Nothing new really

Well there is nothing really new to talk about.. I just have so much energy right now that I decided to put it to good use on our blog! :) We are doing really well. Work is picking up for me and I have been crazy busy. This week on my day off I got to hang out with my friend Nicole and we made "hooter hiders". haha.. I still think that is the funniest name ever Nicole.. :) If you don't know what that is, it is a nursing bib thing to cover the baby and yourself while you are nursing. No, I am not pregnant but we wanted to make one really bad and they turned out super cute!! Take a look!! Next we think we want to make skirts!!
Preston has had a really busy week at school.. I feel like I have hardley seen him this week. Our other good news is that we finally got a wii!! It has been so much fun! Preston still kicks my butt all the time but I am happy to say that I am getting better! Our favorite games are golfing, tennis, fishing, shooting, tanks, air hockey, and the find me game. My birthday is in 2 weeks and I am really hoping for some new sweet wii games.. I will let you know how that turns out! Last night we made salmon for dinner and it was the best salmon I have ever had. I don't even like salmon and I really could have eaten the whole thing! Preston was very impressed with my cooking skills needless to say!! It's always nice when your husband likes what you made for dinner :) Some other stuff.. well Tonka is getting really big. He has this funny habit of carrying his bed all over the house with him. Its like a security blanket for him or something, but just recently he chewed a big hole through it so now he carries it around his neck.. it's funny. Heres a picture..The second picture is of him wraped up in his bed like a blanket. He loves that bed so much! He also has a big love for tennis balls and sticks that grows on a daily basis! Some other little things about Tonka are the he hates the sun. He will walk in your shadow if you walk him when the sun is out.. haha.. so cute! And he is a little bit of a scaredy cat when other dogs are around unless they are nice to him first. He loves children more than tennis balls and sticks im pretty sure and he knows about 6 really super cute tricks! Until we have kids one day he is our little man and we are just loving having him around!! :) Well I have run out of things to talk about so I hope you enjoyed my rambling and I will post again soon!!

Here is an Update!!

Hello everyone!! So it's been a while and lots of things have happened! About 2 weeks ago my best friend Nina came out to visit and we had a blast hanging out with her. It was nice to have a little peice of home here in Ohio. We got pedicures,went to Air Force Museum, shopped till we dropped, saw a movie, went to an indoor water park which was a total blast, and played with Tonka. Tonka just loved her.. we couldn't get him to leave her alone!! We miss her a ton! Then it was easter weekend. To be honest, it snuck up on both of us. I didn't realize it was sunday till the friday before so needless to say we did pretty much nothing! We had steaks for dinner though which were really good!
A couple weeks ago I had to teach Preston how to play Texas Hold Em' so that he could go to a party for one of the big guys in his department at work. So latley we have been playing against each other with jelly beans.. I don't know how he beats me every time cause this used to be my game, but he does!! I haven't won one game against him yet.. so I have made a choice to not teach him anymore games that he is able to beat me at. At least I still kill him at California Speed!! :) He can't touch my skills on that game.. haha
Another peice of great news is that Preston and I are an Aunt and Uncle again! Prestons brother and sister-in-law finally had their baby this morning and we are so happy for them! Congrats Becky and Tyler! We can't wait to meet little Lowe!
Prestons big news is he FINALLY got himself a new bike! So he has been riding it a lot and has entered into a couple races already!! He is so excited to be back on the bike! I am still just working and enjoying my one extra day off a week!! Work is getting busy and time is just flying so we are doing good and getting excited for our next adventure! We will let you know where that will be hopefully in the next couple months!!

Tagged By Emily!

5 Things I was doing 5 years ago:

1. Going to high school
2. Just started driving
3. Working at a day care
4. Dating really stupid boys, or one in paticular if you know what i mean.. :)
5. hanging out with friends

5 Things on my to do list for today:

1. sleep in cause it's my day off
2. clean the house
3. give Tonka a bath
4. find curtains for our bed room
5. make dinner

5 Things I would do with a million dollars:

1. Pay off all my families debt so we could see each other all the time!
2. have lots of kids and pay for ALL of their college!
3. buy an airplane so we can visit family all the time
4. probably spend a chunk of it on clothes :)
5. Go on vacation all the time

5 Places I have lived:

1. Phoenix, AZ
2. Albuquerque, NM
3. Colorado Springs, CO
4. Dayton, OH
5. Soon to be... who knows where??

5 Jobs I have held:

1. Day Care
2. Bed Bath and Beyond
3. Panera Bread
4. Beauty Brand Salon and Spa
5. Hausfelds Salon and Spa

5 Things I want to be doing in 5 Years:

1. Be a stay at home mom
2. Own a house
3. have my student loans paid off
4. see all my siblings married and happy
5. Im sure there is more but i cant think of anything else

5 People I tag:
Whitney, Becky, Nicole, Katie R, Karen W

Party like it's 1989

This weekend my work threw an appreciation dinner for all us employees. They do one every year and this year we got to go!! The theme was 80's prom, well it was supposed to be 80's prom but all the people at our salon decided we wanted to just dress up in crazy 80's stuff instead of prom and it was pretty funny!! We looked way cooler I will say! Anyway we had a whole lot of fun.. At these parties they do an awards ceremony and contests and everyone drinks a lot.. well everyone except for us :) and then there is dancing which gets pretty wild by the end of the night! I even won an award this time!! All the awards are just big jokes and I got the award for the biggest partier which is funny because everyone knows we don't drink and so it's just a huge joke now. It was pretty funny! but all together we had a really good time! We hope we get to do it again while we are here! Just to give everyone a quick update on what we are doing.. Preston just finished his 2 quarter of school and is finishing his finals this week. He is glad for a break from school and I have just droped my monday shifts at work so I am only working 4 days a week now instead of 5. It will be really nice I just hope I dont get to bored! Tonka recently got nudered and is doing really well!! He is still growing a ton but we are happy he is a good dog! We still have no idea where we will be going when Preston graduates so that news will come at another time. Other than that life is pretty normal! My best friends coming out here for a visit in 2 weeks and it can't come fast enough! We are a really blessed family and I am grateful everyday for everything our savior has given us!

