I chopped off my hair!!

This morning Jason and I decided that I should chop my hair off. It all started when I was blow drying my hair.. I had been working on it for like 15 minutes and it STILL WAS NOT DRY! I was going crazy... so, I decided I wanted it gone! (Jason's 2 stipulations to my cutting my hair short were that I: 1) Put some highlights in my hair, and 2) Let him grow his hair out!) We'll see how that goes! My best friend Kenzi was already planning on trimming my hair today after conference, so rather than having her trim it, I had her cut 10 inches off! She also colored it and highlighted it as well. She is amazing! It turned out so great, or at least I think so! What will I do without her after she leaves on her mission?? It was kind of a spur of the moment decision, but I'm glad I did it.. I have kind of been wanting to cut it for a while, it was just getting on my nerves.

Before we cut it all off, we decided that it could possibly be long enough to donate it to Locks of Love, here is a little bit about Locks of Love.

Locks of Love is a public non-profit organization that provides hairpieces to financially disadvantaged children in the United States and Canada under age 18 suffering from long-term medical hair loss from any diagnosis. We meet a unique need for children by using donated hair to create the highest quality hair prosthetics. Most of the children helped by Locks of Love have lost their hair due to a medical condition called alopecia areata, which has no known cause or cure. The prostheses we provide help to restore their self-esteem and their confidence, enabling them to face the world and their peers.

We checked the website, and the minimum length is 10 inches, so we measured it out, and it was barely enough. Needless to say, I will be donating my ponytails of hair to Locks of Love and hopefully somebody will enjoy and appreciate it more than I did! :)

Well here are some pics of my new do...

We'll be cruisin....

So, this summer, Jason and I are moving out to Bakersfield, CA to run an office there for APX Alarm. Jason is the Operations Manager of our office and I am the Office Assistant (He is my boss!) We are going out with a Sales Manager named Jesse Pilcher, it should be an awesome summer. I can't wait! We will finally be somewhere WARM! Speaking of warm...for the summer, Jason and I decided to get ourselves some toys to enjoy that great weather with! We decided that we didn't want to drive the car and the truck out to Cali, and since Jason will be running around in the car helping out on installs and possibly doing his own installs, I was in need a vehicle for my own transportation down there. We decided that the best thing to get would be a scooter! They are cheaper than cars AND they get like 70-90 miles to the gallon! What more could a person want. So, we bought a scooter! I LOVE my scooter. It is kind of an avocado green color with some silver and black and I got a matching silver helmet. It is so fun driving it all around (Which currently I can't do because at this very moment there is a freakin BLIZZARD outside!) I wish it would just get warm again :( Well here is a pic of my lovely scooter.....

And... in addition to the scooter, Jason decided to get a motorcycle again! He decided to go with a red and black '99 CBR 600 F4. Jason used to have a motorcycle just like his new one (except it was yellow & black). It was the same make, model, and year. He sold the yellow bike about a year ago and has been wanting to get another one ever since! Another factor that made J want a new bike even more is that one of the techs that is coming out to work for him this summer is bringing his bullet bike out to California so Jason would actually have somebody to ride with! So after long hours of checking out all of the bikes for sale and after many, many insurance quotes, Jason decided to get this bike!

While I'm on the topic of insurance.. I want everyone to know that I saved almost $1500 a year by switching our car insurance to Geico. I'm not even kidding!! I was paying $218.86 a month with Progressive and I am now paying around $83 a month with Geico, and I have more coverage now than I did before! Isn't that just great?? I LOVE it!

Anyways.. I took Susie to the groomers last week and this is how she looked when I picked her up! It was just too cute so I had to post it :) (don't mind the laundry in the background, haha!)

I also had the joy of doing my little sister Miranda's hair for her most recent gymnastics competition.. and this is how it turned out! It was really fun, we had a sleepover the night before and woke up butt early to get this done before I had to be at work at 6am! I wasn't able to actually go to the competition because of work, but from what I hear she did great! Good job Panda!!

Well, that is all for now. I hate that I always have a million things to post all at once, I really should try posting more regularly, and perhaps limit my posts to 2 subjects each? Might be a good idea.. oh well, I'll post again soon. TTYL!

