Our Christmas. :)

The Christmas season has come and gone, but it was definitely one full of great memories for us! Of course, the Johnson family Christmas always starts with chocolates. Steve and I went to Salt Lake to help with the dipping for a weekend. And of course- the best part is when you get to lick off your fingers... yum!

Even though we weren't home for Christmas, we still decorated our apartment for the season. Here are a couple of my favorite decorations:

I received the nativity scene when I was 12 from my primary teachers. I absolutely love it! Last year was the first year that I didn't have it to display- it was lost somewhere in my parents house. But I found it this past October, and this was the first decoration to go up. The angel was a project for my Theater for Elementary Education class at SUU. We had to make puppets out of different objects, and this is the one I made out of a popsicle stick. It makes me smile, so we have put it on our tree for the past 2 years. :)

Another Johnson family tradition... actually a Wride family tradition... is my Grandma's Christmas party. All kinds of fun is had there! Enchilada dinner, delightful eclairs, peanut butter cup making, graham cracker "gingerbread" house decorating, and even Santa pays a visit! I look forward to this party all year! What a great time to get together with family and just have fun!

The actual Christmas holiday was spent with Steve's family in Cedar City, and we had so much fun!! I didn't have my camera with me a lot... so I missed lots of great photo moments. Like the caroling party on the 23rd, and Christmas morning itself! But- I did manage to capture a couple great moments. First, a picture of the Christmas Eve nativity. We went over to Bob and Barbara's house, where the kids reenacted the Nativity for us. Fabulous!! Next- our stockings Christmas morning. I love Christmas morning, and I'm sad I don't have any other pictures! But these will have to do for now. :)

The day after Christmas we drove to Zion with Steve's parents, Dan and Laura. We went on a small but icy hike- the Canyon Overlook Trail. It was absolutely beautiful! And Zion covered in snow may be my favorite view of Zion ever! Gorgeous!

Now- we've returned to Logan and we're getting ready to get back into things. :) I hope you had a fabulous holiday season as well!! (Look below for our Christmas card for you!)

Now... Bring on the new adventures of 2010!!

Christmas Card

A little late...
I made this Christmas card a while ago, and then I forgot to email it to everyone. So- Merry Late Christmas!! :) (It's the front of the card, then the top and bottom of the card...)

Long Overdue...(Road Trip)

Okey dokey, so this post is very long overdue. And, I'm not going to post all the amazing details that I originally planned to. If you really really want to be bored to tears with all of our super cool adventures- just let me know. Otherwise, In a nutshell: We drove across the country this summer! It was great. We started in Yellowstone with Steve's family, then drove out to see Steve's Mission (West Virginia), and my cousins in DC. Then- back we came. We made several AWESOME stops along the way, and we're already excited for our next big trip... sometime...

So- here's our grand course--

Several of the stops were simply KOA stops- places to sleep. But a few fun places we went were:

1- Yellowstone. Super cool animals, and awesome family!

2- Welch, WV. Steve served here for 7 months. I started feeling slightly chlostrophpobic after just a few days. But it was awesome to see where Steve lived for so long and meet some of the people there. What an awesome place!

3- Washington DC. We had tons of fun seeing all the monuments, some museums, and spending time with some of both of our families in VA. We even met up with Dani and Kelly to do a temple session in the DC temple. Beautiful!

4- Kirtland, OH. We only stopped here for a couple hours on a Sunday night, but we got to tour all the buildings but the temple. A very neat place.

5- Waukesha/Milwaukee, WI. We stopped here to see Stacey and meet Brian. Awesome! We are both now quite in love with Milwaukee. Neat City!! We had TONS of fun here- It was one of my very favorite stops. Stacey took us to the Wisconsin State Fair (AWESOME!) and to a Brewers game. (Also awesome!!) Thanks guys!

6- Nauvoo, IL. Fabulous. I wish we had more time here. One of the most beautiful locations I've ever seen- gorgeous river, beautiful little valley, perfect. And the temple. Breathtaking.

7- Logan, UT. Home. It was fabulous to travel- but I was very happy to get back home at the end of it all. :)

If you're dying to see more pictures, click HERE.

Our homey!

