Tuesday, January 28, 2014

I guess it's about time I catch up on our life through the holiday season, our anniversary, and new years till recently. Well, I guess I'll start off with Halloween. Halloween was fun! We went to a couples halloween party at our friends house the weekend before and then on the day of halloween, we just stayed home while i handed out candy till adam got home because we both worked the next day.

 Going from there, Thanksgiving was nice and relaxing. We are lucky enough to live close enough to both of our families so we got to hang out with both on Thanksgiving.

 We had our family pictures taken with both families that day as well. I don't have copies of both yet, so I will have to add that at a different time. But for now, here's us on Thanksgiving!

We had been thinking about what we wanted to do for our first anniversary for a while. We didn't want to spend a fortune, and didn't want to travel too far, but still have fun. So, we chose Sedona. It was nice to get away and just have a fun weekend with just us. We hadn't been out of town since our wedding, so at least for me, it was much needed.

The first day, we checked into our hotel and then just went sight seeing and walked around. We went to the Chapel of the Holy Cross. It was a church that was built into the side of a mountain. It was a cool experience since I had never been in a different church other than an LDS church.
The next day we went to Out of Africa wildlife park which was pretty awesome! We got a good deal from Groupon for it and lemme just tell you.. it was way better than the zoo! We got there in the morning and spent a good chunk of the day there. When we got there, we went on a little safari through the park with a tour guide that showed us all the different habitats and even drove into some of them. We drove into a zebra, giraffe, water buffalo, and a few other deer like animals that I don't remember the name. We got to feed the giraffes. Well, adam did. I gave him my carrot so he would have more chances of getting a picture of him feeding it OUT OF HIS MOUTH. Yeah, he got a nice slobbery giraffe kiss. I made sure he washed his face before I would kiss him, don't worry. ;)

 Apparently, this deer like animal below got its broken horn because it use to be bordering habitats to the lions and tried to ram its horn through the fence to get the lion. Obviously, didn't work out so well. And of course, the rhino. He seemed like such a gentle giant. They gave him a big tractor tire that apparently, he sleeps with. Cute huh?

 Weird deer like creature that started running when we took the picture on the right side. And of course, the zebras. They were NOT shy. They kept cutting off the bus and stuff and trying to get food. They told us that they "don't like carrots" haha which has got to be such bullcrap. They're the horses cousins, they're going to like carrots. They told us that the zebras bite, so there's why they used that excuse.

Ok so maybe they were a little feisty

 From there, we got to basically walk around and do see the habitats a bit closer. Here's a taste of what we saw.

 This was the prettiest of the regular colored tigers, in my opinion. It had such a pretty orange color. Or maybe he just had the most recent bath. Who knows! It was cool though because it was just pacing back and forth along the edge of the cage.. so we got to get pretty close.

Here's some more pretty kitties!

And of course, the prairie dogs!

 After a while, they had a tiger water show. They had some of the trainers play with the tigers in a pool and the tigers were chasing the trainers around and jumping in the pool after pool toys. It was pretty cool. After that, we got to feed the tigers. Its not as cool as it sounds, don't get too excited. There was  fence..and another fence.. and a man.. and some tongs in between us. BOO. haha it was still cool though! They were really gentle.  You can tell they've been around people a bit.

 From there, we left the park. We just pretty much killed time at the park till the water play thing and so we could feed the tigers.. but it was at a certain time, so we got in a lot of walking that day.

Some restaurants we visted while we were there were El Lote Cafe.. and some brick oven pizza place that was by our hotel. It was all pretty good from what we had. At El Lote, we got the "El Lote" which is just corn in a white sauce that you dip your chips in. It was pretty good.. different. I dont remember what kind of pizza we had at the pizza place. It was weird, but it was good. Haha

Then the next morning, we drove home. So it was pretty fun. I liked it a lot. I probably wont like going to the zoo anymore cuz this one was just THAT much cooler.

Then, along came Christmas, It was nice also. We had a small Christmas this year because we're trying to save up for Adams schooling that will be coming up before we know it. Which, by the way, he got accepted to ASU and will be starting August 2014 for his MBA.

For new years, we were boring.. and we just stayed home. In fact, we were in bed before 12. Haha even my sisters family who also lives in my parents house with us went to bed early. They had some little fireworks that we lit in the driveway of our parents house around like 11... and then we just went to bed pretty quick after that.

