Elwoods!

Love me? Then buy me things.

2012-02-16T14:44:00.000-07:00

A day for being spoiled...I mean for love.

Since we both work full time, we did our lovers celebrations on the Saturday before Valentine's. We went to see The Vow, (It was just eh. Cool that it's a true story though. Maybe I would have been more into it if I knew that before the end credits) did some shopping and exploring around town, finally tried out Gaucho Grill, (highly recommend it. Be prepared to spend a lot, eat a lot, and gain a few pounds. Worth it! Insert drool here.) and went to an improv show. Basically, good times were had.

On the actual day of love, I woke up at four, and couldn't get back to sleep, so I got up and made breakfast in bed for us. Eggs in a basket. Mmmmmm. Then off to work we went. Aaron had flowers sent to my work, (all together now: Awwww!) and my boss even gave the office girls some cute little arrangements. I went home at lunch and strung our house up with rope all over. I put a note at the start that said something like "Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm lucky to say I'm tied to you. Follow the string, that's your only clue, somewhere at the end a surprise will be waiting for you." Aaron said he almost peed his pants when he got home trying to crawl through the tangled web to get to the bathroom before trying to find the surprise. Apparently he'd been holding it for far too long. Haha TMI? I don't care. It's my blog. :) He beat me home, so I didn't get to see him struggle (sadly). At the end was a huge bottle of his favorite cologne, (Clinque Happy for Men. I know, delicious right? Mmm) and a Calvin and Hobbes book. When I got home, there was a trail of my favorite goodies, and some super cute balloons throughout the house. Cute! He also got me 17 Miracles, (so very highly recommended!) and a cord for my Kinect so we can use it with our projector. Yay! I've missed my new toy haha. We didn't do much that day cause my back was picking on me, and we had already done our stuff on Saturday. We did go eat at Fredrico's, (yep, you guessed it, recommended. Best ranch dressing ever!) and watched Because I Said So. It was still a great night, because I got to spend it with my best friend.

Well, that's all.

I do apologize for all the parenthesis I used. I have fun commenting on my own comments. Yeah, it does make sense okay! :)

Hope your love day was filled with as much love as mine!

Give me flowers and presents day

2012-02-14T13:29:00.002-07:00

I'm not really a fan of the idea of Valentine's Day. That is only needing to be romantic when the calendar tells you so. I do think it is a good excuse to dote on your sweetheart a little more than usual. I also like that (most) everyone is a little more cheery on this day. This year I got an idea from my good friend Becca. She did 14 days of Valentine's for her husband. I didn't know about this idea till it was the 2nd of February. A little to late to do the 14 days. I did end up giving Aaron a week of Valentine's though. I had a lot of fun with it. I wish I could have done the full 14 days, cause I had a lot more ideas I wanted to use. Maybe next year. Of course I didn't take any pictures, as per ush. I'll just tell you what I did for him. It's very cheesy, and kinda funny. Don't laugh at me too much. I started on the 7th, so it's actually 8 days, but that's okay. He's worth the extra day :)

Day one:

Aaron's favorite donuts with a note saying "'Donut' forget how much I love you!" Awwwww

Day two:

A box of those Chewy Quaker granola bars, the chocolate dipped ones. Aaron is always asking to get them, but I usually forget. A note on them saying "I'm no 'dip', if I had to 'chews' again I'd still 'chews' you"

Day three:

His favorite soda, blue Mountain Dew, with a new wrapper on it that said "Love potion number 9" Really looked like potion with the blue color haha. Also a note that said "I really 'Dew' love you"

Day four:

A red 2012 Camero Hot Wheels car with a note that said "You're hot, and I Wheelie love you". He's always saying he wants a Camero. Wish granted. ;)

Day five:

A pack of gum with a couple notes. I couldn't decide which one I liked best, so I used both. :) "We were 'mint' to be together" and "Thanks for 'sticking' with me"

Day six:

A bag of Juju fish (he LOVES them) with a note "I'm offishially asking you to be my Valentine" He said yes, in case you had your doubts. I think he knew he wouldn't get any of the fish if he didn't ;)

Day seven:

I left a Nerf gun and a note saying "'Nerfer' forget, I love you." on the outside and on the inside it said "Hi Husband, 2 things: 1- this is your gun 2- you are under attack starting now. With love, Wife." on the door step, rang the door bell, and hid. As you can guess, we then had an awesome Nerf gun war. I'm pretty sure our new neighbors think we are crazy now, but that's okay, cause we mostly are.

That brings us to today. V-Day:

I'm going to leave you in suspense here, cause I'd rather just do another post for all of our Valentines stuff.....

To be continued.

Lots of love for love day!

Take a peek at our new home.

2012-01-26T16:06:00.002-07:00

Look! I actually posted the pictures I said I would. Even if it is almost 3 months later... I did it! Here are some pictures of our new home! I don't feel like posting outside pictures of the house, since I get a lot of weird people who look at my blog that I don't know.... (Hi weird-os!) But here's the inside! Some of it at least. Missing the kitchen, dining room, downstairs guestroom, master bedroom, master bath, and my awesome walk-in closet. I didn't post the apartment pictures either. I figured you probably don't really need to see that part. Maybe I'll post pictures of the rest later. Maybe...

Hi! Welcome to our house!

Don't worry there's stuff in this room now.

See! Told you so. Our new couches!

I don't know what all those weird random dots are. But, here's the theater room.

Okay, It's mostly just a TV room right now (except there is a projector instead of a TV.)

But it will be a theater room when we are done with it. Kind of.

Guest Bathroom

Office/music room on the left, future baby room on the right.

Yep. That's right. One day I do plan on havin' some kids.

Not yet though. Not at all.

That's all. Bye bye now!

Loves!

New pictures.

2012-01-25T13:57:00.001-07:00

I'm actually updating my blog from home for once, so I can add some recent photos. That doesn't happen often, so you better appreciate this!

Pictures of Moab 2011!!

Can you see my sand angel?

This is at Sand Dune Arch.

My brother proposed to his girlfriend under Delicate Arch.

Obviously he got the answer he wanted :)

Yeah, that was a very long way down...

CRACK!

This picture takes a little explaining. Aaron got a ticket for throwing rocks in Canyonlands. Lame. We thought it was probably the most ridiculous thing to get a ticket for. So this is me afterwords. Holding a rock over a ledge. Maybe I threw it to spite the wanna be cop. Maybe I didn't. You'll never know...... :)

I can't get this picture to rotate, so whatever. This is Aaron's Darth Vader pancake.

He made it on accident. We think it's a sign. Not sure of what though. :)

Since the other picture I posted of our tree is finicky, here is another one. Don't mind Willis. He just thinks he has to be the center of attention. Mostly cause he is. Also, he is on our new couch, not that this is a good picture of it, but there it is! haha

Maybe I'll post more pictures later. You'll just have to wait and see. I know you will be dying of anticipation till the next post.

Loves.

Nothing. No, really.

2012-01-18T13:40:00.001-07:00

Nothing has happened since my last post. Okay, maybe somethings have happened, but nothing super cool. Here a few little things that you may or may not be interested in (probably not though. Our life is boring. Deal with it :P)
We made our first house payment on the first of January. It's a scary thing to think about spending that much money every month. That is, until you do it. Of course we did the math over, and over again making sure we could easily afford this house, even if one of us lost our job. Most of the time I was doing this math in the middle of the night, hiding under my blankey, while on the verge of a panic attack just thinking about what we have gotten ourselves into. Now that we made our fist payment, it really set our minds at ease. We can definitely do this. We always knew that we could, or we never would have done it, it's just a little intimidating at first.
Also, this month Aaron started school again. Wahoo! He wasn't able to go last semester since his 2 1/2 week out of town training for his new job was during the first couple weeks of school. I'm very happy he is back at it again. I can't wait till all of that is over, which is still pretty far down the road, but it gets a little closer with each class he takes.
On Monday Aaron started working Mon-Fri shifts rather than Tues-Sat! It will be super-duper nice to have him around on my day off. It's so boring with out him around!
I've been LOVING this dry spell we have had lately. I could go another month without snow and be perfectly happy. That however, should be ending any minute now, as we are supposed to get 8-12 inches (HOLY MOLEY!) in the next 36 hours. How depressing. I hope to one day see the sun again, but it's not forecasted any time in the next 10 days. Sad.
Yep. I think that's about all the somewhat notable happenings in our life right now. Hope I didn't bore you too much. But, if I did.... Haha! Sucker. :)

I hope you all have a good, and slightly more entertaining day. Buh bye now.

Loves!

A Christmas story

2011-12-29T14:53:00.000-07:00

Our Christmas was very nice and relaxing, just what we wanted.
For Christmas Eve we went to my brothers house. We had our traditional family junk out and a movie there. It's always so fun to see my nephews. They are crazy silly, and give me a great work out every time. It was nice to see everyone, and eat some yummy stuff. Mmmmm stuff.
It was a tradition when I was little that we all got to open a present (usually PJ's) on Christmas Eve. I have tried to keep that tradition going with Aaron and my celebrations. Last year we both got some PJ's, but this year I didn't want to do that again because I think we have enough PJ's to fill up a whole drawer by themselves. Selfish PJ's, getting their own special drawer and all. Sheesh. Instead I decided I would just buy one thing that we both wanted and have Aaron open it. I bought some tickets to the Brad Paisely concert in January. Can I get a Ye-haw? A few months ago Aaron was saying how he heard that Brad Paisely is really good in concert and that he wanted to go next time he came to town. Little did he know that the next time was going to be this January. I'm pretty stoked. Even though I'm not a full on country girl, I do enjoy a lot of country music. My teenage self would probably be slapping me silly for ever saying that. I don't like the crazy, old, twangy stuff, but the majority of newer country I enjoy. I do like most of the Brad Paisely songs that I know, so I'm pretty excited.
Christmas day we just relaxed. It was very nice. Aaron woke me up around six to go open presents like an excited little school boy. I dragged time out as long as I could cause one of his gifts was hiding outside, and the sun wasn't up yet. We went and opened presents at around seven. I got him a tablet, and a miter saw. Only 2 presents, since he never wants anything cheap. Pricey little bugger. He got me a Kinect, a game for the Kinect, tickets to Wicked, and a book for my kindle fire (Mockingjay! Yay!). The Kinect is so much fun. Such a great work out too! I had sore muscles in places were I didn't even know I had muscles. It can with the Fruit Ninja game. I'm pretty much amazing at it, if I do say so myself, which I do. It's the only game that I can kick Aaron's butt in, and he hates it :) All in all it was a very calm, pleasant day.
The day after Christmas we both had off as our paid holiday. That was the day his parents did their gift exchange and lunch. It was so noisy, and chaotic with the kids, but it was a good time. I got to hold my nieces lots, which I always enjoy. So stinking cute.

So basically, all I'm trying to say here is that we had a great holiday weekend! Hope you did too!

Happy New Year!

Loves!

Christmas shoes

2011-12-06T15:51:00.001-07:00

I just thought you should know, I am wearing little boy shoes today. Oh yes. I'm not ashamed of it either. I went shoe shopping last night at Famous Footwear with Aaron. We were out to get him some new work shoes, and me some much needed hiking shoes since we are going to Moab on Friday. Well, I have short, fat feet that I inherited from my mother dearest. Most athletic shoes are just way to tight, and they don't offer many wide shoes in my size. After looking for about 45 minutes and trying on every shoe around, Aaron disappeared for a few minutes, I figured he was sick of looking at girl shoes, and went back to the guys for a bit. When he came back he had a box of shoes in his hand and told me to try them on. Oh so very roomy compared to all the others I had tried. He told me they were little boy shoes, and better yet, that they were cheaper than any of the other shoes I've already tried on. Score! The great part is, these aren't even my first pair of little boy shoes I own. Aaron bought me some others when we were dating, and I love them. They were actually the shoes I was wearing when we bought these new little boy shoes. Nope, I'm not embarrassed. Whatever works is fine by me. They have really great traction, and will work splendidly for hiking. They are even a good name brand hiking shoe! Yeah Boy (boy shoe that is)! The only problem is my shoe rack doesn't have any more room for more shoes.... Dun dun dunnnnnnnnn.

