Jace Birthday (This is late- but still worth posting.)

Jace's birthday was Feb 9th. and we made the most of it with our busy day/week. The day started out with us scrambling to get out the door on time like usual and surviving 3 hours of classes. Momma T and Ernie came down from filly to celebrate too. They had his gift sent here and so we opened gifts before we left to eat. I gave him some of his favorite goodies and . . .

he got some very nice new shoes - which he needed - from Momma T and Ernie. He got goodies and cards and money too from the rest of the family. Thanks go out to everyone. We took the birthday boy out to lunch at The Pasta Factory. It was so good. He even got a birthday cheesecake. We decided it would be fun to play glow-in-the-dark mini golf since Momma T and Ernie hadn't been before. We had a blast and it was so fun for all of us to act like kids. Jace of course won and I as usual lost. Ernie took second and Gail was one point lower than me. haha.

After they left Jace was so nice to help me study for my Lab practical I had the next day by being my patient and letting me practice on him. He is a good little actor. I kept laughing and messing up, but he just kept on acting like an old man with shoulder pain, or back pain. We had a fun little evening together.

Our First Valentines Day!

This was our first Valentine's Day together. Last year Jace had eye surgery so we didn't get to really celebrate it, but we are so glad he got his eyes fixed. :) Anyway, our Valentines day was so much fun. We celebrated Saturday and Sunday. Saturday we went and did a session at the temple with our friends Rhett and Natalie. It was so much fun and I am so glad they invited us. Oh, I also made Ebelskeivers for breakfast and boy were they good. We went to dinner at Texas Roadhouse since it is our favorite. It took about 2 hours to get seated but their Ribs are worth it. We ate about a bucket of peanuts waiting so we got our money's worth. :) We finished off the evening with the movie Love Happens. It was cute. I recommend it to anyone.
Sunday, the official Valentine's Day, Jace slept in and I got up and did my hair all "cute" and also got his card ready and put it on his computer so he could find it. I also heart attacked our kitchen (covered it in Hearts) with little sayings on them. We walked around and read each one and if it said "HUG ME" or "KISS ME" then he gave me a hug or kiss. It was fun. For breakfast I made "I Love You" pancakes with pink milk, not strawberry. It was delicious. Church was good too and everyone talked about love at home. What better to talk about on Valentines Day! When I walked int he door after church, our table was in the middle of the kitchen with a pink sheet covering it, flowers, 2 long stem candles, a Hershey's candy bar and snickers, balloons and strawberry sparkling Juice. I was shocked! My hubby is so cute and sweet. I just love him. We turned on our song Then by Brad Paisley and danced in our kitchen before we blew out the candles. We had a wonderful dinner, played Five Crowns, and watch The Time Travelers Wife. It was the best Valentine's Day Ever!

Getting Ready to go to Church

I Love You pancakes eggs and pink milk

Leaving for church all dressed up for the holiday

My cute surprise from Jace. The pic's are of him first pointing
at his eye, second his heart, and third at me. He is so creative!

My pretty flowers. :)

What We've Been Up Too!

Well, since school has started we haven't been doing very much besides school and studying. I have classes for 5 or 6 hours a day and Jace for 3 hours! I'm lucky though and get Friday's off, which I am so grateful for. We have no time for anything it seems like, but we are still having fun and making some time for the fun stuff and relaxing. We are still trying to get our new apartment organized and complete. Slowly but surely it will happen, even if that is in a couple months or maybe when this semester is over. Things are going good and school is picking up for both of us with 5 tests this week for me and 2 test and Multiple assignments due for Jace. All with his birthday in the middle of it. We are gonna need all the help and prayers we can get to make it through this week! Wish us luck! :)

Our Humble Abode

Our New Apartment

Here is a little video of our new apartment we are moving into on the 7th. We are so excited to have another bedroom and bathroom, more storage, a dishwasher, and a washer and dryer! We can't wait to get moving!

Our First Christmas

Our First Christmas together was so much fun. Last night we started our celebrating and went to the temple to see the Nativity thats set up and listen to the sotry of Christs Birth. We loved it. But it was a little cold. I loved seeing all the lights at the temple too. After that we went and looked at Christmas lights and stopped to see Uncle Mont for a little bit and wish him Merry Christmas. It was a fun little evening. This morning we slept in and then showered and got ready before opening gifts. We are so blessed to have what we do and to receive so many wonderful gifts from family and friends. Thank you to everyone and Merry Christmas! Enjoy the day and relax like we will be doing. Love you all!

All our gifts sorted for opening.

He got Peanuts!

All the goodies in my stocking! MMmmm.. . . . Snickers!

New Jacket so it matches with everything now.
Yeah! Meat and a fun game from Momma T and Ernie! :)

POPCORN!!!!!

All the bottled food and spcies from Dad and Nancy. They all look so good.

New shirt from Mom for Jace.

I had no idea what this was when we opened it, but after asking my mom what it was I am very glad we got it. It turn our to be a pie or casserole dish carrier. You put the pie in the center then fold the small sides and tie them together then the other long sides have wood hands to carry it with. I love it.

Jaces new helicopter. He loves it. He let me fly it but I ran straight into our beautiful poinsettia and chopped the pretty flowers up. So I don't fly anymore.

My New Boots. :)

After opening our presents and the BIG mess of wrapping paper.

Our New Washer and Dryer we bought for Christmas- we get them when we move

Our New Apartment we get to move into on the 7th of January. Yeah!

Cookin some French Toast for Christmas Breakfast

Gettin ready to eat Christmas breakfast

The NFR in Las Vegas

We were able to go to the National Finals Rodeo on Thursday. It was so much fun. We had really good seats and were able to spent some time with Ernie. Wish Gail could have been there too, but Grandpa and Grandma needed to have some support there. Ernie got 4 tickets from Southwest Gas, a company they do training for. They were really good seats too. Section 111, Row R, Seats 13-16. We had a really good, but overly priced, BBQ Pork Sandwich for dinner and ate it in the arena before the show started. We took tons of pictures and enjoyed every minute of it. The Rodeo was awesome. It was a constant show. There was one rider after another, and event after event. It started with a crazy light and lazer show and introducing all the riders. John Michael Montgomery sang the national anthem and the show began with bareback. The excitement didn't stop after that. We didn't make it on the Jumbotron, but saw some funny people on there. Tuff Hedeman was a judge and Lane Frosts parents were there too so that was cool to see them. After the rodeo was over we left and met another Famous Person. Mitt Romney!!!!!!! Ya, for those of you who don't know who he is, like me until after the piture was taken, he ran for President. It was kinda cool to meet him. He was nice too. Sure wish he was the President.
Anyway, we got home around 1 am and crashed around 2. I had class the next morning so I was really tired, but it was so worth it. Thanks again for the tickets Ernie! It was a blast!

My Very good-looking Cowboy hubby.

We wanted to drive this home but thought people would get Jealous.

The view from our seats. Not to shabby at all.

That would be one cute couple posing for the camera.

All three of us waitin for the Rodeo to start.

The cool light show. I loved it.

Almost all the riders. Texas had 33 qualifiers! Utah had 2 or 3 i think.

Yep. That is us with Mitt Romney.

Ernie is so proud of this picture.