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5/17/10

100th Post! Graduation, 1 Year Anniversary & Move to Salt Lake

YAY for my 100th Post.

Well a lot has happened in the last 2 weeks

I'll Explain through Pictures:

This little Cutie was Visiting with her family. They Came to Mike and Scott's Graduation

Mike and Jeremy (they have been friends at USU for 3 years)

The Graduates and their Families (Amie, Scott, Baby L, Mike, Me)

The Monday After Graduation we Moved from Logan to Salt Lake.

And since we had a lot more stuff then we thought we moved some of our furniture like this:

And This

So in the City we looked like this

our Little Vibe did really Well through the canyon.

It was Also our 1 Year Wedding Anniversary (more to come)

so we ate the top of our cake after we moved in...

Pretty Tulips at the Logan temple

The New Fountain at the Temple

An Awesome Family at the Temple

Oh: that is my family!

Jade, Rhett, Alex, Uncle Todd, Aunt Linda

Introducing: Mitch & Kelley Sandall

Friends of the Bride

Mrs.Terry & Mrs. Sandall

one of my Favorite Cousins!

Mike and I Chillin at the Luncheon. The Food was amazing!

Saturday we went to a Bees Game while Kenna was Visiting

We went with This Lovely Couple!

Kraig & Hailey Rasmussen (One of my Favorite Cousins)

Today While Mike was at his Orientation

I Set up the Living room

And the Kitchen

And Now i am doing Laundry in my New WASHER!

Mike found this beauty on KSL for $100!

1 year Anniversary!

One year ago we said yes!

this year has been the best year ever!

I couldn't have asked for a better husband!

I look forward to many MANY more years of

FUN

EXCITEMENT

ADVENTURE
LOVE

HAPPINESS

JOY

and anything else that comes our way!

3/10/10

Reason for Slacking....

NOTE: this is a serious blog.. no sarcasm or joking unless other wise noted...

Yeah yeah i know i have been slacking, but i have an awesome hubby who keeps the blog update.

I have been swamped with studying for the last two stinkin weeks..

But now SPRING BREAK! is in a few days!!!

I am so excited. I have been needing a break for some time now.

I'm the kind of person who LOVES to have a clean house but i have to do it myself...

I don't know what it is but there is something about cleaning or house work that makes me feel better..

(maybe its the smells of the cleaners... haha just kidding...)

But... the point is i love to clean.

(weird i know)

So now that my tests are over for a little while after today!

Guess what i am going to be doing tonight while...

Mike: is at work, goes home teaching, plays the wii...

I'll be CLEANING, COOKING, and RELAXING...

(cleaning is relaxing to me...)

ALSO!!!

Yesterday was our 10 month anniversary..

It's crazy how time flies when your having fun.

In the last ten months i have grown a ton and i have learned so many things

I'm sure you are all tired of me Bragging about my hubby but he is AMAZING!!!

so you guessed it i'm going to tell ya'll ten reasons why i love Mikey...

(these are not in any particular order... and i tell Mikey i love him every day so i am doing this more for me and mikey the trying to show up everyone else... Elder Bednar's talk from conference)

1) I Love how he always knows what to say when i feel crappy or down on myself.

2) I Love how he helps me in the kitchen even when sometimes I am tell him to get out so i have room to work...

3) I Love how no matter how mad i get I can never stay mad at him

4) I Love how he lets me pick a movie when we do Red Box movie night.

5) I Love that he is a family guy... He loves our families so much and loves spending time with them

6) I Love his Brain, He come up with the most random things and he is SO smart.

7) I Love that he Loves my cooking, it ways makes me feel good when he goes for seconds.

8) I Love that he can get me to the gym. I love working out with him.

9) I Love all his weird/crazy/random nick names he has for me.

10) I Love that he makes me laugh all day.

1/22/10

January 2010.... Busy busy busy...

