I'm officially Nancy Huckvale

I went and sat at the drivers license division for two hours today next to a man that smelled like feet.  As "C-285" was finally called, I jumped up to meet the nice lady for my turn.  I commented on how busy it was and she said, "Mondays are normally busy, but I have never seen the place this packed before in my life!"  Great. The ONE DAY I choose to go get my name changed on my license...  oh well!

I am officially Nancy Huckvale! Hoorah!  

No more trouble trying to get past security at the airport! No more problems at the bank! No more mis-pronouncing "ROUSH" .. well...  actually I think more people say Huckvale wrong than they ever did Roush.  Either way, I'm glad to get that out of the way. 

One more thing checked off my to-do list. :)

Summer Time and the Livin's Easy

Ladies and Gentlemen, I'm pleased to announce my summer break has begun! (Angels bust out singing in the background) After completing six finals this week, I came home on Thursday, ripped off my clothes, and slept. ( always sleep in my undies because I get too hot. And I don't like being all struggled and tight in clothes. And being told I have to wear em.) And boy did I sleep. I slept for the next four hours and when I woke up I didn't even realize I had fallen asleep.


The next day, Friday, I slept in (ahhhhh), planned to take a little package to the post office so I decided I'd take Cosmo out and walk over then and then go for a run at Murray Park after but I forgot the package at home so we just went for the run...... for about five minutes before I came across a big sign with an arrow pointing at FARMERS MARKET. Cosmo and I went over and helped ourselves to some free yummy food like bread n berries and watermelon (yum!) and then walked home. Drove the package to the post office. Came home. Took a nap. Woke up and played with Cosmo. Watched the Simpsons. Hung out with Jonno. Took another nap. And the rest of the night I spent kinda dilly dallying around. It was sooo great! And not ONCE did I feel bad about not doing something productive like... oh I dunno... STUDYING. Ah, I loveee breaks from school.

Don't get me wrong, I love school n all but it sure is nice to have a break every now and again.

Saturday morning was one of my best friend's (the new Mrs. Linzee Cardall) wedding down at the Manti Temple. Jonathon's temple recommend expired the DAY BEFORE (of course) so he didn't come. I had never been to this temple before and it was really pretty. We went to Aurora after for the reception and all of Linzee's new husband's family and friends could not believe this little town. They were in awe that they had a horse and lambs in their backyard. (okay, okay so I was just like them when I went down three weeks ago!) Oh, and they have a pet deer they found named Buck. He is like a little dog. He doesn't leave the yard and eats all the flowers and they feed him out of a bottle.. he's so sweet. They put a red bow around his neck for the wedding!

The entire day was perfect.. if only Jonathon was there. :( I hate going to weddings without him. Oh well.

I don't own a camera (it's on our to-do list for one day when we actually have money) so I don't have any pictures but our friend from school Chelsea was the photographer so I'll put some up from her when I can. But Linzee and Wes are such a great, beautiful couple and I'm soooooooo happy for them to start their new little family together! Yay!

Also, Jonathon and I got called to be Sunday School teachers for the 12-14 year olds at church. Today was our first lesson and I loved it. These kids are so innocent and sweet. Last week when we sat in at the other teacher's last lesson, during the closing prayer the boy said "Thank you for our new teachers. Please bless them that they can do a good job..." And it made my heart melt. I am determined to be the best darn Sunday School teacher for them that I can be. I have so much love in my heart for them already. I'm really happy to finally have a calling too! :)


PHEW!


Okay, well there was a recap from the last few days. Now that it is summer, I'll hopefully post more. Though, I'm pretty sure I end every post with that, and it never happens. But I'll really try! Okay.... bye!

Oh, I'm also going to try to get Jonathon to post too. He is a really good writer and person too.. he's really funny and cute and sweet and fun and great (can't you tell I'm married to him?) and he got a posting bloggy name thingy just for the purpose of posting but he's been real busy with school too. Maybe between the two of us we'll be able to get SOMETHING up every month or so. K. Love you all. Er, all two of you.

Love, Nauncy

This is me, Chelsea, BILLY, and Lana

Do you recognize Billy??

He is the blind kid from Dumb and Dumber that says "Pretty bird"
He was part of Wes's band that played at the wedding.

