Valentine's Day

Love is in the air--

This is why I love Valentine's Day. For one day out of the year, everybody loves each other. I would have to say that Valentine's Day is my favorite holiday. I even loved this holiday when I was single. It is another day to give presents (also my favorite thing to do). Stu humors me when I comes to this day, he just doesn't understand the big deal.

Just remember one thing this Valentine's Day. Tell 1 person you love them. Just 1, it will make their day!

One year down..

Stu and I celebrated our one year anniversary on the 3rd of January. It was strange really to think we have been married a full year. It is true what they say...the older you get the faster time goes by.
For our anniversary and for Stu's birthday we flew into Reno, Nevada and rented a car to Lake Tahoe. Since Stu was in charge of the honeymoon I decided to take the first year. And since we could not travel over Stu's birthday in Oct. we combined them. The plan was to snowboard in Lake Tahoe and enjoy the beautiful scenery. Mother nature however had different plans. If you watched the news this last week, California and parts of Nevada were expecting blizzard conditions. Yep..we were caught in a blizzard. Lake Tahoe got about 6-8 FEET of snow. Needless to say we had to spend a day indoors (Which is not as glamorous as you might think considering the power went out and the TV didn't work), but only one day was wasted indoors. The others were spent outside. We went snowmobiling on our anniversary. And we went snowboarding in knee deep powder. I have never had so much fun in the snow. As Stu kept saying "It was Epic". I told Stu I spent a lot of money getting that snow there, but for my honey..I would do anything :) He found that funny.
Overall we had a great anniversary. Sad to say we are not newleyweds anymore. I told Stu maybe we could be newleyweds till we have kids..can you still be a newleywed at your 5 year anniversary???

New Year's Resolutions

Everyone has got one.. or two. What is yours? I have one of my own and I know Stu does too (at least I think he does :) )

New Year's Resolution for Stu and Sarah
*Get in shape. (Isn't this everyone's??) We have a trip to Hawaii planned in June and if it takes the Biggest Looser 4 months to get into that great of shape..I know I have at least another month to procrastinate :)
*Run another 1/2 marathon

New Year's Resolution for Stu
*Survive nursing school (after this year just one more semester to go)

New Year's Resolution for Sarah
*Get caught up on scrapbooking (or else stop taking pictures that I will have to scrapbook)

Of course there are plenty more we can put on there, but why have a ton of resolutions and not fulfill them. With a few resolutions you will for sure keep them.

Merry Christmas

We hope that everyone had a splendid holiday with their family. We were excited because we got a white Christmas this year. Stu was trying to remember the last time there was snow on the ground for Christmas, and he could not remember.

Since this was our first Christmas, we did our own thing before we headed out to the parents house. We decided Christmas was a good time to introduce Blue to the family so he came with us. Surprisingly he did really well with the family. My parents dog Ali didn't like him too much but that was because she is not use to other dogs.

Blue of course got presents and loved a squeaker chicken we got him, along with all the treats.

Stu got his grill (picture taken right after he opened it) and I got my indgo board so I think we had a great Christmas

New job!!!!

I have found a new job!!

As many of you know I was working for Fidelity Investments. To work at Fidelity you needed to gain your Series 7 licence which is a standard licence in the industry to complete stock trades. While in training and not doing well with the practice test I decide to forgo taking the test and try other alternatives. For the last month and a half I have been working for Fidelity's temp agency taking the same calls and adding seminar reservations to my list of things to do. It has been an okay job where I took a pay cut and benefit cut. I have been looking for a new job and found out today I got the one I wanted.

With 50 applicants, narrowing down to 6 and then 3 I came out on top. I feel like I won the lottery. I am working for the director of Medicine and Specialty clinics at the University of Utah hospital. I am going to be his Administrative Assistant, well his and his 7 managers. I finally get to work in the hospital but don't have to worry about blood and needles. YEAH! I start January 7th and could not be happier.

Having a puppy

Man and his best friend.

However we learned the hard way that you can't leave a puppy alone in the house for a long period of time. Since we got Blue he has been with either Stu or myself or alone for only about 2 hours between Stu going to work and me coming home from work. One day Stu picked up a double and Blue was alone for 6 hours. Just like a kid, you leave them alone for too long and they get into trouble. Blue..was no exception. I came home to the carpet ripped up. He knew he was in trouble as soon as I got home because he would not even come into the living room. Blue is now not allowed to be alone in the house. Much to my sadness he is crated each night and every time Stu and I are away. I tell you what..this dog is preparing us for parenthood...when we do have a kids in a few years :)

New addition to our family

So Stu finally got his dog. We are now the proud owners of an Australian Sheepdog named Blue. Blue is 2 years old and came to us by an ad in the paper. The previous owners who had Blue moved out of state, and Blue didn't do well with the move. Blue is perfect in every way except he has fear aggression. Blue does not do well with strangers. The trainer told us it has something to do with his gene makeup. Because of this fear aggression the previous owners who had kids, had neighbor kids that would come running in and out of the house. This was really hard on Blue so they decided to give him up.

He is a fun loving dog, who loves to be outside. He is good with camping, running, hiking, you name it, which is what Stu loves about him. He is very playful and loves to play fetch. With Blue being an older dog, we don't have to worry about training, he has been trained, we just have to keep up with it. He is so sweet and a great addition to our family. (He also LOVES the snow)