Valentines Day

Well it has been a crazy week over here. Every Valentines Day in my line of work is a busy day. We get lots of guys that make appointments for their wives or girlfriends to get manis, pedis and to get their hair done for their evening out so we are usually busy, but when Valentines day falls on a Saturday we dont even get time to sit down!! Yesterday we had to order pizza into work so that everyone would have time to eat something quick and even then some of us didn't get to eat at all.. lol.. It was out of control! But once the long day was over Preston and I were able to go to the UD basketball game. It was kind of a boring game but at least we won! Afterwards Preston surprised me with a pearl necklace and earings. They are beautiful! Thats about it for our Valentines day.. Somewhere in the middle of this crazy week I caught a cold so I stayed home from church today sleeping it off. Preston is doing good.. and we are just counting down the days till summer! We are hoping to like Ohio better during the summer! :)

February Already!

Well it's February now and I can't belive that I haven't updated this!! Not a whole lot has happened and that's probably why it's taken so long to get on here. So.. Here is a list of things we have been doing since the new year. Preston took me skiing! It was my first time ever and I had a lot of fun!! I fell on my butt way more than I wanted to but I guess with practice that will not happen as often.. :) For Prestons birthday he wanted season tickets to the University of Dayton basketball games so we have had fun going to those latley. I have only been able to make it to one so far but he went with a friend last week while I was working and still had a great time! We are so glad that The Office season 5 is on again! We enjoy watching those every Thursday night. We finally got a new kitchen table!! It was on clearance for dirt cheap but had no seats.. so we got it and then realized that the seats were not going to be as good of a deal as the table was. Oh well though.. we love it!! I will post some pictures in the next couple days! Other than that we have just been working and hanging out. Nothing to exciting! Prestons school is going good and I am surviving work! Tonka is getting huge.. He is 75 pounds now and he's only 8 months.. lol.. He is going to be a big boy! He has learned a couple new tricks and they are super cute! I have a video of one. I will put it up with the one of the table in a couple days!! All together it's been a pretty good year so far!

A great finish to a Wonderful year

OH MY GOODNESS.. It's 2009 already.. This year has gone so fast! So many things have happened this year.. Engagements, marriage, moving, new jobs, puppy dogs, and new friends as well as keeping in touch with old ones.. That will fill a year for sure!! We are so blessed to have such a wonderful life! But before I go any further I should probably mention how our Christmas was. We had a great Christmas hanging out with Preston's family in Idaho. We were so lucky to have all of our family there. Preston's brother and sister-in-law were also able to come up to Idaho from Arizona to visit. They also brought their little baby boy who has not been born yet but it was so fun to hear the plans for their little Lowe! His sister and brother-in-law were also able to come down for a couple days! We did so much stuff.. here is some insite into our christmas..

• belive it or not, we traveled 15 hours to get to Burley! (well worth it in the end)


• I got to talk about girl stuff with my sister-in-laws and my mother-in-law which sounds normal, but it was so much fun! One of my favorite parts about the trip!


• Opened lots for presents!


• played with our super cute nephew.. we can't wait to see him again
  
• Played lots of DDR and Guitar Hero! (we were so glad you brought that down Whitney!!)


• Ate lots and lots of good food.. we went to this pizza place where they just walk around with all sorts of pizza and you take what you want until you are full.. they have some interesting choices!!
  
• saw a couple movies. Yes Man and Valkyrie.. they were both pretty good.. Yes Man was hillarious though..


• went shooting guns with preston's dad once.. Preston said that i have to put in here that he hit the top of a shaving cream bottle off with a 357 revolver only using one hand, and the first time from over a 100 feet away.. :) we were so proud of him!!


• We got to pick out some potatoes from a friends potato cellar.. if you have never been inside a potato cellar it's something you must see before you die.. lol.. it's incredible!!


• for the first time ever we were able to go to my Grandma's Birthday party in Twin Falls. Her birthday is on New Year's Eve and everyone gets together for dinner. It was lots of fun to see my family too while we were out there!
  
• We also went shopping that day and I got lots of new cute clothes cause everything was 50% off!! It was so much fun shopping together! Usually we have a hard time doing that but we really had a great day..


• For New Year's Eve we hung out in Preston's parent's basement watching the ball drop and drinking some Martinelli's. It was a quiet new year but we enjoyed every minute of it..

We did lots of other things that are too little to mention.. but all together we had a great time! We can't wait to see everyone again!! Things that have happened in the couple hours we have been home, well we picked Tonka up and he is probably double the size he was when we left him. It's so sad.. :( but we are so glad to see him. He also has a really bad infection in his ear that we can tell is bothering him really bad so hopefully tomorrow we can get him into the vet and get it fixed up. I am back at work and.. oh yeah.. as you can see, I am a red head now.. lol :) But life is back to normal and we are so thankful for our many blessings!! Hope your holidays were wonderful! Happy New Year!!