Christmas and other happenings.

We left Logan Saturday morning around 4:30 am and made it to Spokane 9 hours later. The drive was good and there wasn't much snow, but from Idaho Falls to Missoula we never hit above 0 degree. The lowest it got was -32. Jared drove up with us. We had no idea that we were bringing so much stuff and defianetly underestimated our amount of space available. Poor Jared was smashed in the backseat with all our stuff.

Then Sunday, Jon's niece got baptized here at Jon's parents house in the hot tub. Yep thats right the hot tub. Jon's family doesn't like to do baptism's in the fonts at the church so almost everyone has been baptized in some other 'body of water'. Jon was baptized in a frozen lake back in Virginia. Jon's brother Mike was home on leave from the Army so they did the baptism while he was here. It was done Sunday afternoon after church with the family and a few friends from church. It was freezing outside but the hot tub was nice and warm. It was kinda great to watch, defianetly not you regular old baptism.

The rest of the week we have just been relaxing and hanging out. We have done ALOT of shopping. I don't think we have even bought anything but the Tolman's ( especially Christi) sure do know how to shop. It has snowed the entire time we have been here and they don't really plow the residential streets, or the main roads very well either, so it has been crazy to watch all the drivers trying to navigate the streets. Spokane has gotten almost 4 feet of snow.

Christmas morning we got up about 7 and started with the presents. They open presents one at a time so everyone can watch. The only little kids here were Kailey and Sydnie (who had no idea what was going on) so we went kinda slow and took our time. I think it was driving Kailey nuts how slow we were going. We go some great loot and had a great day.

Graduation and Commissioning

Saturday the 13th was a big day for us. Jon graduated from USU in the morning and had his commissioning into the Air Force later in the day. These pictures aren't fantastic but I'm going to keep posting them as I compile them from everyone else.
-GRADUATION-
Jon on the Jumbotron, in the sea of people, and with his friend Yomi.

-COMMISSIONING-

After 5 looong years, it finally happened. At the commissioning Jon took his oath and became a 2nd Lieutentant.Then his mom and I pinned on his "butter bars" which is his new rank and then he gave parent pins to his parents and a spouse pin to me. Then he signs on the dotted line and signed our lives away until at least 2020.

There was only 1 other Cadet that Commissioned this semester.

(The new 2nd Lt. Jensen)

Jon taking the Oath from his Dad

Look at those SMILES. I think he was a little excited.

After we pinned on the "Butter Bars" and pinning on my Spouse Pin.

Jon with Maj. Martin and Janice

Three of the Tolman men.

After Commissioning we had a dinner at my Cousin Konie's house. (Thanks) It was packed. Thanks everyone who came to support Jon.

All in all it was a great day. Now we have to wait 5 long month until were off to Alabama in May, Colorodo in August, and finally Texas in October.

No Longer Newlyweds

So today Jon and I celebrated our 1st Anniversary. Were officially not newlyweds anymore. We had a pretty relaxed day. We went to Salt Lake and wandered around the Gateway. While we were there Jon decided that I should get a Build-A-Bear, but I of course had to get an elephant. We put it in a silly little circus conductor outfit. ( I don't have the pictures loaded yet but will put them up when I do.) Then I finally got to go the Cheesecake Factory, it was great.

All in all, we have had a great year. We've had our ups and downs, but we've survived them all together. I can't wait to see what this next year brings us. There will be lots of moving and traveling, including 2 new states for Shannon and 3 for Jon. Plus both of us will Graduate from USU, YAHOO, and hopefully many new adventures and surprises.

I LOVE YOU JON!

Dear Tech Support,

Dear Tech Support,

Last year I upgraded from Boyfriend 5.0 to Husband 1.0 and noticed a distinct slow down in overall system performance, particularly in the flower and jewelry applications,

which operated flawlessly under Boyfriend 5.0.

In addition, Husband 1.0 uninstalled many other valuable programs, such as

Romance 9.5 and

Personal Attention 6.5,

and then installed undesirable programs such as

NASCAR 6.0,

NFL 5.1 and

Golf Clubs 4.1.

Conversation 8.0 no longer runs, and Housecleaning 2.6 simply crashes the system. Please note that I have tried running Nagging 5.3 to fix these problems, but to no avail. What can I do?

Signed, Desperate.

DEAR DESPERATE,

First, keep in mind,

Boyfriend 5.0 is an Entertainment Package, while

Husband 1.0 is an Operating system.

