Babysitting our niece, Lexi!

Surprises!

I finally uploaded all of my new pics so I will be working on getting them on here in the next couple days....

I surprised Garrett with a steak dinner after he took his horrible math test! It was my first time cooking steak, and it turned out good!

Grilled Pinnapple, it was so easy and so good! I just found a sauce online and used our little george foreman to grill it!

These are the new plates and bowls I got at Tai Pan, I was excited to be able to use them!
Shrimp, Garrett loves it! I think it's yucky...
Kiwi
His steak!

Of course, I had more fun "decorating" the table than anything else... :)
My flowers looked so pretty with our candle...

He's so excited!

Kiss the cook!

Garrett surprised me with flowers after my first day at my new job, then we went to Cafe Rio for dinner! What a sweetie!

What we have been doing...

I have been meaning to post for the last week or so but haven't had time to upload the pictures I have. So I'm just going to update on what we have been doing for now! Garrett decided to get out of his math class because taking it in 2 months instead of 4 just wasn't working and I agreed because I would rather play with him more this summer... Hell start summer school next summer..? ;) So we have loved not having to worry about that! Working part time at Davis now keeps me very busy when I am there but I do prefer being busy at work. I'm enjoying my new job at Bedrosians, both jobs are completely different so it's a little weird, but good!

Last week was crazy! We basically moved out of our apartment and all the way back in in two nights... Exhausting! We had to move everything into the kitchen so we could get new carpet. Thanks to Travis, Bonnie and Tim for all your help, we owe you!

We were supposed to move everything out on Monday night but had a few things going on so we changed it to Thursday. Monday we went to Murray park for our Grandpa and Grandma Jacobsons birthday party. Then Garrett had two soccer games that night, at the end of the first one, he hurt his ankle so we had to go home... :( He was sad he didn't get to play in the next game, it was the last of the season. His ankle is ok now when he walks on it but we aren't sure what's wrong with it other than a bad sprain, he took it to his old physical therapist office and they said he may want to do an x-ray on it because it could be broken (it would be broken in a spot that wouldn't prevent him from walking, but would explain why it is extremely tender there).
Tuesday we got to babysit our cute niece Lexi! It was so fun! Pics are coming of that! Wednesday we moved everything into our kitchen for the carpet... Thursday we moved everything back, organized and cleaned, etc. So we felt like we were about ready to drop most of last week!
Friday we went to our neighborhood/ward party and had fun chatting to our friends there. We had planned to go to a movie after that but decided on staying home instead since we hadn't relaxed at home for what felt like forever! Saturday I worked at Bedrosians (so not used to working Saturdays... especially when I don't get a day off during the week, it's weird!), Garrett took that opportunity and went fishing! He loved that! That night Janae was in town and so she hung out with us all night! Can't believe we didn't bore her to death! She went grocery shopping with me and then me and Garrett cooked her dinner, a little later she took us to an Italian ice cream shop, it was really good! Then we watched P.S. I Love You (she got us a bunch of cheap movies from her most recent trip to Ecuador!).
Sunday we went to my friends homecoming, Becky Eschler, she went on her mission to New York. It was so fun seeing her again and I can't wait to reunite "the blonde, the brunette and the red head"! After that, me and Garrett walked to the field across from us and had a little picnic. I loved it! I've been wanting to go on a picnic since the weather has been warm but we haven't been able to yet! Can't believe it's been warm weather so long and we've barely been able to be in it... :( It was so great, we fell asleep for an hour or so and just relaxed. We then finished off the weekend with a couple movies!
So far this week, Monday we went to the movie we were going to go see on Friday, Get Smart. It was pretty good! Tuesday I was really sick that morning but was able to go into work for a few hours that afternoon. We went and visited some neighbors for our ward missionary calling, then went home and watched a movie because I was feeling sick again. Wednesday I felt all better and after work, we went to Lagoon! My family went last week and got some bounce back passes so we could go this week, we didn't get there until 7 but were able to ride most of the rides we really wanted to, it was fun! Tonight we are going to a rodeo, tomorrow we are going to our ward breakfast, then swimming all day, then going to my family's "tank wars", then driving out to Tooele for the "Hooligan Rendezvous". Fun and busy 4th of July weekend! Hope everyone enjoys it! I will try to put up some pictures soon!

