Happy Holidays!

jared and i started our thanksgiving break out by driving to utah on friday. my parents and sisters flew in for a cousins wedding, so we drove down to see them! it was fun! we got to go out to eat at red robin, went shopping, and saw a play at the conference center called savior of the world. other than that, we just kind of lounged around all weekend hanging out with family it was a good time. my family flew back home on sunday night and we drove back to rexburg on monday morning. i came down with a cold and didnt feel very good at all monday, tuesday, or wednesday, but luckily by turkey day everything was good! thursday when we got up we watched some of the macys thanksgiving day parade before we headed to idaho falls for thanksgiving with jareds family! we ate lots of yummy food, looked through the ads at what would be on sale the next day, watched a movie, played Wii ALLLLL day and a fun game of uno. we ended up staying in idaho falls that night so we could wake up EARLY and do the black friday shopping thing. i have never done this before in my life, and i dont think i will ever do it again... absolulty RIDICULOUS! our first stop was sears because jared wanted a cordless drill for christmas and they had one on sale with a flash light thing. jared drove by kohls, target, best buy, and the lines were long with people waiting outside. when we got to sears the line outside wasnt actually as bad as i thought it would be. we got there around 4:20 am and had to wait till 5:00am to get inside. the line got longer and longer behind us. we got into sears and picked up our drill and walked right up to the register. we were in and out in 5 minutes. i thought to myself... okay this could be fun :) we decided to go our seperate ways so we could christmas shop for each other, so jared dropped me off at kohls.... BIG MISTAKE! i got him 2 things there and stood in line for almost 1 1/2 hours! it was crazy!!! luckily there was a very nice older lady who i stood in line with and we talked most of the time. all she had to buy was a little jewelry box her granddaughter wanted. at one point she left her jewelry box with me and made her way over to target and toys r us, and came back empty handed, she said the lines there were just as long, and she was hoping i would be farther up in line by the time she got back... oh well, she was such a sweet old lady, and i would have been in a very bad mood for having to stand in line for 1.5 hours if i didnt stand next to her. when we finally made it to the check out, she said, "well, this has been fun talking to you! Merry Christmas!" she made my day :) while i was standing in line at kohls jared made his way to best buy, downeast, kmart, walmart, circut city, and the mall. he didnt buy things at every stop, but he still made it farther than i did! after he picked me up we decided we were hungry so we headed back to his parents house for breakfast and a nap! we decided to go back at around 9:30 and i definitly had much better luck this time around. i found some really good deals! we ended up staying BELOW our budget we had made for christmas! YAY! we came home and wrapped each others presents and set them under our cute tiny little christmas tree! it looks like santa already hit our house this year! :) call us crazy (i guess call ME crazy since i wanted to put our christmas tree up so early) but i figured since we are going to colorado for christmas, we can enjoy our christmas tree now! hopefully next year we might be in a bigger apartment and we can get a bigger tree, but i think for now ours works. i am so excited for christmas this year mostly beacuse its my first christmas married to jared! i could care less what i get for christmas this year, im more excited to see him open the presents i got him! i guess thats how parents feel when they see thier kids open presents on christmas day, and they are not to worried about opening theirs. i think we are gonna call the USDA (where we worked in the summer) just to see if there is any way we could go back. as much as i hate the job it would be nice becuase we could drive there together, and it pays 11.34/hr. we will see though...*crossing fingers* now its time to get started on homework. bummer.... blogging is so much more fun

Procrastinating

i dont really have any exciting news to talk about, but i just really dont want to do, or think about school right now! there is only about 3 weeks left of school and i cant WAIT for the semester to be done! i have enjoyed all of my classes this semester and i think the grades i have have been the best ever, but im ready for a break... i think jared is feelin the same way. which brings us to our next predicament... since we both have next semester off... where to work in rexburg idaho? jared told me today when he picked me up from school that one of the alarm companies works during the winter semester, so maybe he should look into that. we would have to move to where ever they want us, but i guess some people can make pretty good money... so anyways... just a thought, he'll look more into it and then we can decide what to do. other news... i have hated trying to come up with something for dinner everynight, so i finally sat down and made up a dinner menu, so now we have dinner planned out everynight for the whole month and i LOVE it! it makes my night so much easier! jared and i went and bought everything we needed for the month, so hopefully we can save on groceries, and we wont end up buying "extra" things. plus im hoping to keep this habit up and then it will be a lot easier for when we have a family to feed. i've recently become obssessed with the show on TLC jon and kate plus 8... i dont know why, but i could sit and watch that show for HOURS, infact, im watching it as i type this. its a good show, and jared makes fun of me for always watching it! occasionally he'll sit and watch it with me :)

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

Its been a long time since i last wrote, but i feel like nothing exciting has happened to write about it till now! yesterday was haloween! i havent ever been too excited about halloween since i stopped trick-or-treating, but this year we got invited to a halloween party so we thought we would dress up! our ward is a ward of brand new families, most of the couples have been married 2 or 3 years so they have little ones, so our ward had a trunk or treat night on thursday! we didnt use our real trunks cause it would be too cold for the babies out side, so we just set up tables in the gym. It was fun to see all the babies dressed up! they were SOOO cute! it made me want one so i could dress one up cute too! it was fun to see what everyone else came up with for costumes too! jared and i were Thing 1 and Thing 2 from Dr. Suess. i thought our costumes turned out rather cute! jared loved the blue hair thing! jared met a kid in his spanish class when he was going to school in idaho falls and he lives up here in rexburg with his wife and invited us to a halloween party. i was a little nervous going since we didnt know anyone but them, but it was a ton of fun and we met some really nice and fun people! we had food and played games and me and jared almost won the best couple costume, but the salt and pepper couple won instead... oh well better luck next year! we were just glad to go out and do something fun for halloween! i missed living in a nieghborhood and seeing all the trick-or-treaters though cause i like to see all the kids dressed up! anyways.... now its november 1, i cant even believe it! time has gone by so fast!!! now that halloween is over, im anxious for the holiday season to start! i want to put up my christmas tree and decorate for christmas and listen to christmas music! but i think ill wait just a little longer! other news happening up here in the burg.... we are looking for a cheap 2nd car to buy. jared and i both have next semester off and we were planning on just going back to the job we had over the summer making 11.34 an hour, but they dont have any room for us in the lab cause they have hired more people so no we are probably going to have to get 2 different jobs. im looking into substitute teaching and jared isnt sure what he is going to do. we found a cheap car on craigs list that we are gonna go look at today its an older camry but they are asking 2900 and he said it could probably even go for 2500 so we'll go look at it to see how beat up it is. i just need a cheap car to get around town, and then we still have jared's newer car. i just wish if we could get a new nice car if we are gonna get a new car, but i can wait till we graduate and have real jobs. i dont know if i mentioned jared changed his major from mechanical engineering to business finance. hopefully he will like that better! i think thats about all from us for now!