My Honey... the naturally sweet kind

~What is your husband's full name? Justin Wayne Aiken
~How long have you been married? 1 year and 15 days
~How long did you date? about 5 months :)
~How old is he? 24, he will be 25 on December 17th
~Who eats more sweets? He does, hehe, he always eats like 10 of the customary treats from the bank and any place that has a treat bowl, :P and he loves liccorice.
~Who said "I love you" first? I said I love you first after the 2nd date... I know, Justin won't ever let that down.
~Who is taller? Justin is about 3- 4” taller than me
~Who can sing the best? I can sing a little better than he can... he absolutely hates singing, hehe, he will hum at church though, :P.
~Who is smarter? Justin is definitely way smarter than I am. Hence the incorrect grammar in that last sentence, lol.
~Who does the laundry? Justin does a lot of the laundry, but I mostly fold and put away the laundry, he mostly washes the laundry.
~Who pays the bills? Justin takes care of all of the money, I just earn it, for now while he's in school, :)
~Who sleeps on the right side of the bed? I think Justin sleeps on the right side, he is on my right side anyway.
~Who mows the lawn? We take care of the back lawn, mostly Justin mows the lawn. I love riding lawn mower's too Jess!, :P, if we had one I would totally be the one mowing the lawn.
~Who cooks dinner? A lot of the time Justin makes dinner, and a lot of the time I do, it's half and half, :).
~Who drives? Because we have only one car and Justin has work and school in the same place, I mostly drive the car.
~Who kissed who first? Justin, I kind of knew he was going to but was so nervous that I backed away, but then we kissed after that awkwardness left.
~Who asked who out first? I asked Justin out first, or at least to meet him, it was kind of a blind date. Then, he asked me out on a real date, such a gentlemen.
~Who wears the pants? It's definitely half and half, because Justin does not want to make me sad at all, so he's very careful about what he says. But, he is also stubborn as a mule, as am I if I have something set in my brain, so we try to compromise a lot, :P.

Tagged by my own sister in law.

I got tagged by my sister in law Jessica. "You have to take 10 pictures of the following things and you have to do it right away. No straightening, cleaning or wiping your child's nose (I mean it!)."





This is probably one of the worst, worst pictures of me. Lol, but I thought it was funny so I decided to put it up anyway. Do I look restarted or what?!















This is our laundry room that we share with our neighbors. (Not completely our fault that its dirty is what I'm trying to say I guess lol).

















Okay, the dishes is our fault. At least there all in the sink! :P














This is Jasper. He is just like a kid. His favorite thing to do is cuddle.















Our fridge. It is a nice fridge, we like it a lot.




















My favorite room. It is a mess right now because we had a problem with our water heater where the storage room got a little flooded. So, our front room is now the storage room for a while. Can you guess why it's my favorite? I love our bean bag. :)















Our closet. It is somewhat cleanish. Lol... yes Justin does have more clothes than I do. hehe.

















This is our bathroom. It is really cute I think. It's small and cute.

So, yeah, it has been a really long time this time since I have written in this. So, I decided to write again.

Everything has been going pretty great over here. It has been so fun to go through each day and see what comes. I have started my new job at PetsMart as a Dog Trainer. I am not sure if that should be capitalized as it is definitely not a really professional title because I have not been through school or anything. But, I did go through the accreditation process and studying and it has been so much fun the whole way through. I never realized how much I really was meant to help dogs in this way. At first I thought it was just a hobby and that I kind of liked it. But, I love it! It really is a part of who I am and part of who I am supposed to become. Sorry for being so cheesy, it has just been so exciting and fun to learn all of these things about dogs and how to train them and I enjoy it every day.

Justin, my husband, in case you have not caught on to that yet in the previous blogs. Though, that would be really weird as I always mention how he is doing and how he is my life and everything. Lol, that sounds really lax, but he is my life and my joy. Lately, we have been really trying to prepare for the temple and loving eachother more. It is amazing that if you just turn your hearts to Heavenly Father in prayer and searching, he will make mountains out of the small little hills. I have grown to love Justin very much and in stead of holding myself back because of past mistakes, we both now support each other and help eachother. It is a great blessing to know that I really will be okay and Heavenly Father does forgive anyone.

Anyways, I always end up being cheesy I think. But really, cheese should be my middle name because I always end up cheesy lol.

So, yeah, we are doing very well. We are both working and Justin is going to school and interning at the church's motion picture studio. Jasper is doing great as well.

I hope this wasn't to long of a blog. Have a great day! :)

So, I realized that if I write a blog first before I title it, it is much easier to title the blog. This is a new discovery, as most of my blogs start with Hey, or Hello.. yeah.

