Moments in our Love Story

Day 4:

2011-12-13T11:23:00.000-08:00

Something you’ve learned this year.

I'll come back to Day 3.

Something I learned is that things wont happen unless you put forth the effort to help them along. I learned that MANY times this year. But am grateful I am starting to remember.

Day 2:

2011-12-08T18:32:00.000-08:00

How much have you changed overall in 2011?

I feel like I have become more serious and know more of what I want but struggle to make it happen. Like going to the gym and working out to get my weight down. I don't know why it is so hard. I hate having this excess weight on that isn't for anything (unfortunately) So I guess I have changed to realize more about being an adult and not just having fun all the time. You have to be responsible for your actions and try your hardest to do the best that you can. So now that I have a little bit clearer view as to where I would like us to be at hopefully by this time next year I just have to now figure out how to get there. I just have to keep praying and waiting for answers to my questions. And if I don't like the answer I will just pray again lol. I just hope for the best of what is to come. No matter how hard the trial. We will overcome.

Day 1:

2011-12-07T19:48:00.000-08:00

What has been your most memorable moment in 2011?

To be honest 2011 is kind of a blur for me. It went by SO fast. Things I remember are like the 4th of July, Birth of my niece Brielle, moving into our new apartment, Friends getting married and having babies, Sleeping in the kitchen when our air went out and when I broke the shower head and couldn't get the water to stop. Disneyland was still fun even though everyone seemed to get sick, getting new jobs. I could go on and on because things seem to keep coming back. But there isn't one thing that sticks out over the rest. We have been so busy focusing on work that the year just went away. I can't believe we have almost been married for 2 year now. It seems like we just got back from driving home from a freezing Idaho to a warmer Arizona.
I am so grateful for everything that has happened. Things haven't always been easy but they have definitly been worth it. Each day my love grows for my wonderful husband and each day he makes me happier and happier. I can't wait to continue spending the rest of forever with him :)

Beginning of the End.

2011-12-06T20:43:00.000-08:00

Alright so these are the 2 new blog challenges I am going to do to help get me back into blogging a lot more. The first one, 2011 conclusion/2012 introduction challenge is self explanatory. I will start this on the 7th of December because it is month end and work is more chaotic than ever with all the loans I have to ship to investors and I basically want to come home and sleep after an emotionally draining day. even though it isn't as bad as it was with my old job. (thank goodness I'm away from that mess) Talking about my old job everything went down hill unfortunately after I left. I feel bad for my old manager who now has to clean up a massive mess caused by the person who took over my position( no longer working there for stealing phones and accessories and what not) But lessons were learned and not everyone can be fully accountable unfortunately. I hope the best for him! With my new job we are going to be having a Christmas Cocktail Party on the 9th. I can't wait. It is going to be my first and I get to dress up and take Jaymon with me and show him off to everyone I work with. It should be very interesting and fun!! There is going to be a live band and dancing and lots more i guess. I will try and take pictures and show you all what a fun time I hope to have.

2011 conclusion/ 2012 introduction Challenge

You can talk about the topics in a video, just a text post or both! I think videos are best because it’ll capture the real emotion of the topic. You can make the videos/text post long or short, meaningful or not, it’s what you prefer.
Day 1: What has been your most memorable moment in 2011?
Day 2: How much have you changed overall in 2011?
Day 3: A person who has impacted your life in some way this year.
Day 4: Something you’ve learned this year.
Day 5: Describe an adventure you had this year.
Day 6: Any words of wisdom/advice for anyone?
Day 7: 10 things you want to say 10 people.
Day 8: Things you hope for in 2012.
Day 9: What are you looking forward to in 2012?
Day 10: Anything you wish to say to end 2011/start 2012.

365 Day Challenge

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Love my husband

2011-11-30T20:36:00.000-08:00

So I forgot to post about my surprise from my wonderful husband. I got a phone call the other day asking if I was ok with him spending some money on something that i will like a lot. Of course my first question was what is it. He wouldn't tell me other than that it was a surprise and asked again if it was ok or not. I told him if he truely thought it would be ok then go ahead... I later came home to a "new" Ipad 2!!! YAY!!! I have been wanting a tablet for forever! Needless to say it is getting as much use out of it as possible! I love it so much. SO thank you sweetheart!

Earlier this week we were at Costco looking to see if they had a small Christmas tree that we could possibly get for our apartment since we don't have a ton of room and I saw a great deal for what I wanted to get Jaymon for Christmas.. I knew it would be hard for me to come back and buy it without him knowing so I grabbed it and looked at him and said Merry Christmas and handed him the cardboard with a picture of a PS3. He didn't really have much to say and just stood there smiling.. I could tell that he was pretty happy about it. I wish I could have surprised him on Christmas but he was persistent that I couldn't wait until Christmas to let him play with it, so when we got home the first thing he asked me to do was hook it up for him so he could try out the blue-ray. He couldn't stop smiling so even though it was a really early Christmas present I am glad that I got him something nice that he loves. He told me that he never thought he would actually have one even though he has wanted one for as long as I could remember. I still plan to wrap up the cardboard and giving that to him for Christmas to get a good laugh. He wont budge on any hints for what he is getting me for Christmas but says I will love it, I don't know how many more things I can get that I love since I have him and my family and .. who am I kidding I love way too much and always have room for more. I am both nervous and excited to see what it is and he has me totally stumped. We will see and as soon as I know I will post all about it.

Jaymon also decided that he would take me out to Red Lobster since we hadn't really gone out on a date in a while. After Red Lobster we got a movie and went home and relaxed and watched it. (Pirates of the Caribbean).

Well that is my mini update. I will post about how Thanksgiving was and everything as well later but it is time for bed. Good night!

Here's to a new beginning

2011-11-22T22:39:00.000-08:00

A little bit of everything

2011-05-09T13:03:00.000-07:00

Well Hello again. Its been about a month since I last posted. and to try and remember everything that happened in that month is a little hard considering some things are starting to just blur together haha. So there is no order other than I remembered something because I would probably start putting stuff out of order anyways. For warning you : This may be a pretty long post. there will be lines between the stories like this
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To start:
Our new apartment... what an... adventure slash i don't even know what. My emotions have been all over the place with this. So we move in and things are going pretty good. Have furniture set up and have our bedroom kind of set up and our other room has everything else in it haha and set up with some of Jaymon's things on the wall and the desk/computer. click pictures to see them bigger.

ok so those are the pictures of the place. Things have kind of been all over so there isn't really any decorating yet. I cringe at the fact that I am showing you guys how dirty our place was haha. I like to show things when they are clean and not messy. I have to find where I put my decorations so that i can decorate some more. I have the stuff up on our entertainment center and like I said Jaymon has some stuff on the walls in the other room. but I dont have pictures of that yet. I promise there will be more.
So to start the "fun" stuff of new apartment. when we first got in and started using things we noticed that when you take a shower the faucet by the wall. so One night I came home from work and was doing some things, just got done talking to our landlord about the leak in the faucet and heard some water running in the pipes like someone hadn't shut off the shower totally. so i went into the bathroom and turned the knob a little bit but still heard it so i did it a little more.. well when i did it the second time the knob came off with my hand... yeah i freaked because the next thing is heard was eeeerrrrr screeech (i can't type the actual noises i heard so thats the best i got haha) and water came bursting out of where the knob use to be. I didn't get pictures of how much water was gushing out but i wish i had. I was in a panic to get the water to shut off but since the knob was the thing that broke i couldn't use that and went outside to see if i could shut out entire water supply off. I called Jaymon (he was out with friends) and asked him if he knew which one was our knob outside to turn off the water and he instead of just saying no go ask the landlord he said " uh.. why?!?!?!" i told him i didn't have the time to explain and would tell him later so he said i don't know go ask the landlord.. I run over (i was shaking at this point because I had no idea what to do and was freaking out) to our landlords and knock on her door. I tell her the situation and she says," lets go check it out inside first" we get inside and she was pretty shocked at what was happening. Water was shooting out and hitting the other side of the wall and getting ALL over our bathroom. I laid down towels to help with the water so noone slipped and she ran out to see what she could do. She couldn't figure out which knob was ours either and called her maintenance guy. As I was walking out to see what she had figured out our neighbor was getting home from whatever he was doing and asked if we were getting settled in i said yes but need to figure out how to turn the water off. some other things were said and done and he went out to the road where you can shut water off as well and turned it off. Then our maintenance guy came and took a look at everything. He said that he would come in first thing in the morning to get everything fixed (it was like between 10 and 11 pm at this point so noone was open). we went a night without water. they fixed everything and got us a new faucet and knob and cleaned out the pipes because there was mortar in them. but now our shower is new and working great. the picture that looks like a piece of crap is not infact crap but the mortar they found in our pipe. they found it all over inside.

Well now in our bathroom all that is left to get fixed is the leaky pip we have in our sink. it only leaks when we use it though so its not like a constant water running thank goodness. But on to the next thing in the apartment:
Our air conditioning went out! YAY!! in Phoenix that is the worst. especially when it is starting to get hot. At first it would just blow kind of cold air so we figured it wasn't getting below 80 because of the apartment never getting cool enough and we only ran the air at night. then it decided that it was going to make a weird noise which really aggravated me while I was trying to sleep so i would bang on the vent even though i knew it wasn't the vent. it just helped make me feel better. When it got really bad we decided that we were just going to sleep on the floor in the kitchen (its the only place with a fan) so that night we slept on the floor and it wasn't too bad for me i can fit onto pillows so i was pretty ok, jaymon on the other hand it didn't go as good he was sore and stuff. we went to the next night turn it on and it changed its mind on just blowing ok air to not blowing air AT ALL!!! so we slept in the kitchen for about a week since our landlord was out of town. But now that is fixed and our apartment get cold and it feel wonderful!!! They had to install a new unit completely and we got a new thermostat as well. NO MORE SLEEPING IN THE KITCHEN!!! YAY!!! I don't think our bed felt more comfortable then it did after we had slept on the floor for a week haha.
NEXT!! haha the dishwasher doesn't like to drain. SO we can't use it! thats it for that its just going to get fixed and we wont open it until then because it smells terrible!
AND NEXT again. we have sockets for plugs that don't all work. not that big of a deal since our couch covers them but just something else that is wrong with the place haha.
FINALLY!!! we got a microwave from a friend of a friend. its pretty ancient. well Jaymon wanted to make some of Tesia's famous peanut butter bars so one of the things you have to do is melt chocolate. He decided we could use our "new" microwave to melt it. it took like 5 mins before the chocolate would even start melting and when he got it melted a little bit the microwave decided to give us a light show! OOO fireworks in the house! needless to say he shut it off really quick and we are going to be getting rid of it. but that doesn't end the microwave. I unplugged it so that we could take it out and get rid of it and not having any power it started with a long low screech and up to a high pitched one. i dropped the cord and ran behind a wall in case it decided to blow up ( I saw on mythbusters a wall could help protect you ^_^) It didn't blow up thank goodness but i try to avoid it until its gone.

so thats it for the new apartment bit. Other than those things it hasn't been bad. We have nice neighbors and a nice landlord. now on to jaymon getting sick

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Jaymon got really sick like a week or two ago. They said it was just a really bad allergic reaction but i was weird and i didn't think it was. He had gone down to Thatcher (where his 2 sisters live) and the night before coming back the reaction started. He took benydril and what not and came home the next morning with it getting worse. We went to urgent care and they didn't really help just gave him some meds he was suppose to take but she didnt really listen to what we had to say just said stuff and recommended the meds and sent us on our way. So it didn't get better it got worse :( he called his mom and his grandpa and uncle came and gave him a blessing. It was getting pretty bad so his grandpa took him to the hospital, I left work and met him there. They said allergies as well but i wanted to make sure so they took a x-ray of his chest to see if it was pnemonia related. They didn't see anything there so they upped his meds and gave him another one and a shot of something. it went away after a couple days but still freaked me out because i hadn't really ever seen an allergic reaction like that. We have no idea what he was allergic to but are going to be going to the doctor to find out here soon.

