Christmas Time

Howdy to all of our friends!!
Since I last blogged.... Sky and I have moved from Idaho Falls back to Rigby. And we are loving every second of it. We were put in the nursery at church, and its sometimes a challenge, but we love interacting with the kids each week. We had a wonderful Thanksgiving and we hope you all did as well. Then came the time to put up the christmas tree!!! I was SOOO excited to finally have my own tree to decorate and put presents under. I love the smell of it, and I love the lights.
Christmas time is one of my very favorite holidays, not only for the presents and fun, but for the meaning. It gives me time to reflect on what I have, and makes me even more thankful than before for the blessings and knowledge I have been given in my lifetime.
I know this is short, But I will write more next time. Have a Very Merry Christmas and enjoy
your Holiday activities!

A Little More About the Two of Us!!

Ok.. So I get pretty bored at nights by myself!!! So sorry Hilary... I stole your awesome questionaire thing! haha.. So ... This is my life!!!

1. When is your "engagement" anniversary:
December 24,2008
2. When is your "marriage" anniversary:
July 17,2009
3. How long have you known your spouse:
We've known each other for about 7 years
4. How long did you date/court before you were engaged:
1 1/2 years
5. Where did you meet your spouse for the first time?
Sitting in math class in 7th grade! ha
6. What is your spouse's full name:
Skylar Kim Thompson
7. Do you have any children:
Nope... Not yet.. But we will one day when the time is right
8. How many - boys/girls:
none right now!
9. Do you have any house pets:
nope.. no pets
11. Do you live in the country or town/city:
Country
12. What are some of your favorite activities together:
um... we have fun doing whatever together.. we love being outdoors tho!
13. Do you have a favorite vacation spot:
well not really.. we haven't really taken a vacation that could be a favorite
14. When did you first kiss?
a couple days before we were "officially dating"
15. What church do you attend?
The LDS one! just down the street and around the corner!
16. Did you get married in a church? Where?
No. we got married in the Rexburg, Temple
17. What town is your current address at:
Rigby
18. Do you work or stay at home:
Work... Full Time
19. Where did you go on your honeymoon:
Rexburg and West Yellowstone
20.What was the funniest gift you gave when dating?
haha idk... i dont remember...
21.How long have you been together?
2 years going on 3
22. How long did you know each other before you started dating?
like 5 years or so
23. Who asked who out?
well... it didn't really happen that way. We were just inseperable and together every chance we got!
25.Where do you each work or go to school?
I work at Yellowstone Do It Center in Rigby, And Skylar works for K&A

construction.

26. Which situation is the hardest on you as a couple?
probably the fact that he works nights and I work days.. so we are hardly
together
27. Did you go to the same school?
We sure did!!
28. Are you from the same home town?
nope
29. Who is smarter?
I think its about equal... we share our smartness!!
30. Who is more sensitive?
Most definately ME
31.Where do you eat out most as a couple?
I'm going to have to say Wingers or Stockmans
32. Where is the furthest you two have traveled together as a couple?
to Utah
33.Who has the craziest exes?
uh i think both of us have some crazy ones!! its a toss up!
34. What is something that first attracted you about him/her?
his personality, respect, and him in general!
35. Who does the cooking?
haha neither of us.. his mom cooks for us most of the time.. but when we do cook its me that does it!
36. Who is more social?
both of us are
37. Who is the neat-freak?
definately me!
38. Who is more stubborn?
probably me
39. Who hogs the bed?
me.. again!
40. Who wakes up earlier?
Um.. Me.. I work at 7 am.. and he goes to work at 7:30 pm.. so its actually hard to tell
41. Where was your first date?
wingers... with riley and andrew.. and the clan
42.Who had more boyfriends/girlfriends?
well we both dated alot.. but i'd have to say skylar did
43. Do you get flowers often?
No.. I wish I got them more often
44. How do you spend the holidays?
depends.. usually split the day in two..just depends on whats going on
45. Who is more jealous?
I am probably the worst.. but he get jealous too
46. How long did it take to get serious?
hmm... not sure... but not too long... :)
47. Who eats more?
skylar for sure! however.. i can eat a ton.. dont be fooled!
48. Who does the laundry?
I do.. every once in a while i can get him to help out
49. Who’s better with the computer?
ha I am
50. Leave a piece of advice for the other couples:
he never said it would be easy-he said it would be worth it..
that is soo true.. stick close to each other and dont just run from the tough
times. work thru them together.. it only makes you stronger! and.. cherrish
every second you have together!

