Random

Not a lot has been going on in the Wheelwright household this past month.. which is why this is going to be a random post. My Aunt Jessica had her baby boy about 2 months ago so I got to see him when they came up for dinner. He is so tiny and cute! I love him. Brad was gone to Florida selling during our spring break so he has not been able to see him yet. 

Speaking of Brad selling.. Our plans have changed. For those of you who don't know, APX alarm has changed it's name to Vivint. Originally our plan had been to go to Pensacola, Florida for the summer while he sells for vivint. Now we are going to Texas.  The team went to sell in Florida during spring break, and since they are so used to the Texas sell from being there for the past 3 years, they were not used to Florida and none did very well. So, everyone had a bad attitude and they decided to stick with Texas. At first I was really bummed. I was way excited to be on the beach in Florida for a whole summer, and when I heard the bad news and that we would probably be going to a city near Dallas, I was not too happy. But, plans changed again and now we are officially going to Houston/Galveston, Texas. I'm not sure if we will be living in Houston or Galveston, but either way.. I'm excited. Apparently I love the beach. ;) Our plans right now are to head to St. George with Brad's family as soon as I get done with my last final on Friday the 6th to visit his sister who lives down there. Then we'll take the 1,460 mile drive from there. As always, I'm sad to leave Logan for the summer. My family and my job that I love are here. But, it is only for a few months and this will be such a great adventure for us. 

 We've enjoyed going to my parents as much as we can to: watch our shows, play rook, ping pong, dinner, and much more. We're so glad they live close and let us come over so much! We've also enjoyed babysitting as much as possible. And the cooking is still going great! These are peanut butter bars and we may or may not have eaten them all in about 2 days. 

I had Lindsey come over to help me redecorate my house. I was already sick of the look of it and needed something different. Lindsey is the one to call for when in need of this. She did such a great job and I love how it turned out. I can't wait to have her help me in our bedroom next! 

We went skiing on the last day Beaver was open. It was sad, especially since I don't think we quite got our moneys worth from our ski passes. Maybe for next year we won't buy one, that way we won't feel like we have to go.. and we can go to a different resort if we want! It was a fun ski season though and I always love going with Brad. I love that we are about the same level. 

Lydia spent a few nights at my parents house while her parents were out of town. She is such the cutest little girl and I love her so much. I was at my parents house any spare time I had. I love that her favorite movies are Mamma Mia and Phantom. These are some of my favorite pictures from her stay. We drove her to Ogden to drop her off to Ryan and then did the flow rider. Jake, Cam, his friend, Brad and I all had the one side to ourselves and it was so much fun. This was Brad's first time and he loved it. We may have gotten a few bumps and bruises, but it was all worth it!

                                                            

Yesterday we went to Ogden to play some games with Brad's parents and little brother, do a little shopping and pick up a couch that Annie and Trace were so nice to give us. We were afraid that it would not fit down our stairs, since the last couch we got from my other Aunt, Stacie did not fit. But luckily, we barely fit it, after about the 3rd try of moving it different ways. Brad is such a trooper for pretty much doing it by himself. I did not feel like I was much of a help for him. 

And I love the way it looks! We threw a red blanket over our other couch, and it just happens to match perfect! Thanks Ann and Trace!

And don't worry, we are not too sad to be getting rid of this beauty. 

St. Patty's

On Thursday night, we invited a bunch of friends over to my parents house for the USU game and everyone brought green treats since it was also St. Patrick's Day. We had sprite & green sherbet, green caramel popcorn, green cookies, Mt. Dew, and yellow oreos (since green could not be found anywhere). We were all very sad when USU lost by just about five points. If they would have played like they were in the last ten minutes of the game, they could have won. We had to bring out all of the love sacks so that everybody would have a seat, and there still was not enough room, since two more showed up after this picture. I was pretty excited when I found my green and navy shirt- perfect for the 

Aggie game and for St. Patrick's Day. 




