Christmas Decorations!!

This is our first Christmas being married! I really wanted the whole get up with the tree and the stockings and all the trimmings. However... we live in a 687 sq ft apartment with barely enough room for the two of us and our dogs... let alone our stuff. So, needless to say I can't quite have the whole sha-bang. BUT... one day on my way to work I have a brilliant idea to make our little dwelling festive! Here's a couple pictures!
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This is our tree! I know its not traditional but, it takes up absolutely NO space!
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My "trimmings"
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Our stockings (no I'm not pregnant the little ones are for the dogs)

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Out with the Old... In with the New

For those of you that don't know...
Kacey and I have been having car problems with Kacey's Tiburon. A little over a year ago Kacey took his car in to have the clutch replaced. Let's just say that is really expensive and I helped him pay for it. Then... about 6 monthes ago it decided it didn't want to start anymore. Kacey and I didn't have the money to fix it right away so it sat until November. We took it in and were told that the starter, fly wheel, and clutch all needed to be replaced... talk about EXPENSIVE! But we knew the car needed to be fix and told the mechanics to go ahead. 6 weeks later after all this work has been done the car still wouldn't start and the mechanics couldn't figure out why. After all this frustration and a couple thousand dollars Kacey and I decided to get rid of it and get Kacey a different car.
If you know Kacey... he's pretty picky when it comes to what he will drive. He has a hard enough time driving my Jetta. While we were in Arizona we test drove numerous cars... all of which were sports cars and out of our price range. I had a hard time with the idea of him getting another sports car. When we got home Kacey found his new car online and we decided to check it out. In the end we ended up buying for a REALLY good deal.
Take a look!


This is a 2006 Nissan 350z Touring. It has 4000 miles on it with ALL the extras inside except for a navigation system. These extras include leather heated seats, a Bose sound system with a sub, and a 6 disk CD changer.
Kacey is like a 5 year old boy on Chrismas morning.
I think he may be getting a key chain for Christmas this year. HAHA

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Arizona Trip

It's been about a week since Kacey and I got back from our adventure in Arizona so I think it's about time to talk about it.

Kacey and I left on December 4 after I got off work and drove through the night. We arrived at my sisters house at 4:30 in the morning on December 5. After about a 5 hour nap at my sisters house we took off to southern Pheonix to go apartment shoppping. We looked at 5-7 different complexes that day and they all started to blend together in ours minds. Luckily my genius husband had the idea to video tape our tours so we know what we looked at!
Every single complex we looked at had fountains or waterfalls outside of them. Here is a picture of one of them.
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The next day, Saturday, we hung out with my sister at her husband. They introduced us to something called geocashing. It's like a treasure hunt and its pretty fun! Kacey and I may have to pick it up too. To geocash you need a GPS, that's what the blue thing is you see in the pictures.
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Here's Dixon

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Even Titan likes to help

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A geocash can be anything. Most of them hold little things, you are supposed to bring something to put in it and then take something out of it and sign the log book that is inside. This one was an Altoids container.

Later that day there way a fair type of thing with hot air balloons and all sorts of animals. Here is our favorite balloon and lots of the animals we got to see and touch.

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Parrots

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Kacey petting a Gator

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Me petting the Gator

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Baby Mountain Lion

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This is a Kangaroo

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A 2 toed sloth

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Hawk

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MASSIVE turtle

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Fox

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No this is not a massive husky... it is a Wolf
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There were a lot more animals than this but these were my favorites. I was SOOO excited to pet an aligator!


On Sunday, after church, Kacey and I decided to go back down to southern Pheonix to explore where we would be living. I wish I would have brought the camera. We went to one of the 3 malls in the area and this one had a Carosell on the middle of the food court and 6 different sections of the mall... each of these sections could have almost been its own mall! I can see myself getting in a lot of trouble in the place $-). Later we went to the Mesa Temple gounds where they had Christmas light. We walked around for an hour before Karen and Dixon made it. We looked around for another hour and decided that we had had enough. So we got in the car and wondered around Mesa (more like getting lost) and eventually back to my sister's house to go to bed.
Monday, we had a few more apartments to look at. I did that and got to know the area a little more.

We were sad to go on Tuesday morning, especially since we were coming back to VERY cold weather.
We are excited about our prospective move but a little nervous at the same time. Once we are there I'm sure we will settle in and be just fine.

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LEAVING!

This post isn't all that exciting but I'm REALLY excited!



Tomorrow Kacey and I are taking our first trip together! We're going to Pheonix! And although it's more business than pleasure... I'M REALLY EXCITED!


For those of you that don't know, Kacey works for Dish Network and they just opened a new call center in Pheonix. Which makes a TON of new jobs and the need to trained supervisors... ahem... Kacey... ahem... So we are looking to relocate in the (hopefully) near future! We'll be looking at apartments and getting a feel for the town (more like MASSIVE city) all while seeing and staying with my sister in her GORGEOUS new house!


