MARCH!!!

I love the month of March! It's my birthday! Our Anniversary! And sometimes it gets warm..... :)

Behold: our adventures in March:

this cutie after bath time....she kills me!

by far my favorite sight to see

Our last night with Lindy - we got Waffles/Pancakes Lindy loves attacking her Daddy!

We had a crazy snow storm at the very beginning of march! It was nuts!! It took me over an hour to get to work. I was not a fan.

Then it was my birthday! Allan took me to dinner and then the Opera at WSU.

my mom made this for my birthday!! :D

Once again we got the fixer upper kick (more like I got it. I think Allan could care less in some ways...) First our light in the dining room was having issues and we figured out it was a wiring issue. I hated the previous light fixture anyways, so we went and bought a new one and installed it! Then we put in a shelf behind/above our couch so that we could have more space in the living room without the coffee table. I loved the coffee table, but it was always in the way. So we moved it! :D

new light fixture!

new shelf!

We then spent one weekend watching Sammy and Rusha while their mom and dad went on a little getaway. It was a lot of fun.

Then we celebrated our SECOND anniversary! I can't believe it's been two years! :D I love this man of mine. He's so amazing.

beautiful flowers he got me for our anniversary!

Us on our date! :)

Other fun things:

hands down my new favorite kind of peeps!

beautiful sunrise one morning with a good quote...love this!

Spring is coming! Maybe?!

At the very  end of March we hosted other couples in our ward for a fun FHE:

we talked about being a "real Easter bunny" or a true follower of Christ

and then we played SEVERAL fun games with peeps. It was awesome.

So that was the month of March. Pretty exciting stuff if you ask me. ;)

February happenings

February started with our little vacation/early anniversary trip to Disneyland and Knott's Berry Farm!!! This trip is what got me through the cold days of January. I LOVE Disneyland and this might be the last time we go for a while (mostly because I don't want to take a baby) and so we made the most of it! Our friends Seth and Cindy met us there and we enjoyed 3 days of Disneyland (minus the boys one day because they did Six Flags) and a day at Knott's Berry Farm.

this was mine and Allan's first flight together. It was fun! :D

Snakes! :) Love the Indiana Jones ride!

waiting in line

Seth and Cindy. Seth was SO EXCITED to be in Disneyland ;)

Space mountain take 1

Space Mountain take 2

Star Wars ride

The carousel!

Toon town with these two crazies!

Pretty pretty princesses!

foggy/smoggy morning from our hotel

Tower of Terror! Eek!

Cars Land!

I met Mr. Incredible and Frozone. :D

Our whole trip was just fantastic and I love that we got to do that together. :) The rest of February was not as exciting, but we still did fun things:

yummy breakfast rolls I made for Valentine's Day.

Lindy FaceTiming with her cousin Abby on her birthday:

Our finished product! with curtain! (remember when I did this shelf project?)

Lindy came to town suddenly at the end of February/beginning of March. We opted to take her at that time instead of in April when we were originally going to her so we did some really fun things!

Here Lindy is coloring a shirt Grandma Koni sent her for her birthday.

Lindy modeling her new shirt. :)

Discovery Museum at Thanksgiving point with cousins!

We might have worn out this cute girl....

We took Lindy, Sammy, and Rusha all to the swimming pool:
 

Rusha wasn't so sure about it....

Sammy was SO excited to have his cousin here!

After swimming we got ice cream. :D

Before we left on our vacation our microwave died. We FINALLY got a new one and then FINALLY put it in, my husband had a weird vision for making this happen:

My bestie Tiff! :D

My friend Tiff asked Allan and I to come down and teach swing dancing at a ward function. So we did! It was a lot of fun. :D

And that was February in a nut shell!!

let it snow, let it snow, let it snow..... NOT!!!

For the past three days I have woken up to ugly, gnarly, snowy conditions. It took me over an hour on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday to get to work. It was nasty and not so much fun.

However, today, the roads were clear. I got to work with minutes to spare. :) And looking at the forecast for the next week I am one VERY happy camper:

Sunshine! Temperatures above 20 degrees! What more could a girl ask for? (well...lots, but I'll be happy with this!)

In other news I've slowly started moving to the new place and this weekend is THE BIG MOVE of everything else. I am excited to get everything set up in the new place and to make it a home. :-) It will be fun times.

Also, because everyone keeps asking me - no, I do not know when I am getting married yet. I have a working date in late March, but we're still waiting for everything to go through. We met with our Stake President last night and he is dedicated to help us finish everything out and have everything in place so we can get married as soon as possible. I left that meeting last night with a lot of hope.

I was reminded of this quote by Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles :

“To any who may be struggling to see that light and find that hope, I say: Hold on. Keep trying. God loves you. Things will improve. Christ comes to you in His ‘more excellent ministry’ with a future of ‘better promises.’ He is your ‘high priest of good things to come.’ ” - Jeffrey R. Holland, “An High Priest of Good Things to Come,” Ensign, Nov. 1999, 36

Isn't that just lovely? Hold on. don't give up. It will be okay. That is my mantra for this next month. January has been hard one for me in so many ways and I am glad that it is ending today. February will be a challenge to get through, but I have a feeling it will fly by like a blink of an eye. Which more than I can say for January. :)

Before I know it will be March. March brings my birthday, our wedding (hopefully) and warmer temperatures (at least, one can hope for that!). Life is good. It's going to get better. I just need to live one day at a time.

Blame it on the weather

Lately the weather here in Utah could be summed up in one word: crappy.

It has been super cold with a nasty inversion hovering for weeks. We have inches and inches of snow everywhere that won't melt because sun is being blocked by the nastiest air quality I have seen in a long, long time. I step outside and start hacking up a lung.

So it's no surprise that today while at work I have felt down in the dumps, sad and depressed. I have decided to blame it on the weather. I don't feel like doing anything or going anywhere because of how nasty it is outside.

Supposedly there is a front coming in this evening bringing some storminess and enough wind to get rid of this cold air pool of grossness. Looking at the forecast the weathermen are saying it will be 40+ degrees for the rest of the week/into the weekend. I never thought I would be SO HAPPY to see 40 degrees!

In other news the lease has been signed and the moving will commence in about a week's time. I'm actually getting really excited to move. I'm excited to have the kitchen (and rest of the house, but mostly the kitchen) be MINE and I don't have to share it with any other girl. (no offense to any of my past roommates - I'm just excited to have my own space to decide where things go and not worry about people changing that.) Allan does claim that he wants some say in it all, but let's be honest here....he doesn't really care and if something does bother him I told him to speak up and we'll discuss it. ;)

Never mind the fact that I have to pack everything up for the 2nd time in SIX months, I'm excited to start a new chapter in my life. It's just a sign that things are slowly falling into place and soon Allan will be able to move in with me and life will be even better.

In the meantime....if you're looking for something good to do for someone on Saturday, February 2nd, give me a call. I'm sure I can find a few boxes for you to carry......

until next time,
Ciao!