Already our 3rd Married Christmas!!!

We haven't posted in forever! I just finished my first semester of nursing school!!! I still can't believe I graduated and went straight back to school! I don't know what I was thinking! But I love the girls in my program and I love being in the hospital with my patients!! I am still working at Trendy Tots and Michael is working away and studying for his GMAT. I think he is enjoying his break from school before he has to go back! We are leaving Sunday to go to California for a week for Christmas with my family and will spend a few days after we get back with Michael's family. We had a great family Christmas party in Ogden tonight with Grandma and Grandpa Farrell and the Farrell family! We are excited for Christmas and the New Year! We are loving our lives and having tons of fun! We feel so blessed in every aspect of life!

I love these

I love these.

Haircut!!!!

Steph gave me a haircut today for the first time!!! I think it looks great!

Stew!!!!

Steph cooked a delicious stew for lunch today. I gave her a 10 out if 10 on the "how amazing is this stew?" scale!

It's cold again in Provo.

All I can remember about taking this picture is Stephanie yelling at me to hurry because it was so cold. So yeah it's cold now.

I'm not a morning person

I have to be at the hospital at 530 tomorrow morning! I am not a morning person and I am not sure if I am going to like the life of a nurse...I hope I wake up in time!!!

Steph goes to nursing school

Steph got into nursing school at Provo College! Woot that! Way to go Steph! She will start this Monday doing her labs and then after three weeks she will start doing clinicals at a hospital. So basically if you are sick just call her and she will tell you what to do. Go get 'em Steph.

4th of July Fun!

We had a busy and fun 4th of July weekend! On the 3rd Michael went four wheeling with my family and had lots of fun! Then on the 4th we got up and went on a really long walk. Then we went to a lunch bbq with my family and Michael went swimming and surfing on the wave simulator. He came home worn out and then got ready to go to our next bbq for dinner with my dad's family. I had lots of family in town and we had fun visiting with all of my cute cousins and family. After we left there we came home and played with Andrea and Ryan for a little. Ryan came over to ride my dad's Harley. Too bad we don't have pictures of that! Then we rode scooters up to my dad's cousins house and watched the stadium of fire fireworks from a great view!!! It was a fun filled weekend here in Provo!

Thanks for staying with us!

Last night we had the best guests! Alison and David came and stayed with us on their drive through to Wisconsin for Medical School! I miss not having Alison live near me and now she is moving even further away. I love that we can just sit and talk or just sit and watch tv or just sit and do nothing together. When you can sit and do nothing together that proves that you are "real" friends. haha.I think Laura and addison are going through depression with them gone! All of my friends leave me (and I don't have very many friends so I am in trouble....Andrea DO NOT move!) I had fun chatting with them until midnight and I could have talked all night long if they didn't have to drive 12 hours more the next morning!! I am so happy they stayed with us and we got to hang out before they move so far!! I am so excited for them and for their fun adventure in Wisconsin and Medical School!!!! Don't forget about this red head in Utah!!! Sorry no pictures from this visit...it was late at night.

Good Bye ALL of my friends!

Graduation was so happy and so sad! We do everything with Matt and Chelsea and consider them some of our best friends! I guess they were sick of hanging out with us because they packed their bags and moved away to Northern California!!! But we are so excited for them and happy that things are going well in California! Congrats on Medical School Matt! We already miss hanging out with you guys!!! Don't find too many friends to replace us!!

Michael turned 25!

Michael turned 25 on May 5th. It really was a perfect weekend for a birthday. One of his best friends was in town and the boys got to hang out and catch up while Chelsea and I talked and played with baby Aimee. Like usual. Life is flying by and we are trying to absorb every minute of it! We are having so much fun. I am married to the nicest cutest boy alive. I consider myself the luckiest girl in the world to have Michael as my husband!!!

A little Update since graduation!

