I Heart Valentines

We had a great Valentines Day this year as usual. I'm always in favor of a holiday that celebrates the love you have for others. I realized that this was Jordan and I's NINTH Valentine's day together. Crazy how fast time flies. I love that man of mine so much. We have each other figured out pretty well by now. We don't need much, just the company of one another. Hooray for being in love!

Jordan's been working on a small side business with his buddy, Bret, called WebCRM the last few months. I'm not sure how the business exactly works to be completely honest, but they're having fun with it, and it has brought in a little money on the side, so I'm cool with Jordan doing it. Jordan convinced me to let him buy a tv with the money he's earned, and I caved as a Valentine's present:)

Our friend Aaron came over and helped us cover up this giant alcove above our fireplace so we could mount our new tv and it wouldn't look ridiculous. We both really like how it turned out, and Jordan was nice enough to let Harry Potter be the first movie we watched on the big screen.

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We may be lame, but we spent our Valentines Day eating take out and chocolate dipped strawberries together, and enjoying our new toy. We're spoiled, but as you can see from the tv above, it was time for an upgrade.
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I also had fun this February going up to my sister Camille's house where she threw a Valentine's party for her girls and some friends. She is seriously SUPER MOM. She threw such a cute party, and the girls had a blast.
Ashlie steals my heart. What a doll.
I love this picture of Megan helping Paige. What cute neices I have. I LOVE them.

-What a great time of year. I hope many Happy Valentines Days come my way.-

Two Babies In One Day

Happy News!!! Casey and Nick had their baby on Jan. 31st. They named him Clint, and he is absolutely adorable. Even Jordan is in love, I mean look at him.

I'm so excited for them, and they're going to be such great parents. I love how happy Nick is in this picture. Proud Daddy, that's for sure.

Casey is amazing, she did so great, and is going to be an awesome Mom. I'm going to watch her every step to prep me for motherhood one day.

We love this family of 3 so much!!

*I guess I should note that Jordan and I also got a baby today too. Our baby came from RC Willey though. I finally gave in and let Jordan get a flat screen TV for the family room. I was telling a friend at work today about the TV and Clint being born. She said, "How cool, Nick & Jordan both got babies today... only difference is Jordan will actually get to sleep tonight." I must admit, the TV is pretty cool, but sorry... I'm in love with baby Clint.

Who Is This Man I Married?!

Jordan continues to amaze me. He is definitely not the same boy I fell in love with nine years ago, that's for sure. Here are a few things he has been up to lately that have been so out of character for him. Haha

First off, Jordan has become OBSESSED with ice fishing. My dad recently introduced him to this sport, and he his hooked. Here he is with his trophy fish (note: last time Jordan caught a fish, was when he was 9 years old.) He is out almost every weekend ice fishing now. Last week we bought him an official "ice fishing" pole, and he has plans to go fishing TWICE tomorrow. (One of these times at 6am mind you.) Who is this kid?

Second, Jordan has recently become a basketball referee. This is actually quite amusing to me. He was asked to ref church basketball every Thursday and Saturday for the young women, young men, and elders in our stake. And of course, they didn't give him any info on how to do this, or any equipment to use. So thankfully I was making fun of his new church calling at work in front of a 70 year old patient of mine, and the patient spoke up and said he was a professional referee, and would be willing to help Jordan get started. Haha. What are the chances? So... we went to my patient's house that night, he suited Jordan up with ref shirts, whistles, and handbooks all for free. What a great guy. So Jordan has been studying basketball like crazy lately, and become quite the referee... and I think he's awesome. And to top it all off, I was at the young women's basketball game the other night, and the girls in my ward started cheering for Jordan. Haha I was dying. They kept cheering, "Go Jordan, blow that whistle, blow that whistle real hard!" It was probably because they don't see good looking refs all that often ;) haha It totally made my night.

Oh, and on an even funnier note. My friend went to her neice's jr high basketball game, and guess who was reffing the game?!... Our 70 year old patient!!! Haha she took this picture of him and sent it to me. I had to document it because 1) It's just hilarious and 2) I wanted Jordan to see what his future could hold if he continued his reffing career up. hehe

Third, I'm pretty sure my husband is getting a teeny, tiny bit baby hungry. Our two best friends are pregnant right now, and I think it's getting him thinking :) He called me from work the other day, and said he stopped at the store to look at TVs, and then decided to look at the baby clothes too since he was there. (What?!!!) And then he found the cutest U of U baby outfit, so he just had to buy it for our friend's baby. -The man I married 4 years ago, would NEVER have done this.

Bottom line... the man I'm married to now is nowhere near the same man I met nine years ago... He is SO MUCH BETTER!!! Love him.

Happy New Year 2012!

