The Youngs

Iphone!!

2011-04-27T10:34:00.001-07:00

It's official! I found an app where I an update from my phone! I love this! Once I figure it out it will get more exciting but for now... Wahoooo

Sleeeeeeeep

2011-03-13T18:07:00.000-07:00

So currently Hailey has been having this wonderful desire to NOT SLEEP..

She used to sleep GREAT but randomly she has decided that sleeping is an event that isnt really important. She has been waking up between 1 am and 4 am FOR THE DAY.. This is NOT fun..

Soo.. Today Hailey woke up at 5 am and then played with Shawn ( bless him) while i snoozed.

At about 8 i got up for church and gave her breakfast. (Oat meal made with Apple Juice) and after we finished i gave her some puffs to snack on and turned on some Yo Gabba Gabba for her and went to shower. Before i could even get in, Shawn starts busting up laughing and runs to me with this picture:

How sad! Poor thing collapsed.. She took a long nap today so hopefully we are getting over this phase soon.. cause mommy is needing to nap too!

We also have a lil girl who keeps growing like a weed.. she is so tall!!! i cant wait to see how tall she is at her next appt. Cause we all know she will NOT hold still for me to measure her. But we were graced by "Auntie" Rachel for this past week and get to try new car seats with her!

Here are some pics of Hailey with her pal Jude. Jude is the little boy i nanny.
(Mainly because he isnt my child, i dont paste them on facebook for everyone to see, so i post them on here, for a select audience to see :o) )
I usually watch him 2-3 days a week, he is 1 year old and very cute. They do VERY well together and play all day!

Now Hailey has never been the master at the "Jumper" Concept .. yet here is a video from when she finally got it! Exciting for me.. maybe not so much for u.. haha

We're back!

2011-02-28T11:16:00.000-08:00

We are back!!

I know it has been a lifetime since we blogged last.. but here we are.. and instead of playing catch up.. we are just going to start fresh. Hailey is the greatest blessing we have right now, and we are just enjoying every day with her! Here are some pics to enjoy!

its been forever

2010-06-07T16:32:00.000-07:00

Sooo.. it has officially been a very long time since we blogged.. but here is a simple update..

We moved to WV.. Fairmont to be exact..

We named out lil girl Hailey Elizabeth

She is due in 4 days!!!!

Sara starts school this Fall.. with the hopes if graduating ASAP

Shawn works for Fedex in Bridgeport and has taken a very nice promotion

We are loving the east coast and planning to never leave.. ( once we get to NC that is!)

We hope to update more once hailey bear is here and we have something cute and exciting to post about!

ITS A GIRL!

2010-01-21T21:03:00.000-08:00

So its been a while since we updated.. however i am here to officially announce that the baby is definitely and 100% a girl!

Mommy and Baby are doing great! In other things we are enjoying life but hoping for a chance to move back east soon!!

Here are some pics of the baby! and enjoy the videos underneath this!

ITS A GIRL!

Baby Movie.. Part 2

2010-01-21T19:30:00.000-08:00

Baby Movie!

2010-01-21T19:05:00.000-08:00

Baby bump?

2009-12-06T17:16:00.000-08:00

Those of you wondering if sara is getting fat yet (is it possible?) I am here to keep you up to date. There looks to be a little baby trying to poke out. Here are some pictures to show it:

I think she is trying a little hard in this one, haha

No faking, this is a normal look.

In other news, school is ending soon!!! YAY! We are more than fed up with this semester. The snow and cold have been coming more frequent and more furious. We have not been above freezing in 4 days now and it looks like we got a few more days to go. We are just not cold weather people. Work is picking up for us FedEx folk, tis the season! We are pretty pumped for christmas to come though. Over thanksgiving we had the opportunity to join Ashley's family where we ate some good food and played some wii. We tried to enjoy a little time off together. The break was great.

1st picture..

2009-11-17T18:07:00.000-08:00

So here it is, the proof we arent kidding with you guys and we truely are having a baby!

By the way for those who need help it is the small pac man looking spot inside the black bean shaped spot. haha..

In other news.. we are ready for a break with school and can not wait till thanksgiving and christmas. We promise to take pics.

love you

We are having a baby!

2009-11-08T14:21:00.000-08:00

First post in about a month here it goes.

We have been super busy with school and work as usual. We rarely get to see each other but we make it count when we do. Just trying to get edumacated. The biggest news of the past month (which most everyone probably knows by now) that we are going to be parents. Sara due date is June 15th and we are pretty excited about it. We are surprised but still excited! Yet another fun journey ahead for us. We still have another 6 weeks left of school then after that we get some time to rest and spend together for the holiday season. Hope everyone is doing well! We miss and love you all!

Football

2009-09-27T08:59:00.000-07:00

This year we decided to get season student passes to the University of Utah football games. The 1st game Sara couldnt go to , but last night we got to go to a game together. Nate and Ashley joined us because they also got tickets and they are right beside us! YAY! For a belated birthday present they surprised shawn with some ROCKING utah gear. So here are some pics of the game and Shawn's crazy fan gear. Sara also took the opportunity to be a lil creative with the camera. She also got some good ones with a fan waving a flag across the stadium and the sunset!ENJOY!

Random update of what we are doing!

