Yet another fun weekend!

Malone and I enjoyed seeing family this weekend. We hitched a ride with my parents down to Utah for a pre-thanksgiving dinner at Cory and Shelda's house. It was so much fun! We went down on Sunday and came back on Sunday. (it's great having the gas prices down!) The drive down was good, except we got stuck in bumper to bumper traffic for about a half an hour. My whole family was there, Amber and Brian and their kids, Dan, Aubs, and Steve and Karla's family were there too. We had an awesome time like we always do! I wish I had taken my camera. We all played the tie game which is always a blast. I haven't laughed that hard in a long time! It was fun seeing how much all the kids have grown up too. It was a good opportunity for Malone to get to know my side of the family.

We have been enjoying our time off from school this week... well at least I have! Malone has been catching up on alot of homework and doing some work on the side along with his part-time job. That's alot! I on the other hand could be doing some homework, but I've been enjoying sleeping in, shopping, and hanging out! I need to get out and visit my friends haha!

I can't wait for Thanksgiving! Unfortunately I've been sick like all day today. So I hope I'm over it by tomorrow so I can enjoy the day. We'll be partying over at Malone's parent's house with his family. It'll be way great! Hopefully we'll get a chance to stop over at my parent's house. Anywho-- not much else to update on! Have a great Thanksgiving everyone!

Fun Weekend!

Hey everyone!

So a few weeks ago Malone and I got a chance to hang out with my best friend Deidra and her boyfriend. We went swimming at good old Green Canyon, the one pool place in the area that hasn't changed since 1970. Classic! It was alot of fun and it was neat to get to know this guy that Deej is always talking about and is completely in love with. His name is Casey! Nice guy and I completely approve. Turns out, they actually just got engaged this past weekend! How exciting! They 're planning on June. It's a long ways away! Congrats you two!

Deidra and Kacey

For Halloween, Malone and I didn't do anything really. He had to work that night. But we carved pumpkins a week or so ahead of time. We learned quite a lesson from that actually. Don't keep pumpkins inside for a long period of time! They MOLD! I have some interesting pictures. The carvings were cool, and turns out the nasty mold actually ended up making it look even creepier!

I wanted to include a couple pictures of us cooking and some little food experiments. The picture of that big cookie on the cookie sheet is us trying to get rid of the last of the cookie dough... it was soo yummy! I ate a piece out of the middle.

So the most exciting thing that's happened lately is Malone and I took a trip down to Utah with my parents to see Tiff and Marshall. It was so much fun! We left Friday and came back Sunday, so it was a short trip. We stayed at my dad's brother's house in West Jordan Friday and Saturday night. It was really fun seeing them and their newly remodeled home. It's pretty awesome! Saturday we went down to Marshall and Tiffany's in Lehi and hung out. It was so great seeing them and the boys. The boys have gotten so big! Chan just turned 3 last week and Rowan will be 1 in January. Adorable boys!

We got to go out to Cabelas and check out all the cool displays and got to shoot at the shooting gallery. The guys had a little contest to see who could get the highest score! I did pretty good considering I don't really shoot much at all. It was my first time there, and I was surprised how many animals they have there. Wow!

After that we went over to the Dinosaur museum at Thanksgiving point. I was suprised to see all the amazing things they have there. There were some huge dinos!! And there was alot of stuff for kids to do and have fun. Malone enjoyed this little hands on trough of water and sand display. It had something to do with how dinos were preserved in wet mud and stuff... I dunno. But Malone played in that with the kids for a while!

That night we all played video games and gave Chan his late birthday presents. We had cake and ice cream and just talked. It was really a blast! After church Sunday at Marshall's ward, we had dinner and played around. We played with these little toy cars Malone and I got Chan for his birthday. We made up this dumb game to play with them. We left that afternoon around 4 and headed home. Overall, it was a really fun trip! And it was nice to get away from homework for a while.

Speaking of homework, we have only 4 weeks left in the semester including Thanksgiving break!! Both of us are so excited! We're hoping Malone will get better hours at his job next semester and will be able to be home at night. I'm crossing my fingers hoping it works out! Last week I checked my email and noticed that I had just received an award of excellence scholarship from the school for $1000 dollars. We were soooo excited! We can definately use extra cash. I also have another scholarship for $500 for next semester as well as the other half of our grant. Pretty exciting next semester! Somehow things just seem to work out. Someone is definately watching out for us.

