Just a few firsts..

First Teeter-totter Ride

First trip to the lake

First bonfire

First rainbow viewing :)

All in all it was a good first weekend away from home!

It's a........

Well for those of you who I don't have your phone number... (or I forgot) we are having a BOY! I am thrilled that I will have a cute little Levi in my house. I'm sure it will definitely be an adventure, but we are so excited! Levi was very proud of himself because he has been sure it was a boy since day 1. I am glad he got his wish. It will be fun! They said I am actually measuring at 21 weeks, not 20... but sadly aren't changing my due date. Probably just a bit larger of a baby considering the Jensen genes. Everything developmentally looks excellent, so that is great! Now.. whether I will be able to push him out.. that is another story, we'll just have to wait and see! After my mother's and sister's histories, I don't have the greatest of chances... but I am sure going to put forth a good effort! As of now we will most likely name him Brighton Levi.. unless I have some major change of heart between now and then! We can't wait for this new adventure and are so excited to start our family!

Ella's new BEST Friend, Lefi.

I guess he officially stole my role :) She wanted him ON every single toy with her, NO watching! Her favorite place all weekend was on his shoulders!

How you know you're totally broke.

Not only.. do you stay at the Holiday Inn for your anniversary...

You steal ALL the cups for use at your house because you're too cheap to buy plastic cups! :)

Hooked on Phonics Worked for Me!

FROM A TEACHER:

My five-year old students are learning to read.

Yesterday one of them pointed at a picture in a zoo book and said, 'Look at this! It's a frickin' elephant!'

I took a deep breath, then asked...'What did you call it?'

'It's a frickin' elephant! It says so on the picture!' ;

And so it does...




' A f r i c a n Elephant '


Hooked on phonics! Ain't it wonderful?

Now that's funny, I don't care who you are.

HOOORAY!!!!!!!!!!!

Well as some of you know, I quit my job two weeks ago! Today was my last day and I haven't felt this relieved to be done with a job in a very long time! I have been lucky enough to have several options come my way. I have a few dance classes to teach and also a family that I will most likely nanny for, and some houses to clean. And I just listed the ads for it online today! We are excited for fall! Levi now has a full time position doing therapy with his students ( WITH BENEFITS!! which is the only reason I could quit my job!) I am VERY excited for my new jobs if you can't tell!:) Levi said when I got home, You haven't been this happy in a long time! And it's so true because I've been tied down to a job I could hardly handle everyday! So it should be fun for sure! Wish us luck! On anther note, we got to go look at our new apartment in Rexburg this weekend! Well.. it was in shambles and construction :) But we saw one just like it too that is finished. We are excited to move up there! The next few months will be quite the adventure for us!

The Last Few Weeks..

Ok, here is my explanation.. My pictures aren't showing up on the edit screen, just a bunch of jumbled text! So... the pictures are of.. a weekend family reunion at Bear Lake, Levi and I's frosting fight on my birthday, Levi waterskiing on the Snake with the Jensens,Micah & Shannon fitting in Levi's XXL hoodie (which is too big on him to begin with and very stretchy :), and our trip to Yellowstone! There ya have it!

ABC'S

Lame that I have nothing else to post about.. I KNOW!

A – 21… 22 in 24 Days 
B - Bed size: Queen but we need much bigger so Levi can stop whining about me and my bad sleeping habits! I am all over the place. Funny thing is, I know that, and I warned him before we were married. I cannot be held responsible for what I do in my sleep!
C - Chore you hate: Dishes..our new apartment has a dishwasher thank goodness!
D – Dessert: Raspberry cheesecake with pretzel crust
E - Essential to start your day: hitting snooze, twice, both for five minutes each.
F - Favorite flower: lilies
G- Gold or Silver: white gold
H - Height: 5’6” on a good day  5’5” on a bad one
I - Instruments you play(ed): piano
J - Job you had in high school: worked for my dad.. milking cows, moving pipe, calving, feeding.. etc
K - Kid(s): none, YET!
L - Lunch spots: Del Taco!
M - Mom's Name: Laurel Denise
N - Newest item bought: new laptop
O - Overnight hospital stay: none so far
P - Pet Peeve: lying
Q- Quote from a movie: too many to name just one.. 
R - Right or left handed: Right
S - Siblings: 4 brothers, 2 sisters, 1 brother-in-law and 3 sisters-in-law 
T - Time you wake up: Usually about 8 these days
U - Underarm deodorant?: Dove Go fresh.. the citrus kind
V - Very surprising fact: geeze.. I don’t know. Nothing surprising here!
W - Ways you run late: snooze, hair, can’t decide what to wear, and I’m a bad judge of time 
X - X-rays you've had: ha ha lots of them.. legs, arms, knees..
Y - Yummy food you make: tri-tip, pasta, Parmesan chicken..
Z - Zoo animal: definitely monkeys. I would actually like to own one!