2009-09-07T21:07:00.000-07:00

So we will start with today.. YAY for labor day.. i love labor days because when i was younger they always meant a get-a-way trip with my favorite people.. my family! but our

utah version of labor day consisted of Carolina BBQ, Football, and GREAT Friends! ( plus a few family! .. yay jilllly!) Here is some pics of the guys playing some hardcore ball

at the local park and enjoying the wonderful weather!

Here is a random pic of my new permed hair. This was my 1st away from auntie shannon and it was not disasterous as i had feared..

Here is my another random picture but these next two are from glauser's farwell to his internship to Washington DC. Shawn found a table his size! haha.. the other picture is me and shawn in our driveway waiting for our friends to come get us! Love you Janelle and Champy!

school school school..

2009-09-02T20:45:00.001-07:00

we are sorry for the lack of posts.. however... school has taken over our lives from 8 am to 8 pm with homework after.. and work somewhere in between . So we are pretty swamped right now. We promise when we get a moment to update.. we will..
but just like to shout out to momma young!

Happy Birthday!!

We Love You!!

We are still alive

2009-08-16T16:15:00.001-07:00

Things are going good here. After a long hiatus from blogging we figured its a good time to say hi to anyone who follows us. Summer is coming to a screaching halt on us and now the onset of fall semester looms. Shawn starts back up at school on the 24th, while Sara still has until the 7th to enjoy a bit more free time. After that we will be pretty busy. What more can we expect though? Lately we have been trying to prepare for the school year and trying to relax while we can. We have managed to go catch a few of the minor league baseball games, visit the Oquirrh mountain temple open house, toured up into the canyons a little bit, and had more adventures at boondocks. Thats about all the excitement the past few weeks. We are excited for football season to head our way!

enjoying summer

2009-07-30T17:46:00.000-07:00

Recently we have just been enjoying the summer fun and have been hanging out with friends.

Here are some pics of our adventures of boondocks with big will and katy and fernando, and then the Fray Concert with katy and fernando ... we can't wait for little baby fernandez to come!

Our favorite game of the place.. DEAL OR NO DEAL..
shawn and big will are ridiculous at this game
Shawn got very very wet at the bumper boats..
he wasnt very happpy...

Here is big will in his go cart!

everyone waiting for laser tag

Me and shawn about to tear up laser tag

Close up of Jacks Mannequin at the concert

Us laying on the lawn waiting for the concert to start

Yay for great friends.. and excited for their new addition!!

us and all the cool kids on the lawn before the concert

cedar point!

2009-07-23T13:35:00.001-07:00

Do you expect anything different from us?
SNOOPY!

Mom and Dad Going Up

Shawn, Holly, Mikayla, Sara going upppppp

Video of slip n slide

2009-07-19T17:25:00.000-07:00

Shawn's first slide down the slip n slide after we built a ramp at the bottom. The ramp was later removed for safety purposes.

Aunt Robin getting tossed down the slip n slide. 'little brother' Mike does the hard work. Watch Robin try to give him a wedgie then take her husband and brother with her

Pictures from 4th of July!

2009-07-19T11:40:00.000-07:00

Some pictures and video from our July 4th bbq and slip n slide!

Big Splash By Sara!

Shawn And Dillion fighting the throw the other into the big pool of water

Sara might wanna flip around for a better view

Shawn and Dillion racing

Shawn, Duke, Dillion, And Uncle Dave playing badmitten

Back from our Vaca!

2009-07-16T15:52:00.000-07:00

Our wonderful vacation has finally come to an end and we are back in the swing of life here in Utah once more. Not a moment to catch our breathe we are both right back into action at work. The trip was very fun and exciting for us. We arrived on July 3rd and then on July 4th had a fun cookout at Shawn's parents house. We got to see all of the family that day, ate burgers and hot dogs. The real highlight of the BBQ was the 50ft slip n slide we had set up down the front yard hill. It turned out to be an absolutly blast (with a little help from baby oil). Pictures and Video to come of this event. Later that night we went out on the river to watch the fireworks but had to wait 2 hours for Billy Ray Cyrus to stop singing before fireworks filled the sky. It was a struggle to sit through his singing.

On tuesday and wednesday we made the trip up to Sandusky, OH to go to Cedar Point! Something we have all been looking forward to for quite awhile and the rides did not let us down. We all had a great time, got some sweet tan lines, and rode some awesome roller coasters. To end the trip we went to the Pittsburgh Zoo on Friday and had fun there. The underwater part of the park was pretty cool and unique. Something we all enjoyed.

Overall travel was easy and not too burdensome. It will be a lot easier when we are back on the good side of the country though. For now we have this weekend to look forward to. We are going to watch the Fray in concert and then Sunday is our 1 year anniversary. Hard to beleive it is here so quick. We love you all and miss everyone!

WV!

2009-06-29T08:49:00.001-07:00

Soooo we are pretty pumped to head to WV in 4 days!!! Can't wait!!!
We are lucky enough to have 10 days offf.. and we can't wait!!!

But for your pleasure..
I found this and though it was funny.
Those from fairmont think its the funniest.

You know your from fairmont
when:

-You've thought about suicide by jumping off the third street bridge.

- When you consider "town".. past the village pantry.

- When you count down the days until Dairy Cream Corner opens.

- When going to the Tygart Valley Cinema is considered a date.

- When you consider Valley Falls a National Park.

