HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Wishing everyone a fun and safe Halloween!!!

What happens to things when they break

So a couple of nights ago, our DVD player broke. Made some sort of strange sound. No big deal. We found a cheap one at Walmart. The broken one, however, met it's fate....target practice. Well there was 2 of them that we needed to get rid of. Here's the aftermath of 200 rounds. This is what we do in Idaho...

Here's our attempt at Rambo poses. Enoch looks great. I was attmpting to talk in my picture and was captured thusly.

Cheeze-it's!!!!!

Sorry there's a couple bad words in there but it's HILARIOUS!

Happy Birthday to me!

So I haven't posted in a bit because Enoch and I were in fabulous Las Vegas!!! It was a total surprise! He gave me hints the week before my birthday. He only said that I might have Tuesday off work. Sunday night we had my birthday dinner at my in laws and on the way home Enoch told me I didn't have to work Monday. He worked everything out with my boss at work without me knowing anything. I knew something was up on the Friday before my birthday because the girls at work said I better leave a list of computer passwords and when my boss told me to go do something else while he talked to the girls...I was totally stumped but I knew Enoch was up to something. So Monday morning we slept in and he was like, you better get in the shower and get yourself ready to do some shopping. I was in the middle of getting ready and he peeks in the door and says I need to pack for 5 days. Of course then I was telling him he better tell me what's going on...that's when he said " WE'RE GOING TO LAS VEGAS!!!!" I started screaming and jumping up and down and going crazy. I've never been and I was hinting to him that we needed to plan a trip next year. He'd been saving up since May for this trip without me knowing at all. He had a trial timeshare that he got and decided to use it for my birthday which was totally perfect.

Monday night we got on the plane to head to Vegas and I was bouncing off the walls the whole time. I was in awe at all the lights when we were landing. Getting to the condo was another issue. He didn't really think about a rental car so we are trying to get one at the airport at 9 at night. $450 for 4 1/2 days!!!! I was like forget that crap...So we get some shuttle thing to the WorldMark place and have to wait on there for another 45 min. Great start to our vaca..we're tired and sitting next some guy who couldn't keep his eyes off my rack...it was fun...We finally get to the condo at 11 and we are wiped out. The room was amazing!!!! Bigger than our apartment. Full kitchen, dining room, 2 bedrooms, 2 full bathrooms, 3 pools, a lazy river, a hot tub with a waterfall, a huge balcony. Well worth the wait and it was only a little ways down the Strip.

My birthday on Tuesday was amazing. At midnight early Tuesday morning Enoch surprised me with ANOTHER gift. He took the pearls we dug out of the oysters in Hawaii and got them set into a diamond and white gold necklace and earrings. They are beautiful! They are the most beautiful pieces of jewelry I own. I couldn't stop hugging him. I have the most wonderful husband ever!

We got a rental car Tuesday morning so we wouldn't have to be stuck with a cab and the shuttle. Got a great deal too! We got a free day since they didn't charge us for Tuesday. We decided we wanted to see Hoover Dam so away we went. It is HUGE!!! I would hate to fall over the edge, it was a long way down. It's amazing how it just seemed to grow out of the canyon walls. It was definitely cool to see.

We went to a very romantic dinner later that night at the Top of the World restaurant in the Stratosphere. It overlooked the whole strip and revolved too! We got a panoramic view of Vegas at night while we ate. This is the view we got to enjoy while eating our delicious dinner and incredible desert shaped like the casino made totally of chocolate. We walked around the observation deck and got caricatures drawn of us! Totally fun!! The elevator ride to the top goes 26mph and on the way up the operator was from Hawaii and was from Hilo so I had fun talking to him. He said it used to go 35mph but too many people got sick on the way down so they had to slow it down...no fun!

After dinner we went to a show called Bite. It was a story about a vampire and his lost love. A bit cheesy and risque but really fun still. It had the dancers in their little almost non existent costumes dancing around like strippers but now we can say we went to a real Vegas show. And the coolest part...out off all the 200 or so people in the theatre, I got pulled up on stage! It was during a part when the main guy said it's now time for him to find his true love. The girls came out into the audience and starting doing their dance thing and I feel a tug on my arm and one of the girls says, come with me...I looked at Enoch like HOLY CRAP. She took me up on stage along with 2 other girls and 2 guys. Then the vampire guy starts smelling me!!! I'm sure the look on my face was like, oh my gosh!!! And the girl that took me up me up on stage crawled through my legs and it was crazy! I tried to play along with it like I knew I'd be called up there and it was planned. Finally the vampire guy moves on to the dancer girls and one of the girls says thanks, you can go sit down now. Enoch looked as surprised as me but said I handled it really well. Turns out as the show goes on, the other girls and guys were a part of it the whole time. I felt pretty honored that I was hot enough to be in a Vegas show haha. Enoch was pretty proud of it too.We spent the rest of our time shopping and seeing the sights. This was in front of the Forum Shoppes at Caesar's Palace. The casinos spared no expense when it came to decorating. We felt like we were in Greece. I was in heaven with Prada, Gucci, Escada, Carolina Herrera, Christian Lacroix...Enoch, not so much...poor guy was sick of hours of shopping.
We went to the M&Ms factory, went on the tram around Vegas, visited all the hotels and did alot of walking, saw the Fountains of the Bellagio, watched Treasure Island's show, took a gondola ride at the Venetian, ate amazing food at Cheesecake Factory and Planet Hollywood, the way yummy buffet at South Pointe, the classic In-and-Out Burger. They only have 3 meals you can choose from. It's awesomely old school! We'll miss the valet parking for sure! It made us feel like a million bucks. There would be more pictures but I forgot the battery charger for my camera so we had to limit photos :(

