Ha! a quicky!!!

I am going to make this a quick one because of the crazy long one I put up last time. So starting with Friday, really Friday night, we had a ward Christmas Luau (however you spell it!)

Laura and I got dressed up.

She wore her wrap and I wore a lava-lava that I borrowed from a Samoan dude that I know. It was fun and we got a lot of compliments, because Laura looked so good ;-) We didn't go sit on Santa's lap, I thought it would be fun to go sit on him at the same time, and then list off everything we could even think of, but Laura didn't think it was such a good idea, so we took pictures next to the palm tree.

Then Saturday came, and Laura made an awesome stocking hanger, it is so cool, we hung it on the wall and it looks great. We have blue stockings, because blue is way cooler than red :-)

Really we just liked the blue ones better. I got my bike all ready to ride, I adjusted the seat and got the tires pumped up at the gas station.

On my way home I got some quarters so we could do laundry...

In the laundry room.

Today we went to church, and in Relief Society/Priesthood, (we were combined today), some ladies talked about saving money by cutting coupons, so Laura started to do some of that, and now she's cooking some chicken wrapped in bacon. mmmmm....

Well, I think that's it, I hope you enjoyed it, we took pictures of our nostrils, but we figure you don't want to see those! lol later everyone!!

Finally, a new post!!

       Sorry everyone, I know that it has been forever since the last time we posted, and I guess that is my fault (Shawn).  Anyways it is now the first of December, and a lot has happened, I am going to skip all that other stuff, and focus on the more recent fun stuff, like last week, my birthday, and Thanksgiving.  My birthday was on November 26th, last Wednesday, and Laura and I got to go to my house in California.  Sounds great right?  Well, sort of.  First we had to drive to Las Vegas, and it was rainy and the roads were wet, so that wasn't all that fun.  Then we had to deal with Las Vegas traffic, which is terrible.  Once we finally got to the airport and got checked in, we found out that our plane was late, and that we were going to have to sit around for at least an hour waiting to leave.  So needless to say... (why would I say something needlessly? fill in the blanks!)  Once we got on the plane the flight was only about an hour and everything went fine from there, it was just the waiting forever to leave the airport that stunk.  

    Ok, on to Thanksgiving.   The day was great.  I got up early to go play some football while Laura stayed home with my mom and Maggie doing... something. i don't know because I was playing football, dominate!  Once I got home and showered Dad and I went out to get some food and munchies and stuff so we could eat the rest of the day, which we did.  Thanksgiving dinner was really nice, and we ate until we could barely move.  The rest of the night was really relaxing and we played cards and planned out our Black Friday attack.

    On Black Friday we did dumb things, like get up at six in the morning to go to stores packed with people and then go to other stores to try and find the things we wanted.  It was bedlam at most places, including Bass Pro Shops, which is an amazing store.  This place was redneck emporium, like Gucci for Gomer!

   Friday's dinner was pretty cool, Laura made Hot Turkey Salad, and we all ate it because it was awesome.  That night the boys, Scott, Dad, Jacob and me went into the hot tub and played some card games with our cool waterproof cards.   

   (Ok, I know this is long, Laura just called it a novel, if you think it is too long you can let me know and  I will try to keep the next one short.)

   On to Saturday.  An easy day of laying around and watching TV.  We did go do some more shopping, but only for a little bit, the we had In N' Out for lunch, which is always awesome.  the flight back to Las Vegas actually left early and we got back to Vegas on time.  Then I drove home from there and we got home at about one in the morning.

    Well, now you are all caught up, except for today's events.  Once we got to campus I started on page 2 of my 15 page paper, (content analysis about reporters and whether or not they were bias in reporting the results of the World Series in October), which was due at noon.  Unfortunately I didn't finish it at noon, I handed it in at about 4:30, oh well, my bad.  Tonight is the fun part though.  Laura and I went over to Wal-Mart and got Christmas things.  So now we have a Christmas tree and some wrapping paper for presents, I already wrapped a few, here's a pic:

The lights came with the tree, which I think is awesome, and Laura and I picked a box of ornaments each to put on it.  We got a bow to top it and we bought a special ornament to celebrate our first Christmas together, it is a wedding cake/bell that is rung by wedding bands interlocked inside it.  It's really sweet.  

   

        So that is pretty much it, except for the fact that today is an important day for Laura because now she can start getting accepted to dental schools.  So far she has been accepted to Creighton and Louisville, and she is on the non-resident waiting list for Ohio State.  so things are good, I think over the next few days she will get some letters and phone calls from Universities begging her to come to their schools.  Anyway that is it from us, we have been having a good time in Cedar, no snow yet, that's good, and we are looking forward to Christmas!!  See you later!!

Monday Monday....

