Merry Christmas!

So another christmas has come and gone! I got a good present this year, a new husband! We went back home to Rock Springs for Christmas. We got lucky this year my mom was off on christmas day, kinda, she worked all night chritmas eve and then came home chritmas morning. We open presents and then started cooking, since christmas was at our house this year! My mom out did her self, she made such a good dinner for all of us! Everyone came over and ate and opened presents! And then I think we all ate again!

The day after Christmas we ate more food! Mexican food, which is what we usually eat on christmas day, but we did it a little different this year! Once again good job mom! Everyone came back over again and ate and played marbles, which is something that the Torres family plays every chance we get! It gets very loud and very competitive! Its so fun!

It was hard to leave but not as bad as usual, at least we got to drive home and not fly! So overall it was a great christmas! Hope that you all have a Happy New Year!

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Thanksgiving and Christmas Tree Party

Thanksgiving was a great day, even though all of the family wasnt there it was still a good one! Even my grandpa Jerry came and I love seeing him anytime! And most of all my dad AND brother came which is a miracle. My dad makes everyone laugh and never stops teasing one of my cousin, Chet, which most of the time deserves it! Grandma Glenna and my Aunt Toni never stop in the kitchen, and they make the best Thanksgiving dinner. My mom had to work so she only get to be there for a couple of hours. I told her that when Jeff and I have kids she has to stop working on thanksgiving and christmas!

This is usually how is works, ladies in the kitchen....

Guys in front of the tv, watching football!!!

Thanksgiving Dinner

Grandpa Jerry and Grandpa Gino


So usually the weekend of Thanksgiving we have a family tradition, everyone comes up even all of my Grandmas sisters kids and there kids and so on and there is alot of people there, and we go up in the mountain to find everyone a christmas tree! It is so fun and everyone loves to do it. My uncle Kelly brings his big snow mobile trailer and we have heaters in it and cook chili and scones and hot chocolate. Even though most of us have fake trees there are the few that go and cut down there christmas tree. Jeff still hasnt gotten to go since he had to work! One year he wont be able to get out of it.

Me and Boston in our matching hats!

Everyone up getting trees and eating!

My Aunt Toni and her crazy outfit that she has had forever (cant you tell)!!!

I have the cutest little cousins!

Trini

My brother and mom (on two hours of sleep) and me freezing!

Happy Thanksgiving!

So tomorrow is Thanksgiving and I am so excited! I am so "thankful" that I dont have to cook dinner tomorrow all by myself like last year! I am just making two pies and that will be nice and easy! Jeff and I are going to my grandparents ranch in Lyman, WY! Since tomorrow is thanksgiving I though I would post the things that I am thankful for!
1. My brand new husband. He is my best friend and I am so glad that I get to spend this Thanksgiving and every other thanksgiving with him! I am so glad that Jeff came into my life just before thanksgiving 2 years ago!
2. My amazing family. It is so great to be close to them all! I love seeing all of my cousins especially the little ones!
3. My parents. Jeff and I could not do it without all of there help and love. I have the most incredible parents, that love me unconditonally. I love you mom and dad!
4. My new family. I am so luck to not only have a great family but I also got a great new family. Even though we dont get to see them that often we will be thinking of all of you tomorrow! Thank you for welcoming me.
5. My true friends. To those few of you out there I am thanksful that you stuck around for all this time, some of you have really had to stick it out! I love you all! And to the few new ones in AZ, I wish that we had more time to hangout!
So count your blessings tomorrow and have a great Thanksgiving!

Wedding Pictures.....Finally!!!

I know that everyone has been waiting for me to post some wedding pictures and I finally got them! So here are some of our favorites!

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We are finally in Utah

So after a long hard month of deciding to stay in Arizona or move to Utah, we decided to go to the cold mountains and move to Utah. We have been here for only a couple of days and I already miss the warm weather! But bring around my family has helped alot and I think that we made the right decision!

It was a long trip up to Utah but we made it on Sunday. We are just living at my Aunt Toni and Uncle Geralds right now and we are very thankful and lucky to have them let us stay with them! Yesterday we went apartment hunting (its not fun!) and found the cutest apartment! It is brand new and I love it! My dad hasnt seen it yet but he is already not a happy camper, its on the second floor, and for some reason Jeff and I have alot of stuff! So he is dreading the move, again! I told him that he only has to move us upstairs once and the next time it will all be down the stairs, he didnt think that I was very funny!

I cant wait to get all of our new wedding stuff and decorate our new home! Jeff got a transfer
with AT&T in downtown Salt Lake City and he starts on Monday, he is excited to be in a new store. I am still on the hunt for a job and hope that I find one very, very soon!

9.19.09

I am FINALLY finding sometime to share some of my favorite wedding thoughts and with you all!

Let me just say that my wedding was INCREDIBLE, AMAZING, and EVERYTHING I ever dreamed of! Not because of any one thing but just the feel of the whole day. I couldnt have asked for anything better.

