Happy Anniversary!!!

On January 17, Dylan and I celebrated our ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY!! Time flies when you are living with your best friend. As cheesy as it sounds, marriage is the best. It has been the most fun year getting to be together all the time, driving each other crazy, and falling more in love all the time. We are still in newlywed phase, and plan to be that way for a LOOONG Time (atleast until we pop out some little Dylans, which will not be ANYTIME soon). On our Anniversary, we went to one of our favorite restaurants and splurged on some steaks, then came home and ate our 1 year old wedding cake, which was an adventure all in itself:

WE love the Carlisles

The other ones that is. Since we have been back in Albuquerque, it has been so much fun to hang out with our families, especially the little ones. We have been having Sunday dinner, watching basketball games, babysitting on occasion, and going to the zoo with these little ones:

Ketchup...or is it catsup?

Either way I need to "catch up" on life on my blog. I do have a camera, and I do take pictures. Believe it or not we have a pretty fun life. We have no kids, and it is all about us time right now. Here is a little summary of our last month in St. George :

My friend Whitney got married, and I went to another BFF's wedding alone.
I love weddings, but in the future I hope my sweet husband will not be
in the middle of finals week :(

We (I) made the cutest little gingerbread men for my work party. Dylan had
no objections tasting them to make sure they were ok to serve to people.

We went to the temple, and of course to KRAVE with our friends. (Calders are
not pictured, but they were there too!) We miss our St. G friends so much.
Now instead of hanging out with them on Friday nights, we just talk
about how much fun they were and how loserish we are now with no couple friends. (Family does not count).

We hung with Santa, and said goodbye to our fun ward that we grew to love so much.

And we said goodbye to the most fun Primary Kids ever. Don't even get me started on them... best kids ever, learned so much, definitely cried a LOT!!

Dear Nicholas Sparks,

I am not someone who reads books often, so when I sit down to read a book, that means it is darn well worth my time. I enjoy your sappy love stories, and I have read atleast a dozen of your books. I loved Dear John (the book). I thought it was the sweetest love story. I wrote my missionary for 2 years in Guatemala, and this cute story hit close to home. I even talked my husband into seeing the movie Dear John. Why, Nicholas Sparks? Why do you keep selling your stories to movie companies and letting them ruin them? Please don't do that again.

Thanks,
Jessy

PS- Miley Cyrus is in the next movie... really?

Schedule

Before January 19th:

8:00-9:30 wake up
9:30 and on - do whatever the HECK I WANT!!!! This includes but is not limited to: lots of family time, going to lunch, taking naps, going window shopping and drooling over furniture for the house, facebooking, going to dinner with parents (who wouldn't take advantage of this?), going shopping, doing arts and crafts, hanging out with my husband 24/7, etc, etc.

Starting January 19th:

6:00 AM wake up
6:45 out the door
7:40 arrive at work
8:00-5:00 WORK
5:00-6:00 drive home

These are the joys of my life right now. I am becoming an adult. I wake up early and drive almost an hour to work. I guess these are the joys of living in a big city and having to commute to work. I mean, don't get me wrong, the job is worth it. I just didn't think I realized how much I loved sleep until this week. Oh, and how much driving is not that great in traffic.
Work has been good so far. I have a LOT to learn but it is a great opportunity. I may have you all fooled into thinking I am smart or something by scoring this sweet job, but I am still a blond at heart. I left my lights on this morning at work, so they were on ALL day long ( hey it is dark when I leave, and by the time I get to work it is light so I couldn't tell they were on). Luckily, some old guy with a sweet heart helped me out since there was NO way my husband could drive all that way to jump my car. I love being a girl.

I will post pictures later. Promise.

Employed

Well after the long search and the stress of being unemployed for almost a month, I am employed! I am working at Hewlett Packard, and I am very excited for this great opportunity. I start Tuesday, so the lazy days are coming to an end. It's an entry level position for new college grads, so I just barely made the cut. If you want the details talk to me. It's a great job, and we are excited to be making some real money so we can finally start saving for dental school. Thank you BYU, I can finally use my degree that I worked so hard for :)

Update.... It's about time!

Though I don't have any pictures to prove it, we are alive and well in this new year of 2010. (Do we say oh-10 like oh-9?) I am embarrassed to say that it has been over 2 months since our last post, but as a New Year's resolution I promise to be a better blogger...at least for a little while :) We have been busy busy in the past month or so, and we have some big news as well.
WE MOVED HOME TO ALBUQUERQUE!!

We are more than thrilled to be home and with family. It was wonderful for our first year as a married couple to be away and just be us, but it is good to be home. We were sad to leave St. George. We have made some good friends there, and we had a lot of fun while we were there. We will miss our Primary Kids, our aparment complex, our friends, and all of our new friends that we had so much fun with.

In the past month or so we packed up all of our belongings to move to New Mexico, got 1 flat tire on the way (thank you SEARS AUTO for saving the day), had our first Christmas together, have registered for school classes, applied for dozens of jobs (don't worry news to come with this one... I can just feel it), rented a HOUSE (almost too much room to comprehend compared to the 600 sq ft apartment at Azalea), and have LOVED every minute we have spent here with family and every familiar thing there is at HOME! It has been wonderful, and I never want to leave. I know this husband of mine will make me when we are off to bigger and better things (Dental School), but for now we are home and it feels so good.

Workin like a dog...

12 hour work day
2 people sent to the ER for heart attacks
1 screaming lady on the phone for refills (call your pharmacy, crazy!)
no lunch break
7 cases of swine flu
5 butt shots to old men (gotta love testosterone)
1 child throwing up on dad while baby sister falls off table

This is a summary of my day. When things go crazy, nothing hits the spot like this for dinner:

Thank you Cafe Rio for making my day a little bit better.... and thanks to my husband who hates eating there, but loves me anyways.

300

This is the number of a perfect score at bowling. How close did I get? Well, let's just say bowling on the Wii is not the same as reality bowling. Dylan and I went to Stake Conference on Saturday night, ate some home-made chili at our place, and then went over to Dixie Bowl for some leisure time. To top the night off, we ate some McDonald's hot-fudge sundaes...mmmm mmmm good :)

Not to toot my own horn...

But I made an at-home, Pizza Factory wannabe, HEALTHY, delicious pizza at home. I am really into taking restaurant favorites and trying to make them more healthy. I found a really good recipe for healthy and quick whole wheat dough, and then I made low fat pesto sauce (I substituted the oil with lemon juice and tomatoes). I must say, I did good.
I would post the recipe, but I don't actually remember the exact measurements and things I used. It was trial and error, but there was no error :)