A Very Merry Christmas!

 Sorry this post is soo late! We have been pretty busy. i work long days and by the end of the day i just want to crash! same with shane. he is a study machine. I am however very proud of our christmas sweaters that i made. I went to goodwill and bought old stockings and cut them up and also found these sweaters and BAM! we have ourselves some ugly sweaters! it was fun. but i didnt have a sewing machine and so it was pretty tough hand sewing it all on! 

 Love White Elephant gifts, especially when we get a Mexican VHS and statue, oh and lets not forget the Sombrero!!! 

 It is fun having parties with the PA group!

 This is my friend Kathryn. Moving to Vegas was a pretty scary thing for me. We had so many friends in Rexburg and felt so comfortable there, not to mention i actually could hang out with Shane when we lived there too. Now he is always studying. It has also been hard because i have to work a lot so i dont have a lot of time to hang out with anyone. Kathryn is in my ward here. we actually met at the gym. we happened to work out right next to each other and then realized we were in the same ward. we then became workout buddies and the rest is history! I am so glad to have her so we can go to the 99 cent store and temple together. what a life eh? i know that heavenly father put her in my life for a reason! i am also grateful that we have our PA friends and of course Mike and Mica Barret (cousins) too! we are getting more used to it here and enjoying it!

 California!!!!

 It was a small group of us for Christmas but it was so fun! we enjoyed every minute of it and got spoiled while we were there! it went by way too fast!

 The boys all got matching sweaters! so cute!

 Gus is the Grinch that stole Christmas. Cant you tell?

 This has been my view everynight after the gym. i come home and listen to christmas music by the fire while shane studies! it is the best feeling ever when i get to relax by a warm fire. 

 Scott and Janel got the BEST white elephant gift! it was a date in a bag! what sexy undies they got

 Here is shane getting to hold baby Dakota for the first time! she is too cute. this is my best friend Sharyl's baby. it is so fun seeing my friends have kids. especially when the kids look so much like them! little Dakota looks a lot like sharyl

Blogger Acoma!

Sorry that i have been gone for so long from my blog. i am usually pretty good at updating it! for some reason when i went to add my thanksgiving pictures it wouldnt let me and said that i have reached my limit of pictures for my blog!! LAME! well My awesome friend told me that all i have to do is add another email to the account and then i can download pictures using that account and not my old one! yahooo..so i should be up and running again! so much to catch up on with Christmas in California, New Years, and some other random stuff. It will take me awhile but i will get updates....PROMISE! and Late MERRY CHRISTMAS and a Happy new year!

Holy COWboys!!

Shane and i had so much fun dressing up with for our party with all the PA gang. We had to come with a theme and bring a desert that matched. I was of course..a COW and shane was a Cowboy! such a cute cowboy at that! we even brought brown cows as dessert! that is vanilla ice cream with chocolate milk poored over it. YUMMY! thanks Janel and Scott for such a fun party :) i usually cant get shane to dress up but he was a good sport this year!!

Funny story behind the cow costume...When i was in third grade i was kinda a chunker. the chubby kid in class. I tried out to be the main part in my school play of Charlottes Webb. i was set on being Charlotte! instead they put me as a COW and all i said in the play was.."MOOOOOO" the whole time! sad right?? haha this is that very costume from third grade and yes i was chunky so the costume still fits me to this day but i had to be a cow to get over that awful scarring experience as a child! thank goodness i have a cute cowboy by my side that always makes me feel beautiful no matter what, even if im a cow! haha

 The boys! we had a pirate, baker, the mad hatter, the cutest cowboy ever, a lion and Harry Potter! 

 And of course the gals! another pirate, queen of hearts, cow, bun in the oven, zebra and another harry Potter Character!

Me and my cute little Alice in Wonderland! :) 

Night out on the Town

BEATLES LOVE SHOW!!

My parents are so fun and goofy! it is so wierd that having your parents with you on a night out on the town used to be not so cool and embarrassing but once you grow up it is so fun and you cant get enough time with them!! having them here was the best and it went by way too fast!

