Our Oregon Home!

Well Finally Brice and I have taken a break from decorating our home to actually spend some time together. Even though the apartment is a work in progress, we have decided to finally fill in the cliff hanger of what our house looks like....!

The Family Room!

The Kitchen


Dining Room
Bedroom

Bathroom!

More to Come as We Decorate for Holidays and add more to the house!

Til Next Time!

Team Hooley

Hooper Wedding #3

When I decided I wanted to be a Wedding Planner my reasoning was simple: I wanted to make sure everyone had a wonderful wedding day. The happiness, excitement, and memories that surround the joyous occasion of a wedding is astounding. I just love how no one can have a mad or unhappy face at a wedding. You look around and its nothing but smiles. It’s even better when youre looking at familiar family faces.

Two weeks ago Brice and I were able to take time off and go back to Utah for a Hooper Family Wedding. It was great to see all the family and friends that have been accumulated by the Hoopers over the years, but it was even better to see Anson and Laura sealed for time and all eternity.
Laura we are so happy that you are now a Hooper. We love you so much and you are just perfect for Anson. Anson, Congrats! You picked an amazing girl! We hope your lives together are everything you could have ever dreamed of.

Til Next Time!
Team Hooley

Vacation: All I've Ever Wanted....HaHa Youre Singing the Song Now Aren't Ya?

When I was 9 Years Old my Dance Company took a big Company Trip from Spanish Fork, Utah to California. I spent months fundraising, planning, practicing, and attending every dance class so I would shine during my performance at Disneyland. The trip was grand! I flew for the first time, I danced my little heart out, and I rode every ride I possibly could and stayed until midnight in the pool goofing around with my friends. Coming back was something I never even thought about, until I was laying in my bed at home the day after getting back. I was depressed! I remember being in Anderson Lumber (the Utah equivalent of Lowes, back in the day) and “It Must Have Been Love” by Roxette came over the speakers and in my 9 year old state of Disneyland Depression I changed the lyrics to “It Must Have Been Fun…” and I continued to sing that song with much passion. Even though I think that has been the lowest I have come in a Post-Vacation Depression, its not to say that I still don’t get them.

Since Brice and I didn’t take our honeymoon (we needed to get started at work) and we haven’t really had a lot of money to take a vacation we were thrilled when my family invited us to accompany them to Sun River Resort. Sun River is one of Oregons most popular resort sites. While staying there you are assigned a cabin, you have a choice of two pools to play at, there are hiking trails, biking trails, a spa, shopping areas, white water rafting, golf, and amazing food (I mean come on, they had sushi and salmon at BREAKFAST). We got all of this for FREE!!! So yeah we were on board. Leading up to our departure we worked 11 shifts STRAIGHT! From Saturday until Friday, we didn’t have a single day off. By Wednesday, we were counting down hours. (Thank you to all those who kept us positive during those crazy days, we love you all!)
After a weekend filled with Riding Bikes Around Oregons Grand Scenery, Golfing without a hat, Getting my Vocation worked out of my back, Delicious Food, and Being Reminded how a little time away can do a lot I felt my Post-Traveling Troubles come back to me early Monday Morning. It makes me realize how much work and household duties drag down our schedules.

One of my New Years Resolutions was to “learn something new everyday.” My recent epiphany: Don’t let yourself loose track of time because one day you will look back on every moment and in a lonely lumber store you will feel the passion to sing to an old tacky 80s song. Life is a Vacation!

Til Next Time!
Team Hooley!

What Is A Hooley?

Hooley: (Who-Lee) n. A “Portmanteau word” using the names Hooper and Wiley.

Hooper: (Who-Per) m. Strong, Determined, Hard Working, a Mans man!

Wiley: (Why-Lee) f. Confident, Determined, Happy, and Keeping Class while kicking some….butt!

I don’t know where it started: Brangelina, Zanessa, Bennifer…I guess it doesn’t matter. When Brice and I first started dating, we wanted to create a couple name. We went through everything. Briff sounded like a symptom to a chronic butt itch and Trice, well it sounded like a side effect to the prescription for butt itch. So we went with last names, Whooper sounded great, but just in case Burger King found out about it, we decided to go the other way…ergo Hooley! Since then we have been known as Team Hooley! Even after we have been married for almost a year, we have kept the name.

I realize that it has been almost a year since I last blogged about our little team, but it has been a crazy couple months leading from last summer up until now. Gladly I can say we are making our way back onto the scene Stronger and Happier than ever. For those who don’t know we are now living in Tigard, Oregon, a little suburb of Portland, Oregon. Since our move just over a month ago we have been greatly blessed. Upon meeting with my new work location my new boss asked what my husband was doing for work, when I informed her that he was in the parking lot and we were running around interviewing she promptly invited him in, interviewed him, and offered him a job. After only a week of living in Oregon we both had jobs and I was working.
On June 11th we moved into our first above ground apartment. Complete with new carper, new vinyl, countertops, and ,thanks to everyone who helped, paint we were so excited to start this life. Now we fill our days off with trying to “Grow Into” our new place, we are having too much fun!

The Summer is flying by. Already almost half way through July and we are just realizing how much longer we have until School Starts and The Leaves Start Falling Again. Luckily for us we have a few weekend plans, a couple days at the beach, a few more Midnight Movies, a wedding, and an Anniversary weekend to look forward to and keep the summer alive.

Team Hooley is out to be strong, determined, happy, and Keeping class while, well you know the deal, while going through all life has to offer. We are first a team and we will act as such. I love my husband and I love my life and I cannot wait to see what else is to come.

