Christmas Came Early

Today Kyle sent me one of my Christmas presents early. I got flowers delivered to me at work. It was so cute! It actually has a lot of meaning behind it also. We started dating seriously two years ago around this time and exactly two years tomorrow he sent me Gerber Daisies at ShopKo for Christmas. Little did he know that Gerber Daisies are my favorite flower. It was so much fun to get the same surprise again today. He is such a thoughtful and caring husband. I am so lucky!

We Elfed Ourselves

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

Temple Square

On Monday Kyle and I went to temple square to look at the lights. We had a lot of fun and it was beautiful up there. It is the only tradition that we have established so far as a couple. Here are a couple of pictures of our night.

This was a nativity that was floating in the middle of the first reflection pool. It was very pretty!

This is the other nativity where they told the real Christmas story. It helped me to remember what Christmas is really about.

Tag

Use the 1st letter of your name to answer each of the following. They have to be real places, names, things. Nothing made up! You CAN'T use your name for the boy/girl name question.

WHAT IS YOUR NAME: Andrea

BOY NAME: Adam

4 LETTER WORD: azul

GIRL NAME: Autumn

OCCUPATION: Astronaut

COLOR: Auburn

SOMETHING YOU WEAR: Ankle Socks

BEVERAGE: Apple Juice

FOOD: Angus Burger (that's for Kyle)

SOMETHING FOUND IN A BATHROOM: A.S.S. (yeah I can be found in the bathroom and those are my initials)

A PLACE: Alaska

REASON FOR BEING LATE: always am (that is my reason)

SOMETHING YOU SHOUT: All Aboard!

I tag Aimee, Haylie, and Chris

I'm Thinking...A Pepper Jack Melt without the Pepper Jack Melt and a Little Smaller Than a Regular

I know it is my second food post of the day, but this funny thing happened to us tonight. We decided to go to dinner so we went to Arby's. They have a deal that is 5 Pepper Jack Melt Sandwiches for $5.95. We wanted just regular sanwiches instead of the pepper jack ones so we asked if we could get 5 regular sandwiches for $5.95 and the girl told us that they could do it without the cheese, but they would not be regulars. We thought that is what we had asked for. We got our sandwiches and a funny story to share with everyone.

Want a Roll???

On Sunday I was not feeling very well and I knew I could not make a big Sunday dinner. I did not want to have nothing ready for Kyle when he got home from work, so I decided to express rise some Rhode's rolls. This process is supposed to take two hours, but my oven must be extra insulated or something and my rolls got a little big...





They still tasted good!!!

Picture Tag!

Haylie tagged me and the rule is to "take the 4th picture from your 4th folder

and tell about it then tag 4 other people."

This is a picture of the Belagio gardens in Vegas.

I tag Aunt Nell, Shante, Teresa, and Aimee

Nuestra Casa (Our House)

I decided that since we have been living here over four months that I probably should post some pictures of our new house.



Living Room

Downstairs Bathroom


Laundry

Kitchen

Dining Room

Master Bedroom

Upstairs Bathroom

My favorite part of the bathroom (it is

actually what made me fall in love with

the house)

Office

The office is also Kyle's Bolivia room

(these are some of his things from there)

Second Bedroom

We love our house and we have picked out our paint colors. I cannot wait to get it painted and make it all our own.

Our Fun Night

We had a lot of fun tonight. Kyle came and picked me up from work. We then went out to dinner (Mexican food, of course). After that we carved pumpkins. It was a lot of fun.

Couches

Here are pictures of our new couches.


Sofa


Loveseat

A First

Last night we did something for the first time since we have been married. We bought something big. We got new couches and they are awesome! We have been looking for awhile to get a love seat to put in our bedroom. We finally decided that we wanted to get a new set to replace the ones we have in our living room. We still got to put one in our room also because we just moved the old one up. That was interesting also. Our stairs make a 90 degree turn three times on the way up so we pretty much had it standing on one end to try and get it up. I have to admit that I think Kyle was holding all of it. We got it up there though. We love our new couches too. They are reclining and they are all ours!

Subway

Yesterday I decided I wanted a Subway sandwich for lunch and so I drove to the one in Lakepoint (it's on your way to Tooele) to get one. When I went in she said they were out of bread. I could not believe it. Subway was out of bread. I thought it was really funny and I hope you find it funny also.

City Life

Being back in the city is not so great. I lived here for 18 years and it seemed to be okay, but after being in Logan for three years it kind of sucks to be back in the fast paced life of the city. It is hard when it takes at least 30 minutes to get anywhere. Kyle was a little overwhelmed when we got here. He relied on his Garmin to get anywhere. It was funny to me at first because I did not think it was that hard, but now he is laughing because he knows how to get around better than I do. The one advantage of life here that makes it all worth it is the fact that my family is here. It is nice to be able to see them more often.

Catch Up

We have been so busy lately that updating our blog has been put on the back burner. A lot has happened in the last month. Kyle started school at SLCC and is liking it a lot more than at Utah State. I have been working at the university's clinic in Stansbury, so that has been a long drive everyday. When I think about it though it takes me less time to get out there than it does to go to the U. The only difference is, is that I ride the train to the U. We had the Stewart family camp out this month and that was a lot fun until it started to rain and wouldn't stop. We were luck though because we barely got our tent down and everything packed into the car before it started raining. The week before the camp out I got to go and spend the weekend with Kyle's mom and sister up at Bear Lake. It was fun to go up and spend some time with them. Last week we got to go the State Fair. It was a lot of fun and it is amazing to see how talented people are. I have always wanted to be an artist, but I know it is not going to happen so I love to enjoy other peoples artistic abilities. That is about all that is new with us.

Weekly Update (8/4/08)

Finally, we almost have our house put in order. There are only a few more boxes left. Moving sucks and I never want to do it again, but Kyle says we cannot live here forever. We have all the carpets cleaned and the water left in the cleaner was disgusting and gross! We definantly would not have wanted to live with them the way they were.
Ma and Pa Stewart came down to visit us on Saturday and we all went to the Red Iguana. They the best Mexican food ever there. We definantly recommend it.
This weekend we are going to stay at my parents' house to watch the dog while everyone else goes to youth conference. Rusty will love it because he loves to annoy Sam and also loves the freedom of a fenced backyard that he can be in whenever he wants.

Chinese Doggy

This is our Chinese puppy Rusty. Actually, he is not a Chinese dog (he just looks like one in this picture). he is a Pitt Bull/Boxer mix. He is a cute little guy when someone is home with him, but if no one is home he decides to be the destroyer. He has gone through many shoe laces, a Sudoku book, a kennel, and almost a bathroom door. Also, today he got a pair of glasses in only 20 minutes. He has a bigger, more sturdy kennel now, so hopefully no more destruction from him. He is fun to come home to though because he is so excited to see you and he keeps you company when you are home alone.