UPDATE!

ok.. so i've been really bad about this whole blogging thing... and I appologize! But YES!! we are FINALLY married! and we absolutely love it! it is the best thing ever!! It happened on July 17th.. and it was the best day of our lives!! As of right now... I am working at Yellowstone Do It Center in Rigby... and Sky is working for his dad running 3 different crews and putting in a ton of hours.. He is working nights remodeling the Ammon and Blackfoot Walmarts, and then working hours during the day. It is a good thing for him.. but I hate being away from him as much as I am, but I know in the long run its ok and totally worth it. It is helping us come closer together, so its good! I just keep thinking of the positive each day, and that is what keeps me going! Also, we've been told we're doing things a little backwards... Newlyweds usually spend every waking second together the first few months.. then they deal with being away from each other more and more as time goes on.. well... We started being away from each other pretty much every night about a week after our wedding.. so hopefully when the walmarts are done.. we'll be able to spend more time together! And I am most definately looking forward to it!! I am planning to start school in January at Evans Beauty College. It has been a life long dream of mine, since I grew up with it in my house as my mom did the same thing! So its a hobbie of mine and I love it! Also, we just got put in the nursery in our ward (As per request of some parents...) and we are enjoying each moment of that as well... We really appreciate all the love and support of our family and friends... Its been great!

!~T.W.O.W.E.E.K.S~!

so lately... we have been planning the wedding! and everything is just about ready to go.. just the litte things left!! its been stressful and only gettting more and more stressful as days go by. . but... it will get better!! we are down to 2 weeks from today!! we are sooo extremely excited!! we have a basement apartment in idaho falls by the river! its a pretty good location! and its just that much more incentive to get out and either run or walk because we are so close to the green belt!! its great! and we are close to the temple so we can attend that pretty often!! its going to be great!! We finally got the announcements in the mail last night.. and that is such a relief!! We just wanted to thank all those who have been supported and offered their help and love to us all!! we really appreciate it!! We hope to see lots of you there in 2 weeks at the reception!! its in my neighbors back yard.. so pretty much just right behind my house from 6 to 8:30!! so your all invited!! We cant wait for 2 weeks. its such a great feeling to know that we're going to be sealed for time and all eternity to the love of our life!!

UPDATE!

ok... I have been extremely bad about this whole blogging thing. I have slacked off for over a month!! ahh... So here is the last little while in review....