We've been looking into getting me a car so we wont' have to depend on Mom and Dad's old honda. So if anyone knows of a good deal, let us know!

That's about it as far as updates go. Hope everyone is doing great! Love you all!!

Funny Name Tag

Funny Name Tag
1. YOUR ROCK STAR NAME: (first pet & current car)
Jazz Trailblazer
2. YOUR ROCKSTAR TOUR'S NAME: ("The" + Your fave hobby/craft, fave weather element + “Tour”) The piano playing sunshine tour
3. YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (fave ice cream flavor, favorite cookie) Chocolate fudge brownie chocolate chocolate chip!
4. YOUR “FLY Guy/Girl” NAME: (first initial of first name, first three letters of your last name)D-BUL
5. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite color, favorite animal) Burgandy Dog
6. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, city where you were born) Marie Bonneville
7. YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first) Bulda
8. SUPERHERO NAME: ("The" + 2nd favorite color, favorite drink) The green lemonade
9. NASCAR NAME: (the first names of your grandfathers) Mont Max
10. STRIPPER NAME: (the name of your favorite perfume/cologne/scent, favorite candy) Pink Aqua Di Gio Tootie Frootie
11. WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (mother’s & father’s middle names ) Lee George
12. TV WEATHER ANCHOR NAME: (Your 5th grade teacher’s last name, a major city that starts with the same letter) Hamberlin Housten
13. SPY NAME: (your favorite season/holiday, flower) Summer Cala Lilly
14. CARTOON NAME: (favorite fruit, article of clothing you’re wearing right now + “ie” or “y”) Peach Socky
15. HIPPY NAME: (What you ate for breakfast, your favorite tree) Coco Pebbles Willow

This is me attempting to sum up the past month..bear with me.

It's been far too long since I've updated. I'm sure you are all dying to know what's going on with the Bullocks. I do have a few stories that have occurred since I wrote last. I even have pictures! Okay, so first story.

It was a few days after Malone and I had gotten married. We were in the process of getting settled in still. He had to work that day, and there was still alot of moving in to do. So, while he was gone, I wanted to get ALL the moving in done so he wouldn't have to worry about it at all when he got home. So, I spent several hours putting things away, organizing, and making sure everything was perfect. As I was doing this, I decided to even do a little decorating. I had some green garland left over from the reception and I wanted to use it to decorate the top of my cupboards in the kitchen. So, I climbed up on the counter top to arrange it and make it all pretty. Things were going fine and I had pretty much finished. Still on the counter top, I turned to get down, and suddenly I lost my balance. I realized there was no stopping gravity now and nothing to grab so I fell clear from the top of the counter down on the floor landing right on my knee. Luckily I didn't land on my head or hit the edge of the countertop. I was pretty lucky! Although, my knee really took a beating. I had a HUGE bruise and it was extremely tender. When Malone found out, he told me I was lucky I didn't break my neck!! Which is true. I included a lovely picture of my knee. It doesn't quite compare to Tiffany's 25 bruises on her leg, but it's still a doozy. I'm also including the lovely picture of my thumb that I messed up about 2 weeks before the wedding. It got caught in the door and ripped half my nail off. I attempted to keep the nail on with nail polish, which ended up making it worse. OH and I am also including the most recent picture of my hand. I accidentally burned it on the oven on Friday. As you can see, I am a little accident prone. Luckily they're minor!






Malone and I are finishing up our fourth week of school this semester. As for me, school is going well so far. It's keeping me plenty busy. I don't have much of a social life other than Malone. But I am learning alot. I'm taking sculpting for the first time ever, and I have absolutely fallen in love with it. Our first project was a replication of a plaster head. In other words, we had to copy a mold of a head provided by our teacher, and create it out of about 25 lbs of water-based clay. At first, it was alot more difficult than I thought it would be. Since we started I've put in about 10 hours a week or so on it. We're finishing it up now and I have hollowed out the head and it is currently prepping for firing. This picture is not quite the finished product, but it's close. Freaky I know. But that's what the guy looked like! It's a death mask of a Renaissance Sculpter named Canova. Now we're working on models of an animal of our own choice in which we are going to use to make molds. I don't have a picture of it yet, but I'll update you!
As for my other art classes, Head drawing and Figure Drawing... I'm learning very slowly. There are times when I compare myself to the other artists and start to feel like i don't deserve to be in the art department. There's sooo much talent! I have to keep reminding myself that these people have put in alot more time in the past and I'm just getting started. If I put alot of effort into practicing drawing, someday I will be as good as them. Still feels like my butt is getting kicked though. But I am getting better.


