Happy Second Anniversary

It is crazy to think that this time two years ago we were in Nauvoo getting married. The last two years have been the best of my life, there have been ups and downs but we have always prevailed. We have really excited for all the changes happening in our life, mainly the oppurtunity that we have to become parents in June. I am especially grateful to have been married in the temple. Our marriage would not be the same with out those coventants. Hope the upcoming year is just as marvelous!

What no pictures

So I don't want anyone to think I have ignored posting pictures because that is not true. You see you need Internet to post pictures and that is something that we are lacking right now and to be honest i don't think we will get it because we have access to computers all the time at work and school. The last thing I want to do when I get home is even look at my computer, so alas, no pictures. I need to go to the library in order to do that, it will happen, sometime. Our apartment is starting to look more like a home with pictures getting hung up. Brandon starts school next Monday! I can't believe our break will be over. Football starts in less than a month, I am not sure I am ready for that madness yet, but we will see. We are enjoying life. The most exciting thing to post is that we will be getting a new niece/newphew in April! I could not be more excited. I love Landon and another one will be even better. Ta ta for now!

Back to Reality

We got back from our vacation on Sunday night late (thanks Garrett for being us up at the airport at midnight) after spending 12 hours in the Los Angeles airport. We were hoping to get back alot earlier than midnight, but alas it did not happen. Instead of telling you detailed information about our vacation i decided to break it down into highlight and lowlights-so here it goes!

Highlights

1. California- Loved Santa Monica beach and our amazing 2 story hotel room that we stayed out (Thanks mom and dad Hendrickson for getting that for us)
2. The sun- loved basking in the sun all week
3. Playing in the ocean
4. Relaxing- I got through 2 books-that is my idea of a vacation
5. The amazing food on the boat
6. Snorkeling in Cabo
7. Trolley tour in Mazatlan
8. Zip line in Puerto Viarta (sp?)- Amazing! 12 zip lines in the jungle, some 2,000 feet long! Then riding the donkey/horse up the moutain back to the resort.
9. Dancing-Yep i made Brandon go dancing with me and he enjoyed it (well for maybe 20 minutes)
10. Being with Brandon 24/7 all week
11. Not having to work
12. The amazing entertainment on the ship. We saw jugglers, magicians, comedians, all of which were appropriate and family friendly.
13. Ice skating on the cruise ship-Seriously who can say they have ice skated on the ocean.
14. Everyone asking us if we were on our honeymoon. Hopefully it was because they saw how in love we are still :)

Low lights

1. Driving in California-thank heavens for GPS
2. The sun- I don't think I have ever gotten so burned-Ever! Even with suncreen.
3. Losing the snorkeling gear in Cabo and having to replace it :(
4. Losing our camera case and all of our batteries
5. The humidity in Mexico- I could have died!
6. Having to come back to Utah and back to reality

So you might be asking yourself, so why don't you have any pictures. I do have pictures, I just don't seem to have the cord to the camera that hooks to the computer that downloads the pictures. So I will have to post them later once we finally get the box unpacked that has the camera cord in it. (Yes unfortunatley, we are still unpacking boxes).

4th of July

It was a crazy fourth of July 4th for us. We started out by Brandon running the 5k for the freedom festival. He did such a good job, it was fun to be able to watch him. The problem was finding him after the race. I think I walked as much as Brandon ran just trying to find him! Then Brandon and I went to watch the Grand Parade, we were joined by Matt and 2 of his friends and enjoyed the fun parade. Then I went home and slept before going to work at the Stadium of Fire. It was successfull, I got to meet the Jonas brothers a few times (and I think my hears are still ringing from all of the screaming girls!) The bad thing was I did not get out of there until 5am, which caused for a late morning the next day. I still think I am catching up on sleep. I am looking forward to having tommorrow off to get some important things done, like getting my hair colored, facial and eye brow waxing. We are now just preparing for your cruise, which is going to be so much fun! I think I have Brandon shopped out, but he was great and went with me to quite a few stores over the course of the week to find basic beach essentials like sandals, sunscreen, shorts and a sundress. Now of course, we only have to finish unpacking all of our boxes, but that is another post.....

Vacation Time

So we finally decided on a vacation! We are taking a 7 day Mexican cruise. We are leaving on July 18th and returning on the 26th. We leave from Los Angeles and then stop in 3 ports. It will be perfect for relaxing right after all the madness of Stadium of Fire is over. The cruise ship has an ice skating rink, theatre and lots of other fun things that we are looking forward to doing. Now, i just have to survive Stadium of Fire first!

We are slowly getting moved into our new place. It has not been the funnest living in 2 different places for the last week but we will have everything moved in this weekend, just in time for Brandon's family to come bring out his younger brother to BYU. We are looking forward to seeing them and having them stay with us. I will post pictures of our new place as soon as we get moved it completely!

Vacation Ideas

I have been reminded multiple times over the last few weeks that I need to post something. Well doesn't posting something mean that you have done something exciting worth posting? :) It seems like I work and Brandon studies. Hopefully there will be some exciting things to follow. We are wanted to go on vacation in the next few weeks after Stadium of Fire and before the football madness comes. But we can't decide on where or what we should do. I would love to go on a cruise and just relax on the beach, but that is alot of money. There are Alaskan cruises for really cheap...but I want the beach. Brandon would be happy doing pretty much anything but i think he would really like to go camping somewhere for a few days. Does anyone have any fun vacation suggestions?

