One Year Anniversary

May 22, 2008

Wow, where to start? I can't believe we have already passed our year mark. This has been the best year of my life and wouldn't have changed a thing. Randy and I have become so close this past year, closer than I ever thought was possible. I love learning more and more about him as time goes on. He is such a good husband and I am so so lucky to be married to such an amazing man. He is my best friend and I never want to imagine life without him by my side. We are definitely perfect for each other. He shows me more everyday how much he loves me and he always knows the right things to say when i'm upset or worried about something. We always heard the first year was the hardest but if that was the hardest it is going to be then we are very lucky!

For our Anniversary we played tennis, went shopping and then checked into The Peery Hotel. When we got to our room we found a candy bouquet that my cute mom had sent to our room. After dropping our bags off we went up to La Caille for dinner. It was of course deliscious and we were stuffed!!

La Caille helped us celebrate

Thank you so much babe for the most amazing year of my life, I'm so lucky to be able to spend the rest of eternity with you!!

Baby showers and Random Days

Rachael's Baby Shower

Randy's really good friend Rachael (she was one of my bridesmades) is having a baby boy in June. She had a georgeous baby shower at La Caille that was so much fun! I was really good to see her and of course she looked amazing at 8 months pregnant!! She had a full buffet with yummy food, goodie bags full of pregnancy tests, gift certificates, and champagne to celebrate the birth. There was also a photobooth which was probably one of my favorite things there!!Here are some pics from the night:

We found a rope swing, wish I would have known that was there on the wedding day!! I totally would have gotten some shots on that!

Random Nights

Every now and then we help Randy's dad out catering, we did a really cool wedding in May that was Moulin Rouge/Carnival themed. His dad did such a good job and if you ever need a caterer he owns ' Cosmopolitan Catering ' and I've seen him do pretty much anything and always displays it in cute creative ways!! Here are some pics of the decorations and of us in our 'costumes.'

They had a professional hula hooper perform

So, it was quite the spread. They had a photobooth, cotton candy machine, italian soda bar, popcorn machine, and gelato bar with lots of yummy toppings. Randy's dad provided chocolate covered bacon, mini burgers, pretzels, mini pizzas, fries, and chocolate covered bananas.

I know this might not be very interesting to some but I was so impressed on how creative this whole idea was!!

Other random pics from things we have been up to lately:

Eating at the Spaghetti Dinner in Centerville with the fam

Cheering Kelsey on at one of her soccer games, we got really into it! She has gotten really good, I was impressed!!The little soccer player and my cute husband Enjoying the game

A little Catch Up

January -

On the 16th Randy turned the big 25! Mid-twenties, crazy! 31st I turned 23, not quite as old as Randy but I still feel really old, especially when I realized that I've been out of high school for 5 years!!

February -

We had a wonderful Valentine's Day! We got sushi from Mikado's and ate it on my new sushi dishes, it was pretty fun. Randy got me beautiful roses and we just spent the night in watching the dunk contest, which I always enjoy watching for some reason, maybe part of it is cause I know how much he enjoys it! I promise it was my idea though, everyone gave him a hard time about making me 'stay in' on V-day but I loved it!

My grandma also passed away on February 28th. My sister and I flew down to NM to meet my mom and the rest of the fam for the funeral. It was really sad, I was pretty close to her but she had been going downhill for the past couple of years and she was really miserable, not even the same person anymore. My poor grandpa, he was in shock because she passed away so quick and he didn't expect it so soon. He was having such a hard time with it. I cant even imagine the pain he must be going through, he kept saying that he couldn't sleep cause he had been sleeping next to her for 60 years. It breaks my heart, you never saw them go anywhere without each other so spending time with the fam after the funeral was really wierd without her there. I am really happy they were able to come to the wedding, that was the last time I had seen her and was able to spend time with her.

March

My friend Nicole had a baby, Brooklyn, she is so stinkin cute and Nicole is such a good mommie!! I know it's kinda late but congrats Casey and Nicole!!

New Year's Resolution: Update Blog

At the beginning of December one of my best friends from Germany came in to town for a wedding. She lives in North Carolina now and I haden't seen her since my sophemore year in high school which is around 7 years ago! I was so good to see her, I miss her a ton! It was fun meeting each others significant others, catching up, and reminising on the embarassing things we did when we were 15. She is so stinking cute! We met up in Park City for lunch, here's a few pics of the reunion.

Right Before Christmas we moved up the West Jordan to a cute Townhome style apartment. It is really close to Jordan Landing so it is a bit of a drive down to Provo for work but we got kicked out of our condo because the owner's sold it. Don't worry they paid us to move out, which is pretty much the only reason we agreed to it! Anywho, I love our new place, if we have to live in an apartment I would much rather live in one that at least kind of feels like we have our own place. I also secretly like that we got kicked out because now we don't have to pack up the dogs and clothes ever weekend when we would come stay up here. Randy hates driving so we are hoping he will get a job closer to home. Here are some pics of the new place now that it's all put together.

