"Oh Sweet Lovaaaa!!"

Yesterday was the day of love, also the one year anniversary of the day that I took Brandon home to meet my family! Yesterday was one of the best days of mah life!!



On Friday, my gift to Brandon was to go and get back treatments at my school in the Esthetics program. And let me tell you, they were A-MAZ-ING!! It is like an hour long facial for your back including lots of back, hand, and arm massages. I was seriously in heaven. Then, that night Brandon's high school friend Eric and his wife Beka came down from Utah State so we went and ate at Sizzler and saw Madagascar 2 at the dollar theater. We love Eric and Beka!

On Saturday (the actual day of lurve), after sleeping in for a little bit, I was awoken by a wonderful husband who had made me breakfast in bed! Yummy French Bread French Toast, eggs, sausage (that Brandon made himself, sometimes at work if they don't have any deliveries, Vaud, his really old and sweet boss, will have them make sausage! Apparently he used to be a butcher..), and orange juice! And then came out to find these on the table:

Don't you love the bling-bling wrapped around the vase? It's probably like 50 karots.

And then I took a nap :)

And then we went and picked up the Kids at "Jay's Jungle Pet Shop"

And then we went and ate a nummy nummy dinner at GoodWood (my new favorite, better spinach and artichoke dip than CPK. Do NOT freak out at me Moyes women!)

And then we went and saw "He's Just Not That Into You" at the really nice, new theater by University Mall. It was pretty good, but there was a guy cheating on his poor wife for like the whole movie so that part broke my heart...but the rest I liked. And Jen Aniston is my new idol...talk about a rockin bod!! ;) Oh yeah and there was a preview of a new movie with Emma Stone (you know, my old best friend) and other stars such as Matthew McConaughey! Crizazy!

It was such a good weekend and I don't want it to ennnnd. Sorry ladies, but I def have the best Valentine in the whole wide world!!

P.S. For some reason they don't believe in giving cosmetology students more than 4 days off a year, so yes I have school tomorrow. But don't worry! We DO get Pioneer Day off! Phew!

Just Add Her to the List

So...last night while Brandon was at the library I thought I would rent the movie "The House Bunny" to help pass the time. My friends at school always talk about/quote that movie so I thought I would watch it myself. (I don't think most people who read this blog would really like that movie, but I thought it was SO hilarious) Anyways, I just loved one of the main girls in that movie (Natalie, she is the president of the house)..thought she was hilarious, but I could not think of what other movie she was in! It was driving me nuts and this morning Brandon was watching a little bit of the movie and IT HIT ME!!! I didn't know her from another movie...I KNEW her because we were BEST FRIENDS IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL! Her name is Emily Stone (goes by Emma now). She was always doing plays for the Valley Youth Theater in Phoenix and was soooo crazy and outgoing. I remember being so sad and crying at the end of 6th grade because she was moving to L.A. to be on the show "All That." I would always tell my family about her and how she was going to be so famous one day but you all thought I was so dumb and didn't believe me! Well it may have taken a few years but here she is!! I'm so proud of her and glad that she finally made it! I guess she has played some small roles in other movies but this is the first time I've noticed her. And it was a huge role, she even got to make out with the lead singer from the All American Rejects! Now, if I can only find some awesome pics from those good ole Sequoya days and make some money selling them to the tabloids!! ;)

Just add her to the list of millions of famous people the Moyes know....

Just Gar-geous

Our kids are gunna be so lucky to have parents that look like this...

Mmmmmmm

Winter

I HATE THIS COLD WEATHER AND AM SO READY FOR THE SUMMERRRRRR!


Okay, I just had to get that outta my system.


Well, we had a fabulous Christmas break. After not ever getting over my cold, I decided I needed to start my leave of absence from school 2 weeks early so I can get better before Christmas. It was a good choice and I was pretty healthy by the time we left for Idaho. Saturday the 20th was the wedding of my old roommate Elaine and a good friend Ryan (finally!! ;) Laine actually ended up borrowing my dress and I was honored to let her use it! She looked better in it than I did! It was a great day and we are so happy to have some more married friends!

We then traveled to Brandon's parent's house in Burley for Christmas. It was a lot of fun being able to see all of his siblings, even Eric and Katie came all the way from New York. Lots of good food and partying...unfortunately I still didn't have a camera charger so I got all of 1 picture taken :) It was pretty hard to be away from my family (and Beaver!) for Christmas but the Andersen's made me feel very much at home. Brandon got me two necklaces, a Suns Steve Nash t-shirt, and a steamer for my clothes!! It is seriously my favorite thing lately, I always hated ironing but steaming is so much faster and better and funner ;) Thanks hunny! I gave him some BYU sweatpants, gloves, and a Fossil watch. It was a great first Christmas together.

