WARNING....LONG ONE!!!! :)

So clearly the whole...let's back track and explain the holiday's thing didn't really work for me. I really need to come up with something that will keep me going with this for more than one post every other month! haha! Needless to say, it's definately a work in progress with me! I think that I am going to skip the rest of the holiday's and just talk about current events in the Life of a Farnsworth.

I have come to realize that sometimes small coinsidences are anything but that and that bad things are often a blessing in disguise. You see, it started out as a normal day. I wake up, go to work...deal with cranky people all day and tell them to have a great afternoon... nothing out of the ordinary. So, I get off work and call David and he tells me that he is at my mom's house. Again, I think nothing of it because David keeps all of his tools on my mom's back porch. When I get to my mom's David tells me that he needed to tell me something, so I sit down and he tells me the always exciting news that he got LAID OFF! ...the company that he worked for wasn't very busy and he was making more that a lot of the guys in the shop so they had to let him go because the couldn't afford him anymore. TALK ABOUT A SAD DAY EH?

I was so stressed out to say the least and David and I had a really good talk about how he needed to get out the next day and really start looking for a new job because with the economy the way it is, who knew how long it would be before he could get a job. The next day, I go to work (stressing out like crazy because all I can think about is how my measly little paycheck has to pay all of our bills! YIKES!) I called David on my lunch to see how everything was going, obviously hoping for some good news but sadly, nothing. I went on with work trying not to focus on it, but let's face it, I am a worryer by nature...it's what I do. Next thing, I know, one of the girls at work tells me that David was there, so I nervously went out in the lobby and I could see the excited look in his eyes and I could help but smile because I knew he had good news! The first words out of his mouth were "I GOT A JOB!!!" (music to my ears!)
(here's where the coinsidence comes into play)
You see, probably a month or so prior to all of this, David and I had gone out to Ocean Blue for frozen yogurt with our friends Ashlyn and Michael. As we were sitting there David looks over to some random guy walking in and says "hey, I know you" ...come to find out, it was a guy that knew David's family and hung out with all of David's sisters when they lived in Snowflake. (small world right!) So as they were talking, the guy proceeds to ask us if the yogurt was any good. We all went on talking about how good it was and giving him tips of what flavors to mix and what toppings are a good choice, assuming he had never been there. As soon as we all finish trying to sound smart about our choices, David asks him if he had ever been here and he says yeah..."I Own IT" and he whips out his business card. Sure enough it's a Ocean Blue business card that says FOUNDER! Cue the embarassment of us trying to sound like connoiseurs of the place and he freakin invented it! haha! Anyhoo...David and him went on talking about everything and he was telling David about how he not only owns Ocean Blue but he also has an auto glass company and if we ever needed a windshield replacement to let him know. After talking with him for a while, we said our goodbyes and that was that.
SO...when David didn't have a job, he was looking in his wallet, saw the guy's card, gave him a call and he said that he had a job for him with his auto glass company!!!!!

I am so grateful to Eric (the owner) for being so willing to hire David knowing that he doesn't have any experience with auto glass and I am also so thankful for my hubby who was so determined to find a job and has been trying so hard to learn at his new job! I love my hubby!!!!!

Christmas again????

So let me just start out by saying that you can all thank my mom for finally getting me to put something up here! I don't know why I kept putting it off, but for some reason or another I did. Since i never really talked about our amazing Christmas, I guess I will start there and work my way up to the present.





Our Holidays were great as usual. They were filled with lots of food, family, and fun! We started off the Christmas festivities a week before Christmas with the McLaws family party at my grandma and grandpa McLaws's house. Since most of my dads side of the fam lives out of state, it's always a very small shindig, but it is always great to get to hang out with them! Our next Christmas outing was at my grandma and grandpa Gross's house on Christmas eve for one of my FAVORITE traditions that my family has. Every year, our family gets together and does a talent show, a white elephant game, decoration exchange and the nativity. It's always fun to see what everyone comes up with to do for their talent. This year, Kyler and I decided at the last minute to throw something together. My Grandma had this amazing decoration that was two snowmen that swayed side to side to the song "We wish you a Merry Christmas." These snowmen are of course dressed in their very best attire, so we took it upon ourselves to dress up like them and recreate this fantastic phenomenon! We were pretty good, but as usual, my cousin Marshall stole the show with his rendition of "ding fries are done!" After all of the excitement at grandma's we went to my mom's for our annual Christmas Eve Presnet and to have our little Christmas with my Dad and Diana. It was great getting to spend time together just hanging out and watching all of the boys battle with their Marshmellow guns that Dad and Diana got for them! Needless to say, it was a great night! Christmas morning was wonderful! Here is a picture of my cute little hubby lighting up our fire! David grew up in Snowflake and so when he was little, it was actually cold on Christmas, so his family always had a fire Christmas morning! He was so excited to get to light our own little family's fire! (Notice the FABULOUS penguin pj pants that my mom got all of us kids for our Christmas eve present! SO COMFY! Thanks mom!!!)For those of you that don't know, David loves to build things so for Christmas, he made me a long board that is hot pink and lime green! He even put flowers on it to make it SCREAM kimber!!!! I don't have a picture of it alone, but it's the one on the far right.

