Christmas Fun...

So I needed a break from all my finals this week, especially tonight so I thought I would do this little christmas thing!

*Wrapping Paper or Gift bags? I like wrapping paper for Christmas.

*Real tree or Artificial? Growing up we always had a fake tree, so I really would prefer fake! Easy, cleaner, and lasts longer!

*When do you put up the tree? As soon as possible after Thanksgiving!

*When do you take the tree down? Usually when we get back from our Christmas break! SO not till like the second week of January! lol

*Do you like eggnog? Yes but only if my daddy makes it!

*Favorite gift received as a child? Hmmm.... I always got awesome presents! Probably my favorite was my cool stereo with big speakers and the Spice Girls CD!

*Hardest person to buy for? My mom!

*Easiest person to buy for? Hmmm.... Tyler!!

*Do you have a nativity scene? A few of them, but nothing too special :(

*Best Christmas gift you ever received? Well this yearwe are getting a Wii from my parents so I am pretty sure that is going to be our best!

*Worst Christmas gift you ever received? Hmm.... cannot think of anything?

*Favorite Christmas Movie (s)? The Grinch Who Stole Christmas (with Jim Carrey.) and Elf!

*When do you start shopping for Christmas? Not till December or whenever we have money to buy something.

*Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? I plead the 5th too!

*Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? My dad's eggnogg! Yummy Yummy!

*Lights on the tree? Yup white.

*Favorite Christmas song? Too hard to pick just one.

*Travel at Christmas or stay home? Considering we don't have our own home, we travel and travel and travel. All holiday long...

*Can you name all of Santa's reindeer's? Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen. Comet and Cupid and Donner and Blitzen. But do you recall? The most famous reindeer of all - Rudolf!

*Angel on the tree top or a star? Star! Angels on top of trees kinda creep me out?

*Open presents Christmas Eve or morning? Jammies on Christmas Eve and everything else Christmas morning.

*Most annoying thing about this time of the year? All the traveling we have to do to see our families.

*Favorite for Christmas dinner? Anything... Gina usually brings Sweet and Sour, and we do ham, and if I talk my mom into it I LOVE Grandma Veda's Chicken N Noodles.

*Do you send Christmas cards? Did last year, but was way too busy with finals this year!

*What do you want for Christmas this year? Hopefully a new cell phone! And a Wii!

I tag... Steph, Gina H, Jamie, Mary, Megan, Emily, Tiff.. and anyone else!

Oh, Christmas Tree

This year, I literally could not wait to put up my Christmas decorations. I try to wait until after Thanksgiving, but this year it was killing me. So, I had just decided I was going to put stuff up a little early, and then I remembered that all our stuff was in Lyman at my parents house... So to Tyler relief, I could not put anything up until we got back from Thanksgiving and picked up all our stuff. Here is a picture of our tree and other decorations!

Family Pics....

So this past weekend, while we were home with family, we decided to have family pictures taken. His little brother Ben is leaving for a mission in January, so we are trying to get a good one before he goes! We were up in the Uinta Mountains at Grandpa and Grandma Lee's cabin. Here are just a few!!

Me N Mar

Me N Ty

Bobbi, Boyd, Nick, Ben, Me, Ty, Marlee

Me N Nick-Nak

Us Kids...

Our Cute Little Home...

With it being so close to Thanksgiving I have been feeling quite grateful for all we have in our lives. Lately, I have been especially grateful for the apartment we have here in Laramie. Taking into consideration that apartments in Laramie are super expensive and not very nice, we feel very blessed with our apartment. We are on HUD Housing which is income based, so we pay nearly nothing for rent, and its two levels, and just feels like home to us. We feel so blessed to live in this apartment, in this ward, and in our neighborhood! Here are some pics.... Hope you like!

This is our downstairs...

And this is the upstairs...

Our Bedroom

The Spare and bathroom...

Spectacular Quote...

I was reading today, and came upon this awesome quote...

"Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others...By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves."— Gordon B. Hinckley

Tagged.....Eights list

8 TV shows I like to watch.....
Grey's Anatomy
The Hills
Jon & Kate Plus 8
Criss Angel Mindfreak
Tyra Banks tlk show
The Girls Next Door
Army Wives
Anything that looks good!

8 Restaurants I like to eat at....
Olive Garden
Carona Village
Applebee's
Subway
Chile's
Qudoba's
Don Pedro's
Carl's Junior

8 Things that happened today....
We were both out of bed by 7:30 AM!! AMAZING!
Called the auto center place to see if they could help us with the new problem with our car.
Drove across town to Toldson's to babysit baby Jaicee.
Held baby Jaicee.
Fed her her bottle.
Changed her bum.
Watched TV.
Went to work, where I am now filling this tag out!

8 Things I am looking forward to....
Christmas.....my favorite holiday!
Thanksgiving......I LOVE food!!
Going to Lava Hot springs after Thanksgiving
Fixing my stinking car so I don't have to drive the HUGE truck anymore!
Graduating college
Tyler graduating and getting a decent job!
Having a steady and reliable income to live off of.
Having a house someday (I hate living in apartments!)

8 Things on my wish list....
Good grades
More money!!
A free, all paid for vacation!
A bigger and newer apartment!
A snow-free winter!!
A 4-wheeler
A new snowmachine for Ty
A family (someday when I am older and richer!)

8 People I tag....
Stephanie, Gina H, Tiffany, Jamie, Jessica .......

*Carving Pumpkins*

Tyler and I decided that you are never too old to carve pumpkins so that is just what we did! We had a blast, and enjoyed having a few spare minutes away from homework! Ty's is some type of skull in a spider web, and mine a cutsie little goblin girl!

Our little car Episode

So yesterday, Tyler and I decided to go to Denver and go to the temple. We had a spectacular time, until about twenty miles outside of Laramie. I had just woken up, and looked over at the speedometer and thought to myself, "WOW Ty is only going like 50 in the interstate." So of course, I was annoyed, and told him to speed up! He looked back at me and said, "UUhhh I think we have a problem!"

Turns out the car just randomly died, would not start, and we had to call Jeani to come and get us. We had to tell her what mile marker we were at so we started walking! It was quite a sight! Tyler was in is tie and church slacks, while I was in a skirt and my highest high heels I own! (The reason I went is because I was too scared to stay in the car by myself!) We headed forward, and didn't realize until we were almost exactly one mile in front of the car that there was a mile marker right behind the car!!

So, after Jeani came and got us we went back to Laramie and bought a fuel filter, because we believed that we had received bad gas when we filled up at Loaf & Jug that morning. We then drove all the way back out to the car and put the part in. It didn't work. We came home, went to bed, and woke up at six o'clock and went back to tow the car. This was also quite the process, and now we still do not have a running car. Hopefully Tyler will be able to replace the fuel pump tomorrow and that is all that is the matter with it!

My suggestion to all of you:

DON'T BUY LOAF & JUG GAS!!!

Homecoming Visitors

This last week was Homecoming at UW, so of course we had some visitors for the big game. My mom and newphew Braydon came and joined in all the fun! Even though UW is not the greatest at the game of football, and we got our butts kicked!

Ty and I

My mommy and I (She was trying to fix her glasses)

Braydon, my nephew, and I.

Our New Addition...

For those of you have not seen us the past month, we have a new little addition... A new truck! Tyler had finally had it with both of us driving the same car, only different colors. And of course his hick side kicked in and he needed a truck. So, we bought one. It was a pretty big step for us, and has thoroughly pleased Tyler!

This is the inside!

New to the Blogging World

OK so Tyler and I are like the only couple I know of that didn't have a blog, so of course, I had to make one! (Thanks to my sis Steph!) I truly have no idea what I am doing or how to do anything, so don't expect anything grand from us!