Valentine's Day!

We had such a wonderful Valentine's day! I had to run some errands for Primary early in the morning. So Spencer snuck out of the house to buy me some flowers and my favorite treats. When I came home everything seemed normal and I had no idea he had gone anywhere. That is until I walked into our room!!! He had set up the Dove Dark Chocolates all over the bed with the Red roses and a note. It was such a surprise and so sweet! I was really impressed with his presentation as well.


My gift to him was a little scrapbook book and a "conversation hearts" letter. My little sister Kara works at a scrapbooking store and has the most amazing skills when it comes to creativity. She offered to make me a book and I thought what a perfect V-day gift! It was a bunch of picture we've taken thus far in our marriage! It turned out great and Spencer LOVED it! As you can tell with all the pics he took. The letter was just a fun note I put together using conversation hearts. It was a lot of fun to make and Spencer laughed which was the main goal! :)


That night we went out to Ottavio's Italian restaurant, we got there at about 5:30 and the wait was only 35-40 minutes...well that turned into about an hour and a half! :( It was fine though, plenty of time to spend together! Dinner was delicious I got the Penne Pesto Pasta and Spencer ordered the Shrimp ravioli. He thought it would be ravioli filled with the shrimp however it was pretty shrimp less and tasted very....different. So we asked the waitress for a different entree and she was very accommodating. The chicken Pasta was a much better choice! Spencer loved it!


We then went to Blockbuster and rented some movies (chick flicks of course due to Valentines day!) Spencer's such a good sport! Truth is I fell asleep during the movie and he watched the whole thing! Maybe because he doesn't like to fall asleep to movies he hasn't seen. He's too curious and doesn't like to miss anything and well, sleep over rules my curiosity! Overall it was a great day! And I'm so blessed to have such an amazing Husband! :)

Date Night to Comedy Sportz!

We had a great date night the other night. My roommate Brittany who I lived with for about a year wanted to get together and we figured what better way to hang out than to set her up! :) So we set her up with Spencer's roommate Ben. It was a lot of fun! We went to a little Chinese restaurant in Orem for dinner where they gave us mounds of food! Spencer loves leftovers so it worked out great. Then it was off to Comedy Sportz which is always a lot of fun! Our stamps on our hands said "I'm cool!" We liked that! We had a lot of fun! Brittany's laugh is contagious and between Spencer, Ben and comedy sportz we were laughing all night!

Hanging with the Taylors

It has been a great two weeks hanging with the Taylor family! We had a fun birthday party for Spencer's Dad. We ate Sunday dinner with the family and then sang Happy Birthday, blew out the candles and opened gifts including a great looking tie! I wonder who that was from? :) We spent the rest of the night just chilling! There were about 5 different pictures of Jill (the dog) taken by Spencer so I had to include at least one, and truthfully Jill is part of the family! It was just a lot of fun hanging out with everyone!



Then Last week it was little David Oman's baby blessing. Spencer and I drove up to Tooele Saturday night and spent the night at the Oman's. It was a lot of fun. Anna made some AMAZING home made pizza we had some desserrt and then spent the rest of the night playing the infamous game "Settlers of Cattan." I'm happy to say that Spencer won! :) Good job babe!

Sunday morning was the blessing and it was beautiful. Little David had a full out white tux on and looked adorable! He's such a smiler too! We had a great lunch and enjoyed spending time with everyone again! It was a great week!

I did it!

Well I officially cut my hair! I did it last weekend and am still getting used to it but I love it and so does Spencer! :) It took a few months of convincing myself that it was what I wanted. I cut off the absolute minimum to donate it to Locks of Love. But it turned out a lot better than expected! :) Chelsea (hairstylist extraordinaire) did an amazing job! Thanks Chels!

Birthdays, birthdays

So these few first weeks of January has been filled with birthday fun.

First one of my best friends Becki had her birthday and it is tradition that we (Old roommates) go to dinner. We have been doing it forever and it is a blast! I love all of these girls!

For dinner we went to a little pizzeria where we ended up staying a good 2 or more hours just chatting away. The bet part of the night would have to be that out of the 4 of us that got Becki a gift, 3 of us gave her a purse!! Yes she got 3 PURSES for her birthday!! LOL! It was hysterical once we all realized we had gotten her the same thing! LOL! Happy Birthday Beck!

Then it was my mom's birthday, it's always fun having a birthday for mom. For her actual birthday we went out to dinner and a movie with the whole family. We ate at Macaroni Grill where my mom was serenaded in Italian, then we went and watched "Marley & Me" where we all cried! If you haven't seen it and you are a dog lover, be prepared to cry! It was a good movie and we all enjoyed it.