Here is a picture of me and Buck. Isn't he cute?! He's like Bambi.. but real and cuter! Real cuter!
This is from Linzee's bridal shower a few weeks ago.

Aw, I miss him. :( I think everyone should own a Buck. Do you think my apartment would allow him??

Linda, maybe if dogs don't tickle your fancy, a deer definitely would. Just take some time to think about it. I'll go catch you one myself.

Spring Break Fun!

I'm so excited to announce that both Jonathon and I are all done with finals- wahoo! Here's what I've done so far on for my spring break: went to the Provo mall with my cute carpool to visit Lana at Buckle and so Erin could exchange her jeans, ate Panda Express, got the fortune in my cookie of "You deserve respect and that is what you'll get," came home, took a three hour celebration nap, went to celebration dinner for FREE at Applebees using a gift card we found in our closet (why does food always taste better when it's free??), bought a new house-warming scent at Bath and Body Works, rented Marley and Me (very cute - we loved this movie!), picked up Cosmo from my Mom's because watching the movie made us crave him, played with my mom's adorable little smart new puppy Cookie, started driving back to our place and watched our temperature gauge hit the red hot zone, turned around back to my Mom's, asked my brother Steven for a ride home, played with Cosmo, went to bed around 3:00 AM, woke up around 12:00 PM, took Cosmo out for a run at the park, watched him go poo twice..and mark every single tree and pole in that God-forsaken park (good boy Cosmo!), came home and drank a protein shake, attempted to clean and ended up on the couch reading the news about a pig who is breast-feeding two little tiger babies, fell asleep, played with Jonno, attempted to clean, showered, rested some more, and here I am! I've really lived it up since finishing my last final yesterday morning. :) I lovvveeeee a good Spring Break!

Here's what's on the agenda for the next few days:
-fix Lexie ( our poor car :( )
-sell Charles (my poor old car)
-clean clean clean!
-go to the Hogle Zoo
-take Cosmo to the dog park AND up the canyon to go hiking
-do a butt load of laundry
-finally have our Easter egg hunt!

I'll keep you all updated on how it goes. :)

Ahhhhhh until then... I'm just gonna kick back and relax some more! :):)

L.A.C.R.O.S.S.E.

Lacrosse season is upon us! And you know what that means... Money, money, money!!!!! YAY! I reffed my first game of the season with Alta vs. Park City high school girls and loved every second of it. Here is a list of just a few reasons of why this is probably the all-time best part time job ever:

1. It pays $48 per game! And usually you do two games in one night.. 96 dollars in two hours!!
2. It's great exercise - I don't need to re-exercise for the day when I get home.
3. I can choose the days I want to ref.
-If I have a big test coming up, I can decline the game offered to me so I can stay home and study. Or, likewise, if I know I have a big shopping spree coming up I can do just the opposite and work, work, work! :)
4. It only lasts a maximum of two hours at a time - I can't possibly die of boredom.
5. I love working with high school girls.
-They are so much fun to be around and joke with. I really love these girls. I feel like such a dork but sometimes I will even get all teary-eyed when I hear a girl give a team mate a word of encouragement or seeing them get so excited for each other after a made goal. There is an innocence and sweetness about girls at this stage in their lives, just trying to figure themselves out and get through life any way they can.. and try to have some fun while doing it. I LOVE these girls.
6. I never need to worry about fans, players, or coaches being rude to me.
- In most sports, referees get all the crap. No matter what they do or say, they are wrong. In lacrosse, however, referees are respected in the highest regards. If I hear a fan shouting out negative comments, I can give them a warning and "card them" which means the team they are rooting for gets a penalty and the other team automatically gets the ball. That is the same procedure if a girl talks back to me on the field or even if she cusses. Everyone is always very respectful and willing to help.
-ALSO, since lacrosse is a fairly new sport, especially in Utah, many people don't know the actual rules. So when I make a call, most people don't question it since they don't know the rules anyway!
7. Taxes aren't taken out so everything I buy for the job is tax deductible.
-Including... my super cute new black Nike running pants and future black running shoes. I'm so excited!
8. Lacrosse just plain rocks anyway. It's like I get paid to be entertained and call things I want to call.


Well, for all these reasons and more, I love being a referee for high school girl's lacrosse. :)

RIP Molly

Last week we had a really sad experience.

