Best Decade Ever 2000-2009

The best decade. Josh end I were talking about what we have done/accomplished this past decade. I am amazed at everything I have done!

• 2nd half of freshman year of HS started in 2000
  
  
• Survived y2k
• lettered in Drill Team
  
  
• made great friends in HS that I had a lot of fun with
  
  
  
  
• camped at the beach a lot
• went to the beach 4 times a week in the summer
  
  
• first time surfing
  
  
• was tan, a lot
• hit ages 16,18, & 21
• First boyfriend
• First time paying taxes
  
  
• First warped tour
• First cell phone
• Drivers license
  
  
• First car
• First dances school & stake
• Braces removed
• Took Spanish for 5 yrs., italian 1 yr. (don't ask me to speak either)
• Young Women’s Recognition Award
• Took Honors classes
• Graduated seminary (early morning, 5:40 am)
  
  
• Graduated High School
• Moved away from home (one of the hardest things I did)
  
  
• First Apartment (Legacy Ridge 505)
  
  
  
• Went to BYU-I
  
  
• First time having Roomates
• Fist Idaho winter
• Driving in the snow
• 3 computers
• Second Airplane Ride
• First mac
  
  
• Learned to snowboard
• Lived in snow
  
  
• Had the best roommates
  
  
• Fell in Love with JOSH (2004)
• First iPod (pink ipod mini)
• Two iPods in the last decade
  
  
• Floating a river (jackson Hole)
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• Swam frequently in rivers
  
  
• Went bridge Jumping (first & last time)
• Myspace, Facebook
• Live journal
  
  
• Went Snowmobiling for the First time
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• Got engaged (2005 on Coronado Beach)
• My Beach Blonde Hair went away so I got Highlights for the first time
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• Got married in the San Diego Temple (2006)
• Went through the temple for the first time
• Have a Huge extended family who I LOVE
• My last name was no longer Wyrick
• Cut hair short
• Went to mexico
• Cruise
  
• First apartment together (we loved this place)
• First joint bank account
  
  
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• Had my BFA Show, first art show ever!
  
  
• Graduated/Survived College with a BFA in Graphic Design (2007)
  
  
• Went to NYC with Mandy
• Have had 5 jobs
  
  
• Three cats (above Koonie, Yetti and Gnarly)
• First Christmas away from Home
• First white Christmas
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• First friend marriages (Nichole & Wes, Jordan & Ryan, Cassie & Jared . . .)
• First paychecks over $1,000
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• Bought my first Car!
  
  
• Played with Fireworks for the first time
• Wakeboarding for the first time
• Work featured in Target
• Real yard work
• Real callings
• Lived in three different states
• Been in Three car wrecks
• Moved nine times in the last decade
  
  
• Concerts of my most fav bands Jimmy Eat World, Blink, TBS, So Co, Fall out boy, AFI . . . (too many count)
• Bought a house
• Pa (2000), Grandma Lo (2007)and Grandma Bee (2009)passed away
• Thanksgiving at our house
• Mini ramp
• Still and will always be Loving Josh.

I know I must be forgetting things, but you get the point. Several life changing events have gone on. I don't think I will ever accomplish this much in a decade again. What a roller coaster this has all been! I'm excited to see what the next years bring.

PS Sorry I wasn't very modest in HS. I thought only lesbians wore long shorts. Times have changed now.

Happy New Decade!!! 2010

We partied like it was 2010! We had fondue (cheese & chocolate). Played Ticket to Ride and Beatles Rockband and hungout.

My mom documenting the party.

Beth made Gnary a hat. She always helps out the kitties.

Cass and Jared came to party too!

Everyone after the excitement of the ball dropping.

Josh loves Rhianna.

Happy New Years everyone! I hope this year will be an exciting/successful one for everyone. This past year was great. We are so blessed to have such a great family and awesome friends who we love.

Christmas 2009: Wyricks

My family came for Christmas/New years week. So we had 2 Christmases this year!

Michelle opening UP!. Which is a great movie.

Josh loving his MTN Dew "lip gloss" from Michelle. He also has been loving Beatles Rockband as well.

My mom opening 50 First Dates and her Octlite. These presents were big hits!

Michelle Loving her Jackie O. Apron.

My dad was excited about the new Star Trek DVD that we got him. As Well as his new warm sweatshirt.

Riding Trax to Temple Square. It was a cold night. My dad didn't bring his jacket and he froze. Notice his expression on the rest of the photos.

Michelle and Josh. Yes that is Josh. And yes he shaved that thing off. He convinced himself to get rid of it after he thought it made him look "old."

My mom having fun at the lights. It was even snowing too.

The Reason for the Season!

It was a lot of fun having my family here. We did a lot! Below was our list of things to do.

Christmas 2009: Ormonds

This Christmas was a blast. We decided to keep it real and return to our arctic roots. You can say we kept it realer than real. Going to Pocatello for the holiday was really fun. The Ormond horn of gathering was blown and it's forlorn bellow was heard from the far slopes of the Texan oil fields, to the high plains of Idaho's capital city, to the citris orchards of southern California. We all came bareing gifts of Nerf, Coach, and Tom Tom.

Having most of the Ormonds in one place at one time doesn't happen very often, but when it does watch out. The festivities began on Christmas eve. An Ormond family tradition is to exchange family gifts on Christmas eve. We each draw a name the year before. I drew Julie last year and couldn't figure out what to get her until Thanksgiving. She mentioned that she loved Us Weekly but her subscription was up. Can you be set up any better for a Christmas gift? I submit you can not.

Julie loved her subscription to Us Weekly. Natalie had Aaron, who is usually hard to shop for. Natalie is pretty skilled at shop-fu though. She found this crazy cool v-neck sweater at J Crew. AO loved it. AO gave Natalie a Coach purse, Natalie hasn't stopped looking at it.

Every year Natalie and I get the nieces and nephews a gift. Natalie got the nieces these awesome scarves, headbands, and lip gloss. They went nuts for them. The nephews were my responsibility and they were pretty trickier than I thought. I ended up stressing out over them. Tyler and Maxwell got car sets, Mitch got a Nerf sword, Fisher got a Bionicle, and Alex got a rubber ducky. They all loved their presents.

The day after Christmas we decided to go to Lava Hotsprings, which is always an adventure. If you haven't experienced Lava Hotsprings you really need to. The place is G to the H ghetto, but pretty awesome at the same time. Go figure. We also had some Thai food in Lava that was awesome. It was really fun to hang out with the brothers and sisters again. We don't get many chances to have grown up only hang out time so when we do we make the most of it.

All and all Christmas was pretty fantastic. Hanging out with my family is super fun. And I decided to give the world a Christmas gift this year in the form of a Christmas beard. At first Natalie wasn't too hip to the shag carpeted face version of Josh, but she's coming around. She says I look like a rugged mountain man. I'm trying to arrange a lumber jack photo shoot. I have the flannel and the face scarf, all I need is an axe.

Next year Christmas will be with the Wyricks in San Diego.

Josh (Jackson) & Candice . . .

got engaged! Its always exciting when close friends (who are considered family) get engaged. To make the occasion even better was the invite from Josh. We were like, "are you sure you want us there?" Josh said, "Yes. There will be tons of people there who we won't know so I might as well have some people there that I do know." My favorite part besides the proposal was the fog and my Josh yelling out,"Joel McHale is getting married!" Some girl was like "OMG, is THAT really him??? Priceless. :)