Look What I made

I had a few days off so i worked on some projects i have wanted to finish!! Tell me what you think!!

This is what it started as!!

This is what the shevles look like now!!

The was turned into a chackboard!!!

Christmas Day

This was the first year i saw things a little different than before. This Christmas i think i was so Excited to see daisy and Matthew opening their gifts. i could have gotten nothing and still had the best Christmas ever!! Well JL had to work on Christmas too so we went to my Mom's home in the morning and Jl's Parents that evening when JL got off work!! This Christmas made so excited when me and JL have our kids opening gifts Christmas morning. By the Way Christmas was awesome this Year. Thank JL, MOM,DAD and ROB and SARA and LAYNE!! It was so nice to spend the time with all of you!!Mom Makes all of us peek around the corner at our gifts!!

This was from my MOM. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you!!!

Christmas Eve

So every Christmas eve i can remember we have gotten Pjs for Christmas eve. it was the one gift we opened early and looked forward to it. well this Christmas JL had to work so i spent the day with my family. Jl got off early YAY!!! so he joined us for Pj opening. by the way Thank you Grandma for the Pjs!! we loved them!!!! Here are a few Pictures of Christmas Eve.

Christmas Time

Well it has been a while since i have been on here.There have been a few great things that are going on. Well it is Christmas time i LOVE Christmas time. Not the hustle and the bustle and the gifts. Even how much i hint to JL of that new purse i want (no i need), it is so much more then that. It is about celebrating the birth of Christ and spending time with family and friends. I also love to go to the temple and look at all the beautiful lights. If you have not experience this before it is a Must!! Christmas time also means all the family gets to talk to Josh who is on his mission in D.C. It will be so nice to talk to him again. i miss him so much. we are all so proud of him.

Last week a few things came up that made me realize that i need to be more grateful for the things in my life. let me list a few of these
1. okay i was complaining to someone that my husband had to work thanksgiving and he will be working Christmas eve, Christmas, new years eve, and New years. Ouch and he is also on forced overtime into the 2009. now since we work totally different shifts. we never get time together. i really miss Friday night date night. the only day i get to pend with him is Sundays. well as were talking i realize there are people out there who don't even have jobs and i was complaining that my wonderful husband had to work extra. how selfish is that. I am so grateful my husband and i both have a job and we are able to have things that others may not. Lesson learned be grateful!!

2. My coworker Candace had her baptism this weekend. i am so impressed by her, she has 2 beautiful kids, works full time and is a great mom. i can barely work full time. i do not know how is does it. well her baptism was so amazing. there was little boy who gave a talk who was a little nervous but gave one of the most spiritual talks i have ever heard. he spoke of his baptism, how it has affected his life and what a great choice it was. It amazes me because i was born in the church never fully active until i met my husband, and there is this little boy who has this HUGE testimony that touched my heart. Lesson Learn Listen to the spirit you never know when it is going to touch you.

3. The Dr. i work for sister in law recently passed away. It was sad what happen. Now i do not know her at all. After her passing i was talking to my boss, he expressed how cheerful she was always. He told me to check out her blog. I was online on night and check out her blogs. i read the blog from start to finish. i cried and felt happy and sad. she was so upbeat even in her sickness. I was inspired by her story and how she dealt with struggles in her life. I wish if i was in the situation she was i would be upbeat and positive like her. lots of lessons learned

Well i sit here i feel so grateful for everything i have in my life and grateful i know things i what to improve on. with the new year i what to be a better me, a more grateful me and more spiritual me and more upbeat me. thanks for letting share these feelings with you.

Rock Band!!

I just wanted to say i am awesome at Rock Band. I went over to chill with my brothers dean-o and Matty. They thought i would lose big time at Rock Band because i have never played before. Let me tell you i rocked at it. no joking!! it was a lot of fun. i got like 94% on it i felt pretty good until they put it off of easy and on medium. then i sucked. well here are a few pictures of the show down !!!