I'm in a first aid class this semester. And it's been quite educational. The best part is that when the class is over, I'll be CPR certified as well as First Aid Certified. Pretty cool huh? Right now we're testing our skills on CPR. I got an A on the first part, and now I'm working on CPR for infants. No prob!




I'm also taking a Book of Mormon class. I have the most awesome teacher ever and I have learned SO much. We're in Helaman right now, and from what we've read so far in the class, it's so easy to relate the Book of Mormon to our day. I have a testimony that the Book of Mormon is so true and that it was meant for us in our day. I love it sooo much!


That's about all as far as school goes. Other than that, I've just been trying to learn how to cook better (poor Malone has to eat what I cook... poor poor man), and just be a better person in every way. I've been looking into some exercise classes on campus. They fit with my schedule pretty well, and I've been needing to work out. SO we'll see how that goes. Tiffany inspired me with her work out story, only I doubt I'll work my butt off that hard!


Malone is still working at Broulims. He got an offer to work at his old job at Grease Monkey, but he turned it down. They don't pay as well. I was a little disappointed just because I knew that if he worked there, he'd be with me more because he'd get off at like 6 as opposed to 11:30 every night. Oh well. He's been doing alright in school, even though it's definately not his favorite thing. He's really been dedicated to keeping up in school. I'm proud of him. He uses any spare time he has on homework because his work schedule is crazy. By the end of the day the kid is exhausted. He recently caught the cold that was going around and spent the last week or so pretty miserable. Luckily I never got sick!



The other night we decided to take a break from homework and go out for dinner. We came home with left overs and the movie Iron Man. Malone has been wanting to see it, so we rented it from redbox. It's a pretty good movie. I fell asleep though it...oops! I've already seen it luckily.


Work for me has gotten alot better. Since my highly experienced original coworkers left, we've had new girls working with me. I, being the only girl there that has been there probably the longest, feel like I have alot of pressure because I need to know all the answers. It's also my job to teach them what to do and what not to do. It's been hard!! At first I was so extremely stressed out because I was trying to keep track of 3 girls and make sure none of them made mistakes. Finally I decided that they need to make mistakes to learn. That's how I learned! So, I took a chill pill and let them learn. Things have gotten better and the girls have learned alot I think. I've been thinking about trying to find a job here in Rexburg to save on gas. So if anyone knows someone or of a job, or even ideas, let me know!


This weekend is Mother's Weekend here at BYU-I. It's a time where students' mothers get to come and visit their kids and go to their classes and spend time with them. Mom has her own classes to go to this time. So she won't be able to accompany me to my class. But we have plans to check out some stuff going on on campus Friday night. (I need to check on tickets!!) And her, Ashley, and me are all going to lunch on Saturday. So yay for quality time with Mom! Mom is truly a lovely lady. Love ya mom!


That's about it for now. Hopefully I'll remember to update this more often so that the blog isn't so long. And I'll also include some of my artwork so you can see my "improvements" I guess. Something I learned about art this semester is that Art exposes you. In that everything you've learned, things you feel, is all out on paper for everyone to see. What does your art say? Mine says, "I'm lacking much practice" right now haha! Anyway, I'll keep you all posted! Peace!

Just a couple little things

Well everyone it has finally happened. I got my braces off completely! I had the top ones off in time for the wedding, and I just got the bottom ones off yesterday. I'm so happy! It's so much fun eating taffy, apples, corn on the cob, and all the other naughty foods I couldn't eat while I had braces. I got a whole bunch of taffy and carmel to celebrate.

Malone and I are officially and completely moved in as of...actually a week ago. We have all our furniture and all our stuff all moved in. We even have pictures and clocks hung up on the walls. We're pretty excited to have our apartment all decorated. Now we just need to find time to spend together. Malone is still working nights at Broulims and it's hard not seeing him as much during the day. He gets really tired, and all this hard work is definately taking a toll. He's always been such an amazingly hard worker. I really admire that about him. Though not seeing him really stinks.

So today I got to help train Ashley at work! She just got hired on at Mobley physical therapy, where I've been working for almost a year and a half. It's going to be alot of fun having her there. We didn't get to spend a whole lot of time together this summer with the wedding plans and all. So getting to work together will definately bring us closer. She's so dang cute!

The new, bright and shiny Mr. and Mrs. Bullock!!

