2010 recap plus good news

Dear Family, Friends, and Blog Stalkers.....

We can hardly believe that the year 2010 is coming to a close. It has been a marvelous year. We have loved every minute of it. Here is a little recap/highlight of some of the things we did, accomplished, visited, and enjoyed this year:

Abby

-finished her first year of graduate school (only one more to go)

-learned to sew
-started tutoring (again)
-completed a few craft projects
-volunteered at a Boys & Girls Club for the summer

-read lots of books

-turned 23 years old
-completed a gratitude challenge for 20 days

Logan

-revised his resume and got lots of job interviews

-went to New York City for the first time. ever. 

-got a part-time job working at the adult learning center
-turned 24 years old
-carved his first turkey for Thanksgiving

-finished another year at BYU (only a semester and 2 more classes to go)
-traveled to New Mexico for the BYU football bowl game

Together

-spent the summer interning in South Carolina
-took surfing lessons

-went to lots of BYU sporting events

-served as Primary teachers (and still serving)

-hiked the Y mountain

-gave talks at church

-visited New York City, Washington D.C., and Nauvoo (Illinois)
-celebrated our 1 year anniversary in May

-drove from Utah to South Carolina, and back again
-celebrated our 3rd Christmas together
-went to the temple often (including new temples: Logan, UT & Columbia, SC)
-said "goodbye" to Logan's brother (Carson) who left on a mission to Peru
-enjoyed many game nights with the Rexes & Meijomes
-decorated our first Christmas tree
-had relatives from AZ visit our tiny apartment for Thanksgiving
-attempted the Insanity workout DVDs (killer!!!)

And, last of all, probably the best thing that happened in 2010 was finding out we are having a BABY!!!! We found out a few days before Thanksgiving. Baby Corbett is expected to make his/her appearance on July 29, 2011. Yay! I'm about 10 weeks along and I am feeling great. I get mild fatigue and that occasional light-headed feeling, but other than that no morning sickness AT ALL (knock on wood). I will post details and pictures of my non-existent baby bump (lame) soon.

We are so happy and truly grateful for this wonderful blessing:) The Lord has definitely blessed our family this past year. We are so excited for the great things in store for us in 2011.....a baby, graduation (for both of us), job offers (mainly for Logan), etc.

We hope you had a great Christmas and we wish you a wonderful new year!!! 

Love,

Logan, Abby, and Baby Corbett:)

Christmas Cards

I love this time of year! I love everything about Christmas...the snow, the shopping frenzy, the decorations, the family traditions, and so much more! I especially LOVE getting Christmas cards/letters from family and friends from all over the country.

With that said, Shutterfly is a great source for all your Christmas needs especially when it comes to photos, calendars, photo books, cards, etc. Shuttefly offers so many different products and all for a reasonable price. It’s also very user-friendly, so don’t worry if you are lacking in the creative department. Shuttefly designs everything for you; you just have to decide what you want! 

Good news, for all you bloggers out there (yes, blogging is finally paying off)!!! Shutterfly is giving away 50 free Christmas cards to bloggers. Check out the promotion here. 

I am excited to get my hands on Christmas cards and send them out to family and friends this year. Please do me a favor and leave your address in the comment section of this blog post OR simply e-mail me at corbett.abby@gmail.com, if you would like a holiday card from us.

Here are a few of my favorite Christmas photo cards from the Shutterfly site. They are so festive! I LOVE THEM ALL!!

I am crazy about polka-dots....

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Happy Birthday Logan!!

My dear husband turns 24 today! He's been so excited for this day for a few weeks now, and it's finally here but the poor boy is still sick!!!! Yuck! Well, we are going to celebrate anyway. It's been an overwhelming month so far because we tend to go overboard and sign up for all these amazing birthday deals to restaurants (i.e. Happy Sumo, Tucanos, Fuddruckers, etc). So, it's pretty much a whole month of going out to eat for CHEAP! Pretty cool, huh? We think so!

So, tonight...we'll go celebrate at Fuddrucker's and I'll bake a yummy funfetti cake with ice cream (his favorite). Plus, he'll get to open all his birthday presents (which he already knows about). I got him tickets to the Jazz game (see earlier post here), a new leather-ish jacket for the winter, and permission to go to the New Mexico Bowl to watch BYU football with 4 other guys (boys weekend, if you will). My parents also gave him a gift card for new shoes since the boy goes through shoes so quickly; it's insane. And, his parents are getting him a new stereo for his car (hooray)! Trust me when I say, he is very very happy with all his presents this year (he better be). 

