Christmas at the Hamblin House

Here is the house decorated for Christmas. Every year, even though we have the same decorations, the house looks a bit different because we seem to reorganize the living room at least once a year. So here is what it looks like for this year!

Our new babies

Hey everyone! It's been a while since Jake and I blogged! We apologize for not keeping you updated. Anyway, Jake and Al recently decided that they wanted to start breeding snakes. They weren't planning on buying until next August, but Jake got a little excited and now we have two new additions to our menagerie. I would like to introduce Salazar and Merope; obviously named after Harry Potter characters. Salazar is the founder of one of the Hogwarts Houses and Voldermort is descendent from him. Merope is the name of Voldermort's mum. Salazar is my snake and he is an Orange Ghost ball python. Jake's snake is Merope and she is a Spider ball python. Merope is the yellow and black one; and Salazar is the orangey-purple one. They are almost three months old. Salazar was born on September 22 and Merope was born on Septmeber 24. They are both 130 grams and will be ready for breeding in a few years. Salazar will grow to be around four and a half feet and Merope will be around five and a half.

Wedding Pictures and after

Well, as you all know the wedding was last Thursday and it was amazing! I had such an amazing time and am very sad that the day had to pass so quickly! Jake and I spent a couple nights at the Alaskan Inn and shopped around Ogden for a few days,. Then we spent a few days at home doing thank-you cards and watching baseball and football. Then, much to our displeasure, we had to go back to work yesterday. It wasn't so bad all; I had to do was train and then Jake had a project day. But I still would have rather spent another week with him. Ah, well, such is life. I am posting pictures of the wedding even though I know Corrie, Andra and Mom have already posted some, but these are my favorites. Tomorrow we get a copy of all of the pictures that the photographers took as well; so be looking for those too. Love you all so very much! Ash

Nap Time

This is what was going on at ten o'clock in the morning while I was slaving away at the computer doing more address for the wedding invitations. None of these animals had been awake long enough to deserve a nap, but here they are. They woke up long enough to follow me up the stairs and then went right back to sleep! The lazy bones! The one with Poncho is the cutest, I think. He always sleeps so funny! I think he is adorable. Granted he might have been sleeping out of starvation because Jake didn't pick up cat food yesterday and the poor little guy had eaten anything since then. Someone call the ASPCA!!

My Bridals

So today I had my bridals taken. I had about two hours of sleep because I couldn't quiet my nerves; and that was even after I took TylenolPM. So I got up at four to get my hair and make-up done at five to be ready for my photo shoot at seven thirty in the morning. It was early! I haven't been up that early since I quit Jamba Juice!! The photo shoot ended being a fiasco. Corrie and I got to the studio at seven twentyish and the photographer never showed. About eight o'clock we gave up and went home, leaving a messasge on their phone. At about eight thirty I get a call from the photographers explaining that her mom had had a heart attack and she had been at the hospital. Boy did I feel like a complete asshole!! We decided to still do the shoot since my make-up was still on, but I had taken out my hair so I ended up having to throw it back together. I don't think it turned out half bad.l These are pictures that Corrie had taken of the photographer taking pictures of me. I'm glad she did because I feel like the shoot didn't go well at all; I don't think I am at all photogenic. But the pictures Corrie took gave me hope that the photographer got some good shots as well. One can only hope! Tell me what you think and enjoy!

Baby Iris

This is something cute I found when I downloaded all the pictures from my camera.l I thought they were cute so I thought I'd share with you all my cute Baby Iris. Lots of Love!

Still Alive

Just so everyone knows, Jake and I are both still alive and breathing. We have both just been really busy with work. Jake was moved to the Riverdale Chili's and had to maneuver his whole schedule around and had to work a lot more to pick up where the old GM slacked. I have also been getting overtime for the past five weeks and my gym schedule has suffered greatly much to my disappointment. I am so tired from working that going to the gym feels like another chore. I have also been doing a lot of reading. Mainly the Twilight series by Stephanie Meyer. But I also just finished her other book The Host which was amazing! I would recommend it to everyone!! Any way here is some pictures of Jake's recent purchase; his beloved bike. He loves it more than life itself it seems. Enjoy!