First trip of the season:Snowboarding

It was a blast! We went to Snowbowl in Flagstaff and it was def a good first trip. The snow was wonderful, lots of powder. We left early Sat. morning and Jared drove. We did not get any pictures so this one was one that I got off the website.

I must say that Snowbowl is realy really small, much smaller then Sunrise. Since I did not go a whole lot last season I was able to pick myself up and start learning again. I think I am comfortable enough to do some jumps next time. I love snowboarding so much, I wish Ryan enjoy it too. :(

I was sad that Ryan could not go. He had to work the night before and the night after. I was sad and I missed him a lot. He was so sweet, when I got to my car to drive home Ryan had left a wonderful note that he missed me and love me so much with a lil bag of Ghirardelli chocolate. He is such a wonderful husband.

Oh, and Jared and Ashely was on 15 news. I guess they were doing a report on the snow on opening day. So Jared and Ashley was on TV. What else....Bryce and Tyler was ripping it up. Scott biffed it a lot. Tyler was interestingly enough to fall while in line for the lift. haha. that was so funny. The End

Christmas Fun!

This is Ryan playing with Freedom. She is loving the attention :)
Ryan is dancing with Freedom so she can have a piece of orange. That little sucker loves cuties.
This is our Christmas tree. It is more fun to look at in person.
Ryan and I made some Christmas stockings for our lil family. One for Ryan, Freedom, and Sunny. It took me so much longer to make these then I thought, but they turned out pretty good. Here is a close up.
Here is a story for you that I got from Wiki about Christmas stockings. Enjoy!

"While there are no written records of the origin of the Christmas stocking, there are popular legends that attempt to tell the history of this Christmas tradition. One such legend has several variations, but the following is a good example:

Long ago, there lived a poor man and his three beautiful daughters. He had no money to get his daughters married, and he was worried what would happen to them after his death.

Saint Nicholas was passing through the village when he over heard the discussion of some villagers who were talking about the situation of the three girls. St. Nicholas wanted to help them, but he knew that the old man won't accept charity. He decided to help in secret. He waited util it was night and crept into their house through the chimney.

He had three bags of gold coins with him, one for each girl. As he was looking for a place to keep those three bags, he noticed stockings of the three girls that were hung over the mantelpiece for drying. He put one bag in each stocking and off he went. When the girls and their father woke up the next morning, they found the bags of gold coins and were of course, overjoyed. The girls were able to get married and live happily ever after.

The word about St. Nicholas being so generous spread throughout the village and then all over the land.

^[1]This led to the custom of children hanging stockings or putting out shoes, eagerly awaiting gifts from Saint Nicholas. Sometimes the story is told with gold balls instead of bags of gold. That is why three gold balls, sometimes represented as oranges, are one of the symbols for St. Nicholas. And so St. Nicholas is a gift-giver."

Home sweet Home

***this is not my house, its a house that we want but now sold***

ok so here is the news. Ryan and I are looking for a house to live in perminantly. We have a huge problem as to live in the city or live in QC. Here is the dilema, people say that for first time home buyers they are only in their first home around 5 years. (keep that in mind)

city-less house, older house, but value will go up faster

QC-more house, new house, take longer for value to go up. (10-15 years)

i dont know what i want to do. i work in phoenix, ryan works ....where ever. we want a nice house but then if we move in about 5 years QC might not be worth it. I dont know....what do you think?

School Is Out!!!

This will be the last time that I will be looking at this....I hate school. So last night I turned in my final project for these two classes. I must say, my grammer sucks more then a dyson vacuum. Ryan helped me to correct my grammer for both of my finals and I feel so dumb and unable to write a decent paper. I cried and cried, thankfully I have a compassionate husband. He really helped me to feel better. He was so helpful and i am so greatful for him. I am just glad that school is over.

My plan now is to go to MCC or something. Gotta do that hands on stuff, writing really is not my thing.

