Forgot to Mention..!

  Oh! One other thing I forgot to mention, our house is 100% completed in regards to carpet and painting and all that major stuff, which is great! We even found some really nice dark brown leather couches a few months ago and managed to get them up our tiny weird angled staircase to go in our entertainment room which is so nice! Now we are just slowly finding little nick-nacks and furniture stuff to fill up and decorate our home. We even moved my old bedroom set into a guest bedroom and are slowly putting together our own master bedroom set, complete with a King bed finally (haha much to Nick's relief after my full bed we have been sleeping on. lol) It is so exciting to see our house finally coming together and things get put into place. It it slow going as we try to find the right spot for everything, but that's ok, I am just exciting to see it all come together. :) Haha now we just need to get the yard looking nice... but that is Springs project. ;D

Playing Catch-Up again! haha...;D (July '12-Present)

Hi everyone!
  Haha once again it looks like I am behind several months and need to play catch up! I really do think a lot about how I need to update my blog, but then I get distracted by other things, and ya, it doesn't get done. It also doesn't help that our wireless Internet hasn't been fully set up yet, so I have no way to use my computer at home. I either use it when down at my parents or when we are hanging out at my in-laws house. Haha, definitely doesn't give me much time to type out long blog updates. ;) But today I have quite a bit of time before my shift at work, so I can finally do my blog justice.
  I know I still owe pics from Disneyland, but that will have to wait til I have Internet at my house and access to my pictures now. The rest of July was pretty uneventful, with Nick and I just working 6 days a week, and hanging out with our friends when we could. Also, around about May, I started going to a Bootcamp work out class Mon and Wed with my mother-in-law Kathy and my sister-in-law Stacey, which has been a lot of fun. I do a lot better working out when I have someone else instructing me on what and how to do it. It has been great to get to spend more time with them as well and have something like this we can do together. : )
  On Aug. 2 my entire family, with Nick and I, went to see...WICKED!! It was so amazing! I absolutely love that musical and was so excited to see it again, plus I really wanted Nick to experience it and see what it was all about and why I loved the music so much. We went to dinner before hand, and all had a wonderful time. :D Aug. 11 was my friend Jess' birthday and we all went and spent the day at Lagoon. It was a blast to go and hang out there again like I did in junior high and high school. We had such a fun and silly time there together! On Aug. 18, I went with my mom and Nick to the Sandy Amphitheater to see an old high school friend in the production of Aida. He was the leading role of Radimas, the Egyptian Capt. who loves Aida. Not only is Aida one of my top favorite musicals, (so it was amazing to get to see) but it was also great to get to see Trent as one of the leads. He really did and amazing job, and it was fun to get to see him after and chat for a bit, since we haven't seen each other since graduation. Haha oh, towards the end of Aug., the bow hunt also started, so my dear sweet husband started ditching me each weekend to go hunting and try and get an elk or a deer. This has continued all through Sept, with no luck yet, though his brother Terry has gotten both an elk and a deer now. Poor Nick wants to get something so bad, but just hasn't yet. Its his first year doing the bow hunt though, so probably to be expected.
  Oh, and at the end of Aug., I also started going to a chiropractor who specializes in something called the Graston technique, which they use to help on a lot of injuries and things. Because they say they can work with and help take away migraines, I decided to give it a try. They work by breaking up potential scare tissue and things like that and helping re-regulate blood flow and natural inflammation healing. I would bruise like crazy at first, and then it slowly lessened over time, and it does seem to be be helping. I actually have headaches that go away on their own now and seem less sever. I am so glad for anything that will help. I am so sick of migraines... On Sept. 4 it was Nick's 25 birthday!! We did presents, and hung out, at my parent's house after work which was fun. We all went in together and got him everything he needed to be able to go to the temple. :) Plus, my parent's gave him money which was really nice of them. The rest of the month was pretty much just working, and my chiropractic visits. I did also go a cool What Women Want expo Sept 22 with Kathy and all my sis-in-laws. It was really interesting and had a TON to see. I got some super cute scarves! Lastly, Sept. 26 was my bro-in-law Chris' 22 b.day, then today was my sis-in-law Amber's 29 b.day. Also, we found out a month or so ago, that she is having a baby girl. :) Super exciting! So that's been our lives up til now! Haha hope you all enjoyed this freaking huge post! ;D TTFN!!

Vacation Picture Post :)

I was going to add pics of my vacations right into the vacation post i have already done, but, i realized how huge that would make it, so i decided to give them their own. For this one, I will do Jackson Hole and San Fransisco. Disneyland I will give its own too since it was a week long and we took a ton of pics. ;D Ok, so, Jackson Hole pics will go first:

At the Elk Preserve

My sister Alli and her friend Leia.

Under the Antler Arch

We mainly went to Jackson to relax and just get away, to we really didn't take a ton of pics while we were there. Now on to my great girls trip with my mom and sister Alli in San Fransisco!

At Alchatriaz Island

In side a jail cell

The dental office where my Grandpa Spurrier worked

Back office where they grabbed one tool at a time.

We got a private tour. :)

We also went to Haight-Ashbury street and saw some really cool wall designs that I wanted to included just because i thought they were pretty cool.

