Carvin' pumkins, McNichols Family Pictures, CJ's Birthday, & Halloween

We have made some new friends, Jess & Cody. Its been so much fun to hang out with them. They have a little one year old boy who is so adorable. at the beginning of the month we carved some pumpkins.

Friend Jess with her pumpkin


Creepy face, creepy Knife, poor innocent pumpkin. CJ going Dexter on his pumpkin



This is all too familiar for him... lol. JK


our finished pumpkins




We went to Utah for about a week to see David before he left for Afghanistan and while we were there we got some McNichols family pictures taken.

Picture of CJ and I when we got photos taken. and little Lucas. :) (note: belly stickin' out)


My Favorite photo of the family



CJ's birthday was the 28th. 23 years old and hes beginning to feel a little old. lol. remember when you are so little and you think that 16 is old? Its like that! lol!

CJ opening his gift bag. Happy 23rd!

His favorite treat from his dad And I love this picture of our little fur ball. She is the sweetest thing in the world and couldn't have a cuter personality! She didn't want to be anywhere but on CJ's lap. I snapped a picture and turned out perfect! She thinks shes gunna get some cheez-its. ha ha


Birthday candles!


We got invited to hang out with Jess and Cody and some friends that were in town for Halloween. They had never been here before so we went to the strip. I had to pull together some last minute costumes but they turned out great.

Zombies!

Our friends Jess & Cody! She made a really cute vampire! He was a good 80's rocker as well... but was a little scary! ha ha!

CJ in full costume

Me in full costume. I got asked quite a few times if my belly was real, CJ was afraid somebody was going to come up and just hit it. But it went well. lol.

I couldn't help but put this one on here. This guy was on stilts and was so creepy! but Oh so fun! The costumes that run around on the strip are so crazy to look at. I have no idea what this guy was but was fun!

Time to Update

So, I know its been several months. I have had a couple people ask me if everything was ok. and a couple get upset because I had announced I was pregnant and then didn't say anything after that. So, for those people who are curious... EVERYTHING is FINE! :D First trimester was a rough ride. while trying to hold food down and not succeeding, I lost 25 pounds. the only vitamins I could take were Flintstones and CJ was banned from pretty much everything. But I got through it and everything has been great. Baby is growing and is very strong, and violent. I had an ultrasound at 18 weeks and found out that we are going to have a baby boy. CJ was so excited, while the rest of my family was a little bummed that there was going to be yet ANOTHER boy in the family. He kicks hard and strong in the most uncomfortable places you could imagine. We are at 25 weeks. Due January 15th. About a week before my birthday. Name is Lucas Joseph McNichols. We are so excited to add him to our little family.
We have added another member to our family recently as well. Her name is Penny, and we love her so much. She really is keeping us on our feet and teaching us patience with trying to potty train and teaching her not to chew on things. she is half cocker spaniel, half Chihuahua. She is so sweet.
Besides all that excitement, CJ and I are moving into a house. We have put a couple of offers in a couple of houses but haven't gotten them. Its a hard and long process but we hope that we can get into something soon that we both love. I will keep you all posted on that as it comes. I am so excited for the holidays to come. And I cant wait to get into my own place so I can have my very first own Christmas tree. :D
That really is all that is going on in our lives. it seems like its much more crazy considering I haven't updated for months. We got family pictures taken a week ago so I should have some pictures to post here in a little bit. I have a few pictures that I can post of some activities we have done in the past. but we really haven't done much.
We celebrated our one year anniversary on September 12th. I can not believe it has been a year already. Time has flown by so fast! We celebrated by taking a short trip to California. We went on a short boat ride out to the ocean and got to see real blue whales in their own natural habitat. It was incredible. I got some really awesome pictures of the whales tale before he went down for his 20 minute feeding. We also got to see some dolphins that thought it would be fun to swim right next to the boat. I could have reached out and touched them if I wanted to. Pictures are below.
CJ is keeping busy with work at the FBO here. He loves it, as he is around airplanes every day. He can not wait to get is pilot training finished so that he can fly himself. Hope you all are feeling better now that you know that everything is fine. :D pictures are below.
Love,
Jess


20 Weeks

Penny! she looks so little in this picture. aww.... I just love that girl!

Dolphins

View from the beach where CJ proposed back in May of 08'

Whale tail! so freaking cool.... once in a life time chance to see something like that!

Us on the boat

MCNICHOLS NEWS!!!

Take a guess!!!

Our new niece!

CJ and I got a new new niece a couple weeks ago. Her name is sienna! I took a trip with Sue to Utah so she could see her new granddaughter. she was so perfect!

I just wanted to test this out! I am posting this from my phone as a text message. Isn't this world amazing? I want to see if I can send a picture too. So crazy!

so, again, its been a while. i havent had TOO much to post other than I got a new camera so there is MORE to come. CJ got a job and started about a month ago and he is loving every minute of it. FINALLY, i feel like our life is beginning, not put on hold. :) With that said, I am still looking! I will post more later when i have so pictures and stuff.

#1 Song

this was sort of interesting. I tried to post the music on this one post but it wouldnt let me for some reason. sad! anyway, enjoy!

Do you know what the #1 song was the day that you were born?

The #1 song the day I was born was "Un-break my heart" by Toni Braxton
The #1 song the day I was baptized was "Creep" by TLC
The #1 song the day I graduated high school was "We belong together" by Mariah Carey
The #1 song he day I got engaged was "Bleeding Love" by Leona Lewis
The #1 song the day I got married was "Whatever you like: by T.I.

Now it's your turn...give it a try...here is the link...just for fun:http://www.joshhosler.biz/NumberOneInHistory/SelectMonth.htm

I know its been FOREVER!!!

I know its been a long time since i have posted anything. I have been quite the little slacker! I apologize. although, i got no complaints so I am assuming that nobody really noticed? Anyway, as an update.... CJ GOT A JOB!!! and yes, i am clapping my hands and jumping up and down with joy as I say this as we really needed it! He is working on the private side of the airport. he tows private jets, fuels them, greets the pilots and the people in the jet and helps with bags. I am sure there is more that he does but I am not sure what else there is. He works with my 2 cousins Richard & Michael Olds. He will probably see a lot of famous people as well. only everyone and their dog comes at LEAST once a year. Brad Pitt was here just a few weeks ago. :) Anyway, that is pretty much all the good news I have. I have posted some pictures of some fun times the last month and a half. I guess I will just explain them as I go.

