Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Time to SLOOOW DOWN...

I'm so tired. Just feeling a little beat down, ya know? Not for any particular reason. And in the light of finals week, which all of my friends and family are suffering through, I really have nothing to complain about. But gosh, I'm ready for a day off. Do you ever feel completely overwhelmed by all the little tasks that you have to do. It's not necessarily the little tasks, it's just that there are HUNDREDS of little tasks and you don't even know where to start. So in the meantime, I'm choosing to ignore all of the little tasks and rather sit here and complain about them to you! Two more days left this week and I have four wonderful work-free days to look forward to.

I would write more, but in all honesty, I really don't know what to write. I'm sure I will have more for you soon. In the meantime, I will display more pictures that I like, and while some of them probably require and explanation, I just don't have it in me tonight. Most of them come from last summer. I hope you enjoy!

















Sunday, December 16, 2007

Merry Christmas!

I love Christmas time, SO MUCH! It is easily my favorite time of the year for so many reasons. I know that everyone feels like Christmas time is the most stressful time of year, but I feel the opposite. I think Christmas is when people are the happiest, probably because that's all I chose to see. I love everything about it. I love to shop for presents. I love to try and pick out the perfect gift for someone. I love to wrap presents while I listen to the Carpenter's Christmas CD. I love to decorate, I love the cold. I love the smell of Christmas candles and pine trees. I love the parties, and singing Christmas carols. But, hands down, what I love most about Christmas...is the FOOD! I love eating it, I love making it, I love smelling it, I love to deliver it. I LOVE holiday food and I love to bake. I've been in my kitchen for the last three hours this morning making peppermint bark, fugde, mint truffle cookies, salted peanut bars, and peanut butter kiss cookies and I've been having the best day ever. There is just nothing like it, especially when KLCE is playing Christmas music 24/7. I hope everyone else is having a very enjoyable Christmas!!

Friday, December 14, 2007

Little timeline for you

Well, I figured the best way to catch everyone up to speed would be to do a "photo timeline" of our family since Glenn and I got married. Forgive me if I bombard you with pictures, there were so many to chose from that it was hard to leave some of them out!




Before we were married...







July 19, 2003





Just the two (three), of us!



San Francisco trip with some good friends of ours. I'm five months preggo, pre-swollen feet!




Pregnant, swollen, and amazingly uncomfortable with our first baby girl! (June '05)




Jayda Nicole Green! 6lbs, 12oz







Photos of Jayda and family, including her blessing.



Glenn and his family at the 2005 Green reunion



My baby sister, Jackie, gets married to Carlos Amaya!



This is my brother Jeremy, who we adopted at the tender age of 22. He loves him some mayonnaise!



Gosh, who can resist those blue eyes!




My college graduation lunch! I'm an offical licensed social worker. My prize was getting whipped cream in the face. I should have taken it as a sign!




Boating, the Johnson family's favorite pasttime, as well as ours!



Jayda and her Grandma Irma.



Every year my mom, sister and I go to SLC for a girl's trip. It is without a doubt one of my favorite times, and I'm really going to miss it!




Jayda's first time in the pool!





Kendall and Deanna's wedding!



Pregnant with our little boy, Skyler!





Skyler Glenn Green, 7lbs, 10oz. (May 30, 2007)




Grandma Johnson with Jayda and Skyler





Jayda's two year old birthday party, which she shares with her aunt Keisha. You'll notice our failed attempt at getting a decent family picture.




Our little smiley boy!

So that's a little glimpse into the last four years of our lives. Since our laptop suddenly decided to cop an attitude with us, I can't post newer pics right now, but I will work on getting Halloween and Thanksgiving pics up asap. Hope you enjoyed my little trip down memory lane! I know I did.

Thursday, December 13, 2007

Some older pictures




Normally I would have our laptop, which contains all of our current photos. Unfortunately, Glenn has taken the laptop with him to work, so I only have a few photos that are pretty outdated. But, for the sake of getting more familiar with the program, and hopefully your enjoyment, I have posted them anyway...





I'll get some new pictures on as soon as I can. For now, this is the best I can do!

Dental School!

Glenn and I just found out some incredibly exciting news. After two years of hard work, Glenn has been accepted into dental school! He'll be enrolled in Temple University in Philadelphia, PA for four years! We're moving to Philadelphia! It's still feels incredibly surreal and I'm having a hard time believing that we're actually going to move soon. Fortunately for us, we will be moving close to good company. My two cousins and their wives will also be in Philly with us. I'm really excited about that, it's going to be really fun getting to know them all better.

I'm also going to be begininning another crazy adventure...being a stay-at-home mom! Crazy as it sounds, I'm anticipating this change almost more than the move. There has really never been a long term period of time, since I was sixteen, that I haven't worked. For years, so much of my life has been centered around school, work and establishing a career. I was almost surprised at how much it meant to me to have children and be a mother. I'm very nervous to NOT WORK anymore, but also so excited to enter an entirely different realm of my life by taking care of my children full time. It's going to be very cool.

Change is scary, uncomfortable and difficult, but change is also wonderful, refreshing and exciting. I'm feeling the intensities of both right now. I have really grown to love the lives we have established for ourselves in Pocatello. I love our house, our yard, the park nearby. I've grown to love countless numbers of people here. I've so much enjoyed being so close to my parents, who have turned themselves into amazing grandparents. I have long-term friends who I have been close to since the "training-bra" days. It's not going to be easy to leave. But, I do believe that what makes life so wonderful, is accepting that there are so many other incredible experiences to be had when we're willing to begin new chapters. Friends are never lost, just volumized, and reunions are so much sweeter after time. I'm looking forward to our new experience, and I will cherish the memories I have had in Pocatello. It is, afterall, my home.

So, I'm going to start taking this blogging thing more seriously. For one thing, I've become a LOUSY journaler over the last few years, and also because it will be a window into our lives for our family and friends who will be far away. I plan to post plenty of pictures, and, since I am very wordy, I will most likely blog often! Please feel free to leave comments, I would just love to hear from all of you, OFTEN!