 Hope you all enjoy these pictures. I had a lot of fun posting them and looking at them all again myself! :)

The A/C & Sprinklers...;)

Last week, when Nick and I went to Cali/Disneyland for a week, we left the a/c off while we gone. We of course turned it on when we got home, just in time to be greeted by 102 degree weather. :p. Well, after having it back on, running for an evening, we realized the house really didn't feel any cooler, and that though it was blowing, the a/c seemed much weaker then usual. It turns out whatever runs the a/c downstairs (haha i totally forget what it is, and Nick isn't home to ask) is freezing up, and even after we left the a/c off for a day t let it thaw, it still seems to be doing it. So, just in time for the heat wave, our system has decided do crap out on us. lol, it would happen that way too huh? I have seem a few other people post similar things about their a/c on fb recently, so I know I'm not alone. Guess even the a/c is protesting this weather. ;) At least living up in the mountains it starts to cool down fairly quick in the evening if we leave lots of windows open. Hopefully though we get this fixed soon, cause no a/c in summer in definitely no bueno. ;)
  With the sprinklers, it started with a section in the front that wasn't working. Nick figured it was the pipe that went under the drive way that was the problem. Normally that is no problem because they always run it through a larger pipe to make it easy to slide out it anything under there should ever break.  Since we couldn't see a break on either side of the driveway, Nick figured that it was in the middle somewhere. Well, for the life of us we could not get the pipe out on its own, so nick figured at some point while it was being rented, some part of the driveway must have been fixed and when they re- poured the cement, they cracked the pipe and cement got in and sealed it. Nick and his brother tried a few ways to jimmy it out but nothing worked. Unfortunately, in the process it ripped out the electrical and so now non of the sprinklers work. We can turn them on manually one at a time, but they can't be set automatically. Haha...so out house is revolting against us just a little bit right now. ;D Its ok though, nothing to bad, it just would all happen at once. lol

Life as of now. :)

So now that I have you all caught up on our house, Nick, and the trips we have taken, I will just do a small update post on life now and the day to day type things. :) First, Nick and I are going to be and Aunt and Uncle again! We found out the end of May that Nick's sister Amber is expecting.  Now though this is very unexpected, she seems excited about it and we are happy for her and supportive.  She is about 12 weeks along this week, and so will probably be due about Jan/Feb. Should be fun to have a new baby in the family. :) Job wise, Nick is still working as a mechanic at his dad's shop Quick Lube and I still work for my dad as well as part time as my uncle's New Balance shoe store. That dynamic is changing a little though, because on July 5 one of my dad's chair-side assistants left us and moved to California. This means that instead of being even on my days at Spurrier Orthodontics and NB, I now work full time at my dad's, which us Mon - Thurs, and then just the weekends at NB. I will still be as busy as ever, lol, but I am excited to finally be full time at my dad's after graduating from college in 2010, which is was I have wanted. Though I do like NB too, which is why I am staying weekends there for now.
  So, now that we have our house pretty much finished, we are having fun finding things to fill it. We finally got couches for the upstairs entertainment room, that we could actually fit up our low, tight stairway. We sadly do not have a new bedroom set like we thought, because the beautiful one that Nick found for us on KSL, is to tall to fit up our stairs, so we have to continue using my old one for now and continue looking. His brother really loves the bedroom set we bought though, so we are going to sell it to him, which works out since we can't use it. We had a TV as well for the downstairs, but the brightness was fading in and out, so we had to take it back and are going to find a new one, we just didn't have time before the Cali trip. It is so much fun watching our house come together. :)
 That is pretty much our life right now, just work and our house. We are pretty busy, but we do try to make time for friends as well. We have a real great group of friends that we love hanging out with, and its even more fun now because we are all married now. ;D On May 10, Nick and I have been married for 1 1/2 years and I can't believe we are so close to 2 years now! Time has flown and I am loving every minute of it! I can't wait to see where the next year and a half take us! It has been a wonderful adventure. : )

~Vacations~

Alright, so next, I would like to update you on the different big and small vacations I have been on in the last 6 months.
 So in Feb, Nick and I did a little mini vaca for 4 days to Jackson Hole to just get away and relax. It was fun because my sister and her friend went up at the same time, so one day we hung out with them, making dinner together and doing the Elk Sleigh ride. It was a fun little get away and we had a really good time. In March, the 14-17, I went on a little girls trip with my mom and sister for her spring break to San Fransisco. It did end up raining pretty much the entire time, but we still had a blast. We went to Alcatraz of course, and because my grandpa was a dentist there in the 60's, we got a tour of parts that they no longer show to the public anymore, such as the dental lab. It was so amazing to see where my grandpa actually worked for a few years. So cool! :D We also visited Haight-Ashbury street which is famous for hippy stuff in the 60's and went to Ghiradelli for ice cream. Though it wasn't a super long trip, I had a blast getting to spend time with just my mom and my sister. I don't see my sis as often now that I'm married and she is in college, so it was really fun. Now, though this wasn't a trip, I do wanna mention that on March 24, I went to the Holi Festival of Color for the 2nd time, with Nick, and his mom Kathy. It was a blast! I love getting covered in all those beautiful colors and watching it all go up in a huge cloud at the same time. It it so cool, and just a really fun thing to experience.
 Lastly, but definitely not least, my family (except my dear padre, who worked) went to Cali and Disneyland July 1-8. We go every year with my mom's side of the family, Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, and Grandparents. It is so much fun! I like to think of it as a little family reunion we have every year, though we see them other times in the year too. lol. We left the evening of June 31 (we drove down, stopping for the night in Vegas), spent 3 1/2 awesome days going to the beach, LA (where I found and took pictures of the Charmed house!, which was a fav TV show of mine if you didn't know), and Universal studios, then spent Thurs, Fri, and Sat at Disneyland, though Fri we just did half a day at Disneyland and then went to the beach again, which was awesome. I will never ever get sick of Disneyland and had such a fun time hanging out with my family there. We all got along really well and had a really fun time with one another. It was a really nice trip. :) Sunday the 8th was pretty much driving straight home. Haha...that was quite the long drive. Wasn't terrible to me though; Nick and I rode with my mom and brothers, so there were plenty of people to talk to and watch DVDs with if you weren't the one driving. ;) The trip definitely flew by way too fast, and I am already looking forward to next year. ;D

Nick Update!

