Happy 3 year anniversary love!

To Dave,
I love you tons!! This has been a great 3 years, I've loved every day of it. You are the cutest hubby in all the world, I'm so thankful to be married to you. I wish that we didn't have to work so that we could have spent the day together, but Tepanyaki should be delicious tonight and I'm excited to see you. Thanks for all of your love and support, I wouldn't be where I am today without you by my side. I seriously feel like the luckiest girl alive to be married to you.
Love, Joni

We Loved San Fran

We love our nephew Charlie & I think Charlie loves us. Dave packed Charlie around at Fisherman's Wharf in the Bjorn, it was so cute. I love Charlie's Old School San Francisco Native shirt seen on the right.

Christy's Wedding

Konner & Charlie meeting for the first time. They were born 10 days apart which is fun because Marianne & Tesha have been best friends their whole lives.

Here's To 4 More Years

Today is the official 4 year anniversary of the day I met the love of my life. Time flies, yet it seems like forever ago, weird. So how Dave and I met that fateful June 11, 2004... I was supposed to go to a Kenny Chesney concert with my friend Autumn, but she had a big test the next morning so she was trying to get out of going. So my friend Mindy agreed to go with me, but backed out at the last minute because she "didn't have any clean pants." That was a really weird and lame excuse (sorry Mind, it was) so I was pretty sad. Autumn and I then decided to drive to Usana Amphitheater to sell the tickets. When I went to pick up Autumn she told me that she had made other plans to go wave running with Brad and Dave. I was kind of confused because I thought she was staying home from the concert, but whatever. So as we drove to the concert she called Dave to cancel wave running because "we have to go sell these Kenny Chesney concert tickets." Turns out all of Dave's friends were at the concert but they didn't have a ticket for him so he really wanted to go to the concert. He said, "I'll go to the concert." Autumn said, "You and Joni can go together." Dave of course asked the typical blind date question, "Is she cute?" Since Autumn's a good friend she said, "Yes, she's hot, you'll love Joni, etc." Thanks Autumn!! We drove straight to the Riverdale Target parking lot where we first laid eyes on each other. Dave was driving his parents green Mercedes which was good in my eyes, I was kind of a gold digger back then, oops! When he got out of the car he wasn't very tall (he's only a 1/2 inch taller than me). He had a blue tooth headset in his ear which I hate, it just made it look like he was trying to be cool, which later I found out was exactly the plan. Autumn stripped out of her cowboy shirt and belt and gave them to Dave to wear to the concert and we were off. Dave was such a charmer. I loved everything about him, but it took a minute to get used to each other's personalities. I laughed the whole way there. Not one awkward moment, that's when I knew it was love. I hate awkward pauses. When we arrived at the concert and started walking through the parking lot, he grabbed my hand and said, "Let's just get this over with so we can enjoy the rest of the night." I agreed. It felt so natural yet so exciting to be holding his hand. We had stopped at Shopko on the way to buy a blanket, 2 ponchos in case of rain, tootsie rolls, and stinky feet gummies. When we got to the gate they said, no food allowed, so Dave, trying to impress me with his honesty, started throwing away all of our treats. I, being myself, tried to whisper "not the stinky feet," because they were hidden in the blanket, but Dave threw them away too. We still laugh about how he really didn't want to throw away the candy but he didn't want me to think less of him for wanting to sneak it in, silly Dave. We missed all of the opening bands and the GA area was packed with people that had been there since noon staking out a good spot. We just walked up to the very front and center of GA and ran into Betsy Martineau and her friends. We stood with them the rest of the night and had a great view. We cuddled and danced to the music and had the best time. It didn't even feel like we had just met because I was so comfortable having Dave's arm around me. Meant to be!! Dave took me home and came in even though it was late to watch my Skydive video because I had just gone the week before and he was planning to go the next day. Luckily Mar was in town still (they moved to Cali shortly after that) and she got to meet him that very first night. We didn't want to leave each other so he stayed over pretty late chatting.
The next day I went to watch him sky dive. Turns out I was more in love with him then he was with me. It took him some time to come around, but it was worth the wait.
I love you hubby!! Thanks for making these last 4 years amazing!
Dave said to me earlier, "I hope we have 4 more wonderful years together." Um, I'm pretty sure you can only say that at like the 50th anniversary. Silly Dave. We laughed about that one. He was totally kidding by the way, you know Dave, always good for a laugh.

It has been a while..

Well, since I blogged last, much has happened: Christy got married and moved into our basement (it's so much fun to have them with us!!), we went on a 7-day Western Carribean Cruise, I got my dental hygiene license (June 2), I've already worked 2 full days as a real dental hygienist (it's hard for me to believe it's real), Dave bought a brand new 2009 Carolla Sport (see ya later brand new tacoma's and no car or insurance payments (But it's for the best), we finally got our sprinklers fixed and the lawn is trying to turn green again, we finished our basement (new carpet and all), Mar came to visit with Josh & Charlie for almost a month (I miss that sweet baby!), I hosted a family bridal shower for Christy, Charlie & Nevi were blessed on the same day (thank goodness they were 2 hours apart, that could have been a rough one), and we are going to our annual Kenny Chesney concert this weekend in San Francisco for our anniversary (I can't believe Kenny isn't coming to Utah this year, his shows are always sold out, at least we get to make a fun trip out of it and see Charlie). I need to tell more about the cruise because it was AMAZING, but I need to go pack for San Fran tomorrow. We are going to the Bountiful temple tomorrow right before we head to the airport because we are sealing my Grandma & Grandpa Widdison who have both passed away. It's a long story, but they are both sealed to other people, so even after 50 years of marriage, 5 children together, and lifetimes of faithful church service, they weren't able to be sealed while still living. I'm so excited because I've always wanted them to be together forever, they loved each other so much!!

