Our 2nd Anniversary!

Yesterday was our 2nd Anniversary! We had a wonderful evening together. After work I got home and changed to get ready to go out to dinner, and Justin comes in the room with something behind his back. He pulled out a little box wrapped in white paper. I tell ya, i had the biggest smile on my face. I didn't expect this! So I opened it and found a beautiful silver diamond heart pendant necklace from Fred Meyer Jewelers. They really are "for all those special times".

(This is what my necklace looks like, except in silver)

I was so happy. He said he picked it out on his own. He did an awesome job, i love it so much. It means a lot to me that he bought this for me. :)

After all my excitement about the necklace we went out to dinner, to our favorite place of course!

I don't know why but this place rocks! They start you off with their amazing sour dough bread with garlic butter. MMM, then they bring you out your dinner salad with their special ranch dressing. I don't know what it is about their ranch but it is delicious. Then comes the pasta. Right when you think you are so full you can't eat anything else they top it off with a scoop of their famous spumoni ice cream! And it comes with your dinner! I love that!

We will never get sick of the Spaghetti Factory. After dinner, Justin took me over to his parents horse corral to see their horse and 2 new baby mare's they just got. We had a great anniversary! I can't believe it has already been 2 years. It goes by so fast but every day gets better and better. I am completely in love with my husband. I am so grateful everyday to have him in my life!

It's been a long week!

Last week and into this week was a hard one! First the week started off with our brand new washer breaking :( We think a water line got air in it and blew one of the pipes. Luckily we have a one year warrenty so we got the part free and they did free labor also. But it took a whole week for it to actually get fixed!

(of course this is not our house, but this is exactly the same set as ours)

Then, Wednesday I find out that my brother broke his nose :( But the way my sister first told me about it first scared me to death. I thought he had gotten in a fight cause she said "Marcus broke his nose, he got hit." My first thought was "Oh no, he got beat up." But thankfully that was not the case. It was just a mistake. He got hit on accident with a metal rod in the side of the nose. Now tomorrow he has to be put under anesthetics and get surgery to put it back into place. He broke his nose only 2 days before my parents left on their 7 day Disney Cruise to the Bahama's. So now my parents wont be home for the surgery. But me & My grandparents are going to take good care of him.
I'm very jealous that my parents are in the Bahama's right now. So on Sunday we made dinner for my brothers and then afterward we made gingerbread houses and watched The Grinch.
Here's Mine:

(Can you tell where i want to be right now?)

(this is my palm tree made out of a pepperidge farm pirouette stick and then i just cut the leaves out of construction paper. Yes those are bannana & pineapple runts!)

(my umbrella & pool)
So continuing on with last week. On Thursday i had to go to the dentist. I don't like the dentist but i'd rather go then have bad teeth. They did two cavities one on the bottom left and one on the bottom right. So my whole bottom jaw was completely numb. That ruined my day. Then the next day i couldn't eat any solids because my jaw was so sore from the 7 shots i had on one side and the 5 on the other. That was not fun.

That night when i get home from the dentist we got some pizza and i went to get the ranch dressing out of our fridge and NOTHING was cold. Great... Just our luck. First the washer, now the fridge. So 4 bags of ice and 3 coolers later we are stacking food into the coolers and calling our landlord to tell him about the fridge.
He tells us he would be over in 15 minutes. So in the meantime we are scrabbling to hide Duke's water & food bowls, his millions of toys and any other evidence of the dog. I ran Duke up to the in-laws really fast to get him out of the house. (We aren't even suppose to have a dog in our appartment, hehe) Our landlord comes over and looks at the fridge and tells us to unplug it and let the compressor cool off cause it was really warm. So we let it cool over night and plugged it back in the next morning. Still... nothing. It was generating warmer air then the temperature of the house. So we call him back and tell him nothing is working so then he has to call a matinence guy to come look at it. Well we unplugged it until the matinence showed up and says the fridge had to be plugged in for more than an hour for him to do his inspection. Crap! So we plugged it back in and he told us that if it didnt start to produce cool air instead of hot within 3 hours that he would call the owner and tell him the fridge is a gonner. Of course it is! This fridge is older then my dead great grandpa!

