2 years!

We celebrated our 2nd anniversary the other weekend.  It was the best weekend ever! What a wonderful 2 years it has been.  We are truly blessed. I love being married to my best friend.  Justin is such a sweet, handsome, helpful, amazing husband.  I love you dear!

(more complete details at the bottom of the post)

Our breakfast in bed room service!

Sweet fireplace and cow rug

Heart shaped jacuzzi 

cow rug

Justin and I finally celebrated our 2^nd anniversary today! We decided to wait so that we could be with family during Christmas.  It was the best weekend of my life and worth the wait! I enjoyed having Justin for a whole two days all to myself! I love my sweet husband so much. We drove into St. George and got a 50 minute deep tissue couples massage. It was amazing! My neck, shoulders, and calves hurt the most during the massage.  We were wishing we had gotten the longer 80-minute one.  It was a wonderful and much needed gift for both of us.  We also got a dark chocolate candy and some hot chocolate after the massage.  It was fancy.

We had then planned on grabbing something to eat really quick and then going to watch the second Hobbit movie at 3:35pm.  So we shared a meal at Panda Express and then went to the movie theater.  Unfortunately our online source lied to us and they weren’t even showing The Hobbit.  But they told us of a different theater that was showing it at 6:35pm.  So we went and checked in at a Best Western.  They only had anniversary suites available, but we got a discount. It was the most fancy room we have ever stayed in. There was a cow rug, a fireplace, a king size bed, a heart shaped Jacuzzi.  It was awesome.  We were laughing about how we booked the most ghetto rooms for our honeymoon. Haha lesson learned.  We booked them online and got them because they were cheap, but the pictures looked nice.  But then when we got there we feared for our lives.  It was a good experience, and now we know not to book hotel rooms online. So we were feeling very fancy in our anniversary suite.

Then we went and watched The Hobbit II.  We loved it! The ending left us hanging.  It is such a treat for us to go and watch a movie in the theater these days.  This was a weekend of splurging and enjoying each other’s company.  Then Justin took me to the Olive Garden for dinner.  I recently added wheat back into my diet, so I haven’t been able to get enough of Italian foods and things I have been missing.  It was delicious, but we both ate way too much.  I also ate my first piece of candy for my anniversary gift.  Delicious!

We enjoyed getting room service and breakfast in bed.  We were both very full from yesterday, but we ate what we could.  I love room service.  That was one of my favorite parts on our cruise for our honeymoon.  How fun to eat breakfast in bed! After we checked out we went to a shoe store to try to find some boots for Justin.  They didn’t have the size he needed, but he talked me into to buying the most comfortable shoes I have ever worn.  It feels like I am walking on clouds.  They are sketchers go walk brand. I don’t like to spend money on myself, but I’m glad he talked me into getting them.  It feels much better on my broken foot too! Bonus. What a sweet husband I have.  

More Christmas fun

We shot some clay pigeons one day

Justin took the grandkids on a mule ride

Justin helped get this mountain lion mount that was in the family store and put it up in their house.  His dad shot it when it was trying to eat one of his dogs. Rugged.

The finished product

More Christmas

I found some more pictures from our Christmas at the Holts. Enjoy

Justin got me a sweet matching cowboy trash can and soap dispenser.

He also got me an xbox 360 with a guitar for Beatles rockband

I got him a very nice razor that won't give him a rash on his neck, some broad heads, and shooting muffs.

Chauncey and Mal got Justin a hunting game and a gun for our xbox 360

I got a sweet recipe book and a meat mallet from mama Holt

Chauncey and Mal also got us this huge box of food! Exciting

We all pitched in and got Linda a bunch of new pillows to put on the beds for when hunters come

Our awesome Goodson family reunion book from Marg/Mama Goodson. Love it!

This is capturing the madness of 2 tv screens and two games hooked up at the same time.  All of the boys loved this and were able to play all together on two screens.

 We also did a white elephant gift exchange with everyone

This was one of the best gifts - a huge leopard onesie 

This was one of the gifts we brought. A weird shower cap. haha

We also played a game. The boys and girls were on teams and had to dress someone up in a Christmas theme. I am a Christmas tree...and I am not sure what Justin is. Awesome

It was a wonderful Christmas.

Remember when I broke my foot?

I am still recovering from my broken foot. I can walk on it now, but I still limp.  It's been about 3 months now.  I found these pictures on Justin's phone and thought I would share them.

I am heavily drugged in this picture.  It took 2 hours of waiting in lots of pain, but they finally helped me.

Christmas 2013

For Christmas this year we went to Justin's house in Caliente, NV. His whole family was able to make it (minus Colby who is on a mission).   It was a wonderful Christmas. My favorite part was speaking to Matt who is on his mission, along with my whole family and seeing their beautiful faces!!

The nieces acting out the story of the birth of Jesus.

what a handsome husband

All of the men played a lot of video games. They had two screens set up...oh boys.

Happy Christmas! 

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!!

Top ten from the Holts (in no particular order):

11.     George Strait concert in January. It was our anniversary gift to ourselves. We had great seats on the floor! He even touched Steph’s hand!

22.     Steph passed her hunter safety class.  So, Justin took Steph hunting for the first time ever. We just went for 1 day and hiked a lot and camped out.  It was a fun trip.  We saw some deer, but never got close enough.  We also saw a huge moose!

33.     Went fishing a couple of times. 

44.     Had an amazing Goodson family reunion in Virginia. Hooray for family!

55.     We were able to work on the farm for the 7-week break.  Justin helped build a huge bailer barn and increased his welding skills to professional status. It was Justin’s first trip out to the farm and he loved it!

66.     Steph broke her foot in October.  Her first broken bone and first trip to the ER.  It happened at work. A solid metal panel on the bottom of a cow shoot broke off and dropped on her foot. Papa Goodson was the first person Steph talked to and he was a voice of reason and told her to go to the hospital. She couldn’t have done it without him.

77.     We moved into a trailer to save some money. We have more room and it feels more like a home. We love it! Super Mama Goodson came out and helped us move, clean, organize, cook, shop, etc… What an amazing woman. She saved us.

88.     Steph is on an elimination diet to try to get feeling better. It has worked wonders, but has been very hard. She lost 15 pounds.

99.     Justin was the CEO of Tito’s Tacos.  A student run business that he helped create.  They were very successful and made just under $20,000 in 8 weeks.  Unfortunately, they were unable to keep any of the profits because it goes back to the school.

110. Justin built his first knife. 

Update on the old foot

I can now put a little pressure on my foot and I try to hobble around with one crutch.  When we go outside Justin is my other crutch in case I slip on the ice and snow. It still hurts quite a bit though, so I am going to get an MRI.  If my ligament is messed up, then it could take up to 9 months to heal completely.  Hopefully, that is not the case.  But here is some things I have learned about myself: 

- I do not easily get bored. 

- I am sort of (and by sort of I mean really really really a lot) enjoying not having to work outside in the freezing cold. 

- I wish I could be more helpful around the house with things. (I can now do dishes for a short amount of time and laundry...progress).

- I took my first shower since I broke my foot. It was exciting and I sat on an ice chest that we put in the shower. Good times.

It's kind of hard to see, but my foot is still swollen and bruised (this was a couple weeks ago...but it still pretty much looks the same. Maybe more bruising).