Here's to three years!!

I really can't believe that it's already been 3 years since Tyler and I got married. It's flown by

so fast. We've experienced quite a lot though in those three years, but and I'm glad to say that
I'm just as excited now to be married to Tyler as I was three years ago. I think he's the greatest person alive and he treats me so good even when I'm a jerk. I don't deserve him, but I'm so happy he picked me to be with forever. So here's to three years and many more to come!
Here are a few pictures of our wedding day...

Home Sweet Home!

We bought a home! It's in Nibley, and for those who don't know where Nibley is, it's in Cache Valley. We liked living there so much while going to school that we decided to go back. It has an unfinished basement and an unfinished yard because it's a newer home so we have some work ahead of us but we're really excited to have our own home. We've been spending weekends painting over the ugly blue walls that completely cover the kitchen, living room and dining room, and it's been a lot of work! We'll show some more pictures as soon as we get our paint done!

Beard Man

I can't figure out why guys love growing their facial hair out but Tyler is definitely one of them. Over Christmas he always tries to grow it out because he doesn't have Army Band for that month. This was the result this year. I wouldn't let him keep the bottom one for more than a day because he looked like a dirty criminal.

P90X Workout Begins!

Tyler and I have decided that it's time for us to get back into shape, so we're jumping on the P90X bandwagon and we're going to start tomorrow morning. Yes I know what you're thinking... everyone says they are going to start a workout/diet program tomorrow or on Monday, but we're feeling motivated this time. We took some before pictures a couple of days ago and we both about had a heart attack. Seeing yourself in very little clothing in bad lighting after staying away from pictures for the past year is not so fun. We've both gained a significant about of weight since we got married mostly because we've gained each others bad habits and lost our good ones, and partly because we've both been under a lot of stress the past year or so. Excuses aside thought, tomorrow morning we begin our workouts. I've been anxious to try these videos because I see the commercials for them all the time and it looks like it's worked for a lot of people. I'll try to update our blog with our results. There will probably not be any our our before pics posted though:)

TYLER THE TEACHER

They spelled his name Mr. Putman

Yeah yeah yeah, I know it's been months since I last posted anything, but I haven't really had anything very exciting to blog about. So I was really trying to spare anyone who actually reads our blog any boring posts. I recently went to Tyler's school though and just happen to bring my camera, so I thought I'd share a few pics of his classroom. He's really done a good job of setting everything up, especially considering they didn't really give him very good chairs or music stands. Tyler and his dad (I helped a little) built a bunch of their own guitar stands so that the kids guitars weren't falling down all over. I think they turned out pretty good.
I wish Tyler would write a post so he could explain exactly how his first year teaching is going. From what he tells me though, it sounds like he's finally starting to get the hang of it. He teaches beginning guitar and general music, and by far he enjoys teaching the guitar classes more. He's brought home some of the kids tests and assignments to grade, and sometimes I'll help him. It's pretty hilarious what the kids write for some of their answers.
I've been looking into getting my alternative route to licensure, which basically means I could start teaching a subject now and then have three years to get my teaching license. I would love to teach P.E. or health since that's my degree but since teachers in those subjects aren't in high demand I would probably have to opt for Biology or another science class. I'll let you know how that goes.

Hooked on Lost

Yes it's been awhile again since I've updated my lame blog and yes I have an extremely lame reason why. Tyler and I got lost in the t.v. show LOST and we haven't been able to function as normal adults because we've been so addicted to the show! It is seriously like t.v. heroin (not that I would now), it's just really addictive. I have already watched the past four seasons in just a couple short weeks, and I'm dying for the fifth season to start. So if you haven't seen the show I don't recommend starting it unless you have no life or you want to have no life.

Summer Update

It's been quite awhile since I've updated, and to be honest it's mostly because of the sheer exhaustion that Tyler and I feel when we finally get home after driving two hours in construction and working at the Post Office all day. Is anyone else tired of all of the construction? I swear that every stretch of road has construction going on right now. Can't they wait to do some of it next year? I've developed terrible road rage because we drive so much, and because Davis County traffic makes you want to rip out your hair, so to help with my little problem I bought some nice classical music to listen to while I drive and it's helped a bit.

Tyler starts teaching in a few weeks, and he's pretty nervous but I know he's going to do a great job. We went "school shopping" at the Factory Stores so that he'll look like a professional teacher and not a student because Tyler has such a little boy look. Maybe I can get him to model his new looks and get a few pics to post.

We've been looking around at houses in the Davis County area, not that we're planning on buying right now, but we just want to see if we can't find any good deals that we can jump on. Everyone says that it's a buyers market but I still think that people need to lower their prices otherwise no one is going to buy them. (At least not us).

I went to the American Idol concert a couple weeks ago with all the girls in Tyler's fam and we had a great time. Maybe I'll post a few of my favorite pics. My favorite performers of the night were: David A. (of course), Brooke, and Michael J.
Tyler seriously considered trying out for American Idol since they were here in Salt Lake the past couple days, but he chickened out at the last minute. Oh well I think he has one more year before he's too old, so maybe next year.

Tyler has been playing lots of shows this Summer for the Army band, The Beatle band, and his own thing which has convinced me that I need a hobby of my own. I wish I could just wake up with a talent of some sort. I guess that's not how it works though, darnit. I guess while I'm wishing, I wish I could also wake up and be fit and lose all my flab. Ty and I haven't lost the first year marriage weight that I thought everyone got, so we've been looking into trying a six week boot camp that we have to pay for, so we HAVE to get our butts up and to the gym otherwise we waste money. I'll let you all know how that goes.

That's all I can think of as far as updates goes, but I'll try to have some pics to follow this post.