Can't believe its been a year already!

On Saturday, Justin and I celebrated our one year anniversary. Crazy to think its already been a year! So much has happened, here's a recap of our first year of marriage together!

We were married and sealed in the Mesa, AZ temple on Friday, January 16, 2009

Best day of my life.

Leaving our reception! :)


We Drove to California the next day for a 7 day cruise to

Cabo, Mazatlan, and Puerto Vallarta

Cabo, on our way to snorkel

In February, Justin quit his job at University of Phoenix, and went full time with the business he and a partner had recently started. In March, I was fortunate enough to be able to quit my job to go to Nursing School.

Before I started school, Justin suprised me with a quick little get away to

Utah to see some of our family and then Vegas.

In May, we moved out of our little, humble apartment due to a mold problem and moved in with my parents while we looked for a house.

On August 15, we closed the loan on our house and became official homeowners! A great milestone for us. We are so happy in our home and know its exactly where we are supposed to be. Couldn't ask for a better neighborhood to be in.

Our yard now has a full lawn of grass and a couple new trees thanks to Justin's hard work

In December we celebrated our first Christmas as a married couple.

Justin was planning a suprise for us to get away for the weekend for our anniversary, but unfortunately some family things came up and we were worried we might have to make a trip up to UT for a funeral, so he told me about it and we agreed to cancel the trip. So, we ended up spending the entire day together going to breakfast seeing movies, bowling, and going to dinner. It definitely made up for not getting to go out of town.

Over the past year, I have learned that marriage is not always easy. Sometimes it just SUCKS! haha but it is also the best thing in the world. I get to share my life with the most caring, handsome, hard working man I have ever met. I love him more than the day I married him. And I continue to love him more each day. I am so grateful for the temple marriage we have. And for the life that we are building together! Here's to one year down!

New Callings

So 2 Sundays ago, our ward finally split! Woohoo! So, now instead of 1 pm church, we now have 9 am church. It's SO much better! And.... Justin and I now have callings! Justin got called to be a 7 yr. old primary teacher with another guy in the ward. We will be going to LOTS of baptisms this year! lol. He was a little nervous because he has never worked with kids, but he is so cute with him and they already love him. And I got called as s Sunbeam teacher! I love it! It's a lot of work keeping 8 three year olds quiet and sitting in their chairs, but it is so much fun! They are so sweet and I'm so happy to be called there. I'm grateful that I can finally serve in the ward. Anyways, that's my no picture post. Lata!

Girl's Night Out

Last Tuesday us girls got together for Heather's B-day and just to catch up. We went to BJ's (Heather's pick haha) and it was very yummy!

I'm halfway cut out of this pic but I thought it was super cute of the other girls!

Me and Kylie with her cute hair!!!

Allison and Heather

All the girls!

We always have so much fun together! We were at BJ's for 3 hours talking! Pretty sure we were done eating within an hour, but stayed and talked for another 2! We always have so much to say, and our conversations could continue on for hours. But sadly, we always have to call it a night and get back to reality ;) Love you girls!!!

The New and Improved Bathroom

So, when we first moved in, I had this "idea" of a cute little bathroom with burnt orange walls.... So I attempted, and it just didn't work. I couldn't find shower curtains that matched well, or anything else for that matter. I would try different things, tryin to make it work and it just wasn't happening. SO, I decided that I would try faux painting over the orange and just give it a totally different look. I went to Home Depot that night, by myself thank you very much :) and picked out the metallic bronze and the glaze and did it that night. Here are the before pics......

And here are the after...................

Found a new shower curtain. Thank you Bed, Bath, and Beyond. I was nervous it wouldn't match but it actually goes really well. It looks way different in person. way better than it does in this pic.

Justin picked out the new light fixture and hardware... I can trust him with that stuff cuz we totally have the same taste. He did a great job!

It definitely looks way better in person, but hopefully you get the idea. I spent ALL Saturday night painting it. Started at 9 pm didn't finish until 7 am. Yes, Justin was sleeping.... He woke up as I was getting in bed. haha. He loves it and is very proud of me! Probably cuz all he had to do was take the tape off! But anyways, now I love my bathroom and I am happy that I never have to go shower curtain shopping again! (at least for a while!) I absolutely hate it!

Justin's Early B-day Present

So basically, Justin is the hardest person I have ever had to get gifts for. He doesn't care for small, dumb little things like clothes, giftcards, etc. And everything he wants like guns, fishing/camping stuff I know nothing about so it makes it very hard to buy him something that is the right type/style/brand/color etc. I had heard him say a few times how he wants a gun safe so bad. And his dad just recently got one and Justin loved it. So I decided that I would try to get him one for his birthday. I emailed his dad asking him for help on what kind/size/brand of safes Justin would like. After a couple weeks of searching, we found one that was exactly what we wanted at the right price. We found it at a place in UT and Justin's dad offered to bring it down for me which saved a few hundred bucks in delivery costs! So, his dad arrived on Friday night and Justin opened the door (after I had sneaked out and ran down the street to meet up with his dad and throw a bow on it lol) and was like "why did you bring your trailor, what's on it? Is that a safe???!!" Hahaha he knew exactly what it was as soon as he saw it. So he went out there and about died. The look on his face was awesome!!!









He is the most amazing husband in the world and definitely deserves a good birthday gift. Afterall, he's letting me leave to Disneyland the night of his birthday! haha. Anyways, thought I would update since it's been forever!

UGH

I am SO sick of...................

Studying!!!!

This pile of notecards is RIDICULOUS! That's everything I have to know for my final on wednesday. There's gotta be over 400+ notecards there. I'm not gonna count them. I don't even wanna know! 2 more days till Block 2 is over! YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I love this woman

I already loved Beyonce, but this makes me love her even more. Beyonce, while in Sydney, Australia, brought this little 11 yr. old girl who is fighting cancer up on stage. You will probably cry. What an amazing video this is.