Doug, Leslie, and Molly

2012-01-24T08:17:00.006-07:00

A few random things...

Our friends Trevor and Gina were married at the beginning of January. We are so excited for them!

I finished painting/redecorating the last room (well almost last - the extra bedroom we use for storage doesn't count) in our house! It is so exciting to be done painting. We seriously repainted EVERY room in our house because it was all painted this really ugly brown/orange color. So our last project was the upstairs bathroom. I am so disappointed that I didn't get any before/after shots because this was probably one of the most drastic changes we made. This bathroom had all gold fixtures that we replaced, a box light fixture all across the ceiling that we (with much help from Doug's dad) tore out and replaced after having to cut out a lot of dry wall as well (quite the project), I painted, and added newer molding to the floors and ceiling. I also made the pictures on the walls (there are 3 of them and it was quite the fiasco but turned out in the end). I love it now!! Thanks pinterest for the grey/white and molding idea. Love it!

Here is just a random picture of Molly because I just can't get enough of her (well sometimes I can and that's when Daddy takes over - ha ha) We sure do love this little face! Especially now that she smiles! I'll catch one of those smiles on camera eventually. Don't mind the slight red-eye, I didn't edit these pics.

And lastly, I want you to notice two things about this picture. 1 - Folks, we have a thumb sucker on our hands! Molly has found she prefers sucking her thumb/fist over a binkie any day. Doug hates it and always trys to make her stop but I say whatever makes her happy... 2 - She's balding. That's right, balding. I guess I shouldn't have expected anything different. I knew the time would come when she would lose that delicious full head of hair I was just in denial. It will grow back but until then, bring on the mohawk!

2012-01-08T20:57:00.003-07:00

I'm a little late in getting this posted but here we go, some of our December activities.

First off - Molly had her two month appointment a couple of weeks ago. Each month I take her picture by this giant frog to document her growth (don't ask where we got the giant frog however thanks Melissa for the picture idea! It's so fun to see how much bigger Molly gets each month compared to the frog). Anywho, she is in the 15th percentile for her weight and the 65th percentile for her height! She is going to be tall and skinny just like her daddy.

My parent's stake put on a live nativity this year for their Stake Christmas party. Because they had live camels, sheep, and donkeys, people dressed up as wise men, shepherds, Mary and Joseph, and even store owners at Bethlehem they decided that they wanted a live baby Jesus as well. Since we have a new baby they asked us to participate. It was such a great experience and the set up for the whole thing was spectacular! I wish I had more pictures to show off but you'll just have to take my word for it.

We went and saw the lights on Christmas Eve, Molly slept through the whole thing.

We found Molly under our tree on Christmas morning. I kid, I put her there and she was NOT happy.

Molly didn't really care about Christmas this year (did you expect anything different?) so we only got her one gift. This is her new Christmas outfit. Because of the earlier shared weight percentile Molly didn't fit in to her outfit but she still looked adorable!

We finally got a picture of all the cousins so far. Cutest kids ever

Jordy left for the MTC the Wednesday after Christmas. Even though he and I are teary-eyed in this picture I still think it's really cute.

And lastly, (although this just happened today) we finally took Molly to church! I know, I know, she's almost three months old but really it's kind of scary. We only made it a couple of hours but that was mainly my fault not hers. She was a gem. Also, doesn't she just look adorable!

It was a great December and a good start to the new year. I can't believe it's 2012!

2011-12-19T14:12:00.002-07:00

My day today so far...

8:00am - Molly hasn't woken up yet so I decide to get up and do a couple things before she wakes up (normally between 7 and 8 these days).

9:30am - Molly wakes up after going to bed last night at 10:00pm!

9:30 to 10:00am - Feed Molly. Change her diaper. Change another diaper when she poops in it two seconds after putting it on and then proceeds to smile at me (I can't get enough of her newly found smiles)

10:00am - Playing with Molly and there is a knock on my door. My cute little neighbor Dorothy comes over to tell me my tire is flat. Oh crap - there go my errands.

10:00 to 2:00pm - Molly has recently decided that she doesn't like to sleep during these hours, which is fine, but she also decided she likes to be held and likes me to walk around and if I don't she'll cry and if I do she sometimes will still cry. Today was one of the "still cry" days. Luckily I hear the fussiest part in a baby's life is around 7 and 8 weeks. She just turned 8 weeks so hopefully the fussiness will diminish shortly and I'll get more and more of those smiles that I love so much.

2:00pm - She finally falls asleep in my arms and I forget about her crying, the poopy diapers, and the flat tire and just love holding this sweet little baby. Sometimes I still can't believe she is mine.

2011-12-06T09:24:00.002-07:00

We blessed Molly on Sunday! It might have been a little early but since my little brother is leaving at the end of December to go on a mission we wanted to do it before he left. She was a total champ! Awake through the blessing but didn't make a noise :) I added the pink ribbon and the little sweater but the actual dress she is in is a handmade dress that her Great Great Great Grandmother (or something like that) made and since then all of Doug's aunts, cousins (minus one), and now the second generation girls have been blessed in it. I loved the lace!

Our little family of three

2011-11-19T11:55:00.004-07:00

Baby Story

So we went to a wedding reception the other night and I was told by a couple of different people that they were waiting to hear my birth story from the day I had Molly. I didn't know that this is something people wait for :) so I'll quickly tell you the story. I'm only four weeks late :) Haley and Rachelle this is for you...

My due date was Wednesday, October 19th. That evening I started feeling what I thought were painful contractions. They went away after about an hour, bummer. For the next two days I kept feeling contractions but nothing too consistent.

Friday night we had our annual Pumpkin Carving contest at our friends house. I started feeling slightly more painful contractions then. I told Doug on the way home that for the first time I was kind of scared for labor. He asked why and I said "because the contractions I've been feeling tonight kind of hurt, what if they get worse?" Oh man, did they get worse!

Saturday morning at 2am I woke up and had contractions about 6-10 mins apart until about 4am. Man those hurt! Then it got worse when they were 3-5 mins apart from 4am to 5am. My doc told me to come in if I have 5 min contractions for an hour. So at 5am I woke Doug up (he had been awake off and on the whole time) and we drove to the hospital. I was admitted at 5:45am and dilated to a 6! They told me I came in at the perfect time (thank goodness they didn't send me home)! I received my epidural at 6:30am and the rest was smooth sailing (kind of) after that. I got stuck for a while at an 8 and then at 12pm my doctor came in and said alright let's go! Pushed for an hour and out came my beautiful little girl.

All in all labor wasn't quite as bad as I was expecting. Don't get me wrong, it was still hard work and it wasn't a walk in the park, but after the epidural the only tough part was pushing and I was so glad it only lasted an hour! I had kind of been prepping myself for one of those first time mom 24 hour labors with 3 hours of pushing so to only be in the hospital in labor for 8 hours was not awful.

Welp, hope you enjoyed the story! Here is my favorite picture right now just for fun

2011-11-08T09:38:00.003-07:00

Happy Birthday to this girl!! My niece Tessa turned 5 yesterday. Can't believe she's already that old.

And just because he is adorable, my nephew is 16 months and so much fun! Gotta love his crazy personality! Right Chels?

2011-10-27T10:57:00.010-06:00

Alright, here she is, and there are going to be tons of pictures - just a warning...plus most of the pictures you've probably already seen

Introducing Molly Sue Weiler, born October 22, 2011 at 1:04 pm, 8 pounds 21 inches. I can't get over how much I love her already! Being a new mom has it's challenges but I am grateful for the opportunity to learn

Daddy holding Molly for the first time - melts my heart - I love watching Doug be a dad. He is so great

First bath - not a happy camper

First poopy diaper - had to document it :)

We had so many visitors come to see us. It was so great!

I lucked out to get my doctor even on a Saturday because he was the doctor on call - thank goodness!

Her going home outfit was a bit large...

Since it's been almost two weeks since we had her I have some other pictures to post. She had some breathing problems in the hospital so our pediatrician wanted to see her two days after we left the hospital. So here is her first doctor's appointment!

Of course we also had Halloween! Doug and I were Doug and Patty from the cartoon "Doug" and Molly was the cutest bumblebee ever! Although she didn't quite catch on to the fun of Halloween :)

2011-10-19T21:34:00.002-06:00

Still no baby - but I sure got a surprise when I opened my blog today and the baby counter is claiming that my baby is one day old - I wish :) I guess I'll wait until she actually comes and then I'll get rid of the incorrect counter.

On a random note - my mom showed me this today - and it's pretty awesome...

2011-10-17T10:44:00.007-06:00

Alright, I was going to wait until after the baby came to post about the nursery. However, someone told me maybe that's why she hasn't come yet and I'm ready to try everything (and I pretty much have - I'm going to attempt a light jog later - ha ha) to get this labor started. I know it's not even my due date yet but I'm anxious...Plus, I stopped going to work this week and have some extra time on my hands. Oh and don't worry, I will eventually get pictures in the frames...

So as I said in a previous post, I based the nursery off of the quilt that my Mom and Grandma gave to me.

The first thing Doug and I did was paint. Unfortunately, what we chose to do to took me a LONG time to actually like. The pink was too bright, the white was too bright, I didn't know if I liked the green molding, it was all very BRIGHT. But now that I've decorated everything and it has all come together I love it.

