Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I hope you all have full tummys of yummy food. We are doing our Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow so Josh and I went down to Jordan Commons to catch a couple of movies. I've never been to the movies on Thanksgiving or Christmas so it was kind of weird, and I always feel bad for the people who have to work the holidays because I know how bad it sucks! We had so much fun though, but are so tired and we aren't even suffering from the tryptophan hangover!! That will come tomorrow, Yay!

We saw these movies...

Four Christmases was funny.

I had to see Twilight again and Josh agreed to go with me. He didn't like it at first but then by the end he did. Before he saw the movie he had heard people talk about it and thought it sounded so dumb that the vampires had to play baseball during a thunderstorm because of the sound of them hitting the ball. But that is one of my favorite scenes! I totally love this movie.

After a week like this one I have so many great things to be thankful for. Here are a couple of things from my list:

*Josh, my true love and best friend

*Our Furbabies

*Our Families

*The Gospel and Our Savior

*Our Friends

*Cameras

*Computers

*Our Car

*Our Home

*All The Things We Have

*That Josh and I Have All The Things We Need

I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving!

Our Weekend

So it's taken me a couple of days to write about this because I'm still upset and a little pissed, but this is how our weekend started:

On Friday, after I got off work Josh, my mom and I were going down to Salt Lake to go to dinner with my aunts and us girls were going to see Twilight while Josh went down to Pleasant Grove to a Jazz party. When I got home Josh had big eyes and said that he got laid off! I had heard that Sunshine Terrace was going to be doing some lay offs but I never thought they would lay off my husband. He was so sad and just felt horrible. He kept telling me how sorry he was and I kept telling him it wasn't his fault. He didn't do anything to deserve it. I just felt sick to my stomach thinking how terrible it was to lay off people off right before the holidays. I felt so bad for Josh. So he decided not to go down to the Jazz party. I still decided to go down to see Twilight. I took my camera with me but was too upset to try to look happy in the pictures so I didn't take any.


Then on Saturday we had the results for Josh's Ultimate Loser competition. He has worked so hard for the past 8 weeks. I haven't seen him very much because when he wasn't at work he was at the gym. I just had a warm body next to me in bed each night and saw him early in the morning when I was going to work and he was going to the gym. He came in second in the competition, he was totally robbed. Josh was ahead of this other guy by over 4%, but the guy cheated and lost 25 lbs in one week! That is not medically safe, nor is it possible without cheating. I was so upset, I am still disappointed in the people in charge of the competition for allowing someone to win when you know they cheated. It's just not right. But everyone came up to Josh telling him what an inspiration he is. I'm so proud of him. He has done awesome and he looks so good!

Teresa, Karen and Josh

We went down to Salt Lake after the results because Josh wanted to see his family since they haven't seen him while he's been losing this weight. We went and saw his cousin Suzanne's cute little girl, Brynn. Then we went to spend the rest of the day with Shannon, Arnold and the kids. We had so much fun with them. We went to the mall to get Josh some new clothes for his skinny little body. We went back to Shannon's to hang out and our little nephew came over. Tycen is so big, we haven't seen him since his birthday party in July. He is so cute, it was great to see him.

Josh and Tycen

We went to my mom's for dinner on Sunday. Josh has been wanting her Spicy Cashew Chicken for a while now so she made it for him since he can eat what he wants now. It was fun to hang out with my mom and dad.

It was such a crappy weekend, I just thought you know what, we can't take much more! I know everything will be okay because I know God is always watching out for us and when one door closes another door opens. But it just sucks.



But on a lighter note.....



This movie was AWESOME!! I loved it. The characters were perfect and the chemistry and electricity between Bella and Edward was so romantic. Can't wait to see it again.

Josh

Hubby Tag

5 Things Josh Loves:
~Me
~Our 4 Furbabies
~His Family
~Music and Writing His Own Songs
~The Beatles

5 Things on Josh's To Do List:
~Have A Family With Me (biologically or through adoption)
~Get Me Through School
~Get Under 200 lbs (almost there!!)
~Go Through The Temple (with me, of course!)
~Run A Marathon

5 Foods Josh Enjoys:
~RIBS!!
~Meat
~Red Lobster Shrimp
~Pizza
~Roast, Potatoes and Gravy

5 Things You Might Not Know:
~He Has Over Written Over 100 of His Own Songs
~He Went To Switzerland For 3 Months and Earned Money by Singing and Playing His Guitar in the Train Station
~He Didn't Date Anyone For 7 Years Before He Met Me
~He Can Fall Asleep In 5 Seconds Once He Lies Down
~He LOVES I Love Lucy

5 Places Josh Has Lived:
~Salt Lake City
~Las Vegas
~Tuscon, AZ
~Sandy, UT
~Logan, UT

5 Quirky Things About Josh:
~He LOVES Ovaltine
~He Has AMAZING Willpower, Especially While Trying To Lose Weight
~He Hates That I Have To Fall Asleep With The TV On
~His 2nd and 3rd Toes Are Webbed On Each Foot
~He Hates Candles and Candle Warmers (Even Though I Love 'Em)

5 People I Tag:
~Jaimee
~Ilaria
~Melissa
~Letha
~Jessie

**Sorry Ladies! I forgot to add the last two categories so make sure you do them!!**

Spending Time With My Family

This weekend my baby sister came home from Twin Falls for the weekend. She hadn't seen our little nephew yet and she was totally smitten with him. She didn't want to put him down! It was so great to see her and her fiancee Brian. I totally love spending time with my family, we fought so much when we were younger and now we just laugh at all the crazy things we used to do to each other. When my parents would go out for a night and I was left "in charge" my brother and I would make some crazy things that we made my little sister eat. We would mix a bunch of things in the spice cabinet together and make her eat it! We would pick on her and she would chase us around with a butcher knife! She never would have hurt us, but it was scary! We laugh a lot about it now! We gave her a special little nickname that we still call her to this day. I love them all so much!

My mom had lots of munchies set out for us to stuff ourselves with all day and we played Uno and Phase 10 and watched Knocked Up. It was so much fun to see her and Brian, I wish we didn't live so far apart!

Chelsie feeding Branson

The boys hanging out watching Survivorman

Josh with Baby Branson, he could just hold him all day!

Jade and his Baby Boy

I had to get a picture of Branson's "rabbit hopper" as I call it. His feet are so big and his toes are so long, I just had to get a picture of it! He is so sweet and such a cuddler. We are all so excited he is here.

It was such a fun day with my family!

Spending Time With The Love Of My Life

Yesterday, Josh and I went for a hike at the Bonneville Shoreline Trail. It was raining and kind of cold, but really fun. Since Josh is doing The Ulimate Loser competition at the gym, we try to go for a walk everyday. We usually walk 4 miles a day at the golf course trail but decided to go to the Bonneville Shorline. I've never been there and it was so pretty looking down at the fall colors on the trees and the clouds hanging on the mountains.

I love going out with Josh, just walking. We talk about what happened through out our days and about the things we want to do and our goals in life. I fall more in love with him when we go on our walks/hikes, just being together and talking. I've married such an amazing man and am so blessed we found each other.

Josh has 3 weeks left of this competition and is looking amazing! I'm so proud of him.