Puppy Love

Loved- Saturday morning Nancy and I went out garage selling. There really was not much that was any good, but i did find something pretty amazing at a place we didn't even stop. We did a "drive by" and i saw a woman holding a little puppy. Instantly i knew i needed it, or someone needed it ha but i had to cuddle with it. So after Nancy took me back to my parents i gathered up my sisters to go to breakfast and made a little stop on the way. There was one puppy left and it was a miniature dachshund for a super price. Yes, we took it home. Meet Delilah, or Lilah for short. She is absolutely perfect. So perfect, that i kept her with me all day, and took her to the family bbq (which was awesome by the way. It was so great to see everyone.)

 Seriously these two photos (above and below) are two of my favorite pictures ever! I have already made frames for them and i am so putting them in my living room as soon as i get back to Cedar. (I am in the valley for spring break woo hoo!)

 Annie and Tara i have a few more pictures of your girls. I just need to go through them still.

 ha ha Alaynna overload, but she is so adorable and was my little buddy the other night.

Boxes are the Best!

Lived- This was such a great week at work except for the constant migraines i had. Monday morning i went downstairs and instantly got excited. This great huge box was down there for the kids to play with, and even though i might have been more excited about the box than they were at first, they have had a blast every day with it, and yes it is totally still alive. I have fixed it up with some duck tape every once and a while but i am making this baby last as long as possible. There is nothing better than a little creative play time with a huge box!

Besides box time, nap time has been amazing too! Seriously this quickest way for a child to melt my heart is to fall asleep in my arms. I love nap time, not just because the kids fall asleep, but because they are tired and sweet and it is almost like magic when 6 kids in one room are all quiet and listening to a story.

Overly Obsessive

Learned- Well i learned absolutely nothing in school this past week. Honestly, i could not focus at all. I was so ready for spring break its ridiculous. I did learn though that i am a little obsessive about a few things right now.

1. Getting my thighs to shrink, seriously my butt and thighs aren't fitting into my pants because they are too muscular. This is a serious problem because i am not giving up my designer jeans for anything. So  to fix this little problem i have been doing lunges and ball work outs and staying at the gym for like 2 hours, someone please help me with this (telling me i am already thin or look great does not help the problem) and sorry if there is anyone out there who wants to shoot me for posting this.

2. I want a car very badly, i am not quite sure why this has hit me right now but i am terribly sick of my Saturn, the poor thing is sick of me too. We have been through way too much and together for way too long. So i spend my nights designing my dream cars on the ford website and then crying because i cant afford a 30,000 dollar car. So i have settled for a used 10,000 car that yes i still can't afford for like the next 5 years.

3.Figuring out what to do with school. After this semester i will be like 9 credits into my senior year and then i will still have 2 more years to go. Yes, two more years. Ah i know i made the choice to go slow, but since i have decided this i have been debating on focusing on early childhood or English and literature. So far i have switched my focus 3 times and my major twice since starting school back at UNLV. Well, I am switching again. Hopefully this will be the last time. On Sunday while sitting in church i realized that everyone woman in the education world that i hope to be like someday has majored or had something to do with early childhood. The more i pondered this, i thought about why and well that is because there is so much to be learned from children especially in the early years. I think i will really enjoy this change.

So basically besides learning that i work out too much, can't afford the car i want, and that i need to change my focus once again, i have learned that i am totally overly obsessive over things that i really shouldn't worry so much about.

Oh i almost forgot, i also learned to never where this outfit or any outfit like it, while driving Luke's truck or any truck for that matter, again. This was quite the adventure. 

Awkward Gym Moments

I literally have so many awkward moments at the gym that i think i should post them. They are always pretty funny and the majority of the time at my expense.

Im on the elliptical, earphones in, YouTube on, and set for a 45 minute run on a level 10. I just took a migraine pill full of caffeine was feeling a little ambitious and in a really good mood. So i noticed this guy next to me was on his cell phone walking on the treadmill when i first got on. 10 minutes into my oh so amazing workout i hear this guy say, i really should record this for you, i have never seen anything like this before. I am thinking what in the world is he talking about and just go back to dancing to my song, yes that is right, did you catch that? He was totally talking about me, i was dancing to this music video and yes just like Leighton, (Summer Girl by Leighton Meester) while on the elliptical and didn't even notice. Oh goodness its a good thing i'm already married.

(And this is what 4 miles in 40 minutes while dancing looks like in the end)

A Little Note for My Amazing Husband

May you always know that you are not alone, 

that in fact you are very deeply Loved.

(Sappy i know, but i just found this going through pictures and i love it.)

Writing With Purpose

This weekend as I was thinking about all of the things I needed to do during the week, updating the blog was at the top of the list. Writing is such an outlet for me and I absolutely love it but sometimes I feel like there is no purpose to my blog. All I do on it is write out these huge stories about the exciting things that happen and I am probably the only person who finds them exciting. So for the sake of my own sanity I decided to have a purpose I. What I write. Each week I plan to have at least 3 posts. Learned, Lived, and Loved. Each post should be about something from that week that kaden or I (probably I more than Kaden) have well learned, lived, or loved. I also plan on writing out things that help me know more about myself, I'm am pretty much a selfish blogger and kinda think somedays I'm the only person that looks at my blog anyways.