Here, take a look at the shoes. They don't look very boyish at all. When Aaron gave them to me he said "I figure a lot of boys dress girly now days." True story.

Well, that will be all for today.

Loves for you, and you, and YOU!

I am from the 80's!!!

2011-12-02T10:59:00.001-07:00

I saw the link to this article posted on Facebook repeatedly recently, but I refused to read it. I didn't want to agree with any of it, or claim that I took part in some of it, for that would mean admitting which decade I associate my childhood with. I inevitably decided to glance over it this morning while procrastinating the work that is still waiting to get done. As I feared, I enjoyed, agreed with, and related to the large majority of the article. I do not like to be thought of as a 90's kid. I was born in the 80's. I AM AN 80's KID! Even if the only part of the 80's I lived through I was much too young to remember. But that year, one month, and six days of the 80's that I lived makes me an 80's kid as far as I am concerned, and no one better say any different. I already get the "you're so young" comments all the time. I guess that's what I get for being the youngest in my family, and marrying someone who is nearly 4 years older than me, and is the youngest in his family as well. One day I will no longer be told I am so young, and on that day I will probably long to be called young again. Any way, here is the post. I begrudgingly giggled throughout the whole thing as I remembered the days of my youth....which, I will admit, was mostly in the 90's. In case you ever wondered what I was like as a child (I know you all must have) this was my life. Enjoy. And don't make fun of my youthfulness. :)

10 Things 90's Kids Will Have to Explain to Their Children

While most things we experienced as tots in that headiest of eras seems pretty self-explanatory (plaid was everywhere, Leonardo DiCaprio was the molten ball of light around which the solar system turned, and there was no color too bright for your sweatpants) there are some things that will be a bit harder to explain. Here, a primer for when your future children want to know what the hell you were doing with your boxy, multicolored electronics.

1. Topanga was at some point in human history considered not only a legitimate first name for a human being, but the kind of name that would inspire in malleable teenage boys a life-long infatuation. Topanga, in our day, was leading lady name-material. Topanga (pronounced Tah-payne-ga, for those who will have only ever seen in it written down) is the name of the quintessential girl-next-door who will live, along with Feeney, in our hearts forever!

2. At some point, we carried around little plastic eggs with tiny screens on them — in these screens lived our hearts, our pets, our raison d’être, our very own Tamagotchi [Giga pet in my case]. We loved them, we listened to their tiny electronic screams of malnourishment, and we occasionally forgot to pick up their poop for long enough that they died a tortured, poop-filled death. They were, perhaps, our first foray into the life-consuming world of electronics and self-absorption, later to be fully manifested by Facebook.

3. The black Power Ranger was black and the yellow Power Ranger was Asian because…we were so completely ahead of our time and beyond the capacity to even think in terms of something as inconsequential as race that… uh… I don’t know. Casting directors were racist in the nineties.

4. Long before he was spending his days foisting his mediocre children on us, Will Smith was actually the perfect human specimen. He also undoubtedly holds some world record for saving the world the most times while simultaneously delivering flawless catchphrases, and giving cool guy nods to the camera. The Men in Black rap song, at the time, was created and received by the public without the slightest trace of irony. Really, he was that good.

5. In some inevitable shift of the time-space continuum in which James Cameron continues to rob humanity of all that is good and sacred in this world, Fern Gully will be known as that movie that ripped off Avatar. It will be up to us to crusade for what is right. It is up to us to explain that Fern Gully was not only a predecessor to Avatar, but far better, in that it contained both Tim Curry as a singing pile of molasses and Robin Williams rapping about animal testing in the pharmaceutical industry. (As a side note, if you have not recently listened to the full lyrics of the “Batty Rap,” I recommend you do, as they are horrifying.)

6. A neighborhood boy who completely disregards your family and puts a ladder directly under the teenage girl’s window to climb up at his discretion is not only acceptable, it’s charming. It’s the kind of stuff that would make said family take the ladder boy under their wing and into their heart. The nineties were a simpler time, one where we didn’t have to worry about things like breaking and entering. Clarissa today would have steel bars on the inside of her window and her father would continually remind her that the next-door boy with his ladder and his touchy hands have no place in his household.

7. Though, on the surface, they are the exact same thing in every conceivable way, whether you liked The Backstreet Boys or N*SYNC said more about your character than all of the terrible macaroni art you could ever make for your child psychologist. Essentially, liking *NSYNC meant you liked Justin Timberlake, as he was clearly the Seabiscuit in that race from the get-go. You even liked him with his terrible, icy-blond mini-fro. Liking the Backstreet Boys gave you a bit more of a cultured palate, as there was no clear Diana in those Supremes. Nick was kind of the wholesome, if northern-Florida-redneck safe choice (save for his humiliating younger brother, Aaron). Brian was the shy, sensitive type. AJ was the hottt, dangerous meth addict. Kevin Richardson was mute with sexy, sculpted facial hair. No one liked Howie. Choosing between the two groups was like choosing between two beloved children, but once that line was crossed–there was no going back.

8. “I wanna really, really, really wanna zig a zig ahh,” has a meaning, and all true nineties kids know it, but we must never share it. Like the Illuminati, it must remain between us, the key holders. With great power comes great responsibility.

9. Lisa Frank is not the name of a woman; it is the name of a movement, a culture, a way of living! It is a theory, a concept, a belief in something greater than yourself. It is the belief that all girls are entitled to dolphins covered with rainbows, jewel-encrusted frogs, and unicorns in acid-trip colors hugging each other. It is the ideology that no notebook is complete until it literally hurts your eyes to look at from so much color saturation. It is the hope that no school supply, no matter how insignificant, will be left un-bedazzled. It is the knowledge that your eraser cap, and that of your granddaughter’s, and her granddaughter’s after her, will not be some boring little nub–it will be a diamond covered with butterflies in a rainbow of colors. It is the dream of a better tomorrow.

10. Incredibly depressing women in Indiana covered in cats and glass figurines they buy at The Hallmark Store used to troll the web 1.0 to invest thousands of dollars in tiny stuffed animals filled with plastic beans. That happened. Beanie Babies were not just significant; they were the first example most of us had of envy, greed, and wrath. If someone messed up that little heart-shaped Ty tag, so help you God, that was the end of whatever contact you had with that monster of a human being. That tag-less Beanie Baby was now trash, and you had to deal with the consequence. It was at that moment, that de-valued Beanie Baby moment, that most of us accepted the truth… we’ll never have nice things.

Man I loved beanie babies.

Well, that's all.

Loves!

Oh! Christmas tree?

2011-11-30T10:26:00.003-07:00

We got our Christmas tree up and all decorated, and guess what?! It's a real one!! Impressive right? Okay, maybe not, but I've never had a real Christmas tree before. I like it enough so far. It smells so nice. But, I don't know if we will get a real one again after this year though. It's as much of a hassle as the fake tree is. It's so messy, and it makes me worry about bugs. Ew! Bugs. I haven't found any yet, thank goodness. I hope it doesn't dry out before I'm ready to take it down. It goes through water SO SO fast. Hopefully we're not over watering it... is that possible? I'll probably end up killing it one way or the other. I've never had a green thumb of any sort. I could probably kill a fake tree. Any way, here is our tree for your viewing pleasure:

[Feel free to commence ooooing and awwwing now.]

Hmmm.... this picture was a lot bigger when I first started writing this post. I'm not sure what happened and it won't go back.... Aw man!

Decorating our new house has been a blast!

I love this place so much!

It makes me smile every day.

That is all.

Much loves!

Good news part 2. Finally!

2011-11-17T13:07:00.002-07:00

I finally feel like I can announce the secret I've been keeping. Okay, it's not really much of a secret any more. Most people I know found out one way or another. We were so excited we had a hard time keeping our mouths shut and told too many people who didn't know it was supposed to be kept kind of quiet. Plus, I already announced it on facebook awhile back, I just haven't had the time to update this too.

So, here it is. for the past 3 months we have been working on buying our first house! We were finally able to close on it last Tuesday the 8th! This process had been the biggest mess, and definitely didn't go how we expected. I know, I know, everyone who has purchased a house is going to pipe up and say that it never goes how you expect. We knew it wouldn't be fast or easy, but seriously, it was ridiculous. When even the loan officer says he can't remember the last time there were so many things to go wrong with good loan candidates, then you know it's bad. Most home loan companies have a 30 day to close goal. Obviously we didn't achieve that goal. But no matter, all is well now. I finally have my house. Now I just have to make it into a home.

It's the cutest house ever. We are in love with it. It has six bedrooms, and three bathrooms. Don't worry, they are not all for us. There is an apartment in the basement. They get two of the bedrooms and one bathroom. I think 4 bed 2 bath is pretty perfect for us right now. Everything about this house is perfect for us. It has a huge fenced back yard with a good sized garden and fire pit. Willis loves it! A dual dog run with 2 dog houses, which is pretty cool. a big shed. A nice deep garage that could fit 4 cars and Aaron's motor cycle if we wanted. A nice living room upstairs, and a TV room downstairs that we are going to turn into a cool theater room eventually. The kitchen has a ton of cupboards, a pantry, and an island. So much more space for storing all my cooking things than I had before. We have a cold storage room, which will be nice for stalking up on all the good coupon deals. The Master bedroom has a walk in closet with more storage than I know what to do with! Okay, I know what I want to do with it, but I can't afford that many pairs of shoes :) We have a little laundry room, which is awesome cause our washer and dryer were in the kitchen before, and that wasn't fun. All the rooms are painted warm neutral colors, which is nice. They do need a little touch up cause the people who lived there before didn't know what they were doing, but they left the extra paint so we won't have to try and play the matching game. It's so perfect. It has everything that was on our little check list when we were looking at homes. We had to look for a year before we found this one. It's not one that would have been in our budget before, but it is now since we both got big raises with our new jobs. We feel so blessed for that, and know this is all working out how it is supposed to, and that this is where we are supposed to be in our lives right now.

We are still working on moving in. It's been hard since we closed on the day that my grandma died, so we had a busy week already with that. It didn't help that the people who owned it before apparently didn't know how to clean. The place was really dirty at first. It's taken a long time to get it clean. Then this week Aaron got a cold, and ya know, what's mine is yours, so he shared it with me. He's at the worst part right now, and I'm just starting to get it. Not to mention that we both work full time, if not more, so that takes up the majority of our time. (Oh wait, I guess that is mentioning it. haha) One day we will be moved in. I hope. We are to the point of sleeping there, so that's good. We have a lot of stuff though. It's kind of ridiculous. Haha We have already taken a ton to the DI and have a lot more to sort through.

I'll post pictures when I can.

L.O.V.E.S

Grandma Lucy.

2011-11-08T13:48:00.003-07:00

There is no one I admire more than you. I've always looked up to your great example. You're the epitome of what a woman should be. You are the classiest woman I have ever known. I would be very proud to become even the tiniest bit like you. You are simply amazing. When I think of the wonderful reunion that took place in heaven last night, it brings tears to my eyes, and joy in my heart. 48 years without your husband, you're only sweetheart. Being apart much longer than you were together here on earth. I can't even imagine. My mom got to give her Gretel a big hug again. Seeing your parents, grandparents, and those siblings who have pass on before you. What an awesome welcoming party you had. I think of those videos of soldiers coming home from war and seeing their families for the first time in so long. I cry every time I watch those. I know your greeting party was even greater than that. When I got that call, that dreaded call that I knew would be coming soon, I didn't cry. I felt your pure happiness that you are experiencing. Of course, throughout the night and the day today I have shed a few tears for the loss I feel, but overall I know you have been letting me to feel a little bit what you are feeling so I can remember to be happy for you. You lived a great long life. All who knew you in that time adored you. We all feel that we love you more than any others could. I feel so blessed to be able to call you my grandma for eternity. The world lost a very special spirit, but heaven just got a little bit brighter. I look forward to seeing you again whenever that time may come. Till then I will hold very dear to the sweet memories I have with you. You will always have a big special part of my heart. I love you forever and always.

PS Give my Mom a big hug from me.

A little ramble here, a little ramble there.