I didnt get the right timing on my jump but my dad is the bomb and he did! haha

My parents are so in love and i love it! i have learned a great deal about a good marriage from them! they still hold hands and i can see that they truly care for one another. I am glad that i have had their example in my life so that i know how to work on my own marriage! :) This trip was my parents last big trip before my moms scary surgery. she is getting her discs on her spine fused together and has been so scared about it. there is a chance she could not be able to talk again because of where they have to go in through her neck. There are also many other scary risks, but my mom has been in so much pain for so many years that it is worth those risks so that she can live without so much constant pounding pain. and she will also get feeling back in her arms!! yay!

Dont you love shanes shirt! i picked it out myself! he is just so good looking and kind to me! our marriage truly does just keep getting better and better as the years pass. He knows me better then ever and i know him better then ever as well. We make such a great team! go us!

Gelato!

My two favorite men walking side by side! I love watching my dad and Shane hang out! they have become good buddies and i love that becasue my dad and i are pretty close so it means a lot to me that he likes my awesome hubby. all you girls out there know what i am talking about ! there is something special about having your dad and hubby joke around together!!

The Belagio had some sweet gigantic pumpkins!!

Belagio Water Show!!

The time we had with my parents was so fun and we are sad it went by so fast! they are always so good to us and spoil us! hopefully we will see them soon and in a few short weeks Shane's fam is coming!! yay!

Craving a good Granola Bar

I am hoping to make these soon! i found this on Facebook from Jessica Yates on her clean Eating 101 page and they look DELICIOUS!!

 

If you want to make them…

What you’ll need:

1 1/2 cups of rolled oats

1 cup chopped almonds (or other nuts)

1 cup dried cranberries (or other dried fruit)

1/2 cup brown sugar

1/2 cup honey

What you’ll need to do:

Preheat oven to 350. Mix all ingredients. Spread into a well-greased pan. Bake for 10-20 minutes, depending on your crunch preference (the longer it cooks, the crunchier it gets). Let the granola cool before you cut it, or it will fall apart.

White Coat Ceremony!

Shane made the news! Check it out here...

http://www.ktnv.com/news/local/167500675.html#.UDuqbgIzvKQ.facebook

 

 Looks like my hubby is getting pretty serious about this white coat thing! haha. He looks good in a white coat tho... doesn't he? So i was confused about this ceremony and why they had it towards the beginning of the students schooling but i guess in order for them to do rotations and certain things at school they need to take the Oath and once they receive the White Coat it means they will Honor the Oath. We still have two years of schooling and rotations to go but it was a cool ceremony!

 We were so glad that Shane's Dad got to come to the Ceremony!

 Here he is getting his white Coat!

I love that Shane goes to a Jewish school! There was a Rabi there and we started with a Jewish Prayer! I am so proud of Shane! he works so hard and wants to succeed so much! He is so motivated and studies his butt off, and i know it will pay off! 

Take me out to the BALL Game!!

 Shane got free tickets to a baseball game from his school so we went with lots of the PA boys and their wives! it was lots of fun and we even got free hats! shane and i arent really hat people but we thought it was cool. the team is called the 57's. i honestly cant tell you a single thing that happened in the game. i love people watching at those types of things and block out the whole game part of it! haha we did get some yummy peanuts and pretzals too!

 Some of the PA group with their free hats. They are all so nice. we are lucky to have them here. and Shane is lucky to have some great LDS guys in his class to study with and help him stay motivated!

 Isnt Shane so cute! i just love him oh so much! :)

 Speaking of ball game, Shane and i went to hang out with some friends and family the other night and it was a blast! we played Volley ball, Basketball and ping pong! Lets just say i beat all the boys in the above picture at basketball well i guess just knock out!! haha i miss playing! i love when i get to play because i think all the boys didnt expect me to be good.  This all took place at the Flagg's home. Their daughter, Patty, married Shane's cousin Kai!! They are the sweetest family ever and they are one of those families that you can just walk in anytime and they always have people over . they fed us some yummy food including steak!

Oh how i just love Mica and Mike! Mica is Shane's cousin and they were best friends growing up! They live here because Mike is going to UNLV for Dental school! it has been so nice having them here to hang out with! Mica has been so sweet to me! especially when we first got here and i had no job! me and her went to the Trump tower pool together, the temple, sewed purses (my purse looked..welllll..not so great!)

My AWESOME new job and getting settled!!

