Apparently this never got posted... but here it is from June of 2012!
It's been quite awhile since our last post! We've been busy. Craig finally moved to the day shift!! We love that we get to spend more time together in the evenings doing things like cooking dinner and walking the dog. We had a pretty fun spring going to a few concerts and doing fun activities.

*We went to the Ingrid Michaelson concert- which was amazing!!

*We also went to the sold out FUN concert... such a blast!

*My little bro graduated from highschool

*We watched my little bro's rugby team take state up at the U of U and ate at The Pie afterwards. The pizza was HUGE.


*We fed the little ducklings on BYU campus. Aren't they sooo cute?

*I got Craig a new grill for "future father's day", and he got me a kitchenaid mixer for "future mother's day".

*And Leo is just being his usual self and getting into all sorts of trouble.

It's been a wild few months--

I just realized that it's been four months since I last wrote in our blog, and quite a bit has happened since then. We celebrated our 1 year anniversary in California a few weeks ago, and then came home and found our dream town home.

Everyone has said, and I've come to know, that when you don't get a house that you've offered on, it's for a reason. I have to admit, I thought it was pretty cliche, but now I'm a BIG believer. Over the last six to eight months we've been looking for a more permanent place. We've made a fair number of offers, all of which have fallen through. I know that some people go through that awful roller coaster cycle for sometimes years while hunting for a place. It's times like these, upon reflection, that I come to know with even more a surety that we are IMMENSELY blessed.
Ironically, we made an offer on a town home in the exact same neighborhood as the one we are now buying about 4 months ago. It was bank owned, meaning that it was more of an auction style sale, and they wanted the largest offer. We immediately fell in love with the design of the town home as well as the location. I was sure that this was where we were supposed to be. Unfortunately, we only offered what the bank was asking, and that lost us the bid. This was the second huge blow to my optimism in two months. I got pretty angry, and quite discouraged. Ever since, we've been scouring the daily real estate listings, looking for another town home in that area. We even got very close to building a home in southwest Springville. It seems that after we both finally let go and stopped caring so much about getting out of our apartment, an even better option stumbled right into our laps.
My first day back to work after our vacation, on my lunch break, I got an itch to look on the KSL home listings... And here we are today!
This town home is even better than the one we had wanted so badly. It has 3 bedrooms, and 2 1/2 baths. It has more of a house feel than a town home feel. The main level ceiling is open all the way to the second level. It has many upgrades that the builders later discontinued. Even better, the people who currently own it are very OCD and keep it sparkling clean. We also love the fact that it has a two car garage. No more dents on my car from trashcans blowing over! There isn't a thing we don't love about this place. And the best part is- It's ours! We're waiting for the bank's appraisal to be finished, and for all the document processing to be done so we can close. Moving day should be near the end of August or beginning of September. We are anxiously counting the days!

And now for the details of our wonderful and much needed vacation! Here's part one:

We planned to fly to California, and our flight was bright'n'early in the morning, which led to us booking a stay in The Anniversary Inn. We stayed there the night of our wedding too, so what better way to start our 1 year anniversary? It was great. I absolutely adore big jet tubs and the thought of a cozy bubble bath. The themed rooms are also really fun to discover. I would say that they have the BEST breakfast ever. They have huge raspberry danishes that are simply divine!! They also come with fruit and yogurt parfaits and fresh squeezed orange juice all served to you on a cute little tray to your individual rooms. Wonderful!
The next morning we flew to Long Beach Airport, which is very small compared to SLC International. You exit the airplane right onto the tarmac! It's pretty cool to stand right below the airplane you just flew in. Here's Craig outside of ours:

After we got situated with our rental car, we drove over to Newport Beach to see the temple and the ocean. It was pretty comical trying to get used to our newly acquired GPS. I think we spent an hour and drove ten miles out of the way trying to get on the road we were supposed to be on. Thanks to my mom for looking up the address of the temple for us, or we would've never got there! It was totally worth all of trouble to get there though. It is a beautiful temple! It has a different design than your typical temple spires. We wouldn't have known it was a temple except for the angel Moroni on top.

                                            This gorgeous sculpture is above the entrance.

Unfortunately, Craig and I were unaware that pretty much anywhere outside of Utah, the only way they allow endowed members to do baptisms is if you have your own names to do. We were bummed. We would've done a session had we not woken up at 4:00 AM in Utah that day. We didn't want to risk falling asleep!

After the temple, we headed off to see the beach.

At this point, we were both feeling the major fatigue catching up with us. All we wanted to do was find our hotel in San Diego and take a nap. Unfortunately we still had about an hour long drive to get there. We got  to have our first experiences with toll roads... Let me tell you, I think toll roads are ridiculous! We did pretty good with the first one or two. We were coming up on the next one, Craig and I were talking and we ended up totally blowing past the pay booth! Being from out of town, we didn't really know what to do or how to go back and pay it. I guess we'll hear from the rental car company if they get a ticket... :(

Well that's all I have time for at the moment. Stay tuned for part two of our vacation!! :)

Oh my goodness, it's April?!