And then came the not so fun stuff. The plan was to travel back to Provo on Saturday the 3rd for the BYU vs Wake Forest basketball game. On Friday I was sick alll day with the yucky stomach flu (nothing I hate more). I couldn't keep any food or drink down so my body was literally empty. Saturday I woke up feeling pretty good but as the morning went on and I got in the shower, I could barely breathe. My body started cramping up really bad and I could hardly stand without Brandon holding me up. Well of course this scared him so he forced me to go to the hospital (nothing I hate more). Once we got into the ER they drew a lot of blood (nothing I hate more) and then after fishing around in one arm for a vein they decided to put the IV in the other arm (nothing I hate more) and gave me two full bags of IV. After being there for at least 3 hours we found out that I had Gastroenteritis and a bladder infection. I was feeling a little better and got to finally go home. We felt that I probably shouldn't sit in a car for 3 hours to go home so we stayed another night in Burley. I felt so bad that we had to the miss the big game, but they ended up losing anyways, so it's all good. I was pretty weak for about a week and had a few bad bruises on my arms, but I am doing mucho better now and started school on the 5th.

Now, we're just getting back into the swing of things. We both are very busy with school and work and sometimes don't even see each other until after 10 at night :( We hope all is well with everyone else and will try to blog more this semester!

Oh yeah, and GO CARDINALS!!

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year!

So, these aren't the best of pictures..but here ya go!

I made this sign at a Super Saturday a few weeks ago

As well as these HO HO HO blocks, the wooden sculpture was a gift from Brandon's parent's from Israel, and the Santa was just one part of our wonderful gift from Brandon's sister Katie

And our humble little tree!

MERRY CHRISTMAS! We'll be up in Idaho this year and can't wait for finals to be over and to spend time with family and good food! :)

Update

Sorry, I know I promised to update the blog more. Here's what's been going on lately: I've only been really sick for about ohhhh a MONTH! Yeah, ridiculous. It's even gotten worse the past two days. I went to the doctor last week and took all of my antibiotics, but still no dice. So, after having to miss too much school already, and not sure how much more I would have to miss, we've decided to have me start my leave of absence today (this means that I wont have to pay for these hours that I am missing). I think I just need a break for a little while to actually get better so I wont be sick over Christmas. Thanks to NyQuil and a humidifier that Brandon's mom so graciously got for us, I was able to sleep pretty well for the first time last night. Brandon's shoulder is slowly healing and he went to physical therapy last week. Unfortunately, he is starting to get a bit of a cold himself. After getting "layed off" and then the next day "re-hired" with a bit of a pay cut (dumb economy!!), he is still workin at the furniture store with his good friend Mikey. Finals are coming up, so obviously it's a pretty stressful time for him. We were able to go to Logan on Friday for his Uncle Steve's wedding and then to Pocatello the next day for Grandma Roberts' 80th birthday party. It's always great to get to see family again..(sorry again, Tiff, for not being able to go to Dallin's baptism!) So, as you can see, we are definitely ready for Christmas break! We will be in Idaho for all of it this year, and will try to see as much family on both sides as we can! I am workin on getting some pics of our cute little Christmas tree on here, so stay tuned! Love to all.

P.S. I almost forgot the best news of all!!! My wedding photographer, Heather Ives, sent me a wonderful email the other day informing me that they FOUND our missing pictures!!! Her husband was finally able to recover them from their crashed computer. Talk about an answer to our prayers. You can read below about what happened, but the pics that we had been missing were from the reception; including Andersen family ones, cutting the cake, dancing...all that good stuff. I'm so excited to see them and will post a few once they get here :)

P.S.S. The Suns beat the Jazz on Saturday :D

It's Party Time

So, I had the brilliant idea of giving Brandon his first surprise birthday party this year...NEVER AGAIN! It was one of the most stressful things I've done! While we went to dinner at Tucanos (SO good, not recommended for vegetarians..) the Saturday before his birthday, Heather, Chelsea, and lots of other friends gathered at and decorated our apartment. Everything seemed to be going as planned until we pulled into the underground parking at home and parked RIGHT NEXT to Heather's car! She didn't get the memo about parking in a different lot, and my heart stopped. "It's all over.." I thought, as well as making up many lies in my head as to why she was there. But to my luck, he didn't even notice her car at all! Whew! Welp, we made our way up the stairs and when Brandon opened the door and turned on the light he thought someone had broken into our apartment. I had never seen such terror in a man. Even though I couldn't see his face (which I am told was priceless), the "ducking for cover" move was enough for me. So good. Once he realized it really was just all his good friends wanting to wish him a happy day, he loved it! When we finally calmed down from all the laughter, we had yummy cake and played games allll night. Including some intense rounds of Catch Phrase, a game we played a ton last year. It was great to be with all our old friends that we don't get to see very often anymore. Oh, and of course my camera was still dead so I only have these random pics...I really wish someone had a camera going for when he walked in! Good times.