OK, so, I will now finally update everyone on my dear hubby and the shoulder surgery he had to have Jan 27. For background, Nick's left should got hurt somehow at a time he's not even sure on, and as a result, it would pop out of socket at certain angles, which was especially difficult working as a mechanic. It got to the point it was popping out while he was a sleep and relaxed and so once we had insurance for him, we decided it was time for surgery and since winter makes work a little slower for him, we decided then was a good time to do it.
  The surgery he had was a lot like the rotator-cuff surgery a lot of people had to have, but slightly different, though i forget exactly what they did and the name. They did have to shave off bone shards and pull up ligaments and reattach them where they should be to help hold everything where it should be. Recover has been slow and while Nick can move his arm up over his head almost like normal again, his outward motion is like 30% and barely improving as he sees the physical therapist. It does seem to be uber slowly improving, so the surgeon is having him stick with therapy, but because the muscles are do tight, they worry it could be massive scare tissue, which if it is, and it doesn't get better, he may possibly need a 2nd surgery, which would suck. Since there has still been slow improvement they are hoping therapy will do it, but it is always a tiny possibly surgery may be needed again if it stays so tight. So i guess we shall see. Hopefully we don't need it, but we will cross that bridge if we come to it.

6 months gone again!

So here we are again everyone, me being a giant slacker and letting 6 months go by without blogging at all! I even had a few times i was going to, and then i either got side tracked or couldn't remember my password. lol. So now here i stand again, with the task of composing what i know will end up being multiple posts to catch you up on all that has been going on. For this post, i will talk about our house renovations, since the last thing i posted 6 months ago was about the carpet.

 So beginning of Feb, once our carpet was all ready for us, we picked it up and had it ready and in our garage. They had cut it as one giant roll and seriously it was like 12 feet of carpet! So freaking huge! Then, once we had the carpet, it ended up sitting for quite a few months, because it went from being simply new carpet, to more and more renovations being added in that were easier to do while we had no nice carpet to worry about. They totally are worth it and the house looks great, but a few times i definitely wanted to kill Nick. Haha... The first thing that was added, was we decided to redo all our walls and paint them. We lightly muded them to give them some texture, then painted them a desert sandish brown with a few accent walls  upstairs and down of a darker brown that has a hint of green in it. Painted the ceilings a brighter white as well. We then re-tiled the front entry way to match the kitchen and redid the fireplace with a faux marble, which is a dark grey with veins of white and a reddish color in it.

  We also then redid the upstairs baseboard to match the main floor, which we had redone before we rented out the house for a year. Haha it just kept spreading with tings that needed or could be changed before we got to the carpet. Of course, the people who did some of the work were not always 100% on time or able to come when they said, so that delayed things as well. Finally though, after what felt like forever of living in dust and on plywood, we finally got our carpet done the first week of June! Woo-hoo! House done and finally my house again! The house definitely looks so much better then before, but i am so glad to be done. lol ;)

Carpet

On Thurs, Jan 12, Nick and I were finally able to have someone come up and measure our house for the new carpet! Yay! Christmas is a very busy time so they were pretty booked then, so we had told them that we were ok with waiting til the New Year because we were pretty bust ourselves. This ended up working perfectly because Nick had the day off and I didnt have work until 1pm. He came at 9.30, so it worked out great. We are so glad we got that done and now he just had to total up the measurements to ginve us price. The carpet we have now is so old and ugly, that I cannot wait til we get our new carpet. It is really going to improve the look of our house and make it even more a home. So excited!! Haha Nick and I work so much though that getting another day off for the carpet to be installed could be a challenge. lol. Hopefully we get some advance notice so we can plan ahead. Im sure we can make it work though, since its a guy from my family's ward who is doing it and he is super nice. So ya, thats my latest excitment for now. Haha you can totally tell you are married when getting new carpet excites you. lol ; D

New Years!!

Holy cow! I can't believe that it is already 2012! This past year just flew by! For New Years we were pretty low key because Nick wasn't feeling to well. We ended up at his parents house, playing card games with his parents and his brother Terry and his family. It was fun and really nice. Righ before midnight we then turned on the tv and watched the ball drop in New York, which was really cool. It was fun.                                                          On Jan. 5 Nick and I went and saw th musica South Pacific with my parents, which was a nice. We had a good time hanging out with them. Before the show we met up at Red Robin for dinner. I had such a delicious soup and salad combo. So yum my!! I think Im addicted now. lol. On Jan. 7 my sister Alli turned 19. She had tons of friend plans though so Nick and I went and saw the new Mission Impossible movie with my parents, which was really fun and I really liked the movie too. On Sun, Nick and I went down to my parents for a birthday dinner for my sister. After we played a really fun new card game called (I think) Sorry Revenge. We had a totally blast playing it and I actually won 3 times! lol It has been a pretty fun start to the new year. Plus soon, Nick and I hope to get our new carpet, which will be so nice to have. : ) TTYL Everyone! : )

Christmas!

