DREAM HOME!

We started looking at houses just to see what was on the market, maybe there would be something we would like! We found the cutest house ever!

 There isn't a garage but we are sure we can easily build that on later.

This is the front room, we think we will do most of our entertaining in this room! We were thinking a leopard skin couch and a black leather love sac, maybe some nice black and white European photography. This room is the one that sold it for us for sure!

And at dinner time what better place to eat then right underneath this beautiful chandelier? We love the romantic flower pattern, we are trying to find a matching table cloth, keep your eyes peeled for us!

a projector on the ceiling and some surround sound will make this room the place to be! We are really hoping that couch comes with it, it makes the room! If not we found a nice tiger skin to put in front of the giraffe style fireplace. We can't wait to snuggle up and watch in our little home theater room!

This would be our bedroom, with a great view from both windows and that comfy carpet, how could you go wrong? Not to mention the wood paneling that gives it that outdoorsy feel!

There is a quick tour of our dream house! We are planning to make an offer soon, cross your fingers for us!!!

iPhone: It can't display flash

I saw this picture and thought it was really funny! Mind you I love Apple, I still think this is awesome!

What happens when you microwave a peep!?

I know you are all thinking, what the what?!? But I am done with school for a whole week! Thats right you heard me a week! I turned in my last final yesterday and summer classes start on Wednesday! THANKS FOR THE BREAK!!!! So while I'm done I have extra room for weirdness in my brain, for the next 5 days that is. Anyways I was talking to Jenny, complaining that Jason was graduating today and I was eating peeps. I always open peeps when I get them and then eat them a couple of weeks later. I like when they are crunchy! Anyways she told me its funny to microwave them cause they expand. And then I started wondering if peeps will still expand if they are old or what would happen. I decided that it would be important to document this in case I discover a scientific anomaly having to do with old peeps and microwaves. So here are my findings. Pardon the camera work, it was done with my Palm Pre. Enjoy!

Memoirs of a Mustache

Oh how accustomed I have become, to people looking at me like I'm scum.
The adventures and the stories will never be forgotten, that upper lip warmer cannot be boughten.
It is true the month is nearly passed, the misplaced eyebrow I've worn each day, will meet its last.
Tears will be shed for the little muzzy, that dot and dash we all love to see.
The soup strainer's days are numbered and few, and the massacre of the upper lip plumage shall be true.
But oh... the wondrous life that mouser has had, the people that face fungus has made so darn mad.
The changes on the world that old lip tickler has created. Alas this stache will soon be cremated!
In our hearts the nose neighbor will live on, whether fu manchu, walrus or as the chevron.
All enemies the lip patch does somehow thwart, and why can't each man a face hog sport?
So clean your clothes and give em some starch, and be ready to plant some lip spinach next March!
Although the flavor saver will end on this day, you have not seen the last of my tash I say!
"Long live the cookie duster" said with a sigh, next year we'll bring back the Magnum PI
So now its the end of this face furniture freestyle, with love and respect to that hairy lip pile.

Facial Hair and Dex

Well Denise has been posting a lot so I thought maybe I'd help her out and update everyone on what I have been up to recently. The title of the post may seem random... but it isn't I promise I'll tie it all together as soon as I can.

Well this semester I decided to take only 3 classes rather than the 6 that I was originally signed up for, I did that so I could spend extra time with my wonderful wife. I also signed up for a couple of organizations on campus, one is called DEX and the other is PBL. Dex is the college version of DECA and PBL is the college version of FBLA. This last weekend we had a the DEX state competition and my friend Jason and I signed up for the web design team competition. We are working on a website for our senior project together and decided to finish it in time for the competition and submit it. We didn't get it done in time and so we turned in another site for the state competition. Our plan was that if we qualified for Nationals we would finish our other site and submit it at Nationals. To qualify for Nationals you had to place in the top 4.

Also at the competition is when DEX elects new leadership, Jason is the current VP of Technology for DEX and he graduates at the end of the semester, because I didn't take summer and only took a half load this semester I will be graduating next Spring so I still have another year of school and competitions etc. I decided to run for the position that Jason is in right now and just see how it works out.

