New TOYota

Introducing the newest addition to our household.....

This is Josh's new baby. He has been needing/wanting a truck for a long time now and we were finally able to get him one. The seats in his old car were irritating his already bad back and he needed something with a bigger seat and higher up. We were also always borrowing our neighbor's truck to make our runs to home depot etc, so we figured a truck would be a good thing to have around.

We spent a lot of time looking for the right truck, with the right price. And then on Saturday morning we drove around to several dealerships to see what they had to offer. Ughhhh car sales men/managers are some of my least favorite people out there. (I know there are a few good ones out there, but not very many!) We ended up finding this truck and went into price negotiations with them for it.

Out of Josh and I, I'm the outspoken one when it comes to price negotiations. And so I was the one telling the managers what we were Not going to pay, and what we were going to. After several hours of them going back and forth and talking to me like I was a stupid little girl, I had had enough. I told the big annoying 3rd manager they had sent out, to stop calling me "Darling" and that we were going to pay our price or nothing. I got up to leave, put my jacket on and was ready to get the heck out of there..... that's when they finally decided to give us what we wanted.

Geeesh!

I guess it was all worth it because we walked out of there with the keys to this truck and a happy hubby.

Valentine's Day ♥

For Valentine's Day Josh and I went to Sedona for the long weekend. It was Perfect weather and we had a great time just relaxing and eating lots of delicious food! We went and saw a movie, drove up the canyon, ate yummy caramel apples, hung out in the hot tub at our hotel, sun bathed, ate, walked along the pretty river, ate some more....... etc.

It really was a perfect weekend!

Here are some pictures from our little vacation :)

At our V-Day brunch, soooooo yummy!

My hot joshua

feeding the ducks my v-day cookie

Tiling Adventure

When we bought our house back 15 months ago, we knew that eventually we would have to replace our two upstairs bathroom's floors. They were both linoleum, and in our master bath it was ripped and coming up right in the middle of the floor. Well we finally got the point of replacing it (Josh made sure that we actually HAD to do it. He grabbed the ripped part and yanked it up so it was a big hazard to keep stepping over)

We were going to hire someone to tile for us since neither one of us has ever done it. We had a couple of quotes and picked a guy to come out. The day before he was supposed to come out he called to tell us that his tile saw had been stolen, and that if we wanted him to do it we would have to pay to rent one for him to use. .......Ummm....... what!? I told Josh "No way!" and we decided to do it ourselves. (we had gone through a lot of dumb crap with these tile guys and were just so sick of all the bologna they were saying and doing that we were done dealing with it)

So we found a great deal on a tile saw, got a pretty good deal on the tile, and took the next weekend to get it all done. I had no idea how much work was involved in tiling, pulling off the base boards, ripping up linoleum, laying down backerboard, screwing hundreds of screws to hold it down, laying out design of tile, cutting all the tile, running out of stuff, letting it all set, not having a toilet or shower, grouting, washing the grout off, over and over and over again, sealing the grout, putting new base boards down etc. Plus it made a huge mess!

We got extremely dirty, sore and tired, but the end result turned out pretty dang nice :)

(before)notice the base boards....

(After ripping up linoleum)

(trying to figure out design)

(josh's dirty back. I should've got more pictures because he got hilarious looking)

(waiting for it to set so we can grout)

(TaDa! All done!) Notice our beautiful new 6 1/2" base boards :)
(we re-painted our bathroom a light gray color as well)
It's been so nice to walk through our bathroom now and not have to worry about tripping on ripped linoleum! I still catch myself lifting my feet higher in that spot out of instinct lol.

We love our new floors and are SOOOO happy we did it ourselves!

(I just realized I didn't take any after pics of our other bathroom we tiled. Oh well, the master bath is the more important one :)

Insight Bowl 12/28/10

I was lucky and scored some free football tickets from my work for the Insight Bowl in Tempe. I think people thought they were horrible seats, which is why they made their way to me. It turned out that they were awesome seats and we were only 7 rows up, in the end zone.

