Jolley family photos

We took family photos in December.  We had a lot of fun!

My absolute favorite picture of the whole shoot:

The siblings got a little crazy:

Carly and Tim's wedding

January 3, 2013

My sister Carly married Tim Bitner.  They dated in high school, and she waited for him while he was on his mission.  We've all been waiting for this day for a long time!

 

They got married in the new Brigham City Temple.  So cool!

 

Valentine's Day/Valentine's month

Dinner and sugar cookies with friends!

Decorations.  Wish I could say I made them, but they are from my mom and Shaun's mom.

Crazy hairdo I tried out for our stake Valentine's Dance.

Valentines I made for my students out of toilet paper tubes.  They had candy inside!

We both worked on Valentine's Day, so after we got off we just grabbed Rumbi and then watched an episode of Once Upon a Time.

I got Shaun these balloons and the movie "21"

Shaun got me balloons, chocolate, and pepper spray.  I have been asking for pepper spray for awhile.

Shaun made heart pancakes the morning after Valentine's Day.

Jimmy Dean

This is just a silly little story.  
About sausage haunting me.  

Yesterday I went to Smith's and bought quite a few groceries.  I was re-stocking after being on vacation.  When I got home I couldn't find my sausage.  I went through the receipt and checked to see if I had everything else.  I did.  And sausage was on the receipt, but not in my frig.  So I looked everywhere.  Car, sidewalk, grocery bags, frig, freezer.  Then I made Shaun check.  No sausage.  So today I went back to Smith's just to see if they keep track of things people leave behind or don't make it into the bags.  They don't, but they just let me take another thing of sausage.  No questions asked.  They didn't even look at my receipt.  I was happy for about a second.  Now I am just terrified that the original one is going to show up!  It is haunting me!  Every time I open the frig or see a grocery bag somewhere in the house, or look for something in my car, I am afraid it is going to show up.  Then I will feel stupid and not know what to do!  Dang sausage!  I should've just splurged another $3.42 and bought the second one myself!

Christmas

I won a Kindle Fire at our Chrysalis work party!

Shaun won a remote control car!

Ugly Christmas sweater party for River Heights Post High

Christmas tree, heater, and blanket.  Cozy!

Christmas morning

Russell breaking into his pudding from his stocking right away

Russell got a pitch fork for Christmas!  Haha - he always jokes about how in Tremonton the "townspeople" are always out to get him with their pitchforks.  So my parents got this for him for Christmas.  (It was actually for my grandpa, so we gave it to him later).

Big mess!

The guys looking cool in their P.J.s

Me and my cousin Heather.  We grew up together, but she lives in North Carolina now.  We only see each other about once a year now.

I had Russell's name for Christmas.  Part of his gift was stick-on mustaches!  He wasted no time in putting one on.

Jamie - about 37 weeks pregnant.

Anniversary

We celebrated our third anniversary on December 22!

First we headed to Beyond Spa in Layton for foot massages!  It was fun - they had hot chocolate and candy and water in martini glasses all set out for us.  We had the whole room to ourselves, even though there were chairs for about 7 people.  

We did get interrupted once.  Beyond Spa just changed locations, and they were giving tours that day of their new building (which is fabulous).  At one point during our massages a lady walked in and looked around and then says in a surprised voice, "Oh!  There's a man!"  We all had a chuckle.  Good thing Shaun is confident and not ashamed to get a foot massage with me!  

Shaun's masseuse was about 10 months pregnant!  It was almost awkward.....shouldn't she be the one getting her feet rubbed?? 

Sorry the photo is crappy, but the lights were dim for the relaxation effect, and I only had my phone to take a picture with.  

Next we grabbed lunch at Famous Dave's.  

It was the first time I'd ever been there, and it was delicious.

Then we headed to the Bountiful temple.  It is the 10th temple we've been to in Utah!  We are slowly but surely making it to all of them.  It is a beautiful temple.

Next we stopped at Trader Joe's.  We are so excited there is one in Salt Lake now!  We LOVE their dark chocolate covered powerberries.  We stock up whenever we get a chance to stop there.  Somehow it seems we're often in our church clothes when we go to Trader Joe's.  Not sure why that happens so often.

Then on to Temple Square!

Then we saw the candy displays at Macy's at City Creek.  They were pretty amazing!

Last of all we went to dinner at The Cheesecake Factory.  We love that place!  We've only been a few times, but we have never been disappointed!  

The one at City Creek has very crowded seating.  We were at a table for two, and there was about 1 foot of space between our table and the tables on either side of us.  Shaun and I can be pretty quiet, and we mostly ended up listening to a couple next to us who seemed to be just getting to know each other.  We tried to guess whether they were on their 2nd or 3rd date, or whatever.  

There was a group of 4 on the other side of us, a middle-aged couple and two of their kids I think.  Our tables were so close that they joined our conversation sometimes.  Like when I asked Shaun if prosciutto is a lunch meat, the gut next to us answered me instead, haha.  And then he made comments to us a couple of times as if he was trying to start conversation because we were so quiet.  I seriously think he though we were on a first date! LOL.  I wanted him to ask so I could tell him we were celebrating our 3rd anniversary.  I kinda felt bad that he was sitting there feeling awkward and sorry for us.  It was pretty funny.

It was a great day, and I am so happy to be married to Shaun!  We are still in love!!