one more thing..here is a picture of my ring....

8 Month Update....

here is the newest update. we are married today for 8 months!!! i can't believe that it has been that long already. but i am so happy and i love ben so much. i feel that we have both grown so much and have compromised a lot for each other in order to live together and still love eachother. it is the greatest decision that i have ever made. anywho...so going back to the fair.

ben and i went to the silver dollar fair with a good friend, jennifer that i used to work with at Chico Vision Care. it was so much fun. we got all the good fair food that we are definately paying for now and ben even got to shake the monkeys hand!!

then two weeks later, bens brother aaron got home from his mission and it was so much fun to see bens whole family together. this was the 1st time all 7 kids were together in 4 years. it was definately special..

ben and his mom...you can see where he gets his blue eyes..

this is the best family picture i think. the last one that was taken was when sam got home from his mission....4 or 5 years ago.

then the fire started. we had a large fire start and burned all the ay up skyway and neal rd. that was put out and not even a week later, we had a massive lightning storm that started over 800 fires in the north state. here is a pic of our view driving down skyway...

anywho....other than that, the firefighters are still fighting the fires and we are so thankful for their work. no update as of now for weight watchers. i have lost .2 lbs. i have not done too much. i have kind of given up on "watching what i weigh". i have just started exercising every day. i have started taking a jazz class every tuesday. it is 90 min and i love to be dancing again. still working, and i got a new ring. i finally got the wedding band that i have been waiting for. it looks beautiful. anywho, ben is getting his classes done to start chico state in the fall and we are excited to get things rolling for him to be making money. otherwise, hope to talk to you all soon...

WEIGHT WATCHERS ANYONE....???

OK...so since ben and i have been dating...last april, we both have gained a significant amount of weight just from being lazy. so we have decided to go on weight watchers. ben isn't too excited about it, but he is excited to slim down again and get eating healthy. so i am going to the meeting tonight. we are going to be doing the point system, and i talked to ben's aunt nancy about doing a blog about it. so i will update it weekly about how we are doing and what tricks we are using. others feel free to leave comments or even post something about it because i check this thing frequently as well as all my friends on my page. so for all those who will join in ....good luck...

we're ok!

it has been a long time since i have written i know, i am terrible at this thing...but we have had some huge fires in this area lately. ben and i are ok, we didn't get evacuated. the house is ok. i took some pictures and will post them as soon as i can. otherwise, aaron got home(ben's brother) and it was so nice to have some family time this weekend. we were there thurs -sat. thursday we had to spend the night due to all roads being closed from the fires. luckily we enjoyed all the time we had even though it was a long tiring weekend. sunday, we had my dad and his wife and my sister up for fathers day. we bbqed steaks and it was fun. the power was out but we had fun.

Shout out the the MTC..ROOT ROOT!!

i am a little behind...but i just want to shout out to the MTC. on May 19th it was our 4 year anniversary of entering in the MTC and i miss it. it was a great time in my life. these were the wonderful women i went in with and they are just great. now that we are all married and some with children, we never have time for eachother. i miss you both and love you.....KHS forever!

ok so i know that i never post things, but this is the latest adventure that i have taken. i flew out to utah for mollys BYU graduation. then we drove back. it was the longest short trip i have ever taken. i had not been in utah for almost a year and we really didn't do much. but it was nice to have some time off. and i know this was about a month ago. that is how much i am on top of things. anywho...we are going to the fair this weekend and with my friend Jen from my old job. so it will be fun. i will take some pictures and post again.

Hooker Oak Park to enjoy the weather...

We all decided to go to the park for a BBQ. it was so much fun. as you all know i now have saturdays off and so ben and i decided that we were going to invite ian and amanda for a day of fun. they brought their little baby..Nyomee, i don't know how to spell it but i spelt it phonetically....the way you sound it out. anywho...we BBQed steaks and kabobs, had jello salad and potato salad with BBQed zuccini. it was so much fun to hang out. the best part was holding their little girl..she is just the most adorable thing. i can't wait to have 10! JK!

here is another cute one of ben holding the baby..she is so small...well compaired to ben....

Here is a close up of the nyomee... i just happened to click at the right moment.

thats all enjoy for now and we will update soon..

Our House..

Coming in from the front door, this is the look of our living room and dining room. we are currenly house sitting for a family friend from church while they serve a mission. we love the home. it is a little large to swallow at first. but we are growing with it. litterally. we have both gained about 15 lbs. since we have been married but we are working on it. anywho..so i just wanted to bragg a little to all those young married couples that are living in apartments. ha ha just kidding..

this is bens wonderful tv. this was a christmas purchase for us. ben has been wanting a big screen tv for sometime and so we got a really good deal on a panasonic 50" plasma tv. i must say, i wasn't very happy about it at first, but since we have cancelled our cable and all i do is watch movies now, i really appriciate it more.

this is a project that i started when i was snowed in for 2 days this winter....and now it is going to wait until i am pregnant so i am not working and have more time... :)

this is our kitchen to the left and to the right this is the loft above the living room. anywho, i know that i don't update this a whole lot but i am going to really try to do better and improve....

