2008 in a Wrap

Well most people send out letters and cards for the holidays. As I would love to do that, I feel like nothing great will be done til Dave and I final settle down, in our own place and have our space to freely move and live, so until then this is what your going to get and as we realize not everyone has a blog that we would like this to reach, so we send our apologies in our hearts to them.

2008 has been a heck of a year. And I wouldn't classify my usage of heck as up in the great. wonderful, fantastic words category. It wasn't the worst but it was rough and down-in-the dirt kinda year. I've heard many people say things like this about 2008. Many people are happy to see it go. As most are happy to see it go, our year was full of life's great (and not so great) moments...

Our year began up in our first little place in the Artic Tundra of Utah (as many have referred it as), Logan. It was a great little place. It was near where we needed to be, USU's campus though it was a treacherous walk up that almost-vertical hill. We enjoyed it. Dave worked at Pepperidge Farms where he loaded trailers. Rachel was working at Iggy's Sports Grill as a waitress. Both jobs did what they needed to. We were both busy, busy, busy with school and work. At the end of the Spring (more like winter) semester, we packed up and moved all our stuff to Jon and Julie's and the Nasella basements, all eccept a car full of things we could take along with us to St. Louis, Missouri.

St. Louis was a choice we made the year before to possibly get a head start in the finance area. Yes, Dave went door to door selling security systems. As for Rachel, she worked in the office setting up installations, doing paperwork, and a lot of other stuff. We were able to celebrate our first anniversary in St. Louis. Dave had to work on the day but we were able to to work around that. We even were able to get away for a day at the zoo (which was the hottest day ever!) and spend a night at a cute bed and breakfast. We lived in high class apartments that were actually right out of St. Louis in St. Charles. Our typical day was like this: in the morning you would find Rachel in the little workout room until the morning meeting, Dave fighting to try and train for LOTOJA as little as possible:); noon we would be at the meeting; about 1-8:30 p.m. Dave would be knocking and I would be in the office taking phone calls and doing paperwork; sometimes I was able to go play with the girls; 9:00-9:30 Dave would roll in and head straight to the computer and load the next Lost episode while I would finish making dinner. We were able to finish all 4 seasons of Lost in about a months time. We were addicted thanks to Jess.

At the end of our summer there the Nasella family made a trip out to visit. We were able to go see Carthage Jail and Nauvoo. It was amazing! We also went to the arch (for our 3rd time) and our 2nd Card's game. The Card's game was mostly for my dad. That stadium is one sight to see though. They even have a casino in the stadium. It was a good end to our summer. Missouri was gorgeous but we were sure ready to get back to Utah. We'll never forget the long trek back. We were determined to go straight through. The drive is about 1400 miles long but we were determined. Let's just say it was quite interesting. I've never had to push my eyelids so hard to keep them open. Past Cheyene we had to pull off and let Dave take a power-nap. I was so wide awake from the eerie feeling of nothing around us. It seemed as if the road between Evanston and Park City never was going to end. We swear we went into hallucinations. The Salt Lake Valley never looked so good coming out of Parley's.

Three days later we started each of our last semesters at Utah State. The first couple weeks were a bit crazy. We took a couple vacations. One to Lake Powell and the next weekend to Logan following Dave through his first LOTOJA bike race. Even though most of his training was in mountainless Missouri, he still finished strong! His support crew (me, Britt, and Cris) even missed him at a stop. Luckily his parents came to the rescue! (Yay for dependable parents!) It was such a great experience for all of us and a great accomplishment for Dave. Dave wants me to do it next year...we'll see if I can get through my long time fear of bikes.

December came quickly with Rachel's final week as a student teacher and Dave's final weeks trekking up to Logan a couple times a week. December 13th we completed our journey at USU. We both walked. It was so fun to finish that big step in life with the love of your life. It made it that much better!

We are currently trying to end our trend as ping-pong balls and finally settle down into a house of our own. It's been a long road but I guess we are learning great things along the way. We are learning, and continue to learn and grow each day in this adventure we call life.

Merry Christmas to all...

I hope all of you are having a wonderful Christmas! I know we've had one thus far! We've been able to spend time with family, talked with our brothers which are both serving missions, and have both been spoiled beyond our dreams. Its been great for us! We would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas!!! Hope it's full of joy and happiness:)

WE DID IT!!!

Well as of last Saturday Dave and I are college graduates! It's such a great feeling! Wahoo!! We traveled up with my family Friday night (which was the best choice due to the bad storm Saturday morning half our audience didn't show-that dang weather always decides to go wacko on big days of ours). The storm made the walk from the Fieldhouse to the Spectrum nippy and a bit dangerous for those girls in heels. It was such a great experience to graduate and even better to graduate with my other half. Dave was at the beginning of the line and I was towards the end so when I walked Dave stood up and came and kissed me and I guess it was caught on the jumbotron for the whole stadium to see...well we always wanted to be on the kiss cam at the games, I would say that is one step up!

We ate at Maddox with family afterwords, which was so good! We got a video camera from Dave's parents. Dave has been wanting a video camera for a good while now and it's a super cool one! It's smaller than Dave's hands! We have some good pics but the camera was left at Maddox so we'll be posting them later. Wish us luck on our transition into the real world!!! :)

The Weekend

After the whole fiasco on Thursday was over and mostly taken care of we ended up having a pretty good and fun weekend. Saturday morning Kaitlin got baptized. It was so cool to to get to see my dad baptize Kaitlin. She is the first to have our dad bless and baptize out of all of us. I have seen so many miracles happen in my family because of my dad's decision to get baptized 8 years ago. We went to Marie Calendar's for lunch after Kaitlin's baptism because my uncle had been at St. Mark's for a surgery the night before. Saturday night we had Dave's extended family Christmas party. We ate great food, exchanged white elephant gifts (I got Mr. and Mrs. Claus salt and pepper shakers, I love cute s & p shakers so it was perfect!), played chimes (Price Christmas tradition since I've known them), and made gingerbread houses! It ended up being a lot of fun!


Our gingerbread house was the best because it included the true meaning of Christmas. Just look close where the different colored cookie is placed. It is a Nativity cookie:)

Another thing that has become really popular among Dave and his family is finding the coolest places to long board at night especially. My job is follow him and pick him up at the bottom to take him back on up to do it all over again. Bridget and Ryan found a place with not many stop signs in Kaysville so we tested that out.

No neighborhood is a safe neighborhood...

Thursday morning our day began with finding Dave's car window smashed in and his ipod gone and later on learning his wallet was in his car and was stolen as well. Whoever was so rude to break into our car and steal those things had a hay-day with the credit card. All of the charges were at gas stations and they were spending hundreds of dollars at these various gas stations. UGH! I was pretty bitter bout it all. I hate that those people can get away with this! Luckily we can get our money back and Dave is taking it pretty well but still it doesn't make it ok. So if anyone sees a 60 GB ipod for sale on the internet or anything let us know!