February

What a month!!  I can't believe that February is already over!  We had a very exciting month.  We were able to finish our taxes, and get back a pretty nice rebate.  We decided we wanted to finally buy a bedroom set, so we did!  It's really nice.  We were able to buy the bed, two night stands, and the dresser.  We love finally having a bed!!  :D  Pictures will come!

Then we also bought a new couch!  It fits the room so much better.  Then we moved the table into where it should go, and made a little reading room in the fireplace area.  It is so cozy now!  Our last purchase will be a new fridge.  We are just waiting for a good deal!!

Tyler and I are both still plugging away on our masters, and trying to finish as much as we can!  Spring Break is in two weeks, and we are so excited!  We are going to Sedona thanks to mom and dad for a couple of days!  It will be beautiful!

Happy End of January

It is crazy to think that we are almost in February of 2010!! Where has the time gone! At school I just got an interactive white board installed yesterday! It will be a lot of fun, but I feel way out of it because my room is a disaster in the process of moving everything around!

Had to share a funny letter with everyone that we got in the mail today from our HOA. Tyler cut down the tree in our front yard when I went to visit Nicole in October, and just took our Christmas lights down on Sunday. Yes, we were a little behind the times, but we love Christmas, and are a little lazy. Here is what the letter said, "There are holiday lights and/or decorations visible after the holiday. Also, there is a tree stump left in the front yard. See that all holiday decorations are removed and the tree stump is removed." Really though, is that what my $240 a year is paying for!?! This is crazy!! I hate the HOA! First they write me a letter to tell me my tree branches are in the way of the sidewalk, and now they tell me something is wrong with the stump!? Crazy!! Guess what Tyler will be doing this weekend!! Amen for the rain!! At least it made the ground soft! I'll try and get a picture of the stump before it's gone to share with you all!

Happy New Year!

I know it's been a while, so I thought it would finally be a good time to update!

At the beginning of November Breeann and Kevin came out to visit us. We had a lot of fun with them, but I don't have many pictures because my battery died the day we went to the zoo. We didn't do much while they were here, a lot of lounging around, but we did go to the zoo one day, Howl at the Moon one night, and of course we ate A Lot!

The four of us at Howl at the Moon!

The holidays were super busy for us. For the beginning of Thanksgiving break we traveled to Palm Springs, CA for teacher's conference. While we were there Nicole came out and spent a day with us! It was a blast to see her! We headed back to Phoenix on Tuesday so that way we could get ready for Thanksgiving.

On Thanksgiving Day, Tyler's parents, Jeremy and Rachel came over to share a meal with us. We had way too much food for just the six of us, plus Kyrie, but it was still a lot of fun to share the meal with people we love.

Our table set before everyone got there! So much more food was on our table!

For Christmas we celebrated early when Dan and Megan came out to visit. That was a lot of fun too, and it was great to see them. We only wish that they lived closer so that way we could see them more. We were able to hang out with them for the weekend they were here, and we took them to Howl at the Moon too!! (Seeing a theme yet, if you come to visit, we'll take you there too!!)

I did a lot of baking!!

During Christmas break we traveled to my parent's house, up in Northern California, to be with my mom. She had knee surgery a week before Christmas, and I wanted to be home to help her get ready. She did great though, and was up walking around by the time I got home. She actually went back to work the same time Tyler and I went back to school! Yes, she is crazy! While we were home with my parents we were able to spend a couple of meals with Breeann and Kevin! It was great to see them again so close together! We can't wait for their wedding this May, and all of the fun activities before then! We were very blessed to spend Christmas day with my family, and they spoiled us of course! We were able to see my aunt, and cousins too, and his babies! I love those kids, and only wish we could see them more!

My mom and I enjoying the warm fire!

My dad making his AMAZING tacos!

After we left my parent's house, we traveled down to Bakersfield to hang out with another set of our parents. Kris' parents are wonderful, and we always have a blast staying there. We were able to spend a day with them, and to see Kris and Ross too! We love them, and are so happy that we were able to impose on their family time and hang out! Of course our time was way too short, but it was a blast!

My beautiful friend Kris!

We came to visit mom on her lunch break!

We then headed down to Orange County to spend the rest of our time with Nicole and Jon. We ended our break in an amazing way!! We just hung out, read a lot, played a lot of Wii, and ate! They are a blast to hang out with, and our New Years was a lot of fun! We miss them, and were very happy to have a couple of family meals!! :D We even got our annual family Christmas picture in!

Our annual family picture!

Now we are back in the swing of school. We have today off, which has been a nice and relaxing day. Tyler and I are both working hard on our masters, and keeping up our grades. We are both hoping to be done by spring 2011, so we are pushing through it.

We are looking forward to amazing summer plans, and can't wait to see you all again soon! Please keep us in your prayers, and I promise to be better about updating our site!!

Love you all!

