Happy Hour!

I've decided it's about time to let everyone know about the greatness of Happy Hour here in Portland! For those of you not familiar, "Happy Hour" is very common in restaurants all over Portland. The "Happy Hour" menu is discounted a lot! The restaurants intentions are to make all their money off alcoholic drinks. However, since we are a bunch of LDS people we just get cheap food! It's amazing! We can usually eat dinner for $12 or less for the both of us! We have a group of us that usually go to enjoy it while we can! There are about 5 or 6 couples that go and we are always squeezed around these little tables. It is quite the sight! We will have to take a picture sometime. We usually get weird looks when we all order a round of waters (or pop if they make you do a drink purchase), but we're okay with that! It has been a lot of fun to try more expensive restaurants at a very cheap price! I would recommend looking into "Happy Hour" at your local restaurants. However, I don't think you will find any in Utah.

6/6 Tag

My friend, Heather Harris, tagged me! What I'm supposed to do is post the 6th picture from my 6th picture folder. I arrange my folder's alphabetically, so this is from my "Birthday" folder from this past June. It was our first birthday celebrated together! Tyler decorated our apartment with streamers and balloons to surprise me when I got home from class. I think this picture is actually already on our blog. I tag Danielle, Megan, Malorie, and Marissa! Have fun girls!

Big News!

I think we have waited long enough to announce our big news! We are pregnant! We are so excited for this little baby! I am ready for it to be born now, but we will have to wait until the end of May. I have had some pretty bad morning sickness (but it's all day long and worst at night). I am hoping that it will subside in a couple weeks when my first trimester is over! Tyler and I both have a hunch that it is a girl, but we won't find that out for a while longer. Tyler has been great at doing pretty much everything around the house on top of his school work because of how I have been feeling. I'm so glad he's amazing and willing to do all of it!

All Hallows Eve!

This Halloween was a blast! Our friends threw a rockin' Halloween Party! We bobbed for apples, ate dough nuts off a string, watched the Balzer's game, played some Wii, and ended the night with the greatest movie ever... Poltergeist II! (haha not really the greatest movie ever). Tyler and I had a few ideas for costumes, but finally settled on the easiest idea. It turned out great! I was a laundry basket and Tyler was static cling! So... here are a bunch of pictures!

Me and Tyler (obviously!)

Dr. Cameron and Dr. House AKA: Danielle and Steve Jackson

Biker Stud and Biker Babe AKA: Willie and Anne Fugere.

Cutest witch and die-hard UTES fan AKA: Megan and Tyler Scott

A scary clown and skeleton AKA: Jon and Malorie Hall

Obi Wan Kenobi, Princess Leia, and Yoda AKA: Stevenson, Marissa, and Spencer Smith
(PS I stole this from their blog because they didn't dress up for the party, but Spencer was the cutest little Yoda, I had to put it up here!)

The group of 1st years at the party!

Willie won the dough nut eating contest... he ended up eating off the floor! haha It was great entertainment to watch these guys!

My Tyler eating a powdered dough nut off a string!

And Tyler bobbing for apples with his head totally submerged in water! He got beat by Willie by .5 seconds! It was soo close!

Thanks for a great party Megan and Brittany! It was a blast!

I am Now the Bread-Winner of our Family

I finally have a job! After 2 1/2 months of searching, I got a job with KBC Management as an apartment manager. We will get free rent, plus salary. I will show apartments, collect rent, and keep the complex clean. The guy that was doing it before said it only takes about 10-15 hours a week, so that's something easy, and worth it! We are extremely excited to finally get income! However, this also means that we have to move! I am not looking forward to this. We just moved, and now we have to do it all over again. Hopefully we will stay put longer this time! So, mom if you want to come help us pack (like last time) I would love it! :)
We move in the weekend of the 7th and 8th of November, so in like 2 weeks! That's super soon, but it will be good for us. Luckily, we have friends that agreed to help us with the moving part.

The Life of a Wonderful Man

This past Saturday, Tyler's Grandpa Oldroyd passed away. We were lucky enough to be able to spend some of his last moments on Earth with him. He went very peacefully with all his children around him. His funeral is this Friday and all except 1 grandchild will be there. I think that is pretty neat!
Grandpa is the one that sealed us just 8 months ago in the Manti Temple. We are so lucky that he was well enough at that time to share that special day with us.

He is a great man and left a legacy here for us to live up to! We love and miss you grandpa!