After our own little Christmas, we went to my mom's for my family's Christmas. My mom got us this really cool Waffle Maker that I am really excited to use! (You know you are married when you get excited about a Waffle Maker!) We spent the rest of the afternoon going from house to house telling everyone Merry Christmas and just spending time with both mine and David's families! Needless to say, our Christmas was AMAZING and I am so greatful for our wonderful family that made it so memorable!!!

Happy Birthday Kenzie!

Today is precious little Kenzie's 1st Birthday! It's so crazy how fast this year has gone by! It seems like just last week that I raced home to pick up David and went straight to the hospital to meet my beautiful niece for the first time! I immediately fell in love with that little girl and I always jump on the chance to go over to Courtney's house to see her and Kyle! HAPPY BIRTHDAY KENZIE! Uncle David and Aunt Kimber love you!!!

So much fun!

First of all, I would like to point out that this is two days in a row that I am posting something! This is most definitely a first! haha!

Since I work at a bank, I had today off (thank you Columbus!). At first I didn't know what I was going to do with myself all day because usually when I am off on David's working days, I will just go hang out with my mom, but...of course she had to work too. After I took Kyler to school this morning, I decided that I would go over to Courtney's house to play with the kids. I hung out there for a while and tried to teach Kyle the "little lad dance" (if you don't know what that is, Youtube it!!! It's hilarious!) Then I realized that it was lunch time and I was hungry so I decided to take Court and offspring to lunch at Wendy's for a deliciously cheap meal!!! It was so fun and the kids were really good so asked Kyle if he wanted to go play with me at the park. Of course he wasn't going to turn down a fun filled afternoon at the park with his favorite Kimber! ...how could he resist such an offer! haha! So we went over there for a while, but Kenzie started getting really cranky so we decided to leave and go to my mom's because she had told me this morning that she had some homemade brownies with cream cheese frosting in her fridge! DELICIOUS! Since we were already at my mom's we waited for her to get home so they could say hi to grandma! I finally decided I better take the kids home so they could take a nap! haha!

Thanks Courtney for letting me play with you guys today!!! I really did have a lot of fun! Those kids are getting so smart and I love living so close to them and coming over to play with my two favorite kids!!!

i love birthdays!

My birthday was about a week ago and I had some vacation time to burn at work, so I decided to take the weekend off for it! It was such a great weekend! Every year, I ask my mom to make me a really fun cake, and of course she always exceeds my expectations! I've had a caterpillar, a flower, and a turtle so this year I had to continue the tradition and come up with something creative. My mom and I looked on the internet for some good ideas and we found a bunch of really cute cakes (and some....well, some that people should have kept to themselves and not posted on the internet for the world to see!) haha! We had it narrowed down to a few, but we decided to go with an Igloo cake with penguin cupcakes! I was so excited! My long weekend started on Friday, the 3rd (which just so happens to be the day of my birth! hahaha!) David had to go into work for a few hours, so my mom and I went to the store to get the stuff for the cake. When we got home, it was time to start the cake. We had a lot of fun with the cupcakes, and my mom was pretty dang creative with the igloo! The cake turned out to be freaking amazing!!!

That night, we had a bunch of people come over. My mom, Kyler, Courtney and her family, Clint, Alicia, and a friend Natalie, my dad, and Diana. I opened my presents, all of which, I absolutely LOVED! David's Dad, Dave and his wife, Debbie came over a little bit later and joined in the cake eating! A couple of my friends, Briana and Jordan also came over and it was a lot of fun!The next day was the big ASU vs. Georgia State game, and of course the fam was getting together to watch! It was a lot of fun to spend the afternoon with everyone, even if ASU played terrible!!!It was so good to have a break from work and to get to spend the weekend with my family!

Work is getting kind of crazy for a couple of reasons! First of all, our move to our new branch is coming up faster than we thought, and we have to box everything up which fills up our already tiny back room we like to call "the Closet". It's amazing how many people you can fit in a room the size of a small hallway! Secondly, in case you didn't know, working at a bank when the economy sucks does not put you on everyone's list of "favorite people!" Everyone is very cranky when they go to the bank, and when people don't have money, it's definitely not due to the fact that they have spent it...oh, no, that's not the case...NATURALLY it's my fault for being the teller giving this information! haha! It just amazes me as to how funny some people can be! I really do love my job!!!

