Wreath

Yesterday I got together with my friends Alyssa and Jacie and we all made cute wreaths! Jacie saw a cute wreath on this site so we figured we would all try it! I of course forgot my camera, so I don't have pictures of their wreaths yet, but here's my end result:

Red Burlap Wreath

 The thing that's great about this wreath is that it can work for a ton of holidays/events. It not only works for Valentines day, but all I have to do is add a White "U" to it and it could work for Utah games, add an American Flag for 4th of July, something Christmas-y for Christmas or just a plain red wreath for all year round.

Now it's a Valentine's Wreath!

If you're wanting to do the wreath, it takes forever! It was a lot of fun because we were all doing it together and could catch up with each other, but if you do it alone, be prepared to have at least 3 hours to do it from start to finish. Oh and if you use a hot glue gun, make sure it's a low temperature glue gun; the high temperature ones will take you even longer to make the wreath.

They all turned out way cute and we had a lot of fun! Hopefully there will be some more cute crafts to come!

Very Blessed.

Now that I'm working full-time, all I do is sleep, wake up, go to work, come home and sleep (repeat 6 days a week) 

My amazing husband.

This is only my second week, but Ryan is already picking up all my slack! Since Ryan is the first one home (he gets off at 2:30pm) he has started making dinner for everyone, which we all appreciate. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, I work late til 8pm so my work feeds us (which is a pretty awesome perk! On Tuesdays our Team Leader pays for whatever dinner they buy us and on Thursdays the whole company gets catered and the company that caters for us is Andrea's family's business, kind of cool) so on those days I don't eat at home with everyone else, so they can make stuff with disgusting onions and stuff, so they're happy about that.

On top of Ryan making dinner, he has also helped me out a ton with Laundry. Tonight I got home and found Ryan in our room folding laundry (Boy do I love that guy!) I've always hated doing laundry, but Ryan has apparently hated doing it even more, so I've always been the one doing it, but thankfully Ryan helped me out with not only doing laundry this week, but folding it all too. It's nice to come home after a long day of hard work to an amazing husband. Aren't I spoiled?

On a side note of other blessings: My sister Tammy gave birth to my nephew, Coal Smithson Flake this past Tuesday Night. Coal is perfectly healthy and weighed 9 lbs 2 oz and 22 inches long and he's doing great. After giving birth, Tammy couldn't stop bleeding. They did 4 D&C's and the bleeding still wouldn't stop. They finally had to give her a blood transfusion and "plug" her up with a lot of gauze to see if that would help stop the bleeding and if that didn't work, she would have to have a hysterectomy. Lets just say, we were all freaking out that night, not knowing what was going to happen. With lots of prayers and good doctors, the bleeding stopped and they didn't have to do a hysterectomy. Tammy has almost fully recovered and her and Coal were discharged from the hospital today. 

I'm so relieved that there weren't any further complications and it really makes me think. Ryan and I want to have a family someday, not now, but someday, and there are so many things that can go wrong with pregnancy. We don't even know if I will be able to get pregnant or have children, but even when that does happen, there are so many things that can go wrong, and who knows, maybe I'll have an issue with bleeding as well. I don't know, I guess I'm just grateful for the fact that as long as I have faith in knowing that what happens is the way it's meant to be, then I'll be fine. Does that make sense? Maybe not, but I'm so grateful for my amazing husband and family. I love having more nieces and nephews added to the family and can't wait to have children of my own someday if that's what's in the cards for us.

Lots of Cake!

With my new job, I work 6 days a week (I'm not complaining, I'm grateful for a job, it will just be an adjustment) so from now on the weekends will go way too fast, so why not pack as much stuff into them as possible? So that's exactly what we did this weekend!

So this weekend started off with my friend George's Birthday Party on Friday night. Sadly I didn't get pictures, but we had a lot of fun catching up with friends and hanging out and eating some yummy Funfetti cake and Ice Cream!

Saturday consisted of both of us working and then going over to Ryan's parents for lasagna! We then went home and finally watched Inception.

We were originally Triple Booked on Sunday, but we moved the dinner with Ryan's Parents to Saturday, but we were still double booked on Sunday, which just makes the day even more fun!

My cousins on my Mom's side that live in Utah like to try to get together for dinner and games every few months, and it just happened to be this Sunday. 

Me asking Ryan to smile...

We usually meet at one of my cousin's houses, but this time we met at a nice Reception Hall (pretty fancy, I know). 

Fancy pants!

Some of the family from the second floor.

This place really is gorgeous!

We met there because it's owned by one of my cousin's family, so we would have lot of space. There ended up being about 24 people there, maybe more if we include the babies. But we had a lot of fun hanging out and catching up with some family members. Ryan and I brought a Red Velvet cake for dessert, making that cake number 2 for the weekend. 

Me and my niece Sierra

Parker trying to shove slobbery bread into Aunt Kammy's mouth. Sick!

Bailey, Tanner, Brooklyn and Caitlin playing upstairs

Bailey and Sarah

After dinner, we headed home to celebrate Ricky's Birthday with a bunch of friends. A friend brought over his Kinect game so we had a lot of dance offs goin on. It was quite enjoyable to watch. I recorded a ton of videos, but it takes way to long to upload them, so that's not gonna happen. And ending the cake count at 3, was Ricky's awesome German Chocolate Birthday Cake. 

Happy Birthday Ricky!

We definitely had our cake and ate it too this weekend!

More Free Stuff!

The free 5x7 picture book came today! I love it! Especially since it was FREE!

We now have a book about our Thanksgiving Trip!

The book turned out way cute! Gotta love good deals!

On a side note: Training is going great! I have a lot to learn when it comes to sales, but it will be good information to learn! We love having two cars and are excited to finally progress towards our goals!