2011-10-25T14:51:00.000-06:00

This is something I really needed to hear today. It has been a very discouraging couple of weeks. I have been having an especially difficult time keeping that happy mindset I strive for today. Lately we have been having set back after set back. Disappointment after disappointment. I'm just waiting for something to finally come through and work out for us. I'm not complaining (okay, maybe just a little), I know I have a very good and blessed life. I have a whole lot to be thankful for. Things were just going so perfectly for awhile there. Everything was falling right into place. Then, all of a sudden, it wasn't any more. Sigh. Such is life.

This quote helped me calm down and remember that everything is happening exactly how God intended it to, whether they were in my plans or not does not matter.

It will be okay. It will all work out. Soon enough it will all be in the past. Deep breath. And repeat. That's how I have been getting through this day.

This morning, a coworker was a little rude to me about something I had nothing to do with. I turned and walked away, holding back tears. That small thing had just pushed me to the limit (for the third time this morning) I couldn't handle anything else blowing up in my face. This reminded me of one of my favorite quotes ( I know I've been using a ton of quotes in my posts lately.). "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle" - Plato. He couldn't have known his slightly harsh words would push me to the brink of crying. He had no idea of the terrible morning I'd been having, and apparently he'd been having a less than ideal day as well. Let me be clear though, I don't hate my job, or any of my coworkers. It is a great job. I am grateful for it, and blessed to have it. My coworkers are great, and nice 99% of the time. Just one of those days for all of us I guess.

Any way.... I don't really know where I'm going with this. Mostly I'm just rambling, as is typical for my blog. Just a place to get my thoughts out of my head so I can go on with my day with out these thoughts pestering me along my way. So, I guess that's all for now.

Loves!

There you have it.

2011-10-13T17:24:00.004-06:00

Something that truly irks me is when I hear of people saying that Mormons are not Christians. Really? Those who belong to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints not Christian? If believing in and trying to follow Christ is not a Christian act, then please explain to me what exactly is? I just don't understand how they can try and claim this when Christ is in the name of our religion, and in all that we do. As Latter Day Saints, our lives are centered around Christ. We pray A LOT. If we are not Christian, who do you think we are praying to? The prayers are opened addressing Heavenly Father, and closed in the name of Christ. I don't think it gets much more Christian than that.

This sums it up better than me:

http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/12/opinion/obeidallah-mormon-christian/index.html?hpt=hp_c2

My Fall Bucket List

2011-10-12T14:54:00.012-06:00

Here are all the fall activities I hope to accomplish this (and most every) year:

~~Corn maze~~
~~Haunted mini golf~~
~~Odyssey Dance Thriller~~
~~Pumpkin walk~~
~~Decorate house~~
~~Pumpkin pamcakes (from VI)~~
~~Carve pumpkins~~
~~Watch Hocus Pocus~~
~~Watch It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown~~
~~Pumpkin bagel/pumpkin cream cheese (Einstein's)~~
Logan Canyon drive to see leafs, have picnic
~~Make 2 ingredient pumpkin cookies~~
~~Watch all Halloween episodes of The Office :)~~
~~Eat lots of candy~~
~~Hand candy out to the cuties on Halloween night!~~

I know, not very original. But, I will love every minute of it!

What's on your fall bucket list? Is there anything you think I should add on here?

That be all for now folks! ;)

Loves!

Just my thoughts

2011-10-08T08:26:00.004-06:00

It's easy to point out faults in others to make yourself feel better.

It's best to work on your own faults to feel better about yourself.

You can't control what others do, you can only control you.

Stop worrying about everyone else so much, and work on yourself.

"Be the change you wish to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi

Colon parentheses

2011-09-27T14:28:00.020-06:00

“Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”

- Abraham Lincoln

Smart man.

We all have problems.

We all go through trails.

It's up to you how you choose to handle them.

You decide how to react to all situations.

You decide what your attitude will be through it all.

And ultimately you decided how easy or hard your life will seem depending on your mindset.

Choose a positive mindset, and life is a heck of a lot easier to handle.

Choose a negative mindset, and make life a lot harder on yourself than it needs to be.

This decision dosen't just effect you.

It effects everyone in your life.

Seems like an easy choice to me.

This is a very simple lesson to learn.

Seems like most people still choose to learn it the hard way.

I choose :)

I'm a Halloweener!! :)

2011-09-09T15:54:00.006-06:00

I absolutely am in love with Halloween!

Always have been.

Always will be.

It's my favorite holiday!

It probably shouldn't be though.

I hate:

Getting scared.

Creepy movies.

Masks.

Candy corn.

Spiders.

Cats of any color.

The dark.

Reasons why I do LOVE it:

Corn mazes.

Pumpkin walks.

Candy.

Decorations.

Adorable children looking even more adorable.

Candy.

Dressing up.

Pumpkin PaMcakes (when it's pumpkin flavored it must be pronounced like that).

Pumpkin flavored anything and everything!!!!

Candy.

Pretty leaves.

Carving pumpkins.

Candy.

The color orange is #2 on my fav. list.

"Haunted" mini golf.

Perfect weather.

and of course candy!

I can't wait till I can decorate more than just my blog for the season!! :)

Lovey love loves!

The best two years (This post is extra cheesie. You have been warned.)

2011-09-06T13:29:00.006-06:00

Yesterday was our two year anniversary!

When I tell people that they usually respond with something like "Wow two years already? Time flies". Honestly, I can't believe it has ONLY been two years. Two years? Really? That's all? I feel like I've know this amazing man my entire life! I have known him for four years, and that makes it seem a little better. It's weird to think there was a time in my life where Aaron wasn't in it. How did I get by with out him before? Cause I certainly can't do it now. I didn't know how good my life could be, or what I was missing out on until I met him. I never thought there could be someone so perfect for me, someone I am so sure about. The thought of deciding to get married to some poor guy used to terrify me to the point of saying I wasn't going to get married. I always wondered how people can make such a huge decision of being stuck with the same person forever. What a hard thing to decide right? Wrong. It was hands down the easiest decision I have ever made once I met the right guy. Since I figured out Aaron was that guy, I haven't had even the tiniest bit of doubt that it was the right thing for me to do. That he was the right guy for me. I am no longer afraid of the future, because I know I will have him by my side, and I know I can get through anything as long as he is with me.

Sure, it took us two years of dating to get to the point of marriage, but that was perfect timing for us. There were a lot of really big events our lives (mine in particular) that happened in that time that we had to get through together before we felt like we were to the point of getting married. He came into my life at the perfect time to help me through some of the hardest struggles of my life. I know it all happened how it was supposed to. I wouldn't have been able to get through those trials with out him. He is so great, everything I didn't even know I needed in a man. I love him with everything I have. There's no doubt about it, I married the right guy, at the right time, in the right place.

Happy Anniversary (yesterday) Aaron!

(To those of you that aren't my husband, I apologize for the vast amount of cheese that was present in this blog. I hope you are not lactose intolerant.)

Loves loves loves loves.

(And especially loves for my love.)

Good news part 1

2011-08-23T15:17:00.002-06:00

This is the 1st in my series of good news posts. It's like Harry Potter, I can only reveal the 1st half of this post right now :)

Drum roll please...........

My amazing husband snagged a super sweet new job! This is a huge blessings in many ways. His old job was getting ridiculous, and frustrating. I'm so glad to be done with them. I am grateful for all that they have done for us the past couple years, but even more grateful to be moving on. NO MORE BEING ON CALL EVERY 2 WEEKS!!! Hu freakin' rray. However, in exchange for that, Aaron will be working every Saturday till 5pm. That is a big down side, but hey, there's no such thing as a perfect job. Hopefully it will just be temporary until he gets some seniority. I don't know if I will hate this as much as the being on call, we shall see. It should be more than worth it though, cause it's quite a large pay raise. Cha-ching! We are very excited for this change in our lives. So happy! :D

So there you have it, part one of our good news and one of the reason's we feel so blessed. Keep an eye out for part 2.

LOVES!!!!!!!

Poor Goldie Honda has a boo boo!

2011-08-19T11:53:00.004-06:00

With all of our many blessings we have been having lately I've kind of been waiting for something bad to happen. I'm just not used to having so many great things happen all at once with very little bad things thrown in there. I'm not a pessimist, or looking for something bad in my life, it just seemed to be the way my life would go. Kind of just what I've been used to I guess.

Well, something bad happened last night. Not horrible, just slightly inconvenient. I got rear ended and t-boned on my way home from work. It wasn't a horrible wreck, no one was seriously injured, thank goodness. It was a 4 car pile up, 2 cars were totaled, mine wasn't. I was the only one not in a regular car, I was in the CR-V, so I was the biggest car. The only damage is a big dent in the drivers side door. It wasn't my fault, so someone else's insurance will pay to get it fixed. Poor Goldie Honda.

Surprisingly, no one's airbags went off during all of this. While this might sound like a bad thing, it was a big blessing for me. We got a letter in the mail a few weeks ago saying that if our car still has the original air bag that it needs to be replaced. It was recalled because pieces of metal have been reported coming through the air bag on deployment. A little scary? Yes. I got lucky. I'm definitely counting my blessings for this. My Mom has really been watching out for me and keeping me safe.

The only thing wrong is the usual stiffness and soreness expected after a car wreck. Also, I have mild panic attacks when I drive now. Haha! I'm a baby, I know. I keep hearing the crunch noise and cringing. On my way to work this morning I got stopped by almost all 13 lights between my house and work. I thought I might just die. I just stared intently in my rear view mirror, not daring to blink. I would tap my breaks so my lights would flash just to make sure everyone knew I was coming to a stop. Haha! I'm a nerd.

On a different note, today is my Mom's Birthday, so here's a shout out to her! Happy Birthday Mommy! I miss you and think of you everyday. Thank you for being there for me, even when you can be here for me. I know you are having a blast playing with all your grand kids that have yet to get their mortal bodies. I love you lots! - Sister Sue.

That is all.

Love love love love love!

Check back soon!

2011-08-17T15:36:00.002-06:00

We are going to be having a lot of big changes in our life in the next month. I can't spill the beans just yet, but keep checking back to see what's up! And let me stop the thought that I know is going through everyone's mind right now. No, I am NOT pregnant, not trying to get pregnant, or anything related to that thought at all. Yes, there are other changes in life to get excited about. We have been extremely blessed lately, and we feel so grateful for everything that has happened to us this summer. It is definitely a summer to remember. Life is just going so great, and we are incredibly happy with everything right now. I hope to be able to let you know sooner rather than later! I don't remember the last time I was this content. It's a good feeling ya know? We know we are doing what we are supposed to right now, and that we are at a good place in life. Can't get much better than this :)

Hope your summer as been just as full of blessings as ours!

Loves!

Favorite pioneer song

2011-07-26T15:40:00.005-06:00

In honor of Pioneer Day (which I realized was 2 days ago)

This is my absolute favorite pioneer song. It has had a special place in my heart since EFY (which turned me around at a time when I wasn't making the best decisions for my life. I will always be grateful for Mandy Fowers for making me go with her) and a trek I went on in the same summer. I truly got to understand and love the lyrics. It gives me chills every time it is sung now. So amazing.

Here, enjoy it with me:

Come, Come, Ye Saints

Come, come, ye saints, no toil nor labor fear;
But with joy wend your way.
Though hard to you this journey may appear,
Grace shall be as your day.
Tis better far for us to strive
Our useless cares from us to drive;
Do this, and joy your hearts will swell -
All is well! All is well!

Why should we mourn or think our lot is hard?
'Tis not so; all is right.
Why should we think to earn a great reward
If we now shun the fight?
Gird up your loins; fresh courage take.
Our God will never us forsake;
And soon we'll have this tale to tell-
All is well! All is well!

We'll find the place which God for us prepared,
Far away, in the West ,
Where none shall come to hurt or make afraid;
There the saints, will be blessed.
We'll make the air, with music ring,
Shout praises to our God and King;
Above the rest these words we'll tell -
All is well! All is well!

And should we die before our journey's through,
Happy day! All is well!
We then are free from toil and sorrow, too;
With the just we shall dwell!
But if our lives are spared again
To see the Saints their rest obtain,
Oh, how we'll make this chorus swell-
All is well! All is well!

Yeah, it's pretty great!

Loves, loves, and more loves!!!