Alright, time for a post on how Christmas went for Nick and I. :) I'll also include Christmas eve, because we had fun activities then as well.

Our U of U Gingerbread house

  On Christmas Eve, I worked until 4.30 at NB, while Nick had the day off, waiting at the house for an awesome surprise gift from his parents that i didn't find out about til later that night. After I got off work, we met up at my parent's house for a Christmas eve dinner with my family.  It was really nice. We were early so we helped prepare it. We had chicken rolls and they were so yummy! Then after we played a few rounds if charades and each opened one gift, which is a family tradition. After that Nick and I headed up to his parents house, where we made ginger bread houses with his family. It was a lot of fun seeing how everyone turned out. Haha part of Nick and I's roof slide part way off but did stay in the end. Looked nice and red neck. ;) we put U of U's on the roof to make it our own. It was awesome! Nick and I then went home and jingled to bed, which is another fun Christmas tradition my family started. lol.     

  On Christmas day we had to be to Nick's parent's by 9, so I got up around 7 because i wanted to shower and be all ready so that we could just hang out at his parents once there until we needed to head to my grandpa's at 2.  I was glad I got up early too, because Tiff and Stephan ended up coming over at 8.20 to wake us up (which they did Nick) because Kylie and Brayden (our niece and nephew) had woken up way early and were antsy to open gifts. So we quickly finished getting ready and got over there by 8.35. Since Nick and I got a huge gift from his parent's, we pretty much just hung out and watched everyone open their gifts. The awesome gift Nick's parent's got us was.... A New Washer and Dryer!!

We were so excited because since we moved into our house, we have been doing our laundry down at my parent's house. It was fun getting to hang out with my mom while i did it, but it will be nice to not have to cart it down there anymore and then back home when Im done. Doing it at home whenever i want, rather then on certain days when i have time, will be so great! I also got a B&N gift card from my brother in law Stephan, who drew my name when we drew family members. Nick got an awesome Cabellas gift card from Terry. His parent's also bought every married couple a turkey cooker too, which was so nice of them and a total surprise. After we opened gifts we had breakfast, which is Eggs Benedict, hash browns, and Orange Julius. It was so good! 

  We had a really fun time and hung out there until 1, when we then had to head out to make it to my grandpa Spurrier's at 2. We took our gingerbread house with us because it was being judged by my grandpa in a contest. There we always have lots of pie with ice cream.  So yummy! once everyone was there we judged the houses first. Nick and I won best effort, haha...because ours looked to dilabitated. ;) We won a funny looking little toy called Weewee the pee pee (or something like that). When you pull down its pants, it will squirt out water and pee on people. So random. haha.....  We then opened gifts, going by family, with my grandpa giving riddles as to where the gifts were hidden. From him, Nick and I got a silverware set, which we really needed, as well as a really nice electric can opener. Haha that will be much nice then the manual one we have been using. ;) Then from my cousin and his wife, who had us for the cousin gifts, we got a measuring cup and the Jim Carrey Grinch movie. After everyone had opened their gifts, we all ate pie and ice cream and just hung out.
   Around 4.30 we left to head for my Grandpa Petersen's house, since they had a dinner starting at 5. It was really fun getting to see everyone and to talk and hang out. It was a great dinner and we stayed til close to 8. My grandparent's gave all the older kids and couples a cute card and money, which was nice. After my grandparent's, we went to my parent's to open the gifts that they had for us. They had already given us a fridge and were helping us get new carpet for our house, so these gifts were small fun gifts, as well as sibling gifts.  We had a lot of fun opening them and hanging out with my parents. (My siblings had gone to my aunt Chrissy's house to spend time with my cousin Dillon before he left on his mission.) It was a really nice Christmas. I hope all of you had a wonderful Christmas as well! :D

