AWWW...

Awww... is the only way to describe what this semester is going to be like. I just have to keep my eye on the prize... this is my last "real" semester, I can get through it! I can! So with us being back in school, we are busy and tired and hating the cold. Its sad when i get excited for a 35 degree day (i love those days)! We really dont have much going on. But we have fun times coming our way! But right now we are working on dealing with the stress.

Happy Birthday Daddy!

Today is my Dad's birthday! I just wanted to do a little
shout out to him...
Love you Dad! thanks for being such an amazing dad! Sorry we couldn't be there to celebrate with you!

Look!!

Look what we came home too... he grew hair! (yes we are back in Rexburg, and its cold.)

Christmas and New Years (warning its long)

I can not begin to tell you how happy we are to be in CA right now and not in Rexburg, I'm am really sad to be going be going back, like really sad. After a kinda crazy yucky scary drive (which is a completely different story) from Rexburg we made it to Los Alamitos and we have been having a great time ever since. We had a great Christmas. My wonderful parents got us some socks and a day at Disneyland! So lets start from the beginning.

On Christmas Eve we had our normal Christmas eve food... clam chowder from the Fish company... red and white kind.Here we are on Christmas morning (looking like we just woke up)... Thats the camera me and George bought for ourselves. Happy Christmas to us!

After we opened gifts the men went golfing... which kinda sucks because it rained but they had a great time. While they were golfing the ladies went to a movie. It was fun girl time. When the movie was over we went home and started cooking... Prime Rib Eye roast... so goooodd!!

veggies with home made ranch...
And the only thing that went wrong all day... we tired to make spinach and artichoke dip...but the spinach was old and the artichokes were marinated so it tasted kinda gross... but it was still fun. We also made brownies and mashed potatoes and salad and rolls and other things. And then the boys got home... and they were cold because of the rain so they got in the hot tub and it started to pour! it was pretty crazy! and by the way Christmas day was the only day we had yucky whether! (yes, Folks that's my dad and my two brothers! This is one of my favorite pictures of the trip)


Then we went to Disneyland the next day. Here's the family all loaded up in the van ready for a big kinda cold day at Disneyland!

Poor Ryan was the 7th wheel all day... so here he is with his date.

Since Disneyland we have just kinda been hanging out. We went Ice Skating. We met up with some of Georges friends that live down here (of course no camera). We had a pretty low key New Years stayed at home with the family and friends. New years day we went to the driving range and enjoyed the beautiful weather. I'm soaking up all the sun shine i can because we go back to the frozen land of Idaho. Over all we have had a great couple of weeks and we are sad to leave in a few days.

Flash back to last Christmas....

That's right folks... that's my husband... as Santa. HAHA... good times.

Last Christmas George was asked to dress up as Santa at Wal-Mart. He got to sit there all day and take pictures with the kids and of course with me (the future Mrs. Clause).

Last Christmas we also got engaged!! So i thought i would recap the story so that every one will know... So it all started on a cold day! Really cold like 2 degrees. It had just snowed like a foot. And because i was leaving to go home for a semester he decided we needed to go one last walk before i go. we went on walks all the time... always to the same spot and we would always sit at the same bench (its like a 6 mile walk so we always needed a break). So i knew he was going to ask me some time soon because i knew he had talked to my dad and all that fun stuff. But I figured he would at least tell me when he got the ring, so i was not expecting anything. So we start out walk... and im like "George, it is freezing can we just go home" remember there was a foot of snow on the ground... and im from so. cal i am not made for snow and cold. But he really wanted to go on this walk so we keep going... we decided to take a short cut so we B-lined right to our bench. While walking i was holding a flash light (oh yeah it was dark) and my hand was freezing so i asked if we could switch sides so that i could put my cold hand in my pocket and he said NO. and thats when i knew there was something up. So we get to our bench and of course there is a foot of snow on it so we cant side and now im like great, this was point less, we could be all warm at home watching tv. and then he was said "do i have to knell" and i was like omg... i said no because of the snow and then he told me he loved me and asked me to marry him and i said yes! and now we are here all married and loving life.
This is the ring he gave me when we got engaged, the wedding band,... and then later we got my actual engagement ring.

We got engaged and then i left for home like 2 days later. It was sad. But now we are married for-ev-er! And i couldnt be happier.

A New York Get a way

We are back! We just got back from George's home town in New York. We had lots of fun just hanging out with his family. We really didnt do anything to exciting but it was still a very good trip to New York.

While in New York Suzanne (Georges little sister) got married and it was just lovely. It was cold. But it was lovely. She was a beauitful bride. And my new brother in law is great and we are happy to have him in the family. One of my favorite parts of the trip was when we first got there and we were renting a car... the lady at the check out told us we were getting a "hot" car. At the time it was really funny! After all we had been up all night (red eye). So here is our "hot" car... Ours was black... George's favorite part was the key-less start button... it was pretty "hot!"

Since the last time we were in New York was for our wedding reception it was AMAZING to see how much our little niece has grown up. She is the startest 2 year old i have ever seen. It was really fun to spend time with her and get to know her... I'm always scared she is going to forget who we are because we live so far away. We just love her so much. This is one of my favorite pictures from the whole trip...
Little Sophie and Uncle Jamie reading on the couch... what cuties.

Aunt Lynda and Uncle Joe also gave us some pictures from the reception we had in New York, And I am very happy because i didnt have any! This is by far my favorite picture of the bunch...
Over all we had a great time in Jamie's home town! Its so pretty there... i wish we could have spent more time there. We are now thinking that we might do a loooong road trip there in the summer... i'm pretty excited about it!

Our next adventure... Los Alamitos... count down starting now... 5 days.

Cabin Weekend!

This weekend we went up to Island Park to stay at our friends, Becky and James', cabin and let me tell you it was so fun! and such a good refresher before finals! We stayed up really late and we ate lots of yummy and unhealthy food. We walked around in the woods for a while trying to find the "prefect tree" for Brad and Amy and James and Becky (we are not setting up a tree), we played lots and lots of games! Some old some new! and we laughed a lot! and it was so nice to have girl talk again!

we went to this natural spring thing, and i can not remember the name of it for the life of me, but there were really big fish and apparently really good fresh water.

it was so cold but it was fun to get out and see a little of Island Park. The whole trip was so much fun and the company was even better! Thanks a million Jacksons!!! it was a great trip!