summer changes

Well hey. it's been awhile. 

With summer came many changes. And luckily for us, they were pretty dang good ones.

I started a new job, and so far it's been crazy hectic but I sure love being busy. It's barely leaving me enough time to cook dinner, do laundry, go to the gym, and keep up on The Bachelorette! So obviously priorities have been made, and dinner and laundry have been cancelled for a while. I know, what would Steven ever do without me??

We've been out boating every chance we get, and oh my is it a blast! We only have about two more weeks till FLAMING GORGE. As in a week long boating trip. Heaven.

Our puppies are loving the sunny weather, especially when we take them to play with the other dogs at the park.

We had a super fun and relaxing fathers day weekend. Lots of board games, cook-outs, and sunburns. But isn't that what it's all about? That, and fathers. I sure do have an amazing dad, grandpa's, and father-in-law... and of course baby daddy :)

Steven isn't a father yet, by any technical terms at least. But i can already tell, he's gonna be the best daddy ever. Until then, I think we have our hands full. 

hope you had a fun father's day honey-buns! love you like cuhrazy.

happy birthday to my handsome husband

yesterday was Stevens birthday. He turned a whopping 23! So old, right? For reasons I do not agree with, or frankly understand in the slightest, he decided to have a nice "low-key" birthday. A delicious dinner, provided by his momma and then we went to go and see "the Lorax." Ok ok, I guess he did allow me to have a little fun. On Saturday night I decorated our house for a "Transformers" birthday party with our families, complete with a gazillion different desserts on which we all ate ourselves sick. Alas, I did not get any pictures of the awesome decorations. It didn't even cross my mind! So you will just have to use your imaginations on that one.

 

Steven is quite possibly the best husband ever. Or at least the best possible husband for me. He is unfailingly patient with my endless complaints and issues. He always puts me first, and acts like i'm the only important thing in the world to him. He can make me laugh even when i'm crazy angry or annoyed with him. When i shove him in the middle of the night to get some space or stop his snoring, he just responds with a sweet "i love you." He works so hard to provide for me, and I know he always will. Even when we were just dating, he would put off anything just to spend time with me. He spoils me ridicuously and totally rotten. It wasn't happenstance that brought us together, I'm positive that it was just meant to be. He was always mine, and I've always belonged to him. And I'm reminded every single day he is more than I deserve. And I get to be with him, forever. I'm the luckiest girl in the whole world.

 

Thanks for waiting for me honey-buns. Here's to a gazillion more birthdays together :)

love you always

Heart Day

I started out my V-day by sleeping in till 9:36am, and not showering. It was then that I realized all those years of getting up early to curl my hair and look all cutesy for the holiday are over.

Actually, I think my overall concern with appearance has really taken a beating ever since I snagged myself a man.

Got engaged, stopped putting on makeup. Got married, stopped doing my hair.

I'll probably stop showering once I'm pregnant.

I love Valentines Day though! Its the third day a year we can abandon our diets and worries of thunder thighs and stomach flab to over-indulge in anything made of sugar. My work celebrated by moving the peanut M&M's from their hiding spot in the cupboard, onto the counter where we might all enjoy them without any feelings of guilt or shame.

The costco size bag that usual takes a couple weeks to empty, was gone by noon. I guess it goes to show, temptation is much harder to resist when it's chocolately goodness is staring you in the face.

Steven and I decided to head downtown for the night and go to dinner and see "The Vow". Only problem is that was everyone else's idea too. So we decided to get some crisp bean burritos to tie us over through the movie, and get dinner afterwards. It kinda worked. Except that we ended up gorging ourselves on popcorn and diet coke because we were starving. By the time we made it to California Pizza Kitchen at 9pm, we weren't even hungry. But that didn't stop us from eating. Again.

Valentines is the best thing ever.

Is it funny that Steven and I both completely unknowing got each other geeky gifts?

That right there, is true love.

Hope you had as much fun as I did Steven! Thanks for being the sweestest husband of all time, and spoiling me wayyy more then you should. Love you always :) 

the elusive bowl

About a month or two after Steven and i started dating, i ran into a slight problem. I bought an oh so adorable dish set for two from Target to go in my new apartment. Later, I decided to go back and purchase another two sets, so I'd have enough place settings for four people... should the occasion ever arise. But disaster struck. Target had everything i needed to complete my set, except one stinking bowl. One bowl!!! How could I have four dinner plates, four salad plates, four cups, but only three bowls??? It was sheer madness i tell you.

While having a panic attack in the kitchen & dining aisle, Steven called up customer service to see if they had any in the back room. No dice. They also checked other nearby target stores and NONE of them had any bowls left. What gives??? Who buys just the bowls to leave the rest of us complete-set-buyers high and dry?? Needless to say, i was slightly distraught over the whole thing. I searched all over the internet trying to find that one last bowl, but for some reason they were nowhere to be found. I gave up, totally defeated and bowl-less.

A day or two later Steven texted me to say he was bringing a suprise over. I got all excited thinking a large diet coke, but it was so not a diet coke. He showed up with the missing bowl, filled full with chocolate. He had called around and found that a store up north had a couple in stock, and drove all the way up there to get it for me. I was in shock. Who was this boy that was willing to go through so much trouble just to keep my OCD from going crazy? And that my friends, was the beginning to me finding out just how special he really was.