Our first Christmas

I have always looked forward to having my christmas with my husband and it was better than i could have ever asked for! We spent the night at the caldwells. On christmas eve Lore and John introduced us to a new game called Liars Die that we played and it was so much fun!Also on christmas eve steve had santa clause come to their house, it was so great to me because at my house a santa always comes because of my dad and brother being on the fire department so it really felt like christmas for me. On christmas morning Gar had me crying of course because of the picture of christ he got for me that i had mentioned before that i wanted REALLY bad. I felt bad because i had made Garett of Published book from Heritage Makers about his mission but it didnt get her until after christmas but he was still as patient and sweet as ever about it. When he did get it though i was so happy that i could do something for him that made him so happy. Later that day we went down to my parents house and opened gifts from them and watched Mamma and daddy tipton open their gifts.

Happy happy birthday Lisa Bug!!

I had the most amazing 20th birthday . It was on Sunday December 21st, so garett took me out on saturday. He had planned the perfect date! We went and saw a movie in the new orem cinemark, and than we went and ate at The Roof. when the waiter seated us I saw these beautiful white lillys in an arrangment in a beautiful vase on the table but of course being me i just kind of though every table had them but when the waiter came back and said "im guessing you guys are here for a special occasion because those are beautiful flowers.." i than realized "of course! those are my favorite flowers!!!" it was so sweet, i love him so much. I have never been so relaxed before at a restraunt, it was so romantic and peacful. We sat right by the window and were able get a great view of the temple . And not to mention the food was AWESOME!!!! sunday morning i woke up SUPER DUPER EXCITED to open my presents that had been tempting me for a week or so. I wanted gar to pick what order i opened them in. He went way over board but he got me the greatest things. He knows me so well and that means so much to me. He got me a BREAD MAKER, HOT CHOCOLATE MAKER, TAYLOR SWIFT'S new CD, ECLIPSE and NEW MOON, LOTS OF HOT CHOCOLATE MIXES, and....A FOSSIL BUTTERFLY WATCH!! It really was too much but i loved it and im so grateful for my husband, he has always treated me like a princess, and has always cared so much about my happiness. I thank my heavenly father each day for blessing me with Garett.

DISNEYLAND!

We left for California On monday October 20th. We flew with jet Blue and it was a good flight-except for we did feel bad for the guy sitting by our family that took some headache medicine and asked for a stiff drink :) After we arrived to Long Beach we got our rental cars and squished all 16 of us and our luggage into the the 3 suvs. After getting settled into the hotel we got back into the car and drove to universal studios! It was so fun there. Neither Garett and I had never been there before. I think our favorite ride there was The Simpsons ride...it was pretty cool. Dad and brett didn't think it was too great though....i looked over while on the ride at dad and he had his eyes closed about ready to die! We felt bad but everyone still had a great time!

Tuesday morning we woke up got ready and went and had our delicious hotel breakfast(that we continued to enjoy the rest of the week). I mean really they had like every kind of breakfast food to choose from. We then took the bus shuttle over to DISNEYLAND! We were both so excited and gar couldn't wait to go on Splash Mountain and all the other rides! He was like a little kid and i loved it!

we also spent wed and thursday at disneyland. our favorit ride was tower of terror! it was so much fun! We also highly enjoyed the churros and dole whips!






On Friday we went to Sea World. We both loved Sea World and thought it was really amazing. It's so crazy how hight the dolphins can jump and how much the whales can soak you just by splashing their fins. When we were watching the Shamu show we were kind of dissapointed because we sat in the "soak zone" and didnt even get wet, but everyone else around us was drenched!!! It was very hot that day.





Saturday came around and it was time to go home but our flight didn't leave until 7:00 that night we went the Beach and had some delicous lunch from a place called BJ's. That was the first beach Gar and I had ever been to together, and it was so cute to watch the alli Aubs and jayden play in the water.






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So after a really fun and awesome vacation we were ready to go home!

My how my hair changed!!!!