Just me and rose! she didn't want to be anywhere else but on me that day! shes weird sometimes!

Superbowl Weekend, Elizabeth & Jill came to visit. What a special treat it was and thank heavens they got here safe. some pedestrian was walking across I-15. assuming he was highly toxicated and the two just happened to be the ones who had to dodge him. they missed him by inches and they got here safe but BOY, what a scare!!!

on the way to the Frisbee park


and the gang playing Frisbee. i believe this is hole # 2

me throwing my Frisbee.... you can see it in the sky.... kinda looks like a UFO! BUT PURPLE! ha ha

Jill

and they brought bubbles! I was excited!

he he!

Jill and I watching the boys play basketball (mike and cj)

this is the three of us before heading to the strip!

Jill and Elizabeth

our SUPER cool sunglasses!

three of us by the fountain

and the 4 of us! amazing picture! I don't know how CJ got all of us in one picture.

next day watching the super bowl


CJ got to finally go on his ride a long with Richard as the pilot. hes so cute with his head set on!

The airplane

This is our neighborhood! cool!!!!

When we went to drill in February, we got to go out with Elizabeth, David, holly, and kynslie. We went to Wingers and then to a movie. Kynslie is getting so big and so dang cute! he finally walks and is starting to talk. ha ha... here he is with David

and holly!

CJ has been looking online and stuff for people to play tennis with him. this guy randomly emailed him and told him that he wanted to play so he did and I went to go watch my husband do his thing! here he is serving.... you can barely see the ball at the top of the picture.

and getting ready to serve.

Me freezing my toosh off!!!

and CJ trying to COOL off! and lookin good. AS ALWAYS!

SO i am sad that I didn't get pictures of the huge scavenger hunt i sent CJ on for valentines and the ending prize was him coming home to a candle lite dinner. it was so fun. but, i didn't get pictures. MY valentines gift was my fish and frog so let me introduce you to:

Spike and.....

Freckles!

The day after valentines day, we went to go look at a bird that one of sues clients wanted to give to her. we fell in love with him at first sight and told her to get him. it took us a few days to name him but his name is mango! the 2nd day that we had him, he was sitting on the top and he flew down to the bottom. nobody was in the room and the dogs got to him. he was a very lucky bird that i happened to walk in the room to save his life. he lost a tail feather and a few other feathers but otherwise, he was ok! I was his best friend after that. he stopped biting me and drawing blood! ha ha! he does have a squawk from you know where though. he is very loud but we love him!

One day we went bowling with Mike and Richard! Richard had this hat on that we all just had to wear and take pictures!

us at the bowling alley

We were laughing

Richard and mike and their bowling balls

our bowling balls

Afterwards we went to ihop and got some creeps. Micheal and 2 other girls. i cant remember them... lol.... anyway, they didn't have forks so yeah..... picture explains all!

2 weekends ago. CJ and I went camping for the first time together. we got to use all of the camping stuff that we got for our wedding and it was SOOOO much fun. We stayed at boulder beach campground at lake mead. the first night was really cold and windy so we stayed in the tent.

The next day, We decided to drive down the street and go to the marina. as we were walking down the board walk. there were these fish.... ugly fish. and really really big. they are not afraid of you. in fact they will swim right up to you and come to the surface and open their mouth so you will feed them. it was maddness!

Some lady was feeding them and they all went nuts! It was a battle between the fish and the ducks!

The Marina. it was really pretty with all the boats and the mountain. it was cool!

we went to breakfast at the little restaurant there. CJ got his leftovers to go. and we made a face!

after tha marina, we decided to go to the hoover dam. i had never been.

this is a picture of the new freeway that is being built to make it easier to get to arizona. it was so cool!!!!

I have no idea but i heard if you rub their feet, they will give you good luck!

CJ at the dam

and me

And then my camera died so there are no more pictures! but it was a lot of fun! anyway. i think that is all of it. hope you enjoyed and I will try to update more frequently... i think i said that last time though. oh well... love you all!!!!

digi scrapbooking

So, just something a little new. I am trying to do some digital scrapbooking pages. just for fun, something to do. they are not the best looking but thought i would share a couple that I have done already. If anybody else is doing this, and reads this, and has some pointers or some awesome freebie websites that you know of or ANYTHING, just let me know. I am starting to enjoy it. also, if you are doing it, what program are you using. THANKS GUYS!!!

My sister & I

My Gorgeous cousins

YAY FOR PICTURES!!!!

It's about TIME!!! After being DESPERATE to find out a way to get all my pictures off my camera and onto this blog, I FINALLY came to a solution....

The story: After searching the car, our house, and my parents house high and low for that stupid USB cord that came with the camera so that you can take pictures off of it and put it onto your computer, there was no luck. I was desperate. SO... I started searching the Internet for this cord thinking that SOMEBODY has got to have one. in all of my searching, I found ONE person that had it and was selling it on eBay for 35 buck. PSH... yeah right! I decided to call circuit city where i got my camera to see if they happened to have the cord and if they sale them separately. They didn't and referred me to Ritz Cameras. In my desperate need for SOMETHING, I decided to call Ritz only to find out that in the world of electronics, if your camera is more than 2 years old, you can kiss it goodbye. GOOD LUCK trying to find that one thing you need for it. UGH.... So, again, being desperate, I asked them if there were any other options. They told me about this "card reader" that reads your memory card and then sticks into your computer through the USB. BRILLIANT RIGHT? NOT if you want to go cheep. I had this idea to go to target and get a 5 dollar one. After being all excited and getting home to try it out, it didn't work. PPPPPTHTHTHTHTTHTHTH!!! So i packed it all back up... and went back to target and got my money back, ran across the street and bought the 20 dollar one at Ritz camera. and WALLAH!!!! IT WORKS! I guess it pays off to be desperate sometimes. BLAH! so.... now for the part you all have been waiting for. I will explain as they go!

