sorry for the leave of absence! haha!

So i blocked the blog awhile ago just because some of my husbands friends found the blog and apparantly, somewhere i supposedly said he almost cried... hahaha, well and as guys of course they gave him a lot of grief for it, so i blocked the blog. Lame reason i know, but i was going to find that post and delete it then open it up again, and i totally forgot to open it again!

Anyways.. lets see since i last blogged we got a new puppy in june!!! His name is joey (named after joey from Friends) and he is adorable if you ask me! He is a shit-zu yorkie mix, called a "shorkie" hahah.

He is now 6 months old and so cute and so very very SPOILED! Seriously i don't think we ever go to the grocery store without buying him new treats or a toy! hahah. I'll post pictures of him soon!

Oh..and I got a new job! In july i was offered a job at Mckay Dee Hospital, and I was so excited! I don't live far from there, and it was much closer than my commute to Salt lake every day. Another bonus of the new job?! Working day shifts instead of evening ones = seeing my husband more! and not just on the weekends! YAY! It was the best change ever! My boss is amazing, i love her! And everyone else i work with is awesome too!

So, in August I started the new job. And we also went on a few camping trips.
Actually I'll have to go back a bit, the trips were in July.. hahah... So the first part of july we went to Flaming Gorge with James' Dad and some friends and lots of other people. It was a blast! I didn't take any pics though :(.

Then at the end of july we went to Jackson with my family and my dad's side of the family all were there too. James and I drove up with my little brother and his girlfriend, cuz we couldn't stay the whole week. And while my husband drove, I navigated with maps and directions from my dad... and found out that along the way we missed a turn by an hour... so we went an hour further than we needed to, and it was pretty funny, my husband looked at me like "way to go!" hahah luckily, he doesn't get worked up and mad over hardly anything at all so he just shook his head, and laughed. hahah.

lets see... not much else has gone on lately, since our little vacations its just been work and then home at night to relax! We have had some friends over and had a little party one night, and our friends brought their little girl who is one, and joey absolutely LOVED her, haha, they are the same height so he would jump up and his paws barely reached her shoulders, but he would hold on and go crazy kissing her face hahah, and she loved him too she would just stand there and laugh, it was so cute~

They were pretty much the entertainment for the night lol.

This weekend we are having our parents over for dinner to thank them for all their work helping us move into our house and fix it up! It's long over-due, but between everyone having trips planned in the summer and then some hunting and camping in the fall, plus trying to find enough time to finish touch-up painting, and time to clean and organize some of our extra rooms, we have just a small window to finally get everyone together for dinner before all of the holiday festivites start!

Anyways, I am so excited for the holidays to be here! I am excited to have my own home to decorate for christmas, and though I don't have a whole lot to decorate with it will be so much fun! And one of the best parts is the after-christmas sales to buy all of the cute decorations for the next year at half off (or more)! I can't wait! :)

I also hope to come up with some fun ideas for some new traditions with our little family!! Even just little things, like a certain food/meal that we have christmas eve morning (since we always have more family parties than we can possibly make it to later on in the day and for christmas day) ... or i dunno buying each other christmas themed pajamas to open christmas eve hahaha... just something we can start together and then carry on for when we have kids one day!
....Any ideas?! All my family did was just me and my brother would exchange gifts on christmas eve, and we always looked forward to that! But I want to come up with more traditions!