Christmas

So Tim got me a camera for Christmas. I love it. Beware people. I am not very good (yet) so until I get better just consider anything blurry or out of focus an artistic choice. Enjoy.

The picture to the left here: Mom opening up her present from her kids.

This was made by my really talented brother-in-law William.

Nieces and nephews skyping with the Boyles (cousins) in NY.

Christmas

We had a wonderful Christmas this year. We got to spend lots of time with Tim's family, which was so much fun. We loved getting to hang out with everybody. For Christmas I got Tim Diablo 2, garmets, a wallet, I made him a book using shutterfly and he also got olives a a stocking stuffer. Tim got me a camera (which I love) and Friends the complete series (which I LOVE LOVE LOVE) as a stocking stuffer I got a card for my camera to hold more pictures. He is the best. We also had a wonderful suprise on Christmas Eve. I was not feeling well, so I took some Nyquil and was asleep by 10:30, when around that time somebody knocked on our door. By the time Tim was dressed and got to the door our guest was gone, but not before they left this: see the photo on the right-

what a fun suprise-PRESENTS! We got a game set with 11 games, a rice cooker (LOVE IT!), 4 movies (Harry Potter 7 Part 2, The Other Side of Heaven, A Charlie Brown Christmas and Mr. Popper's Penguins, towels, a measuring thing, a little caste iron skillet, bath and body works soap, a puzzel, popcorn, ice cream and corn dogs. Wow! Somebody sure love us. We still do not know who sent us this, but we are grateful. Thank you so much Secret Santa.

Christmas Eve was for Timmy and I that was when we exchanged gifts and watched The Nightmare before Christmas. Christmas Day was the day we spent with Tim's family.

Blogger is not working-I have attempted to upload more photos from the holiday. But alas it is not in the stars and my patience is wanning. I will upload them later.

Love and Blessings All,

Tim and Jess

Sickness

That's pretty much what I have felt like for the past week! I have had bronchitis, laryngitis and an asthma flair up. Blah. But thanks to the awesomeness of breathing treatments, inhalers and a very sweet husband I am feeling much beter. I got most of my voice back yesterday and today I sound fine (mostly still a little man-voice).

A movie you should see.

I saw The Help with Tim and we both loved it. We recommend it to everybody.

The Family

I love this. I believe that it is so powerful. I just used a quote from this proclamation for my World Religions class and thought I would share it here as well. Love and Blessings to all.

Sunday Nights

How do you spend your Sunday nights? Well I bet I spend mine with better people! Every Sunday night (or every other Sunday night) we gather at Mom Jarman's house. With most of the people in this picture. Minus a couple of aunts and uncles and grandparents and of course to use a Beth phrase the NYB's. You heard me: 10 siblings, that bring their wives and some that bring their kids, we get together in one room and spend time together. Minus Iris and David and sometimes a sibling or two. We play games (that invovle yelling and cheating) we talk (mostly over one another) and we listen to dad ask random questions (What is faith, now this would not be random if at the time we were not talking about Harry Potter. :D Gotta love Dad! ) During all this there is the occasional small child running by, cries pierce the room as kids hit, fall and want something from Grandma's freezer. Their are babies galorie to hug and kiss and smell ( I love that fresh babysmell ...their hair smells soooo good! ) I guess what I am trying to say is that you should be jealous that you don't have Sunday nights at the Jarman house! Blessings and love. I hope that your Sundays (and everyday) is filled with love and happiness.

Tim and Jess

But it's a dry heat......

Small rant (very small) at these temps...I do NOT care if it's a dry heat. Because let me say even in this DRY HEAT....my car that has not air conditioning still feels like the inside of an oven. Even with this 110 degrees in this DRY HEAT I still have to walk from one side of campus to the other. Small rant. Love you all......

