story that just had to make the blog...

On Sunday I finally got out the Christmas decorations. It had been 2 years instead of just 1. I didn't decorate last year because I was really afraid our cats would destroy everything and we went out of town anyway.

All the decor is in our storage shed outside. It's a pretty terrible storage closet area. Every time I get anything out of there its either got bugs or cobwebs. Yuck! Well I found the two cardboard boxes of stuff and when I pulled out the smaller one, a portion of the bottom was missing. It was wet and probably just withered away. Thankfully most of my more special ornaments were wrapped in bubble wrap so the wet destruction didn't get all the way through. Most were saved. However, some things got ruined.

The biggest let down were our beautiful stockings. We got them as a wedding present and I only got to use them once. They were pure white and soft and furry. So pretty. Well, the wet bag I wrapped those in had a big hole in it too. In fact it looked like there were shavings of the plastic bag and when I looked closer....there was something else. Brace yourself.... DEAD MICE!!! That's right, about 4 or 5 dead baby mice. All curled up together, probably trying to keep warm and well, they didn't. I about freaked out, I think you can imagine. I yell for John because I could not look at it. I was actually surprised at how revolted I felt. Anyhow, he carefully picked up the bag so as not to spill the mice on our floor and placed it in the garbage. Then immediately took it to the dumpster.

A few minutes went by and I realize some of our most fragile ornaments must have been wrapped in those stockings. Ya know, to keep them from breaking. We had some little personalized stain glass angels that someone awesome gave us that never showed up. My guess is they were in the stockings, lost forever. It's really sad. I'm a little heart broken over it. Not only did we lose such beautiful stockings, but also some of the nicest ornaments we own. Ugh. It goes without saying that when we take down the decorations this year, they are going in a plastic Rubbermaid Tupperware thing. No more cardboard boxes. Ick!

Merry Christmas!

It seems only fair...

So I always post about the Twilight movies... but I think Harry Potter deserves recognition a lot more! How amazing is the world of Harry Potter? I haven't been to the new town at Disneyworld but I'm hoping to get there by next summer...we'll see. But seriously people, how much do you love Harry Potter?? I have read all 7 books twice each and I will read them again and again because they are brilliant! J.K. Rowling is a genious!

On November 13th I began the marathon... one movie a day for a week. I watched all 6 movies (in order of coarse) at home and then I went opening day to see the latest one, The Deathly Hallows. I was really impressed. It followed the book so closely. I know people are bickering about the weird nakedy kiss scene between an odd image of Harry and Hermione. At first I was a little shocked but then I thought about it for a few days and decided it was exactly what I would expect a Horcrux to do.... Make me feel uncomfortable. It was icky and it felt wrong and yeah it was a little disturbing. That's evil for ya.

Anyway, I told John before we saw it that I thought it would end at Bill and Fleur's and sure enough, I was right! Just had to brag about that for a second.

I'm also happy that they did make it into 2 movies. It will be a sad feeling after it's all over. I'm glad I can still be this excited about it for another 7 months.

Shout out to my awesome brother

For no particular reason at all I thought I would dedicate a post to my rad cool brother, Brett. Brett is, who I often tell people, a film guy. (Not to mention a million other cool things he is) When he lived in Utah a few years ago he made and worked on some movies that I was privileged to be in! Of coarse I was usually a background person. Never had any lines. But I'm not complaining, I had a blast just being there!

So, in this one, it is a music video about a girl and a computer. I'm just in the beginning of this briefly at about 5 seconds in..



This one comes from the movie, Pride and Prejudice an LDS comedy. I found this clip YouTube. It is the first like 8 minutes of the movie which is cool because I'm only in the beginning! Check me out at about 3 minutes 30 seconds. I'm sitting down and have a black shirt on.


One more little appearance was in his film, Bonjour Danny Bonjour. You can watch the whole thing on IMDB by clicking http://www.imdb.com/video/wab/vi3769041433/>
I'm a store clerk!

Yep, Brett is a pretty awesome guy! Thanks for letting me participate in the fun! I'm excited to see him and other family at Thanksgiving! And I'm pretty excited to meet my newest nephew, thanks again Brett! I love you!