A little Arizona

We have made it through Christmas and made the move to Arizona! It's been a very fun and event full last month. Both Paul and I have graduated from school, been to Colorado and back for Christmas and moved to bigger and better things in Arizona. We scored a sweet deal on a new flat screen! 55 inch 3D TV! You could say it's a new addition to our family ;) We had a wonderful Christmas with my family. We love going home, it's always so relaxing and refreshing! We are very thankful for such a wonderful family. When we got back to Utah, we prepared for the movers to come. Honeywell is such a great company to work for. The relocation package included movers, including moving both our cars. It was pretty fantastic to have them come!! You could defiantly tell that these guys have moved a few people. The movers looked tall and skinny but got things done fast, one of them picked up the washer, moved it out and loaded it into the moving truck (which was about 5 feet off the ground) all by himself. It was nuts!! I thought he was going to break his back or something! That night, our apartment was empty so we could start cleaning. Once we got it spotless and looking all shiny, then we went and stayed at Josh and Noelle's house. We got to hang out with them on New Year's Eve. We went to Trafalga, which was really fun! For just 10 bucks we each got 2 slices of pizza, a drink, 20 tokens for the arcade and not to mention, Paul and I scored over 600 tickets (so we got a bunch of candy), mini golf, laser tag, dippin' dots, and we still could have done another attraction, but we decided we were ready to go. We watched the ball drop too! It was a very Happy New Year's.
So now we are here is Arizona, we flew down here last Monday. Paul started his job at Honeywell and is really liking it! We are living in Tempe in the temporary housing that Honeywell is helping us with. It's a very nice one bedroom apartment that is fully furnished. We will get to stay in temporary housing for 2 months. After the 2 months are up, we will be looking for an apartment in Scottsdale. Scottsdale is central to all the areas Paul will be working! It's currently 70 degrees here, it's gorgeous! I'm still learning how to get around here. Luckily I have awesome parents that know me all to well, and got me a GPS for Christmas. Hopefully I will also learn to get around myself. We got to see Mariah and Colby and little Keaton this past week. They are living in Tucson about an hour and a half from us. I'm very excited to be near them, hopefully we will get to see them often! I am currently trying to look for a job in Dental Lab Technician. I hope to find one soon, so I don't get too bored. But all in all, Arizona is treating us well and we are enjoying life one day at time:)

Thanksgiving weekend

We had a great Thanksgiving this year. They actually always are good:) It started with news of a big blizzard that was supposed to come on Tuesday. Never came at our house. I heard Salt Lake got some snow, but us, none! It was pretty weird how it all happened, or didn't happen. I was bummed because then I didn't have an excuse not to go to school on Wednesday. So I went for half day then came home and went shopping. Andrea found a really pretty jacket from Macy's! It's a very fancy long dark purple coat. She defiantly looks professional! Happy Thanksgiving on Thursday. We got to go over to Aunt Allison and Uncle Todd's house. It was a great day. Allison loves to make Thanksgiving dinner, and boy, does the food knock your socks off! I'm talking really good!! Turkey, potatoes, yam brownies (best way to eat yams), stuffing, green beans and corn....etc. After dinner we played ping pong for a while watched lots of football. Paul loved that! Of course we got to have pie:) We had I think 8 pies, and 10 people for dinner! Needless to say, we had lots of pie! It was great:) I brought a banana cream pie and made two more for the evening part with the LaClaire's. Well we really didn't need them so we have lots of leftovers!

Thanksgiving is great to sit back and eat, enjoy family and friends and think about all the the things that we are grateful for. Today in sacrament meeting, I heard a quote that I really liked: "If there is something that you want that you don't have, think about something that you don't want, that you don't have." I thought that was an interesting point of view I liked it.

This Thanksgiving I have been really thankful to my husband and his hard work for our little family, my family, Paul's family, My Heavenly Father, health, a roof over my head and food to eat...(I could go on)!

picture day

We had our first family pictures taken! Jenn Davidson did a great job taking pictures of us! Jenn is a friend from LDSBC and we hadn't seen her in a long time, so it was fun see her! We went to Lehi, there were so many places to take pictures in this little area. There were lots of family pictures going on! It was so fun! I think they turned out good:)

What Up 4-8-0 !?