- When the only famous person to come out of fairmont was Mary Lou Retton whom doesn't even consider it her home town.

- If you remember Hills.

- If you go to the Middletown Mall you return with a taco, a pet lizard, and a shirt from GoodWill.

- When you've been to every bar.. (there's only two.)

- When the biggest event of the year is the east/west football game and you only go to see the band.

- When you make the long loop from west to east to south fairmont counting padiddles and stealing road cones.

- When you want to be a valid member of the Burger King car club.

- When its 2 a.m. mom's place karaoke sounds enticing.

- When whether you break down, your farm animals are sick, you need to rewire your house or your nose is stuffed up, you go to Chick's and find everything you need.

- When at least one part of your vehicle is dangling or fallen off due to jumping the infamous West Side Hump by the bus lot.

- When you know the name of every single person in your school... and half of them are your cousins.

-When you think of Wave Tech as more of a small scale Disney World.

- When there is a church and a high life lounge by every stop sign.

- You order a dozen Yan dogs knowing darn well you'll put ketchup on em when you get home.

- When you drive past Mannington and you actually thank Goodness that you are from Fairmont.

- When Muriales is considered a 5 Star Restraunt.

- You're gourmet grocery stores are five Shop N' Saves.

- You would literally pee your self just to not go to the bathrooms at the downtown movie theater.

- When you go to town on the first of the month and its like New York City. Everyone is out cashing their welfare checks.

- When the only place you can get a job is at Aegis & Walmart

- When you walk out of warehouse grocery with a 35 cent faygo and a birthday card.

- When you go to a party and you see a 15 year old pregnant girl smoking a cigarette.

- When you consider Gabes a department store.

- When you drive down "Speed Way" and you know the speed limit is 25 mph.

- When you need to go to the hospital but you would rather bleed to death than be caught dead in Fairmont General.

-When the Mountaineer Mart, Ghetto Mart and Crack Mart are all the same thing.

Bye Sethyyyy

2009-06-24T13:37:00.000-07:00

We went with Sara's dadda to take seth to the MTC today..
here is a pic of Sara and Seth..

to see more click here: SETH.

Ode to our Daddys

2009-06-21T12:02:00.000-07:00

Today we gave talks about fathers day and
we just wanted to let them know that we love you!!!
Love you Daddys

You are our superheros!!!

Rain in Utah

2009-06-15T11:04:00.000-07:00

Lately the weather has been confusing us a little bit. We have had showers and thunderstorms everyday for over 2 weeks time now. Sara doesn't like it too much but Shawn is in heaven. Regardless it is not what we are used to in Utah. Usually it is either snow or sun. Aside from that things have been going fairly well out here. We are getting very excited to come back again in a few weeks. It will definatly be a treat as always for us. We will both be going to school in the fall so its our last chance to relax together. Sara will be going to the LDS BC and Shawn will still be at the U.

Our new apartment is amazing! So much more space to move around in and also our new ward seems to be pretty awesome. We both like it a lot so thats always a plus. We had Joseph, Katie, Nathan, Ashley, Baby Claire and Shelly over for a fun get together a week ago. As always it was good to spend time with everyone. Thats about everything thats going on right now! Hope everyone is doing well!

REAL Salt Lake Soccer game!

2009-06-07T17:23:00.000-07:00

We had the great opportunity to go to a Real Salt Lake Soccer game at the new Rio Tinto Stadium. Here are some pics. We got to see some cool things like a group of parachuters from the Air Force bring in the game ball and the america flag, and we also saw a fueler plane fly VERY close to the stadium ( scared the crap out of the fans). And to top it all off we saw every utah young teenagers heart throb. DAVID ARCHULETTA. He sang the national anthem and then did a concert after the game. We aren't hardcore enough to stay for the concert, but we did record a small clip for your viewing pleasure. Parachuters: Landing Number one
Coming in

Another landing

Here comes the flag

The game ball landing

Here is another parachuter right before landing

Here they all are right after jumping out of the plane

Here are how close we were to the field

More of the field

Here are pics from up top before the game started

Again the same thing

DAVID ARCHULETTA! lol

Here is Our new Apartment!

2009-05-31T15:27:00.000-07:00

we realized we hadnt put our new apartment update up.. so heres some pics.

Memorial Day Funnnn

2009-05-31T13:07:00.000-07:00

For memorial day we headed up to a pretty sweet lake, Jordanelle. This lake is up past park city and it was beautiful. We went up there with our friends Katy and Fernando Fernandez ( and lil fernanez baby to be). We walked around and had a picnic of some gooood carolina BBQ. Afterwards we paroozed the outlet malls and checked out baby clothes for lil Mr Fernandez to be. Here are some pics of the day.

Also a shout out to Monica : Congrats on Graduation!!
and Seth: Getting closer to you mission. We are so proud of you both.

Picures from our trip

2009-05-22T08:34:00.000-07:00

Mark And Judy! The Murphy's! Dressing up in costumes!

Good Morning New York City!

WE love our moms!

2009-05-10T11:30:00.001-07:00

YAY FOR MOMS!

We just wanted to tell our moms how much we love them!

You mean the world to us and we are thankful to have you in our lives. You raised us to be who we are today and you mean everything to us. Thanks for all the support and love. We miss you tons and thank you for everything. You both are great.. we love you!

