Misc...Misc...Misc...

This past weekend I headed up to Roy to hang out with my mom and have my second Scentsy party at her house--thanks to everyone who came, it was such a fun night! The next day I went up to the old stomping grounds...LOGAN! Oh it was fun! My sisters Tawny and Kailee go to USU and love it. I'm glad I got to go spend some time with them, it SUCKS living so far away from them. I also miss having three closets to choose my outfits from. I'm so glad my siblings and I can stay so close, we have so much fun together!
I also got to go be with my BFF, Jessica, who went to Utah State with me (best roomies ever). She goes to Weber State now and USU just happened to be playing Weber so we took advantage of a fun game. It was as if those 3 years away from the Spectrum never even existed-Utah State, hey, Aggies all the way...go Aggies, go Aggies, hey, hey, hey! I will be a USU fan for life!-I am also glad I can stay so close to this gorgeous girl, even with our lives spinning in opposite directions. Love you Jessica!

We celebrated Drew's 24th birthday on November 3rd, yes, that's right, I said 24...two dozen years!! I can't believe we have spent three of his birthdays married! It's also weird to think that he just reminded me of the time I bought him a Mrs. Potato Head for his 16th birthday (dumb sophomore girl), I don't even remember doing that or why but I love that our memories together go that far back. I love this boy more and more everyday. He keeps me on my toes and can always put a smile on my face. He puts so much time into being the best at everything he does, he's such a hard worker and I love him for it. He always makes me want to be a better person. I love you Drew! Here's to many, many more birthdays together.
Drew's high school football coach and his wife came down for one of his games, Drew loved having him there to support him! Coach B claims that he is the one that brought Drew and I together way back in 10th grade. I don't know about that, but I'm glad it happened, either way.
It was a fun season this year. The t-birds played some tough bigger schools in the preseason and put up a good fight, which sure led into a great regular season. They went undefeated in their conference and took the trophy home. Such a fun season, we'll be sad to see the seniors go. Specially Drew's friends Nick (#79 below). He's happy to have the holidays off now, but looks forward to next season too!

Love me some Amber time! The boys play on defense together and they kick butt! Glad she'll be by my side next year. Go birds :)

For Bunko in September we decided to do it Halloween style, so Brittany found these awesome ninja turtles costumes. Love them! Thanks for the great idea Britt! Loved it :) And I love bunko, even though all I do is win the prize for the most ZEROS!! Ha but it's always a good time, love you bunko girls!
I vow to be better at blogging...sorry fellow bloggers. Don't cut me from your friend list just yet!!

SummerTime!!

This summer has been so much fun so far! I can't believe July is almost over :( so sad because Drew doesn't get August as part of his summer, football starts August 1st. So I'm happy we've been able to do the things that we have done. We started it all out with the summer games fireworks and then Bailey and Taylor's wedding, which was so much fun. We were so happy to be able to be a part of everything. And now they live in St. George so they're not too far away! Last weekend we were able to get up to Navajo Lake, which is only a half hour away. It was so much fun, our first time camping on our own. We fished, made Hobo dinners, and the yummiest s'mores ever!! Our campsite was right by the lake and we just had a blast. Hopefully we can get away like that again soon. I think I'm repeating myself but I've LOVED our summer so far! Happy Summer everyone!

My Amazingly Talented Husband...oh and Graduation too!

So I would just like to take a few seconds and brag about my talented husband! My mom has had this armour for her tv in her front room for about five years now and she has always wanted bookshelves to go on either side of it. She ordered it from a lady who ordered it from a guy who seems to have fell off the face of the earth. Lucky for us (or my mom) we have an amazingly talented Drewby right at our finger tips. So these pictures are of Drew's hard work, he built and painted the book cases on either side of the armour. It was a little bit stressful at times because the paint-stain mixture were very, VERY hard to match. It took a while but they are finally finished. I'm so proud of Drew, he worked so hard to make these babies match to a "T" I can't wait til we have a house and he can start building all our fun furniture!

Crafty?

I FINALLY got my graduation announcements finished. I know there aren't too many but I didn't really know who to send them to and those ELEVEN were a lot of work!! I decided to make them because SUU's announcements were UGLY!! And I didn't want to waste my money on ugly! Me and my sisters got a cricut for Christmas and I love it! It helped so much, too bad I have to share with my two sisters that are at the other end of the state ;) that's ok though! I never really got into scrapbooking, but making cards is fun! I also love that no two cards are exactly alike!
Only three more days of class, can't believe it! It is so surreal. But I still haven't found a job so keep your fingers crossed for me guys. See ya!

School...school...and some more school!

I am 17 days in class, 8 assignments, 1 research paper, ZERO logs, 1 presentation, 1 portfolio, 2 tests, and 2 finals away from THE BIG DAY!! No, not that big day, the big GRADUATION day! I can’t even explain how excited I am to be done and I don’t even know what I’ll be doing after May 1st, but I just can’t wait! This semester has actually been one of my easiest and I’m so happy for that because I have got some serious SENIOR-ITIS! It’s so hard to force myself to go to class, so lucky for me, I can skip every now and then!! For those of you who don’t know I am graduating in the Family Life and Human Development department with an emphasis in Family Services. So it’s a little bit like social work, except I can’t do social work without a Masters (that’s not gonna happen anytime soon!).
I would also like to say, “HOLY COW” about all the school stuff going on between mine and Drew’s families. Here goes…Drew’s older brother, Nick is accepted to Portland for Nurse Anesthetist school, his mom is accepted to U of U’s Master of social work program, his sister Karlie got accepted to Weber State’s dental hygiene program, his other sister Alissa is trying to decide which school to accept a basketball scholarship to, and my brother, Shayden is going to attend Auburn University in Alabama to get a Masters (and maybe a PhD) in Marriage and Family Counseling, I’m graduating, and my little sister Kailee will be going to USU in the fall with my other sister, Tawny. Together now…”HOLY COW.” I feel like my Bachelor’s degree is nothing compared to all of them. Congrats family, that is so awesome!! I’m proud to call you my family :)

That Dumb Scale!!

