Thanksgiving...and a song.

We had a great time in California! We got to spend some time with our families, go to the beach on a gorgeous day, play baseball, get in a family fight (safe or out is THAT big of a deal apparently), shop, got our Christmas tree, ate a delicious Thanksgiving feast, saw our friends including our friend Treigh who just got home from his mission, snuggled in the tiny bed we get to sleep on, did my mom and sister's hair, celebrated Aunt Wendy's birthday, got lots of See's candy from Grandma Geneva, and ate lots of delicious meals!














Now enjoy this little song I wrote about our trip home, sung (loosly) to the tune of 12 Days of Christmas.

On the way home to Utah, these crappy things happened to us...
1 terrible snow storm
2 hotel reservations made when we were about to give up
3 hours to travel from St George to Cedar
4 extra hours driving
5 bathroom/clean off the windshield stops
6 times I wanted to cry
7 cars flipped over
8 times we talked about stopping
9 cars off the road in a 1 mile stretch
10 was the time we finally got home
11 billion times I said, "Please be careful!"
12 hours to get home!

School

I love my school! I am really enjoying it. I love the way they teach us and that we already to so much hands on...Still on doll heads thank goodness, but doing it nonetheless! I love my friends there! We have so many fun people in our class and I have two great friends that I get along especially well with, Kirsten and
Chanel. We have a lot of fun! :)

P.S. On Tuesdays we can wear non black clothes if we donate two dollars to charity. Sometimes I crack and donate because I can't take the black anymore. My hair looks so long in the second picture! Wow!

P.S.S. I swear I do my hair without braided bangs most the time. I'm just trying to grow them out and sometimes it is just easier to braid them.

outback

Last night was date night! We have been way better lately at staying home to cook now that I am home at night, so date night was a big deal! We went to Outback and had sooo much food! We ate a flavored lemonade, Blooming Onion, a blue cheese wedge salad, some brown bread, ribs, steak, shrimp, and potatoes! It was such a fun treat! When we were waiting to be seated, we went shopping next door and Jordan bought me Elf! I LOVE Elf!! I couldn't sleep this morning so I'm up watching it before he wakes up...he doesn't agree with Christmas so early! And I don't with most things...but Elf is the exception! :)
We have a fun day planned! Lincoln's 1st birthday party, BYU football, and BYU basketball (if I'm not too burnt out on sports!). Should be fun! :)

haircuts

So I had this long post al typed out last night and as I was about to publish it, there was a knock at my door. I thought that was odd at 8:30 at night, but answered it. They said they were with a advertising company and they wanted to clean the carpet in one room of every house. Jordan spilled some root beer on our carpet a few weeks ago so I said okay. TWO HOURS later... they super vaccummed 3 couch cusions, under the couch, our ceiling, our binds, the floor two stairs, one matress and shampood our front rooom carpet all to try to sell a Kirby vaccumm. Ummm... I'm sorry we don't have three thousand dollars for a vaccumm! They stayed until 10:30! So anyway, I forgot to hit submit and lost my post!
These are my first two haircuts! The first is a square one length and the other is a front and side view of a triangular graduation. I am loving school and learning a lot!


We are leaving Tuesday around noon or one to go home for Thanksgiving!
I am so excited to...
-be with family
-see HP
-play games that we don't normally play because you need more than two people
-eat yummy food
-enjoy the warmer weather
-watch Elf
-get red TOMS ;)

Note to self:When someone says they won't make you buy anything, it means they won't force you, but they will sure try!

Dear family

Please wait to see HP with Jordan and me next week. (By family I mean all of you.) Partly because we are too cheap to pay for movies and partly because it would be a party. Please and thank you. K love you.
M and J

for the children...and for yourself!

Our friend Chelsy, who took our pictures just a couple weeks ago, is doing a really cool fundraiser. For the entire month of December all proceeds from photo sessions go to an amazing non-profit organization, the Guatemala Embrace Effort guatemalaembraceeffot.org PLUS add her on Facebook (ChelsyAnn Photography) and get 50% off of your session! Space is limited, so book your session soon!

The pictures she did for us are so great! I love them and I seriously suggest you take her up on this!

http://chelsyannphoto.blogspot.com/

a day for the books

We are running late for church just like normal but we can not find a place to park. The lot was full and the streets surrounding the building were full but we drove around and found a spot. It is always hard to find a spot but today was especially bad. We peek in the chapel to find a spot and it is packed. Jordan made a joke about how maybe we had a general authority speaking. We are looking in the overflow to find a seat when it hits me... we were asked to speak...at this kid's mission farewell! I told Jordan and he just says, "Well, let's do it."
So we go sit on the stand and remember our topic, gratitude. The other guy is going first so we are just preparing and trying to come up with scriptures as fast as possible. I was red and sweating like crazy but then I calmed down and I was freezing cold and clammy. Awesome. He ends up only leaving us like 20 minutes and both of us still have to talk and the Stake President wanted to say a few words and there was a song planned between us too that they ended up canceling. My talk was probably just five minutes long but that is really a the time we had. Jordan is such a great speaker he gave an awesome talk still. (He keeps making fun of my talk! You know it was bad then because he is so sweet to me!) Then while Jordan was talking, my sickness kicks in and I CANNOT stop coughing. I almost have in under control when this little lady on the front row offers me a cough drop so we had an awkward pass off there but I didn't care anymore. Is anything awkward at that point??
When the counselor in the bishopric was announcing the program, he said something about "a look on your face when you see you are speaking". In relief society, a few women said things like, "You are so nice to give a talk they never told you about." I didn't say anything. If that's what they got out of what he said, I'm fine with that! Oh, man. What a day. I'm glad that is over. This is like my worst fear!

LOVE

I love school! I have some good friends already...cute little young 19 yr old single (well both have boyfriends, but they aren't married)! I am learning so much and I am really enjoying it! I go from 9am-4:30pm (which is really nice because Jordan gets out of school/work at wither 3 or 5). We get an hour break for lunch which is nice because I have plenty of time to go home if I want to. We have to wear allllll black except for shoes and accessories which is old already because let's face it, black is not my color! I only had a few black items so I bought a few more and basically wear the same things over... but when we all only wear black, I don't notice when others wear the same thing so they probably don't notice me. One day we went out to lunch and this guy came up to us and said, "Who died?" It made me laugh!



I got my hair done at school on Tuesday night and it took FIVE HOURS!! It looks really good but really?? It is blonde with some dark copper woven in. Then Wednesday I woke up with a sore throat and headache out of no where! I kept getting sicker and I ony made it through a couple hours of school today. I'll save you the gross details but I have painful yellow spots on the back of my throat and not cough or congestion leading me to believe it's strep. If I am still this sick tomorrow, I will get it checked out for sure.

Pictures!

Our friend Chelsy Hulet took pictures of us before the haunted corn maze. They turned out so good!!

Check more out here chelsyannphoto.blogspot.com.
Would ya look at that?... I made a link! I am so blogger smart... haha.