My new cell phone:

To the left you'll find the most advanced piece of cellular telephone technology, and I have recently acquired it. It took over an hour of hastling the t-mobile representative but I finally got him to give me the phone for a mere $200, which is $100 off the price that most people get it for. The phone has a 1.3 megapixel camera, an mp3 player and a removable/expandable memory. I also found a way to trick the phone into being able to use any song as a ringtone, which has been great especially to have Rosie's ringtone as Kalai's "Divide Me," which has come to be 'our song'. The phone is so small, comparable to even the Razr, which is the newer popular phone I was about to upgrade to with Verizon. This has the most amazing screen resolution i've seen, as well as a great picture when it comes to photos. I was converted to this phone when I saw Christian (Rosie's best friend Amber's boyfriend) had it. If you want to take a look at it yourself, go HERE.

Here is a picture from the camera that we took at a UVSC game last week. The referee jersey I have on is the new Rowdie's shirt of choice (Rowdie=a hard-core UVSC b-ball fan that makes a lot of noise)
Love you all!!

First Weekend in February:

Rosie and I had a lot going on this weekend and thought we'd show everyone how much fun we had. Friday night we went to the UVSC "All-Nighter," with our friend Matt. We got there early to help out and it turned out to be a lot of fun. First we all manned the popcorn machine. After the first batch got a little burnt, we learned from our mistake and turned out some sweet free popcorn. You gotta love the awesome orange Staff shirts we wore to show everyone how important we were...and good at making popcorn. After turning over the job to some other Staffers, we went to the ticket booth to sell admission bracelets. We definately saw a lot of interesting kids come through the door. We had to turn away quite a few underagers. The party went on until about 3am, we helped clean up and then went home and somehow got some sleep.
On Saturday at 1p we went to the BYU basketball game where we beat the Air Force University Falcons. The Falcons beat us on the road, so we had to give it our all at this game so we could take the win at home. Rosie, although a hard-core UVSC fan, joined in and helped BYU win an amazingly close game. We had a lot of fun and can't wait for the next home game.
Saturday night, we went to Velour, as we usually do at least once a week, and saw Palomino-probably our favorite local band. Below are some pictures that I caught on the digital.

Brinton Jones, the lead singer and a good friend of ours.

Another picture of Brinton

Finally, on Sunday we got together with our game-night married/work friends to watch SuperBowl XL, while the Steelers put the smack down on the Seahawks. I will admit that I'm somewhat of a closet Seahawks fan and I was disappointed in the loss, but the get together was a lot of fun. Here are some pics from the party:

Here is the whole group (from left to right) Becca, Isabelle, and Dan Hosford, Shelley and Travis Millet, and Michelle and Dave Droge. Of course, we're in the front.

Rosie and I cuddling on Travis and Shelley's big comfy couch (also the name of a kids show a few years ago...). Notice the Seahawks shirt that I created for the celebration.
Love you all!!

Spring Haven (UVSC Student Gov't Retreat)

This past weekend Rosie and I travelled up Hobble Creek canyon to Spring Haven-a huge cabin that's owned by BYU. This was for a UVSC Student Council Leadership retreat that turned out to be a lot of fun. The picture to the left is us in the back seat of a big truck driven by Rosie's friend Brook who, we'll admit, could pay a little more attention to the road (we were scared). You can see the iPod headphones we're sharing...we were trying to drown out the girls in the front seat singing Garth Brooks as loud as they could. You can see our friend Matt on the right-he came with us and we're glad he did. The trip was a lot of fun; I played a lot of basketball as well as some highly competative dodgeball. Rosie got her dance and her socializing on. All around it was a good time. We got there Friday evening and left Saturday around noon. Its real pretty up there, as you'll see in the following pictures:

Here is Rosie and I with part of Spring Haven in the background

Rosie and I having some fun on the indoor jungle gym

Rosie, Matt and I before leaving on Saturday

A nice scenery pictures of the snow covered mountains
Love you all!

Switchfoot at the Canyons in Park City

Tonight (Monday), Rosie and I ventured up to Park City once again to see Switchfoot at the Canyons resort. The show was free. We got up there early enough to have a pretty good spot in the crowd, however the high school kids got real excited and we had to bail from the crowd in fear that we'd get crushed and trampled. To your right you'll see Switchfoot, in all its glory rocking out with the song "Stars," their most famous song these days. There was a good opening band which came out first, followed by some fireworks.

The concert was pretty good, however it was pretty darn cold. We were all bundled up in our winter outfits including the new hats and rosie's scarf we bought prior to going to the show at the canyons. We also stopped by a shop at the Canyons and picked up some hand warmers which proved to be an awesome move since our hands were instantly frozen when we got up there.

Here is Rosie looking warm.

Here I am trying to be cool...i know what you're thinking...

and here we are...
and here we are again...
Amber and Christian joined us...they just got engaged!!

We left the mountain a little early and found a cool little cafe in park city to grab a late bite to eat. It was good and suprizingly cheap.

Well, thats about it for now. Love you all!