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I got a new position at work. Its called Operations manager. (basically assistant manager) Pretty excited since its more money and gives me more stuff to do. We are in the process of converting to a corporate store so my responsibilities are going to be even more. I am really excited but so far it has been a little stressful, I feel like I am working ALL the time and running around a lot haha. But things are getting a little better. I am hopeful that when we convert things will be loads better! but we will see. ^_^

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Jaymon still works at Caraustar doing what he's been doing. He has been trying to get on at penske which a pretty big company i guess. We keep kinda getting a run around but thiings keep popping up like they are trying to tell us to not give up on it. Jaymon is excited for it because there is a lot of room for advancement and it will teach him kind of how to repair cars and stuff. Which he's always wanted to learn. It will be good for him if he gets out of Caraustar and on at Penske. So we keep hoping they will go through with the latest thing they have brought to the table for us. But for now we wait.

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Jaymon's Sister Chani had her baby! YAY So we have a new Niece who's name is Brielle Christine Allen.
8 pounds 3 oz and 18 inches. She was born at like 12:49am I think is what they said. it was almost 1 am. This is her the next morning

We went to Thatcher this weekend and saw her and Chani's new house. Both are beautiful! I got to feed Brielle and I felt really baby stupid haha. I haven't really fed or done anything with a baby in a long time. I held Brecklynn when she was first born but that really is probably the most recent baby i've held or anything. Thank goodness I will have people around me that know how to do those kind of things for when I have kids. Which seeing Brielle made me more baby hungry haha. She is so small and cute and just seeing her creates this instant love that is so big! Seeing any of my nieces and my nephew do that. They are just so amazing and wonderful! I am so thankful for them and my family.

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Easter weekend was really nice, Saturday I got to color eggs with Mike, Jess, and Hannah. She is so funny! I crack up at the things she says all the time. I drove her to school the Tuesday after Easter and I was kind of worried I wouldn't know the way so Mike and Jess drew me a map and told me where to go. Hannah, while we were driving told me many things to help me get there like "in a lil bit you'll see these REALLY tall houses [meaning apartments] and like right after that you'll turn this way [she pointed right]" then we turned and went down another street with round -a-bouts "Ok you'll keep going and then there will be these round-a-bout things that you have to drive REALLY slow around cuz if you don't you'll get into trouble, theres a couple of them so watch out" still on the same road about to turn "here comes the fun one!!!!" it wasn't a full round-a-bout just made us swerve a little bit. We got there and pulled up i asked her if she wanted me to get out and this was her reply, "Nope you're good just stay there." She is getting so big and grown up. It amazes me every time I think about when she was born. she was 2 pounds 2 oz and 12 inches long. (3 months preemie). now shes HUGE! I don't know her exact size or anything but its just such a big difference.

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The Sunday after our shower broke I went to Ben Avery (its a shooting range by where I work) with Mike, Jess, and Hannah (Jaymon showed up a little after because our shower was still getting fixed) it was really fun they had a thing going on where lots of different stuff was up and running. We saw people on horses shooting balloons, trucks driving all over rocks, a mini gun, boats, atv's, rhino's, guns, guns, and more guns. I got to shoot a couple with Jess. a 3.5 something and a revolver around the same size and I think a 9 mil. i liked the smaller ones. they didn't kick as much as the 9 did.

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Here are some of the pictures from Disneyland. I didn't take as many as i thought.

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Here are some of the Polar Express back in December

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Mom and Dad came passing through before Tyler's birthday in April

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well I think i got everything caught up. If I find anything else then I will post it later. Hopefully by then I will have actual internet set up and not have to use my phone for internet on my laptop. It will be nice to use my desktop again.

Moving Again

2011-03-15T21:08:00.000-07:00

So I didn't finish the challenge and I'm sorry. Maybe another one will come later but for now I have to focus on packing, moving, and unpacking again. We found a place that is a 2 bed 1 bath. Its a little smaller but the price was great. We move in on the 19th of this month so i'll take pictures of before during and after. It'll be an interesting experience for me since i have never lived in an all tile place before. We kind of have things planned out as to how we will keep from things echoing and all. Hopefully it will all work. The place is located on 15th and mercer (which is just a lil north from peoria) for those who know where that is. There are 2 buildings with 4 units in each. all 1 level which will be nice. we only share i believe 1 wall. The owner said that there are a lot of younger couples and single adults with their families and such living there so hopefully we will get to meet some new people :) I'm excited to decorate and see what I can do with the place.

Also Mom and Dad get to come down for a day or so in april!!! YAY! I can't wait to see them i am so excited I miss them SSSSOOOO much. It is definately going to be a relief to see them. It feels like forever since we have seen them last.

Jaymon has gotten the opportunity to possible get a new job with Pensky. He is really excited and we feel really good about it. We are just waiting to hear back from them. Hopefully it will be any day now. He's made a new friend at work named Nathan. He sounds really nice and funny. He's married with 2 kids. and thats about all i really know about him as of right now besides Jaymon telling me what they talked about at work that day haha.

My friend Valarie is getting married to my other friend Josh (he's the one I worked with when I first started working for t-mobile) I am super excited for her. She asked me to be her maid of honor which so far we haven't really done anything but get her dress. She's still trying to be totally set on a date for when she wants the wedding. Her colors are going to be Black, Red, and Ivory. and funny enough her aunt (who is making a lot of the decorations and such) said she's planning on doing polka dots. I thought it was pretty humorous.

And Arielle Mecham my basically sister since we've known each other since we were like 2 is also getting married in 2 months. I'm excited for her too. He seems like a really awesome guy. He's a return missionary, who served in Portland, Oregon. I don;t know much about her wedding but I'm pretty positive it will be gorgeous!

Valarie and I the other day decided that we were going to go out and take photos. And these are some of the ones we came out with:

I will post more when I get more edited. We had fun just goofing around. Definitely a great day :)

Well thats about it thats been going on in my life. Like I said once we move I will have more pictures to upload :)

O and I found a new AMAZING singer that I fell in love with. I was listening to the Celtic station on pandora on my phone and thats where I heard her. She's amazing! Her name is Hayley Westenra. I don't care if you think I'm weird for listening to Celtic radio but in my opinion it is very artistic and relaxing yet exciting and fun. and the range that some of the people have when they are singing is outstanding plus violin and bagpipes are pretty cool. I guess I can thank my mom for liking it. :) Love you mom!

i would post all of her songs but if you like her you can go check her out :)

Day # 17 An art piece

2011-02-25T02:20:00.000-08:00

I will come back to days 15 16 and then 18. those will take a bit to get blogged.
But day 17! an art piece.

and even though i didn't draw this i still think that it is art. It's one of my favorite pictures of me and my wonderful sister. the best way to see how cool it is, is to click it so it goes bigger then look at her eyes haha

Day #14- A vacation you'd like to take

2011-02-25T01:54:00.000-08:00

Jaymon and I both agree that we would love to go to Ireland and like over there in that area to just see how beautiful it is. well I want to see the beauty he wants to see all the historical stuff. I love to see the different cultures. We both would love to travel a little bit to just see the world but will probably only take a vacation or two to a specific area. He wants to go back to Hawaii and I would like to go for my first time. We even want to visit back east (with a bonus of seeing my parents ^_^)

these are of ireland:

Day #13 - A guilty pleasure

2011-02-25T01:44:00.000-08:00

Sorry it took so long to get this one up. I had a hard time trying to figure it out. But I came to a conclusion.

High Heels and Boots :)
I love them! how they make me feel and how cute they are and how they make your legs look good. I would have a billion pairs if i could. I think I would even give them their own walk in closet haha.

Day 12: A song that you want played at your wedding(or was played).

2011-02-20T22:36:00.000-08:00

I had this play as i walked down the isle. I love it. it's so awesome! Jon Schmidt is amazingly talented!

day #11 A photo taken of you recently

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Day#10 a picture taken of you ten years ago

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Day #9 - A picture I took

2011-02-17T08:27:00.000-08:00

Well there are a couple so I'll just put them on :)

This is one I took of my niece Hannah

This is one I took of myself. I thought it was pretty good haha

Day #8 - A thank you letter to someone who has changed your life

2011-02-17T07:58:00.000-08:00

Dear Grandma Miles,

You have always been such an amazing women and I didn't quite grab that concept until I got older and was getting ready to move away. I wish that we would have gotten closer earlier but I will always cherish the moments we had together canning and wedding dress shopping. You are one of the best grandma's anyone could ask for. Thank you for teaching me how to cook some of your amazing food (which I miss!!!) and showing me how to can with mom. These are things that I will be able to pass down to my daughters and granddaughters like you passed it down to mom and me. I love you so much and appreciate everything you do for me. You are definitely someone I will ALWAYS look up to. I am proud to call you my Grandma. I miss you SO much and I can't wait until I can see you again. Thank you for giving me my wonderful mother who gave me my wonderful brothers and sister and now niece and sister in law. Thank you for marrying Grandpa and loving each other and giving us things to look forward too. When I grow to have grand children I hope to be somewhat as an amazing person as you! I love you!

Love,

ShanTay

me and grandma at the airport first weekend in january 2011

pre bridals

Day #7 - 5 things i couldn't live without

2011-02-14T06:31:00.000-08:00

From Jaymon:
1- ShanTay
2- Family
3- Music
4- Food
5- Gospel

From ShanTay:
1- Jaymon
2- Family
3- Warmth
4- Food
5- Gospel

They look like the same thing but thats what it is haha. we're a lot alike :)

Day #6 A day I wish I could relive

2011-02-13T18:30:00.000-08:00

A day I wish I could relive would have to be the day that I met Jaymon. I mean I would love to relive my wedding day but the day I met Jaymon was one of the best days ever! I am so glad that met at Mario's birthday party!

this is a picture taken after the first time we met. Like the first time I came down to visit after we met. Our first picture together :)

Day #5 A favorite Quote

2011-02-13T18:24:00.000-08:00

Day #4 A TV Program ^_^

2011-02-11T23:46:00.000-08:00

Ummm.... with this one I think I may go for........ umm... well...

It's absolutely AMAZING! I don't know why i love it so much but i do! I just wish Seeley and Bones would actually be together! they are perfect for each other!

day #3 favorite book

2011-02-11T16:14:00.001-08:00

So this is gonna be a short one since I forgot to do it this morning while on a conference call. And I have to do it on my phone.

My favorite book would have To be twilight series

and harry potter series.

I haven't really read many others that i could read over and over again. :)

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Day -2! A favorite movie.