When we first moved to Vegas, i was feeling so discouraged with job hunting. i couldn't find anything or anywhere to work with good pay and good hours. Shane was gone all day at school and then he would have to come home and study. I spent all day by myself. It was such a lonely time for me. we were away from everything we knew and I had no where to go and no one to hang out with. there were many days that i would go the whole day without being able to talk to anyone. I'm not gonna lie..i got kinda depressed! there was one day that Shane got home from school and i just hugged him and started to cry. It was so hard for me to go through this. I'm the type of person that loves having a lot of people around and friends to talk to, so to not have that anymore was so hard! Shane knew exactly why he was supposed to be in Vegas..to go to PA school of course. but what was my purpose now? it was tough waiting and waiting. Heavenly father may not answer prayers when you want him to, but he always answers them on time. i love that saying. it is so true. i think i needed that time to myself. i needed to reflect on some things and what was really important. It made me realize more then ever how much i love time with Shane. Us moving to Vegas has strengthened our relationship more then ever. We don't hang out with many people here and so most of the time all we have is each other. i am loving it! We have so much fun together and its so fun how much more you get to know a person after two years of marriage! I love that Shane now knows me better then anyone! ANYWAYS...enough of the mushy talk and back to my job..haha

So my uncle that lives here in Vegas said he knew a guy that worked at the school where there was a dental hygiene program. i decided to schedule a meeting with this man. The night before the meeting i knelt down and prayed my heart out that something would come of this meeting. i dont think i have prayed with all my heart like that in a while. i am so grateful for the opportunities we get when we do pray so hard and reep the blessings from it! the man i was meeting with is professor Jackson. He is an older man that is about to retire and is the Dean of Business at CSN. i met up with him and he was such a kind man!! His wife is in the Tabernacle choir and they have eleven kids!! WOWZERS! but he started talking to me and asking me questions about myself and seeing how he could help me. we went to the dental department and it was too late for me to get into the program. i was super bummed. but then Professor Jackson said, "i have a dentist appointment today and i think they are going to be looking for a new girl to run the front desk for them since the other girl is pregnant. I'm going to bring you with me to meet the dentist!" haha he is so hilarious! i was a little nervous about just coming with him to his apt and bugging the dentist but he seemed pretty confident that i would be the perfect girl for the job. so i went! The dentist and i met during the planned apt time for professor Jackson and he ended up canceling his apt so that i could get an interview! what an incredible man!! the interview went pretty good and Dr Reynolds just told me to bring in a resume to him so he could look it over. Professor Jackson met with me for two hours and helped me to write an awesome resume so that i was guaranteed to get the job! what a kind man to help a girl that he had just met and there was absolutely nothing in it for him. but i know he feels of the great blessings of helping those around him. and guess what?? i GOT THE JOB! I know that heavenly father brings people into our lives for great reasons! some help us get to the next step in our lives and some teach us great things and some bug us so much and teach us patience and kindness. Professor Jackson was prompted to help me and followed through with it to the end.

i have loved every minute working at the dental office. I also love wearing scrubs every day. they are so comfy and i never have to pick an out fit out! since i have been there i have been working as an assistant and helping in root canals, fillings, and crowns. I also get to bring patients back, clean, polish and floss their teeth and take xrays! i love it. time goes by so quickly while i am working there! part of me is kinda sad to move to the front of the office and work there because i feel like it will be more boring. it will be more to do with insurances, patient files, answering the phone and all the sit there and watch the clock kinda stuff! hopefully i am wrong and i will love it but i just love where they have me now so i don't know if i will like the change. the people that work there are also very nice and just great to work with!! The other dentist in the office has also been so kind! he had a really nice video camera that he never used and gave it to me! what a kind person. i offered to pay but he wouldnt let me. he made me promise to return the favor to some other younger college kid someday and do something kind for them. Well thank goodness for people like professor Jackson that are willing to take time out of their day to help those in need even when they don't know them. and now i will get to clean his teeth some day! haha  There are also many famous people that come into our office because it is right by the strip, and its so fun getting to meet them and realize they are just people too. I have been MUCH happier since working at this job. it keeps me busy and now i have a purpose here besides supporting shane in school..of course! YAHOO for blessings!