Shady Chapel Concert at Kilby Court

My cool friend Jordan from work started up a band called Shady Chapel and invited us to one of his concerts. It was fun to experience the atmosphere of Kilby Court and enjoy some good music. We enjoy listening to Shady Chapel and if anyone is interested check 'em out on myspace. Jeph really enjoyed that Jordan looks like Johnny Depp, the bassist looks like Michael Moore, and the other guitarist looks like Napoleon Dynamite!

The whole lot of us: me, Jeph, Mindy, Paul, Amber, Jordan, and Jordan's wife.
Me and the chicas from work: Mindy and Amber.

Happy 95th Grandma Simmons

Grandma Simmons is still looking hot at her 95th birthday party. What other 95 year old shows up to her birthday party sporting high heels?
Mike and Jeph and their lovely guitar duet with special guests the lovely ladies.
Jaelyn put together this awesome lap quilt from the family.
Us with the special birthday girl!

Valentines Day

Jeph and I had a fantastic Valentine's Day. Jeph showed up as a freaking hot cowboy in a tux (Lucky Me!!) and made an excellent rib dinner. It was pretty much awesome!



Then I surprised Jeph with his v-day present. As you can tell, he was not very impressed to find the first part of his gift consisted of a lot of scraps from some of his favorite tee-shirts. Sorry babe!
Luckily I have an extremely talented sister who just so happened to turn the remainder of those scraps into a pretty awesome tee-shirt quilt! Thanks again Mel!
I am so glad Jeph ended up liking his present, because there is no way I could make up for destroying all of those DMB shirts!

Jeph's Other Birthday Celebrations

We got to enjoy Jeph's favorite Boston Cream Pie with the Simmons clan for Jeph's birthday!

It seems from the cards Jeph got for his birthday, when people see bathroom humor they think of our sweet Jeph!
And some cool gifts:

MARCUS!

The Saturday before Jeph's birthday, we decided to hold our first celebration by going out to dinner at Texas Road House with some friends. We had a blast and enjoyed yummy food with Mike and Kim and Austin and Stephanie.

Then we went to a friend Marcus' 35th birthday party at Classic Skating. It was so much fun to see Marcus and enjoy his annual birthday dance solo. We enjoyed it so much we thought we would share some pictures and a short video clip.

Russian Olympians

One lovely Sunday, Jeph and I joined his mom and step-dad at church and the presiding bishopbric member announced that their stake would be hosting the Special Olympians from Russia for a week before they went to compete in Boise, Idaho. Jeph's mom was so excited about Russians coming and that Jeph and I just happen to speak Russian that she volunteered to house two for an entire week. It was fun for Jeph and I to be around Russians again and to pull out our old rusty language skills.
Andrei Kirilenko was kind enough to buy each Olympian and their host a ticket to a Jazz game and Jeph and I got to act as their hosts and go with them. We had a good time and even took them down to get a picture on center court after the game.




We had a blast with the speed skaters, Fedor and Alexander and all their other Russian friends!

Finally!!!

Way back in January we got to go to the amazing Draper Temple open house.


I went on morning with my parents, my baby sister Chanae, and her fiance David.

Jeph and I had a blast on our tour with Mike and Lynn and Mike and Kim.

I'm going to Phoenix...

The University of Phoenix!!! I'm going to go back to school and get my Master's in School Counseling degree! I start the entrance class on Thursday and if I pass that I will be good to go for the next two years. The program sounds too good to be true and I just heard about the whole thing for the first time on Monday, so I am a little nervous but I am very excited because this is what I really want to do. I will be able to keep my job and go to school one night a week for four hours and start the internships the second year so it is very exciting. Jeph has been extremely supportive of the idea of me going back to school. I think more because he thinks this will keep me too busy to want babies within the next few years, which is probably true. Anyway, I am very excited and nervous because it has been three and a half years since I have been in school and it is going to be intense but I don't think I'll ever regret doing this now. Wish me luck!

Biology by Osmosis

HAPPY BIRTHDAYJEPH!!!

Happy BIRTHDAY Jeph! I just want to let you and everyone reading this to know how much I love you! You always take such good care of me and make sure that I am spoiled. I love it! You are such a gentleman and always open my door for me, help me put my coat on and many other sweet gestures. Sure I could do all of that by myself but, it just means so much more when you are willing to stand out in the cold a few seconds longer just to make sure that I am comfortable, it shows me how much you really do care. I love when you cuddle with me while watching TV or just hanging out. You know it is my favorite ever!

It has taken me some time to get used to but I have found that I can tolerate and sometimes even laugh a little at your sense of humor. ;) We have a great time together and you always make me smile. I know I am a cheese ball but it’s really only because you’re around me so much! I love that you humor me and my craziness and that you even enjoy me most when I am tired and seem as though I’ve had some altering substance. Those times create some good memories for sure.

There is so much more I could go on about but I’m sure everyone is getting a little nauseous at this point. I love you so much and I am so grateful I get to keep you around forever! Thanks for all you do and I hope your next year of life brings you as much happiness as you have brought to me in the short time that I have known you! Love you Babe!