Breaking News! ;)

2011-07-18T14:24:00.004-06:00

BREAKING NEWS!! The Pity Train has just derailed at the intersection of Suck It Up & Move On, and crashed into We All Have Problems, before coming to a complete stop at Get Over It. Reporting LIVE from Quitchur cryin.

If you like this, re-post it. If you don't, suck it up Buttercup, life doesn't revolve around you!

I saw this today, and thought it was pretty funny.

I just had to share it! :)

Some times I need the reminder too.

No one likes a pity party, that's why they are always a party of one.

Much love for you all!!!

Fantastic changes!

2011-07-03T20:31:00.002-06:00

Right after my post saying I'm going to be able to post again, life got a little nuts! So, it ended up being a bit of a lie. I won't have as much time on my hands anymore, but I'll post when I can.

The reason I won't have time on my hands to spare anymore is because....after two years of trying and trying.... lots of frustration, tears, and coveting those who it came so easily to.... I am FINALLY working at a new job! :)

I am now an Office Manager!!!! Or, basically a glorified secretary with a side of accounts receivable. I love it. It's pretty perfect for me right now. I work with some great people who are easy to get a long with. I'm actually appreciated and complimented for doing a good job. I already got a raise that I wasn't supposed to get till I worked there for 3 months. I got it after 1 week. (Please pardon my bragging. I'm just not used to this) I work set hours now, which is sooooo nice! 9-5:3o Monday-Friday with an hour break whenever I want. I thought it might be a little difficult working 8 hour days everyday, when before it was rare to get 8 hours and the days I did work that long were so hard. Turns out, when you enjoy your job, the day goes by fast everyday.

I'm so much happier now (Aaron says he notices it all the time. Poor guy is a trooper, putting up with me being mad all the time after work)! This job is the opposite from my last job in every way, and that is why it is so good. Man, I sure do love change! This was such a huge blessing in my life, and I'm very grateful for it.

Thank you to everyone who helped, or tried to help me get a new job. Thank you for understanding.

There is a lot more going on in our life's that I would like to post about, but I'm trying not to do super long posts any more. That's hard when I don't have time to post, but if you want to know what is going on, you can always call me :)

That is all.

Much love for you all!

Don't give up on me!

2011-05-28T19:42:00.003-06:00

Well, hello again world!

Hope you didn't give up on me.

Now that my blogger account is fixed, I can start posting again.

Thanks for fixing it Husby!

Be on the lookout for some new posts updating you on our life!

For now, I'm going to go cuddle up with my sweetie and puppy, and enjoy the rest of my weekend.

Happy Memorial Day ya'll!

Warmer days are within reach!!!!!

Much loves for ya'll!

Valentines Day is meant to be cheesy!

2011-02-16T17:57:00.004-07:00

Hello world!

Well, another V-day come and gone.

I'm so glad I got to spend it with my forever Valentine!

We weren't so sure how it was going to work out this year.

Aaron was on call, so we couldn't plan anything.

Drat.

We ended up playing it by ear.

Aaron got home at 5.

On call doesn't start till 6.

I was going to make my wonderful lasagna for dinner,

but I used all my cheese for braided pizza bread last week,

and forgot to get more.

I didn't notice till the sausage was defrosted and I went to start everything else

Phooey.

We decided we had time to hurry and go get some Panda Express before on call started.

We ate at home,

and just had a nice relaxing evening together.

Thankfully there were no floods!

Sounds like a lame day, but it was great!

Couldn't have asked for more.

We both kind of splurged on presents for each other.

More than we probably needed to as usual.

What can I say?

We're in LOVE!

He got me:

a dozen perfect roses

a cute little teddy bear ( no I'm not too old for that)

a box of chocolates

Beauty and the Beast

and Tangled (pre ordered)

I got him:

some pirouettes

a liter of the blue Mountain Dew

a silly balloon (it was waiting for him in the car)

a box of chocolates

and a RC helicopter

All in all, the day was almost as perfect as he is. :)

Hope you all had a great Valentines Day too!

Much love!

Puppy love!

2011-01-28T17:47:00.005-07:00

Willis is our little Min Pin. As in "Whatcha barkin' 'bout Willis??" He was born on the 4th of July 2010. Aaron bought him for me at the end of July as an early anniversary present. After a couple long weeks of waiting, we brought him home in August. He has tons of energy and hates to sit still, unless he is laying on a heating pad, then he won't move for anything. He's a picky eater, and therefore very skinny. He has razor sharp teeth and will tear through a cloth chew toy in a day. He's good at catching balls, especially ones that squeak. He hates being tied up or left alone. He's very smart and easy to train. As you can tell, we love him :) Here are some super sweet pictures of his first few days. We haven't really taken many since. We suck at taking pictures ever, really.

This is the day we found him, on the side of the road. Our neighbors were selling him in front of Shopko. Great place to find a dog! haha He was the only boy of 5 dogs, and the smallest one of them all. He was so little, he could fit in one of my tiny hands. He was terrified and quivering. He snuggled up to me and clung to me for dear life, and that was that. I had to have him.

Our brother and sister-in-law bought a dog just after us. She is an adorable boxer named Jada. She is a couple weeks older than Willis. This is their very first time meeting minutes after picking Willis up. Doesn't He look terrified? :)

They warmed up fast. :D

Now they are BFF and ever!

We took them to Bear Lake the day we got him and they had their first swim together.

this is them afterwards snuggling up to stay warm together. When we got home we took them to the fair. They were a big hit. Who wouldn't love such adorable puppies???

Drinking from the hose for the first time

They love each other. :)

Some day we will have to get pictures of him all grown up and post them too. For now, this will do.

Don't be Jealous. You know you love them. ;)

New year, new hair!

2011-01-01T19:13:00.003-07:00

Happy new year everyone! I hope 2011 brings only the best of things to us all. For New Years Eve we celebrated by skipping our party's and going to bed at 10 PM. I'm not sorry about it either. Neither of us would have had a good time forcing our self's to stay up too late. I work early in the morning every morning, so we usually go to bed at about 9. Aaron has been working at least 12 hours a day so we were both very tired. 12 AM would have been hard to make.
I did, however, cut and dye my hair for the new year. Aaron said he wanted to see me with darker hair so I tried it out, and what better time for a change than New Years? I'm pretty satisfied with how it turned out too! I'm happy to have finally found someone in Cache Valley who is decent at doing hair. I thought it was hopeless after my last few experiences. Here's how it turned out:

These were taken from my phone, so not the best quality, but they'll do.

Happy New Year!!!!

Loves!

Ready!

2010-12-22T17:11:00.002-07:00

All the presents are wrapped and neatly placed under the tree!

Probably more than there should be.

I may have spoiled my husband.... a lot.

It's his turn for that.

He spoils me plenty.

That's all.

LOVES!

Random much??? Why yes!

2010-12-17T21:11:00.004-07:00

Aaron has been at work for the last 13 and a half hours. I've been off for the last 7 hours. I'm not very good at entertaining myself and I am officially b.o.r.e.d.

I started making heath bar cookies and half way through realized that I don't have eggs. I read that you can substitute 2 tablespoons cornstarch for every egg in cookies, so I gave that a try. They turned out pretty good. I mixed them too much, so they could have been better. I will probably still eat them all in the next week. I LOVE home made cookies. They are kind of an addiction of mine. I can't just eat one!!!! Best addiction ever! :)

Another random thought, I cant stop buying Aaron Christmas presents. haha I keep saying I'm done, then I think of something else I know he wants. I want to get him everything I ever remember him saying he wants. He has expensive taste so I can't buy him everything, I've already spent so much. Ekk. I think I'm really done as of today though. I love knowing he'll be happy with what he gets, But I hate thinking that he might wish he had something else too. haha! Yep. I love him.

Our Christmas tree has a decent amount of presents under it and that makes me happy. We didn't procrastinate this year! Yay! Only one more present. I just don't have any idea what to get for them..... hmmmmm.....

Today was soooo cold! I had to work at the window for the majority of the day today, which is pretty typical. I thought my ears were going to fall off!!! It was 2 degrees when I got to work. Better than yesterday though. Good thing I have the hobo gloves Sarah got for me! I've also heard them called glomits.... haha that's just silly.

Well, I think that is all the random thoughts I can think of today.

Holly out.

Loves!

Annnnnnnndddd we're back!!!

2010-12-15T17:21:00.003-07:00

Hello all!

Well everyone who is still checking that is....

It has been awhile eh?

Have I mentioned we are busy people? Cause we most assuredly are!

I should have more time on my hands now.

I just finished a class I took in Phlebotomy! I must brag that I got 100% on the practical, 92% on the final/national exam, and an A overall! Go me!!!! I'm pleased. I'm a certified Phlebotomist! Saaaaaaweet! I absolutely LOVED the class! I miss jabbing people with needles. It's such a high when you see that you got blood! I'm very much a vampire. Now I just wish I could get a job doing it so I can get back to it.

Also, something new, we bought a puppy! His name is Willis (whatcha barkin bout Willis?) He's a min pin and a little pain in the butt! haha but we love him. He's like a child. He puts everything in his mouth! Good thing he's cute.

We had our 1 year anniversary in September. We had a great time touring through beautiful Wyoming.

For Halloween we had a couple parties to go to. We went as Kermit and Miss Piggy and had a good time. I've never been a blond before... I think I'll stay brunette. :)

Thanksgiving we spent with my family and enjoyed good food and great company. I love my family and don't see them enough. I hope to live closer to them soon than later. We also visited my fantastic Aunt Debbie and her girls and grand kids. Oh we love them lots. Sweetest family.

Black Friday included lots of shopping, awesome deals, and going to see Harry Potter and eat at Aggies with my Daddy and Aaron's family for my Birthday.

Now we are just getting ready for Christmas! Went to see the lights last weekend with our "other family" the Anderson's. They are so much fun! We took the front runner (soooo dizzy!) and a great time. I was so happy to see Kim and Ken's baby for the first time! So handsome!

Also, today I got to see Becca's baby for the first time. She's a doll! Such a good little princess. I loved holding her. Don't worry Becca, I enjoyed seeing you too. :)

Well, that pretty much gets us all caught up! Look for more updates soon!

Merry Christmas ya'll!!!

Sweet deal!

2010-07-13T09:10:00.002-06:00

Hey guys! Just wanted to let you online shoppers know about this fantastically awesome deal Amazon has going on right now.

If you are a college student, or even if you just have an active student e-mail address, you can get a free YEAR of Amazon Prime!!! All you have to do is go to this web site: http://www.amazon.com/gp/student/signup/info?tag=sdfp-20&prv=slickdeals&cur=slickdeals&ses and enter your student e-mail address and college and TA-DA! Free Prime! Yay!

If you don't know, Amazon Prime is great. You can get free 2-DAY shipping on a lot of the items you are purchasing anyway. You can even upgrade to overnight shipping for only 4 bucks with prime eligible items. I know that I especially found this useful around Christmas and birthdays. It has saved me plenty of money.

I had a free three month trial for Prime that just ended a few months ago and I loved it. So happy to have it again!

Also, if you guys sign up for Swag bucks from my link in the tool bar on the right, you can easily earn 5 dollar Amazon cards just for searching the web like you do with Google. I've already earned quite a few just since February. It's great and free! Check it out.

That's all!

Love love loves!

America's Birthday

2010-07-06T15:46:00.003-06:00

This weekend was fantastic! I love the Fourth of July. So many fun things going on! Luckily we made it to ALMOST everything that we wanted to go to.

Friday we went fishing at the fish farm with some of Aaron's family. It was lots of fun. I am cursed when it comes to catching fish. I don't believe I will ever be able to catch one. I don't know what it is. I think it's a big sign that you can't catch fish when you don't even catch one at the fish farm. I guess it took everyone else a while to catch theirs as well. Each of them caught one fish. They were big fish too! I did however get two bites. I've never even gotten that far before. Both of those fish got away though. It was still a lot of fun. We didn't want to leave, but we had to make it to the fireworks!

We went to see the fireworks with Becca and Lewis. Did I mention that I LOVE fireworks? Cause I totally do! The fireworks out here are always the best! They last for a long time and the finale was amazing! I've never heard so many fireworks go off at the same time in my life. We had a pretty good spot to watch them too. I only wish it had been a little warmer. Brr...

