Let's play a game of catch-up.

HUGE THANKS TO MANDY for helping me make my blog prettier! (I made my own header, believe me she does a much better job at headers than me, so please don't be deceived. Her work is awesome.) I gave her personal blog a shout out last entry, so here's to her blogs blog. ;)

We last left off in October... Wow. Things have changed!

Thanksgiving and Christmas were awesome, spent with family and friends. We had our beautiful Christmas tree again and this year, Chuck posed perfectly in front for me. Becca and Zack spent Christmas with us at our apartment. I finally had the opportunity to meet my beautiful new cousin Chavon (who married my cousin Casey a week after Colton and I) who announced to us that she was pregnant. :) Hailey got a new boyfriend, that we all love so much and have had the most amazing time with. Here are just a few images from those...

Then, I graduated!! Actually, I graduated first, then Christmas, but oh well.

Colton's new website finally opened and business has been booming. We are so blessed with the most amazing brides, couples, families, and everyone who has contributed their wisdom and knowledge. It helps to know amazing photographers who have always been there, and meet new ones along the way. Everyone in the business has been so encouraging and helpful.

Finally, the event that Colton and I have been talking about, wishing for, and saving for 11 months finally came. Our cruise. It was FANTASTIC! Words cannot describe how amazing it was. I will let pictures do most of the talking (then caption) ...




Our huge, beautiful ship.


Cozumel, Mexico.


My new favorite people ever. Seriously, these girls became such good friends of mine in just a week. I can't believe Mandy (middle) lives just 10 minutes from me. You will probably see a lot more of her in the future. ;)


Colton and me with a giant stingray in Grand Cayman.


Colton ziplining in Jamaica.


Game night: I think this sums it up.

Our wonderful waitress, Renata from Croatia and our table mates. We had the best conversations.

I may break down each day in more detail with pictures/scrapbook pages, but for now...I hope you get an idea of what we experienced.

It's been a long time coming

I decided to update with pictures...
First, Easter...

Next, we had a double date night with Sam & Jen as a pre-birthday and pre-wedding celebration. :)


Then, my birthday (April 28)




Lastly we had Sam and Jen's wedding on Saturday (May 2)

Less than a week...

Since my last post. I am doing SO GOOD. haha.
I am going to *try* to update AT LEAST once a week. I haven't been updating because I have been REALLY bad about taking pictures. I want to get better about that too. Let's see. What has happened since March 12, 2009. Friday I didn't go to school because I was exhausted. See their alarm (like wake up alarm, not house) went off at like 5 something in the morning. Well, it continued to go off for the next HOUR. We have NEVER had any problems with noise in our apartments, so it was really weird that the alarm we could hear. I was a little scared because I thought that maybe our neighbors were unconscious. Needless to say I didn't get any sleep, so I skipped school. Then I went to work at noon. I can honestly say I have no idea what we did Friday night, so it was probably not at all interesting. Saturday we intended to go to the comedy club, but got done to Mockingbird Station only to remember it was the St. Patrick's day parade and it REEKED of beer and throwup. People were so trashed walking around, yelling and being obnoxious (it was only 6pm). We decided to leave and get burgers instead. Then we spent an hour and half hiding in Sam & Jen's apartment waiting to scare them. Haha. We are losers.
Sunday I worked all day.
Then we begin Spring Break. I worked 2-10 Monday night...I was off yesterday, so I went to mesquite to visit my MeMe and Aunt Motsy. Chuck got to run around in the backyard all dayl, so he was a happy camper. It was a good bonding, obedience day for the two of us. Oh, and we looked completely adorable in our matching outfits (since it was St. patrick's day). I wore black gauchos and a green "Made in Ireland" shirt and chuck wore a giant bandanna bow that was black with green clovers. :) Now I'm at work.
Ok... sad post...no pictures. Maybe I'll do better next time.

Catch up pics

Ok, I have been up to a lot lately and no time to post. So here will be some pics to catch you up. I have quite a few of our baby that I need to put up.





Top to bottom: Chuck's Valentine gift, Chuck and daddy, BATHTIME!! haha

I went to OperaWife's musical...Company. It was FANTASTIC!!



Also, Sam, Jen, Colton and I went bowling again...and I did MUCH better by the end... here are some pics.
























This weekend I have Jen's bridal shower and then Hailey and Taylor are coming with us to a comedy club. :) That will be fun... I won't forget my camera.

Ugh! Ok, I thought I had more time to post, but Colton got off work early and I have to finish dinner (Mixed veggies and chicken skillet) SO I will leave you with this pic of Hailey and me. tehe

Happy 2009!