I started hair school July 2006 and ended after 2,000 sometimes hard hours in november 2007! During the course of hair school i went through a ton of hair changes...it kind of became a way for me to express myself for some reason. I'm finally trying to go back to the way my hair WAS BEFORE i started hair school. I loved trying all the different hair styles, I'm just ready to go back to how it was. So im going to post pictures of all the different ways my hair has changed. And i dont even think this is all of the ways....
This is before Hair school...
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A little more blonde, a little length off and some bangs.....



Purple extensions.... Mom and Dad loved that one


Than I put some red brown and carmel....


Than I thought I would color my hair dark dark dark dark dark brown....


And so then i decided i wanted to have short hair WITH a faux-hawk


Took it a little shorter and got rid of the faux-hawk


lighter brown...messy back


A-Line!!


SHORTER... blonde and red hight lights with spikes in the back


Tried to go back blonde...


gave up on the blonde- violet/red and blonde......


extensions, dark brown and blonde....



I dont have a pic of my hair right now but its short and getting blonder and longer:)

Chicken Pox ....Now??

Friday night i noticed this really weird red dot on my belly that really itched, but i didn't really think much of it but i was kind of suspicious because i have never had the chicken pox. Well gradually the dots spread and my WHOLE body itched like crazy so Monday i went to the doctors and sure enough i have the chicken pox so im just at home right now. I never had them when i was a kid but i did get the vaccine a few years ago and so i think i could have gotten them a lot worse.

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Okay I'm going to just try and get caught up on what has been going on in our lives! I'm hoping that once i get caught up i will be able to STAY caught up.:)

This is our first "ART CITY DAYS" together. We had so much fun at the parade and watching all our little nieces and nephews get all excited. We only went on one ride...the zipper and unfortunately it made us both feel really sick. There must be something about carnival rides because neither of us get sick on other bigger rides. We did enjoy the scones and all the other yummy (fattening) food!






Okay about a week-two weeks after we got married Garett and I were "puppy hungry" so while we were at sportsman warehouse looking for fathers day gifts we got a little distracted. There were tons of people outside selling all different kinds of puppies. After looking around at all of them we found a boy beagle. We both admit that we didn't have a good feeling about buying him, we don't know why but we just didn't. Unfortunatly regardless of those feelings we bought the dog $400.00. After a week of having him we sold him to a stay at home mom with 4 kids for $250.00.We sold him because he was really really hyper and at the time he really stressed me out and he had a really hard time staying home all day by himself and gar and I just felt so bad about it. Lor and John wathed him during the day sometimes but it was just too much. So we sold Milo and its crazy how close you can get to a dog in just a week. I was crying and garett was tearyeyed. But we were relieved after the fact and felt like we did the right thing.



Well I thought Garett and I had decided that we were going to wait a few years before getting another dog....I thought wrong.
I was doing hair one night and garett said he was golfing. Well he came to my parents house after i was done doing hair and after he was done "golfing" and he had a dog!!! At first i couldn't believe it and i was thinking..."you are taking him back." after having for 3 months now i woudlnt have it any other way. We both love Louie so much, he is the SWEETEST CUTEST dog ever. Here are some pictures of him a little after we got him. Notice the pictures that are of Louie and Me he is on my head or neck, For some reason as soon as gar gets out of bed in the morning to get ready for work Louie imediatly comes and lays on my neck on top of my head so we think it might be his way of protecting me.


And this is a picture of Louie's first bath



Louie has just been recovering from Parvo. If you dont know what Parvo is:Parvo is a viral disease that attacks the intestinal tract and immune system. It has been known and identifiable since 1978 and can be transmitted by direct or indirect contact with vomit or diarrhea from an infected dog. The Parvovirus can cause vomiting, diarrhea, lethargy, depression, dehydration, high fever and sudden death.

We took him to the vet a couple of times and got him some medication and he is finally eating again acting like himself.


Here he is all cuddled up feeling lots better!! We Love our little Louie, he really is like a child to us.

I got the idea from Lor's sister! I thought it was so funny i had to do it!!!