Saturday was the cruise in. Normally, I spend the Fourth of July weekend up at Bear Lake with my family. Last year, the Fourth was the first time my family went to Bear Lake for the season. It was hard to think about going alone, but I wanted to go. And by alone, I mean without Aaron. I needed his help dealing with it then. He wasn't too happy to have to miss the cruise in, cause he loves it. I promised him we would go this year. So as much as I wanted to go to Bear Lake again this year, I sucked it up and went to the cruise in with my husby.

For those of you who don't know, the cruise in is a showcase of really nice classic and custom cars. The last day of it they do a parade which is just driving up and down the street for everyone to watch. We didn't end up going to the walk around part. We decided it wasn't worth paying that much for it. But, the parade was so fun! As usual, we sat by our second family, the Anderson's. They are tons of fun. So entertaining! We love them.

The last time we ended up going to the cruise in was 2008. That was the day that Aaron told me he loves me, well actually he made me tell him that I love him first, but that's a different story. It was great to go to the parade again and remember that wonderful day. :)

Sunday, after church we went up the Bear Lake for the day. Yay! We hung out on the beach with my family and buried my nephew in the sand. Fun! Also on Sunday Carter took his first steps! We weren't there to see it happen the first time but we saw it happen several times after. So precious! We had to entice him across the room with food. He definitely has a lot of the Isakson gluttony in him. :)

Sunday night we lit off the illegal Fireworks my brothers bought on the way and some we've had laying around for awhile. The cops up there don't care about fireworks since it's so wet. We had so much fun with it...even though we almost blew ourselves up....twice. The first time Darin lit a firework before putting it in the launching tube. It was one just like the professional ones. Well, he couldn't get it in the tube in time. He dropped it on the ground and tried to put it out with his foot. Well we thought it was out for a second...until it exploded once. It wasn't too bad so we started walking away and a second later it exploded again, this time it was LOUD! Holy cow! The sparks flew all around us. Scared the living day lights out of me! The second time, for some reason the firework only got a few feet off the ground when it exploded. I just remember being surrounded in red sparks. I was understandably a little nervous lighting the rest of the fireworks. It's a good laugh now, but could have ended a lot worse than it did.

Monday, We both had work off, yay! We got to be in a parade for Aaron's work. We did it last year too. It's a lot of fun. The kids get sooooo excited just for some candy. They are so dang cute. The best part is, Aaron got paid for this. Three hours of work that was just fun time. I hope we get to do this again next year!

As you can tell, we had a great time! I love the summer time. So many fun things to do. Just don't want it to end. Ever! :)

This post is too long.

That's all

Loves!

More fireworks please!

June

2010-06-30T10:38:00.004-06:00

I haven't had much to blog about this month. Life has been very busy, but only with boring things. I can't believe It is already the last day of June! The summer needs to stop going by so fast. Here are a few of the things that happened this month:

June 4th was the birthday of the cutest little boy ever! My Nephew Carter turned one. It was super fun to watch him open his presents and attack his cake. He is the most precious thing. So funny, and always makes the perfect faces for pictures. Love him!!! Here are some pictures of that fun:

June 5th was one year since Aaron proposed to me. We didn't do anything to celebrate really, but it was a very happy day. Fun to look back at the last year and how things have changed and gotten so much better. I can't believe it, but I love him even more than when I said yes.

Father's Day was relaxing. Saturday we went to Bear Lake and celebrated with my family. We had a very nice steak dinner, as usual. Sunday we hung out with Aaron's family. We all just relaxed and had a good time. I got Aaron a shirt as a father's day present. No, I'm not announcing anything. I just wanted to get him something since he will be a daddy to our kids one day.... one far away day. Mostly, he just needs some more shirts.

We went to my Nephew Max's last baseball game. He's a freaking superstar! He hit a home run that almost hit the cars in the parking lot. He can smack that ball so far. It's crazy that he's already 7 years old! It always surprises me when he's with kids his age how much taller than the rest of them he is. My family isn't known for our height, so he's going to tower over Carter when they are grown up. :)

We have gone fishing quite a bit this summer. Still no luck. Maybe one day I'll catch my first fish. Last Friday we went night fishing with some guys Aaron works with. We got there just before 10PM and stayed till some time after midnight. Only one guy caught something and it was just a baby catfish.

We have had a lot of fun this summer so far. I love it. I just want it to slow down so I can enjoy it for longer.

Trying to leave on a jet plane

2010-06-02T15:29:00.003-06:00

Our adventure, trying to get home from Virgina

So all of us had airplane issues at some point on the trip. My dad's plane got delayed 7 hours in Houston on the way to Norfolk, got to his hotel around 5am. Sucky! My brother Eric's plane got cancelled and couldn't get re booked till the next night so he had to miss the graduation.

Ours was quite the adventure.

We get on the plane to go from Norfolk to Atlanta, it had already been delayed a half hour and our layover was just under an hour. We were worried about missing our connecting flight, especially cause the Atlanta airport is huge! While sitting on the plane in Norfolk waiting to take off, the pilot says there is a ground stop in Atlanta because of bad weather, we couldn't even take off till it was lifted. half hour later the ground stop was lifted and we left for Atlanta. We missed our connecting flight by a good 20 minutes. to get re booked you just scan your ticket and a machine gives you your new ticket. We were now Scheduled to go to San Diego then to Salt Lake make it to SLC at 1 AM. We were only going to have about an hour layover again. Take a shuttle to our gate. Wait around, then hear that the flight to San Diego got delayed and we weren't going to make our connecting flight. Time to get re booked again. This time we talked to an actual person who said there was a "better" direct flight we could get on that would get us there at around 9 PM instead. Great! So we get on a shuttle again to go wait at that gate. After waiting for a couple hours, the flight got delayed an hour, immediately followed by being cancelled. Time to wait in line to be re booked again, we are now struggling to be patient. We get to the front and a guy comes to the side and asks the lady at the desk if he can go first. She says he has to ask us. We didn't want to let him go. I ask "are you trying to get re booked on the Salt Lake flight?" "Yes" "Well then I don't think so, we don't want to loose a spot" He proceeds to tell us how has a deadly disease in his jaw that is worse than flesh eating. He needed to get to the U of U hospital for an emergency surgery. He had been booked on that flight because he was told it was the most sure one not to be cancelled or delayed. He paid $1,200 for a first class ticket so he would be sure to have a seat. Bad luck. A closer look at him and we notice that is jaw is about twice the size it should have been and he had little tubes coming out of his neck. "Wow okay, by all means go ahead"

We all ended up on a flight that they had just made just for those of us who were having trouble getting to Utah. Another shuttle ride later, and we are at a very colorfully decorated gate. Strange. An hour of waiting, and our gate gets changed. Hop back on the shuttle and we are at a gate right next to our first one. What a day. We boarded that flight an hour after the scheduled time. Glad to just finally be on a plane. Once we are all settled in our seats, the pilot comes on the speakers and says we are just waiting for the catering to show up and then we can leave. Heaven forbid we leave with out our peanuts! I was just planning on sleeping the whole way home, not snacking. It took and hour and a half for the snacks to get there. Finally we take off. It was actually really pretty with all the lights outside. We slept on and off most of the way. We make it to Salt Lake City at 2:30 AM, home 4:30. We had to be back in Logan at 7 AM for a food co-op. We only got two hours of sleep, picked up our produce, went back home and slept till 1 PM. Longest day ever. I've never been so happy to get to lay down in my own bed. I never want to see the Atlanta airport again. That's for sure. 12 hours of waiting there were more than enough. Oi

That's all.

Loves!

Finally VIRGINIA/DC huzzah!

2010-05-24T10:16:00.028-06:00

Dr. Kevin---Mermaids are a symbol of Norfolk and are all over

The beach after the graduation and dinner on the pier

Petting sting rays at the aquarium---Corn hole! Great local game!

Battleship. Sign pointing wrong way----Trapped in Williamsburg

Fishing in the Ocean------------------Aaron caught a freakin Shark!

Teddy--------------------------------Utah baby!! The WWII memorial

Lincoln and Lincoln------------------------------Hello Abe!

The white house----------------------------Snipers on the roof!

Reflection-----------We are the dot at the bottom. It's sooo tall

Nats VS. Mets!---------------Buzz Aldrin's uniform at a Smithsonian

Well, that pretty much sums up our vacation. I Finally figured why it wouldn't let me edit or organize the pictures so I could get this blog posted already. So, a little late, but here you go.

We had a lot of fun! It was so great to see my brother graduate! Such an accomplishment. He's such a smarty. I wish I had some of that in me.

While in Virginia we went to Williamsburg, the beach, fishing, an awesome old dinner and movie theater, and the aquarium. Fishing was my favorite! I didn't catch any thing, but it was cool to see what everyone else caught. Aaron caught a shark, a guy next to us caught a sting ray, my dad caught a pig fish that snorts. We forgot sunscreen, so we all got burned, but I got fried. I've never been burned so bad in my life. I don't know what it is with me and getting horribly burned with giant blisters lately, but I seem to be really, very good at it. I'm still peeling and pink some places. I'm so glad it doesn't hurt or itch any more though.

The aquarium was awesome too. We got to pet horse shoe crabs, some other kind of crab, starfish, and friggin sting rays! I love petting the sting ray's cause they are killer animals!They killed one of the greatest outdoors guys ever, and we can just stick our hands in the tank and pet them? Crazy!

In DC we did the typical touristy stuff. Took the Metro into town, saw the monuments, a few of the Smithsonian's, went to a National's game (they won!), and the National Archives, which was so cool to see! At the Nats game, apparently something historic happened involving a triple play and a home run by the same person... or something like that... I don't know. I'm not a huge baseball fan. It's hasn't happened since like 1950 something though. But it's really cool that I was there to sort of witness that :) I loved the game though. It was great! DC is always so much fun!

Great vacation! Time to start planning the next one! :)

The end!

Loves!

GO NATS!

Cinco de Mayo! Ole!

2010-05-05T16:45:00.003-06:00

Today is the fifth of May.

Honestly,

I don't know why it's celebrated.

But it is. So I decided to join in on the celebrating this year. So HERE is how I chose to celebrate:

That's attractive.

It's a chicken nacho cheese chalupa from Taco Bell, which is almost Mexican food. It also happens to be my second favorite fast food joint. Mmmmm I also had some cinnamon twists which I love cause they are cheap, tasty, and almost no calories. Three of my favorite adjectives. Okay, so only two of those are adjectives, but you get what I mean.

The festivities of the day will continue later on tonight when we go to El Sol for dinner. El Sol is Aaron's Favorite Mexican eatery. Will be a good night.

This last part is only for the girls. LOOK AWAY BOYS! LOOK AWAY.

Okay so here's a good deal for you. If you girls go to Walmart, be sure to check out the feminine products isle. If you buy specially marked Always ultra thin pads or Tampax pearl tampons (which are probably the best tampons on the market, I must say) you get a free movie ticket with purchase. If you get the paper, in the Sunday paper there was a coupon for both in the P&G add. So get something you already need, at a discounted price, with a side of free movie tickets. Why not? It doesn't expire till November. So something I learned the hard way with this, don't go online to redeem the ticket till you are ready to use it. Once redeemed you must use it within 30 days.

Well, that's all for now.

Loves.

End.

Blog spam

2010-05-03T09:18:00.003-06:00

I sure do wish I would stop getting spam comments from some random Asian people all the time! It's quite annoying. Any one else get these? If you see them in my comments, don't click on their links.

P.S. Happy May! Summer is soooo close! Then it will finally be Bear Lake season! I'm soo excited! :)

That's all!
I love most of you! ;)

Just thought you should know...

2010-04-28T16:21:00.005-06:00

Most days....

We are nerds. But that's okay, because we love nerds.

This is the aftermath of Fundip. Remember that? We sure do!

Maybe we should grow up... but probably not. Life would be soo boring as a mature person.

That is all.

Spaghetti pie

2010-04-25T14:32:00.003-06:00

Oh hello there!

Remember that time I burned my hand? Yeah, that time. I know I keep bring it up. But this will probably be the last time... hopefully.

