I love my husband

So pretty much, and you can argue all you want, I have the best husband! Tomorrow is our one year anniversary and I am pretty stoked to spend the whole day with him. But, because I have the best husband, he started the celebration today. He sent me this AMAZING boquet of flowers to work this morning. I was sooo surprised that they were actually addressed to me!
Of course I took a picture, so enjoy that. I am happy because I am enjoying the smell of them right here in front of me! Yay. I love him. I'm all giddy now!
Hope you all have a super spectacular wonderful fantastical day!

A quickie

Um, so don’t tell anyone, but I seriously think I love knitting! I went to this knitting thing on Tuesday and I had tons of fun, and I brought my work in progress with me to work today. See, we started this “club” called the Kinky Knitters (dorky and I love it), where we are going to meet every second Tuesday. Really I think it’s a great idea, since a bunch of girls get together and knit and socialize and it’s great. Here is a picture of Jo, Renae and I enjoying our time together. Also, that evening before I went to the knitting thing, I went out to supper with my cool friend Kiel. It was cool! Haha. We went to Lonestar, which I hate, but he’s good company so I got over it. We got to chat for a bit and he and his friend drove me to Eileen’s afterwards. I just had to get a picture of us enjoying my flat bread meal, since that’s practically all I ate (seriously, I don’t love it there at all). Finally, yesterday, as part of my mental health day off from work, I went to lunch with Melese, Jo and Karlee. It was nice to get out with them and by the time I got home that evening I was feeling 100% better and ready to go back to work. Of course, I got a picture of us at the restaurant too. So I am pretty sure this blog is all over the place and may not even make sense, but I’m over it! Hope you all have a good day, and all you bloggers, don’t forget to comment you fools.

Another post so soon?

I am quite impressed with myself for posting so much recently. I think it's because I was used to posting everyday for my Utah trip, that now I feel lonely without blogging. Haha.

Not much to report, 'cept that my cool bestest ol' roomie ever came to visit me at work. It was a nice surprise, since I was not having a very good day. We went to Freak Lunch box and that made my day. We walked along the waterfront for the rest of my lunch hour and then parted ways. Of course, not before I snagged a picture of our time together! Here we are eating some very large malt balls (which we're not that good). Good times Devin, thanks!

In other news, tonight I am going out with some girls to learn how to knit. I don't know how that's all going to turn out, but I am happy to be spending time out of the house while Josh is at work. Hopefully I will get a few pictures from tonight so I can blog once more tomorrow!

Hope you all enjoyed the sunshine today, from the inside, cause it was a little colder in the wind!

Updating because of updating.

Lots of stuff that has been going on since I started my Utah updates, so now I am behind on that, so I'll do a quick recap.
1) Went to the beach with the Allred’s, Buxton’s and Taylor’s. It was good times with the toasty fire to keep us somewhat warm. Josh didn’t have a problem with the cold tho, he and Donny went into the water. It was darn cold! Such silly boys. I just have to post this picture because I think they look like backstreet boys don’t you think?

I would have to say my fav. part of the evening was the roasted marshmallows I got to eat. I am a huge fan, so that was great. And of course it didn’t hurt that I got to be there with some of my cool friends. Thanks for the invite Karlee!
2) Celebrated Dave's b-day at the Stag. It was like October somethingth and we got to eat on the patio. That's pretty great.

3) Thanksgiving just passed us. We got to go to my parents on Monday to eat lots of food.I tried to get a family picture out of it, but mum and dad weren’t havin’ it, so Nicole just took some dorky ones of Josh and I. We also had conference that weekend, and bonus, we got to watch it at home on our new tv. That was exciting. I think I listened more at home than I ever did at church. It was great.
4) We got to make Halloween signs at church the other evening. Mine turned out ok, but my sparkles didn’t go on like I wanted. Everyone’s signs looked super good, and we had a lot of fun doing them. But seriously, it took me like 2.5 hours to do my sign. It was nuts, but I was glad to have friends like Jo and Jes to chat with. Haha, just hit me, the 3 J's, Jo, Jes, and Julia. Hahahha, I am a dork.
5) I just wanted to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOLYNNE! I am so glad that you moved up here to cold ol’ Canada. Hope it’s a good one friend.

Making Popcorn

Ok, so I have to say, popcorn is one of my favourite snacks and the other day I was getting groceries with Ashley and she said that her and Chad just pop it on the stove, since a big bag of kernels is like 2 bucks and I usually pay like 6 bucks for 12 servings, so here I am like...alright, I am going to try this, and you know what, it was darn good (not as good as Melese's cause she's got a popper and some yummy butter) but I try. So pretty much every night when I am craving a snack I just pop some good ol' corn. Yay.