I was at my apartment working on homework around 8:00 at night when I got a text message from my mom that Molly and Cosmo were missing.

Molly is my mom's sweet papillon pup she got about a year ago. Cosmo, who is also a little papillon pup, is mine and Jonathon's baby. Jonathon gave him to me as a Christmas present last year- he was the greatest Christmas present I could ever imagine! And he means the world to us.

So when I got the text, my heart dropped. Because my mom is deaf, I thought maybe she just couldn't hear them and they were stuck in a room somewhere or something. I texted her back and asked if she was sure and she replied that she had found a hole under the fence in the backyard that they must have dug and escaped.

I called Jonathon out of class and he came and picked me up and we hurried over towards my mom's house in Sandy. When we were driving up the busy connecting street near her house when we spotted a little white ball on the side of the road. It was dark so we turned around to make sure and I started bawling when I got out of the car and discovered that sure enough it was Molly. She had been hit by a car.

I couldn't believe it. I couldn't breathe. All I could do was cry. I ran up to the house that she was in front of, the owners were some good friends of ours I grew up with from the ward. I didn't know what to do I just wanted help. Jonathon got out of the car at that point and wrapped his arms around me. Our next thought then was that we needed to somehow break this terrible news to my Mom and search for Cosmo and hope that he had not had the same fate.

We went to my Mom's house and told her we had found Molly and she'd been hit. I found out that I am a terrible person when it comes to a stressful situation and probably should not have been the one to tell her. She was very upset and when we walked down to where Molly was she just cried and couldn't believe it.

Molly had been hit, but seeing her laying there you would have never known. She looked so peaceful- like she was sleeping. My mom carried her and we walked home quietly together. Pretty soon after, my brother Steven arrived. My uncle Eric and Grandma Richards (my mother's mom) came to support her as well.

Finally what seemed like hours later we got a phone call on Jonathon's phone. A lady called and asked him "Are you the owner of a little dog named Cosmo?" And his reply was simply "Is he alive?" She laughed and said, "Of course! He broke into my backyard and was trying to play with my big dog. Can you come get him?"

Molly was a very sweet dog. She was so loving and happy and cute. She loved to love people and give kisses. Her and Cosmo were best friends. Together they had just had a batch of puppies last November and created the four sweetest little puppies I've ever seen. I'm so glad a little piece of her was left to carry on that way.

It made me and Jonathon appreciate having Cosmo in our life too. We love him so much. We've always loved him with everything in us but we don't want to ever let him out of our sight again! That so easily could have been Cosmo on the side of the road. He is so much a part of our family. Anyone who has that type of special relationship with their dog knows what I'm talking about.

Thanks to everyone who was so helpful and supportive for my Mom during this time. It's greatly appreciated and makes such a positive difference. Though it's tough losing that little piece of her life, she is doing well and the statement 'time heals all things' is proving itself true.

Here are a few pictures of them:

Molly playing outside
Little Cosmo Junior (C.J. behind her)

Molly playing with her pups

Cosmo and Molly lounging in bed

Cosmo out in the snow - his most recent photo

Pay it Forward.

So, I got this from a friend. The first 3 people to leave a comment on this post will receive a hand made gift from me during this year. When and what will be a surprise! There's a small catch...You knew there would be didn't you? Post this on your blog then come back and leave a comment, telling me you're in. Fun, huh? Remember, only the first 3 comments receive the gift. Let's see who likes surprises!!

Cool School

For those who don't know, I am currently attending the Utah College of Dental Hygiene. I just finished my first semester and am happy to say I survived - yay! I have been learning so much and having a lot of fun all the while. I've made a lot of great friends too - like Lana! She's helping me make this blog right now! She's so great!!

I love everything about dental hygiene. I really love my school. I've never felt that anything fit me and my personality more than this. And everyone and everything about the school contributes to it. If there was a single person missing from this class, it would not be as great of a class as it is. Everyone adds their own little special spice to the school and together it makes.. like a really yummy soup! I have had the best experience! I feel so lucky to be at this school right now and be able to be going into such a great field that I love so much.