Things have been so busy lately!! I never thought I would be the kind of person to say that. I do enjoy having things to do because it makes me appreciate the relaxing times so much more.
I have been working full time, and it's like the place has exploded. I am always exhausted when I get home from work. I've also been taking a math class, which lets just say...I hate! -And I really suck at it too! I will be lucky to pass! We are still currently seeing the chiropractor for our car accident injuries... It has resulted in a lot of testing for me. I had an x-ray, 2 MRI's, and an awfully painful spinal injection that only provided relief for about a week. The sad part is that we still haven't gotten any real answers as to why I'm in so much pain all the time. This is pain that I've dealt with since I was a lil high school  freshman. I quit dancing a lot earlier than I wanted to and I've been a lot less physically active than I want to be since then. The ironic thing is that the 2nd MRI ended up showing that I have a pretty big cyst near my ovaries. That was definitely an unexpected result! To be quite honest, it really freaks me out. The rational part of me knows everything has a 90% of being fine.. but that 10% still haunts me. It just means more doctor appointments--lucky me! The MRI also showed that my muscles are pulling up off of my hips and my joints are a little inflamed. I did a lot of research today and I'm thinking that the most likely offender is something autoimmune like rheumatoid arthritis.  All in all, I would just like to figure out what's going on and get it treated.
Craig is still working the swing shift. He's had a lot of good scores on his calls lately, which means that he is moving on up. He's more likely to get a position he applies for. No one would be happier than I, if he were to get a day position.
A few weeks ago we were able to go down to St George for some much needed relaxation. We enjoyed the warm weather and were able to attend the temple. On our way back home we stopped off in Zion's with the intention of hiking Angel's Landing. Unfortunately I was only in flip flops and the sign said the hike was very windy and icy. We ended up just hiking the Emerald Pools hike, which was fun and beautiful.

Mustache March!

My first mustache! Isn't it beautiful. All the guys at work were growing the molestache and I couldn't be left out. Kandice said she can't take me seriously when she first saw it in all it mustachioed glory.

March 2012

Well, its been a while since our last post. The coolest thing that has happened to us lately is that we both got iPad 2's! They are pretty fun, and I know it was a little extravagant. But we deserve it! We figured that since we should be getting a settlement from the car wreck that we could afford them.

We are also thinking about moving out of our basement apartment. The land lords are not willing to go down on the rent to $550 a month, and we are looking at a townhome that is $119,000. We would both love to have our very own place with our very own mail box. It would mean that we are really growing up!

Kandice got a shot in her spine for the sciatic pain last week. She was out for the rest of the day and she deserved it. If I got a needle shoved in my spine I would call it a day.


This is Leo catching a little toy. He is basically our child and we spoil him like crazy. We love him a lot.

What we've been up to...

It's been a really busy two weeks. I feel like our car accident was months ago. We've been able to take my car to the shop, get a rental (twice), see the chiropractor six times, and continue work and school(for me). I wouldn't say that we are REALLY injured, but our necks and backs are giving us issues. We both agree that we don't necessarily think we need to keep going to the chiropractor three times a week, but we will continue to tolerate it because we do get free massages once a week. However, I learned on Tuesday that with whatever my injuries are, the massage is anything but relaxing and pleasant. Ahh the joys of car accidents...
On a brighter note, we celebrated our 6 month anniversary by going out to dinner and to the Jazz vs Sacramento(Jimmer) game in SLC. We went to my fave- Tepanyaki and it was delicious as it always is! The game was really fun to watch because everyone seemed to have an opinion, good and bad, about Jimmer playing. Every time someone passed him the ball, you could hear booing and cheering at the same time. There were even a few people around us arguing and name calling at one another over it. Every time Jimmer did score though, all you heard was cheering. It was as if the Jazz had scored. It was a tight game the whole time, leading up to the last few minutes where Jimmer was passed the ball in order to make a game winning shot... well with our hearts in our throats we watched as he "air-balled" it, which ended in the Jazz winning the game. We had so much fun and even ended up with matching Jazz jerseys of players that are no longer on the team. ;-)

On another note, Leo is getting fixed and declawed next week. Craig and I have agonized over declawing him because it sounds so barbaric and sad. He doesn't do too bad with furniture and he has learned to play soft, without using his claws... so we'll see if we follow through with it. I had to take him today to get his first shots and that was stressful enough!!

-1/2 of a year-

Yesterday, the 22nd, was our 6 month anniversary. We spent it being grateful that we are alive and uninjured.
The night before we were in a pretty scary car accident. It had been snowing all afternoon and we were on the way home from Provo. We made it all the way to main street in Springville, ironically remarking how we were glad we hadn't been in an accident, when our luck turned. Out of nowhere, a truck in the next lane lost control and veered toward us. We barely had time to react before it slammed into the rear passenger side of my brand new 2011 Mazda. It sent us into a tail spin and the snow from the top of the car covered the windsheild. For a fleeting second, we had no idea where we were headed and how much longer we'd be on this earth. I remember saying a quick prayer in my heart, pleading with God to not let us go into oncoming traffic. My prayer was heard, and we had luckily spun toward the side of the road. We were glad to learn that no one was injured, and even more glad to find out that the vehicle that hit us was insured. Although the road back to normalcy will be a long one as far as our car situation goes, we couldn't have had a better message sent to us on our 6 month anniversary. It was a sweet reminder of how short this life is and that we are sealed for ETERNITY. Even if (heaven forbid) we had been killed, we are together forever. I don't think there could be a better way to remind us of that than this accident.
Happy 6 months Craig! I love you and I can't wait for the next 6 months and the adventures they bring!