Okay, so I realize this isn't a picture of me, but I thought this was a great picture of grandma and grandpa with a cute little addition. Hopefully they'll still be around when I have a little cutie to take pictures with them!
...And the next generation of grandpa. Poor Mr. Charlie who would only go to sleep being bounced a certain way...grandpa did a pretty good job, huh?
On our drive home, we needed a break after driving across the reservation in Arizona, so we stopped at the north edge of the grand canyon and took some fun pictures. And Stella was in a great mood (and AJ and I were a little bit too hyper :)




And since I don't really put many pictures of Nathan and I (and since this is supposed to be a blog of US) I thought I'd put one of our cute engagement pictures back when my hair would do what I wanted it to. :) Plus, it's a good picture, eh? I think we look like clothing models. He he

This is me in my new glasses. In case you didn't know, I got glasses. :) I have been having trouble reading and getting lots of headaches, so I went to the eye doctor and found out I need them for reading, but also that I have astigmatism -- three times worse in my right eye than my left!
Last Friday, Nathan, his friend Damien, his girlfriend Natalya and I decided to do something super crazy. We went to the hot springs down by Fillmore when it was probably about 0 degrees outside. This is what happened to our hair by the time we got from the spring back to the car (about 200 yards of running to keep from getting hypothermia). It was an adventure, but I don't think I'll ever do it again when it's that cold!

Okay, I'll admit this pictures pretty gross, but I wanted you all to see my owie. I fell on the ice when I was walking to work one morning and ripped my favorite pants and ruined my favorite shoes, as well as ripping up my knee and foot. It still hurts. :(
And the best picture! I promised at least Melanie and mom that I would take a picture with Stella in her Ugs. She's such a cute, silly little munchkin. She also has some very-80's-style high top tennis shoes. They're pretty awesome. :)

EMO! This is for those of you (AJ and Ben) who don't know what Emo is (for those of you confused about why I'm even putting Emo stuff, go to www.thendcoxes.blogspot.com ). Sorry, they're not great pictures, but they give you the idea...



NOT EMO!!!! I just thought that since this post looks extremely bleak and...not like me...I'd put a good picture. This is a good man. See? You don't have to dress crazy to be important/noticed!

This is for those of you who don't live in Provo, but hear me talk about our friends here. Before Christmas, we had a little party with the people in this picture (and AJ and Josh). The couple on the far left is James and Amy Drysdale. James is an accounting major like Nathan. Then there's us (I look like a freak in this picture, by the way, but...whatever). The couple to the right of us is Troy and Lindsey Tanner. We probably spend the most time with them. It's funny because Nathan and Lindsey are very similar and Troy and I are similar. We and they are proof that opposites attract! The couple next to the Tanners is Jeremy and Hannah Zitting. They are our next door neighbors and they love playing games with us as well! We have great friends!

Merry Christmas!

Okay, so none of these pictures are very Christmas-like, but they are what I took over the break! We got a new camera for Christmas from Nathan's parents, so hopefully, I'll start being better at taking pictures!












This first one is just a picture dad took of Nathan and me. We don't have any pictures of us except for our engagement and wedding pictures. I guess it's about time we take some more!


Nathan became obsessed with Monopoly over Christmas break, so he played a few times. He never won. :)











Lindsey and Kim had a blast in the hot tub "poppin the bubbly." I joined them and even ran around in the snow and jumped back in the hot tub. (I am wearing a swimming suit even though it doesn't look like it. It only has one strap...)














Jakey Wakey loved the attention Lindsey gave him so he had to make sure she gave him ALL her attention. It was pretty random.

"A freakin' 12-gauge, waddaya think?" I shot a gun this weekend. Two of them, actually. And one was, in fact, a freakin' 12-gauge. It kinda hurt, but only for a second. I don't have a picture of me shooting it, but included is a picture of Kippy shooting a 22 (which I also shot) and Nathan holding the 12-gauge in the back. Looks big, huh? :)










This is Nathan and the deer he shot with his dad. I tried to avoid sending the pictures with the deer's insides showing. I don't want to get nauseous when I look at my own blog (no, I'm not pregnant).











And the girls, who spent the weekend having fun! We watched Gilmore Girls, played with each other's hair and Kim did Mel's makeup. I cut Suzie's bangs (which is the last time I cut hair. Ever :).

My Daddy
Since Momma can't seem to find time to post stuff, I thought I'd post this silly one of dad from when Xander was born. I wasn't there, but mom sent me the pictures and now this picture is on my desktop at work. One of the professors was a little confused as to why I had that picture up... :) If he only knew...

My Fishy! Here's a picture of my beautiful fish that Nathan surprised me with on Friday. His name is Pez and I love him. :)


Alas, it wasn't meant to be. He died today. Good thing I tried a fish before I tried a kid. I'm definitely not ready. You can all cry with me if you'd like. :(

Happy Halloween!...A little late. Finally I have a bit of time to put up these pictures. These are just some fun pics from carving pumkins at Martha's and then my Halloween party at work. Stella was the star of the evening in her little skunk costume. :)


This is the picture Nathan took right before he stabbed me with a pumpkin poker. It has finally healed (I also stabbed myself in the finger, lest you think he's the only one stabbing me).
These are our pumkins! (the two on the right. Mine and Nathan's is the fish...I was a little bit obsessed...And AJ and Josh's is the one with the Stars! Wait til you see the back!)
Okay! Here's the back. In case you can't tell, it says "Stella" I think these two are a little bit obsessed with their kid... :) This is at my work party. I am a gypsy (that was fun) and Nathan is the Brawny man -- he thought of that in about 2 minutes. :)
For those of you who haven't seen "Over the Hedge" the skunk on that movie is named Stella. What a perfect costume, huh? She was the highlight of my work party -- she even got some votes for the best costume.

My Babies!
Okay, so maybe they aren't really my babies...and maybe I should be doing homework instead of creating collages...but it's so CUTE! (and it will have to do until I get my fish!)

Trip to Moab

This is all the girls who went, minus Paige who wasn't feeling well and was sleeping: Mikelle, Carolyn, Lindsey, me and Meredith













Then the boys: Darrin, Ethan, Nathan, Jordan and Bennett (all looking very pensive, I might add).


We took this picture of the girls while we were waiting for the boys to get back from mountain biking. We actually took about a thousand pictures with our phones before I realized I had a real camera with me...






This is Nathan and I next to Landscape Arch -- the one we're all hoping to be there for when it falls cause it's gonna be cool!
And the slightly gay looking fellow is Darrin. :)
He climed this rock and couldn't quite figure out
how to get down, so he started acting like his
brother-in-law who, apparently, has...tendencies... :)
We were all laughing pretty hard.

Okay, here's a bunch from the wedding. Good thing it's taken me over 3 months to get them up. We haven't even printed any of them either. :) Anyway...

Here are some of our engagement pictures. Take a look!