Friday, May 14, 2010
As promised... more pics of little Bella Boo. :)
One Year Anniversary - May 12, 2010
This week Joshua and I celebrated our one year anniversary. First of all, I want Josh to know that I love him a millon times more than the number of stars in the sky. He is the most amazing husband, best friend, lover, father, companion, exercize buddy, dreamer, person in my world and nothing that could ever come between us will separate us far enough to fit even a peice of paper between us. He has become my partner in crime in everything that I do, and to know I have someone with me every step of the way, right beside me and ready to catch me if I fall, and him being there GLADLY... that is a love I never dreamed would happen to me. But it did, and here we are now, a full year into this wonderful lifetime on Earth and forever in heaven. Its weird actually to think about, one year ago we were experiencing our wedding day, our first few days of being ACTUALLY married, our honeymoon trip to Yellowstone... and I guess I have to say that it really doesn't seem like it was that long ago, and I think I know why. Time flies when you are having fun. And boy oh boy have Josh and I had one fun year! Most of our fun was on road trips to Vernal, weekend get togethers with family, movie nights, date nights, and enjoying every second that Kimberlee and Shaylee spent with us. Our first year of marriage wasn't extremly monumental, but we did have a few milestones...
- We realized we both love airplanes
- We saw Josh Gracin in concert (Josh's first time, Tacy’s 3rd time…)
- We went to Lava over our first Fourth of July together
- We found out we love to go grocery shopping... a lot
- We had our first REAL fight, like one when we don't talk for a couple hours...
- We bought a kitten named Keoke
- Tacy experienced “Snowbird Week” for the first time
- We bought a "nice" TV
- We discovered that Josh likes socks with colored toes
- Kimberlee started kindergarten
- We learned some good communication skills
- Shaylee was potty-trained
- Took our first “family” pictures
- Went and saw New Moon together (Team Edward!!)
- After three attempts, Josh found a job at a place he loves
- Tacy still has not met McKay in person (a month and a half to go!)
- We bought a couch
- We learned to budget our money
- Josh came closer to being debt free
- We bought a Wii
- We discovered there are two different ways to do chores
- Small water heater = shower together, save water :)
- We drove to Las Vegas for a trip
- Tacy went to her first Jazz game
- Tacy received her Endowment
- We moved to a larger, lovelier apartment
- We bought a kitten named Bella
Plus a lot of other crazy fun days that were very exciting. This year was packed with some of the best moments of our lives, and we hope our blog entries help us to remember them in the many years to come.
New Decorations and Fun at the Park
Sunday, May 2, 2010
So Josh's family has a friend that does vinyl lettering, and boy oh boy do we appreciate all she does! We ordered some new things from her and put together these plaques that we painted for the girls' room. Enjoy!
Oh, and we had some fun at the park a couple weeks ago - here are some pics!
BYU Women's Conference 2010
This week I went for the first time to Women's Conference down at BYU. Josh's family goes every year and I was so excited to go with them. It was Candy, Jamie, Heidi, Tiffany, Hilarie, Grandma Dance, Janine, Shelley, Joanna and me. All ten of us had a wonderful time together. All of us except Jamie drove down together in a suburban and had such a great time on the way there. We got there and met up with Jamie who had driven up from Vernal the night before. Opening Se3ssion was great and Julie Beck (Relief Society General Pesident) was a great speaker. Our firt class we went to on Thursday was "There are Two Lasting Bequests We Can Give Our Children: One is Roots, the Other is Wings". It was pretty good and was given by a woman and her two adult daughters. Then Jamie, Tiffany and I tried running to the next class we wanted, "The Work of Creating SomethingBeautiful", but we couldn't get in. So we had lunch and went early to the next class. The class was good, "Choose Your Love, Love Your Choice." It was about loving your spouse in all kinds of life situations. I enjoyed it. Then closing session came and Renata Forste was the speaker. She was hiolarious and I enjoyed her talk very much. She spoke about self esteem and how commercials were geared towards women improving themselves, but men commercials are about recreational acivities. It was a very insightful talk. Before she started,an namd Daniel Beck sang a couple songs and he had a great voice. Afterwards we grabbed some dinner and then headed to lower campus to do some service kits. Janine, Joanna, Shelley and I boxed up hygeine kits for a while, then met up with everyone else. They wanted to go back and do more kits. So we went back and got split up. Jamie, Tiffany and I end up on an assembly line for school kits and it was a ton of fun. Hilarie had been walking a ton that day and ended up having swollen ankles. We grabbed some EMT's and asked for an ice pack. They asked why and we showed them cute pregnant Hilarie's swollen ankles. AWW! They helped us out and we made sure she was taken care of. We had to go to the concert, so we tied them on with some caution tape. HAHA. Hilarie was a great sport about it though, I'm glad she had such a good time. We took off to the concert and got there just in time. The other ladies had saved great seats. Hilary Weeks, Alex Boye, Dallyn Vail Bayles, Michael McLean, Mercy River, and the Fab 5 (cloggers) performed. My absolute favortie was DAllyn Vail Bayles. His voice is very similar to Josh GRoban, and his performance was amazing. His wife had thier baby like the day before and so he had such a cute story to tell about almost not coming to perform nd how she told him he needed to stay and being on the phone during the birth. He only sang a couple songs so he could get on a plane and home to his family and newest little boy. He sang this song about his son that was wondeful! I'm going to try finding it online. I also enjoyed the Fab 5, they are great dancers! It was a great first day and we all fell asleep very quick! Well, except Jamie who had to stay up to write a paper. YUCK! Sorry Jame...
