happy birthday jared!!!

jared turned 23 years old today! conviently enough our ward had rented out the bowling alley here in rexburg for a ward party so jared got to bowl for free today! he got some very nice cuff links that match his wedding ring, a concert ticket and some tools from my parents. red robin just opened up here in IF and so we went out to eat with his parents and brothers. it was YUMMY! we got an ice cream cake from Dairy Queen cause we figured if i made a cake he would eat the whole thing by himself. it was very good and we have a lot of left overs if anyone wants to stop by and have some!

im so grateful to have him by my side everyday. i couldnt have asked for anything more. i cant wait to see what else is in store for us as we continue our life together! i love you sweet cheeks!

9 months!!!!

jared and i have been married for 9 months today! i cant believe it! time goes by sooo fast! i say 9 months like its a LONG time, but it really isnt! its funy we had a lot of new couples move into the ward today and they have all been married for 2 weeks, 1 month, 1 week... me and jared are the ancient ones now compared to them! i told jared the next ward we live in we will be able to say we have been married for 1 year! that is crazy! these past 9 months have been so awesome and jared and i have been so blessed! the lord really is watching out for us and im so grateful for that! im sooo grateful to have been able to be married and sealed to jared in the temple! and i LOVE going back to the temple with him every week!

other news happening here in the burg, we were just called as gospel doctrine teachers... i think i almost cried after i heard that.... we taught today and i was more nervous than anything! i LOVE teaching, but i like teaching 8 year olds! i think it went somewhat well... we teach every other sunday so hopefully we will know a little more what to expect for next time!

right now we are just working.... i might stab my eyeballs out im SOOOO bored at work, but i cant complain cause its easier than anything ive ever done and it pays well!! we are trying to decide what to do for our 1 year anniversary coming up in a few months and since we didnt have a honeymoon when we did get married, we are looking at cruises right now! i want to go SOO bad, but we just cant get ourselves to purchase the tickets... we'll see if we end up going or not! i told jared if we dont go now, we probably wont ever go.

i know this is going to sound totally random... but we went to the distribution center last week to get jared some new pants for the temple and i was looking at all the cute little dresses and tux's that they have for baby blessings... then i thought about my wedding dress that is just hanging up at jared's parents house and i think i want to find someone who could make a baby blessing dress/ or tux out of it for when we have a baby... i think it would be cool... probably pricey but i think it would be neat.... anyways... just my random thought for the day!

Christmas in COLORADO!

jared and i went back to work at the USDA and worked for 2 days before taking 10 days off to spend christmas in colorado with my family! it was sooo fun and im sad the time went by so fast! now we are back in rexburg and back at work :( here are some pictures of our fun trip!

We helped my mom make gingerbread houses out of graham crackers for a little christmas party my sisters were having!

Jared was rather crafty at it! i was pretty impressed, beacuse i couldnt do it to save my life!


Our babies are gonna have pretty eyes :)

the finished product

our cute house of love equiped with a garage, car, heart shape doors, a green sour patch kid representing jared, and red sour patch kid representing brielle, and half an orange sour patch kid representing our future baby :)

jared found a new hobby.....

making wood pens!

jared showing off his pen he just made

The Loot! Santa was very kind to us this year

jared's new stocking!

my hubby and my siblings in our new christmas pajamas!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! it was and early morning at our house!

There was no snow in colorado and we came home to a winter wonderland!

There is a lot of snow outside our apartment!

christmas was WONDERFUL with jared and i cant wait till we have little kids running around excited for santa to come and then watch them open thier presents i am definitly looking forward to that! like i said earlier, we are back at work at the USDA. they started working 4 10 hour shifts, so we work monday tuesday, have wednesday off, and then thursday and friday... they are VERY long and BORING days, but i cant complain because i told jared i wouldnt. plus since we are working 10 hours a day, 2 hours of that is over time so that will give us a little extra in our pay checks and hopefully we can save back up what we spent while we werent working! i cant believe tomorrow is new years eve! some friends of ours invited us to a little party with some other married couples so we will go ring in the new year with them probably just by playing fun games and eating! :) and im SOOO excited to be with jared for new years this year and get my very first ever new years kiss :) other than that, life if perfect and wonderful and i couldnt ask for anything more!!! well i could..... but jared says no :)

Sunday dinner.... and more

yesterday jared and i splurged and got a roast when we went grocery shopping. this is the second one i have made since we have been married. we let this one cook ALLL day and it just fell apart when it was time to eat! mmmmm!!!! my mashed potatoes are getting pretty darn tasty and this time i made a lot of extra so we could have left overs! i tried to make home made gravey..... but ewwww..... it did not turn out good at all! ill have to have my dad teach me when we are in colorado next week!




school finally ended on friday! YAY! this semester went by really fast! now we are off track till april. i was really stressing about finding a job here in rexburg cause the pay is very low, and we didnt think we would be able to go back to the job we were at over the summer making A LOT more than what we would make here in rexburg, but jared called and they had spots open for us in the lab! so all winter long we are gonna be looking through a microscope at dirt... bleh... although i hate the job, i am very grateful for it and hopefully we can save a lot again! one of the girls i was studying with this semester, her husband just quit his job so he was looking for another one so i gave them the information for the USDA and he applied and got the job too. i think we are gonna carpool down with him starting next year!
the snow finally found rexburg, unfortunately, so we bought new snow tires yesterday for our car... the ones with the studs on them. we figured if we are driving from rexburg to idaho falls everyday in the winter it would be a smart
and safe thing to do... pricey, but safe... there was a BIG difference! hopefully it will continue to be that way!
we have to go to work monday tuesday and wednesday this week, and then after work on wednesday we are driving down to utah and we fly out to colorado on thursday morning! i am so excited i can barely stand it! i hope the weather will cooperate and it will stop snowing so we can get there! i think this post is long enough.... hope everyone has a wonderful christmas! travel safe!!!