As I sit here blogging on January 1st 2012, I can't believe that the year 2011 is already gone. We've had such a great year. Jordan graduated, has a good job, started his Masters program, we went to Cancun together, we grew our first garden, we've made great friends, started running regularly, and are happier then ever.

So in honor of a good 2011 year, we had a killer party with our pals Casey & Nick. This might be the last big hoorah we have with them before baby boy Hill joins their family in February.

We were trying to pack all the calories possible in, before we all start watching what we eat starting Jan. 1st. Haha

Michigan Rummy and watching Goonies

3...2...1... Happy New Year!!!

Bustin' out the Bubbly

And getting his groove on at the midnight dance party.

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I love New Years Day because I feel like it's a fresh start, which I occasionally feel like I need. I like making resolutions. I want to be a better person, and I am honestly going to strive to be better in 2012. I'm going to try to strengthen my body, spirit, and mind more this year. And...the scriptures say the Lord will judge us on the desire of our hearts, so I figure writing this down is a good place to start :)

Christmas Day

Ho, Ho, Ho Merry Christmas!!

We had a wonderful Christmas this year. Christmas fell on a Sunday this year, which I actually really enjoyed. We got up and had our usual Christmas festivities, and then headed off to church and had a nice spiritual reminder of what the holiday is really about. Jordan and I had a scripture countdown, and read scriptures pertaining to the birth of the Savior all month long. It was nice to have time each day this month to think about our Savior, and the true meaning of Christmas.

Jordan spoiled me again like always. Some of my treasures this year were a docking station for my new Iphone that I got for our Anniversary, and some nice running clothes.

Oh, and ALL the Harry Potter Movies!!! Yeah!!!

Jordan came away with movies, clothes, and a new razor.

This was my favorite part of the day... Jordan had told me earlier that the only thing he wanted for Christmas was a Garmin GPS Running Watch. Well, we opened presents, and he didn't get one. (Needless to say, he acted a little disappointed.) So then we headed over to my parents house, and my Dad came down the stairs with a giant present for Jordan saying Santa got the wrong house. Inside the giant box was a small box that had his GPS watch in it :) He was so surprised, and so excited!!! Hehe I love surprising my sweetheart.

-I love Christmas, and am always sad to see it leave. I seriously think it'll be a while before the decorations come down this year. Merry Christmas from our home to yours!-

Christmas Eve

I love Christmas Eve. It was extra fun this year having Julianne and her family up from Arizona with us. Every year there's more and more people, and yes it's crazy and chaotic, but it's tradition, and I love it. We started off the night with a wonderful Christmas Eve feast, and then acted out the Nativity.

My mom always puts together a cute Nativity program so that everyone has a part, and she plays all the music to go along with it.

Then we played a rousing game of Christmas Minute To Win It

Adam on Christmas Card Cliffhanger

Trying to get the gingerbread cookie into our mouths without using our hands.

Ornament Kiss

And my personal favorite... Booty-Shaking the ornaments out of the box

And to finish off the night we drove through the Layton Christmas Lights together.

"Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night."

Celebrating The Season

We've had fun getting ready for Christmas this year. Here are a few things we did to celebrate the season.

When Jordan and I got home from our running our Thanksgiving day race we were surprised with a package on our stairs. Inside was an adorable elf named "Elenore". She came with a note saying she'd come from the north pole to watch over our family until Christmas, and then she'd send Santa our report. My sisters all also "mysteriously" received similar elves that day. Jordan and I have had so much fun with this little elf through the holidays. We've found it in random places like the car, closet, fridge, bed, etc. -We had an elf named "Edgar" when I was little that I loved, and I'm so excited that "Elenore the Elf" can be a part of our little family now.

We decorated Gingerbread houses, and made Christmas candy.

I had fun decorating the house as usual. We bought a Christmas train to go around the tree this year, which the neighbor boys and Jordan have LOVED! (PS... the neighbor boys asked where my "real" tree was, because apparently having 3 little trees is lame. Oh well, I think it's cute.)

I went to Alyssa's 3rd Grade Christmas program.

Jordan had a nice work party at the Davis Conference Center. We went and saw the Christmas Carol play at the Centerville Theater with my parents. Our ward had a very nice Christmas musical fireside. We went and saw the lights at Temple Square. I had a Girls Night out at Olive Garden with Jordan's Sisters, Mom, and Grandma. We were on the ward Christmas party committee, and had a fun ward breakfast. We have had so much fun with Julianne's family being down for the holiday. I have tickled, wrestled, teased, and kissed those kiddos as much as possible while they've been down here. We went to the Tabernacle Choir Christmas concert, and we celebrated 4 wonderful years of marriage together.

I love this time of year.