Fox Fam

2010-06-29T13:04:00.000-07:00

Jenna, a photographer in my ward, called me up about a month ago and asked if I would do her a "huge favor." She was putting together a more detailed portfolio of her work and needed some fresh faces, thus leading to me posing for her in front of the camera. I was not too excited, actually I wasn't excited at all, remembering my bridal pictures and how awkward I felt posing for those. She actually made the picture taking kind of fun. It started out with some pretty serious posing, telling me not to smile, and kind of awkward, but as the hour progressed it got a little lighter and more natural. Here is some of her work.

"When You Think Tim McGraw..."

2010-06-14T14:20:00.000-07:00

I really need to take more pictures of our little Texas adventures, but at least I got these ones! (Actually I didn't cause my camera battery was dead, so luckily Sarah brought her camera!) Saturday night we went and saw Tim McGraw and Lady Antebellum (Lady Antebellum opened the first hour and half). It was SO much fun! That Timmy is kind of a funny man. He was yelling out "Hallelujah's" "Can I get an Amen?!" and "Can you feel the music in your soul?!" It was pretty funny.....and a bit strange! He also forgot the words to one of his older famous songs which was pretty dang funny.

Some of the boys and Benny. Ben was a good sport; he's not the biggest country fan but he humored us all by gracing us with his presence.
You can see Tim in his white shirt and black cowboy hat. That place was PACKED! I'd like to find out how many people were actually there cause it was amazing.

My Husband Has Been Asleep Since 6 p.m. and I Am Bored!!

2010-05-06T18:43:00.000-07:00

This is kind of a random post, but a friend sent me this picture and I thought it was hilarious so I had to share it. Okay, maybe it's not hilarious to anyone else, but oh boy am I glad I am not 18 anymore. This was one of the teams I played for since I was 12, and 17 of us went on to play college soccer, thanks to two of the best coaches I have ever met. This makes me miss soccer. I miss the competition, the game, the girls, but even more so, having something to work hard towards. I run several miles every morning and lift a few times a week but it all seems pretty pointless without the goal of beating someone at it. I've always worked out to become a better athlete and now I'm just......I don't know what I am now, I guess just an exerciser. Oh well, I still enjoy it at least.

Here's a pic of Ben in front of the Ferrari that he "won," or so he has been telling people. We were passing this Ferrari dealership and he just HAD to stop and take some pictures. Funny boy. Look at how happy he is! ha

We were able to go to a Rangers baseball game a couple weeks back. They were playing the Seattle Mariners so Ben was cheering against the Rangers the entire time. It made me a little nervous at first; I know how these Texans are about football and I wasn't sure if it was the same with baseball, but no fights broke out.

Fun in Texas

2010-04-21T18:42:00.000-07:00

Well, we have been in Texas for little over a month now and we're still loving it. We have been able to do SO many things here, it's been a lot of fun. Above is a picture of when we went to the Maverick's basketball game. The stadium, or rather outside of the stadium, is awesome. I am standing just in front of the entrance but what was cool was that there are 4 HUGE TV screens that move back and forth along both sides of the walls that I am standing in between; the place was really cool.

This picture above is of us, Keith, and Natasha. We were able to go down to Austin 2 weekends ago and stay with them. The pizza restaurant that we are at in this pic was SO good! The place was crazy cause it appeared to be like any other small pizza place but we waited an hour and 30 minutes to get in, but once we did it was well worth the wait (the wait which we spent scoping out the Reggae Fest and looking in various shops). Austin is beautiful, but to be honest I am glad we are in Dallas, I really love Dallas. Ben and I had really hoped to go to Austin when he was applying for jobs but I really believe we are where we are suppose to be and Dallas is perfect for us, not to mention sooo beautiful as well.

Well that's all for now. Hope all of you are doing well. We love and miss you all.

Hello from Texas!

2010-04-01T16:16:00.000-07:00

Well, we're in Texas now and loving it. Ben is loving his work, something I am so grateful for, and I have been keeping busy exercising in our apartment complex gym, cleaning house, making dinners from the Lion House Cook Book, going to the temple, and apply for multiple jobs (I have an internet interview this evening for a job I would love, so keep your fingers crossed!). This Saturday evening we are going to the Maverick's game (compliments of Frito Lay), so that should be a lot of fun.

Thank you so much to all of those who cooked us dinners, breakfast, brought us farewell tokens, and took the time to come and say farewell. We are both so grateful for all of you and your friendship, we really miss all of you; there's nothing like going away that makes you grateful for the people in your life.

A HUGE thank you to my Dad and Mom who came down to help us move. There is no way we would have been able to get everything into that UHaul truck without my Dad's mad skills, and my Mom saved my bacon helping me clean the house so that we could get out of there when we did.