Please enter command: ithoughtyoulovedme.html and try to download Tears 6.2 and do not forget to install the Guilt 3.0 update.

If that application works as designed, Husband 1.0 should then automatically run the applications Jewelry 2.0 and Flowers 3.5.

However, remember, overuse of the above application can cause Husband 1.0 to default to Grumpy Silence 2.5.

Whatever you do, DO NOT under any circumstances install Mother-In-Law 1.0 (it runs a virus in the background that will eventually seize control of all your system resources..)

In addition, please do not attempt to reinstall the Boyfriend 5.0-program. These are unsupported applications and will crash Husband 1.0. In summary, Husband 1.0 is a great program, but it does have limited memory and cannot learn new applications quickly. You might consider buying additional software to improve memory and performance.

We recommend,

Cooking 3.0 and

Hot Lingerie 7.7.

Good Luck Babe!

Tech Support

I've been pretty happy with my Husband 1.0!!

Happy Birthdays To Us

Sept 13th was my birthday. We went to Jackson Hole with my parents and saw the Bar J Wranglers. We stayed over night and walked around the shops. I didn't take any pictures but we took an old time photo. It was fun and relaxing. I got some CD's, an emergency blanket for my car, shoes, a purse :), Wii Fit (so fun), and Jon and I both got a memory foam pad for our bed. That thing is heavenly. I had a great birthday that was nice and relaxing. Turning 22 has been weird for me. There is nothing exciting about 22 and now I feel like I should just be grown up and doing something with my life. I still feel about 16. Hmm.



Friday Oct 3rd was Jons birthday. He turned a Quarter of a Century! Old Fart!! We started out Thursday night and went to Ogden to Texas Roadhouse (our new favorite). We were mentioning how next year on his birthday we'll be enjoying some REAL Texas BBQ. I told the waitress it was his birthday and they made him sit on this saddle and had the whole restaraunt give him a big YEE-HAW!! He got a dutch oven, an ORANGE tie, an Air Force frame that were going to put his ROTC pictures in for his commissioning, and a wireless adaptor for his XBOX.





On friday Jon got up and went to school and I made him his Funfetti cake. When he got home, we ate our leftovers for lunch and headed off to go shooting with Jared, Landon, and Dayna. As always we had a great time shooting. The boys shot at the clay pigeons and I just shot the junk on the ground. I just cant do moving targets. The guns kicks back to much. That night my mom made Jon a Steak and Potato dinner. The rest of the day we just relaxed and enjoyed our time together.

Here are a few pictures from shooting.

Every time I would go to take Jon's picture he would put the gun down, so all the pictures I have of him are with Dayna.

Just because!

Directions:Use the first letter of your first name to answer each of the following. They have to be real places, names, things - nothing made up. Try to use different answers if the person in front of you had the same first initial, which by the way is hard if you already have read their answers! You cannot use your own name for the boy/girl names.

1. What is your name? Shannon

2. A 4 letter word: Scum

3. A vehicle: Suburban

4. A city: San Antonio

5. A boy's name: Scott

6. A girl's name: Skylie

7. A drink: Sprite

8. An occupation: Salesman

9. Something you wear: Skirts

10. A celebrity: Sarah Jessica Parker

11. A food: Steak

12. Something found in a bathroom: Soap

13. Reason for being late: Sick

14. Something you shout: Shut Up

15. An animal: Shitzu

16. A body part: Spine

17. Word to describe yourself: Saucy!!

18. Name a flower or plant: Sunflower

FLIGHT SCHOOL

So we just found out the long awaited info we've been so anxiously awaiting. Jon is going to Flight School in........... TEXAS!! Yahoo. Were really excited. Still no date as to when we'll be moving but were just happy to be knowing where. Were thinking late spring to early summer some time. It is Laughlin Air Force Base which is way down South pretty close to the border of Mexico. Im a little nervous about that but oh well. Guess i better learn how to speak SPANGLISH. haha.. Im so proud of Jon for getting in the flight school and know he will be a great Pilot serving our country.

All i wanted was a TREAT.

