Randans new obsession!!

okay, so i'll probably get in big trouble for this but its too funny not to post. well funny to me anyways! ha
So Randan's Sniper Platoon has this thing with "lets see what we can get away with, with having long hair"! So they have to get it cut on the sides but they leave the top ridiculously long. So that being said, Randan is pretty proud of how long his hair is getting.
If you know Randan about the only time he does his hair is for church, but the other day I walk into the bathroom and caught Randan combing his hair, oh so serious! It took a few minutes before he knew i was there but I couldn't keep from laughing. Since then he's been wearing his hair in this wonderful, thick, fluffy, not quite, but almost a combover! He thinks its pretty sexy! he cracks me up! I guess we'll let him keep thinking that! ha ha...

update!

Well Randan made it home from mountain sniper and bridgeport cold weather training alive!! He's glad to be home! In his Mountain Sniper course 8 started and 4 finished. One night they dug a 7 foot hole and thats where they slept waking up for an hour every 3 hours to make sure it didn't cave in. the rest the nights they slept on top of the snow. Randan said the night in the snow cave was his warmest night. Randan got high shooter in Mountain Sniper which is quite the accomplishment! He's Amazing!
As for me i've been plugin away at school. I'm taking Anatomy and a black and white film photography class. Anatomy is keeping me plenty busy, but I love both my classes! I actually look forward to going to school!
we've had 2 long weekends since Randan's been home, This weekend has been beautiful and we've been enjoying California weather, hangin out by the pool!
Kindof a boring post but I just had to update! Randan said he took some pretty cool pictures up there but he doesn't have them so i'll have to post them later!

mother-daughter time!

Randans been gone for 2 weeks and has 3 more to go so my mom came down and spent the weekend with me! It was so good to have her here and I am so so lucky and blessed to have such a wonderful mom. Mom and I(and sadie) always have a good time together! Even when we don't do anything there's always lots of laughter and good times! We hung out at the beach attempted painting my apt but then realized we didn't have a ladder ha, and spent a whole day at the Orange County Swap Meet! It was so fun, and just what I needed! Thanks so much mom for coming!

christmas!!

Randan and I had a wonderful but interesting christmas break! Randan had 15 days for vacation and we spent it all in Enterprise! We spent Christmas Eve at my parents house and then had Christmas again the day after at the Woods! Randan and I are so spoiled. Both our families were way too generous!! It was so wonderful and fun tho! It was so fun to see all our nieces and nephews get so excited about Christmas and Santa! On the 28th Randan and I decided to go on a date. We were on our way home we got to dammron Valley and heard clunk clunk clunk.. so we pulled over and to make a long story short eventually the car wouldn't start, and the engine was shot! =( So for my birthday the next day we went car shopping! I was pretty bummed about it and feeling a bit sorry for myself when i realized how truely lucky and blessed we were. Things could've been a lot worse and I was bummed about getting a new car, pretty lame =) after shopping all day we got a 2006 Honda Accord. My family met us in St.George and we went to the Brick oven for din din! We came back to Cali on the 1st to 80 degree weather. How nice. =) It sure was wonderful to be in Enterprise and with family for the holidays! Thanks everyone for putting up with us for so long, we had a great time!
Now back to reality, on the 4th Randan goes to Bridgeport for Mountain Sniper. Bridgeport is near Lake Tahoe so he'll be in the freezing cold with lots of snow! He'll be there till the 12th of February. Luckily I start school on January 11th, so that should help keep me busy!!

Sniper School Graduation!!

It all began October 6th, and he's finally done! Today I got to go to his graduation! It was so neat to be at, and I am so so proud of Randan! My husbands officially a Scout Sniper! He's had a long hard 2.5 months! goin to work at 3:30a.m. and coming home around 8:00p.m. He did a lot of shooting,running, hiking, stalking, observations, missions, and a lot of not sleeping. and much much more that i'm missing. To say the least its one of the hardest schools and Randan flew through it! He was at the top of his class in everything they did! Good job babe, I'm so proud of you!

Thanksgiving!

Randan and I had the best Thanksgiving weekend. I had to work wednesday from 4-9:30 and then we headed out to Bountiful it was about a 10 hour drive. we got there and in a few hours we had thanksgiving dinner it was so yummy. then dad, meag, reece, randan, and i went to a jazz game. the next morning we woke up early and went shoppin. It was so fun and i got almost all my christmas shopping done! the next day we went to temple square, it was so beautiful with all the christmas lights! then we went to Trolley square and ate at the spaghetti factory! the next day we woke up and headed out only this time with the traffic and all it ended up being about a 14 hour drive!! It was totally worth it though! We had such a good time and it was so fun to be with family! I hate being so far away from all our family! I have so much to be thankful for!

1 yEaR!!!

WARNING: MUSHINESS!!!
holy moly! I can't believe its been a year. =) it really only feels like 3 months, since thats what we've been together but those three months have been wonderful! We're just honeymoonin right now!
For our anniversary we went Campin on the beach! It was perfect! We set up our little camp and then played on the beach,the water was freezing!! when the sun went down we started a fire and roasted hot dogs and s'mores! To top the night off we played yahtzee till it was time for bed! it was so fun to go to sleep hearin those huge waves! I ABSOLUTLY LOVE THE BEACH!!! We had so much fun and it was such a cheap date! Can't do that very easy in Cali! We're defiantly planning on doing it more often!
I can't wait to see whats ahead for our wonderful life and there's no one else I'd rather experience it with! I love you babe!!!