I've Been Awarded

Moriah awarded me the Honest Scrap award.

I am supposed to tell you ten random, honest things about myself. Here they are in no particular order.

1. I am super shy, but I must be getting pretty good at hiding it, because most people have no idea… One of my new years resolutions is always to become more outgoing ;)

2. I hate being late, but I also hate being early. I feel like being late seems rude because it is as if you don’t find other people’s time valuable, but being early seems rude too because people may not be ready for you yet… This means I have to be right on time, which usually means I have to sit in the car or drive around the block a few times before I go inside… This one drives my husband a little crazy sometimes ;)

3. I am a vegetarian. People always ask me why and I never know what to say. Most people make this choice for health reasons or because they get sad when they think about killing animals… but for me it is not that at all. I am just 100% grossed out at the thought of eating the muscles of something that used to be a living thing… something that used to walk around and have blood pumping though it… YUCK! P.S. because this is my reasoning I am never ever offended at all when others eat meat around me, if you like meat, that is fine by me :)

4. I have a really weird thing when it comes to sweet and salty food. I love them both, A LOT! After I have something sweet I have to have something salty, and after I have something salty I need something sweet. As you can imagine, it turns into a pretty dangerous cycle. Because of this, I can often be found eating weird things like olives and chocolate chips. My husband makes fun of me for this, and I cannot blame him lol

5. I used to tell my sisters that I would never get married, and if I did I would be in my 30s at least. I knew I would want to finish college and be on my own for a while before I got married. Well, I met Josh while I was in high school and that pretty much killed that plan. Of all the things that I have done in my life, I have to say that getting married is by far the best! I love my husband more than anything and I love being able to spend every day with him. Lots of people thought I was crazy to get married at 19, but if they could have married my super awesome Josh, they would have gotten married at 19 as well.

6. I also used to tell my family that I would NEVER have children… The fact is, lately I have really been thinking about wanting a baby. (Don’t get too excited mom, I still have a few years to go). However, Josh and I always have to plan WAY ahead for everything (we can't help it, we always have to have a plan), so this won’t be happening for a few more years.

7. I was deaf until I was around 2 yrs old. I guess my parents just didn’t notice. My mom actually has my baby books in which she wrote about how I was such a nice quiet baby, not loud like my sister lol.

8. I LOVE Biology and Chemistry. I actually considered switching my major to biology at one point… I just had not idea what I would do with that kind of degree lol.

9. Large groups of people completely freak me out. So do small groups of people if we are in a small room. I start to get claustrophobic, feel like I can’t breath, and I have to leave… I REALLY need to get over this fear though, it is REALLY annoying!

10. While I am sure I will love teaching, I dream of having an artistic career (yes, I am super jealous of my graphic designer husband). I have always wanted to learn more about photography… Oh dream jobs ;)

I am awarding 3 more people...now it is your turn!

Dawn
Josh
Jon

Christmas in January

Okay I know, this is a really late holiday post… but let’s just say we are busy. Who knew that taking time off of work and school would result in A WHOLE lot of playing catch-up (hmm… never noticed how much that phrase sounds like ketchup… weird). Anyways, Josh and I are back into the full swing of things and I finally have some time to write a little bit about our winter break. It seems the perfect time to blog is when I can't sleep and it is 1AM :)

So, we went across the country to a place that is much colder than our nice little Phoenix desert. Much colder was a nice change, but I think we are both happy to be home and warm :)

We got to hang out with Josh’s Uncle Jon, Aunt Dawn, and their wonderful kiddos. This means much fun and always includes playing cards, cooking AMAZING food, and having the luxury of lazing around a little. Here are some pictures to highlight this part of our trip:

Cooking!

We like to make new fun foods! Like these crab thingys lol

And these yummy fried toffee apples

We always make sure to find time to play cards!

Josh and the kids

Super sweet Tatum :)

Dawn!
Jon!

Taylor being crazy
They are perfect for each other :)
The whole fam
Their Christmas Eve morning tradition: Beautiful.

We also got to see Josh’s immediate family (mom, dad, brothers) who we do not get to see that often at all. It is so nice to just get to sit and catch up with them during this time, they always have the funniest stories to tell ☺

Matt

Josh's mom got a really cool brownie pan :)

Josh's dad was Santa

Then we got to have Christmas with both the Johnson and Farmer side of Josh’s family. Can I just say that Josh has a BIG family? I come from a mother who has three sisters who all have 2-3 kids and one of which is married (which means I guess my family is a little large on one side), and a father with one sister who has no kids. This means I have 2 sets of grandparents, 4 aunts, 1 uncle and 8 cousins total… This is the family I am used to.

Josh comes from a mom who has 2 brothers and 2 sisters (some married some not), who have from 0 – 4 kids each (and some of those kids even have kids!), and a dad who has 2 sisters and 3 brothers (some married some not), who have from 0 – 2 kids each. So, my husband has two sets of grandparents, 7 uncles, 7 aunts, 16 cousins, 3 first cousins once removed (I think that is what you call your cousins’ kids?), and even more that I haven’t met or can’t think of how to label…

Pardon me because I am sure that my math is going to be off somewhere in there, but you get the point: Josh’s family = big (almost 2 times mine) and/or my family = small. I love being part of a big family now, it is different and always full of lots of fun things and silly stories. However, it does make for a Christmas of moving around! This means that we got to have lots of Christmases. Here are some pictures:

This is what we got to see while we sat at a dead stop on the highway for over 45 mins on Christmas morning. I think we counted 9 cars that had crashed in our 1 hr drive (well is should have been 1 hr)... A white Christmas was so much more fun when I was younger.

Although we were pretty late, we did eventually make it to the Johnson family Christmas, and it was a lot of fun!

Then it was off to the Farmer Christmas!

Farmer siblings!

The whole gang

Wow guys, that was a lot of pictures huh? Sorry if I got carried away, it is just that Josh and I had sooo much fun, and we wanted to take lots of pictures to share our Christmas with everyone! Having a new camera that we love using helps too lol. Anyways, that was our holiday, we hope you all had a great one as well.

P.S. Stay tuned as Josh and I should be updating the blog soon with some pictures of our new guest room... fun fun :)