march madness

boy are we happy that march is done with. we found out we were being kicked out of our apt 4 weeks ago. this was not due to anything we had done, it was becuase the owner of our apt complex stopped making his mortage payments. so, the government being as they are, decided that money would solve the problem. they let our land lord out of his mortgage and started throwing money at the situation. us being poor newly weds bit the bate and decided to move for mula. a very stressful and long, busy month later we are in our new place. our new place is pretty big and soooo much better then our last place. we have more room and its not tecnically in rexburg any more. :) this is the best part. we are outside of rexburg in a place called salem. from what i understand its a voting district of 10,000 people-or it could have been 1,000 (i past the sign really fast and i need a new perscription). by the way things look out here it may have even been 10,000-1,000 cows not people...anyways-its closer to where i work and we shop in sugar city, "where sweet things grow". i thought that was cute.

one thing that seems to be a little odd about our new place is that the lights in the kitchen go on and off on their own and then they'll come back on and another one will go out. i have decided that it must be a new way of saving energy-not having all the light bulbs on at the same time...andy says we just need to replace them...we'll see.

so after arguing for 15m about who would go get the camera out of the 4-runner i have the camera. :) (its cold outside! lol) here are some pics of what march has been like. enjoy!

this is the kitchen with the lights that are sometimes out. they take turns, its odd

living room-not too bad for just moving in-right?

got to love the midnight pics! this is the midnight 5k andy decided to run the day we moved. our other friend andy called him up and asked if he wanted to join the party-andy immediately thought "what would sam bremmer do?" and then replied yes. we were up till 1am and then got up later that day to move all of our stuff-love it.

this is andy and andy afterwards. they got their butts kicked but did impressively well for just running an impromptu 3.2 miles!

this was a primary activity that we did for st. patricks day. we made little hats and had a cake walk and then went on a hunt to find the missing shamrocks. while they were hunting a leapercon came and put candy in their shoes. too much fun! i am going to miss these guys!

With the new place comes a new ward-wish us luck!

ps-we have lots of boxes. come and get them-please!

updates

so i thought i should up date my life a little.

... :)

ok so my life is that exciting. i am still at salt lake express as the operations manager. the other manager just got back from a month long vacation to mexico/irland. sooo jelous but i never put any of my mexico pics on here so maybe i'll do that and relive my old vacation rather then pay another rediculous about of money on a new one. it should work right!?

so here are some....

breakfast-yum!

beach at tulum mx

tulum ruins

drinks by the beach

andy at chichen itza

our towel animals

eating at xel-ha

we had a really good time there and hope to make another trip like that soon. :) for now we are stuck in rexburg in the snow. boo

freedom

as many of you know life changes all the time.
one change in the life of the newey's is that we are not longer cell phone people. we will see how long this holds out-i must admit i am excited. but at the same time i am a little worried. i have had a cell phone since the beginning of my sophmore year in college. but i think this will be a freeing experience.
i know what you must be thinking-yeah sure it sounds nice but once reality hits i will be going through cell phone withdrawls. I don't think this will happen. in fact-i am so impressed by the amount of people worried for me that the need for fear is sliping directly into the hands of the onlookers as they craddle their phones with a parent like snuggle.
i say change is good and for those that are looking for a drastic change in budget, outlook, and some personal time try getting rid of your cell phones. :) let me know how it goes

Christmas Time Chirstmas Time

andy chopping down our tree

yay!

our tree all done up

...and our nativity

so hope you have a merry christmas and don't worry about all that present crap or shopping or cooking. just think of all the things that make you happy and then surround yourself with them. enjoy!

Ode to Black Friday

Black Friday

Black Friday

the early morning ring of the clock

bringing with its ringing the joys of savings

with ads well marked and a plan well mapped

out to find the presents to be wrapped

Many flew at the sight of the lines

but those with weak stomachs won't get the finds

no fighting

no biting

just laughs and long talks

long drives gives us

a chance to catch up

finally done with socks in hand

on cloud nine ready for lunch

find something new to munch

what deals we have found

what time we have spent

oh Black Friday

oh great day

capitalization and spelling

two things in the english language i hate. spelling and capitalzation. you know what i mean-proper noun this, start of a sentance that. their, there, they're-need i say more.
it wasn't until i ventured out of this closed minded language that i found that there is freedom out there. freedom to spell the word monday without having to push that stupid shift button down. i found the liberty to spell a word exactly the way it sounds without just throwing in a c here and a b there for no good reason.
i know-i have taken the english classes that have explained all the good reasons for spelling lamb the way we do and that it stems from the foundations of the english language but this new language i have found has roots far deeper then that of the english and still are so nice to those who speak it.
americans have such trouble spelling that we had to create a program that will either automatically fix any spelling errors caused by neglect or will hightlight it to let us know that we are incorrect and better fix the underlined word or you will send this paper/email to someone who will notice your deficiencies as an english speaker and will publicly mock you.
i just don't see the point. some one please shed some light on this situation. and if you are just as concerned about all this grammer jibber-jabber as i am rise up and take a stand!
i believe that all theirs are created equal, and i is no better then e even if it comes after c. the p's and h's in my words will no longer remain silent just to appease the views of men.

Changes

i thought i would start this entry with a little update since i haven't been on here in a while. first-we bought a car as old as me! lol its a 1986 chevy nova and it looks great! its missing its muffler so its a little loud but andy uses it just to run around town and he is enojoying fixing it up. i guess its one of his dreams to rebuilt a classic car some day.
i recently lost my job at the drug and alcohol rehad in idaho falls. they lost funding and i unfortunatly lost a job becuase of it. the worst part was that i found out i lost my job while we were in mexico. it only put a damper on our trip for a few hours and then after that it was old news. i'll get to our mexico honeymoon in a min. when we got home i was called by my old boss from salt lake express with a great job offer. its a pretty cushy office job, 8-4 mon-fri and it was a huge blessing. that is where i am at right now-it was a pretty big adjustment and it still is.
our mexico trip was really fun. we loved being warm and loved spending time together. we rented a car and drove all over seeing so many new things. we fell in love with snorkling and xel-ha was probably the best part of the trip. all you can eat food, free transport, snorkling, dolphins, cliff jumping and all kinds of fun stuff! the ruins were amazing and the beaches rocked!
we really enjoyed our time there and would definatly recommend it to anyone! Tulum rocks!
school is still going. andy is a teachers aid again and it actually filling in for his teacher when he is out of town. the other day he walked into class to teach and the kids started to complain and two just walked out. then andy told them that no one had to be there is they didn't want to and five for kids walked out. LAME! it made me mad. punk college kids.
we are still happy and healthy and loving life. pics will come soon