The Past Few Months....

I'm sure a few of you have noticed that I am really bad at updating our blog! But... I decided that today is a good day to do some posting. Jason and I have now been married for more than 3 months! We are seriously loving married life! It has been so much fun and we think we are very lucky. Well, of course after the wedding we went on a honeymoon! We decided to do a 7 day cruise to the Eastern Caribbean. We left for the airport pretty much from the reception and hopped on a plane to Florida at midnight! The 3 ports we stopped at were Nassau Bahamas, St. Thomas USVI, and St. Maarten. They were SO BEAUTIFUL!! It was so much fun, we loved every minute of it. We hung out on the beach, rode some wave runners, did some shopping, and just hung out. Of course we had a lot of fun on the ship too! Between Bingo, all the food & desserts we could ever want, and all of the shows and shopping, we had a pretty good time. If any of you have not been on a cruise, we HIGHLY recommend you go on one soon! They are a great way to vacation, very stress free. Here are a few pictures from the honeymoon...

Since being back from the Honeymoon we've been pretty busy working and getting ready to move for the summer again! (We're still not sure where we are going yet) There was Thanksgiving, which we spent at my Grandma's house in Logan, Christmas which we spent at my parents house, New Years which we spent at our apartment together, The Superbowl Party at my parents house, and Valentines Day, which we spent at home (I made Jason Broiled Salmon with a Honey Soy Glaze, and Shrimp and Cheese bites) and then we went to the movies.

There have obviously been MANY holidays and events that have taken place since I have blogged! Sheesh! And I very well may have forgotten some things! Anyways, I have recently become a pretty big fan of cooking! Weird, but I like it. I have been messing around trying out different recipes as often as I can. Its really fun making something that is somewhat complicated that ACTUALLY comes out good! Some of our favorites have been Better than Sex Cake-picture below and here is a link for the recipe (http://www.cdkitchen.com/recipes/recs/163/21st-Century-Sex-In-A-Pan101352.shtml), Penne with Italian Sausage and Pesto Saucse, and Chicken tacos have always been one of our favorites. And of course I have started up scrapbooking again. I had been slacking off for quite some time now, and now I regret it because I have ALOT of catching up to do! I have also gotten into a little sewing if you notice the pic below (I made miranda a sleepover pillow case with a big pocket and some pj pants for her 13th bday) Jason has been really busy working and recruiting and training new technicians for the summer. We have both gotten into going to the gym more and being more active! It is working out quite nice :) In spite of being so busy we still find time to just hang out and relax with each other. So WOW that was long but that has been pretty much EVERYTHING we have been up to recently! I will try to keep this updated more regularly, but that is all for now! And now... here are some pics from these recent events!

We're married!!

As stated in the title, we are finally married :) I am so grateful that I have such an amazing husband who is so great to me and supports me in everything I do, he is really my best friend and now my husband! We got married on November 15, 2008 at the Northampton House in American Fork. It was amazing! Seriously, the day could not have gone any better. (Except for the fact that I broke one of my nails that morning! lol) It was even more perfect than I had expected and I have SO many people to thank for their help! My mom, dad, Miranda, Jake, Josh, and Mandy and Eli; my friends & bridesmaids Kenzi, Kelli, & Kibby; my amazing husband Jason (who actually did help out ALOT) and Jason's (and now mine too) awesome family Janice, Jillian, Joseph Sr, and Joe; AND tons of other people. Double thanks to my best friend Kenzi, who did my hair and makeup for my bridals and the wedding! The Northampton house did such a great job with everything as well! The food, decorations, flowers, music, cake.. EVERYTHING! It went so smoothly, I can't remember one moment of stress. Also a big thanks to Maddie Holmgren, our friend and wedding photographer - she did such a fantastic job with the photos. They came out great! Jonathan Walgamott as well, he did my bridal photos which also came out great. I can't express how grateful I am to have such a supportive, helpful and loving immediate & extended family (on both sides). Jason and I are also very lucky to have so many great friends who were a great help as well and so much fun to have there. I guess I will stop rambling and post some photos, but I love you all a ton, especially my new husband Jason!