Happy Birthday AJ!

AJ you are everything I have ever wanted in a husband. My whole life I thought I would have to settle and my standards were too high. You are proof that you don't have to settle! You are my soul mate and I don't care how corny it sounds. You are mine, there is no other person on this earth that could make me this happy. I know with all my heart that heavenly father brought us together. We both had awful trials to go through before meeting each other but like you always say. I would go through all of those trials a million times over if it meant you were the reward. AJ you are so kind and loving. You never lose your temper and you always treat me with such respect. Not just anyone could make me feel this much like a princess. So far every day of our life together has been so amazing. I can't wait for all the new adventures and surprises we have waiting around the corner. Thank you for being the perfect husband. I love you! Happy Birthday sweet heart.!!!!!

P.S. (you are the biggest weirdo I have ever met :D )

Disney on Ice!

AJ's family was nice enough to invite us with them to Disney on Ice! Even though we are childless we definitely enjoyed it! The look on Lincoln's face was priceless when the cars came out OH MY GOSH! I love spending time with his family. OK... So... I feel like such a dork admitting this but there were the cutest little flower hats that came on top of a bag of cotton candy and I wanted one sooo bad! I resisted though.. I was not going to spend ten bucks on a flower hat that I would never use and cotton candy that would make me fat! Luckily Kenny got one (much more practical for her) so I was able to get a picture in the hat! I was so happy! It's funny that a picture in a flower hat could make me so happy! ( I may have kinda talked kenny in to getting it though)

Two with the hat cause I loved it so much!

Kenny posing she is sooooo adorable. 

Honeymoon!

I realized I never posted anything about our honeymoon! What is wrong with me! We went to Cancun. Which is extremely different than I thought it was. I always picture mtv spring break when I think of Cancun. It was surprisingly a really relaxing nice getaway! Our hotel was GORGEOUS. They had the best Pina coladas ever (non-alcoholic of course). We limited ourselves to one a day but oh man I could of easily had ten a day! Our Balcony had a beautiful view of the beach and the best shower ever. It also had a baday.... kinda weird! We had so much fun. The only bummer thing is it was pretty cold when we were down there. We couldn't really lay out without freezing. It was weird though the water was still way warm. We could play in the water all day but laying out was not all that fun. One night it was raining and we decided to take a walk on the beach. It is one of my favorite memories. Sucking down Pina coladas and walking along the beach having randomly big waves soak our clothes. It was the best. OH YA and on our wedding night we stayed at the anniversary inn in the Swiss Family Robinson suite. The "waterfall" that went in to the jacuzzi tub was pretty funny. It was kinda fun to spend our first night married in a tree house bed I must say!

AJ hanging from the tree house!

AJ laying in our treehouse bed!

Me bein a dork as usual

Just arriving in Cancun

AJ Takes FOREVER putting on sunscreen! So I had to take a picture so I could remember.

These next few pictures are just of our beautiful hotel 

Pina coladas on the beach!

poolside

Early morning going to inga pirca

This place was SOOO COOL. I have always wanted to go to Mayan ruins.

Littlest old woman ever!

xehlha! It was so gorgeous. We snorkled that whole channel and saw some super awesome fish! There was this Giant one that AJ followed around for about five mintues!

More pina coladas at xehlha! So funny story... when you come in to the park there are people with parrots and iguanas that you can get pictures with. So AJ and I get tons of pictures with them. The last picture AJ got with a bird on his head and one on his arm. At the beginning of the picture he felt something warm go down his back. Oh ya ....bird poop all the way down his back. He was freaking out and I couldn't walk with him to help him get cleaned off because I was hysterically laughing. I'm such a jerk.

After a few hours of snorkeling. See it was kinda overcast. That is pretty much how it was the whole time we were there. It was kinda cold.

Exploring the Trails.

You jump off that cliff in to the water right there. Then you can tube down that river. There was also a bike trail. It was way fun you could get goin pretty fast.

These animals were way weird looking and kinda freaky. They would make really high pitched sounds. 

hammock lounging still at xehlha ..... I swear the best day ever!

hanging out around the city

Last day packin up!

picture from our balcony

view from our balcony!

We were sad to leave but excited to get back and really start our life together. Our plane ended up being five hours late and we missed our connecting flight and didn't have our bags!!!! That was the longest most exhausting day of my life. I am just glad I was stuck with AJ he made it way better. Now we are home and you know the rest. We are happier than we have ever been.

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.

Test drama!

A few weeks ago I had scheduled my practical test for my esthetician license. I scheduled it for a Wednesday at 5 at night (so I thought) so I could take it after work that day! The night before AJ and I went over everything, to make sure I had all the little steps down, til about 12:30. I was so excited and nervous as I went over to the test center. As I pull up I noticed there are absolutely no cars in the parking lot. So of course I start to panic a little bit. I walked to the front and tried the door just to find it was locked! I was really early so I told myself they just haven't opened the center up yet. Starting to feel my anxiety bubbling up I hurry and pull out my phone to look up there website!  After searching frantically for a number I could call with no success I logged in to look and see all the specifics of the test (date, time, place). I pulled up my schedule and find the test just to see it says I was absent! I look over at the date and the test was on Tuesday!!!!!! I thought I had scheduled it for Wednesday from the beginning! As I realize what has happened I start to cry and freak out in a mini panic attack. I was sure they wouldn't let me make it up for a month and I would have to pay another 90 dollars ( because that is what they make you do if you fail). I called AJ pretty much hysterical and explain what happened. Of course AJ being the amazing man that he is talks to me, calms me down and explains that everything will be alright we just need to deal with it! So I go back to our apartment and start deep cleaning.Trying to get my mind off of things until tommorow when I can call the headquarters and hopefully talk them into letting me take it sooner. Later that night my friend from school texts me to ask how I did! Embarrassed out of my mind I tell her the whole story and how I now have to wait a month! She then precedes  to tell me she missed her first test cause of traffic. She explains that I will have to pay another 90 dollars but I can take the test as soon as possible! It still stinks that I have to pay the money but at least I can take the test next week! AJ being the positive bug he is told me it was a good thing cause now I have even more time to prepare! So I better pass with this extra time I gave myself! I am so grateful Heavenly father blessed me with such an amazing husband that knows just what to say and just how to make me feel better!  So anyways everyone better wish me luck for next week! I hope I can get the date right this time!

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...

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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

More wedding pictures!

As promised i am posting more wedding pictures! Just random ones I thought were adorable!

Cutting the cake


All the nieces and nephews!

 

Kenny had gotten in her pajamas and Heidi told her to not come downstairs without her dress on! The result: Kenny comes down with the dress over the top of her pajamas SOOOO FUNNY!

Kenny sue!

Lincoln poo!

 

Cute Chocolate on Tater Tots face!
 

Beautiful Ry! She is getting so freaking old!

 

O i love little delaney!

 

Ooo so cute little brothers!

 

So cute of both of them!

 

 Such a beautiful picture!

Ok so turns out I just wanted to post a few pictures of my nieces and nephews! But can you blame me they are adorable! This obviously isn't all of the cute pictures or even a picture of every single one of them but my computer is taking forever to load! So I am giving up on posting all of them!