This is what we had to look forward to when we got it all off of the truck and into our apartment. A HUGE thanks to Sarah (my cousin) for coming to help us move in and also to the guys in our new ward who showed up just in time to help Ben carry all of the heavy stuff up to our 2nd floor apartment.

Our living room.

One of my favorite parts of our apartment, our walk in closet. Love it!

Ben in front of the building where JFK was shot. The top right window is where the gunman was found.

This is a cool museum in Dallas, we didn't go in but it looked cool from the outside! :)

TEXAS HERE WE COME!!

2010-02-28T21:23:00.000-08:00

Well it is finally official, Ben and I are moving to Dallas. Frito Lay flew Ben out to Dallas this past Monday, interviewed him Tuesday, flew him home Tuesday night, and e-mail him Wednesday morning for the good news. The past few days have been exciting, stressful, sad, and hectic as we began packing up our apartment, searching online for an apartment, meeting with and saying goodbye to good friends, and making final preparations to leave Cedar City. We both gave our 2 weeks notices, which was one of the happiest days of my life, and began collecting boxes from our work places. They told Ben they want us out there as soon as possible so we are planning on hitting the pavement in 2 1/2 weeks or so. I guess Ben will be managing the guys who deliver the chips and their truck routes. The first 3 months of his training he will be in the trucks with them in order to gain an appreciation and understanding for what they do, this means he may be up at 3 a.m. or so to begin work; luckily that part is only 3 months long. We are so excited for this opportunity and extremely grateful for the blessings we have received these past few months. We are going to miss all of you here in Cedar and, of course, our families and being so far away from you all, but this will be a good change, at least that's what I keep telling myself to keep from being homesick and sad already. But anyway, kind of a long post, and without pictures (that's always my favorite part of all your posts') but I was excited so I thought I'd write. Texas! Yay! (never thought I'd live in Texas, I absolutely hate the Dallas Cowboys so this should be interesting!)

Winter Updates

2010-02-18T08:19:00.000-08:00

Well, since I have slacked off the last few months you're gonna get an overload of updates, but here goes. Ben and I went to Vegas this past month. It was the perfect vacation.
This was cool, we went to the new City Center, it is massive! They had this cool waterfall that surrounds the roundabout where cars come and go.
This was in the new mall at the City Center. They had the coolest displays, that building is beautiful, it's not finished yet so I'm sure it'll be that much cooler when they finish it up.
Okay, so we found a stellar deal for a one night stay at the Palms and they just so happened to update us to a suite overlooking the entire valley, the strip included, for free! It was AMAZING!! 3 flat screen tv's, as if you need that, a full kitchen, living area with couches and chiars, king size bed, and the sweetest bathroom. Ben and I took millions of pictures with the hope that maybe some day we could build a home and design our bathroom the exact same way.

The shower was awesome cause it had nozzles hitting you at all angles. It also had a full jacuzzi tub right next to it.
Christmas was nice, short but nice. Ben and I were able to go up to Santaquin for 2 nights. Ben surprised me with a touch iPod, big shocker. I love it.
My parents surprised Ben with his favorite gift, a Payten Manning jersey. Later, when we were in Vegas, we found one for me. Of course we sported those for all of the Colts games, including the unfortunate loss during the Super Bowl. Sad :(

This was our costumes for Halloween. We were Big Smurf and Lil' Smurf. I covered every visible part of my body in blue, Ben stopped at his face, neck and arms, something I wished I had done since I couldn't sit on anything without leaving a trail of blue. We had fun with it.

Fall in Cedar City

2009-10-15T12:23:00.001-07:00

Well I have finally figured out how to put pictures on to this laptop so I guess I might as well catch up on my blog. Lots has happened since I last posted. Ben is now working at the State Bank of Southern Utah and seems to enjoy it well enough; the 70 year old woman who sits next to him at the window seems to keep him on his toes, never know what's going to come out of her mouth or other body parts (I think she may be hard of hearing because she tends to let smells slip occasionally! I think it's hilarious!)
I am currently not in school and just working at the Sports Authority. Work is slow and boring most the time but I really can't complain, we have numerous people come in daily looking to fill out an application in desperation to be employed so it does make me grateful for the job that I have.
Below are some pictures of the past few months.

Some friends came over for some fun and Ben busted out pin the tail on the donkey! ha we had fun with it.

Karlee and Andrew were our co-champions.

Karlee and I got covered in cow crap and mud on our 4-wheeler ride up to a cabin that we stayed at with a group of friends. Karlee really got covered in the wheel flipping poop that pretty much sprinkled her body from head to toe, ha sorry Karl!