I absolutly so in love with my new husband! Jeff- no man has ever made me feel as beautiful and appreciated as you do. I cant believe I found someone so amazing to spend my life with! I love you!

Some of my favorite moments were:

-Getting ready with all of my bridesmaids and flowergirl , I couldnt have picked better ones, thank you all for loving me and helping out so much and being a part of my special day!

-Walking down the aisle with my dad. No matter how old I am, I will always be a daddy's girl.

-Seeing Jeff as I was walking down the aisle.

-Jeffs loving words at the ceremony. ( I still cry when I think about it!)

-Finally getting to my Party!!!

-My flowers!!! I loved my flowers!!!

-And having a blast for the rest of the night!

What can I say I had the wedding of my dreams and the man of my dreams, what more could a girl ask for!!!

Thanks to my amazing family, all of you!!! Jeff and I love you all and couldnt have had this wedding without you! Mom, I love you for all of your help!

Also thank you to everyone that came and was a part of our special day!

P.S. I will post some pictures as soon as i get them!!!

Last Week of School!!!

This is my last week of school, I cant believe it flew by! I am so glad to be done before all the wedding stuff starts, no more homework or projects! I cant wait to really get out there are start drawing blood on people. After the wedding I will go to my externship for 4 weeks and draw blood in a lab then I will be officially done with school.

Jeff came to my school on Monday for our sticking party and he let me stick him! He was very brave, he is one hard person to draw on too, he doesnt have any veins!

He is so brave!!! (And cute!!!)

My classmates Mike, Toby, and Mauri

The young ones in the class! Ruben and GiGi

My Fabulous teacher Mrs. Lei Sean

Its been a Crazy month!!!

Ok, so I have been a really bad blogger! I cant even begin to tell you how crazy my life is right now! This next week is my last week of school before I go to my externship, which will be after the wedding! So I have been studying for a final, making food for our sticking party (lots of people come to our school and lets us practice on them!) making a game that we have to have for our last week of school,and oh ya PLANNING A WEDDING!!! Can you believe that it is right around the corner!

These next couple of weeks are going to be insane! I have finals this week, then on Saturday I go to Vegas for my bachelorette party, come home on Monday, leave again on Friday for Utah/Wyoming for the wedding! No time to breath! I am so excited for September 20!!! I just want to thank all of you that are just as crazy as me (mom) with this wedding! Thanks for all the help! I love you all! So I am sorry that I havent wrote much in awhile but after these next couple of weeks I will have alot to write about!

Foianini Reunion

This was a very busy weekend! Besides my bridal shower my family decided to have a little family reunion! It was at my grandmas house in Lyman and it was good to just sit around and talk with everyone. I think that my mom, Aunt Toni and Grandma love it the most though, they are one in the same! Since it was an Italian reunion there was more wine there than a liquor store, so even my dad had a good time! There is only 4 siblings out of 11 of my grandpa siblings, and three of them were there. Some of the grandpas nieces and nephews came all over to, it was a good day.

My grandpa and his sister, Eve

Isnt this the cutest picture! How cute are my cousins, and they didnt even have any wine!!!

Bridal Shower

This weekend was my bridal shower! It was so fun and my sister, my maid of honor, gave me the best shower. It was so cute and I couldnt have asked for a better day! It was suppose to be at my moms house in Wyoming, but due to the wonderful Wyoming weather we had to move it to the union hall down the road. Even though it isnt the cutest place my sister, mom and dad made it look so good!
The colors for the shower were red and black and Marylin Monroe and James Dean themed, because I love them! I got to see alot of people that I dont get to see alot and got alot of great presents. I just want to thank everyone who was involved! The food was amazing, the decorations were amazing and all of you there are amazing. Thank you for making my day so special!
I cant wait til the big day, it is coming so soon!

This was a game we played, they had to make a wedding gown out of toilet paper!

My cute flower girl, Trini! Her team won the dress game

Even cute babay Bella got into the toliet paper! She is the cutest thing!
My cute decorations!

Vegas Baby!

Jeff and I went to Las Vegas this past weekend to surprise our friend Tony, for his 30th birthday. It was such a good time and it was so good to see some of our friends from Jackson. WE MISS YOU ALL VERY MUCH!!! We accomplished our goal and Tony was very surprised! We went and ate at Ceasar Palace and then went out til 4 in the morning, which was way to late for me and Jeff! We are already turning into an old married couple! It was such a fun trip and we cant wait to see everyone again at the wedding!



Tony ( with a mohawk, hopefully its not there by the wedding!) and Jeff

Jarrod, Shannon, Ashlee, Tony and Jeff at dinner

Jarrod being Jarrod! and Shannon

My handsome fiance and me

Paging Nurse Tina...

