movies to watch this month

Top Christmas movies in no particular order that I love!

It's a wonderful life

How the grinch stole Christmas *both versions

Little Women

Christmas Story

Elf

The Polar Express

The Muppet Christmas Carol

The Santa Clause

Nightmare before Christmas *doubles as awesome Halloween movie too!

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

Home Alone 1&2

Scrooged

Miracle on 34th Street

The Family Stone

A Charlie brown Christmas

Four Christmases

The Nutcracker

The Original Christmas Classics we all grew up loving

Date night

I had planned a date night for Ryan and I a few weeks ago and got tickets to see the

Salt Lake Choir and brass band perform. Even though we are both under the weather

we still wanted to go. We arrived early to Temple Square so we went to the Church Museum

across the street to see the rug his grandparents had made and given the church.

The rug is beautiful, I'm speechless every time I see it. I can't imagine all of the time and

work they put in to making this one of a kind rug. His Armenian heritage

is quite the story that I look forward to sharing with our children one day.

As much as I wanted to walk around and see the lights Ryan only let us stay out long

enough to have a picture taken since we are both sick. Looks like another date night

down town will have to be scheduled soon!

GNO

My Friend Sara and I had a fun girls night out, dinner at The Old Spaghetti Factory

and fashion show at Trolley Square. Some of the dresses were

adorable and I would totally wear.

Don't mind my 'emo' style hair, I was trying to cover my poor infected eye..

I have been awful taking pictures lately so I don't have a single one of Ryan's and my first Thanksgiving together. It was a great day and relaxing. We had dinner with my parents than headed over to Ryan's grandmas home to visit.

This year I am grateful

*an amazing husband who loves me even when I steal the covers at night and take over the bed to find 'the cold spot'

*for wonderful parents who love and support us. and for letting us live with them for free temporarily.

*my amazing sisters and their families I adore my nephews and nieces.

* Ryan's family who from the beginning let me into their home and lives with open arms.

* The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints, I am so blessed to have been born and raised in the church having wonderful leaders teach me, an amazing Prophet who I dearly love and look up to.

* For a job and the clients that come in with great stories to share, especially those that are good tippers ;)

* my amazing friends who love me including my faults and imperfections, knowing I can count on them for anything and everything.

* having good health, it breaks my heart and humbles me to be thankful when I read blogs or hear of those going through horrible illnesses.

* Those who are so open to share their experiences on their blogs so that we may all learn and be grateful for what we have in our lives and remember what is truly most important.

* finally joining the marriage club! I love being married, I highly recommend it

In my next life....

I got this e-mail and thought it was hilarious and had to share

(click on it to enlarge it)

Oh it is so good to be back home with family and friends! I am fortunate enough to have found a job so quickly and only 15-20 minutes away from my parents where we are staying till we find a place. Now we are just hoping Ryan can find a good job quickly and settle into our own home before school starts the beginning of next year.

Yay for my friends birthday! Ryan had to make a trip out to Colorado for

work and wasn't able to make it but I managed to still have fun ;)

The birthday princess herself! tiara and all

I have known these girls for 15-20 years! We ate and chatted it up

at Cafe Rio till 11 pm

Trick-or-Treat!

Happy Halloween!

<3,

The O. fam

(Carroll kids)These teenagers are too cool to dress up and weren't

thrilled to have their pictures taken

ninja, tiger, and vampiress

(Prows kids) fat inmate, witch, pirate Jack

Assassin from a video game & Dorothy

Angel & Devil

Missing one of the fabulous sisters!

Love ya B

So long Colorado!

Tonight is our last night in Colorado! We are thrilled to be coming home and be closer to family and friends.
As I am waiting for a batch of clothes to be washed I figured I would take a break from packing and do nothing else but blog and put off the other needed packing..

Colorado has been a great experience and it was pretty fun to live here! We weren't able to do everything we were hoping to do but plans changed and we are coming home early. There's always next summer if we come back!

We will miss

*Having it just be the two of us, the lazy days and fun times of exploring our temporary home

*Our neighborhood woodland pets i.e bunnies, chipmunks, deer, squirrels (they are seriously every where!)

*The sweet families and kids I nannied for, I had so much fun with them!

*Ah the weekly shopping at king soopers...