Keep Christ in Christmas

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2008/11/28/2008-11-28_worker_dies_at_long_island_walmart_after.html

I have to say, this news was one of the many that happened on black Friday. What has gotten into people? Why has this holiday been turned into rude people in bad moods because of the stressfulness of getting presents? Are presents really what the holiday is all about?

I am not going to lie, I love presents. I just think that we need a good reminder that presents is to symbolize the gifts that Christ got when he was born. We are celebrating his birth and we really should do it more justice.

This holiday is a great chance to show more love and stand out of the crowd of angry mobs that are not getting their way, great chance to do more charity even in your own home, family, and friends. Help each other to make this holiday more joyous for all.

I hope that each of us will take the time to remember the significance of the holiday. I love you and have a safe and blessed holiday.

Christmas Time

Ryan and I took some pictues for our Christmas cards. Here is our photos...

Update, cuz I am lazy

http://picasaweb.google.com/love.volcom/WeddingReception#

ok, Here is another link. it has my Bride and Groom pictures and the other stuff. I forgot to put it up last post.

So life is great. Ryan and I got massages yesterday and it was fantastic. I guess I really dont have much to say. Well....maybe I do. Ryan and I are making a Christmas tree on the wall. We are very excited about that.

Freedom is becoming a big girl with a big personality. Yesterday was a tough day for her. I dont think she was feeling very well. Look at my lil girl...

Look at my sassy girl!

So silly at the same time! :)

Wedding Pictures

Well here it is!

http://picasaweb.google.com/love.volcom/WeddingReception#

Random thoughts

I have no idea what I want to write about. I just want to talk. I am at work right now and I find myself just stare at my computer screen just sitting here feeling horrible. My eyes feel so heavy and i know if I stand up there is a high possibility of me falling over.

Where do you get a pint of BlueBell icecream? I have a coupon from when I donated blood and I can't even find a pint! I know fry's have blueBell but they dont have pints. Kinda sucks that I can't get icecream.

Ryan and I are proud parents of our lil puppy girl. She is the best puppy I have ever heard of. When we first got her she was from the shelter of course they dont train her or anything. Its been just over three weeks now and she is potty trained, plays fetch, obey commands like sit, laydown, drop it, stay, and no. She does not bark or whine or any noise at all. she is such a sweet heart!

I am so tired I am not sure I can last a whole day.

I get my wedding pics on Friday! yay! So when I get a chance this weekend I will be posting them.

Still love being married....Ryan and I have not fought yet....I been wondering when we will.

I want all my friends to know that I am still your friend....I just have work and school and dog and husband and i am a loser. I am always down for going out if it is planned and in my calender, but I am always avalible for emergencys, you should all know that by now.

I love my husband and I am so thankful for him.

ps. Joe's crab shack is not so bad....it made me sick though....all that deep fry do things to my body that is not what i call healthy.

Freedom!

So you all should know by now....Ryan and I got a baby! Her name is Freedom. She is a Terrier Spaniel Mix. We got her This Last Sat from an shelter that was at the Petsmart at Chandler mall area. Funny story was that we went to see a puppy name Alonzo, but he was not there. We saw Freedom and she is actually Alonzo's sister and we just fell in love with her. She is such and sweet puppy and I must say I am very pleased with her.

After getting her and she is all ours we went into petsmart and got her some necessities. We even had a few min with a dog trainer there. He give us so much advice and dog psy to train our lil love to be house broken. Today is day 4....guess what?! She went to go bathroom outside all by herself! I left the screen door slightly open and she just went out there and did her thing! It made me so happy! That dog trainer knows what he is talking about! well here is some pics of our lil love.

Honeymoon

I love vacation! This was the best vacation I have ever had! it was so much fun. Our stops were San Diego, Catalina Island, and Ensenada Mexico. My favorite stop was Catalina Island. I have more pictures on facebook if you want to check it out.

I would recomand a cruise for every honeymoon. It was great. you can sleep whenever or go out when ever and eat whenever you are hungry cuz everything in inclusive. We walked all over the place when we got off the "floating device" it was great cuz we would get so tired at night we would pass out right after dinner.