Ohh the anticipation kills me!

READY!

Only thing, does anyone know how to make it taste buttery without soaking the popcorn in melted butter from the microwave?

Let me know.

Utah #7

September 27th
My last day in Utah. It really hit me when I woke up that it was my last full day of fun, and that Sharee didn’t have her baby yet, which sucked. Aubrey and I knew that it was going to be mall day, as we had yet to hit up Gateway! We also hadn’t done a session at the temple either. So we got our Sunday best on and made our way (after checking to make sure it was open this time) to the SLC Temple. We did a 9 am session and it was awesome. It’s a totally different experience that everyone should try to do at least once. I had a good time, but honestly, I think I like the way we do it here better. Just a personal preference.
So after that we met up with Sharee at the Olive Garden where I wolfed down the best pasta dish ever. We totally need an OG here. No lie.
So then we went to Gateway. It was a really nice warm day which was perfect for shopping. My first store was Forever 21, which I found some really great stuff, but I think I’ll prefer shopping online to in the store, it’s crazy in there. P.S They are going to start shipping to Canada soon, yay! Then we did all the other stores that we don’t have up here. I decided that I don’t like Hollister and Abercrombie’s atmosphere. The music is WAY too loud and it’s too dark inside to appreciate the clothing on the shelves. It was more annoying that inviting, but I still bought stuff. Well for Josh, cause he likes their jeans.
We ended the day with a trip to Ben’s Cookies where they have these yummy warm cookies and ice cream and it was awesome and I couldn’t eat it all and I had milk to wash it down and it was totally fantastic and I am drooling thinking about it now. Yum. We were totally tired after our long day out, and so we picked up some Café Rio and headed over to Aubrey’s aunts house to watch the season premiere of Grey’s. It was a perfect way to end my vacation. Maxin’ and relaxin’. Just wish I had one of these love sacs to lay on all the time!

Utah #6

September 26th
Alright, so this morning we drove home from Cedar City and all of its shenanigans. We dropped Meghan off at her parents place and then went to Aubrey’s friend Nancy’s house for a visit. Nancy has a little boy, Zach, and he’s pretty much the funniest little man ever. He LOVES BYU and plans to go there “when he grows up”. We then met up with Melissa for lunch at the Brick Oven and it was really yummy. Tragically, I wasn’t super hungry and couldn’t eat everything I had wanted to. Darnnit! So we finished eating up there, Melissa was on her lunch break so we didn’t have all the time in the world to hang out, but it was still fun, and then we headed to the BYU Bookstore where I purchased the one thing I truly wanted, a BYU sweater (which I am wearing in the picture below, totally posing as a "y" to match the one on the mountain!)I was so stoked. I love wearing it now, like all the time, I am sure you can all attest to that. So yea, and I thought it was cool because the bookstore was also like a clothing store and it had shoes for 20 bucks and it was awesome and I want to go back now just thinking about it.
On our travels from Provo to SLC we stopped at the Provo Temple, the MTC, and Mount Timpanogas (sp?) Temple to take pictures. I really liked the Mount T one, and hope one day to do a session there.
Finally we made it back after all that side tracking (thanks to Aubrey and her excellent guide help, I was able to do plenty of touristy temple stops) and we met up with Nancy and Zach at the Olde Spaghetti Factory. It was also super yummy (I wasn’t very hungry there either, since we ate at the Brick Oven not too many hours earlier) and so Aubrey and I just split a meal. Also, we were trying to conserve our calorie intake for our trip to the Roof restaurant for the all you can eat dessert buffet, which is where we went after we finished saying our goodbyes to Nancy.
Now, I must tell you that our visit to the Roof made me feel super special. See we have a friend Jeff Van Houlten (who actually served here as well) who is the evening manager there, and so he reserved us a very special seat (the seat where they filmed the movie Charley as well as many others). Sorry for the fuzzy picture, but I wanted to get the temple all lit up, so no flash!So we got there and he seated us and told our waiter that we were VIP so it was cool. And cooler still, the King and Queen of Portugal were eating just a table over. It was crazy! Rumor is that they were in town to meet with President Hinkley, but who really knows. If they were though, I am super jealous. But yea, Aubrey and I spent some good quality time talking over 3 trips up to the buffet, each time filling out plates with some new tastes. It was insane. By the end of it we were feeling quite ill and had to be rolled to the car! Oh and there was a piano man in the restaurant taking requests and when it was someone’s b-day as they brought over the dessert he would play Happy Birthday and it was so cool.
So yea, it was awesome, and I loved looking out over the temple, and the city. It was just spectacular. It was an awesome day full of….eating mainly!