Happy Mothers Day!

Rachel's First blogspot appearance

2009-05-05T10:30:00.001-07:00

Rachel wanted to be on our blogspot, so hold your breathe because here is the first appearance of Rachel Hibbs. For those that don't know she is Sara's bestest friend for all of high school and was her maid of honor at the wedding. And for the record she calls future godmother to any kids. Sorry for all those who missed out on the bidding, she did call it first though.

Rachel in action with the fruit

Sara also making fruit kabobs

Looking far into the future, Future Godmother (Rachel called it) and mother

Rachel is the only one holding this picture together

Final result of the fruit kabobs

Great Trip!

2009-05-04T10:16:00.000-07:00

Our first trip to WV of the summer-ish season was a great one for us. It was a good time to forget about Utah and all that is left behind there. It is also good to be away from work and school and to able to unwind a little bit. We definatly have had a blast.

We began the trip in the best state ever, NC. After not being able to find anything to eat in the airport we were treated to wonderful meals consisting of: Seafood, Krispy Kreme, Carolina BBQ, and Deda's famous breakfast. All which are southern delicacies. We got to see a lot of family and enjoyed our trip!

Then we headed up to WV with our amazing chauffer Seth. We were imidiatly greeted with more wonderful food, fish stew! The next few days followed with friends, food, and fun. Hair cuts, Monica's 'surprise' graduation party, some shopping, and board games! More pictures to come later! The best part about the trip (according to Shawn) was the abundent amount of rain we had! Its so great! Clean air and no snow!

3 days.

2009-04-24T17:08:00.001-07:00

So for those of you who were wondering..

We arrive in NC on Tuesday the 28th at 11:45 am..

we will be visiting and hanging out with family for the day,

around mid day on Wednesday we will head back to WV

We will be in WV till Monday the 4th where we fly out of

Pittsburgh.

Cant Wait!

Sara trying to make sounds with her mouth

2009-04-17T20:19:00.000-07:00

This may be the funniest thing I have ever seen Sara do. She was telling me a story about how she cant make sounds with her mouth that other people make at work and they were making fun of her. As we all know, Sara is very animated so she had to show me how to try and make the sounds. This is her trying. Enjoy.

COUNTDOWN BEGINS

2009-04-16T20:23:00.001-07:00

The countdown begins. 11 days till we hit north carolina by storm. Then we will be heading to west virginia for a while. We can't wait for this much needed break. Shawn is ready for classes to be over and summer to be here. Sara just doesn't want it to snow ever again or anymore.

Picturesssss

2009-04-08T21:00:00.001-07:00

Here are some random shots of utah
we have taken in our spare time.
Yes most of them are while driving..
that seems to be all we do.. too and from
work and class and such.. so heres what we got..

Sunset:

Sweet Storm Clouds:

Storm clouds part 2:

View of the valley:

Shawn playing soccer with
some guys from the complex:

( Sorry this post isnt too exciting, but this is all we doo.. )

Nate and Seth Dancing.

2009-04-05T17:09:00.000-07:00

So Nate and ashley came over, while seth was staying with us, and brought a game where u play these many games for the WII. One of the games you do the dance moves it shows you as they come across the screen. Here is nathan and seth dancing to ABC.

and again..

We have some more videos. we will post later. Of seth and sara dancing. These were all on my phone. so they are a lil blurry. but still funny!

Apartment Update.

2009-03-26T18:52:00.000-07:00

Ok .. so i decided to update with the decorations and such of the apartment. The last pics were pretty plain. so we hung pics and such now!!

View when you walk in the door straight forward:

View to the left of the TV and Carolina duke stuff:

Looking to the right and shawns computer desk with him at it:

View from the other side of the room to the living room:
Then the kitchen with the new bar:
Microwave and lovely bar.. ( before the craft project)
FINISHED BAR!:
( for those of you who dont know this
is my new bar with my pretty designs in it!!)

Another view of bar:Final Design of bar. !! I put those sticky wall
letters on it then sealed it with polyurethane:

Shawn is FAMOUS!

2009-03-24T20:30:00.000-07:00

Shawn is Famous. He had his 30 seconds of fame today after an incident at the university of Utah. OK well maybe not 30 seconds, ( more like 2) but he is still pretty pumped. He was interviewed about a gas leak which overtook campus today. Here is the video.

In other new exciting news, well nothing really exciting. But an update, Sara's schedule changed to 10 - 5, so she enjoys the nights off now. She feels like things actually get done. She also started a pretty sweet craft project with our new bar. ( pics to come) So she has been keeping herself busy with that sort of thing. Shawn is trucking along with classes. He still hates Chemistry, but he will get through it eventually. He cant wait for summer break!

Ha ha ha

2009-03-12T10:18:00.000-07:00

On sunday we went over to the Champions lil apartment, for some food, fun, and friends. But in the midst of our evening, we were introduced to a website that will determine what our kids would look like. We tried to do it there but we couldnt because the site was busy, however we tried later at home and here are what we got.

So first we somehow ended up with a baby with a different ethinticity. so here is our lil black baby. lol
This is what we call our ugly white boy.

This is our ugly white girl.. huge forehead

Here are our cute kids we like these. Here is the cute girl
Finally is our Cute boy.

This was our amusement for a while.. it made us chuckle

Warm Weather and NO SNOW!!