Jess

(I usually sign Tim and Jess, however Tim does not wish to be affliated with my extreme hatred of his favorite type of weather. :D )

Date Night

We try to do something every Friday night. It is not usually expensive. Sometimes it's a movie at our favorite place (the Dollar Theater) or sometimes it is just eating out and coming home. We have been so tired lately that I'm not sure what sounds more appealing now: sleep or dinner and movie.....but these are my thoughts for the weekend...... We are getting Friends in the mail from netflix so it's pretty probably that tonight we will stay in and watch that. Tomorrow we may hit up the picture show and follow that up with the amazing Panda Express. Yum! Hope your weekend is as amazing as mine. :DPS. I try to reply to comments that people leave me...BUT it will not let me. Sad face...I have such witty things to say. :(

Friday

I hope everybody has a wonderful Friday. I am so excited for the weekend!!!! No we do not have exciting plans or anything, but the excitment of Friday has hit me!!!! Love to all and have a great and safe weekend.

It has been brought to my attention....

That I have not updated my blog in a bit. So what's new with us? Busy, busy, busy. We began school this month and we are both working so we rarely have a free moment anymore. Tim is taking: Trig, Spanish, World Religions, and Creative writing, all over the Internet. He also quit his job with Icon Payment Solutions as we are pretty certain they are going under (since they sort had trouble paying their employees :( ) and is now working for his brother Will doing construction until something better comes along.

I am also in school (paying crazy out of state tuition...although that is another topic) I am taking: Spanish, World Religions, Human Anatomy and Physiology + Lab and Social Welfare...and I am still working at Expresscare. So I stay pretty busy.

Chauncey is good. She does not bark out the window so much, now that we have barricaded it with stuff. Also she doesn't bark at other dogs at all when she is outside. But there is this one ugly poodle that ALWAYS barks at Chauncey and that dogs owner ALWAYS glares at me. Like it is my fault the woman's dog is psychotic!!!

On the left is a picture of Tim that has caused quite the stir on facebook. People seem to think that Tim has really let himself go in the hair department. Let me put these false rumors to bed. This photo was taken at Mom Jarman's house. Tim's sister Lydia is sitting behind him, draping her gorgeous long brown hair onto my husbands head.

The picture to right is of me and Chauncey. Just living the dream.

Love and Blessings to all..

Tim and Jess

How do you spend your Saturdays?

I guess you know that your an old married couple when you spend the weekend lounging about. Usually on Saturdays Tim and I do something outside the house because we spend very little time together during the week. Last Saturday we were just exhausted....so we slept really late (not gonna lie it was noon when we woke up) we had lunch plans with a friend, but she cancelled so we just hung out at the house. We intended to go out that night but nothing sounded appealing so Tim suggested we go to Wal Mart and get a new movie and candy and have movie night at our place.

I suppose being an old married gal isn't so bad if I get to spend my nights with my two favorite people (well one person and one dog). Aren't they adorable. I love them so much!

How lucky am I to have such a wonderful husband? So lucky is the answer.

Am I still an American?

Above the Capital building in Frankfort, KY.

The picture to the left is Cumberland Falls.

The picture to the right is a river in Louisville, KY

Apparently I am no longer a resident of this beautiful state. Tears of saddness.

One might assume that means I am now a resident of Arizona. Well you would be wrong. I am a girl without a state....Does that mean that I am not an American?

Wisdom Teeth

I had my wisdom teeth taken out last Friday. The photo on the left is a pretty accurate description of what my face looked like. Cute, eh? It was not actually that bad. The worst part is the liquid/soft food diet that I'm on...still. I can eat mostly...I just cannot chew on the sides of my mouth and since it takes forever to eat using my front teeth...I'm still on the liquid/soft food diet. Yum!

Words from an apostle.....

"If for a while the harder you try, the harder it gets, take heart. So it has been with the best people who ever lived."

"Don't do anything stupid." (I like this one.)

"Love. Healing. Help. Hope. The power of Christ to counter all troubles in all times-including the end of times. That is the safe harbor that God wants from us in personal or public days of despair. That is the message with which the Book of Mormon begins, and that is the message with which it ends, calling all to 'come unto Christ, and be perfected in Him.' Moroni 10:32

Good Reads

Sometimes I just need to be reminded of a few things. I bought this book a couple years ago, read it and loved it. Then I put it away and have not really given it much thought...until recently. I picked it up again and am again reading it. I recommend it to anyone who has hit kind of a slump in life, who feels a little depressed and cannot seem to pick themselves up.