Free Money

Last night one of the Fraternities at OHSU hosted a get together at the Artisan Dental Laboratory. Dental Labs are where they make EVERYTHING! They make crowns, bridges, dentures, veneers, etc. It was actually really neat to see how they do it. Artisan sponsored it and had a dinner before hand, tacos, which were really good. Then we went around and toured the place. At the end there were drawings for cash prizes! Tyler and I both have never won anything from a drawing before, so our hopes were not high. When we found out that there was a drawing we made a deal. If we won $100 (yeah right) then I could use some of the money to go shopping! I have been wanting to go shopping for a long time, but since I don't have a job yet I kind of can't. So... the 3 $50 cash drawings were over and we didn't win ... then it was onto the $100 drawings. They called the number 552 for the first $100 cash drawing and we won! We both kind of stood there at first waiting for it to register and then Tyler collected our prize! It's very exciting. And the best part is... I get to go shopping now!!! So, it was totally worth our while to go! Yay for sponsored events!

Oh... and on a side note! Today Tyler and I have been married for 8 wonderful months! Love you sweetie!

Beautiful Oregon

This weekend we got to spend some time with family! Tyler's Aunt Sue celebrated her 20 year anniversary on Saturday. They live in Corbett, OR. It is a gorgeous part of Oregon, and was perfect weather for a party. It was nice to finally meet Sue and see a lot of family, especially little Saylor!
After the party we went to the Vista House, it's on the Historic Scenic Highway from Portland to Hermiston. Tyler's parents came with us since it was on their way back to Hermiston. It was a really pretty drive and the view from the house was amazing!



This is overlooking the Columbia River. On the right side is Oregon, on the left is Washington. It was gorgeous!


This is the Vista House. It was built in 1913 for travelers to stay the night when making the long drive. It's no longer used for that, just a historic landmark. It's really pretty.

After the Vista house we drove to Multnomah Falls. I had never seen it up close and personal, just from the Highway. It is an amazing water fall. Apparently it is a little wimpy this time of year, but it was still loud and we got sprayed with mist.

This is from the bottom of the falls. The little bridge you can see is where the next few are taken from.

Us again... on the bridge this time.


I love Tyler's smile in this one! He's so cute!


And one of Mom and Dad in front of the falls. I think they look great in this picture!

It was a fun weekend! Weekends are the best part because we actually get to spend time together and it means that another week has past. Just that much closer to Thanksgiving break!!

Productive Weekend!

This weekend was great! We were able to watch all the sessions of conference. We really enjoyed them. After the Saturday sessions of conference we went to a Korean restaurant in Beaverton. The Fugerses came with us. Tyler said it was the best, most authentic Korean food he has had outside of Korea. Sunday we went over to the Jackson's and had breakfast with a few of the other dental couples and watched the morning session of conference. Then we came back to our place and watched the afternoon session with some of the couples again. Tyler and I provided Navajo Tacos for dinner! I think they were a great hit, and pretty good for our first time making them! We then played a few rounds of Farkel and called it a night.

This weekend was also successful because we finished a project that we have been working on!

We got this table at a garage sale for $10. It is very old fashioned and had a few scratches in it. We decided to take on the, what we thought was simple, task of re-staining and painting it. It was the table only, so we had been using our card table chairs to accompany it. They worked well and we were glad to have a table.
Throughout the course of redoing our table we only had to start over once! :) It took a little longer than we expected... but it is now finished and sooo worth it! We stained the top a dark cherry wood color and painted the legs black. Today we went to Ikea and found chairs that matched perfectly! It looks like an actual set. We are so happy that it worked out. We are also pretty proud of the fact that we did it all by ourselves and together!

I don't think it even looks like the same table. It's beautiful! I honestly did not think it would turn out this great!

Good Things!

There are two exciting things that I wanted to blog about!
The first is that my diploma came in the mail this past weekend! I called BYU again after I was no longer upset and explained to them what the situation was. She said, "Okay, we'll send it to you". I had no idea it would be that easy the second time around, but I was so excited!



So, I am now the proud holder of a piece of paper that states my graduation from college (aka: diploma)!
The second is that on Monday (Tyler's first day of carpooling with some DS 2s) Tyler came home from school and with him he had flowers for me! It was so sweet! They were beautiful! I am so lucky to have such a great husband, who thinks of me often! I used my amazing floral decorating skills to rearrange the flowers into 2 different vases.


I love this one! It's in a shallow square vase, and I just love it!


You can semi-see the square vase in this picture (it's blue).


These were just in a normal vase.

So, those are my good things! I am still on the hunt for a job, which is why I have blogged so much lately! :)