GO JAZZ!!!!!!!!

I just want to take a moment and thank a man that has influenced my life, simply by allowing the Utah Jazz to remain in Utah. Thank you for your dedication, humility, and your example. Thank you Larry, thank you for all that you have done for this state, your religion, and everyone. I am sad I didn't learn of some of the amazing things you had done until today at work when I read about them. Thank you for reaching out and helping individuals to get jobs they needed, and thank you for the buildings you built to help others. Thank you for what you did for everyone, and especially thank you for the entertainment of the Utah Jazz. I hope this season will end well for you and for the team. GO JAZZ!!! He definitely was a man who loved Utah. Thank you.

"Go about doing good until there is no more good in the world to do." -Larry H. Miller

EXCITING news!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MATT PASSED HIS LOAN OFFICER TEST!!!!!!!!!!!! this is something we have been stressing about since last September!!! after hours of studying and hard work...he went to Sandy to take the test. the test took FIVE hours! ugh! but...it all paid off and he is now a loan officer :) we are hoping that this opens up some more doors for us in the future.

Now for some other exciting news....Matt is re-taking his accounting class this semester...and he feels like he's finally getting it!!!!!!! YAY!! we are really hoping that he can get accepted to the business school this semester--only a few more weeks until he applies! keep your fingers crossed for us!

ok....well, i guess as exciting as all that news is...we have even MORE exciting news-- WE'RE HAVING A BABY!!!!!!!!!!!! it's still a little early...but the baby is due this August! :) we are so so so SO excited!!!!!!! we've been to the doctor once already and are super excited to be going back in two weeks :) we had a blast telling our families this last month--and we even caught some of it on video! anyway...we are ECSTATIC! we can't keep it in anymore :) hopefully in two weeks all this AWFUL morning sickness---which is NOT just in the morning but ALL DAY---will be gone! thank you zofran--my new friend :) here are some funny new pregnancy experiences we have had lately:

1. we had to go get wingers at 10:30 one night because i was craving it SO bad! then....i proceeded to eat all of my wings plus half of matt's! usually it is the other way around!!!! oh well...
2. the four things i CANNOT handle right now are: french fries, cheese, mint, and mexican food (especially anything with refried beans!!!) oh man....NO GOOD!
3. we tried to go out to dinner the other evening to Goodwood BBQ. it didn't last very long. i thought i was going to be sick the whole time we were sitting at the table. poor matt. anyway, after a few bites of food we boxed it all up and left. i'm such a boring date!

well...i guess i better call it a night...since my new bedtime is...yep, right now. ha ha ha! i rarely make it past 8:3o or 9:00 PM now...i'm such a boring wife. thanks, matt, for putting up with me!!!! you're the best :)

Jazz game round two!!!!!

I was on ebay the other day (two and a half weeks ago) looking for tickets to the Utah Jazz and Cleveland Cavaliers game so we could go see Lebron James, but while I was looking I found some sweet lower bowl tickets for $80. I thought it would be fun for Jen and I to go to a game in the lower bowl since we both have never been so close before, so I bid and actually won!! So tonight we went and enjoyed the game, it was a blast, and now we want to always sit in the lower bowl! We also snuck in our video camera and I am going to see if I can get the video on here somehow. Anyway, enjoy the pictures!

As you can see our seats were pretty close, we absolutely loved it!!!


And I think I got the video to work as well. Go JAZZ!!!

Poor Dad!!

We are proud to report that my Dad's (Matt's Dad) quadruple bypass heart surgery was successful!! He is doing well and just in recovery, hopefully he recovers quickly!

Jazz Game!!!!!

Well, last Wednesday night I got a phone call from Stacey (calling from a suite at the Jazz/Hornets Game) she knows I am a huge Jazz fan, and was trying to rub it in a little, but all in good taste. I will be the first to admit that I was very jealous of my sister, but Friday night Jen's cousin (Allie) invited us to the Jazz/Piston game on Saturday. So right as introductions began, I called and returned the favor!! GO JAZZ!!!!

Introductions before the start of the game.

Warming up.

The opening tipoff!

Last but not least, their best player!

Babysitting

Friday was a day full of surprises for us. Matt works every other Friday, so yesterday was his day off. He had loads of homework to complete, and also wanted to put up our Christmas lights and finish painting the trim we repaired last week in our house. Anyway, our neighbor Mike works construction. He and Matt were at Home Depot yesterday getting some supplies and Mike asked Matt if he wanted to come help him finish up a job in American Fork. He said he would pay him an apprentice's wage. Who doesn't want a little extra cash, especially around the holidays? So...Matt went with him, and I think they had a lot of fun.

Anyway, on my way home from work Matt and Mike were busy putting up Christmas lights on Mike's house. I stopped to take a look at them and see how they were coming along. While I was there, Mike got a phone call from his wife, Andrea, saying she had been in a car accident. The accident happened pretty close to our house, so Mike hopped in his truck and we got in our car to go help. Unfortunately their 3 children had been in the car during the accident, so they were pretty scared. By the time we arrived on the scene a nurse had already come and taken them across the street to the hospital. Andrea was pretty shaken up. :( So, I stayed with her while she filled out paperwork and talked to the police while Mike and Matt went to check on the kids. Andrea's brother had also been in the car at the time and he was pretty cut up. Anyway...sorry about all the details...eventually Matt and I got to take the kids so the parents could get everything straightened out. So...we got to babysit 3 little girls- Lindsey (4), Holland (2), and Halle (6 weeks) for a few hours. They were so sweet and adorable! Lindsey walked into our house and said, "Oh my...your house is beautiful!" Ha ha ha! Isn't that cute? The girls had fun playing on Matt's banana chair while watching Cars and eating fruit roll-ups. It was a fun night for all of us! :)

Exciting News!

Ah!!!!!! It's almost been a month since our last post!!!! YIKES! What can I say, we've been so busy!? I kept procrastinating posting because I have all these fun pictures of birthdays, Nutcracker, etc. that I want to post. BUT...of course, they haven't been uploaded to the computer quite yet. So...more updates are coming.

Anyway, I got some super exciting news this week! It is DEFINITELY "blog worthy". Ha ha ha. On Wednesday at 5:30 pm I got a call from my little sister Stephanie. She is a Senior right now and is super active on her high school track team-- mostly doing hurdles. Yeah, I know, she's pretty amazing. How ANYONE can "leap" over those things blows my mind! Anyway. The University of Utah has been "recruiting" her for the past little while for their track team. They even gave her 8th row tickets to the BYU vs Utah football game!!!!!! I KNOW!!!! Jealous yet? Ok, back to the story. So she called me on Wednesday and said this, "Guess what!? The University of Utah just called me and said, 'Well Stephanie, the next step in our recruiting process is to make you an offer. If you join our track team we will pay for your tuition, books, and fees.'" In other words, my sister got a FULL RIDE scholarship to the U of U!!!!!!!! :) We are so so so excited! Congrats Steph! We are sad she won't be down in Provo to hang out with us...but she will kick some serious butt on Utah's track team! :D