Catch up time!...

I know, I am officially the worst blogger EVER!!! I just get so wrapped up in everyday life that by the time I think about updating the blog I'm just too tired! I'm gonna try to do better, but here is a breakdown of the past couple months.

We had Kalea with us from the first of June till the day after the July 5th. It was a lot of fun having her up here with us. On the 4th we went to the Stadium of Fire and watched the Jonas Brothers. Yeah Curt was probably the best Dad in the world in Kaleas eyes that night. :) On the 13th I left for Ft. Rucker, Alabama for my Warrant Officer school for 5 weeks. It wasn't too bad, just a pain being away and playing the mind games. I graduated August 18th and became a Warrant Officer. Curt flew out to Alabama a couple days before to see me and actually pin me at graduation, I was really awesome to have him pin me!

The second I got home I was busy! One weekend we went hiking up Timpanogos Caves and Bridalveil Falls, hung out with friends, and tried to catch up on work. In September we went to Zions National Park and went hiking with Kalea and Mom. Then we went camping with Dad, Robyn, Glen, Uncle Roy and Aunt Norma, and the kids up to Otter Creek. At the end of that month we went to DC for the week with the Utah Honor Guard and went and saw the sights. That was really cool to go and walk around that area and just soak up the history! The next weekend we went up to Snowbird for Sr. Enlisted Conference. While Curt was in meetings I hung out with Sam and Stephanie.In October we have just been trying to get things organized in our house and figure out what the heck we are gonna do with the house! Curt started finishing the basement and hopefully it will be done before Christmas. Our neighbor, Nick, has been over a lot helping out so that has been nice. The first part of October Kalea actually danced during the halftime show of the BYU vs UNLV football game so we went down to Vegas and spent the weekend with her and watched her dance.

This month has just really been busy with work so far and it has sucked!!! The only good thing is on Wednesday we are taking the kids to Australia for their Birthday/Christmas. Curts cousin lives in Perth, so all we had to do was purchase the tickets and get out there. Kim has been awesome planning our entire trip out there. It will be something that we will all remember!!!

Other then that we have just been enjoying spending time with each other, friends, and family.

I promise I will try to be better at this blogging stuff!

So much to catch up on!

Well, I don't even remember the last time I posted anything on here! Things have been so busy and crazy getting ready for the wedding, then going to Greece for a week, and then going down to Curt's parents for their 50th wedding anniversary; we feel like we need a vacation from our vacation. The wedding was perfect and it was great to see my friends and family. I haven't gotten my wedding pics yet so I'm anxiously waiting for them. Here are some of my bridal pics and our Greece pics, enjoy!

Wedding update

The past couple days Curt and I have been stuffing envelops, ya!... Man there are some things that I just do not like at all when it comes to wedding stuff. It actually took us a couple days to get our invite just the way we wanted it with pics, wording, or whatever so that was a little stressful. But it got done, and we are excited for them! I'll admit I don't have all my address' yet cause we still need to call some people but it should be all done by the end of the weekend! Last week we went up to Millcreek and had our detail meeting to figure all the rest of the details out that they need to do for us on our wedding day.

These are the only things we really have left to do:

-Address lables

-Curt's ring

-Bridal photos

-Register at Home Depot

-Finalize ribbon for flowers and cake

I'm sure I'm missing other things and I'll remember them while I'm in bed and have nothing to write on!

Here are some wedding invite pics that were taken by both Robyn and Steve. I love all of them!!!

Too much to do and no time to do it!