If you don't already know, I'm a big Anberlin fan. They've been around forever. In my mind, they were GOING to be around forever. They recently announced that in 2014, they will be releasing a final album and then touring after that.. and then they will be done. It literally makes me sick to think about it. I know, I shouldn't be that invested in a band, but it really makes me sad. First Acceptance.. then Between the Trees.. now ANBERLIN?  Sad news... really sad news. So, what did I do, me and my brother Tanner & his wife Chandra went in and bought some merch for the upcoming tour that we HAVE to go to. Like.. if they don't come to AZ.. I'm going to them. Ha, its gonna happen.

So funny story..
ummmm so me and Adam have my parents old waterbed, right? Haha so Saturday, Adam wakes up for work and tells me that the floor is wet over by his side of the bed. I'm like half awake.. like whaaa? I was like "Did you drool" and he said no.. and he got out of bed and started getting ready for work. So after he left the room, im trying to go back to sleep and i hear dripping. I'm like wtf.. we don't have any cups over there so its not like it was something like that. Then it hit me.. our bed is leaking. So when Adam came back in, i said i think its the bed leaking. So he feels the bed on the side of the mattress and sure enough.. our bed was definitely leaking. So i had to wake up at like 6am to figure out what we're going to do. And so we had to take all the bedding off the bed and then we didn't know what to do. Its not exactly a common situation. Haha so then I just went and slept in our guest room in this crappy day bed for a couple hrs till my parents woke up. It wasn't like the bed was pouring out or anything, we just put a bucket under the area it was dripping so I could go back to sleep. haha anyway.. to sum it up.. we had to drain the bed.. and now we dont have a mattress and have slept on a air mattress because we haven't had a chance to go buy a new mattress. So since we're going to need it eventually when we move out of my parents house.. i guess its time. Ha but yeah it sucked.. but on the bright side, we are getting a memory foam mattress. I'm excited. :) haha 

sad box mattress face.

Since then, we've had an air mattress. Bleh.

Other than that, its pretty much the same ol' thing going on here! Riding my horse as much as I can.. Which is MAYBE once per week. That's pretty much it for now.. until next time.

Thursday, October 24, 2013

I had an interesting thought yesterday on my way home from work. I was just thinking back on my life throughout high school and up until I met Adam. All the fun times I could reflect back on were the times that i was just goofing off with my girls. I may have been known as someone who was prettymuch always dating someone. I regret being that way to a certain extent. I mean, it led me to Adam and I wouldn't take it back.. but I wish I would have valued time with my friends when I had it the way it was.. and just spent time with them more rather than wasted my time dating some the guys who wasted that time. I came across this quote.. maybe this is what got me thinking.

I really did luck out on my the friends I've made. I have been lucky enough to keep most of my friends that I've had for 21.. 15.. 10...5... or however many years I've known them! I've been lucky enough to have friends that are such good people.. have such a great head on their shoulders... that they've kept me in line! They helped me stay on the right track and helped me in some of the most trying times of my life so far. I don't know what I did to be so lucky, but I am so grateful for them being in my life. I think the fact that most of them are all serving missions right now.. makes me realize what I've been missing. Haha not that I didn't know how awesome they are, but distance really does make the heart grow fonder. I'm so excited to see where my missionary girls end up in life! To see who they end up marrying down the road.. and to have kids around the same time as them so that they can be friends! Just like we talked about when we were 5 years old. Karlie was my next door neighbor when I was born, so we've literally been friends all our lives. Her family moved when we were about 5 years old. I don't know how we stayed friends. I mean, she didn't move far.. but we really must have already had a strong friendship for us to be the ones who kept our friendship going. It's not like our parents were buddy buddy or anything.. so they didn't force it. It was just us. And we stayed friends.. through elementary school.. junior high.. (not too many people can say that).. high school.. and now.
So, for anyone reading this who is still hanging out with friends.. whether you're in high school.. or junior high.. or whatever the case may be.. enjoy your time with your friends because it'll be limited before you know it! Don't waste your time dating someone who's just wasting your time and is just "for fun."

Rant done.