Well it's Monday the 3rd, and how happy we are that it is November. So far I think we've had a great month!! I took my insurance test on the morning of the first, and I passed it! :-) So now I will have a company laptop, and things are going to get rolling here pretty quick. Laura stayed home and slept, then woke up to study. I called her when I was done, and let her know, it was pretty awesome. Later that same day I had a rugby game, that was really fun. i did get a little beat up, but its good experience and will help for other games. I do enjoy the competitiveness, the bruises and soreness, not so much. Laura doesn't like that part either, she stayed home to study while I played. It is kinda funny that when I get home I have to report on the bruises. we did win the game, making our SUU team undefeated. There isn't much more to report, my dad and Scott will be out here next Monday, that should be fun. Scott has a broken arm, but if he didn't I would have invited him to come play rugby with me, but oh well. Well, I don't know what else is going on, Laura has her University of North Carolina interview coming up next week, and the holidays are here soon. ;-D

So until next time, enjoy this video of a scrum. I'm on the other side, so you can't see me. Basically we do this every few minutes during the game.

Then there is this video of a line-out, we lift the guy up so he can get the ball, you have to throw it down the middle of the two lines so getting high on a certain time count is pretty important.

Las Vegas!!

This past Monday, the 20th, Laura and I took our free trip to Las Vegas that we got by sitting through a 90 minute timeshare presentation, well worth it. We got tickets to stay at Circus Circus for 3 nights, and we only used 2 nights because school is pretty important. It was a great opportunity to get away for a little bit and have some fun. So Monday morning we took off from Cedar and drove through a piece of Arizona...


and then into Nevada, (I like taking pictures of the state welcome signs, while I'm driving).

When we got to Las Vegas, a few hours later, we visited with Lindsay Butterfield and her boys and had some awesome peach cobbler... mmm. So we got to our hotel and we thought we were going to be in a little room in the motel section out back. Instead they put us up on the 19th floor with a King size bed and everything. It was pretty awesome, although the view wasn't exactly the greatest, but much better than if we had been in the motel part.

After we checked in we decided to walk for a while and got down to the strip to go walking and seeing the amazing casinos there. We walked a lot in Planet Hollywood, then we headed over to the Belagio Fountains to watch the water dance.

That was pretty sweet, and it happens every half hour, with different music and motions. We went into the Belagio to look at the shops and we bought some Gelato, or italian ice cream, it was sooo good. Very soft and creamy. We also saw their flower room or whatever you call it, that was pretty cool because it was this gallery of cool designs, like some kind of enchanted forest, inside the hotel.





We ate dinner at the Planet Hollywood Restaurant, (We had a $40 coupon and spent $39.74 of it haha).





Then we decided to travel the world; we saw Paris, Rome, and Italy all in one night. Which may be one of the coolest parts of Las Vegas.





This all happened on Monday night, Tuesday morning Laura flew out to a dental school interview at USC, while I stayed in Las Vegas, trying to stay out of trouble. j/k I went and walked around for a while, ate at ESPN Zone, which is inside the New York, New York hotel, across from Excalibur. that was pretty awesome, I showed up some Aussies trying to play a football game in the ESPN arcade. I thought that was cool. I picked up Laura later that night and we went to Applebee's and had dinner using our gift card, so another free dinner for us ;-D

That was it for Tuesday, Wednesday morning we woke up and Laura studied BioChem while I studied for my insurance exam. We went home after that and that was it. The trip was pretty awesome and on the way home we got pulled over because my foot got heavy and we were going a little fast, but the guy let us off with a warning. So that was a relief. lol The first time I've ever been let off with a warning! I hope you enjoyed this. see ya later!

The first of many

Hello and welcome to our bran spankin' new blog. I guess for this first one we might as well say hi and that we have passed two months of being married and it has been absolutely awesome! Laura just got back from The Ohio State University School of Dentistry where she had an awesome interview. When she looked at her email here she found out that UNC invited her to an interview, that makes 8 in all. She is doing great. She lost her voice and was a little squeeky this weekend, but its ok, I enjoyed it. I am keeping busy trying to pass the Property and Casualty insurance test for Utah. I am determined to pass it in 2 weeks so I can get going in the insurance business. My pinky remains broken, I think, my only doctor has been Wal-Mart, and we bought a little finger splint. This week we get to go to Vegas for free, and we are staying at the Circus Circus, so we'll have some pictures of that. Anyway Laura is looking forward to getting a bunch of dental school interviews done and will be finished with them before we go to my house for Thanksgiving, which should also be awesome. Then she will find out where she has been accepted on December 1st, so we are excited for that news! As most everyone knows Laura is keeping busy with her classes, mentoring, and being Presidenta of ASDA (Aspiring Student Dental Association) at SUU. I do what I can with my classes, work, and rugby. I have a game Saturday down in St. George; I don't really know what to expect, but I know I will get to hit some people and I expect I will get hit as well. That's half the fun (hehe). So that's it for Blog 1, I hope we can keep up with this weekly, but who knows, sometimes we get pretty busy with everything, but if there is news, we'll let you know. Until next time, que les vaya bien!