The Holidays were so fun! It is definitely one of my favorite times of year. This christmas Randy's parents were in Boston visiting his brother's family so we spent Christmas day and weekend at my mom's playing Wii Guitar Hero World Tour and Mario Kart which was a blast!! My favorite part of when we played world tour was when my sister and I were playing the drums and guitar and Randy failed all of us with his singing! It was pretty funny, my poor husband is tone def and can only keep up with the game when he is singing falsetto. I loved it! Don't feel too bad, he proceeded to kick our butts in Mario Kart and made sure we knew he was killing us! All in good fun of course.

Here is Fitch all cuddled under the tree on Christmas Eve...

The week following Christmas Randy's Grandpa got married, the night before the ceremony his new wife's family had a big get together. It was really fun, she has a big family and it was also really fun to see the majority of Randy's family again. We don't get to see them all that often but when we do I always have a good time, they are hilarious. Here is a picture of our cousin Lindsay and her son, we got the pleasure of wearing name tags and hers just happened to get stuck to Canyon's head. It was cute!

The next day was the ceremony at the Bountiful Temple, which is the first temple wedding ceremony we have been to as a married couple, it was fun, it definitely brought a lot of those nervous/anxious/good memories back from when we were sitting there on our day. After the ceremony we all headed to the Joseph Smith Memorial Building where we had a yummy luncheon.

On to New Year's Eve, I worked that morning and then headed over to Sheldon and Michelle's house to start the sushi making process. We always go out to sushi together so we thought it would be fun to make it ourselves on New Year's Eve. It was so much fun and we were so dang proud of our professional looking sushi! Michelle had gone to the fish market earlier and picked up some delicious samon and tuna. First we just made california rolls and then just prepared everything else for the others to make their own rolls. Here some pics from along the way, and then the final product.

Finally Updating our Blog - There's a lot to catch up on!

Hmm... Where to start? Well maybe lets start with the most eventfull and time consuming, Randy's thumb. So he has had this thing on his thumb for months now that just looked like a blister or cyst or something. So a month or so ago we lanced it and all it did was gush blood, we figured we should have someone look at it after lancing it 3 or 4 times and all we got was a lot of blood. We took him to the UVU health clinic since he isn't on my insurance yet and with all the many trips and prescriptions and things they have done to his thumb it has only been $10! Anywho, So the first trip we figured they would just look at it, not know what it is, and have us come back when the doctor was there. Oh no, the Nurse Practitioner came in, looked at it, and then said, " Well, lets go dig around in it a bit, ok?" So much to our suprise she numbed it, then sliced it open with a scalpel, we warned her about the blood, that didn't stop her, she then continued to get tweezers with like jagged edges on the end and dig and scrape inside this thing on his thumb. Gross, even I had to sit down, gushing blood, tugging on the skin, it was pretty discusting, good thing I'm not doing nursing anymore. After digging to the bottom of this thing she found a wart. Apparantly it was a wart that never grew to the surface and so his body encapsulated it and was treating it as a foreign body. After all of this she decided his thumb was too irritated to freeze off the wart and so she just wrapped it and it ended up getting infected. We have been visiting her for the past few weeks almost 3 times every week just for her to take a look at it and try to freeze the wart off. She also advised him to try picking off the scab so that she wouldn't have to do it and hurt him more. Sunday he began picking at it and after a few minutes of that it started gushing blood again! It had pretty much grown back to the size it was when we first took him in. So after about half an hour of trying to get the bleeding to stop and Randy getting light headed from the loss of blood and sight of all of it we were able to cut off the circulation to his thumb and wrap it quick enough to avoid any more squirting of blood. Here are some pics of that event.

See the STREAM! And there was alot more blood than this too!

So that should bring us up to date, we went to the doctor on Monday and she attempted to freeze the wart and just ended up making it bleed more, after numbing it again and cutting off the circulation she managed to freeze the skin above the wart to stop the bleeding. Thursday he is going to see the Doctor there and see if she can get down to the wart to finally get rid of the dang thing!!

On another note...

- Halloween -

We decided we didn't really want to do much since the past few years we have gone all out on costumes and everything so we just went to a party the night before and threw together quick costumes as Edward and Alice Cullen from the "Twilight Series" We had teeth and everything but they didn't stay on very well and they were really uncomfortable so we really just ended up looking like deathly white, sick people dressed up. Oh well, other than our boring costumes the night was pretty fun, it was on La Caille property at Randy's friends Rachel's Cabin. Tyson and Adrienne joined us, she was supposed to be where's waldo and Tyson was a punk guy!

CLASSIC SKATING

Last weekend we got to hang out with Michelle and Sheldon, they got a sitter for Asher, so we were able to go out to Classic! It was really fun, it's only my second time going and I always have fun, it's a good workout and fun to watch the younger kids flirt with each other haha.