Friday, September 27, 2013

Well, It's almost been 2 months since I updated, so here are a few things that have happened the past few weeks!
My Sister in Law Jodi & my brother Clint had their baby!
I don't have many pictures of him, but here's one of him and Preslee

Preslee looks like such a chunk next to him! But my side of the family  now has 7 grandkids! So that's fun! Plus, we still live at my parents house along with my sister and her growing family. She has 3 kids now all 5 & under. Fun stuff. Haha there's always something going on around the house it seems like.












What else has happened? Well, Adam finally took his GMAT! He got a 640 so that's exciting and he's now applying for ASU fall 2014 semester. I'm definitely REALLY excited to have his schooling overwith. He's working a lot of overtime right now as well. Hopefully I'll be able to squeeze some overtime in here pretty quick at my job as well. Working at Arizona Propane, the winter seasons get really busy from all the snowbirds at the trailer parks and people use the propane to heat their residents.. so during the winter they are more lenient with overtime. We could definitely use the extra money! Hopefully we'll end up in a house of our own in the next couple years.
As many of you know, I have a few friends that are on missions right now since they lowered the age for sisters to go on missions. 4 of my friends are on missions right now. Courtney has his her 6 month mark, so that's pretty cool and crazy! It seems like she just left. Then Summer & Karlie will be hitting their 6 month mark here in October. And as for London, she has been out for about 2 months. BUT time has FLOWN for my other friends and I know it will for her as well! I remember always hearing that.. at least for elders.. the 2nd year goes by the fastest.. so being that sisters only serve 18 months.. they're gonna be home before they know it! It's crazy!
Me and Adam got a new calling at church.
We are...... NURSERY LEADERS.  It's really fun. I like it. When we heard that we were getting a calling, Adam kept saying.. "Anything but nursery.." haha and I kind of wanted nursery... and here we are! Adam was pleasantly surprised though and he likes the calling after all. Plus, who doesn't like snack time while you're at church for 3 hours?
As for now, we are still trying to save up money to get a house of our own and are just focusing on that and getting Adam applied for ASU. So that's our life as of now. Till next time..

Thursday, August 1, 2013

Well, I suppose it's time for an update. To start, July 4th was pretty relaxed. We actually didn't even end up BBQing with the rest of America. Haha we ended up hanging out with our families, but having pizza instead. The Anberlin concert was great as expected! The picture I got of us SUCKS... but hey, it's better than nothing! It's documentation showing we actually made it! haha we did also get to visit with Scott & Monica for like an hour. Haha it was really short, but still worth it! I didn't get any pictures.. so you'll just have to believe me. ;) Having the long weekend off was really nice for sure. Unfortunately, I couldn't get my passport that weekend because they never called me back! Probably because it's a federal holiday, but still. I don't know when that will happen, but hopefully I can find some time to do that so we can go somewhere exciting someday! I finally got to hold my new niece, Preslee! The same day we went to the concert actually! YAY sickness for finally leaving me!

Clint & Jodi are due to have their baby boy at the end of this month too,so we'll have a couple of babies in the fam! It's always interesting to see who the babies turn out looking like the most! We'll see who they looks like more-so when they get older.








Ummm... I got highlights! I'm slowly going back blonde. I have been brunette for about 3 or 4 months maybe? Haha it was just for fun basically. Next, back to blonde and then maybe someday I'll chop it off. BUT that wont be for a while. haha















What else is new? I got to go to Maria's baby shower this past weekend! It was fun to go and visit with some of the girls. It's funny how fast things happen! As soon as you get married.. everyone's wondering when you are going to have kids.





Upcoming events.. well, Adam finally signed up for the day he will be taking his GMAT. So that's exciting! I'm definitely excited to get that over with so we can find out what we will be doing for Adams schooling. I'm excited to see what life will bring us after that! He probably wont be going back to school until fall 2014 though. Well, other than that, life's great! Nothing really new or big to share. Until next time..

Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Well.. Today marks two years from the day me and Adam had our first kiss. Yep.. I'm THAT girl that knows random dates like that. It seems like we have known each other forever already. Every 4th of July will bring those memories back. We have been officially married for 6 months and 20 days. It's crazy how time flies. This picture is the oldest picture I have of us.. and it was a couple months after our first kiss.. but it's still good memories. (Yep, it's a screenshot of a picture I had on my facebook.) This 4th of July we plan on spending time with our families.. probably BBQing like the rest of America. It's kind of weird that people like BBQing this time of year.. especially when its like 120 degrees outside. People are weird. My work is closed the 4th & 5th so it'll be nice to have some time off! We are planning on driving to Tucson tomorrow, July 3rd for the Anberlin concert! Super excited about this. I have been going on and on to Adam about how great they are in concert. This is a concert for their acoustic tour.. so I'm guessing it will probably be more relaxed than their concerts that I was referring to. Don't get me wrong.. I know they'll be great! It just wont be as crazy fun as it normally is when you get to jump around and scream your lungs out. Concerts are great. Anberlin is by FAR the best band I've seen play.. they sound so good live and they are so fun to go to..especially if you are willing to go crazy and jump around and sing your heart out. That's what makes it so great. I'm definitely really excited for tomorrow night! We also plan on visiting our friends Scott & Monica while we are up there. We haven't been up to visit them yet so I'm excited for it all. Hopefully I'll get to take some pictures while we are there and I can update about it later. On friday for my day off.. I plan on getting some stuff done around the house.. as well as FINALLY getting my passport. We have been wanting to go to Mexico for a while but we haven't been able to because I don't have a passport. So hopefully I'll have a chance to get that done.

My sister had her baby a couple weeks ago. She named her Preslee Belle Harker. She's super quiet compared to some other babies I'd say. She sleeps prettymuch ALL day. That's a newborn for ya! I have been battling a cold/sinus infection/allergies this WHOLE YEAR so I haven't even gotten to hold her yet. It's really weird because this is how it always is when there is a baby born into my family. I'm ALWAYS sick so I can never hold them when they are born. I guess its Gods way of telling me I don't need a baby right now. WHO KNOWS. Maybe some day I'll be able to update saying I got to hold her. I don't know what it is this year. I don't think I've ever had a cold this long in my life. Something is wrong with me.  Along with this.. I got bitten by a spider or something within the last month. THAT'S been fun. I have a really pretty beauty mark on my leg now. I'll spare you the damage to your eyes and leave it to your imagination. 

What else is new? Well... I think I mentioned how my work moved locations up to a building in Fountain Hills. If not.. then ya. It happened. Haha anyways.. my point is.. our office building backs right up to miles and miles of desert. Yesterday we had a fun little encounter with a rattlesnake. One of our tech guys was going outside to get into a closet that was a few feet away from the exit and heard this guy rattling away. It was pretty crazy how close it was to getting into the office. It was sitting right up against the  glass by the door. Could of easily slid its way in while someone walked in or out.. Or worse.. BIT someone. A bunch of my coworkers and myself were all watching the snake. Since it was just on the other side of the glass.. we could get pretty close and see it really well. This was taken with my phone through the glass so it's not the greatest quality. But you get the idea. The snake wasn't that big. It was maybe like 2.5 ft long. It was a young one. We ended up calling the fire department to remove it. They just took the snake out to the desert like right behind our building. Not so comforting to me... but we'll see if the snake shows up again. But anyways.. so now our office is really careful when going in and out of the office to be sure we don't get bitten.  

Recently I've been watching "The Lying Game" on Netflix. It's suppose to take place in Phoenix. It's about these two girls who are identical twins. They were separated at birth. One went to a wealthy family and the other ended up in with a crazy foster family. It's pretty addicting. Adam says I should find another hobby rather than finding shows on Netflix to watch. I've been thinking about making & selling crafts. I don't know how successful it'd be so I'm kind of hesitant. It's just a thought for now.. But if I do decide to do it.. I'm thinking I'd probably just make a different blog to advertise. We'll see. I'll keep updated. 