I will do my best to put them in order....

Picture of CJ and I on his birthday before we took off to the movies.


When CJ left for Georgia for 2 weeks, i took a trip to Utah with my Aunt and a few of her kids. This is Brandon at a store that we stopped at. He is such a character!


This was the night that CJ came home from Georgia. I was so happy to see him. We went to dinner at Famous Dave's.


This is Rose! one of the dogs. We laugh every time we pick her up and just hold her by the waist because she puts her arms to the side and she looks like she has chicken wings.


Kiara and Rose... best dogs in the world.


For SOME reason, Kiara loves CJ so much. she will chose him over me any day. One day, I had walked in the room and Kiara was there, passed out next to CJ all cuddling next to his head. So cute!


So, in December, I had started to get a little sad that there was no snow for Christmas. Its Vegas, of course there is no snow but it was the first time that I didn't have snow for Christmas. I actually love the snow but only to a certain point. as soon as January 1st hits, I want the snow to go away. Anyway, one morning i would up and just happened to look out the window and there was snow. snow on the road, ground, bushes, trees, EVERYWHERE. I couldn't believe it. It snowed all day and all night. It hadn't snowed in Vegas for the past 3o years and the one year that we happened to be here, it came. We brought it with us, And the best part about it is that it went away after a few days and didn't come back. :) Perfect!!!


My Car!


The hammock in the backyard


Never thought you would see a Palm tree with snow on it... hu?


The pathway from our front door to the front of the house.


CJ had put my coat on and I thought it was funny!


Christmas day.... My Jewelry Box.


CJ's camping propane stove.


These are all the games that we got for Christmas this last year.


Christmas day, we drove all the way to Utah so that we could spend time with the family over the weekend. That weekend, on Saturday, We went to the Crapo's Christmas party. Then that afternoon we learned that Kaylin (CJ's cousins wife) was stuck in Salt Lake City for the day while she was trying to get home in Alaska from Texas. We went and had lunch with her as well as Elizabeth. It was so much fun to see her.


Later that night, we went to the Chisholm Family Christmas party (my moms side of the family)

My sister, Ashley and little cousin Taylor

My little brother, Hunter, really wanted to play a game with CJ and had asked him to play tag, and hide and seek. CJ suggested rock, paper, scissors. It was pretty funny to watch Hunter play. He's so cute!.... Both of them. :)

The cutest cousin in the world, Kennedy. She is growing up so fast. Also, uncle Tim (left) and uncle Clint (right)( also Kennedy's dad)


Grandpa.... need i say more? hes a funny man!

Grandma. :)


And I got a picture of CJ being sweet. ha ha. I just love him!

Also, for Christmas, CJ had got me a gift certificate to go get sushi. I decided that I wanted to go for my birthday. So, we did! I loved it. MMMM.... so so so good!!!

CJ's sushi


My Sushi

The day after my birthday, we had gone over to my cousins Aunt April and Uncle Dan's house. Richard had made me a cake as well as got me a book with blank paper in it so that it would encourage me to start writing again. Michael gave me ten bucks. it was fun. This is me getting ready to blow my candles out.

My cake that Richard made. 22 candles in the shape of a 22. CLEVER!

And this is everybody, but me, Digging in to the delicious cake. (I had some but I was taking the picture.)

Today, CJ went to go with Richard on a cross country flight. Richard is in flight school and CJ was just going along for the ride. They ended up not getting in the plane because of the weather but CJ got a cool picture of the airplane with Richard inside of it.

THE END!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!

Today was my birthday and it was a good 22nd. I got to sleep in till about 11:30 and then woke up to CJ making me breakfast which was really good. I had some french toast. Today was a pretty lazy day. For dinner, CJ and I and my mom and dad in-law went to Joes Crab Shack. I had some delicious crab. When we got home I opened some gifts. CJ's mom got me 2 round brushes (i have been needing one for years for drying my hair) and a little pouch thing to put my hot straighteners and curling irons in. CJ got me new strings for my guitar and Mike put them on. I am so excited to start playing again. For dessert we had pineapple & cherry cobbler with some vanilla Ice cream.... MMMM. and that is the end of my day. It has been a good day and can not believe that I am 22. I swear it was just a year ago that i graduated from high school.
Also, I would like to say that we still have not found jobs but I do want to apologize for my last post for anybody who read it. I was pretty negative.
Sorry, no pictures. I STILL CAN NOT FIND MY CORD! as soon as i find it, i will post my million pictures that i have taken. :) love you all!!!

A BIT OF FRUSTRATION!!!!

Its been almost 4 months since CJ and I have moved to Nevada. I can not believe how bad the unemployment rate is here. we both thought that we had jobs lined up when we moved here and it turned out not working out. After that not working out, we have sent our resume to countless companies and had several interviews with no luck. Either they decide to downsize instead of hire or we are over qualified or they decide not to hire anybody. It is so frustrating. I don't even know where to begin. If it were not for our in laws, we don't know where we would be right now. They are letting us stay with them for free so we don't have to worry about paying rent. At this point, applying for jobs is confusing. You don't know if you had already applied for that job or not. Ugh.... I have nothing else to say. Only makes it more frustrating.

Anybody Out There?

So I lost all of my contacts as far as links that i had on my page so if anybody who is reading this, does not see their name on the side of my page so that I can get to your link or if i have spelled your name wrong just leave me a comment. It would be greatly appreciated! love you all and I hope you guys are all having a happy new year.
Also, CJ and I will be up there this weekend. CJ has drill this weekend but I'm free if any of you want to do anything. Let me know!