2011-02-10T10:23:00.000-08:00

Ok so for this one again it was really hard but i think right now i'm going to go with Blind Side as my favorite movie. (it will probably change a lot after today)

It has such a great message and I love Sandra Bullock movies she's such an amazing actress. I have a whole list of movies I love but don't worry I'm not going to post a list of them because then this would be like 10 thousand pages long haha. Ok so maybe I am exaggerating but hey it could happen. If you are wondering what the runner up movie was here it is:

A TIE!! between Inception and Despicable me

I love movies though they are great! I can sit there and watch them forever!

up next is the favorite book... hmmm what will it be?!? any ideas?

DAY-1! your favorite song or in this case songs

2011-02-09T09:22:00.000-08:00

Now picking this one out was hard because I don't have just one favorite song. so I decided that I would try and narrow it down to 3 church songs and another one.. ( i know i'm not following it exactly but there aren't rules haha)

Song #1: If you could hie to Kolob.

song #2: Come thou Fount of Every Blessing.

song #3: Praise to the Man.

non church song: Awake and Alive (a little heavier but it's a Christian Band and this song is one I can listen to over and over and drive Jaymon nuts with but because he loves he and likes it too he keeps listening :])

and runner up: Blood of Cuchlainn.

well thats that on that haha. I love music and it took me all day yesterday and this morning to figure out which ones i liked most. I kept picking ones i like a lot and it would remind me of other ones. It's hard to just pick one. But no matter what type of music you listen it reaches out to everyone. Hope you liked it :)

30 day challenge

2011-02-08T08:03:00.000-08:00

Ok so this challenge thing has been going around and I decided to do it because I don't blog enough and this will help me post something every day for a month that helps you look into my life a little bit more. and since I have other things to post about as well and i will already be posting stuff i might as well add some other posts in between :) here's the challenge:

Day 1: A favorite song.

Day 2: A favorite movie.

Day 3: A favorite book.

Day 4: A favorite television program.

Day 5: A favorite quote.

Day 6: A moment you wish you could relive.

Day 7: Five things you couldn't possibly live without.

Day 8: A thank you letter to someone who has changed your life.

Day 9: A photo you took.

Day 10: A photo of you taken over ten years ago.

Day 11: A photo of you taken recently.

Day 12: A song that you want played at your wedding(or was played).

Day 13: A guilty pleasure.

Day 14: A vacation you would like to take.

Day 15: A person you admire.

Day 16: A song that makes you cry.

Day 17: An art piece.

Day 18: A time when you felt passionate and alive.

Day 19: A talent of yours.

Day 20: A hobby of yours.

Day 21: Something you know you do differently than most people.

Day 22: A website.

Day 23: A way in which you want to be remembered.

Day 24: A movie no one would expect you to love.

Day 25: A recipe.

Day 26: A childhood memory.

Day 27: A physical feature you love.

Day 28: A scar you have and it's story.

Day 29: Hopes, dreams and plans you have for the next 365 days.

Day 30: A motto or philosophy.

thank you kayleigh for having it all typed out for me to use :) btw i LOVE your blog haha.

So we'll start day 1 tomorrow. Come back daily to see something new! I will try and have everything done in the morning so you can read it throughout the day. If it's not in the morning then it will be in the early afternoon :) I am very excited to start this! YAY! See you all tomorrow!

New Hair Cut

2011-01-02T22:52:00.000-08:00

So I've been talking since before my wedding that I was finally going to try and have my hair cut and short. I've never really had a short hair cut so it was kind of nerve racking. Jaymon and his sister Chelsie for my secret santa gift gave me money to actually go and finally do it after talking for a year to do so. Robert (my hairstylist) cut off what he said was about 12 inches. It is definitely a weight off and Jaymon has liked it so far. So we'll see what the future brings. Here is a before and after shot

we forgot to take one at the salon but i think this shows it pretty good just how much was taken off. So far i think I like it better curly. The first one it curly and then i took the bottom layer and twisted it up so i wasn't down. you can kind of see the twist. and the second is the first time i curled it and wore my new sweater from my mom :) and the flower from Chelsie :) I had bought a skinny straightener back last year and now i get to use it. I'm also using it to do the curls in my hair. A way learned from my sister and experimenting on her hair.

So far I like it far and maybe will try a same version with a twist next time i get my hair cut. But we will see. depends on what is going on in our life together.

Quick update before I head off to bed:

December started off a little bumpy. We packed and got ready to move out on the 20th. Which came pretty fast. Went to Polar Express with Jaymon's family (pictures and full post coming soon), switched to holiday hours at work (which ment more late nights and more off schedules), Got sundays off for a month (YAY!), Moved things into a storage unit and into my in laws. Dealt with work and crazy holidays. Did last minute shopping on days off and basically flew through december. I really don't know where the month went. It seems like we were just having Thanksgiving last week. It was a great Christmas. It was Jaymon's and mines first together as a couple. We stayed in Arizona but got to skype and talk to my family over the phone. It was great to hear from everyone. Jaymon's family did a family party and a dinner which both were fun (it's always great to be around family) and Conner, Jarica, and I got to stay up and hang out since they were out of school and I didn't have to work until noon most days :). I have really gotten to know and enjoy Jaymon's family even more each day. They are great. Jaymon is still working hard and we're looking for a new place to live. January is going to be yet another busy month, we plan to go to Disneyland mid/end of the month and working hard the rest of it. We will also be having our first wedding anniversary on the 23rd! YAY Already a year?! It's crazy how this past year has flown by. So much has changed and went differently but wonderfully than we thought. Everything has happened for a reason and every day is a new growing and learning experience :) and for those who are wondering still no kid on the way. You will know when it happens :)

More posts to come but for now goodnight :)

Phoenix Temple

2010-11-05T20:00:00.000-07:00

So I found this on facebook and I've gotta say I do like the looks of this new temple that is going to be going up in Phoenix. The only issue is the people who are living by where it is going to be built. Why can't people just get over the fact that it's a mormon temple?! They are beautiful and definitely do not obstruct the view.. If anything they add to the beauty of the things around them. And they bring such wonderful things to us and the things around it. If only people were more open to things. It would make life so much easier. Well here is the picture of what I assume they are going to build the temple to look like

YAY so pretty! I love it!

Well just thought that I would share this with everyone else. If you have afacebook and want to "like" it here's the url: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Phoenix-AZ/Phoenix-Arizona-Temple/375534480135?v=wall#!/pages/Phoenix-AZ/Phoenix-Arizona-Temple/375534480135 Lets spread the word and get this temple built so many more lives can be blessed! ^_^

Mom and Dad

2010-10-28T12:35:00.000-07:00

So by now everyone kinda knows that my parents are moving to Columbus, Ohio. It's been on my mind a lot lately and I felt like I should write something for them before they go.

We'll start with Mom. Mom you are one of the most wonderful people ever! I love you so much. I know we haven't always gotten along or had the same opinion on how things are suppose to be done but I look up to you so much. You have taught me more than I thought you were teaching me. All those times you kept telling me that if I keep my room clean I wouldn't have to worry about it getting dirty.. Still haven't learned that concept but I totally get what you mean now. Having you move even further away is going to be tough especially since it's hard already having one of my best friends not be near me. I miss our little shopping trips that we would take just to make us feel better. Or going to eat lunch with you and Dad. I'm so grateful that I was able to spend as much time as I did with you guys. I'm pretty positive that all your kids will tell you the same thing that we couldn't have asked for a better mother. You mean the world to me and I'll never forget anything that you and I shared. Well maybe some stuff but that wont be on purpose, it might happen because of old age down the road. I wish it was easier to put what I want to say into words but you know me if I just start saying what I think is right it could end up being something completely different. like how I had a "cemetery" teacher and I can do my taxes by myself just give me my "WD40". I just hope that you know that no matter how far away we are from each other I will always love you and I will try and call as much as I possibly can. And you will still always be my bestest best friend. We couldn't be closer even if we were stuck together like 2 pieces of paper and some super glue. You rock mom.

Now for Dad,
Dido... haha just kidding. Dad you are one of the most patient people I know. I don't know how you do it but I hope that some day I'll be able to have the same patients you do. You were never really a man of many words (at least not to me). You always knew how to make me feel better. All I needed was one of your hugs. (same with you mom) I truly do miss watching all those john wayne shows with you. And all the other ones like bones and CSI and even star trek. Those are some of my favorite memories of us. Just sitting there watching shows together. That and kicking your butt in golf that one time. I miss those days we'd go and walk around our little garden and talk about what we were going to have grow. Swimming in the pool and having you throw me up in the air to do a back flip. You have such a big heart and never seem to be afraid to show people that you truly love them. Just like mom I couldn't have asked for a better dad. You 2 are meant for each other. And anyone who says otherwise is wrong. My mind is scared by some things but at least I know you and mom love each other... But maybe you should watch the butt grabbing around the kids.. ^_^

I love both of you so much. I know moving will be tough but you guys will find some really great people over there. Just try not to say you're going to mow the lawn in a speedo with a 6 pack and have it get to the bishop. (nice ice breaker though). You are both truly amazing and wonderful people. Thank you for everything you have ever done for me and thank you in advance for whatever you will continue to do.

Conner's First Football Game

2010-09-03T13:07:00.000-07:00

Last night Jaymon and I were able to go to Conner's first football game! Finally i didn't have to work!! The team won 28 to 27. It was fun to watch the jv team play. I haven't been to a football game in about a year. It was bummer that I wasn't able to see Conner play :/ but I'm sure he'll get to play in the next games. And hopefully we'll be able to go to those ones as well. Even though Conner didn't play I got some good shots (Or at least I think they are good shots) here there are: Conner is 68

It was a good game. Here are a couple other pictures I took.

Hanging out with new friends

2010-08-29T01:03:00.000-07:00

So I met some new friends. Valarie and Katherine. I knew Val through Josh at work and then met Kat through Val. We started hanging out more when Val moved down from Prescott Valley. Last weekend we spent the day outside in the pool after Val and I went and "kidnapped" Kat. We enjoyed about 3 hours of talking and playing volleyball in the pool. When it got really hott we got out and played some pool. Turns out I'm better than I thought. Now... 3 girls who have nothing else to do after spending all day soaking up the sun can't do any good at walmart.. o good ol wally world. one of my favorite places EVER!! *cough cough. We were sun burnt (or in Kat's case really tan) and hott wanting to play phase 10. on the way out we saw hats and sun glasses and well... Val had a camera. We couldn't help ourselves. We had to try some on.. Now remind you we had been out in the sun and water all day... and didn't put makeup on or anything. here's what we got out of the fun trip just to grab a game of phase 10:

Kat and I

The 3 of us

Val and Kat

Jaymon has been working and hanging out with his friends. Which is where he is now while I can't sleep. We were able to teach his friends how to play apples to apples and hand and foot. They seem to like it pretty good since we played hand and foot for about 3 weeks straight. Apples to Apples was just barely taught to them last night. It was definately an interesting night. But we had fun.

One of our friends, Ben, moved to Colorodo about a week ago. We miss having him around. He helped me get a job. and well he was just a good friend to us. We're going to miss him but wish him the best in flight trafficing school.

We had our home teachers and for those who haven't heard yet it turned out to be a guy my brother grew up with, Mitchell Brady. How funny right. I've known him and his family for as long as I can remember. And Jaymon went to EFY with Mitchell's sister Erica. Before I found out he was living in AZ and our home teacher the last time I saw him was when we were both living in Idaho while he was in school for nursing and I was just living there in High School. His wife was pregnant at the time and not very far along. The other day they walked into the store with their little 18 month little girl. It was funny for us since we grew up together in Arizona then both went to Idaho and now are both back in the same ward again and actually living right down the street from each other. I am grateful he is our home teacher and I am able to have him come and teach us. I couldn't have asked for a better home teacher. And Jaymon seems to like the fact that he likes basketball as well ^_^.