First off, we got this old dresser from one of my cousins. It was pretty beat up but we thought we would just take it and paint...BEFORE in all of it's gold beauty

And AFTER...with the first glimpse of the paint and decorations for the whole nursery. I really loved how the dresser turned out using just simple white and adding some new handles. It looks great up next to the bright pink walls

One of the cute decorations I made using left over fabric from the quilt and my favorite craft store - Wood Connection

Next to the dresser is our glider that we found. I love the dark wood. We actually had a white book shelf in its place until we found the glider. Replacing the white book shelf with the dark wood glider was my first step in actually liking the nursery. After we added that we realized we had the little book shelf in the exact same wood color that my brother had given to us. AND we originally had a different crib that we borrowed but we decided to buy a new one just a couple of weeks ago and they (the crib and changing table) also match perfectly! I'm also planning on adding a name on top of the bookshelf but since we haven't decided what our little girl's name is that is going to have to wait until after the hospital.

The wall decor here was also made from extra fabric from the quilt and Wood Connection decorations. I love how this turned out!

The crib

And the changing table

So as I said, it took me a while to like but I love it now! Now I just need a baby - hopefully that will be my next post

2011-10-11T18:27:00.004-06:00

#1: Two days ago, Sunday, October 9th, Doug and I celebrated our 3 year anniversary! I am so grateful for the life that we've built together, it sure has been awesome and I'm excited for the next steps we are taking as parents. Happy Anniversary!!!!

#2: Dear Baby (yes we still have not picked a name) - Please come now...I'm tired of being pregnant...

2011-10-06T20:45:00.002-06:00

Jordy got his mission call last Wednesday...

...and the destination is...the North Carolina, Charlotte mission!! He leaves December 28th. I can't believe he'll be gone for two years. Although, I've sent off two brothers before him and it always seems to go faster than I think it will. I am so proud of him and love him very much! Congrats Jord!

2011-09-22T21:19:00.007-06:00

Yesterday was week 36 of my pregnancy. Are you serious? I technically have four weeks left! Before I post some pictures I just have to say a couple of things

If one more person tells me it looks like I'm about ready to pop - I will punch them in the arm (lightly at first almost like I'm joking but with a touch of seriousness to it)

If one more person tells me it looks like I'm having twins - I will punch them in the arm a little harder

When I show up to work on a Monday morning and one more co-worker informs me that I haven't had my baby yet - I'm not sure what I'll do - do they think I don't realize that?

Really it's not that bad but sometimes I really have to wonder :)

Alright...I've had some awesome showers! I've received so many great things for my little babe. Too bad I didn't get very many good pictures. But I have one from each so that will have to work to represent.

The first one was thrown by my cute mom and SIL Chelsea with my mom's cousins. I got so many great things for my little girl. One of the main gifts was from my mom and Grandma (Mom bought all the stuff and Grandma made the quilt) It's for the nursery and I absolutely love it! I picked out the fabric colors and have now based the nursery on the quilt (pictures to come - it's not quite finished yet)

Next was the Osborne family shower. My aunts Tina and Marty threw this one for me and it too was great!
My best friend from highschool, Melissa, threw my friend shower. She decorated so cute and unfortunately I forgot about the camera until I was driving home so I was able to catch her before she finished cleaning up completely.

I still have a couple more and am so excited to get together with my Weiler extended family and with people from my parents home ward. Everyone has been so great and generous and I just love celebrating this little girl with all the people that I love the most. I am just getting really excited to finally be able to hold her and actually use all of this baby stuff I'm getting for her :)

2011-08-20T15:39:00.009-06:00

A couple of weeks ago my family went to Oceanside, California for a nice week long get-a-way. It was so much fun! I loved just spending time with my family for a whole week and getting to do so many fun things.

We walked along the pier to go to Ruby's for dinner one night and there was the prettiest sunset. The pictures don't do it justice but what a cute family I have - just don't mind the gigantic pregnant girl :)

We had a lot of good beach days

My cute parents who made the whole vacation possible and the cutest niece and nephew in the world

This is one of my favorite pictures of the whole trip - ladies eat your heart out - for both of them!

Sullivan and Doug had a really fun time at some tide pools

We got to spend time with our family who lives in Cali - here are all of the cousins

We also went to Disney Land. I obviously couldn't go on any of the big rides but I had fun hanging out with Sullivan and Tessa when we couldn't go with everyone else. It's kind of funny that the "happiest place on earth" was where I saw most children crying - including Tessa a couple of times, Sullivan a little bit, and I admit it I had my own little break down towards the end of the day. I was hot, tired, uncomfortable, and although I thoroughly enjoyed myself all day I pushed it a little too far. Luckily I got to watch the awesome water show at California Adventure to calm down. Seriously if you get a chance to see it you should!

This is a picture from the Buzz Lightyear ride. Me, Chelsea, Alex, Tessa, and Sullivan went on it while everyone else tried to ride Space Mountain (tried because the line ended up being forever long!) and it was the most exciting ride of my day! And was actually really fun. We ended up going on it twice because we had to share the fun with everyone who missed it the first time. I don't know if the picture is big enough but Chels has totally got her game face on...

We also took family pictures on the beach - oh the joys of taking pictures while pregnant

I love this engagement picture with my two little brothers

Alex and Chelsea's cute family

The original Osborne clan

The whole family
One day we went to Old Town San Diego to shop and look around. We stopped at the new Mormon Battalion museum which turned out to be really fun for the kids (and adults) and a nice little stop

That same day we stopped at Mission Beach to shop and grab some ice cream

On the way home we stopped at the Rainbow outlet to get some flip-flops

And Sully got a taste of his first slot machine's when we stopped for dinner in Mesquite! He loved it! Start 'em young that's what I say :)

Thanks Mom and Dad for an amazing trip!

2011-08-11T17:52:00.005-06:00

The Samsung Katalyst Slider

I have an iPhone. I love my iPhone. It has cracks on the screen. I drop it a lot. It's a 2nd generation. I probably should get a new one. Did I mention I love it?

Yesterday, as Doug and I were on our way to pick up a crib (ahh!!!) my water bottle slowly leaked in the cup holder that was holding Doug's Nokia Express. It is now in a container of rice.

For the time being, he is using this beauty.

My Samsung Katalyst. A phone I just couldn't throw away when I got my iPhone. I LOVE this phone. It is my favorite out of all that I've ever had. Even the iPhone.

Is it bad that I'm a little jealous Doug's phone broke so he can use this one? Sad thing is, now that I've had an iPhone I can't go back. Dang you Apple but bless you as well.

(You know there is not much going on when the only thought of a post is about cell phones! However, I have my first baby shower tonight and am so excited! Post to come...)

2011-06-28T19:19:00.011-06:00

I have a few random things to post about and then I finally have them...pictures of our house! Not of the whole place but of pretty much everything that is finished. First things first.

A couple of weekends ago I went on a girls trip with some awesome girls. Want to read more? Go to Haley's or Stacey's blogs I'll let them tell you all we did. But I wanted to include a picture of some really cool waterfalls (Thanks Linn) that we went to. If you ever get a chance go find them. For some reason I can't think of what they are called but the other blogs will tell you. They were awesome though!

I always love babysitting my niece and nephew. They are just the cutest. However, on this particular night I got to babysit just Sullivan. It was so much fun! He is seriously so adorable. I was able to spend some good alone time with him just like I used to with Tessa and get to know him better. This is his "I told you so" face. Not sure what he was doing

Unfortunately I didn't get a good shot of his new face that he likes to do but this was the best one. He usually scrunches up his mouth and nose too and it's adorable. My favorite part is he'll do it on request.

Next random tidbit, our new ward is 95% over 65 years old and 5% newly married couples or couples with a couple of young kids. We don't mind too much especially when our adorable neighbor Dorothy brought over this welcome basket. She had some oatmeal/walnut cookies and snicker doodles in the basket and I'm not exaggerating when I say they were some of the best cookies I've EVER tasted.

Alright, on to the house. The whole house was painted this brown-ish color. Literally the WHOLE house. So naturally I hated it. For two weeks before moving in we painted every moment we could. So after lots of painting...

...remember I'm pregnant and had to wear a mask...

...and lots of moving (thanks for everyone's help!!!) See if you can spot Doug's legs behind Rob...

...some relaxing after moving...

...we get the before and afters!

KITCHEN - BEFORE

AFTER

(I still need to get something to decorate that huge blank wall - not quite sure what to do...ideas?)

We had lots of helping painting from my wonderful mother!

LIVING ROOM - BEFORE

AFTER

(again, I need to decorate some walls but am not sure what to do yet)

DINING ROOM - BEFORE

AFTER

I have not posted pictures of our master bedroom or the upstairs. We haven't really finished the upstairs since we hardly go up there but as soon as we finish the nursery I'll post some more pics. The master bedroom is also a work in progress and I will post pictures when it is finished. I kind of hate it right now :)

We also bought some patio furniture and some plants for our back patio but I don't have pictures. I'll do that another day. I do have one that I have to share. When we moved in the weed featured below was about 6 inches tall. With all the water and then the heat it totally flourished and when we finally pulled it out last week you can see how much it grew! Lovely

2011-05-24T18:13:00.015-06:00

So...IT'S A...

GIRL

and we couldn't be more excited!!

(house pictures still to come...)

2011-05-16T07:50:00.003-06:00

The big move was on Saturday! We are loving our place even though the ward we went to yesterday was 95% elderly people and 5% under 35 years old! However, they were very nice and friendly and it seems like a good ward. Much different then our old ward where we only felt the need to say goodbye to about 5 people after 2 1/2 years of attending. Pictures to come soon!

2011-04-20T18:58:00.010-06:00

Welp, still feeling pretty gross but I hit 14 weeks today and am hoping that an end is coming soon to the nausea. I'm officially out of the first trimester and being sick has already started to come and go on most days (intead of being a constant part of my everyday life) so like I said hopefully soon it will just GO. Surprisingly the nausea has not been the worst part.The worst is the fact that I HATE food but I get hungry like every two hours. So I'm starving (the nausea get's worse when I get hungry) but yet I can't find anything I like/want to eat. Not only that, if I do find something that I want to eat, I eat it, and then possibly later that night or for sure the next day I can't even think about what I ate the night before without gagging. So it's quite the cycle and I just hope that my appetite goes back to normal soon, I'm running out of options here...

