New Year's!

It's a new year and it's time to start blogging faithfully. We have a little boy on the way and we will need to keep people updated on him! So there are 56 more days to go until he arrives (if he is on time..) and we are excited!

His name will be...Loren Cole Frei! Yay for family names! It's going to be a busy month because we have all of our baby classes, lot's of doctors appointments, and the baby shower all this month!

We are down to just hvaing the 2 dogs...Lilu and Eli. Lilu is the Boston Terrier/Pugg mix, Eli is a registered German Shorthaired Pointer and Cole loves him. A lot. We are both working and going to school. Cole is working and doing school at University of Phoenix and I am working at CrimShield and going to University of Phoenix. Cole is getting his degree in Business Marketing and mine is in Communications with an emphasis in Computer Technology.

That's about it for us for now! I promise to keep people updated with the baby :)

Christmas Partay

Oh life. Well today we are going to the family Mexican Christmas Party! We made chicken enchilada casserole and it looks and smells DELICIOUS. Break me off a piece of that Fancy Feast!
Other than that we are just chillin in the condo with our pups and cats. Ivy and Lilu are pretty much potty trained so that's nice. ...fina-freakin-ly.
School is going well for both Cole and I. He is a few classes into the Business Marketing degree at UoP and I am a few classes into a Dental Assisting Certificate. Hurray! Oh and about that potty training thing...Ivy just peed on the floor so I was apparently lying. Sigh.
Ooooo...I got Cole's Christmas present :) It's so good. He is going to DIE. I'll blog his reaction later on.
Well that's all for now!

Married!

Hey everyone! We are married now :) Married life is bliss! Everyone should do it. The honeymoon was awesome. Disneyland was perfect, the weather was beautiful, the hotel was amazing!!!! We ate everywhere we wanted...Jazz Kitchen, Cafe Orleans, Redd Rockett's Pizza Port, Blue Bayou, Cheesecake Factory....everywhere! I got sick for two days so that sucked. But other than that it was an amazing trip. We even got to go to Seaworld. Cole had never been so it was so much fun showing him all around and seeing all the shows. We did something called Dine with Shamu, which I highly recommend. It's pricey, but worth it! We also fed the bat rays and they scared me a little, but it was so fun.
We went on every ride that was open at Disneyland and got some awesome pictures but unfortunately a certain place that rhymes with Shmarget RUINED A WHOLE CAMERA'S WORTH OF FILM. So we only have half the pictures. But they are good ones.
The condo is in the process of being built and should be done around September so get ready for a house party!!
Well that's about it! See ya!

The plans continue...

So my lovely mommy just sent me a bunch of LDS focused wedding planning books and they are amazing! My dress has been ordered and is on it's way and should be arriving around the end of January, beginning of February. Good stuff. Also, it's getting really cold here. It still only rains though, so that's good. No snow yet. I have heard my teachers say it's unusually warm for this time of year so I guess I brought some Arizona warmth up with me! I wish it would stay but alas, I fear it is not to be. Oh well.
Oh I have a funny story. The power in our living room doesn't work. At all. We sent in a work order yesterday but yeah no lights, no electricity...nothing. So yeah. Schooo is going well. Sort of. I'm working my buns off and getting ok grades, but I have a system now and hopefully the results will be better grades! And I'm still working at the MTC and making a little money. Half of which is going towards the amazing Disney honeymoon of my dreams! Which has been booked! YAY!!! I can't even say how excited I am. Things are moving along! Oh and also, I think I have picked out a style of wedding invite/announcement! Yay again!! Ok gotta get ready for ice cold church.

*ENGAGED*

Yes!! I'm finally engaged to the most wonderful man I have ever met besides my dad and brothers! And uncle's I guess ha ha! Anyways, I'm so excited! The date is May 8th, the colors are coral and silver (a bright, pinky-orange coral), and our honeymoon will be taking place in Disneyland! So no one is allowed there from May 9th through the 17th. Seriously.

Yes I know it's a long time away, but we are in school and want to get another semester done before the wedding. It will take place in the Mesa Temple and we are having an Open House in Snowflake a couple of days before and a reception at my parent's house the night of. More info will follow! Besides that exciting news, I have been settling in quite nicely. The trip to AZ made me feel much better. I miss you all! I can't wait to live there again!! Ok I'm gonna go, so I'll talk to you all later!

Life

Well things are looking up! I have a job. No I'm not cleaning toilets!....anymore. Ahem, anyways, I am officially the custodian for the MTC lobby! Yay for me! You should all come visit the MTC and see the glory of the sparkling clean lobby! So there's my income. My bishop is really nice and awesome but he isn't you, Daddy. I'm still missing you all like crazy. Yesterday I missed Chase really bad and I just want to tell him that I love you! You are a crazy little man. And you tell really cute stories and jokes. My apartment just had our monthly cleaning check and we passed. So that's good. Yeah but the velcro I use to hang pictures on my walls has an unfortunate side effect....ripping off the paint! Haha yeah. So I'll have to fix that up when I leave. I can't wait to come visit in two weeks! Oh Dad we didn't get me new tires! And what about tire chains?! I don't know how to drive in snow!!!! I'm going to DIE!!
So I'm trying to think of new stuff that has happened to tell you guys. Annie went on a date. Cole and I went to Lagoon and also the Museum of Ancient Life and guess what Stef? We bought Triops! And hatched them! And they are cute! Except then when Annie was cleaning the kitchen she knocked over the jar...so now we only have like 3 left. And they are all named Speck. Oh did I tell you all that the "year-round pool" is really freakin cold? As in when they say heated they mean they just set a glacier down and let it melt and throw ice cubes in it every day. That's what Utah means by "heated pool". But the hot tub is toasty so that's nice. Ok well that's about it! Love ya!

Settling in...

Ok. So it has been at times both fun and really really REALLY LAME!!! I feel like I am finally living here. I have showered in the bathroom. More than once, don't worry. I am finally washing my sheets right now and have worked out how to use the laundry room. I have been to all my classes twice. I have gone grocery shopping for myself! I have applied for jobs. I have my own cupboards and a shelf in the fridge. Oh yeah, it's pretty nice. Oh, and I have rearranged my closet about three times in order to make it the most efficient and aesthetically pleasing as I can. And it's cold!! Only in the mornings though. And yes Mom and Dad, I have indeed hurt myself. I have a bruise on my finger where it got jambed in my dresser drawer and I have blisters on my feet and a miscellaneous assortment of scrapes and cuts as usual. So nothing new there! My classes are all really good! The teachers are all really funny! So that's exciting. So far everything has been going...ok. I love you all!