UPDATE

So I haven't been very good at updating our blog, Adam and I have been up to a lot lately with home/spring projects. Ever since we moved into our house we have had a list of things we have been wanting to do to our house, and since the weather in Utah can never decide what it wants to do we get to sit back and wait for it to be nice. Back in February I volunteered to have my little sister Megan's baptism lunch at our house. This was a good thing in two ways...first: I didn't have to go over to my parents and get their house ready...second: Adam and I got the incentive we needed in order to get some of those projects done. Our first project was to paint the back yard fence. (it's really our neighbor's fence, but it has not been painted in who knows how many years)

The second project was to paint the bottom part of our house from blue to tan. Adam got to barrow the spray gun from work along with the FREE paint, yes I did say free. We got the tan and red paint for free, it was pretty sweet. We also took the time to take out our ugly bushes and put up an American flag, which we keep up all the time.













I love the new look of our fence and our house. We are planning on putting in lavender and daisy where the ugly bushes use to be. I can't wait till we get to that, but it'll have to wait until we get back from Arizona next week.

Another project that we did was pain our mailbox from the red roof barn to black and I made the lettering on my mom's Cricut machine, I love doing stuff with vinyl.:)











The Wreath I made for Easter





Now to end on a sweet note. I love cooking and the thing I love to cook most is deserts, so last Sunday I made these brownies that you put whipping/cream cheese mix on top of and on top of that you put fresh Strawberries. There are the best thing in the world, but don't worry I won't be making a tons of these all the time. Neither Adam or I can afford to eat them all the time even though we wish we would.

Remember to tell the people you love in life that you love them. Tell them how much they mean to you. I LOVE YOU ADAM!!!!

FAMILY

Yesterday Megan got baptized, I can't believe it was eight years ago that she was born. I still feel like she is 4 years old. Always my baby sister. Megan ended up having to be baptize twice because her left hand didn't go under the first time. Funny thing about it was that neither my Grandpa Dixon or Adam (who were the witnesses) saw that her hand didn't go down. It was one of the Stake leaders that saw it. After the baptism we had everyone over at our house for a lunch in. It was great fun and the weather was great, even if it was only 60 degrees, it felt great.

Since Jason is leaving on April 9 to be deployed with the army my mom wanted to get a family photo done. We don't have one with all of us together besides at my wedding. There is just one problem, when taking family pictures with my family we have to take a lot because someone is always having a funny face or not looking at the camera, but with all the olds involved I think we managed to get some pretty good ones. Thank you Bret, Julie and family for taking pictures.

our BIG news

I know what your thinking......"oh my GOSH she's got to be PREGNANT!"















Well I'm not. Our big news really is big though...literally big...Adam got a TRUCK! Now I wish I could say we got the truck of his dreams-shiny blue, and brand new- but it's not. It's a 1982 GMC, it's older than both of us. We got a sweet deal on it, it was 1000 dollars which really is awesome for the condition it is in. Reason being for Adam getting a truck is because he has wanted a truck or something to that effect that can haul a trailer for when we go camping, or just to haul stuff away. He use to have this most wonderful BLUE jeep, but he sold it in order for us to have some money when we got married. Adam loves this truck so much and we have only had it for two weeks. when we got to drive it home, he was like a little kid on Christmas morning, smiling from ear to ear. I love seeing Adam happy with a smile that just makes you want to giggle and smile too. Both of us can't wait to take the truck and go camping, now we just have to fix a few things so we can get it fully licenced.
Here is our beautiful TRUCK

Life

So I haven't posted anything in a while and though I might want to let some people know what I've been up to...well....since my last post....Jan. 31 was Adam's birthday as you well know. For his birthday we went to Red Lobster. Neither of us had eaten there before and I wanted to try crab legs, so we went and we waited almost 2 HOURS! It took forever. The crab was very good and I can't wait to go back one day. In the last two months my two last bridesmaids have gotten engaged. Michelle got engaged to a guy named Chris who happens to be from Spanish Fork, he's a great guy and I'm so happy for them. Next was Mandi who got engaged just before her 20th birthday and valentines Day. She got engaged to a guy named Josh...who is a reaLLY a TRUE REDNECK! I'm not kidding, but he is way funny. Josh is from Orangeville, and he owns 27 cars last time I checked. If you're wondering were in the world is Orangeville, well it's by Price. I had no idea where it was. As it happens to be their weddings are back to back. Mandi's is May 8 in Manti and Michelle's is on May 9 in Provo. Back in January I made the comment that everyone is getting married and I keep getting wedding announcements. My Grandma then said that, that's all I would be getting for the next couple of years and then comes the baby announcements. Well it's true. We have a wedding in April, and then Mandi, Michelle's and then Adam's cousin Jessica(I don't really know her, except I do remember her by knowing she's the BYU cheerleader.)-her wedding happens to be the same day as Michelle.
Anyway that's my crazy life right now, but we do have some exciting things happening: -my brother is home
-Refinishing the kitchen table is still being a pain in the butt.
-I got my bathroom painted
-I'm more in love with my husband each day-why:Because he is wonderful. I've never had anyone for Valentines day, and he sent me flower at work. Along with the flowers came yet another one of his wonder sayings he made up....here it is... One night I looked up at the stars and matched each one with a reason why I love you. I wish that I could have named more than what I did, but I ran out of stars.-Adam
He is the most wonderful man in the world.