Michael and I both graduated in April! Finally. We are so happy to be done with BYU. My mom and dad and my sister and her baby came up for it! My other sister and her family ended up coming the week before so we had a really fun 2 weeks with everyone! Michael got a job here in Provo and it is a perfect for him. He has great hours and it is right down the street from our house! He does really well there and is loving it. And I am back in school! I thought for sure when I graduated I would never go back to school, but 2 weeks later I was enrolled again! I am thinking about going to Nursing or Ultrasound School, but we will see what happens. Plans seem to change all of the time with us! I also just got a part time job at a baby boutique and I am so excited about it! I LOVE baby clothes. Life is great and we are so thankful for how wonderful life is for us! We are loving every minute of it! There is a quick update of our life!

Steph's Super Sweet 16!!!

Happy B-Day Slugger!

Steph chose Los Hermanos for dinner













and California Pizza Kitchen(2 days later)













and got the new ice cream cupcakes from Cold Stone from Greg and Emily.

















She also took a huge humanities test on her birthday... gotta love that!

BYU-I

Congrats to my brother Ryan and Cousin Vanessa for getting into BYU-I! It is seriously the funnest school!!!!! Michael and I both went there our Freshmen year and both LOVED it! Here's a Shout out to BYU-I who's about to get two of the cutest people ever!!!

BIG JUDES
Freezing cold weather--snow fights -of course with the opposite gender!
ultimate frisbee
cute Idaho boys!
and
cute girls!
Idaho Falls trips - to the mall with NO cute clothes!
Tons of school activities-concerts, etc... (because there are no sporting events)
Smaller Campus - Really friendly people on campus
Walking to the grocery store (and getting rides home from boys) or pay $1 and they deliver your groceries!
Less nerds than in Provo
Sand dunes
Caves
Curfew---sneaking out
and SO much more!

California Weekend

Michael and I got to go home last weekend for many fun events. First we got to go home to celebrate my mom's and our nephew neal's birthday party! Neal loves spider man so he had a spider man cake and lots of spider man decorations.

We also went home for Andrea's wedding! She looked so pretty and it was so much fun to see her and Ryan get married. They are so cute and happy together. I don't have any pictures, but i will post some when i find some! At the wedding we got to hang out with Alison and David. It was a moment i have been waiting for for a very long time.

We played a lot of games and ate good food and we got to meet our new niece Breanne. She is soo cute and makes lots of noise, but is a very good and nice baby. Baby Addison and Aimee had a lot of fun playing and talking with each other. It was soo cute.

Niece # 4 is Here!

Baby Breanne Marie VanLandingham is finally here! Carinn had her on Sunday afternoon at 3. She is so adorable and I get to see her February 5th!!! I can not wait. I love her already!!

a little update

We got to go home to California the week before Christmas then we spent 2 days in Seattle with Michael's family at his brother's house and then we went back to California for a few days after Christmas. We didn't really take pictures, but here are a few... Here is Michael with our cute little Christmas tree before we left Utah...
The boys watched a lot of sports and Michael was so good with all of the babies...as usual! Carinn is trying to teach her kids to call him Big Farrell. Neal fell asleep on him while playing Wii.














I got to play with my family and loved every second of it. I love going home! The babies change so much every time I see them. Michael is such a good sport when we go home because I get so excited to see the girls in my house and he just plays with the boys. We are so excited for niece # 4 to be born in a couple of weeks!!! Here is Amelia and Addsion. Minnie thinks she is 10 now when she is only turning 4 and Addison eats like she is 10 when she is only a little baby. She isn't chubby she is her optimal weight and soo cute. When Carinn and Eric left to go home I was so sad not to have her little babies running around the house and I always miss them all so much when I leave. But we are lucky now and we get to come home to baby Aimee all of the time now! She is so cute and funny and crazy!

I won!

So I won a serious amount of Lucky Charms this year in a sales competition with General Mills.


Here is my prize. If anyone wants some of the "Lucky" Lucky Charms let me know and I will pull some strings for you.