THE SUGAR BOWL

So its official we are going to New Orleans for the Sugar Bowl. Ty and I are so excited! Neither of us have ever been to New Orleans so we are excited to go see the place but we mostly just cant wait for the game against Alabama.

We are going with my parents and my little brother and all of my parents friends. So we should have a pretty good sized cheering section! But compared to Alabamas fan section it is going to be so small. Because Alabama is only a hop, skip and a jump away. Alot closer than we are!

We have to leave new years day at 4;00 a.m. so I guess that means we either have to stay up all new years eve night and not go to bed at all...Or just go to bed early! Probably option #1!

GO UTES!

p.s. I didn't really have much to blog about but I told Kort I would update my blog.

So Kort this post if for you!

TY AND MY BROTHER COLLIN

I WONDER WHY AL IS SMILING? HIS TEAM JUST GOT THEIR BUTTS KICKED!

TY & TODD

THANKSGIVING WEEKEND

So this was our first Thanksgiving together!!! It was a normal Thanksgiving for me; but wow was it different for Ty!

We spent Thanksgiving with my dads side of the family in the little podunk town of McDermit, Nevada. Population of 300! However, we have a huge family that all came so our Thanksgiving consisted of 40 people where Ty is used to having Thanksgiving with maybe 10 people. To make it even more different for him we had our feast at the "Say When" casino that my grandparents own! We had dinner, then played these silly little games that my grandma invented and then did some line and swing dancing! Then we went down a gambled a little bit where we lost about $20 dollars on the "Wheel of Fortune." But my mom being the luckiest person i know but in 25 cents and won $150 dollars!

There were so many people staying at my grandparents house that you could not walk without stepping on someone! Ty and I were lucky and both got a bed though!

On Friday Ty and the guys went out Cyote hunting for the day so me, my parents and Kayla my brothers girlfriend took a 3 mile walk into town! Of course, my dad had to then take Kayla on the tour of the old town to show her where he grew up and how different it is than city life! After that we went to Brunch with a few locals and I heard some crazy stories about my dad that make me feel alot less sorry about the hell I put him through! haha

After the guys got home we started our traditional tournament of Pinocle. It is the funnest card game out there! It requires alot of thinking and the ability to count cards. It took Ty awhile to catch on but once he did he was hooked! After that the rest of the weekend consisted of eating left over Thanksgiving dinner, and playing pinocle in our free time.

Friday night we went out with all the cousins and played good ol' kick the can! Not the best idea to play when it is that dark! Ty fell in a ditch and cut open both hands and his left knee. It is now Tuesday and his knee is still bleeding! Collin lost a tooth and my cousins Tyler, Barry, and Brandon all fell and scrapped themselves up a bit too! After that we went in and played poker dealers choice until about two in the morning. And walked away with about $20 dollars which made up for the money we lost at wheel of fortune!

Saturday we played pinocle all day long and then got all 40 people together that night and played scatagories. It was a blast!!! Then we took the 8 hour drive back home on Sunday!

Ty is a pretty quite guy and the Wilkinson family is loud and are always out to embarress the new guy! I felt kinda bad for him! But he fit in just great after awhile!

GO UTES, GO UTES, GO UTES!!!

GO UTES, GO UTES, GO UTES!!!!

So the utes are now "10-0" now! whoo-hoo!!! They have two more games left which they should have both of those games in the bag EASY! (even BYU should be a breeze for them this year!)

So the reason for this blog.... Ty and I have decided that if the Utes (which they will) so when the Utes make it to the BCS Fiesta bowl we are going to go! And we want to get a big group of friends to go with us too! We will carpool down to Arizona and make a vacation out of it!

We want to start putting this together so let me know soon if you are interested in going with us! It will be a blast!!!!

Halloween!

Halloween is our favorite holiday! Not only because we both LOVE to dress up but because that is the day that we met! So it was our one year of dating celebration in costumes! How perfect!

It took us forever to decide what we were going to dress up as! Then we finally decided on being pirates. We found me the cutest costume at a costume store but all the guy pirate costumes were either really really expensive or really ugly! So he made his own and it looked better than the ones we would have bought and cost ALOT less! Thats what I like!

On Halloween night we went to Todd And Kortneys house! All of our friends came and they looked so dang cute! I feel bad for Todd and Kort though because a party like that can really take a tole on your house! They had a few broken chairs (which kort wasn't too mad because she gets her new table) and some stains in the carpet.

HOUSE HUNTING

EXCITING NEWS! We are on the hunt for a new home. We bought the one we are in now last Feb. when we decided to tie the knot! It has been very good for us and still is. However, after much thought and delibriation we have decided to go bigger. Reason is because right now we can get an amazing deal on a much bigger home with about the same payments as we are making right now. If we wait until we need to expand we might not be able to get into something as nice or as big or our payments could skyrocket! so now is the time...

So you might be asking..."what are you going to do with your current home?" We are going to rent it out! That is the other great part! Right now rents in Utah are at the highest they have ever been because so many people cannot qualify for loans! So we will actually be making money on our home!

