GIRLS NIGHT!

So on Monday me and my friends had a much needed girls night. We haven't gotten together for way too long, so it was great that everyone could make it! We went to Red Robin for dinner then came back to my house so everyone could check out the new place! Jord hid back in our room and just let me and my girls do our thing....he is a very patient man to even STAY in the house while all my friends are over! CRAZY GIRLS...but I don't know what I'd do without them!

One down, a bunch more to go.....

So me and Jord have officially been married for a year now!! Freakin crazy huh? We celebrated our first anniversary this weekend. What we hoped to be a reunion vacation to Mexico for our first anniversary, turned into a weekend at the Little America in SLC (That's what happens when you build a house, ha ha ha) But regardless, we had a blast!! We spent the weekend relaxing- movies, pool, hot tub, massages....it was great! Because we spent all our money on the house, we decided to do things a little smaller this year. Jord somehow still makes things so nice, he got me a bunch of hot pink roses (my fave) and got me a way cute Nixon watch that I've been wanting forever....but this is the best part...(I hope he doesn't get on and read this he'll be so embarrassed!) Anyway, you know those little coupon books we all made for our moms for mothers day when we were little? Like the ones that had coupons in it of jobs we'd do around the house for her and what not? Well Jord made me a coupon book and it was my favorite present! There were things in it like "Good for one breakfast in bed," "Good for one foot massage," "Good for one night of me making dinner AND doing dishes," "Good for Coldstone once a week for four weeks," and all kinds of other cute funny things! It made me laugh, but it has proved to come in handy the last few days! Jordan is a sweetie! Jordan has been wanting some new sunglasses for a while now...and since I couldn't really think of anything cute or meaningful, I just bought him a hot new pair of Oakleys, got him a funny card since he would appreciate that more than a nice one(it said, "happy anniversary, to the one who's seem me on the toilet and loves me anyway!") and gave him a good massage! We ate the top of our cake (it was actually delicious, not disgusting like everyone else always says) We went to the Little America Steakhouse for dinner and I had BY FAR the most amazing steak ever. I'm rambling now....but it was a great weekend, it's been a great year, and I can't wait for the years to come!

Our new HOME!

A while ago I told some of you that I would post some pics of the house....well I finally had some time to take a few today, so here they are!! Jordan did all of the tile work in the entire house and did an amazing job, if I do say so myself. There are still a few things we are going to change, and a few things we are working on. We will hopefully have our yard in the first week of September, and we are also working on finishing the basement, hoping to have it done by first of October for Zac and Cami to move in. Also, we are going to paint the front door of our house a different color (it gets lost in all of the brown!) The second bedroom is pretty much a storage room for the time being, which is why I didn't take any pics of it. Hopefully we'll be able to make it into a guest room soon! Other than all the little projects going on, we are just enjoying and loving our new home!

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Boys Trip to Alaska!!!

For the last two weeks, Jord has been in Alaska with my dad and brothers. The first week I was really lonely, and kinda scared to be at home alone in our new house, but the second week I took off with my mom to Vegas for a shopping trip. Both Jordan and I got home yesterday, it was a nice reunion! Here are some highlights from Jord's trip.....He saw a bunch of moose, and was a bit disappointed not to see a bear, however, was excited when they stumbled across some bear poop (you'll see that bears do NOT digest berries very good)! They figured between the four of them, they caught over 2000 pounds of fish- only bringing home about of fourth of that in filets in the eight coolers that they were allowed to check on the airplane! Jordan was pretty mad that my little brother Nic took his lucky fishing spot on the halibut charter they took out, when he reeled in the two biggest fish of the trip. Jordan said halibut fishing was the funnest day. Nic may have been the best with the halibut, but Jord was King of the Kenai River!! Jordan caught the most salmon and the prettiest (and hopefully tastiest) fish of the trip. Although it was a vacation...as always Jord's workaholic personality always comes out somewhere. While they were there, he split a bunch of wood, built a smokehouse to smoke fish in, and finished a shower in one of my dad's buddies cabin. All in all, I'm convinced they had an amazing trip!!