I WON! I was however the only one who ran ;) but even still they could have voted no to me and they didn't so I still beat the alternative right? Also Jason and I presented our website at the conference and we won 1st place, one of the judges even left his contact information for us to contact him about a job once we finish school. It was pretty exciting! And that means we qualified for Nationals! So in April we will be flying out to Louisville to compete in the National DEX web design competition.

Ok now the facial hair, I haven't shaved since the wedding day, for a little while I was sporting a pretty thick beard but last night I trimmed it down to a goatee and mustache. I am doing this because Denise and I have planned to throw a little party at the end of March... Its a MUSTACHE PARTY!!! And its gonna be awesome! To prepare for such an event I wanted to get myself in prime mustache shape. And on Monday I will be shaving off the goatee and Mustache March will officially begin! Thats right Tom Selleck get ready to eat your heart out! Or just lick the mustache off your lip! I am super excited about the party, I think Denise is excited too because she started looking at mustache stuff for the party one day and was sending me all these awesome ideas! Its gonna rock!

Well here are some pictures really fast of me at the DEX competition, you'll notice the beard, I'm sure that we'll get some pictures up between now and the party and also pictures of the party. Its gonna be legen...

Wait for it!!!!




Wait For It!!!!






WAIT FOR IT!!!!





DARY!!!

Ok so here is UVU's Chapter

(The competition was at Weber thus the banner in the background)

Here is Jason and I waiting for the winners to be announced

And here we are on the podium after the winners were announced

Denise... I love you!

So today is just one of those days where you take a minute, sit back and think about how blessed your life really is. Am I the only one who does that? Probably not, I'm sure a lot of people do it. Well today I was doing that, for the bettter part of the day one blessing kept coming to my mind, Denise Marie Mullins.
When Denise and I met there was just something about her that made me want to be with her for the rest of my life and for forever. I could talk to her, I could joke with her, and I could be my really random weird self with her. It was so great! On our first date I picked her up and before we had even made it down the street she had grabbed my iPod turned on Aerosmith and started scream singing it at the top of her lungs telling me and Brady that we needed to join in. I pulled a Mosby and immediately I fell for her. She told me she was terrible at bowling that night, but I believe in the first game she killed me, I kept telling her that she was telling me she was bad just so that I'd go easy on her and then she could beat me. She swore that she had never bowled that well in her life, she proved it on the second game ;)
Denise convinced me one day to buy a game called Left 4 Dead, and to get xbox live again so we could play it online. I did as I was told and we would spend hours sitting on my couch killing zombies together. We even bought huge safety pins so we could build a fort around the living room and play Left 4 Dead in our fort but I ended up moving before we could do that. We saved the pins though and will get to use them in the living room in our own home in January.
So many things about Denise led me to fall in love with her, but the thing that I saw in her that really made it all happen was her love for the Gospel, for the Savior and for our Father in Heaven. From the very first day that I talked to Denise she has helped me want to be a better person. She has lifted me up and helped me to become stronger and closer to my Heavenly Father.
Denise, I cannot express in words the love that I feel for you in my heart. You are my everything, I have never been so happy and so in love! Whether its walking around ikea, playing xbox, watching football or reading our scriptures I love what we are doing because its with you. In a few weeks we will be sealed together for all of eternity, I cannot wait to be with you forever, to have little BTWs running around us making us crazy. You are the most amazing person that I have ever met and I am so grateful to my Heavenly Father for putting me on the path to find you and to find the happiness and love that you have given to me.
Thank you for making me a better person, for picking me up and helping me to be who I am today. Thank you for loving everything about me, including the weird stuff, like when I rap songs that shouldn't be rapped or when I quote movies over and over, or continuously annoy you until you're probably wondering why you ever agreed to go on a second date with me. Each morning I wake up and look around my room at 61 sticky notes, each one stating a different reason that you love me, and I think about how lucky I am to have been through all of the trials I have been through in order to finally get to you.
I love you Denise, I will always love you and I will do everything that I can to show you that I love you, each and every day.

Love,

AJ

Video and Survey

Hey everyone I am doing a class project and need your help! I captioned a video for Utah Valley University and have uploaded it to my site, I need as many of you as possible to watch the short video with the captions and then click the survey link on that page to take a short 4 question survey! Thanks in advance!

