Anniversary, School, Cars, Babies

Yes.... I will be posting about all of those above.

I'm sorry it's been a while since I've blogged. We've been just a wee bit busy (okay... WAY busy). First part in January, us kids treated our wonderful parents to dinner (to the Jasmine) for their anniversary, grandparents came also! It was so much fun and awesome food. My parents have been married 25 years like I've mentioned in a previous post. I'm so grateful to them and we love them so much.

Feelin the love!


Oma and OpaMy sister and myself with her cute baby Stockton
Chris and goofball Cadence.

I am super proud of Preston. He is officially a graduate of SLCC. He is finishing up his last semester there to finish his pre req's for pharmacy school. We got his diploma and I'm super proud of him. He's worked his tail end off (and still is). He's not too excited about it being "just SLCC" but I keep telling him not a lot of people even get that far. He has gotten excellent grades and has been such a hard worker. His degree is in Chemestry.

This month alone, Preston has 3 interviews for Pharmacy school. Atlanta Georgia, Erie Pennsylvania and Birmingham Alabama. It's been stressful and lots of money but we're hoping it'll be worth it. He felt really good about the one in Atlanta and has the one in Erie on the 16th and Birmingham on the 23rd. I am so appreciative to Preston. He works so hard for us and we will have such a great future (not that it's already great) because of him and his dedication and commitment.
Yippee!! One down, one to go!

My dad took my brother and I to the car show... talk about AMAZING! I was in awe the entire time. I've always been a big fan of old cars (even new ones that have nice taste and looks). It seriously was sooo cool. Thanks dad for taking me! I kept telling me he could buy me one of the cars we saw, but he didn't buy in. Darn it.


I loved the color on this car!

The Grease Lightening car!

How many of you can say you've been in a Rolls Royce. This was the only car I was able to even touch and I got to sit in it. The guy must have seen me pretty much drooling over it and said I could get in. Not everybody was able to sit in it. I felt pretty speshil hehe. This is a '57 by the way. I felt rich for a few seconds!

Look closely at the paint job!
Chris' first car!
This sucker was HUGE!!!
I'm bummed this turned out a little blurry because this was one of my favorite cars I saw. Aint she a beaut!?

This past weekend, I was lucky to watch my cute little babies Cadence and Stockton. They are so precious and such good kids. Except for when Cadence has to come in from outside or you don't giver her a "gaga" (cracker) she throws her little temper tantrum. But I love these kids so much! I can't imagine how I'll be when I have my own kids when I can't even get enough of my sisters kids! Preston came up for part of the time to help out and see me. Cadence loves uncle Preston. She was linked to him pretty much the whole time. When he'd be holding Stockton, she'd flip out and squish Stockton so she can get on his lap too. Preston is so cute with these kids and was a huge help. I know he'll be a great daddy one day!
Wide awake rockin out!
Playing outside!
He's a natural. Burp cloth and all haha
Sound asleep Cadence. She'd just plop down on him and zonk out. He loved it though. He's becoming such a softie to kiddies.
Nu Night!

We're still alive..

.. We have just been super busy!! So this will be pretty long but it'll catch everybody up on everything we've been up to!

Disneyland..

We went to Disneyland for our Anniversary in December. It was SOO much fun. Disneyland is one of my most favorite places to go. The music, the smells, the rides, the characters, seeing the little kids light up when they see the characters (I do the same thing!) We hit all the rides multiple times. We were on Indiana Jones (which is probably my favorite), Pirates (Preston's favorite) and The Haunted Mansion and Soarin over California the most. The weather was perfect, our hotel was across the street from the park so that was very convenient. The longest we had to wait for a ride was 45 minutes, for one ride.. the new Toy Story ride in California Adventure but it was well worth it... such an awesome ride. Other than that ride at the most we waited 20 minutes and a lot of the time we pretty much walked onto any other ride. We also went to a fancy yummy dinner at the Blue Bayou on our anniversary. The Blue Bayou is the restaurant that you can see when you first get onto Pirates. It was very yummy and romantic! Our table looked over the Southern waters as we heard the man down the road play his banjo. You know what I'm talking about if you've been on the ride! We also spent a day at Newport Beach. I LOVE the smell of the ocean and the sand is some good relaxing therapy! Enough of my talking of our magical trip... here are our magical pictures of the most magical place on EARTH!! Seriously, it is!

We got "Happy Anniversary" pins. All throughout the park all the workers would wish us a Happy Anniversary. It was pretty fun!
The one and only... M I C K E Y.. MOUSE!!!!
Watch out Preston!! Monstro the whale is gonna eat ya!




