Amish Friendship Bread

For those of you who don't know about this bread, what happens is someone gives you a bag of liquid ingredients and you keep it for 10 days.
On the 10th day, the ingredients multiply and the ingredients create 4 more bags for other people to start and you get to bake the rest to create your bread. So one of the wives here made some Amish Friendship Bread and then gave the other wives the starters for it. Well, as you can imagine, it has multiplied here and we have way to many people trying to pawn off their bags to the other wives. It is absolutely fantastic though and it turned out great. I am even going to do it again!

Florida

Florida is only a few hours from where we are training in Alabama so we decided to make a weekend trip. We stayed at an Air Force base down there and went to the beach for a couple of days. It was the prettiest beach we have ever seen! It had soft white sand and crystal clear water.It was so clear we could see our toes...the problem with that is we could also see the jellyfish and sand craps in the water. We kind of like to pretend they are not there when we can't see them.
We went with a few other couples and we had so much fun. We ate some of our bake sale goods on the beach and played sand volleyball and football.

BakeFest

All of the wives are so bored in our hotel rooms while we wait for the husbands, so we decided to be productive. We had a bake sale to raise money for the World War II veterans.

It was kind of exciting to bake hundreds of cookies in a hotel room kitchen and it gave us something to do. We used 4 different couples' hotel rooms and had cookies lining every bed and counter space and all 4 stoves were being used for 2 days straight.
The problem is I had to taste test all of them and I am pretty sure both Alex and I put on at least 10 pounds this week.

Bowling

To get out of the hotel room for a little bit, we decided to go bowling. I am not a big fan of bowling (because I am horrible!) but Alex loves it.

For once though, I bowled my best game and Alex bowled his worst, so I finally beat him. I won't mention the final scores (because they make us both look bad). All that matters is that I won! : )

You have to love our faces in these pictures, they are classic.

ASBC

The Air Force keeps sending Alex to different places. First, he got the opportunity to go to Ohio for a 3 week training and since I didn't want to sit in New Mexico by myself, I went back to Arizona. I had a lot of fun visiting family. Right when we got back, they sent him to Alabama for 6 weeks, but this time I got to go, too! We decided to drive there and when we got to our hotel, they lost our reservation and because of the hurricanes, they had no more rooms in the town either, so we drove straight through (24 hours!). We took turns sleeping
and when we finally made it we slept most of the next day. Our hotel room has a kitchen and I
have really enjoyed being able to cook.

They have all kinds of programs for the wives that decided to go and so while Alex is in class, I have been having a lot of fun!The Six Flags in Georgia was letting all military members get in for free so we went this last weekend and had a great time! Well worth the money : ).

Our House

We are finally posting pictures of our house! We have been getting phone calls for awhile now reminding us : ).

We drove up to Albuquerque and since our house wasn't ready yet, we stayed in a hotel for a couple of weeks. We still have a lot of mix and match furniture, but we love having a house!Our Beautiful HomeOur Family Room and Dining Room

Our Kitchen

Our We Didn't Know What to Do So We Made It Our Sitting Room Room

Our Laundry RoomOur Guest Room for all of those of you who venture out to come see us!
Our Guest BathroomOur OfficeOur Master Bathroom...we don't have a picture of our master bedroom because we were packing to go to Alabama at the time we took these pictures...Our View

Stephanie's Graduation

Yeah, its been awhile since we added any new posts. I knew we had a lot of catching up to do so I have been dreading it. Well I graduated in May from ASU with a degree in accounting. I am so glad its over and anxious to get a real job with no homework!

Alex's Graduation

So after 4 years of pure mental pain, I finally did it. I finished my degree in Electrical Engineering. I like to think that E.E. is the most interesting, difficult, and rewarding degree out there...so I will. Anyways I had a great time, met a lot of new people, and was able to put another notch on the belt of life.

The Wedding

We were married on March 15, 2008.

My mom and Lauren helped me get ready

while Alex was busy trying to fix the electrical problems. He's lucky he didn't hurt himself!

I had the best maid of honor and bridesmaids!

Alex had a great best man and groomsmen!


We had two adorable ring bearers,


and very supportive families!

We jumped on the bandwagon!

Our family has been pressuring us to make a blog so we can keep everyone updated on our lives while we are in New Mexico, so here we are with our own blogspot. I will try to go back a couple of months to catch everyone up since our wedding.