6 Months later: December

Last but not least, December!  Now, today is only Dec. 23, so it will be a catch up til then, and I will do a whole new blog to talk about the wonderful Christmas eve and day. This way I will be forced to blog more, and you get more interesting detailed things to read. lol. Hopefully with pictures as well. ;) Dec actually doesn't have to many big moment's either, just a few that are really awesome and stick out. For the most part it has simply been work, work, work. We haven't seen friends hardly at all this month. So sad... Work is taking over our lives...
  Alright so on Dec. 10 was the New Balance Christmas party. It was at the Sugarhouse location and we all got to bring a date, so Nick got to come and meet everyone, which was a lot of fun, plus it was fun for us to meet each other's spouses and significant other's if we hadn't yet before. We had soup from Zupas which was so amazing, and yummy bakery rolls, plus great hot chocolate and a ton of different things you could put into it.  We then played a silly 20 questions type game were you wore a headband on your head with a card on it you couldn't see, and you had to ask everyone question about it until you figured out what you were suppose to be. I got the Grinch and everyone thought that was hilarious! ;) It was a really funny game and we had a good time watching people try and figure out what they were. After that we did a white elephant type game. Nick and I started out with and awesome Jamba juice gift card and almost held onto it, but it got stolen toward the end and we ended up with a my little pony coloring and sticker set, which of course no one else wanted to steal from us. haha... Its ok though, we are going to give it to our 8 year old niece Kylie, who it will be prefect for. Suzy's (a manager at the Union park store) was the best though. After getting like 3 gift cards stolen from her, she ended up with a fuzzy red man thong! It was hilarious so see her open it! Everyone laughed so hard and for like 5 minutes! She was a great sport about it to. It was such a fun party and I'm so glad I got to go. Its been a fun new experience working at NB and you could see at the party the great camaraderie we all have there.
  On Dec 18 my cousin Dillon had his mission farewell. He has been called to Houston, Texas, Spanish speaking. He leaves for the MTC on Dec. 28, which was nice for his family because then he got one more Christmas at home before leaving for the next 2 years. We are all so proud of him, because it was a long road for him to get to this point, and I know because of that, it will help him be an even greater missionary. He gave an amazing talk on forgiveness and we were all so proud of him. :) After sacrament was over, we all went to his house for food and to just be together. It was really nice to hang out with family and friends and support Dillon. It turned out so well. Afterwards, around 5, Nick and I went and had dinner with my parents, which was nice, since my siblings stayed real late at Dillon's. I was glad we were there to hang out with them, so that they didn't eat alone. Plus, I had  really nice time hanging out and chatting with them for a few hours.
  Oh, also, at the beginning of Dec, Nick's really good friend Westley got engaged to his girlfriend Lindee. It was so exciting and we are so so happy for them! They are planning to get married in April and I can't wait! :D They are such a cute couple and are great together. Also, Nick and I had a blast getting to decorate the house for Christmas and we even had a tree. His mom gave us an old one of hers ( a fake white one that looks like it's been snowed on) to have and we have fun decorating it with some of my old ornaments plus a few other random Christmasy items we had. My dad called it a Charlie Brown tree, which I liked. It fits our tree well. I will make sure to take a picture and post it so everyone can see. It turned out really cute, which I must give nick credit for, for it was his idea to start throwing random stuff on, not mine. lol.
  Hope you all enjoyed this post, and I promise, I will blog again soon! Haha I will not let another 6 month lap again!

6 Months later: November

Alright, so I decided to make November and December separate blogs, because i saw how huge the other two looks, plus i remember more in Dec since its the most recent. So decided two would be better. Haha it would look less daunting.  November is quite the exciting month because Nick and I's anniversary is in it, as well as my awesome birthday. lol.  Nov. 10 was our 1 year anniversary! I cannot believe that one year has gone by already! It went by so quickly! After work we went to dinner at Goodwood to celebrate at I gave Nick his gift. He couldn't give me mine yet because the place he got it from messed up the order so it was delayed. I got him 3 videos that are some of his top favorites: Hercules, The fox and the hound, and Prince of Egypt. I was so excited to give them to him and he loved them. :) Mine turned out to be a quilt you can have made at Walmart using pictures from vacations and stuff. It is so cool!
  On Nov. 11 we got to go to a friend's wedding reception (Jenny and Adam) who got married 11-11-11, which was pretty cool. It was a really nice reception and fun to see them and other friends we knew there. Then on Nov. 12 Nick and I got to go to the U of U vs. UCLA game, with my grandpa and aunt Chrissy. It was such a blast! We got to use my parent's box seats, so we had a nice meal before the game started and hot chocolate and pop corn and such, to eat during the game. It was definitely cold, but it was so much fun! :D Earlier that day I also got to hang out with my friend Jess at her daughter's b.day party. She was turning 3 on the 14th. Holy Cow, its so weird she is that big already! It was quite a full and fun fill weekend that week. lol.
  On Nov. 20 we had an early Thanksgiving dinner at my Grandpa Petersen's, which was fun, because we then got to see that side of the family this year for Thanksgiving.  It was a really nice dinner and it was really nice seeing my Grandparent's, Aunts, Uncles, and cousins. Nick had a real good time talking to my uncle Pete and cousin Tat's husband Jeff about hunting. Haha I thought he'd never come join me at the table to eat. ;)  Nov. 24 was of course Thanksgiving day itself. Nick and I spent most of the day with his family this year. It started at 1 so we showed up around 11 to help get everything ready. We were in charge of bringing the soda and ice cream for the fancy drink. It was a really nice get together and we stayed til around 4.30, when we found out my family's Thanksgiving at my Aunt Chrissy's had pretty much just started with the main food, so we decided to go down and say hi for a bit. We got there around 5ish and stayed for a few hours. It was fun getting to see her new house. You see, my aunt chrissy and her family just moved back to Utah from Arizona after like 15 years. We had a really nice time and I was glad we were able to do both. It worked out perfectly.
  Nov. 29 was my 24th birthday. I had to work unfortunately, so for most of the day it wasn't to exciting, but when i got home from work around 8.30, I found Nick had a very fancy dinner waiting for me. It was so sweet! He had even bought little individual packets of dip-in-dots so that we had dessert. It was so cute! I have such a sweet thoughtful hubby! :) After we ate he gave me present and was so excited for me to open it. lol. Turned out he had bought me...a NOOK!! I was so surprised! I had no idea he was planning that at all, plus i had always joked i would only ever love real books, so i never thought I'd get an e-reader. He got me the newest one too. the Nook Tablet, with all the bells and whistles. And, after having it a month now, I can say, it has won me over. Haha don't tell real books i said that! ;D I still like the feeling of holding a real book in my hand, but being able to carry multiple books with me and go online at the same time, all while having it fit nicely in my purse, is really really nice. I am definitely glad i have one now. lol. I can still even rent books from the library on it. So cool! I have definitely been converted. haha...
 So that is the exciting month of November! I hope you enjoyed reading it and I will try to do December asap as well as get pictures up in each blog as well that goes with some of the stories, so there is something to look at besides all these words you have to read. lol. Ttfn! (Ta Ta For Now!)

