Designer Friends

Here is the before picture...MMMMMM .... Delicious! We also had a bunch of French Fries before these.
On Wednesday Jan. 30th I hung out with my "Designer" girlfriends (other Interior Design Students) all day. In the morning we were all in the computer-lab working on an AutoCAD project that was due that night...we were "using our time wisely" until we had to go to our "Field Trip" class at noon (we have a class that we just go on field trips to different design firms or showrooms, etc.) Anyway there are six of us girls who always carpool together (we like to call it the party wagon) but before we went to our field trip we found out that one of the girls from the "party wagon" just broke up with her boyfriend...SO, we decided that after our field trip we would all go to Leatherby's (a delicious ice cream creamery place that has the biggest ice cream Sundays ever!). So after the field trip we go over there and we had the BEST time ever! Since it was total girl time and getting over a break up time we got a bunch of French fries first...then a HUGE banana split and a peanut butter and chocolate Sunday too!!!!! we went to town on that Ice Cream. We all had so much fun talking and hanging out. It's really fun hanging out with design girls too because you can talk about what you're going through with school and projects and they know what you are talking about. It was just so much fun to step away from school for a little bit and just be with the girls!
Here are my friends in the picture above (from left to right) Laura, Cyndi, Melody, Kessa, Jacqueline, and Lindsey (standing up)
Yumm-o! We ate a lot....and it was delicious!


But of course after that we went back to the computer lab to finish up our project and we were there until class and all through class....basically we live at the school, but at least I have fun friends to hang out with while I'm doing these crazy projects.

Ok...So I am retarded and my friend who had these pictures said she was going to post them on her FaceBook account and so I have checked it almost everyday looking for these pictures and then yesterday she told me that they have been posted for a long time I just didn't know how to find them. So Finally I found them!

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This page I did for a challenge on the Lily Pad. The challenge was to create a page that focused on the 7 favorite moments or memories of 2007 while using Jacque's Frames and bookplates and her Chunky Alphabet Soup Alpha. This is what I did:This is just a page that I did for the Creative Team that I am on with the Frostie Fairies Kit
Here is my New Years page for 2008! Using Lets Celebrate kit.
Just thought I'd Share what I've been doing. But now we are back in school. It's our last semester here!!!! I think it will be a good semester...lots of work but it's the END! We will keep you posted on how it's going later. Have a Fun Day!

Happy B-Day Tara!

Happy Birthday Tara! We hope you have fun today. We love you so much. You are a great sister, friend, and mother. We miss you and can't wait to see you again. Have fun times!!!

Christmas FUN!

Like most married couples we switch between whose parents house we go to each holiday. So this year was the Broadhead's year for Christmas. So on Wednesday night after Craig got home from Palm Springs (on business) we drove out to Walla Walla. This year Craig's entire family came out for Christmas! on Christmas Eve Craig and I made some peanut brittle together. Here is a page that I did.

We had fun on Christmas eve we played a little gift exchange game where you draw numbers and number one picks a gift and number two can either take number one's gift of pick a new one, etc. It was fun, there was lots of stealing, then we played catch phrase. This trip has been filled with video games. Even the little kids have been playing some. The following picture is me with all the grand kids. I was helping one play the Wii and then another came up to sit with us and then another came up with a book...it was fun!
Christmas we got a lot of fun gifts some of the big ones include this GPS unit from Craig's parents:
Guitar Heroes to Craig from ME:
Donald Trump Game from ME
Craig gave me a fire safe box, which I have wanted for a long time...I was excited! We also got some money to buy new clothes and a golf bag from my mom. We got lots of other WONDERFUL gifts but I won't bore you all by listing everything.
One night Craig, David, and Josh had an ice cream eating contest...the goal: to eat half a gallon of Ice Cream in less than 1/2 and hour. And they all FINISHED!! It was funny and gross all at the same time.
Needless to say they did not feel good afterward. Craig's time: 19 min. (chocolate mudslide) Davids time: 22.5 min. (cookies and cream) Josh's time: 17.5min (Vanilla)
We have been playing video games non-stop here. Guitar heroes of course has been the number one choice.
The day after Christmas we all went to Tri-Cities and went to Chuck e Cheeses and then went to the mall, Target, and Costco to return some gifts and what not

Since we were all together for the first time since Craig and I have been married we had to get a family picture. Rich brought some of his photo equipment so we had our own little photo studio with 2 umbrella flashes, and a remote control for the camera.
The Texas families are going back tomorrow so the house will be a lot calmer with out the grandkids but we will definitely miss them all. Craig and I are staying through new years.

Where did you meet your husband?

Craig came to Ventura to sell Pest Control for the summer in 2005 and we meet in the Singles Ward. The first Sunday that him and the other salesman came to church they all walked in and sat on the side pews (our ward was so small that it was kind of required to sit in the center) when they walked in of course all of the girls were excited about the “fresh meat” anyway, they sat on the side and then Brother Hunter got up and told them to come sit in the center and directed them to the row right in front of me. I immediately thought Craig was super cute!

2. What was the first thing you said to your husband?

I don’t know probably just the normal introduction stuff “what’s your name?” or “My name is Cyndi.” Or something like that but one of the first conversations we had was with him and me and one of my girl friends and Craig said “So do you girls want to give me your numbers?” and I said, “Oh no, you get my number!” So he did and called me that day and that was the start of it all!