Update

2010-08-29T00:47:00.000-07:00

So Jaymon and I were able to go up to Idaho for the 4th of July. I should have taken more pictures but this is what I have. First Jaymon and I drove all night wednesday and slept most the day thursday to be able to make it through the drive in with Ashlee Christensen and her boyfriend. We had a blast. We got there SUPER early... needless to say we were ther WAY too early. we sat there for about 4 hours I think. but we had fun. We saw the 3rd Twilight movie and a show called furry vengence. Furry vengence was not the greatest. we could have gone without seeing that. Here are some pictures I took:

We were also able to do a family reunion on both sides of the family.

We had a lot of fun seeing everyone! I wish that Mike and Jess and Hannah would have been able to make it. But we understand how life gets. I also got to see all my old neighbors and people from church. I didn't realize how much I would miss everyone!

got my toes done!

2010-07-13T12:56:00.001-07:00

since we went up to idaho for the 4th of july I decided i'd get my toes done before we left. I went with my friend kimber. she got patriotic colors done too. (next post will be our trip up to idaho). I love pedicures. they make your feet feel TONS better after they finish. the place we went to had hot rocks they used to losen your muscles! it felt weird at first but eventually felt really good.

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Life keeps on going

2010-06-23T20:32:00.000-07:00

After thinking about it all week I decided that there really isn't a point in changing th

e url. everyone knows Jaymon and I are married now and know's this url. so i'm going to keep it that way.

This week has been a pretty good week.
Work has been pretty good and steady. Which makes us like having our new manager. Yesterday I met a couple from Rhode Island. They had just gotten married in November of last year. (They were an older couple) and the husband had never been out on vacations so his new wife decided she was going to take him across the U.S. and on a Canadian Cruise. They were a cute couple. And really friendly.

A couple nights ago Jaymon and I went out to dinner with Halsted, Gorczyca, and Chapman. (Jaymon's guy friends) we went out to eat at a place called JoJo's pizza. I had some pretty tasty wings there. I had a really good time.

The saturday before fathers day tmobile had a HUGE sale where all phones were free. It was such a crazy day! Things are still looking up and I can't wait to see what's to come!

Yesterday I found out that Jaymon and I will be able to come up for the 4th of july! We are so excited! We'll be bringing up our new truck to show it off ^_^

and jaymon's cousin got married. it was a beautiful wedding and reception

and to jess... and anyone else... sorry i changed my mind and didn't switch it when i said i was going to for the url. thanks for switching it to stay up to date. next time i wont say anything until i am for sure doing it and then i'll make sure you can all take a while to switch it!

Changing

2010-06-10T11:14:00.000-07:00

I'm changing the address to the blog since it is now Jaymon and I instead of just me. I will be changing the address on June 18th 2010. So next friday. the new address will be http://www.jaymonandshantay.blogspot.com/

As far as if there is any new on what's been going on since the last post.. there isn't really. We went to Tesia's graduation at the Cardinal Stadium which was nice. Longer and different than mine since Shelley tries to beat the year before's record on how fast they can get through the graduation. So it was about 20 minutes for my graduation. But it was cool all the things they did with the singing and the talks.

A cousin on Jaymon's side is getting married next week.

And a friend of mine from Idaho is coming to visit for the weekend next week as well.

O.. my job just got a new manager. So our store seems to be picking up some. He's pretty cool. Him and the assistant manager are from scottsdale and they are definately fun guys to hang out with. It's amazing how many different types of people there are in this world. And to see how different people choose to lead their lives when they didn't have the best childhood. I'm excited for what's to become of the store!

That's about all the exciting news I can think of.... for now at least. More to come soon! I plan on taking lots of pictures at the upcoming events!

I'm determined!

2010-05-27T08:57:00.000-07:00

The last post was WAY longer than it shows but when I tried to post it almost everything got erased. So here I am on my first day off determined to actually do the full catching up while Jaymon is at work and laundry is going. (I cleaned the rest of the apartment a couple days ago). Now the info may not be in complete order but I'll try my hardest to get them all straight. There is a couple weeks worth.

I already told you about the new truck but here is a picture of it:

Now for the suns game pictures:

This is from my phone up on the upper seats while the teams were warming up

Grant Hill from the Phoenix Suns team got some type of award like best player or something.

It was cool to watch because from what Jaymon says he's like a way amazing guy (Also the oldest) he doesn't look so old.

Me and Jaymon is our seats.

Ryan Chapman, Ryan Gorczyca, Mike Halsted, & Jaymon!

We went because we wanted to and it was Gorzy's birthday (The one in the white)

Halsted is the only one who doesn't have a jersey. We had fun giving him a hard time for it.

Well after that lets see... I had a bird fly into my work while I was working one day. He kept running into the windows and freaking out whenever I tried to get it to fly out the door. I felt really bad for him because he would hit the window with full force.

you can't tell to great because my phone isn't as good as a camera and our camera is dead at the moment. this picture was taken right before he found his way out of the store.

A couple days later on a day off I took a drive north a little was and stopped at a rest stop. Here is the view I saw:

It reminded me of Idaho. Since I was missing Idaho and my family and friends it was nice to be able to see something familiar (well sort of) This view reminded me of horseback riding with Aunt Nari being up in the hills and looking out over the valley. We truely live in a world of beauty. I am so grateful I was able to see this and feel comforted.

Nothing has really happened since then. Except for the last like week or so. Josh (from work) a friend of his from prescott (She's now my friend too) Valarie, Jaymon, and I went to the driving range over by Water World or what use to be Water World (it is now called something else that I can't think of. ) we were there for a while laughing and having a good time. Josh decided he would try driving the golf ball with his putter.. come to figure out that they aren't built for that so he lost the end of it out in the area where you hit the golf balls. We then decided to go and see Iron Man 2! It was such a good movie! and even though we went on the opening weekend it wasn't too bad getting in and getting seats. I totally recommend going and seeing it!

A couple days later on his day off he went and rolled his truck. The handle of the putter he broke a couple nights before ended up being really useful as he use it to smash open his windows so he and his friend could get out of the truck. They were 3 miles from a road and had to call for help. The truck was totalled but he got out with barely a scratch literally it was tiny! and his friend Ian hurt his arm but thats all. So they were lucky for having rolled 3/4ths of the way over. His reply when asking if he was ok and all was, "Heck yeah I want to do it again and get all the way over" he is such a boy!

My parents decided that they would come down for the weekend (happened to be the weekend after Josh rolled his truck) so they got to hear all about that. My mom helped me decorate my apartment some. Here are the pictures:

This is right when you walk in the apartment. the door you see is the front door. amazingly enough that entertainment center is the one that my parents use to have that use to be stained oak i believe. the one below is a closer version of whats on the entertainment center.

we started out on the floor to figure out the lay out that we wanted.

this is how it turned out. still a couple adjustments to make then it'll be finished. Thanks to my mom for helping me figure it all out. We make a pretty good team. She started the layout and I finished it. (with some of her modifications) End result= VERY HAPPY! our apartment feels more homie now. Now I have to figure out what to do on my other blank wall. Start of the plans are the big mirror I have will hang there with sconses. The only downfall is having to put HUGE holes in the wall to support the mirror (jaymon doesn't like that idea) and it makes me nervous to cover it up when we move.

Well while mom and dad were here we went to mike and jess's and played hand and foot for like 5 hours. Saturday Jaymon and I didn't get home until about 1:30 because we were having so much fun playing with my family. I love the nights we sit around the table laughing and joking and playing games. They are memories I will never forget!

The monday after my parents left Jarica (Jaymon's little sister) had her last choir concert. Josh was nice enough to let me get off early so I would be able to go. She did awesome! Chani's kids were also in town so while we were at the concert we got to see them too.

This is Chani's youngest Brecklynn she's a cutie. It was fun watching her try and sing with the choir. I tried to get more pictures but they kept coming out really fuzzy. But what can you expect from a cell phone camera.

Jarica is on the top second in from the left.

Here is Tesia with Ridge. You can't tell in the picture but when we got there Jaymon pointed out that his finger nails were painted black. Cambree was excited to show me her names were painted in lots of different colors. These guys are so much fun!

BEWARE!!! the next image is not for the light hearted.. It scared me half to death when I saw it in my shower one morning when I woke up!!

If you haven't heard Jaymon and I have had some scary creatures in our apartment the past little while. We have seen 2 scorpions (no pictures because I was on the counter for one and freaking out on the other side of the room for the other) and the this....

According to Jaymon's uncle it was either a desert reclus or a wolf spider. I kind of exagerated when telling the size since things look a lot bigger that they really are when you are freaking out trying to kill them by yourself. My guess is it was a reclus. The desert reclus to my understanding is like a brother spider to the brown reclus (VERY BAD SPIDER!!) either way I used about half a container of windex of this baby before washing it down the drain with 7 liters of water bleach mix. Jaymon had already been gone to work for a couple of hours before I got up. I called josh on what to do since my parents didn't answer and jaymon was at work. He laughed at me and said that unless I squish it with something then I probably wont kill it easily I flat out said NO! I wasn't getting anywhere near that thing. I hate spiders with a passion! well actually bugs and creepy crawlies in general. I'm pretty sure I killed it because I wasn't scrunched into a ball after I sprayed it last with windex. Needless to say I spent the day at Mike and Jess's since I didn't want to be alone in the apartment where spiders could get me.

Now about the scorpions.. the first one was found by Bailey (my dog) when it stung him in the nose while he was trying to eat it. He decided after the that he would leave it alone. It was by our sliding door to the patio. I freaked because I don't think things like that should be able to reach the second floor of a building. Jaymon took his work boot and squished it. While he squished it I enjoyed a wonderful crunch of success (scorpions I guess have a had outer layer that crunches on hard surfaces) It actually grossed and freaked me out more. But I was satisified it was now dead for sure.

the second showed up about a day after the spider incident. (the first was about a week before the spider) Jaymon and I were sitting on the old couch he got when he moved out of his old apartment before we got married watching movies on our computer when Jaymon leaned over to kiss me and saw out of the corner of his eye where he had just been sitting another scorpion. I was on the counter within seconds! and jaymon freaked too this time. (I don't think he liked the idea it was that close to him) He thought that he got into the cup of bleach that he was using to throw it away after the bleach "killed" it. But when he came back he said there was no scorpion in the cup. I freaked more because that ment I was walking around with it still in the apartment. Jaymon flipped over the cushions and found it under one. (I freaked again even more) Jaymon then decided he would try smashing it with his work boots. When he hit the couch and the scorpion it went flying into the air (again freaked) and landed on the ground. Jaymon then slammed his boot on top of the scorpion on the ground killing it for sure. He then scooped it up and threw it off the patio. After that he checked all the cushions on the couch to make sure there were no more. We didn't sit on the couch for a couple days.. and when he sat on it he checked to make sure there were no more. I have yet to sit on the couch or touch it.