2009-02-25T21:06:00.000-08:00

Things are looking up in Utah. Temps in the 50's to near 60. Rain not snow. We are enjoying this a lot more. Sara is working up a storm at Kinkos while Shawn is getting his butt kicked by Calculus and Chemistry but enjoying Fed Ex. For Vday we got Guitar Hero 3 and now our nights are shared with that and 24. What quality time we spend together. Saturday night we went down to Provo and Sara was able to see friends from WV and Shawn met up with a mission companion. We are missing the east coast dearly and wanting to see family again. But life keeps moving on and we are having a blast in our 7th month married. Time is definatly flying by!

Happy Valentines

2009-02-15T17:48:00.000-08:00

Happy Valentines day! We had a fun day. We work alot on the beginning of weekends. We both worked Friday night, and Saturday morning. But when Sara came home form work Friday night at midnight she found lovely presents from her wonderous hubbby..

In stead of braving the crazy amounts of resteraunt people we decided to eat our pizza in!
Now.. what we have been doing for the long time its been since we updated...

Yes that is right we are obsessed with 24! We watch it constantly. We just finished today season 5, and we started season 1 in Mid December. So if you havent watched it yet. Dont unless u have lots of time to be addicted. We just bought Season 6 at circuit city on sale. So we are set, but we watch constantly. Now we are now on the mad search for rock band for wiiii.. We looked forever last night at about 4 stores. But we are determined to find it.

About our Trip

2009-01-25T19:09:00.001-08:00

So its been awhile since we have updated so we will do it in a few phases. The trip back east to WV was great. The flights wern't that grand but overall it was worth it. Nothing like spending a week back home. We were able to see pretty much everyone we wanted and even had time for a little bday party for Sara at her Mom's house which went really well. Everything turned out fine. As you can see by the post under this one Christmas was very fun for us at Shawn's parents. They didn't seem to enjoy the prank as much though haha. We enjoyed the rain while we were there as well.

The most stressful part about the trip may have been the very end. After sitting in the Pittsburgh airport for awhile waiting for our plane we boarded and everyone was ready for take off, but after the pilot turned the engines on, they were turned off and the pilot said we would have possibly a delay because of equipment problems. We found ourselves starting to break a sweat mainly because our layover in Cinci was 55 minutes. We were stuck sitting on the plane and finally left the runway right about an hour after we were supposed to. We landed a few minutes early in Cinci, ran through a few concourses and all the way down to our gate (which was at the VERY end) and got to the gate after the closed the doors. Luckily they were a little behind refueling so they let us on and later we got home on time. So thats our stressful story.

We definatly wish more than anything we were back there though. It made us realize how much we really miss being home and being around family and friends. Here are a few Christmas pictures from when we were back home.

Here is our Christmas Tree!!

Shawn and his new jacket

Cross-stitch Shawn's mom made for us

Sara and her sweet Pj's!

Happy 20th Bday!!!

Best Prank Ever

2009-01-15T11:01:00.000-08:00

So upon arriving home we had our own Christmas night with Shawn's family and decided to pull a small prank on them. We had them all open a 'present' from us at the same time. They opened the wrapping paper to find a fake 1 month ultrasound that Sara had so brilliantly fixed up and put our name on to make it look very real. So here is the reactions on them thinking a baby was on the way: (blogspot wouldnt upload it so here is the link)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOYdYMWAOeI

We have friends!

2008-12-28T21:22:00.001-08:00

So contrary to popular belief, and against what you have observed, we do have friends. lol. So today has been a very fun day. We had some friends over. The Champions. Daniel and Janelle Champion. They got married very shortly after we did and recently made a very wise decision to move closer to us. We decided we couldnt eat a roast alone, and had them over to eat some roast, and play some games, and hang out. We played a little wiii and played some scene it enjoyed some very nice company. Big will also joined us for a while.

We also taught nursery today and it was amazing. I was thoroughly impressed with children 3 and under's knowledge of the prophet. I showed a picture of joseph smith and they all yelled prophet and when we taught them that the prophet teaches us things and we listen to them they loved it. It was an amazing experience.

Now i must tell you about one of the boys in our nursery. His name is Tanner. He is a blonde hair, blue eyed, tan soon to be stud. He is learning to talk and is between 1 and 2. But eveytime his mom leaves him he cries. Just for a few minutes, but he cries. Yet everytime he cries someone just has to pick him up and hes ok. The one thing that we learned makes him stop crying is when we take him to the picture of jesus on the wall and say Jesus. He then stops crying, reaches out his hand and touches jesus's face and repeats jesus. It always helps him and it always comforts him. It is very impressive to me the things which children learn and are taught by their parents. It is also a reat testament to me that any time we are in need or are looking for comfort we just have to let him into our hearts and he will. If we ask he is there. Tanner has been a great example just as all of this children are.

Now we have had a massive snow explosion recently so here are some pictures of it.

Merrrry Christmas..