SO how I feel today! :)

First day at my new job!

So..I got a promotion of sorts and moved from being the service managers assistant to being... the service managers assistant/office manager at our Wells Cargo and Xtreme Accessories Dept! I moved offices and now get a corner office with a view :) As opposed to my corner office staring at the wall :) It will hopefully involve a small raise and some bonuses as well which I am excited about. Change is always nice and this change is good.. cause now I get to boss a whole bunch of guys around! :) Wish me luck!

Finally got my stuff back!!

We took our lousy laptop in to get fixed a few months ago.. and they had to replace the hard drive. SO... they loaded all our important stuff, mostly music and pictures on to an external hard drive. Well when we got the computer back all of our stuff was locked into the hard drive and I put off going to have them help me get it off forever. We ended up getting a new computer though and I finally did it last night and I feel so much better having all my stuff back! I was a little worried I wasn't going to get my 5,500 songs and my 8,000 pictures back! I feel so much better! :)

Chris Farley reincarnated as a girl & pre-bluetooth..

HA HA this is terrible. But oh so funny, right? :)

This one's just plain funny :)

Why college is not user friendly.

College is not user friendly. Here is why. When Levi decided to go to Weber, I decided to transfer as well. Well I decided I wanted to major in Dance Education. I knew it was going to take me a little longer than I wanted because I had transferred at all. Well I found out this last week exactly how long. Just to put it in perspective: To graduate from college in four years you have to take 15 credits every semester, never take any extra classes, never take a semester off, never work, and you HAVE to know exactly what you want to do RIGHT out of high school so you can start on their little plan. And if you don’t it will take you seven years to graduate. When I transferred and met with my advisor she gave me a plan of classes to take. She didn’t say any of them were imperative. She just said to start there. Well this one class, improvisation was offered at noon, and I don’t get done with work until 2:30. SO.. I couldn’t take that one. Well as it turns out, that is prerequisite to a choreography class. Well the choreography class is only offered EVERY OTHER YEAR. Well since I didn’t get into improv.. I cannot take this class until Fall of 2011. That means at the very earliest, I can graduate in May of 2012. That will be exactly SEVEN years since I graduated from high school. How annoying right? So yeah, I am trying to get them to accept a summer intensive workshop at BYU as this stupid improv class so I can get into the choreography class in the Fall. I will be moving to Provo for a week and a half, taking that time off work as my week of paid vacation that was supposed to be used for a summer trip, and staying with Rachael and going to a dance class for 5 hours a day. But we will see what thy tell me. Anyway, long story short, College is NOT user friendly I have decided. And.. WHY DO I ALWAYS HAVE TO POSTPONE WHAT I WANT TO DO FOR WHAT I HAVE TO DO?? Someone, please answer that one for me! :)

What we've been up to!

Happy V-DAY to ME! (and Levi)

For Valentines we decided to be a little more practical and start our furniture collection! Yippe! We kind of went on a spending spree though :) We just kept finding good deals! We got a new table.. so cute and SO cheap and exactly what I wanted! Two new couches.. a TV.. um.. a Wii... What else? I think that's it :) We've been saving up for all this stuff since we got married so I didn't feel too bad about spending it. Levi also went somewhat impractical and got the roses.. but that's just what you do on Valentines day right? :) We've had lots of fun with all our new things!

Our latest family photo..

What can I say? We like each other! :)

Where did the month go?!?

It seems like I just barely made my last post, and November is already over! Well not much is new with us.. we're just busy with life, and getting school and work things figured out. I decided to change my major to Dance Education, so I can spend forever actually doing something I love instead of working my butt of for something monotonous. So it will take me a little longer to graduate than I thought, but I am determined! Oh, and we got a little doggie! :) If you want to see her you'll have to check out my other blog, leviandmarissawilliams.blogspot.com. I've been having fun having a "baby" to take care of! :) She is so cute and cuddly! Anyway.. that's about all that's new.. Happy Thanksgiving everyone! :)

The kooks I work with!

So yesterday at work we had this big Halloween bash, it was QUITE entertaining! I discovered that I work with some VERY interesting people.. and that true colors tend to come out on Halloween...

The Whole Group...
Yes, these two are married, can you tell which is the man and which is the woman?? :)

Here's me.. being just a simple old cowgirl.. easy.. and not too weird :)

Captain Hook, Tinkerbell, Peter Pan and Wendy... 3 of them cross dressing! :)

Tink and the tooth fairy ha ha!

