Monday, February 16, 2009
Last but not least...
As my last post for the day, I just wanted to say thank you to my sisters for my awesome birthday present: The Pancake Puff Pan! Me and Mike made cream cheese and powdered sugar, Peach Jam, Grape Jam, Banana/honey/cinnamon/sugar, strawberry and sugar, mozarella cheese, chocolate mousse, and chocolate icing stuffed pancake puffs this morning and it was amazing! THANK YOU! If anyone is interested, we'd love to have you over for some puffs. Just let us know. PS... at the end of this post is our new decoration between our bookshelf. I had seen this on martha stewart.com and decided to give it a try myself. I was happy about the way it turned out and Mike was happy that it only cost us two dollars. What a mutually beneficial decoration!
One year older and wiser too...
Camille's birthday was amazing, thanks to her awesome husband Mike! He woke up before 6:00 AM to make her breakfast in bed and then surprised her at 6:00 with breakfast and presents. She choose presents (who wouldn't) first, and got lots of good stuff. Good job Mike. Then it was off to work where they had decorated her cubicle and made her a cake. Good job work friends! That night Camille and Mike decided to use all of her free dinner coupons she got online for joining birthday clubs (which will explain the pictures below) and go three different places. They first stopped at Noodles and Company (where they got free yellow thai noodles and tomato basil soup), then stopped by cold stone (where they shared a free small sized cake batter ice cream with cookie dough. Just right) and then headed over to Red Robin (where they shared a gourmet gaucamole burger and fries). Talk about good eating! Being poor may have it's limits, but not when you do your research before hand! After all of this, Erin and Thomas and Rach and Dan came over for cake and ice cream and the Bean game. All in all it was a GREAT birthday and thank you to everyone who contributed to make it so special. I love you all!
I wake up on Mondays dreaming of Fridays...
This title explains it all. Below are pictures of one of our recent date nights: Watching Thoroughly Modern Millie musical at BYU and then eating dinner at Dew (our new favorite little restaraunt introduced to us by some friends). This musical was SO cute, and I would even recommend it above the movie. Mike even liked it and more than once I caught him guffawing. In short: Date nights are the best!
Erin's B-day: Part II
Sorry these took so long to post! Erin's birthday was a blast, complete with pizza, cake, ice cream and pin the tail on Erin! As you can see from the pictures below, Erin loves to play pretend. Here she is impersonating a donkey (look below for the pics, plus a few more...)
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Monday, January 26, 2009
Honeymoon!
I know these pictures have been a long time coming, but here are the ones of our honeymoon in Cancun! To sum it up, it was beautiful, sunny, and filled with lots of food! We couldn't have asked for a better trip to go on and we know we won't be going on a trip quite like this anytime soon (or again!) So enjoy looking at the pics!
And PS... the one with the mustaches, Mike did this as a surprise for me after our honeymoon!
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Three Day Weekend
We love three day weekends! Saturday was spent sleeping in and lazing around the apartment, which we usually do on Saturdays, but Monday was spent at the outlets in Park City, which we never get to do on Mondays! I thought this was a wonderful tradition to start in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr day... Shopping! As you can see, we enjoyed a gourmet meal at McDonalds and then went straight to the outlets. I didn't find anything, but Mike got some new Sunday pants which he was VERY excited about, VERY excited.It was cute. So here are some pics of our fun little weekend adventure.
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Camille Shovels?
I would have you all know that Camille shoveled snow for the first time in her life. It was an incredible experience. I had shoveled the snow once before during the day (it snowed a lot), and we had to clear out a path for our car. So Camille happily volunteered to help. She soon realized that snow, once it has been collected at the end of a wooden stick, is quite heavy. She did a great job, but im not gunna lie, i have never seen someone shovel the snow so cute (yes i used cute as an adverb). She made me giggle as she insisted that she do it and i just sit back and make a snow man (which was pretty fun as well). Then she got a little distracted and started breaking off icicles with the end the wooden end of the shovel. She did a great job and cleared a great little path for our car. Anyways I love my sweet wife, she makes life very happy and i am glad to be with her.
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Our First Thanksgiving: The Disclaimer
This year me and Mike celebrated our firs Thanksgiving together! We had a great time in Texas and we loved seeing my family and all of the little kids. Here are a few highlights:
1. Mike woke up early on Thanksgiving day to go to a turkey bowl! Yay! I got to sleep in! Yay!
2. I got a call while I was out doing last minute shopping with my mom on Thanksgiving day saying that Mike was on his way to the hospital (possibly to get surgery)! Yay!
3. I got another call saying that Mike would not need surgery, but he dislocated and broke his pinky. It was only a break, meaning no surgery. Yay!
4. The doctor re-located (?) his finger and gave him 2 vicatin! Yay!
5. I never got to go to the hospital to visit (which I was bummed about), but my brother brought him home soon, a little loopy from the vicatin and VERY tired. This boy does not handle his medicine well apparenty. Mike is a very loving person to begin with, but on Vicatin, WOW! He smiled at me so big, and told me how pretty I was and how much he loved me for about 15 minutes before he fell asleep. I was beginning to think I should slip a little vicatin into his drink every morning...
