3am Grocery Shopping!!!

Very very early Saturday morning, my aunt and I were still awake from watching movies, and we needed to go grocery shopping, and we were going to do it Saturday during the day, but she has a child and her husband was working on Saturday, so we decided that because we were up and the store we wanted to go was open, we would do our grocery shopping at 3 am. It proved to be a great time to go shopping because there is no one there...of course, cause most people are not completely out of their minds like us, but it is always nice to have a great adventure every now and again. After our grocery shopping we decided to go across the street to get Slurpees and had a grand old time with that, Slurpees are my favorite but rare treat because they tend to make me sick because they are pure sugar and I am not supposed to have a whole lot of sugar. So that concluded our wild and crazy night! Now I have food in my fridge and feezer, and I didn't have to fight Saturday crowds, yay!

Family Pictures at Thanksgiving Point

On Friday Shaun and were heading up to Draper to attend the Draper Temple open house with my aunt and uncle and their 6 year old son. When we got there it was around 4:30 and it was super busy! Well this six year old child does not sit very well and the wait was going to be an hour or more, so after talking to the very kind usher we decided to go back Monday during the day because the usher told us that there is a very minimal wait. This made me happy cause I do not like crowds, but I was also a little bummed because I hate delays in my plans. It worked out though because we were all dressed up so Shaun and I, and my aunts little family headed over the Thanksgiving Point to take pictures. It was an interesting little jaunt around Thanksgiving Point, but proved to be productive.

New hair cut!

On Friday I went and got my hair cut because I was sick of all my hair. I really wanted it to grow out long like it was before Shaun and I were married, but it requires so much. So Friday while getting ready for the day I was doing my hair and just got so fed up with how it was laying that I loudly proclaimed to my husband "I am getting my hair cut!!" Of course my ever so patient who is used to my sudden outburst of spontaneity said "okay." So he drove me to the hair salon and the cut it! Now like everyone who gets their hair cut, I am trying to adjust to the very different hair style. Its not the greatest picture, but it shows my hair is definitely gone.

No Good, Terrible, Very bad hair color!

Impatience gets you no where good! I was naturally blonde when I was younger, and as got older my hair got darker, it is such a weird phenomenon... well Shaun really likes my hair blonde, so I have slowly been going back to blonde by adding more and brighter highlights to my hair every time I get it done. Well my aunt does hair and so she was going to do more highlights for me, and touch up my roots, no big deal right? WRONG!! I decided it was just going to take to long to sit and get a full weave of blonde, so I told her to just to just bleach all my hair.... so she did. Well about two packets of bleach, and 30 minutes later we washed out the color to find my hair was ORANGE!!!! Okay so I am not going to lie it was a Sunday, but we still went to Sally's and got more bleach, because I had work the next day and I was NOT going to go to work with orange hair, it was not going to happen! OKay well most of you know, or you should know bleach kills your hair, big time, and bleaching twice in a row... well you can just kiss your luscious, beautiful, shiny hair good-bye.... or in my case, my scalp! Bleaching my hair two times in a row burned my scalp and gave my blisters that continued to ooze liquid into my hair for a week and left me with the brightest unnatural color of blonde hair I have ever seen, like I would walk into a bathroom and my hair was the first thing I saw, and you just can't help but stare and say DANG!!!! Yes I know, you all are thinking "yes Alyssa you dummy, not smart," but you don't even know till you have had orange hair! :( Well lucky for me the effects of too much bleach made me sick and left me with a terrible headache that night and the next day, so I didn't go to work. That gave my hair time to tone down. 

So yes we documented this hair color by taking a picture, and a few weeks later my wonderful husband agreed to die my hair back to brown...I don't think my blonde hair was the blonde he had in mind, hahaha. 

P.S. The picture was taken about a week and a half after it was done...so it got a LITTLE better, but not much

WE HAVE MOVED!!

Okay so by now most everyone know that we have moved into our own apartment... again. When Shaun and I first moved out to Utah we lived with my grandparents to save up a little bit of money while we were starting out in new jobs. Mid January we decided it was time to move into our own apartment so we moved to an apartment complex off of State Street in Orem, behind Macey's.

 It is really hard to be married and live on your own, then move in with family. I also like the feeling of my own home and being able to decorate and put pictures up and all that fun homey stuff. We are so grateful for wonderful family who do take care of us though, and my grandparents are awesome people!! 

We love visitors, and we love having people over for dinner, so it will be awesome to start doing that again. 

New Years Eve!

So I know this is about a month in a half late, I'm a slacker what can I say?

New Years Eve was another very exciting night where the ENTIRE Taylor side of the family was crammed into one house. We played Karaoke Revolution, the kids ran back and forth through the house, all the grandkids (yes even the 20 and 22 year old) wore matching PJ'S, and we lit fireworks! It was a very overstimulating, yet fun night.

My aunt Brittany and I got awesome New Years Shirts from Old Navy for way cheap! Aren't we just the cutest things you ever did see! hahaha

 Outside lighting fireworks..In the cold...with no coat..hmm
                           OH YES! We are rocking those PJ'S!!!
Aww...so cute we match

       So yes, there you have it folks, all the grandchildren in matching PJs...umm Shaun and I didn't have our bottoms on yet...oh darn!

ICE SKATING!!!

Alyssa's family came up the day after Christmas to be here in Utah for my Grandparents Anniversary party and while they were here we had tons of fun filled days and had lots of adventures! One in which was Ice Skating at Seven Peaks. This is was fun, yet very interesting event, and when I say interesting I mean Alyssa can not skate to save her life. Her 5 year old cousin was doing ten times better then she was. Sad, I know, but the day at the skating rink still proved to be very entertaining. 

          My Uncle and his girls (the star skaters)

     Katelyn and Me before we are off to the rink
                  All four Neeley girls taking off on the ice! (Saryn is behind me in the background)
                                 Shaun and me before we brave the chaos of the Skating Rink

The Roof

So I was told by multiple people that they were very disappointed by our blog because I have failed to update it in a while. I really do try I promise. Now I have lots of time so I will have to add that into my daily routine. Sometimes we just don't have very interesting things to tell everyone about, haha. 

So in December Shaun and I were able to visit Temple Square and eat at the The Roof Restaurant, which is an amazing restaurant located at the top of the Joseph Smith Building where you can see the Salt Lake Temple Straight ahead. We went there with my grandparents for their anniversary along with all my aunts and uncles, and my parents. It was beautiful and amazing, and it was nice to be surrounded by people we love celebrating the anniversary of a temple marriage while being able to look out at the temple.