Happy Birthday to my Best Friend

This crazy "a" is Rachel. She is my best friend. Today is her birthday. Happy 23rd Birthday Rachel. You are my dearest, best friend. You were my maid of honor, my favorite roomate, and the best companion (before Dylan) I have ever had in life. I love you Rach, from the bottom of my heart.

Brian Regan

We love car pictures for some reason. These are the most common newly wed pics, the close up self shots. Love it.



Meet Drew and Sarah. Our new fave married couple friends. Crappy pic of Dyl and I, but I wanted to introduce you all to them.

Funny. Dylan and I went to see Brian Regan in concert last Thursday night with another one of our married couple friends. (Yes, we have made friends:) And they are really great too). So we went to dinner, and then to Tuachan, the outdoor ampitheatre here in the lovely Cliffs of Snow Canyon in St. George. We had never been to a stand up comedian before, and it was really great. Lots of laughs, especially from the obnoxious obese man behind us who had to repeat everything Brian Regan said. Gotta love that.

Not for the "Faint" of Heart

Update to the blogging world, I got a new job. I am now a medical assistant for a doctor here in St. George. It is pretty great. I know what you are all thinking, I have no medical experience. Well it turns out, taking anatomy 2 times (yes 2 times) has really paid off. My doctor was willing to take a chance on a poor BYU grad who hated her current job (administrative assistant for a property management company, aka fancy work for secretary). So, I started at my new job 2 weeks ago, and it has been great. LOTS to learn, but really fun. Plus the pay is great, I get vacation days, benefits including dental, paid lunches, and holidays. Plus, it's great.
Except for the other day. I am ok with blood and everything, but there was a certain procedure being done on a female's certain parts that was a little too much for me. I was assisting the doctor, when all of a sudden I looked up and heard "Jessy, Jessy, wake up." Yes, I fainted at work. There was no blood involved. Just a procedure that hit a little too intense (it is not common, it was something I had never heard or seen before). I can't go into details because of all these people getting in trouble at work for disclosing info on the internet, but it was crazy. So here I am, the new medical assistant fainting in the examination rooms. The doctor is probably thrilled he hired such a baby.

M-I-C See ya real soon!

And this is why I love him. Tounge out, conentrating on the target, and so determined. He is so great.
Toystory Ride... SO FUN!
I'm not that good at blogging yet so bear with me until I learn to rotate things.
At the Beginning of the best trip yet... we have only been married 3 months so it didn't have much to live up to since it was our first.

Typical "Honeymoon" picture. Gotta love the Mickey Groom and Minnie Bride Ears.
On our way to Disneyland...I love taking pics in the car.

California Screamin....loved it.
Self taken pictures are the thing for newlyweds.

Hate Tower of Terror. Literally my legs were shaking for like an hour aftewards. We are too cheap to buy the pictures so we just take our own.

I FOUND MY CAMERA!!!

Finally, after a MONTH of looking... I found my camera!!! I am kind of an idiot, it was just in my backpack from when we went to Disneyland. (I will post pictures on that later!!) In celebration of finding the camera, we went a little crazy with pictures tonight. Well, not so crazy, more just excited to take pictures of ANYTHING. Alas, here is pictures of out dinner....

Our wonderful dinner that we crated together. Asparagus with lemon, baked potatoes with gorgonzola cheese (you can't see it, but it's in there), and tomato/basil/garlic chicken. I must say I am getting pretty good at cooking:)

Here is my cutie husband eating.... he is always so attractive.

The Biggest Loser

Despite the fact that I make fun of so many people that are addicted to Reality TV, I love it just as the next person. (Besides Celebrity Apprentice, Rock of Love, Flavor of Love, and any other cheap shows that make old celebrities look new again). Well for the past few weeks, Dylan and I have loved watching The Biggest Loser on NBC. Well ACTUALLY I have loved watching The Biggest Loser, Dylan is just a sweet husband. (Hey, I pretend to like sports so he can appease me for a night). But I just wanted to express how much I love this show. It is great because everyone is a winner in reality. They are all trying to lose weight and be healthy, something we all need to do. I usually end the show in tears every week ( I guess I am the LOSER). And despite the irony that I am on the couch watching people lose weight, I still think the show is hands down a "feel good" way to spend my Tuesday nights with my lover.




Oh yeah, and Jillian is kind of a bi.

HoneyMoonin

The night of the wedding we stayed at the Marriott Pyramid in New Mexico, and we don't have any pictures from that night. Trust me, you don't want pictures from that night. But the next day after we opened gifts, we made our trek back to St. George. We decided to stay a night in Vegas for a fun little "honeymoon" night. We got a great deal at The Trump Hotel, which was soooo nice! It had the most amazing view, a huge jacuzzi bath, the most comfy bed, and a TV in the mirror in the bathroom. It was luxurious.

We of course got room service for breakfast. It was our honeymoon, ok. We had to splurge. I know this breakfast may not look like $60 worth of food, and it wasn't. But it was very delicious, and so romantic to eat in our bath robes.

Dylan looking so cute ready to eat. Mmmmm, love him.

I know, I look crazy. But Dylan loves me.
And to top off our honeymoon weekend, we got to have these little cuties stay the night with us our first night as a married couple in our apartment. Best birth control ever.

The process of getting hitched

If you think getting married just entails showing up on the day of the wedding... you are WRONG. Not only is planning the actual wedding hectic, but on top of that there are a million other things to do. You have to join bank accounts, get your credit cards changed into joint names or your new name, change your driver's license, get a new social security card, and change your name on so many records that it is almost endless. Before the wedding you also have to get a marriage license, which is simple but still another little thing to do before the big day. Dylan and I went down to the City Hall office on December 30, 2008 to get our marriage license. It's actually quite simple. You go in, meet with one of the lazy lazy workers, show proof of ID, and pay $25 to get a little certificate that says you can get married. That is all. We took this picture outside to remember the day we got permission from the law to make it official.

Little Moments

Yes, marriage has it crazy moments sometimes. The kitchen is a mess, the living room has school books all over it, and the bedroom door is falling off the hinges (literally, we have a shoe rack that is making it come out of the hinge). BUT- last night is just one of the reasons that it is all worth it. I fell asleep much earlier than Dylan, as I usually do, and as he was crawling into bed as I was half asleep I felt a little kiss on my cheek and him whisper "Good Night. I love you babe." I fell asleep shortly after thinking how lucky I am to have such a sweet husband:)

So this was Christmas....

Ok, Ok I know. It has been over a month since I posted. AND over two months since Christmas. But, I decided to take some advice from my good friend Natalie who once was writing about her past Thanksgiving in her journal almost 6 months later in July, just so she didn't "miss anything important". So, Christmas was spent in New Mexico. This above picture is Dylan and I driving home to the most amazing place ever. Both of us look at our best, but were excited to go home.



Christmas Eve was spent with Dylan's parents in Old Town. They decorate the entire downtown plaza with luminarias (for those non-natives that is a bag filled with sand and a candle). It was so fun to walk around and look at all the lights and luminarias. I love New Mexico, and especially for Christmas. The next day was spent opening gifts with our families, and then with eachother. We ate dinner with my parents, and then went to see Benjamin Button with the Carlisles. The night ended with some "cocoa motion" cocoa. Overall a great Holiday. That was pretty much it for our Holidays since I didn't take anymore pictures. Stay tuned for more of January!!!