A warm Christmas

Since i have been very spoiled through this whole year i couldnt really come up with anything that i wanted this Christmas! So my amazing husband knew exactly what i needed, you guessed it another vacation! He knows that i love to travel and hate the snow so got me to a beach for the holiday! The only other thing after that i could have asked for was to be with my family (Everyone needs to be with family for the holiday) So being as blessed as I am my Dad and Matt made that happen! Not only did i get to go to a beach for Christmas but my entire family got a cruise for Christmas!! It was the most incredible Christmas gift i could have gotten! We were gone for nine days in the beautiful sun of Ixtapa, Acapulco and Manzanillo Mexico! We had such a blast sailing, jeeping, eating and of course relaxing!I hope everyone had a Very Merry Christmas also

Matty's Christmas Present

Merry Christmas Matt!

Matt was such a good boy this year

he got exactly what he asked for!

ONE YEAR

So its been a while since i have written but since Matt and I celebrated our One Year Anniversary! We went up and stayed at an incredible place on main street in ParkCity for a long weekend!
I know everyone says this but i cant believe it has been a year, it literaly flew by! We had such a crazy first year of marriage. This year we have had some really hard times, a few sad times, but mostly great times!Looking back everything we went through only brought us closer and made us stronger which i am so greatful for it all!

Between the 2 of us we have had...
7 job changes
2 moves,
sold 2 cars,
bought 2 new cars,
been on a cruise to Mexico,
been to Aruba,
been on another 9 day cruise to Mexico,
found out we were pregnant,
had a very hard ectopic pregnancy,
been to Orlando,
been to Vegas twice,
been to AZ
have been back and forth to the hospital multiple times for tests (to many times to count

over 20 hair color changes,

4 concerts,
and Adopted our little puppy blessing named Otto!

And i can say i wouldnt have wanted to go through any of it with out my wonderful husband Matt whom i love so so much and am blessed to say is mine!

Thanks; were it isnt given enough.

As it gets closer to Thanksgiving i have really been thinking of every thing that i am greatful for. The next few days i am gonna be listing some of those things, but as i thought of everything i was blessed to have in my life the one blessing that i thought was that i couldnt have most of this list if it wasnt for the amazing and free country that i live in; the USA. I am so very blessed and greatful to not only to have close family members and friends who serve for our country each and every day but people who dont even know me out risking their own lives fighting for my families own freedom. I am also greaful for the wives of our military who keep our soliders strong and support them! Thankyou. This and this is a video that helps show that perfectly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyXYot6wHuE

So recently Matt started feeling really sick and with my brother and Matts manager with H1N1 we were pretty sure he was coming down with it~ Mind you he had a 102 fever and body aches so bad he couldnt move in his words "he felt like death". So we found the only InstaCare that was open on a Sunday night at 10 pm. We live in Sandy and of course the only one open was in Orem. So we raced down there before they closed. After 40 minutes we finally saw the doctor and the only thing he asked was if we had been around anyone who had H1N1 so we said yes then he listened to Matts lungs, asked if he had asthma (which he does) and the doctor left! The nurse came in 2 minutes later and handed us a prescription for an inhaler! (which we already had) That was it! Neither of us could believe that was all no test for strep or swine flu, no antibiotic, no addvice nothing! I thought forsure he had H1N1.

So after a week Matt was feeling really sick still, not getting any better and started coughing super bad! (even with his inhaler) So he went into the doctor and what do you know, Matt did have H1N1 and because he hadnt done anything about it or slowed down it got in his lungs and turned into Bronchitis! Icant even tell you how mad i was at the first doctor at the InstaCare! Rrrr.. So after a long road of sickness and frusderation i can say Matt is finally starting to feel alot better and i Cortney went and got my SwineFlu Vaccine!

No No Otto....

So they other day i was getting ready for work in the bathroom and had opened our linnen closet to get out a towel. Not thinking i just left the door open. I got done blow drying my hair and couldn't see otto layin in the door way (were he always is watching me get ready) I could hear him growling and attacking something..

The Attcker Otto, the Victim Toilet Paper! In 6 minutes he had gotten into the bottom shelf of the linnen closet and pulled down the CostCo size toilet paper pack, he ripped through the plastic and pulled out all the rolls of toilet paper. He would push/roll them so a long piece would be across the family room and then he would shred it, (like hard core shred) then roll it and shred that etc etc... I was laughing so hard watching him do it and he was so proud of himself that i couldnt even get mad!

I got a "Wild Hair"

So i have had short hair in the past and loved it, anyone who knows me knows i dont style my hair all that often! Its like the shoe makers kids go barefoot, ya the hair dressers hair goes undressed~ So one of the reasons i loved my short hair was the lack of effort it took to do each morning!

Well i have always LOVED Pinks hair and i knew if i cut it again thats how i wanted it so i told my husband " one day i am gonna come home from work with this hair..."

... and 1 week later i came home with that hair cut! These are'nt the best pictures and i dont have any with my hair up in a mo hawk but i gona try to remember to take some next time i do it up! But i will try to get pictures up ASAP!