It was cool to be that close to all the action and see everything that was going on. It was a pretty cold night though and I was more than ready to get out of there by the time the game was over.

We had 4 tickets so we invited Josh's friend from work, Cole, and one of his friends.

I don't think I've ever been to a football game, and neither had Josh so it was a fun experience for both of us.

And people at work were a little jealous the next day when they found out how awesome our seats were ;)

All Grown Up

I can't believe that this sweet little puppy is all grown up now....

(He's even learning how to drive ;)

100th Post!

I think it's kind of appropriate that my 100th posting on this blog will also be my last one of this year/decade.

We've had a great year and are so happy to be married to eachother. We were lucky enough to be sealed together this August and I am so thankful that I'm able to be stuck with Josh for Forever! He is my best friend and I love him so much!

We've had a fun time this year, going on lots of vacations together and with friends. I lost my very special friend (Tinkerbell), and we added a sweet teddy-bear-of-shrek puppy to our family (Torque). Bentley is still running around like the crazy mutt that she has always been.

We've enjoyed our new house and took advantage of having a pool in our backyard during the very hot summer/fall weather.

Josh has switched his shift to a night shift, which he Loves! He has seen a lot more action (three foot pursuits in the first three weeks!) and loves not having to wake up at 4:30am anymore. I'm still getting used to not having to make dinner anymore, and to not seeing him when I get home from work. I'm lucky enough to be able to see him almost every day for an hour so at lunch time before he heads off to work.

We just had our 3rd Thanksgiving and Christmas together and I can't remember what life was like without having Josh around!

Wishing everyone a safe and Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas!

Christmas is my FAVORITE holiday! Josh and I had a good time putting up decorations, getting a REAL Christmas tree, baking goodies, buying presents and hanging lights. (Hanging lights wasn't really "fun" but you know how those things go)We spoiled ourselves and got everything we could ever want ;)

Josh got his dirt bike, a couple days early but still counts, an xbox 360, a bunch of games and controllers for it and a bunch of other stuff. I got a very pretty pink & silver CHI hair straightener that I Love! I also got a pink xbox controller so I can play with josh, and wii fit, some fun wii games, three pairs of amazing shoes (surprisingly all of them are sneakers) and a bunch more fun stuff!

Josh originally had to work on Christmas Eve until midnight, but because his knee was so messed up and he had a hard time walking, they sent him home after only one hour. So we both got off work early and packed up our dogs, presents and other crap and made the drive up to my parents. They weren't expecting us until Christmas day sometime and I decided to surprise them. They seemed pretty happy when we showed up at the door that evening :)

All of my sisters were there along with husbands/boyfriends. Melanie and Keats left their dogs at home, but without theirs we had 8 dogs running around plus the new pet cats. It was a crazy time, but we had a lot of fun. There were new board games to play and wii games to try out. I think the most popular one was the Cabela's Hunting one on the wii that comes with a rifle to use. The boys had a fun time trading off hunting different animals.

We ate a LOT of food, went to a crazy walmart the day after Christmas to buy cheap Christmas decorations, played games, froze our butts off and took a family picture. It was the first time since my wedding that we were all together.
My mom gave us no warning of wanting to take a picture, so this is how we look after a bunch of lounging around :)
And then this is how it is normally around the house. hehe

It's funny because it really represents how the weekend went lol

Here are a few pictures from mine and Josh's house....
police nutcrackers and a bagpipe playing one.... (Josh plays the bagpipes in case you didn't know)

Our tree

Josh making me nervous while he walked around on our roof to hang up lights.

I tried to take a picture of our lights because I thought it looked really good.... but the pics didn't work to well :(

We missed seeing Josh's family this year and hope they missed us too ;)

Hopefully everyone else had a great Christmas and will have a safe and fun New Years Eve!