Well, it'as been a while sense I've been on here to update you guys with anything! We finally closed on our house on the 4th of March and was able to start moving in. The house is double what the Townhouse used to be so I now have all this open space to try and figure out what I want to put there. Of course though I pretty much have it filled in now. We went to RC Willey's the other day and bought almost all the furnature we will need to fill in the house. It's not in the house yet (they are delivering it today) but I'm excited to see it all come together. I'll post pictures once I have everything in place. Curt makes fun of me cause I didn't want anyone coming over to the house when we had boxes scattered everywhere and now that the boxes are in the basement I don't want people coming over when there is nothing in the house at all! I know I'm a dork that way, but oh well. I want the snow to stop because I'm excited to start working in the yard. I already have ideas what I want to do out there and we also have some planter boxes outside for a little garden and I already bought some veggi seeds to plant!
With the wedding planning things are starting to come together. The first week I was home we had an appointment to go and meet my coordinator up at Millcreek. This place is perfect, especially for the fact that they do everything! I'll I have to do is go to their providers and pick what I want, and they take care of the rest. We went and met with their flower person and I already have my flowers basically ordered, I just have to make some final decisions more close to the wedding (how many centerpieces do I want...). Then we went and met their cake lady. She is super nice and funny and she makes this chocolate cake that is to die for!!! This weekend we will be in St. Goerge and Robyn is gonna take some invite pics for us then next week my old boss is gonna take some as well. Now all we have left for major stuff is the DJ and someone to marry us. Those are Curt's job so I need to make sure he's on top of that... :) Last Friday we went up to Millcreek for a four course sampling dinner to check out their food and service. The food is soooooo yummy there that I'm excited to eat on my wedding day!
As for work, I moved into my new office last week and I finally have it sort of arranged the way I want it. Of course I'll probably change it around again within a month or so. Before I can pin on my WOC (Warrant Officer Candidate) I have to go to a board on Wednesday in my Class A uniform and answer all these questions that the board members ask. I heard that some of the board members might ask me what the capitol of Bangladesh is (heck if I know that)! They ask those kinds of questions, just to see what our reaction might be and how we handle it. I'm not super nervous, I just want to get it over with!

My first weekend back in Utah

My first weekend home has been a whirlwind of family, house stuff, and wedding stuff.

I flew into the Salt Lake Air Base on Friday at 5:30 AM and almost all my family was there to greet me, it was great! The rest of the day was just hanging out with the family and shopping. Later that night Curt and I were on the phone for a couple hours working out some kinks in our home loan. Yeah that was fun... We had to go though a whole new lender, big headache. but things are working out so now we should close on Thursday (I'm keeping my fingers crossed).

On Saturday I had to go out to Camp Williams and finish up some out processing stuff and pick up the rest of my gear. Afterwords we went to my future house and our Realitor let me do a walk through for the first time. I only saw the house in pics so it was exciting to see it in person. Curt did a great job and I love it! Now we just need to close on the dang thing. We ended up going to a late lunch at Olive Garden with my parents, Curt's parents, our kids, Robyn, my niece Morgan, and the girls friend Taylor. Man, I really have missed REAL American Food! We went to Boondocks and had a blast. The three girls went off runing playing on whatever they could get their hands on and the adults played mini golf. We all had a blast!

On Sunday the girls went with me to David's Bridal so I could try on wedding dresses and Kalea could get a Flower Girl dress. It was a "no hassle" business time. I had looked online for dresses for months in Afghanistan and I new what I wanted. I tried on about eight dresses and (of course) the last dress I tried on was the one! I am super excited for May 15 to come, it can't go fast enough. We got kalea this very pretty dress as well. So wedding things are slowly coming into play. On Wednesday we are going to look at flowers and stuff like that, so that's gonna be another busy day!

Our new house!!!

Well, the past month Curt and I have been looking into buying a new house when I got back. The Townhouse that we have right now is just not big enough for our growing family. We kept going back and forth on weather we wanted to wait until I got home to find a place or do I just trust his judgement and if he finds one that we both would love to just let him get it. Well, we've put offers on about 5 houses and finally last week one of the owners accepted our offer!!!! Curt should be closing on it within the next couple weeks and will hopefully be moved in by the time I get back to Utah so he can just take me to our new house!!! It's in Eagle Mountain, and it's perfect for us! I am super excited about it and once I get home and we get settled in we will have an Open House or something!