Opening Day...in more ways than one!

First of all, HAPPY OPENING DAY TO EVERYONE!

Ryan and I both wore our SF Giants shirts today in honor of MLB Opening Day! We can't wait to cheer them on tonight as they play the Dodgers. Hopefully this will be a great season for our defending World Champions!

Alright, onto MY "Opening Day"...Tomorrow will mark the first day of my 30 day Blog Challenge. I have felt like lately my blog has been a bit drab, and I've lacked in the posting department. So to get me back in the swing of things, and back to looking for blogging opportunities. I'm hoping this will kick start my creative edge as well. My friends Alex, and then Camille both did this last year, and I loved reading each of their posts and getting to know them better. I did however change a couple of the subjects to be more fit for this time of year (they did their challenge around Christmas time). If any of you would like to join me in my challenge, I'll post my subjects below so you can follow along, I'd love to read your posts as well!

• Day 01 - 5 things about you that no one knows
• Day 02 - A picture of you last year, and now, and how you've changed since then
• Day 03 - A favorite photo
• Day 04 - Something I crave
• Day 05 - Top 10 Pet Peeves
• Day 06 - Something I bought recently
• Day 07 - Something I want to buy
• Day 08 - A favorite song
• Day 09 - A favorite movie
• Day 10 - A favorite food and recipe
• Day 11 - A favorite book
• Day 12 - A favorite quote
• Day 13 - What did you do today?
• Day 14 - Your dream house...
• Day 15 - Next 3 items on your "Bucket List"
• Day 16 - A favorite YouTube video
• Day 17 - A habit you wish you DIDN'T have
• Day 18 - Put your iPod on shuffle and list the first 10 songs that come up
• Day 19 - A hobby of mine
• Day 20 - Your favorite Christmas tradition
• Day 21 - A travel story
• Day 22 - A photo of my family
• Day 23 - Share a favorite memory
• Day 24 - 5 Things you love about Summer
• Day 25 - A place I love
• Day 26 - A child I love
• Day 27 - A person I love
• Day 28 - A secret you want to get out
• Day 29 - Testimony of the Gospel
• Day 30 - Hopes, Dreams, and Plans for the next 365 days

Go Giants!

In honor of the San Francisco Giants being the World Champions this year....please enjoy!

We love this song so much, and now it's a Giants song too! Even better!

back in action!

It's been 2 months since my last post, I promise we haven't dropped off the face of the earth, we've just been super busy! But here are updates of what has been going on!

SEPTEMBER UPDATES

Last time I posted here, we were in the middle of moving. I'm happy to say that we got moved out of our apartment. Everything is now in a storage unit, and we've moved into Ryan's parents house, and it has been great! We have tons of space down in the basement, our own big room and bathroom, and a small kitchenette. They have been so good to us and let us share their entire home with them too though! We love it here! Their dog Tillis has become my little sidekick, while everyone is gone during the day to work and school, we hang out at home, go on walks/runs, he runs errands with me and everything.

I also graduated from beauty school on September 30! It was a very exciting day, that was long awaited! I graduated the same day as my good friend Julia. We started school the same day, June 9 2009, we had stations next to each other the whole way through, and graduated the same day. We have grown really close so it was fun to share the day with her!

Julia and I, the new graduates!

my parents and I. They have been so supportive for me. They made the drive from Ogden to Logan just for a quick haircut, and they'd always take me to lunch afterwards, they are the best!

The four of us are inseparable! Julia, Annie, Melanee, and me. I love these girls and so many of my greatest memories of school are shared with them!

Ryan and me! He has been the greatest supporter for me, always listening to every story I come home with, understanding of my crazy emotions, and of course he put up with my ever changing hair...even though I know he didn't want it to ever change! Such a good sport! I LOVE HIM!!!

For graduations you get to have a couple friends speak about you, Melanee, Annie and Julia were all so sweet, they all made me cry, I'm going to miss being with them everyday!

Me talking for Julia's part of the graduation. I'm pretty sure we both just started laughing because we were sobbing so much it was ridiculous! We are just going to miss each other so much!

OCTOBER UPDATES

Ryan turned 25!! His birthday this year was on 10.10.10! Very exciting! We celebrated by doing Ryan's favorite thing...watching a lot of sports! We went to Salt Lake on the 8th with our friends Dallin and Morgan to watch the Giants in the playoffs. We watched them play at the Skybox restaurant, so we had a delicious dinner and were able to watch the game on the big screen! The didn't end perfectly, because the Giants did lose that game, but at least they ended up winning the series!

Ryan, me, Morgan and Dallin (Giants vs. Braves fans, dun dun dun!)

Saturday night I had to work, and then on Sunday (his actual birthday) we watched the 49ers, and the Giants, complete with game day snacks and everything! That night, his oldest sister Julie and her family came over for dinner with us, his parents and younger sister Lauren. It was a great party weekend!

Then to end out the month of October, the Giants made it to the World Series vs the Rangers and they WON!!!!!! We watched the last game with a couple of Ryan's friends Matt and Jordan. I made dinner and snacks for everyone, and then we watched history happen! GO GIANTS!!!