Giving Thanks!

Well, it was quite the weekend here at the Titus home! Mom, John, Sara and the kids rolled in on Tuesday night around midnight. Mom stayed at our house and John and Sara stayed with Joe and Karen. We spent most of Wednesday hanging out with everyone and spending time with all the kids! How I missed those little kids! Eva is so big now! Last time I saw her she was just a little thing, now she is crawling all over the place and pulling herself up on the furniture! What a little doll. George and Jack were cute as always. They have become so lovey! They would give me hugs and kisses randomly all the time! I loved it!

On Wednesday we ran around to every store in town prepping everything for the big dinner on Thursday. I had to pick up some last minute food items and mom did quite a bit of Christmas shopping! Thursday morning we headed over to Joe and Karen's bright and early to spend some time before heading back to the house to cook. We split dinner up between three houses. We cooked some, Joe and Karen cooked some and Morgan and Jenn cooked some! We ended up eating dinner around 3pm. It was a great big dinner with a fun combination of family. We had 10 adults and 6 kids and 1 wonderful meal.











After dinner Jenn, Morgan, Josh and I took all six kids to the park and played for about an hour! They were so adorable! It was fun to see them all playing together. I was in charge of the two little ones (Jonah and Eva), Josh was in charge of George, Jenn had Jack and Morgan had Jacob. Emma was in charge of herself. We figured that way we wouldn't lose anybody. I probably counted those children 15 or 20 times :) We had a lot of fun though! The kids laughed so much!










On Thursday night me, Josh, Mom, Sara, Morgan and Jenn went to see the Blind Side. It was a great Thanksgiving movie! A real feel good movie and very inspiring. It made us all want to go out and give to people. And I don't know about everyone else but it really made me want to have a strong southern accent. We played some games at Joe and Karen's on Thursday night. Morgan and Jenn brought over their game called Things. It's a great game; a combination between Baulderdash and Apples to Apples. We actually played it twice over the weekend, which proves how popular it was.






On Friday Josh was supposed to work but to our great surprise got the day off! They were apparently much less busy than they had planned. This was perfect because he got to come to Salt Lake with everybody. We ate lunch and then headed to Sandy in our cars where we caught the Trax. It took us straight to Temple Square. We walked around all night looking at the lights and enjoying the spirit of Christmas. The lights were beautiful as always!









We ate a a little restaurant/soup kitchen called One World, Everybody Eats. It wasn't exactly what we thought it was going to be, but it was a fun experience and it made for a lot of laughs when we played Things! :) I have never heard so many cockroach jokes in my life!

Saturday we spent doing lots of things! We started at the BYU bookstore in the morning and from there headed straight to Cafe Rio. My favorite! We decided from there that it would be fun to watch the BYU vs. Utah game that was showing. We put the boys in the living room with all the kids and while they watched the game we made our gingerbread houses in the kitchen. (We put the game on the radio and listened to it). Our houses turned out very cute! And I know own three! Thanks mom and Sara!







We had a little trip to the mall on Saturday night to look for some jeans for Josh but we were quite unsuccessful. From there we headed back to Joe and Karen's to play games. We played Things again. So many funny jokes. Pogo sticking naked anyone?

All in all it was a fantastic break! It was so fun spending so much time with family and friends! It was great for me to reflect on all the things I am incredibly thankful for.

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!

Blogs

I have been such a bum lately when it comes to blogging. I have been extremely busy with school and work. I am on campus from 7:45-4 on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. On Tuesdays from 10:30-6 and Thursdays from 12-3. Thursday is the only day that I spend more hours in the day with Josh than on campus (besides the weekend of course)! What a bummer. And, unfortunately Tuesdays and Thursdays are the days that Josh is on UVU campus. We are surviving though. We really thought it was going to be worse. We still feel very blessed. But as you can imagine, most of my nights are spent doing homework, making dinner and hanging out with my best friend. They are not spent blogging. I really want to blog more though because there is so much to say!

Despite how busy we are, we have managed to have some fun!

Most recently, Josh's brother Morgan and his wife Jenn rolled into Provo. They were living in Seattle selling for the summer and they are going to live here until next summer when they go somewhere else to sell. We are very excited to have more family here! They rolled in around 3am on Wednesday night/Thursday morning. We went over to their little house on Thursday and helped them clean a little bit. I think Josh and Morgan are loving it because Jenn and I have made dinner every night for them. :) It's going to be great learning all these new recipes from Jenn. She loves cooking and she's really good! We're going to do a lot of cooking. Maybe it will encourage me to cook for Josh more.