Skype

We just downloaded Skype so Tyler could talk to his girlfriend, and for those of you who don't have an apple, it is an awesome free way to talk. If you want to chat, just let us know, and we'll set up a date!!

Ending of Summer

I can't believe all of our summer travels are over, and that we are starting school already! It really feels like we just got out of school, and now we are getting back into the swing of things. We had an awesome summer, and spent some amazing time with friends.

After Nicole and Jon's wedding we headed up to Oregon with Susan for a week!! We stayed with Mer, and it was awesome to see her!! We were also able to meet up with Melissa so it was great to see her three times in the last six months! We don't know when our paths will cross again, but it's nice knowing that we have friends who will always be there.

We also made plans with Susan to have another road trip next summer. We don't know where we will go for sure, or when, but at least we know we have a traveling buddy! Hopefully we'll get to see Susan around holidays this year.

After we left Mer in Oregon we headed back to my parents house for a couple of days. There we were able to spend a couple of more days with Susan. She spent our actual anniversary with us in Oregon, so we thought it would only be fair to share our cake with her too!! Tyler finally got his wish and we smashed cake in each others face. The cake still tasted really good though! We were really excited. We also got to spend a couple of more days with Kevin and Breeann!! We love them, and miss them, and it's awesome to know every time we go to my parents house they are there to hang out with!

Then we headed down to Bakersfield to hang out with Kris before her wedding! We had an amazing time with her family, and it is so nice having a family that takes you in. Her wedding was amazing, and we had a lot of fun hanging out with our new old friends Alex and Lauren. We also got to see a bunch of other people from Concordia like Karen, P Lo, Rizzo and a couple of others. It was an amazing week and an awesome ending to our vacation!

Here are just a few pictures from the highlights of the end of our vacation!

Part of our undergrad clique looking over Eugen! Miss you girls!

Catching up with Love YOU Most!!

Tyler misses his lover and pink cadillacs!

I miss my beautiful boyfriend :(

Celebrating our two years with our wedding cake!! Still tasted amazing!

I ♥ her!!

Tyler and his girlfriend Gracie!

Twins at Nicole's Wedding!!

Twins at Kris' Wedding!!

I love her!! She's moving to Palm Springs!! :D

Tyler, Alex, Lauren and I after an awesome wedding week with Kris.

Family Picture at Kris' Wedding

Steller Wedding Week

On Tuesday Tyler drove me out to Pleasanton so that way I could ride with Megan down to Cayucos for the bachelorette party. We had an entertaining three hour drive, where Megan and I got to know each other a lot better. We talked about college, our summer so far, teaching, and of course one of my favorite weekend activities, drinking.

When we got to the house we met up with the bride to be Nicole, Kristin, Paige and Kaelyn. Then Kimmy came and met up with us too!! We started by playing a long game of Phase 10. It was a good ice breaker, and a fun way for us to start the trip. After we finished our long game, with Nicole winning, we got ready to go out to dinner. We went to Nicole’s favorite Mexican place, Lo Lo’s, and shared margaritas around the table. We did a toast to Nicole to start off our trip. Then we went to the grocery store to buy wood, and smore stuff. Nicole got upset because I took her ATM card away from her so she would stop trying to pay for stuff. That girl is crazy thinking we would let her pay for anything!

Our margarita’s at Lo Lo’s

Our first night together!

When we got back from our little shopping trip we all changed into sweats, sweatshirts, and socks with our flip flops. Yes, of course we were styling. Then we headed out to the beach to build our bon fire. Nicole started digging the hole, and then we headed back to the house to get the drinks. :D By the time we got back the fire was going, so of course Nicole was a little sad that we missed the lighting process so she picked up the lighter fluid and got a little happy. We sat around the fire for a while just drinking, chatting, and making smores. We had an awesome time, until someone turned on their spot light up at their house, and we could see all of the sand crabs crawling all over the beach!! We got freaked out, buried our fire, and ran back to the house for cover. When we got back in the house we realized the bags that had all of our stuff in it were moving, so we threw them outside because none of us wanted to find the sand crabs to take them out!! We started crawling into bed, but Kristin, Megs and I stayed up to watch Jon and Kate, so sad.

Nicole and Megs ready for our bon fire!

Wednesday morning we woke up and sang happy birthday to Megs!! We had breakfast at the house and then tried to figure out what to do for the day. We decided on shopping and lunch at downtown Slo, so we were off. We did a little walking around, and hanging out. Had an awesome lunch at Firestone, and Nicole found her robe for her wedding day. After we were done shopping we went back to the house to hang out and wait until our big night out. We watched 27 Dresses, and then watched E for a little bit. We also had some Sex on the Beach. The best bucket I have bought! One bottle of Vodka, some sugar, water, and eight hours later, a delicious drink!

We enjoy a little sex on the beach!