We went to Crystal Hot Springs Last night. I would suggest to everyone not to go there on a friday night. It was very crowded. But we still had fun. Until we were on our way home... Flat Tire! There was not much room on the side of the road to pull over, so luckily it was on the right side of the car so that the boys were not in the middle of the road trying to fix it. What a handy boy I have. I am glad he knew what he was doing! A guy stopped to help us, and he was so nice- he even looked like Santa Clause. :)

 

I couldn't stand not putting this picture up. Look at that beauty! This is at my parents house. They get so much more snow then we do. I'm a little sad it is all disappearing, but I am so excited for it to start warming up! 

And of course I couldn't do a post without posting a picture of a baby! :) This you have to watch. It almost made me cry. It is hilarious! 

Since you've been gone

Alright, so I guess I've had a little too much time on my hands this past week and I spent a few hours trying to figure out a new editing program. We went snowshoeing with my parents, Trace, Jamie and Ryan one Saturday. It was a BEAUTIFUL day!

Brad's birthday was on a sunday so I got up early, made him french toast with special syrup, then we went to church. We had our home teachers over and I made brad his request of chicken roll-ups and then we went to my parents. Brad watched TV/took a nap while my mom and I made his request of costa vida sweet pork burritos and better than anything cake. The Bundys came over as well. We ate, played who knows Brad best (Lindsey won!- not counting my mom), opened presents and had cake. I gave him a wii, but we decided to return it and are gonna put the money towards a new flat screen. My mom gave him a game for the Wii (but we exchanged it for a PS2 one), the movie inception, and a head lamp. I think he was pretty spoiled! It was a great day.

So, as you all probably know.. Brad has been in Florida since monday selling alarms for spring break. I've been so sad without him, but I have kept myself very busy. I worked everyday for about 6 hours, I have done all of our returns from the wedding. We got in store credit for just about everything we returned, and look at all of those cards! I counted them all up and it is over $800. WOW!!

Ok- a few of them were from Christmas and apx parties, but still! The nordstrom one is a good story. We went to Provo a couple weeks ago for an apx party and there were about 8 prizes, and 50+ people there. Brad and I both won something AND were in the final 2 for another. I got the $100 nordstrom for sliding my phone closest to a bottle without hitting it and Brad won a gift card to a hat place for winning rock-paper-scissors. It was a great night!

I've really tried to finish my thank-you cards.. but I am only about half way. I guess Brad will have to help me with them when he gets home.

And.. my wedding scrapbook. I still have 7 more pages to do, but considering I have done 13 pages, that is pretty good. Hopefully I can finish that today and tomorrow.

Random

Brad and I babysat some kids from my work about a week after we got home. The twins have just started crawling within the last couple of months. Well, I guess I should say- Ruby has started crawling. Lucy, scoots and I love it!

You have to watch this- It is the cutest/funniest thing ever! :) I hope it works, I've never put a video on here.

Aren't they the cutest, most chubby little twin girls ever?

I have loved cooking so far. I need to be more organized like my mom, I'll get there one day hopefully. As you may have noticed.. I have a new look on the side of my blog. I made a list of goals. Ok, I got this idea from Kylee and I'm not going to lie, I stole some of her goal ideas. Sorry Ky, hope that's ok.. I just wanna be just like you! ;) But I have a goal of cooking at least 3 times a week. That may seem pretty easy, but considering we go to my parents for dinner on Thursdays, we usually eat leftovers, something easy, or go out on Fridays and Saturdays and we are at our parents/grandparents on Sundays, I only have Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday to cook. So far so good though!

All until my failed creamy potato soup. I may or may not have stirred the flour in too fast. It tasted alright, just didn't look great. Oops.

We love going to basketball games and cheering our Ag's on to victory. Who needs a Jimmer anyways? I'm sure most of you heard about the amazing Aggie game last week, but I'll tell about it anyways. During half time, Tai dunked it, and shattered the backboard. They had to bring in a new one and it took about a half an hour to switch. As they were getting the new one on, it shattered again. They must have tightened it too much or something. So then they brought in a replacement hoop and standard. All in all, we were waiting for about 45 min. It was a crazy game!

This is what we found after the game: about 7-8" of snow. Plus we got about 8-9" four days later. But it make for great skiing days for us! We love skiing/snowboarding. We try to go every Saturday and we have gone a lot of Wednesdays afternoons. That's the best, because nobody is there and we can go for a few hours without having to wait in line for half the time.

