Families are Forever

When I was working my screen saver popped up with the pictures I have saved on my work computer and these were the first three. They made me smile and remember what an awesome family I have. One night Adam and Cara were up visiting and they stayed at our place. We decided to watch Hairspray and Adam LOVED it. He's pretending to sleep here but he was singing and dancing through the entire show. We are probably going to get it for him for his birthday... don't tell.

This is one of my favorite wedding pictures. I've got my BFF JJ, little Indee, and crazy homeless Brandon.

The next picture will always make me laugh. This was right after Derek's mission. He was "hanging out " with this girl who was kind of weird. Caleb and I switched her name and my name in his phone so when I texted him it would come up as a text from her. (Caleb learned this sneaky trick from Justin Trujillo when he did it to Caleb and told him I was pregnant :) ) Anyway, while we were watching a movie at our place we text Derek and said something like "I love you and I know you are supposed to be my Eternal companion" from her. He read the text and just sat there with a blank look on his face but didn't say anything to us. He said he had to go and we texted him from Caleb's phone after he left and told us it was just a joke... needless to say he didn't think it was as funny as we did :)

Then I went through my pictures and selected some of my family pictures that I especially love and here they are. Brandon and Marci came and helped us decorate for Weber State's Homecoming at the Dee Event Center.

I don't know why but Eric always has crazy expressions in all of the pictures I take. He's normally a decent looking kid even though you'd never know from the pictures. ;)

I just assumed this next picture was payback for making the guys wear pink ties for our wedding.Gabby looks either 1) drunk or 2) belonging to the "special needs class" I can assure you that he's neither.

So many brother-in-laws! I wouldn't have it any other way. :)

Brooke was cranky at our family Thanksgiving Party so Caleb and I took advantage of her orneriness and teased her. (Actually I think Caleb was taking her from me because I was bugging her)

It's okay though because I'm still her favorite aunt. I like to call it "tough love" it makes her stronger.

Here is baby Ashton doing his Bill Cosby impression.

Kimmie and I used to go dancing every weekend. My dad has this picture up in his office at work and tells us how irresponsible we are for turning around to take a picture while driving 80 mph down the freeway.

My mom and dad are such a good looking couple. On Sundays my dad waits until my mom is dressed to pick out a tie for him to match her. How cute huh? I hope Caleb and I grow up to be just like them. (except the whole rotten children part)

Condo for Sale!

We are so excited to place our cozy condo for sale. We used our friend Marie Parks to help us list it. We have had so many good memories in this little place but we are excited to move on to bigger and better things. :) I thought I would do a special tribute to our beautiful Meadow Ghetto.













Almost all of our decorations either were given to us or picked out by Cara our interior designer sister-in-law. Actually, come to think about it, nearly 85% of the stuff in there was specifically from her.

Jeff and Carrie Maas gave us the tile above the fire place that says something about being married to your best friend.

This is the wall that I painted all by myself while Caleb was studying for finals.

My best friend Jennifer Jarrett has her own couch here at our place. (though she doesn't use it nearly enough)

Cathy, Cara, Kristin, and Hannah Cahoon gave us the sign above the sink that says "Bed and Bath You Make Both"

This is the sink that Caleb does the dishes in :)

We copied Adam & Cara and saved all pictures sent from our family and friends and decorated our fridge with them. I realize now maybe we should have taken them down for these pictures... oh well, it's homey.

That beautiful clock is sooooo annoying! It's up for grabs for the first bidder. Let me warn you first that is sounds like a ticking time bomb. We have tried everything to make it quieter. It is so LOUD!!! Sure it's cute, but every time I look at it the time is wrong because Caleb keeps taking the batteries out because it's too loud so we're going to have to part with it.

We took the closet doors off because we were having issues when we both were trying to get ready in the morning. We will probably put them back up tonight.

This is our cozy little office. Sometimes I call it our den. Just because I always wanted a den. I'm not sure what a den is, but this will work for now.

We got a cute shower curtain at our reception but I didn't realize that you were supposed to put plastic behind the cloth so quickly we realized we needed to go buy a new one. Simple task right? Apparently not. This is the nice world map shower curtain that Caleb picked out.

Also, I remember when Brandon used to find random countries and it was our job to locate them. I'm going to miss that. :)

The sides of the mirror comes up so you can see the back of your hair, but sometimes when Caleb and I are brushing our teeth at night we pull them both out and try to find which one the other is looking in. Hey, it's a small place, what else would we do for entertainment?