New horse #2

Looks like an addition may be coming soon! Thanks to a girl I work with, Sara, my in-laws land will be put to use. Her dad has some horses that he's willing to give away to a good home. He just doesn't have time to work with them on top of his other horses. To those of you who knew my horse Handy, doesn't he look pretty dang close??? What do you think Tess? Handy II. I would take the chestnut mare but gotta start out with 1 for now. I'm still working out the details for buying Duke. Money is tight thanks to this crappy economy...Enoch and I have lost alot of money in the stock market. But a horse for free is the best thing ever! Well a few million bucks would be good too.

Picture of the Week

Driver #2: Well I don't care what you think...I still say we can both fit...move over a little bit more, I can't reach the toll booth

Are we boring?

Ok, so looking through friends' blogs, it's occurred to me that Enoch and I might be...dare I say it...boring? I think we need some ideas of fun new stuff to do. So I've decided to ask all of you to give us some ideas of things to do: date ideas, outdoors ideas, craft ideas...anything. HELP!!!

General Conference

Ok so super excited!!! Enoch and I have tickets for Sunday morning session of General Conference!!! Thanks John! This will be the first live GC for both of us and we're way excited! My journal is ready, pens and scripture markers in the scripture case, ready to go.

1 Year Anniversary

Today is our 1 year anniversary. I woke up this morning to find these. 1 rose for every month and in my favorite color, PINK!! And lots of chocolate. I love him!!!!!! As you can see, I tore that box apart...And I also just noticed that since I started this post the night before, it says Sept 27..that's not right.. Our anniversary is the 28th..


We can't believe how fast it went by. It seems like just a few months ago we got married. Not too much has happened in the last year. Except we added a few to our collection of guns, I've replaced my entire wardrobe and Enoch's too, Enoch fixed up his little dirt bike, took a much needed trip back home to Hawaii, have been to Salt Lake a few times, had a fun weekend getaway, gone on a few random motorcycle trips, gone to some weddings. So it's not too eventful but it's been lots of fun. Every time I got in the freezer to get something out, I'd see the top of our cake in there and would glance at the calendar and suddenly, it's September 28th. Wonder how it's going to taste...I went through almost an entire roll of plastic wrap because I didn't want it to be all funky tasting and freezer burned. We'll see how it comes out tomorrow since it's thawing in the fridge. So happy 1 year to us!!!! We have made some amazing memories and goofed off like little kids but have loved every minute of it. Here is an ode to our first year as husband and wife.

Where it all began...

I was looking through pictures and came across pictures of the beginning days. So many memories and feelings popped up. We had such good times. It's wonderful how much our love has progressed and grown. It started out as puppy love and grew into eternal love.
This was in the very very beginning. If I remember right, it was late August. Look at my hair (eeek) and that skinny boy. He was sort of newly off his mission and now that I think about the first girl a guy dates when he gets home from his mission is the girl he usually ends up marrying. And that truck, as sexy as it might be, smelled like absolute crap.
Fun times bowling. Enoch didn't have an excuse for having off days. He is a Bowler. hahaha...lame joke, overused. I, on the other hand, just plain suck....
We were at his mission buddies wedding and it made me want to get married the next weekend. I think he looks like a mischievous little boy in this picture.

This is Enoch's favorite picture besides our wedding pictures. We went on a motorcycle trip to Mesa Falls and it became one of our favorite "US" spots.

When we both think back on when we first started dating in September 04, we would've never guessed we'd be here now. I remember the first time Enoch said he loved me. Well, he wrote that he loved me because he was too embarassed to say it out loud. I woke up on my birthday Oct 14 and didn't even notice the shiny new acoustic guitar sitting in the corner. But I did notice all the signs my awesome roommates had plastered all over the place. Enoch was out in the living room ( stupid chastity line) waiting for me and when I didn't say anything, he looked hurt at first and then confused. When everyone said go back in there and look, I was the one who was confused. But there was my pretty new guitar with a bottle of Lucky perfume and a little handwritten note. I opened up the note and it read "Dear Manda, Happy Birthday girl. I'm not good at saying this in person but I really do love you. So, yeah, I love you. I'm so "Lucky" to have you. " It was so cute. And I've saved every cute little I Love You note since then. So many memories you wish you had a video camera for.

We can't wait to keep our journey going and making more memories and having a blast with each other.