golden

jared celebrated his golden birthday last sunday and turned 24 on the 24th of january! my parents spoiled him (us) and gave him a cordless drill AND two gift cards: 1 to texas roadhouse (a family favorite) and 1 to red robin, jared's favorite. Thanks mom and dad, you guys are the best! we went to Idaho falls and had a very yummy birthday dinner with his family. July is going to be a pretty exciting month for my family, with my graduation from BYU-Idaho, my dad is also retiring from 20 years in the Air Force, and we are both counting down... so here's to us dad, another month down to graduation and retire-ation!

here's hoping the month of love brings us less snow and more sunshine!

a few things

i feel like all i ever have to write about is school and work school and work school and work repeat. but today i have a few different things on my mind.

CONGRATULATIONS CARISSA!
in my last post i talked about how there could be a possible wedding for my younger sister this year, i was expecting an august or december wedding, but surprise! she just got engaged last week and they are getting married April 9, just 2 days before our 2 year anniversary! i am so excited for her and kyle. they seem perfect for each other. it will be fun to have them move back up here in April.

NEW JOB!
The sandwich shop jimmy johns is opening here in rexburg. jared applied to be the assistant manager for the store. he didnt get that position, but he did get hired to work there. we aren't sure what he will be doing, but he should start in february. it will be a nice job to have while he goes to school. I think he was a little bummed about not getting the assistant manager job, but we are very grateful that he has something again. He has had a few different substitute jobs, but not enough to pay bills so this is exciting for us!



COLORADO
jared needs to do an intership to graduate, and i have my hopes set on him getting one in colorado. I really want to move to colorado and be closer to my family. call me a baby but i miss them a lot! jared and i have talked about potentially starting his career there, and i would love nothing more than to live in colorado the rest of my life :)

BABIES
i know so many people who are pregnant its ridiculous! okay its not ridiculous but i feel like everyone is having a baby these days. must be the "stage of life" im in, but holy hannah, everyday a new person tells me they are expecting. so congratulations to all of you expecting mommy's! i really hope i can hop on that band wagon some day.

it amazes me how fast time goes. i mean january 17 already?! next thing we know its gonna be the end of another semester!

last minute

our christmas break definitely came and went too fast! jared's parents were going to seattle to visit his brother and sister in law on christmas day so we went over to idaho falls christmas eve and celebrated christmas a day early!

since jared and i are, shall we say, very poor, we decided to just get each other one gift. i got jared the game rummy-q, and he surprised me with a cute craft that says "family" that I've had my eye on for a long time.
jared enjoyed rocking out with charlee's (our niece) new pink guitar set:while we were enjoying christmas eve, we were somehow convinced to go to seattle with jared's parents the next day, so we ran home, packed out bags and headed to seattle christmas morning! we had such a fun time with jared's family. we went and saw avatar, went to an aerospace muesum and got to walk on an older air force one, and went to a fun car museum that had lots of old cars. sadly these were the only pictures i got of the whole trip:
thanks dave and heather for letting us come and crash at your place for a week!

2009 was a pretty good year for us! here's the top 9 of 2009:

• celebrating out 1 year wedding anniversary in april
• our very fun trip to disney land
• finishing 2 more semesters of school (with jared getting all A's both semesters!)
• camping in colorado in july
• celebrating both our birthdays, jared tunred 23, i turned 21
• thanksgiving in colorado
• receiving a very nice second car from a very generous family
  
• celebrating christmas with jared's family in idaho falls
  
• our trip to seattle

im excited that its finally 2010. here are a few things we (okay, I) are looking forward to this year:

• student teaching
• graduating from college with a bachelor's degree
• possible wedding for my sister!
  
• possibly moving at the end of the year so jared can do an internship... im keeping my fingers crossed for colorado springs, so we can be close to my family!
  

my sister said it best when she said her motto for 2010 will be "come what may, and love it."