Some of the many things I've learned are: how to flip a flippy frog at least 4 feet across the table (sometimes even with a ramp), how to steal people's papers and secretly get it back to them without them ever knowing how it mysteriously appeared, how to break a big black chair, how to turn off the powerpoint on my computer without ever even touching it (thanks to Linzee's magic little Mac remote! ha!), how to make little people out of gum, learned how to highlight my entire book (Thanks Brent!), how to pick out the BEST Christmas Sweaters, how to speak Spanish in a Pinch (Habla un poco de espanol con esto tarjeta), how to prank call people during class, how to put small gloves into people's big glove boxes and make them think they have defective gloves, and how to make soothing ocean sounds with the suction... Ahhh, so many great times in my first semester of school!!

Here are some pictures of good ol' fashioned, everyday fun at school:

This is me as a lobster for Halloween.

Me demonstrating how to properly clean Lana's teeth

Me and CUTE Audrey! The most adorable person in the entire world! I was blessed with great neighbors for my first semester with Audrey and Lana. :) love them! We learned about ergonomics and keeping good posture during appointments...I'm still working on it.

"I lof skool!" -Lana Hansen

***SPECIAL THANKS TO LANA FOR ALL HER HELP WITH THIS POST!***

Twenty years

20 Year Tag

Here you go, Shirley!

20 Years Ago:
1. I was swimming around in my mom's uterus waiting to be born.
2. I was listening to my family talk to me through the wall o' Mama and more than likely sing to me and tell me how much they loved me and couldn't wait to see me and play with me.
3. I yanked on my umbilical cord whilst in the womb and forced an outie belly button.

10 Years Ago:
1. I was 9 and in 5th grade at Alta View Elementary School. My teacher's name was Nancy Newton. She loved frogs.
2. I was best friends with Natalie Jackson, Ashley Romrell, Liz Frome, and Tiffany Cutler.
3. I loved the Utah Fun Dome that Ashley's family exposed me to (Thanks Ashley!) and worked really hard in my class so I could be the one person each month to win a free pass to the fun dome. I only missed it one time. I also loved White Towers Swimming pool.
4. We had just moved to Sandy, Utah from Simi Valley, California.
5. On the first day of school, I didn't have any friends and went to play on those swinging bar things by myself. Trying to look cool, I flipped backwards really fast, flew off, and landed flat on my butt. Tiffany was watching from the swings and walked over and asked if I was okay. Besides blushing red as could be, I said I was fine and we started laughing. We became best friends that instant.
6. I would spy on my older sister and her friends and steal her clothes and, of course, accidentally ruin them and try to put them back without her noticing. What else are little sisters for?

5 Years Ago:
1. I was 14 and about to start my sophomore year at Jordan High School.
2. I had grown my own personal testimony of the gospel and that summer and was learning to love life in every aspect of the word.
3. I was overly obsessed with Corey Gunderson and because I was so obsessed, wanted to impress him by signing up to play women's lacrosse for Jordan.
4. I got asked to the high school homecoming by 2 different boys and said no because I wasn't 16 but then Steven's good friend Lee Denning asked me and I had such a crush on him and it would be so much fun to go with Steven and that group of friends that I said yes! It was awesome. One of the best dances I ever went to. And I got released from being miamaid president because I dated before I was 16...
5. Even though I'd never played before, I made the high school tennis team!

3 Years Ago:
1. I was 16 years old and starting my senior year at Jordan high school and loving being able to date and drive..
2. I started talking to this boy online who lived in Washington named Jonathon Huckvale and I was secretly madly in love with him.
3. I was captain of the Jordan High School girl's lacrosse team and we were undefeated the last two years winning two state championships
4. I had my first job as a hostess at Brittons.
5. I got in my first car accident and crashed my mom's car. Later that day, I was fired from Brittons.


1 Year Ago:
1. I was 18 and just gotten married on August 4th to that same boy I was madly in love with 3 years ago.
2. I finished my first year of college at UVSC and BYU changed my major to dental hygiene and began my long road of crazy science classes.
3. I learned of Jonathon's disgust for sunburns firsthand when he got badly sunburned on the 2nd day of our 11 day honeymoon to a private beach in Florida and our sweet cruise to Mexico.
4. I lost a bunch of weight.