Paul has officially accepted the job offer that Honeywell gave him! We will be moving down to the Phoenix Arizona area in January sometime after we graduate in December. We aren't sure yet where exactly which Honeywell he will work or where we are going to live, but we will obviously figure it out:) He has heard that he might go back working in the Tempe site with his old team during his internship. He loved who and what he was working with, so I think he was happy with this news! We are very excited and feel very blessed to have a great job so fast after graduation. Paul is such a hard working guy and has done so well in getting this job. He knows lots and is actually very professional when it comes to work related stuff! I just love him so much! I don't know how I got to marry such a great guy:)

new glasses

Paul has done very well in school. He makes friends, does his homework and does well on is tests. I hope our kids are just like him. Lately, he has been having headaches and migraines, obviously not good. We talked about a few things that could have caused these mishaps. One of them is reading and on the computer, which is doing lots of both of those in school and gets little headaches while doing school work. So we go get his eyes checked out! Paul has an astigmatism and the eye doc said glasses is a good idea for Paul, but he couldn't tell us that it would get rid if the headaches since there are lots of things that cause headaches. I think having glasses for reading will help Paul, his eyes will not have to strain to read or look at the computer any longer. He got some cool Guess glasses. The eye guy exclaimed to me many times about how much he liked the glasses Paul picked out. I like them too. As you can see he looks very sophisticated and cute:)

New Lamps!

I needed some new lamps in our new little living room! So what better place to go to than the DI right!? So we go, I found this lamp that was pretty ugly and outdated but defiantly had extreme potential. It didn't have a price tag on it, so at check out they lady gave it to us for 3 dollars! I was so excited!!!! After we left DI, I was so ecstatic that we had to go to Home Depot right then so I could pick out a spray paint color for the lamp. I picked a nice chocolate brown!

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The best part is that a couple days later we went to a different DI to find more awesome deals. I went by the lamps to see if there was anything better than what I got, and what I found was the same exact lamp that I had just bought a few days before! It was crazy! I couldn't believe it, I was really excited to have a matching lamp. When we brought it up to the register it was tagged for 5 bucks, and the guy said, "Eh, I'll give it to you for 3!" Awesome yeah!? I love finding good deals, it's rare for me.   

Summer Vacations!

We have had a very fun summer. A couple of weeks ago we got back from vacationing in Minnesota and Colorado! We had a really fun time! In Minnesota all the LaClaires went up a cabin in Hackensack. The cabin was right off a lake called Pleasant Lake. It was fantastic! We fished, boated, ate and partied all week! We love hanging out with everyone. I got to meet Paul's Grandpa Russ, Aunt Vicki and Uncle Pete. It was really cool to meet them.

Tubing was so much FUN!! Curtis has a cool boat and tube. We had such a blast being pulled and whipped around by Curtis. My stomach hurt from laughing so much, and I got blood blisters on my hands from holding on so tight. It was awesome!

We were up at the cabin for my birthday also! It was a really good day. Kim made a jell-o cake that was so so good! I got some great presents! I have such a great family:) Noelle and Josh announced that they are pregnant, due in March 2011! We are all very excited for them! 

We also got to visit Colorado. It was a very relaxing trip. I went through a lot of my old stuff from grade school, middle school and high school. Some of my work was so funny to read that I was crying I was laughing so hard! We also got to go a Rockies game! It was Paul's first time in an outdoor stadium. It was cool, and the Rockies won!!

Now Paul has started school and got back his old job at Dish One selling Dish Network (he is a very good salesman). I start school this coming monday, happy to get back in the swing of things even though my girls at school already graduated. We are excited to both be in our last semester of school! Yay us! :)
Tonight the Vikings play the Saints, and you guessed it, we will be watching it! GO VIKINGS!