3. Where was your first date?

Well, Craig wanted to take me to Chuck E. Cheeses but when we got there they were open but not letting anymore people in so he said what is your favorite restaurant so I said, “The Aloha” (which is a nice steakhouse by the pier in Ventura and it is a little pricey!) But Craig was super sweet and took me there. Then we took a walk on the pier afterwards but that is it b/c I started to not feel good :o(

4. Where was your first kiss?

Our first kiss was at a park in Salt Lake City called Pioneer Park. We had been dating long distance (Craig was at BYU Idaho and I was still at Ventura College) and for General Conference we both met in Salt Lake. I was going to check out LDS Business College and go to conference and Craig came down to meet me, and he invited me to his mission reunion. So we went to his reunion on Friday night and then afterward we went to the Gateway mall and played some video games at an arcade there. After that we were going to meet up with some of Craig’s friends and so we just drove done the street and found Pioneer Park. So we were waiting there for his friends, swinging and playin’ and then we had our first kiss there on the swings. It was the Best first kiss ever! So tender!

5.This Picture is from Craig's mission reunion, the night we had our first kiss!

Di Did you have a long or short engagement/courtship?

Well this is a little tricky. We met at the beginning of the summer 2005 and imidately started dating for a few weeks and then people started saying “You guys are perfect for each other, you are going to get married!” and I was all scared b/c I had dated this other guy off and on for a long time and we never officially ended things so I was super confused when people started to say things like that b/c it was super fast and a crazy whirlwind (for me at the time). So I told Craig I just wanted to be friends, and I had to go and figure things out. Anyway I FINALLY ended the madness with the other guy and started to hang out with Craig more…we started dating again at the end of the summer, but then it was time for Craig to go back to school. The second I said good bye to Craig I knew he was the one. We dated long distance for one semester (during which we had our first kiss in October and got engaged in November). In January of 2006 we both moved to Salt Lake City to go to LDS Business College and got married afther the semester was over on May 13^th 2006. So yes we had a long engagement and courtship! But the engagement was long b/c we had a hard time picking a date b/c two of my sisters were pregnant and Craig’s sister and sister-in-law we both pregnant too! So it was tricky!

6. Where did you get engaged?

The weekend before Thanksgiving I went out to Walla Walla to meet Craig’s parents and on Monday Nov. 21, 2005 he took me to a park and we fed the birds for a little while and then we were walking around and there is a gazebo in the center of the park and he said, “Do you want to go over to the gazebo?” so of course I said yes and we started walking over there and he was telling me how much he loved me and all kinds of sweet things and as we got closer to the gazebo there was a staircase to go up into it and he was walking so that I was kind of close to it and retarted me ruined the moment and said “I don’t want to go under the stairs.” Dumb! As I got on the other side of the stairs there was a huge poster up on the side of the gazebo that said “Cynthia Will You Marry Me?” I about fell down (I knew he was going to propose to me that weekend but I don’t think you’re ever prepared for that moment) So he had to kind of carry me up the stairs into the gazebo then he got down on one knee and asked me “will you marry me?” of course I said yes! What is ironic about the story is that the park was called Pioneer Park just like the park in SLC where we had our first kiss!


7. Where did you get married?

Well, I always thought that I would get married in the LA Temple but it was closed at the time for a 6month long remodel. So we had to choose between San Diego, Newport Beach, and Redlands. So, we choose Redlands, CA Temple. It is a beautiful temple, I’m so glad we got married there. Another bit of irony is that when I went to the open house for the Redlands Temple I said “I can get married here so we (all of my sisters and I) can have our own temple.” (b/c all of my sisters go married in different temples so they always said that I needed my own temple.)

8. How did your reception go?

The reception was PERFECT! We had it at city hall in Ventura. The entry way is large and all marble! And there is a huge marble staircase and we had a harpist at the top of the stairs playing. Everything was beautiful! I wouldn’t change a thing!

9. The Honeymoon!

Our first night we stayed in Ventura at a cute hotel down town called the Bella Ma’Gore then the next day we flew up to San Francisco! It was super fun! Perfect honeymoon location b/c there are things to see but it’s not a tragedy if you don’t get out. After being there for I think 6 days we flew up to Portland, Organ where we meet up with my parents and stayed there for a day and then we all drove to Walla Walla for our Open House.

Winter Time

So it is DEFINITELY winter here! This morning (12/1) we woke up and it was snowing outside (and clearly had been snowing for a long time before we woke up). This is what it looked like out our window at 1030 a.m. and it was still snowing when I took this picture and snowed for a couple hours afterward.
look this is the snow on Gladys...5.5" Crazy!!!!
Our poor Vibe...covered in snow
So I have been busy like alway!!!! It is the end of the semester so it has been a whole lot of Homework, regular work, and scrapbooking...well...and we had a long Thanksgiving vacation too. Anyway I have to scrapbook because I'm on a Design Team so it is kind of like a job. So, here are some of pages that I've done lately...Some of them have my sisters kids because the kits are at times very kid oriented and as you all know I do not have any kids yet but I am very thankful for my nieces and nephews!!! They are the CUTEST!