Re-visiting the big #28

Finally got  my hands on some of the pics from Chase's birthday party in January!  Just thought I'd share them!!

I sure love this guy :)

Birthday Boy

Me & Bri rockin the Red Heads

The guys at PF Changs

Where do I begin??

Wow... blogging is becoming a thing of the past I feel!!  It's so hard to bring myself to do it!  There has been many ups and downs since my last posting.  And unfortunately I have really slacked on the picture taking to document it all.  SAD.
Turkey Day was a success at the Phillips household.  Nothing caught on fire this year, and no one got hurt!!  We had fun going down to see the Temple lights.  We rode the Front Runner down and had a great night!

  We had a night on the town and went to see the Cody Jordan Band play live at Teasers in Ogden.  It's a dive, but given the right company it can be fun!  We are now in love with the music that comes from this band.  Check them out, you won't regret it!

Well Christmas came and went.  We had so much fun in Idaho with the fam.  We went sledding up at Pomerelle.  It was a blast!!  We had a great hill and had my dad groom a track for us!  Seriously, I had forgotten how much fun sledding is!  Santa spoiled me and Chase ( I'm seriously the best Santa ever)... I got a super cute new Columbia coat and some other great things.  Chase got the watch he's been eyeballing FOREVER and some other random items.

The New Year was kind of lame this year.  I was oh so ill with a wicked head-cold so we didn't do anything exciting.  Chase turned 28 on Jan 8th.  I threw him a birthday party down in SLC.  It was amazing!  We had dinner at PF Changs (super delish), and then went to Keys on Main (a dueling piano bar).  It was such a great night.  Chase got called up on stage and had to sit on one of the piano's while they sang him a song.  I of course have no pictures to document it.  I could scream!!  We stayed at Little America with some friends and enjoyed their breakfast buffet Sunday morning.  Wow... it was so good!

Work for me was going good.  Seemed like things were finally working out.  And then on a lovely Monday morning at work I lost my job.  Yaayyy..... best thing ever to start a week off!!  It was a weird situation and I was really pissed about it at first.  But I have decided that things happen for a reason, and I'm going to take advantage of this!  Things at the salon are going great, so I'm hoping to keep growing my clientelle and not have to find another office job!!  My house is finally getting the TLC it has needed for a while, and I'm getting to learn how to deal with "going with the flow"  which for those of you who know me, it's extremely hard!!  I am a planner through and through, so for me to not know what each day is going to bring is agonizing!!  But I'm dealing!

Other than that, life is good in Willard!  Hope everyone has a HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!!

The Sun is Gone... The Leaves Have Fallen... The Snow is Coming

Ya... it's been quite a while since we've had an update!!  It's not because we aren't doing anything!!  Life has become quite a whirlwind these past few months!  I'll just hit the highlights these last few months!!

SEPTEMBER:

My 26th Birthday!!  Wasn't super excited about it!!  But it turned out awesome!  I got my hair cut and colored that day (what girl doesn't love that?), I got a beautiful bouquet of roses, and 2 JOBS!!!  Yay... just what every girl dreams of... a job for her birthday gift!!  ha ha... I can laugh now because it has turned into an amazing opportunity for me.  Chase got me a room at Split-Enz salon in N. Ogden to do my esthetics.  While he was arranging that, I was interviewing for an office job at MOSC-Affiliates in S. Ogden!!  Well... I got them both!  More to come on the salon stuff later!

We took a trip to Lake Powell with some super fun people!!  I have missed that place for the last few years!!  Thanks Mike & Stephanie for the chance to enjoy life again!!

OCTOBER:

We decided to celebrate Halloween to the fullest this year.  So Chase got a wild hair and we put on a haunted house in Brigham City at the old Indian Schools!!  It was stressful, but guess what... IT WAS AWESOME!!  Everyone who came through loved it!!  We broke even and considered that a success considering we did ZERO advertising for it!  It is now going to be a yearly Phillips Family event!! 

