Hello Again

Shame on me for letting it go so long. I know it's been a terrible wait! I have a few new updates, but nothing too terribly exciting. I do have a picture of the house however. :) I know I have been promising it for weeks!

There you go! This is just before Halloween, so our Pumpkins are sitting on the front step. I put up those cornstalks on the posts, which really gave our house that lived in feeling for the fall.

I will have more pictures tomorrow, I started decorating for Christmas (I know it's early) but it looks good, and I'm really excited. :)

Im in the process of changing offices, but I will give you all the updates tomorrow, because I'm tired tonight! :) Sweet Dreams!

Another Day...

Hello Again!

Sorry it has been so long, We;ve been so busy with moving into the house, and school and work. Yep! We finally moved in! The house is beautiful. We moved in on September 28th, the day we closed. It was so exciting. I don't have any pictures of it yet, but I promise to get out in the yard today and take one and get it posted. It's been a lot of work getting the house the way we want it, and we still have a long way to go. Thankfully, Jared's grandma decided to give us an hours notice one morning a few days after we moved in, that she was bringing the entire family over. :) We unpacked rather quickly. The boxes are almost gone, the only ones really left to unpack are the ones that hold all of Jared's Shoes. But he's been living fine without them for almost three weeks, so maybe I can convince him to donate them. :) We shall See!

Lets see, what else is going on.... hmmmm. Oh, I'm about to switch ocmpanies. I'm not sure yet which company I will be going to, but I have a few meetings set up with some local offices. This will hopefully be a very good change.

Jared is doing well in school, and he is looking for a new job now also. He wants to be in sports broadcasting, which pretty much anything having to do with sports, except being a player. lol He hasn't found anything that is right just yet, but he will.

Well, I think that's all for now, sorry I dont have anything exciting to tell you about. Maybe I will have something soon! Love ya!

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This is the Washignton D.C. trip. The last two blogs have been about the California trip, and the house, so this one will be dedicated solely to Washington D.C.!

This is the Washington D.C. Temple. Can you tell what is different about this temple? There are no Windows! Actually, this is a secret about the Washington D.C. Temple, there are no glass windows, but there are sheets of transparent marble on the Temple. So you can actually see out, through the marble, but not in! That's why this temple seems so different, there are no visible windows. Neat! Jared and I try to visit all of the temples when we go to a new place.

While we were in the Washington D.C. Area, we went to a lot of different museums. Jared and I

went to visit the National Museum of Modern Art, which I thought was fabulous. This was a floor inside the NMMA, and I thought it was neat enough to take a photo of. Can you guess what medium it is made from? Tape! It's a buncho of different tapes! I might do this to my kitchen floor if Jared will let me. ;) haha.

Jared and I were visiting the World War Two Memorial, and we had to find our Indiana flag! Jared and I can never take a picture together, because one of us has to hold the camera, so we take two seperate photos, so that we can prove that I am on vacation too. :) This trip was a blast! It was VERY hot in Washington D.C., so I got really sweaty, because all of the monuments are so far apart, but we took a trolly around the city which made the trip around the city a lot easier!

The Washington Monument, this is my last photo of the trip! What's a trip to D.C. without a picture of the Washington Monument? :)

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This is my Bommie and Papa! I had to add their picture next, because I knew you would scroll down to see if Jared and my papa looked similar. :) Yep, they do!

We had a little BBQ on the beach with all of the family, and it was a lot of fun.

These are some of my cousin Jeff & his wife Carla's children. They are so adorable! From left to right, Madison (Maddy), Makaliegh, and Mavrick (Mav). We buried them all in the sand, and it was so fun. Those kids are so wonderful. And so Loveable!

This is just a pictue with me and two of them. I love the beach, it's so nice to go and play in the sand! :)

While we were in San Diego, we took a boat trip around the bay. I think I posted a photo of us getting on the boat in my first blog. It was a lot of fun, and very relaxing. It was so beautiful, these pictures don't even show it. The water looked good
enough to swim in!
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UPDATE!
So, before I get on to our trip to Washington D.C., I want to show you some pictures of our house! It has gone up so fast! This is a few Sunday's ago, so the house has significantly changed since then. But this was the day that we put the Sold sticker on the sign. It was sold long before, but we had just gotten the sticker. Now, we have siding, kitchen and bathroom floors, cabinets in the Kitchen and Bathrooms, the inside has been painted, the driveway has been poured, and they've started locking the front door! I'll try and take another picture soon, although I may just wait until the day we close since It's so soon. We close on the 28th, at 3pm!! We're both so excited, we can't wait!