I did it!!

Now that graduation is over, it feels really weird not to have to think about upcoming assignments and tests and studying. But it is definitely a good weird. It was such a busy day, but it was a good busy. It was so nice of Dave, my mom and dad, Brent, Christy, Kenny, Dave's parents and grandparents, Brittany, Bailey, and Owen all to come celebrate with me. I had a pretty sweet cheering section.Thanks guys!!
So this is how my day went down.
6am wake up to get ready, I had to be to the school by 7:30.
8am Convocation. This was an hour of boredom. Thank goodness I was sitting by Gina, we pretty much talked the whole time which made it bearable. The speaker was awful. She kept talking about how it is our responsibility to save the environment that her generation destroyed, blah, blah, blah. I know it's important to care about the environment. But she was pretty much chastising us at our graduation. Not cool.
9:30 pics with my friends
10:30 Brent's commencement. Brent earned his Masters of Accountancy. I'm so proud of him. That is such a huge achievement! I hope to be hooded some day when I earn my Masters. We only stayed long enough to watch him walk and get hooded because we had to eat before my commencement. The speaker at his was way good. He spoke of having ethics and how you have to decide now what you will and won't do. He said, "Everyone needs to have Go To Hell Money." He then went on to explain what Go To Hell Money is. You need to have enough money saved up that when your boss asks you to do something you think is unethical or you don't feel good about doing, you have enough money to tell him, "Go To Hell!" I really liked that because we talked a lot about ethics in hygiene and I'm certain that there will come a time in my dental career that someone will ask me to do something unethical, and I won't do it.
11:00 Brunch at the Union Building.
12:00 Line up for commencement. It was so fun to walk. It felt like such a huge accomplishment. It was also somewhat unreal to me. I've been working towards this moment since I was 14 and now, 10 years later, I did it. Crazy! Britt took lots of family pictures after so I'm excited to see those.
2:30 Lunch at TGI Fridays's. It was really good. My old friend Nate Hirschi was our waiter, I didn't even recognize him so I'm glad he said something.
5:00 We headed down to Brittany's to watch the kids/help with Christy & Kenny's engagement pics.
7:00 Headed to SLC for the Jazz game. Yep, we got row 5 tickets to the game that sent them to Round 2 with the Lakers. The Rockets didn't have a chance. Right from the beginning the Jazz played awesome and they kept it up the whole game. I love Kyle Korver!! He is so hot. I wish I would have had my camera because towards the end of the game when they were 20 points ahead, he kept encouraging the crowd to stand and be loud. He's so cute! By the 3rd quarter the busyness of the day caught up with me and I crashed. I was so tired that I felt sick. The sickness was also brought on by the halftime show which was Rubber Boy. It was the most disgusting thing ever. The boy would like dislocated his shoulders to do crazy tricks. He would contort his body in the most disgusting ways. At some points I had to turn away. I never felt good after seeing that. Dave went and got me a Diet Coke, so by the end of the game I had enough energy to stand and cheer. I love going to games, it was so fun! As we walked to the care I was seriously delirious due to fatigue. Good thing Dave was with me to take care of me or I wouldn't have made it home.
Brent and I at graduation May 2, 2008

Things To Blog About Soon

I've got so much catching up to do that I just need to make a list and post when I can.
1. Rock Band
2. Front Room
3. San Francisco/Charlie
4. Wedding plans
5. My Hot Hubby!!
6. Basement
7. Uncle Max--Eek!!
8. Babysitting Konner

Graduation Banquet

Last night was the dental hygiene graduation banquet. It was so fun to reminisce about all the fun, hard, and crazy times we've had over the last 2 years. If you would have asked me 2 weeks ago if going to dental hygiene was a good idea I would have said, "NO!! Run away as fast as you can!" But as of last night I'm actually starting to feel the deep sense of accomplishment and it feels good. I would recommend it to anyone. I even thought to myself last night, maybe I should get my master's degree. I'm sure I will at some point, but I need to take a breather for now. Tickets to the banquet were 26 dollars so only my parents and Dave's parents attended with us. They presented a few awards during the banquet and I was fortunate enough to receive 2 of them. I earned the Utah Dental Hygiene Association's Clinical Excellence Award and I was elected into the National Dental Hygiene Honor Society: Sigma Phi Alpha the Beta Mu Chapter. Pretty awesome!! I feel really good about the last 2 years and I'm thankful for the opportunity that I have had to meet and learn from so many wonderful people. Looking back, it really has been a good 2 years (not the best, I reserve that title for the years after graduation from high school thanks to Mindy, Christy, Autumn, and Evan). Graduation is tomorrow so I'm sure I'll have tons of new pics to post then when I'm in my full graduation attire.

My Hygiene Friends: Meredith, Celeste, me, Gina, Monica, and Holly.
Thanks for getting me through it all gals and
thanks to 4 inch heels for making me look ginormous!!

My parents


Dave's parents

Instructor Parry pinning me and the class

Professor McConaughy awarding the
national honor society award and pin to
Meredith, Monica, and me.

Melinda Andreason, President of the Utah Dental Hygiene Association, awarding me the Clinical Excellence Award. (That award is my favorite)