OK now for a good thing. Jaymon and I switched to T-Mobile since that's who I work for. I got the Motorola Cliq (click) and he got the HTC HD2. which he later traded for the mytouch 3g

MyTouch 3G 3.5mm jack

HTC HD2

Motorola Cliq

The Cliq and MyTouch run off the Android market (like you see with the Droid from verizon) and the HD2 runs off of windows (window's based phones are crap!) Sprint is coming out with one like the HD2 called the EVO basically the same phone only the EVO runs android. Making it TEN THOUSAND TIMES BETTER! Jaymon now loves his mytouch which makes me happy because he's happy ^_^ There is seriously an application for everything! I'm even able to get my scriptures, general conference talks, church magazines, children's hymn book and regular hymns, as well as Young women, relief society, preisthood, and other lesson books. Even stuff for missionaries! I love it. I also have LDS live music streaming straight to my phone! I love this phone like crazy!

Last weekend Jaymon and I took bailey and got him groomed. it took 4 and a half hours. They said that they brushed him for an hour before the hair stopped coming out. (Moving from snow to heat caused this) then they did a de-shedding and then cut his hair. He looks way better and I bet feels better too with the heat we've been having. (he's outside on the patio enjoying the weather right now) But while we waited for Bailey we went and saw Shrek the final chapter in IMAX 3D. It was really good! Cute! and I was really excited because for once the 3D stuff worked! Whenever I watched 3D stuff before it never seemed to work for some reason. The next night Mike and Jess asked if we would like to go to dinner and a movie together. Turns out they wanted to go to Shrek too. We didn't do the IMAX version just the normal 3D which turned out to be better than the IMAX 3D one. Weird right? We went to Streets of New York pizza before hand then the movie. We had a blast! (Thanks for inviting us Jess!)

And tonight I'm going to be babysitting Hannah. The plan is to go swimming and well do whatever we want! I'm excited. She just finished her ballet and will probably have lots to tell me about her friends graduation that she's probably at right now.

Speaking of graduations tomorrow Tesia graduates from high school! So that's our plan for tomorrow. Then after that we're going out for some pizza at a place called the mellow mushroom. It should be fun!

I think I got caught up on everything. I'm still working on more wedding pictures. It's easier to show everyone them when I can put them in groupings so that's what's left to do on those. So check back soon to see those.

Sorry

2010-05-12T18:17:00.000-07:00

So I know I said I would be updating with more pictures but life got me busy again. Gotta love it right? Well I'll talk breifly about what's happened and then in the next post I'll have pictures to put up.

-The monday after I posted the pictures Jaymon and I went to my first Sun's basketball game. It was SOOO much fun! It reminded me of when I went to my first Diamondbacks game. Only the basketball game was SUPER intense.

-Jaymon and I also got a new truck. It's a Nissan Titan. I LOVE IT! I get to drive it during the week and then Jaymon will take it on the weekend. We got the car cleaned since it was super messy from the guys being dirty after work so I am more ok with driving it. It's black and has 2 doors and then the ones that can open when you open the main ones. I don't know what you would call that.. 3 doors total? It's only 2 wheel drive but thats all we need. Has a 5 disc changer and well it's basically amazing in my opinion. ( I don't know much about cars only that they sound beefy and look pretty ^_^)

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here are some more of the weddin

2010-05-01T11:28:00.000-07:00

Finally

2010-04-24T21:51:00.000-07:00

Here are some pictures from the wedding. I promise I will put up more but I had these done and it's time for my wonderful husband and I to watch Sherlock Holmes since we haven't seen or talked to each other all day. Most have captions so that you know what's going on. I will put up the rest here soon. Plus some stuff thats been going on in our life. (Monday we're going to the Sun's game!) anyways promise there will be more soon. Super Super soon..

Passed

2010-03-31T10:44:00.000-07:00

So I was looking through my blog and realized I hadn't posted that I passed my final test and am now making commission! It happened last Monday. Now my big boss is having me open every morning (I got my own key! YAY!) Things have been kind of slow at work but I'm still making money. It was easier when I didn't have my commission. One more people came in and Two.. well there just isn't the stress of having to make a certain amount of things to get a certain amount of my commission. Our company is having a mandatory meeting at 8:30 friday morning (SO EARLY!) if I didn't mention before my manager switched my days off so I now get friday off with Jaymon! So having to wake up early and not be able to sleep in with him is kind of a bummer. But I'm sure I'll just come home and he'll still be asleep so I can crawl into bed with him and sleep a little bit longer.

I found out that Jaymon's family is having an easter party on saturday. I'm pretty bummed because I have to work so I don't get to go. But from the looks of it I'll be getting Sunday off for general conference. So that was a bonus. But wont find out for sure until my manager gets back from suspension (I know right. a manager) But pretty soon he wont be my manager anymore. He's decided to put his 2 weeks in this weekend. Good luck to him and his family.

Last friday I took Mike, Jess, Jess's dad Steve, and a friend of mine to the preparedness activity our stake was hosting. It's kind of weird to see Tawnya Mecham teaching them since I've known her since I was like 2. She's something like a second mom whenever I need something. We have fun joking around when she says something that isn't what she said in her other class and I correct her. But she's basically the bomb at preparedness so if you have any questions send them my way and I'll ask for you. If you want any of the paperwork stuff she gives out I can probably get that to you to. So just let me know! Well I've got to run. Bye!

Thursday... Sad Day

2010-03-27T19:44:00.000-07:00

So Thursday since I had the day off and Jaymon was at work I decided that I would take a walk down to where I work and say hi to Josh and get an awesome BLT from the deli that's right by there. It took me about 45 mins and was quite pleasant. I stayed for a while then decided I'd better start walking back home. On my way I noticed a pillar of black smoke ahead of me in the same direction I was heading. Then out of no where a fire truck came booming by. As I kept walking I came up to a massive wreckage. It was a sad site. Motorcycles were everywhere, a sanitation truck was being sprayed by the firefighters trying to put out it's fire. People in ever direction, at least 7 fire trucks and about the same if not more police cars as well. I asked what had happened but it was easy to see that the truck had plowed through, what I could see, 7 motorcycles.

I passed a man laying on t he ground holding his phone. He appeared to have been in the accident. I figured this since he was laying down and wearing motorcycle clothes. Everyone watched as police and firemen ran to help everyone. Many volunteered as they could. Walgreens is right on the corner of where the accident occured and when employees saw what had happened they gathered supplies and rushed to help. It seemed like thats what was on everyones mind. Stop and help. Under the truck I could see that there was a bike, maybe 2 and what looked like a person wedged inbetween. Turns out there were 3 people stuck in between the truck, the bikes, and the ground. People tried to help them out but they were too pinned and then the fire broke out. The firefighter that was there first tried to contain the flame but tripped and couldn't get back up. Back up came and started helping him out. But they were too late. As I looked around I saw 2 men laying in the gravel in front of me. They looked as if they had only minor injuries. One did but the other was worse than he looked. Across the road I saw a team of medical people moving as fast as they could to help a person that was laying on the ground. 2 life flight helicopters arrived and as soon as they could they got everyone on board. As they were moving I noticed that there was yet another person on a gerny. I had no idea that it was as bad as it was. I counted 7 bikes but only 6 people. I figured they had just taken care of the last person. What I was told that happened was that the driver of the truck wasn't paying attention and didn't notice the bikers and other vehicles stopped at a red light. He plowed through them. the bikes caught on fire and a couple other vehicles did too. Traffic was blocked clear to I-17 and down to my apartment going south. I'm not sure how far back it was blocked in the north and east directions but they had it covered. People kept showing up asking what was going on hoping that it wasn't someone that they knew looking around to see if they could identify anything. Here are some more pictures. I would have had some of my own but my phone decided that it would stop working..

To read the story of what happened and see the news reports go to this webpage

http://www.abc15.com/news/local/story/PD-4th-person-dies-after-HUGE-wreck-on-Carefree/VwL7ONcC50ut3E2abcC4Qg.cspx

Today (Saturday) they had a memorial service at the corner. This was the 3rd accident in a week on that corner. It's the corner I take to work every week. I hope that this has opened people's minds about how careful they have to be. So far the total dead is 4. 3 on site, 1 after being taken to the hospital. 1 was treated and release. the others are still there as far as i know.

Remember... Be safe when you drive. Always be aware of your surroundings and keep an eye out for everything around you. Don't get distracted for one second. It could be the last second you or someone else could ever have.

Computer

2010-03-26T17:57:00.000-07:00

So since the laptop is broken, Jaymon and I decided that we would get a desk top so that we didn't both use the laptop. So now as soon as we get the laptop fixed we will only use that for Jaymon's schooling. So we're going to try and get the info off of the hard drive so we don't lose all our info from the lap top. I wish we had gotten this sooner. It's really nice having a more solid piece of equipment. So thank you Jaymon for letting us get this! (we both wanted it so it was for both of us.) Anyways. going to go to a church activity with a friend, mike, jess, and jess's dad. Yay exciting!

And Mom & Dad... I love you guys! and miss all my family and friends!

Computer Broke!

2010-03-23T13:36:00.000-07:00

So basically laptops are lame! Ours broke last night. We can't get it to start. It just keeps rebooting itself. Wont even start in the safe mode that is ALWAYS suppose to work. So hopefully we'll be able to get things working again soon. It has been nice having the internet and using the computer. And basically I LOVE NETFLIX!! it's awesome. We have Xbox live so we can have instant access on our tv with movies and tv shows. It makes things really nice when we want to watch a movie. Well I guess I'd better get back to work.. Life is good! ^_^

Update since I got internet!

2010-03-11T08:52:00.000-08:00

Well I took my first test for my job to see if I would be able to get a partial dealer code and start making comission. Turns out I studied the wrong stuff and since I second guessed myself I failed. I get to retake the test. I'm not sure on when but hopefully soon. I've been having fun with the guys that I work with. There's Chris who's my manager (no picture sorry) and Josh

He's a funny guy and went to school with Jaymon. He helped me learn a lot of what I know at work. I'm lucky that I work with 2 LDS guys. Crazy right? Of all places I could've worked I got the one place that has only LDS people in the store. It's nice that it's that way so that we can take turns taking sunday off and go to church.

My ward is full of babies! I love it! They are all so stinking cute! My manager is in my ward so his wife and I became friends and sit together at church. It's nice to have a friend in the ward already. The relief society is small. Almost smaller than the one in Shelley. I'm not exactly sure why. Last Sunday, Tawnya Mecham came and talked about food storage and being prepared for the worst. It was a really good lesson and turns out Tawnya had Nina's (My manager's wife) wedding or wedding reception at her house and know's Nina and her family. It is such a small world! Turns out Nina also knows some of Jaymon's family.

After church on Sunday we went over to my brothers house because my parents came down for the weekend! I was so happy to see them. I miss them a lot. It's strange how you can go from being with them every day to only seeing them a couple days every so often. I'm glad they came down. We hung out there at my brother's for a while then headed over to Jaymon's parents house. Their family does a large family home evening every 1st sunday. So all of the aunts and uncles and cousins were there. It was good seeing all of them too. We should be finding out this weekend where Jaymon's cousin Bubba is going on his mission. and another cousin put in his papers this week as well. At the family home evening we put in guesses to where both of them would be going. Then told any good news then moved on to the lesson that was tied to Bubba and Scotty going on their missions.

