thanksgiving! i know it happened a month ago.. but thats what happens when you have school 9 hours a day mon-fri then work EVERY single weekend. so here are some wonderful pictures of what we did on thanksgiving... we ate and took naps. we had so much fun being able to be with family. we spent it with mom and dad, grandma and aunt pam and uncle richard and all of their kids. thank you for all the good food mom!

now on to christmas coming up in a week! we are ridding with norm and kathleen out to ca tonight! we are going to be at my parents house, and will have fun going to sam and megans wedding! i am getting so excited to see all of my family, i have already balled my eyes out just by thinking about seeing them. my dad is now stage 4 of cancer (the worst stage and most dangerous) it means that the cancer has spread throughout his blood stream. he started chemo 2 weeks ago and from what i hear he has already lost a bit of weight, and his hair is thinning and his skin has a yellow tint to it. however with all of the heart ache that my family has been going through, we have been just focusing on the positive, because since the chemo, the amount of cells with cancer so to speak, has gone from a 14 to a 12, and the lower the better! its hard to explain everything, but the important thing is that we have faith that he is getting better, and we are so thankful for the doctors and for all of the prayers and fasting that has helped my dad and family.

this christmas is a huge deal to me, i dont know when i will see my family all together again like this. my mom is so excited to stuff everyone full of food, my dad is ready to make his lame jokes that i love, and my siblings are ready to catch me up on all of the stories. we are going to take a family picture, which we havnt done with everyone since i was twelve. so i will post a lot when i get back! i hope that we all will just soak in the good memories this christmas, and not worry about the little things!

Outside of our door...

we are loving the fireplace




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our room..


master bath..

guest bedroom


guest bathroom

future laundry room...


we are in love with our new place.. and some day soon (hopefully) i will take advantage of the gym we have here too.

Adam and I had so much fun dressing up as refs at the BYU game the weekend before halloween. One of our yellow flags ended up on the field!


He even made the B himself..
and these are some of my friends from cosmetology school. it was fun being able to come to work/school all dressed up.
Halloween night we had our cousin kent over and we watched movies and had caramel apples.

Adam and i are all moved into our new place! We LOVE it, and will post some pictures soon. Thank you to all that helped us move (especially dad for staying up the night before to finish rebuilding his new trailer, so that we could use it).

Also, for those of you that dont know, the mom of the girls i nanny got laid off, so i got laid off last week. However I just got hired on at Target, and even though its not my favorite job, I am so grateful that I found a job sooo fast. So i will be working there until she finds another job.

Also, another stressful thing that happened last week was my HUGE test for cosmetology. I am happy to say that I passed all of them and i am officially working "on the floor" cutting hair and so forth.

ALSO, another thing that I found out last week was that my dad is diagnosed with cancer. It came as a huge shock, because he was fine a few weeks ago, he just had a stomach ache that wouldnt go away. He had some tests run, and they found some little polyps (i think thats what they are called) in his stomach. They didnt look like cancer, but they still went into surgery to remove them (along with a foot and 1/2 of his digestive system and his appendix). While they were in surgery they found a baseball size tumor, that they removed (which was tested for cancer and came back positive). He is a level 3 (one a scale of 1-4 with 4 being the worst) already. So right now he is recovering from his surgery and will start chemotherapy in a month.

Last week was honestly the worst week of my life. It felt like my whole world was crashing down- i had to go through moving, loosing my job then interviewing for others, dealing with huge tests, all while knowing that my dad now has cancer.

I have had to really depend on Heavenly Father, and i know that he has been carrying me through all of this. I have such a strong testimony that he really does love me and that everything will work out in the end. I am so glad to know that no matter what happens, my family will be together forever, and that life never ends at death. I also know that whatever doesn't kill you, will only make you stronger.

Ok i wish we were moving because of a real baby... but no, its because of our cat Annie. The other day i came home with a note on the door saying that they saw my little Annie, and that it is our first warning (with a nice $25 fine)... and that if they see her again, we will be evicted. Sad, so we have decided to not take the chance of having her spotted again, and just move anyway. We could get rid of her and stay... but yeah, no NO way. Like i said, she is my baby and thus the move. But i will miss this...


its the biggest most amazing kitchen ever... and i have yet to find one better (in an apartment that is).

and of course, im finally done decorating our house! Thats when you know its time for us to move.

this is crazy... i always tell people that our cat is dumb.. but i guess she isnt! look what she started doing tonight all on her own.

we have been up to a lot lately, and its hard to find time to post it all and talk about it, so here are just a lot of pictures... everyone is posting pictures of their babies, so i figure ill post a picture of mine! (i know dad's laughing at me for posting this, but oh well) this is annies first big catch. its good to know that she's doing her job!
of course, the first week of hair school, i decided to get a hair cut, and this week i am planning on dying it... and why not, its FREE!!! (i know i look really tired, and thats because i am, oh well)
the curling iron we have is crazy, it spins, and doesnt have a spring, so our fingers get a wonderful work out
i am scared of my manikin dolls, and keep them in a locker at school instead of bringing it home with me... I think this ones name is Helga. I make her look pretty.
adam really wants to be this for halloween.. but we dont even know what it really is..

we went to Swiss days a few weeks ago, and they had so many cool things!




it was really busy but oh so fun!


Also! BYU's football season started, and we are loving it. we will not speak of the first home game. the end.