So Far This Year:
1. I applied and was accepted to the Utah College of Dental Hygiene and will be starting there this upcoming fall!
2. I received a perfect cute little white-bodied, brown-faced papillon puppy from Jonathon for Christmas. The best Christmas present ever!
3. I've learned that I LOVE science. I'm so glad I was forced to take all these science classes as pre-reqs because while it was very hard, I loved every minute of it.
4. We've trained Cosmo to learn all sorts of words and signs like sit, speak, play dead, "go to your cage"and roll over. He is a great running companion with me in the mornings sticking right by my side always without a leash and he even has learned "Go slide" and slides down the slide at the park! We've learned to love taking him for hikes too.
5. We went on the best vacation ever to California for the Huckvale Family Reunion and enjoyed every second of it.


Yesterday:
1. I studied statistics for about 7 hours.
2. Cleaned the room (you know how it is when you get home from a vacation!)
3. Went grocery shopping (again, you know how it is when you get home from a vacation!!)
4. Went running with Jonathon and Cosmo for the first time in at least a month.

Today:
1. I worked out to a work out video.
2. felt sick from working out too hard and rested
3. Made Jonathon lunch and dinner to take with him to work
4. Will study statistics for the next four hours
5. Go play lacrosse- yay!!

Tomorrow I will:
1. Study statistics all day.
2. Finish Twilight
3. Plan Achievement Days for the 8-12 year old girls at church

In The Next Year I will:
1. Be through with my first year of Dental Hygiene school
2. not be living in my mom's basement
3. work as a dental assistant for the summer
4. be finished with all my backed-up scrapbooking
5. spend more time with my sister and brother in law :)

I tag Shirley, oh wait.. uhhhhhh

"Hair ye, hair ye!"

I consider hair to be a form of art. I try really hard to take good care of my own and am constantly in search of that perfect blend of colors for me. The kind of hair that makes you look good even when you are sick and bloated. The kind of hair that people walk up to you and ask how you do it or where you get it done so they can get it too. It it is my mini obsession. Poor Jonathon has to hear about it all the time and I know that is such an un-manly topic for such a manly man! So, here I am letting it all out in the blog so that I can give Jonathon's ear a break.

I've felt for awhile now that I'd like to go to a more natural-looking 'do. I attempted it a few months ago and still regret going to a hair school to try it. I ended up spending 6 hours there just trying to get it back to a blonde that would look OK. That was when I vowed to never go to a school for certain things again, a weave being one of them. Anyway, I think I'd enjoy having a lighter brunette color with even lighter color in the front around the face.

I don't think blonde necessarily looks BAD on me. In fact, most of the time I love it! Jonathon especially loves it. Not because it's the blonde stereotype. Actually, when we first started dating, I had blonde hair and he asked me to dye it brown. So wanting to try out something new anyway, I did. And it was okay and all, but we both were excited for me to get back to blonde! Jonathon says the brown just didn't fit my personality. It didn't do anything for me. The blonde was just happy and cute.

So I think I've decided that I'm going to try to get the perfect blonde once more. I was at Costco and I saw a lady walk by with what I thought was a beautiful head of hair. I decided I'll ask her where she got it done and tell them to do the exact same thing. I've tried showing many pictures and describing it every way I can, and it never seems to come out the way I'd like. Maybe I have this idea in my head that is just unrealistic. Or that if the hair style turned out right, it'd also make me lose 5 pounds, make the gaps in my teeth close up, and make my boobs grow too! I hope this turns out well though. I'd like to finish just one time at a salon and say "It's perfect-I love it!" And I'm very hopeful that this will be the time.

Now, if this is not the way it goes, it's okay. Plan B is to keep the look for summer (it's alright to be blonde in the summer anyway!) and force myself to try out the natural brunette look again. I feel like I LOOK better with blonde hair and it's fun and bubbly, but I feel like I FEEL better with brunette. I don't like blonde hair to try and fit the barbie mold. And that is probably the reason I would like to think I'd like brunette better. Dang molds. It is also my dream to be what I like to call a "granola" someday. Many of these granolas live up in the Northwest. They eat organic food and plant gardens and go biking. Typically, they don't have blonde hair! So, I got a few years before we move up there to work on it. :)

Okay, I know this doesn't make any difference to other people and it probably seems strange that someone can write this much about their hair. I could probably write ten times this, honest! It's on my mind constantly.

Now it is on this page.