Our Christmas!!!

Merry Christmas to all!! Our Christmas was wonderful! We love living close to both parents. We were able to spend Christmas eve with my parents which was quite busy they had LOTS Of people over which was nice, and learned what kind of traditions we might want to take from living with them, and look forward to starting our own traditions for next year. We spent the first half of Christmas with my parents and then headed to his parents for the end of Christmas day and Saturday with them. 

Santa gave us a camera for Christmas and we really like it and been using it all the time!! 

For the week of News years Eve we have been "house squatting" is how my parents put it in their newsletter. We are house sitting and watching this old dog for a week and loving the chance to be together ALONE! It is really nice. I have also had 2 calls for piano and have possibly 3 new students before the new year, and my goal is 10 before summer which would be an exstreme blessing! We are looking at house that has been offered for rent for us and maybe we will move into there we will see! 

Lots of wonderful things to look forward to in the future we will see what the future instores for us!! i hope all that ever look at this are having a wonderful week and such and that all are safe!! WE are grateful for each other and look forward to the new year also! 

The pictures are of Steve beating me at Pool, taking pictures with our new camera, a picture of the H1N1 but it looks like HiNi (hiney) lol.. so it was funny to us :) and messing with the camera it is our newest toy :)

About time I write again

Okay so for those of you who even check my blog, i know I don't write often and so I tried to write once a week, well that seemed to not work very well.. Maybe that will be my new years resolution. Things have been crazy here but fun. I STILL love my calling teaching music to the primary kids and this sunday December 20,2009 they will sing "The Nativity Song" ALL 5 verses it is awesome how well they learned the song and it is just fun to teach it to them. We will then run through the whole nativity story with them in Junior and Senior primary with singing songs it will be a blast to do this the week of Christmas because we know they will just be SO hyper to do anything else :) 

I am playing the piano for the ENTIRE Christmas Program also this Sunday in Church and so I am going to be crazy till Sunday!! But look forward to the fun of playing I love to play the piano and grateful for the opportunity to help out with Choir. Also look forward to having it all over. 

I am still teaching Piano and Clarinet and today only teaching one child the Holiday's make teaching very intense but look forward to the regular not a lot of things going on and make the regular amount of money with the teaching. 

Steve and I have a chance to sing at Seaworld this Saturday for a free ticket each  so we will have a fun time doing that. We are also going to brave MGM this weekend and look forward to havin some fun before the Holiday's. 

Thanksgiving was great and hope all of your Thanksgiving were good also? Were you able to see family I hope!!! Steve's parents came down and spent sometime with us and ate Thanksgiving with my Family and it was wonderful. We braved the Black Friday just a little bit and went to the Bass Pro Shop. That is an AWESOME shop by the way!! We took a picture or two before we headed to lunch at this Delicious place called "Fruddruckers" With HUGE hamburgers but all natural deliciousness. 

Steve and I watched "Four Christmasses" and just LOVED the movie it was funny to us and Vince Vaughn and Reece Witherspoon I thought they did a great job playing together and it was funny I think because as a couple we could relate with them as a couple a little bit with questions about things and what not.. it was funny. We also watched "Julie and Julia" I really would like one of her cookbooks now that i watched that movie but it was also good, and I want to cook a lot more for Steve now. It motivated me to keep trying new things out and cooking more. 

We are doing very well and looking for an apartment we can move into for this Summer. We are ready to get out of the parents house but grateful to have a place right now to stay. It is our time to start looking. 

Oh we have been very blessed also with so many wonderful families in the ward who ask us to babysit all the time and we have made lots of extra money which has helped us to prepare to move out also we are grateful for all the many people in our lives!! Oh if anyone is in the Florida area and needs a break to sleep or whatever a lovely date with you and your husband give us a call :) We will babysit for a day, a week or overnight let us know!! We are learning lots from all the kids too!! 

Well, I think that is all for now I will try harder to write more and keep you guys interested in my life :) I hope you all have a MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY NEW YEAR!! 

Love you all!! 

more pictures

Okay part of these pictures have dinosaurs we found this place it was like a little museum in Islands of Adventure and found by Jurassic park this dinosaur place i have NEVER been there the entire time i had a season pass so those are some of those pictures. 

OH loved G.I Joes by the way it was the BEST movie I have seen in a bit. So if you like action and not a lot of romance it is not a bad one to watch a couple of times. I would have to say I give it 5 stars which is better than most people who watched it or the critics who rated it :) 

Pictures of Universal Studios

Steve and I had the chance to go and play a bit on Saturday November 21, 2009. We enjoyed going and playing for a bit. Steve doesn't like me taking a ton of pictures of him but he was a good sport and put up with the pictures. We went on some rides we haven't done before and one of them was the simulation one of the Simpson's which would be fun for us if we weren't getting older and it was super cray and I felt dizzy and a bit sick and Steve gets motion sick very easily and almost lost it on that ride.. thats the joy of getting older, sure cannot do the things I used to do. We did some shows haven't done for awhile or have never done. One was the BeetleJuice show and it was cute lots of music I knew and loud but good. We did the animal show and then walked around a ton. We enjoyed walking around and just chilling somewhere. We don't need to go here for awhile though. We also saw the construction of the Harry Potter that is coming up nicely and will open by Summer I believe.. or around there. The whole area looks awesome and will have to go in a couple of years when Harry Potter isn't as new. 

