It's the most wonderful time of year

Well Tim and I have had a very interesting Christmas season. Being away from Tim's family was incredible difficult. We both missed them bunches, especially all the kiddos. We decided to go up and spend the weekend with my grandma because she was going to be alone. So we left Christmas Eve when Tim got off work. About an hour or so into the trip and friend texted to let me know that it was snowing in KY, no big deal or so we thought. Well about a hour away from my hometown the roads had been terrible for awhile and I was pretty much fearing for my life. I mean have any of you actually ridden with Tim before? (Sidenote: Tim says his driving is perfection and I am scared for no reason.) (Sidenote Sidenote: I say for those who question me, ride with Tim on ice or in rain, or really just ride with him :)
So then our car starts to act really weird and finally just stops, which wonderfully enough is also about the same time that our phone starts to die. So I quickly call a friend, who fortunately is from PA, which means he can navigate the ice and snow. So we pull off the side of the road and I am still freaking out. Because people are trying to drive like they usually do. I am sorry but going 70 on ice....not smart people. As luck would have it my friend must has sensed our distress because he call 911 and let them know where we were and that we might need some assistance because it would take him a bit to get there. Thus my recent facebook status about sitting in a police car. When the police got there we had no heat. So while the men folk where looking at the car the police officer being the southern gentleman that he was offered to let me sit in his wonderfully warm car, I was shortly joined by a frozen Timmy.
Well needless to say my friend got there and we went to his house where we spent Christmas Day. Sunday we got a battery for the car and went to see my grandma. She was so grateful and happy to see us. We gave her, the gifts we got her and had lunch. It was such fun and all to soon we were back on the road to GA.
We are so thankful for:
Friends who will pick us up off the side of the road..in snow no less.
Police Officers...with warm cars.
Snow, it can be beautiful
Family
Safety

Love and miss everybody....Jess and Tim
PS I forgot my camera....no pics from us. Lo siento mi familia.

What's new

Well I (Jess) have some problems with my gums and have to go see a gum doctor. I'm not kidding. Who knew that somebody actually specialized in gums? I did not. I have a serious toothache that apparently is infected, so says the dentist who prescribed Amoxicilin, which has given me a rash on my jaw and neck that itches. It is really no bueno.

Good things are happening....

Tim: My job is going good. I really like it. I am hoping that I will get to stay on. It seems like I will. Almost done getting registered for school. Things are just really good right now.

Love,
Tim

Jessica: I got a job and am super excited. It's just at Kroger's, but I can work and go back to school. Which is what we decided. In January I will again start school. This time to finish up my Bach. of Social Work Degree. I am so happy that we are both going to be working and going to school. Things are going really well for us. We are hoping to be able to move out into our own place in a couple of months!!! That would be so awesome. Love and miss everyone...

Hugs and Kisses,
Jess

Things we learn

You know some days I can spend the whole day thinking about all the things that are wrong with my life and all the things I want and the things I do not have. Those days are pretty sad. But today as I was walking I realized just how blessed we truly are and how often we take those things for granted. Tim and I are bless with a wonderful family who would and have done anything for us. We have been blessed with friends that put up with our weirdness and love us inspite of that. It does help that they are slightly weird as well. :) We have each other. We are able to stay warm and have food. We have a Savior who loves and cares deeply for us. Dwight K. Shrute, our amazing car, has made it farther than we or anybody else could imagine. Tim has a job. Chocolate is available to the masses. At some point FAFSA will realize that we are poverished and give us money. We are young....hey youth has its perks! :) Most of all we are bless with the sweet spirit of the Lord to help us through those days when everything seems wrong.
Love and miss everyone of our family and friends that we are not able to see right now. You are always close to our hearts.

Love lots,
Tim and Jess :)

Our first Thanksgiving.....

Well since Tim and I are so not the traditional sort of couple it makes sense that our holidays would represent that. We did not get to spend the day with our families (which was really sad) and we decided not to make the traditional turkey dinner. When I asked Tim what he would like to eat today he said he didn't know. So I asked him what his favorite meal was......are you ready for this? Lasagna and cheesecake.....that is his favorite meal. So that's what I made. From scratch in case your wondering. :) I didn't really like the lasagna, but Tim loved it and the cheesecake was pretty good. I guess some would think that it's odd, but not us. It really was a good day. After lunch we watched a movie and then went on a walk at the nature preserve. All in all it's been a great day. We have much to be grateful for.

Love,
Tim and Jess.

You may be asking yourself what the? Well your not alone. This little guy is all over our town. Not sure why. The best I can tell he is the town mascot. Sexy eh?