So as of yet, I have not titled this blog. Hopefully I will be able to title it and not end up titling it Untitled. Although I do love Albums of music and poems called untitled. It lets you decide what it should be titled.

So, anyways, I decided I am not going to write my blog like a journal. I just don't like to talk about myself because I have realized that I just tend to talk about the negative things when I talk about myself. It makes me unhappy and everyone else. So, I'm going to talk about Justin and my family and his family and other people around me and so on.... just so you know.

I love to talk about dogs, as everyone knows. It is fun to talk about them because they are so interesting. And, the most intriguing thing about them is the way they communicate to you.

I will go into this further in the future, but I have to go now. Lol, yah short blog I know. But, I will continue to write as often as I can.

Ta Ta, :)
sammie

Hey, :)

So, I guess my new routine is writing a blog every month because I can't seem to write them any more sooner than that for some reason. I really like to write because I feel like I can express myself more when I write down my feelings.

So, tonight and last night Justin has been working with his guitar teacher recording a song for him and his band. They're doing a remake of the song from Nickleback, I dont know the title, but it's kind of a funny song. They're doing it for Nuskin so the words are even more funny than the original words. Justin has loved helping him with this and its great that he's getting the experience. It just really sucks for me because he is gone past midnight, last night and he will be tonight. Lol, I know it's kind of dumb that I'm being lonely, but it does make me realize how much I care about Justin.

So, anyways, everything has been going well over here. A lot has happened. First, we sold our yellow car. Now we only have our white honda. Justin is going to buy a bike to ride to school as he is going to have an on campus job in their recording studio, hopefully. I am sure that he will, he really does not realize how smart he is. Second, I applied for a job at PetsMart, for the dog training position. I have not heard back from them so who knows if it will work out, but I am keeping my fingers crossed. Third, we bought a 6 ft. Ohana bag/ Lovesac. It is so awesome! It sits right in the middle of our front room and pretty much there is no more room in the front room anymore lol, but we love it. Jasper is not so sure about it, we think he thinks it's going to eat him, but he will get used to it we hope. Fourth, Justin is almost done with this semester, he is doing very well this semester and learning very fast. Fifth, my job at Worldwide Book Drive is really taking off, we are now fulfilling about 200 books a day, shipping them out to people all over the world. I should be getting a raise sometime but who knows when.

Wow, that was a lot of information about our lives and how we're doin. One of the things going on with me right now is I am really learning not to worry about what others think at all. More importantly, I mean, I am not taking anything so directly personal, as a negative thing. Those who know me very well know that I just really get down on myself even if I say one thing and it is not even interpreted the wrong way, I think it was and I take it so personally that I just become a little worry wort. It's really not worth it and I don't know how or why I've stopped doing it, but I just let it go, and let it flow.

So, well, pretty much this was kind of a boring blog, but we have been doing really good over here. It's true that life is hard, but really, it always will be and we really need to learn to be happy and have fun. The goal for life is to find happiness to find purpose, even in the smallest moments of pure happiness and purpose, we were meant to find those and create them.

Anyways, I really should stop talking now, I get kind of melancholy sometimes when I think too much lol, but I really am working hard to be more optimistic. To not hold on to any negative thoughts but as soon as I have one, just let it go as soon as it comes. Replacing the negative thought with something positive.

Well, I want to shout out to my family, if any of them get a chance to read this far into the blog, lol, thanks for coming on Sunday, it was so nice to see everyone and we really loved having everyone there. I think that family is really central to finding our true happiness and purpose in life. It's true, I am having a hard time waiting to have a family of my own, but we are praying about it and working with each other on our dreams and goals in life, soon, it will be our time to start a family and to be together forever. Lol, I could go on and on about everything but I am afraid I would really bore people to death. That's probably the only thing I don't like about the blogging is I can't really express myself in a short blog, it takes too long for me to express myself.

Well, if you got this far, you are very kind and nice to read this. I know I can be a little weird sometimes, but it's alright, my grandma says as long as you admit it, you're not really hopeless.

Anyways, have a great night! Talk to you next month, lol, jk, I will try to write a little more often. :) Good night.

Hello, :). So, I have not written in a while again, so I decided to write one for fun.

Right now, Provo City is over, inspecting our apartment.. it's very weird. They are dusting off our window..?? lol. I really don't understand why they're here. It's alright though, they came when I just got out of the shower, it was very awkward.

Anyways, it's not too annoying... just annoying lol. So, anyways enough of being negative. I think they're actually fixing our swamp cooler, it's making a lot of ruckus.

