The McCauley's

Christmas Deadlines

2011-11-17T11:27:00.001-07:00

I've ran myself too short this holiday season, as of today, I need to complete 4 blankets, and 4 scarfs before Christmas. YIKES!!! I don't know how I'm going to be able to pull this off. Especially since we are shopping for a new home at this time as well... Wish me luck, I'm going to need it.

Brutis's Sweater

2009-11-02T18:32:00.003-07:00

So, I made this Sweater for Brutis. It took me a few days, but I knew we would be at the Farm in Eureka this weekend, and knew we would be outside most of the day, and night. So I decided to make Brutis a sweater to keep him warm, and of course he hated it. It took me 20 minutes to get it on him tonight. So the first picture is him trying to bite it off, the next, I had to have Alex hold him so I could get a simi-good picture of him in it. And of course, it came right off, as soon as "mom" was done taking her pictures...

From Red to Black!

2009-10-31T18:44:00.000-06:00

So I decided it was time for a change. I went from my natural hair color - red to Black for Halloween. I like it more then what I thought I would. Just wanting till mom sees it... Ha ha ha...

Our New Boy

2009-10-27T21:31:00.003-06:00

So Alex surprised me with a Puppy for our Anniversary. It's been ONE YEAR!!! "We made it!" we kept telling each other on that special day. Here is our 6 week old pitbull Brutis:

Our Anniversary and Alice Cooper?

2009-10-13T18:54:00.000-06:00

So for our one year Anniversary, we decided to go all out... or at least Alex did :) Alex's whole family's favorite band is Alice Cooper. And he just happened to be coming to Wendover the weekend of our Anniversary, so of course we got tickets and went to the show. And... it was the best show I have ever seen.

Our Boy

2008-12-25T12:47:00.004-07:00

We got our Breaded Dragon even before we were married and was some what a pain with moving him between my parents and Alex's home. We got the Lizard from Alex's cousin. We have re-named our Lizard Tweak as he has a twitch when he's excited or wants out of his cage.

The Married Life

2008-12-13T14:34:00.000-07:00

... From all I heard and was told about marriage... it turned to be quite interesting. There was truth in all that was said but all very different from what I expected. First off... how I was to know that habits would really bother me, as far as cleaning things especially. I've always had my clean clothes pile and my dirty pile, and that really gets under his skin, but leaving out dirty dishes and pans and not taking out the garbage... or throwing stuff away when the garbage can is only 3 steps away! That really gets to me.

... We even had separate rooms where we could put all our stuff and have it separate since we don't play well when it comes to organizing. But now my Sister is to move in with us and that has to change; and he's having a hard time with it. He does not understand why a girl has to have so much make-up, jewelry, clothes, or pictures. He has a LOT to learn. Well... I guess I do to. I remember being completely calm and ready for the wedding plans to be done, then the day of... it was like "Holy cow! Am I ready for this? Am I going to be able to have to share everything on mine and all of me with another person? Will this last? Will he even show up? Will he dance with? Is he having the same questions running through his head? Does he realize what we are doing?" So many questions! I felt dizzy, could have been I hadn't ate anything all day... yeah that must have been it... no food made me dizzy. :) Me and my sister Michelle ran to the church 10 minutes before the Ceremony was to begin and I FORGET THE MARRIAGE LICENSE. Thank goodness we only lived 5 minutes from the church, so Michelle ran and grabbed it. She gave it to the Bishop who got everyone to sign it. Then there we were, Michelle, Addi (my niece) and me and my Dad. Michelle started walking down the isle, and then Addi got nervous, and I almost thought she was going to run to her parents, but then she started walking. My Dad turned to me and hugged me the last time I was his little girl and told me he was proud of me then we started walking down the isle. As we were walking I looked at Alex. Who looked so good in all white, standing proudly by him was his dad, Jason. Alex looked at me and immediately tears started building up, and he looked away. My Heart stopped beating and I nearly started crying myself. Then when we were standing in front of the bishop, he would look at me, then if i looked at him, he would look away. It was funny but cute. Later he told me the reason for the tear up was that I looked so pretty. The most interesting part is inter-mixing our lives. Alex went to my Christmas party and even though he knows a few people he still was quiet and hid from talking to people. And he's Christmas party is this Saturday. I hope I'm not the same way, but they are people he knows even though I heard stories I just can't approach them. I think the thing I fear most... is re-living last year at his company Christmas party. We were only dating at the time, but as soon as we got there is just started walking up to his co-workers and started talking like they never finished talking at work then would introduce me later to them... it was interesting to feel like you were arm candy and not a person. But by the time the night was almost through and most of the Company was drunk it got fun. We were sitting by some crazy-funny couple who would just jump from one subject to the next; it was the funniest thing! . We will be working on the mixing our lives for a while it seems. . It'll all be worth it.

Our Wedding

2008-10-24T14:12:00.000-06:00

Our House

2008-10-24T13:55:00.000-06:00

We have moved into our new home. It's so big... from used to living in Apartments and having just a room to hold our house, to move to a 3 Bedroom home... it's unreal. Here are some Pictures of it, and once I get our home cleaned up a bit then I post those :) Here's Alex hanging up our Blinds. Yes, their Temp blinds, but that's a lot better then no blinds.

Bridals

2008-10-13T11:11:00.004-06:00

The Bridals: This was such a fun day! I took the day off to get ready for these pictures. My mom helped me and by the time we got downtown we were already done with the day... we ran to long and hard and were exhausted. Right before these pictures were taken, I was asked by the lady doing my pictures to look toward the sun to get the lighting right and; Oh my! I got the biggest migraine! All and all it was a great day, some quality time spend with my mom that was well needed.

Engagement

2008-09-20T11:58:00.000-06:00

We have been talking about Marriage for about a year now. And Alex got used to calling me his wife 6 months before we were officially engaged. We had been somewhat looking at rings but neither one us ready to actually buy one, then one day we decided to walk to the mall. I was somewhat unsure about it, I didn't want to get my hopes up for fear that we would get there and we wouldn't find anything or it would be like every other time and we would walk out empty handed. Well we both finally found what we wanted. We both found exactly what we wanted. And my mom was a doll and such a sweetheart and agreed to take our engagement pictures which I absolutely love!