Whew!

Its been awhile as usual! I think my new years resolution will be to blog more! For Thanksgiving we were able to have a get together over at our house the night before. My parents made chinese food and my brothers Pete and Brig and their families and Liz and Ryan came over. We ate, watched movies, played wii, Brigham dominated everyone at boggle and we played a little scatagories. Thanksgiving we had dinner with both of our families and then came home and napped so we could go out at midnight. We went to the mall because Todd had never been out on black Friday and he wanted to see all the people and excitement. It was chaos! We didn't buy anything but on Friday night we bought a new washer and dryer! They are shiny gray and I am so excited about them! Bad thing is they won't be delivered till the 18th of this month because the schedule was so booked. I will be sure to post pics when they arrive! =) We are very excited this year because it is our first Christmas together in our own home! Other than all this goodness...we haven't been up to much! As soon as I charge my camera I'll post pictures of our tree and decorations.

Happy Halloween!

This year for Halloween my work (I work for a Podiatrist) staff and I dressed up for the occasion. I had a hard time finding a costume but finally found this cute one at the last minute.

My cute friend Katrina was a LaDyBug

Our staff...The hippie, Minnie Mouse, a Chef, LadyBug, Sailor, Pirate, Doc Holiday (we really weren't sure who he was supposed to be) and a cute Kitty.

Back Office girls

Happy Halloween!

Clean Closet

Since we have been in our house since MARCH...I figured it would finally be a good time to clean out and organize my closet. It was getting pretty bad. If you know me you know I have too many clothes, purses and shoes. We also had some clothes baskets in there with a bunch of mis-matched socks, clothes, etc. It took me about an hour and a half (I was going slow) but I got it all cleaned out and it is bea-utiful. See for yourself! My closet is at a weird angle so I only got 2 pictures...one of my shoes (which took me like 30 min. to organize) and one of my color-coded shirts.

NYC 2009!

I just got back from my 1st trip to New York! It was so amazing and I loved every minute of it! My sisters are the greatest tour guides and showed my parents and I everything we needed to know about NY. Thanks guys!! (Also, see their blogs for more pics!)

09/09/09

Happy Birthday to my love!! Today is Todd's 24th birthday. We celebrated with his family last night at Cheesecake Factory (he has school tonight...boo!) where he received many great gifts for my computer...haha! I love you Todd and hope you have a fantastic birthday and I am so happy to be able to spend all the rest of your birthdays with you!!

So funny and cute...

I feel like I am posting videos...but this one is SO worth it!! (I couldn't get it to show up on here so click the link!!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-94JhLEiN0

What We've Been Up To...

We have been having a fun but busy summer! We haven't gone swimming as much as we'd like to or gone to Disneyland as much as we'd like to...BUT..we're having fun anyways!

• Going to Flagstaff with Todd's family for the 4th
• Celebrating my 21st Birthday with Family&Friends
• Going to Mexico!! (first time for me...it was...interesting but so very fun!)
• Enjoying our new callings...Todd is a ward missionary and I am the young women's secretary...weird for me since I have only been out of YW for 3 years!
• Spending time with family and friends
• Jet Skiing!
• Sleepovers
• New bedroom furniture...pictures soon!
• Movies- The Proposal is our summer fave so far
• Going to my new gym which I love!
• Enjoying my new Mac

Thats it so far...there are probably a lot more things we have done but I can't think of them! No pictures because I ALWAYS forget my camera. What have you been up to?

July 10th, 2009

Here is what my 21st birthday consisted of...

Decorations by Todd and his mom

A new Mac and iPod Touch from my love...

Lunch with Todd and my niece Ally here...

Shopping for these...(plus more I have already worn)

Sprinkles Cupcakes...mmmmm!

Dinner with my family&friends here...(there were 50 of us!)

Lots of presents...

Soda from my brother Sam...courtesy of the Pop Shop

Saturday night our good friends took us here for a late bday dinner...DELICIOUS! We had never been but sure are glad we did!!

Thanks everyone for the calls, texts, emails, and presents! I had a great birthday and am so happy that I got to share it with Todd and my family and friends...you guys are so great!!

Road Trip!

Todd's best friend and past mission companion Ronald Ward Halbert III (cool name huh!?) got married this past weekend in the Salt Lake Temple. We decided to take a road trip to the wedding and had such a fun trip! We left on Wednesday after Ruby's birthday party (see slideshow from Jane HERE) and got to St. George that night at around 12am. My aunt Kathy and uncle Ben have an amazing house there overlooking all of St. George and it is gorgeous! We woke up a little late the next morning, hit Cafe Rio and headed up to American Fork. We stayed with Todd's cousins Julene&Gary, thanks guys! Your house is beautiful and we had so much fun with you! We had a wedding dinner that night and then got some much needed rest. Friday was the wedding at 1pm, but before that I had to get some shopping in. I figured since we were in Utah I should use it to my advantage and get some modest dresses! How could Todd say no to that!? After some shopping we headed to the SLC temple. It was awesome! We had never been inside so that was so fun. We have a friend serving a mission in Temple Square and we just happened to see her walking around, so that was so fun too! After the sealing and pictures we went to get some cheesecake and a snack, where we saw my friend AGAIN! It was her p-day so they went to get pedicures and cheesecake. Afterwards we headed to the reception which was beautiful and then headed to bed. Saturday we drove home and stayed in St. George again. We were able to do a session at the St. George Temple...amazing! If you have never been to that temple put it on your to-do list! Its so awesome inside. We got home yesterday around 5 and ate and went to bed. Back to work for us (and school for Todd!) Thanks again Gardners and Judds, you guys are so great to let us stay with you!! P.S. My pictures are a little out of order but the pictures of the animals are all in a room in my aunt and uncles house. I have seen most of them before but Todd could not believe all the animals! It looked like Cabelas...so cool!