Chase's brother talked us into going on a "ghost tour" with a group of friends.  We were under the impression that this tour would take us around SLC and let us tour some haunted buildings while hearing about some awesome story's or perhaps experiencing our own.. Boy were we wrong!! Thank goodness for fun friends and imagination!!  We didn't get to get off the bus hardly at all, and the story teller was HORRIBLE!!  But it was a fun time being out!

Yes.. he's laying on a grave.  FREAKY!

My annual girls night with Camille and Lindy was a hit again this year.  We hit up Nightmare on 13th in SLC and headed up to dirty Dee's for some icecream afterward.  It was a night full of laughter, screaming, running and me getting called mom by some radio dj.  Thanks dick!

Time to get going!!

Well I've been thinking it in my head for months now!  I took the first step to getting my own thing going with my lashes and waxing and other various esthetics services!!  MY BUSINESS CARDS ARRIVED TODAY!!  Next step is to paint and re-arrange the extra bedroom to be a little more comfortable!!  Here we go!!

Bragging Rights...

I needed to share my newest creation with everyone. I have been wanting a cute jewelry holder for some time now!! This idea has been brewing in my mind for over a month now. I finally sat down and put it together! I have to admit, I'm like a school girl getting to show off her winning art project to people! I LOVE IT!!

It's only missing the finishing touch here. I have a cute little knob to screw in the wall above it and staple some cute ribbon to it so it's hanging from the knob! And I was toying with the idea of having a cute little vinyl saying made: "I just want to be fabulous" quoted by Miss Marilyn Monroe herself!! What do you think?

Better Late than NEVER, right??

Well July came and went almost as fast as a storm blowing over Willard Bay!! We had a crazy busy month, and made some great memories!!

Over the 4th we headed up to Bear Lake with the Phillips' side. It was a lot of fun, but the one day we went to the beach it was overcast and kind of chilly! Needless to say, no sun for me! And I'm not sure why, but I have ZERO pictures from the whole trip! I am starting to slack on the photog side of life!

Shortly after that little trip we celebrated Chase's sister's wedding! It was a lot of work! She had it at the Phillips' residence in Morgan, so we all got to help out getting things ready. I'll tell you one thing.... this family sure does pull together some dang amazing decorating/set up!! We had a great time hanging out with all the friends and fam that came to celebrate! Congrats to Whitni & Rob! We love you guys!

During July Chase and I also celebrated our 3 year Anniversary!! I can't even believe 3 years has gone by! I don't want to get all mushy or anything, but I am so thankful for every day that goes by knowing that I have a companion like Chase to spend my life with. He is amazing and I can see the progress we have made together and it is amazing how much two people can grow together. I get excited thinking about our future together and starting our own little family. (no this is not an announcement!!) We celebrated in style, as usual!! Would you expect anything less from us?! We headed to Park City for the weekend! We were completely spoiled that weekend, we got to stay in a HUGE house in Deer Valley (thanks Shelley!!) it had more space than we could ever use! The hot tub out back was nice too! Chase had won a gift cert. to Ruth's Chris Steak House at a title convention earlier this summer, so we got to enjoy one of the best steaks I have ever tasted in my life!! I'm not joking! We headed out to the Alpine Slide and the Alpine Coaster. Oh we laughed and laughed!! It was like being a kid again! Such a great place to spend time together! And we ventured out to the Farmer's Market on Main Street. It was amazing!! They had live bands playing, food cooking every where and some of the most unique vendors ever!! I want to go back before it's over! So that's a re-cap of our LOVER'S WEEKEND!!

I love you Chase Phillips!!

Let the Sun SHINE!!!

Wow!! What a busy month we have had!! My mind goes blank when I try to remember what exactly it's been busy with, but I swear... there is SOMETHING! In the last post we were just working on the front flower bed and the patio. And now they are FINISHED!! I am so happy, and now I'm just patiently waiting for my flowers to BLOOM!

Love me my Poppy's!
The full view

Chase has also finished our patio project! I could not be happier with how it turned out! I LOVE it, and more importantly, I love Chase for being such a hard worker and getting it done!!