Click on this link for the video:

wehlmedia.com/caption.html

*P.S. I was told the link wasn't working, it should work now. Thanks!

Wedding Invitations!

Hooray!! The invites are done! So if you gave us your address then of course you will get one! Some of you will automatically already get one, and if you don't think you are on one of those lists you should probably give us your address so you don't get left out. Here is what our invite looks like. Obviously the blurred out section won't be blurred but we didn't want to have any strangers showing up for the free food! :) Tell us what you think!

Eternal Happiness!!!!!

We have only told a few people but we just wanted to announce how happy and excited we are about the news we are about to share! We are going to be married in the temple for time and all eternity! We are so grateful and wanted to tell everyone how happy we are about this news. There is no greater blessing than to be able to spend eternity with the person you love more than anything in the world. :D We are currently working on our announcements if you would like one be sure to email us with your information. We love you all!

Photo Booth Fun

Denise and I got a little carried away with the photo booth app on my laptop today. We were working on the wedding invitation and got a little bored so we did this in between.

Fatal Error!

Phew! Horrific story time! Hold on to your seat/mouse/keyboard/whatever! So everyone should know that I am kinda into computers and technology. If you read my blog at all about a year ago you would have seen a post called Mac Daddy. This was the post where I got my new macbook, I was super excited about it! Well that macbook has served me well for the past year until this last Saturday. (*Note - I run the macbook night and day, probably push the ram too far a lot of the time). On Saturday I was copying some files to a hard drive and the transfer stalled so I tried to quit the transfer and restart it, but the macbook wasn't responding to me. So I switched it off and switched it back on, it went to the white startup screen and hung, and hung, and hung. So switched it off and back on and it went to the startup screen and hung for a minute then shut off. I was a little nervous but thought it had to be ok. So I let it sit for a few hours before I tried again, the result? Same thing happened. So I removed the battery... no help. Denise found some trouble shooting ideas for me and I tried all of them to no avail.
Finally frustrated and nervous that I was going to have to buy a new macbook and start all over I made an appointment at the genius bar, after waiting for about 30 minutes one of the geniuses plugged an external drive in and booted OS X on my machine, he said that the drive was somehow corrupted and would need to be wiped clean.
72 hours later, my drive has been backed up the hard drive wiped and OS X reinstalled, now I'm just finishing installing the last of the software that I need in order to finish some work that I am over due on. Sorry!
I share this story because of how stressed out it made me, with the car problems I just had and the wedding coming up soon, the last thing Denise and I needed was to have to shell out some major bucks for a new macbook (although Denise told me if I had to buy a new one to get a macbook pro so that we wouldn't have to worry about me overworking it (She's awesome!), so that was the drawback of me being able to fix it :D ). The macbook being fixed was an answer to our prayers, literally!
Now I've been trying to convince her since we basically saved $1700 on me not buying a new laptop that we should get a mac mini, I mean come on its only $700, thats a huge saving! :) Love you Denise! Thanks for being patient with my expensive problems! :)

Best Fiance... EVER!

Ok so I thought I would take a minute to tell everyone how awesome my fiance is, the other day I came home from work and she was at my house. I walked down into my room and I found sticky notes all over my room.





Each sticky note had a reason that she loves me, or something that she loves about me. Come on! I'm not that lovable... so to fill out this many sticky notes about me, is... well its pretty much a miracle right? And then a couple of days later she gave me a present that she bought for where ever we end up living.



I saw this door mat at the store when we were shopping and I carried it around the store with us then I decided not to buy it, so she went back to the store and got it for me. She is the best!

Denise I love you! I can't wait to spend the rest of my life with you! Thank you!

Ok now everyone get back to work! :)

Hello World!

Hello to all of our family and friends! Denise and I decided that we needed to have a blog that we could both contribute our weird stuff to! So here we will write about all of our adventures as we start and live our lives together. We are so excited to be together forever and we can't wait to be able to share all of our craziness with all of you. We hope that you all enjoy what we have to say, we will definitely enjoy saying it! :)