6 MONTHS!!

Monday will mark Victor's and my 6 Month anniversary! I can't believe it! WOOOO! Time has gone by way too fast! Here's a recap of our first 6 months as a married couple!

• We had an adventurous wedding night! (get your head out of the gutter!) When we got to our hotel, there wasn't anyone working. So we walked around for a half hour till we found a number to call. Turns out we had to drive across town to check in. Then we went to get Wal*Mart to get something to take back to our room with us, and it was closed. Wal*Mart, closed at 10:30 on a Saturday night. HUMPH! We finally got back to our room, and discovered that the only bed we had was a pull out bed from the couch, and there were no pillows! AWESOME room! haha
• I got a bladder infection on our honeymoon as well. NO FUN!
• We moved into our first house together. It's a nice house, but we can't wait to buy our own house so I can paint!
• September brought lots of stuff outside! We love being outdoors, fishing, camping, hunting, bike riding...okay the last 2 are more Victor than me, but I support him, and even go with him! My parents came to visit, and so did some other friends! We also went to Vegas for his work! It was lots of fun
• We went on a camping/fishing trip...minus the fishing part. The whole point of the trip was to go fishing, but then we forgot our poles in the garage! It was still fun though. We took the long way home and saw lots of cool mountains and stuff.
• We had our first holidays together! It was amazing! I love the holidays, but they are even better when you get to spend them with the one person you love more than anything in this world!!! I also got my first kiss at midnight on New Years Eve! I was so excited! 
• I started working Friday's only...which is nice, but I want more! I sound self fish, but I do. I can't stand sitting at home all day long anymore. I need something to get me out of the house!
• Victor taught me how to drive a stick shift! I was so excited! Now when he takes his truck to work, I can go places cause I can drive his car, which is parked behind my car! haha
• Victor got onto the Sevier County Search and Rescue with his dad! He's so excited! They have meetings twice a month, so I get to hang with the Mother-In-Law while they are gone! We have too much fun.
• I also taught myself to do a few crafts, and I'm loving them. I wish I was more of a crafty person, but so far, I love what I taught myself! It keeps my hands busy!

That's all I can think of right now...but lets just say, these last 6 months have been the greatest of my life, by far! I am such a lucky girl to have a husband like Victor! He's so good to me!

Our hotel room on our Wedding night.

Us at Zions on our Honeymoon. I wasn't feeling well

Our Bedroom

The closets in our bedroom

Our kitchen

Our living room

Labor Day Weekend

Our camp site! so fun

Orem Trip

This week I was able to make a trip up North (Orem) to spend some time with friends and family. I got to do nails, visit, eat, visit, eat, visit, and eat some more....it was wonderful. I missed my husband while I was up there, but it was worth it just to be able to have some time to visit with the people I miss the most! I didn't take any pictures, and I'm very angry at myself, but oh well. Stay tuned cause there are some awesome stores that came out of this trip.

Tuesday

When I got up there, I did my sister-in-law's nails. It was so fun just to be able to sit and visit and be girly for a couple hours. I'm not sure they turned out all that well, but practice makes perfect...right?! Thanks katie for being a test dummy! :) Then I went and visited with a friend that I hadn't seen in a couple years, and it was SOOOOO good to see her. She has 2 sweet little kids, and they are totally adorable. It had been far too long since we got to visit! I then went to the mall to see Nana!! While there I decided to stop by the Verizon store, just to look at the phones they had, because Richfield doesn't have too many good ones that you don't have to have the data plan for. I was just planning on looking, cause my contract with T-Mobile wasn't up till the 3rd of Feb....but....that didn't turn out the way I planned.

Phone Story







   Victor and I were planning on putting me on his plan with Verizon since my t-mobile coverage down in Richfield was horrible, and we could save lots of money a month by doing a family plan. Victor has the internet on his phone, but I've never had it, and I didn't really want it, cause we're getting the internet at the house, and it didn't make sense for us to be paying for it on both of our phones, and at the house. So I stopped by the Verizon store in the mall, and actually found a phone that I really liked that didn't require the Data plans. The phone was $100.00...so I said NO WAY!!!! But....the girl looked on her computer and said that it was on speciel FAR (Free after rebate)...so that day it was $50.00 + $50.00 Mail in rebate...so FREE! I was getting a little more excited, but I knew that if I was going to call Victor and ask if I could do it, I would need more ammunition to throw at him...so I told her about the $50.00 cancelation fee from t-mobile I would have to pay if I canceled early...and so she said she would call her manager and see if they could do anymore. So she called one, and left him a message...she called another one, and he said to give me $15.00 off the phone...so now we're down to $35.00 for a $100.00 phone....not too shaby....but hold on, cause it gets better. She then said she could by my old phone from me for $10.00 so now we're down to $25.00 for the phone, and then the other manager called back and told her to give me $25.00 off the phone instead of the $15.00 off...so we were down to $15.00 for this phone + I still got the $50.00 Mail In Rebate....I was sold! I called Victor and asked him if I could do it, and told him we were pretty much making 30 some odd dollars if I bought the phone that day...so he told me I could! wooooooo!!!! I was so excited.  So, now I have this awesome phone that I totally love, and I don't have to deal with t-mobile anymore. Granted we still have the pay the stuped cancelation fee...but the rebate card will take care of that! WONDERFUL!!!!!!



Then that night Nana took me out on a date!! It was so nice to be able to sit down with her and just talk. I miss talking to Nana...but it's soo nice to be able to go up and see her when I can. Then I went to the Flash game with Anna, Aaron, and Marci! It was so fun to see them! The game was great the first half...and then it got really bad the second half. The Flash coach got kicked out...so we left with about 2 minutes left so we could beat the traffic, cause  we knew there was no way they would win!