Computer/Movie

After lunch we went and walked around. Going into Office Max we didn't plan to buy a computer, but that's what happened. Which actually turned out well because it was on sale and as it was the last one we got a discount...

We saw this movie at the theater. It's called Tyler Perry's Madeas Big Happy Family. Something about a black man dressing up as a grandmother that is sarcastic is hilarious to Tim and I.

Anniversary

For the first part of our anniversary date we decided to eat Timmy's favorite food..Mexican....so we tried out this place called Salsas. It looked a little run down on the outside, but the food was amazing.

The above photo is a picture of Tim's lunch. Surprisingly even Tim couldn't finish it! The one on the right is mine....it was so good and I as well couldn't finish my lunch. Yea for trying new things.

May flowers!

The month of May has been wonderful to us. Everything is going great with work, Tim's school/work, our apartment..we are truly blessed. We also have a new addition to our small family. A dashound named Chauncey! She is beautiful. Tim's cousin Holly found her, then Tim's sister had her. But Petchi (Beth's daughter AKA a Boston Terrier) needs lots of love, as does Chauncey. It was a tad bit of a problem. So we got to adopt her. Oh how she makes me smile! She spent this morning chasing her tail!
We are also getting ready to celebrate two wonderful events. Sunday is our 1 year anniversy!!!! Crazy, eh? Also on that day Tim turns 23...I love my old man!!!!!!

Pictures to come I promise!!!!!!

Blessings and love to all,
Tim, Jess and Chauncey :)

April.....

This month has been pretty good to us. With both Tim and I working things have finally settled. We are still waiting for our car. Deep sigh and calm thoughts. ITS TAKING FOREVER!!! See the calm thoughts are needed.
Tim is registered for school and we are just waiting for his financial aid to come through. It looks as though I am not going to get to go. My financial aid only covers half. I am trying to get in-state tuition, but if I don't then it's a no go this year....which saddens me.
I miss my home, friends and especially my grandma. Also rain, green stuff and small towness.... sad face again.
Oh well I really have more to be thankful for than to complain about.

Love from,
Tim and Jess

When it rains it pours...good thing I love rain! :)

It seems like there are so many good things happening to us lately. Our car broke down (yes I know that is no bueno...but keep reading), Robert J. had to come rescue me from the freeway! He managed to push my car with his truck all the way from the freeway to my mother-in-laws house, it was crazy and a tad bit frightening. The good news in all this is that we are getting a fab new car for cheap...thanks to the help of one Mike J. Brothers are pretty sweet! :)

In other news...I am employed!!! Excitement. I will be working at an Urgent Care here in town. I am totally happy about that. Tim is loving his job. I start school in June and if Tim ever decides to register himself he will too. I am refusing to register and do his financial aid. It's annoying as anything and I cannot get the school to talk to me about his stuff anyway!!

My camera is still missing. I like to say Tim lost it, but I'm pretty sure I had it last....

Love from,
Tim and Jess :)

Julia and Julia

So I hate watching movies that are inspiring. Why might you ask? Inspiring is good. The reason is I get this feeling after watching these movies that I should become something amazing and do all these impressive things. Then a week later after I have made these impressive life changes I realize that after day 2 I stopped doing whatever it was that I so zealously decided the prior week. Anywhos that's what happened to me when I was watching Julia and Julia. I am sure that most do not find it inspiring, but I happen to like the thought of a person who searched for something she was good at for like 40 years. So I am now pondering on some goals of mine and maybe I will post them when I get them all figured out. Stay tuned.....

Jess

How Feb looked to us......

Febuary was a very busy and productive month for us. We moved (AGAIN!). HA...but this time it was only a street over, into our very own apartment. Tim is working full time and I have been busy getting our apartment organized and getting everything ready for us to start back to school this summer.

