I've been tagged...

I was tagged by my sweet cousin Amanda...

Rules: list 3 joys, 3 fears, 3 goals, 3 current obsessions, and three random facts about yourself. Tag 5 people at the end.

3 Joys: My sweet husband, life just wouldn't be so amazing without him 

My cray dog, Chowder who never ceases to entertain me

Knowing my sister is preggo and being so excited for a new niece or nephew

3FEARS: 

Not making enough money to get out of debt

Never being able to have children

big spiders

3Goals: 

Get out of debt

beautify my home

learn a new skill or become more creative

3Current Obsessions: 

The Twilight series

going to the gym - I have about 5 more pounds to loose until I reach my goal

Sudoku - so fun

3Random Facts:

I pick at my cuticles when I am nervous or anxious

If I could change my hair color as often as I change my underwear, I would...I love having new hair color!!

I am a total homebody. If I had the chance to go out of town, or stay at home, I would choose home. I just really like to be at home. Does that mean I'm lazy??

I tag...whomever wants to be tagged... 

Birthday, Hobby Lobby and More...

These are the gorgeous flowers Jeff had sent to me at work for my birthday. 100 roses, yes that's right, 100! He is such a wonderful husband. He took me to Texas Roadhouse for dinner and it was Super yummy.

This is the awesome and fantastic bowl my parents bought me for my birthday. They made me homemade fajitas which were to die for and also gave me a little spending cash, which I always love.

My amazingly talented sister made these...

and she made this for me for my birthday! The pictures honestly don't do them justice, because they are SO to die for cute. I wear them every chance I get!

I didn't take a picture of it, but my in-laws gave me a gift certificate for a mani/pedi which I have to wait to use because of the old broken toe, but I am SO excited for!!

And this is my fantastic purchase from my wonderful trip to Hobby Lobby on July 4th with my mom, sister and cute sister-in-law Melissa. Let me just say, we were there for about 2 hours and wanted to stay longer!! I just hung this up in my Kitchen and I LOVE it to pieces! Thanks Hobby Lobby for making this so I didn't have to make one from scratch!!

For the 4th, we had a BBQ with Jeff's family and didn't much, but it was wonderful!

Thanks to everyone for all of the lovely b-day wishes! I had a great 24th birthday!!

Happy Birthday to me...

Yeah!! Today is my big 24th!! I had a really good day so far...nothing too spectacular, but I like that. Jeff sent me some beautiful roses to work and we are going to dinner tonight. My dad is really busy with his Church calling so I am celebrating with my family on Thursday, so I will post pictures of all the festivities after that.

Being married makes birthdays so much more fun!! I love Jeff so much. Thanks for giving me a great day today!! I love you!!

GREAT NEWS!!!

I got a job!! Thanks to Jen Ray for the referral!! I will be working in the front office at Skyline Family Medicine. I am so excited I can hardly contain my joy!!

I know that it is only because of faith and prayers and the love of my Father in Heaven that I was able to get this opportunity. Thank you all so much for your kind words and thoughts!! I couldn't have done this without you!

I start on Monday!!

Oh and on a sort of sour note...I broke my pinky toe on Monday and thought i was about to freakin die. I ran into my couch and bent my pinky toe completely backwards, neat huh? It's all sorts of purple and weird looking...I took a picture of it, but decided against posting it because it is really yucky! So I am hobbling around like a tardo. That's what I get for trying to play nice with my couch.

Endurance

I think I am finally at a place where I can post about this. Last Tuesday I was let go from my job. It was honestly one of the most difficult things I have gone through in a really long time. I absolutely 100% LOVED my job and was heartbroken at the news that I was being let go. Finances are really tight and Jeff and I have never really had to deal with that, so it's a new adventure for us. I haven't cried in 2 whole days and that is quite the accomplishment for me. SO I am actively looking for a job and I haven't had any bites yet, but I haven faith that something good will come along.

Thanks to countless friends and family, I am finally in a place where I can say that I think this is for the better and I know something GREAT will come out of this. The sweet girls that I used to work with sent me flowers on Friday and I have gotten phone calls and emails form lots of people with support and encouragement.

My goal for the coming weeks is to endure and hang in there. I know that I will find something!!

East Coast 2008

Because we took a lot of pics, I am going to highlight my favs, and you can see the rest in the slide show below.

This is Jeff with our sweet rental car. The GMC Acadia. I WANT ONE OF THESE SO BAD NOW! It was a PIMP ride.

Jeff and I went with his sister and 3 nieces to the Museum of Natural History in New York City. BORING! This was SO not like the movie Night at the Museum. A total let down. I wish we could have gone to the Met instead!

This was on the balcony of our hotel room in Newport, RI. Jeff and I are planning to have our summer home there when we are FILTHY rich! We stayed on Goat Island at the Hyatt. it was AMAZING.

This was our view from our hotel room balcony. Gorgeous, huh? This is called Narragansett Bay.

As most of you know, I LOVE zebra print and these were seats at a restaurant we ate at. Sweet huh?

This was our last day in Newport, rainy and a fine 63 degrees. It was extremely difficult to leave.

This was at a beach we found in Middletown, RI.  A hop away from Newport. The water was freezing, but it sure was beautiful!

This was the "Cliff Walk" which is behind all of the mansions in Newport. It was a really long walk, but the sites were breath taking.

This was in front of a building on the campus of Yale! Yale honestly has the coolest buildings to go to school in. I wish I could be a student there! But I am definitely NOT that smart. The campus is gorgeous and you can see more of the amazing buildings in the slide show!

I am point to my building! If you can read it, it says Johnson! Pretty cool I must say! P.S. CT started to get really muggy this day so my hair was NOT looking so great!

This was at some kind of "look out point" in Hamden, CT where Jen, Jeff's sister, lives. The view was pretty cool. Of course we decided to take a picture with the parking lot in the background. We are SO smart!

This HAS to be my favorite picture. This is our niece Emily. She is the sweetest, cutest thing ever! We had LOTS of fun with her. And this shows what a great Dad Jeff is going to be someday. Although he will never admit that.

And this is my next favorite. The other little girl is our niece Becca and boy does she love her Uncle Jeffy. They were inseparable! This is in their backyard.

I didn't take ANY pictures in Boston because I didn't see anything worth it. It was SO crowded and hot that all I wanted to do was go home. I was really disappointed in Boston. Nothing like I thought it would be.

Addicted...

I finally gave in and started reading these...

I finished what I thought was the last book of the series on our vacation and was totally upset that they were over? But little did I know....there is a 4th book coming out on Aug. 2nd!! Hooray!!

I have never been more "into" a book in my entire life. The thing that were happening to Bella, I internalized and felt like it was happening to me! I cried A LOT while reading these. Thank goodness I wasn't single reading these or I might have gone into a bout of depression!!

Jeff was thrilled when I finished reading them because he felt like he finally got his wife back, so needless to say he is not looking forward to the fourth book nearly as much as I am.

Side not....I am almost finished getting my pics ready to Post...I'm hoping for a super vacation post tomorrow!! Stay Tuned!

I'm BACK....

I am finally back from what seemed like the longest vacation in history, and I haven't uploaded all our pictures yet, but I just wanted to post the best part of my trip..... Yes, you are seeing correctly, and Yes it's real!! No knockoffs here ladies. As Jeff and I were driving to Rhode Island from Connecticut, we found an outlet mall and there was a Coach store with AMAZING deals on handbags! My amazing and wonderful husband decided I was worth it and bought this for me!! Thanks babe!! You are the BEST! More pictures of our super fun trip to come!!