Still Alive..

I know I'm the worst at this blogging thing, and I say this nearly every time I post but I am going to try and do better! If I can manage posting more than twice a year it will be an improvement so we'll see how that goes for me. Here's a quick update on Quinn and I and the last I don't know 8 months since I previously wrote... We have been living in Lander for almost a year now! Quinn is still kicking butt at his job while I have kept busy with school and my part time job as a waitress at Tony's pizza. Last month we celebrated our 1 year anniversary! I can't believe how fast time flies! Coco is as happy as ever and getting fatter everyday:) We are looking forward to coming home for the holidays in a couple of weeks. After Christmas we are going to take a weekend trip and fly out to Denver to look for an apartment... That's right we are moving!!! to Colorful Colorado and we couldn't be more excited! We plan to be there by the beginning of February at the very latest. Lander has been a good little place for us and our family but we can't wait to see what Colorado has to offer:)

A much needed update

So I'm pretty much the worst at blogging. I'm writing this blog on behalf of Liz Dowd who requested an update. I promise I will do better for her sake, she is moving away to Italy in a few short weeks and this is the best way for her to keep tabs on me;) Therefore, I am now determined to update my blog at least once a week. We'll see how I do. I tend to start doing something (like creating a blog) and get overly excited about it, spending way to much time on it, that attitude lasts for about a month, more or less, and then I find something equally awesome to keep me entertained and I completely forget about all of my other things. I am one of those who has 100 started projects and 2 finished ones. The blogging thing is an endless project, but I am determined to stick with it! Anyways, I have decided it's not worth trying to go back and remember all of the events I thought were "blog worthy" in the past two months, instead I'll just start fresh... We are living in Lander, Wyoming and gradually starting to be okay with it:) Coco has adjusted well she finally knows where her home is. And I, just last week got a job, which I couldn't be more thrilled about, something to keep me busy. Plus with my new job, I made a friend. She's even my same age and we will be working together at U.S. Bank. Although Lander hasn't been easy, things are starting to fall into place and it's feeling more and more like home, hopefully we'll be able to stay for a while.

Gingerbread houses:)

Every year Quinn's family tradition is to make gingerbread houses, it's one of my favorite things I made Quinn call his mom while we were in Memphis to make sure she would wait until we got to Utah to do it, it's so fun and something I definitely didn't want to miss out on! Ginger was busy with Christmas stuff so Quinn and I offered to make the homemade gingerbread for the houses early Friday morning...Quinn let me sleep in while he baked gingerbread all morning by himself, what a good husband I have:)

Our house turned out even better this year than last:) We had quite a bit of yellow candy left over from our wedding reception if you can't tell;)

Home sweet home

Quinn and I are done in Memphis! Finally! We got to spend Christmas week in Utah with our family before heading to Wyoming. We had a great time in Utah with friends and family.

Of course we went and saw the lights at temple square. Quinn and I stopped at "our wishing well" and tossed in a couple of coins:)

After temple square we headed over to the soon to be Mr.& Mrs.Sasften's new house to watch a movie Kayla and Brady stopped by for a minute to show us their cute new puppy! It was fun to hang out with my old roomies:) I miss you girls

We gave Coco a bath

Despite what she looks like in this photo she did not HATE the bath, the blow dryer on the other hand was a different story...

When Quinn is at work....

There is only so much to do when you are stuck in a hotel room without a car in Memphis TN... When Quinn is at work Coco and I can get pretty bored.

Going from a lifestyle of school, work, homework, wedding planning, etc. to a life of nothing to do.. can be quite a dramatic change. Before I always thought "when my schedule isn't so full I will do so many things I don't have time for now. I will work out everyday, I'll read all those books I've been hearing so much about, I'll catch up on all the T.V. shows I've missed, I'll finish all of my started art projects and then decorate every wall in my house with my stuff," the list goes on and on.... The funny thing I have discovered is without a list of things to do everyday I pretty much do nothing at all. Today for example Coco and I woke up somewhere around 12 or 1 in the afternoon cooked ourselves some breakfast (egg and toast like always). Went for a short walk came back to the hotel room and watch Vampire Diaries until around 7:30 p.m. When Quinn told us he was on his way home.. I then quickly picked up our hotel room and hopped in the shower, to destroy the evidence of our laziness before Quinn got home. This is the way I spend probably half my time in Memphis.. Not always watching Vampire Diaries of course we like to switch up our shows and not every day we are quite so lazy...but still we don't get too much more productive than this unless we got crazy good sleep the night before or have had a V8 energy drink with our breakfast(we should probably buy more of those)Anyway, kind of a pointless blog, but I needed a break from Vampire Diaries;)

Beale Street

We took a trip to Beale street:) It seemed to be the most talked about place to go see so we decided to check it out....


Our little frozen Memphis family


Beale street was talked up a little bit too much.. It wasn't really our scene basically it's a small strip with different bars and clubs, there was lots of loud music which would have fun if it didn't scare Coco so much. Maybe we'll have to go back to have dinner one night but other than that Beale street didn't have much to offer Quinn, Coco and I. Still fun to see though, Coco enjoyed the walk and it got us out of our hotel!