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!!

SNOW SNOW SNOW

Well as you guessed.. it snowed here last night!! If you grew up in Colorado like I did im sure you will see this picture and think that it is nothing to write about, but it is exciting to get some snow for the first time out here in Ohio! I guess that the good amounts of snow don't normally come until after the 1st of the new year. So we are waiting around for that. Neither one of us mind the snow to bad, it's the cold weather that we hate. It has been so cold here! The humidity makes it misrable to live in! Plus, since it's so cold, the snow just freezes to the roads and it's nothing but black ice.. sounds dangerous!! Time for new tires I guess! Anyways.. we would love to be living in Arizona right about now but the good news is that Tonka is having a blast playing in the snow. He likes to lay outside and eat it and anything he can find frozen underneath it.. and I mean anything!! He likes being outside more now than he ever did when the weather was nice. So basically it has been a day full of hot cocoa and movies! But 17 days and we get to go on vacation! We can't even wait!

Our Thanksgiving!

Well it's December now and I haven't had time to tell everyone about our Thanksgiving! We had a very nice Thanksgiving! We weren't able to go home since Preston only had a couple days off from school and since i have a job now. But it worked out just fine. We ended up going over to a friends house for dinner with 3 other couples and their kids! It was really fun and all we had to make was the pumpkin pie which is a whole lot easier than making a WHOLE Thanksgiving dinner for just 2 people. SO, the only thing we had to say about Thanksgiving was that it was a wonderful way to spend our first Thanksgiving as a married couple! It is weird though.. You really learn a lot about yourself and your spouse living so far away from home and not being able to go see your family for every holiday. We learned this holiday to be sesitive about each others feelings and that making new family traditions for our little family is important to do. Anyways, even though we did just fine with out our families for Thanksgiving we are really really looking forward to going to Idaho in just 2 weeks and spending Christmas with Prestons family! Other than that, we are just staying busy here at home. I have a calling now as the Secretary in the Young Womens presidency and Preston is a primary teacher for the 8 and 9 year olds. I am starting to get more busy at work and I am still doing hair on the side at home. Preston is busy with school getting good grades and studying all the time. So in-between our callings and our jobs we like to relax and hang out with each other! We are really looking forward to a vacation!

Oh Christmas Tree

Well, tonight was the lighting of the 50 ft christmas tree in the courtyard of the mall I work at. We were so exctied to be there and see it and then.... we were late and missed it! But the tree was lit and it is so beautiful!! It was freezing cold outside. Preston and I realized what babies we are in the cold when we were both wearing two jackets and were still shaking uncontrolably! We sure wish now more than ever we would have been able to go to Tucson. But hopefully after this assignment we will get sent to texas where the weather will be nice and HOT!! ANYWAYS, back on topic.. It was a really fun night! There was a parade going through the whole square. There was Santa Clause, a High School Marching band playing christmas music, Carolers all over, elfs and all sorts of christmas loving people!! It's so much fun working in this beautiful environment too! Santa has a little cabin where kids can come sit on his lap all day long, Mrs Clause reads stories everynight to groups of children, carolers come every weekend and sing songs for the shoppers and a horse drawn carriage gives rides all season long! It is so much fun to drive through every single day! Especially for people like us to love christmas as much as we love being alive!! LoL.. After we took some picutres and took a look around at all the beautiful decorations we went to this "authentic" turkish resturaunt for dinner just across the street. It was an interesting experience but the food was pretty alright! Well we hope everyone is loving the start of this Christmas season as much as we are and we can't wait to be with our families! OH YEAH.. and Happy Thanksgiving!!

WE HAVE A BLOG!!

Hello Everyone!!
Well we finally got a blog! YAY.. After we found out all our friends had them and we were the only ones that nobody knew anything about we decided to make one! So I bet your wondering what we have been doing out here in good old Dayton Ohio. Well Preston has been staying busy with school. I have FINALLY gotten a job! It took forever to transfer my license over to an Ohio State license but it worked out and I have been working for about 2 weeks now at Hausfelds Salon and Spa. It's a pretty nice, high end salon. Pauly Shore was in just the other day for a couples massage with his fiance. I guess he wasn't very nice though.. but i will be able to live with this job for the next year and a half with any luck. In our free time together we like to watch football, basketball, the office and ER. We also like to hang out with our cute little puppy, Tonka. He is a ton of fun and keeps us very busy. We love our house and we can't wait to decorate it for christmas cause it is going to be the cutest house ever!! For the holidays we are going to Idaho to spend Christmas with Prestons family and we are so excited to see everyone. Well thats about the basics of our lives right now. We are excited to have a blog and share our lives with everyone we love! I will let you know when something worth talking about comes up! Have a wonderful week!