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

It's crazy how much life has changed in the past couple of years. I went from being single and hanging out with my friends all the time and going to parties and staying up late to being married and getting to bed earlier than I ever have. Don't get me wrong, I love being married. It's just interesting how things change and aren't appealing after a while. A lot of my friends are either on missions or going on missions. I never would have imagined some of them would even have the desire to to go on a mission. But then again, things change. Courtney has been out since March. Karlie has been out on her mission since mid April. And then Summer has been out since the end of April. I love seeing how happy they are out there! Reading their e-mail updates every week are a nice break from work for sure!
My sister is due to have her baby prettymuch any day now. It's crazy, but exciting! It should be interesting having a newborn in the house! Yes.. for those who don't know, we have 3 families living in my parents house including me and Adam,. My sister and her Husband and 2 boys, and my parents. After this baby is born, we will have more people in the house than we did before anyone was married.
This last weekend, while Adam was studying, I went riding with my neice, Kaydence and my sister in law, Chandra. It was hecka hot outside, but it was still way fun. We finished the day swimming back at my parents house, which was nice and refreshing.

I don't know if I posted about this or not, but we got called in our ward as Youth Conference Specialists. Meaning we were to help plan and coordinate the youth conference which was held a couple weeks ago on a trip to Havasupai. Although, since I've been battling a cold, we decided to skip out on the 10 mile hike. It's such a beautiful place and I'm kind of bummed that we missed out on the pretty falls.

Recently, I've been doing hair for friends a bit more than I use to. Which is nice because that was my goal.. to do hair on the side so that when we do have kids I still have some way to make money if needed. Plus, then I have the knowledge to do our whole families hair. I've keep getting these crafty ideas that I want to try out. Thanks Pinterest! Haha I think if I had more time and money.. I would definitely be crafting it up! But hey, If you craft to sell.. then it makes it worth it. Which I've been thinking of pursuing also. It would be so much easier if we lived in our own house. But.. I don't see that happening right away. Adam has been studying a lot for his GMAT.. then he'll be applying for schools! So hopefully we can get accepted to somewhere with a good reputation so we can have that advantage. If not.. I'm totally ok with staying here and him going to ASU. Haha Either way.. I'd go with whatever is best for us financially.. but ya. That's life. As for me.. I've just been working. And in my free time.. soaking up the sun or watching my shows on netflix. I finished all the episodes on there for the Secret Life of the American Teenager. I'm now back to finishing 90210.. which honestly.. I like a lot better. I definitely miss Gossip Girl and Vampire Diaries, though. Can't wait till more episodes are on Netflix. I'm just sort of OCD about finishing shows. Anyway.. enough of my rambling. Until next time.. 

Monday, April 1, 2013

Welp, It's official. I've definitely been slacking off on updating my blog! Not a whole lot is new with me.. so I guess that may be why I haven't felt the need to update. I'm officially a BRUNETTE now. It was super weird at first and I didn't really like it that much at first, but i like it more and more every day. It was a process though, I must say. I went through 2.. or maybe 3 different colors before I got it to how I have it right now. The first time I did it... it wasn't quite as dark as I wanted it. But, here's how it turned out the first time. (sorry for the crappy phone pictures)

We made the mistake to not put a protein filler on when we did it the first time. It made it fade quicker and probably didn't help the color turn out either. As you can see.. since I already had darker hair underneath (which use to be my natural hair color) the color turned out a bit darker on the bottom layers of my hair. One reason for me wanting to go brunette was because it would hide my layers more and make my hair look longer.Another reason being because I had always wanted to try and it now that I'm married.. I don't have to worry about my husband not loving me without blonde hair. Haha just kidding. But, he did encourage me to go brunette because he wanted to see what it would look like too. He thought that it would look cool with my blue eyes. So anyways.. yeah, that's the first time I did a brunette color.
The second time, It turned out better, but it faded too quickly and ended up lighter than I wanted it still. Even though we used a filler!! Finally, the 3rd time I decided to go darker than I wanted it so that it would end up the color I wanted it to be when it faded. The first week or so.. it looked black. Haha not even exaggerating. It's still pretty dark, but you can actually see brown in it now... after like 2 or 3 weeks.  I'm at work right now as I'm updating, so I don't have all my pictures with me. I do have one picture that is on my phone from the Arabian Horse show this year when my hair was basically black. But, the picture is sick nasty.. so just ignore my face. ;)  This is a picture of me and my niece, Halle. Me and my mom brought her with us to the horse show. It was a fun girls day. Adam worked that morning and didn't really care to go to the horse show after he was off... so we went without him.

 It was a horse kind of month I guess, because Lehi days was in February too! 