(this is pretty close to what our old fridge looked like - the color was horrible!)
So now it is Saturday, we feel like rednecks living out of coolers that we've stacked on our front porch to keep them cold. The manager calls to tell us Saturday morning and says that she is going to get us a new fridge but that they don't deliver on Saturday's or Sundays. So we had to wait until Monday of this week to get our new fridge. Now that we have it, it is SO nice but it was SUPER inconvenient trying to keep our food in coolers, not to mention the huge amount of frozen food that we lost. At least we didnt have to pay for the new fridge though!
I didn't know how stressful it would be to take care of my brothers while my parents were gone. By all means, they are old enough to take care of themselves but for the cleanliness of the houses sake, I have had to check up on them. Of course, they are boys and at 17 & 15 not much cleaning gets done. So i've made sure the house has stayed somewhat decent. I'm sure mom doesn't want to come home from her vacation to a whole bunch of cleaning.
Also it was somewhat stressful cause Marcus was suppose to have his surgery on Tuesday but they had to change it to tomorrow. So we had to call the school to excuse him for a different day, we had to call grandma and grandpa to let them know about the change and all the other little details. It's been crazy!!
It has been a long week & a half. But i think things are finally slowing down, and our bad luck is going away. (Knock on wood!) I hope all my stories made sense, but sometimes we only focus on the positive stuff on these blogs. I'm so glad the holiday's are coming! I get to see my sweet sweet sister, brother & nephew in only 7 days! Yipee!!!! I cannot wait to hear Lincoln say my name in person! I love the christmas season, i love being together with the people i love, and i love the true meaning of christmas!

Birthday Fun

This year for our birthday's my dad treated us to a 2 night stay in the Park City Peaks Hotel. We had such a good time! When we walked through the door, the room was huge! We had a King Size Bed, a TV and Justin brought his Ipod so we were able to hook it up to the TV and watch movies. We also had a heart shaped jacuzzi that we got to relax in.

One of the nights i got in and put 1/2 a bottle of bubble bath in. This was the result!

On the first night we went to Main Street Pizza & Noodle. It was pretty good!

I kept teasing Justin at dinner that we have NO pictures of me because i am always behind the camera... So this is what he got me back with. I'M A DORK!

Then after that we went swimming in the Hotel pool. They have an Indoor/Outdoor pool, where you can swim under the little flaps and go outside and swim. It was snowing a little when we went outside. The pool was warm but the hot tub was warmer!

he next day, on Monday we went shopping at the outlet malls. I got a jacket from Aeropostale that I've wanted for a while, and then Justin got a pair of jeans and a nice pair of shoes. Then we went for a drive up to the Park City Ski Resort. That place was dead. It was right on the off season. Right after summer and right before winter. Not a soul was in the place. But it was nice to see - for a minute :)

Then we went house browsing. We jumped in the truck and drove up and down streets looking at all the cool/creative & pretty houses. They get pretty creative when it comes to house colors in Park City. After that we went and had a nap, and then went to dinner then went swimming.

Thanks Dad! We had so much fun!!

Duke + Halloween + Random Pictures!

Brace Yourselves! Here they come!!

Halloween was so fun this year. At work we had somewhat of a costume party. Here's the winner: *Can you guess what he is?*

This is Rhett *The winner* he is an Ipod commercial. Get it?!?

Clever stuff!!

Me, Tina (Middle) & Nikkie(End)

Nikkie & Venessa

Me AKA Minnie Mouse

Madison & Bridget!

Duke is such a good dog. We love him to pieces! We spoil him like crazy but we think it's okay :)

However, last month he had to be neutered. He was not a happy camper. Usually when we come home he wags his tail like crazy, jumps up and gives us kisses. On this day... he didn't! He wouldn't even move. He just looked at us with those adorable puppy eyes and made us feel so guilty. But he is better now, playful, cuddly and so cute! We love our Dukey!

The day after the surgery. He wouldn't leave his scare alone so they sent him home with a cone. He kept running into EVERYTHING! I even got two huge black bruises on my legs from him running into me. We got a kick out of it!

These next pictures are totally all Justin's ideas. One night i was in the front room painting my toe nails. He comes in with a huge grin on his face and picks out the brightest color i had in the bucket. Cherry Red Nail Polish... Yup, i think you know what is coming. He PAINTED Duke's toe nails. Poor duke was sneezing from inhaling all the paint fumes, and the look on his face was like "Poor me, what are they doing to me!?!" I had to take pictures!

He even put the toe separators in between each toe!

These are just too cute! :)

Beautiful blue puppy eyes

Now, this is where Duke gets his butt spanked! I come home from work one day and find this!

Yes i taped these letters back together so i could actually read them!

I just received this in the mail that morning. I renewed my license since i turned 21 in November. Well i paid 20.00 for this renewal and then i had to pay 20 more dollars because my check bounced (Oops, that's what we get for switching banks with an outstanding check) So now i have to pay 20 MORE dollars to get a new license, this one got completely chewed up!

TWILIGHT: Loved the movie!

I am not a fan of the guy they chose to play Edward Cullen in the movie. I just didn't picture him that way in my head. This is how I pictured him:

This is Henry Cavil. This is actually who Stephenie Meyer wanted to play Edward. But Henry is too old, also i heard she didn't have much say on the characters. I fell in love with all the other characters in the movie. I think they all matched up perfectly! For the budget they had, the movie was great! I still like the books better though!

Thanks for bearing with me through this post! :) Happy Holiday's!