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Sunny I loved your blog that talked about Jason so I have tagged myself, allowing me to tell everyone a little bit about my husband - My favorite person

What is his name? Stuart Owen (Stuart after his uncle and Owen is after his dad)

How long have you been together? It will be 2 years the end of April

How long did you date? Stu and I started to date the 2nd week of May and got engaged the 1st week of August..so 3 months, then married 5 months later

Who eats more? I would have to say Stu eats more or can eat more. I can't eat as much since my surgery, or else it gets stuck.

Who said "I love you" first? Stu did on my birthday about 3 weeks after we started dating. It took me off guard and the only thing I could say back to him was "Thank you". It took me a couple more weeks before I could tell him myself that I loved him.

Who is taller? When I wear heels I am, but with no heels... I still am :)

Who is smarter? Stu is by a long shot. He is witty and can think of things to say in a moments notice. He does much better in school then I ever did. I however keep useless trivia stored up in my brain. IE Candles will last a lot longer if placed in the freezer for at least 3hours prior to burning.

Who does the laundry? Most of the time it is me, but Stu is great about helping to fold the laundry once it is done.

Who does the dishes? It is really a joint effort

Who sleeps on the right? Me, I use to sleep in the middle but Stu has moved me over to the right side.

Who cooks dinner? Um from a box? Me. Home cooking is done by Stu. His mama taught him well.

Who drives when you are together? Stu and he always opens the door for me

Who is more stubborn? Alas..we both are

Who kissed who first? I am pretty sure it was me. I go after what I want and I wanted a kiss

Who asked who out first? Stu asked me out on our first 'official' date.

Who proposed? Stu did of course. He took me to the spot where his dad proposed to his mom. It was in the hill above the B in Bountiful and it over looked the valley.

Who has more siblings? We are even. 4 kids on each side. 2 boys and 2 girls. We are both the oldest which is why we are both so stubborn

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 :)