Well school is crazy. but that is ok it is our last semester here and who knows where we will be. We had a Great break and didn't want it to end. Our first week of this year was kind of a "get back in the swing of things week". I went back to work and mike kept working. we had tonz of date nights and enjoyed each others company. We hung out with Scott and Amie a few times and went to my first USU basketball game. Talk about crazy fans. next time we go we are going to sit closer so that we can actually see the court and not students standing.
Mike: has had an interview at Loma Linda (in California), and has two more in the next couple of weeks (UNLV and UofU). So hopefully everything comes back quick so we know where we are going. I personally would like to go to the U but anywhere will be good for us. Mike has been working really hard in school and at work of course. He studies hard and he is always amazing me. He is so smart and still has time to be with me and do things i want to do.
Me: I have been studying hard. My classes are pretty cool. My two favorite are Human Development and Human Nutrition. In human Development we learn about (betch' can't guess) Human development and it is so cool. and in Human Nutrition we learn about (da ta da da...) Human Nutrition it is really interesting and i love it. I have been cooking away. i love cooking. the other day we had Cinnamon rolls and whole cow were the good. We got the World Ward Cook book for Christmas and have been cooking out of it every week. the only thing we haven't liked yet is the lemon chicken ( it was a little to lemony.)
Well i don't want to bore you with our crazy lives so here are a few pictures (family pictures).

The Ivory Family. i love how mike is the Tallest and i'm ALMOST the shortest.

My sister's love this... my dad not so much.

Courtney and Brandi & Jordi

My Cute little Sisters.

Mike played with this one.. (see amazing)

They've got our backs... haha...

All the Kid-o's

Playing on the swings.

Mike played with this one too... Too bad i'm not looking at the Camera.

Mom and dad

<---Before....

.......After --->

Our awesome Sledding Road in Fairview.. and yes it is a fair-view

My aunt Linda, my mom, and my aunt Maria.

mike and i trying not to die...for real this road is like ice and you just cruise. In fact, we put snow down so we could go across the main road and down the other side of the road.

After sledding we hung out at my aunts for JAPANESE food.. the best...

my cousin's Nia, Kelley and Kelley's FIANCE... yes folks. i have 3 cousins on my mom's side getting married and 1 on my dads side... CRAZY

Some of us took a nap... this is my sister. she is guarding her camera so no will take a picture... haha she didn't guard mine.

Courtney and Brandi Trying to sleep...

This is my mom's side of the family minus a few. yes we all have Dark hair and look like alike... we know.

12/4/09

Awesome Quote

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer. ~ Nolan Bushnell...

My Mental Aspects teach gave us this quote today and i thought it was awesome. I'm going to try and apply it to my Christmas break so i don't waste away during the break. i have so many things i want to do and hope to get done so this will be on my mind.

9/21/09

Change is in the Air!

This Semester has been kind of crazy. With both of us working, going to school, studying and spending time with each other when we can ... well change # one (well mainly the only change but a big one at that) is MIKE GOT A NEW JOB. During the summer and the first part of this semester Mike has been working at Smiths marketplace. It wasn't to bad but it was a job and he really didn't like it. He had to work on sunday's and nights which i hated and so did he. well his new job is a lot better. He now works on campus at a Chemistry Lab with Scott ( his brother). so the great points about this job are.... Not in any order..
1. weekends off
2. better pay
3. he is off so he can "study" aka hang out with me more
4. better work environment
5. its on campus so we don't need to use the car as much
6. I don't have to stay up waiting for him to come home...
7. Did i mention more time with me..
8. he will work when i work so we really aren't alone.
9. WEEKENDS OFF
10. OH and MORE TIME WITH ME :D

PT schools here we come.. mike has stared the application process to PT Schools (physical Therapy) so far we have thought about UTAH, Colorado, UNLV, Western Washington, and Chicago. He takes the GRE tomorrow so keep him in your prayers.

Another change is it is starting to get COLD. is it weird that i'm excited for it to get cold. it's not that great when i have to wake up early in the morning and catch the bus but after it's not bad. Plus i get to start wearing my sweaters and i have tons. I'm so excited.

I think that is about all the changes we have... so life is going great for us and we are super excited for all the changes that will come our way in the next few months. Sorry there are no pictures. I should have some from this up coming weekend so we will see i'm going to try and do better at the picture taking.

