one phone call changes everything

Matt's grandfather has been living with lung cancer for some time now. Matt got a phone call this morning saying pa-pa had been taken to the hospital with pneumonia. His cancer is bad now and they decided to take him off the ventilator because he has always said he did not want to live on life support. We will be going to Cinncinnati for a few days to be with family during this difficult time. Please pray for us to have a safe trip and for God to be with his family and us through this time. It makes me realize how short life is and how much we have to be thankful for. I'm so glad we have each other and our health. Please tell your loved ones how much they mean to you every chance you get, you never know what life has in store for us.

well...

Ok, so the 5th thru the 11th is black out time at work. Just like every other week i've tried to ask for vacation. I swear, half of the calender is blacked out, its ridiculous. So now I'm trying for April 19th thru the 25th. I know it's not blackout time and she has no reason to deny this one that I know of. We are already looking at plane tickets and hope to have them purchased next month. I'm thinking some people who live out-of-town might already be in town for Easter so they could have an excuse to stay longer and see me!
I'm just going to take a second and say how happy I am to be off work till Tuesday. I loved my job at first but I guess I'm starting to really see it for what it is. Lots and lots of BS. Oh well. Matt got the same days off as me so we get to spend all weekend together!! I made breakfast this morning, eggs, breakfast potatos, toast, and goetta (pronounced ge-tta). For those of you who don't know what Goetta is, it is a breakfast meat made of pig stuff. Not just pig meat, like bacon, but the intestines and skin and stuff, also spices and stuff to make it taste better. I'm not a big fan of this particular food (it tastes ok, not great, but I can't get past all the gross stuff it's made of). Matt enjoys it and we were given some for Christmas, so I made some for him this morning. I believe we are going to spend the entire weekend holed up here in the house not doing anything, and I'm very excited about it!

Maybe?!

So My boss is insisting that I take vacation time even though I technically haven't been with the company long enough to acrue vacation time. whatever. The upside to this is that Matt and I might be visiting Shelley April 5th thru the 10th. Keep your fingers crossed she doesn't deny me that week like she did my first 2 requests. 3rd time's the charm right?! I am really excited about the idea of visiting home. I haven't been there since Christmas 2006. And lucky Matt has never gotten to see where I grew up! He's actually never been west at all. He'll get to see the spud cellar shaped high school and all the splendor that is Idaho! If we do get to come, I want to see everyone! Everyone hope and pray for us that this trip works out!

good news!

Matt got a raise! Yay! He deserves every penny of it, he has been working his butt off there without a day off for months really. So congratulations baby!!! I love you!

4 Months!

In honor of our 4 month wedding anniversary, I decided to repost some pics from the wedding. As soon as we get the disk with all the photos on it you all will get to see some of the professional ones that were taken. Hopefully soon! And if I can swing it, maybe some clips of the video. The ceremony itself is pretty funny cause the best man holding the rings lost one of them. Hilarious! I can't wait to see it myself.

This was one of my favorites that my friend Stephanie took. Don't ask me how she got such a good shot, but I love it.

Happy 4 Months baby!! I love you!!

Happy New Year

We spent New Years Eve at home together :0) I was supposed to have the day off from work, but ended up going in all day when our store manager was sick and throwing up. So not a super relaxing day for me or Matt cause he was busting his butt all day at work too. So by the time we both got home from work we were ready to just sit back and ring the new year in quietly and go to bed, haha! The picture above is of us toasting the New Year with our sparkling wine in our Toasting glasses from the wedding. If you look closely his says Mr. and mine says Mrs. we like to bust out those glasses anytime we're feeling festive.

We spent a lot of time talking about all the differences between this New Year and last new year. Last year we were both working at Outback still and went to the bar after work and I won $500 in a raffle (awesome, I know). We had just moved in together a month before and we were still 3 months away from being engaged. And now we've been married for 4 months and both have much better jobs! It's just so crazy how fast everything changes. I know that our posts are slightly boring since we don't have kids yet, but I just keep thinking that this is the only way we are going to remember everything! I want to spend more time enjoying what is going on instead of desperately trying to remember what happened....so bear with me on the boring posts! lol!


Nothing much exciting going on in daily life. Matt is hopefully getting a raise at work, so we are super excited about that! Lord knows he's been working enough hours and busting his butt enough he should be getting a very substantial raise in my opinion! haha! We are also very excited about health insurance starting Feb. 1st. Definitely looking forward to that.

Oh, and the new blog pic is one of Matt and I's engagement photo's. We just got the prints, finally, but now the disk yet with everything on them, so I took a picture of the picture, lol.