After FHE we headed back over to Mike and Jess's to play hand and foot with them. Sunday was the second night of playing this till like 11:30 at night. We had lots of fun! Friday we spent the afternoon with my parents then headed off to celebrate a friend of Jaymon's birthday. That was fun. My manager was kind enough to let me switch my days so that I could have one day off with Jaymon. and it happened to be the same day Mom and Dad got into town. Then he let me have sunday off to spend more time with them. I seriously LOVE my job a ton! I couldn't have asked for a better one. I meet some of the funnest people. I've only gotten hit on by 2 old guys so far. Which was pretty funny because they were fun guys that you could tell you could joke around with. Of course it would never work out since I'm happily married to the love of my life who is more amazing than ever! I love being married and being able to see Jaymon everyday! Some days we only see a couple hours of each other before we in bed asleep since our work schedules aren't the same but I still get to wake up to him and fall asleep in his arms.

On a side note. Sorry we haven't sent out our Thank You notes yet. We've been SUPER busy. But hopefully we'll get them out soon! We really do appreciate all the gifts we got from the wedding. They have been extremely useful!

OH! on another side note.. WE FINALLY GOT INTERNET!! YAY! I was so super happy! Now I can blog for real rather than just write stuff using my phone. I like adding pictures. I just have to take them first haha. I'll work on that. For now here is a pic of me at work. I do work I promise. It was just slow and Josh and I were comparing camera's.. (His is better)

Well I think that is it for now. Jaymon and I have basically been working a lot. We hang out with some of his friends on some weekends. Like tomorrow they are coming over to watch some game on our tv. I don't know what game but me being the loving wife that I am said they could come haha just kidding. Well they are coming over but I prefer them coming here than us going over to one of their places. (I like the female touch of our place. They are bachellors so it's well.. yeah) Anywho I'll update as soon as there is some good new or I just feel like randomly saying a bunch of stuff! I miss everyone in Idaho! Hope all is going good. Can't wait to come up and see you all again. Hopefully work will let me take the weekend off for the 4th of July. If I can get it off Jaymon and I will be there!

And if anyone is wondering about the dog. He's good. Lazy as ever but good.

Bye for now,

ShanTay Meikle!

hehe I like that a lot!

New Job!

2010-02-13T11:40:00.000-08:00

So I got a new job! I work for 2B wireless which is just an exclusive T-Mobile dealer. I get to be around phones all day learning about them and their features. And get to sell them to people. I get 2 weeks of training with just an hourly wage and after that if I pass the test I have to take then I start making commission! Yay exciting right?! Well I pretty much work with two crazy fun guys we laugh a lot and i'm learning from them. Today is only my 3rd day but I already have gotten a ton of info crammed into my head! I hope I pass because this jobis seriously the best job ever! Well just thought i'd leave a quick note while my head was restimg from the info!

So..

2010-01-29T11:38:00.000-08:00

Last night I looked out the window and guess what an amazing sight I saw...

Thats the view from my patio. It was beautiful! My family gets in tonight and we unload all of our furniture and setting up house. Trying to clean up without a vaccuum is kinda hard. But we're making it through until the presents come and we see if we got a vaccuum. Tomorrow night is the open house. Can't wait for that it is going to be exciting! Thanks for everyone who has helped out with the wedding!

The Married Life

2010-01-27T10:51:00.001-08:00

Jaymon and I made it home to Arizona monday night at about 9:30. The drive was good, we had clear skies and dry roads the entire way. Bailey was drugged so he did really good in his kennel, went in and out of sleep the entire time. Yesterday was kind of a lazy day to start with. Bailey isn't use to the new place so he barked when we left the room which made us worry about leaving him to go grab some groceries really quick and do a few arrands. Thankfully my mother-in-law let us take him to their place since he got along good with the other dogs while we ran around for a little bit. He seems to be getting better. He didn't start barking until about midnight last night but a little yell from me and he stopped until Jaymon woke up for work. It was tough having Jaymon leave for work so early this morning and me waking up later to him not being there. Of course I said goodbye before he left but it was still sad. I got lonely later on after i woke up and did a few things so I'm over at my brother mike's house. Going to go and help run some arrands with Jess and Hannah. Thats all for now check back later for more :)

p.s. I LOVE BEING MARRIED!

Wedding!

2010-01-22T22:26:00.000-08:00

So I know I should be sleeping but i have packing i need to finish for the trip back to arizona. and how can i sleep when in 17 ish hours i'll be getting married to the love of my life. I've been waiting for a while for this day and it is finally here. It doesn't seem real at all. Soon I will be Mrs. Jaymon Meikle. Just thinking about the moment I say "I Do" sends warmth and happiness through me. We will probably have our hard times but I will try to remember how grateful I am to be marrying such an amazing man. Through the stress and the frustrations we were still able to come out and laugh and fall in love with each other all over again. There is no problem that we have not over come and hopefully that will continue on throughout our marriage as new trials and tribulations occur. I pray I will always remember my love for Jaymon during those frustrating times when everything seems to be going wrong and that it will bring us closer together rather than tear us apart. I hope that I will see more of the good in Jaymon rather than the bad. Marriage isn't easy but I think it will definitely be worth it. He is great to me, and even when I'm mad at him for something stupid he continues to love me. I'm glad he has patience when it comes to me ( majority of the time). He can make me happy in the least possible way. I feel so lucky to be marrying someone like him.

There are no nervous jitters or anything like that just anxiousness to finally be married to him. I will love waking up every morning (even if it is at 5 in the morning) and seeing Jaymon next to me. I will love having goodnight and good morning kisses every day. I will love having him come home to me after a long day of work. I will love seeing him and being with him for the rest of forever!

Pre Bridals!

2010-01-17T19:06:00.000-08:00

So we have a fabulous photographer in my parents ward. Marianne Frost (Frost Photography) who took my pre-bridals. She did an awesome job! Thanks Marianne! If you want to check out more of her stuff go to
frostypix.blogspot.com
she really is great! Here some are:

I got polka dots on my tips! I freaked out when she put them on I was so excited!

I can't wait till Saturday! It's finally happening! I'm so anxious.
I'm having Marianne do the photos for the wedding and reception so it'll be super exciting to see what we come up with! Hope everyone that can come will have fun!

Update

2010-01-04T19:14:00.000-08:00

So the wedding is in 19 days! Super Duper Excited!! Time seems to fly but at the same time drag on and on. This week I get my wisdom teeth pulled this Thursday.. YIKES!! Hopefully all goes well and I'll be able to go into work on Saturday.. which is MY LAST DAY! This is my last week working for Broulim's supermarket. I am going to miss working there but glad to move on to hopefully a new job. Jaymon's friend was great and got me a job interview at his job so we are really hopeful that it goes well and I can start working again and we can save money.

Jaymon got our apartment and has moved all his stuff in. First impressions with our new neighbor weren't great but thankfully they got to talking and she apologized and explained why she got mad at him being too loud while moving in. She is an elderly lady that has a young girl living with her (Her daughter or granddaughter I believe) and funny enough she owns a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel as well as us and she dog sits. She offered to dog sit Bailey (my dog) whenever we need. They seem nice from what Jaymon said so I am anxious to meet them.

I'm super excited to move all the furniture and stuff into our new apartment. It's a 2 bed 2 bath. has a dishwasher, microwave, stove, fridge, washer, and dryer. The tub in the master bath is HUGE! and both rooms have walk in closets. (Thanks to Chelsie for showing Jaymon these apartments!)

for anyone who didn't get their announcement here is a picture of it.

click on it to make it bigger and easier to read.

sorry it's a lil bright. Different programs make it look different ways. So in Photoshop it looks great! I might get pictures of the great wisdom teeth adventure but we'll see.. Not sure if I want to make fun of myself looking like a chipmunk. Can"t wait to see everyone for the wedding and can't wait to be married! YAY 19 days! woot woot ^_^

Hannah and some other stuff

2009-12-06T17:25:00.001-08:00

Hannah has been here with us since Thanksgiving. I attempted to take some pictures of her since she got a cute new dress.. Well since there wasn't really anywhere to take pictures inside we went outside which makes us wear coats (gotta love the snow). This is the best picture I got. Right before she put a hole in her new tights... But it's ok, it happens when kids see a tree and think that they need to climb it. I don't ever remember being that way :) Anyways, we've been having tons of fun. She loves to come wake me up at like 4 in the morning so she can get warm by climbing into bed with me. Which is fine, I don't mind at all. It's when it's 1 o'clock when she comes in and then takes over the entire bed. I guess I still love her then too. I'm lucky that she wants to be around me and do what I do. She likes to look cute but doesn't really like the process of brushing the hair and the pulling from the curling iron or straightener. It's a dang good thing she loves the end result. And always wants eyes (Mascara) and cheeks (sparkly blush) and lips (lip gloss). I've even painted her nails.. I wonder if I'll go into all the stuff I do for her for my own girls. I love doing kids hair so I bet I'll do that. But putting on mascara and blush and lip gloss.. who knows. I hope I also have the patience I have with Hannah with my own kids. It's amazing what you learn from being an aunt. Things will definitely be different when they are my own kids.. But I hope I get patience. Or just have really amazing kids that do everything I say... Which that probably isn't going happen since you get ten fold what you gave your own parents. Not that I was a bad kid or anything. I just didn't always make things easy for my parents. Parenthood definitely wont be easy. But I'm always up for a new challenge.
Cute story of Hannah while I was in Arizona last: We went to DSW shoes because I need new shoes for my wedding (I'm pretty picky with my heels) and Hannah was having a ball picking out these really flashy heels and trying them on. I wish we would've gotten pictures of her and I doing like a fashion runway walk down the isle and showing off shoes. Anyways we walked by purses and she pointed out a couple that she liked and we kept going to the other side where the boots were. We walked by a certain pair and when Hannah saw them she said, " I saw a matching purse right over there" (I did not encourage this at all! I PROMISE!) Jess, Mom, and I all got a kick out of it. If she ends up being like me and has a love of heels and boots then her mom and future husband are going to have a rude awakening. It's not a bad thing to like heels or boots.. But sometimes you spend a lot on a pair that would've been the amount of like 3 other pairs. According to Jaymon I have way too many pairs of shoes. I don't think so because I don't have a pair for every outfit that I own. If I could I would probably have half a closet full of boots and the other half be heels. And I'm not talking about a little walk in closet. I'm talking about like a mini room size closet. But I do try and control myself (even if Jaymon feels the need to have it controlled some more). We made a deal, since I don't like him keeping the cd cases when he puts his cd's in a cd holder thing. And he has TONS!! He wants to show off his collection but I don't think it works for a good decoration :) So if I buy a pair of shoes he gets to spend the amount of the shoes on cd's. and vise versa. Hopefully it helps to keep us from spending money we don't have for things we want. But it makes for good Christmas and birthday presents and such. I'm thinking I'll buy like a cd case holder so he can kind of show off his collection in a fashionable manner. Rather than just stacking them up on each other. That way him and I are both happy.

Talking about Jaymon and I. The wedding has been moved:

Date: Jan. 23, 2010
Place: Idaho Falls Idaho (The Grand Victorian)
Reception in Idaho: Jan. 23 (The Grand Victorian)
Reception in Arizona: Jan. 30 (Not sure yet)

The announcements will hopefully be finished sometime this week and I can get them sent out. But we'll see what happens. We're working out the kicks since we changed stuff.

Cards!!