My birthday was a couple weeks ago. It was pretty laid back on my birthday. Just had dinner with my family and adams parents came over too and we just hang out basically.  The following weekend, me and Adam went to Red Lobster for my birthday to celebrate with just us two. Right around march seems like it is just the birthday month. So many people have birthdays in march.
Prettymuch since then, life has been pretty laid back. I have been trying to do hair for people a little bit more. So, that is coming along a little bit. The past few weeks, me and my husband have been watching "The Bible" on the history channel every Sunday leading up to yesterdays finale for Easter. I liked the show overall, but in some ways I didn't like it and it wasn't how I felt it should have been portrayed. In their version of the story, the characters who were suppose to be angels seemed almost to be a dark character.

When, in reality.. it should be a wholesome and happy character. When I imagine an angel, I don't imagine them looking that way. Every time they have been described in the Scriptures have been wearing white and are very heavenly beings. I don't see that there. That, and how some of the characters acted almost seemed prideful and weird. Especially Moses. I didn't like his character specifically for that reason. I don't know.. I just didn't feel like it was done as well as it could have been. It wasn't made by the LDS church though, so that could be why. I imagine the characters to be different for that reason, I guess. It was interesting reading an article based on the actor that played Jesus, though. I can't find the article to referance, but it was advertised on Yahoo's web homepage. Apparently in the scene where Jesus was hung on the cross, the man who played Jesus said it was "excruciating" being up on the cross and filming it, although he obviously wasn't REALLY nailed to the cross. I like how they used ropes to strap his arms to the sides of the cross too. I don't remember hearing about that in the real Bible. Tricky Tricky!

You can't see it very well, but this is the best picture I could find of it.  Another funny thing that me and Adam noticed was that in the show, they showed them about to nail his feet to the cross.. but they were showing that the nail was being put into his ankles. Then later when he had died and was in the tomb, it shoes that it was on the top of his foot, not his ankle. NICE WORK. They also said that they had a "snake man" who was helping them on the set to get rid of all the snakes before they filmed to keep people from getting bitten. They had to remove..I don't remember exactly how many.. but at least 20 snakes that were around this scene.. by the crosses. Interesting how it worked out that way. I probably sound really critical, of the show, but hey.. it's just how I saw the show.  Overall, it was still a touching story and made me want to cry. The LDS versions I've seen have gotten me more choked up, but it was definitely nice to see it portrayed with today's technology and effects. I don't think I would ever PAY to own it, but it was nice to see it at least for one time for free.
Another show that we have kind of been watching since the Bible started is "Vikings," which has been showing right after "The Bible" and I don't like it as much as Adam does. I don't really have a big opinion on it, but maybe it's just a man show. We use to watch "The Walking Dead" before "The Bible" came on. We missed the finale yesterday too. That show.. for those people who haven't seen it.. you have to watch it from the beginning so you understand the story line. It's not just zombies ripping people apart. Sometimes the show is kind of cheesy in that way, but they warm you up to it if you watch it from the beginning. I wouldn't want my future children watching it though. I would say it's definitely for mature audiences. It would probably give me bad dreams if i were still really young.
What else is new? Well, I got a new job! It was back in February, but I think that's still recent. I've just been slacking off on updates.. So I'm filling in the blanks. I'm currently working at Arizona Propane as an Accounts Receivable Data Entry Clerk. It's nice though, because it's closer than my other job (for now- I'll explain later).. and pays better.. etc. I really did like my job at Overson, but with being a newlywed and trying to save up for a house.. I needed something that could help out a little bit more. The only thing that kind of sucks is that right after I started working here, I came to find out that they are relocating... to Fountain Hills. Which kind of sucks.. but only adds like 5-10 min to my driving to work in the morning. Hopefully it will be OK in the long run, but I'm not too worried about it.
Me and Adam are trying to find him a new car now which we are trying to get before June. So, hopefully we can find something nice and affordable. I'm definitely excited to be on our own and have a house sometime hopefully in the near future. I'm excited to be a real wife and decorate the house and stuff. You know.. wifey stuff. I'm excited to be organized with everything, too. In my head.. I sort of imagine myself being kind of OCD about things, but we'll see how it works out. You never know until you're there, I guess.
Well, I think that's all I have to share for now. I will update later when I feel like I have more, I guess.