Any way... when I burned my hand I was making Spaghetti Pie, a recipe my mom would make and we all loved.

So I made Spaghetti pie for the first time since the burn this last week. I was proud that I made it without burning myself this time. I'm pretty sure Aaron was surprised I got through it too. Of course I had to document such a feat.

Also I don't know if ya'll have heard of Spaghetti Pie before so I thought I should educate you in what it is. It's basically just what it sounds like. Pictures describe it better than I could though so here ya go:

Before cooking

After! Yumm-o. It has eggs and Parmesan cheese

in the noodle "crust" to hold it together. Sooo tasty.

Playing a little game of catch up.

2010-04-22T09:40:00.003-06:00

I guess I should finally put the pictures from Easter on here. First I'll tell you what we did. Saturday we were going to dye eggs together but after conference, shopping, eating out with Aaron's family, and making frog eye salad to take for dinner the next day, we ran out of time. So the plan was to do it Sunday. Sunday morning turned out to be a lot busier than planned. After making breakfast, finishing the frog eye salad, and the morning session of conference, it was time to get on the road. We decided to go to my dad's house for Easter since my family still makes a pretty big deal out of Easter. It was a fun time. We ate dinner, then had an Easter egg hunt. I am the youngest of my three brothers, then there are my step siblings, which there are five of. There are two that are younger than me, one by just a few months, and one that is 18. So we are all adults, Maybe a little to old for Easter egg hunts.... but we all had a good time. All of us, even my cute little grandma Lucy were running around the house like children getting our eggs. There were really only two kids in on the hunt, and only one of them was old enough to walk or really even care about it. So it was a house full of adults enjoying being kids again. We got 5 eggs of candy and 1 with different amounts of money in it from 2 to 5 dollars. Aaron won big with a fiver and I lost with only two. It was a good time. I really loved seeing my nephews. Carter is going up so fast and is adorable. Too bad he still cries every time I hold him. Max is way too old and needs to stop growing up. He's a little smarty pants.

We were having a good time and didn't end up getting home till it was too late to dye the eggs. So we didn't get our eggs dyed till the day after Easter. haha but it was still fun! I am still a kid at heart, so I love doing things like that. Aaron calls me "youthful" which is a nice way of telling me I'm immature. :)

Here are pictures of our egg dying:

Umm how cute is he? Aw! And look, No beard!

These are our eggs. Aaron got creative and drew all over his.

They look pretty nifty too. Mine are the plain boring ones :)

That is all.

Loves!

One month

2010-04-14T21:09:00.002-06:00

One month from today we will be on an air plane headed to Virginia! My brother is graduating from medical school there. We will also drive up to DC and see all the sights there. We'll be there for one week. The last time I went to Virginia was for my senior trip. It was a ton of fun! That is the only other time I've been on an air plane. I'm so excited! Real vacations are a pretty big deal for me since my family didn't really have any. This is sure to be a great trip! My brother and sister-in-law are very entertaining, and it'll be the first real trip with my lovely husband. I don't get to see my brother very often since he lives so far away. He'll be doing his residency in Alaska, so not really much closer, but a great vacation spot none the less :) We only get to see them about 2 times a year normally. I got to see them quite a bit last year since we all decided to get married with in 4 months of each other. What a crazy year!
Well, I just wanted to tell ya'll how excited I am.
That's all.
Loves!

Can I brag for a minute?

2010-04-09T18:10:00.001-06:00

Sooooo I just got home from a shopping trip a good old K-mart. (Fifth one this week, yes I have gone shopping with double coupons everyday this week.) Let me just tell you, I am very proud of myself for this one. Here is what I bought:

Dove Ultimate deodorant

Air Wick Aqua Mist air freshener

Hunt's Snack Pack 4 pack

Wheat Thins

Pepperidge Farm soft chocolate chip cookies

and a box of Kashi granola bars

for just 25 CENTS! And I won a free Axe Shower Gel with their rewards card.

Umm yeah.... How cool am I? haha

Don't be jealous, just make your way over to K-mart and get your own awesome double deals. It ends tomorrow though, so don't wait!

Just has to brag real fast. Thanks for letting me! :)

That's all.

Loves!

Double Coupons? Yes please!

2010-04-06T10:35:00.003-06:00

Hi!

Here's another good deal for ya'll to partake in.

As if coupons weren't the best thing ever invented by themselves, this week is double coupon week at K-mart!!!

Meaning, you take in your regular old coupon and the price of it gets doubled $1 off = $2 yada yada. They will do this for any MANUFACTURER coupon up to and including $2 in value. So $4 off one item max. However you can only use it for five things a day. Also, it can't be the same thing twice in a day. You do have to sign up for there savings card to get it to work, but that's free and only takes 2 minutes. If you already have the savings card, then you just have to take it with you. This will not work for K-mart's coupons they send out. Only Manufactured ones.

Want a huge amount of coupons so you have some to take to K-mart everyday this week? Use these websites for free printable manufacturer coupons:

Coupons.com

Smartsource.com

Redplum.com

with some of these coupons you can use them to get things for free when doubled. Have I mentioned I love free? :)

Here is a website to go to to get a $2 women's dove deodorant that if you take in to K-mart this will make it FREE! :)

http://bricks.coupons.com/Start.asp?bt=vi&tqnm=qe1hbff838908&o=56460&c=DV&p=p1fhUijM

How cool is that?

This goes till Saturday!

Now, go to K-mart and save a bundle!

Have fun!

Love love love love love!

That's all.

I love FREEEEEE!

2010-03-28T15:26:00.003-06:00

So if you know me well, you know that I will do juuuust about ANYTHING to get something for free or for a super duper good deal. And, with the help of a few AWESOME websites, I'm pretty good at it. For example, I own a wallet. Unusual? No. However, this wallet RARELY carries cash it in. I just use my debit card to buy things. What this wallet does carry is coupons. Oh how I LOVE coupons. At times, I have so many I cannot easily close my wallet. Last Saturday I used probably 50 just that day. Yes, I am one of those annoying people at the grocery store who busts out a whopping pile of coupons and holds up the line just to save a few bucks. Actually it probably saved us about 35 dollars that day. Chang chang!
So I have decided that instead of finding these awesome deals and keeping them to myself, I will share them on here and let you guys live it up too. How nice am I? haha :)
So here is today's SWEET deal:

If you text your 16-digit Subway card number to 35562 you will get 50 bonus points added to your card next time you go there, which is the amount of points needed for a free 6-inch sub. How cool is that? If you don't have a Subway card, they are free at any Subway store, you just have to ask. So go eat fresh for free!

That's all.
Loves!

SPRING TIME!!!

2010-03-20T14:45:00.003-06:00

So many days to get excited about this month!
But today is one of the most exciting, after our six month anniversary of course.
It's the first day of Spring! I love it! It's so nice and sunny outside today. Mmmmm and tomorrow it's supposed to be 60 DEGREES!!! Oh hurray! Bring on the warm weather, flip flops, and shorts! So happy for it. There are even little flowers starting to bloom in the yard, AND the grass is starting to turn green. It's usually still snowing here at this time of year. It snowy and cold till the end of May normally. I'm happy it's not and hopefully I don't jinx it!
I am so excited for Bear Lake season to come around again. We didn't get to go much last year cause it was still kind of hard and depressing to be there but I think this year will be much better and I can't wait. Bear Lake has always been my second home and I love it so much. I hope we have lots of beach to play on. I have a feeling we will!
I just want to get outside and camp and hike and play already!
It's going to be a great summer, I just know it! :)

Happy Spring!!!
Get out and enjoy it!

That's all!
Love love loves!

It's not easy being green

2010-03-17T11:41:00.002-06:00

Actually, I find it quite easy. Green is a great color. I forgot it was St. Patricks Day till after I got to work. Luckily, my glasses are black and green. :)

Happy St. Patrick's Day!
May the luck of the Irish be with you all!

That's all.
Loves!

Happy Pi Day!

2010-03-14T23:09:00.003-06:00

3.14159..... That's as far as I can get with that.
I always end up eating pie on pi day without thinking about it.
We had leftover pizza pie for breakfast this morning.
I don't know why my husband thinks that's a good breakfast, but whatcha gonna do? Eat some too? yes please!
Surprisingly, it is an official holiday.
So, happy Pi Day. Hope you had delicious pie! Yum yum!

That's all
Loves!

Six months later

2010-03-05T17:23:00.002-07:00

We have been married for six months today. Now, I'm not normally one to celebrate fake half anniversaries or birthdays and other such nonsense, but I'm using this as an excuse to get out and go play. We are going to go to the hot springs and relax and have a good time tomorrow. Yep.
So, six months later, and I still love Aaron very much. More actually. Not that that will ever stop. I'm so grateful to have him in my life. We are so blessed. Getting married to him was the best thing to ever happen to me. I'm pretty much the luckiest person alive. My husband is unquestionably the best around. You may beg to differ, but you would be very wrong. hehe ;)
Well, that's all I have to say right now.

I loved him then, I love him now, and I will love him forever! :D

Tim Tam Slams!

2010-02-25T11:21:00.005-07:00

I had my first experience with Tim Tam Slams last week. Thanks to Sarah and Brian, Aaron's sister and Brother-in-law, who found Tim Tams at Wal-mart and gave us some for Valentines days. Tim Tams are rectangular chocolate covered cookies. For a Tim Tam Slam you mix up some hot Milo, which is kind of like hot chocolate, then bite off two opposite ends of a Tim Tam cookie stick one open corner in the Milo and suck through the other open corner like a straw. Once you get some Milo in your mouth, you shove the whole cookie in too. It's all melted and soft. All I have to say is YUM!!! Aaron's Brother Ben discovered these while on his mission in Australia.

Thanks Sarah for the greatest Valentines day treat! You're the best! :)

Pictures!

Messy yummy treat!

That's all
Loves!

First Married V-day

2010-02-19T14:32:00.003-07:00

So, Valentines Day was just splendid. We celebrated on Saturday the 13th. We went to see Valentines Day the movie. It didn't get very good reviews, but I wanted to see it any way. I wasn't expecting much from it. Turns out, it's a really cute movie. I liked it a lot. It kinda dragged on a little, but was still great. There are a lot of stories to follow, but they all connect in some way. My favorite was Julia Roberts story, which isn't a major part of the movie, but it was sooo cute and unexpected. It made me tear up a little bit.
Any way, after the movie we ate at Texas road house. We went at three so it wouldn't be busy. They had this deal going on for Valentines day that I thought was pretty funny. It was a two for fourty deal. haha Chili's is right down from the street from them with their two for twenty deal (but only if you go at the right time, which we suck at) But yeah, it was very yummy. Tons of food.
After eating we went to play at Magical Moon Toys. If you live in Cache Valley and haven't gone there before, you are missing out. You can entertain yourself four hours! It's for kids, but I'm immature enough to have a great time there. haha But it's free and they have tons of toys out that you can just play with. However, if you have kids, leave them home. No way you're getting out of there with out spending money. Lots of it. I love that store. :)
Sunday after church, we just relaxed. I made yummy Spinach mozzarella meat loaf for dinner. We watched The Notebook, and The Amazing Race and had a very nice relaxing day.
Aaron got me two dozen long stemmed red roses and a nifty Jewelry holder. I got him some new socks. If you know him, you know he loves new socks, but they have to be squishy! haha So I didn't want to just be lame and just hand them to him. So I rolled them up like roses and made a bouquet out of them. It was very fun. I also got him some goodies to eat. Although I think I ate more of it than him :)
It was the perfect weekend. I loved it so much. My husband is amazing and I'm so incredibly lucky.

Look! Pictures:

Aaron's socks

My gorgeous roses! Love them!

That's all!
Loves!

Solution

2010-01-26T14:17:00.004-07:00

So, when I burned myself, I just felt like an idiot, but Aaron felt very bad for me. He didn't want it to happen again. He is always warning me now "careful, the stove is hot" or "that's hot, don't burn yourself". Silly husby cares too much. So he says I'm not allowed to burn myself again. To make sure I don't, here was his solution:

All metal utensils. This was part of my Christmas presents. How cute is he? So now I can't melt a plastic cooking utensil. I'll just have to heat the metal up and then grab it. haha
So pretty much, I have the best husband. He is very thoughtful. Hopefully theses will prevent me from posting about another burn. :) However, I almost did face plant it right into the fry vat at work last week, there's always a way. haha time for a new job! :)

The end.
Loves!