Christmas, New Years, & Girly Moment

Its been a long time since i have updated anything. It has seemed that I have miss placed the cord to my camera so there are no pictures for now. The holidays went great. We spent Christmas morning here in Henderson with CJ's parents, grandparents, & aunt & uncle, Chuck & Terry and opened presents. It was a small Christmas due to the economy and us not having jobs yet, but it was a memorable one. after we did that, we decided last minute that we were going to drive to Salt Lake and surprise my family. we drove a long 7 hours there. the rest of the week, we spent time with both my mom and my dads side of the family, my family, and performed in a talent show. We sang a song with my family and it was the first time that i was able to experience hearing CJ's full on singing voice. He is VERY good at it and can not wait for the future where we sing together more often although he may fight me on this subject. :)
New Years we spent, again, with CJ's grandparents, Parents, and His Uncle Dan. We toasted with martinelli, and celebrated with a kiss.
Other than that, Its been uneventful. I have a lot of pictures and want to post them so I will when i find the cord. I have a feeling it was left in Salt Lake. We go up this weekend so I will look for it then.
Oh, one last thing..... for those of you who DON'T know.... i am obsessed with the TV show one tree hill. The last episode was 5 weeks ago and they had a 5 week break during the holidays. there is a new episode tomorrow night and i CAN NOT wait. Its been on my mind the last couple days and I just have to have my girly moment and get it out...

aaahhhhhhhh!!!!!

last 2 weeks

So just a quick update.
We did nothing for halloween, boring hu?
CJ left for Georgia on the 2nd of November and he gets back tomorrow. It has been the longest 2 weeks of my life.
I went to Utah and visited my family last weekend. I went friday night and got back tuesday night.
I took my extensions out. For those of you who didnt know.... the long hair was strand by strand extensions. I loved them. I loved the long hair and i miss them but i had them in for 6 months and had them moved up 3 other times. It was time to take them out so my hair is short again.
CJ is doing very well in Georgia and, once again, rising way above and beyond the norm.
Thats about it for now. hopefully life will get more interesting in the future.

PUNKIN' CARVIN'

I have always loved carving pumpkins and I really wanted to do it this year so we went and picked up some pumpkins and carved them. not much to say about it.... but here are some pictures. Halloween is tomorrow! YAY!

CJ and DAD


Me, CJ's Dad & Mom

CJ's is the grim reaper and mine says Trick or Treat

And all four of them glowing in the dark!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CJ!

September 28th was CJ's birthday I i tried to plan out the whole day. of course not everything worked out but I tried. I didnt get very many pictures either so... I am sorry. CJ had to leave for work at a quarter to 7 so I got up really Early, like, 5:45, and got out my new electric griddle that we got as a wedding gift and made CJ breakfast in bed. some of his favorites. brown sugar and honey sausage, Cinnamon french toast with, of course, powdered sugar, and over easy eggs. after he got home from work, we headed to dinner at the village pub. Nana and grandpa got to join us as well as his parents. after dinner we went back to the house and opened presents. He got a lot of things that he just really needed. socks, and white undershirts. he also got some brand new tennis balls from his Nana and grandpa and 2 Frisbees from his sister and mom. I also got him some new cologne. He was almost out of his other stuff. I also made him a card from scratch and I was way proud of myself because it looked cool. Its hard to see it in detail but there is a picture of it. After he opened his presents we had some cheese cake that i had made. Nana and grandpa went home and I took him to the movies. It ended up being a good birthday for him.

CJ and his gifts

The card

This is an edit after the post... CJ has been using his tennis balls. but not for the reason that they are intended... no.... he is using them to learn how to juggle! HA HA. I have the picture to prove it!

CRAP, I'VE BEEN TAGGED!

All this time i have had a blog and I hadn't been tagged once. I even avoided commenting on them so that I wouldn't be tag but thanks to my dear cousin Camie, I HAVE NOW BEEN TAGGED. here are the rules i guess...

Here's how you play: Once you've been 'tagged', you have to write a blog of 7 weird / random facts/ habits/goals about yourself. At the end choose 6 people to be tagged, listing their names. You can't tag the person who tagged you, since you can't tag me back - let me know when you've posted your blog so I can see your answers.

1. You know when you are sitting at home during the day and you turn the TV on and the only thing that is on are the Judge shows? YEAH, I like those! i could sit in front of the TV for hours and be entertained by them.

2. I am OBSESSED about the CW TV show ONE TREE HILL! I could probably tell you all about each one of them and tell you about their personalities like they are my best friends. Every Monday, i am sitting in front of that television just waiting for what the next episode has to hold. pathetic, but true.

3. I secretly love to write. I don't ever share it because I feel retarded but if you ask my sister, she thinks I'm really good.

4. I have had a warrant out for my arrest. Yes, It is true! The story: Last summer, I got pulled over up on heber city going 10 over the speed limit. it was right after the city when its 55 but should be 65 and there is nothing around and i thought that it was 65. anyway, i guess I forgot to pay that. I got a letter in the mail saying that i had a warrant. of course i took care of it right away. ha ha

5. I have this weird thing that when i hear about a serial killer, I want to know more than just the story you hear on the news or the radio. I want to know everything, behind the scenes. For some reason, I am so intrigued.

6. My favorite thing to learn about in history when i was in high school was the holocaust. mostly about all the terrible things that they would do to the people and if there was a diary or anything on a survivor, I loved to listen to what they had to say.

7. I have been offered to sing in a studio and record to see if it would take me anywhere but I don't want to do it because I don't really want my life to be that way.

ok, i tag Mandy Brooks, Jenna Story, Deborah Riley, Marci Nielson, Brooke Andreason, Kim Crapo

Brents Wedding

Last Sunday we took a trip to California. CJ's cousin, Brent, was getting married so we left, REALLY early in the morning, and drove to California. It was in the northern part of Cali and took us 7 hours to get there. we went to the wedding and then drove home. It was a lot of fun. I finally got the chance to meet Aunt Mary and the new born baby that they have. She is 5 months old and so cute. Emma, their oldest daughter, is 6 and i had suddenly become her best friend. It was our 1 month anniversary and we got to attend and enjoy another wedding. What perfect way to celebrate and bring back what we had done just one month before. Unfortunately, I did not get a picture of the bride & Groom!

Me & The In laws right after the wedding and waiting to go into the reception.


CJ & I


Where the wedding was


Mike & Sue


This is Uncle Dave & Aunt Mary With thier Daughters


Mike with his 2 brothers, Steve & Dave



Mike & Sue, Dave & Mary, Steve & Sheila


Emma & I

HONEYMOON

So, I spent about 7 hours on the wedding and reception pictures last night and didn't get to the honeymoon so here i am, adding more pictures. I will explain them as they go.