2009-11-28T20:46:00.000-08:00

So my mom and I are making tons and tons of cards for a Christmas present to my grandma since we don't know what to get her. I've made 19 so far and will keep going.
(Oh.. To my cousins and other family reading this... SHHH... don't tell Grandma :) thanks!)
I'm having tons of fun with my mom. While Mike and Jess were here for Thanksgiving (YUMMY FOOD WAS GREAT!) she made some pretty awesome ones too. I don't have pics of those though. My mom has some but I left her to take pictures and hopefully start blogging herself... I guess I should teach her then lol. Anyways back to the cards... here are the pics of them. Some aren't as great as others but you learn and keep moving forward.

I love trying to figure stuff out to make one different than the other. It's amazing to see how just the smallest thing (like a little bit of chalk on the edges) will do. Whenever I felt like it needed just a little bit more but couldn't find the right embellishment then I would chalk and it would be perfect! Let me know what you think! Or not which ever.

And just for those who are wondering about the wedding.. Some things have changed and right now it seems like we are starting from scratch with only 7 weeks left... STRESS!! not fun. But we are still getting married Jan. 16th. I'll be working to get announcements out here the beginning of December. Just have a few more details to work out before I can print them. I CAN'T WAIT TO BE MARRIED!! YAY!

Just Thinking..

2009-11-04T16:06:00.000-08:00

So I've been thinking lots about the wedding.. And it really is not coming fast enough. I love Jaymon more than I ever thought I could love someone and the feelings just keep getting stronger. I could not have asked for a better man to soon call my husband. We have our tough spots at times but we always pull through. We know lots about each other but there will be more to learn after we get married. I don't tell him enough just how much I appreciate all he does for me. And that is something that I am indeed going to work on. He deserves to know that he is loved and that I really do appreciate the things he does for me. He has lots going on already and still offers to take off more of my load. I can tell he loves me. And I would hope he can tell that I love him too. I am more than ready to start a new life with him and create our own family. Things won't always be easy but I'm willing to work at it. As long as I have him by my side I will be able to make it through anything. He is my best friend and my love and he makes me happier than ever. (Even at times when he frustrates me.. He makes up for it later) There is something about him that I can never get out of my head. I feel a connection to him that I never want to have broken. I love you Jaymon Dail Meikle!

Think it's enough?

2009-10-05T17:38:00.000-07:00

For the past week and the continuing week we have our case lot sale at Broulim's. Pretty much this is taking different products and selling cases of them before winter hits. It's really nice because then you don't have to carry tons of different bags of stuff into your house. They put all the case stuff on sale of the individual can or whatever they are selling so the case is cheaper. Here's the things I got:

8 - 48oz Long Spaghetti

24 - 15oz Dark Red Kidney Beans (For red beans and rice)

1 - 25lbs Granulated Sugar

6 - 4 pack of kraft Mac and Cheese

6 - 32oz Powdered Sugar

6 - 32oz Brown Sugar

2 - 128oz Canola Oil

24 - .78oz Brown Gravy Mix

24 - 1.25oz Taco Seasoning Mix

24 - 1.25oz Country Cravy Mix

24 - 1.27oz Fajita Seasoning Mix

1 - 15 RL Paper Towels 2 Ply

1 - 36 RL Toilet Paper

12 - 27oz Iodized Salt

24 - 10.75oz Cambells Chicken Noodle Soup

24 cans of Cambells Cream of Chicken Soup

24 cans of Cambells Cream of Mushroom Soup

24 - 3oz Top Ramen Chicken

24 - 3oz Top Ramen Oriental

1 - 25lb All-Purpose Flour

1 - 25lb Pail Oats-Regular

12 - 80ct Soffs Baby Wipes

2 - 5Gal Storage Pails w/ lids

I think that'll help start Jaymon and I off with some stuff. Now we wont have to worry about not having sugar or flour or salt.. or toilet paper or paper towels.. we have food for a while. It's going to be tough trying to get him to eat the Ramen Noodles, the spaghetti, and the Mac and Cheese.. I also have stuff from canning and previous buys in the past couple months from learning how to use coupons since I started taping them onto products at work for the coupon lady. (I like getting paid for mindless work ^_^) Here are pictures of stuff I got.

My parents are building us a storage bed so we have some storage space if we get a smaller place. (Thanks mom and dad) It'll be pretty cool. Hopefully I'll be able to get some more great buys on some other things. My Grandma keeps bringing me coupons so we'll see.

Jaymon and I have started our registration also for the wedding.. It's kind of hard. Trying to figure out what you need. Especially when we're doing it all online because we live apart so we can't go to the store and do it like normal. We've found a lot of stuff at Target.. but we'll see what happens. Jaymon will have to improvise for a month or two until the wedding in the new place.. Which I'm super excited to get working on finding now that things are more worked out with the wedding.

My mom and I also canned potatoes. So I'll get those pictures up ASAP. We had 33 quarts and 35 pints full. My fingers are raw from cutting them, and so are my mom's from scrubbing them down. But the end result was good!

Corn!

2009-09-24T09:07:00.000-07:00

Before we left for Arizona Grandma Miles came over and we froze corn. Quite an exciting thing I must say... AND SUPER TASTY!!! Yum!

You start off by cutting off the kernels, and then... I'm not really sure.. I left for work while everyone else did the rest. Here are pictures though. And I did help cut the corn some. We got around 5 gallons of corn. I'm not sure what the number was for the bag we froze. And at the bottom are the pictures from doing Carrots.

More canning!!

2009-09-12T21:16:00.000-07:00

Ok so the beats, jam, bread & butter pickles, and carrots were all before today but I haven't had the time to put them up yet. So here are the pictures.

Here are the beats:

Bread & Butter Pickles!

My Grandma also taught me to make Creme Beans and Potatoes! YUM! Just add Bacon!

More Beats

Pretty Much beats are super nasty to get ready to can and pickle. EW!! All the work it takes I don't even want to eat them.. Plus they don't look appetizing.

Finished products:

Pickled Beats

Bread & Butter Pickles

And the other beats

I'll have more to come soon.. Probably tomorrow!

Happy 2 Years Sweetheart!

2009-09-01T09:26:00.001-07:00

We've been together for 2 years!

Picture taken in 2007 ( one of the first times I came down to visit after meeting him)

From the very beginning Jaymon and I had a special connection. We met at Mario Thurber's birthday party, 2 and a half years ago - 3, and hit it off as if we had been friends forever. I had come down from Idaho and was hanging out with Arielle Mecham. We were suppose to go to the movies with Adam Conte but he told us about Mario's birthday and said he was going there instead and we were invited to come along. Arielle and I debated whether or not we should go to the movie still or to the party. I told her that we hadn't seen Mario in ages and that it'd be good to see him again. So we ended up deciding to go to the party. When we got there I didn't know anyone besides the Thurber Family, Arielle, and Adam. So I was just standing there looking around at all the people having fun when Jaymon comes up to say hi to Arielle (And meet me). According to him he noticed me when I walked in and he thought I was pretty cute. It's a blurry memory for... just kidding sweetie. Anyways, He said hi to Arielle and turned to introduce himself. My first thought was he's a punk kid who thinks he's pretty cool. So at first I didn't think much of it. Well everyone was making their way outside to watch and play some ping pong. Arielle and I sat down on the swinging chair thing and a little bit after that Jaymon came over and sat on me. We started talking and I started liking him more and more. I didn't want our conversation to end so I got him to walk with me while we were playing night games. (He said he would've followed me anyways). Well we kept talking and walking around with the other people and came to the end of a cold-a-sac, so we just chilled there with the other people. (We were playing like fish in the dark or something like that, I'd never played it before). Well I saw a brick wall and when I had lived in Arizona I climbed them a lot. So I went over and told Jaymon I could climb the wall with no problems.... I was greatly mistaken... I got up and tried to pull myself up like I use to.. Didn't work out so great. But it gets worse.. I couldn't get down either. I thought I was being all smooth like I ment for it to happen and asked him to help me down. (He was laughing at me the whole time). He helped me down and we started walking back. He came up from behind me and wrapped his arms around me. (Not knowing the that kind of thing was like one of my all time favorite things for a guy to do!). It felt so right to be there in his arms. He says that he knew then that if we didn't get married that I would be a very important thing in his life. After that night we talked every day and every night. We never ran out of things to say. We became best friends. And now my best friend and I are getting married. I've never been this happy or this ready to marry him. He's everything I could've asked for in a future husband. He knows to do different things just when I saw something. Like we were at the mall one time with a friend of mine and I mentioned I was getting a headache, he left for a minute and came back with a mountain dew. (My favorite drink!) He's so thoughtful and wonderful. I'm extremely lucky to have someone like him. I love you Jaymon Meikle! In the beginning people doubted whether or not we would make it in a long distnance relationship. Well we sure proved them wrong. It hasn't always been easy but it definately has been worth it!

This was taken in 2009 during spring break.

We'll be getting married January 16, 2010 at 9:00 a.m. in the Mesa Arizona Temple. We are also taking our engagement pictures this weekend so I'll have newer pics here soon.

BLAH! Work...

2009-08-27T21:36:00.000-07:00

So I work for a grocery store called Broulim's. It used to be a blast.. Now its kind of boring and I really wish that they would give me more hours or something. I have been working there for about a year and have moved from being a bagger to bagger, produce, and demo person. I've learned how to do some of the things in the Bakery and Deli as well as a little bit with Checking and stuff in the meat. I get along great with everyone I work with... and I should be happy I at least have a job... But I'm not going to lie, I'm going to be glad to move on to bigger and better things (Hopefully). The people I work with are really fun and they love to talk. I've loved getting to know the customers and helping the elderly with their groceries and hearing about their lives. I'm going to miss working at Broulim's but I'm ready to be married and in Arizona looking for work there. (It's going to be tough but I think I can find something). So just a little tid bit since I just got off work and am waiting for a cd to burn for my friend, Ashlee. Only 20 more weeks then it'll be over. Well less than that because I do have to quit before I move.

I learned to can Beans!

2009-08-26T15:09:00.000-07:00

So yesterday my Grandma Miles came up from Blackfoot at 7 in the morning. (I was asleep until she got here ^_^) She taught me how to cut the green beans (From my parents garden) so they would look pretty in the bottle. After we cut them we put them into the jars, added salt and water, then put the cap on really tight. It was pretty easy but I got really nervous to make sure the pressure cooker didn't blow up. After we got done I was so excited to see my beans looked so good. I wanted to open one and eat it. We're going to be doing bread and butter pickles friday. Here are some pictures of it.

Don't they look so pretty? I'm pretty excited.

Wedding planning... o how wonderful

2009-08-19T18:38:00.000-07:00

So planning a wedding isn't as easy as I thought it would be. I figured you just pick out the dress you want (which wasn't easy either), pick out your colors, pick the place you want it, and the food you want. Who needs music and back drops or those books you have your guests sign?! Or even flowers, center peices, table clothes... o and photographers! Who ever didn't tell me it can get pretty stressful when you don't know where to start definately needs to come and let me know. But since I'm kind of over the overwhelming feeling like nothing is happening and I only have 5 months to get things worked out.
We decided to have the wedding in the Mesa Arizona temple. A place special to both Jaymon and I. Our colors are white and black with hints of red and silver. As for the rest I guess you can wait and see. (I haven't figured anything out yet hehe) I have my dress which I got today!! YAY! O.. and I would be so super happy if I got a brownie cake. Which is what we're aiming for since I'm not big on cake.
We still have a couple months to go. But it seems to be flying by super fast. It's weird to be helping friends get ready for college and then go back and look at wedding stuff or houses/apartments. Life has flown by so fast. Where has the time gone?