And, now I'll leave you with one of my favorite pictures of Logan...

 

(circa. Summer 2009) 


Happy 24th Birthday, Logan!!!! 

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas....

Logan and I wasted NO time to begin decorating for Christmas. We put up our tree and all the decorations the Saturday after Thanksgiving. I was so excited to put everything up. We got this amazing Christmas tree from our friend, Shiree. She moved to Colorado last year and kindly gave us her Christmas tree. It is awesome and we love it (especially because Christmas trees are so expensive). We went out to Hobby Lobby and Walmart to pick up some ornaments and stockings. Most of our Christmas decorations were last year's Christmas gifts from my Aunt Mary, so we did not have to buy much. Plus, a lot of the decorations are things I got last year. Our apartment looks great!! I love it! 

We are sad we can't spend Christmas with our immediate families in Virginia, but we are excited to be able to have our own Christmas this year (just us). We are excited to start our own family traditions and celebrations for Christmas:) Only a couple more weeks!! Yay! 

Enjoy the pictures!!!!

Thanksgiving Break

Logan and I had a wonderful Thanksgiving Break. It was so so so fun! We loved the time to relax and be with family! It was definitely a fun-filled weekend full of family, good food, lots of laughs, and good news!!

We drove up to Layton, UT on Wednesday to spend time with Logan's extended family. It was so nice being there and spending time with them. Logan even got to carve the turkey on Thursday (his first time)! It was awesome! Thanks Aunt Susan for letting us crash your place and for being a great host!!! It was a blast!!

I love my cute sister-in-law:)

playing Lost Cities early in the morning

beautiful table setting

 Logan carving the TURKEY:) yum!

After Thanksgiving dinner, we drove back to Provo because my extended family came to town from Arizona. It was fun having Aunt Martha, Uncle Derek, Dallin, Macey, and my grandmom visit us for the weekend. I'm not going to lie...having 7 people in our tiny apartment was crazy, but we made it work! They really spoiled us with all the cooking my grandmom did and all the early Christmas presents we got from them. We did some Black Friday shopping (never again will I do that...so crazy), went to Temple Square, and watched movies/played games with my cousins.

 cousins-Dallin & Macey

 Whitfield Family

beautiful lights at Temple Square

Logan and my silly cousin Macey 

 view of the SLC Temple from the Joseph Smith Memorial Building

 so gorgeous!

 life size Nutcracker!!

 inside the Joseph Smith Memorial Building

my awesome grandmom!!! 

And, the good news!! I got a text message from my mom early Thanksgiving morning to announce that my Uncle Andy and Aunt Mon had their second baby....a baby girl.....Anabella:) Yay! I get another cousin! That makes the Sangbouasy grandchildren total = NINE (Abby, Amanda, Thomas, Madison, Anabella, Marisa, Ethan, Dallin, and Macey)!!! Wow!

Rejection

Rejection hurts, but you know what Corbett's do? We move on and make the best out of it! I'm referring to the rejection letter we got from Disney this past Wednesday (December 1st). It was a LONG wait, but we're glad we know now. And, even though we got rejected....I still love Disney:) It just wasn't meant to be this time around and we get that. We trust that the Lord knows what is best for us, so we won't complain.  

I must say that with rejection and closed doors/opportunities, there have been more, better, and exciting opportunities that have come our way (even in the past three days)! Logan actually got called for an interview this past Wednesday; it went very well and it is a REAL person job (as Logan would say). We should be hearing back from them very soon. We were also reminded that Logan will be getting a raise at his current job in a few months, so that will be a nice little bonus for us. Plus, I started tutoring again this week so it has certainly been another blessing to be grateful for (I get experience and some play money)! Yes! Logan has also applied to countless other internships, so don't worry about us! We will work at it until we get something good. 

Patience...patience...patience....

On the other hand, we are excited and happy to stay in Provo for the next semester (mainly me, I didn't want to miss out on BYU basketball season). So, even with rejection....we will be okay. Life goes on and we are loving what has been coming our way:)   

Stay tuned for our Thanksgiving recap and a post on Christmas decorations this week!!!