My new job and Garrett's math class

Well everyone keeps asking about my new job so I figured I'd tell ya what I know so far! I started Wednesday. I need it for my intern credit at school but also want to get into the design field. It's called Bedrosians Tile and Stone and I'll be working there every Wednesday, Friday and every other Saturday (not excited about working Saturdays), I won't be online at all so that is why (I'll be working at Davis all the other days during the week). I will be working in the showroom. They just opened the showroom part so if you had been there a while ago when it was a mess (they were working out of the warehouse), you need to check it out now. It really is an awesome showroom and they have a lot displayed in actual vignettes. It's over on 3300 S. 900 W., they have about 30 locations but that is the only one in Utah. The first day went good, it was typical for starting a new job; a little uncomfortable and lots of information. I will have to get used to working on my feet all day again, I've gotten lazy working in an office full time! If any of you have switched to an office job to an active job, you now what I mean. Your feet kill by the end of the day (more so than when you are used to working the "on your feet" job)! Walking on hard flooring all day probably doesn't help either! ;) It's a little weird for me so far going from having my own office and managing my own work to going back to a job where I am more managed and work Saturdays... ;) But I'm not complaining because it is a good starter job for design and pays much better than almost all other showroom jobs I know of. I do have my own "desk" and computer (out front, next to the other showroom people) so I do get to sit sometimes so that's good! My basic job is showroom sales; assisting customers with products and helping them with their design, showing them the slab yard, doing samples, submitting their order and of course a lot of other tasks. So I don't really know what else to say about it, I tried to give details so hope thats everything! I really like it so far!

Other updates: Garrett started his Math 1050 class and it's no fun, especially since he hasn't taken any math for about 5 years and skipped 1010...! He has a test about every 2 weeks or less that have about 180 or so problems (almost all of them are a different concept too, not just repetitive) that he needs to do prior for his homework, he is in the "quick" class that is 2 months long instead of 4. He's still working full time and we went out of town the weekend before his test (didn't know about it very much in advance) so he's been trying to cram it all out in the last week. He does well with it but it just takes so much time! He was supposed to take his test Tuesday but wasn't nearly ready so he is taking it tonight and he's still trying to finish up in between work today... Poor boy! I'm so proud of him for all of the determination and hard work he puts into his schooling! Even probably his least favorite class ever! I hate seeing him work on it so hard and for so long and still have so many problems left! Well see after this test if he is going to try to take this class another time, he has a foreign teacher and the whole class is having a hard time with him and many have dropped out already.

So those aren't the funnest posts or most interesting posts but that's what's new right now...

St. George

Garrett and I went with part of my family to St. George over the weekend. We drove down Friday morning and came back Sunday afternoon. It was so nice and warm! We swam, shopped, ate too much and went to a Tuacahn play (the purpose of the trip). It was a fun lil trip!

Almost everyone that came on the trip (but preggie Brandi and kids)

on the bumper boats at Fiesta Fun! We got soaked!
Brody and Lexi (cousins), Brody is such a "big brother" to her
Travis and Garrett have been wanting to have a kava drinking party forever! Garrett finally got the kava so this is what we did after the Fiesta Fun activities on Friday...
Here they go!
Yum! Tastes like dirt!
Colby has moments where he just loves his Uncle Garrett soo much,
he was attached at his hip all afternoon on Saturday...
Colby wanted a picture with Lexi but Lexi didn't...

Me and G at the Tuacahn play!
At Ihop with the fam for breakfast on Fathers Day!

I look drunk... (must be all cronked up from the kava still..) ;)

Happy Fathers day to all you daddies!

Garrett is going to be such a good daddy, I'm excited to watch him enteract with our kids!

We are so grateful for all the great fathers in our life and the examples they have given us. Thank you, we love you!

Design Blog

Most of you probably don't know that I have an Interior Design blog. I am not very good at posting on it, I would like to more but I need feedback and interaction to help me. So check it out, I just put up a post that I would love you to make comments about. I know many of you are little designers yourself! Here's the link: http://khalligandesign.com/blog/

I'd like suggestions for things that I could post about too (painting, wall hanging, supplies, etc.), I'm not an expert but it is my passion!

Thanks!

Venting...

OK, so I may be venting a little here but I think many of you will agree with the ridiculousness of what I saw on my way to work this morning. I looked to my right and there was a lady driving with her seven year old son and she was smoking her little heart out, that was my first complaint about her... Then I noticed her son was in the front seat with her, my second complaint about her, although a little less vulgar complaint. Then I notice he is standing up right by the dash, that's when I lost it. How hard is it to put your son in the back seat, let alone in a seat belt?! Hello, hasn't she heard that "seatbelts save lives"! I'm not the best at wearing my seat belt sometimes (I try and usually do though) but when it comes to kids, how is that something you'd think twice about? It's not like she didn't notice since he was standing and moving around all over... I hope I don't offend anyone by saying that I think that smoking can be a very selfish thing and I respect the ones that quit for others sake. (I also respect the smokers who go into the parking lot to smoke instead of smoking right by our apartment window, I don't respect the ones that smoke by our window). I have absolutely NO RESPECT for someone who smokes around children, especially yours! If you can't stop smoking, rise above it and keep it from your kids, go outside, etc. The worst is when a pregnant woman is smoking, but it's about the same thing to smoke around your kids in my opinion. Your kid didn't make the decision to smoke like you did so don't force your lung cancer on them! Ok, I just had to get that out...