We've been married 3 years now! The years seem to get better and better and I'm so lucky to be married to the most amazing man EVER!!!!


After Disneyland.. We had a fantastic Christmas with both of our families. We're so grateful to have such wonderful families. We got some really awesome gifts but most of all, it's always great to spend time with the families and celebrate the birth of Christ! I don't have pictures of Christmas because I simply forgot my camera wherever we went because I was always loading up gifts and food and last thing to remember was my camera. But we had a wonderful Christmas!

Both of our parents celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary's. We're so grateful to both have such great parents who are awesome examples of happy, loving, faithful and fun marriages. Growing up watching my parents, I've noticed the more and more I am like them now that I'm married. Which is a good thing. And I know Preston has been such a great husband because he's had great parents who he has watched also. We love both of our parents so much and thank them for their great examples of great marriages. in 25 more years, we will have celebrated our 25th and our parents will get to their 50th!! We love you mom and dad! (on both sides :))

We had a little addition come into the Vielstich/Roberts family. Chase and Heidi had their little guy Stockton. He was born on January 9th. 4 weeks early. He's still in the NICU but doing great. He just needs to get his eating down better. He's adorable and such a sweet little guy and we all can't wait for him to be able to go home! Congrats Heidi and Chase and thanks for making me Aunty Andi again! Which by the way... Cadence has said my name she says "Annie" How freaking cute?!

Isn't he adorable? He's bigger and stronger now and is eating a lot better now so hopefully he'll be home this next week?? We're hoping!


Another exciting thing for my family.. My dad was called as Bishop in their ward. We all saw it coming. He's already done such a great job and the Southgate ward is in great hands. My dad is such a strong and great example of faithfulness, services and has one amazing testimony. My mom is such a great support to my dad and her too has a great testimony of the gospel and will be a great "ward mom" as I like to call her. Congratulations again dad. We love you!

And... Preston and I traveled to AZ because Preston got offered an interview with Midwestern University for Pharmacy school. We drove like 26 hours in 2 days in the crappy weather with the crappy slippery roads but we were safe! Preston feels he did really well in his interview so we're hoping to hear back from the school next week and we hope he got in. We know though that whatever is meant to be will happen and if we get into AZ we will be ecstatic. But if we don't, we know that we weren't supposed to go there. I'll keep you all updated! Keep your fingers crossed for us please and if you have room for a little prayer, that would be great too!


Well folks, if you've made it this far, congratulations! I'll try to do better at updating this so it's not this HUGE... LONG blog every time. But that's our update.

Now that it is noon on a Saturday, I better get my tush off the couch and go shower and get stuff done today! We love you all!

Andi

Thanksgiving at Grandma Lynada's house.

We had a great Thanksgiving this year... as we always do! This year we went with Preston's family. We all gathered at Grandma Lynada's house. The food was fantastic, the company was awesome and the nap after... even better! Preston and I have had a great year. We've had stressful times (thank you pharmacy school stuff) but over all, we have been very very VERY blessed. I am most grateful for our jobs right now. Both of our companies went through lots of lay-off's and Preston and I managed to stay employed. We have amazing families who we love more than anything, we have fantastic friends who we have a blast with whenever we see any of them. Most of all, we're grateful to Heavenly Father, we know without him, life wouldn't be anything. He blesses us so much. As I sit here typing away as it's 13 degrees outside, I have my comfy slippers on, my warm clothes, my washer and dryer running, the heater on, our christmas lights glittering our apartment and I am comfortable, safe and warm and we have so many comforts of life. We have so much to be grateful for. I know this time of year is when we really reflect what we have to be grateful for... I try to do it all year long but it's true, this time of year really brings it out in everybody. I'm grateful for Preston who works and studies LONG long hours... for me... for us! He's amazing and I don't know how he does it. I sure do love him! I can go on and on, but I'll bring you pictures. Since I know that is what everybody comes on here for anyway.






The day after Thanksgiving was the big game... UTAH vs byu... I wont get into any details because I'm not too happy about the game. Anywho, I just wanted to show the "presidential hogi" my dad made for the game. This sucker is HUGE. Also, a cute picture of Lili and Cadence.

Couldn't pass this one up.

I know this will make two posts in a row with nothing on us and random videos. But when I saw this video, I got teary eyed and couldn't pass it up. This kind of stuff totally melts my heart. So sweet!!