Happy 100, Happy Valentines, and Happy Jax!

It's all about the Happy Today!  Today is my 100th post (hard to believe since I'm a terrible blogger).  Back when I was around the 59th post I thought to myself, "When I reach post 100 I'm going to make it an awesome post with give aways and really cool stuff."  Isn't that just how life goes, you dream big and then when it comes down to it, you're either too lazy or too busy to make a big deal out of it.  So I apologize to any one who reads my blog, there is no give aways today, maybe at number 200, if I can think about anything worth while to give away.

Our next happy is a very Happy Valentine's to all of my loved ones.  I hope you have a very loving day and feel very special because you are!  I'm pretty excited for our Valentines plans tonight.  We are having the annual Veenker Adult Valentines Dinner with prime rib, shrimp, pies, and anything else that you can think of that is really yummy!  I can't wait for the prime rib part.  Every time I open the fridge the huge massive chunk of meat is staring at me with all of it's yummy seasoning saying, "Eat Me!"  So it will be nice to have it out of the fridge tempting me. 

Did you know that about me?  I LOVE meat.  I don't know why, but I sure do, and I don't mind looking or handling raw meat.  Some people go crazy and can't stand it, but I don't mind.  It might have to do something with watching my dad cut deer up when I was little.  I could watch him butcher deer for days, such an interesting skill seeing how they take a animal and turn it into food.  You're probably all throwing up by now so I'll do you a favor and stop.

Our last happy is pretty funny.  This was from Christmas time but I'm just getting around to downloading the video and posting it.  This is a present from Clint to me and Jax pretty much opened the whole thing because there was some smell in the present that he wanted.  Have a look, it's pretty cute.



Hope you enjoyed my Happy 100, Happy Valentines and Happy Jax post! 

Have a HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!

Is our Luck Starting to Change?

Well I'm not sure if our luck has changed completely, but when you're down at the bottom of the barrel, the only direction to go is up. I'm a little leery about posting this, because it still seems too good to be true, and I'm afraid that if I announce anything it won't come true. I know what you're thinking, they're going to have a baby.  No, we haven't reached that section of the barrel yet. It's not a baby, but it is something pretty great I think.

On Wednesday we started to climb up the barrel a bit. Clint was promoted to Project Manager at Property Solutions!  He'll be managing the development of custom websites for clients, including a team of developers in India!  Pretty much working with software stuff that I don't understand.

He is excited, and hopefully the raise will help us get back on our feet. I'm so proud of Clint for being patient and sticking with things and not giving up when things were bad (life in general).  I love him so much and appreciate how hard he works for our family!  He's so smart too!  The other day I was having problems understanding concepts from my Physiology class.  He read a few pages of my book and was able to explain things to me in a more simple way.  Wouldn't that be so nice!

Anyway, back to being at the bottom of the barrel. I don't mean to sound like we don't have anything, or that nothing good has happened to us because we are SOOO blessed!  We have amazing families who support and love us no matter what.  We have the best, cutest, funnest, funniest dog in the world.  My parents have been BEYOND helpful and do what ever they can to help us out.  We have AWESOME friends who make us laugh and keep us going all the time.  And most importantly, we have the Gospel.  It has been such a blessing to me, and has helped me get through SO many good times and hard times.  I love The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and I KNOW that it is the true church.

So ya, that's our most recent news, pretty big and exciting, and I can't wait to see what happens next! Congratulations Clint!

Update Overload

So I FINALLY took all day and updated our blog! I'm sorry I haven't updated things for the last 7 months of our life. I got so far behind that catching up seemed way too time consuming, and trust me it was, but since I consider this my Journal, I knew I had to do it.

So I finished up last semester and did pretty good. Not a 4.0, but good enough grades that I don't have to retake any classes, that's a bonus! Sadly Christmas break was way too short and I've already started a new semester that is going to be quite challenging. So warning, it might be another 3 months until I update the blog again.

Anyway, if you don't care to read the next 22 post, I won't be offended. Enjoy and I hope you're all doing great. We sure are, things are going great for us and as soon as Clint can find a higher paying job, things will be even better.

Jealous Jax

A coule of weeks ago we baby sit my nephew Collin. It was a great time but....we had one jealous dog! Jax doesn't usually demand my time, but he sure wanted it when I was giving attention to Collin. It was SOOO funny.

Anytime I would change Collin's diaper, Jax would come and sit in my lap. Anytime I took Collin he wanted to come too and got really mad if I didn't take him. Anytime I fed Collin, Jax would bark like crazy until I gave him something to eat. No joke, he gained over a pound the week Collin was here. That's like 1/5 of his body weight. If I would play with Collin, Jax would bring me his ball and want me to play with him.

Collin loved to open the fridge and look for food and every time he was in the fridge, Jax would be in there too making sure he got food as well. It was a fun week, but I'm afraid if we ever have kids Jax is going to have a hard time adjusting to not being the baby. It was so funny to witness! We sure love you Jax!

Can you see Jax in my lap? This is when I was reading stories to Collin, Jax came and wanted the good spot on my lap! Such a funny dog!

Party with Friends

Our friend Andrew had his birthday and we tagged along with the group. We had dinner at Smashburger's and then went and watched the movie True Grit. It was a great night and we of course had a ton of fun!

In case you are wondering what that tube thing is, it is this really weird tube that you get in and wind blows like crazy. Don't ask me why Robin loves this so much but he does.

New Years at the Cabin

Like every year we went to the Cabin for New Years. It was SOOO cold, when we got there it was -4 degree's fahrenheit. Some of the other family had gone to the cabin on Tuesday and it was a blizzard the entire week. We went up on Friday and it was snowy when we got there but when we woke up on Saturday we had nothing but blue skies, we picked a good time to go. That is why I only have pictures of the night because we were out side most of the day on Saturday snowmobiling and other stuff and I forgot to bring the camera with me. Oops. We had a great time eating (like always), playing games and watching movies.

Merrry Christmas 2010

Christmas this year was wonderful like it always is. Everyone but Scott and Andrea were at my parents. Scott and Andrea were in Peru with Andrea's family. Andrea's dad took a job in Lima so they went down to visit him.

Anyway we started the day off with my family with breakfast, presents and the Nativity. Such a great day.

After we were done with my parents we went to Clint's families house. Everyone but Coleton was there, he is working in Georgia right now, we sure missed y0u Khol.

We spent the night there having dinner, opening presents and enjoying each other. Thanks for a great Christmas everyone!

Clint's Present

Clint got the present that he always wanted this year for Christmas. A HUGE poster of Jacob from Twilight. His work had a secret santa exchange and someone there must know him VERY well!

Christmas Eve 2010

Christmas Eve was a GREAT night. We went to my sister Lori's house with lots of food and games and just had a blast!

Opening Presents

After Scott and Andrea got home from their honeymoon they came over and opened presents. It reminded me of how much fun it was getting so many presents. I wish we could have a reception every 5 years so that we can always have new fun things. Don't you agree?