Just another day at the Van O's.

Well, today was a good day. This morning i got to sleep in, and then cleaned some. John got home around 10:30 and we decided we'd try to hit the 11:30 session at the temple. Just as we were getting ready to walk out the door, John realized he didn't have his wallet. so we looked and looked and couldn't find it anywhere. We thought maybe we'd left it at the Swimming Pool, so we called over there, and they said they didn't have it. Well, John decided that the only place it would be is in his pants pocket from a few days ago... I had to break the news that those pants had just gotten thrown in the wash. Well he ran over to my parents and checked and sure enough, his wallet was getting a cleaning as well. I think we managed to save most everything important and made it to the temple still on time. Anyway, we got home and i wasn't feeling that great so John told me to go lay down and he'd make me lunch. He's so good to me and made me a great lunch of macaroni-b. I sure love him. Anyway, it was good to spend sometime with John since he had class at 2:30 and won't be back until after bishopric meetings tonight, probably sometime around ten. I love him so much and am so grateful for a wonderful husband! WAHOO!

Wedding Pic's

These are some wedding pictures that we finally got after all this time. After i get the CD of pictures sometime next week, i'll post a lot of them, some turned out really cute and they're a lot of fun!!!!

My Mighty Hunter :)

Just in case there is still a question, John did kill this little rabbit with his bow. He's amazing. And Zane (his friend) took it home and ate if for dinner, now, in the words of John "Does life get any better than this???"

This is my new du, with the help of one of Debbies cute bows :)
We try to often take pictures of us, but the thing is, we're the only ones that can so all of them end up being pretty up close...
Party at Bridgets, our snakes were battling.... mine won :)
And this right here is what i always find John doing just as i'm about to make Dinner....that little rascal (its a bowl of cereal)

Haircuts

We borrowed John's mom's haircutting Stuff because he needed a haircut bad and we don't have any clippers, anyway John went down stairs and told the boys that if anybody wanted a haircut to come on up. Simeon was the first brave one and Isaac soon followed. After John's hair cut they had to take a picture of all of them being "cool". It was fun and John did a pretty good job!

Here we go again...

Sorry it's been so long! I'm getting down to doing this once a week. Well, what's new.... John finally did get over his sickness, after days and days of looking like this... oh, and i did too.... but we didn't take any pictures if me thank goodness. We had the awesome privledge of going for a few rides in Peters "oh so cool" truck. It was a blast and thats one thing we love to do, however it never fails that each time we go, we end up getting stuck. This is Peter trying to get his sweet truck out after hours of it being stuck in a ditch on the otherside. He wasn't so happy about this picture. The funny part is, we ended up having to call John to get the suburban to pull us out....Talk about a humbling experience hahaha. It was really fun though. Debbie, Simeon and Isaac really like to come visit us upstairs. We don't mind and sometimes we bring them up for entertainment. These are just pictures of them being silly.

Well, another week has gone by and i've been a terrible blogger. Last i bloged about John being sick, but as soon as i finished it hit me and we've both had terrible chest colds ever since, although the last few days we've been feeling better well, just still stuffed up. Last night Manti took state in basketball, we went down to Richfield to watch and it was pretty exciting! Then today for dinner we're having our hometeachers and their wives over for dinner. It should be fun, but we weren't really planning on it so we only have a tiny 2 lb roast, i'm just hoping its going to be enough...

Well, its been a while...

Well, to start off with, We had a mishap with the car bumper. I guess John was just backing up, and didn't know he was on a volcano shaped thing of ice, so as he backed up it ripped the bumper right in half and almost off. We figure its good enough for now but i guess soon enough we'll have to go visit ol Doug....again. Anyway, its been a little crazy past few days, for one, John and i decided to go watch Peter wrestle up in orem on Thursday, for valentines because neither of us had work or school, it was fun and we went to the temple but it wasn't until we got home, that night, around 8:30 that we realized that we were supposed to take a sister in our ward who just had a baby dinner that night. Needless to say, they had already eaten something and i haven't stopped feeling terrible about it yet. I've got to make it up to her somehow...any ideas? The rest of her meals are already planned for a while, so i don't know what to do. Anyway, Valentines day was fun besides that, when we got home from Provo, John had planned and prepared my favorite meal (cincinati Chili) for us! His mom had came by while we were still gone and set it all up with candles and flower and we even got a brand new red table cloth. It was exciting and so fun and yummy but i do think it stressed out his mom pretty bad, i feel really bad about that. We really appreciate all our family does for us since we do live so close, its really nice and they are all wonderful! Anyway, i get to teach the lesson at church tomorrow, so i need to start preparing. John usually is a huge help in preparing my lessons but he's sick in bed today, really aching with a sore throat and stomach, and cough. Its no fun watching him hurt. I hate it, but for now he seems to sleeping soundly so thats a plus. Anyway, remember the honeymoon? When John got in the hot tub with my brand new, 3 month old camera in his pocket? Well, for Valentines day he also replaced it so now i have a brand new camera! And i am so excited to use it! Here's just a few pictures we took to try it out, it works pretty good!
Anyway, life is good, once John's feeling better and lesson is over, it'll be even better!

Just some pic's

Simeon is so fun! He (with the help of some siblings i think) made us these cookies. Natalie said the holding hands was all his idea... He loves to come visit us all the time but we don't mind, he makes me smile. On our way to the temple yesterday, notice my cute temple bag, its actuallly my moms but i'm sort of attached....

So this is what me and John do everytime We have a spare second, its really fun and John doesn't get too mad when i always win (wink, wink).

False Alarm!!!

Well I know if just posted that my husband was sick a few hours ago, but i we just heard from the Doctor that his TB is not active. Thank goodness for that. It is in it's latent phase so he does have to take antibiotics everyday for 9 MONTHS! Crazy I know but thats the only way to make sure it doesn't become active and contagious.

This snow is insane and i'm loving it.... So we've decided that there really isn't much to blog about without kids but i'll keep trying anyway, its official that we're moving to Logan in August. I've got a full tuition scholarship so hopefully i'll be able to graduate with my degree in exercise science in about a year, and John probably has 2-3 more years there. Sounds like we'll got there just in time for Dan and Steph to leave, if they really are leaving. Oh well, we're so excited to get to Logan, to be able to start our own life together. We love being close to family, and we'll come back eventually but it'll also be nice to get away.

My sick husband....

Well, many of you may have heard about the turberculosis scare at Snow College, it's been all over the news. Anyway, we thought John had better get tested so he went in, and sure enough he tested positive. Well, testing positive doesn't necessarily mean that he's got it, he had to get a chest x-ray last Thursday and we still haven't got the results back. We're guessing he probably doesn't have active TB because we think they'd most likely be more worried about it if he did, and he doesn't have any of the symptoms so we figure he's probably okay. It was kind of a scare though because his chest has been hurting him for a few months now. Anyway, we'll keep you updated but until then, try not to let John cough on any of you.... it could be contatious. Hahaha, Just kidding, but i wanted to post a picture we took of ourselves at the hospital while we were waiting for the x-ray, it was just so funny because they made us both wear face masks and locked us in a room so we couldn't contaminate anything... Anyway, just picture the picture in your head, you'll get a good laugh.