I want to thank everyone who has been there for me through out my life. I apppreciate all everyone has done. I wouldn't be who I am today without the influences of those around me.

There will be a reception/open house in both Arizona and Idaho. We wanted everyone to be able to enjoy this experience with us.

Newly Engaged

2009-07-31T17:21:00.000-07:00

Jaymon and I went to Thatcher with Jaymon's family to visit his sister Chani and her husband Curtis. Chani and Curtis just had their second baby girl that they named Brecklynn. Here are some pictures of Jaymon and I holding Brecklynn and one of us newly engaged. Thank you to Chani for sending me the pics! ^_^

I'M ENGAGED!!!!!

2009-07-29T12:56:00.000-07:00

So last saturday Jaymon made me pot stickers for dinner. We laughed and joked around just being us. After cleaning up we went to the park where I first told him I loved him (It became our spot to go to). We talked and enjoyed each others company while watching an awesome lighting storm all around us. According to him, whenever he would start to pop the question I would keep talking (All the time him yelling at me to shut up in his head ^_^) Well we kept talking and then finally decided to leave the park. As we were walking back he came up behind me, put his hand over my eyes, and slid the ring on my finger asking if I'd marry him. Of coure I was ecstatic and was smiling and bouncing all over the place. It took a while for me to settle down after almost face planting into the ground when I forgot to watch my step hehe. Well while we were at the park I was completely oblivious to the fact that he had my ring on his pinky for like ever. (HHHEELLOOO!! could I be more blind?) I had no idea. But I'm super excited. We're planning for middle/end of January.

Here's my ring.

Catching Up

2009-07-11T14:40:00.000-07:00

June 26-27 (Friday & Saturday)

CAVING

Mom, Dad, and I went caving with my laurels class, and some leaders, down in Logan Canyon. It was so much fun. We left friday evening after everyone got off work. We stayed in a cabin looking over Bear Lake (what a beautiful sight in the morning with the sunrise coming over the mountains). The cabin belonged to an old scout of my Bishops. (My bishop is the cave man) We stayed the night there playing games and enjoying each others company. We couldn't stop laughing. Saturday morning we woke up bright and early and headed out to Logan Canyon. The cave was called Thundershower. I was so proud of mom. She went down into the cave quite a ways.

Here's Dad.

Here's Me ^_^

Mom did such a good job!

Me, Katelyn, Brianna, and Brandi in the first room of the cave.

The cave opening is full of snow year round it never melts so temperatures were way cold. After you drop down onto the snow it's like a slide down to the mouth. then you crawl a little ways to another drop. After that drop that you repel down it opens into a big room that had two other openings into two other rooms, one on the left and one on the right. In this first room there was some water that had begun to puddle and make formations. If you went left in the first room you would come to another opening that had a very small crawl space that led into another room. In this room there was a pond that was up past mid thigh on me. None of us went in (yet). In this room... we'll call it the pond room I found a small opening.

(I found this opening the first time I came to this cave last year with my dad, bishop, and two other leaders. I wasn't able to go into it again but the last time I went in it dropped down into another room big enough to walk in. It too would've had a pond I'm sure. The first time I went in the ponds weren't there it was all dried up).

In the pond room there was an opening that you could free climb up to when there's no water. Well mom, dad, i, and everyone but bishop and brianna went down into the pond room. Going back into the first room and heading to the opening on the right you repel down into a room called the breakdown room. Now remember that opening I told you about from the pond room that you can free climb to? Well the breakdown room is also a huge room you can run around in and explore. But if you go to the very bottom of this room you can crawl down to an opening looking down at the pond from the pond room. Bishop, Brandi, Kately, Shane (one of the other leaders), and I crawled into the breakdown room. Shane, Brandi, and I decided we wanted to free climb down into the pond.... IT WAS FREEZING!!! I felt bad for Brandi because she slipped and fell all the way in leaving only one arm and her head dry. After we waded through the pond we crawled back into the first room and headed out to eat lunch.

June 28 -July 5 (Sunday-Sunday)

MIKE, JESS, HANNAH, & JAYMON CAME UP

Mike, Jess, and Hannah got in Sunday night at like 11. So that evening is kind of guessable... BEDTIME!!! Then we played and had a blast. Wednesday Jaymon came up. I picked him up from the airport in Idaho Falls. Wednesday was also Jaymon's and mine's 1 year 10 month anniversary. It's pretty exciting to be together that long. We celebrated on the 4th before we went to the Miles Family Party (Sorry no pics of the party...)

Here are pics of flying kites, a new way to play frisbee golf with an old tire, and going to Wolverine with the cousins. (Wolverine was first and then the others next)

Hannah, Treyden, Kenlee (two cousins), & Jess

Kenlee (Cousin, Brandi & Mitch's girl)

Kenlee, Hannah, & Treyden

She's practicing to be a plumber hehe. Her pants were a little big and since they were wet she had to keep pulling them up while they would keep falling off her.

Totally rockin the shades lol.

Hannah, Cousin Maylie (with Maylie's dad Ryan)

Hannah at the park trying to climb up the slide

They haven't banned the carousel in Idaho yet. Hannah had a blast... only almost falling off a couple times. Thank goodness for Jaymon and his good reflexes. He caught her right before she hit the ground and pulled her back up onto the carousel. She was scared for like maybe less than a second and got right back on. She thought it was a blast. Thank you Jaymon for watching out for her.

She was trying so hard to push Jaymon around... she's just too small.

She played with a friend of mine's neices at the park. Here's one on the right. (Natalie)

Me, Jaymon, Hannah, & Mike helping Hannah pull in the Kite

She thought it was cool for the kite to be up so high but eventually said that she didn't want it in the air anymore... which should've happened but the adults kept flying in and well right being the fireworks started I accidently let go and it flew off into the power lines... oopsies. The missionaries were kind enough to go and get it back for us before they headed home after the fireworks. But it was pretty cool to see the kite flying around, Hannah got a kick out of it. (No power was lost in this endeavour... the kite also survived.)

Helping Hannah out before the kite flew away from me...

O.. look... there it goes ^_^ hehe

July 7-10 (Tuesday - Friday)

GIRLS CAMP

So this year for girl's camp I had the choice of going or not since I was graduated but not yet 18. It was a stake camp (In Idaho they do 1 stake 2 ward) and our camp director was one of the most hillarious people I know (and is also one of my neighbours). Well we went up to a new camp ground called Camp Camoruh. It was so nice. They had just wiped out and redone like the entire place. So that ment AMAZING bathrooms with no bugs or anything in the showers ^_^ YAY!!

Our theme was M.A.S.H. (Modern Armies Serving Heaven). The entire camp was pretty much based around service and the meaning behind why we wear each piece of armor from the armor of God. Even though we had lots of fun it was probably the best girls camp I have ever been to. The spirit was so strong the entire time. Our girls had no problems what so ever. You'd think we were all hypnotised or something. We all got to sleep in the same tent. We crowded onto lots of air mattresses and put our luggage into our "closet" (just another tent). There were 12 girls total. (it was a wall tent)

The first night we were there we did a USO Show like the armies had back in the day... It was such a blast. My presidency (Vanessa and Brandi) and I coreographed the dance. The video wasn't working. I don't know why it wouldn't load. So I'll try later to get it on here.

We had lots of fun. Here's a couple more pics of the week:

Here's my wonderful camp director being fed better than nephi desert (made by me lol)

I learned how to french braid!! ^_^ SO EXCITING!!

Humanitarian Cuddle Bugs... pain in the butt, but they're for a great cause. They are going to Africa for children who don't have any toys to play with. They make up games with things like bottle caps or something. Very sad but i'm grateful we have the resources here to help out third world countries. We are so priviledged.

Here we are getting ready for the USO show.

And again

I was a 2nd year youth leader so I got to get the secret sister holder ready for the girls ^_^

The water fight I slept through hehe

Dad and the Bishop got tackled by like 50 girls trying to keep the flag from being stolen.. Go Dad! and Bishop. (The water fight also had capture the flag...)
This is kind of a bad idea since girls can get very very very vicious and do anything possible to reach winner. We had girls shoving gravel in the faces of others, biting, scratching, and well anything possible. Dad and Bishop and a couple other people came out bleeding somewhere. Other girls were crying. Kind of glad I was alseep for it all lol

I'm guessing this is before the fight. Only one youth leader was down with the girls for the fight... the others (Vanessa, Angie, and Me) were sleeping. ^_^

NOONE IN IDAHO KNOWS HOW TO PLAY BIG BOOTY!!!

I was shocked. I asked the girls and leaders if they had ever played Big Booty... and they all said NO!!! Only some girls had (mainly from my ward because I had already taught them) So it was my job while girls were out doing their GPS course to entertain them.. Not hard when you know a game they don't. I got to teach them how to play. We were all laughing and enjoying themselves (I rocked and stayed in Big Booty spot for like ever till I got dethrowned by a leader) After the girls were done playing Big Booty we all learned a new game called chicken. Pretty much an advanced rock paper scissors. It was hilarious.

Here's me being the princess in the chicken game. You start out an egg. If you win the paper rock scissors you grow up to a chicken. If you win another chicken you grow up to a dinasour, if you win another dinasour you become a princess. if you win another princess you win and get to sit out and watch everyone else and get to laugh your head off. If you lose any of the rounds you have to go down a level. egg is the lowest.

More of the chicken game

These are some pics of the hike we took. You were able to see the teton mountains and the windmills. It was so pretty.

GRADUATED!

2009-06-08T21:04:00.000-07:00

So FINALLY I'm graduated from Seminary and High School!
YES!!!

Here's a couple pics from Seminary Graduation

This is Kayla Katelyn Ashlee and Me

And the just Me before we headed out for home.

Now for the High School Graduation...

This is the awesome backdrop we had made for us by one of my friends Bre'Ann

Me walking into the graduation with my classmates

Me walking up to get my name read off and to get my diploma ^_^

Me after I got my casing for my diploma (We had to turn in our gowns before we got the actual diploma)

Jaymon came up. It was great to have him there and spend time with him ^_^

My Dad thought he would be funny and open his wallet... like I ever take money from there ^_^ hehe...

My Brother, Niece, and Sis-in-law decided to come watch me from Arizona as well

My wonderful Grandma Miles was there also supporting me, I love my family!!

Then my sister. She's great and looks albino next to me in this picture haha. (Kinda true)

Graduation from high school only lasted 50 mins. We had 127 students graduate. It's a small class I know. But hey what else can you get from the small... tiny town of Shelley?!

More Senior Pics!!

2009-02-05T20:40:00.001-08:00

Sorry it took so long to get these up. but here are more :)

Senior Pics

2008-11-08T22:44:00.001-08:00

Mom and I decided we'd go out and take some of our own pics to see how they would turn out. More to come ^_^

Senior Year

2008-10-07T19:53:00.000-07:00

This is my SENIOR YEAR!!! Yay!! I'm so excited. I decided to be on my school dance team instead of doing Volleyball. (Doesn't mean I don't still love volleyball!) It's going great and I'm loving it so much! I also got my first job! Crazy I know. I work at the local grocery store. Nothing special but it's pretty enjoyable for the most part. Planning to head back to Arizona after graduation, I'm pretty excited about that but it'll be hard leaving my parents. I just became the new laurels president. Wahoo! Not much to my Senior year yet but more will come I'm sure. Dance will get harder as competitions come and as papers are done.