Long Time No Blog...

I've noticed I only manage to post once a month which I'll try to work on, I promise.

And since my husband just made me try a "bolled" aka boiled peanut, this will be as good a time as any. (PS it was DISGUSTING)

Lately I've been really upset about the weight I've gained. Like really upset. My lack of motivation to go to the gym at 10 o'clock at night really isn't helping either. SO, as a result, TOMORROW LITERALLY STARTS A NEW DAY....a time to start taking this issue seriously. I WILL be going to the gym at least once a day for an hour and I WILL be keeping track of what I eat and doing the Weight Watchers program...even if I'm not going/paying for the meetings. At work I will make it a point to use 15 minutes of my lunch break to take a walk as well, which I did two times last week and it was fun to get out for a minute. Basically, any working out I can add to my schedule, I WILL do. I never realized how much weight can effect your life until you lose weight and gain some of it back. It really does get you down in the dumps so I'm making a huge effort to get back in shape. PLUS I need to look hot for my husband of course. He always tells me I'm beautiful no matter how I think I look, but I'd still like to make this change, for the both of us. Wish me luck!

In other news, my life seems to be full of work and then vacations. And no, I'm not complaining. Since my last post we celebrated our 6 month anniversary and had fun on July 4th.

 Also, after Costa Rica we were able to go to Wyoming for Jeff Harber's wedding

and then a week or two later were able to go to Panguitch Utah for our annual trip. It was a trip full of family, fishing, games, parades, and my sister's BIRTHDAY! It was a really fun trip, like always. We went fishing where  my nephew Jackson caught his first fish :] and his Daddy as you can tell, ha.

We also went to "our tree" where I hope to go every year until we are really old. :]

I really do love Panguitch and can't wait to build a house there some day when Andrew and I are older and have raised our future kids.

Speaking of kids...My best friend for life since Kindergarden, Kelli Empey, texted me this morning saying that she had a dream that I was pregnant. And speaking of dreams involving pregnancy, I had a dream I was as well this week. Weird huh?! While these are some peculiar coincidences, I am not pregnant yet and don't plan on becoming pregnant until Andrew and I have been married AT LEAST a year and hopefully I am done with school. I know things don't always go as planned, but as far as I know there is no bun in the oven and when that day comes I WILL be estatic...it's just not now.

Other than working I'm just contemptating what classes to take this fall and wondering if I'll get in classes I need. I'm continuing with elementary education classes and hope it's the right choice for me. I know whatever road I'm supposed to take and wherever I'm supposed to go will all work out and until then, I'm just doing crafts and enjoying being married to the love of my life. I'll have some home/craft pictures to post in the near future, I just don't have them ready yet.

Look forward to hearing from me more often and getting updates on my road to getting one hot bod as well! :]

In need of an update:

Hello all,

My life is full of many adventures. I can now say I've been to Costa Rica for goodness sakes. However, due to the fact that I would rather go to bed tonight than post about it, I'm going to just give a teaser picture and leave that story for another day (hopefully tomorrow).

I love traveling and look forward to many more adventures with the love of my life. I also hope that most of those trips can be just us two, because I just love being with him more than anyone else. Is that bad?

In other news, my poor puppy hurt her knee last Wednesday and we took her to the vet because of it. Because they wanted WAY TOO MUCH MONEY for x-rays we only got her pain medicine and she LOVES it. It may be the fact that we let her eat peanut butter with the pills so she gets tricked into taking them, but still. Our little puppy may have a love for pills, which would be bad if she was capable of taking them on her own. JOKE! We are just glad she is running around and happy again and will stop the meds on Wednesday or Thursday. She was probably fine the next night even, but just to be safe we wanted to give her something for the pain. We love Daisy so much even though she destroys SO MUCH STUFF and wouldn't be the same without her.

Also, my weight loss goals have NOT been successful. HOWEVER I've given up soda AND fast food and so far am doing good. It's only day 2 though so I hope I keep it up.

I better get to bed though so I can keep working on cleaning up our house. I am determined to have a House Warming Party BEFORE summers over.

GOOD NIGHT!

chubsters

Tonight we went to NEWLYWED NIGHT at Bishop Waltons house and had a lot of fun. We ate dinner and talked and it was just nice to catch up with some other couples and the Bishopric. I truly miss the Singles Ward and the Bishopric. They always make you feel so comfortable and welcome and are just great church leaders. I'm SO GLAD we decided to go.

IN OTHER NEWS:

Since I'm a fat lard after being married to the love of my life and am gaining "the married million" (hahaha) I've decided to start a strict diet and exercise program and start doing weight watchers again SO I can look like THIS or better:

I plan on going to the gym twice a day (if my schedule permits it), try to do the Pussycat Doll workout video (which I don't recommend to ANYONE because of the wack jobs in it, but bought it so I have to do it), doing at least one drop in water aerobics class a week, and taking DAISY for a walk each day. Going to the Weight Watchers Meetings starts a week from today, and for the time being I'm watching what I eat.

I'm hoping Andrew can start coming with me again how we used to for 1 hour a night, and then after we get to our goal weight I'll limit my routine to just the one hour with Andrew and eating right.

I can't stand gaining weight back that I worked so hard to get off in high school, so this has to work and I need to get healthy, but this time for life.

