Girls Night out!

So Friday Night we finally did our girls night out that we have been waiting for! Niki and Ash had thier B Days like two months ago and it seriously has taken us this long to do this little get together! It was so much fun and we laughed so hard! Benny Hansen had a graduation party at his place up in Traverse Mountain! It was amazing. We saw lots of friends that we have not seen for a long time, inlcluding our good friend Ryan Christiensen. We stayed about an hour..

Then we moved on to the next part of out night! We had a delicious dinner at the Citris Grill in Draper. We were going to go out dancing at the Hotel, but there was some specialty DJ and we were not about to pay 15 bucks, so we went over to Port O call!

Port was quite an adventure we will say. I just need to let everyone know that right when we were going in there were two women in front of us with

1982 claw bangs

and I thought I was going to die. It was just funny because I saw all these people that I dont really know but I just remember seeing around at clubs 8 yrs ago and they are still single and going to clubs, its a time warp. They were like 30 then so how old are they now. But one of the few cool people we saw there was Drew Lowry and he just made our night, it was nice to see a younger face then 35, lol. We laughed really hard and danced the night away so it was really fun!

After Dancing we dropped Ash off at her car, and on our way home we stopped back at Bennys party. There was a bunch more peeps, since Benny has like two million friends, and we just visited for about another hour! I hope we do it again sooner than later!
Girls nights are the best!!!

I need a vacation!

Can I just tell you we are going to Cabo in the end of June and it couldnt come soon enough! I need a break from reality! Send me away! I need some sunsets!

Happy houseness!

We couldnt be more excited this place is amazing. Although I have never wanted to live in a place called LEHI and have my kids go to LEHI HIGH, I guess I will deal with that concept for how awesome this place is! Yipee hope it all works out! i stole this pic off google earth, so it isnt the best but here is the first view of what may be our new home!

Fun Pics

We decided to play with my web cam and here are some results of that play time!

I figured it out!

Are you all so proud! Its a miracle! I had to download a new template cause I had an old school one so now I have links! The excitement and Joy is overwhelming! As you can tell we are quite excited!


We also have some exciting news! We are putting an offer in on a house this week, we think, we are 95% sure! But either way we are excited!

GRRRRRRRRR!

I am so frieking frustrated! My friend gave me a tutorial tonight on how to add peoples links to your blog and mine must be ancient because it isnt the same! Grrrrrr!

Another update! Wow we are not good at this :)

Well in talking to my friend Niki, I really decided I need to TRY to keep this up for my friends who don't have facebook or myspace. All is well with Josh and I, we are in the process of trying to find a house, and so that is going to occupy a lot of our time for the next few months. We had the opportunity to get out of town for a wedding ( for our friends Jaime and Stephanie Wyatt), and go play in beautiful California. You can check out the clip at:http://www.nbc.com/The_Tonight_Show_with_Jay_Leno/video/episodes.shtml and if you go to the thursday the tenth show you can see a few shots of us when they are doing the audience wants to know section :) It is right after the first tick if you look at the sections in the playbar. It was so fun, if you are ever out in LA, you should go, its free and it was really just a fun thing to do. We also got to go to American Gladiators, Wicked, Huntington Beach, and Santa Monica Beach. We stayed with my best friend Nate Steel, and he was the best host ever. His place is like a hotel (but free) so we were really able to kick back and relax. http://photos-h.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v240/152/109/516276682/n516276682_426847_2876.jpg
We had a great time, I cant wait for vacation again. The next one is Courtneys wedding in Vegas, and then Cabo.

If you are all wondering how working from home is going, it is better than I thought. I just close my door and its like being in my office so its not too bad.

Last night we got to go with a bunch or friends to Paramore and Jimmy Eat World and it was an amazing concert! We had floor seats so we would run between those and where our friends we sitting.

Well hope this update will work for now, I am really going to try harder!

A Very Needed Update!

So Its been a while, but I decided I wanted to keep this thing updated! Its fun! Josh and I are married now and have been married for a year on August 18th. We are really happy and loving life. I think sometimes I keep us a little too busy, but that is ok we pack a lot in. Josh has a few groups he plays poker with and he is really liking that. My job is fantastic I just love it. I get to travel to Cinncinati and Atlanta from Sept 25 to Oct 10. I had a work meeting in upstate NY in early August so we got to see Josh's family and that was fun. This summer we also got to go to St George, Vegas, Portland, and I got to go to California to see my aunt before she moves to Hawaii! It's a rough life but someone has to do it. My Dad just had a big surgery so he is recovering and its not too fun. We have been to a few concerts this last summer, Incubus, The Frey, Fall Out Boy, Silver Sun Pickups, The Warped Tour, and My personal favorite Tony Bennett. Josh switched jobs for a little bit but now is back at good ole Harris Interactive. We are still living in our rental in Orem, hopefully we will buy early next year sometime. Well I think that is it, that is the update. I will post some picture history to catch up as well.

We're ENGAGED!!

Okay, its been WAY too long since we've updated our blog. This should be old news to most of you, but as of March 18th (St. Patricks Day, 2006) we are engaged!! There will be another post real soon with a complete review of how the engagement took place (complete with a picture story). We'll also include some pictures of the ring(s). We're very happy and excited to get married. The wedding will be August 18th in the Salt Lake City Temple, and then a ring-ceremony and reception at the South Mountain Golf Club House in Draper that same evening. Hooray!

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!