Then we had a Sunday Dinner where we opened the gifts, sang Happy Birthday and ate cake!

It was a ton of fun and no matter what you get, my mom always loves it! She got some jewelry, make up and gift certificates! We also made her a little plaque with words that reminded us of her. She of course cried and had ot have my little brother read it but she loved it! Happy Birthday Mom! We love you!

December in a Nutshell!

Our First Gingerbread House


So Spencer's family always puts together a monthly newsletter about what everyone has been up to for the past month. Here is our update from the newsletter written by Spencer!

Well here we are, December has come and gone and now it is time for a new semester to begin. Although the break has been a very eventful one, in a way it is nice to go back to school and learn more:) So what happened during December? We had a lot of Christmas parties to attend starting with one for me and all my high school buddies (Tyler, Craig, Jared and other soccer friends).
Tiff's family also has a tradition called "Back to Bethlehem where we sit on the floor and eat dinner with our hands. It is a delicious dinner fish, bread, cheese, chicken, grapes, nuts etc. It was a lot of fun.

Then we had one with the family, which Carrie hosted at the seminary building. We had two projector screens to play the wii and a wonderful dinner.

Than lastly we had one for Tiffany at her house with all her high school friends. They call it the ACB, Annual Christmas Ball and have been doing it for seven years. The party happened to be during the Utah football game so we were fortunate enough to eat during half time and be able to catch most all of the game (all the guys liked that).
Cortney, Jill and me Best friends from high school

One of the greatest parts about the break was having a Russian family from California come and visit. They are Jewish by religion and they wanted to experience a Christian Christmas, so they came. Tiffany meant them while in Peru doing service with doctors and dentist. They joined Tiffany's family at her cousins house for their annual fondue dinner Christmas Eve. Then they spent the rest of that night and Christmas day with Tiff's friends. The next three days they were at Tiffany's parents house and we were able to spend a lot of time with them. We took them to Salt Lake to see temple square and they seemed to love it. They are a very good family and very open to different religions, they asked a million questions about mormons and why our families are so big. It was so fascinating to them to have more than two kids and to see how we functioned. The night before they left, they taught us all about Hanakuh, lit the minora and sang songs for us. We gave them The Proclamaiton on the family as a gift before they left. They loved it. It was really fun to be able to have that experience.


As for Tiff and I, we spend Christmas Eve with Tiffany's family and then Christmas morning as well, then we went to my parents house and played games with the family and ate dinner with them. Our Christmas Pajamas
Spencer teaching Grandpa Carson how to play the Wii

Playing the Ski jump on the wii fit

We both got the usual, food storage, new clothes(we both needed them for work), I got some car stuff, ties, closet organizer things for my belts and ties and some slippers. Tiff got a bathrobe, movies, nike +, armband to hold the iPod and nike+, a statue Christus, and some slippers. We are both very grateful for everything we got and thank both parents for their gifts. I love spending time with both families and it is such a blessing to have such great in-laws.

For new years eve, we spent a little time at my house again and played a game or two with my parents, then we went to Tiffany's cousins house and played more games with her family and began the new year there:) Well, I am not really sure what else to say, I know as Tiffany reads this she will laugh at me and ask why I didn't talk about something big that happened that I just can't think of right now, so if I think of it I will let you know. Happy New Year!!!

Happy 2009!

Our First Annual Fancy Pants Dinner Hosted by my cousin Ro!

Crazy Weekends

Last Sunday we went over to Steve and Alyssa's for Dinner. (Steve is Spencer's brother) It was really good! Lys taught me how to make fried rice, stir fry and egg rolls! It was a delicious meal and a ton of fun. While we were waiting for dinner to cook. I pulled out the camera to entertain Mckinley, our niece, for a bit. We started taking pictures of Spencer and Steve and then I gave the camera to Spencer to have him take a picture of me and Kinners. But she wasn't too happy about it. She pulled this grouchy face and it was so cute!! She really is adorable!




Then this last weekend has been insanely busy. I am in the Stake Primary Presidency and we had our big Primary Activity on Saturday. I had a lot to do to get ready for it, including making 60+ sugar cookies in a pumpkin shape. It was an adventure but thanks to my mom we got it all done! The activity turned out great! We had almost 60 kids which we were not expecting! We had planned for about 30 or so. As you can imagine it was a little crazy but it turned out great. The kids really loved it! They did service for other kids in orphanages by making scarfs, cards, and an activity packet. Here are a few pics






Spencer knew I was starving, so when I came home from the activity he was preparing his favorite mission meal, a Spanish tortilla. It's pretty much just a ton of potatoes cooked in egg. It sounds interesting I know but it is really good! He was really impressed with himself so he took a few pictures of his creation! I sure love him! :)