My good friend texted me on Wednesday and said that she had some exciting news. She is going on a mission to the Marshall Islands. I am so beyond excited for her! She is going to be an awesome missionary.

Tour

Welcome to our casa. Isn't our little red door so cute? We live in the basement of a house on 7th north and about 2nd east, and we love it! Let me take you on a tour. You walk in the door and go directly downstairs. We have hooks right by our front door and I love that so that we don't have to run up and down the stairs to grab a coat.

This is our kitchen/family room. They are pretty much the same room (you can tell on the second collage on the left). Our kitchen is pretty small, but it works for two people. I took these pictures after I heart attacked Brad, so you'll get to see a little of that. The heater is one of our favorite features of the house. It's so nice to have on a cold day since we don't control the temperature of the heat in the house. Brad's parents were nice and let us borrow some of their old couches from the cabin. Needless to say, they were not pretty so we threw some sheets over them. I know it doesn't look great, but it's better than the couches, trust me. We didn't want to buy new couches and then have to store some for the summer while we are gone, so we are planning on buying some when we get back after the summer.

This is our second bedroom. aka our computer/jacket/stuff from wedding that we haven't found a home for yet room.
Since there are not many drawers or cupboards in our kitchen, most of our food is in the pantry which is in the laundry room. There are tons of shelves (on both sides too) so it is way nice, but it kinda sucks not having it in the kitchen and having to go back and forth. We love that the house came with a washer and dryer (along with cable and internet).
This is our bathroom. Pretty small, but it's just fine!
Ok, so this is where the main heart attack action was- our bedroom. We just bought our bedding and I am loving it a lot more than I thought I would. I love love that there were 2 dressers built in plus one in the closet.
Well, that's about it. Hope you enjoyed the tour. ;)

Valentines Day

Ok people.. why I have been so terribly bad at taking pictures, well I couldn't tell you. I had all intentions of taking a lot of really good pictures on Valentines Day and doing an awesome post.. but that didn't happen. So, sorry they're not the best pictures. But I'll tell you all about it cause it was the best day! :) It started off in the morning. I got up a little early so that I could make some red/pink french toast with special syrup and pink milk. I had classes from 8:30-10:30. After class, Brad came to give me his car so he could go to his one class like we usually do. I get to the car and he comes out with a rose. He told me that the song playing was our song for the day. It was "In Her Eyes" and also told me to read the note inside the rose. It said: Go home and look for clues that start with "I love you because" (there are 11). I go home and to my surprise, there were 11 roses all over the house, each with a note of why he loves me. Each one of them, he put in a spot that went along with why he loves me; "You're a good cook" (on the stove), "We have so much fun together" (by our skiis), etc. It was very cute and he was very creative. I loved it so much.

I only had an hour to do everything that I had planned for Brad. I made some heart shaped sugar cookies, made him a heart shaped sandwich for lunch along with a pink Oreo pop my mom and I had made on Sunday. I put some valentines candy on our bed and put little cut-out hearts down the stairs and balloons in our room. I didn't have time to frost all of the cookies, so I just did one for each of us and then we frosted them together and I took them to my kids at work. I also had heart attacked him a few days early because I knew I wouldn't have time to do it all yesterday- and I was right!

When I got home from work, Brad surprised me and took me to Hamilton's for dinner. It was so crowded, but it was delicious. This picture is not great of me, but I wanted to show our cute pink/red shirts.
My family has a tradition of getting a heart-shaped pizza on Valentines day. I was going to make one yesterday, but since Brad took me out, I decided to still make the pizza today. I thought it turned out pretty good. Valentines was the best day ever. Brad and I are so in love and we love being married. :)

Bridals

My mom informed me that I have not put any of my bridals that Jessica Weyerts took. She is my aunt and she did such an amazing job! I can't believe I haven't put them up yet. Also, I will be changing my blog address so it won't be jessicanjensen anymore. It will be: jbwheelwright.blogspot.com I won't change it yet, cause if I do, then you won't be able to see this unless you know my new blog address. I'll change it in about a week and I'll post it on facebook after I change it as well so hopefully nobody will forget. I hope you enjoy the pictures. They are in no particular order.