2008-12-25T16:04:00.000-08:00

Merry Christmas to all!
So we have had a fun holiday. After working a long day on Christmas eve, we came home to a dinner of a lemon rotisserie chicken, and stuffing. We then opened a few presents which revealed a Lovesac (memory foam beanbag) for Sara and a pair of EMU boots (similar to uggs). Shawn revealed a back massager and a cozy robe. After dinner we headed in for an early night. Christmas morning Brian and his companion came over and we made them a country breakfast and gave them both a fleece blanket and a stocking of goodies. We then opened the rest of the presents we had and Sara found two seasons of 24, princess bride, and a cozy pair of sweats. Shawn found a wrigley field sign, Nerf dart gun set and Very Sexy by Victoria secret cologne. We got a few other presents like a 12 piece dishes set from Mama and papa young. The Hayes clan and Dunlaps generously gave us a lil extra spending cash, and we had a delivery of country ham a few days ago from the smiths which made for a great christmas morning breakfast. Shawn also got a hot chocolate maker from Nate.
On the afternoon of christmas day we headed to ashley's cousins house and had a amazing dinner and a hilarious gift exchange. Nate ended up with a hat he could wear in San Fran, While ashley ended up with a dress from goodwill that makes you wanna shield your eyes. Shawn got elf boxers with butt glue, and sara got a survival kit for the holidays inclusive with a flask and earplugs, along with excuses to leave family functions. Here are some outfits of the awesome gifts people got.

SNOW

2008-12-14T10:39:00.000-08:00

We got a little bit of snow..

Losing games

2008-12-08T11:24:00.000-08:00

We have recovered from working in the mall for black friday and now are getting super excited for christmas! Things over the past week have been busy as always. We have been working, doing a little bit of christmas shopping, and enjoying fairly decent weather. Old Man Winter has come by for a visit today with a few inches of snow coming down.

We had a really fun thanksgiving day at Ashley's parents house playing wii and eating a ton of great food! The joys of thanksgiving! Later on in the weekend we went up to Ogden to have dinner at one of Shawns friends. We all had a great meal and wonderful dessert made by sara that went over well with everyone. We played Apples to Apples to finish the evening and unfortunatly we got our butts kicked, haha. Its ok though.

Not much excitement happened throughout the week aside from lots of working and shawn having fun in school. Luckily school ends this week coming so that will be a nice break. Our first Christmas Tree is up and might I say absolutly beautiful! We will throw some pictures up soon. We were able to go over to Nathan and Ashley's last night and have a fun game night with them. We played Sonic & Mario Olypics and also Mario Party on the Wii and it was a back and forth game and in the end Nate and Ashley came out on top. It was definatly fun though. We will have to win the next game night soon to get rid of our losing streak. Aside from that not too much else is going on. We are excited to go back east in about 3-4 weeks.

Pictures..

2008-12-01T15:49:00.000-08:00

Here are some pictures from the top of the
conference center and with Daniel and Shellie.

Here is Daniel in front of a waterfall that goes from the
roof to the floor and you can see it out all the windows
within the conference center.

Here is a random picture but i made some country
style fried chicken for brian and his companion.
They loved it i may say and im very proud of this fried chicken.

Oh Daniel..

2008-11-30T20:59:00.000-08:00

So i have a story to tell. It was kinda from a lil while ago, about a week, but i have to share. So my auntie shellie and cousin daniel came in town for my cousins baby blessing. On this wonderful trip they got to meet beautiful baby claire. Along with this trip before they went home and while waiting for their flight home we took a small trip around temple square and around the conference center ( pictures to come soon). After this tour around this amazing buildings and landmarks we ate a quick lunch at KFC. Now this is where the great story started. After we got our food we sat down. Daniel ordered a lap top kids meal and was fascinated by the box and in an accidental swoop dropped his macaroni and cheese on the floor. Now this wouldnt be any type of extroardinary story if it wasnt for the fact that after the mac and cheese fell on the floor he proceeded to go down and scoop it up with his spork into his bowl. Nice of him to clean it up you say. But instead of just throwing it away, he ate it. So theres my story. Daniel ate mac and cheese off the KFC floor. Not just any KFC a slightly i guess u could say ghetto KFC in Salt Lake City Utah. It was something i will always remember. ( and hope to not throw up while thinking about.)

Undefeated Season!

2008-11-25T20:36:00.000-08:00

Things here in wonderful Salt Lake have been going pretty well. Over the past few weeks we have been keeping very busy between work and school as usual. We have managed to avoid snow for the most part. We did get caught in what they call a minor lake effect snow a few weeks ago that dumped about 6 quick inches of snow on us. After much prayer it melted away. Shawn has been at fed ex for a few weeks and is in the full groove of everything and enjoying it.

We both got tickets to the famous "holy war" between BYU and Utah and took the last half of Saturday off (after a lot fun with Sara's car!). The game was amazing! Before the game started the two teams started to get it on a little early in the middle of the field. Utah goes a little crazy for this game. Everywhere was covered in either blue or red. We definatly enjoyed ourselves even though it was really cold! Utah won and finished the year 12-0, undefeated!!

Sunday we went down to Provo to see Joseph, Katie, and baby Claire. Nathan and Ashley were kind enough to drive and we all enjoyed it. Claire is adorable to say the least. We are excited for our first thanksgiving together this week. We will be spending it with nathan and ashley's family. Then time to get ready for Christmas!! Thats about it for now, here are some pictures of the game.

Randommmmm

2008-11-02T18:27:00.000-08:00

So this will be a random post.. we have a hodge podge of pictures and events we will update about.

