Thanksgiving with the Lovelace's

This weekend was an absolutely fantastic vacation! We loaded up in a couple cars and drove the 8 hours to Apple Valley, CA to spend Thanksgiving with the Lovelace crew... we had so much fun visiting with everyone and of course it was so great to be with Matt all weekend. We had a wonderful turkey dinner that was prepared by Aunt Shelley mostly and a few other hands that jumped in to help! It was delicious!

On Saturday we got to drive down to the Beach. We went to Seal Beach first and walked around the little shops and walked down the peer and took lots of pictures. It was a beautiful day, not too cold, a little windy but the sun was shinning! After playing on Seal Beach we went to In and Out burger... mmm... Then we drove the 15 mins. over to Huntington Beach and did a  little shopping there and watched the beautiful sunset!

It was so much fun just being with the people I love and relaxing! We played games and ate, ate and ate some more! Matt and I got to ride in the back seat with little Tyce and boy is he just a little ray of sunshine! He's so sweet and he has a giggle that will melt anyone's heart! I wish that I could put every single picture up on this blog because they are all so great, but here are just a few of my favorites! I had so much fun as you can see and I have the greatest soon to be inlaws! They are all so sweet! And I have the best boyfriend/best friend in the world! I really hate that we had to come home and that we have to go back to work tomorrow! But I guess there will be more vacations to come...

I'm so excited for Christmas and snow! Something about this time of year is just fabulous! Love is just in the air at Christmas time! And my favorite part... Christmas music!! Yay!!! Matt wouldn't even let me play it in the car until after thanksgiving! So you better believe that Friday morning, the first thing I did in the car was make a Christmas playlist on my ipod! :) 

Well I guess that's all for now folks! Loves!! :)

A quick update! :)

So it has been a while since I blogged last and I thought I would just give some updates... not that anyone really reads my blog.. haha anyway, I just started at a new salon called Naturally Yours in Spanish Fork. I really liked my old salon I was at, it was just too hard coming up with booth rent every month and I just needed a little bit more structure. So I've only worked there 2 days now but so far so good. I really like the girls that I have met so far and I hoping I'll start to build more of a client base here at this salon. Cross your finger! I'm also working part time at my mom's facility the Center for Change as a Care Tech. It's been good so far I guess... Having 2 jobs has been really quite frustrating, I didn't think it really would be but it is. When you want a day or weekend off you have to deal with covering 2 places rather than 1. And right now at the Center I don't really have a set shift so I am working as an on call tech, which means I have to go in whenever they call me on the days that I'm on call.. Sometimes they call, and sometimes they don't. I'm hoping that a set schedule will open up soon. That would make my life much easier.
Matt and I are doing fabulous. Gosh I love him! He is such an amazing guy. He has been thrown a serious curve ball this last week and he is handling it far better than I would! I lucked out and got my shifts covered at both jobs and I get to go to California with his family for Thanksgiving! I am super excited! That's pretty much it for now... I cant really think of anything else! So until next time I suppose! xoxo

All you need is Love!

Well I was going to make a slide show of the california trip but then I decided that making one of "The Adventures of Matt and Nikki" would be way more exciting! And I was right... It was! :) 

I only have pictures from before his mission and then after on my computer right now. We have a ton of pictures from high school but I don't have a scanner... But oh well! This is plenty. 

Yay for LOVE!!

Good Ol' Californ-i-a!

Me and the fam just got home from Palm Springs on Sunday. It was a really long drive and the trip just wasn't long enough but we sure did have a blast... Everything from Crab Legs to Disneyland! I have a ton of pictures but since I'm a bit retarded with the whole blogging this still I'm not quite sure how to put a slide show together.. But I'll figure it out dont worry! 

We stayed in a condo in Indio that was super sweet... (Thanks becky)... the first day we got there we just hung out at the condo and swam a little bit then we went to dinner at the Crab Pot... YUMMY! It was a ton of food though... we even got to wear sweet bibs! :) 

We went to Disneyland the next day and it was just loads of fun! It's a little different when the youngest one is 15 but we still had fun... didn't we BRE! :) Bre and Ty were just so excited about disneyland, we told them we might not go and they both almost started crying! So we had to go... we didn't want to have to put up with the two grumps if we didn't! Now all of you that know me know that I dont usually do roller coasters! But I'll have you all know, I went on every single ride with the rest of the gang! I was pretty dang proud of myself! We also ate these massive corn dogs that were so dang good, but will probably haunt bre for the rest of her life! 

For our final event we took a tram up to the top of some 8500 ft mountain. It was so amazing! I'm not much of a hiker but it was a lot of fun! I'll try to get all the pictures up as soon as possible.. If anyone has any advice for me on how I might go about making a slide show I would be happy to hear it! :) 

Conference Weekend

Who doesn't love conference weekend?? Really... It's so nice to just be able to relax at home with family and listen to the wonderful talks... and sometimes sleep through the wonderful talks! :) I had a great weekend with Matty and and my family. My mom, Bre and I went to Red Robin while the boys were at Priesthood session. My mom is going to be so happy that I've posted this picture of her devouring her chocolate shake! haha 

After we ate we went and visited with Celiece and the babies... Baby Nixon is just adorable and Parker has got quite the little personality. Matt may have a little bit of competition! ;) All in all it was a fabulous weekend! I love the fall weather that is starting to set in... 

New room!

We finally finished the remodeling on the upstairs of our house, well the first half at least... Now they are working on the back.. but I got to move into my new room upstairs this last weekend. It's super cute and my closet is any girls dream closet! It was alot of work getting all the furniture in but after a few hours, a lot of laughs, and a few battle wounds we got it all in. Matt was in Vegas this weekend and we sure could have used his muscles but mom and I are pretty buff! So we handled it! haha... 

Although I am super excited to be in my new room, I am really not too happy with all the noise and scary men that are working in my backyard right now. I dont have blinds on my window yet but dont worry, I hung up a sheet to do the trick for now. I cant wait til the house is done and we dont have strangers walking in and out of the front door! It will be nice to have some privacy back... Hopefully it will all be done soon! Cross your fingers! 

September 20, 2008

5 years!! It was our anniversary on Saturday and Matt was so good to me! He came over in the morning when I woke up and made me breakfast, French Toast with fruit and eggs, bacon and sausage. Then he took me golfing... which was a blast! He won of course but we are both pretty equally bad! haha But we are going to be really good someday... it was only my 2nd time going. 

Then that night he cooked me the yummiest New York steak ever... As you can see in the picture he had the table all set with flower pedals and candles. Then we watched a movie and he cooked me an amazing dessert... He sure is an amazing cook! Thank you Matt! 

It was fun to finally be able to spend our "anniversary" together (it was our first date/kiss)... he hasn't been here for the last two! So it was alot of fun being together!