We have been looking in Herriman, Riverton, Lehi, Draper, and South Jordan. We have narrowed it down to just a few but I think we will end up in the South Jordan area. I am so excited! Here are a few of the homes that we are looking at!

HUNTING SEASON IS OVER :(

Hunting season is official over for the Jeffers family... We started out with the bow hunt in August and ended with the rifel hunt last weekend. This was just not Ty's year either.

On the bow hunt we literally didn't see a thing! At first we thought there was no deer out because of the full moon the night before but as the hunt went on and we saw nothing but doe's and came to the conclussion that the bucks knew it was hunting season and were staying as far away as they could. (Or just that we had a bad hunt, but we like to think it was the deer's fault and not ours... hehe)

Next, the elk/rifel hunt was an experiance. It rained, hailed, and snowed the entire time we were up there. It was so cold that there was no way i was going to go out hunting with Ty and his brother. So me and Carlee stayed in the trailer for 4 days straight playing cards, watching movies, and chit-chatting while the boys froze their butts off and didn't bring home anything. The first day out is the only day they saw a herd of elk. However, they did not draw any special tags this year so they could only shoot a spike. And it just so happened that spikes were the only thing that the herd did not consist of! The rest of the hunt they did not see another elk. But they did see that five point buck that we were looking for back on the bow hunt and they saw a huge moose that was so close it would have been a once in a lifetime shot!

After this experiance of hunting I have decided: One, that it is too cold for me to go out on the elk hunt and i will only participate in the bow/deer hunt. And two, you only see what you are not looking for when you are hunting! And finally my final conclusion: WE ARE GOING TO MONTANA TO HUNT NEXT YEAR! WHOO HOO!

SHE WAS SO DIRTY SHE LOOKED LIKE A LITTLE GREY WOLF!

THE HONEYMOONERS

OUR DATING STORY

OUR DATING STORY!!!...

*WHERE DID YOU MEET? Newbolds house. He was actually dating my friend Whitney when we first met! Weird... But then in October at a Halloween party all of our friends set us up!

*WHAT WAS THE FIRST THING YOU SAID TO YOUR HUBBY? "Why do you guys call me dress?" - I guess they started calling me dress because the first time they met me i was wearing a sun dress and there where like 3 other jessica's there so it was the easiest thing to call me.

*WHERE WAS YOUR FIRST DATE? The haunted forest in Lehi! We went with Newbold and whit, melissa and brandon, and Al and Jess.

*WHERE WAS YOUR FIRST KISS? On Newbolds couch! But Ty was living at Newbolds so i guess ty couch! I know super romantic...

*HOW LONG WERE YOU DATING BEFORE YOU GOT MARRIED? 9 months

*WHAT DID YOU NOTICE FIRST ABOUT EACH OTHER? I noticed his perfect smile, he noticed my huge eyes.

*HOW DID HE ASK YOU TO MARRY HIM? He asked me on Easter. He sent me on an Easter egg hunt to all of the places that were special to us and then the last stop was home where he made a huge dinner that was so romantic! that is where he asked me!

WEDDING DAY!

WEDDING: JUNE 30TH, 2008

A FEW FACTS...

*WHERE WE GOT MARRIED: At Rose Sachs Gardens. About 3 miles up Parleys Canyon.

*BRIDESMAIDS WERE: Symmer Andrews, Steph Ahn, Kortney Schultz, Stacy Little, and Kristy Jeffers

*GROOMSMAN WERE: Al Mitch, John Jeffers, Colby Jeffers, Todd Schultz, Collin Wilkinson

*THE WEATHER WAS: Really hotttt during the ceremony but then it cooled down and it was PERFECT!

*WE SPENT THE NIGHT AT: Anniversary Inn! Thats all the detail you get!

*ONE THING I WILL NEVER FORGET: Is the way Ty looked at me when I was walking down the isel! He started crying... which i didn't expect.

*OUR RECEPTION WAS AT: At Rose Sachs outside by the waterfalls

*OUR COLORS WERE: Lime green and Brown.

*OUR FLOWERS WERE: Calla Lilys, Pussy Willows, Buttons, and Sticks

*ONE FAVORITE PART OF THE RECEPTION: Cutting the Cake

*WE FIRST DANCED TOO: "My Bestfriend" - Tim McGraw

*LOOKING BACK I WOULD HAVE: Used a different officiator. She just kept talking and talking! Other than that... not a thing!

*I WISH THE WEDDING PARTY: Would not have decorated our car so much! I still find stuff to this day!

*WE WERE ORIGINAL BECAUSE: Ty walked down the isle to "MONDY NIGHT FOOTBALL" Theme song.

*WE HONEYMOONED: In Orlando, Florida!

*WE HAVE BEEN MARRIED FOR: Like 4 months! whoo hoo!

*LIFE TODAY: Is better than ever before!!!

*SINCE OUR WEDDING WE HAVE ADDED: A new addition to our family... Eska Lou Jeffers! and... Many, Many, Many new memories!