Well....Here how it all started. My lovely husband likes to go donate plasma, so he has also talked me into doing it, so I've been going for the last few months also. Well it's always been fine so I didn't think differently this time. Wednesday I left the Plasma Center at 1 and was going to meet Jon at 2 for his lunch break, so I had an hour to kill. And since I do love my treats I decided that a nice little snow cone sounded great. So I went to the BEST snow cone place in Providence by Firehouse to get my treat. I walked up to the shack, ordered my Peaches and Cream and then I suddenly started to get really hot. Then things were getting a little blurry and my ears starting itching/tingling. I have passed out before so I knew it was coming. So the girl handed me the snowcone and I paid her. Well thats all i remember. Next thing I know I felt my face smack the ground and the poor little snow cone girl is running at me. Yep, thats right I freaking passed out in the parking lot. I was at least 20-30 feet away from the shack and i don't remember getting there. Well the girl is yelling at me asking if I need help, i just kept saying "No, No, "I'm ok i think i just need some water" I got up and kinda crawled my way over to the shade. Then the girl said she was calling 911 because I was bleeding all over the place. I had no idea. I told her I DID NOT want and ambulance. So I just sat there and gave her Jon's number to have the dispatcher call him. Shortly after this a cop pulled up and before he even started talking to me he decided I needed an ambulance. Well as im sitting there bleeding all over this girls water bottle, talking to the cop, I finally realized that i knocked my tooth out and another one was cracked and about to pop off. I guess I must have flipped out cause I was trying to get up to find my dang tooth and the cop just kept yelling at me not to move. So he went over and found my tooth, and I just sat there in shock that all this was really happening.






So the fire truck and ambulance come. (why they need to send a fire truck, i don't know, but whatever) They strapped a neck brace on me (which are horribly unfortable, by the way) and put me on the back board. And my blood pressure had dropped so low that they couldn't even hear a pulse on my left wrist. So they were all getting worried but I was talking the whole time, so obvisiously I was fine, but no one would listen to me. Then off the hospital we go, by this time Jon had showed up, and since I am my fathers daughter I wanted a picture right in the middle of all this. Everyone was laughing at me but I didn't care.

(no im not crying or anything i was just trying to get my arms out of the way as they strapped me in)

So off to the hospital we go, my mom and Jon got to the hospital before I did. They took me in, two nurses ripped my pants and bra off( under my clothes i might add, they obvisiously had had some practice at this). Then I went to have some X-rays of my neck, that took forever. So after being the ER for a good 2 or so hours now, they stiched my lip up that had been cut up pretty bad by my broken tooth, got me some pain pills, and sent me to the dentist.

So the dentist basically said that the two broken teeth can't be saved so I am going to have to have root canal's on both of them. Then after poking and proding around and some more X-rays he said that my jaw was broken. BROKEN??? Are you kidding me??? All i could think was that they were going to wire my mouth shut and my life would pretty much be over. So he made a fake tooth and glued my front 4 teeth together to stabilize them until my jaw healed. He said that he can't do anything to fix these teeth until my jaw is healed because I'm not supposed to open my mouth that wide. Great, just Great. These are my four front teeth people!!!!

So this morning I had an appointment with an oral surgeon. He said that since my jaw is not completly broken and its not displacing my bite or teeth, that I can just be and a soft food/liquid diet for 6-8 weeks hope that that will stabilize it and let it heal itself. So good bye to my hamburgers, steak, corn on the cob, chips and basically everything i eat. And bring on the Jell-0, pudding, soup, noodles, and yogurt. It was funny because before the dentist told me what I could eat and he said that he was putting me and the "Body by Jeremy" diet because his first name is Jeremy. Which, if you look on the bright side, mean that I have he secret weapon the win the Biggest Loser group that Heidi started. HAHA Suckers!!!

Well all in all im doing fine. just been a little achey all day but im lucky that I was at the snow cone shack when it happened and not driving home and passed out.

Oh and the thing i feel the worst about is how Jon found out. He was on a run for work delivering parts to other stores and got a call from a number that he didn't recognize. So when he listened to the message it said " This is 911 Dispatch calling about your wife, she's been injured, has a head injury and is bleeding and being taken in the ambulance". Poor kid that would have scared the crap out of me.

This picture does not even come close to how swollen my lip is today, but the redness on my cheek has pretty much all gone. And this doesn't show my missing tooth. I wish i would have got a picture of that.

Strep Throat... A Blessing in Disguise.

So last week I had Strep Throat. At first I was really annoyed because im right in the middle of my internship and I just wanted to get my hours done, but I quickly got over it and enjoyed that fact that I actually had a week to relax and enjoy the summer. Jon and I are always so busy and pretty much have opposite schedules so are usually pretty boring. Well last week we got to do lots of fun things we never do. After I laid around the house for 2 days and did nothing, then the fun started. It just so happened that Jon had Thursday and Friday off so we got to spend lots of time together. Although it was nothing extremely exciting, it was great for us.