Oh yeah, forgot to mention how big of losers we are. We would go to sleep at 8pm and wake up at 5am every day. We never slept in a day! We would wake up and eat breakfast with the old people. We even got comments from an older couple that we are the only young people up this early! lol.

Married Life

I have now been married for 2 weeks and a half. Sorry I have not posted any pictures from the wedding or the honeymoon yet. We will though. I am still waiting on the pictures from Ren. He said he took over 700 pictures on the wedding day alone!

Being married is great! I highly recomanded when you find the right person. We now live in Awatukee. I am still adjusting to living not in Gilbert. I love Gilbert. Our apartment is really coming along and we will be able to invite people to come play with us soon (once we get some chairs for our dinning table and pictures from Ren so we don't have empty picture frames on the wall)

I love you all and I will be posting more later with our honeymoon pics from the cruise

Holy Crap i am getting married!

So i get married in 3 days! i think the hardest thing about getting married is seeing your family going nuts. I hate it and i hope that it will all be over once the wedding is all done. my wish would be after the honeymoon and after moving we will all love eachother again and happy to see the other. tomorrow Ryan and i are going for our bride and groom shots by Vivid Art Photography. Ren is just about the most awesome photographer.

I will post some pictures that he did for our announcement pictures. I just love them and i stare at them and its everywhere i go. i think i might be addicted to get pictures taken, its really fun to do.

so i am blogging at work cuz i am a bad person and i have no desire to work really, this work thing sucks before the wedding. unless i am a workaholic why would i want to work. i guess i need money cuz wedding is expensive and moving is too. dang it i forgot moving cost, i have to budget that in. Ren (my team lead at work) has been watching this thing now for the 10th time. you should enjoy as well http://www.peteyandpetunia.com/VoteHere/VoteHere.htm it is acutally quite funny. the great part is that it kinda picks at both sides and its clever. anywho here are the pictures

I got a dress!!!

ok so this was hard and i did not think i was going to find a dress in one day. lil did i know it was done pretty fast.

first of all i like to state (and you guys would all know already cuz all my friends that read my blog are married already) that those darn dresses are effin heavy. i worked up a sweat just trying them on! i mean how do you put them on and try to fine the groud to stand on so you dont trip by stepping on your own dress.

so apparently the style right now is to have lots of beading and sequence and POOF! LOTS AND LOTS OF POOF!

i am looking for something that is not really shiny and no beads or glitter or POOF. and i found the perfect one on the sale rack. i am quite proud of myself cuz i did not spend that much. hurray for me. one more thing down and millions to go! haha.

ps...there will be sleeves. it will def need some alteration

Squirrle?

well as you all already know...Ryan is coming home. he has decide to leave the academy. i think this is a real good thing cuz that place does not make any sense sometimes. anywho, we are getting married sept 20th '08.

my two year plan for my wedding got cut down to 2 months in almost instant. i guess i can't really complain, i would rather get married now then wait 3 years...who does that?! haha ;) there is just so much going on i really love it!

i have talk to ryan about this and we are still getting beax. this would be our pet. i am so excited for this!!! he will be a well loved squirrl. i have read just about every thing about the southern flying squirrl!

Failed!

So I know that I talked about taking lots of pictures while Ryan was in town...well I FAILED! He did too, its not just me. We only took a few, its just not somthing that i was thinking about I guess.

We def had a lot of fun while he was here. One day I took him out and we went to the Botanical Garden and then went to lunch at AZ 88. it was a fantastic day. Oh I almost forgot, we went to test drive the CX7. Its a really good car.

I miss him already and its only been 2 days. Life kinda is lifeless with out him. :(

6 month anniversary

Wow, can you believe six months has passed already? i def can not. it seem as though time just flashes by. How amazing life is!

Ryan and i can not be more happy...well maybe we can if we can get married but i am happy with what we have. it gives me so much to look forward to still.

he is my life and my best friend. Ryan, I love you.

