This is The New Year

We have been married a year and it feel great!  Time really does just fly by.  This winter has been a lot better than last year, in that there is actually sun!  I know some people hate that there is no snow, but I'll take everything as a blessing.  We started out the new year in Texas, which was a blast.  We love to hang out with the Sears, especially with the whole family being there.  And we spent Christmas with the Barlows, which was also a treat.  I got Jameson a shark pillow pet, and he loves it (almost as much as I love the panda pillow pet he got me last year).  And he got me a paint set, and other various gifts.  It was our first Christmas being married, and we can't wait to see how fun it will be when we have children of our own.

I'm off track this semester which has allowed me a lot of free time.  I have read The Help, and all of the Hunger Games, and enjoyed all of them!  I forgot how much I missed reading for fun instead of school.  Jameson is on track doing IBC, where they create their own business.  They're doing Vinyl Expressions, for home decor and businesses.  If you want any sayings, let him know!  They more money they make, the better their grade...or something like that.  He is very busy and goes to school from 1 pm-6 pm every day.  It's been interesting.

This year will be full of joy and promise, I can already feel it! I get to go visit my best friend and cousin Anna at the end of March in North Carolina.  She is having her baby girl the first of March, so it will be fun to see her and the tiny baby!  And we are going on a family vacation this year to Colorado! Yay!  Lauren is going to graduate and come to college, so we'll be able to see her and Jameson's parents.  Rachel and Jon are going to Italy on an internship from September to December. Oh and I'm supposed to graduate at the end of this year!

Joy to the World...

Fall Semester is over!  Woo hoo!  I'd actually have to say that this was probably my favorite semester of all of college.  My sewing classes were so relaxing and fun.  I learned...well I didn't learn too many new things, but it actually gave me time to just sew!  I spent so much money on fabric, but I got a lot of finished products too.  My family classes (covenant marriage, and family relations) were very fun and informative.  I feel like our marriage just keeps getting better.  The past few weeks have been crazy, with all the studying, sewing, unpicking, hand sewing, papers, reading, etc.  Yet Jameson always found time to do some dishes, and we made time to watch mostly every Christmas movie on Netflix, cheesy and all :)

I can't believe it, but in just a few days we will have been married for 11 months!  Woot!  That's almost one whole year!    We're spending the 22-25 with my family in BC, and it will be our first Christmas in a lot time with all of us there, and also mine and Rachel's first Christmas being married.  It will be so interesting to see how it all works out.  It's crazy to think that we were just about to go to Texas last year at this time.  We're going to head there the day after Christmas and then come back around the 1st.  It will be a great holiday to be able to get to see all of those that we love! [I also cannot wait to be in the nice warm weather of Texas!]
I love this time of year, it truly is the best.  Everyone is just so excited to be done with school, to go Christmas shopping, and visit family.  I can't wait to make some Christmas treats.

I've been thinking of some goals...and I think I really want to start being more craftsy with my time.  I have these ideas of clothes I want to make, and hopefully I will actually commit to making some.  I'm off this semester (til April) and all I'll be doing is working (boring).  We'll see what happens, but I hope to post some pictures soon.  Here are some random pictures of the past little while...

Newsflash

This semester has been great.  Sewing all the time for Home Decor and Clothing 2!  I love it though, and I'm learning more every day.  Jamie keeps busy working all those jobs and doing plasma.  He usually doesn't get home till 9:30, so we eat dinner late, and hopefully watch a movie or do something together.  It's so fun having our own little home, and we enjoy the space.

We get to go to Utah this weekend!!! Wooohoo!  We're going to go to Frightmares at Lagoon with lots of family and friends.  I've never been to frightmares, and Jameson's never been to Lagoon.  There is just something special about going to theme parks with the one you love.... well we've never done that, so we'll see if there is something special about it! ;)  Hopefully he can stand my screams.  I can't help but scream on every drop.

We have been having good meals lately.  My coworkers decide to give us food all the time!  Swiss chard, beets, potatoes, more potatoes, squash, apples, pork chops, hamburger, elk meat, elk jerky, and the list goes on and on!  So we've had taco soup, chicken enchiladas, enchilada casserole, baked chicken and potatoes, funeral potatoes, gourmet pork chops, tacos, etc.  Luckily we've laid off the sweets....besides that cheesecake.  Jameson wants caramel apples and an apple pie, but that will just have to wait. 

I'll attach a picture of Jameson wearing the shirt I made him.  And my new hair cut and color.

The shirt!

 Blondish before....

 Back to basics, it's brown!

 The layers

Us being... awesome.

Oh Lately it's so Quiet in this Place

Well the move is finally over and we have moved into our town house!  It's adorable, but still needs some repairs  (and mostly everything still needs to be unpacked or moved).  The pictures will be on their way for sure--soon.  Right after we moved in last Wednesday, we were dead tired.  I have still been working at the car dealership, and Jameson is currently driving school buses and working another job at a call center.  What better way to celebrate how awesome our new place is than to go to Costa Vida?? It was delicious.

Last Friday after we were both done with work we took off on an adventure.  We needed to get out of Rexburg stat.  I drove us down to Lava Hot Springs and went straight to our property to see all of my extended family.  We set up our tent and got everything all ready to have a very enjoyable weekend.  Saturday we spent most of the day swimming at Lava Hot Springs.  We went on many slides, I went of the high dive, and Jameson went off the second Olympic platform! Brave.  I would never be able to do that.  We did a lot of sun bathing, and swimming, and hung out with Tyra and Rob and their family.  They are the best!
Sunday we went to church, ate delicious meals once more, and played games.  Mike entertained us by singing into our microphone and trying to match the songs that were playing.  It was funny.
Monday we had a great breakfast and spent the rest of the day traveling in a tiny truck full of way too many people, and playing games with RaeAnne.  We made the lengthy drive back and we were worn out.  I don't think a shower has ever felt so good.