The burn. Ewwww!

2010-01-19T14:29:00.007-07:00

The culprit. Notice how the end is melted. Evil pasta spoon! :)

A few days after. Those blisters were pretty massive.

How the doctor had us wrap it

It was really quite the ordeal to get this wrapped.
thanks to my wonderful husband for helping me wrap it
over and over. He did a great job!

Healing. A few weeks after.

Turns out my thumb, even though it was smaller, was worse than my hand.
It took much longer to heal and hurt for a lot longer.

Now, My hands look almost normal. Just slightly red. I don't think it's even going to scar much thanks to the amazing burn cream the doctor gave us. Also, I don't have to wrap it any more, thank goodness.

Goodbye to the best pet ever.

2010-01-12T13:06:00.006-07:00

So I've been trying to do mostly happy posts lately, but today will not be one of those.
My puppy Sissy died last night. She’s had a bad hacking cough for the past few days. My dad was going to take her to the vet today. I know it's just a dog, so it's not like I've been bawling about it all day or anything, but I have been thinking about her and been a little somber. I have SO many memories of her, here a just a few of them, followed by some pictures from my phone. (She is also in one of the pictures in the post before)
She's been my baby for 8 1/2 years. We bought her when she was 7 weeks old for my mom on her birthday. My mom was her favorite person out of everyone. She was pure bread Shitzu. The cutest, most fun, silliest, smartest, most stubborn, sneaky dog ever. She was the best little snuggle doggy ever. She slept on my feet every night from when I was 12 till I moved out at 18. I still wake up and think she is on my feet some mornings. She was my running partner and a great comforter when you needed her. Which she always somehow knew when you did. She loved meeting new people, and going for rides in the car, but always had to sit on your lap, even if you were trying to drive. She knew so many tricks that my mom spent tons of time teaching her. We ran out of ideas of what to teacher her next because she already knew it all. She would do anything for some Goldfish or Cheetos. The only food she didn't like was lettuce, oranges, and celery. She always begged for whatever food you had. She had a very tough tummy, having got into the trash can and eaten raw meat, chocolate, and food we threw out for a reason, but never getting sick from it. She had so much energy and loved wrestling with hands, feet, and blankets. She was my favorite of all my families’ pets we've had, which is saying a lot since we've always had at least one dog, and usually another animal or two.

I guess that ended up being more things about her than memories but that's what I've been thinking about. It wasn't going to be this long of a post but oh well. You're probably just thinking "this girl is nuts, going on and on about some dead dog" I'm sure most of you won't even read most of this post. I wouldn't blame you either. This dog meant nothing to you. But she sure was something special to me.

There you have it.

I loved her very much and will always remember her as my favorite puppy ever.

My nephew and Sissy at our cabin at Bear Lake

Grandma Lucy

2010-01-04T10:45:00.004-07:00

Over the weekend my grandma had a stroke. She is okay now, starting to walk and talk again. She'll most likely be fine. It's the second bigger stroke she has had. The first one was a lot worse than this one but was on the other side of her brain.

She is the only grandparent I have that is still alive. I love her so much. I look up to, and admire her more than anyone. She is my hero.

This is my dad's mom. My dad is the youngest of four boys in his family. When my dad was 11 (I'm not sure how old my grandma was) my grandpa died while sucba diving at their cabin at Bear Lake. My grandma got through that and raise all four boys on her own. She is such a wonderfully strong lady. So stubborn and independent, just like my mom was, and just like me. I have always loved how classy she is.
My grandma loves Aaron so much, it makes me very happy. She is so cute with him. I took a really cute picture of them together over the summer I want to find and post. For now, these two pictures will have to do.

All the Isakson girls two years ago. There is one more Isakson girl now, Jessica, Kevin's wife!

We love her

For Sarah!

2009-12-31T10:46:00.014-07:00

Aaron's sister Sarah didn't get to see our house all decorated for Christmas so she requested pictures. This post is for her :)

I found this Charlie Brown and Linus fun little decoration at Shopko and just had to have it. It says the true meaning of Christmas from A Charlie Brown Christmas the show. So cute!

You can't really tell but this is a precious Moments ornament that says our first Christmas 2009. It's still in the package because, if you know me, you know I only buy things if they are on sell. So we didn't buy it till yesterday. So it wasn't actually on our tree for our first Christmas, but it has the date. That's all that matters. haha

This is my little three foot tree I bought a couple years ago. Aaron doesn't like it. I think we will have a different one next year. I love it because of the miniature ornaments, tiny tree skirt, and the little star I bought for it. It's also fast and easy to decorate and undecorate.

That is all!
Loves.

2009-12-24T17:10:00.002-07:00

Merry Christmas!!!

(eve)

Gingerbread house and blisters. Must be Christmas time.

2009-12-21T18:32:00.007-07:00

So our internet stopped working this last week, right after we finally got it. It was fixed today so I can update you on our eventful week. On Tuesday we made a gingerbread house from a kit. It came with Wonka candies to decorate with, how fun is that? :) It turned our really cute, I'm a little proud of it, I must say. haha. Here are some pictures!

Next, on Friday I was trying to make spaghetti pie for dinner, I placed the noodle straining spoon too close to the burner on accident, picked it up to use it, the plastic had melted and got stuck on my hand. I guess since it was hot and hurt I grabbed it with my other hand to stop the hurting and burned my other hand as well. Second degree burns on BOTH hands. Wow am I talented or what? The pain was pretty sever. Second degree burns are the most painful kind you can get, because if you get third degree it goes to your nerves so you just don't feel anything. I have six blisters between both hands. So, after getting opinions from my medical school brother and my dad's wife who is a nurse, we thought it best to go to the insta care to get it looked at. I was afraid I would get an infection from all the money I have to touch at work since burns have a higher chance of getting infected. The doctor gave me some prescription cream for it and told me I need to come back to have the blisters cut off after they pop. Ew and ouch. The pictures of it will be posted later. :)
For now, enjoy some random pictures of the center pieces made for my dad's wedding, which ended up being the only decorations there.

All at once!

2009-12-16T10:53:00.007-07:00

Finally a day off! So here's what's been going on in our life's.
My birthday was on the 25th of November. It was so much fun! My brothers pitched in and got Aaron and I some Trans-Siberian Orchestra concert tickets. It was unexpected (by me and my brothers haha boys are so last minute) I was sooo happy when they called and told me. I hadn't been able to make it to the concert the two years before and I missed seeing them. They are amazing. The concert is pretty similar every year, but it's always so good! They have an awesome light and laser show going on the whole time. I love watching the violin player rock out, makes me miss orchestra. My present from Aaron was a Kitchenaid! I'm so excited for it! I haven't gotten to use it yet cause we've been trying to find a colored one, which is quite the task. If I don't find one today I'm just going to use the white one and finally start making holiday goodies! White is, after all, my favorite color. I just wanted one that wasn't like everyone else's and also ever kitchen appliance is white so it would be nice to have a little change but it's not a big deal. gets the job done either way.
The next day, the 26th of November was Thanksgiving. We spent it with Aaron's Family this year and will be spending Christmas with my family. I wish our families lived closer together so we could do both, but what can you do. My dad just got married and moved even farther away. haha
The 27th was, of course, black Friday! I love all the deals and stuff! I'm a big bargain shopper so this is a perfect day for me. It's so different in Logan though. I've only done it in Ogden and Park City with my sister-in-law before and it was always NUTS! This year was pretty chill. I had a great time and got lots of great stuff! What a good morning. After shopping we finally got to move into our house and we helped move Aaron's brother and sister-in-law into the parents basement. I'm not really sure why both things had to happen that day all at once instead of over the next two days but that's what we did. I'm happy to be moved. Thanks to EVERYONE who did help us move! We really do appreciate your help. We didn't even have to ask. Thanks. :)
So this was obviously a very busy and mostly enjoyable week.
Since then we have been working a ton, getting unpacked, finally getting to use our wonderful wedding presents, Christmas shopping, Going to Christmas parties, being busy, and enjoying life!

Loves!

PS Thanks to EVERYONE who has helped at all with getting our house ready to live in! Thank you thank you thank you! :)

We're Baaaack!

2009-12-09T21:59:00.002-07:00

We have internet again! Hurray! Love it. I can't believe I went two weeks with out it. I'm so addicted, and I'll admit it, and I'm fine with it :)
Yup.
I'll update when I have time.
Cause I'm sure ya'll are DYING to know what is going on in our lives. Ha

Loves!

PS Merry Christmas! I love it!

Sniffle, cough, sniffle

2009-11-19T08:04:00.002-07:00

We have both been sick all week. It is not fun. Aaron got sick first, and like the good giving husband he is, decided to share it with me. That's what's new.
Also, I have been making the center pieces for my Dad's wedding. He gets married on Friday. Third wedding in our family in four months. Crazy! The center peices are turning out surprisingly well. It's supposed to looking autumn like. I'll have to post pictures later. I'm pretty proud. :)

That's all the updates for now.
Loves!

Brand newish 2002 Honda CR-V

2009-11-03T18:45:00.003-07:00

Today we finally bought a new vehicle. We have needed this for awhile because all we have had to use is my Toyota and Aaron's motorcycle. With the cold weather Aaron's motorcycle is no longer a good vehicle to use. My car is an ice box and frosts on the inside and out when it gets cold and the rear defrosters don't work, so we were really in need of a reliable car for the winter time. We have been talking about getting a new a new source of transportation for about six months now, so I got tired of just looking and gave Aaron a deadline to get a car. That was this Saturday for when we go to a Jazz game. I didn't work today so Aaron got the day off too so we could look. I honestly had my doubts that we would really buy something. We found a silver 2001 CR-V at the first dealership we went to and I loved it. It was in perfect condition and drove great. We went to the next dealer and there was a gold CR-V that was a year newer and had less miles but was a thousand dollars more and had some smaller scratches on the outside and bigger ones on the the inside. It had a lot more power though and a sun roof. We were torn as to which one to get. Finally we decided on the newer 2002, the differences on the inside were pretty big and better looking. I am very happy with our decision. My first car in the twenty first century!!! Now that the all too long story is finished, here are the pictures! :)

Goldie Locks? Goldie Hawn? Still working on a name :)

My sexy husby in front of our sexy car!
Trying to be like one of Bob's Beauties!

The last of the Halloween fun

2009-11-02T08:30:00.005-07:00

Halloween has come and gone. Our last couple days of fun included carving pumpkins on Friday and eating delicious pumpkin pamcakes on Saturday. I love how everything is pumpkin flavored at this time of year. Mmmm so much to love about Halloween. Here are some pictures from the carved pumpkins. Can you guess who carved which one?

Stitches and cannibal

The guts from just one pumpkin. Messy!

Aaron Carved stitches, I carved the cannibal

Halloween Party!

2009-10-25T12:59:00.004-06:00

On Friday, we went to a Halloween party for Aaron's work. It was pretty fun. There was a hypnotist which is always silly. Only four people got hypnotized though so that was kinda lame but it was a good time laughing at them. :) There was also a pumpkin carving contest with some pretty cool pumpkins. An I Love Lucy pumpkin won. The dinner was a yummy potluck. We had to bring a salad of some sort so I made a fruit salad that was pretty tasty, we didn't bring a serving utensil and there were too many other dishes so we were pretty much the only ones to have some. but I enjoyed it :)
Here are the pictures, Enjoy!

We went as Adam Sandler and the penguin from Billy Madison :P

Such a lady!

Monkey Bodey and Popeye

Bryce and Tia

Boo who?

2009-10-23T09:35:00.010-06:00

So, I LOVE Halloween! It's my favorite holiday. I didn't get to decorate this year, which is probably one of my favorite parts, so that was a big bummer, but we are still doing the fun Halloween traditional activities. On Wednesday Aaron and I were both off work early, which when not planned rarely happens, so we had to do something fun. We narrowed it down to corn maze, or haunted mini golf. We chose the golf, cause that was one of our first dates two years ago, the first one we took pictures on, but we didn't go last year so it sounded like fun! We invited our friends Geo and Megan to come with. It was a good time. The weather was good, not too cold, and we got free hot chocolate. Woo hoo! So, here are some pictures. Enjoy! :)

Chillin' with the aliens

Geo and Megan come in peace

This is apparently the face I make in every picture

Geo is about to get pummeled by pumpkin man

Aaron trying to look like Franky

Imitating the witch... scary

Two years ago at the same place!