WISH ME LUCK! :]

SUMMER LOVIN'

I COULD NOT BE HAPPIER that it's summer time. I absolutely love not having to worry about college or homework (aside from how I'm going to afford it this fall), and enjoy being a wife. Finals are over and I ended up with MUCH better grades than I thought, including three B's and 2 A's. HOLLA! This is really good in my opinion, especially since 3 of my finals were taken in a hotel room in Logan, Utah where we went to support my Brother-in-law graduating from college. It was a fun 4 day trip and we got to go to Lagoon for Mother's Day. Unfortunately, my mom took all the pictures, so I'll have to post some of those later. The only pictures I DO have are from Danny Glover speaking at USU's graduation and AN AMAZING rainbow Andrew and I saw on the way home:

In other news, we've been married 4 months and with school, work, and everything else going on we haven't had a chance to get our house all put together yet. I hate having so much to do on the house and can't wait to have all our rooms put together so we can have tons of fun parties and get togethers. :] Luckily, now that it's summer, this is now a possibility. Today I spent all day doing laundry and putting stuff away and I'm happy to say I put a slight dent in the work to be done. ALSO with school being over with I've had the chance to cook dinner every night this week. Not only is this good for our wallets, but hopefully it will be good for our health as well. Andrew and I have both gained some married weight and look forward to working it all off.

Our only other issues are, a DANG OVEN that chooses when it wants to heat up. If only we had money for a new electric oven. My dang "t" on the keyboard chooses when it wants to work as well, making it hard to post blogs. Also, my cousin who is only a month older than me is getting married when we are going to be in Costa Rica, so we won't be able to be there for her. She's going through the temple when we'll be gone too so basically, the only thing I could be involved with was her Bridal Shower. I organized one of the games with an idea my cousin had (which was a hit if I do say so myself), and made her the traditional bridal shower hat. The game involved memorizing all the items in the apron and I had a cute saying for each item included.

OH! I almost forgot to mention: Andrew and I get the pleasure of speaking in church this Sunday. I hope we do a good job and hope our familias are able to make it. Other than that, I'm just a primary teacher for CTR 7, work almost 40 hours a week, and had an interview for a promotion. Andrew works over 40 hours a week, works on our house, and is one of the priest leaders at church. At home we get to spend time with our adorable little puppy and give her baths.

She does a lot of cute things, including some tricks, but I can only prove what we have on video:

That's all for now. Since I have work at 4:45AM I better get going. GOOD NIGHT! :]

NO MORE FINALS....I WISH!

Since I am sitting at school waiting for my final to start in an hour, and because I already did my paper, which I thought was going to be a week late, but instead is actually due today (mini victory for me) and I have nothing to do, I decided I would update my blog.

On April 18th I turned the big 2-0 and am now no longer considered a teenager. While I feel kind of down about that, almost everyday at work I have people ask me how old I am and tell me I look really young, so I guess I should be happy about that. Anyways, my birthday was celebrated  4 days in a row and I ABSOLUTELY loved it, even if Andrew might not have. Friday night (the 16th) I went out to dinner with the Lawrence side of the family. We went to Coyotes and it was SOOOO yummy. They spoiled me of course and I got a really cute Betsey Johnson purse, some sun dresses, a really cute Invicta watch, a gift card to Charlotte Russe, some Tapout cups, and some computer accessories. The workers also sang to me and fed me ice cream. While that part was kind of awkward it was still a fun night.

The next day on Saturday (the 17th) Andrew and I slept in and then went to lunch at Red Robin...yummmm! We then made the trek to Stateline to ride the roller coasters and then go shopping. The rides were SO FUN (besides the gun/boat ride not working) and the roller coaster was freaking SCARY!
After the rides, Andrew took me shopping but I of course didn't find anything I liked. We even went to town square, but I only found a really cute shirt. After the shopping adventure wasn't as successful as I would have liked we went to Olive Garden for dinner and then went home.

On SUNDAY MY ACTUAL BIRTHDAY we went to church where I taught primary for the first time (even though I wasn't supposed to teach that week). The kids were kind of bad and when they found out it was my birthday one of the girls was like "you should have told us, we would have been gooder." It was so cute, but I didn't have anything for them to celebrate my birthday so I simply didn't tell them. They had to find out in sharing time, but oh well. After church Andrew and I took a long deserved nap after all the fire drama. After we woke up he took me shopping AGAIN where I didn't find much. Then we decided to go to Chili's because that's what we did for my 19th birthday when Andrew came to visit me in Logan. He is such a sweetheart and I loved that he thought of that idea. Finally on MONDAY the 19th of April we celebrated with my side of the familia by going to Claim Jumpers! It was good to spend time with the family and I'm so thankful everyone celebrated with me and the presents were a plus too ;]. OH! And on that WEDNESDAY I got to see Stephy when she took me to get pedicures. Then we went to Olive Garden and saw Kierstin and Leanna where Kierstin bought me dinner.

I guess turning 20 isn't so bad, especially since I got spoiled so much! :]

Now that the birthday celebrations are over I'm just focusing on the last week of school. This semester was not so good for me and I realized that online classes and night classes are not for me. Next semester I'm going to work MUCH harder and I'm even taking two classes with Stephy! Yippee! I just realize that after being married, school was the LAST thing I wanted to focus on, but maybe next semester will be better. I definitely need to get my major switched and start taking the right classes so school doesn't last so long for me. I think I've finally decided to be a teacher. Also, maybe I'll go to hair school some day and try that out. My options are open and I realize it's better that way.

This summer I'm just going to work and try to have the BEST SUMMER EVER with my hubby. He truly is the best thing that's ever happened to me and always tries to make me happy. This week alone he's surprised me with a shirt and hand picked flowers from the dessert. He makes me dinner when I'm busy and just always tries to make my life easier. I'm so blessed to have such an amazing man in my life and can't wait to continue our journey.

ALSO: Hanging out with my ADORABLE nephew a lot wouldn't be a bad thing either this summer.

LOVE MY HUBBY. LOVE MY FAMILY. LOVE LIFE. HATE FINALS. GOODBYE! :]