Anniversary #2!!!

No matter how far apart Adam and I are we will always love each other! Today is our 2nd year Anniversary! Or other wise know as the Cotton Anniversary. As most of you know Adam is in Georgia at Basic Training and thus we don't get to spend our anniversary together. It is sad that we can't be together on this special day, but I can feel his love all around me.

I think I go the best catch ever!

Last week while we were in Salt Lake I gave Adam his present then since we wouldn't be together today. On the traditional list of what to get for your anniversary, it says that year 2 is cotton.
So I got Adam a shirt and he really likes it. :) Adam on the other hand is such a sneaky person. He told me he didn't think we were exchanging presents til later. Later came and went and nothing. I though that maybe he ordered some roses for me to be delivered while he was gone. Well do you want to know why he is so sneaky?....
Well Take a look....
I came home from a long, and I mean long day of doing laundry at my Mom's house and I walked in my room and found all these sticky notes all over my room. I am guessing Adam had his brother Jon set things up for him since he is kind of in Georgia.

This was the first sticky note I saw. Let me tell you I started to cry and then it started to rain outside.

Here are the rest of the notes, I just put them together so you could see them.

Then I turned and found this on the dresser

and inside....

A NEW work ring. I have one that he gave to me at Christmas, he thought it was sterling silver but it is not and it is now wearing off. I had no idea that he had anything planned for me for our Anniversary, but that is the way he is. He surprises me in so many ways, and is always sneaky about it. Let me tell you I love Adam so much and it gets better every day of my life. I am so happy to have him as a husband and I am so proud of him and what he is doing. I am so happy I get to spend eternity with him.

Oh, and to top off the day...HE CALLED ME! We talked for an hour and he is going to call back later tonight after the Drill Sergeant leaves.

Busy week for us

This past week has been crazy busy. First, We no longer own a house! :( last week we had to pack up our house and move out by Wednesday. The only thing was we didn't know we had to be out on Wednesday til Tuesday afternoon. They told us we would either need to be out Wednesday or Friday just depending on when we signed papers and he wouldn't know which date until Tuesday at 12:00. Well Lucky for me I got Wednesday off and was able to help pack everything up, we had to be out by two which was fine because Adam and I were going up to Salt Lake for a little getaway with each other. I had set our dinner reservations for 5:30 at Ruth's Chris Stake house. Well we didn't even end up leaving Utah Valley til just after 5, but the people at Ruth's were really nice and let me change our reservation to 6:30. Let me tell you, Ruth's is super GOOD!...Only thing is that they are super expensive, our dinner came to a total of 105.00 after the tip. We even got a free dessert since I told them we were there for our anniversary-which is this Saturday, but since Adam is gone we celebrated early-I told Adam the next time we go we need to be rich. Ruth's Chris is super fancy and I felt like we were the ONLY ones not ordering wine or alcohol of any sort.

After a VERY nice dinner we headed to the Anniversary Inn! We stayed the the Forty Niner suite, and it was pretty awesome! We even got a free movie and snack pack.

On Thursday we went to the ZOO, but before we could do that we had to make a quick stop at Walmart to get Adam some flip flops. Why you may ask...Well being in a hurry on Wednesday we ended up just going straight to dinner instead of going to the Inn and then changing. So I forgot his flip flops at home. It was really funny because he ended having to wear mine, yes mine, to Walmart. Now Adam's feet are a size 10 and I wear a size 6-7 depending on the type of shoe. I think you get the picture.... Adam and I have not been to the zoo in forever and it was really nice just to go together. Although I was pretty upset that they don't have the lions and the hippos anymore. My favorite was the monkeys, they were pretty noisy when we went. We go to see the new baby elephant, and she just kind of stood there. We even got to see how we measure up to a gorilla.



It was very nice to just get away and not have to care about anything. On Sunday I took Adam up to Salt Lake and yes I did cry. I didn't think I was going to make it home because from all the crying I did up there made my contacts get all blurry on the way home. Lucky for me I went back up last night and saw him again before he flew out to Fort Benning today. I only got to see him for about an hour, but an hour is an hour that I got to see him. I have even gotten to talk to him a couple times today, but soon I won't be able to call or text him and the next time I get to talk to him could be in one to three weeks. It's even longer til I get to see him...which is not til October! October can't come fast enough!

