Haley & Tena's 365

Happy New Year!! Tena and I decided for 2011 we are going to take one picture with our iPhones each day to remember the year by. I'm putting mine here, and Tena is putting his on his website.

Enjoy our life, one day at a time! :)

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Sean Paul look

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Crashing after a hard day's night

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She came all the way from Japan to live with us

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Rule #2: This is not the real world.

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Wishful Thinking

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Sugar Bear

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Trying to stay awake at 2 am (at work)

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Betcha can't guess what this is ;)

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Happy Valentine's Day! xoxo

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We found this bad boy in my parent's garage in St. George

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My bling

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Gotta give credit to my friend Sandy for this idea ;)

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Spring is here! Can't wait to ride :)

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Ride Among Us

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Grizz

I think this picture is hilarious :)

Since I'm home all by myself each day, I thought it would be nice to have a dog to keep me company. I *really* wanted an American Eskimo dog but 1. they shed A LOT, 2. Tena is allergic to dog hair, 3. I wanted a purebred from a reputable breeder and they were all out of state, 4. they are VERY expensive, and 5. all the breeders I contacted weren't going to have puppies for a long time. So I slowly started to see that dream slip away :( I was watching Good Things Utah one morning and they had a segment where a local shelter brought a dog on the show and they talked about adopting a sheltered animal. They mentioned a website where you could see all the animals in the shelters across Utah. Just for fun I hopped on and started looking at all the dogs. Tena found a 5 month old puppy that looked super cute. After many emails back and forth to the shelter, we drove 4 hours down to Price to check him out.

They pulled him out of his cage and let us play with him. He was such a cute dog but SUPER hyper. (That should've been our clue right there, but we ignored it) We took him for a walk and tried to determine if he would be a good dog for us. He definitely needed a lot of training, but we saw potential in him. So we decided to foster him for 2 weeks while we made up our minds.

After the two weeks, we weren't sure if we could handle his energy and attention needs long term but Tena's brother had a friend who wanted him. So we adopted him and tried and tried to get a hold of the friend. But no luck. So, long story short, we still have him. But I'm pretty glad. He's so much fun to have around the house (most of the time). He's so cute and does weirdo things that just make me laugh. (I think we should change his name to Skitz cuz sometimes I swear he is Schizophrenic) But he's way sweet. Maybe it was meant to be :)

He loves to be with people. He follows me around the house wherever I go, even if its just a couple steps. If I'm in the kitchen, he will lay right on top of my feet. When I walk to the other side, he gets up and follows, laying right back down when I stop walking even for a second. Or he'll just intently watch everything I do. He's so curious. He also loves to sit in our laps. When he's playing with his toys he does it right on top of you. He always has to be right up against us. He's weird. But I don't mind usually; he's pretty cuddly.

Frosted Mugs and Sleep-overs

So today is our 2nd anniversary! We celebrated yesterday by going out to dinner and then coming home to chill (we're waiting on warmer weather and/or plane tickets so we can really celebrate). Tena bought us these massive glass mugs a few days ago so we decided to try them out and make rootbeer floats! We weren't completely sure how to frost them, so I got them wet and stuck them in the freezer. In the meantime we finished a Japanese movie we had started earlier. I kept checking on them and they weren't getting frosty. They were super cold tho.... I finally decided we just wouldn't have frosty mugs. I pulled them out and they frosted right up! Haha, of course! How did we not know that :) So we made our floats in our giant frosty mugs and they were delicious!

Then came the sleep-over... We bought a bunch of our favorite songs (Lady Gaga, Killers, etc.) to play on RockBand2 and rocked out all night. I looked around at the messy family room. We had a bunch of blankets and pillows out cuz we were gonna sleep out there. We had Blizzard Creme Oreos (amazing. you gotta try them), sacks full of gummies, watermelon, our laptops, and games out everywhere. It totally made me feel like a kid again. It brought me right back to my childhood when we would have sleep-overs and the family room became our room. It was cluttered with all our stuff and was no longer a family room. We would make a fort and had our blankets, pillows, candy, and games all in it... Good times :) It was fun to share that experience with Tena. So around 1:30 am we quit the RB2 and finally went to bed. It was an awesome night :)

Our Garden Reception

Another perfect day :) About 2 weeks after we got back from Tahiti we had a reception in my parent's back yard. We all worked hard to get it ready in time. We had to build a deck, plant flowers and put bark in. (Three hours before the reception started, we finished the deck!) It was a lot of hard work (mostly on my family's part), but so worth it in the end. The yard was absolutely gorgeous! I couldn't have asked for a more beautiful place to have a reception.

For a long time I knew what I wanted to serve at my reception. I wanted ice cream in waffle bowls from Rob's Frosted Creamery. They make homemade waffle bowls and Tena and I chose 5 ice cream flavors and 7 toppings to serve. They came and served it at my parent's house. You could choose any combination of as many flavors as you wanted. It was awesome! So delicious :)

Our cake was gorgeous. I was so happy with it. Everything was just wonderful- the yard, the cake, the ice cream, the decorations, the company... It was so nice to have all our friends and relatives come see us and celebrate with us. What a perfect reception!