Friday morning was little bit of a slow start, but it was good. I had mini waffles at the hotel that were wonderful. We were a tad bit late toopening session, but it was okay. The speakers were Barbara Thompson and Silvia Allred. They spoke about humanitarian efforts and charity works. They shared tos of videos and stories about Haiti, Chile, Katrina, Samoa, some parts of Africa, and the Dominican Republic. The stories were incredible and I really enjoyed both of thier talks. Our first class we all went together to do service and listen while we did it. But once we got there they only had one room open, so only one class was being broadcast. Darn. Heidi and I decided to g to another class instead, "Sacrifice and Selflessness in Marriage". Jamie and Tiffany met us there after staying behind to proof read and turn in Jamie's finals paper. The talk was good, but not what we expected. It didn't seem to fit the topic we thought it was about either... so it was a bit confusing. But all well. We skipped the second class again and had lunch instead. The third class we went to was by far my favorite of the whole two-day conference. It was called "I'm Thankful to be Me" and was given by Janet Preece Gleave and Rosemary Thackeray. It was amazing, and we took like 5 pages of notes. I learned a lot about loving myself and not putting myself down. The biggest lesson I learned was if I wouldn't say it to my best friend, don't say it to myself. And also, to learn to take and give compliments without saying things like "thanks but I wish I would have...". Be sincere! We headed to closing session, but grabbed ice cream along the way. I got a ix of cookie dough and peanut butter cup. My two favorites besides vanilla :) Clossing session was really good, and the speakers were Elder Dallin H. Oaks and his wife Kristen M. Oaks. She is the cutest lady ever! Such a sweetheart! Thier talk was enjoyable and really captured the theme of the whole conference, which was "Choose Ye This Day to Serve the Lord" Moses 6:33-34. And then we sang I Know that My Redeemer Lives. It was a wonderful ending to such a great conference. Thanks to everyone for coming, I hope you all had as great of a time as I did!
Tacy 26th Birthday
Josh and I celebrated my 29th birthday over a couple of das, because that weekend was SO busy. On saturday he took me to lunch at Rodizio Grill. His friend from work, Adriene, and his wife Caitlyn came with us. We had a really great time and got super full ! The best thing we ate was bacon wrapped turkey. I also enjoyed the roasted pineapple, roasted tomatoes with parmesean cheese, capresse salad, and sweet and spicy chicken. That is definately a place we want to go back to someday. We also went tothe Ogden temple with Josh'd parents. I'm glad we went because they are going to be doing a major reconstruction on the temple soon and it was nice to go there before. On Monday we made home made pizza, and that was divine! Birthdays are always so fun! Oh, and you get one blurry pic thats cute, and one clear pic that we are making goofy faces.
Velise and Zander Birthday 2010
So my neice Velise and my nephew Zander are 11 months and 2 weeks apart from each other. And my sister usually does thier birthday parties together, for now anyways. Once they are a bit older she will have to split them up. This year she had a BBQ at the park and was generous enough to feed everyone hamburgers, hot dogs, and brats. Along with homemade pasta salads and chips. It was wonderful! We didn't get to eat much because we were so full from our lunch earlier (see next post!) but it was really good. And the kids had a great time. Here are a few pics I got. (I should have taken more!)
Josh's 29th Birthday
I know I am a bit behind, so I thought I would catch up really quick. A couple weeks ago we celebrated Josh's 29th birthday. He requested lasagna for dinner and Tiffany came down to hang out and spend the night. We were able to have Kim and Shay that weekend too, and Josh loved having them there on his special day. We spent the weekend playing heroes, being lazy and spending time with family. Josh really had a great birthday.