We love camping!!!

Oh the power of a Magic Eraser!!! I have scrubbed and mopped this kitchen floor a million times but could never get rid of that dirty look so I turned to another option. Mr. Clean's Magic Eraser!! I went through 7 magic erasers before I got that floor sparkling. Love those little magic squares!

I was able to go up to Santaquin and spend time with my sister and her three adorable little girls.

My Mom, sister, and her girls all met up with the Garner's for breakfast at Mimi's. Love this girl! It was fun to see Steph and my "other" family.

Oh just look at that face! Pure joy and excitement. I finally caved and got Ben a wii for his birthday. He has been begging me to let him get one since the day we got married (well, almost!). For his birthday I gave him a watch that I was able to get with my stellar discount at the Sports Authority, we went out to eat, then had friends over for cake and ice cream. It wasn't until 11 at night that I surprised him with this. He was totally surprised and said he will owe me the rest of his life.....he shouldn't have said that! I now expect back massages and foot rubs whenever I desire!

Yesterday we went up the canyon to look at the changing leaves. It was beautiful up there.

Busy Summer Times

2009-06-22T08:42:00.000-07:00

I've been slacking. Ben and I don't have internet at our apartment anymore since our bill jumped up $25 more dollars a months and we ditched it.

This summer has been SO busy!! Ben and I are both taking a summer class which ends next week! Thank goodness!!! It has been killing me. Also, I got a job at the Sports Authority so that has been taking away any free time that I have in between studying......one more week!

In between all the busyness, we have found some time for small fun projects (I guess not so small).
First, we sanded down our table, the one that my parents gave to us. I thought it looked pretty good until one of our friends came over and asked, "oh good, you're going for the trailer house look!" So now I am second guessing our newly furnished table. Oh well, it works for me.

I'm SORRY!!!

2009-04-03T21:01:00.000-07:00

I am terrible at April Fools jokes, or apparently I am TOO good at April fools jokes, but I am going to refrain from ever doing another April fools joke again since I feel so bad. To all of those that believed my very unkind joke, I am sorry. Whitney, I heard that you put together a gift basket and was going to send it down with Andrew and Tyler.....I'm so sorry!!! Thank you for the thought though, that was so nice of you! As pay back, when we really do get pregnant you don't have to ever give us anything, well you wouldn't have to anyway but you really shouldn't just because we are so mean.

The past two days I have been at the Utah Dietetics Association annual conference in SLC. Cache and Hailey let me crash at their house so that it was only a small drive each morning. I had a lot of fun with them, it's always nice seeing them since I hardly ever get to.
I had to present my undergraduate research and poster to several hundred people. There were several judges analyzed all of the posters (around 30 total from the U, USU, BYU, and SUU) which made me really nervous. Afterwards there was an awards luncheon at which they announce that I won the best research poster for the year and recieved a $100 check, that was exciting. It was also really nice because is set me up to meet the head director at the U who decides who is accepted into the Master's program there (which is the program I want to go to when I am done at SUU). The director told me to be sure to send a resume his way and said he looks forward to seeing me again in the near future. He also contacted my instructor and told him to be sure to get me to apply at the U. Yay! Guess we'll just see what happens.

My Eggo Is Prego!!!

2009-04-01T09:42:00.000-07:00

So I have some exciting, scary, stressful, but happy news.......I am pregnant! Ben and I have been talking about getting pregnant since we are both graduating in 4 weeks, but we didn't expect it to happen so soon! I am a little freaked out, actually a lot freaked out, but also very excited. My first doctor appointment is in 3 weeks. Until then I don't really know what to do! Can I still work-out like I have been? I mean, I know they say to keep working out just don't do vigorous exercise, but this is all so very new to me. I can't wait to get some answers from the doctor. Mom has been helping me out a lot, with all of her experience she has been able to calm me down. Anyway, I gotta go to class. My picture uploader is taking forever so I'll have to post the picture of our pink positive pee stick later!

Love you all!!!

Happy Birthday to Whitney Also!!!

2009-03-24T16:19:00.000-07:00

I feel awful! I failed to mention yesterday was also my dear sister-in-law Whitney's birthday!!! Sorry this is a day late Whit but we do love you and have not forgotten! The first time i met Whitney was just a few days before Ben and I were to be wed (now there's some cheesy writing for ya...wed! ha nice.. okay back to the purpose of this blog). She was staying with some friends in Sandy? and Ben and I drove up there so that we could meet. I was surprised by how nice and accepting she was to me right away. She gave me a great big grin and hugged me immediately, I immediately felt comfortable around her. Thanks for your love and friendship Whit, you're awesome!
Sorry for no pictures, we don't have any on this new laptop.
Anyway, HAPPY BIRTHDAY WHITNEY!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CACHE

2009-03-24T09:46:00.000-07:00

Yesterday was my dear brother Cache's birthday and since I was unable to get a hold of him yesterday to wish him a happy birthday and ended up singing to his answering machine, I thought I would just pay him a little tribute on this hear blogging network. Oh and since he probably never looks at these blogs, Hailey, you can drag his skinny butt over to the computer. HAPPY BIRTHDAY CACHE!!! I love you!