We mooched lunch of my great Mama two days

Went on a motorcycle ride up the canyon

Slept in the backyard under the stars

Layed around the house watching movies and taking naps

Stayed up late (past 11, which we NEVER do) and played countless hours of Wii

And we even went to a movie which we haven't done in months.

Here a picture of my CRAZY husband who I love so much and am glad that we can have so much for together doing nothing, there is never a dull moment when were together. I loved my week off and our few days to just spend together.

The End of the Tower Era.

So about 2 month ago (yes, very behind I know) my parents had the tower in our backyard taken down. My brother built this Ham Radio Tower about 12 years ago. He built over the summer and it stretched across our whole yard. I think it was about 150 feet tall. Well since it gets no use and is just an odd thing, they decided it was time to go.

They had a crane come in and hold it in place while they loosened the wires holding it in place from our roof and the big cement blocks the field.

Here is the Peanut Gallery. It was quite the event to watch!

They cut it away from the cement pad it was on and lifted it over the fence,

and layed it on the ground. It was crazy to see this giant thing floating in the air.

This was on the top of the tower. You can see how big it was.

These big cement things were buried in the field behind our house. They were holding in place from tipping over on our house. ;) They were pretty massive too.

Then when they had every thing pulled up and on the ground, they cut the tower into 3 big pieces and put in on the truck.

This is the finished product.

These are pretty random pictures, I know, but it was pretty interesting to watch.

Prayers for Sherri and Baby Dylan

So i basically copied this from Heidi's blog but she knew more info than me.

My sister-in-law Sherri delivered her baby this morning (6-23-08) 7 weeks early in a very unusual way.....needless to say Sherri will be released from the hospital this afternoon and the baby has been life flighted to Loma Linda in southern california. They have decided to name him Dylan Teancum....he is very well developed except for his lungs. At this time he can not breathe on his own and will most likely be in the hospital for more than a month. Please send prayers her way.....Thanks

New Tolman Babies

So the Tolman clan now has 2 new additions. I guess if everyone else keeps popping out babies hopefully nobody will be expecting me to have one anytime soon.

Here is Maverick Scott. He was born April 18th and weighed 7lbs, 11oz, and 21 inches long.

And here Sydnie Marie. She was born May 7th, weighing 8lbs, 7oz and 20.75 inches long.

Jon and I will be going up to Spokane the first weekend of June and I cant wait to meet the newbies.

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HERE COME THE NEWLYWEDS!!!!

So there is this great show on ABC on Sunday nights and Jon and I LOVE it. Its called "Here Come The Newlyweds". It is pretty hillarious. It like a new version of the old newlywed game that used to be on TV. The contestants have competions every week that test how well the couples know each other. Jon and I play along everyweek and we ROCK at all the answers.
We have got to find out how to get on this show!! Wouldn't that be fun?

Well here's our favorite team the Moutra's.

They are so hillarious and totally liven up the show. We really hope they win.

Babies

So I know this is a random post but i found this poem the other day i really wanted to share.

On the 18th Jon's cousin, Buggy had a beautiful baby girl, Grace. She was born with HLHS, which basically means that the left side of heart is severly underdeveloped, and without surgery she would not be able to survive. She's had a rough start but seems to be doing good now with the treatments planned for her. Anyways i found this poem and wanted to share it.

It's a beautiful day up in heaven. Jesus is rounding up his tiniest angels, to go live on earth, and be born. One of the sweetest angels says to Jesus "I don't want to leave, I like it here, and I will miss you". He reassures the scared little angel that everything will be okay, and that she is just going for a visit. She is still not swayed on this idea. So Jesus kneels down, and says, "How about if you leave half of your heart here with me and take the other half with you, will that be okay?" The angel smiles and says, "I guess that will work". But the little angel is still a little scared. She asks,"Will I be okay with only half of my heart?" Jesus replies,"Of course you will, I have other angels there that will help out, and you will be fine." Then Jesus gives the angel more details about his plan. He says "When you are born, your mommy will be scared, so you have to be strong, and when you feel weak just remember that I have the other half of your heart". "Enjoy your time with your family, play and laugh everyday." "And when its time to come back to heaven, I will make your heart whole again. Always remember that you are not broken, just torn between two loves."

My cousin Carol also had a baby in October that had some problems after she was born and they just recently found out the she is allergic to many things, with the biggest on being milk. This will defianetly be a big change in their whole families life. It has just made me realize alot lately that you never really know what could happen at anytime, and to cherish every day.