Schnepf Farms

We went with my family to schepf farms about a week ago. It was so much fun. As lot of you know i am the oldest of 6 kids. The line up goes me 23, josh 21 (who is on a misssion to D.C ) stephanie 14, deano 13, matthew 7 and miss daisy lee 4. It was great to spend time with them they are growing so much!! Here are a few pictures of the night.

these are the kids

Miss daisy lee

the family

Our kids!!!

Anyone who knows us knows we love our boston terriers and it is time for them to make it on the blog!! When JL and i were first dating we got a boston terrier name tucker!He stayed at JL;s family's house until we had a place of our own.They grew very attached to him. Look at him he is a cutie!! he is the best dog. in fact Sara and layne we are JL mom and dad wanted to keep him. they loved him so much. He is the biggest wimp but will always protect us. he likes to pretend he a great dane!!

We always wanted a girl boston to be tuckers friend. Then on our honeymoon JL told we could bring a boston home with us from cali. i was excited. we picked up little cindy lou who and brought here home. now she is not as cute but she is so not cute it kinda makes her cute if you can follow that!

Now that not the end of the story. they ended up having puppies. Cindy had 2 puppies. i gave one away and Jl got really mad at me. Ask mike and connie who have bella now. he cried. i felt so bad. Jet demanded i let him keep alli and i spare him from crying again i did. Now we are the crazy dog people who have 3 dogs. Alli is very cute and likes to cuddle but if you are not paying enough attention to her she likes to come and nibble on your foot ouch!!

I caught them all together this weekend. it was cute they were cuddleing with each other until i took the camera out.
and then one of the family before Alli

This Weekend!!!

Wow what a great weekend!!! i was off on Saturday and so was jl so we spent the day together. i sometimes get lost in the hustle and bustle and work and forget how much i need alone time with him. no phones, no t.v, no computer games(jl) and just spend time together. we didn't go do anything too exciting. We needed a few things at home depot so we went there and thought about what our goals for our new home are. We have very different styles, he is modern and i am well not . It was fun. When we got home from shopping we took a nap on the couch when i woke up jl was gone. he didn't leave but was off the couch. always the 1st place i look for him is the Nerd cave ( A.K.A computer room). there he was sitting in front of the computer playing what is the #1 game for all nerds World of Warcraft i can not believe i am confessing thing . yes jl plays wow and is a nerd.

well he got off the computer and we enjoyed the rest of our night together. he made dinner and did the dishes. wonderful!!

Happy 20th birthday Diana!!!

Happy Birthday Diana Dodd!! i love my little sis -in -law. She turns 20 years old on Friday. Tonight was her b-day dinner. We went to Joe's crab shack (well jl didn't go he had to work :( oh well ). it was tons of fun her boyfriend Adam was there so was Steven Layne and mama Sara. i have not seen Diana in a while but she always looks great and cracks me up. A funny story about Diana is when me a jl first started to date he told me that if Diana did not like me we would have to stop dating. i was so scared to meet her. i did not want to talk or even move for the first 2 times i saw her then it hit me how cool she was. she listen to cool bands and always had crazy stories to tell me. she was great!!! i love being her sister and glad she liked me too so i was able to stay in the family. well happy b-day on the 3rd Diana.

Our 1st Home!!

We have bought our 1st home. We are living in Mesa still now just east mesa. It is so nice to not live in apartments any more. No loud upstairs neighbors, No parking far away. Life is wonderful. We live in a 3 bedroom, 2 bath, we have a backyard for our dogs, a garage. It has been amazing our parents have helped us so much, with moving, cleaning and making the house a home. We would not be able to do it without them. We are still decorating it so i will post pictures of that later. It really needs to be painted on the outside too. so it is our work in progress but our home!!

We made it!!

We just had our 1 year Anniversary. WOW the time has passed by so quick . We have almost been together for 3 years in January. Crazy huh. The lord has blessed me by giving me a amazing husband. He is Wonderful. I am not saying marriage is easy at all but worth it to spend your life with the one you love dearly. You have to work at it to make your marriage work. I would not change a thing.

welcome to our family