2007

No money, no time

2009-09-28T18:27:00.003-06:00

Fixed. Guess I'm not allowed to say that. So here, all better.

I wish I had a good job with normal predicable hours and good pay instead of the sucky job I have. That's why you go to school right? But oh wait, since you have to have the sucky job to afford school and the hours aren't predictable, how are you supposed to be able to fit school in there too? And after all the school hours still be able to work lots so you can have a decent check with your poor hourly pay and then have time for homework and fun? Doesn't seem likely. How is that supposed to happen? And who wants to wait four more years at best to have a decent job? And there are not guarantees that after all your thousands of dollars are spent for an education that you will have a job right there waiting for you.
That is my rant for the day.
Don't worry though; I still love life very much! Of course! :)

And don't get me wrong, I am very grateful to have a job at all. Thank goodness for that!

Also, of course this is only about my job and no one else, cause I'm the only one with this problem that I know right? yeah... :P

The end

Loves!

Miss you!

2009-09-22T15:59:00.002-06:00

Today is the first day I will have to go with out seeing Aaron since we got married. First day since a month before we got married actually. Oh goodness what will I do with myself?
He had to go to an overnight job in west valley for work. It'll be good for us.... I suppose.... haha

Miss you husband!

Chop chop!

2009-09-17T19:41:00.000-06:00

I have chopped ten inches off my hair to donate to locks of love again. It's shorter than I asked for, and I kinda don't like it too much yet. I just need to get used to it. It'll grow out any way. I do like having short hair better than long hair. Long hair is frustrating and time consuming. Now I won't have my long hairs to keep me cozy and warm for the winter. Oh well :)

That's all

Loves!

Together forever

2009-09-14T20:43:00.000-06:00

We are married!
Finally!

Life
is
gooooood!

:)

The wedding was good. However, I'm very glad it's over with.
To those of you who are engaged: It will come and go sooo fast it's unbelievable. It feels like a life time away like it'll never come and it's frustrating. Before you even know what happened it's there and then gone. Poof! All done. Also, just chill and have fun. :) Remember the big picture.

That's all for now folks.

Day before

2009-09-04T08:51:00.000-06:00

Today is the day before what is sure to be one of the happiest days.

Tomorrow is wedding day!

Yay! I finally get to marry Aaron after nearly two years. :)

I can't wait.

25 hours.

Can't believe the day actually is here.

It felt like it would never come.

Hurray!

See you in a week! :)

Our announcement

2009-08-31T10:15:00.000-06:00

Look at our announcement! yay! 5 days! :)

http://hjnews.townnews.com/articles/2009/08/31/milestones/weddings/wed05-08-30-09.txt

Our wedding web page at Honeyfund.com

2009-08-28T10:42:00.000-06:00

Dear friends,

Our big day is approaching fast and we're getting excited to share it with you!

To make it easy for you to learn all about our wedding, we've created a web page at Honeyfund.com. You can find it by visiting www.honeyfund.com and searching for us by name. While there you can donate money to help us have a fantastic honeymoon!

Many thanks--we can't wait to celebrate with you!

Loves!

2009-07-21T13:16:00.000-06:00

I love my Book of Mormon! Yay! :)

Pictures, pictures, and MORE pictures!

2009-07-08T16:15:00.000-06:00

We got engagment pictures taken Monday up at my grandma's cabin at Bear Lake. It was a ton of fun. We're just so cute! haha. The sun was too bright and messed up a lot of the pictures but out photographer took 883 pictures so we still have a lot that are good too. My cheecks were very sore from cheesey smiles. Here are just a few of my favorite pictures.

Loves!

Poof poof zip zip

2009-06-23T20:11:00.000-06:00

Today I went wedding dress shopping. It was fun, and tiring. So many dresses being flung over my head. I discovered that breathing is unnecessary and just a wonderful luxury. Also, I had to become comfortable with people seeing me half naked very fast. haha. I probably tried on about 27 dresses (hehe). I ended up going back and getting the second one I tried on at the first store I went to. :) It's gorgeous and I'm very happy with it. Can't wait for everyone to see it!

Loves!

Pictures of Carter!

2009-06-19T16:03:00.000-06:00

This is my new nephew Carter. He is adorable. I love him. The end. :)

Story time!

2009-06-08T14:10:00.000-06:00

Well, here it is, the story.
I got off work at 8:30 on Friday and had no plan of seeing Aaron that night. I checked my cell phone and Aaron had called me and wanted to go get a snow cone. He rushed out to my apartment so fast I barely had time to change out of my work clothes. We went to our favorite little show shack and got our yummy cones. We got back in the car and Aaron just started driving. He said he didn't really have a plan of w here to go, so I suggested we go to this great park called Adams park. About a year and a half ago we went to that park and he broke up with me there. Anyway, we went and played on the playground and swung on the swings and had lots of fun. After awhile we sat down on a little wall by the wood chips. He started talking about how he almost made the biggest mistake of his life there and instead of having that be the memory of the park he wanted to make the greatest memory of all there. Then he got down on one knee and proposed in the wood chips. I thought he was kidding at first so I had to ask him if he was serious. I didn't believe him till he pulled out the ring. Hurray! So he had planned on taking me to that park before I mentioned it and I just help him surprised me. I knew it was coming but I didn't think it would be that night.

I couldn't be happier! :)

Future new member of the family

2009-06-06T15:44:00.000-06:00

As of 10:00 PM last night, I am engaged!!! :D
It's finally official. and about time too. haha
I don't have time to put up the whole story right now, but when I do have a moment to spare I will for sure post all the cheesy details. However, that spare moment may not come until after the marriage... haha
I'm soooo happy! Yay for 24/7 smiles! haha
:)

That is all.

Loves!

PS My ring is gorgeous! and he picked it out himself! I'm so proud of him. haha Go Aaron!

New member of the family!

2009-06-04T22:06:00.000-06:00

This morning at around 8:00 my lovely sister-in-law gave birth to a 8 pound 15 ounce baby boy! Carter David Isakson has blond hair blue eyes and, very noticeably, my brother Eric's nose. He is 20.5 inches long and chunky. His chubby, pinch worthy baby cheeks hang lower than his chin. Freaking adorable! He sleeps... well, like a baby. He was asleep almost the whole time I was there today. Even slept through all the getting passed around from person to person. I only saw him open his pretty blue eyes once.
Carter is Chaulyn and Eric's second son. Their frist, and my only other nephew, is Max. However, Max was adopted by Eric when he was 4 so I didn't get to see him as a little baby. Carter is the first baby in our family. Needless to say, I'm extatic about this new bundle of joy. I can't wait to hold him again and to introduce him to Aaron, who had to work so hasn't made his aquaintance as of yet.
I'm excited to watch cater grow from birth. I just hope he takes his time with the growing. I want to have him as a baby for as long as posible! :)

Say Cheese!

2009-04-27T15:34:00.000-06:00

Yesterday I got pictures taken with Aaron and his family. We went to a park by his house to get them taken. It's a really pretty park with a stream and bridges and, of course, a play ground. This is the good old kind of playground too! It has sand instead of those crappy wood chips I hate so much. Hardly any play grounds have that any more. Any way, here's one of the lovely pictures. They are not all done so there will be more to come with everyone. :)

This IS spring in utah

2009-03-31T23:37:00.000-06:00

Time for a little ranting.
I'm sick of hearing about everyone complaining about the snow. Okay, I'll admit it, I too have been just such a snow complainer, but not like others who do it publicly on facebook, over and over. I get it already. Chill. In the snow! haha haters
I love sunny warm days as much as the next beach bum wanna be, but I can and will wait till it is supposed to happen. Which in Utah isn't till Mayish. This is how it as ALWAYS been in Utah. It is what we do. Long cold winters. Short HOT summers. There are no happy mediums here. That's how it is, has been, and always will be.
Still having snowy days in April is a blessing. This means little chance of drought this summer. Yay! Bring on the LONG hot showers and green lawns!
Plus the snow is GORGEOUS when the sun breaks through the clouds and shins on the snow, making it look sparkly and marvelous!
Summer will come soon enough. And I'm sure that the same people who complain publicly about the snow will do the same for the heat. Never satisfied? Yeah, me too. :)

*LET IT SNOW!!!

Loves loves loves!

SMILE!

2009-03-24T20:40:00.000-06:00

Feeling down? Need a good smile? This video is just the trick.
I promise it will leaving you feeling great and smiling for hours
unless that's just me...
Anyway, I love it.
Give it a watch!
It's kinda long,
but totally worth it! :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cbk980jV7Ao

PS You are great! haha

Wait for the bell, can't hear the bell, where is the bell?

2009-02-26T20:30:00.001-07:00

This is going to be me starting Saturday. Except at McDonalds and with a lot more pizazz! Ha
I'm just grateful I have a job at all. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7s6fwA3w40

The optimist in me

2009-02-20T11:30:00.000-07:00

Today is one of those days where I just love everything. I'm very appreciative of my life and everything in it. So I'm going to ramble on my thoughts of happiness. Enjoy.
I have had quite the rough patch in the last six months or so, to say the least. I could go around pouting and complaining about how everything sucks and no one would blame me for this. It's probably even half expected of me at this point. But what good would that do? That wouldn't fix anything. What a waste of time.
I feel life is what you make of it. If you complain and mope around about how life sucks, then it will suck. But, if you take the hits and keep going with a smile on your face all the while, life will be good. Not necessarily easier, but good. Life isn't meant to be easy. There will be times in everyone's life where they are pushed so hard they feel they will break if anything else happens. We just have to keep going and remember that if we truly were not strong enough to handle it, it would not happen. Also, we never ever have to deal with our trials alone. There is always someone who is there ready and waiting to help, all we have to do is ask. There is someone who knows EXACTLY how we feel and what we are going through. There is always someone to talk to about it. I think you can figure out who I am talking about ;)
I have had a very certain knowledge of these things for the past couple years. I learned the truthfulness of it all through experience. Lately, I think I forgot. I never doubted it, I just didn't think of it. Instead I complained, and let my self become discouraged. Let me just tell you, it only makes things worse to be that way. I choose happiness over that any day :) I apologize to those of you who have had to deal with my negativity for the last couple months or so.
Something else I believe is that you choose how you feel. That is one of the best lessons my mom taught me over and over again in the 19 years I had with her. It's something I will always remember her for. It's kinda like the quote by Eleanor Roosevelt "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." You are the only person who has control over your feelings. You choose whether something will make you happy, sad, mad, or whatever. It's a conscious decision you make. So choose not to get offended, not to get mad. Choose happiness always.
This also reminds me of a very good and popular quote by Joseph B. Wirthlin "Come what may, and love it" Hard things are going to happen. No doubt about it. Choose to react to trials with gratefulness instead of getting discouraged. Be happy for the trails. They only make you stronger. And through it all, be grateful for what you do have.
Life goes on whether we like it or not, so like it :) Life can be a very beautiful thing if you let it.
Alright, I've rambled on long enough. I think I had to write this all more for myself than for anyone else. I needed the reminder. :)
Smile and mean it! :D
Loves!

$ $ $

2009-02-06T15:23:00.000-07:00

I hate money.
Better yet, I hate the lack of money in my life.
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

That is all I have to say today.

Loves!

Little sleep here, little sleep there

2009-01-23T23:13:00.000-07:00

So, here I sit
bored out of my everlovin mind
while Aaron sleeps in my bed
He's so adorable when he sleeps! :)
See look > > >
Awww!
I guess I have to entertain myself tonight
My neighbor has really loud bass speakers right against the thin wall that we share and it's on all the time.
I pretty much hate him.
He's watching a movie right now and I can hear it very clearly
I can't sleep through that
I Don't know how Aaron does it.
He can sleep any where, any time.
And he does.
Proof > > >
Ha!

But I love him, so it's okay. :D