Here's My Learned, Lived, and Loved for last week.

Learned- It is way smarter to take 13-15 credits and have time to breathe and graduate a semester later than taking 18 and wanting to kill yourself (just a little dramatic) every single day. Yea, I dropped a class, but I can finally breathe again.

Lived- Saturday morning My Mom, Sarah, Katie, and I packed up and headed to Great uncle Joes 90th birthday. (so not even a joke ha ha) he is the oldest son of 12 kids. On our way there we picked up my cousin Brian and his wife Tiffany. Then we stopped by temple square. There happened to be like 10 brides there and I happened to have my camera. Would it be terrible I happened to post the pictures I very conspicuosly took of them on my website? Ha ha.

Loved- I am totally in love with sappy make me cry chick flicks lately, and Friday Night Lights (the show) totally falls into this category. I finished all of the seasons on Friday and I cried because I don't have anymore to watch. Uh then I watched Country Strong. All I have to say is you will listen to the music non stop after you see it.

 

2 Years and San Francisco

Kaden and I have been married for two years now! I can not believe how fast time has gone by. When we were first got married we talked about things we wanted to do in the next 2 years. Pretty much i can only remember a few of them because of course we are terrible at writing anything down or making goals, so they were just ideas. The ones i remember were that we will buy a house, i will be graduating, we will start having kids, We will both have awesome cars, and i am sure being ridiculous rich was somewhere in there too since we thought we would be having kids ha. Luckily we do own our very own amazing house, but everything else is still a ways away. Ha i am now not graduating until April of 2013, we probably wont have kids for awhile, i am driving the same car that i had in high school and Kaden no longer has his awesome truck and we really are about as poor as possible with going to school and owning a house, but we absolutely love our lives together right now! We were just talking last night about how weird it was that just last year we were living in Aunt Diannes trailer fighting over who got to take a shower first because there was only enough hot water to last for one person. We have had some pretty good experiences and some really hard times but we both agree that we wouldn't trade the past two years for anything because we have both learned so much and grown up so much. Honestly if the first 2 years of your marriage really are supposed to be your hardest then we have succeeded and i can not wait to see how awesome the rest of marriage is.


San Francisco! Yes, again. I know we go all of the time but that is because we love it! And it helps that is pretty inexpensive, and very easy to get around, and there is quite a bit to do. This time we went with my family. It wasn't really an anniversary trip but it was fun going with my parents and sisters. We did a lot of shopping and a lot of eating. Honestly i crave the food there so much and all i have wanted since got home is some good soup, since we really ate soup like every day. Before we went i had been pretty sick, all of the kids at work were sick, and our home teachers brought their daughter over who had croup. So the day we left i actually felt a lot better, until we got on the plain. I had no idea that flying when you were sick could be such a miserable experience. I literally felt like i had been punched in the face once we landed in San Francisco and our first night there i ended up having to go to an emergency doctors visit. I had a sinus infection and he said i was lucky that i my ear drum didn't explode from the plain ride. I ended being on a ridiculous amount of medication and Afrin 5 times a day the hole time we were so i would be able to fly home.  That was not the best experience, but i learned a lot of awesome tricks to keep from getting sick from the doctor. He was expensive but the best doctor i had ever been too. Not even kidding if we ever end up moving to San Francisco he will totally be my main doctor. Anyways, more about San Francisco. On Friday we got to see Mary Kate and Allen, and it was so much fun catching up with them. We walked around the warf with them and then later that night my sisters went shopping while the rest of us snacked at a little bar in union square. We had a lot of fun spending the day with them, i know Sarah misses Mary Kate so much so it was so nice to see them. Dad did a little splurging on the trip and bought all of us girls including Mary Kate and Grandma  a pearl from one of those pearl places were we choose an oyster and open it up yourself. It was fun doing that and all of pearls turned out different, it was pretty cool. Saturday my dad and hannah and katie went to the exploritorium while me, my mom, kaden and sarah got on a bus and road out to the beach. Kaden and I had never been to that part of town and it was such a nice day it was perfect. We went to the cliff house and took pictures, and we ate lunch at a little hotel cafe that was right across from the beach. They had the best chicken strips Kaden and I have ever had. After that we met up with my dad and the girls at the Golden Gate bridge. We took the bus,and they walked the entire way from the exploritorium, i have no idea how they did it because it really is probably like a 5 mile walk all along the beach and then up a huge steep hill. They were troopers though and were still ready to eat at Scomas after. Sunday we just hung out around Union Square. Kaden and my mom and i fell in love with Bristol Farms and searched around in there for awhile. It is like a miniature whole foods and we bought some of the weirdest stuff to eat before we got on the plain, including chocolate covered bacon. No one liked it except for Sarah. Our flight back was nice, i had to wear an earplug for the flight and until we got back to the valley but i slept almost the entire time and that is always nice. Kaden and I had so much fun and we have a hole list of ideas for next time we go, but we decided we will never do a midsemester trip again. It was way too hard trying to catch up once we  got home, and the next family trip we do, we are thinking a cruise would be nice. :)