There have been a couple of things that I can eat consistently and I have eaten many many many of them in the last three months.

GRAPEFRUIT (with sugar - of course) - I go through about six a week - that's twelve halves for seven days. Love it

STRAWBERRIES AND MILK (with sugar - of course)

This last one is a recent addition - SUPER PRETZELS - pop these babies in the microwave for 30 seconds and they are fantastic (with cinnamon sugar or salt - of course)

All that being said, I want to stress the fact that I'm not trying to complain. I am so happy and grateful that I have this opportunity to go through this. There are so many people out there who can't and I can only imagine what that must feel like. There are also people who have nausea (not to mention vomiting) much worse then me (just don't mention those pregnant women who never feel sick a day in their pregnany...they make me angry - ha ha). So as much as it wears on me sometimes, I have to remind myself what it is for and how excited I am for the end result (and terrified at times) but that's a post for another day :)

Thanks for all of the congratulations and well wishes. You guys are the best!

2011-03-28T17:05:00.003-06:00

Alright...some of you already know but just in case you don't...

I'M PREGNANT!

We told both of the families by baking cakes (don't mind my unprofessional cake decorating). For my family we thought it would be fun to make a cake in the shape of a pregnancy test. However, I had no idea that my mom had never seen one before! She said they never used to take them they just knew that they were pregnant. Weird. Anyway, my sister-in-law and brothers all knew what it was immediately, my mom got that I was pregnant but thought it was a baby bottle, and my dad thought it was a guitar, he was a little off :)

The cake idea started because Doug's family has a lot of March birthdays. Doug's dad's is the 8th, his sister is the 23rd, and Doug's is the 25th so we thought it would be fun to say "Happy Birthday Grandpa" but Doug's family is pretty sarcastic so we thought maybe they would think we were making fun of Doug's dad for being old so instead we spelled it out. But the effect was the same and everyone was excited.

I am 11 weeks along and have actually been really sick. I'm ready to be done with the first trimester and really hope (keep your fingers crossed) that I will feel better right after or soon after week 12! Doug has been really great and I'm so grateful to have such a wonderful husband who can put up with my laziness. I get home from work and just can't get motivated to do anything so he has been really great. Besides being sick (which I guess comes with the territory) we really are excited for this next huge step in our lives and I will keep the blog updated, hopefully more consistently if I get feeling better soon :)

2011-03-13T16:21:00.004-06:00

No pictures to this post but just in case you haven't heard...WE'RE MOVING! Don't worry, we're only going like 10 miles south of where we are now but we're excited about it! Buying a house (or townhome rather) is kind of scary. It seems like so much money but we are excited for this next step in our lives as home-owners. We haven't officially closed on the house yet so give me a month or two to post pictures. We have to give sixty days notice on our lease in our apartment so we may not be moving in for another two months. But for now, know that it is coming and we can't wait!

2011-02-17T20:42:00.004-07:00

This year for Valentine's we celebrated the Saturday before by going to dinner and a movie. However, Doug got me a small gift and I decided to make him a romantic dinner actually on Valentine's Day. To prep the story that is coming I have to tell you a little side story. Doug has a Monday night class from 6:00 pm until 8:30 pm but EVERY night since the semester started he's been home by 8 or 8:30 at the LATEST. So, I got home from work on Valentine's and straightened up the apartment. Then I put candles all over the apartment. There were at least a hundred (ignore the fire hazard, I was careful) and it looked so cool! I decorated our dinner table and started cooking a japanese dish called tempura. I planned to have dinner done by 8 with the possibility of keeping it in the oven until 8:30 by which time I thought Doug would be home for sure. 8:25 rolls around and still no Doug. So I texted him asking if he'd left yet. His response "No" Finally at 8:35 he texts me and says he's leaving. Thinking I only had twenty minutes to get all of the candles lit I raced around the apartment lighting them all, got dinner out of the oven and on to the table, made sure everything was ready, and waited...and waited...and waited...finally I texted him again. He said 15 minutes. 15 minutes later there was still no Doug. So I texted him again to which he replied Sorry, 15 more minutes. At that point I called him in tears asking him what is taking so long. Not only did his teacher decide for the FIRST TIME to teach until 8:30 it took Doug an hour to get home from the U because of Trax (he parks his car below the U and takes trax up to campus). By the time he finally got home it was 9:35pm, the candles had been burning forever, dinner was back in the oven and I was afraid it wouldn't be good anymore, and Doug walks into the apartment to a wife sitting on the couch crying. Ha ha. Perfect movie scene. Although the timing didn't work out perfect (thanks stupid teacher!) We had a wonderful dinner and a great remainder of the night. I hope everyone else's Valentine's was as good as ours just slightly less eventful! Here are just a few pictures of all of the candles. The rest were just randomly placed throughout the apartment in big clusters.

Wine glasses = Sparkling apple cider in our household

2011-02-13T13:28:00.005-07:00

I am warning you now...If you do not want to see three bare butts (all of whom you will not know the person) then do not scroll past the Valentine's Day cookies. Otherwise it's a pretty funny pic and story so read on (sorry for the unusual content).

I'm not going to pretend that I really love football (I don't mind it but let's just say it's not my favorite thing) However, any excuse I get to make something fun is something I love, so I took the Super Bowl as an excuse to try out using royal icing for these football cookies. The consistency of the royal icing was a little off but I think the cookies turned out pretty cute anyway.

I wanted to try again with the royal icing and what better excuse then Valentine's Day! So I tried again, the football cookies were a little thick and on these ones the icing was WAY too thin. It worked out in the end but was quite the mess during the decorating process. Maybe next time I'll get it right.

I saw a cute Valentines day decoration on a craft blog that I've been watching. She found cute candle sticks to put these rose bud balls on top of but I couldn't find cheap ones that I liked so I did it this way instead. I tried to find the tutorial on how to make these but I can't remember what craft website I got them off of. However, all you have to do is by some felt, cut circles about 2.5 - 3 inches in diameter, fold them in half, then in half again, stick a pin into the triangle you've made and stick the pin into a foam ball. Then just cover the ball. Pretty simple.

Now for the random bare butt story...I was sitting on the couch minding my own business when Doug said "Les, look what I found!" And he proceeded to show me this picture. I guess he found it in a small crack between our counter and refridgerator in the kitchen. So random and weird/gross. I can't believe these girls sent this out for the New Year!! I guess that is what we get for living in a apartment rental, random things left behind.

For another funny story on random things found in a rental go to Brad and Heather's blog here http://bradandheather09.blogspot.com/2010/06/big-and-tall.html

2011-02-02T18:55:00.004-07:00

January is a pretty uneventful month...sorry for not updating more. We did get to go up to Park City for Sundance where we met Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes, and little Suri!!!! Too bad the critics said her movie sucked....JK we didn't meet anyone famous but we did have a nice time trying on $18,000 fur coats, eating at Main Street Pizza and Noodle, and walking around enjoying Main Street. However, I didn't bring my camera so no pictures. Because I have no pictures I thought I would show you my new decorations that I got from one of my most favorite places on earth - The Wood Connection.

I got these ones after Christmas so I'm very excited to use them next year

And of course Valentine's Day which I just put up today!

This next one is my latest favorite. The middle is removable (see the second picture and notice the velcro) so I get to make one for each month/holiday (much to Doug's dismay). I still have to add a couple of frills and stuff to this so it's not quite finished yet.

2011-01-01T21:56:00.006-07:00

Happy New Year!!! I can't believe it's 2011, but first off, we had a wonderful Christmas again this year!

We had the 7th or 8th ?? annual LOTRM (aka Lord of the Rings Marathon) with our friends. Some people came and went throughout the day and missed the picture. Jonny was taking it

We spent Christmas Eve celebrating with Doug's family. As kids Doug's mom always made them line up on the stairs and take a picture on Christmas morning. So she decided she wanted one with everyone's significant other...

You think you are all grown up until Santa brings the Weiler family some children's toys and they were the hit of the party! Behold...marblemania

Perplexus - you had to try and get a little ball through the maze inside the big ball. It was awesome and very frusterating when you mess up

We got a ton of new camping stuff from Doug's family and I can't wait to try it all out. That's Doug in there if you couldn't tell...

Christmas morning at our apartment

Then we spent all of Christmas day with my family. Opening presents...

Pa and Sully wore matching outfits, they totally called each other and planned it

Tessa looks really excited, she loves Christmas. I actually believe she just found out she didn't have skittles in her candy bag. It's okay though, she stole Sullivan's, he doesn't eat candy anyway

2010-12-21T19:35:00.006-07:00

So I forgot, I did take one picture of something Thanksgiving-ish. I saw these cute little treats on the internet and thought I'd give them a try. The picture (and most of the pictures on this post) were taken from my phone and are not very good quality but you still get the idea.

Once again I forgot my camera to the annual Osborne Nativity. The older grandkids usually get to just watch the nativity once they hit high school but we were missing my cousin with his five boys under the age of 16 so we had to invite some of the older boys (John - 23ish, Lance 21, and Jordy 18) to be involved in the craziness. Lance got to be Joseph with cute Annie as Mary. You can also see Tessa and Sarah as angels in the corner.

Jord was a wise man and Sully was a shepherd (he wouldn't sit still long enough to be baby Jesus)

Did I mention he was the cutest shepherd ever! Ugh, he's so cute!

My brother Alex loves to point out the fact that Sullivan's ears stick out, well mainly ear, but it totally worked to his advantage, it was a perfect spot for the head band to rest!

The fame of being the cutest shepherd tuckered the little guy out.