Creepy eh?

Ricky.. AND Bobby

Kiss.. We met them! :)

Tinkerbell again.. he won most disturbing costume in the contest! :)

All in all it was a fun party where a lot of adults got to be kids again. I think there were only 3 employees from the whole dealership that didn't dress up! Pretty good! I got a good laugh from it all! Hope ya'll had a happy Halloween!

Get to know me

So I never do these things, I decided it was high time. Enjoy getting to know Marissa. :0)

1. WERE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE? I think my mom saw my name in a book or something... I really like my name.
2. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU CRIED? Definitely recently.. but I can't quite recall..
3. DO YOU LIKE YOUR HANDWRITING? Yes, I love it.
4. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE LUNCH MEAT? Most likely ham, unless pepperoni counts :)
5. DO YOU HAVE KIDS? Negatory.
6. IF YOU WERE ANOTHER PERSON WOULD YOU BE FRIENDS WITH YOU? I think so, I'm pretty bad at staying in touch with friends though.
7. DO YOU USE SARCASM A LOT? I wouldn't say a lot.. but sometimes yes.
8. DO YOU STILL HAVE YOUR TONSILS? Sure do
9. WOULD YOU BUNGEE JUMP? No way jose. I would probably throw up.
10. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CEREAL? I'm not really a fan of cold cereal.. but I like Peanut Butter Crunch.
11. DO YOU UNTIE YOUR SHOES WHEN YOU TAKE THEM OFF? Depends on the shoe. I prefer wearing flip-flops all year round :)
12. DO YOU THINK YOU ARE STRONG? This is a loaded question. I think so. Could I get stronger? Yes.
13. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE ICE CREAM? Depends on the day, lately I really like Dryer's double churned (half the fat) plain chocolate ice cream drowning in (fat free) Smucker's Carmel. I like it A LOT. :)
14. WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT PEOPLE? Teeth and breath. Sad, but those two things say a LOT about a person.
15. RED OR PINK? PINK
16. WHAT IS THE LEAST FAVORITE THING ABOUT YOURSELF? How unthoughtful I can be sometimes.
17. WHO DO YOU MISS THE MOST? Just all my family. I wish we were all closer together and not spread out all over the country.
18. WHAT COLOR PANTS AND SHOES ARE YOU WEARING? Blue BBall shorts and no shoesies.
19. WHAT WAS THE LAST THING YOU ATE? A candycorn looking kiss.. it was orange cream flavored though.. a little trippy.
20. WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW? The new song by Nickelback, Gotta Be Somebody. I LOVE that song.
21. IF YOU WERE A CRAYON, WHAT COLOR WOULD YOU BE? That's a tough one.. is it a box of 12 or 200?
22. FAVORITE SMELLS? I LOVE the smell of rain, dirt, and fresh cut alfalfa. I could think of so many more but those are my absolute favorites. They remind me of childhood.
23. WHO WAS THE LAST PERSON YOU TALKED TO ON THE PHONE? Levi's mom
24. FAVORITE SPORTS TO WATCH? I love football, but only in real life, I don't like TV watching.
25. HAIR COLOR? Blond
26. EYE COLOR? Blue
27. DO YOU WEAR CONTACTS? Unfortunately, yes, they are getting annoying.
28. FAVORITE FOOD? Bomb Pops. Try them, you can find them in Walmart on the Frozen isle.
29. SCARY MOVIES OR HAPPY ENDINGS? Both, scary movies with happy endings.
30. LAST MOVIE YOU WATCHED? The visitor, it was a little weird.
31. WHAT COLOR SHIRT ARE YOU WEARING? White
32. SUMMER OR WINTER? Both
33. HUGS OR KISSES?Love them both.
34. FAVORITE DESSERT? Ice cream or Popsicles.
35. WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING NOW? This is terrible, but I think the last novel I read was for a college class over a year ago. Anyone have any suggestions of good books to get me back into reading? I get 10 pages into any book lately and I get SO bored.
36. WHAT IS ON YOUR MOUSE PAD? Um.. just my finger, we have a laptop :)
37. WHAT DID YOU WATCH ON T.V. LAST NIGHT? CSI Miami. Pretty much my favorite show.
38. FAVORITE SOUND? Dunno. I just like hearing.
39. ROLLING STONES OR BEATLES? Probably Beatles.. don't really listen to either.
40. WHAT IS THE FARTHEST YOU HAVE BEEN FROM HOME? Europe
41. DO YOU HAVE A SPECIAL TALENT? Special? No. Do I feel I am talented? Yes.
42. WHERE WERE YOU BORN? Logan, Utah

What Happy Looks Like