Enjoy the pictures. There was a Christmas tree up and some of the pictures have me taking pictures of myself and trying to take a picture of Steve and I haha.. that didn't work out as well. 

We saw a turtle in a lake and finished all that we really wanted to do by 4pm and went home and relaxed there. 

It was a fun weekend!! 

Enjoy the pictures again :) 

OKay new question...

Okay for some reason NO good at finding these things.. but would like to know how all of you out there have added music to your blogs too?? I tried one. but it was an advertisement more than playing the music.. just want to get up to speed and want to change things up.. I know all of you would like to see a change after so many years of doing the same thing :) So any help again would be definitely great thank you SO much for all the help so far!! it was great to talk with you Diana and not sure.. how i can look at your blog? but would love to be invited to read it however that happens.. Thanks again for all the help!! 

Also one thing I didn't say in my last post is how much I am grateful for my friends who look at my blog and all my friends from all the moves that I am able to keep in touch with no matter how far we are!!  I miss you all and miss all the wonderful times we have had in the past but look forward to all the wonderful times we can keep in touch on the blogging on here!! Thank you so much for all of your friendships and love and support and I am so grateful for technology that allows each of us to share what is going on in our lives. 

Steve and I went to Universal and Islands of Adventures here in Orlando and pictures to come!! 

Thanks for being patient with me!! 

Thanks for the Help

well, I can now say that I am grateful to have a new background on here and it is really cute and HAPPY Thanksgiving to all of you now. It is such a great time to think of ALL the blessings we really do have to be here in America. To be free. To sleep and move when we want. To have vehicles we can drive, women can have an education. Love my family and my new family with Steve and look forward to so many wonderful days in the future! We are grateful for wonderful parents who helped raise us up like them and prepare us for the days ahead of us in married life. Grateful for a roof over our heads for good friends, for the calling at church and steve's new calling which is Elder's Quorum secretary yay he has a calling finally!!! For music in my life and the chance to teach many of the love I have for piano and clarinet and music in general. I am grateful for challenges and for the wonderful gospel and to belong to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Grateful for families in the ward who like to use Steve and I for babysitting and house sitting and for a wonderful family that found me on craigslist to help them with house sitting during Thanksgiving. Love life and grateful for so many wonderful things but I think this is good for now!! 

HAPPY THANKSGIVING again and eat lots of turkey or ham or whatever you eat!! 

Feel free to post anything you guys are grateful for too would love to hear what you have to say too!! 

question on customizing

Some of you guys have music attached and pretty backgrounds that aren't the templates they give you. how do youg et those and how can I customize my page more??? Any help is great!! Thanks 

Tinae

When was the last time I wrote???

Okay so time is just flying by and I cannot remember the last time i actually got on here and written. So I decided to at least let everyone know that we are alive out here. Been staying busy. Went from 2 students I was teaching to 5 students I am teaching and 1 I will start teaching in the new year.. I am loving this and keeping me busy. I am getting the hang of teaching Music to the primary kids and been learning a lot and very humbling experience. I am grateful to have those that I can learn from too and those blogs out there that help a ton! 

Steve is workings TONS and has lots of overtime coming up. He is staying busy and that is good but sad when I cannot see him all the time. I am watching kids ALL the time. Its quite fun actually and been staying very busy with that too. 

Thanksgiving is right around the corner and look forward to spending time with Steve's parents who are coming down to spend time with us. 

Last month Steve's parents, my parents and Steve and I went boating altogether with Reece. it was a lot of fun and we enjoyed spending time with both parents. 

Well, I better be going a nice short blog but that at least catches you up a little. I will try to do better with blogging in the future!! The pictures i wanted to put on here were not working and will try again later!! 

Gatorland

I posted a couple of pictures of gatorland in the 2nd blog I just wrote. A couple that we knew at the singles ward and was married right after us, we were able to finally get together with them and able to head to gatorland with them. We had a great time and nice to spend time with a couple without kids!! We needed that and hope to have more great times with them!! They are an awesome couple that we can get together with and not too far from us :) Here are a few pictures

The white gator was the albino one and it is no longer there.. They looked kind of creepy. The one with the man in the picture holding the tail he was wrestling the gator and it was funny.. the Gator he was doing in this show was hissing up a storm.. He was one angry gator!! The two gators were really cute together and looked like they were posing. It was a really cute picture!!