First of all here is a shout out to Halloween. someone in our complex played a great prank and put a foot hanging out of their car. So i dunno who did it but we loved it because of their great sence of humor.
Next if you look sideways you will see that i made shawn some lunch and his way of showing appreciation was falling asleep while i was cooking. gotta love him.

Shawn went to a utah game a while back, and took a few pics. The fans werent as good as WVU ones. but hey, what can you do

Heres the utah field

Now last monday we took a trip to provo to see joseph and katie brewer(and soon to be baby claire), sara's cousin and his wife. They are expecting an addition soon, as in tomorrow. So best wishes to them. But on our trip back to Salt Lake we randomly got lost looking for target and found the MT. Timpanogas temple so here are some shout outs to the beautiful temple.

On the way to provo we decided to take a picture of the Y on the mountain. We later found out Katie had climbed there pregnant and all. We were quite amazed, but true to the Utah fans we are.. Booo BYU. haha.. cant say we really care much.

Shawn starts at FedEx Tomorrow. Hes pretty excited to be done with Tmobile. This shoul dbe a good change and we are pretty pumped. Thats all for now but we will keep you posted on whether he likes this job or not!

GAS IS DROPPING!!!

2008-10-26T18:34:00.000-07:00

We just want to share our happiness with you that gas is dropping. Thats basically the only reason for that title for this post, haha. As far as news for us, Shawn got a new job with FedEx and is very excited to get started with that very soon. We got to go to nursery today and Sara taught a great lesson to the kids about the Holy Ghost. We had a fun time as always in there. Sara had a great time visiting teaching tonight and getting to know some more people from around the ward. We will be throwing some pictures up in the next few days! Miss you all

Still going

2008-10-22T11:24:00.000-07:00

So we have been slacking a bit on this blog stuff. It happens. The weather has started to definatly get colder and we are not liking it at all. Temps are diping down into the 30's almost everynight and brushing into the 20's some. But fortunatly no new snow. We have basically just been doing the same old schedule. Going to work for both and Shawn is back at school after a weeklong glorious break. The most excitment we have had is changing our license plates over to Utah plates.. we no longer stand out with those rocking WV plates, haha. Thats about it for now though. Let us know how everyone else is doing!!!

So its been about a month

2008-10-12T16:41:00.000-07:00

So we havent posted on here in about a month, so while we've had a minute we thought we would. We have beeen prettttty busy with work and school and church and such. Sara is still working 2-10 at kinkos and shawn is still with tmobile working whenever he can. On recent events Seth visited on conference weekend and we got to attend conference and so did he. We also both spoke in church today for our welcome to the ward talk. Sara spoke on how to keep the spirit in your home and shawn spoke on a variety of things but mainly missionary work and loveing your neighbor. We based our talks on things which were talked on in our regional and stake conference. On the weather front.. it snowed today ALOT. We dont like it so much. We are making more friends i guess you could say. A few sundays back we went to another couples apartment and played games with them and we are going to a different one today. WE have a bunch of newly wed couples in our complex so its fun to play games and such with them.This is the snow we woke up to this morning

These were our seats in conference Sunday Morning.

Stake Conference..

2008-09-14T16:55:00.000-07:00

soo its been a while i know. but we've been a little busy so a quick update is that we are working and shawn is going to school. haha. but our most recent event is that we had stake conference today and it was in the conference center. it was for our region and had 77 stakes there. we almost Completely fille the conference center. President Monson presided over the conference and spoke as the last speaker. it was amazing to be so close and hear the prophets words directly more closely at us. At the begining of his talk he told this joke about preident hinkley dozing off at a conference it was a riot. And we quote " how do you poke the prophet and tell him hes been sleeping? " it was priceless. He really is a great man. So here are some pictures we took afterwards.

our view the whole conference!
when we first got there we
President monson when he walked out.

Snowwww.. what?

2008-09-01T22:01:00.000-07:00

So.. we woke up this morning to a pounding on the window. After a few delirious moments we realized it was hailing like crazy. The forecast for today called for snow in park city and when we left the apartment it was confirmed that the snow had graced the top of the mountains.

Seth headed out today. He stayed with us from friday night late till now. We've enjoyed the company and hope we didn't bore him too much.

Our next new update is that we have been looking for a new TV and decided to see if there was any labor day sales. We then went to best buy and found a wayyyy good deal on a wayyyy nice TV.

Our new house phone we finally hooked up also so our new numbrer is 1-801-513-4556.

Heres some pictures of the hail/ snow!

Mountains in the distance on the way to walmart

View from our bedroom window of the moutains.

Hail on the walkway by the apartment

New callings

2008-08-29T11:15:00.000-07:00

We got new callings at church now. We are assistant nursery aids, meaning we basically get to play with kids during church. How fun! Everything else is the same. Sara is still working along and doing well there and Shawn is cruising through classes and also working. Looking forward to a nice three day weekend!