Cute Sheldon and Michelle

Randy Dancin'

Oh so Fun!

I also had some cute pics of our dogs so I thought I would share - They are so adorable and we wouldn't want to live without them!

Bella is HUGE!! Probably around 10 lbs now, Fitch is only 3.5lbs.!

Bella after her 1st grooming, she looked so cute with a bow I had to take a pic while it lasted!

We should be getting our 'official' wedding video back this weekend so I think I'm going to try and post it on here if that interests any of you! We loved it, we thought it turned out really good!

What an eventful weekend!

So this past weekend was very eventful, we were busy busy! On Friday night we went out to dinner with Dallas and Angie and Derek and Nicole to TGIFridays which was pretty yummy. After dinner we met up with Josh and Katrina, Josh is one of Randy's old mission companions. We love hanging out with Josh and Katrina, they are too cute, we probably haven't seen them for a year, besides at our wedding! Way too long. We actually haven't seen Dallas and Angie in a long time either so it was really good to see them again as well. Anyway, so once we met up them we went to Boondocks which is always a blast, especially with three other couples! We did some miniture golfing then headed to the go karts! We were lucky enough to be able to sneak on for a second ride, and Angie had NEVER riden go karts before! I couldn't believe it! They are my favorite!

So on Saturday Randy and I headed to Lagoon for 'Westminster Lagoon Day' with Tyson and Adrienne, it was really fun, we got in for way cheap and got a free lunch! I love going to lagoon though and I really love riding roller coasters, especially Wicked, it is very exhilarating.

After the exciting day at Lagoon, Randy and I were off the cater for his dad. This was definitely different than the normal weddings his dad does. He got the opportunity to cater the Dew Tour After party! We were to serve orderves in the VIP section, where of course you could find various pro skaters and bmxers, of course the only one we knew was Ryan Schekler because of his show on MTV. And yes, he was there, with a couple of his friends and his little brother, Ryan is a lot shorter than expected, wearing lots of bling and of course drinking beer at the age of 17 or 18. Gotta love the underage drinking 'celebrities' get away with. It was probably my first real 'celebrity' citing though, I was quite starstruck. Randy had to remind me we were working and it probably wasn't a good idea to ask for a pic. I also kinda figured he had enough girls throwing themselves at him. Besides the siting we got a couple free tshirts to wear and some other free stuff, it was pretty fun to be in the VIP section!

Sunday has arrived and we don't have too big of plans but I did finally convince Randy to let me dye my hair dark again! YAY! I feel like my old self again, haha jk! Other then that exciting moment we headed to his aunt carrie's house for his grandpa's birthday, we ate yummy food and caught up with everyone.

We finally came back home to Provo and were by ourselves, and as exciting as this weekend was, I was so happy to have my husband to myself again! I can't wait until next weekend to spend all my time with him by myself, just hanging out together. It is our favorite thing to do and I definitley live for the weekends when we have the opportunity to spend quality alone time together!!

Labor Day Weekend

This past weekend my mom and sister headed down to Provo before they drove to Texas. It was pretty fun, we ate at Olive Garden which is my favorite, I eat there anytime I can convince Randy to take me there!

On Saturday we went Laser Tagging with Randy's highschool friend Dallin. Dallin and Randy were pro getting in the top 8, while I luckily ranked 27 out of the 31 that played, all I have to say is at least I didn't get in the negative!! Woo Hoo! It was really fun, we haven't been in a while and it is definitely a fun workout! Now if I can only find enough people to go paintballing! It's much more painful but ten times the fun!

Sunday we didn't really do much, just went up to Centerville to play Wii, we played guitar hero and rented a MLB baseball game which was pretty difficult at first, I actually beat Randy in on game! Of course he dominated the rest of them though, I still won't let him forget that I at least beat him once, even though he says he 'let me win.' I love his competitiveness, well sometimes, haha.

Monday we headed up to Park City with Randy's parents for lunch and strolling down main st., it was FREEZING!! I only had capris and flip flops while everyone else in park city was wearing ski coats and winter boots!! All in all it was a very fun trip, we hadn't been up there for about a year so it was good to go up there again. Also on monday our good friends Michelle and Sheldon welcomed their first baby boy, Asher Gera Masias, he is a cutie, and so big for Michelle's tiny body, we get to go see them next weekend so we are looking forward to that!

Oh and of course last wednesday Randy got the priveledge of returning to the new UVU. Randy should be done with school in about two years, I'm so excited for him to be done. He is going to do amazing with the major that he is getting in Broadcast Journalism, it fits his personality perfectly! I am really happy to be taking a year off before my program, I have gone to college every fall/spring semester since I graduated. It does feel a little weird though not being a student, I'm already getting a little anxious to start my program. A girl I work with started the same program this semester and hearing her stories defenitely gets me excited!

I am going to try to post some more pictures from over the summer too!