8/31/09

BUSY BUSY BUSY!

ok Keek this is for you:D

August has been busy hence no post for a while. i can't even remember half the stuff we did. I do remember my birthday though. so i'll start from there. My birthday was on the 12th and mikes cousin came home the same day so we went to the SL Airport to welcome him home. after that we went to TUCANOS!!! the best place to eat at the Gateway mall we were stuffed. To work it off we went SHOPPING! i loved it. Mike liked it too cause he got 2 shirts. that weekend Mikes parents came up for the weekend. we went Biking with Scott and Amie and had tonz of fun. poor mike had to work most of the time but was able to hang out with us at night and for meals. That Sunday Jessie (mikes RM cousin) spoke in church so we went and listened to him. the weekend of the 21st -23rd we went home to price to hang out with our families before school started. The start of that adventure we went to FG to hung out with my grandparents and showed mike the coolness of FG. we hung out with my aunt and her girls too. they are so crazy. Paige who is almost 8 was playing with us and said " Rissa is my cousin, He (pointing to mike) is my Uncle..." Bean Mike and I all started laughing and Paige wigged out like normal. We stayed the night in Manti so we could go to the temple with Admara. it was such and awesome experience that Manti temple is by far my favorite temple. that night we meet up with my parents and the girls and went fishing... well my sisters and dad fished, mom me and mike untangled their lines. The next day was the Temple Dedication. That was pretty cool they canceled Church so that everyone could go... that is how important temples are. Then on Monday the 24th it was BACK to school for mike and i. YAY! i was so excited till... i found out that my dynamic fitness lab person was crazy. but that is a different story. I have 7 classes (dynamic fitness, physiology, Mental Aspects, Methods of Coaching, Skills 2, Skills 3, and Rhythms and Movement) Hope fully i lose some weight with all these pe classes. Mike only has 4 classes (Physics, Micro, Medical terminology, and kinesiology) ... Ive been working at the Book store for rush week so it has been crazy. mike has been working at smiths and has started at the Sleep lab so he gets pretty tired. so that is August for ya.. sorry there are no pictures i'm up on campus and don't have my computer with me ... i'm in the lab... but i'll try and get some up soon so my Awesome SIL doesnt go crazy. :D

8/1/09

I promise i will blog

I really need to blog. i have a few pictures to to put up but i don't know where they are. SO! sometime this week i will put them up and when i feel like chillin up on campus for a while i will let you know how our lives are goin!

7/18/09

not much goin on...

This week we haven't really done much. We've just been working and keeping things running around here. We just updated my computer so it runs faster and can run more programs... but the battery is pretty much shoot. i think about the only exciting thing that i can remember happening is our adventure to Sams Club. we had to take our Box Springs back because 2 boards broke... well we don't have a super big car so we through it on top of our vibe and tried to tie it down... we used a phone cord to hold down the front. (sorry no pictures) we also had to get our tires rotated so we hung around sams for about 45 min to get that done.. we pretty much had dinner at Sams with all the free samples. then a lady came over the loud speaker and announched that she was giving away free knives and all we had to do was listen to her talk.. she wasn't really funny FYI and the knife we got was pretty little and dinky. after that we played on the computers by that time the car was ready... we picked up our box springs loaded it on to our car and headed home.. it was pretty exciting ... ha but that is it for now... Next week we are going on an adventure to Southern Utah with the Terry's i'll keep you posted on anymore happenings :D

7/12/09

Congrats Hailey!! and Wedding pictures.

Last Thursday I went to my Cousin Hailey’s wedding. It was wonderful but i really missed mike being with me. Mike had to work so he wasn’t able to come with me. The Ceremony was a nice reminder of why we marry in the temple and how important that one step is in our lives. The reception was really nice and i wanted it to be my wedding again. That day is unreal. Its so weird that you remember how you felt and not what was said or how everything went. I wouldn’t change anything about our wedding day because it was perfect for us :D I think it’s crazy how each wedding matches each couple perfectly.

Here are some of our wedding pictures. i finally got them back :D

Our First Kiss out side of the Temple.

The Happy Couple :D

The Wedding Party out side of the temple.

Walking to get Pictures.

Waiting for pictures.

Waiting for pictures.

All our support :D minus a few

His one Groom-al :D

The story behind this is pretty funny. When we were waiting to take pictures there was this lady who took forever to take pictures. We called her the Tripod lady. well we caught up with here on the other side of the temple and she took forever once again. So our photographer said “ do you want to get her back?” mike and i looked at each other like “should we?” so we said yeah. and he said to take off running behind the pictures. and low and behold we have this picture.