First Day of class, and decorating

2008-08-25T19:33:00.000-07:00

So today was Shawn's first day of class after a long 3 and a half year break. He is definatly not used to a big University but did well on his first day. He had three classes between 830-1130. He is going to have a fun and busy semester ahead and is excited to get things underway. Sara had today off so when Shawn got home from class we got to spend some time together. We then headed to the bank and then to Wal-Mart for the grocery trip of the week. While there we decided to get some pictures printed so we didnt have to look at the faces of the people we dont know who came in the frames. So since we dont have any other pictures yet, we will put some pics up of our amazing frames now finished we decorated with. We promise to soon put pics up of the outside of our apartment and our surroundings ( we just forget everytime we leave!! :o) )

oh no

2008-08-18T22:43:00.000-07:00

So the inevitable happened and we had to cheat on Shannon. Shawn was getting a little shaggy and saras hair decided not to curl in the amazing Utah weather. So we went down to some local place and closed our eyes and hoped for the best. We've been pretty busy, sara just finished classroom training at work and shawn is selling away with Tmobile but still keeping other options open. Heres some pics of our new hairdoos..

Update

2008-08-08T11:52:00.001-07:00

So just a quick update.. Shawn started with T Mobile and is working at a mall right beside where Sara works. He had to have some interesting classroom training for a few days, but is now on the sales floor selling away! Sara started at Kinkos, and after this week of shadowing, she has 2 weeks on in classroom training, then she starts her 2-10 daily shift... Classes start the 25th and so we are getting close to Shawn being in classes again. Shawn got his home teaching assignments and we got who our home teachers are yesterday. So we are getting settled lil by lil. Tuesday shawn played soccer with the people from our court, they play saturday mornings early and tuesday nights a pick up game. He played and sara watched, so that was fun. Otherwise we are having fun!

Gettting there

2008-08-01T11:40:00.000-07:00

We are getting things together. Sara got a job at Fed Ex Kinkos, working 2nd shift tuesday through saturday 40 hours a week. Shawn has been to a few interviews and applied at some places, but no definite responses yet. WEve just been hangin out and playing house. We are heading to see batman in IMAX today by popular recomendation from some friends. We may even hit up some mini golf or a local water park tomorrow. Here are some pictures though of us using our pans from Shannon, just as she requested. Miss you guys!

Sweet and Sour meatballs with rice :o)

Our Apartment.

2008-07-30T11:37:00.000-07:00

Heres pictures then a video of our apartment!

Soooo This is the dooor.

once you walk in you seee the couch

To your left is the TV

And shawn on the couch. but our pictures all above that.

This is our kitchen table. its beside the couch. along the far wall.

The view from the kitchen to the couch and TV

From the Couch and TV to the Desk and hall way

The Computer desk
The toilet and the bathroom
haha our towels
and the walkway to the bedroom
ourrr bedddddd

huge closet beside the bed

Here is a Video Tour of our apartment along with the pictures

PICTURES!

2008-07-27T20:14:00.000-07:00

LONG road through Nebraska i believe. It was gettin a lil boring
View at the rehearsal dinner at the Joseph Smith Building
Aww champy and youngo after the sealing
Captain Glauser and 1st make youngo
Beautiful Lake!
So us east coaster are easily amused with
pretty sunsets on the mountains. bad pic but pretty sunset
Birthday WISHES!

Yay.

2008-07-27T19:37:00.001-07:00

Soo.. We decided it would be easier for everyone to see whats going on with us if we did it on here. We decided that we can do this and let everyone know the website and print it out for people with out the internet and keep everyone updated.
So heres the past 8 days since the wedding
Sunday
Driving To Chicago
Monday
Driving Chicago to Grand Island Nebraska
Tuesday
Grand Island to SALT LAKE CITY
After a lil issue of where our apartment was located we found it, but not with out one more trail of Sara's car breaking down ( gear shift issue). But after her faithful dad who was still around fixed the issue the next day we were there. We set up our air mattress and got as much inside as possible. The air mattress sucked and deflated, but we stayed in our apartement as a 1st night kinda thing.
Wednesday
Shopppping.. we found a mattress first. We had shawns trusty friend with a truck, Josh, pick it up and help bring it up to the apartment. And since we couldnt pick up the TV he handled that too. So we finally had a TV and Mattress. We then headed to walmart and got some foood and bathroom stuff and essentials. This was first of many walmart trips. Afterwards we headed to Champ and Janelle's rehearsal dinner on the top floor of the Joseph Smith Building.
Thursday
We made eggs for breakfast on pans from Auntie Shannon, then we set up the apartment more and went to walmart again for a tv stand, desk microwave stand. We headed to target and looked around at different places for more stuff. We got kitchen stuff and all the other things we needed.
Friday
We got the treat of going to Janelle and Champ's sealing. It was wonderful. We then came back to the apartment and hung out and organized and built our new furniture. Afterwards we headed to their reception at one of their houses in Sandy. It was in a back yard and way nice. There we saw a bunch of Shawn's Mission buddies.
Saturday
SHAWNS BIRTHDAY! We headed out early with Steve Glauser ( another mission buddy) to Jordanelle lake and went tubing and skiing and such with a group of his friends. We had a grand time got a lil sore, and burnt but we had fun. Sara then made shawn dinner (again with Auntie Shannon's pans). She made Lemon Pepper Chicken and mashed potatoes and corn. Our first homemade meal.
Sunday
We went to church today in our new student family ward. We met alotta people, but im not sure we will be going back. We seem to enjoy regular family wards more. The relief society came over and got to know sara. The Glauser family invited us over for dinner tonite and they fed us a wonderful meal and sang to shawn for his birthday. They made some delicious home made ice cream. So after hangin out there a bit we headed back here to relax from our busy week.