LIFE UPDATE>>>>>

ben is currently trying to get into chico state so that he can start on his credential ..(spelling) program and then hopefully only 2 years left. at least that is what we are praying on. i on the other hand, got some help at work finally. we hired someone and she is great. i actually got to be done with work at 530 tonight. but i stil had 2 haircuts to do. by the end of the day it is hard to work out. i am tired. who knows, hopefully it will get better when it gets warmer.

i better go i am going to bed...good night to all...enjoy this..except those who have removed us, don't bother.. ")

OOOOK! i know it has been a really long time since i have written, but i really have been busy. i am not too good at this right now...give me a little more time and i will become better. i love my new job. well..it has its days. i love the girls i work with. they are great. we get a long really well. we had to get rid of one though. the girl that was there when i started. it just didn't work out for one reason or another, so she found another job and we are currently hiring. hopefully soon, we will find someone, like to start monday! i will be coming to utah soon. my sister molly is finally graduating from BYU and i will be attending the graduation. i wish that i could come for conference. i would love to see everyone from the mission. but no money. next time. we are rapping up the semester as well. but ben will be in summer school. so there goes our summer. maybe we can go somewhere. our workout and diet started yesterday. so far so good. we are getting there. trying to workout everyday and eat right. it makes long days but it is a good tired. that is about all now....
for those of you who didn't take us off your blog, we hope you enjoy it. talk to you soon

ok ok...i know it has been a long time since i have writtn anything, but ben and i have been very busy..... i started a new job. i finally quit costco. i am so relieved!!! i can't believe it. i have been trying to quit for some time now, but we needed the money and the benefits. but we finally got past that part and moved on. i now work full time at Chico Vision Care as the optical supervisor and the head optician. it is a monday through friday 830-530. i get to do hair on saturdays and on nights sometimes after work. it is tiring since the previous optician didn't train the other girl there much. there was a lot of reorganizing the first week. i was the most qualifies though. there was one applicant that felt that she was qualified because she wore glasses, so that made her an optician. but we are getting in order now. i have learned to edge classes as well. so i can actually make a whole set of glasses. it is pretty neat. ben is still in school. i fell like he has been in school forever sometimes. but he has 2 1/2 years left. can't wait!!! he still plays basketball as much as possible. nest week i am starting a dance class 2 times a week. one is tap and the other is hip hop. so it should a fun way to get into shape. ben and i have cancelled our cable and internet to save some more money. hopefully it works. anywho....talk to you later...

so we finally got all of th wedding pictures....here are our favs....

this one is my favorite of ben....he has such a sweet smile.
he looks hansome in this one

i love the angle of this pic with my dress

just another of us...

i love the fact that everything is black and white except the flowers...

and us again!! enjoy!

well here is the newest news...
nothing exciting!!!
to update you all...ben and i are just working working working...school started again for ben and it seemed to have stressed him out even more. he is working the same amount of hours, but longer. he now works wed 4p-12a,12a-8a, friday 4p-12a, sat 4p-12a, 12a, 8a. so he has 2 double shifts. plus he has a full load of school. then i am still working at costco and at the salon. i am trying to quit costco and go to the salon full time. but of course that is taking sometime to build up the clients that i need for that. it is amazing to see how Heavenly Father helps out though. right when i feel like i am not making any money at my salon and think i should do something else, it gets busy and we make more money. so we are definately thankful for that. today was election day...i voted but ben neglected to register....he forgot. so he did it and will be able to vote next time. and with the weather, it has snowed 6 inches in the last week. it has got to be a record for the last 5 years or so... it was cold...but fun in some ways...
and the super bowl was fun.. we had a few people here to hang out with us. it made it a fun day.

this would be our sunday outing. there is this place off of the skyway that is called either lookout point or make out point. ben and i decided to go and "look" at lookout point. we didn't makeout. no really, we just wanted to look at it. it goes into the canyon and it is really pretty. plus there were about 6 cars at the bottom. this is where a lot of people try to committ suicide by driving off the cliff. pretty sad. that is my sunday outfit too!

Here is ben...this time when it snowed he was so sweet to get out there and salt the driveway. it was quite cold. but he is so cute.

well sorry it has been a while but this is our house with the snow. we are up in paradise at a family friends house while they are on a mission. it was a little different being in the snow. i lived in snow for a long time out in ohio but everyone else always shoveled it. but this day i had to get out and do it. ben was gone in chicago for his best friends wedding and so i did it myself.

this is the most recent. ben and i went to his grandparents house in covelo. it was he most awful car trip ever!!!! on the way i got sick and then on the way back ben got sick. it was a four hour drive and we left at 8 am and got home at 10pm. long day but it was nice to see bens family and actually hang out with the extended family other than at the wedding.

this is bens family. we went to redding for thanksgiving. he had to work that day with angel ben...the one in the wheel chair. so we made him apart of the family. bens aunt came to visit..nancy to the right of his mom. it was a fun but long day.

well everyone i know this took a while... but i haven't had much time...this is ben and i on our honeymoon. we went to monterey and to san francisco. it was so cold but fun.

well today was a long day.. it started out at 545 am when i woke up and realized that i didn't set my alarm to get up at630...so ofcourse being the good wife that i am, wokeup ben to hand me his phone to set an alarm. by the time i got in the shower and got ready..ben was up for the day. i had a hi-lite this morning and made the same amount in 2 hours as i did in working 8 hours at costco. man i love retail. anywho.... then getting a call later on in the day from my husband that says if you can pick me up tonight i can get a ride to work from eric. well ben gets off at 11pm. so now i am at his work waiting for him to get off. tomorrow will be another long day. we are driving to willits to spend time with his grandparents. and then coming home tomorrow night....at least we get to spend time alone and sleep in on christmas eve. then we are off to bens parents in oroville christmas morning to receive a phone call from aaron at 7am... why he is calling so early...i don't know..but ben is excited to hear from him....any who we are all hoping that you have a wonderful christmas and until the next blog.....

the happy day

This was the start of our wonderful life together.... we had such a fun time and we are so happy. needless to say we were happy to finally finish taking pictures and get on with the rest of the night. And it was great to see the whole family..minus Aaron (bens brother on a mission, bless his heart).