Family pictures 2010

This year we did our family pictures at the park across from Mt. Timp Temple. It was way fun and we had lots of laughing thanks to my hubby. We had to hurry and get them done since Adam is leaving soon and we needed a new one for this year. A lady in my mom's ward did our picture...check out her blog at jodyhancockphotography.blogspot.com
She did an awesome job!

The family

My little family

SISTERS!

The boys! So jealous of Jacob, he is so photogenic!

The best parents ever!

The kids

More of the kids...I think I have huge butt and thighs in this picture. But everyone else looks awesome. Totally unfair that Jacob and Roscoe are taller than me now.

Head shot

Thanks so much Jody for doing our pictures!!! I love them!!

12 short DAYS!

See this man...We'll he's the perfect man for ME in every single way possible...and I LOVE him so much!
The sad thing is I only have 12 short days left with him. In 12 days I take him up to Salt Lake and from there he'll be flying out to Fort Benning, Gerogia for Basic Training in the Army. We'll be away from each other fro 9-10 weeks til we'll see each other next. I'm going to miss him so much, and I'm sure I'll miss him even more than I realize right now. Every time I think about the time we are going to have to spend without each other, it makes me think just how much I love him and what things I will miss about him most. I'm going to miss his smile that he gets when he looks at me. His laugh that is so contagious and makes it so you can't help but laugh. The way he hugs and kisses me. The way he loves me and shows that he loves me in everything that he does. I love me so much and know that there are many more things that I will miss about him.

Attic=our apartment...One day.

Our current project right now is finishing Jon's attic(Jon is Adam's brother). We are finishing it to be a cute little apartment. Complete with a bedroom, shower, bathroom, kitchen and living room. It's really not that big but there is only two of us and we don't need much room. To all my Arizona family if you are reading this. Do you remember all those years of the attic not being done....well it is finally happening.

Here is Adam standing in our bedroom. The room in front of that is our kitchen.

This is part of the living room and kitchen in this picture

Now when we first started there was no floor and part of the floor we had to build up. So to give you an idea of what the floor looked like before. Check out this picture.

Where the insulation is...ya that is what the whole attic looked like....But after two layers of sup-flooring later we have a floor.

My Excuse!

I know, I know I have not blogged in FOREVER. But I really do have a good excuse. I know what you're thinking....Excuses are like armpits, every one has them and they all stink. But once you see my first picture you'll why....
This what my whole house looks like currently...why you may ask...well, we are MOVING...We are very sad to be moving, we love our house and our neighborhood that we are in. We were suppose to be moving out this Friday but things change and now our move date has been moved for the second time and it is now on the 20 of July. This is only 5 days before Adam leaves for Basic Training. Our lives has been really busy since we sold the house. We having been packing, and packing and more packing. When we are not packing we are either working at our jobs, working on attic at Jon's house, which will end up being our little apartment, or we are going for runs at night. Our normal day does not end until 11 at night. To say the least we both have been really tired.

Before Adam leaves he wanted to go hiking every weekend until he leaves. This last Saturday we went up Maple Mountain. We started bright and early at 6:30 AM and we ended at 2:15PM. It was nice to spend the entire day with Adam and enjoy something we both love. Although I must say I did complain towards the end of the hike. My legs hurt, hips hurt, and I wanted to be home.

Me looking Tired from the hike.

Looking over the Valley. We could even see my Father in laws house/property from up there.

Adam looking awesome as ever.

Later after we got back from our hike my sister in law Alli invited me to go with her to the Stadium of Fire...how did we tickets you may ask...well my brother in law Jon does Crane jobs for BYU at the Stadium and he was there on Friday and he asked them if he could see how they do the fireworks so they gave him a backstage pass and he got to be on the pyro team. They also gave him two free tickets! So Alli invited me to go with her. It was a lot of fun! At the end one of the fireworks went off and went into the crowd and later I found out that the person that got hit has a 3rd degree burn on his face...Poor guy...


Well that's all I have for now. Have a super day!!!