As you know.. Skylar and I are getting married!! We finally set a date that worked for both families, since they are both super busy this whole summer.. We picked July 17th!! In the Rexburg Temple! And it is SET!! We are sooo EXCITED!!! I can hardly wait to enter the temple for the first time.. I am anxious to have the feeling of peace come over me and feeling the spirit sooo strong is what I want! After finally getting the date set and reserved at the temple, we started the wedding planning!! After months and months of looking for a dress.. I finally found it at Margene's. The funny thing is, is that the dress I bought isn't even close to what I imagined wearing on my wedding day! But, apparently thats how it works for alot of girls is what the girls at Margene's told me. After the stress of the dress, we picked out Sky's tux. But, guys are so easy going that it was easy for us to accomplish that part of planning. We then moved on to deciding what the brothers and sisters are going to wear.! We found shirts and ties at JCPenny for the brothers, and my amazing grandma is going to make the skirts for the sisters! I am sooo excited to see the final result! My grandma is truly amazing at everything she does! I love her to death! Then we decided that the dads will have matching ties with the brothers, and the moms can wear whatever they would like, as long as they are in the c olors!! :) Then we moved on to picking out flowers! We are having Floral Classics do them! And they have been soo good to work with us on what we want and giving us their opinion on whether or not our ideas will look good! But, we just finalized all the flowers and its going to be stunning! We have started on the center pieces for the reception! Which are going to be sooo fun! Its going to be a very enjoyable project to work on! Thanks to Skylar, he has helped alot with those! Thanks to Cari Webb for taking our engagement pictures! They are awesome! And we had a blast taking them! She is great at what she does, and its even more fun because she knows us both and she knows our personalities! As for the rest of the wedding plans, they are coming along! We have tons of ideas, now we just have to put them into action! It has been a stressful road, and the stress isn't over! And thanks to the dads and skylar for being patient with the girls and our stress levels!! :) I will be so glad when the planning is over! Huge thanks goes out to my own mother whom I adore and love with all my heart, and also to Amy, the best future mother-in-law a girl could ask for. They have both been patient with us and willing to jump on something that needs done! Thanks guys for all your help!! I know its long... but this has been pretty much our lives for the past couple of months! We can't wait for July 17th to be here - and we are praying for good sunshine weather!!

?Winter? or ?Spring?

This is at about 1 p.m on April 15, 2009!!! Can you believe it?! SNOW!! I thought it was SPRING!?!? ... I must be wrong!

A tree outside my office.... with snowThe sidewalk... and some trees... its crazy! you cant even see the grass!

The snowflakes were GIGANTIC!! It was soooo crazy!

this is about 6 pm the same day.. its off the trees and starting to go away!!

the same tree outside my window.. snow... gone.!

THEN.... all of a sudden it started snowing about 9:30 pm.. and went for most of the night.. and this is what we ended up with!

Snow on the Morning of April 16th. There was soooo much!!

you can see how much snow we got over night...


The tree outside the door... the snow was weighing it down so much!

This tree had just blossomed with cute pink and white flowers about 2 days .. and now they are dead.. poor things

You can see how the snow was sooo heavy.. it was weighing down sooo many branches...
and sooo many of them were broken off the tree and in the road.. it was one crazy night!

So being the crazy people we are, chelsie (a girl i work with), and i went and acutally measured the snow... it is a whopping 10 inches... WOW!

What a crazy last couple of days... Sunshine.. High temps... Rain.. and then the next thing you know we end up with snow covered cars, roads, and yards. But its bound to get better!

!~EaStEr 2009~!

Easter this year was a blast! The weather was GREAT!! I went up to Sugarhouse (Which is part of SLC) to my friend Stephanie's house for dinner!! I made a jell-o salad and made a bunny head on top with marshmallows!! it was sooo cute.. and delicous!! We had pot roast, potatoes, carrots, salads, cobbler, brownies, cheesecake, rice krispie treats, and much more!! it was SOOOO YUMMY!!! After dinner me and steph hopped on the piano and serendaded everyone with our skills! and one of the other guys, (I don't remember his name) played his guitar!! haha It wasn't as good as you think, but it was fun! Then we had dance lessons by "YOSEF"!! haha his real name is joseph, but since there are 2 of them, we altered his name! That was hilarious to watch them dance! After the dancing ceased, me and steph walked to the park that is around the corner.. and there we had fun!! as some of the pictures explain!! yes, we are dorks! but we love it!! and we have come to the conclusion that being the dorks we are- make us who we are today! we just have to love life! I met a lot of great people that day! and especially Kim - Stephs friend. She has inspired me to look on the positive side of life everyday no matter what. She has been thru the unbearable and you wouldn't have any idea what she is dealing with unless someone told you. You would think her life was just grand. Thanks Kim for being an inspiration to sooo many people with your faith and happiness!! Overall, Easter was great! (except I didn't get to see my family) ! But it was good! I can't wait till next Easter!!!