Highlights for the month include:
Jumbo Bag of Gummy Bears from Tim
Water
Our own place
Rain (I'm pretty shocked but I think it rained like 3 times)
Cool weather
Both of us forgetting Valentines day!!
All in all last month was pretty sweet......

March is here which feels crazy. It also feels hot!!! The weather is already starting to bug me. Before anybody says anything, its hot to me...I don't care if this is the "nice weather"

Love and Blessings to all...
Jess

Missing camera

FYI: I cannot find my camera.....so until I do no pictures. :((( Saddness.....

Why my life is so completly awesome.......

-I now have hot water...heck I now have running water
-There may or may not be but probably is a mountain dew in my fridge
-Have you met my husband? He's pretty much adorable.
-Not to mention kind, loving, patient, tolerant of my chocolate/caffeine addiction and pretty much ignores my craziness. How amazing is that!
-I ate a banana today and it was good.
-My awesome mother-in-law is letting me do like 3 weeks worth of dirty clothes at her house.
-I have brother-in-laws who continually rescue me when I get locked our of Dwight (my car) even after said brother-in-law has told me several times to get a spare key.
-I have a beautiful monster niece name Evie who says things like "Jessa love you" or "Noooooo Jessa noooo" or my personal fave Evie do you stink? "Yesss"
-I have another niece who thinks that she is a vampire/zombie/bride thingie.
-I have a Mass. niece who has pretend phone calls with other people to tell how lame her mom is...while her mom is standing right next to her! Bold I say.
-While it is not green here the weather is amazing right now.
-I lost 5 pounds.
-Tim finally caved and said that I could have a dog.
-Lydia continually lets me break into her room to use her computer.

I could keep going....but you get the point...basically my life is sweet and you should so be jealous!!

Well.....

Exciting news!!!!! Tomorrow we move into our OWN apartment. No sharing with somebody or borrowing somebody else's place. It will just be mine and Tim's. I am SO EXCITED!!!!

More to be posted soon about this awesomeness!!!!

It's been a while......

It's been a while since we have blogged. Since the last time I wrote some things have changed:

-We moved back to Arizona.
-It's cold in Arizona, whereas it was hot when I left.
-We are not living with anybody anymore.

We made it back to the AZ safe and sound. The trip was actually pretty sweet. At lot better than the first one. We took a more southern route this time...passing through most of Texas and even going through border patrol which was weird. The most traumatizing part was crossing the Mississippi...which is huge and so is the bridge. Seriously, mapquest that bad boy and see the beast that he is.

Tim got his job back at ICON and is loving it. I still have no job. I wonder if I am unhirable? That word is misspelled, but I cannot figure out the correct spelling. Instead of counting disappoints like I want to right now I shall count my blessing:

-Tim-Tim's family-Nieces and Nephews-My grandma-My siblings-Robert and Alicia for letting me use their washer and dryer today-Cool weather-Unicorns-The TV show FRIENDS-Food and fresh clean drinking water-freedom and thousands of other little things that if listed this list would never end.

Love and Blessings to all
Tim and Jess

I am bummed....

As the title says I am bummed. After much discussion and prayer we have decided to move back to Mesa, Arizona. The plan was to stay in GA until Mid-March, April and then move to Paducah, well due to some disagreements with the people we live with we decided that its in everyone's best interest to move back to Tim's home. Now I hope nobody gets offended. I miss my brother and sister-in laws and especially all my nieces and nephews and Tim's mom and dad who are pretty much the most amazing people you will meet. I just want so badly to be able to take care of my grandmother and it pretty much breaks my heart that we are not going to be able to. I cry a lot which upsets Tim, so Tim is sad. So now I try not to cry. We have 26 hours in the car ahead of us tomorrow. We are leaving at 4 am eastern standard time. We are hoping to make it there by Sunday night. But we are not giving a time frame. We learned from our last excursion that things do happen and we don't want to worry people. Please keep us in your thoughts and prayers....
As always love
Tim and Jess

Things I will miss.....
Rain
Snow/Ice
Green Things
Trees
Water
My Granny
My friends