witchy witch

So, I had the coolest girls night out ever. Or should I say Witches Night Out!

            That’s right me, jilli, clari, molly, and my mom-in-law (all adult women) dressed up as witches  and all hung out together at Gardner Village….dressed up as witches!  

            This was the best night ever! If you haven’t had a chance to go before I would definitely recommend it. If I hadn’t been having so much fun I would have thought the whole thing was rather strange. There were hundred and hundreds of women completely decked out in witch costume, we looked like a cult haha! There was also awesome music, food, shopping and we even saw a live owl! Gosh, halloween is just the coolest time of year! 

This evening isn’t just for the ladies, oh no, what I heard one guy say pretty much sums up the whole evening, “well I’ve gotten three phone numbers so I think I’m going to head out”. Hahaha So women next year go let out your inner child and your inner witch and get dressed up, dance and shop and men get our there and get some phone numbers cause there are hundreds of ladies… some of them barely dressed…all together in one location.

Here are some fun pictures from our awesome evening! Notice mom wore jeans and a t-shirt, she said she is a witch all year round so she didn’t need to dress up. Next year I will have to convince her to get all decked out. 

Jilli and I gettin' ready

Sistas

all five of us witches!

Best Husband Ever

Alonzo bought me flowers!!

He. is. the. best!

 I was having a super crappy day at work and was in a bad mood but when I got home there was a beautiful fall bouquet for me and then he took me out to dinner! He also bought me a membership to a flower bouquet of the month club so that I can have beautiful seasonal flowers all year long. He is amazing and I may be a little bit spoiled.

Big Changes!

Drum Roll Please.......We bought our first home!! After months and months of searching and debating about maybe staying in our apartment a little longer we finally found THE HOUSE! Our House!!

Zo and I had put in multiple offers on homes in Lehi, we were under contract and backed out and we were starting to consider maybe putting off buying a house for another 6 months or so and then the day after we backed out of a home we were under contract on we decided to walk through one more house. We walked through the home, sat down and wrote an offer and two days later we were under contract and a month later we were home!

Our new house is A-mazing! The things we really needed  (aka wanted) in our house was a three car garage and a large yard,  this is hard to find in first time homes but we got both in our house! Alonzo got his three-car garage and he LOVES it, like is crazy, disproportionately happy about it! :) and we have a quarter acre to put in a garden and to have dogs in.

My kitchen is HUGE! There are full cabinets in my kitchen that are EMPTY. I have a large walk in pantry and an island! The rooms are all enormously spacious and the home feels really open. The walk in closet in our master is beautiful! And the master bathroom is about the size of our bedroom back in our apartment. Needless to say we love our place. It will take a while to get everything decorated and to buy furniture to fill it but we are excited for the adventure. Our ward and neighbors have been very welcoming and we are so excited to make friends here.

My Amazing Closet! I'm in love!

Moving In... boxes everywhere. 

My kitchen after getting most of the boxes put away.

Our first home isn’t the only big news around the rose household. Alonzo quit his job at Apple and started an internship with Control4. We have loved his time with Apple but are so excited for this new step.

Here is a picture of his store "clapping his out" at Apple.

This was so fun! The whole store came out and clapped and cheered for him and gave him hugs on his last day. It was tons of fun for him and made me wanna cry a little haha. After his last day at work and being clapped out Zo, me, Jillian, Molly, Cooper and Ammon went to celebrate with some sushi.

Zo and I being silly waiting for sushi

Yummm!

I also got a new job! I got a position as a PET/CT Technologist for a mobile imaging company. This job is incredible for me! They made me the Lead technologist and the manager of the “coach”. Since we are a mobile unit our camera is transported to hospitals on a trailer or “coach”.  I work at Davis Hospital and Ogden Regional Hospital two days a week.

I am still working at intermountain heart center as a nuclear medicine technologist the other 3 days a week and this is working out really well. I have so many great friends there and am glad that I have been able to continue working with them even with my new job.

From new jobs to new homes as well as my birthday and our anniversary (we’ve been married two years!! Its been the best two years of my life and a home was the best anniversary present a girl could ask for) we have had an amazing and exciting couple of months. We have been so very blessed and are excited to see what more adventures the future holds for us!

Here are some pictures of some other fun things we've been up to:

We went up to the Cabin in Manti and had some adventures when it started to rain and get muddy!

Alonzo took me to the Rodeo and County Fair

Alonzo also took me to the zoo!

We went shooting with ammon and cooper!

More adventures to come soon!

xoxo erin

Worst Blogger Ever....

I  am  absolutely the worst blogger in the entire world!
But here we go, I’m going to give it another go!
It’s been ten months since I last blogged and SO much has happened!
So here are the highlights and some random tidbits in no particular order other than this is the order that i remembered them in: ... pictures most likely to come when I get around to it...

-We went to Moab with our friends Mike and Krissy and had a blast! We’ve gone down to moab for the past 2 years for the april action car show! It is so much fun!