We headed out to dinner around eight, and went to this place that had moose heads on the wall. None of us were that hungry, so we really just had some appetizers. Then we headed across the way to our first bar. There we all started with Cherry Bombs! Not as good as a jager bomb, or cactus cooler, but a good first round drink. Then we made Nicole and Paige do blow jobs!! For sure it was funny to watch!! Then the bar tenders made Megan and I get on the bar so they could take the shots though!! Everyone in the bar was watching! Megan and I took a gummy bear while we were still sitting on the bar, I need to find the recipe for that, because it was DELICIOUS! Then we headed over to Mother’s where there were live bands playing. They had some good music. Then the MC called us out and these two guys came over to buy Nicole a drink. Overall we had an awesome time at the bars!

Our night out on the town!
Cherry Bombs!!
Gummy bears!

Thursday morning we woke up, and went for a walk on the beach after we cleaned up the house. It was a good way to end the trip, as we were all strolling down the beach, and just reflecting on the week, and what was coming up. While we were walking we almost stepped on a crab!! Nicole ran away because she hates crabs! Then we all drove back to Fresno to begin preparing for the wedding! When we got back Megan and I ran around and did some errands with Nicole. While we were getting ready to go Kristin came in and told us Michael Jackson had died, so then we had to turn on the news to find out what was going on!! It was crazy because then when we were driving around every one was playing tributes to him. Even the tanning salon was only playing Michael music!

The little crab!

Our last day together before the wedding starts!

Friday Megan and I did some more running around in the morning. We had to take our dresses into to get steamed, and we had to run over to Victoria’s Secret to pick one last thing up for Nicole. :D Hopefully it is getting some good use this week while they are on their honeymoon! When we got back to Nicole’s house it was time to head out to the wedding venue to begin setting up for the wedding! We carried everything in, and started setting up the tables and candy. When we were finished we ran home to eat lunch and get ready for the rehearsal and dinner. We drove back out to the wedding site and had a quick rehearsal!! We were off to the park for our dinner and softball game. It was the Steller team against the Lampe team. It was a very close game, considering the guys thought that they were going to destroy us! The Lampe team won the game 4 – 3! We won thanks to Dominic, who hit a home run! After the game we tried to go see Transformers, but the next showing was going to be at 10:30, so we just went home to help Nicole finishing packing!

Making posters with directions!

The boys helping set up!

Concordia Girls!

Wedding party!

Saturday morning we woke up bright and early to start our days. We got our nails done at 8:30, and then we went back to Nicole’s house to hang out before it was time to head out to begin prepping. We left around 12:00, and headed out to get ready for the big day. We had a lot of fun hanging out in the locker room, all of us getting ready together. We had two girls come in to do our hair. While everyone was getting ready Megan, Kaelyn and I took Jon his present from Nicole. We had a fun time watching him open it. It was a very cute present, and I’m sure he loved it! After we got back from giving him his present it was time to get dressed, and go take our pictures. The girls went out and took some pictures, and then we had to hide again. Then it was 6:25, time to line up. The ceremony was beautiful, and my favorite part was when Bret pulled out the stool for Nicole to stand on to give Jon his kiss at the end! Once the ceremony was over it was time for some more pictures. Then it was time to party!! Megan and I had an awesome time at the reception dancing the night away! Eleven came way to early, and we had to say goodbye to our newlywed friends!! They went off with a BANG in a model A!

Twins!

Megs, Lynsey, and I at dinner!

Jon and Nicole we love you both, and wish you the best. Nicole thank you for asking me to be a part of your wedding party. We can’t wait to watch you guys grow in your marriage, and for our many family dinners. Always remember you have some where to stay in Phoenix, and we can’t wait for our friendship to continue to grow!

Day 10 - 12

We are at my parent's house now.

We had a fun ending to our Lake Tahoe vacation. Friday my parents, Tyler and I went to Monte Blue to see the corvettes, and to look at the arts and crafts stuff. We didn't buy any thing of course, but we just looked around. Then we went into the casino to see the Wizard again. My dad put in a twenty, and then walked away with forty-five. On the other hand, Tyler and my mom just had fun playing. I went and played the Village People, which is also a lot of fun. Different from the Wizard, but pretty much the same idea. Tyler and I came home with $5 more than we started with, but it was a lot of fun.

Friday night we went to the Sage Room for dinner. Once again another delicious meal! We had such good food on this trip this week, I don't think that Tyler and I will be eating like that for a long time!

Saturday we drove home and stopped at Aunt Michelle's on the way for Ashley's graduation and engagement party! It was a blast to see everyone, and to have all of the family in the same place again.

I hope that you enjoy these pictures!! If you have facebook there are more on there too!

Tyler and I at my favorite place in Tahoe, Eagle Falls.

Tyler and I on our last day at Lake Tahoe

All of the cousins with Grandma. Missing Rachel and Steven.

The next generation in couples. Tyler and I, Corey and Michelle, Ashley and Bobby.