It's finally getting cooler in the heat hole that I like to call Arizona! Last night, David and I went to the movies and I was really excited that I actually got to wear a Jacket! I LOVE jacket weather and I am so glad that it's finally here! It's when we have this cool breezy weather that I remember why I LOVE Arizona! Great weather, no snow!

(I was hoping to put some pictures up from my birthday, but I can't find my cord to connect the camera to the computer, so when I find it, I will put those on!)

Three Months Later...I promise we are still alive!!!

SO...I have gotten enough grief from people to come the conclusion that I need to update this thing a little. Life is excellent right now! We had a blast at Big Lake over the summer and now we are back in the swing of regular old life. Last week, we celebrated our first anniversary and we were both so excited! Believe it or not, we made it a whole year being married and we lived to tell about it!!! YAY!!! :) The year flew by and I can't believe that he has stuck with me through all of my stubborn, red-headed moments! We have so much fun together, and each day I spend with him I find myself noticing new things to love about him!

Life is going great right now! We had a little bit of a rough patch when David was laid off from his job, but he started a new job a few weeks ago and he absolutely LOVES it! It is so good to see him excited to go to work in the mornings and to actually still be in a good mood when he gets home after a ten hour day! He is such a hard worker and I am so grateful for his awesomeness!!! I am really beginning to love my job at Bank of America. We are getting ready to move into a brand new free standing banking center. Right now, I work at an in-store location and so we are opened extended hours seven days a week. With the new center, I will officially be able to say that I have "bankers hours". I am so excited for that!

David has just recently discovered that he really enjoys cooking. A couple weeks ago, we were just hanging around the apartment waiting to go to my grandma's house to watch the ASU game with my mom and my aunt Brenda. I was sitting on the couch and I kept smelling something from the kitchen. I just figured that David was making something for him to eat for lunch so I didn't really think anything of it. The next thing I knew, he was walking into the living room with a bag of tortilla chips and a bowl of a dip that he had "created" topped off diced green onion to make it "pleasing to the eye", as he put it! It was so funny because he was so proud of his invention! It was so fun to see his sense of accomplishment when he tasted it in front of me and it was actually good! His eyes lit up with excitement!

Our life is great right now and I am so excited to see what is in store for us! I will do my best to get better about this whole blogging thing!!!

not very good at this...

So, I have basically come to the conclusion that I am not very good at keeping this thing up to date! I guess it could be considered a good thing though...simply because, our lives aren't very exciting. By having large gaps between my posts, I have a lot to say in each, and it makes us look interesting and busy! haha!

Life has been going great lately! I finally got the chance to quit Bass Pro which I was SOOOO excited about! I got hired on as a teller for Bank of America and I start next week which I am super excited about!!! We also found out today that David has been hired on at a new cabinet shop that will be paying him more money and it is closer to where we live which is always a plus with gas prices! (I won't even get on the gas subject!!! haha!) We have been super busy and we are both way excited about our new jobs!!!

Our annual camping trip with all of my mom's family is coming up...and let me tell ya, this is a MUCH needed vacation! I'm so excited to get away and go fishing with the family for a week! My family is super crazy and super fun! It is never a dull moment on our camping trips from who catches the most fish to who is going to be the one who ends up in the Emergency Room...we definately keep it interesting! haha!!!!!!! This year is going to be different for me. You see, when I was little, we would always stay in a tent, but about five years ago, my mom bought a pop-up trailer and now I am pretty accustomed to "camping in luxury." This year, now that I am married, it's time for me to re-learn how to rough it in a tent!!! YIKES!!! haha! I will be sure to keep you all posted with how that turns out! :)
David and I are also hoping that we will be able to go up to Snowflake this summer to visit his mom and younger sister. His family is planning a little family reunion up there for their 24th celebration. His six sisters (thats right....SIX!) and their families are all planning on going and we are really excited and hoping that we can get off work to go. David's sisters live all over so for all of them to get together is a big deal!

Life has been kinda steady lately...nothing out of the ordinary right now, but as you can see, we have an exciting couple of months ahead of us! I will try to get a little better with this whole posting thing, and attempt to keep you all a little more informed!

Clint's new wife, Alicia has asked that we all pray for her step-dad Fred. He was having some dizzy spells and they took him to get it checked out. After running some tests, they found cancer in his kidneys, which is spreading to his chest, and he has a tumor in his brain. I just wanted to ask that you all keep their family in your prayers, as this is a very difficult time for them!