So about a month ago I got a thing in the mail that said I could try out the new snap fitness in Cedar City for free if I participated in a "fitness study." The only requirement was that you couldn't currently be working out (for once that played in my favor!). So I've been doing that the last three weeks, three times a week, and I've been going to the funnest thing ever...ZUMBA...with my friend Brea twice a week. Last week I worked out 6 out of the 7 days! I'm really trying to get back into shape and seriously, I don't think I have sweated (doesn't sound right) that much since cheerleading in high school-I'm not a big sweater-but I've been dripping sweat after Zumba and my workouts at Snap. Yesterday was my last day at the fitness study and I decided to weigh myself on the same scale I weighed myself on last week and (no need for a drum roll) it turns out I gained a freaking pound!!! I didn't even lose a single pound. Drew says this is because muscle weighs more than fat and I probably got a lot more muscley. I think he was just trying to make me feel better. The frustrating thing is that I know I'm capable of weighing a lot less. I don’t want to tell you how much weight I’ve gained since I got married. Yes, I look okay in clothes, but summer is coming quickly and I am nowhere near bikini ready. Yes, I am trying to help my husband gain more weight by making him fattening food, but I don’t want that to be my excuse. Yes, I probably love chocolate way too much but what girl doesn’t? Yes, my 8 month pregnant friend weighs just 5 pounds more than me. Yes, if you haven't noticed yet, I am venting!!! HELP!! What’s the secret?? Ha ha…I need some words of encouragement…or something! If you've gotten this far, thanks for listening!

Valentine's Weekend

How exciting, instead of just having one Valentine's date we decided to each plan our own little thing so Drew took Saturday and I took Sunday. When I got home from the gym on Saturday morning, I came home to these beauties...there were so many of my favorite flowers all in one beautiful bouquet!
I'm holding the bouquet like it's my baby. The only baby I can afford/need at the moment :)

These pictures were taken after a long day in the kitchen cooking, which is why I look so tired! I cooked so much food, I was pretty proud of myself. I made salmon, rice, steamed asparagus, and a chocolate cream pie!
Oh! But i forgot to finish what we did Saturday! Drew made breakfast then I cut his hair, got ready, and we went and washed my filthy car. Then we went and loaded up on medicine (cuz we are both so sick!) and went to Chili's (my chicken was in the shape of a heart) and then to Valentine's Day! I've heard a few people say they hated that movie but I just loved it! I laughed and cried too! Anyways, we had an awesome weekend and hope that you did too!!

Trotting the Globe to Cedar City

So one day Drew decided to put his name in a drawing (12 times) to win tickets to the Harlem Globetrotters that were coming to Cedar. The next day we're sitting at home with the radio on and we hear Drew's name...He won tickets!! So we went with our soon-to-be-married friends Bailey and Taylor and had a fun time! That blow-up thing that we like to call Globie was cracking us all up. It's not everyday that something decides to show up in Cedar City so we're glad we could take advantage of a free night and have some fun!
Oh and the last picture is of Drew and two of his favorite things...snow and that darn jeep :)

Oh December...

I just have to say that I miss December SO MUCH already! It is so much fun to be able to leave life in Cedar and head up to Roy for a few weeks! Drew and I had so much fun over the last few weeks and now we're back to life, ready to take down all my Christmas decorations.
Life in Roy was spent playing A LOT of cards and games! We also went to the lights at Temple Square, we went to a performance by the Utah Symphony, ate WAY too much food, went snowboarding for the first time in two years (since junior high for Drew), went to the temple, , went to the cute lil' Bee's cafe in Roy with mine and Drew's parents, went bowling and to Ligori's for Whitney's birthday, got some pictures taken by the wonderful Kelli Willard (KelliWillardphotography.blogspot.com), made lots of Christmas candy, played in the snow with Bella, did LOTS of shopping, watched 24 into the wee hours of morning, Bertagnolli family Christmas party (always a hoot!), tested out my new sewing machine (which was a lot of fun, I'm a little nervous to use it without my mom standing by, but excited to try new things), and not to mention all of the Christmas festivities! Sometimes it's a little stressful dividing the time between whose parents' house we will be spending time at but I've come to the realization that it will never be exact and you're never going to make everyone happy. We had a nice Christmas Eve dinner with my family and played the present game, opening some awesome yoga pants (does this mean I have to take up Yoga? I think not! ha!), did a little Christmas mischief, and headed over to ma and pa Willards to watch a movie and hit the hay. The tradition in Drew's family is that they get to go get their stockings in the middle of the night so Drew headed up at 3:30 a.m. and got his then we went back to sleep. We opened all our presents there and then headed over to my Grandpa's house to visit with my extended family. Then finally at about 3:00 we went to my mom's house to do our Christmas there. We opened my stocking at about 6:00 so our Christmas day lasted a very long time, lots of fun!
I'm so grateful for FAMILY! My family is incredible and I love spending time with everyone. i hate that it can't be more often but it's also fun to be able to stay for a while. I hope you all had a great Christmas! And HAPPY NEW YEAR! Bring it on SUU, here goes my last semester!