Bishop Pickett

Over the weekend we got to make a quick trip to Washington.  My dad was made the bishop of their ward.   I know that both my parents are going to do so well in this calling.  They are both such good examples and we love them so much!  I am so happy we were able to come up to support them this weekend.  They both spoke in church and did such a great job.  I am so proud of you both!  I know you you will do great and you are just the people for the job.  

On Saturday we had the opportunity to go to the Portland temple for the first time with all of our family.  It was awesome to be able to be in the temple with all of my siblings, parents, and even my grandparents.  I am so grateful for all of them!  I love my family so much! 

Burnt Food, Crafts, and Homemaid Tortillas!

This is chicken, with bbq sauce, in a crockpot. 

We accidently left it in there overnight and this is what we found in the morning. haha 

 Looks yummy, right? 

 Lately I have been obsessed with the website Pintrest.  It has so many cute ideas on it and yummy recipes!  I love it.  This is one of the ideas it had on there.. I'm not sure if I actually like it.. but it was fun to make!  There are so many more things I want to try!

I was doing some homework in our family room and I walked into the kitchen and found Christian like lookin like a real chef. He got this hat and apron for one of his cooking classes and he thought it would be funny to wear it. haha He made some delicious home maid tortillas and fajita stuff.  I could seriously eat the tortillas like candy!! Yummmmmm!!!

Our First Apartment

We have finallllllly got our house somewhat decorated... so here it is... our very first apartment!! The pictures are a little out of order.. but I didn't want to take the time to fix them.. so here it is anyways!!

Entry way bookshelf. We reused our wedding decorations a lot in our house.  It has worked out great!! 

Our cute little kitchen table.

My sisters gave me the letters for a shower present... aren't they cute?! 

Our kitchen! 

The front room! My Grandma Dody and Grandpa Norval gave us our couch and loveseat for our wedding.  We love them so much and we are so grateful for to have them!  We still have a little more decorating to do in this room.. but we will get there eventually.

Our cute upstairs bathroom! I tried to take a picture of the downstairs one.. but it was to small to get a picutre of.  It is green and brown and super cute! 

The office.  We decided to reuse the creepy larger than life poster from our wedding because no one really goes in that room.. and we think it is funny. haha Also, we are in the market for an office chair.. so if you have one.. let us know! ;)

The office closet aka Christians closet.... 

and my closet.. haha 

that's the one thing we don't share!  It works out pretty nicely if you ask me!! 

Our cute bed!  We are also in the market for a bed frame.. so if anyone has one of those they want to donate.. feel free!

Our table centerpiece! 

Closeup on the bookshelf!  

Anyways.. that is it!  Thanks everyone for all of the wedding presents.  Almost everything in our house is a gift from one of you. We are so grateful for everything.  It has helped us make our house into a home.  So thank you, thank you, thank you! 

Married life

Beware... this post is all "newly weddly". (I don't think that is a real word.. and my sister Katie is probably bugged to death because I just made it up... but I'm sticking with it!)

Today we have been married for 2 months :) There are so many things about being married that I love.  I feel so lucky that I get to be with my best friend all the time.  I love going to bed to my hot hubby's goodnight kisses and waking up to his sweet good morning kisses.  We always have fun together.  He still makes me laugh harder than anyone else.  He is oh so supportive in everything I do, even if it is something like quiting my job.  He takes care of me so well.  We can sit on the couch and watch Greys anatomy, read a book, or dance in the kitchen while we are making dinner and its always fun.  No matter what I am happiest when I am with him.  It's nice to know that I will always have a date.  No matter what. And I love thinking about our future together.  I love introducing myself as Abbie Johnson and I love introducing him as my husband christian.  Anyways, It's the best knowing that me and him are forever. I love you Christian!! 

Bear Lake Reunion

Every year Christians Mom's family gets together at Bear Lake for their family reunion.  A few of the families stay at a Condo on Ideal beach and then the rest of us camp!  Christians uncle John brought his boat up so we got to play on that a ton! I've had a lot of stomach issues recently, and somehow I went through the weekend stomach pain free! It was so nice :) I can't wait for the 2012 reunion!   It was awesome! 

I know.. we look pretty in the morning right?  This is our campsite! 

This is Christians little sister Rachel and our cousin Gabe!  

They love those stuff animals. 

Here are the cooks at the campsite.  John and Robyn! They made yummy french toast and bacon! 

Christians cousins, Garret and Cameron! 

We love the beach! 

Christians cousin Aaron got to leave his wheel chair and come to the beach! 

Don't you think some Egyptian music should be playing?  He looks like the king! 

We had so much fun on the tube! We only fell off a few times ;) 

 

Garret and Christian rode the tube together.  After a lot of work John finally got them off.  This is Christian trying to swim.  For some reason.. he just can't!  Luckily he had a life jacket on.. or else we would have had a dead Christian.  

There is a pool at the condo!  Everyone likes to go there when it gets to cold to swim. 

The younger cousins! 

Christians Grandma Roos! She is awesome! 

Here are most of the cousins!  We weren't here for this picture... but I thought it was cute :) They made duck tape wallets! 

Date Night!

We went on a date for our one month anniversary!  We went to a local italian restaurant called Le None.  It was so good! I got some stuffed pasta and Christian got a chicken with some yummy tomato sauce. Then we went to our favorite place to get ice cream! AKA Charlys!  At the end of the night I had a serious food baby, but it was well worth it! Married life is the best :) 

Honeymoon!

For our honeymoon we went to St. George and then up to Las Vegas!  It was so nice to be able to relax and just be with each other for a week before we had to get back to regular life.  In St. George we stayed in Christian's aunt Angie's sisters vacation home. haha It was HUGE and way over our heads. hahaha There was so much technology, we could barely figure out how to turn on the TV.  For the few days that we were in St. George we just hung out.  We swam in the pool a lot, ate A LOT, and went to Tuacon theater to see Grease! It was way hot outside so we tried to stay inside as much as possible. But overall it was really fun! :) 

This is our attempt at a self timer.  He almost made it in the picture ;) haha 

This is tuacon! It is an out door theater.  After the show we wanted to watch the real Grease so we did! I remember the movie being a lot better than it actually was.. But the musical was way good! 

Somehow we forgot to take pictures in Vegas... But after St. George we headed up to Las Vegas for the night.  We stayed in the Treasure Island hotel.  During the day we walked the strip and went and ate at the Hard Rock Cafe!  It was so so so so freaking delicious!  That night we went to see cirque de sole. We saw the show Mystier.  We loved it!  I still can't get over some of the things the people did in the show.  They were INSANE!