Saturday, March 29, 2008

Shady

We got a new puppy about a month ago. Jason's Uncle Kevin got these two puppies from one of his friends in Flagstaff who breeds hound dogs and trains them to be mountain lion hunting dogs. He convinced Jason and I to take one of the puppies from the same litter. She is part red bone hound and part walker treeing hound. She can be so cute and sweet but mostly she is a little "shady" which is why I named her that. She gives Charlie (our other dog) so much grief and thinks she is the empress. She is slowly starting to learn her place but its taking a while. Jason's mom has 3 labs at her house and Shady thinks that she can take them on too, but she learned her lesson when she tried to take food from one of the dogs and got bit. She was pretty traumatized and lost a good amount of blood but she is ok, she just has a small battle scar on her mouth. We are hoping that will get her to learn her lesson...but she surpises us every day.








Camping!

We went on our first camping trip together and had a blast. Since I have never built a fire or put up a tent before Jason thought it would be fun to have me do it all. He threatened that if I didn't build the fire (with no matches or lighters) then we wouldn't have one. So I got myself a little fire starter kit from his dad and got some tips on how to start a fire and I got one going, (Jason helped a little but not much). I was so proud of myself. I started to chop our own wood too (Jason thought it would be fun to watch me try) well I didn't get very far and he did it for me but it was fun to try!







Jason's graduation

The day after we got married, Jason had to go into the Police Academy. When we found out this news it was such a shock because he wasn't supposed to go in until at least September. But just our luck one of the Acedemys in Casa Grande AZ was going to do a summer session, something they had never done before because of the insane heat during that time of year. So about a month before our wedding we found out this news, had to cancel our honeymoon and everything. It was too late to change our wedding date since invitations had already been printed and plane tickets bought. So we stuck with it and it was a very difficult first 4 and a half months of our marriage. We did get to see each other on the weekends so that was nice at least and we snuck in a couple of weekends away to the Valley and to California. It was such a happy day when Jason graduated and I got my husband back full time! Thinking back on everything it was a blessing in disguise to start the academy so soon after we got married, we were able to get it over with and slowly get adjusted to marriage. Jason is now a full fledged officer, he is done with all of his training and is out on the streets of Holbrook....even threatening to pull me over!



The Holbrook Reception

So for the open house in Holbrook, I let Jason plan everything since I planned everything at the reception in California. So we had a camoflage reception. Everything including the cake was in camo, we had a big bbq with is family and we rode in on our 4 wheeler (which is also camoflage). My parents came for the event and they caught a glimpse of the new red neck lifestyle i've got myself into...but I am loving it so far!








Our Wedding!!

What I thought was going to be a very stressful day turned out to be one the the best days of our lives. We were married in the San Diego temple at 9 am and it was such an amazing experience. Neither of us will forget the feeling we had when we entered the temple and saw so many family and friends there to support us and be there for us. We want to thank all of you who sacrificed so much so you could be there to support us. You all have been our spiritual strength throughout our lives and it meant so much to have everyone there in the temple with us. Here are some pictures of our wonderful day!























Welcome!!!

Well we are both bad about keeping up with everyone so we thought it would be fun to start a blog. We will start out from February 7, 2007 when Jason proposed to me at the Salt Lake Temple. Jason was living in Arizona and I was living in Utah. My sister in law Addie had convinced me to go with her to temple square so that she could take some cute pictures of Eliana, my neice. So I went and little did I know that Jason was waiting there for me, and I thought he was in Arizona. It was like a fairy tale, I kept looking at this handsome man across the pond wearing a suit with a gorgoeous boquet of red roses. I kept think it looked a whole lot like Jason, but what would he be doing in Utah and at Temple Square? Well it turns out my romantic imagination wasn't getting the best of me and it was really him, too bad he had to wait there for me in the freezing cold for 2 and a half hours!!! He got down on one knee and he proposed, and 4 months later we were married in the San Diego Temple on June 9, 2007.

Jason showing off the rings (one he bought to trick me it was a walmart ring, the other was my dream ring!)



This is when he got there
still waiting, those roses look so sad waiting alone!
Almost 3 hours later, I'm finally there!