Places we go and things we see....

Saturday we were able to go to the temple. Sadly the Atlanta temple is closed, it will be opening again in January. However the South Carolina temple is open so that is where we went. I was told it was a 2 hour trip. For everybody's knowledge....it is almost a 4 hour trip with traffic. However....I am grateful to be able to go to the temple.

Life

Tim says: My job with UPS is seasonal. But I am hoping that I get to stay on, it's a possibility if I work hard and I am working hard. I like it though. My driver is a nice guy. I am good. I am working on making a horse out of origami. It's really hard. Love everybody.
Tim


Jess says: My week has not been exciting. Still no job. Blah. Maybe I am unhirable (I don't think that's a word because when I right clicked on it the word that popped up was undesirable. Interesting). On happier notes tonight John Bythway is speaking and I believe that we will be attending. I rather enjoy some of his books so I think that it will be pretty good. Tomorrow we are going to the temple. Now I am excited and not so excited. The Atlanta Temple is closed so we have to drive several hours to get to the South Carolina Temple and to be honest I am more than a little tired of traveling. I don't know how you do it Beth! Also Tim got NEW glasses. He looks wonderful. I will post a picture of him in those snazzy new things soon. I think that's all the excitement in our neck of the woods......Love you all......
Jess

Look what we found....

Tim found this in our apartment. Instead of killing it he decided to look at it since he thought it was interesting. After taking several pictures he then released it outside. I was all for him killing it. I mean look at that bug! What is it?

We love this dog. Even Tim.
He is too cute not to take a picture of. Plus this makes him look deep in thought. In reality he was staring at the dog making fun of her.
She is cheesing for the camera.
No dogs were harmed in the making of this picture.
Another attempt to be creative. But this was a really pretty place. Not sure if I captured that or not.
They were chasing something. At least that's what Tim said....

I thought Tim was just taking a picture of the dog....I guess not. Cheese!
Isn't he the cutest thing ever!
Greetings!

Tim and Bridget on a mission to find the last dog that was in the forest.....
We did not find the dog. Just lots of pretty trees.....
And the creek.....
My attempt at trying to be artsy.....I'm not sure it worked.

This beautiful dog is Bridget. we were babysitting her until her parents get home tomorrow.

I love water. Not sure what my deal is. But we followed this creek most of the way.

This was so much fun!

Tim was in this picture as well, but his face is weird so we cropped him out. You can still kind of see what he was doing though. What the??


The picture on the left is us just cheesing for the camera

Which way should we go????

I think Tim had more fun posing than going through the trail. :)

There were a few of me as well......

Nature Preserve

We took a field trip to the nature preserve. It was really cool and I got some good pictures of Tim and Bridget.

Our Life Lately.....

Tim: We went to Kentucky last weekend it was good. I got a job working temporarily at UPS. I am in the process of registering for school. Things are good and I am good. Love and miss everybody. Tim


Jess: Kentucky was so beautiful, so of course I forgot my camera. My grandma had fun seeing us. She likes Tim more than me, but who doesn't really? We got to see some friends which was a lot of fun and we had a safe trip home. We did get pulled over about 40 min from home. Our back lights had gone out and we had to have our hazards on, that and Tim was swerving. He still maintains that he wasn't, but the Officer apparently had a different view. But it was okay we didn't get a ticket so it worked out. Life is good, I am still looking for a job, I am so happy for Tim. He is happy to be working. Tonight we are feeding the missionaries. Not really looking forward to that....these guys are kinda of annoying. Oh well. Love and miss everybody.
Jessica

Our first week...

Tim says: Everything is good. I love everybody back home. Church was good. Better than the one in Mesa because here Sacrament is first. Not really anything exciting to say. Just looking for a job and about to get registered for school for next semester. Love everyone. Tim


Jessica says: We have had a wonderful week. The weather is wonderful! I absolutely love the trees, currently they have that transitional look about them so they are all multicolored, its quite stunning. Church was actually good. I think the ward is huge, but Tim says that the one back in Mesa is bigger. He's probably right. I love being here, they have a dog that I get to play with so that's exciting. We are planning to go visit my grandma again soon and I cannot wait. Well that's all for now. We are safe and happy. Hope that everybody that we love can say they same thing. Blessings.....Jess

Yep we are a pretty snazzy looking couple!!!

This lovely thing got us through the trip. It's also telling us that we only have 247 miles to go until we got to my grandma. That seems like a lot...but we started with close to 2,000 and we were getting desperate for the trip to end. This is also around the time we stopped taking pictures and started taking videos....but for some reason we cannot get them to upload. Sorry.