Well, it's official. We're MARRIED!!! There for a while it didn't seem like the day would ever come when we'd finally be married. And here we are, almost two weeks after the day. Sorry it's taken so long for me to update! We have been busy!

THE ENDOWMENT
I took out my endowments at the Rexburg temple the day before the wedding (Friday) and was able to have both my brothers and their wives, both my parents, Malone's parents, and Aunt Paula and Uncle Varr Snedaker there. As everyone who had been through endowments knows the first time is overwhelming. This is true and there was alot of bizaar things I didn't understand completely. I think the one thing that touched me the most was just seeing my family and my soon-to-be companion there. I was calm most of the time but seeing my family and their smiling faces made me choke up a few times. Everything went relatively smooth. I loved having Malone there. I was so glad that we had that opportunity to be together for certain parts of the session. It was truly amazing.

THE SEALING
Saturday, August 23, Malone and I were officially married at 11 am in the Rexburg Temple. Everything went perfectly. We had alot of friends and family there for the sealing and it took all the strength I had to not cry with joy at seeing them there. Let's just say I concentrated very hard on the sealer, who was Malone's grandfather. Having his grandpa marry us was definately very special. It was amazing to have everyone there supporting us. After the sealing, my mom helped me get organized and ready for the "exiting of the temple" thing and for pictures. She was a really great help. I could tell that she was really stressed trying to make sure everything was perfect for us. This will sound bad, but I was glad it was her and not me! I was perfectly calm and excited. But I think that she would rather it be that way. Thank you,Mom, for everything!! You are one really really amazing woman. She really was one serious miracle worker of the whole "production". She made the phone calls, she organized the reception, she rented the stuff, she (with the help of many others) set everything up, she and Dad paid for just about everything. I am really truly grateful for my and Malone's parents for everything they did to make this wedding wonderful. And thanks to everyone else who helped out! You're amazing! We are truly truly grateful.

Anywho, so Malone and I, being giddy and excited, exited the temple. It was probably the first time I ever felt like a movie star! There were thousands of cameras, and people smiling at us. It was so much fun! We took about an hour out on the lawn of the temple with the photographer and got pictures with everyone that was at the temple and in the sealing. Lots and lots of pictures people! I think total there were about 450 pictures for the whole wedding. That's what I'm told anyway. After pictures out on the lawn, Malone, my mom, Deidra, and I all said goodbye to friends and family while we all went down to the gardens for more pictures. By this time, Malone and I were exhausted and starving! I'd been up since about 5 am, and Malone probably about as early. We spent about 45 minutes or so at the gardens at BYUI and finally left to get ready for the luncheon.

LUNCHEON
It was fun seeing everyone at the luncheon. The luncheon was held in the Garfield church at about 2 pm. The tables were decorated beautifully, the decor was amazing, and the backdrop was beautiful. I really felt spoiled! Beverly, Malone's mom, did a great job ordering food. There was a pretty good variety and plenty for everyone. I invited a couple more friends to the luncheon and it was great seeing them too. Malone and I got a little of everthing between the two of us and ended up eating off eachother's plates alot. My dad said a few very touching words about Malone and I that I wish I had written down! Beverly said some loving words as well. Malone also said a few words, and at that point I wished I wasn't nervous or else I would have said a few things too.

THE RECEPTION
After the luncheon, Malone and I had a couple hours to run home and pack for the Honeymoon... which I never got around to packing for until then. Malone took a cat nap on my bed while I packed. Eventually we made it back in time for the reception at the same place we held the luncheon. By then the room was completely changed around so that it was ready for guests. Everything looked so beautiful. It was just as I had imagined. We got more pictures of Malone and I and the whole family with the backdrop. We had the ladies from Broulims bring the wedding cake, the florist decorating the cake, and a few ladies from the ward and my family preparing food for the reception in the kitchen.

Speaking of the cake, here's a funny story. I'll try to keep this short because this blog is LONG. We ordered a cake from Broulims. It was simple yet elegent! We ordered two of the layers as styrofoam and one real. We ended up with three real and what ended up being a completely tilting cake! No one is sure what happened, but I think the "architecture" of the cake wasn't stable. So it tilted most of the night. Sometimes to the point it looked like it'd fall over. A little embarassing, but funny! The cake was delicious though. It had buttercream frosting and a chocolate/vanilla swirl inside. Mmmm!