Ok not yet anyway, but I am on the path to get there someday! I had my first week of Phlebotomy ( drawing blood ) class this week. It is 7 weeks of class and 4 weeks of an externship. I wanted to do this so I could be doing something in the medical field while I am going to nursing school. So thats the plan, to get done with Phlebotomy School, move to Utah with my soon to be husband and become a nurse!

Ok I also have to say that I couldnt look more like my dad in this picutre!!! If you ever see him with his glasses on they are always slid down the bridge of his nose! He seems to have them on lot these days! I love you dad!!!

Engagement Pictures

Here are some of our favorites!!!

My Sweet Baby

Since Tina has been doing such a great job with our blog I wanted to write a few words about the best woman in the world. I'm the luckiest man in the world to be able to marry and spend the rest of my life with Tina. Everyday I wake up and realize that I love her more and more each day. I cannot wait to marry her and start our next chapter as a married couple. She is the most amazing person in the world and everyday she makes me a better person since she is in my life. I love her so so much and I wanted to let everyone out there know how much I love her and can't wait to spend the rest of my life with her.

Also I wanted to thank everyone that has been involved in the planning of our wedding. There needs to be a special thanks to Teri, Gibby, Kathy and Bernie for all of their love and support to make this the most special day in both of our lives. Tina and I can't wait to see everyone in September.

Wedding Dress Weekend!

I finally found a wedding dress this weekend!!! I waited til the last minute to find one but it has been done! My mom came to hot Arizona this weekend ( the hottest yet.. up to 117! ) to help me find a dress, we started our adventure on friday, we went to our first appointment and I still cant believe we found it on our first try! We ended up canceling the other two appointments that we had. It was so nice because it freed up the rest of the weekend to look for my moms dress and bridesmaid dresses, didnt have any luck there!

I am so happy that my mom came down to the hot desert to help me! She is the best. I wouldnt have wanted to do it with anyone else and it was a great weekend. I hate taking her to the airport and saying goodbye, the visits are never long enough, but I know that she was glad to go back to wonderful, cool Wyoming!

Fathers Day!!!

Happy Fathers Day! We just got home from Utah and Wyoming for fathers day. It was soooo good to go back home. I love seeing my family and being in that clear Wyoming air! Jeff and I flew in on friday night and my Aunt Toni came and picked us up and we stayed at her house on friday night. My dad, mom, sister, and grandpa came on Saturday and picked us up. Jeff, my dad, my sister and grandpa went to Hill Airforce Base to the plane museum and me and my mom and aunt went to look for bridesmaid dresses ( no luck! ). It poured rain all day so we didnt get to go to the races in Utah that my dad wanted to go to

We also got our engagment pictures on Monday and my grandparents ranch. It was so fun and I cant wait to see them!!! We took them in some really neat places, by the huge gas cans, rusted fences, by the hay and even in a old car trunk. I cant wait for everyone to see! I even saved some of my Grandpa Gino's old, old, cowboy boots that my grandma was about to throw away ( I know can you believe she was actually going to throw them away!!!! ) and wore them in some of our pictures. I cant wait for all of you to see them!!!!

My future husband

Its not everyday that you get to fall in love with your best friend. I have the most amazing man that any girl could ever ask for. I never thought that I could find someone that I could love that would love me back unconditonally.

Jeff you make me happier than I could ever imagine and more loved than I ever thought possible. I am so in love with you and I can wait to call you my husband!

Jeff's trip to St. Loius

Jeff just got home from his annual trip to St. Louis and the Indy 500. He had tons of fun and it was good to see all of his family that are back there. His brothers Joe and Brian went to a Cardinal game on Friday night then headed to Indy on Saturday. The race was on Sunday and Jeff said it was hot and muggy. But he loves to go no matter what! He came back to hot and dry Arizona on Monday night. I missed him so much and I told him that he cant leave me for that long anymore! I am glad that he went and had fun and that he is back home!!!

We are engaged!!!

September 19th 2008 was a very very special day in each ot our lives. It was the day we became engaged to be married. Yet it took planning and execution to pull of the perfect proposal. We looked at some Tacori rings in July that year, we both saw a beautiful ring that day and Jeff knew that it had to be Tina's ring. In late August the ring was ordered and Jeff began the prep work. First he had to get to Idaho Falls to get the ring, which he told Tina he had a work meeting. With the ring in hand he now had to meet with Tina's parents Gibby and Teri. On Sept. 12 Jeff frove to Pindale, Wy to meet Tina's parents for lunch. Again Jeff lied to Tina and told her he was playing golf. With Tina's parents permission it was time for the big day. We had planned a dinner at Couliar in Teton Village, Wy. To get up to the resturant you have to take a gondola ride up to the top of the mountain. Jeff knew that his would be the perfect spot for the proposal. On the ride up to the top of the mountain Jeff got his 6 foot 1 inch frame down on one knee and asked Tina to marry him. She said YES!!! Of course! We are getting married on September 19 2009!!!