DAY BEFORE THE CRUISE, DAY AFTER THE WEDDING. SEPTEMBER 13TH:

was the longest day of my life. After the wedding, We were told by CJ's dad (who booked our flight) That because of the lovely hurricane Ike, the Dallas Texas Airport was entirely close. our layover was supposed to be there so we had to totally change our flight. We were originally supposed to leave Salt Lake City at 12:30 P.M. but because we had to change our flight with a different airline, we had to leave Salt Lake City at 6:30 in the morning.

That morning, when we went to the airport, we were running a little late due to being exhausted and having a hard time waking up. I had not grabbed the marriage certificate because i did not think that anything was under my new married name. I knew the cruise wasn't and i didn't think that the flight would be. When we got there, we got our tickets and we found out that mike had put my last name as McNichols on the ticket. We had 45 minutes till our flight was going to leave and they don't check your bags in no later than 30 minutes. after arguing with the lady for 10 minutes, CJ finally asked for a supervisor. We sat there trying to find a way to get on this plane with this guy. In the mean time, my sister was on her way bringing the certificate. Finally, the guy agreed to check our bags and he said to wait till she brought it so that we could get through security. we made it JUST in time. What a nightmare...hu?

To make the rest of the day a quicker story, there was a little kid who was sitting in front of us crying the whole 4 hour flight and the mother was doing nothing about it and when she was... she was just slapping him and yelling at him to shut up, we had a 6 hour lay over in Atlanta Georgia, had an annoying guy sitting next to us on the next plane talking about his business and basically degrading us because he found out we were married and thought we were too young, And then 0nce we FINALLY got to our hotel in Miami, we were told that the room was cancelled because they couldn't charge it on my card. Luckily, they had a room for us but it was no long the king size bed that i had reserved. It was 2 full size beds. We were so tired, and grumpy, and hungry by the time we got to our room but we didn't want to leave the room. so we ordered pizza. ha ha. talk about CRAZY!!! SO, that is the end of the day. moving on with the rest of the trip. "sigh"

DAY ONE:

Sunday Sept. 14th. Getting on the boat really was not that bad and once we did, we were pleased! this is a few pictures of us on our balcony with the city behind us.

CJ tried to get a picture of us through the window so that you could see more of the city.

Everyday, after dinner, they would turn down the bed and make a little animal out of a towel. It was soo cool. This was a seal. CUTE HU!

DAY 2:

It was a day at sea so we didn't do much but explore the boat and figure out where things were. It was one of the 2 days that was a formal night at dinner so here we are, dressed up for dinner. It was fun. The first 2 days that we were there, we were sitting at a table with just the 2 of us and we wanted to sit at a table with people. When the head guy came and asked us if we were happy with the table we asked him if there was a way that we could sit at a table with some more couples. He said yes and the rest of the trip, we were sitting with a group of couples that were close to our age and we became really close. Mandy & Shane and Joey & Steph. We still talk to Mandy & Shane all the time and are really hoping that we are able to visit them soon. :)

That night we got an elephant!

DAY 3:

Day three we got to go to our first port. GRAND CAYMAN!

The water was so blue. All we did at this port was hang out at the beach. It was perfect.

After we went to the beach, we stopped at margaritaville and got something to eat.

This is what the little boats looked like that got us from the boat to shore and back on the boat.

The name of our ship was Carnival Valor. It was a really big boat and i got lost all the time. ha ha

That night we got a Dog.

DAY 4:

We were at port (Roatan) really early that morning but we were not ready to go on shore yet. CJ played in a ping pong tournament and actually got really far in it. It was fun to watch! For those of you family members who think that CJ is violent when he plays ping pong... He hit the girl that was keeping score. HA HA! (You can see her in the background, far right with the blue pants on)

Just being goofy.

When we got on the port, there were these people dressed up in these really weird costumes. They were dancing and singing and it was really cool to watch.

These were some guys that were playing these instruments. It sounded really cool. The old man in the middle was so happy and had this biggest toothless smile in the world. HA HA. it was great!

Right when we started hitting the shops, we had people bombarding us with things they wanted to sale. little kids that were trying to sale bracelets for only a dollar. We had this little boy following us around for 15 minutes and I couldn't find out what he was trying to say to us so instead i just asked if i could have a picture. he nodded. he was so sweet. after he followed us around I finally understood what he was saying. "Spider Monkeys" and he was pointing down the street. We decided that we were going to head that way anyway and when we did... (cont... to next picture)

We saw the monkeys. They were so stinking cute. This little guy ended up being so scared that climbed around my torso a few times and ended up on my head but we did not get a picture of it. it was cute!

Look at his little feet wrapped around CJ's wrist. I wanted to take one home!

After being bugged by so many people, we ran into this really nice guy and said that he would take us on a 2 hour tour, for 15 dollars each, so we did it. it was a nice little tour. not much to see in the little island. The last stop that we went to was this cute little restaurant that was on the beach. it was called Barefoot Cafe or something like that. It was all outdoors with just a roof that covered it up made out of basically just grass. I was hungry and craving crab so... We got the KING crab and MAN was it king! they put it in front of us and i could not believe how big it was. The shell had to of been at least half an inch thick. Me, being retarded like I am, tried to break the shell myself. I had my nails done for the wedding and when i tried to break it, my finger slipped and ripped my entire nail off. NOT just the fake nail, but took the real one with it. There is no words to describe the pain. i ate, maybe, half the crab and then we had to go. It was just hurting way too bad. I just wanted to get back on the boat and get it taken care of. my nail is STILL trying to grow back.

After the whole thing with my nail we just went back to the boat, had dinner and just enjoyed the rest of the night. That night we got a swan!

DAY 5:

Belize. This was probably my favorite port. We actually did an excursion and we had so much fun with it. We went on a horse back ride through the jungle. We got a lot of pictures bot not a lot came through of things that we saw. We saw TONS of termite nests in the trees EVERYWHERE, We saw a monkey that sounded like a bore or a wild hog. It growled in a way that you don't think a monkey would growl. We saw a real live wild baby armadillo, and we saw a cool little snake in a bush. It was so much fun and so beautiful. CJ's horse was name rascal...