So- I promised pictures of our new home on here. But first, I shall share some pictures of our old place. A few months ago I took these pictures to put on the ad, but I needed to shrink them first. So, I put them on Facebook just to quickly shrink them. But then my internet died and by the time I got back on, several people had commented on them. So, they remained. But I shall paste them here because I know everyone is dying to see our last place! :)
So now, a virtual tour of our basement dwelling in Spanish Fork! We lived here from Aug. 2008-June 2009. We shall begin with the stairs of doom! I realized just now that I don't have a good picture of these stairs! But... here is a picture of us on the stairs... as they are covered in snow... and another picture of me sitting on them.

Yep. Those are what I fondly called the stairs of doom! :) They really weren't too bad, but I'm glad to have normal stairs now... :) Especially with heels...
Moving on- the first thing you saw when you walked into our house was the kitchen!

A very nice kitchen... just random placement. :D
Then you walk down the crazy hallway...

*oooooh* and on your left you see the laundry/storage room. It was quite nice to have all the space under their staircase to put our stuff in. :D If you look to your right you will see the bathroom.

I do miss this bathroom... and all the counter space... and the nice long mirror... But- moving on. The bedroom was located right before the turn in the hallway.

It had a nice big window, and a very nice large closet. Then- if you followed the turn in the hallway, you would finally end up in our living room!

Tada! (Or to quote Dallin... Tadada!) :) It was a little weird having the living room at the end of the house, but it was sometimes kind of fun to lead our visitors through the entire house when they came to visit... :) That door in the corner went to the storage room of the people upstairs. They slipped us our mail under the slot and we slipped them our rent in return. :D Many good times were had in this apartment, but we were very excited to move to Logan! And now that we're here, here are some pictures for you!
First... the door. (Yes, steve laughed when I took a picture of the door, but I intend to give you a tour, so we have to start outside... because I say so...)

And since I know you're all dying to know- we're the one on the left. :) When you walk in, you see our living room/kitchen... like so!

Yes, beautiful I know... :) The doors lead out to our porch, which I totally forgot to take a picture of, so I'll just have to add it later. :D It is quite marvelous with our hammock and all... Anyway- here is a better view of our kitchen- you can practically feel like you're walking right through our home!

Please take time to notice the fridge that is a good six inches shorter than me, along with the itty bitty stove... it holds my smallest cookie sheet... and that's all. But- it's a functioning gas stove, so I won't complain too much... Now my dear friends, turn to your left and we shall proceed down the hallway.

Yep- there's Steve... studying away! (actually, I think this was Sunday, so not so much studying going on...) But that is a pretty typical sight around here. To your immediate left you see our linen/game/random stuff closet, and to your right is our bathroom.

And now you see why I miss the counter space and big mirror. If you were to turn left rather than right, you would see our bedroom.

Notice the lovely cinderblock walls. :) Aaah the joys of on-campus living! I feel almost like I'm back in Juniper again... almost... Proceeding- at the end of the itty bitty hallway, we have the second bedroom. Or in our case, the computer/ironing/storage/Steve's closet/extra books/music room. Please ignore the mess... we are STILL trying to figure out where to put stuff and how to organize that room.

Maybe one day we'll get it figured out. And hopefully we'll have visitors to come and see it! *hint hint...* If anyone needs a place to stay in Logan we would love to have you stay with us! I'll even feed you! Or, if you're just passing through, give us a call! We love visitors!! So, I shall see you out...

And we hope to see you back here SOON!!

I apologize if this blog was photo-overload. I really like looking at pictures of other people's houses... Yes... I'm weird that way... so I put up lots of ours. I hope you don't mind! :)

May-June...

This summer has been fabulous! Steve and I have been out living life, and not finding too much time to blog about life. But... now we're back and starting to settle into a routine again, so I suppose I should blog about our summer. The entire summer. But I'll just start with May-June...So- here's the game. I'm going to go through our folders and pick 1-4 pictures from each folder that describe something that happened. Then I'll tell you all about it. :) Sound fun? Great! Here we go!
Flashback- all the way to May! May 30th actually. My parent's anniversary, and my family's 6th anniversary! (from our temple sealing!) :D
Not a great picture, but we got to go to a VIP tour of the new Oquirrh Mountain Temple. It was absolutely fabulous! Our small little group of 8 had our own tour guide and it was absolutely beautiful! I love the temple!! Not to mention the fabulous lunch and free Mormon Tabernacle Choir cd they gave us after the tour... :)

Now, jump to a week later- June 7th- My Grandma Wride's 84th birthday. My mom told her they were inviting her to dinner... just a small affair with my parents and sisters. She made a big deal that I couldn't come up because we were so busy getting ready to move. But instead, all of her kids/grandkids who live in Utah came up to my parent's house to surprise her! (Including us... you should have heard grandma scolding my sister..."You lied to me! You said they weren't coming!) haha! Anyway, I was the one with the camera, so I suppose I should put these pictures up for my familial members. :) And I suppose now is a good time to see if I can figure out how to add video, because I did take a video of us... quietly saying surprise... so we didn't scare her too bad... :)

The week before we moved we went to visit our good friends Raj and Ranjeet. Their son Lucky and his wife Kayla were there too. It was great to finally meet them! What started as a quick visit quickly turned into dinner, and we had a great time with them!

Lucky, Kayla, Steve, Lindsey, Ranjeet, Raj

Also right before we moved, Steve's brother Nate and his wife Monica had their first baby! We were lucky to get to meet her before we moved far away! She's almost 3 months now, but here she is in her first few minutes of life. Cute huh!

Heidi Marie Corry -- June 15, 2009

The next day Steve and I got to go with my family to a Bee's game... in a suite! Yep. They started selling tickets much cheaper than what season holders paid for theirs, so my dad called and complained and they gave him a suite for a night. And it was awesome!

And now to the big move! We moved on June 18th. We packed up everything in Spanish Fork on the 17th, in the pouring rain... blah! And then spent the night in our sleeping bags in the living room. My mommy came down to help us the next day as we finished cleaning, and then drove up to Logan! Hurrah! It was a great drive, and we had tons of people come and help us as we were unloading. Aggie Village really is a great place to live! What fabulous neighbors! So, here are a few shots of the chaos that was our house before we moved. :) And I'll get pictures of our new place soon... :)

On the 25th of June Steve and I went with my Grandma and sister Maggie to the Andre Rieu concert at USANA ampitheater. It was Awesome!! I quite like Andre Rieu, and I've grown up watching his concerts on tv at my grandma's house. So it was pretty exciting to actually see him live! The tickets we had were for our own suite, and included a fabulous dinner before the show. And during the Blue Danube, Steve and I got up and danced! (It's tradition to dance during that piece). We were some of the only ones in our area, so we got lots of applause... even though we weren't fabulous... :) Unfortunately, my sister has that picture, so I'll have to steal it from her. :D Here are some other fabulous pictures of that marvelous night! :D

So- here you have the beginning of our amazing summer! Still to come- Corry Reunion, Sun Valley, the rest of July, and of course the magnificent road trip! So... come back soon!

New Post Coming... Tag here!

I promise a new post is in the works, but in the meantime, I've been tagged by Ashley!
So... here it is.

Here's what you do: Go to google.com, then type in "... needs".

That means I typed in "Lindsey needs". Then you post the first 5 things that pop up!
Here's what I need:

1. Lindsey needs... to take breaks to use the water fountain or bathroom. *Yep. I sure do sometimes......*

2. Lindsey needs... nurturing, patient, and committed adoptive parents. *riiiiight....*

3. Lindsey needs... to remember to breathe. *Don't we all... :)*

4. Lindsey needs... a heart transplant. *Not quite... but this was a sad story. :( *

5. Lindsey needs... a new Do! *Pretty sure I just cut my hair, but I sure do like new hairstyles!*

My favorite is that several of these came from other people doing this same post... :D

Now... time to find out what you need! I really don't know who reads this... so if you did, and you want to do it, consider yourself tagged!! ... and let me know, so I can go read it. :D

Big Chill

I have fallen in love with appliances from this wonderful place. Big Chill. They make retro inspired fridges, dishwashers, and stoves. And... they're in fabulous bright colors! My kitchen one day is going to have lots of happy bright colors. I have my bright red kitchenaid mixer, fantastic bowl/mugs in bright colors, and some random spatulas/can openers and such in bright colors. So, while investigating Rachel Ray's kitchen, I discovered this amazing place. And I have now decided that one day I will have these appliances in my kitchen. I'm loving the red. Although the blue stove is great too... as is the yellow. :D Take a gander! :)

I'm in love...