The rest of this week has been slightly crazy.  It's the last week before I start back at BYUI. Joy. I just wish that I was looking forward to it a lot more than I am.  [Lets all pray my Financial Aid comes through] I will have some good intense sewing classes, which I'm really nervous for, and other family studies classes.  It will be a good semester, as long as I can juggle everything at once - last semester was the worst!  I have been trying to soak up this last week of freedom as much as possible.  I have been cooking, cleaning...eh.. reading... and watching movies.  I should be unpacking right now.... but I'm just so comfortable not moving.  Tomorrow we're going to drive down for Peach Days!  Should be a blast to see all of the festivities, and see the Family once more.  

 This was a stuffed zucchini that i made. It was pretty good.

Summer in the City!

Well I'm finally back and It's Summer.  The past semester seemed to drag on forever.  But, we both passed all of our classes, so that's a plus.  The day after the semester ended we flew down to Houston.  I was expecting the worst heat, but it was okay (as long as you're not outside for longer than 5 minutes).  It was nice to go swimming late at night and still have it be super warm.  Julia's wedding was great!  We spent a lot of time setting it up, and it looked gorgeous.  I think we all gained weight on that trip ;) We were really sad we couldn't stay longer for Jillian's. 

We had to come home and actually work.  Jameson is going to be a school bus driving for Madison County school district! Woo Woo!! And he's working at the call center on the side.  We've been pretty busy with that, but usually find time to watch a movie or go on a walk. We Love Summer.

This past weekend we went to Rachel's wedding, and that was really fun too.  I'm so happy that she's married, and her and Jon seem really happy.  Their reception outside was pretty and fun.  Jameson told our little cousin Matthew that there was money taped under one of the seats at the tables.  It was hilarious watching him run around trying to find it.  I love our extended family!  We got to see family and friends we haven't seen in a long time, and even got to see the new baby Audrey. She's adorable!  We missed Anna being there though.  Rach's dress she made looked absolutely beautiful.  I wish I had gotten some more pictures.  It was so hot outside for pictures, almost as hot as Julia's wedding pictures (just less humidity!)
Finally we got in to the Town homes we've always dreamed of!  We move in at the end of the month.  It will be a great change that we are both really looking forward to.  It will actually be worth decorating!  I'll update with more pictures when we move in.

Here are some random pictures of the past events!

Weekends.

During school, the weekends are essential.  I needed time to relax.  Jameson knows that I get a little stressed about the school work, work, homework, work work work...but he's really good to me.  I come home and he's done the dishes and cleaned our house, yay!  Or today, we were in IF, and he even let me buy myself some caprees.  Life is good.  We had a ward party today too, which was lots of fun.  We went to our bishops house, ate a deliciously catered meal, and played some intense volleyball--until it started raining.  But how I love the rain...

Well everything is looking up, there is hope to this madness!  It is getting warmer outside, and that is my favorite time of the year.  I can't wait till I can go to school without having to take a sweatshirt and gloves. And there are just a lot of things that we can be grateful for.

It's Mother's day!!  Hip Hip Hooray.  Just wanted to thank my mom, for being so great and wonderful to me all the time.  I'm sad we weren't able to go to BC this weekend.  I feel like we haven't been home in years and it's only really been a couple weeks.  I guess I get homesick, even when I'm married.  But I also wanted to give a shout out to Jamie's mom Laura, for also being a wonderful woman.  I love all of my mothers!!!

I keep getting strange cravings.  The most recent: I want to watch Mary Poppins.

School's in Session

Well we are finally through the first two weeks of school.  It's such a drastic change that it's really hard to plan everything out and prioritize!  Some days I don't even see Jameson until 8 or 9 at night because our schedules clash.  We're both working about 20 hours a week.  Our lives are too boring to blog about now.

The past few weekends were very fun!  April 15th was my dad's birthday, so we got to go home and hang out with my family.  We went to ABC Mandarin, my very favorite restaurant.  The Saturday after, I went with Rach and my mom to my aunt's house for another wedding shower.  It was really fun to see all my cousins.  Sadly, Jameson was really sick that weekend, but he still got to hang out with my brothers and had fun with them. But my car broke down, and that delayed our return a little.  When we got back on Monday, we got to meet up with Jameson's parents and ate dinner with them, his aunts, and grandma.  Then we went shopping at winco!

April 22 we went down to Provo to see the rest of his family, for Jillian's graduation.  It was fun seeing everyone and just spending time together.  We went out to eat, and went shopping, and then played laser tag.  It was really enjoyable.  I also got to spend time with Rachel, Holla, and Anna.  I feel like I haven't seen Holla and Anna in so long.  It will be hard with Anna living in North Carolina now, but I'm sure her and Daniel will love it. Change is really good sometimes.

Things that have happened this week:
My laptop broke
Work was extremely busy every day
I had many group meetings
Jameson started his job
We stayed up late doing homework many nights (not a good idea when I have early classes every morning
I didn't have time to cook much :(
Jameson did the dishes every night
I got sick again
We got to relax on the weekend and go out to eat for our date
Mainly... we made it through the week!

[I would add pictures, but my laptop is broken and I haven't uploaded pictures]