My horses name was Apache

Here we are together.

After we went on our horse tour, there was a meal that was included in our tour and in the meal we had some Belize favorites (just like pizza is America's favorite) We had potato salad, rice, beans, some kinda of chicken, something else, i cant remember, papaya (which really wasn't that good) and fried plantains (spelling?) plantains are like bananas. It was so good. This is the little restaurant that we ate in.

Next to this eating area, there was this beautiful pool

And some hammocks.

That night, we got a monkey. He was my favorite!

Day 6:

Cozumel. wasn't my favorite port. we didn't stay that long. we just walked around the shops and went to senior frogs and had some chips and guacamole. This was the boat right after we got off the port. its HUGE!!!


I don't know how to flip this picture so you may need to tilt your head but i had to show it. It is NOT a statue. ITS A REAL MAN!!!! he spray painted himself in gold and stands on that gold.... thing.... and then asks for money if you take his picture.

I have no idea. I just thought it was cool!!

We got a view of our boat from our seat at Senior Frogs. I thought that was so cool!

That night, it was another formal night at dinner. This is a picture of our friend Shane dancing with our waiter. It was so funny. I was laughing so hard!

Shane & Mandy! They were on their honeymoon too and we got married the same day! how cute is that! We miss them so much.


Joey and Steph! They lived in florida and are now moving to california. We hope to be able to see them soon too.


And us, again, all dressed up.

that night we got a pig. They put my sunglasses on him. he was crossing his arms like he was cool. it was SO cute! i just had to get pictures.

DAY 7:

It was just a day at sea and really didnt do much but loung around and do nothing. we went to dinner and went to a show. That night we got a stingray! And that was the end. The next day we got on the airplane and went home to start our lives. it was a blast. I cant wait to go back on another Cruise!

Reception Pictures

I am putting the reception pictures on a different blog because the other one was getting too big. there are a lot of pictures here! i picked my favorites. They are not in order so dont expect that. :) ENJOY!!!

Daddy daughter dance


Getting in the car


First dance



Little did you know... They are a couple.


another shot of the first dance


Awsome picture of the guarder


Isaac and CJ


Heather and I


Um.. yeah! it was funny!


Throwing it to the ladies


And of course, heather got it!





THE car!

Cutting the cake


Our signing book

that was a pain to change back!



The Fooooodddd!!! mmmmm

This is our lovely photographer and friend and i guess he needed to feel like he was included!!!


The cake!

Knife and server. The knife says (CJ & JESS SEPTEMBER 12TH, 2008) and the server says "today i married my best friend)


The center pieces

My sister and maid of honor ashley

My sister In law Elizabeth

CJ and his brother

of course, the boys had to make fun of us girls!

The Shoes!

I love this picture of me and my girls!


The wedding party


My Family

With the parents

My siblings


BOTH families

CJ's siblings

McNichols girls


He looks so happy!!!!

Ok, let me explain!!! we were trying to bussel my dress up and she couldnt find the strings so she was digging for it. it looked funny and everybody started laughing and of course the photographer HAD to get the shot. :) Good times though!!!


My shoes....

With the flower girl


CJ hugging his mom

Isaac and Heather! SO CUTE!


The gang!

Me hugging my dad

Wedding!

It has been such a long long time since i have updated anything on this thing and NOW i can FINALLY sit down, write/type a few things and post WEDDING PICTURES!!!! YAY! Its about time.... right? Ok... soo..... to start out, The rehersal and the rehersal dinner went well. Thanks to Mike and Sue (CJ's Parents) they put together a perfect dinner with our families. The food was amazing (THANK YOU DEBBIE) and the video turned out really good (THANK YOU STU) which we ended up showing at the reception as well. Emma, CJ's cousin watched it about ten times. ha ha ha. she is 6 years old and so dang cute!

So, from the week before the wedding, to the day, we were watching the news and getting on EVERY weather website we could find for hopes of good weather on our wedding day. That week it went from saying that it was going to be really cold and windy, to being too hot. the different websites said different things and i REALLY wasnt sure what to think about it. We did not have a backup place for the wedding so if it rained, ha, it was NOT going to be pretty. The morning of the wedding, it was really windy and a little chilly. I was getting really worried. I didnt know if the table clothes were going to stay on the tables. I headed upstairs to my moms room to start getting ready at about noon. As soon as i stepped out, the wind had stopped and the temperature was up. It was BEAUTIFUL! in fact, it was a little hot. Anyway, the wedding went better than we could EVER imagine and thanks to my parents hard work in the yard for 4 months straight, the reception was amazing as well. It got a little cold at night but it was bareable. it was amazing! I want to say thanks to all of you who were there. It really meant a lot to the both of us to see so many faces! We love you!!!!

Before the wedding, some of the people had fun goffing off. This is Isaac, CJ's good friend. He was a groomsman. What a goof! We love him anyway!!



Also, before the wedding, little did i know that this cute little thing that had pictures hanging on it, fell and broke along with several of the picture frames. I guess there were nieghbors running around, frantic, trying to find some. I am so glad I had no idea!

picture of me getting my dress laced up.

2 of my 5 brothers getting ready.

Me, all ready to go and waiting for the other girls to finish up getting ready!

My ADORABLE little 6 year old brother and ring barier. he was so stinking cute!

CJ with his only brother and Best man! What a GREAT picture!

The poor flower girl was so scared. I was trying to talk to her so that she wouldnt be so scared. but she was so cute in her flower girl dress!!

Poor CJ. everybody was telling him that he couldnt look back so the photographer told him he would get a picture of what he couldn't see.

CJ walking with the Mayor

Mom & Dad Crapo

Mom & Dad McNichols

CJ's friend Isaac and sister Elizabeth

My brother, Landon and friend Sarah

CJ's only Brother, David and best man & My only sister Ashley and Maid of Honor

My brother Hunter, the ring bearer and my cousin Emma, the flower girl

Me and My Dad!