The reception went well. Alot of people came!! It was fun seeing everyone and meeing lots of people. However, standing in one place that long was tiring. By the end of the night Malone and I were even more exhausted than before. However, we were excited to take off on our honeymoon. I think that's what really got us through! Eventually we cut the cake, did the garder thing, threw the bouquet (in which my best friend Deidra caught!), and we got ready to leave. Previously Malone grabbed his knife in case his car got saran wrapped. Just so happened that it was. And there were oreos all over it too. e had forgotten to lock his car, and the car was completely filled with balloons. It was completely fun! We said our goodbyes and we took off on our own. Finally after months of not being able to really "be alone", we were ALONE.

THE HONEYMOON
We spent the first night at Destinations Inn in Idaho Falls (in the Rio De Janeiro room), and took off for Utah the next morning. We spent all day Sunday sleeping and watching movies... which was nice. Malone hasn't really had much of a "vacation" since... probably before his mission. And I needed a vacation from all that wedding planning! So just relaxing and doing nothing was great! Monday we had originally decided to go to Lagoon, but those plans got messed up. So we decided to do some school clothes shopping! That was pretty much all we did that day and went back to the hotel and hung out some more. Tuesday we hooked up with Malone's brother's family and went boating. It was really windy that day so the water was extremely choppy. No wakeboarding unfortunately. So we just tubed. Tubing was exciting since every wave we hit we would catch air! Pretty dang fun! We were soo sore the next day though. That night we spent the night at his brother's house and left for home the next morning.

For the rest of our honeymoon, we opened wedding presents and moved in. Romantic eh?
We are finally pretty much completely moved in now. It's so nice to have a place of our own. I remember the first night we were moved in I sat there and was almost in tears because I was so happy, and grateful. Happy moving in was over, AND grateful to all of our friends and family who provided us with such a good start. We had lots of money, gift cards, and tons of beautiful gifts, and not to mention food! It was overwhelming to see how blessed we are to have such a good start. Thank you everyone who has given us so much support and love. We have truly felt your love and are so incredibly grateful. We are excited to have this great start, and thanks to you we have things to start out with. Thanks everyone! I have more to tell you, but I'll keep this strictly "wedding stuff" for now. Keep you posted! Peace out!

Major crisis quickly solved! (luckily)

So the other day we had a pretty major crisis with the wedding plans. There's the long version of the story and a short version. I'll tell the short version. So Saturday I got an email from my wedding photographer (Sheila) that basically said, hey I didn't get a contract from you or a deposit so I went ahead and made other commitments for the 23rd. (Might I add that the photographer never mentioned a deposit or anything when we had spoken before. Nor had she mentioned that she had another offer for that day. So we had no idea we didn't have her obligated for that day.) We were out of a photographer for the wedding day. Great. Immediately I started to panic because we were 6 days from the wedding day with no photography arrangements. Luckily Mom and Dad remembered the name of Tiffany and Marshall's photographer and gave him a call. Out of some kind of miracle, he just so happened to have enough time to take our pictures Saturday. It's a miracle! So now we have a photographer for Saturday. Talk about a close call! I can't believe that Sheila would just bail like that. Most people would call the client and say, hey I had another offer, what is your decision? But she came up with lots of excuses why it was our fault. She never made it clear that we didn't have a set contract for Saturday. It was our fault in a way, but she didn't make it clear. Oh well. Problem is solved. I'm over it.

So my OTHER photographer, Lavinda, the one who took the engagement and prebridals, called me yesterday. I had mentioned in an email that Sheila had bailed on me and we were out of a photographer. I had asked if she knew anyone we could call. So yesterday when she called me, she said she was just sick that that had happened. She felt so bad for recommending Sheila to me and wished that she could take the wedding pictures herself. (Lavinda will be out of town this weekend, which is why she's not taking the pictures) She just felt sick she said. She had even called around to people she knew to see if they were available. How sweet of her!! So I told her things worked out with another photographer and we'd be okay. Lavinda has been such a sweet heart and has really bent over backwards to help us and to tailor the photography stuff to our needs. I suggest her to anyone who may be getting married here in Eastern Idaho! http://lavinda.bigfolioblog.com/ is her blog. She posts pictures she's taken on there and such. Check it out!

So Lavinda brought me a CD of about 80 prebridal pictures she took on Thursday. I posted a couple pictures so you could get a taste of how well she does. I think I'll be getting some more from her soon. I'm not sure though. But anyway, I had to share that crazy story and show you a couple prebridal pictures. It's only a couple more days and we'll FINALLY be married! YAY!!