6 months later: September and October

Alright everyone, lets dive right in shall we? lol. On Sept. 4 it was Nick's 24th birthday. I got him some awesome minimus shoes (barefoot running shoes for those of you who don't know what they are. Like the 5 fingered toe shoes you probably see some people wearing, but with your toes enclosed together) as his gift. They sell them at NB, and since i work there, plus am family, I was able to get a discount, which was awesome. I was so excited for him to have them. :) We ended up spending his b.day weekend camping up with his brother Terry and his wife and kids, watching as Terry tried to bow hunt an elk, which is very difficult. It was a fun weekend and Stacey even brought up a cake for Nick's birthday, which was so sweet of her and really yummy! ; ) On Sept 10, Nick ran the Suncrest half marathon with my brother Chris,with really no training at all. He finished 20th out of about 400, which was pretty amazing for having no training. My brother i think was somewhat higher, but he hikes and works out religiously, so, he was a bit more prepared. lol. I was very proud of them both for doing something like that.
  On Sept. 17 my best friend Sadie's older sister Ashley got married. It was such a beautiful reception center that I had actually never heard of before. I went with my mom, which was a ton of fun. She did a lace wedding gown and it was so gorgeous! I am so so happy for her. She deserves to be happy and I really think her husband makes her so. :) On Sept. 24 Nick and I did the Dirty Dash race with his sister Tiff, her husband Stephan, and some of her friends from school. It was such a blast!! It was definitely a bit cold at the start, but I had so much fun getting covered in mud. I really hope I can do that again next year with a group of my friends. It would be so much fun and I think they would all love it! It was a good month and I had a lot of fun with friends as well, going to movies, dinner, and just hanging out at people's houses. Sometimes we didn't get together as often as we'd like, but we tried to.
  On to October! lol, aren't these 6 months just flying by? ;D Seriously though, they really did seem too... Ok so on Oct. 2, Nick and I finally got to go see one of Alli's volleyball games. Haha and of course, it ended up being one where she played for like 10 min at the start and then got pulled and she didn't play again for the rest of the match. It was ok though, cause it was still fun to see her play for a bit, as well as just simply support the team and cheer. At the start of Oct. we finally moved into the house we had bought last July and been renting out for the last year while we lived with his parents. Our renters had got a new job down in the Sandy area in the summer, and so they wanted to move closer to the new job. It is so nice finally being in our own place. Its not that it was bad living with Nick's parents, but we haven't lived alone since we got married, so its nice to finally have some space that is our very own as still newly weds.
  Its been fun to decorate the house, though right before we moved in, the fridge broke. So when we started living in the house, we had to use a mini fridge until we could order a new one, which took us like a month and a half. We finally got our new fridge (Yay!!) after Thanksgiving. Its been so great! lol. Oct 7 and 8th and 14 and 15 (fridays and saturdays) I went hunting with Nick. (Haha I know shocking right?) He had put in my name with his to see if i would pull out a hunting tag and I actually did. Haha I am not a huge camping person, especially when its cold, but I gave it a try for him. We got tags in an area he wasn't familiar with, so that made it harder. We saw some deer a few times and heard some elk, but never got anything. It was a very popular area and hugely crowded, so made it hard to find the proper area needed to wait for game. Lol I may just leave it to Nick and the boys next year. ;) On Halloween day Nick went duck hunting with my dad, and they both had a blast. I hung out with my mom and we went and saw a movie together. It was a fun Halloween. My mom also gave us extra Halloween decorations that she didn't need anymore so that we were able to decorate the house, which was fun. :) I really enjoy having a house that i can decorate for the holidays. Hope you all enjoyed Sept and Oct. Stay tuned for November and December! :)