Lighting the unity candle

and finally THE KISS!!!

and pronounced, for the first time, Mr. & Mrs. McNichols

I will show reception pictures in another post because this one is getting long!

UPDATE

I know that it has been a long time since i have written anything on here. Life has been so crazy! I know you are all dying to see pictures of the wedding and such. We got married, went on the honeymoon, moved to nevada, looked for jobs all week, still havent found anything, and now at this moment i am back in salt lake to gather the rest of our stuff while CJ os at drill. Things have been so crazy. We do not have internet on our computer at the moment and that is where all the pictures are so I will post pictures as soon as we figure it out. :) The wedding was perfect! The honeymoon was perfect and we are finally starting our lives in Nevada. Things are going well! I will post pictures and more updates as soon as possible! Love you all!!!!

Christoper Joseph McNichols

I just wanted to take a minute and just express, for a minute, the gratitude that I have for CJ. He truly and entirely is my other half and I dont know what I would do without him. We are like two peas in a pod and could not find anybody that is more like me than he is. He makes me the happiest woman i could ever be. He surprises me all the time with things that he says and does that it is overwelming. We are getting married in 22 days, yes I am counting down to almost the hour... Just kidding... But I can not wait to be with him for the rest of my life. He truly has swept me off my feet and never fails to amaze me. So I just wanted to take a minute and let him know how much I love him and I am so glad that he has come into my life. He has been my part time love and full time friend. He will always be my Best friend. :) I love you CJ and you really are the best!

Elizabeths Birthday

Last Wednesday was Elizabeth's birthday! the big 23! YAY! I think she had a good birthday. :) I guess I should ask. Anyway... Mom McNichols came up from Henderson, NV to visit Liz for her birthday over the weekend. She flew out Thursday night and went home early this morning. (Monday) We had so much fun. Wednesday night, CJ and I surprised Liz with a chocolate cake with chocolate frosting and hot pink writing that said HAPPY BIRTHDAY ELIZABETH with 23 candles. I was more excited to give it to her than she was to recieve it, I think. :) That is pretty much all I got pictures of. The next day, when sue flew in, Sue gave her all her presents which were some scorts, some shirts, and some lia sophia jewelry. CJ and I gave her the 4th book of the twilight books, Breaking Dawn! Again, I think I was more excited to give it to her than she was to recieve it. ha ha. It was so much fun to spend Friday, Saturday, and Sunday with Sue. We missed Mike and wished he was able to come down with her. We will be moving to NV soon enough to see him and we are more than extatic to get down there and start our lives. Sunday afternoon, it was Elizabeths wish for all of us to go to the zoo. So we packed up our food and put our best walking shoes on (at least I did) and headed that way. We met David & Holly & Kynslie there. It was so fun to see the animals. It had been a long long time since i had been there. Again, I got no pictures. David and Holly got one but i have yet to recieve it so when I do, I will post it. Anyway, All in all, i think that it was a fun weekend for Liz and the rest of us. I hope that she had a wonderful birthday and we love her so much and appreciate everything that she does for us. She really is a sweetheart! 4 weeks THIS FRIDAY till the wedding. It is coming up so fast.

Elizabeth's Cake

Elizabeth's cake all lite up.

Gettin ready.... 1....2.....

BLOW!

Isn't she the cutest 23 year old??? :) We love you Liz!

Portrait

So I got my bridals back and ended up not liking a lot of them but I finally picked the one that I want to have as my portrait. YAY! Enjoy! P.S. You can click on the pictures and make thgem bigger... I just figured this out myself!

Family Day with the Air Force

Me with the SAW 249 and the works


CJ climbing the wall


Me with one of the birds


CJ with the other bird


Me and my pink teeth--- Kinda Gross!!!

This Last weekend we had a blast. We finished off work on friday and headed out to a couple of wedding receptions that were going on that night. It was kind of nice to look around and see the different kind of things that we like and dont like. It gave us some ideas. We have just less than 6 more weeks to go and we are so excited. Yet, there is still so much more to do. with both of us working full time monday thru friday, and every saturday taken up until the wedding, we have very little time to do the little stuff that needs to be done. It can get very stressful but, again, the closer we get, the more excited we get.
After attending the two receptions, I talked to my cousin, Ashley, who was in town from Indiana to visit her father and to attend the family reunion. The family reunion was up at Cherry Hill water park here in utah. Just a couple of exits away from Lagoon Theme Park. My Grandparents, my aunt Tielynn with her husband and kids and my uncle todd with his daughter Ashley and a couple more of his kids were the only ones camping over night Friday night. After talking for a few minutes, CJ and I thought that it might be fun to go up and camp over night. CJ had drill the next day AND it was family day as well. Hill Airforce Base is only about 15 minutes away from the location we were camping so we figured... WHY NOT??? After trying to find a tent to sleep in (THANKS DAVID FOR YOUR HELP) and getting home to change and get ready to go, and driving there. We did not get there till 10:30 which ended up being a bummer because everybody had gone to bed by then. So, we just set up the tent and went to bed, just to find out that we forgot pillows. Pretty uncomfortable. The water park is right by the freeway and the camp site was PACKED. So we only woke up about every hour with babies crying in tents next to us and sirens going of.... ect... so our first camping trip was not the best experience but we still made the best of it.
CJ woke up at 6:30 that morning so that he could make it to drill by 7 only to find out that he forgot a razor and shaving cream. So he had to run to smiths down the street so that he could do that. I was awake after he left and could not go back to sleep so I stayed up and just hung out in the tent and waited just long enough for my grandparents to wake up. After they woke up, I went over to chat with them and to wait for CJ to get back to pick me up at 10:00 for FAMILY DAY! I had never been in base before so I was looking forward to seeing what it looked like and meeting some people and jus to see what it is really all about. They had MILLIONS of activities going on for all the little kids running around and everything was free. They had food, and Ice cone... things. Icecream bars, cotton candy, and cookies. They had music going on. volleyball, soccer, a rock climbing wall, bowling for little kids, hacky sack throw. They had a fire man that was on top of his fire truck ladder thing that was spraying water on the little kids. It was fun to watch all the little kids get soked. I was dying of heat and even got a little farmers tan that i am NOT fond of. That is the only thing that I got pictures of over the weekend and I will post them. There were some of the guys that were over by some of the weapons and showing them off and letting people hold them. CJ thought it was the coolest thing ("hot" in his words), that I was holding a Saw 249. so we put the vest on, with the hard helmet thing and the gun in my hands anc CJ just HAD to take a picture. It was fun though. CJ climbed the rock wall in around 30 seconds. he was so fast. The guy that was watching him was so surprised how fast he got up there. There was this lady and her husband there with these two beautiful parots. one was blue with yellow on her stomach. and the other one was green. I had never seen such a beautuful bird so up close before. The cotton candy made my teeth SO pink and CJ was making fun of me but I was enjoying it. So, I didnt mind. CJ had fun enjoying his Orange Cream Icecream bar as well.
After having a great day at family day, we headed back th Cherry hill to spend some time with my moms side of the family. I didnt get pictures of it but it was a blast. we got into our swim suits and attacked the crowds. We hung out in the lazy river for a good while and then headed to the slides. The slides were very fun. the first one you would fall into different pools. you would sit in little tubes and go down it. You could have up to 4 people in a train and getting 4 adults in a train, you feel like your arms are going to be rips out of their sockets but at the end you were laughing so hard, you just had to go back and go again. we also went on some other slides where you lay down on a map. CJ and I raced but it turned out not fair because the slides were different lenghts.
After the water park closed at 8:30, we headed back to camp all water parked out. My Aunt ordered pizza. So after changing into dry clothes we had some of that and then we had some icecream. we headed back home after that and enjoyed the day. We were so tired after getting home. We just crashed. Very tiring day but was such a BLAST!!!