*Sleeping in... I am so not a morning person so once I am home and working full time again it's not going to be a pretty picture for the first while

*Panera Bread

We wont miss as much..

*Sleeping on the blow up matress... well hello queen sized bed again!

*Confusing freeways and streets ex: Wood way, Wood rd, C. Wood way, ect you get the picture

*Stressful work days for Ryan with lame insurance companies

*Crazy lady landlord and rules

*Having no family and friends close by

*Having to worry about Ryan falling off a roof...oh wait that happened on his last day..today! :(

*Having an office room as a bedroom

Well there goes the buzzer on the washer, better get back to packing oh joy!

tagged

What is his name?
Ryan George Ouzounian
How long have you been together? since January 2003

How long did you date?
ha! always love this question (sense the sarcasm?) dated for 2 1/2 years in H.S Ryan was gone for 2 years serving a mission in the mean time I dated around finding no one that gave me the butterflies like he did. Dated for almost 3 years again when he returned and than FINALLY got married.

How old is he?
25
Who eats more?
Him all the way
Who said I love you first?
Oh High School love and me and my big mouth ;)

Who's Taller?
Ryan. He thinks I'm shallow when he asks if I would have dated him if he were shorter than me and I say no.

Who can sing better?
hmm debatable depending on the song although he does a good job singing ''popular'' from Wicked ;)

Who is smarter?
also debatable, depends on the subject...ok the only subjects I would win in would be hair, fashion, celebrity gossip (I blame boredom days living here and the magazines at the salons)

Who does the laundry?
Me, agreement to marriage was I would do all laundry if he would do dishes
Who pays the bills?
both of us

Who sleeps on the right side?
I do.
Who mows the lawn?
the land lady's ex husband...
Who cooks dinner?
Me, unless we want top roman or mac & cheese each night

Who drives?
he does for the most part unless I have to use my car for the sake of AC or heating

Who is more stubborn?
hands down Ryan.

Who kissed who first?
We both leaned in but I may have leaned in more.
Who asked who out first?
After kissing and 'hanging out' for a while I told him it was time to commit or no more lip smackin from me

Who proposed?
He did, and I loved it.
Who has more friends?
Me, I'm the social butterfly
Who is more sensitive?
does that really need to be answered...
me

Who has more siblings?
him by 1
Who wears the pants?
happy wife = happy life

right? jk

People Tagged: any of my friends!

for B

To humor my sister Brittani along with our friends and other family members of our adventures living in our 'Colorado home'

It has definitely been an experience to say the least. Jed & Chelsea...I don't know how you did it all summer long haha.

Her Rules:

*Only park on the right side of drive way (Under the tree that sheds like crazy leaving its sap on our cars)

*not allowed in the family room or to use bathroom on middle floor .. it's for her and guests only

*do not stack pans on top of one another "metal on metal...it'll scratch" so napkin or paper towel is to be placed between each one

*We are not allowed to use the vacuum therefor she will vacuum our room (we put the kabosh on that one!)

*Shut each door very very gently to not cause damage of any kind

*Pay half of any broken appliances while living there (This is not a marriage so that was a big no on our part)

She had 2 pages of things we had to abide by but these were a few.

#1

Rule was for our privacy, before owner of home comes down stairs (to get to her office or do laundry) was to first knock and wait for either of us to let her know she is good to come down. Well...one day I was in the shower and Ryan was getting ready. The bathroom mind you is just below the stairs, so you know when it is on if you open the door.

She knocked on the door. No answer. ''Hello? helloooooo? hellloooooooooooo? still no answer and I'm thinking ok I am in the shower lady obviously we are both getting ready and too busy to answer. Than the cell phones start going off after the cowbell has been run a couple of times.

What was her hurry?

She needed us to move our cars some time soon.

#2

We went to Utah for a family funeral. I closed our bedroom door, closed the bathroom door cause it's by the washer/dryer and didn't have time to clean it before we left.

Ryan gets a phone call saying our toilet is dirty and needs to be cleaned..... ok mommy!

We come home and she has left out of town. We find a note from her reminding us to clean bathroom and toilet and to keep lights turned off when leaving each room. I felt like I was 10 years old.

I could go on but than this would be a really long post! I highly recommend to live by yourselves when newly married if possible. As embarrassing or annoying as it has been living here it has made for some good laughs and great stories.