Wow, so 2008 has been a crazy year, filled with joy and tears. I got married to a wonderful man (aka my highschool sweetheart), moved out on my own (with my husband), got a dog (my beautiful Chuck Taylor), and much more. I had Kandice take our engagements and have developed a life long friendship. I have been blessed in so many ways, and i am so thankful.


Let's see...New Years Eve Colton, Sam, Jen and I went to Dave and Busters for an IMPROV comedy show, dinner, and games. It was an absolute blast!! We won over 3400 tickets, and gave them to a cute little girl and her dad. We came back to the apartment and watched the ball drop. Heres our pics...

Hope you all have a happy 2009!! =)

Happy Thanksgiving?

Hey!! Ok, so I am in a good mood today (a lot better than a few days ago, but I will get into that).Here we go. Let's play catch up. k? Last time I left you I was catching up on ice skating and the NYLO.

Let's see, Tuesday November 25, Chuck had surgery. He had his "big boy" surgery as we refer to it here. Colton insists my way of saying "he got his wawas chopped off" is incorrect because they didn't "chop anything off" so I will ust say big boy surgery. He has been so good. He gets to wear his lampshade for 10 days (only 3 left). We only put it on him when he is in his "box" since we can't watch him. The first night, he whined a little bit, but other than that, he is fine. He is running around and jumping like nothing ever happened.

=)

Let's do a quick school catch up. Today (why i am in a good mood) I finished my 20 page paper on self-esteem. I am pretty sure writing 20 pages about self-esteem killed mine, but whatever. I took a test in the class I'm failing and I am pretty sure I bombed yet another one. Hopefully this paper will yank up my grade.

I have a spanish final this week and one more assignment left in that class that I get to finish tonight. All my other finals are next week.

Thanksgiving!!!

For Thanksgiving, Colton and I took Chuck to the Bradshaw's and we went out to eat to Furrs with my family. There was a HUGE line that we were sure we would be waiting in for hours, but it really didn't take that long at all. It was extremely warm though.

Pics (top to bottom) Colton and I at Furrs, cousin Alison

Then, we went back to Colton's family's house and played Wii, watched TV, ate desserts, took family pictures (that I wish so bad I could share with you, but they aren't on my computer and no one will email them to me). Then we went and saw Four Christmases. WARNING: DO NOT TAKE A CHILD TO SEE THAT MOVIE IF THEY STILL BELIEVE IN SANTA. Thank you.

When we got to the house, the kitties were all spooning. It was adorable.

We were there and there were a few little kids there, and if you've seen the movie, they give away the "secret of Santa." I felt so bad for these kids, but angry with the parents for taking 5 year olds to a PG-13 movie w/o reading the reviews. Anyways, I thought it was cute. There were a lot of funny parts. Colton thought the plot was boring, but he laughed a lot, if that tells you anything.

And that was about the end of our Thanksgiving. Oh yeah, and my list of things to be Thankful for..

Colton

Chuck taylor

Family

Our apartment

Day after...

YUCK. Black Friday was TERRIBLE for me. i was getting on my computer to actually post this blog with pictures and stuff, and my power cord wouldn't plug in. The jack it plugs into sunk into my computer. So on BLACK FRIDAY we went to Best buy to take it and see if they could fix it since it was under warranty. We had to buy a $100 power cord for Colton to use since they needed mine. They said it would cost $100 to back up all the info in case they had to replace the computer or the hard drive messes up while its at the factory. I was mad. I cried a lot. We can't pay 100 dollars after I just paid that in April when my last computer crashed. This all would happen the week before finals. So please pray that they don't mess with my computer because I have A LOT of stuff on there that I would probably freak out if we lost.

Thank you.

i went to work and came home to a fire burining and all the Christmas decorations ready for us to set up. We set up the tree and stockings and stuff to Elf. Our tree is GORGEOUS. I am so happy with it. We started setting up our 4 ft tree and realized it was just way too tiny, so we took it back and got a 7 ft one. =) It is on a table so it looks amazing.

And our stockings...

Ah. I love Christmas.

Then, Saturday, colton and I babysat for the amazing KandiceRay. Her kids are the best ever. Jordan and I played ponies and dolls, Colton and Drew played Batman on the Wii. We made ginger bread cookies as a surprise for Kandice and Chad. We watched Kung Fu Panda (great kid movie). Put them to bed, and then I crashed on the couch. Oh and we got our family pictures back... =)

Jordan decorating herself, her mom and Lola. Drew decorating himself, his dad and Lola. The final project. Colton and Me. hehe

Yesterday I worked (all day). Came home and Colton and I rented Fred Claus.

So ya, that was a lot of catching up.