Welcome Home!!!!!

2012 Brought us lots to celebrate!

The first being our new house!!!! 

 We absolutely LOVE IT!

Justin and I closed on our first house on February 14th (Happy Valentines Day to us!)

We loved it from the very first time we saw it.

It's located in a very quiet neighborhood in Lincoln, and it has a back yard!

None of this hallway backyard stuff, like a for real back yard. 

2 Cherry Trees

1 Plum Tree

1 Grapefruit Tree

1 Fig Tree (anyone like figs?)

1 Apple Tree,

1 Peach Tree

1 Nectarine Tree

1 Grapefruit Tree

and 

1 Tree that we don't know what it does yet
AND GRASS! 

Oh! and Pumpkins! and Artichokes, and Strawberries!

It's like Christmas every day!

We might have our hands full with the upkeep. 

Justin's been on it though. 

Before we moved in we ripped out carpet, baseboards, and linoleum downstairs, painted it a lovely shade of Creamy Mushroom, and painted the ceiling and new 5" baseboards white.

We then had Home Depot install new carpet.

My dad installed beautiful Wood Laminate flooring.

Put in new appliances (fridge, washer, dryer)

And we were in!

Closed in February, and were in by mid April.

We've just loved living there!

We've had a few mishaps (ceiling leaking from master shower, and sprinklers breaking), 

but it's been SO GREAT to have our own home. 

It's a perfect place to call ours and start a family! 

Blog... what?!

Sooo...
I'm a slacker blogger.
I shouldn't be.
I only work 4 hours a day,
and soooo many exciting things happened this year!
I don't even know where to begin!

I guess this blog will briefly be about my goal of 30 books in one year.

Well guess what!?
I READ 80 BOOKS LAST YEAR!
Yep! I'm pretty dang proud of myself. 

I mean, I did go from 10 hour work days the first half of the year, down to 2-4 hours a day the second half of the year. But whatever. I still exceeded my goal!

I'm seriously slacking this year.

I'm going to post a couple more things in a couple more posts. Seriously, I didn't think our 2012 could get better than 2011!

Magic, Magic, Magic!!

Justin and I celebrated our 2nd anniversary on April 18th! Time just goes so fast, I can hardly believe it!

For our special occasion we decided we needed a little trip...

TO DISNEY WORLD!!!!!

It was amazing! It was a really quick trip, but worth every second.

Trip Outline:

Day 1: Fly to Orlando on Southwest... one plane change and 2 stops later

we dropped off everything at the hotel and went walking around Downtown Disney.

Found some food for our stomachs that only had eaten beef jerkey, red licorice, and

airplane munchies all day.

Day 2: Wake up at 7am and be ready to catch the bus to Disney at 8am.

Gates open at 9am, and we were off to Magic Kingdom to ride everything

we possibly could as fast as we could.

Day 2 1/2: Ride Monorail to Epcot. Experience half of Epcot to it's fullest

potential, and decide we need to come back in the morning to finnish the other half.

Jam over to Magic Kingdom for light show, and to ride the rides again until midnight.

End Day 2: Eat something because we're starving and hadn't eaten anything but

snacks all day long, and then crash in our hotel room with sore feet.

Day 3: Wake up at 7am, take bus to Epcot to finnish up, and then

go to Animal Kingdom to experience as much of that as possible (ie. hit all rides

and get SOPPING wet, and see 1 or 2 select shows.)

Day 3 1/2: As fast as possible leave Animal Kingdom and go to Disney Hollywood

Studio's to see what that's all about. Ride the rides, and then

go back to Epcot till close because we loved it SOOOO much!

End Day 3: Leave Epcot and go to Magic Kingdom for last time. See the light

parade and ride all the rides over and over AGAIN till midnight.

Go back to hotel and crash, again with very angry/sore feet.

Day 4: Wake up whenever we want. Grab late breakfast and

walk around Downtown Disney trying to find souvenirs (ended up with

playing cards {which is a must}, and 2 Christmas ornaments.)

Day 4 1/2: Catch bus to airport and fly Southwest back home with

3 stops.

End Day 4: Crash in our own bed.

Like I said, it was QUICK!!! But totally worth it. However, it's a long way to go, and we'll probably just stick with Disneyland on the west coast from now on. Neither one of us had ever been, and I hadn't been to anywhere Disney since 4th grade! We felt like little kids the whole time. It was a blast!!!

I love my honey and I'm so glad I get to spend Eternity with him.

30+ Books in 1 year

Well here it goes!

I am on a reading kick. I can thank Liz's husband, Bobby Green, for that. He mentioned that He wanted to read 30 books in 1 year, and I jumped on that band wagon! So far so good.

It's the last day in February, and I've already read the following:

- The Host

- The Hunger Games

- Catching Fire

- The Mockingjay

- Water For Elephants

- City of Bones

I started this whole thing about 2 weeks into January, so I'm averaging a book a week. I'm not gonna lie, I'm pretty proud of myself. Six books in 6 weeks, no big deal. I have to read one book every week and a half... not to toot my own horn, but I'm a little ahead of that game. However, I am quickly running down my list of books to read.

I NEED RECOMMENDATIONS!

Anything any of you have read or have wanted to read, please let me know! I've got a little list of about 6 more books, and I need at least 18 more! HA!

I added a book log on the side over there -->

I like it.

It lets anyone who reads this know what I've already read.

I'm enjoying my little escapade.

Wish me LUCK!

I Hate Snow...

But I have to say,

This was SO FUN!

We went snow mobiling on Saturday (I even had to buy my first pair of snow pants just for this). It was a blast! We went with my dad up to our Cabin at Wrights lake.

It was completely covered in snow and a great place to go a little crazy. I had never been up there when it's covered in snow like that. As you can see, the cabin is completely covered in snow.

It was so neat to see it all like this. We can't wait to go back!!!

SOOOO Behind...

Alright. I am officially the worlds worst blogger. I've gone just about all summer without blogging. I do have a good excuse though: NO INTERNET AT HOME. Yep... I really don't. It's hurts the blog for sure. I want to tell you what we've been up to, but right now I don't have pictures! So just really quick I'll list it.

-We went to San Diego with the Mack's for a week.

-We went to the Cabin for the weekend with our friends, Liz and Bobby, in July.

-We went to Tahoe for the Day.

-We went to the Ward Camp-out, with our new ward, in Tahoe.

-We took a 4 day road trip to Washington, and then drove the 101 Coast Highway all the way back home.

-Justin got a guys weekend away at the cabin.

-I went with my Mom and sister, Jenna, to Idaho to take Jenna to school.

And I think we're done for the summer. We'll see. It's not over yet, but by the looks of it today (thunderstorms?! what is that!) it just might be.

I'll put up pictures soon. Promise!

ONE YEAR!!!

We can't even believe that it's been a year already!

We've had a wonderful first year!

Bring on Eternity!!!

April 18, 2009