Sister Hobbins

Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Ward Halbert III

My brothers&sisters

...are so great! For Mother's Day this year my dad called all us kids (there are 7!) and we all agreed to go in on a present for my mom. It was fun to be able to do this for my her and have everyone be in on it and keep it a secret from her. I stole this picture from my sister Jane...thanks! I love all you guys!!

P.S. This picture was taken on Sunday, obviously, but my dad had just had surgery on Friday and he was already up and walking around! Glad to have you on your feet dad, love you!

PB Loco!

PB Loco is a store that sells peanut butter. We have one here in Scottsdale in the mall and I have always walked past it but never been in. My friend Katrina had also told me about it, because she goes there to buy all these fancy kinds of peanut butter, like Sun Dried Tomato, for example, and its also a cafe. Well, since that kind was discontinued, she bought Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough peanut butter. She brought some to work and I tried a spoonful, and it was delicious!! It may sound weird or gross to some of you but it is seriously so good! Well, at the Target by our new house they sell 3 different kinds from PB Loco- Jungle Banana (which I bought but Todd wont eat because he says he can taste the "artificial" banana-what a bum!) White Chocolate Raspberry, and Choc. Chip Cookie Dough. They were out of it for about a week and last night we went and they had JUST gotten it in, so naturally I bought 2 jars! =) So, check your Target or go to www.pbloco.com to check it out! P.S Thanks Katrina for getting me hooked!

Blue Bell Ice Cream...

My poor husband is sick! =( So, yesterday on my way home I picked him up some ice cream and ginger ale and naturally I HAD to get a treat for myself! My sister had bought these before and they were sooooo good, and I had forgotten about them! Well, yesterday I saw them in the freezer section and had to pick some up. I got strawberries and vanilla and chocolate chip cookie dough. They are so yummy and I totally recommend all of you to go get some!! Mmmmmm!

Moves that Rock!

I hope my kids can dance like this someday!

Click on the side to make it bigger-trust me its worth it!

Mmmmm...

I think this picture says it all...

Shaq Attack!

On Wednesday night, our wonderful friends and neighbors, Travis&Melissa, let us use their Suns tickets since they wouldn't be able to make it to the game. Todd couldn't go because he had school, so I took my 12 year old nephew Chase. Now, you would think that it wouldn't be anything big for a 12 year old, but these aren't just ANY seats. They are court side right behind the Suns bench. Todd and I have been in these seats before and I never got any pictures with my camera so I made sure to this time! Everyone kept texting us telling us to wave and that they could see us on tv so that was very cool! We got LOTS of pictures and I'm sure Chase's friends were all jealous the next day at school. Thanks for being my date Chase! =) And thanks T&M for the tickets...you guys rock and we had so much fun!!

Muhammad Ali was there sitting right across the court from us, he is in the orange shirt below.

New House!

Its been forever! But, I have a very good excuse. We are FINALLY moved into a house! We had gotten our offer accepted back in February but things kept falling thru and things needed to be signed and all that stuff, but finally 2 weekend

s ago we were able to move in! We just got the internet on Friday so now I can finally blog! We love our house so much and are so happy to finally be living in it! It is about 20min away from where we used to live so its a little farther than I'd like to be but I'm sure I will get used to it. We have already started to make it our own and we can't wait to keep doing little improvements so that we can make it fabulous! Here are a couple pictures, I don't have any of the inside but I do have

some of the outside! Also, one of Todd's companions from his mission came down a couple weeks ago with his fiance. We had a lot of fun with them and did a lot of shopping and eating! Todd's sister works at a restaurant called Saddleranch Chophouse and thats where we got the HUGE cotton candy in the picture below. It was super yu

mmy and I loved it anyways since cotton candy is pretty much my favorite thing! (Which is horrible because my dad is a dentist!) Anyways, I will get pictures of the inside of the house soon!

Ron&Morgan

Lizzie&Ryan

My sister Liz got married this past Friday! It was so fun and full of family and lots of color! Todd was the dj and did a great job to get everyone dancing! We had a couple dance contests and my niece, Havana, won a $25 giftcard to Toys R Us by doing her robot dance. I got a picture of it below, but it doesn't do her justice! She was so funny. Congrats guys, we love you!!