Work is going okay, my job anyway, we've been changing up some of my routines and now we will have confirmation emails going out to all of our buyers, finally. :) It is a big change because now my 45 step process, has about 15 less steps. But, that is boring, because work is boring, but it is fun because we have interesting moments like today, I saw a bug that was humongous... really it was huge, and so Emily smashed it and it really made a huge loud sounding splat... no kidding. It was the loudest splat you could ever imagine, all of us 4 girls were screaming in disgust.

Justin just got his grades back from last semester and he got one A, a B-, a B and one C-. lol, I am beginning to know that Justin is way, way too hard on himself. He always says he's never going to pass, he is going to fail. He really works hard at school, even though he really really hates his classes.

So, anyways, life is great. This week, on the 3rd and the 4th of July our neighborhood is having a ton of stuff going on. We are going to go have a barbecue with them on the night of the 3rd, and watch a movie and have dancing that night, and games. And then in the morning we have the whole block to ourselves to watch the parade. And then, on the morning of the 4th we have a crepe breakfast. I will tell you all how it went next week!

So.. Justin just told me that wasn't Provo City that was over, but a repair man from our landlord... lol, that was even more awkward being all awkward about it.


Guten Tag! That was for LeeAnn.

The things I am grateful for... Justin made me do it.

Hey, so, a few days ago I had just about the worst day at work. I hated everyone and everything about this world and I wanted everyone to know that. Justin, in the past has made me tell him 5 positives about work a day... well first you have to understand why I need to do that... my job is working with onri customer's, pretty much all day. lol. But, its not that bad, I just don't understand sometimes how people can get so puffed up over such a little thing. But, there are nice customers too.

For instance, today I had a nice old man call, he was very kind and fun to talk to. He is what makes it worth all of the overly exasperated customers. It's weird how one nice person can completely change the anger you seem to feel towards people.

Anyways, so Justin said, after I had come home that bad day and pretty much was ready to rip anyone's head off, that I had to write 300 things down that I am grateful for. And guess what, you get to hear them all right now... lol not, that would be bloody boring for the people involved.

But, I will give you a taste of what is ahead for the 300 positives. Here is the first ten things that I am very grateful for...

1. first and foremost my life and the one I will share the rest of it with... and forever.
2. my shoes, I always think of that first somehow, just because maybe if I didn't have them or the world didn't have them, I don't know where I'd be.
3. I am grateful for fruit: Oranges, banannas, strawberries, huckleberries (I love that name), apricots, plums, pomegranates, watermelons, apples ect.
4. my car, your car- they both run and are pretty nice
5. ICE CREAm-hehe, chocolate, rum-chocolate, mint-chocolate, pralines and cream, rockyroad ect.
5. Chocolate, chocolate fountains, chocolate bunnies, chocolate covered raisins, chocolate roses.
6. music- definitely in my top ten, Minus-the-bear, ska, romantic music... okay mostly I love romantic music
7. Tires.. I don't know why i thought of this as my top ten.. maybe I should make it farther down, but its just poppin out of my head. We would not get anywhere with our cars without tires.
8. Babies, my friend just had a baby so I am thinking about them, they are adorable and the fresh start of life and a generation. And they are really cute, :).
9. work- work before play, that's what makes us truly happy. We were meant to make something of ourself and to prove ourselves, I think work is part of that.
10. Jews... lol... where the heck did that come from lol. I'm so weird. I am grateful for all the people in this world, we have bitter people and happy people.. it evens out. :)

Lol... i really don't know where Jews came from. I was not trying to be racial or judgemental at all.

But, just those ten have helped me. I really am grateful for just the time and moments that I have and am able to enjoy. It is all such a blessing.

Well, I'm going to go eat some eggs and bacon, Justin cooked dinner tonight, he's really good at making eggs and bacon. :)

Good Night!

Mothers day... almost lost my purse... charged my toothbrush... its been a long time

So, I realized its been a really long time since I've written about the goings on around here. So, I decided to write a quick blogg whilst on my break here at work.

So, what to say in a half hour break... yesterday was Mothers day! It was a really pretty day outside, felt like it was in honor of our mothers how beautiful it was outside. We called Justin's parents and talked to them catching up and stuff. They are doing well, his Mom is almost done with college, she is going to be a college advisor to help students figure out their goals and to accomplish exactly what they want to do. She's got two classes left! :)

So, anyways, I just had this Terryaki microwave dish and its... so so. I think it tastes a little weird. Justin and I went shopping the other day for groceries.. Seriously it felt like we just went not over a week ago, which it was just over a week ago and we were completely out of food. Its really weird how fast food dissapears.

So, well, I better get back to work, but I hope you all are loving this new start of Spring... though its raining outside that will make it all the more greener! :)

Pineapple upside down cake day!..

So, I wanted to write a blogg about something, but I didn't know what. Then I realized, probably in annoyance to everyone else, that pineapple upside down cake day is in TWO days! In two more days!

We used to have pineapple upside down cake made in a cast iron stove while we were up in the cabin camping. Oh my gosh, heaven was in that stove. Hehe, it was sooo good.

Speaking of camping, I was remembering how fun it was and I wanted to talk about how fun it was to camp. Lol, that was a very well constructed sentence.

So, we used to go to horny toad hill, okay it wasn't really literally named that by a professional hill namer, but me and my siblings named it that. Now when we go there, which was like almost a year ago, the hill looks no larger than a small ant hill. But, when we were little, it was humongous! And there were horny toads on the hill! They had very soft bellies and hard backs. It was fun to hold them. Except I think their escape mechanism was to poop on you because they did that often, then we wouldn't hold them anymore lol.

Anyways, camping is fun. Especially in a tent. I actually prefer tents to cabins. I am not really sure why, maybe because whenever we went to the cabin when I was little we had to use the outhouse. And since there was no inside outhouse, we even had to use it in the middle of the night, when bears and cougars come out. Yes.. I think thats why I prefer tents to cabins.. well maybe because you still have to go outside when you sleep in a tent. Hmm, I don't know why I like tents more.

Anyways, this is beginning to be a long blogg, Im just excited for the summer to start. Then we can go camping and have barbeque's and watermelon ect. Its all great, :)

Well this is the end. Hope whoever reads this now likes to camp either more or likes it all of the sudden, because its so much fun.

Talk to ya later!

Just Because.

So, today I wanted to write a another blogg. I'm not sure why, but I decided to anyway.

I wanted to first start off with some funny stories I heard.

In Mexico, there was a police call from a man who said a rampaging bull was disturbing his peace and destroying his crops. So, the cops answered the call and tried ruthlessly to get the bull under control. After much effort they finally got the bull down. But, as any common cop would do after something had ruined and rampaged they threw it into jail! "Put that thing in the clanker!" And, along with that jail time they put a fine on him. The owner had to pay $400 dollars to get his crazy bull out. Hehe, I thought that was funny.

Also, another police call came in but this time not in Mexico, but America. Someone had presumably stolen a very expensive guitar from a well know guitar store. But, the guitar wasn't stolen but only by the stealer shoving it down his pants. Yep, thats right, he put it straight down his pants and pulled his shirt over it. I think its frankly their fault if they didn't realize a man coming in skinny and going out incredibly fat.

Anyways, lol. Thats my blogg for today.

To my sweetheart..

So, Im writing a blog about my... yep you guessed it.. my sweetheart. And yes.. it will be cheesy, so if you're not into cheese than you probably should not read this.

I really have realized, not just today, what the true meaning of complete unconditional love means for someone. When they do something wrong, anything in the world wrong, you just want to hug them and tell them you love them. I know maybe I haven't reached that completely yet, but I know its definitely something I feel every day.

So, I think I realized this after I watched the chick flick, 27 dresses. Because usually when you see a chick flick you feel kind of miserable afterwards thinking you don't have what that girl has. But, after I watched it, I felt like a million bucks! I have what she has! It was the greatest feeling in the world.

So, yah, for those that thought they could handle this much mooshy gooshy, you're probably gagging now, but don't worry, the moosh is about to be gooshed.

And so... lol I was going to talk about you know what...lol I cant even say it. But, I think thats illegal with this site, and for those who know me, I could much less think about it without blushing incredibly red, than write it. But sufficeth to say, Justin is a hottie. I think Sufficeth is a scripture word, you know the words that really aren't a word, but the scriptures have a way of making them up. Wow, now that was random, in the same paragraph as something completely and utterly different.

Anyways, well I better stop now, or else my face will seriously start to hurt with the redness and the blushing.

I love you sweetheart (Justin)

Why the aiken funny farm?....

Hi, so, this is my first blogging experience, but Jessica started it, so you can blame her if it stinks. Lol, jk.

It is fun to blogg I decided, it really makes you feel popular, even though probably no one will read it, its ok, IM BEING PUBLISHED.

So, anyways, on with the blog. Lol, it took me three times to spell that right. bolg, bllog, blogg. Phew.

I think that it is... wow, ok maybe I dont know how to blog. What am i supposed to say again?

This is Samantha, we are married, me and Justin, and we live in a house. A very blue house, lol jk, I wish it was blue. We live next to a blue house, and our house is brown. On the corner of our street there is a very, very.... Very green house. It is very weird.

So, i am random, I guess that bugs people sometimes, but it does keep things interesting. One moment you love looking at this big tree, and the next you absolutely love this lovely shaded piece of clothing.

Anyways, I have to go take a shower. Lol, my blogg ROCKS!