6. Mike was not able to wake up for Thanksgiving dinner, so I went to the table by myself. I had the flu almost the whole time I was there, but I thought I was feeling up to Thanksgiving dinner. After two bites of dinner, my gag reflex kicked in and I was running to the bathroom! Yay!
This sums up our whole Thanksgiving day, Mike breaks his finger and is passed out on Vicatin all day and I am throwing up Thanksgiving dinner. There couldn't be a better memory for the two of us, I know this will always make us grateful to be together and to be able to eat a full Thanksgiving dinner!
1. Mike woke up early on Thanksgiving day to go to a turkey bowl! Yay! I got to sleep in! Yay!
2. I got a call while I was out doing last minute shopping with my mom on Thanksgiving day saying that Mike was on his way to the hospital (possibly to get surgery)! Yay!
3. I got another call saying that Mike would not need surgery, but he dislocated and broke his pinky. It was only a break, meaning no surgery. Yay!
4. The doctor re-located (?) his finger and gave him 2 vicatin! Yay!
5. I never got to go to the hospital to visit (which I was bummed about), but my brother brought him home soon, a little loopy from the vicatin and VERY tired. This boy does not handle his medicine well apparenty. Mike is a very loving person to begin with, but on Vicatin, WOW! He smiled at me so big, and told me how pretty I was and how much he loved me for about 15 minutes before he fell asleep. I was beginning to think I should slip a little vicatin into his drink every morning...
6. Mike was not able to wake up for Thanksgiving dinner, so I went to the table by myself. I had the flu almost the whole time I was there, but I thought I was feeling up to Thanksgiving dinner. After two bites of dinner, my gag reflex kicked in and I was running to the bathroom! Yay!
This sums up our whole Thanksgiving day, Mike breaks his finger and is passed out on Vicatin all day and I am throwing up Thanksgiving dinner. There couldn't be a better memory for the two of us, I know this will always make us grateful to be together and to be able to eat a full Thanksgiving dinner!
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Ode to my Husband
I love this time of year. The mugs of hot chocolate, the lighted trees, the caroling... the quiet desperation. The week before Christmas at BYU is rarely a happy time, finals being the main culprit. Not anymore! I had one class this semester to graduate. That means one final and then they send me my diploma on a little sheet of paper in the mail. Cake!
I just dropped my sweet husband off to take his second final today and as I was walking to the library, I was also gleefully watching the other students nervously walking to the testing center, biting their nails and trying to cram that last chapter of the bio 100 textbook in their heads before the test because, dang, they forgot it was going to be included on the test! As I was observing, my thoughts turned to this time last year...
This time last year I probably hadn't showered today, or the day before for that matter. Dinner was eaten for as cheap as possible at the cougar eat ($1 loaf of fresh bread with a .50 cent honey butter--anybody who has been to BYU has eaten this for dinner. More than once.Don't lie). I was probably crying on the phone to my mom about how teachers really are ridiculous, giving us all this info to study for tests, and yes, I really could have studied before the day of the final, but I was busy. I know mom, you don't think watching High School Musical with your roommates for the fourth time is busy, but believe me it is. This time last year, I still had 5 tests to take in 2 days because I had procrastinated all of them. This time last year all I could do was dream about going home, and sleeping until forever...
I just wanted to compare this with Mike's experience with finals. This kid will be finished with finals tomorrow, one whole day before they end! He will have finished with no crying breakdowns to his mom, no desperate calls to work asking for the day off and not even one little peep about how busy he is! He still has time to make me breakfast in the morning, make my lunch and get me to work on time! I love him! I'm grateful to have such a wonderful husband who is so on top of things, who is ALWAYS calm and who is so helpful (even when he's ridiculously busy). Thank you for being so good to your scatterbrained, often-times late, but very in love with you, wife.
I just dropped my sweet husband off to take his second final today and as I was walking to the library, I was also gleefully watching the other students nervously walking to the testing center, biting their nails and trying to cram that last chapter of the bio 100 textbook in their heads before the test because, dang, they forgot it was going to be included on the test! As I was observing, my thoughts turned to this time last year...
This time last year I probably hadn't showered today, or the day before for that matter. Dinner was eaten for as cheap as possible at the cougar eat ($1 loaf of fresh bread with a .50 cent honey butter--anybody who has been to BYU has eaten this for dinner. More than once.Don't lie). I was probably crying on the phone to my mom about how teachers really are ridiculous, giving us all this info to study for tests, and yes, I really could have studied before the day of the final, but I was busy. I know mom, you don't think watching High School Musical with your roommates for the fourth time is busy, but believe me it is. This time last year, I still had 5 tests to take in 2 days because I had procrastinated all of them. This time last year all I could do was dream about going home, and sleeping until forever...
I just wanted to compare this with Mike's experience with finals. This kid will be finished with finals tomorrow, one whole day before they end! He will have finished with no crying breakdowns to his mom, no desperate calls to work asking for the day off and not even one little peep about how busy he is! He still has time to make me breakfast in the morning, make my lunch and get me to work on time! I love him! I'm grateful to have such a wonderful husband who is so on top of things, who is ALWAYS calm and who is so helpful (even when he's ridiculously busy). Thank you for being so good to your scatterbrained, often-times late, but very in love with you, wife.
Saturday, October 4, 2008
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