Memories In The Making...

Jonathan and I are so excited for the holidays!!! We have started pulling out the Christmas decorations and buying lights for the house. Of course they won't be put up or at least lit until after Thanksgiving. But all the same we are so excited to get everything up!
Jon has been so much fun, my Mom has let him in on a little hint, that I happen to be a bit of a snoop when it comes to Christmas, so he has gifts hidden not only out of the house.. but all over town. That's right he has hidden the gifts at different peoples house, one gift per house and not in a house I go to often. I have to say.. I'm pretty impressed.

Tonight Jonathan wanted to dinner.. that usually mean some kind of take-out. Which is fine, It doesn't bother me. But tonight he came in and said "Chels, you are going to kill me. I'll be back." And he locked the door open and walked back outside. Then he walked back in the door with two full bags of Chinese.
"They messed up the order." was the first thing that came from his mouth as he walked in the door. I could help but laugh as he started unloading the dinner he has slaved over. You know the size of the to go boxes, the big ones. Well... We had four of them.. Four different meats, two full things of rice, 7 or 8 ragoons, 4 egg rolls, a pint of soup, and 9 fortune cookies. He said he knew the "price was a little much." I just laughed and kept laughing for a few minutes. We had our very own Chinese Thanksgiving at our house tonight!! Love that boy!

Time Is Flying...

So many things are happening right now. It seems that Jon and I never have a chance to take a breath. But I love it!! We have two wedding coming up in December! I am so excited for both of them! The first is on December 23rd. Jonathan's brother Spencer will be marrying Ariell. She is so much fun! She has two kids, and from the pictures I have seen their little family is so adorable together. Spencer has been away to Basic so Ariell has been putting together the wedding. What a great deal for him. He gets married and and doesn't have to deal with all the pre-wedding things! The second wedding is on December 29th, my cousin Toni (who you have seen in earlier blog posts and pictures) will be married to Marc. I am so excited for these two!! I can't wait to get to see pictures of her in her dress!! Its beautiful! So classic but at the same time very trendy!! I love it!
Jon and I have been doing the usual, work and he is waiting for classes to start back up. He has really loved working at the hospital. You can tell he really loves the medical field! He has been doing a lot of four A.M. shifts which haven't been bothering him at all. I don't know how he does it. Three or four days a week he works the regular eight to ten hours shifts and LRH, then heads up to USU to work another four and sometimes six hour shift. He is my superman.. cheesy.. oh well. Don't think he doesn't get tired though. Some nights he is beat! Like last night.. You know when little kids fall asleep eating, and you can't help but laugh at them. Well I have one up those cute little munchkins! I hope I don't offend anyone by telling this.. But it just has to be told! So I will say sorry in advance.. just to be safe!
Anyway.. Back to my story.. Last night Jon started to say our prayer before bed. It started...

Jonathan: "Our dear kind Heavenly Father, We thank thee for this day. And all the blessings you.."

I paused.. Waited.. Then opened my eyes to see him PASSED OUT!!

Me: "Jon? Are you asleep? Did you really just fall asleep in the middle of your prayer?"

Jonathan: "Oh... Father I'm sorry.. We thank thee for all the blessing you have given to us. "

The prayer went on and I thought we were in the clear... He was going to make it! I was sure of it! Then...

"and Father, Please bless Chelsea will get those papers in on time. Amen"

Me: "Jon? What papers do I need to get in?"

Jonathan: "What? I don't know what you're talking about?"

Me: "Well you better figure it out and let me know when you do, cause you just prayed for it."

Then he looked at me bewildered for a moment.. and giggled and said

"He understands me." and rolled over and fell right to sleep.

I LOVE THAT BOY!! He keeps me laughing even when he is sleeping.

It kind of makes me wonder.. Has anyone else had this or something similar (conversations with sleeping people) happen to them? Let us know!!

More Pumkin Walk...

At the Pumpkin Walk Toni, Marc, Jon and I played with the cut outs.. the kids had nothin' on us!!