6 month later! July and August. ;D

Hello everyone on blog world! I have been a giant blogging slacker and now suddenly realize that it has been 6 months since i last posted anything. This was brought to my attention by my cousin Tat who i never get to see enough, and who is much better at being faithful to her blog then i am. lol. I dedicate this first blog update to her. ; D haha....
   Ok, so since I am 6 months behind, I am going to update you all 2 months at a time, so it isn't one giant update blog you have to read. I last posted in June, so I am now going to update you on July and August. At the very start of july, Nick and i went to Jackson Hole from June 29 - July 3, with our friends Wes, his now fiancee Lindee, Ben, and his wife Amber joining us July 1. It was a great trip, and we had a blast going on long bike rides, relaxing, and enjoying summer up in Teton Village. When we got back, Nick got to help his friend Tyson launch huge fireworks for a 4th of July show, which he had a blast doing. July 7 I started my new job at my uncle's New Balance Shoe store in Sugerhouse, (though i was hired for the new store that would be in Midvale on Union Park Ave) where I work part-time Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays, while still working at my dad's orthodontic office as a chairside assistant Mondays, Wenesdays, and Thursdays. Its a little hard on my social life working 6 days a week now, but I am making much better money, which is good since (spoiler for Oct month, lol, Nick and I moved into our own house). It was definitely a little scary learning all the foot and shoe information you need to know for New Balance, but I was doing fairly well after about a month. Plus, for the first 2 weeks they didn't make me help anyone on my own. What i did was shadow another girl named Avery and listen to her, and watch how she interacted with the customers and rang them up and everything, while making sure to continue to study all the shoe info and foot aliments at home.
  Since NB is designed for people with medical foot problems and lots of podiatrists send them to us, its amazing what we are expected to know, plus all the computer stuff as well. Luckly, now in Dec, after 5 months, the only thing i really still forget is gift cards, because I've only ever done a few. lol. So that's pretty much all for July. Once I got that job, all Nick and I did was work, hang out with friends after work occasionally, or simply head home and relax together watching a movie or TV. Haha so thrilling I know. But suddenly working full time took getting use to for my body, so I was extra tired a lot and just really liked relaxing at home with my hubby. :)
   Now, on to August! August 2, Nick's brother Chris had to come home from his mission early because of medical issues. While this was sad for him and the family, it was fun to get to have him home in time for his sister's wedding. On monday, August 8, Tiffany, his sister, got married to Stephan Latkiewicz, and they are so great together. :) It was a beautiful ceremony and we got tons of amazing pictures. The wedding and reception were held at Millennial Falls, and it was so beautiful! We are all so happy for them. August16 I started working at the Midvale New Balance, helping to set up the store by tagging and hanging clothes, placing displays, placing shoes on the wall in the women's and men's sections, and stocking shoes in back to be ready for the grand opening. On Friday and Saturday August 26 and 27, the new Union Park New Balance had it's Grand opening and it went so amazingly well. It far exceeded expectations, which was so great. Also on Aug. 26, my little sis Alli, who is 18 and has signed with the University of Utah to play on their volleyball team, had her very first game that night. I couldn't go because of work, but, i heard she did amazing. :) She ended up starting for most of the season even though she is just a freshmen, which is a huge deal. I am so very proud of her! :D
   After the amazing grand opening for NB fri and sat, a horrible thing happened that Sunday. Around 2 am, some people (probably after shoes, which are worth a lot) broke into the new NB store. Because we were so new, the motion sensor part of the alarm and the cameras were not set up yet, just the door alarm. Since they smashed the door glass with a rock and climbed through the hole, no alarm went off. Luckily, the shoes and inventory are kept in a back room that has separate locked door, so they couldn't get that, but they did steal the 2 laptops that we run our foot scanner machines with as well as 2000 dollars worth of clothing. It was awful! Right after the grand opening to have that happen.... Insurance covered it, but it was still a bit of a blow. They have not been caught yet, and we can only hope that Karma will catch up with them someday.
  So there ya go, that is all the big things that really happened in August. The rest was pretty much the same as July: work, hang with friends doing different awesome summer activities, and then hanging out at home relaxing.
 

Picture Blog

 Here are pictures from the hike Nick and I went on last Sunday at Bells Canyon. :)

Nick and I

The Resevoir

Half way there!

View of the valley

At the waterfall

Loved these rocks. It was suck an amazing hike! We had a blast together!

Ode de Nick

Alright so, my dear hubby is feeling left out because every post ever made on our blog is my point of view, so, since he himself still doesn't want to actually blog, I am going to do a blog dedicated to him.  Nick works for his dad at his mechanic shop Quick Lube (so if you ever have car trouble or need a simple oil change, look them up :D). He has been working there since he around 14 and is amazing with cars! Nick loves to look for deals on ksl that he will buy, fix up, and sell. He once bought a green dodge truck that he was in 2500 and sold it for 7100. It was one of his most amazing deals every! He is a very honest mechanic and salesman too so you know you are getting a fair deal.  He went to Jordan High and graduated in 2006 like I did (though I went to Olympus, Go Titans!) and his birthday is in the beginning of Sept so he is 3 months older then me. He absolutely loves the outdoors and loves to go hunting. I know that in October I lose him for most of the month, which he told me right at the start of dating. Haha.... There are 5 kids in his family and he is 2nd to youngest. There are 3 boys and 2 girls. He recently went on a week long trip in May with his brother Terry and his family to Lake Powell and they did a ton of swimming and had great luck fishing. They had a blast. I sadly could not go because i could not get work off, though luckily i didn't, because that's the week I got sick with my death cold, so I was better of being sick at home. lol He got some really awesome pictures of the trip too, so I am going to post some of them for you to see. I hope you all enjoyed getting to know my husband a little bit better. :) P.S. Nick and I have been married for 7 months today. :D

Nick with one of his catches

Terry and his kids

Brayden driving the boat. lol

They got a ton!

Life in June :)

Hi everyone!
Haha sorry that i haven't blogged in a bit again. I just forget and get busy. Haha.... I even have pictures of trips i would love to put up bt they haven't even been uploaded to the computer yet. lol. So when i last blogged i was quite sick, and now, over 3 weeks later, i am finally pretty much over it. I still have a slight cough thats holding on and my voice isn't 100% back yet (can't sing with the radio, lol) but other then that im pretty much good again. I sadly wasn't to much better down in Vegas like i had hoped, and I even lost my voice completely while there. I still had a good time with my friends and Jess' wedding went wonderfuly, but i wore-out quickly.  After Vegas i pretty much just worked, which was hard while sick but the extra money I made covering for Brett and Alyssa while they went out of town was really great. Its weird, now that we are into June, how cold it still is. It feels like late April or early May, its so weird. I am so ready for summer! Nick and I went for an awesome hike on sunday though when we actually had an 80 degree day and it was so great! We hiked all the way to the waterfall at Bells canyon and though it kicked my butt, I am proud of myself for making it all the way there, which i have never done before. I loved getting to spend time in the outdoors with my dear husband as well. It was really nice. : )  Makes me excited for all the other summer stuff we can do once the warm actually stays. Haha... Oh on June 2 Alli graduated from Olympus High school. It was a really nice greduation. I can't believe my baby sister is now going to be in college and my little baby bro matthew has graduated from 9th grade and will be a sophmore in high school. It makes me feel so old. lol. Though being married I guess I am. hahaha....;D Nick, me, my dad, and Chris also got to go to Les Mis the evening of June 2 and it was amazing! I am so glad I got to share it with Nick finally after making him listen to the music all the time. I loved it!! Someday in like 100 years i will maybe finally get pictures up as well. So ya, thats really all the updateing I have right now. bubye! :)

Life Updates!