PILOT SLOT!!!!!!!

I just have to write anid say how proud and excited I am for my man Jon. We found out today unexpectedly that Jon got a Pilot slot!!! Yahoo. For those of you who don't know what that means, it means that after he graduates in December he is guaranteed a spot at Undergraduate Pilot Training (UPT). And he will defianetly be a pilot for the Air Force. Im so excited. We've been waiting for so long to find out if he got it or if he got something he didn't want as much. But we won't find out where or when he will be going to pilot school. We won't find that out til probably October of November. But the options for pilot training are Ohio, Mississippi, Texas, and Florida. After Pilot training he is hoping to get the f-22's which then we could be stationed in Alaska or Virginia. This is all pretty exciting for a little girl who's never lived outside of the Cache Valley Bubble. We don't expect to move until about a year from now. Thats all we know for now. I just wanted to post and tell everyone how proud I am of Jon. I LOVE MY PILOT.

ABC Tag!!

I got a little bored and decided to do this tag. Enjoy.

A- Attached or Single? Single Forever
B- Best friend? Jonny Angel
C- Cake or pie? Pie with Ice cream, or ice cream cake.
D- Day of choice? Saturday or Sunday when i don't have to work or have any plans and just can relax and do what i want.
E- Essential Item? Chapstick.
F- Favorite Color? Brown or Green
G- Gummy Bears or Worms? Worms
H- Home town? Wellsville Ut
I- Favorite Indulgence? I like to get my nails done but can't so probably eating out.
J- January or July? Right now im going to say July, im ready for the warm.
K- Kids? Not yet, but defianetly someday.
L- Life isn't complete without? my husband and family.
M- Mariage date? 11-17-07
N- Number of brothers and sisters? 1 brother, 1 sister, 5 sister-in-laws, 3 brother-in-laws. jons got a big ol' family.
O- Oranges or Apples? oranges
P- Phobia and fears? i hate cranes, they freak me out. and drowning.
Q- Quote? be who you are, those who matter don't mind and those who mind don't matter.
R- Reason to smile? I have the best husband and he treats me so great.
S- Season of choice? Fall
T- Tag three people? Uh anyone who reads this
U- Unknown fact about me? I pull my eyelashes out. I don't know why, i just can't help it.
V- Vegetable? Carrots
W- Worst habit? probably procrastanating and wasting so much time on the internet.
X- X-ray or Ultrasound? Ultrasound hopefully someday.
Y- Your favorite food? ham and Potato's
Z- Zodiac sign? Virgo

Time For Some Wedding Pics!!!

Well Jon and I have been married for 2 1/2 months now so i decided it was due time to add some pictures of our great day. We were married November 17, 2007 in the Logan Temple. It was a beautiful day and the weather was great. I was afraid that it was going to rain or snow but it didn't, thanks heavens. I think everyone waiting outside for us was cold but i had way too many other things on my mind to worry about that. ha ha

This is a good collage of some of our good pictures. We actually took most of our formal pictures the week before the wedding and that was the best idea ever. Then on the wedding day we weren't so rushed and didn't have to worry about getting all the pictures that we wanted. We took our time and just had fun.

I love this picture. Jon just looks so happy. And he's so darn good looking in his uniform.

I like the picture that shows the pretty details of the back of my dress, the beading was also on the front, wrapped around my waist, and down the back of my train.












We were so lucky to have so many people come to logan to be with us. Thanks everyone who came from so far.

This is Jon's Grandpa Johnson's 1930 Model A that he had restored. In August we went up to Spokane and hauled it down to Logan so we could use it at our wedding. It had always been a hope of Jon's to get to use the car and Im so glad we did it. I'm not gunna lie, when he first told me about it i wasn't too found of the idea. I didn't really want to ride around in a stinky old car and then have my dress smell all day but i totally loved the car and loved driving away from the temple and driving down Main Street in Logan with out "Just Married" sign and having all the people honk and wave at us. Defianetly one of the highlights of our day.

Ok so Jon has a total fetish for boots so i found some white boots to wear under my dress. I just love this picture.


This one is mostly just to show my bouquet. Thanks to my best buddy Kamille and her mom Kristine for their great work on my flowers. I loved them and they were way better than I would have come up with myself.


Finally this is our poor Jeep that got trashed but I've now learned that this a huge tradition in the Johnson family to go all out on the cars. It was even up on cinder (sp) blocks so it took us a minute to be able to drive away.