Today we spent our day watching conference with Morgan and Jenn. In between sessions Josh and I drove to Target and walked around, just to get out of the house. We love Target, what can we say. Walking around Target just happened to turn into spending $61.38 at Target. Still not sure how that one happened. Oh well? :/ Josh and Morgan are at priesthood session now and so I cleaned the whole house. Then I looked at what homework I have for Monday but decided I would rather spend my time writing this blog.

Josh and I are having dinner alone tonight. We're making salmon! We made some a couple of weeks ago and cooked it in tin foil in the oven. This time, we're cooking it on the grill. We bought cedar planks at Target to cook them on. One of the contributors to the $61.38. But it should be delicious.

Our birthdays are coming up. My birthday is in 4 days and Josh's is in 23 days. I can't believe how fast my birthday has snuck up on me! I will be 21. Pretty insane. That's not as big as Josh though, he is going to be the big 25! He is pretty excited.

I have asked for only a handful of things for my birthday. I'm not expecting to get all of them. I just gave Josh a list of things I wanted.

First and foremost: A laptop. It's my own fault that I don't have a working laptop. My old one broke and Josh never said I couldn't get a new one, but he told me I had to take it to get it looked at and I didn't want to, so it never got done. So in a sneaky way of getting out of that, I asked for one for my birthday. I don't want an expensive one. I asked for either a netbook or a very small scale laptop. We'll see.

Second: A cell phone. My phone broke at the amusement park in South Carolina on a water ride. I've been using our free one from when we first got our contract with AT&T. It works great but it the simplest cell phone that doesn't really do anything but make calls and text. It works for now, but eventually I want something better.

Third: Socks. With winter quickly approaching, I've really been wanting some warm socks. I have a lot, but I always love new ones!

Fourth: My new name put on my scriptures. I have a set of scriptures that don't have my name on them at all so I asked to get my new name put on them. That would be fun!

That's pretty much all I could think of. I know it sounds like a lot, especially with that hefty first gift but it was a need anyways that would have been bought at any point. It's just my lazy way of getting one. :)

Josh hasn't really told me what he wants for his birthday. He's pretty much said that we don't need to buy him anything, but that will not fly.

I think he wants a ski pass for the winter and a couple video games. Something like that, I should probably figure that out soon! Anyways, pretty exciting stuff.

Well that's about it for tonight. Most of our updates are done via pictures via facebook. So hopefully y'all look at those.

Lately...

We've been pretty busy lately but having a lot of fun! Here's a quick picture update on our lives.

In June, Josh and I went to our friend Jacob's family cabin in Logan, UT. While we were there we did a lot of really fun things! It was a great little break!

We went on a hike up the rocky mountain.



We played on the bed swing.



We visited the Logan temple.



We played horseshoes.



We stayed in Jacob's family's cabin in Logan.



For our first Fourth of July we spent our day at the Provo Summer Festival. It was a lot of fun! That night we went and bought some little fireworks and we went up in the mountain to watch the fireworks going off at the stadium of fire. We had a great view from the spot we found. We went back home afterwards and blew off the little fireworks we bought. We had a great day!





We left Provo at the beginning of July and headed to Nauvoo in the car. Driving across the country was very long and tiring but we made it safely.





Nauvoo was such an amazing experience. We got to tour the town, learn about the history of the Saints' stay there, and really feel the spirit of the gospel. We also got the opportunity to do a session in the Nauvoo temple. Nauvoo was incredible.


Joseph, Emma and Hyrum's gravestones and final resting place.



I caught a frog! And I saw my first fireflies!




Kiss on the Mississippi.



Josh and I in front of the Nauvoo temple.



Me and the twins jumping in front of the beautiful sunset!



Our wagon bed!



Stilts!



Nauvoo Pageant.



Nauvoo temple at night.



Carthage Jail where Joseph and Hyrum were killed.



After Nauvoo we took another drive from there to SC. It was about 15 hours and didn't feel as long because we were driving it behind josh's family. A few days after we got here we took a long weekend trip up to VA to visit Jamie, Mark, the kids and mom! We had a great time. We spent one day in DC and the rest hanging out and having fun. It was so fun to see y'all.

Josh says, "it's all about the come back" mom says, "it's all about coming back" :)



My South Carolina boy!



Us in front of the Lincoln Memorial.



Jumping in front of the Lincoln Memorial.



Spencer's T-ball game. Good hit!!



A visit to Ford's theater where Lincoln was shot and killed.



Being goofy with tourist shop glasses.



A cute picture of Taylor and Josh adoring the ceiling.



Since then we've been cleaning apartments for Bronson and Laurie's cleaning company. It's been very tiring but we're having a lot of fun. :) It sure is hot here! But I must admit, I like the humidity! :)