Wedding Anniversary

This week Ryan and I celebrated our 3rd wedding anniversary! I can't believe it's been three years already! Time flys by so fast!

New Hair!

Yea!!!! New hair!!! Finally!!!! I cut all of my hair off a couple weeks ago! It was pretty nerve racking when my hair girl started cutting, but I love it! It only took my a year to talk myself into it. Really, a year to just chop it all off!!!! But any who, I'm glad to have short hair again!

Superbowl

OK!!! I am finally updating my blog! Quick recap... Ryan and I started our spring semesters. I have four classes, all history! Ryan has three classes in bio, humanities and Shakespeare lit. He is also working part time at Washington Mutual. He just put in his application to BYU and we are hoping to hear back in a few weeks! Keep your fingers crossed for him! Assuming he gets in (which he will!), we are still planning to move to Utah this August. It will be an adventure!

On Superbowl Sunday we had a fun get together with the mag 7 ( Andy, is it the mag 8 yet? ) and both sets of parents. There was lots of super yummy food, actually there was too much food. I couldn't stop making things plus everyone else brought food. Oh well, it was tasty. Secretly I could live off of party food, especially the vegetable platter! Even though Arizona lost we still had fun watching and hanging out. I don't really like the NFL or football in general but if I have any chance to entertain and make party food then I will be the first to volunteer!

Dear Blog...

I'm sorry I have not written you for some time. Please forgive me as my obnoxious brother in law Greg has coaxed me into the world of Facebook. I promise I will write soon. I have many pictures and stories to tell. Don't be upset little blog, I will not forget you... Love always, Ashley!

End of the year recap

The end of 2008 was a big blur to me. I had finals until the 19th so getting into the Christmas spirit came late. But lets back track a few weeks to November.


Thanksgiving was small but fun this year. We had dinner with a family in our ward who lives down the street. We ate lots of yummy food and went to the movies of course!




Our friend Tiffany turned the big 30 on the 30th. Not only was she celebrating a big birthday, it was also her golden birthday! She was in Utah with her husband Joe for Thanksgiving and they drove home on her birthday. We (meaning the mag 7 as Andy puts it, minus Joe and Tiff of course) Decided to decorate their new home. Oh, also forget to mention they bought a new home in November!!! Congratulations! It was fun stringing toilet paper and streamers all over their yard! Of course we helped them clean it up!





In December we celebrated our 2nd annual Christmas Ornament Craft Night, if that's what you want to call it. Here is how it works. Each of us (mag 7) had roughly 20 minutes to search the dollar tree and pick out 4 items. After we each picked out 4 items we gathered together, marked the items with numbers and then drew numbers to see which items we ended up with. After we receive our 4 new items, we began to make Christmas ornaments. We hade to use something from all 4 items that each of us got during the drawing. I have to admit that I was stumped for a while on how I was going to combine my items. I ended up making an angel wit a bazooka who was wearing a shirt that said "you've need naughty." I thought it was pretty funny. Ryan decorated a weird looking pink hippopotamus, Tiffany made a snowflake out of her funny items ( I wont explain, you just have to see the picture), Joe made festive parrot ornament, Kelly made a swing out of a wig, Matt made a stick figure and Andy made something that had to do with cats and little figurines. I can't figure out what it's supposed to be. I have to admit its a pretty fun activity! I look forward to it next year.

Christmas: Where to begin... Ryan's sister Jen, her husband Nate and their cute little boy came to visit for two weeks. We had lots of fun with them. Braden celebrated his first birthday with a trip to John's Incredible Pizza, and later with chocolate cake.

On Christmas eve we split time with both families as well as Christmas day. We opened presents, ate tasty food and relaxed. I loved spending time with both families and I'm still convinced that we both have the best families ever! Ryan's Christmas present from me this year was awesome. It was a white button down Ralph Lauren cardigan. It looks straight out of Mr. Rogers, but he insists that it looks like something Roger Feder would wear to a tennis match. Either way it makes me laugh! He loves it though, so I couldn't help but get it for him.

Courtney sent us all pictures of our family dog Indy who we had to put down recently it was very sweet of her. It made us all cry.

New Year's Eve: This was a fun night. We (M7 + Andy's new girl friend Stephanie, and Paul... I guess now we can be called the mag 8) went out to eat at Ruth's Chris. Andy, our democrat friend, took us out for a wonderful evening of yummy steak and good company. Andy just finished a political campaign for Charlie Brown and to celebrate his new found freedom and hard work he let us all join him for dinner. It was nice to be with our friends to ring in the New Year.

Kelly and Matt
Paul Andy and Stephanie

Joe and Tiffany

Well that's my recap for now. I'm excited to see what 2009 has in store for us! Happy New Year!

Pop Tarts and Red Bull

Is is possible to live on Pop Tarts and Red Bull? I'm now in the middle of finals and the only things that sound good to me are the two. I don't know why. I never ate pop tarts growing up because my mom never bought them and I always thought they were gross. However, I have come to really enjoy the pastry goodness of them. Mainly strawberry. Red Bull on the other hand keeps me awake when I need it. Only once in a while, sugar free too. Good news.... Finals are over on Friday!!! I can return to a normal diet! And to Sleep!

Remembering Indy

Yesterday the Channell Family said goodbye to Indiana, our 12 year old golden lab. I wouldn't call him golden, he was more of a platinum. I'm going to be honest and say that Indy was the best looking lab I have ever seen! Indy was like a big polar bear to us, because he was big, white and fluffy and also because he loved to swim. Indy was always in the pool especially during the summers. However, because he loved to swim he was also one of the smelliest dogs I ever knew. Indy had a great dog personality! He was carefree, fun and never mean or crusty with people. He could play fetch for hours and would never get tired.

My brother Scott and I especially grew to love Indy and will forever claim that Indy was the coolest dog to ever live! Indy had two favorite foods: Jasmines Doughnuts (the best doughnuts in the world!) and Dairy Queen vanilla ice cream cones. We only started feeding Indy his favorite food with in the past few years because we figured he was getting old and deserved a treat every once and a while! We also fed him the junk food behind mom and dad's back because we didn't want to get in trouble, but they caught on!

Our most favorite memory of Indy was when the family came home from attending our high school graduation to find Indy standing on the roof! Yes, he broke into the house, made his way upstairs after hitting all of the trash cans and ended up in my room where he got stuck. We figured the wind from the open window blew the door in my bedroom shut locking Indy inside. Indy of course freaked out, and after tearing my room apart and peeing on my bed, he pushed the screen of the window out onto the roof. When my family made it home they discovered the mess in the house and Indy pacing up on the roof!

Indy was an amazingly awesome dog who had the ability to make us all smile and laugh! We will miss him dearly.