  Realised that it has been a few weeks since i last blogged so, since Im sick and pretty much resting as much as possible, thought i would finally give an update. So I am pretty sure that I have finally found a 2nd job (Yay!) which will be working for my Uncle. (Haha apparently, since I already work for my dad, I just really enjoy working for family.) He owns New Balance shoe stores and they are opening a new one in August. I will be working as a sales clerk inside the store, helping customers and stuff like that. Its pretty exciting since I have been looking since i finished school in december with no luck. On May 6 was my official graduation from the U of U where I walked and everything. I hadn't been planning on doing it, but Nick and my mom convinced me to, and Im glad I did. It felt nice to be there celebrating my accomplishments and achievements after all my hard work. Nick, My whole family, my Grandpa Spurrier, and my best friend Sadie all came to support me. :) We ate at Red Robin before hand and made sure to take lot of great picture before and after I walked. It was really nice. On May 7 I participated in the Race For the Cure with my mother (for the 3rd year in a row) and a bunch of her former younger women who have done it every year with us as well. Its so great to see them all there in support of her (my mother, if you didn't know, had breast cancer in 2007 but had been great since finishing chemo and still great today). Seeing how many people show up for this and how its more every year, its such a touching and wonderful thing. You dont know these people at all, and yet you are all united by something that automatically brings you together as friends sharing the same cause.
      On Mother's day, Nick's family and I got to talk to his brother Chris, who is out on his mission in Virginia, which was really great. It was fun to hear his voice and up dates, as well as updating him ourselves on our own lives.  Work has been going well for both Nick and I and right now, Nick is at Lake Powell with his brother Terry and his family, camping and fishing. They will be back wednesday the 18, just as i leave the next day for Vegas (Yay!!) til Sun, the 22. Its sorta a bummer because i am definitely missing him while he is gone and then get to see him for just one night til i leave. lame.... but what can ya do?  So thats about everything right now. Oh and Im also uber sick right now, right before my fun vacation, all thanks to my dear sweet hubby, who gave it to me. The really awesome colds, complete with aches, chills, horrid sore throat, stiff neck and a fever the first 2 days. Now its more the cough and running nose, but i also still have a slight sore throat and my neck's very stiff. No bueno at all! Hopefully its down more by thurs when i leave. I am tired being achey. Well, thats all my updates. Until next time! ;D

Hawaii!!

The week of April 17-24 my family went to Hawaii for Easter. We went to the island of Oahu, which was a first for us all. Our hotel was just a few blocks from the beach, so we could walk there in just a few minutes. The weather there was amazing! It was 80's the entire time but also breezy for most the week, so that the heat didn't kill us. For the first few days, we just relaxed at the beach. The first beach day was so the first group of us could recover from the plane ride over, and the 2nd beach day was so my mom and sister (who came a day later due to her volleyball tournament) could recover and relax.  This beach didn't really have huge body surfing waves, but it felt great to float in and then just lay out on the sand. My dad had the unfortunate luck the first day to step on a sea urchin, so he had to spend most his time soaking his foot. Luckily that dissolved most the spines and he got the others out himself so he was good for the rest of the trip. Haha after that we all bought some water shoes so the same didn't happen to us. ;) We all got a tiny bit fried on Tuesday, so on Wednesday we decided to do Pearl Harbor. It was so amazing to get to see the museums and the memorial over the tomb of the USS Arizona. What an amazing part of our history. On Thursday we did the Polynesian Cultural Center. It was really cool. Before we got there, we stopped at the macadamia nut farm and tried free samples. They were super yummy. :) At the Center, we went to different villages that represented different places such as Fiji, Samoa, etc. and learned a bit about each of them. We then went to a  luau dinner, and then a show. It was an awesome day. On Friday we started out at a snorkeling bay and swam through some reefs. We saw some amazing fish, a few that were bigger then our heads! After that, we grabbed lunch and headed to a beach called Sandy Beach, that had waves over 8 feet high. It was a very popular body surfing beach and tons of teens - 30 years olds were there surfing, boogie-boarding, and body surfing. My dad and Nick immediately went into, and Alli went with them for a bit, but they waves were a bit much, even for her, so she just played in the brakes along the sand with Matthew. I watched with my ankles in the water, but never got in. Haha I knew one try would waste me.  That day we all came home pretty tired, and, even though we had all been good with sunscreen, we were all also pretty burned again as well. Haha was definitely an aloe vera day, with advil and lots of water as well.  Saturday we hiked to a waterfall and got to swim to it and take pictures under it.  We then rested at our beach again for a bit and went for the last time to eat at this amazing burger place we had discovered, that really has the best burgers ever. It was such a wonderful trip, and coming back to the cold weather was definitely hard. I so can't wait for summer here now!