Love SPRING BREAK!!!

2009-03-20T20:21:00.000-07:00

Lots has happened in the last couple of weeks. Two or so weeks ago I played in an indoor futsol tournament; it was fun to see all the girls and play a little soccer again.

This past week was Spring Break. Ben and I drove down to Vegas with some friends, Zach and Tarah, and staid the week at a town home that Zach's parents own just about 10 minutes from the strip. We has SO much fun!!

We went to Red Rock Canyon and hiked around for a day.

Went to a semi-pro Hockey game.

Did some laying out and swimming, of course! Ben made nice with some of the guys at the pool and they decided to race across the pool and back, Ben won. As you can see in the picture below he had a large lead. Woo Woo!

Saw the Blue Man Group! They were awesome. Cool thing about it was that we got a student discount which dropped the price to $32 instead of the guy sitting next to us who paid $110! Nice!

Long Week

2009-02-27T16:20:00.000-08:00

This week has been a long one for both Sutton and myself. Lots of meetings and classes and late night projects. I had my interview last week with D.A. Davidson and it went well. It turned out that the manager who interviewed me knew one of my professors very well and that professor and I have a good relationship so it was a great thing. I'll find out in March if I get the internship. Other than that things are really clicking. Lots of excitement to be had.

Former Soccer Player

2009-02-24T21:15:00.000-08:00

Mom and Dad came down last weekend for my last post-season soccer banquet. Every year we have an end of the season banquet to stuff our faces, reminisce on past memories, hand out awards, and eventually say "peace out" to the seniors. Unfortunately this year I was receiving the "peace out." Although I am happy to have an afternoon to do whatever I want, I do miss soccer.... A LOT! I miss the girls, the drills, the exercise, the fun of soccer, and the large amount of endorphin release one receives from running for 2 hours everyday. Things I don't miss? Some of the inevitable drama that accompanies being around 19 girls every day, having to do homework later in the evening, my knees popping out, and practicing in freezing cold weather. Kimly and I had to come up with a gift for all of the girls on the team, we had a pro slide show DVD made for each girl comprising all of our favorite pictures and videos that were captured over this past year, everyone really enjoyed it I think. The coaches gave all the seniors our jerseys, some chocolate kisses, and a DVD recording of our last game played in the conference tournament out in Western Illinois when we unfortunately lost to Oakland in double over time (a real heart breaker). Well I am done reminiscing here, it is making me depressed. Tomorrow I am playing in a 4 v 4 indoor tournament so that should be a lot of fun.

Defective Genes

2009-02-21T15:21:00.000-08:00

Alright, so I am with Hailey in the fact that Ben and I have decided NOT to procreate! Wow! Funny thing, Hailey, you said Cache thought they were cute, Dad said the same thing! And he was sincere about it. Men are blind to certain things I guess cause these rugrats are scary!!!

WOWZERS!!

2009-02-12T16:25:00.001-08:00

So it has been a long long time since I have blogged but I blame it on Ben since I have tried numerous times to but have been unable because my account was not letting me....turns out Ben had this whole shinanigin under some other account and I didn't know it (we won't mention that it took me forever to figure out on my own). Anyway.... Ben's birthday, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas were loads of fun! Rachel, one of my good friends who happened to be stuck with me our freshmen year, had a beautiful little boy. Shout out to you Rach! And I think that sums up all the big stuff.

Ben and I are all set up to graduate on May 2nd at 9 a.m. We are both really excited but also a little worried for what the future will hold, or lack to hold,(i.e. jobs!). Ben is applying for an internship in Montana, it will only be a summer thing but it would be a really great opportunity for him; we find out next month if he got it. I will be taking a couple grad school pre-reqs next fall and then hopefully I'll be accepted into a master's/RD program the following fall. Also, Ben plans to go to grad school and get an MBA but he is going to work for two years first since the majority of MBA programs require it.

Anyway, sorry for the overload of boring information, next blog won't encompass 5 months worth.....hopefully....but I think I've got this down now so no worries.

Okay so this is the only picture I was able to upload due to an "internal error" with the picture uploader thing. Always difficulties with me I swear!