I always love getting together with the whole extended family! Such a good time

2010-12-08T21:27:00.004-07:00

There are many things I could blog about right now...the wonderful Thanksgiving we had with Doug's family, the wedding events of Mr. and Mrs. Rob Weiler (i.e. Friday night wedding dinner at Old Mill Golf Course, Saturday morning Salt Lake Temple visit, Crown Burger for lunch, Saturday evening reception at Le Jardin), and my niece, Tessa's preschool Christmas performance, but I can't since I have been AWFUL and forgot my camera to each event. So instead, I give you...my favorite youtube video of all time...

Bless you Whitney Houston for your wonderfully cheesy song and Christian for being the lion that brings tears to my eyes with every watch.

2010-11-24T16:55:00.002-07:00

This is what happens when somebody accidentally puts Dawn dish washing SOAP in the dish washer instead of Cascade dish washing DETERGENT...

...beautiful

2010-11-22T18:59:00.005-07:00

My favorite series/books out of anything else on the planet are Harry Potter. To be honest I'm quite the nerd about it (although I don't go quite as far as dressing up to the book or movie releases - everyone has their limits and that is mine). I did, however, enjoy standing in line to get the books at 12:00 am and seeing the movies at 12:00 am opening day. On the other hand, you have Doug, who really doesn't care very much about them. He humored me and didn't put up too much of a fuss when I bought tickets to see Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 opening night. I was thoughtful enough to buy them for Friday night at 9:10 pm instead of the midnight showing. Anywho, long story short - I loved it! Only a few changes from the book and those I was able to look past and just enjoy since the main point of the story was right on. Can't wait for July!

2010-11-10T19:46:00.010-07:00

An Osborne trip to St George is always a great time! We went over fall break in October so Lance could have his first family vacation since being home from his mission. This particular trip to St George was complete with...

a hike/walk to the Lava Caves in Snow Canyon (notice the empty Pringles can for catching lizards)...

some tennis...

lots of swimming...

volleyball...

shuffleboard competitions...

relaxing in the condo (we played poker at night with M&M's. It was a blast!!!)

mean looks from this guy while trying to take his picture...

this cute little face...

and new adventures! My mom heard about this short hike that has waterfalls and pools you can swim in at the end of it. It was awesome!

Cliff jumping is always popular with my family

Thanks Mom and Dad for such a great trip!

2010-11-01T21:50:00.017-06:00

We had a great Halloween this year! A couple of traditions and some new firsts! Starting with the traditions...

#1: We carved pumpkins with my family (usually the last Monday night before Halloween). I thought I got more pictures than this but couldn't find them. So all you get to see are awesomely carved pumpkins. Left to right: Lance's (throwing up), mine (totally cheated and used a pattern), Jordy's, Shaela (Jord's kind of girl friend), Doug's, Mom's, and Tessa's. Too bad you can't see Tessa's in the light because after my Mom carved out the face Tessa stabbed it for an hour.

#2: The Third Annual Pumpkin Carving Contest with some of our friends at Cole and Jocelyn's.

Left to right: Mine and Doug's, Kit and Kim's, Trevor and Gina's. Bottom: Cole and Jocelyn's

Now for the "Firsts"

#1: For work on Friday Doug dressed up as his boss and our great friend Zach Smith. I called Cecily (sorry Cecily for cutting you out of the pic that I stole from your blog!!) to see if Doug could borrow some of Zach's clothes. Notice the exactly matching glasses, shirt, and shoes. It was pretty awesome. Thanks Cecily for keeping Zach away from the window when I came to pick them up

#2: I watched Tessa and Sullivan (for the first time since Sully was born) all day on Thursday while Alex and Chels were on their cruise. I thought to myself what a nice day off it was going to be, I'd get so much done and have a very productive day. That didn't happen - kids are a lot of work. These kids are pretty awesome too and I still didn't get much done. Probably cuz I just like playing with them - they are too darn cute. Don't worry, Sully can usually always get his fist back out of his mouth

#3: While watching the kids I took Tessa to her first preschool Halloween party

#4: I made this adorable cheesecake for the first Halloween party we've ever hosted! We had a Murder Mystery Dinner and it was great! The theme was 1920's gangster

I was a 1920's newspaper photographer and Doug was a corrupt investment banker

Jeff and Holli

Rachelle and Carson (Rachelle was the murderer)

Steve and Stacy

Haley and Jonny

Liz and Nick

Brad and Elise

Matt and Lou (who invited Mario and Peach to the party??!)

All in all we had a great Halloween!

2010-10-09T14:57:00.004-06:00

Doug and I were married two years ago today! I can't believe it's been two years already but then again it has gone by so fast. I'm so grateful I was able to marry my best friend. I am also glad to say that we have officially past the honeymoon/newly wed stage. You kind of pass that after a year of marriage but now we are old timers.

On another note, I have something that is completely worth mentioning although I have no pictures. Doug's brother, Rob, ran in the St George marathon last week so the whole family went down for the weekend. I have never been to the finish of a marathon and it was surprisingly touching. People laughing, sobbing, cheering, and throwing up all in the same place. But seriously, I loved seeing the little three year olds holding signs saying "Go Daddy!" and other things like that was so great. If you know me at all you'll know that I got all teary eyed. Rob finished in just under four hours - quite an accomplishment for the first time (and only?) marathon runner! Good job Rob!

2010-10-05T21:35:00.003-06:00

Avocado vs Guacamole

A couple of months ago (and it continues to this day) Doug and I had a discussion/argument about what exactly makes up guacamole. I am a person who doesn't really like tomatoes, onions, peppers, etc so I like it to just be smashed up avocado and some salt if necessary. Doug, however, claims the way I like it is NOT guac it's just simply "smashed up avocado." He feels that what makes guacamole true guac are the tomatoes, onions, peppers, etc. We've brought this discussion to a group of friends and a couple of different family member groups. Literally each time the group is split. Some side with me and some side with Doug. During the last family member discussion my cousin Shawni pulled out the Webster's dictionary definition which states, "a dip of mashed avacado mixed with seasonings" What?! That's not good enough - that just escalated the discussion more by adding the question "well what exactly does it mean by seasonings?" So my question goes out to all of you. What is your definition of guacamole?

2010-09-18T20:30:00.006-06:00

My birthday was on Wednesday and Doug surprised me with Lion King tickets! I had been feeling kind of left out since almost my entire family had already seen it and were talking about how great it was, so it was a wonderful surprise when I opened the fridge on Saturday morning (the 11th) to see this...

and Doug yelled "Happy Birthday!" It was a great birthday surprise. We went to Olive Garden before the show which is always great except for the fact that we were seated at 6:40 and our food didn't come out until 7:35 (the show started at eight)! A table of five ordered about ten minutes after us and they were pretty much finishing their food before we even got ours! The manager offered us free dessert but what could we do, sneak it in to Capital Theatre with us since we didn't have time to eat it in the restaurant? Luckily Capital Theatre was right across the street so after scarfing our food we made it right on time! Besides the food mishap it was a great birthday celebration and Doug and I both really enjoyed the show

2010-09-15T18:49:00.008-06:00

My little brother Lance came home on Monday after serving a mission in San Tiago Chile. It was so much fun going to the airport to pick him up!

Waiting for Lance to come...

Sully was super excited (notice Jordy in the background)

He looks exactly the same as he used to, it was so great to see him. My parents left earlier in the week to pick him up and vacation in Chile for a week. They had a great time!

It was fun to see how much bigger Jordy is beside Lance now

First time holding his new nephew

And of course - an Osborne get together is nothing until Tessa entertains with her fashion shows. But seriously, how is a three year old so dang pretty!

Alex and Chels did good

2010-09-11T16:35:00.003-06:00

Doug and I have lived in the same apartment for the last two years (almost) and it is about ten minutes away from both of our families. For these last two years we have never, I'm going to stress the word NEVER, had a Sunday meal at our own place. If we weren't with my family we were with the Weiler's and let me tell you it has been awesome! However, last Sunday my parents were in Chile picking up Lance from his mission and we were getting together with Doug's family the next day (Monday) for Labor day. So - it had to happen sometime - I made a Sunday meal for the first time in our apartment! It was a historic day. Sorry for the no picture post - I usually don't do that but felt this deserved it.

2010-08-24T17:26:00.005-06:00

A lot of the posts that I've seen today are about the person's kid on their first day of preschool or kindergarten. Since I have no kids I decided to talk about this guy

Yesterday Doug had his first day of school in his new major. I'm so happy that I have a husband who works so hard at everything he does! Now I'm just excited for the day when we are BOTH done with school.

On a different note - if you remember my previous post about softball, the next stop for Cardon during the corporate games was ultimate frisbee and let me tell you it was very exciting. They took Gold in their division! Good job Cardon!

Doug was pretty tired after so Tessa dragged him to the car.

2010-08-16T21:38:00.006-06:00

I came home last Friday to find this from my cute husband. I had finished my last final and now only had to wait for my grades to be posted to make it official.

And today - it happened! I found out all my grades, passed my last 4 classes of my college career, and am officially graduated! Man, it's a good feeling

2010-08-14T11:12:00.003-06:00

So every summer Doug participates with Cardon (the company he works for) in the Corporate Games. Companies all over Salt Lake play eachother in sports like: volleyball, softball, ping pong, ultimate frisbee, soccer, basketball, poker, and more

Well these games go on for a month and it's a fun time. I usually watch most of what they do but this morning when I woke up to WATCH a 9 o'clock softball game I naturally didn't expect to PLAY...

