It's been awhile....

I apologize, I really don't have much of an excuse as to why I haven't blogged in almost 4 months. Other than the fact that I am just lazy, and we haven't done anything super exciting the last couple of months. But just to give an update on what has been happening in the life of the Jones family.

Lets see, in January we went to Sundance with Nick's family. It was a lot of fun, it was my first time. We saw Tommy Lee Jones, and to be honest he wasn't all that nice, but I was able to get a picture of him. He is a whole lot shorter in person.

That was all we did in January, well at least that I can remember. February was a busy month for us. The first of the month Nick had surgery on his leg, they were able to go in and fix what was wrong. His knee still gives him trouble every once in a while, but we are glad that we got it done. Now if we can just get the rest of the hospital bills paid. The following week after his surgery I quit my job at First American, which turned out to be a blessing! And then one of my good friends got married, aren't they cute?

After their wedding it was Valentine's Day, and we didn't do anything to exciting. I got tickets for Nick for the Paul Cardall Celebration of Life concert. It was absolutely amazing! We sat on the front row and I loved every single minute of it! These are the beautiful roses that Nick gave me!

In March all I can really remember doing is going shooting for the first time. I absolutely loved it! It was so much fun! We packed us a lunch and were gone for the day, and it was wonderful!

It was also my wonderful little brother's 16th birthday. It was a lot of fun! We went to Tucano's Brazilian Grill. We also went to a lot of Matthew's basketball games. I love my little brother! He is truly one of my best friends! He is one of my heroes! Sorry, I don't have any pictures from that day, but it was sure a fun day of celebration!

Let's see, that now brings me to April. We didn't do a whole lot the first of the month, well we did do a lot of babysitting, we had Tyson and Nichole sleepover on seperate weekends. That was fun, but, wow, they have a lot of energy! But I still love them. I also had a lot of job interviews but none of them worked out. So, I went to the Church employment services and they helped me get set up on the new beta system. Which is totally awesome! So one morning I was looking through the jobs and I found one that sounded really interesting and so I gave it a try. I called them at the beginning of the week, and I didn't get a call back until Friday afternoon. They asked me to come in on Monday afternoon for an interview. So all weekend long I was very anxious and quite nervous. Monday, I went for the interview and it lasted about 10 minutes, they told me that they would contact me no later than Thursday if they had any information. And after having so many job interviews and having them tell me that they would get back to me and never following through, I was like okay, whatever. So all week long I kept hoping that they would call, Thursday afternoon came around and they still hadn't called. So my mom said that I should call them and see if there was any information. This is what they said when I called, "Oh I was supposed to call you today, can you come back in for a second interview?" I was shocked! I was so excited! So I hurried and got ready and went in for my second interview. While I was meeting with them, one of the men that was in the room, he was like, "Just offer her the job already!" So needless to say, I am now working part time at McDougal Funeral Home. I absolutely love it! I love all the people that I work with! They are wonderful! My job entails of me calling the families after there is a funeral and setting up appointments to meet with them. I have been here now for three weeks and I am loving it!

Sorry this post is so long, I promise that I am almost done! Let's then last week my brother in law got married, and it was wonderful! I helped do the flowers, which was way fun, tons and tons of flowers! I will have to do a seperate post all about that. Also on the same day, one of my dear friends and adopted grandma's passed away. It was a very emotional day, but I know that she is with her loving husband and with the Savior! It made me very grateful for the Plan of Salvation and Eternal Marriage! Well that sums up the first couple months of the year. I'm sorry that I really have been such a slacker at doing this, I will be better I promise!

Memories of the last decade...

So, my sister just posted her top 5 of the last decade, and I thought I should do the same. So here goes...

My top 5 best moments or memories are:

1. Starting to date, then wait, then marry the love of my life, Nick!
2. Being able to go to the Temple and doing baptisms, waiting while family got married and being able to go through the Temple for myself!
3.Learning how to drive, and getting my own car.
4. Graduating from High School!
5. Going on awesome family trips, such as Florida to go to Disney World and Universal Florida, going on the most amazing senior trip for graduation, my parents took me and Matthew on a two week Church History tour, which was absolutely amazing!!! Going to Florida again, but this time to play at the beach, and this year going to Oregon to see Nick's mission, I love it there!

My top 5 hardest moments or memories are:

1. Friends, mostly in high school
2 Death of loved ones, especially my grandparents
3. Coming to a realization that every family has their problems.
4. Waiting for Nick while he was on his mission!
5. Getting laid off from jobs.

And 5 things that I look forward to during the next decade are...

1. Becoming a mom...no this is not an announcement.
2. Spending more time with Nick!
3. Hopefully going back to school, and doing ASL.
4. Visiting new places!
5. Trying new things!