Post Lasik

ok so i thought i update now that i am pretty sure my eyes are not getting too much better then it already is.

so the procedure is so easy. i was totally freaking out on nothing! most of the time was preping and waiting. that was it. the actual thing was only like 10 min total.

well so far i can see. not very well but i can see so much better. everything is blury but i think that is my fault cuz i was freaking out so much when i had it done i prob moved. the doctor gave me 2 volumes instead of the normal which is 1.

right after i had to sleep. they gave me some PM stuff and i was out for like 14 hrs. i did wake up one time to go to the rest room. that was a fun experience, i walked into the wall. haha.

the end

Lasik!!!!!

i am getting lasik today. this morning i was freaking out because i was reading the disclosure and it freaked me out! i could go blind! or i could have blurriness forever or stuff like that.

what if my procedure does not do well? what happends if i am blind? suck butt!

i had to pull my manager today and talk to him. he had prk at the same place. oh btw i am going to the nationwide lasik center. and he had to calm me down and make sure that everything will be ok. i even talked to Ryan and he had to google if anyone had a bad experience and stuff. i am being such a baby and i dont know why i am freaking out so much. oh well.

anywho. wish me luck you guys. this weekend i plan on playing my guitar with my eyes closed...i will be so good by the time i can see again! haha. yeah right.

btw...i am freaking myself out

Ryan is back from Global Engagement

at least that is what i thought GE stands for. well anywho, Ryan just got back yesterday and i got lots of pictures. so here are some pictures of him and him in his gas gear stuff.

last but not least he got a boo boo from one of the paint bullets i think. yeah their paint bullets are not like paint balls...yikes if i could find the picture i would post it but it will take too long. its massive for a lil paint thing.

so from this experience i am happy to hear that ryan does not enjoy this...thank goodness cuz i would hate to have him go out to where ever and get killed!!! i dont know what i would do!!!

the end

No AC

so i have nothing to post about right now. nothing has really happend due to the fact that i can't really talk to Ryan cuz he is deployed right now to train and that my AC is not working.

i did get a new canvas so i can keep myself busy while Ryan is gone, but lord and behold my AC does not work and so its impossible to even stay in my room with out getting all aggrivated. i hate being hot when i dont have to be.

so there for i spent most of my weekend in my brothers room on the computer. the end.

oh and there is a picture for your enjoyment!!!

My new number

I am letting all my friends know that i have a new number. most of you know the reason for my new number. it is due to the fact that i have someone harrasing me that i am getting a new number.

verizon said that i could block a number, but i can only block one number at a time and i have to do it every 60 days. i say might as well just change my number. i guess i been wanting a new number anyways.

so i will not put my number on this thing cuz i am scared that the number can go out. so please email me then i will give you my number. love.volcom@gmail.com

i already feel so much better now that i have a new number. its like having a new life! oh how wonderful a new life is. i want to go buy me something new now! like new shoes! hurray for new shoes!!!

Graduation?

So Ryan was in the graduation today at the academy. from what i understood he sat with the seniors and it was freezing outside.

President Bush was there! Ryan was all excited bout that one. if you look in the picture President Bush is in black right on his left shoulder.

it was very exciting!!! well for him at least!

I'm Engaged

this is my ring. IT'S THE RING. he proposed and now i am engaged...so many of you have asked for the story...well i really don't have anything to say, its more sentimental then anything.

alone time was nearly to none. we were able to find some time alone if we are willing to stay up till 1 in the morning or lil after. we had no where to go so we would walk around. well long story short since there is really no fun story for you. he proposed at the hyatt resort in anaheim. we did not stay there, we just went to go play there. our first real date was at the hyatt here in scottsdale and we just messed around there. he told me how much he loved me, but in long form then he got down on one knee and proposed.

i love him to pieces!

the date right now of wedding date is June 4th of 2011. that is the first weekend after he comes home after graduation. yes i know its 3 years. i really dont have a choice so i will just have to stick it out and wait. i guess i do love him!