Phlebs, Pumkins, and Dates...

So many things have happened!! To start off Jonathan came home from work today and wanted to go out on a date. He was totally cute about it. We got ready and he kept repeating it as a date and thanking me for going with him, like when we were dating. We went to Texas Roadhouse, and it reminded us why we don't go out on Saturday nights! The place was packed and it took over an hour to be seated! Then he brought be home and we watch The Proposal, after the movie he gave me a hug and said "Thank you for going out with me." then casually turned his head and BELCHED... and we were back to good old being married. I love him, and I couldn't stop laughing, but YUCK!!

Jon and I carved our pumpkins this last week! We started carving with one of those carving knifes. But Jon thought he needed a "Man Knife". Well guess what, yep.. Jon broke my knife.. Guess he was a little too much Man for the knife!
Jonathan was offered a PRN job at the hospital as a Phleb!! We are so excited for him to start there on Monday! It will be interesting to see how it goes the days he works downstairs and we work together.

Last night Jon and I went to the Pumpkin Walk. It was a lot of fun! I had never been before.

Big Update...

Since so many things have happened since the wedding that I haven't been able to update on. I am just going to do a quick overall. Jon and I have the oportunity to go to Oregon with my side of the family right after we were married. We had such a good time!! We went river boating on speed boats, gold panning (which turned into salamander hunting), and watched the fourths fire works on the beach!!

We also able to go see the redwoods!! Those trees are huge! I was always told how big they are, but you dont really understand until you are standing at the base of one looking up into the tops. It was so much fun!!

Jon and I went back to the camping spot we camped at right after our wedding. We both love camping, it's a good thing cause everyone found out that Jon loves it so we got tons of camping stuff for our wedding! Its been great! We are set to go camping for a long time. Aside from a pad to sleep on, but it just makes out bed that much more comfortable to come home to!

We were called to callings in our ward. Both of us are ward Librarians.. Jon thinks it's awesome, he just wants to sit in the library and color. Then I have another calling in the Enrichment commity. We will see how that goes, sounds like fun. But I have to confess, I don't think I have ever been to an enrichment night.

Wedding Pictures...

We got our pictures back, so we wanted to post a few.. Thanks again Celeste and Kellee!! We love them!

Lots of the kids ended falling asleep! They are so cute! This only shows two of them, but we have pictures of all the kids, and they all fell asleep! SO CUTE!!

We have a cryer! One of my favorites!

All Riley wanted to do for a while was hang out with Jonathan. It was so cute!! He just didn't want anything to do with him once we wanted him in pictures.

It took forever for us to get this picture.. but we still had to have a little help from my Dad to get it!

Hopefully we will post some more some time, There are so many we like! Enjoy!

An Amazing Man....

You know.. I know Jonathan is a great guy, that's why I married him. But every once in a while I have to take off my hat and give many kudos to his parents!! Two days ago Jonathan had to pick me up from work. When he got there you could tell he'd had the day off and had been home alone ALL day! (torture for the kid) He was all over the place! All the way home he kept saying, "I can't wait till you get home and see!" Coming from Jon, that could mean anything, a very very broad range of very different things!! I walked in the house (I was in a hurry to get showered and ready to go help with a carnival for kids)and noticed the living room was clean, aside from the papers on the fire place, it was spotless. Even vacumed! I thanked him and walked back into the bedroom to grab some clothes, and our room was so nice!!! All the clothes that he hadn't had time to wash were ready to go in the bed was made and vacumed!! I LOVE THIS BOY!! It was so nice to come home to everything clean. Then to top it all off the next moring we both had a day off. And he got me a drink and a blanket, sat me down on the couch and started finishing all the laundry he had started the day before, he did the dishes yesterday as well. What a guy! Makes me feel so useless... but it was so nice to not have to worry about it all.
That night we went to the kids carnival, we were helping with. It was a fun night! And to top it all off, I got to go home to a clean house and a made bed to crawl into.. NOTHING BETTER!!