What things to you remember most from the last 10 years?

Happy New Years!!!

So, I am so excited for the new year! Not that 2009 hasn't been a good year, I am excited to start fresh this next year! I have been so blessed this year! I have come to have a greater understanding of the Atonement this year and that the Savior really truly does know each one of us and loves us more than we can ever imagine! I wish everyone knew this, and that there is someone that cares about them! I am so grateful for my family and all that they mean to me! I have been blessed with such wonderful parents who show me so much love! I want them to know that I will always love and support them! I also am so grateful for Nick! He is amazing! He treats me like a queen! I don't know what I did to deserve him! I can't believe that we celebrated our one year anniversary this year! I'm excited to spend the rest of FOREVER with him! I am also grateful for my friends! They always seem know how to answer my prayers, whether it be a letter in the mail letting me know that they are thinking about me, or telling me that they are here visiting their family from out of state, or coming by to see me while me and Nick are up in Logan at a hotel! I am so blessed! I could keep going about all of the wonderful things that Nick, my parents and my friends have done for me this year, but I don't want this to be too long. But I just wanted to wish everyone a Happy and safe New Years!!! Love you all!!!

Halloween First American style!!!

So, I want to state the fact that I absolutely love my work! They are awesome! So, Halloween is like the biggest holiday there and it is a HUGE competition between all of the departments. Well this year my department was a cemetery, so we all got to dress up as dead people! It was awesome! Each department got to pick the best costume from their group for the top three best costumes, the catagories were; scariest, funniest, and most creative...I believe. I can't quite remember. But oh well, that's not all that important, except for the fact that I won the scariest costume! I was so excited!!! Have I mentioned that I love my job?!?! Well, in case I haven't, I totally do! We also had a potluck today, and I made a cute pumpkin cake, here are some picture of the festivities today.

Here is my cute cake, no one wanted to cut into it.

One year and counting...

We have now been married for one year! And let me say, it has been the best year of my entire life! I am still so much in love with Nick! He is amazing! I am truly blessed to have him as my very own for forever! For our anniversary we went up to Park City for the weekend, it was a lot of fun! We just relaxed, which was wonderful since we have both been sick. The weather up there was amazing! It couldn't have been a prettier weekend! Here are some pictures over the last year! Enjoy!

Update....

So, I have been a total slacker when it comes to blogging. I apologize, a lot has happened the last couple of months. Lets see, I got laid off from Envision, which was a complete blessing. I am loving where I am at now, it is First American Real Estate Tax Services, I love the people I work with, and surprisingly enough, I don't mind paying other people's taxes. Other than getting a new job, not a whole lot has been going on, we are still loving being married! As a matter of fact, I think it is the best thing in the whole world! Oh, we started watching the season's of Smallville. I got them for Nick for Christmas last year, and it is has been a lot of fun! I am a huge fan, well I have always been a huge fan of Clark Kent and Lois Lane! But that's about how exciting our life has been the last little while. Hope you have a great day!

Proud to be an American!!!

Happy 4th of July!!! So, I'm sorry that I haven't blogged lately. Life with the Jones's has been pretty hectic as of late. With the both of us getting the lovely swine flu, and with work I just haven't had much time to post. So, I apologize.

Last week we went to Lagoon with Nick's work for his summer party. It was a ton of fun! It was crazy busy there but there was hardly any lines! It was awesome! The only lines we had to wait in were for "Wicked", which was amazing! And then we had to wait in line for Rattlesnake Rapids. It was fun too! All of the other lines were maybe about 5 minutes long. We used our bounce back passes yesterday and took Kimmy and Alex, (Nick's brother and sister). It was quite fun, the weather was perfect! It couldn't have been any better. We only waited in one line and it really wasn't that bad. We went on Rattlesnake Rapids 3 times in a row and it was great! There was no line at all! Everytime we went on it, I just happened to go under the waterfall and I was soaking wet.

After Lagoon next week we went with Amy, Manny and the kids to Taylorsville Dayzz. It was a lot of fun. I had tons of fun watching Nichole and Tyson going down the slides. They couldn't get up fast enough, they were hilarious! The fireworks were amazing! It made me feel so proud to be an American and live in America. It was one of the best firework shows that I have seen!

Nichole was so cute! She was so tired, she came and climbed onto Nick's lap and fell asleep. She didn't even flinch during the fireworks! I love that little girl!

This morning we went to the Sandy City fair, with the kids. It was a lot of fun. We did crafts and all kinds of fun things! I love the 4th of July! It always makes me so happy to live in America! We are all so blessed to live here! We don't realize all that we really do have!