Friday Night at Velour

Last night we went to Velour, the new local music venue in downtown provo, created by Cory Fox. Its a great place to play and a great place to watch some of the local artists that Rosie and I know. The first pic is of the band The Hideout; my friend Adam is the guitarist (left). They sounded great, including their cover of MJ's "Beat It" with guest vocalist Joshua James (with some sweet moves!). Joshua James and the Southern Boys played second and rocked the show. I was a little disappointed because the crowd was so loud, but they had a great show, as always. Joshua James has one of the most unique sounds around and I sure hope he makes something of his success so far. They rocked it with their classics: Tennessee, Glory from a Mountain, and Halelujah, along with Josh's newer song "Lovers without Love like Me." The headliner, a band we see very often around here, was the Matt Lewis band. They had a long set list with a lot of new songs that Rosie and I are finally getting to know good enough to start to sing along to. I recommend anyone who is a fan of rock, reggae, or any other kind of music that just sounds awesome to check these guys out. I think they've got some energetic music and Matt Lewis, the lead singer is always coming up with original freestyle rhymes throughout the whole show. I am told that Chad, the basist is getting married tomorrow, so congratulations to him and his significant other!! We've been friends with all of these guys for a while and the cool thing about going to their shows is that all of these guys are always out thanking us for coming. There are a lot of great people out in the local music scene and we're glad to know a lot of them. Its fun to get out and see them along with all the friends and fellow fans of these bands. On the right you see a somewhat blurry picture of Rosie and I on the front row of this new venue. I'm sure you'll see more posts with other bands that we follow around and do our best to support. Tonight we're planning on going to see G. Love and Special Sauce up in Park City, where the Sundance Film Festival is going on. Perhaps we'll see some famous people...we'll have our new camera!! Love you all!!

Digital Upgrade!!!

Rosie and I just invested in a digital camera to make our lives so much easier (to document, that is)!! We had to rush to Salt Lake late tonight to find an in-stock Cannon PowerShot SD400 Elph digital camera at Circuit City. I priced cameras for a couple days before deciding on this one (google it and check it out!) We didn't have much time to play around with it last night cuz we went strait to Jordan Commons to see Chronicals of Narnia (excellent film!), so this is our first picture taken in my car with the new camara. As you can see, it works pretty good!! All I had to do was plug it into my computer and WAH-LAH, I can post pictures so easy!!! The main motivation for this digital upgrade was the disaster with our Hawaii trip pictures. A good number of them got damaged somehow and so we were both a bit upset. Having this camera will solve that problem as well as allow us to take a lot more pictures and more easily add them to this blog (to keep all you people coming back for more!!) We will be posting the pictures that came out well from our recent trip to Hawaii very soon, so keep checking back. We love you all!!

I'M DONE!!!

That's right! I finished! I graduated from BYU in December of 2005 and I tell you what, its so nice to be finished!! I don't know if it has hit me yet, since everyone is out of school for winter break, but I'm sure when everyone in Provo/Orem goes back to school and I'm just chillin that I'll get used to it real quick! So i've got my bachelors in psychology, which is useless, but I can use it with my experience to (hopefully) get out there and market myself. I've been applying to a few different employers here in Utah, hoping to stay around here at least until we're married. The next few months may be a little uncertain because I won't know what to do with my life now that I don't have to go to school anymore. I'm sure I'll find something to fill the time with. I'm hoping to get to the gym to lose a couple of the stress pounds i've gained over the last year. Perhaps i'll get another part time job to bring in some more cash...those student loan payments will start rolling in soon...dang! Anyway, it was a great experience for me to be at BYU for the past 4 1/2 years. I've grown a lot and learn a great deal. I won't lie, BYU students can be strange at times, but I made a lot of great friends and even better memories!

At Byu Hockey!

A thanksgiving update

Josh and Rosie are still doing well at a year and a little over two months. We are trucking along to finish school and we are both almost college graduates. Crazy! A new page of our lives begin! Who knows where we will go and where this new turn will take us, but we are able to do anything together, thats for sure! We continually stay busy with not only school work, but double dates, concerts, bowling, and everything else. At this time of year we are so thankful for everything we have especially each other. Rosie's birthday is this next sunday!

A Brief Introduction

Here we are!! This picture was taken at the Sundance Amphitheatre sometime in August, I think. We were there for a free showing of Napoleon Dynamite, only the freakin' sweetest movie ever made (besides Glitter, of course)!! I thought this would be a good picture to introduce us and tell a little about ourselves. I (Josh) was born and raised (for the most part) in upstate NY in a small town called Seneca Falls. I moved to Utah in 2001 to go to BYU and I will graduate in December of this year. Rosie grew up in Draper, Utah and has celebrated graduation from UVSC, but is currently finishing her thesis paper for a finish in December as well. We both met at Wirthlin Worldwide (recently acquired by Harris Interactive) in mid-2002 (where we still currently work). It was not until September 12, 2004 that we began to hang out and date. We recently celebrated our 1 year dating anniversary and it just keeps getting better. Since we got together we've gone on numerous vacations accross the US including visiting New York City in November 2004, Hawaii in January of this year, California in August, and many more. All of these trips have been documented with photographs and will be represented at some point here in this blog, so check back often. For now, we will continue to be adventurous and keep you updated as often as we can. Bye for now.

Josh and Rosie's New Blog!!

So here it is, the beginning of something beautiful...or the visual and textual manifestation of something more beautiful. :) After having blog propoganda thrown at me from all angles, I suppressed my natural skepticism and decided "what the heck," and went for it. I figure this will be a great way to keep my family and friends updated as to what me and rosie are doing. That way, when asked what i've been up to, I can simply recite this web address and end the conversation (ah, the added free time!).
Also, Rosie and I are going to start posting our pictures from trips, dates and other random shenanigans. We have a lot of backdated pictures that we'll have to post when we get to it (eg. New York City, Hawaii, California, etc). Perhaps, if I get technical enough and this site allows for it, we may post some short video clips here from different trips we've gone on. Anyway, this should be fun, and if I am consistant with updates, it should be fun for the onlookers as well. Feel free to add your own comments here and keep us updated about yourselves.