They have all sorts of rules because it's co-ed. So for softball each team has to have five girls and if you don't, you lose. So at 9 there were only 4 girls and I was the only wife who came to watch. So they grabbed me a jersey, gave me some extra shoes one of the girls had and I played right field. Luckily, no balls came to right field. I was hoping I wouldn't have to bat either but of course I did. I went up to bat three times and was pretty proud of myself. The first time I actually got on first base and made it to second before the team got out. The second time I hit it but they caught it. The third time I struck out but still I was fairly proud and I really did have fun playing with Doug and his co-workers. Go Cardon! Oh and we lost but that's okay.

On to a more gruesome topic. If you've seen Doug over the last four months you will have noticed that one of his big toes is black. I was beginning to think it would never fall off

Over the last few days it started to...

It finally fell off! The underneath nail is worse than the black one but at least it's starting to get better!

2010-08-01T21:56:00.003-06:00

It's been a while since I posted something so I thought I'd share a few things that I am so so so excited for that it's kind of ridiculous...I'll start with the closest arrival date. Forgive me for my nerdiness.

AUGUST: Many of you have read these awesome books and if you haven't, I'll state this simply, YOU SHOULD. The third book of the Hunger Games series comes out at the end of August and you better believe I already have my preordered copy coming to me from Amazon for under $10 bucks - beat that 400 long hold list at ALL of the libraries around here.

SEPTEMBER: This one is a slighlty nerdy excitement but what the heck I'm excited for it anyways. Remember the movie Eragon? Kind of dumb but an alright rental - well the books are WAY better (if you like the talking dragon, magic sort of thing - believe me it's not for everyone so if you decide to read these and hate them don't think less of me) There are three of them out right now and the fourth comes out in September.

NOVEMBER: This is the one I'm excited for the most (although the Hunger Games comes in at a close second) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows. Can't. Wait. That's all that needs to be said

2010-07-10T12:10:00.010-06:00

We just got back from a reunion with Doug's mom's side of the family. It was in a little place called Altamont by Duchesne in a gigantic lodge. It was fun. We started with boating (thanks to Michael's dad for lending us his boat)

Kevin learned how to slalom ski and wake board this trip in the chopiest water ever!

I've never been boating with Doug before (I saw him slalom behind a waverunner once) and he was very impressive!

This little guy was my favorite the whole trip - he was very moody and would cry if he saw someone he didn't know. However, I was very proud when I got him to throw rocks with me for about half an hour. He even played balloon toss with me for a bit before his balloon popped and he wasn't so happy anymore. After that when he saw me he would give me a shy little smile instead of crying

The next day we went to Moon Lake. It was beautiful. Some people hiked, some went on canoes, and I sat talking with Katie (Rob's girlfriend) while the other Weiler's threw a football and frisbee for a while

One night Marjean had put together a bunch of Minute-To-Win-It games and we all had a blast!

Michael got the oreo from his forehead to his mouth using only his facial expressions in 13 seconds! That was the record

With the Weiler's an opportunity to play Around the World ping-pong is never missed

Same goes for playing Horse Shoes in Doug's mind

Well that was pretty much our trip. On a more random note...our dryer has been leaking water lately and we weren't exaclty sure why. Once Doug stuck his hand up the silver tube we found out why...snails and lots of them! That's a problem

2010-07-01T21:52:00.007-06:00

We welcomed the newest member of the Osborne clan into the family today! Chelsea had her baby!! I have a nephew and he is so adorable. Sullivan Devon Osborne - 8 lbs 3 ounces and Mom and baby are doing great. Doug and I got to go to the hospital tonight and hang out for a few hours and I absolutely loved it.

Doug and I got there before my parents and Jordy did so I got to hold him first. When I asked Tessa if Doug should hold him she said "No" without hesitation (she and Doug have a love-hate relationship) and when I asked Doug if he wanted him he said "I don't know if that's such a good idea" He was so nervous! I never realized that he has not held a newborn before. It was so cute to see him hold Sully. He's going to be a great Daddy one day.

I'm so excited to have Sully in our family! Congrats Alex and Chels!

Two weekends ago we had a busy and fun weekend. Part of it was going to the Chalk Art Gallery at Gateway on Saturday morning. Some of the artwork was so amazing! I loved the ones that used super vibrant and pretty colors.

Linn was there actually creating Peter Pan and Tink below. This is her almost finished project. It was definitely my favorite piece there. She is super talented.

We went swimming after that and then that night we went to the Venture Outdoors Milcreek Festival to hear Cole's cousin (Cameron Rafati) play. We have heard him a couple of times and he is really fun to listen to. At the Outdoor Festival they had fire trucks, a helicopter, a SWAT truck, and other stuff like that. Doug and Trevor got to play with real SWAT guns (yes Doug is pointing his at Trevor's face - luckily no bullets were present). All in all it was a great weekend

2010-06-17T19:24:00.003-06:00

The joys of being a kid during the summer...

If you have seen our apartment you will already know that our sliding glass door to our "porch" (if you can call it a porch) faces the parking lot. So to give us a little more privacy there are huge bushes surrounding it. I usually hate these bushes because although they are nice because no one can see in, they cast a green glow in our apartment when the sun is shining. Anyway, for the past month or so when the weather has been nice there are between 2-6 kids playing around the parking lot and apartment buildings. As I went into my kitchen one day after getting home from work the kids sounded really close. I have seen them play around the outside of our bushes but never have I seen this -

(I'm looking out our kitchen window and the sliding glass door is on the left) It was so cute. They were pretending that they were in jail and they kept yelling for their friends to let them out. This just struck me as such a fun way to waste away the summer. Hanging outside with your friends. No jobs, no school, not a care in the world. I wish I didn't have to go to work and could just play in the sun all day with my hubby - alas welcome to adulthood. I guess it has its perks too :)

2010-05-15T13:58:00.016-06:00

The M.S. Paradise

Doug and I just got back from a Cruise, complete with...

towel animals...

good food (and tons of it)...

bean bag toss...

shuffleboard...

sunny days...

waterslide (and pool)...

good friends...

and just a really good time!

The trip actually started with a quick weekend in St. George where we picked up a little addition to our family - Dr. Fury - who is a toy fish and if you look closely will be able to see him in 8 of the pictures on this post. Don't ask me why but we enjoyed a Sunday afternoon of racing our 3 fish down Main Street in St George. We had Dr. Fury (mine and Doug's), Flounder (Carson and Rachelle's), and Fast Fish (Jeff and Holly's).

So anyway - here we are at the start of our cruise.

We got to the boat on Monday night and it was so so so windy. On Tuesday we were supposed to go to Catalina Island but because the wind persisted through the night the captain decided to wait until the next day. I woke up at 4 in the morning because there was an awful crashing that went off every minute or so. I felt that the boat was still rocking so I looked out the window. BIG mistake. I'm only slightly exagerating when I say that I thought of the movie The Perfect Storm because the waves were GIGANTIC!!! I was slighltly terrified and couldn't get back to sleep for a while. But all turned out well and instead of Catalina on Tuesday, we had a nice relaxing boat day. The weather picked up after that and we had three beautiful days of sunshine.

Then came CATALINA. A wonderful little island that is part of California. It is so small that you have to have a special license to drive a car and most people drive golf carts. This was my second time there and I really love that place

We went kayaking to a place called Frog Rock. Normally you can jump off of it but the water was too shallow this time of year so we couldn't. The kayaking was way fun though

Doug entertained us on the beach by catching the crabs scuttling all over the place.

Ouch - nice one Doug - luckily this little guy didn't have too strong of a grib but...

it was strong enough to hold on to Doug until it activated his defense mechanism and left Doug with a crab pincher stuck on his finger - the girls screamed - but our guide told us that the crab pinchers grow back just like a lizards tail.

We kayaked by a resort that I will one day go back and stay in. It was right on the ocean and so beautiful.

This pink flower ground cover was growing all over the rocks by the resort and I loved it. It is so pretty - its reflection off the water looked really cool.

More pretty flowers...

On Thursday we went to ENSENADA, MEXICO. Almost the same as Tijuana shopping wise and totally fun. I love badgering with those shop owners to get a good price. I also took Doug to get his first ever authentic mexican tacos. They were delicious!

We went to the same place my family went two years ago - a place called Tequila's. It was so much fun!

Lastly, we stopped at Primm, NV on our way home and went on the rollercoaster there. Love it!

All in all we had a great trip and wish we didn't have to go back to real life already!

2010-05-02T21:31:00.004-06:00

There is a wonderful little place called Wood Connections that a couple of my friends - Jocelyn and Kim - introduced me to and I love it. I have forced myself not to go there anymore because I spend too much money. Then when I come home Doug always reminds me that I'm spending the money that we should be saving for a house and I feel guilty. But really look how cute and fun...You buy the wood and decorations, then you paint them, glue stuff, and decorate.

Because I felt guilty about buying them for myself, I justified it by buying them for other people instead. For my sister-in-law's birthday I made the Spring blocks and loved it so much I had to make one for myself too - oops

This one is for my mom for Mother's Day (no I did not make one for myself although I wanted too) She already knows about it so I can blog about it early!

And this one I just loved and made for myself. Now I can't wait for July!

2010-04-04T11:21:00.008-06:00

The many beards of Doug Weiler and a Happy Birthday

Doug decided he wanted to grow his beard out for 4 months. Since I only like it for 2 months we agreed on 3 months of growing a beard. When he shaved it off he of course did it in stages. Enjoy...

Sunday: The Grizzly Adams

Monday: The Super CreepyTuesday: The Even CreepierWednesday: The Fu-Manchu Thursday: The Pedafile That was the last stage. He is now cleanshaven and my handsome husband once more.

Now for his birthday. Doug's birthday was March 25th. We were in St George for Spring Break (post to come) and he got a wonderful awakening from our friends that were with us.

We then opened his presents. He hardly wanted me to buy him anything but he was very excited about his Stewie shirt. I also got him a new swimsuit (in the picture) and a Real sticker for his car.