This is the only picture of the wedding we have, our camera is out of batteries. I will just have to get with my dad who ended up taking well over 1,000 pictures. Just a little taste until more picture comes.


This is what we went snorkeling in. It was lots of fun, but kind of crowded with the scuba divers.

Wow!

I can't believe it has been a month since I posted. Time flies I guess. We have had a great last month, the highlight was going up to Rexburg for Beth's wedding. It was very special to go through the temple with her and the sealing was very special and beautiful. Brandon and I then came back and went to Midway and stayed at a cute resort for the weekend. We loved swimming in the crater they had there, not something you do everyday. Then I had to endure 2 weeks of crazy hours at work. The worst being Women's Conference, know I can say I understand the madness. On Thursday I worked from 5am until 2am and then had to do it all again the next day. I am still catching up on sleep from my 100 hour work week, but I will enjoy that check when it comes! Brandon has started Spring semester and is taking an accounting class and starting his English program.

I found it!

Okay..So I just had surgery on Friday and this was on Saturday, which is why I look icky :)

My eyes are closed, but my new hair color and I got bangs...We went and fed the ducks between Conference sessions and has a blast!

So this is what happened after I got the IV, my whole hand bruised and hurt to the touch, it is better now but I could not believe that an IV could do so much damage :)

So I found my camera cord to connec to the computer so I could download pictures, it was in the sock drawer of all places. Here are the pictures I promised. Overall a great last 2 weeks, except for the sickness and such. Making Easter Eggs and feeding the birds tons of fun!

When will it end....

So I can not seem to find the cord to the camera so no pictures yet but hopefully i will find it soon. We had a great weekend this last week with Beth and Alan coming down to visit. It will be the last time we see them before they get married, crazy, I can't believe my little sister is getting married! We had a ton of fun dyeing Easter eggs and then making Deviled Eggs. We even convinced the boys to make one. So after being in bed all weekend recovering I got a cold so it seems like this last week has been a blur. I have got alot of sleep, or at least tried to get alot of sleep. Hopefully by this weekend I will be as good as new and ready to watch Conference. Ta Ta for now.

The last month

So I guess I have slacking with this whole blog thing. Our Internet was down for a few weeks and that makes a difference. I am happy to report that the BYU Basketball season is over and I survived DanceSport, I had to hire a few more employees but everything is looking good now. My next big focus is Women's Conference, I will need to hire around 60-80 students for that and will need to start in the next 2 weeks. Sometimes it seems like my job never ends, but I am pushing through. Brandon is still going to school, only a few more weeks in the semester until the Spring term starts. My parents came to visit us on the 16th and 17th of March, it was alot of fun having them around, the highlight of that trip was riding the train up to Salt Lake going to an IMAX movie and then hitting a Jazz game. It was sad when they had to leave, but someone has to help Beth with the wedding :) I will have to post some pictures soon!

Happy Valentines Day!

I hope everyone had a great Valentines Day! We enjoyed quite a bit of snow and Brandon had to work until 6, but we did not let that ruin our fun! I cooked a very gourmet dinner of shrimp and mushroom alfredo and made Brandon a homemade card that was so much fun to make.
I really need to get more supplies so I can start scrapbooking again. And then to top off our night we went country dancing with some friends. What a great Valentines day!

Scary Onions

So Brandon decided to cook our dinner tonight, which of course I thought was a great idea. He decided to make a crockpot dinner, not too hard right? That was of course until I heard loud screaming coming from the kitchen because he found the onions, the scary onions. As you can hopefully see from the picture our onions were sprouting arms and legs and could have attacked me. Luckily Brandon disposed of the onions before too much harm was done.

Superbowl and Birthday and Dresses

So it is a tradition at my house that every year we have a Superbowl party. I decided that I would do that same thing this year, and it turned out to be a blast. We had about 9-10 people show up for the party and we cheered the Steelers on to Victory (even though not everyone was cheering for the Steelers :)) This is a tradition I will continue each year.

I also got to go wedding dress shopping with Beth, which turned out to be so much fun. I love wedding dress shopping and this one did not disappoint. We ended up getting a beautiful dress that day. She is getting married on April 24th in Rexburg and we can't wait to have Alan join our family. They are very cute together. Congratualtions guys! (I promise to post pictures soon)

Brandon's birthday was on the 5th and we had big plans to go out to eat, which were interrupted when we spent almost 4 hours finishing his Math assignment before it was due. Kind of a frustrating time, but we were together doing it so it was enjoyable, plus he got a 100% on it, so that made it all the better. We will do something fun this weekend to make up for it. I ended up making him a very fun piano themed cake (which the help of Melanie and her culinary art roomate) that turned out so cute. I was thrilled, and Brandon was very surprised. So overall it was a great day.

Updates

So I did creat a blog, now I just have to become a blogger with regular updates. Sheesh I bought a camera so I could take pictures to post to my blog and yet sadness the camera is still unopened. I will need to do better about this. Life is good for us, I recently got to take a trip to Minneapolis to visit some really good friends from High School and had a blast going to the Mall of America. My favorite of course was playing with my Nephew Landon, I love watching him throw tantrums, his parents didn't like that too much. I let him walk on the treadmill at home for 10 minutes, he loved it! Turns out he is suppose to stay off of the treadmill...woops! Brandon is just going to school and working, so it seems like we hardly every get to see each other. We try to do lunch together has often as possible so we can actually see each other through the day. I can to class with him whenever I can, isn't that sad that you have to go to a class to see you husband.