A Quarter Of A Century!

As most of you know, it was my 25th birthday on Wednesday and a wonderful one at that! I flet like the whole week was a celebration! Last Sunday we had two ice cream and cake appointments at my grandma's and my dad's. Then on Tuesday Adam took me to dinner at the Tango House for a what I thought would be a dinner for just the two of us. When we got there I figured out it was a surprise party because Lisa and her boyfriend were there and my sister was pulling into the parking lot:). Everyone else showed up a few minutes after that and we had a great time waiting forever for the food and enjoying good conversation! I've never had a surprise party in all my twenty five years but I'm so grateful to have such a loving and thoughtful husband who takes care of me and makes me happier each day!

On my birthday, Wednesday, Adam and I made chicken and rice, had Paula and Wade over for cake and ice cream and then headed out to find me a cardigan and an ipod charger. Thursday we met my dad, kathy, her kids, brooke and the kids, and coray and his family for dinner at JCW's in American Fork. The burger was pretty good and the shake was even better! Friday Brooke and I went shopping with the kids to find some new skirts for Tanner's wedding. Finally on Saturday we went out to dinner with our friends Cody and Chelsea at La Vigna in American Fork. It was a week of celebrating and lots of fun! As I was pondering my century status, I thought I would put down some of the things I have accomplished these past twenty five years and also what I plan to do in the next twenty five years! Here goes....

What I've done:

• Graduated High School
• Member of Seminary Council
• Spent one night a weekend babysitting Briana (what cherished time it was!!!)
• Donated blood at the Red Cross
• Served a mission in Spain
• Learned to play the piano
• Married Adam in the Bountiful Temple
• Received a 4.o each semester of my education program!
• Attended BYU-Idaho and UVSC
• Spent time with my mother
• Traveled to Spain with my parents
• Been involved in my wards
• Traveled to many places in the States, Canada, Mexico, the Carribean and Spain
• Helped with Habitat for Humanity

Things I plan on doing:

• Graduate from UVSC with my bachelor's in Elementary Education
• Teach 6th grade somewhere in Utah
• Obtain a Master's degree from UVU in Multicultural Education and ESL
• Have four or so kids.. we'll see how many actually come:)
• Support my husband through nursing and his masters degree
• Maintain my certification and teach after my kids are older
• Travel back to Africa and Spain
• Raise my children
• Buy a home
• Go on a Mediterranean cruise
• Strengthen my testimony of the gospel
• Do 100% visiting teaching every month
• Be involved in the Gang prevention program throught the district
• etc.....

Who'd a thought

Adam had the day off yesterday and decided that I should experience something new after work. We packed up his fishing gear and went up American Fork canyon to some random lake just past Mount Timp. I think I've been told that I went fishing when I was like 3 with my Great Grandpa but I have not recollection, so it's safe to say that I didn't know a thing about fishing:) Yet Adam was so excited for me to learn that I couldn't say no.... keep in mind that I still tried to persuade him otherwise...LOL The Fieber's are fisherman and so I had to give in.

It wasn't just fishing, but fly fishing. My first thoughts were, "Why in the heck do people like to stand/sit by the water and put a stick with a string in it?" After a few quick lessons and many failed attempts at getting the fly far enough out, I did it correctly! Adam's excitement was priceless. Even though I told him that I can enjoy it for an hour max I'm sure that he will hold me to more fishing expeditions in the future.

I can't resist a sale!!

Can you believe I have posted 3 times in one night? Well here is the last thing: Adam and I were flipping through the Bed Bath and Beyond add when I came across a sale they were having on complete bed sets and found this!!!!! It is a 22 piece bed set that goes for $199.99 but I had a %20 coupon so we got it for $170!!! Hooray! While I am still in love with my original bedding, we plan on keeping the new one in the closet for a few years when we decide to switch it out!

A Tent in our Living Room?

If you have ever doubted how much Adam loves the outdoors, here is a story to convince you. The tent you see on your left is the exact same tent the Adam set up in our living room yesterday. He had made up his mind that since we got it as a wedding present (thank you Renee) that it was high time we got it out of the bag. I left at 3:30 to do my visiting teaching and when I got home there was a tent in our living room:). He was so excited and couldn't wait to sleep in it. I told him that I could handle snuggling in it while we watched a movie but than I would like to sleep in my comfy bed. It was entertaining to see his excitement about the tent!! On an added note he also bought steaks, propane and set up our mini-grill in the next to the tent today while I was at work. We ended up not grilling anything but he is all set for tomorrow!!

Taxes are my friend!!!

Over the weekend Adam and I finally got everything ready to take over to H&R Block so that we could get squared away with Uncle Sam. I was very aprehensive about the whole thing because of my unique "job situation" last year. To fill you in if you didn't know: Mark paid me everything.... and I mean everything, so nothing went to taxes. I didn't really get that whole thing until I filed my taxes in 2006 and realized what had happened. (I know I'm very naive when it comes to things like this....LOL) Earlier in the year we had talked to some people about what I was going to owe in taxes and they totally freaked me out!!! He told me that I would probably owe about $4,000. What?!!! Welcome to reality Jamie! Then I found out that there were deductions for technically being self-employed but I still counted on owing taxes for 2007.
Now here comes the rest of my tax story. H&R Block had me count miles and a portion of my cell phone in order to deduct the proper amount. The lady filled in lots of spaces, included my education credits and then I started to phase out just waiting for the total amount we would have to shell out. All of the sudden Adam yelled, "YES!" I was so confused and then they filled me in on the good news. We would be receiving $1,000 from the IRS and $500 plus the $1200 economic stimulus!!!! Hooray for coming out ahead... even though I know this probably won't ever happen again:) I'm still very glad that I switched jobs so that my taxes come out each month and I can sleep peacefully at night. Anywho, just thought I would share that with you all and remind you to file before April 15th so you can get the economic stimulus too!! Happy April!

Check it out!!

I posted a new entry on my mom's blog. The link to it is under "My mother:" in the "Find who you were looking for..?" section of my blog!

I must admit...

So over Christmas Break Adam and I got caught up on all of the previous Lost Seasons. Now that the 4th has been going for a little while I can finally admit that I am a Lost adict. I get so excited about Thursday nights because we finally get to find out more!!! It's about the only tv show I actually watch but it's my little perk before the weekend:)

In other news, Adam's surprise birthday lunch went well last weekend! I thought he might have figured it out a couple of times but he was completely oblivious! We had a good lunch with everyone and now he is officially 23... I can't believe I'm almost 25... a quarter of a century old. I am very happy about the last 25 years. I have had many things happen that have helped me to become more like the person I want to be!! Now I have another 3/4 of a century to fix the rest!!!