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So now we can talk about the Washington D.C. trip. It was a lot of fun! I have quite a few pictures of monuments, but I guess that's what D.C. is all about!

You have to start a trip of Washington D.C. off with a picture of the White House! :)

I'm Back... and with Pictures!

Hello again! Since last time I didn't have very many pictures, I am going to overload you today. But I think that photo's make this thing more interesting. Since I have pictures of our trips, that's probably what I'll be talking about today. :)

This is a Picture of the L.A. Temple. It's absolutely beautiful. We couldn't get inside the gate to walk around the grounds because it was closed due to maintenance, but it's even beautiful from outside the gate.

So, this is what a Flammingo Paradise looks like! While we were in California, we visited Sea World. This was our first day in California, and was one of the most fun. I loved the flammingo's!

This is one of my favorite pictures of Jared. My mom thinks this picture is scary because Jared looks just like my papa! I'll post their picture too. He has the Big glasses, toothpick out of his mouth, and just that grin. :) Sea world was a lot of fun, and we had the most perfect weather. A little hot, but dry. :)




FEED THE SEA LIONS! I bet you didn't know you could do that! haha, I wouldn't touch the dead fish, so Jared Fed them. It was funny, there was this one Sea Lion who would come bark at you if he knew you had fish. But as soon as you were out, he would run to the next person and bark at them. The other Sea Lions would just stand and bark at everyone, trying to get anything that they could. But really, he was very smart, because you can't deny those little beady eyes, and the barking. None the less, he was the largest Sea Lion in the pool. :)

All about the Peyton's...

Hello! Welcome to our new Blog! We decided to blog our life, so that all of our friends and family can stay up to date and current on our lives. Maybe that's a crazy idea. Haha, just kidding, we really do want to keep everyone involved.

Jared and I were married just over a year ago on June 17th, 2005. I will probably be posting some of the photo's from the wedding, because we are bad and haven't really taken any since then. :)

This is one of the wedding party. From Left to Right: Andie, Julie, my sister Ashley, Me, Jared, his brother Tyler, Spencer, my brother Matt, and Justin. That day was a lot of fun!

Since we were married, we have taken several trips to a lot of fun places. We've taken a few smaller trips like going to Cedar Pointe (An amusement park in Sandusky, OH), and we spent a night in downtown Indianapolis, which doesn't sound like a "trip", but trust me when I say that we might as well have left the state! (We stayed in the Conrad Hotel on our anniversary, VERY fun!) We've also taken a few larger trips. In June we flew to California to visit some of my family, and had a very fun week driving up and down the coast trying to hit all of the 'touristy' spots that we could.

This is a picture of us in the San Diego Bay. We took an 'excursion' around the bay and got to see some of the fun spots in San Diego. (And it was really relaxing since we had been walking around for 4 days prior.) Jared and his family had actually taken the same boat ride when he was younger, and have a picture of them exactly like this one!

Since our trip to the sunny California, we've visited Washington D.C., and have been to North Carolina a few times. Jared had never been to Washington D.C., so it was a really enjoyable trip. I'll get some pictures downloaded as soon as possible. Jared also has an old missionary companion in North Carolina that we have gone to visit. His wife and he have been very sweet to let us come stay with them for a few days. It's a lot of fun taking trips, and we take advantage of them as often as we can!

We have also had two additions to our family since we've been married. No, they aren't children. :) Our cats (which might as well be our children) Kanye & Kaliegh. I'll get some photos of them uploaded as soon as I can.

We are in the process of building a house, but I'll let you know more about that in the next blog. I really want to have some pictures to show you before I give you all of that exciting news.

We hope you are all doing well, and hope to hear from you all soon!