First day of school!

Today was Jake's last first day of Fall semester since he will be graduating this coming April. So of course I had to snap a picture of him on his way out the door this morning. It really still hasn't hit me yet that I'm done with school and that I don't have classes anymore….I still can't believe that we're down to our last two semesters here in Rexburg and we'll soon be moving!

A Quick Trip

This past week we made a trip to Seattle to visit family. It was Reese's first time on a plane so I was super nervous at how well (or not so well) he would do, but to our surprise he did great! He slept the entire time both ways which was awesome! We definitely won't hesitate about taking him on a plane again in the future. 

I had an open house baby shower at my mom's house on Saturday which was a lot of fun seeing everyone get to meet Reese for the first time. Then on Sunday Reese was blessed in church, which was really special. We were also able to celebrate my 24th birthday while we were there by going to the Puyallup Fair which we haven't been to in 3 years! (And pretty much ate our way through it...but that's what you're supposed to do at a fair right?!) 

It was a great trip, but definitely too short...looking forward to Christmas time when we can stay longer. For now we're back home and getting ready for Jake to start his second to last semester next Monday. So excited that he's so close to finally graduating!

Here are some pictures from our little trip 

Dog Park

So apparently Eagle Park in Rexburg has a dog party every Sunday and Wednesday night. So last night we decided to take Duke to it because he really needs more socialization with other dogs. It was a lot of fun! Duke had a blast being chased and meeting other dogs. There were probably a total of 15 dogs there last night. It was mostly big dogs, which I initially thought would be a problem, but he did great with them! It's so funny to me how dogs greet each other. Let's just say I'm so glad that humans don't greet each other the same way...

                                    

It was really hard to get a good picture of them playing that wasn't blurry! 

Back on Track!

Well, I've been slacking on my blog to say the least! I started the blog three years ago after Jake and I first got married with the intention of keeping it up regularly. Well….here we are three years later and my last post was of our first christmas….fail. So since so much time has passed, it only seems appropriate that I make a list of what we've been up to since my last post.

1. We have lived in four different places in our three short years of marriage. We lived with my parents for the first 2 months, then our first apartment which was a 1 bedroom at The Village, then a 1 bedroom basement apartment, and now we've been in our current 2 bedroom at Stonebrook for over two years now.

2. We have gone on vacations to Las Vegas and Hawaii

                                           
3. I graduated with my Bachelors degree in Business Management this past April. Jake will be graduating with his Bachelors degree in Computer Information Technology next April 2015.

4. We have gone through many jobs. 

Amanda~ I was a professor's assistant on campus for our first semester of marriage. Then for the next year and a half I was an academic advisor. Last summer I completed an internship with Sears by going through their retail management program. They did offer me a full time job after graduation to go into their retail leadership program, however I turned it down to do something even better. My second to last semester of college I took on a different job as an office manager for Phoenix Fire Protection. What was great about this job is that it paid really well, and I was able to work from home. Unfortunately they reorganized the company and evaluated my position and decided that it was no longer needed. I truly believe that it was in God's plan to lose that job, because now I've been able to be a stay at home mom to our sweet baby boy. I wouldn't want it any other way.

Jake~ Jacob worked at the Shell gas station about 3 miles from our home for the first 2 1/2 years of our marriage. That job was such a blessing to us because he was able to to get it the third day that we were in Rexburg, and they treated him so well there. He's been teaching himself how to develop IOS applications, and was offered a great job at the University as the Lead IOS Developer where he has created the school's first iPhone app from the ground up all by himself. I'm really proud of him for all his hard work and his willingness to provide for our family.

5. We have purchased two cars during our marriage, but sold one of them to save money now that I'm not working.

6. Jake has become a developer on the Apple App Store. He's published quite a few apps that are earning revenue everyday. 

7. We adopted Duke, our puppy, a year and half ago. His mom gave birth to 5 puppies at the Rexburg Animal Shelter and we were able to adopt him at 9 weeks old. He's a handful, but also so much fun!

       

8. The most noteworthy event that has taken place since my last post was that we welcomed our precious little miracle Reese into our family on June 12, 2014. We love him so much, and he has been the greatest addition to our family. He is getting into the fun stage of becoming more aware of his surroundings and he is able to interact with us more and more everyday. 

Reese Lochlan Holman

6 lbs 9 oz

21 inches

                                             

     

That's pretty much all the significant events that have happened in the last 2 1/2 years or so. I've promised myself I'm going to start keeping this blog up regularly now that I've the time. Maybe I'll avoid having to cram 3 years worth of events into one post again….hopefully!

Our first Christmas!

So this year will be mine and Jacob's first Christmas together. So naturally, we didn't have any decorations yet to make our house all "christmasy" so we had to get a tree and other things but I think our place looks pretty darn cute (: I absolutely love Christmas time, my favorite time of year by far. Luckily Jake and I get to fly home for christmas this year to stay with our families, which will be a nice little break away from the business of school and work that we've been doing lately. Here's some pictures of our decorated holiday home (:

Here's my first Thanksgiving turkey too! It was glazed with a honey spice glaze and was super yummy! I even got the approval of the hubby who usually doesn't like turkey (:

All moved in!

Well it's offical, we're all moved in to our own place. It's small but definitely a perfect size for just the two of us, and we're loving being on our own and starting our life together. We have about 3 weeks until school starts to relax, and for Jake to find a job before the business of life kicks in. For the past 4 days we've been furniture shopping and organizing the whole place so I finally took some pictures of our finished product. Our new home (:

Lake Mowich

About a week ago Jake and I attempted to go up to Lake Mowich...little did we know that they now charge a dang fee to go up there. So we pretty much drove 30ish miles each way to sit and eat for 10 min...haha. There was surprisingly a lot of snow up there still since this summer hasn't been very warm until now. I will admit it was very pretty up there, aside from all of the bees that kept attacking me :( Jake made friends with a bird up there who kept landing on his hand in exchange for some chips. Here's the pictures from our little adventure (:

The hill where the sasquatch is "supposedly" living

Pretty mountains in the distance that you can actually see a skier on

Our little bird friend (:

This would have been a cool shot if the bird wouldn't have flown away /: