New Beginnings

Last week the Young Women's had their New Beginnings night! A few of these girls were asked to speak about the the values of the Young Women's Theme. To say it was moving was an understatement. I am a lucky dawg to be able to work with and love these girls and feel their love in return. I think being a Laurel Adviser is THE BEST calling I could possibly have!

And they are all just so beautiful...how could I NOT post this picture!!!

Lets Play Catch up!

WOW-where on earth do I begin! I'll try and do this in chronological order...hows that?

First off...Christmas:

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!

Boy was it a good one. Things I am whole-heartedly grateful to my Savior in 2011 are:

-The Gospel, first and foremost!!!
-My family. I have a wonderful family and equally wonderful in-laws. Hardly anyone can say that! I'm a lucky dawg!
-My Hubster! He is wonderful. He's my best friend. He believes in me more than I do myself.
-My business and the work I do. Heavenly Father has blessed me in abundance this year with a booming practice in CO that keeps me more than at full capacity. Having a full practice in less than a year as a massage therapist is literally unheard of! I'm so thankful that I can support my family with the work I do and I am so lucky that my clients are seriously the most wonderful people!

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For Christmas this year I got to take 5 WHOLE DAYS off to rest and recuperate from all the work I've been doing (being a business owner is no easy task-but being an employee sucks entirely! I will never work for someone ever again!) Not only that, but I got to see all our family as well as my aunty, uncle and 14 year old cousin from South Africa. They were visiting for an entire month!

December 28th, 2011:

Happy 5 Year Anniversary to US!

6 and a half years ago, Tristin and I went on our first date (it was a blind date). He took me to Color Me Mine and afterwards to Comedy Sports. On our 5th year anniversary, Comedy Sports was not open but we did recreate the Color Me Mine aspect of it. While we were painting on that very first date, this conversation took it's course:

T: So what year and you in School?
J: I'm a senior

Confused look from Tristin

T: At BYU?
J: No
T: At UVSC?
J: No
T: So what school do you go to?
J: Timpview High School

Tristin pauses....then asks with hesitation,

T: How old are you?!?
J : 17

Silence

T: Oh my gosh, this is so illegal!!

Apparently that didn't stop us, which I'm SO glad about. Honey, thank you for being man enough by not letting my age scare you too much. Happy 5 years! I am so glad I married you (and I know you're glad you married me!)

January 1st:

Happy New Year Everyone!

Salvesen/Roney Picture Taken Jan 1st, 2012

 My goal for this year? Stay sane! So far I'm not doing such a hot job with that one!

You see, here's why:

This year is a very big year for us. It's a year where everything will either change and upset the flow of what we have going here in Colorado, or it'll stay exactly the way things are. This year  Tristin finishes his Masters program and applies for PhD programs. If he gets accepted to BYU then is bye bye thriving Colorado practice and hello "Look at me start my business ALL OVER AGAIN". Don't get me wrong, I've still got my practice going in Utah which I love and which has been my original love, but my CO business has quite literally exploded over the past 3 months and not only that but I've made a name for myself in my circles. Just the other day a client told me this story:

"so I was talking with a friend who works over at the athletic club. I told him I was going for a massage today to which he replied 'lucky you'. 'No', I said, 'this girl doesnt give froo froo massages! She's the real deal', to which he replied, 'well apparently there's this one girl you need to try who everyone is talking about at the athletic club who is really good. I think the name of her business is something like Soula, Soulist, Soultic',' Oh my gosh! That's her', I replied!"

That story totally made my day. I have worked SO hard this past year to get my practice going! Tons of blood, sweat, tears and sleepless nights went into (and continue to go into) this business of mine. It's my baby. I've seen it grow from 5 clients a week to sometimes 30 a week! That is a massage therapists DREAM and I did it! I did it with a lot of help, love and prayers from SO many people around me! To leave my business would be like saying goodbye forever to family that I love.

So, as you can see, I am completely torn. On one hand, we return to family and build our lives back up from where we left off. On the other hand, we say goodbye to our CO family. Our lives here started of crappy...I mean REALLY CRAPPY! We had a lot of stuff thrown at us. I wanted to throw in the towel, say "Well Tristin, it's been swell but I'll just wait for you to finish here in Utah. See you in 2 years"' and come running back to Utah. But then I quite my  job, started my business and everything changed! Blessings were poured out! It felt as though our lives had found perfect harmony and we had transitioned into a stage of our lives that was just waiting for us to take ownership of it! So when I look into 2012 and try to picture what is in store for us, I get a little scared and sad knowing that we are going to have to say goodbye to either one of our 2 amazing worlds, Utah or Colorado. It's like if I had to ask you, "which is your favorite child?". See our dilemma?