Wednesday



Wednesday I got to sleep in, which was nice since I have major problems falling asleep without Victor next to me...and I was on the couch. I ended up taking half a sleeping pill at like 1:00 so I could fall asleep. Anyways, so I got up, and went and did my running around that I needed to do. I brought up like 25 movies to take into FYE to trade in...and got SCREWED!!! They only took like 12 of them casue the other ones had writting on the covers....so I took the rest of them to Graywhale to see what they could give me for them..and they took them, but we didn't get very much for them. So I went up there with 25 movies and came home with 2...but oh well. We got the ones we wanted so I was happy. That night I went to the Provo Temple for a long overdue session, and it was very interesting. The lady in the witness couple started her period and bled all over her dress, and the chair she was sitting in, so they had to stop the session till the could get the blood cleaned up. The lady didn't come back into the session, but they still put the whole thing in hold for about 30 minutes to get everything cleaned up. I felt so bad for her. How embaressing would that be? Poor lady. After the temple I went to dinner with a friend, and then we went back to her house to just chill and talk! It was so nice to be around friends again. I have a couple friends down here, but they work during the days so its hard to be able to do anything with them.

Thursday

I went out to lunch with another friend, and then drove home. It was soooo good to see Annie, and it was wonderful to be home again. I was so excited to see Victor again. I'm such a wuss when I'm away from him.

Anyways, sorry this is such a long post, but it needed to be said! I hope you had a good week!! :)

Holiday pictures, and Capitol Reef

 I finally got my holiday pictures put on the computer, so i thought while I'm up north, and can't sleep without my husband, that I could do something productive while I'm up all night. The holidays were so much fun this year....but I missed my family. The first couple pictures are Thanksgiving, and then we'll go from there.

Rob trying to pick Victor's nose....

Victor putting the lights on our tree!

The finished product

Our first Christmas!

Talon helping Uncle Victor dig treasures out of the couch

3-D Glasses...awesome!

 This last Saturday we had some friends come down and visit us. It was so nice to have company. Victor took the day off, and we drove out to Capitol Reef National Park! It was so nice. Since it's January there weren't very many people there, so we got to enjoy it even more. Lots of fun. We love going to National Parks and enjoying the outdoors. Here are a few pictures.

Trent and Gary....don't ask

Sweet buck just sitting there!!

Before & After...of a lot of things

So....last Saturday, the 8th of January, I finally got my hair chopped off. It was so time. I couldn't handle it anymore. I never left it down cause it took too much time to do in the mornings. It would take me at least 40 minutes to dry and straighten it...so I would just put it up and be done with it. Then I got a curling Iron for Christmas from my Wonderful Husband, and then I would play with it, and it would take another at least 20 minutes to curl it...and finally i had enough! So I called and made an appointment...and then sat and thought about what I was going to do with it. I had lots of help from friends, and finally decided on a picture I found online. I was so scared cause it had bangs, and I haven't had bangs since I don't know when. I sat here and went back and forth, over and over on if I should do it or not. I asked Victor and he said not to do it too short, and I agreed....but after it was said and done, it was a lot shorter than I thought it was, or that I ever asked it to be...but that's okay. I'm liking it more and more everyday. It's so nice to only have to work on it for about 10 minutes in the mornings, and then be done with it!

Anyways, here are some before and after pics of it! I hope you enjoy them!! PS...click the read more for the "things" part of the post!

Forgivness Babies, & Stuff

It is such a wonderful relief to finally be able to totally forgive someone that I have honestly, truely hated for about 4 years now. We had our problems with each other, but this person made my life miserable for 2 years, but since we've both grown up, we are able to talk now, and I'm finally able to forgive. It's such a good feeling to see their name and not hate them anymore. WOOOOOO!

Anyways, My Husband better watch out, cause I'm super baby hungry since I'm watching my neices today, and I have little Izzy. She was born on November 17, so she's just a wee one, and it's making me really baby hungry. I know how the conversation will go...and I won't win, cause I know he's right, but it's still fun to bring it up. I'm a mean wife, and I tell him I'm pregnant all the time, even though we both know I'm not. It's fun....but I should probably stop, cause then when I am pregnant, he won't believe me....humph! Oh well. Enough about babies, I'm gonna get some people's hopes up...mothers!

Lately I've been trying to figure out how I can get go back to school...without having a job to pay for it. I know I can get a loan, but I don't want to do it that way. I get so overwhelmed with the loans we do have (car, and his student loans) that when I think about adding another one, I feel like crying. I'm such a baby when it comes to stuff like that. I'm hoping that I'll qualify for grants....but I guess we'll see when we get our taxes back so I can fill out a fafsa. This may sound weird, but I actually miss having homework and stuff. It would give me something to do when I have done all the cleaning, and laundry...haha, like that ever gets all the way done, but oh well. I would like to have something to fall back on, in case something happens to my husband, knock on wood. And I would like to feel like I'm actually doing something to contribute to our life. Since we've been married, I don't know how many times I've broken down because I feel worthless when it comes to money. I hate spending it when I'm not helping bring it in. UGH...MONEY SUCKS! We're doing just fine with what we have, but I sure wish I could help....it would just make me feel better! oh...and that's part of the reason I want a baby right now....so it would keep me company while I'm home alone all day. haha...but...oh well. I have to wait...which I'm okay with, cause I don't think I'm ready to give up my time with my husband. oh...I'm so torn!

Okay...I'm gonna stop talking now....cause I'm causing myself anxiety! haha. Have a wonderful day!