the tingey's

here are a few family pictures that we took the day before the wedding.

as soon as I get my copies of the meyer family pictures I will post those.

enjoy!

brandy - paige - wyatt

nate & panda

noa - jack - van

 brian & yuri

mace - bo

 dad & mom

 bart

yes. he's single :)

 steve & candice

jaxon - lizzy

jordan & catelin

christmas in colorado

***long post warning***

This year, for our first Christmas, we had the chance to make a quick (as in QUICK) trip to Colorado. Friday night after Jordan got off work at 9 pm...we packed up the car and drove through the night. We made it to the house at about 5 am and were asleep within minutes. After sleeping for a few hours, we woke up to a busy house! It's always fun having so many people around.

Christmas Eve was so neat this year, and a few of the neighbors came over for the evening. Jordan's Grandma Oma is German, so we had the chance to participate in some German traditions! We had delicious German food, sang silent night in German, and played a white elephant game with candy. After the party people left, we then continued in German traditions! I learned (if I remember right) that in Germany, they don't set up Christmas decorations until Christmas Eve. The parents send their kids to their rooms as they cook and decorate. Then when it's time, the kids are allowed out to enjoy in the decor and loads of food! We had several different types of cold cuts, potato dumplings, sausages, apple strudels, German fruit cocktail cake, and so much more! Then after eating, they open gifts on Christmas Eve. So that's exactly what we did.

This year Jordan gave me a Real Salt Lake jersey donned with my favorite players name. The one, the only, Olave! A few other gifts I also opened were a pair of new snowboarding pants, some lovely mac make up, chocolate, disney movies and jewelry! Jordan got a J3LL watch, comfy sweats, a man (jewelry) box, and some sweet kicks. We also got a Jack LaLanne juicer, a magic bullet and some family pictures.

For Christmas day we ate a delicious breakfast, watched some movies, slept, ate a fabulous turkey dinner, slept, ate some more, and played some apples to apples.

It was perfect.

The only downside? Jordan had to work today at 3 pm...so this morning at 4 am James and Stacey (bless them) drove us to the Denver airport for our 6 am flight. (We sold Jordan's Escalade to his parents so we had to leave it at their house, hence the flight). Then my mom and dad drove us back to provo (bless them).

It was a good Christmas

one of the two beautiful trees 

 Christmas Eve with the Meyer family

 tree number two

 first Christmas!

 Christmas Eve pj's

oh and as a bonus? Check out my husband (<--click me) He's famous.

xoxo

early christmas

The other night, while Jordan was at work, I finished all my Christmas shopping AND wrapping. I was so proud of myself for getting all of it done so quickly! The downside?? Waiting several days until Jordan could open them for Christmas. The solution? We both were so excited about the gifts we bought each other...we decided it would be ok if we both just opened ONE.

My lovely gift was a pair of chocolate brown moccasins that I looooooove. Jordan received the first set of Living Scripture DVD's that are now out at Deseret Book. Vince and Jordan have talked non stop about these cartoons and how they absolutely loved them as kids. So I thought it would be fun to start our collection for our future (as in FUTURE) kids. After opening our presents...we decided that one more wouldn't hurt. This time we picked what gift the other would open. The 2nd round...Jordan opened his present that was a pair of tan moccasins and my gift was a set of the Living Scriptures DVD!

 funny right?

we thought so.

tomorrow after Jordan gets off work, we are headed to Colorado for a fast Christmas trip!

pictures will be taken

Merry Christmas

xoxo

one month

Today marks our 1 month anniversary! pretty exciting I know.

I wish we could have our wedding day over and over again. I loved every minute of it!

yes we are still head-over-heels for each other

xoxo

wedding tree

That's right...we've got a WEDDING tree as our christmas tree! For the last 3 years...my parents have been so kind to deliver a full legit christmas tree to my apartment. Usually the tree has been decorated with silver and gold stars, ribbon, etc. but this year...my creative mother turned our wedding decorations into ornaments for our new tree! How awesome is that??
My parents came down one friday night and helped me decorate our cute little place as a surprise while Jordan was at work. Here are some pictures of the final result!

 looooove the candles...which totally set the mood for our wedding as well

(pictures of that event to come!)

 our "mantle" was decked out with real pine tree limbs...sadly they were blown off of the trees during the extreme winds in davis county!

 love

 yes...the "star" on our tree is a small bouquet of flowers

ta da! thanks again to my awesome parents for helping us out. Can't wait to set up this beautiful tree every christmas!

xoxo

wednesday night = date night

Let me just start out saying that this post is proof of how much I struggle with the blogspot.com deal...

the pictures I posted are all over the place - left, right, center, large, x-large, etc.

so, please enjoy.

Jordan and I have decided that since wednesday is the only day (besides sunday) that we don't have work or school that it would be the designated date night!

We had our wedding dinner/party/dance/you-name-it at the Joseph Smith Building and as a wedding gift, they gave us a free dinner at the fancy restaurant THE ROOF. It was amazing! The food was delish and the view was to die for since temple square was all jazzed up for Christmas.

After dinner we headed outside to walk around and see the lights. It was Jordan's first time seeing temple square during Christmas and I was SO excited to show him.

Last night for date night (after HOURS of studying for finals) we went to the Provo temple and then had a fabulous dinner at the Pizza Pie Cafe in Provo. yum. Let's just say we consumed more dessert pizza then actual pizza.

Unfortunately we didn't take any pictures of last night...but here are a few from the week before. Like I said....they're all over the place. hey, I'm trying!

and this last one is just for fun.

LOVE HIM!

xoxo

The Meyers

{please bear with me as i attempt a blog....}
So here we are, married, loving life and blogging. It seems like everyone that gets married has a blog as well. I want to keep this as somewhat of a journal and to keep in touch with the family, especially the out-of-staters (shout out to my PA & CO peeps). So here we go!
For those of you who don't know the story...here's a quick outline of us...
Met summer of 2009 in Orem at the beloved Ventana student ward
Jordan left for the mission, I continued to do my thing - work, school, travel, date, etc.
April 2011 we met up again at his brother's wedding (sidenote...I was hanging out with said brother and his friends the night before, and just happened to be invited to the reception. Vince also told me that Jordan was going to be there...that may or may not have convinced me to go :) )
Jordan came to visit from colorado in May and made the decision to move to Utah to see where things would go.
Engaged August 24th - Bachelor/Bachelorette style. Roses, candles, red carpet, an AMAZING ring and my tall-dark-n-handsome man in a suit and tie. yes, he asked if I would "accept this rose" ohhhh I love him!
Married November 19th in the Salt Lake temple. It was the most perfect day ever! I couldn't have imagined it any other way. HUGE thank you to all those who made it spectacular.

We are currently living the dream in Orem in a cute duplex that GG (Jordan's Gorgeous Grandma) is so kindly letting us rent. We're both working - Jordan: Carmax & McCarty Catelin: Good ol' Larry H. Miller (still). School is also in the mix - Jordan: Psychology Catelin: Dental Hygiene...

That's about it for now. hopefully I'll keep up with the bliggity blog with pictures and stories to keep you entertained.

xoxo