We went hiking that day in Pioneer Park. (Actually I take it back we went golfing that day but I don't have a picture)

That night we went to the Pizza Factory for dinner. We told them it was Doug's birthday and instead of bringing out dessert they brought out this pizza shaped in the number 24. It was so cute! (Notice the clean shaven face - love it!)

I made him a cake at home and then brought it to St George. I was glad it didn't get ruined (except for a tiny smudging of some of the letters. I was really pleased with how it turned out!

One more random thing. Although I would love to take credit for the adorable cake platter below...I have to give the credit to my cousin Missy. She is awesomely crafty and does the cutest stuff. Go to her craft blog (http://www.hercraftyways.blogspot.com/) and you will be able to see all of the super cute stuff she has done recently. This cake platter being one of them. I'm super excited about the pattern I found (although slighly different than hers) and am so excited to make a cake just so I can use it. It was way easy to make and only cost me $7! That made Doug happy. So if you want to give this a try just find a cute bowl and plate that you like and glue the bottom of the bowl to the bottom of the plate using some pretty hefty glue. It was so easy and I'm in love!

2010-03-18T21:20:00.004-06:00

After having pink, heart-shaped pancakes for Valentine's Day I decided I wanted to make green, shamrock-shaped pancakes for dinner on St Patrick's day. To make it a little different I went with green french toast instead. It was pretty awesome. It's weird but it was a really pretty color green.

To make our green "breakfast-for-dinner" more complete we had green orange juice. That was even better then the green french toast.

Doug doesn't like taking pictures just so I can blog about it but he let me take it this time (probably so he could show off his beard that I am so so ready for him to shave) but the best part about this picture is his eye - can you see it? Not only is his eye creeeepy but he is also drinking green goo.

2010-03-02T18:17:00.006-07:00

SPOILER ALERT!!! If you haven't watched last nights episode of the Bachelor and still plan to do so - do not read any further!

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Sorry for another post about one of my favorite shows on TV - the Bachelor - I just have to do it. On last nights Season Finale of the Bachelor, Jake proposed to Vienna and sent a heart broken Tenley home without a ring.

After yelling at the TV "Jake! I hope you're never happy in life again because you dumped Tenley!" I realized it's not so bad. Jake and Vienna really did seem happy together (as much as TV can portray) and she's already planning on moving to Dallas. I still felt really bad for Tenley. She was so sweet about the whole thing.

I also have to right a previous lie - in my last post about the Bachelor I said if Vienna was the last girl standing I would stop watching - that's a lie. A big one. Especially because Ali (who went home 4th to last because her job was going to fire her - conspiracy? - probably) is going to be the next Bachelorette! She was my favorite after Tenley. I can't wait for May when the new season starts!

2010-02-25T19:13:00.002-07:00

We celebrated my Dad's birthday this last Sunday. I told my Mom that I would make a cake for the party. I decided that for this birthday cake I would go all out and make my own butter cream frosting and my own fondant to decorate the cake. It went pretty well although I destroyed my kitchen in the process. It tasted awesome though so it was all worth it...This was only one section of the counter the rest looked like this or worse.

While I was cutting out fondant shapes to put on the cake Doug decided he would catagorize the 100 cookie cutters I got for Christmas so it would be easier for me to find things next time I use them. What a husband
The finished product. I didn't want to cover the whole cake in fondant and I think it turned out pretty cute. I just thought about Cake Boss and Ace of Cakes the whole time. If you haven't seen those two wonderful TV shows you should look them up. They are amazing and make cakes that are incredible. On another note, do you see that cool double pizza cutter looking tool at the top of the picture? Doug made the mistake of letting me go to Michael's craft store by myself to buy glycerine for the fondant and I came home with more than just that. The tool at the top is my favorite item from the trip. It cuts fondant in the cutest designs!

Just a couple of explanations for this next picture. There were two layers to my cake and just like Cake Boss I shaved off the top of the cake so it would be perfectly flat. It didn't work for me quite as well as it does for him so the shavings came off in a lot of crumbs instead of one flat piece. I set the crumbs aside. After I was done decorating the cake I had tons of blue fondant left over so what did I do? I made a big ball with the cake crumbs, spread butter cream frosting very carefully around the ball, and wrapped it in the left over fondant. Then Doug and I took a bite of a disgusting but yet wonderfully delicious cake ball. It was awesome.

2010-02-14T14:21:00.004-07:00

We celebrated this morning with pink, heart-shaped pancakes. It was awesome. Happy Valentines Day!!

2010-02-05T20:53:00.003-07:00

Alright - I know this is pretty pathetic but I just have to say....I love the Bachelor/Bachelorette. I've only been a fan for the last few seasons and I don't care how scripted it is, how real it is, how whatever it is... I. Love. It. I hope that those of you who are watching this season love Tenley as much as I do. I am so on board with TEAM TENLEY!

P.S. If Vienna is the last girl standing I might not love the show so much anymore. She's awful. Agreed?

2010-01-11T21:43:00.005-07:00

I'm a bit late but I figured I can still post about our Christmas. I have only posted about Holidays lately so I will try to be a bit better this year. Our Christmas celebrations started with the Osborne Nativity. Tessa is doing her job as Angel and holding up the star. Yes Baby Jesus has on a pink outfit. In our family even baby girls get to play Jesus if they are young enough.
On Christmas Eve we kept with traditions and saw a movie, ate at Crown Burger, and walked around Temple Square.

Here is our little tree. It will be fun to get a real size tree eventually but this one fits perfectly in our apartment.

We had to get up slightly early so we could be at my parent's house by 9:00. Doug was tired

I didn't get many pictures of Christmas Day but we opened presents with my family in the morning, talked to Lance (who is in Chile on his mission), and celebrated with the Doug's extended family that night. We celebrated Christmas morning on the 26th at Doug's parents house so his older brother Rob, who came in from Arizona, could celebrate with us.

The next event was Michelle and Michael's wedding. They were sealed in the Salt Lake Temple on January 2nd. It was a great day and the weather turned out really nice. As soon as Michelle stepped out of the doors in her wedding dress Michael's billion nieces ran and grabbed her dress. I don't think they let go of it for more than an hour the rest of the day!

Cutting the cake. I love this picture because of Michael's face! If you can't tell - it looks like he's terrified.

Welp, that's it. Until next time

2009-11-29T13:52:00.004-07:00

Happy Thanksgiving

We spend Thanksgiving with my family this year so the day started with the Hogle Zoo.

Did you notice that Tessa is in like every picture? She's the cutest

And of course I made Doug take a picture by this gorilla thing. He and Alex have super long monkey arms. It's crazy

I didn't get pictures from the rest of the night but it was awesome. Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!

2009-11-05T20:12:00.002-07:00

H a L l O w E e N

We had a great Halloween. It started with pumpkin carving at Cole and Jocelyn's cute house.

The finished projects (left to right) Dallas - wolf in the moon, Cole and Joc - U logo, Doug and Leslie - scary ghost, Trevor and Brad - haunted house, Kit and Kim - Xmen sign, Cade - I think it is a "C"

This picture is a little fuzzy but I still love it

I made cookies for a lot of different parties (work, friend, family, etc) I made pumpkins, spiderwebs, bats, and brains

Next we had a party with my family. Tessa didn't love the inside of a pumpkin. She looks pretty stressed out.

All of the family with our pumpkins. Mom is taking the picture.

My mom had the awesome idea of a donut contest. Alex won this round. Don't we look attractive.

I think Jordy won this round. I hate to say it but Mom and Dad also joined in this game but my camera died before I could get any pictures. They looked way cool

To finish Halloween night off Doug and I went to the U game. It was not as cold as I thought it would be and it was a lot of fun.

2009-10-18T15:16:00.008-06:00

There are few things in life that make me want to punch someone square in the face. One in particular -

CLAPPING IN THE MOVIE THEATRE
There are a couple of times when this is okay: It is perfectly fine to clap in a movie theatre ONLY right as the movie is starting or right after the movie has ended but ONLY if it is opening weekend.
Never, never, never is it okay to clap in the middle of a movie!!! No matter how cool you think something is - just don't clap.

This has been a pet peeve of mine for a long time and those who know me best know to hold me down when some idiot starts clapping in the middle of the movie.

"GET IN THE HOLE!"
This pet peeve has been added to my life very recently. If you know Doug at all, you will also know that he loves golf. I have watched more golf in the last year of my life then I ever have in the 23 years I've been alive. Every Sunday Doug will usually have the weekend golf tournament playing. As I was listening last week I noticed how irritating it was when someone would yell "Get in the hole!" It seems to be a game for those who go sit all day at a golf tournament. As soon as the golfer hits the ball (mostly while putting) someone in the audience without fail will try to be the first person to yell "Get in the hole!" After that one person yells more people will yell it again. Sorry golf tourny watchers - what is the point? The ball cannot hear you! I just don't get it and so alas it has become my second "punch in the face" worthy pet peeve to go along with movie theatre clapping.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Y3UAA4rVO8

If you already watch golf tournaments then you already know what I'm talking about but for those of you who don't the link above is not exactly what I'm talking about, but it will give you a feel of what I mean when someone yells "Get in the hole!"

P.S. If you are reading this and you currently do either of these things - I won't hold it against you

2009-10-11T12:51:00.006-06:00

FIRST ANNIVERSARY...

To start the day off Doug got up while I was getting ready and put up the "Happy Anniversary" banner and gave me a cute new charm for my Pandora charm bracelet

I gave him his first ever plaid "cowboy shirt" he had to put on his cowboy hat to go with it for this picture.