American reknown writer Dennis Waitley once said, “Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future”. Amen Mr. Waitley, AMEN!

Pictures of our Home Soon To Come!!!

I LOVE THE FALL!!!

I love the fall! The colors, the smells, even the taste. I love that first day you notice a slight chill in the air and your heart does a little jump in excitement, you run to your closet to pull out that cashmere sweater that still smells of last years long walks. Perhaps my favorite thing about this years fall is the cold nights. Instead of all those years of waking up a little chilly and running to the closet to pull out a blanket, I get to roll over and whisper into the sexy man laying next to me, “Hey I’m cold can you warm me up”. There is nothing better than beating the cold with the warmth of love (In fact that’s the only reason, that as women, we agree to going on campouts).

Monolos vs.Gucci

ORIGINALLY WRITTEN AUGUST 16TH, 2010

The Small Things: Moments in Life that Bring a Smile to Your Face and Peace to Your Heart

Some call them “Endorphins” and others call them “Life’s Highs”, but either way you look at it they are still the Moments that make Life Bearable. This summer has been a weird one for me. I have felt feelings that I have never before experienced. It is simple to say that in the last 5 months my anger barrier has been broken. Instead of just “Getting Mad” I have hit “Boiling Point” There have been situations in which the “Old Tiffany” would have cracked a joke, brushed it off her shoulder, and moved on, but instead I sit pondering which shoe I could live without and if it has a strong enough heel that it would in fact fit snugly in someone’s rear-end. I am sad to think that in a small amount of time I have lost my cool. The question keeps pulling at me, “Have I lost sight of the Small Things?”
In college my mom gave me a notebook and told me to write down all the little things that make me happy. She told me that there would come a time when I would feel alone and weak and I would need that list to remind me of all the good things in life that awaited me. Tanning, Cheese Fries, Cosmopolitan Magazines, Dinner with Friends, Racing at Stop Lights, and things like it filled my list. My face beamed as I wrote my list and sure enough in hard times I always found myself pulling out that tattered piece of paper…and craving cheese fries!
Now that I am away from “Ground Zero” (For the safety of Companies and Peoples Rear-Ends, Names have been changed) I have realized how important these moments are. It only took 2 hours in the car driving away from “The Danger Zone” that I met face to face with one of my “Small Things”, Singing in the Car with my Future Hubby! At that moment, as I stared at my sexy, charming, Madonna-impersonating lover the hate, frustration, and anger just melted away.
Sunsets, Butterflies, Puppies, Taking Naps with Brice, Family, Queso Blanco with Chili at Applebees…all of these “Small Things” fill my new list. I know the hard times are not over, in fact there are worse times out there, but it doesn’t matter because life is not about the hard times or the emotional rollercoaster’s, it’s about all the moments you take a deep breath smile and say, “I can do this!” I challenge all of you to sit down and write your list because “The Little Things do go a Long Way!”

Success = How High You Jump when You’re At The Bottom…We Freakin’ Set a High Jump Record!

Apologies! Apologies! It has been well over 2 months and life has been CRAZY!!! I am sure all of you have been thinking…”What happened to Tiffany and Brice?”…okay I know we aren’t that important, but hey a girl can dream right?! Well, life in the Team Hooley home has had its up and a lot of downs, but I am happy to say that Brice and I are at a place in our life when we feel….well AMAZING!!! A lot of things have changed, but we both feel like they are changes for the better. The feeling of security and excitement have filled our body and we are looking forward to what else there is to offer!

My Birthday this year was a little CrAzY! Midnight came around and we Rang my Birthday in Loud and Clear…In a Movie Theatre, watching Eclipse! Brice is such a trooper, he came with me and endured the Team Jacob and Team Edward madness (Oh yeah we are totally Team Alice and Jasper Fans!).
Brice didn’t stop there! He made me breakfast the next morning, bought me a cake, and told Northstar they could shove it while he took me out to dinner! It meant the world to me!

On top of Everything we have some other BIG news: We Moved to North Carolina! At the first of July we packed everything we had, I quit my job, and we moved with Northstar out to the BEAUTIFUL Queen City for the remainder of the summer! It is beautiful and green and the people are so sweet!

In an effort to get more sales and make more money Northstar combined two of the offices and luckily enough we were combined with Durstin and Shantel’s (Brices brother and sister-in-law) so we enjoyed our time with them.

It has really been a Summer of Learning! I really don’t know where I wouldn’t have had the Northstar girls! Between learning how to be a cute Housewife, how make fabric flowers, building a testimony, and how to make some AMAZING food, and who could forget GLITTER TOES!

It has been such a blast! I am going to miss these girls SO much…especially since were moving to UTAH!!!!

After everything that has happened…My car breaking down, paying $1,500.00 to get my car out of the shop, Brices car being towed, more car problems, job issues…we have been walking on egg shells just waiting for a answer to our prayers.
It was a couple Saturdays ago that we were out to lunch and I finally just said the question that had been going through my mind everyday for a while, “Why don’t we move to Utah?” Brice laughed and then looked at me with that sparkle in his eye that I have missed so much and then we just made plans from there.

Things have fallen into place, we have a basement apartment in Sandy, we both have great job offers, and for the first time, in forever, we are financially stable. Things are finally working for us!

Well, I hope to keep you posted on our Big Road Trip starting this Friday, not to mention the wedding that is in 19 DAYS!!! Its safe to say that Brice and I have been in the bottom of that hole called despair and thanks to our faith, each other, and our families we have made a bounding leap that has brought us back to were we want to be. I cant wait to continue writing this story with him!

Love you all and wish you well,
Team Hooley!!!