Sweet Deals!!

My friend Jill is the best saver I know, and is notorious for finding the most unheard of and amazing deals around. She just started a new blog at www.sweetdealsbyjillee.blogspot.com - everyone interested in saving a little hard-earned dough should follow this blog! Alot of the deals are online, which makes them easily accessible for everyone. It will change your life!
It's www.sweetdealsbyjillee.blogspot.com in case you missed it.

It's a BOY!

Ryan & I were thrilled to find out on Friday that we are expecting a little boy! I'm still trying to peel Ryan off of the ceiling, he was so excited at the doctors office that he was high fiving and skipping around like a little school boy. March 5, 2010 is his due date, and we cannot wait for him to be here with us.

Update.

It's been a couple of months since we've updated our blog! I'm going to try really hard to be a little better at this. But just to cover what's happened...
I got through finals alive, and was able to celebrate a 2 year anniversary and my birthday the same week. It was fun a fun and crazy week. I started working full time over the summer, and immediately we began renovating our house. We painted, put in wood floors, redecorated, and refinished our fireplace and dining table and chairs. Pictures coming SOON! It was a lot of fun and a lot of work. Ryan got a new job selling life insurance for AIL. It's still not his favorite thing to do, but we're very blessed for him to even have a job in this economy. Overall we're doing great, we're very happy and feeling very blessed.

We're Alive!

It's been a CRAZY couple of months as usual! Filled with School, Work, Church Duties & a little Vacationing on the side. Sadly, we lost MOST of our vacation photos in a freak memory card accident. :( I have been so upset I've hardly taken a picture since. Don't judge us by these pictures...I promise we took good ones. In March we took a cruise to the Carribean, and it was fabulous. These pictures are on the ship from formal night with Miguel our server, at the Chicago Airport with Honest Abe, and in San Juan the day we flew out. Ryan got called to be an Assistant Scout Master to the 11 year olds. Which we are both thrilled about! Other than that we are just living the dream, day to day!

I'm a bad bad blogger.

I'm running on the thought of better late than never lately!

Here are some pictures from Finals Week December 2008. It was a busy crazy week. Ryan helped me work on a chair made of nothing but cardboard, glue and some strategically placed screws. (shhh!) For the Critique you have to sit in it; which meant a couple of things 1) A man most definitely created this assignment 2)I was not going to make a flimsy chair.

 Ryan was so sweet to help me, especially since I'm difficult to be around when I am having an artistic vision. After 20 or so hours spent on the chair I had to just take a deep breath and say "oh well". I would do many things differently next time I decide to build a cardboard chair... if that ever happens. 

Last day of finals I took some time out of a stress-fest to have a pedicure with Shelly-bean. We were absolutely crazy because it was snowing like a maniac. And so we ended up running around with freezing little toes. 

Ryan's family picked me up from school and we went straight to Las Vegas. I would honestly never choose to do that ever ever ever again. By the end of the day I was ready to kill over. ahhhh....memories.

Viva Las Vegas...

Las Vegas! What a classy place... This was my first trip to Vegas since I was about 12 years old. We went with Ryan's parents to watch BYU play in the Las Vegas Bowl.

Our first day we drove past the Sexxpresso Coffee Shop and I HAD to take a picture because it looked like such an up-scale establishment. On Friday night we went to Fremont Street, and there were millions of Santa's standing around waiting for something to happen. Naturally I picked my two favorite and asked them for a picture.  They were very drunk and also very nice.

After riding the New York New York Rollercoaster TWICE, we visited the M&M factory and the Coke factory. I really enjoyed both, but my favorite part was getting my picture with the coke bear. Shortly after that picture was taken, he gave me a big kiss. If you didn't know-- I love diet coke more than I should, which enhanced the entire experience for me. Ryan on the other hand didn't find it quite as exciting. 

We went and walked through the gardens at the Belagio one night, how AMAZING! There were life-size reindeer made completely of almonds. Giant mirrors that made up gigantic gifts, and abominable sized snowmen made from Candy and Flowers alone. I was very impressed, since I just took 3D design, and found it extremely difficult to do even small projects. 

We went to watch BYU play which was very disappointing. I don't really care for them anyhow, but even I was bummed at what a poor showing they had; mainly because it makes Ryan grumpy when they loose. 

Last but not least we stopped in Mesquite on our way home, to visit Grandma Dorothy and Grandpa Harvey. It was really fun to see them, and catch up. 

Viva Las Vegas.

It's An Amazing Day

This is US! Thanks to Shelly, we have now entered into the blogging world. How amazing! 

We can't wait to share our lives with you via the world wide web, but it HAS to wait at least until finals are over!