Sunday, March 1, 2009

A goodbye to one fabulous lady...

Jane Overstreet
May 23, 1916- February 2, 2009
It has taken me a long time to be able to write this due to the fact that my Great-Grandmother's passing was hard for me to take. I was with her when she passed away and I had become very close to her in the few years before hand.

She was one fabulous woman! :) Although she was 92 she was still living on her own and if it was not for my Grandma prying her beloved Buick keys from her hand she would have still been driving. She always had to look her best and was neatly dressed, was prefectly ironed, and accessorized to the "T" even while spending the day at the grocery store. She was always cracking joke and asking why she had to be in rehab, after her first broken hip, with so many old people and even after breaking her second hip a few weeks later, she refused to eat anything but chocolate cake! I guess she deserved to eat chocolate cake at that point! :) I would love visiting her for lunch and going through all of her photo albums from when she was young...she constantly amazed me when we would go through every picture and she would remember each person, even if they had not been someone close to her, and she was only 8-10 years old in some of the pictures! In my last few visits with her she would constantly say how great of a family she has, how she was so blessed that we are all so close, and I always was sure to remind her that it was all because of her! :)

After thinking about things I have come to be at peace with the fact that she was extremely blessed in life and in death and she made sure to pass a lot of her blessings onto her family... thank you Great-Grandma...we love you and miss you so much!

Monday, February 23, 2009

Park City

We had the greatest, and probably the funniest, vacation ever in Park City, Utah with our friends Ali and Todd. Our group ended up getting bigger and crazier as the days went on, and the stories of Martin the "guy from the shuttle" and Shad and Kelly "the craziest drunks we have ever encountered" make us laugh every time we think of them...














Sunday, February 1, 2009

My New Blog...

I love how many of my friends have been creating blogs to share their ideas, their passions, and just the fabulous things in their lives, so I have decided to do the same! I am constantly thinking of new creative ways to do things and to become even more thrifty, so I thought I would share them...
I would love to share ideas of other's, so let me know of any fabulous ideas you have!

Monday, January 19, 2009

Tagged!


6 Quirky Things About Me:
1. I have a slight obsession with making everything in my home perfect...most likely because I work in model homes all day. I literally have to have magazines in perfect piles on my coffee table, candles burning, bows tied around my towels in my guest bath, etc...
2. For some reason I tend to make things up...an example, I will say "hey David, didn't we have such and such...", and he will look at me like I am crazy, and I realize that I either dreamed it up, or just literally made it up in my head! :)
3. I, like Haley, must change out of my clothes and shoes and into my pajamas as soon as I get home. I will literally go shower as soon as I set my purse down, get into my pj's, and then cook dinner...That way I can just relax and eventually crawl into bed without having to go through all the trouble of getting ready for bed when I am half asleep...
4. I love kids, and no matter where I am, I bend down to their level and talk to them face to face. I call all little girls "princess" and all little boys "handsome" without thinking and some of them do tend to get scared of me!
5. I get hungry every two hours and it is so crazy that I actually have bags of trail mix in my car so that I can feed my hunger at anytime. If I am hungry for too long I become a huge grouch...
6. When I asked David to come up with one quirky thing about me he said "you always have to be doing something!". I literally cannot sit at home on my day off...I have to have my whole day planned out and am constantly on the go. I get bored very easily, so keep myself going, which David is going to hate once we start having day's off together! :)

I tag: Christy

GO CARDINALS!

Superbowl here we come!!!

I have to say that I am one SUPER excited Cardinals Fan! I have not been able to stop smiling since their win against Philly, which was one nerve-wracking afternoon!
GO CARDINALS!! :)

Saturday, January 3, 2009

**Christmas Day**

Our first Christmas morning as a married couple! :) It was so nice to spend some time together, before getting together with the whole crazy family. I turned on the fake fireplace on TV (as you can see in the background of David's picture), and some Christmas music, and we exchanged gifts. It was pretty funny because we both got eachother the watches we had wanted, and David cheated on his gift (we had a limit since we are going to Park City in Feb.) by stuffing my stocking with the cutest letter and telling me he was also sending me to a day-at-the-spa! :) He is definitley an AMAZING husband!


**The puppies got stocking's too and pulled out the new toys immediatley! :) John, Sarah, and Spencer ended up coming over for breakfast so we had a big Christmas morning feast of orange cinnamon rolls, eggs, bacon, and toast! :)**

We spent Christmas day at my Dad's house and had the best time! We got to see his new barn where my Sister and Ryan are planning to have their reception, and it is amazing! The whole Owens' family came over, so it was nice to see them all.

**Christmas Eve**

We spent Christmas Eve with at the Swenson's and had so many presents under my Mom's 12' tree that we could not walk in the living room! We all went to Christmas Eve service and came back for spaghetti and chili before opening the mountain of presents, which was quite crazy! :)