Ummm there were bridges. This was relatively small. But when we crossed the Mississippi River I'm not going to lie I may have cried.

I just really like trees.

This was the sunrise going through Arkansas. I loved it.

Even 8 AM cannot change Timmy's cheerfulness. It really is a sin to be this happy(and hairy). But I love him!

I didn't take any pictures of Texas....use your imagination because it looked like the two I posted of Arizona and New Mexico. Also there are no pictures of Oklahoma because we passed through that at night. We are entering Arkansas at about 8 AM. At this point the scenery has started to change.

New Mexico and the windmills also happened to be around the time I got bored....really bored. Luckily there was only 15 hours left of the trip after all of our stops!

I was trying to take a picture of the windmills. I doubt you can see them. This is New Mexico about 4 hours from Texas.....I think.

This is us leaving Arizona. I believe about two hours after this picture we entered New Mexico. Which surprisingly enough looked exactly like Arizona!

This however is what I look like. Uggg it's so not pretty...come to think of it...why I even put this on is beyond me. I guess so that when I do look beautiful it is appreciated.....

Photos of the trip!!!

We only drove for a couple of hours Sunday night before I forced Tim to pull over at the nearest motel. We then got up really early to travel onward. This is what Tim looked like.

Greetings from Georgia....

Tim says: I have no idea what to write. We had a safe trip here. I miss everybody and hope that everybody is doing good.
Love,
Timmy


Jessica says: Wow, Tim is so verbose. We did have a safe trip, a safe yet long trip as we had to make some extra stops that we did not anticipate. Towards the end we hit some bad weather but things turned out okay. Georgia is having some cooler weather than we have been used to. I am doing okay, Tim is already freezing, I am not quite sure what is going to happen when winter actually comes. I am sure he will be fine. For Halloween we are going to go to a ward activity tonight. We are not going to dress up, but I am sure that it will still be fun. I mean there are hot dogs so really the party should be great. Church tomorrow in our new ward, exciting but we are slightly nervous. I am sure all will be well. Things are going good. We miss everybody so much and cannot wait to talk to and see everybody again. We will put some pictures up of the trip soon. Love to everybody,
Jess

Engagement

We have to give amazing props to Beth for everything she did for us for the wedding. She even took these beautiful pictures, which I love. We loo so cute!!!

This is a picture of all of the family. Tim's brothers, sisters, in-laws, mom, cousins and some friends mixed in. How lucky we are to have so many people that love us!

Wedding and Engagement

So maybe I am getting the hang of this, I have figured out ways to post pictures. Although most of my pictures are on my facebook site I feel as if I should put some here. I don't actually think anybody looks at my blog, but still.

The picture above is one of my favorite pictures taken of our wedding. It was taken by the fabulous Timothy Montana.

Photo problems, school and work

To begin with I have tried and valiently failed in my attempts to upload pictures. Advice? Comments? Tomatos? So for now you will have to deal with my words. :D

Well I have 6 weeks of school at Pima Medical Institute and then I go on extern for 6 weeks so I finish in 12 weeks. I'm not sure if I want to get hired at my extern site...I mean obviously a real job would be nice, but Tim and I are still unsure of where we are going to settle, KY or AZ. With that said we are trying to decide what to do about school. We cannot decide if we should take on- line classes at night. So I can do my extern during the day and Tim can work during the day. Or if we should just take this semester off...something neither of us want to do. We are conflicted and praying. So just keep us in your prayers and we will keep you updated.

Love from T&J

Camping...

I went camping with Tim and his family last weekend. Hopefully I will post pictures on here soon. They are on my facebook already. I learned some things while camping.

1. I hate peeing out doors.
2. Nothing beats s'mores for breakfast.
3. I have the most amazing neices and nephews.
4. Driving up a mountain scares me.
5. I am afriad of swimming in the lake due to fish and snakes.
6. Mike gets annoying late and night and throws bugs on his wife and I.
7. The mountains were cold enough to require a sweater.
8. Driving back home the thought of a sweater almost caused me to have a heat stroke.
9. Sleeping in the back of the truck was sweet.
10. I had the best time with my hubby and his family.

All in all it was freakin awesome and I can't wait to go again. Tim loved it too and would have probably wanted to stay longer. He was so brave, he even got into the lake. He hates cold and the water and the lake combined both of the those. I am proud! Well life is good. We love ya'll.

Let's try this again....

So a couple of months ago I attempted to create a blog, but did not keep up with it. Here is try number two. Hopefully I can keep up with it and figure out how to work it. To keep people updated in the fabulous life that is Tim and Jessica. Give me some time and have patience. Love from us to you.