Kinect

 After watching a really bad Zombie movie last night, we went over to our friend Greg's to play Kinect. Kinect is the new video gaming system that doesn't need controllers, it senses your body, so the games are a lot more interactive! It was a ton of fun! Here are a few pictures!

Ryan having fun!

Lish and Greg trying to plug holes in an underwater glass cage that sea creatures kept breaking into.

Ryan jumping all over the place playing an adventure game!

Ryan playing the bean bag toss, which he got more of Greg's bags in the hole than his own.

On a random note: I got a free 16'x20' Calendar Poster! I became a fan of "Savvy Shopper Deals" on Facebook, and one of the deals this past week was getting a free Calendar Poster! Well it came in the mail yesterday and we love it! Especially since we got it for free! I also ordered a free 5'x7' Photo Book, and I should get that any day now. I love free stuff!!

What we got!

This is a bad picture, but the pictures all came out amazing! Plus, at the end of the year, we can cut the pictures up and frame them! Woot woot!

Hyper :)

Today was a long day which ended with me and my friend Lish being extremely hyper due to sugar rush, tiredness and who knows, maybe the punch was spiked?

The day started off with Lish and I heading to our friend Bill's Sealing at the Mt. Timpanogos Temple. 

The happy couple! Bill and Cassi

Cassi was pretty cold, but she had reasons to be!

After the wedding and a few pictures out in the 20 degree weather, we ran a few errands and went to the Luncheon at Golden Corral. That was my first time going to Golden Corral, and it was pretty dang tasty! Very enjoyable when it's good food and friends! We then headed to Lish's sister's to hang out. I was able to read a few good books like, "The Very Hungry Caterpillar", "The Giving Tree", "Everybody Poops"-Which I learned a lot from haha, and "The Cat in the Hat"-Which I personally found it to be too chaotic for me. 

My favorite one of the day!

Ryan then met us at Katie's house and we headed over to the Reception where we signed the guest book, said hello to the couple again, ate some yummy desserts and got really hyper. Lish and I made up some games at the table, including; "How many rocks can you fit in your hand?" (by the way, there were cute rocks that were surrounding the vases on the tables) and "Lets see if Suzie can feel it if I throw rocks at her arm." Lets just say, we had a LOT of fun!

Them cutting their cake!

On a randomish note: We got a car! 

It's a 1994 Chevrolet Cavalier RS, and we have decided to name it AQUAMAN!

We bought it from my former roommate Hannah and her Hubby who had an extra car that they didn't need. So now Ryan and I won't have to carpool! Woot woot! It may not be fancy, but it will get us from point A to point B!

I got a job!

After a year of looking for work (yes it's been a whole year) I've finally gotten a job! 

I'm pretty happy about it!

Actually, I'm more like...

Freakishly excited about it!

I know that everything happens for a reason. Even though life would have been easier getting a job sooner than now, Ryan and I have survived. We have been humbled immensely this past year and are grateful for all of our challenges. We've gone from having our own apartment, to living in an unfinished basement, to renting a room from friends-and we have appreciated everyone's help through these hard times. We wouldn't have survived without friends and family, thank you! We're not out of the woods yet, but this is definitely a huge step towards getting there!

I start training on Monday at PMI (Professional Marketing International) in their sales department. It's located right by Thanksgiving Point, so it's way close. Ryan and I are in the process of purchasing a friends car so I will be able to get to and from work without having any issues trying to carpool with Ryan. I'm kind of scared about doing sales because I haven't done it before, but it will be an adventure!

Quelf

I think I have fallin in love again, but this time, it's with a board game and it's name is...

Quelf

 It makes people do all kinds of crazy things, such as...

Hold each other's hands if you're both on the same spot,

not allow you to bend your arms or legs when it's not your turn,

dramatically act out a ridiculous sentence on a card without laughing,

put on someone else's sock and use it as a hand puppet for the whole game,

have a thumb war with yourself and have everyone else guess which hand is going to win,

(it was pretty intense)

shove a whole tray of ice cubes down your pants and keep them there until you roll a 6,

wear a bowl on your head until the end of the game,

make a snorkel out of things you could find,

 and much much more! 

As you can see, Ryan and I went over to Jeremy and Kara's tonight for some dinner and a lot of fun! This game is a cross between Cranium and Awesomeness! I strongly recommend this game to anyone that is willing to have a good time!

Resolutions?

Happy New Year!

Lets be honest, how many people make Resolutions and keep all of them throughout the year?

If you're like me, then you've probably not kept all of your resolutions if any of them for a whole year. So why should I make a "New Year's Resolution List" if I'm not gonna do it? So, I'm not. 

But thinking about the past year, I would love to change a few things. Besides the obvious thing such as weight and all other typical "Resolutions" that everyone else says they want to work on, I'd like to maybe do something random.

1. I'd like to Make-up on some of my childhood that I apparently never experienced. Weird huh?

Well, I'm tired of people talking about Children's Books, Shows or even Movies that I've never heard about. I can't even count how many times people, aka, Lish has said, 

"Seriously, Suzie? You haven't seen, heard or read that when you were a kid?!"

And No, I haven't. I don't know how or why, but I apparently didn't have a childhood. 

I was never read bed-time stories, in fact, we never had books growing up. And I'm 100% serious. The only book I remember having on a book shelf growing up was called "The Littlest Angel".

All I remember about this book was that there was a little boy that died and went to Heaven, kind of morbid.

So, if any of you will let me know of some books, shows or movies that you loved growing up, I would love to look them up and read/see them this year! Hopefully I can get some Childhood moments in now that I'm 22 years old. Better late then never?