Memory Game

I'm usually not the chain letter/tagging type (as evident with the 3-4 tags I'm still "getting around to"), but I'm in a sentimental mood tonight, so I'm joining in the fun of this Memory Game. The instructions are as follows:

1. As a comment on my blog, leave one memory that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you knew me a little or a lot, anything you remember!

2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. It's actually pretty funny to see the responses. If you leave a memory about me, I'll assume you're playing the game and I'll come to your blog and leave one about you.

See you on Memory Lane!!

BRIDALS

Lastnight I went and got my bridal pictures done. Elizabeth and my mom came with me for help. it was a lot of fun. I dont have any pictures of it yet. We did it at Antalope Island. The sunset was absolutly beautiful. I cant wait to get the CD so that I can go through the pictures. um..... Thats all for now I think. :)

ADVENTURE OF CHILDHOOD

I am so upset that we didnt get any pictures of this but what turned out to be just a ride to the mall to get some shoes for my Bridals, turned into a night of reminiscing. When we left the mall, Elizabeth and CJ decided to take me to go see the old house that they used to live in before they moved to South Jordan. We pulled up to the house and got out of the car and there were little hands and a shoe mark for David, Elizabeth, and CJ. SO CUTE! Well it just so happens that the guy that lives there with his wife and his 8 month old baby boy walked out. We started talking t0 him and telling him about how they used to live there and the hands were them. He then asked us if we wanted to go in and look at the house. It was so fun to listen to the both of them just going on and on about memories about the house and seeing where some of the stories that they had told me, took place. After we had left the house, we went to the elementary school that they went to up till third and fourth grade. Again, they both just went off on memories and it was a lot of fun. We went up to this park and took a little hike up to the water hole that they used to go to and went and saw the foundation of what seemed like a house. "wine cellar" I am not sure what it was. It was fun to see. I am defianantly sore from the little adventure but it was great fun. The house was adorable. If it was for sale, I would buy it! :) Anyway! It sucks really bad that I didnt get pictures but oh well.

PAINTING

this is the smiley face that Teresa drew on the wall with the pretty green paint.

This is Teresa and Frank Sanatra the dog.

These are 2 chairs taken apart and partly painted.

Me painting

CJ starting to take the chair apart

Liz, who knows what she is doing... smiling for the camera while doing her thing.


on saturday, CJ, Elizabeth, and I went over to a friend, Teresa's apartment and helped her paint her apartment and some furniture. I believe CJ took apart one chair. Elizabeth took 2 chairs apart and reupolstered 3 chairs while I painted all three of them with a little of elizabeths help. It was an all day project and is still not finished but it was fun. Teresa took some pictures with her phone so they are a little fuzzy but you get the picture. :)

ENGAGEMENTS

We got our official engagements done on July 3rd and I got the pictures back. They turned out GREAT! Here are some of the pictures! :)

ENGAGEMENTS....WELL SORT OF

My best friend Sarah Haroldsen has decided that she is going to go into photography. She just started so she asked me if she could take practice engagements on me and CJ. We did that last tuesday. We had fun doing it. Our real engagements will be taken this Thursday by Ken Ballash. We are excited for that. It should be fun. It really is crazy how wedding plans are coming together. We cant wait.

WEDDING DRESS

So, Yesterday I went and bought my wedding dress. It is absolutely beautiful. I would TRY to post pictures, but, ya know... Kinda won’t let CJ see till the day of so... You're just going to have to go to the wedding now wont ya. ;) um... that’s it for now.

FATHERS DAY

Mom & Dad hiding from the camera

Jess's Dad


CJ's Dad



Today is fathers day. This morning we made sure we called Mike (CJ's Dad) and wish him a happy fathers day since he lives so far away. *sniff* *sniff* later on we went to the Crapo's house to spend some time with Mark (Jess's Dad). We had dinner, which were basil burgers and then played a card game called 4 card golf. We had fun. We had a hard time getting some pictures of Mark be we eventually got him to cave in. LOVE YOU DAD'S & HAPPY FATHERS DAY!

ENGAGED

So, this is the first time doing this so We'll test it out. Just a little about us, We got engaged May 15th 2008. We are getting married on September 12th 2008 and we cant wait to spend the rest of our lives together. The camera wouldnt take a good picture of the ring so I just attached the picture that is on the web. We hope that you enjoy reading about us in the future. There might be a few wierd things here and there because we are just getting used to this sight. anyway, for those close family and friends reading this, we love you all and thank you for all your support! XOXO