Wow-What a boring rant! I'm so glad that's over with. in a nut shell, our life is pretty good so I have nothing to complain about. So here's to an AMAZING 2012 that is ahead of us!

Hi, We are Still Here

Hi :) You may (or may not) be wondering where the heck we are and why I haven't blogged in over a month when there was SO much to blog about.
 Christmas. 5 year anniversary. New years. School (for both of us). The ending of school. SA trip.  An engagement.

The truth is that I've been REALLY REALLY busy....as in SOOO busy I might become comatose. But never fear, the words are here....in my head.... and will soon be put to paper (or posted on the internet).

Please don't be a stranger. Visit back soon for more juicy details on our lives. There is SO much to share....so so much! ;)

The Most Exciting December Ever!

Holy smokes this month has been CRAZY~ and by crazy I mean its been:
BUSY 
FUN 
SCARY 
CELEBRATORY 
ADVENTUROUS 


It basically been an over all wonderful month so far! Here's why (brace yourself for TONS of pictures):

1) HAPPY BIRTHDAY to myself and Tristin! YAY. We had a TON of fun skiing over my birthday weekend with Jay and Christina. Jay and Christina rented a condo in Keystone, invited us to go up with then and we had fun and skied all weekend! It was my third time in my life skiing so it was a very mixed-feeling adventure for me. Adrenaline can be fun...until it's not fun. And nothing gets the adrenaline pumping in your veins better than sliding down a mountain of snow and ice at 30 MPH.

Birthday embrace for ME!

Here I am skiing my first run. This was taken when the adrenaline was still fun

There's Lake Dillion in the background

Gotta Love Colorado

Jay and Christina

Jay and Christina bought me a cake but we had to get creative with the candles. It was very sweet! and yes, I'm 24 Finally!

2) One weekend later Tristin and I drove back up to Keystone to celebrate the wedding of Jay and Christina! They finally tied the knot and celebrated by renting another condo up at Red Hawk and invited a hand full of friend and family to celebrate with them as well as participate in the semi casual ceremony. We were lucky enough to be invited to go and celebrate this wonderful occasion. I offered to play photographer for the weekend and so T and I had a lot of fun doing that  (as well as be a part of the ceremony). The happy couple looked stunning so taking pictures of the two of them was simple.

The exchanging of the rings during the ceremony

We did the actual wedding ceremony here....on the ice over the river...so I guess you can say they got married on a river :)

The bling

She was really easy to shoot for obvious reasons...and check out those shoes!! Love em!

This is one of my personal favorites! Can someone say "Boy band cover?"

Congrats you two! We love you both and are so happy to have you be a part of our lives and are honored to be a part of the ceremony! We adore you both and are lucky to have you as friends!!

2 weeks down, 2 more to go. We still have Christmas and our 5 year anniversary to celebrate!

Gotta love Decembers!

Christmas Video for YOU

Not YOU Again!

Round 4 of Antibiotics is up. Seriously, you'd think I'd be over this by now.

Last week I contracted just about every virus know to man. Ok, maybe that's a slight over exaggeration, I only got 3 different infections which turned into 4 and I'm now back on my 4th round of antibiotics. Ironic because it was taking all the antibiotics in the first place (which DID kill off the bone infection) that caused all the other things to manifest in my body.

Get this! I have taken more medication in the past 6 weeks than I have in my ENTIRE 24 years of existence! That record was one I was not hoping to break. OH well, such is life... If this is my trial to bare this year, I'LL TAKE IT! I'd rather go through this a dozen times than go through what we did last year!

Here's to modern medicine! CHEERS~

Yoga

Lately Tristin and I have had a lot of visitor from out of state (and country) come visit us. first there was Sonto and Antonio from Johannesburg, South Africa. Sonto is my best friends sister. I'll upload pictures from her trip in the near future once I get them downloaded from my camera. But this past week we had a lot of fun hanging out with Kim.

Pearl St, November 5th (hence the Guy Fawkes shirt)

Kim came to visit us at our humble Boulder home with the goal of experiencing different types and forms of Yoga. Boulder is kinda "Hippie Central" here in the USA so what better place to do it than here? There's probably 5 yoga studios on every block!

Thurssay Nov 3rd. The day after the Snow Storm

however, the day she arrived we were currently being hit with Snow Storm #2! it was like we were picking her up at the North Pole!

While she was here we were able to take her to some great restaurants around town as well as take her to Celestial Seasoning, Pearl Street and Whole Foods (having a Whole Foods so near by is a definite luxury for us). Kim even let me try Bikram Yoga (Which is very hot yoga) with her which I LOVED and am now hooked on!

It was a lot of fun having her here and we were both really sad to see her go.