Yo Ho, Yo Ho, A Pirates Life For Me!

For those of you that didn't know, my job is awesome! I love it! I love the people I work with, I love what I do and I have the world's coolest bosses! For Christmas one of my bosses gave us all the present of hosting a Pirate Murder Mystery Party. It was so much fun! It was on Saturday night, my character was Gurgglin' Uma Scarr, the galley wench. And Nick was a retired pirate. Here are some pictures from the party.

Memories in the making

On Friday night after I had gotten off work me and Nick went over to my parents to hang out and also to play with Tyson and Nichole. They are some of the cutest little kids in the whole world. While we were there I was recording Tys and Nichole, because they were so funny! My mom got Nichole a stroller from the D.I. and she would run down the hall and run into Tyson and then he would fall down and he thought it was the funniest thing in the whole world. Here is just some of what I recorded and also some cute pictures of them together.

I love these two so much! I'm so glad that they are my niece and nephew!!!

They are so cute together!

After we went to my parents we were going to run to the store really fast, the weather on Friday night was so cool! There was crazy thick fog, as we drove by the temple it looked gorgeous so we decided to stop and take some pictures of it in the fog. I love living so close to the temple!

My Grandpa, My Hero

So, for those of you that don't know, me and Nick live in my grandpa's basement. It has truly been a blessing to be there, not only for me and Nick but for my grandpa as well. He is so much fun to spend time with, whether it be eating dinner with him, making his dinner, watching a movie with him, playing a song for him on the piano, or just being in the same room with him. Over the last three months my love for him has grown so much for him! One of the greatest blessings of being there is that we are able to hear him if he falls.

A couple of weeks ago, we decided we would surprise my mom by going to her ward instead of ours. Her ward starts at 11 and ours starts at 1, so after we got done with her block we went home to take a nap before going over to Nick's parents for dinner. Well, we fell asleep for about an hour or so when I woke up to my phone ringing and it was my grandpa telling me that he was in the garage and he had fallen. So me and Nick jumped up and ran up the stairs to help him up. It was so hard for me to walk out into the garage and see my grandpa, the same grandpa that would throw me in the air when I was little, and push me in his tire swing, and push me on his bike; lying there on the floor and not being able to get up. Luckily we were able to help him up and get into the house. It was of those times where I was so grateful that we were living with him. I got the overwhelming feeling right then that my grandma was also grateful for us living there with him.

I love my grandpa so much, he really is my hero! He is so strong in so many ways. I have always been my grandpa's girl, and I think I will always be that, no matter how old I get. I hope that he will always know how much I love him!

Brothers

I have the worlds most amazing brothers, I really truly have been blessed with Matthew and Steven! I have such a great love for them! Last night before I went to bed I got 2 phone calls, one was from Matthew, he had won his first basketball game of the season! And the reason they won was because of him! I was sad that I couldn't be there to support him, but I can only imagine how well he did! And then after I got off the phone with Matthew, I got a surprise call from Steven. He was on his way home from work and he just called to see how I was doing, I don't think he realizes how much that meant to have him call. When I got off the phone with Steven I just started to cry because I had an overwhelming feeling of love for my brothers! I hope they know how much I really truly do love them!!!

I love you guys!!!

Gratitude...

So, I have a friend who has inspired me to start a gratitude journal. So I am going to try to remember to make my list of the 5 things I am grateful for everyday. I am going to start today. My list for today...

1. Three day work weeks, they are wonderful!

2. Having enough work to keep me busy during the day

3. Christmas music, I absolutely love it!!!

4. Nick, he is amazing!!! I love him so much!

5. Chocolate mint truffles, chocolate seems to make everything perfect!!!

Married Life...

So I have now been married for one week, and I absolutely love it! It is wonderful! I love falling asleep next to Nick along with waking up next to him. It is the best feeling in the whole world! I really am the luckiest person in the whole world!!! Here are some pictures from the temple and the reception. Enjoy!

Yay!!! We're finally married! It was way fun to walk out and see everyone that was there!

Here is the famous kiss outside of the temple.

The little kids were my favorite, they all wanted to help hold my dress.

This is my favorite picture of me and the little kids! Oh man, I just love them so much! I have the cutest niece and nephew ever!!!!

Man, I love him! I still can't believe that I'm married!!!

The weather was absolutely perfect! I really couldn't have asked for better weather! The fall colors were gorgeous!!!

People kept honking at us as they drove by, it made me laugh, it was fun!

I love this picture! The photographer was giving Nick a hard time about where he was going to put his hand, our photographer was amazing!

Wow...

So, I was sitting here at work and it hit me that I am really truly getting married this week. Wow, that is all I have to say. It's crazy! I'm so excited! It feels surreal, like it really isn't happening to me. Ya know, you look forward to this time your whole life and when it actually is happening it doesn't feel real. Well it could be that I wasn't planning on getting married for another year, but it's amazing how the Lord works. My life has been so blessed since Nick has been home, sometimes it feels like I'm in a dream and I'm going to wake up and he is going to be back on his mission. I am so grateful for Nick, I have been so blessed! He truly is amazing! I'm so excited to spend the rest of forever with him! I just hope that I will always be worthy of his love.