Also, for those that don't know.... Arizona State University was my top choice in colleges. Needless to say.. I'm EXTATIC at the possibility of going there! Hopefully we'll have some time to stop by the campus!

Another plus.... it is FrEeZiNg here in Colorado... WARM WEATHER HERE WE COME!!!!
Now all I have to do is pack... do the dishes... and pretty much clean the apartment... I hate coming home to a mess...

Better Run!

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Thanks McKenzie

So... Kenzie tagged me! So here we go!





What is your husband’s name? Kacey :-)


How long have you been married to him? 3 months, 17 days… it’s too much work to get anymore detailed


How long did you date? About a year… that’s pretty long for a Mormon couple!


How "young" is he? He is 22 and he looks it I guess... but somedays I could swear he's no older than five... I LOVE it when that happens <3


Who is taller? He is! By a lot! I can wear absolutely ANY shoes I want!


Who can sing the best? Hm… well he won’t sing around me


Who is smarter? Well… I’m pretty sure his IQ would blow mine out of the water… but I’m more logical


Who does laundry? I do… that is his most dreaded chore


Who pays the bills? I do… they would all be late or unpaid if it weren’t for me


Who sleeps on the right side of the bed? If you’re lying in it… then I do. If you’re looking at it… he does. He wishes it were the other way around… but I make him sleep between me and the door… :-)


Who mows the lawn? The maintenance people


Who cooks dinner? He does… but I try on my days off… besides we’re not together for dinner


Who is the first to admit when they are wrong? Neither of us do… we’re both pretty stubborn haha


Who kissed who first? He will say I kissed him… but I say it was his fault


Who wears the pants? I guess we both do… remember… STUBBORN! :-)

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VISITORS

Kacey's sister brought our neice and nephew over to have a look around our apartement. Lets just say they really liked our bed!





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Ya Ya Ya we love our dogs

So yes we love our dogs! Nothing new...

Here is Ebony... being Ebony

And here is Lucy... for those of you that know her... she has become pretty lazy in her old age...

Look what I captured her doing one morning while I was getting ready!

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Late nights... alone...

Kacey works late nights... during the week I have to go to bed before he gets home and leave before he wakes up. But... on the weekends I stay up and wait for him to get home...

This was my project tonight... I put a bunch of my favorite wedding photos together in a video. I think it turned out pretty good!

I sure do love him!

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PuMpKiNs... pUmPkInS... PUMPKINS!!!

Like i've said before... Kacey and I are pretty excited about having the holidays together...
here's a look at some of our Halloween festivities!
WARNING! THIS IS A NO RING ACTIVITY!

YUMMY...





I guess they like raw pumpkin... ew...





The finished products

Eb didn't quite know what to think...
o geez... she's so dumb sometimes





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OK... so we love our dogs

Ok... so I know we may be crazy, but we absolutly LOVE our dogs! Kacey found this toy for Ebony on clearance. Normally Eb is scared on toys with squeekers... but this one actually sounds like a duck! Therefore.... SHE LOVES IT!!!!!
Tired puppy after playing with her toy...










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Our First Decorations

Kacey and I decided that we wanted to have a little fun with the holidays! So we put up our first decorations!!!!!!!!!!
Take a look
Ebony got a little curious and wound up with spider web ALL over her.... this is after I tried to clean her up!






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Labor Day


I know its a little late to post what we did on labor day but I just found the camera... it has been hiding for a good 2-3 weeks... oops!



Anyway, on labor day Kacey and I decided that we were going to take advantage of having the same day off for once! So we got ready and hit to road to Glenwood Springs. We weren't going to spend the day in the city but rather hiking a trail just outside the city. This trail is called Hanging Lake with a little detour called Hole in the Rock. Here are our pictures from our adventure.





Can you imagine my excitement when this was at the beginning of the trail?





There were lots of little water falls on the way up this was the first one... its not nearly as pretty as the others but o well


A tree was in the path


Yes this is the trail... almost ALL of it was like this




This is us once we hit the 1 mile mark... I know 1 mile doesn't seem like all that much but it is when you also climb 1000 ft in elevation in that mile.... and we still had a quarter mile to go...




But it was deffinately worth it.... This is Hanging Lake with crystal clear water




And this is Hole in the Rock...

Literally a waterfall coming out of just a hole in the rock...

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...for time? PSH NO! FOR ETERNITY


On August 2, 2008 Kacey and Kelsey were sealed for time and all eternity in the Denver, Colorado Temple.




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The Story Before the Journey


Since the whole family is getting in on this blogging thing I figured it would probably be a good idea to hop on the band wagon as well....


I thought it would be a good idea if I started with our journey to become the Livingstons with our engagement.


Kacey never formally purposed but he didn't really need to. We knew what we wanted and it was pretty much understood. But on one date he did actually pick a white daisy for me and say "will you marry me" while we were on a walk through the "big kid park." It was adorable. We took our engagement pictures in that same park.


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