When I got home from work he had gotten me these pretty orange roses

We then headed up to Park City to celebrate. I didn't get any pictures of that but when we went back to the condo we were staying in we ate the top of our Wedding cake. It was perfect. The cake tasted just as it did on our Wedding day. It was so good

Eating the cake...

The next morning we got up and I made breakfast

Then we went shopping at the Outlet stores. The only picture I got here was of Doug in this little car with Kermit the frog. It was excellent.

Overall, we had a great anniversary!

2009-10-09T07:31:00.002-06:00

One year ago today we were here...

Today we are happy couple who can finally say that we have passed the "Newly Weds" stage. This first year of marriage has been great, I couldn't have asked for anything better. We are happy, healthy, and loving our life together.

HAPPY 1 YEAR ANNIVERSARY!!!

2009-09-13T14:49:00.007-06:00

Weiler Family Vacation

In August we went with the entire Weiler family to a lodge just outside of Zion National Park. It was way fun. We had - oh I don't know - maybe around forty people all in one lodge. Good thing we're family and it was a pretty decent sized lodge. We went swimming one day (I didn't get any pictures of that) and we went to Zion's another day. We hiked Angel's Landing and to be honest at first I thought we were all going to die (a person died hiking that the week before we had gone) but it turned out to not be as scary as I thought. It was pretty awesome actually.

Lots of switchbacks (bottom up: Jason, Grant, me, Rob, Michelle, Kevin, Emily, Harley, Johnathon. Doug was taking the picture and Blaire was a bit behind - ha ha)

Doug looking down the deadly abyss

Two things to point out in this picture 1) the sheer drop on the left side of the picture 2) the people you see hiking all along the right side of the picture to the top of the cliff (the picture is a little small but there are people hiking all the way up to the top of the cliff)

The Mark Weiler family siblings

Remember - What goes up must come down...

And down...for a really long time!

It was a great trip and no one died hiking Angel's Landing. Although, we almost lost Grandpa Weiler when he decided to hike a ways up the Narrows by himself. Keep in mind he just had a knee replacement a few months ago and is like 80. Good thing we found him :)

2009-08-10T21:21:00.003-06:00

St George Trip

So we went with my family to St George in June but I never posted about it because I didn't have all of the pictures - well I got the pictures and now I'm only posting two so it didn't really matter anyways. Oh well.

It was a super fun trip. The whole family was there (except for Lance of course - he's in Chile) and we had a blast.

The first day we went to Sand Hollow. My parents had rented wave runners and we played all day

The second day we went to Zion's National Park. It was Free National Park Day so we didn't have to pay a penny. It was funny

I didn't have too many pictures after that. Just lots of swimming, tennis, and other stuff like that. I have the best family! THANKS MOM AND DAD!!!

2009-07-25T13:50:00.008-06:00

24th of July

It's time for a post about Spring City. For those of you who don't know how awesome Spring City is, you're missing out. It's a tiny little town two hours somewhere south of Salt Lake and my family goes there twice a year. Once for Memorial Day and once for the 24th of July parade. This parade is an exciting display of small town royalty and local business advertising. We then eat lunch at a park. This year was slightly different then other years. At lunch the kids got this toy frisbee thing stuck up in a tree. For like an hour the boys (including all of the male adults) threw other balls in the tree trying to get the toy down. You can guess what happens next - two more balls get stuck up the tree next to the toy. The ball throwing continued until Doug decided it would be a really good idea to climb the tree. Sure sure - climbing a tree is not so hard. You should have seen the size of this tree and the lack of branches below 15 feet. Doug was half way up before anyone realized what he was doing. I don't think he really understood how bad the women in my family would freak out. Well they did and I got in trouble for LETTING him climb the tree. I couldn't have done squat - he was up there before I even noticed. I kept thinking - oh he'll be fine but then I would think "I don't want to be a widow before I'm 23!!!" So...the women are yelling at him to get down, the kids are cheering him on, and the men are saying "how the he#% did he get up there???" all while I'm trying to act like he'll be fine and not die before this thing is over. My dad decided to get a blanket and if he fell try to break his fall slightly before smashing into the ground. No one really grabbed on to the idea (I appreciated it) except for the kids. They thought it was great fun holding on to a corner of the blanket. Little did they know - if Doug fell - he would crush them and the blanket would help very little. Eventually after shaking the stuck toy and the balls out of the tree (cheers reaching his ears from the crowd) he worked his way down and came out of the whole experience with nothing but a few cuts and scratches. It was extremely exciting. This is an experience that will be talked about for years to come

Later that night Doug and I went with my parents to Buttlerville Days. Doug rode the mechanical bull, we ate dippin dots, listened to some interesting but decent music, and celebrated the 24th of July with a firework display. I thought the bull riding would be best displayed as a video. Enjoy

2009-07-12T15:23:00.005-06:00

I didn't realize it had been so long since I updated my blog! A lot has been going on this summer - I'm in summer school full time and working 40 hours a week and Doug and I have been out of town almost every weekend since the last weekend in May. So needless to say not a lot of time to post anything new during the week and no time on the weekends.

Well, I guess I will post about our most recent adventures to Bear Lake with our friends. We've been twice in the last three weeks and it was super fun. We go to Rob's cabin which is on the South East side of the lake. It is way close to the water which is way fun and normally we have tons of beach to build things and play on but this year the water is so high that the whole beach is underwater so we were stuck in weeds with the horse flies that loved to bite us but it was still awesome!

The first weekend was kind of cold but we still had fun on the wave runners. Unfortunately I didn't get many pictures of that weekend. We just barely got home from our second Bear Lake trip and I got a few more pictures of this one. The weather was a little warmer which was way nice.

The only downer of this most recent trip happened driving to Bear Lake on Friday afternoon. I trip that normally only takes about two hours took us almost four!!! Let me explain...the night before we left, Thursday, Doug told his friends that we would drive our car. So I said to him "Doug tomorrow morning you should take the car to the shop and have them rotate the tires and check them out and such so we know the car will be okay for a road trip" he said okay and then the next morning I woke up and proceeded to tell him that it's okay - we don't need to check the tires - boy was I wrong.

This is what my tire looked like after it blew right by Echo Lake. Man did I wish we had just taken it to the shop.

The rest of the trip went just great. We had lots of fun and saw this beautiful sunset the last night we were there.

2009-06-14T14:28:00.004-06:00

Baseball stuff

We went to a Bees game a couple of weeks ago. There were fireworks afterwards and it was way fun.

I've also included this random picture of Tessa because let's face it...she is adorable. We were at an indoor soccer game watching Doug, Alex, and Jord play and I look over and she is crossing her legs all cute and her diaper was hanging out (as you can see) it was priceless. She wouldn't smile but this face is even better.

2009-06-10T21:31:00.004-06:00

David and Real

Okay so I didn't have my camera when my family and I went to this wonderful performance of boys running around kicking a soccer ball and David Archuleta. Going into the night I was excited about the soccer game, I enjoy soccer it's fun for me to watch and it was a fun family outing that my parents planned. But David...Was...Awesome! He only performed a few songs but Chelsea and I thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. Because I didn't have my camera I obviously don't have any pictures so here is a tribute to Real Salt Lake and David Archuleta (for full pictures of the event go to Alex and Chelsea's blog where you will see Chelsea crying, Doug loving life, and much more)

2009-05-25T13:03:00.005-06:00

The Meat Slicer...

Doug just had to register for a meat slicer when we were engaged and registering at Target. I didn't think anyone would actually get it for us but my Mom's family did (I think they were making fun of us for actually registering for something like that - ha ha) It actually is pretty cool but I told Doug that he would never ever use it. We were making sandwiches the other day and he actually did and he loved it!! He thought it was the coolest thing -

it sliced the heck out of the tomatoes and lettuce

2009-05-17T14:16:00.005-06:00

I haven't had much to blog about so I've decided to blog about some of the things that happen when we babysit Tessa
This is what happens when Tessa finds out where you keep your kitchen towels and left over peeps from Easter. She told Doug multiple times to "Go to sleep!" and then covered him very carefully in every kitchen towel we own and peeps

The next time we played with Play-Doh at Alex and Chelsea's place. I had more fun than she did making this dog. She really liked making the food bowl though.

Chillin with Doug watching Looney Tunes

This is what happens when Tessa gets a hold of my camera - very nice pictures

We love watching Tessa!

2009-04-25T14:10:00.007-06:00

Don't worry Melissa I did not forget about your tag. I was tagged to put up the sixth picture in my sixth folder. We went to Doug's fraternity date night back in February of 08 called "Gangsta Gala" everybody dresses up like gangsters from the 1920's and of course flapper girls.

I tag everyone who reads this

2009-04-25T13:32:00.009-06:00

My Easter post is a little late but here it is...

On Friday night we decided we had to color Easter Eggs - Doug thought it would be smart to drink the color

Sunday after church we gave each other our Easter baskets. By "gave" I mean we put them together standing right next to each other, took this picture, then took the baskets apart again. We have plans to actually hide them for eachother but that didn't happen

Next...I decided to bake cookies for my Young Women's lesson and so I made extra to bring to Doug's family party and to bring to my work the next day. When I showed Doug how many cookies I had made and that I wanted him to help me decorate he said in his most uninterested voice "You think I WANT to help you decorate those cookies?" Then when I started decorating them he said "Hey what are you doing over there..." next thing I new he was a decorating master. He had more fun than I did

Doug made this bunny. Impressive right?

We made alot more than just this plate

Doug is doing his best "Magnum" face

We did a lot more than what I posted pictures of, because I forgot to take pictures of the rest of it. We went to the famous Neighorhood Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday morning and then on Sunday we went with my family to the "Egg rolling/throwing/eating/whatever else" party and then Doug's family for dinner. It was an excellent Easter

2009-03-29T16:55:00.007-06:00

Birthday and a mustache...

