ChRiStMaS 2013

                   This year was Hallies first Christmas, and it was a lot of fun. I have been mostly excited for her than myself, I never really got excited for Christmas but since having my little girl around i have been more excited for things.. Like Christmas,going to the park, holidays, just simple things. This year we had Christmas at our home. We all went to bed around eleven and than Hallie and i woke up around nine in the morning while josh was already awake. We got Hallie a huge stuffed animal, she loves it. She gets so excited everytime she see him ( we named him Wilfred) haha. Than we got her a toy laptop since she loves playing with ours. She got a walker and then a few other toys, Of course she was more interested in the wrapping paper then her toys but what baby isn't right. 
Josh and I did something a little different this year, previous years we've got each other alot of stuff but this year we wanted to spend most of our Christmas money making it fun for Hallie. So we set a twenty five dollar limit for each of us. I got him a video game (thats kinda old that him and i can play together) Lego star wars. Than i got him some old movies and A few BYU things. His gift to me was tons better and meaningful, he got me school supplies and then he gave me a cool looking glass jar that he had put memories in there, and than he wanted us to add more to it. It was so thoughtful and sweet! I loved it! 
We both went and visited both our familes and ate so much food and candy, i almost started my parents house on fire, when i went to get rolls out of the oven using a dishcloth. woops haha it is my parents new house that i have never lived in so i had no idea where the hot pads were. I enjoyed spending time with my family and his family. Christmas is such a great holiday full of love and giving and celebrating the birth of our savoir. I'm so grateful for him! 

I hope you all enjoyed Christmas as much as i did!

       

My sisters and Mommy. My best friends yup! 

                                                       Hallie having fun with her presents. 

                                                     Love these moments with my baby girl!

                                                             My Twin Brother and I. 

Josh and Hallie always make the same face in pictures. lol 

2013 Coming to an End...

Oh my heck, We seriously only have 27 days left of this year! How crazy is that!!!
This year has seriously flown by so quickly, i swear when i was younger the years never went by this quick... it must be because i'm getting older..Dang it! So many changes have happened since January, we moved, had a baby, went to Washington for two months, went back to work, and started working full time. By far my favorite has been Hallie, she is the biggest blessing to Josh and I, She has the funnest personality and is always so happy. I do have to throw in that last night was her first night since she was two months old, that she slept through the whole night without a bottle.. Boy was it amazing.. When i woke up this morning i had to go check on her and make sure she was okay, cause i didn't hear her last night.. but she was just sleeping away. I've heard that as soon as you have a baby it makes marriages harder, because all your focus is on this brand new baby and giving the baby everything they need. I was talking with Josh last night about what his thoughts were and if he thinks its been hard, and he said that it has made our marriage greater than ever. I couldn't agree more with him, we are always laughing with each other and playing with Hallie as a family is so fun. It really has made our marriage just as great as it was before!
So a few updates, Hallie has started to army crawl, she is so close to actually crawling.. we have to bribe her with food of course, but she is learning haha... She has two teeth on the bottom, she loves music and will grunt at us in the car if there isn't music playing. She thinks that when we put her to bed at nine that its play time and she starts kicking and laughing at herself till we grab her and play with her. She loves to watch soccer games, when we go and watch an indoor game before my game starts, her focus is on the feild pretty much the whole time.
Josh is on his last real semester of school, FINALLY.. He has one class left next semester but the hard part is done! He is still working for the same company and loves it! For Christmas i bought him tickets to go see his favorite NFL team, we just got back from going to see them play in San Francisco.. he loved it so much!
I recently just got promoted at my work, Funny story about that. I had applied for the job but i didn't plan on getting it, because there were others that had applied that i thought would be better for the position, so i kept a positive attitude and interviewed. Before i went to my interview Josh had told me you probably wont get the job but it'll be good practice for you, ( your probably thinking how rude of him to say that, haha but honestly it was true thats what i was thinking in my head and he had said it in a nice way too) So after my interview that i thought went really well, I found out that i had got the job about two day later.. I was SOOO excited and happy about it, i wanted to call Josh right away and tell him. but i thought i would play a joke on him. i text him and told him i hadn't heard about the job and that i was kinda bummed about it.. haha.. When i saw him in person, all he kept telling me was that i shouldn't feel dumb for applying for it and if anything it was really good practice.. So after he said that i told him i didn't feel dumb, because i got the job! The look on his face was seriously priceless! We celebrated by going out to eat! i love my new position at work, alot of learning but its so awesome!
I also got accepted into Weber State University, most probably think that's not that big of a deal but to me its huge! When i was in high school, i never went to school and got caught up in the wrong things, things that didn't matter.. I loved learning and regret not going as much as i should have.. I ended up getting my diploma about a year after i got married, which only took a week to get. i always wanted to go to college but didn't think i would ever get accepted. So when i got that letter in the mail, it was like Christmas to me! I'm going this next spring semester and i'm going into Psychology and then from there going to apply to BYU to get my PHD in Neuropsychology. I have jumped from what I've wanted to study for so long, jumping from cosmetology to business and medical, but psychology is what I've always been interested in, and i'm beyond excited to start!

Thats the update, ill post up some pictures of little Hals, and the NFL game we went to and of Hals halloween costume!