SPRING IS COMING!!!

Ok, I know we’re total slackers, and haven’t updated in a while-and we’re sorry….We’ve been so incredibly busy that any free time we have, we just spend it together…or Mike does homework =)

So Valentines came and went and we had a blast! JaNae’s good friend from her UNLV swim team came to town for a visit from Vegas. They were captains of the team when JaNae was a Junior and became really good friends. Mike took her snowboarding in the REAL Utah snow-and totally kicked her butt. They were only up on the hill for a little over half of a day. Let me just tell you (in case you don’t know) #1-Utah really does have the greatest snow on earth….#2-blue runs in other parts of the country are not ANYTHING like they are here. They went on a blue trail and Alison almost didn’t make it down! =) But Mike was a good teacher and taught her some new things—mainly how to get off the hill!

Mike Got JaNae 2 dozen lavender roses for Valentine’s Day-along with PF Changs take out. It was yummy and a ton of fun to share the weekend with JaNae’s friend. The girls did some much-needed shopping while Dave entertained Mike with X-Box.

The next weekend we went to the St. George Parade of Homes. It’s always so neat to see the stuff we can’t afford! The St. George parade is usually the best in Utah, but with the economy-builders aren’t going as extravagant as they usually do…but it was still awesome! We got to see our precious niece and nephew while we were there, and they are getting huge! We miss them a ton and can’t wait to go back down there and visit….Happy Birthday Miriam!! We love you! Here are some pics of our favorite houses:

Mike With Miriam

A cute animal area with Vinyl Lettering

Craft room with sheet metal magnet board- So simple yet such a good idea!

This was a hand-made, painted country-western play area for the kids. Pictures just doesnt do it justice. The "stable" was a hiding closet for toys!

Antiqued cupboards in the Kitchen-they had AMAZING kitchens there!

Mike wants ceilings like this in his office someday

This was on a wall-it is just painted blue with a wood frame that protrudes out...it gave it a ton of character.....

This was a great idea for a craft room. They had a ton of baskets and other knick-knacks at their will, yet, because they were out of the way, they had room to work.

These last 2 were our personal favorite things about the parade:

Mike's golf cart....enough said.

These were shadow boxes built into the living room wall and surrounded with rockwork.

Were really ready for spring, can I just tell you that! It seems to have been a really long winter. We decided that since this August is our 5-year anniversary, were going to do something spectacular…so JaNae suggested a trip to Boston. Mike was unsure until JaNae mentioned the main purpose for our trip would be to SEE THE RED SOX! SOLD! (She would be a great saleswoman) We’re totally stoked and can’t wait!

Well that’s it for now-we’ll try and keep more updates coming.

Fog and Smog

Well the month of January was a crazy one, but one event Mike and I will remember about January is the Fog and the Smog that lasted for a couple of days. Here are a couple pictures of what it was like.




As for February Mike and I have some fun events planned,the Super Bowl with Dave and Jill Dalling (Thanks for inviting us we had a blast!) a really good friend from college is coming to visit, Valentine's Day, President's Day (no work or School yea!), St George Parade of Homes, Draper Temple Open House... So hopefully I will make the time to post about it all, so each of you can enjoy it with us.

Happy Birthday Mike!!!

Due to our Internet not working I didn't get a blog posted on Mike's Birthday. But hey it's better late then never. I just wanted to tell Mike Happy Birthday and let him know how much I love him. Here are some pictures from the big day.

Thanks to Mom we had a delicious Oreo Ice Cream Cake, and Following with our family tradition we sang Happy birthday the worst off key that we could (a friend once told us the worse the birthday song the better your birthday turns out to be) and a picture of some of his gifts. Happy Birthday Babe!!

Christmas Day...

... we can honestly say that this Christmas was one of the
best yet!

Besides going overboard on some of the new toys.
We got to spend Christmas not only with Mike's
Mom but with my parents as well. What more could

you ask for? I'm just glad our parents have a great

relationship with each other.

Mike and I started out Christmas Morning opening
presents at home from each other (shown above)
Then we went to Grandpa Johnston's to see
some of my extended family (shown below)

We ended the day with Christmas Lasagna at our house
and opening gifts with my parents, visiting one more
of my aunts on my dad's side of the family and Mike

headed out to work. He was only suppose to be there
4 hours and ended up staying the whole night due to the
storm. I guess that's what happens when you have a
job in the medical field. Those hospital just don't

close like everywhere else. I didn't mind and I don't know

that he really did either. (holiday pay + time and a half not too bad)

That's how our Christmas went. The only thing we wish we

could of had was seeing Megan, Daniel and the Kids. We missed

you guys but hope your Christmas went well!!!

Fixin the house!

Well, when I had Fall Break in October, JaNae told everyone how lazy I was, so I put up our mirror (pics to come) and installed new lighting. Our house is coming along slowly but surely!

Christmas Time is Here!

Well Christmas is almost here, and we've been super busy! Mike finished up finals this week. (Hallelujah!) 18 credits in one semester, let alone, 9 chemistry, 6 biology and 2 math credits are something that even prisoners shouldn't have to endure. Now it's 3 weeks of "recovery" and then back at it again.
JaNae has kept busy with projects and Christmas stuff. She pretty much coordinated the ward Christmas breakfast when Jeff and Catherine were out of town; you wouldn't imagine all of the little details-sheesh! She went to Melissa's recital, the Relief Society's dinner, as well as Mindy's ornament party. She's been a busy bee to say the least!
We did manage to get out on a date last week though. We saw the new 007 with Jeff and Catherine. We had to fight bad snow and Jazz game traffic, but it was fun. We actually sat in the parking garage for 45 minutes because of all the jazz people trying to leave too!



Our view from the Conference Center


Another view of the Lights of Temple Square

We went to Temple square on Wednesday to see the lights. It was wonderful! Afterward, we thought that we might be able to see the lights better from the Conference Center-so one of the guides (who's serving a 3-year mission there) took us up to the Hall of the Prophets. They let us outside and we got to see pretty much all of temple square. It was so neat! Then, as he was taking us down, he showed us his favorite thing in the Conference Center. It was the Bronze statue of the First Vision. He showed us different symbolism in the statue-symbolism you might never pick up on.... Then to end it, he took us to the paintings of the First Presidency-which were newly painted and just hung up a few days ago.


Let us remember the True Meaning of Christmas this Holiday season!