Doug's birthday was on the 25th so we had a nice night in with excellent food (I made myself), presents, LOST, and lastly a mustache

Doug didn't really tell me what he wanted for dinner so I made tempura. If you haven't had it you should go get some because it's amazing. I set the table all cute with some of the fun stuff we got from our wedding

Doug's presents were wrapped without bows because he is bow challenged. He just can't figure them out

He really loved his new dress pants

And his new shirt and shorts - you can tell he's really excited

We ate a cute little pie for his birthday treat. That thing has 480 calories...in one half!! It was tasty

Now for the mustache. At Doug's work they are doing "Mustache March" he started growing his beard in the beginning of March and then I told him he could only have a mustache for one week and not the whole month (you can see who wear's the pants in this relationship)

BEFORE

look how happy he is with just a beard

AFTER

lovely. simply lovely

After a couple of days he cut a complete mustache, just on the upper lip, I meant to take a picture so I could post it but true to his word he shaved it off last night before I took one. He is clean shaven once again

2009-03-27T21:13:00.007-06:00

Spring Break 09

We went to St George for the weekend over Sping Break.

We start of the trip with me driving (Doug had homework) and you can tell I was being really safe while going 80 miles on the free way - this is Doug sleeping - we were the only two in the car

I don't know how he sleeps like that

We went hiking in Snow Canyon to the Lava caves and Doug screamed like a little girl when he saw a snake in the middle of the trail - to be fair it was huge

Here are Doug and Kit going down our first lava cave. This one was awesome. It went way far underground

In the second cave I set up the camera to take this picture. If you think running to your spot in line is easy in a cave with uneven ground when you only have 5 seconds to get there - you're wrong

On top of the mountain we climbed

Doug is posing for the camera

2009-03-13T07:58:00.015-06:00

I got tagged on Facebook to fill this out so I thought since I never update my blog I would put it on here instead. I tag EVERYONE who wants to fill it out.

What are your middle names? Mine is Dawn and Doug's is Richard

How long have you been together? Since Sept 07 - about 18 months

How long did you know each other before you started dating? About a day

Who asked who out? Doug asked me out after institute like two days after we met. In his words "I had to move fast or one of my other friends would" :)

Whose siblings do you see the most? I would have to say mine - Doug's closest sibling is two hours away

Do you have any children together? Nope not yet - sometime in the future - the very long future :)

What about pets? Not yet on that one either. I think we would both like a dog eventually

Did you go to the same school? Yes. We both went to Brighton, he is a year older than me. We never knew each other until after his mission. Now we both go to the U

Who is more sensitive? Hands down - me

Where do you eat out most as a couple? Carl's Jr (they have the best hamburgers!) or Winger's and Chili's

Where is the furthest you two have traveled together as a couple? California on Spring Break

Who has the craziest exes? I have more exes but none are super crazy. Actually some kinda are.

Who has the worst temper? Neither of us really have a temper. But if I have to choose I would say me - he never even get's bugged about stuff

Who does the cooking? We both do. Doug is a great cook

Who is the most sociable? Depends on the situation

Who is the neat freak? Neither of us are really neat freaks. We both keep things pretty clean

Who is the most stubborn? Definitely me

Who hogs the bed? I say Doug. But I know he would disagree

Who wakes up earlier? Depends on the day

Where was your first date? U game, Demolition Derby for a white trash date night, and topped off with Carl's Jr. Our REAL first date was miniature golfing and Transformers.

Who has the bigger family? Immediate families are the same but my extended is bigger.

Do you get flowers often? Sure on Valentines Day and such - they are fun but not a necessity

How long did it take to get serious? Like a day

Who eats more? Definitely Doug. He can eat anything and he still stays skinny - it's annoying :) I wish I could do that

Who sings better? Doug has a great voice and I hold my own

Who does the laundry? Depends on who wakes up Saturday and starts it. We both take our turns

Who’s better with the computer? I am in some ways and he is in others. We both work on computers alot at work so it's a good tie

Who drives when you are together? Doug. I think I've driven with him in the car like twice

Who picks where you go to dinner? He tries to make me but unless I have been thinking about what sounds good all day then I have a hard time and he ends up choosing

Who is the first one to admit when they're wrong? Neither :)

Who wears the pants in the relationship? I think Doug would like to say him but I'm not so sure...

Who has more tattoos? Doug

Who eats more sweets? Me. Doug thinks sweets make his teeth rot - he is right isn't he? I still don't eat that many though

Who cries more? That is not hard to answer - ME

Who is more athletic? Doug. I'm a better dancer though

Who has kissed more people? Me

How long before you had your first kiss? Two dates

Who is better with finances? We're both pretty good

Who gets jealous easier? Me - but not very often

Who has better taste in music? Doug - he likes a bigger variety than I do - I don't know much music

Favorite couple moment? When Doug fell over the back of the couch - I jest I jest - it's all my favorite

2009-02-15T16:08:00.006-07:00

Happy Valentine's Day!

Doug and I decided not to do big presents this year for Valentines, just something sweet. I got him his favorite cookies and he gave me a dozen gorgeous roses. I came home and he had put them on our table by the cute decorations my mom got me. What a cutie

2009-01-31T14:04:00.005-07:00

Random happenings

I haven't had anything to blog about for a really long time so here are some random pictures from this last month

Babysitting Tessa is always awesome - she is so dang cute

Here she is wearing my shoes - by the time she was done every single pair of my shoes had been thrown all around my closet

We went to the mall

Just hanging out at my parents house - Tessa isn't even my kid and I'm blogging about her. That's okay though Alex and Chelsea will appreciate my showing her off

Every Thursday you'll find me, Doug, and the rest of his friends at the Murray indoor soccer place. Yes - Doug is wearing a head band.

And lastly - when we go see movies and we have time to kill - you can see what we do. It's a good thing Jordan Commons has video games

2008-12-31T17:42:00.005-07:00

The whole time that I've had this blog no one has been able to comment. I checked to see if the comments were turned on and they were. I wasn't sure what to do but I figured it out and now everyone can post comments!! Melissa - don't be angry anymore ha ha

2008-12-28T14:24:00.010-07:00

Christmas

We had a really great Christmas! Only problem is...I was really bad at taking pictures. I'm so sad I didn't get more but I will tell you about it anyways.

Firstly, our Christmas lasted From Sunday to Friday. It was awesome.

On Sunday we had the famous Osborne Nativity. All the kids dress up and my oldest cousin reads Luke chapter two. It's always really exciting and funny things end up happening.

Monday was our Scrooge night. My immediate family gets together to watch the musical version of Scrooge - it's a classic.

On Tuesday Doug and I didn't go to work so we...

1) Went to Cafe Rio for lunch with Doug's siblings. Rob owed Doug and I lunch because the Utes beat BYU in November

2) Had Christmas Eve early because Rob had to go back to Arizona on the real Christmas Eve.

3) We slept over at Doug's parents house

4) Woke up on Wednesday (24th) and had Christmas breakfast and opened presents. It was great

5) Went to my parents house to talk to Lance. It was quite the experience. If you want the whole story go to Chelsea and Alex's blog. Chels has already typed up the full story. It was great to talk to him though even with the complications.

6) After talking to Lance - me, Doug, Jord, my mom, and dad went downtown to eat at Crown Burger (which I totally have a picture of!!)

7) We went to see the lights after that...

8) Then we went back to my parent's house and opened our classic Christmas Eve pj's and watch "Charlie Brown's Christmas" which is a long going tradition.

9) Doug and I went home after that so we could spend our first Christmas Eve as a married couple in our own apartment.

Wednesday - we got up early so we could open our presents before going to my parent's house at nine. We got each other great gifts!

Doug got clothes, shoes, cologne, and stuff like that

Doug got me clothes and shoes (which he picked out all by himself), and stuff like that

It was a great Christmas morning together

Then like I said we went to my parent's to have Christmas morning with them. My mom always out does herself. It was a great morning. Tess got a cute play kitchen which was awesome. When I asked her to get me juice she took it literally and instead of giving me fake juice she went and told my mom that "Lessy wants juice" I got orange juice.

That night we went to Doug's grandparents in Bountiful for their Christmas celebration. There was good food, a talent show (I know), and a trip in August to some ranch in St. George for the whole fam. They took a family picture with almost the entire family. The only ones that were missing was an uncle in St Louis (his family made it though), Doug's brother Rob who was working in Arizona, and the baby his cousin Cheryl announced was coming in July.

On Friday, we watched Mama Mia (which Doug loved but not really - I loved it though) and then went to my grandparents to celebrate Christmas since it was cancelled the day before because of the weather.

It was a great week!

2008-12-02T21:49:00.011-07:00

First Christmas Tree!!!

Doug and I bought our first Christmas tree as a married couple. Let me tell you that it's gigantic - a whole four feet tall and two fee wide - but seriously it's adorable

Doug really loves it

Putting it together

Fixing the branches

The finished product.

I had to set up this picture like eight times because Doug thought it was funny to not smile, blink, and pull faces every time - not so funny to me :)

I know...we already have wrapped presents and it's only December 2nd. I just get really excited about Christmas

Since we can't put up lights on the outside we put them up inside.

I LOVE CHRISTMAS

2008-11-26T21:08:00.008-07:00

Well...Doug and I got married on October 9, 2008. We are going on two months and we still like each other so that's a good sign

It was a gorgeous day - although it was a tiny bit chilly it turned out great - there was no rain thank goodness

I just like this picture - hello bridal magazine - thanks to "Lindsay Jane" by Harmony

We had the reception in my aunt's backyard. It turned out gorgeous

My neice Tessa was my fifth bridesmaid or flower girl - she looked adorable

That's all the blogging I can do right now - it took me forever to figure this out - I will get better