-We went to Zo’s family cabin in Manti with our friends Jeff& Diana and Dustin& Jillyn. That trip was so much fun! We got to break in alonzo’s fabulous new jeep (which by the way we also bought a great jeep since I blogged last) and we got to see just how tough jeff’s truck was getting up the perilous mountain to the cabin! On that same trip we were able to attend a session at the Manti temple, it was the first time we’ve been back to that temple since we were sealed there and it was the first time that we’ve been through a session there! It was really wonderful and special to be back! What a beautiful temple!

- I finished Nuclear Medicine! Oh my gosh it has been a long journey! Seriously, this year has been long! My typical day consisted of getting up at 5:30 and going to clinic, finishing clinic at 3:00 and then going to work till 9:10 at night and rarely seeing my husband! But we always made the most of the little time that we did have together. After finishing Nuclear Medicine on June 10th I took and passed my board exams on June 13th!!!! The other students waited longer to take their boards and decided to take a break before tackling CT but I went right back into clinic the day after my boards and was finished by July 7th! Now I am just waiting to take my boards in CT! I’m done FOREVER with school! Wahoo!

-While waiting and searching for a job in the state in Nuc Med I didn’t just want to sit around doing my part time job so I pursued a full time job with my current company and was very blessed to get the full-time position that was available up in Bountiful! So I am working full time here and waiting and looking for any opportunities in nuclear medicine but am so grateful that I at least have a full-time job!

-WE MOVED!!!! We’re now living in this fabulous 2 bedroom apartment in north salt lake! (NO, WE’RE NOT PREGNANT WE JUST WANTED MORE SPACE!) We love the apartment! We’ve had tons of neighbors stop by to meet us, so we’ve loved the neighbors we’ve met so far!  There is tons of storage and it is so much bigger and only about 20$ more a month! Unfortunately we are farther away from my family but it is so much closer to both of our works and it is close to zo’s family! Zo’s parents live about 2 minutes away from where I work and so I always go over there for my lunch break! It has been so much fun! Clari and I eat lunch and run errands together everyday! We have become sidekicks. I didn’t see her one day after having seen her everyday and I was going through withdrawals! Its been great for both of us, she just graduated so she doesn’t have school or work and since Alonzo is usually at work or school and I don’t have school anymore I am always looking for something to do!

-Alonzo had surgery! :( We went in to have an MRI to check on a concern, the MRI was clean but it showed big cysts in his sinuses. So we went to an ENT to check out his sinuses, they did a CT scan and determined that they needed to open up his sinuses and scrape them out, but in order to do that they had to straighten his septum. They also realized they needed to shave down his turbinates and remove his tonsils. So in the end he had like 4 surgeries all at once. He did not handle that well! Haha! It was a crazy adventure. When he came out of surgery he was a little combative and very mad at the nurses for waking him up! It was so so funny! It took so long for him to recover! He was in so much pain and from not eating and having so many pain pills and ibuprofen that he got very very sick and started throwing up. But in the end he came through it and we’re just glad it is done!

-Katie Jane and I started a book club! We both LOVE to read! And I was bummed that we hardly ever got to see each other so this was the perfect excuse to get together each month and hang out or grab lunch! It has been so so much fun! A bunch of us meet every month and it is a blast! We’d love for anyone else to come along if they’d like! Let me know!

I discovered goodreads.com!! I love it! It is how I find all of my good books! If you’re not on goodreads join! And add me as a friend so we can share great book ideas!

-I just added google+, dont think I really like it, except it works at work ;)

-I also just started using Pinterest! I love it but still not entirely sure how it works hahaha!  I seem to suddenly be “following” like 30 people, most of whom I’ve never heard of and no matter how many times that I try to delete them it never works. Also love it cause it works at work, albeit slowly because of the dial up!

- Matty got married!!! My brother was married in June. Him and Brittney have been together for so long that it seems like they were already married but I am so happy and excited for them to officially start their lives together!

-I’ve always known this but have discovered it even more since getting married but I LOVE TO COOK!! I have started to get a giant collection of cookbooks! I’m obsessed! And I am always looking up recipes online! I can’t get enough! My most recent accomplishments include perfecting my making of the Lion House Bakery Rolls! And making the most beautiful delicious chicken marsala!

-My mom got bit by a rattlesnake the other day!!! AH! In the house! It was the craziest thing ever! She was in our dinning room and a rattlesnake came out from behind the china cabinet and she got bit on the foot! She was rushed to the hospital and had to spend the night there! Luckily she is fine but it was such a crazy experience. 

- Me and my Sis’s went to see Tim Mcgraw this past weekend!! I secretly (or I guess now not so secretly) hate Tim Mcgraw, I went to see The Band Perry and to spend some quality sister time! It was such an adventure! Although I hate Tim Mcgraw the concert was AWESOME! and I started to not so much hate Tim Mcgraw as think that he is the hottest old man ever! I have never been to Usana and I LOVED it! To lay on blankets on the grass, eat Costa Vida and listen to awesome music with awesome people (aka sister... not the drunk people that kept asking Molly to do things for them)

Alonzo surprised me with a huge 11 day trip for our anniversary! I can’t believe it has been a year; it’s been the best year of my life!! I’ll blog about it when we get back!!

Cooper and Molly got married!!