More weddings

On Friday(Jan. 16) we got done with our second of two three weddings this month. The wedding on Friday was for my best friend(and my maid of honor) Mindi Terry. She got married in the Manti Temple to Scott Garcia from Spanish Fork. I was lucky enough to be invited to go down and be there for the sealing in the temple. It was really wonderful to see her so happy with someone she will be with forever and ever. She looked beautiful in her wedding dress-which by the way her neighbor made for her. After the sealing we took a ton of picture, of course, I waited around while they did that so I could get my picture in, after an hour of picture taking of just them two. I really didn't mind all that much because my Mom came down with me and was doing a session in the temple so I was already waiting for her.

Later that night at Mindi and Scott's reception my friend Michelle(another one of my bridesmaids) brought her boyfriend with her. The first thing she said to me was, "Crystal I hope you're ready for another wedding in May". :) The funny thing about all this is that out of the three bridesmaids I had at my wedding, one is married and one is engaged and the other is dating a boy name Josh seriously. So Mindi got married not even six months after me, and Michelle is getting married with in a year of me getting married....Oh and if that's not funny the girl who caught my bouquet at me wedding got married last November. I guess things like this happen in life, but it's all for the better of things, to make us laugh and realize just how much we love our loved ones in our lives.

BIRTHDAY FUN!!!!

Tomorrow Adam turns 25!!!! I so excited for him to have his birthday...for a couple of reasons...
1. Our Car insurance gets to go DOWN!...So happy about that
2. I made him this awesome cake that he loved!
3. He is my husband and I love him with all my heart, mind, and soul.

The cake I made is pretty cool...When decided what to make it was between 1. my wonderful cheesecake with Adam loves...and so does everyone else who has tried it. 2. To take the time and make a gun cake...Adam loves guns, most of all his 1911.

The winner is....The 1911 cake...My mom came over Saturday while Adam was with his brothers. We started at 11:00 Am and finished at 2:00pm. It was a lot of work but it turned out amazing. See for yourself....

The Real 1911 GUN





The Cake.........

Busy Life...What's new....

So much has happened in just the past mouth. With Christmas and parties, Arizona and three wedding coming up this month. Life is a little crazy!!!!!
I just want to share with you a story about one of the Christmas presents Adam got from my Mom...Back in July when we got married my Grandma Dixon asked me to gather up jeans for a jean quilt that she always makes for family when they get married(it was one of my favorite presents)...anyway I told Adam to bring me some of his old jeans so I could give them to my grandma...well he brought some along with a jean quilt someone had started and never finished. He told me that his mom had started it, but died when he was six and never finished it, and then his step mom was going to finish it for his sister Michelle's wedding, and didn't. So my grandma and my mom took it upon the job to do it. I was really excited for his to open this present, it means so much to him. He loved his mom and didn't get to spend much time with her here on this earth. He talks so highly of her all the time...Back to the story...when he opened it on Christmas day, he started to cry, it meant so much to me to see him so happy. We both love cuddling up in the quilt.

This month alone we have THREE wedding going on. The first one was Adam's cousin Josh-who lives in Arizona...so last week we got to go to the sunny state and be warm instead of being cold in Utah. It was a lot of fun and Josh and Kylee look wonderful together...I must say though, my wedding was a lot better in every way! Down in Arizona it was 72 degrees the whole time. I didn't have to wear a sweater or anything, and then on Saturday we come back to Utah and it's like 10 degrees..BIG DIFFERENCE!
Pictures from Arizona

Josh and Kylee coming out of the Mesa, Arizona Temple...Always and Forever.

Cake eating time!!

Ya the shoved it alright...

Mr. and Mrs. Talyor's first dance...

Adam and I at the reception...it was an outdoor reception..only in Arizona..never in Utah in Jan.

My brother in law with his two buddies he brought down with him.

Adam reaching for the gun....He look so cool...

Adam and Jaci, Jaci is Josh's little sister, when the music was playing she wanted to dance so Adam went and danced with her...I love you Adam!!!

Amber, Amber's boyfirend Karl, and Amber little brother


Us out side playing with the camera