First off, to explain the title of this post, Talls's daddy is currently in the hospital and Talls asked if I would print off some blog entries to take to him to maybe entertain him for a bit. I was looking through the old blog and I realized I haven't posted since August! How incredibly sad is that! So I thought that maybe I should update and put up some stories that Talls's dad might enjoy reading.
Story #1 - This occurred last Sunday night. We were getting ready to have our scripture study when Talls was updating his planner. I asked if I could see his schedule just to know what my Monday was going to be looking like when he got all defensive about it. Turns out that he had written down ideas on what he wanted to get me for Christmas and refused to let me see the list for some odd reason. I tried everything I knew how to get that list from him. When he said he wanted to burn it, I confiscated our lighters. Then I protected the trash when he wanted to throw it away. Finally, it came down to me chasing him down the street yelling, "Come back here! There are rocks and I don't have a bra on!" and him running away yelling, "Get away from me you crazy woman!" May I just mention that we were in our PJ's and neither of us was wearing shoes? Well finally, I gave up and went back to the house (seeing as we had also left the door open in our chase). Unfortunately, he got there first and locked me out until he had sufficiently torn the list up into little tiny pieces and buried them in the trash can. We were then able to get on with our scripture study, but not before I tried to dig through the trash first :)
Story #2 - Last Tuesday (the day before Thanksgiving), Talls and I decided to go support our institute teacher by going to his night class. We have an LDS History class from him on Monday and Wednesday afternoons and he had mentioned how worried he was that no one would show up to his class on Tuesday night so we decided to go and support. The lesson was amazing and yada yada yada... However, the good part of this story comes after class. Talls went and sat down at the piano and asked me to sing to him. He then proceeded to play the song Someone Like You by Adele and when I didn't sing he decided to just do it himself... except he was joking around and sang it totally off tune. I had been talking to Brother Barret and the second he heard Talls start to sing, he flipped his head toward the piano and a look of complete and utter terror crossed his face. He then looked back at me with an expression that looked a little bit like, "What was that?" and I just busted up laughing. It was the funniest, most candid reaction I have ever seen from an institute teacher! He did feel a little bit better when he knew Talls wasn't actually serious. Then yesterday, the plot thickened. We were at institute talking about the martyrdom of Joseph Smith. We were talking about the hymn A Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief and Brother Barrett asked someone to read (or sing) verse 6. Talls volunteered us to sing it, but Brother Barrett just looked at him and was like, "Please, no. Not like last time." Talls and I cracked up laughing like lunatics and since no one else from our class was there that night, they probably thought we were crazy too.
Story #3 - The last story is just kind of a sweet one. About a week and a half ago, there was a fall formal put on by the institute. Talls really wanted to go, but there was one small problem. No married people allowed! And plus, I hate dances. Well the same night of that formal just happened to be my turn to plan date night and so even though I wanted to go to the ballroom dance performance or perhaps even to Happy Feet 2, I decided to be sweet and created a Johnson Fall Formal instead. First of all, I locked the door on him so he couldn't come in when he got home from work. When I answered the door, I made him close his eyes and guided him to our room where I had laid out on our bed a nice shirt and tie combo with an 'official' ticket to our formal. I made him stay there while I finished my preparations of dressing up in a nice skirt, finishing our relatively fancy dinner put on paper plates because no real dance ever has the funds to afford nice china, making a customized playlist for the dance part of our date, and creating a homemade sign to put on our wall that said, "Johnson Fall Formal." When all the preparations were made, I brought him out although not before I thoroughly examined his ticket cuz ya know... he could have forged it or been trying to sneak into the dance illegally :) Then we had a nice dinner with romantic background music that is special to us then danced to a couple of songs that I had specially planned out to end on a slow dance to Marry Me by Train which is the song he used to propose to me with. I think that date meant a lot to Talls and he still hasn't allowed me to take down the Johnson Fall Formal sign.
So there you have it. There is an update of my blog after 3 months and some nice stories to do it with. Hopefully I will be able to remedy my relationship with this said blog and get into a somewhat regular blogging habit... Easier said than done.
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Day 28: The Past Year In Great Detail
Okay so honestly I have been dreading this post ever since I started this 30 days of posts thing which is why it is coming in so late, but here goes nothing....
August 2010 - I was just starting my sophomore year of college and surprisingly breaking out of my shell to make friends with some really awesome roomies... my dutch girls! Miss them so much. If we are also including the first half of August in this, I was able to take a nice trip to Glenwood Springs, CO with my mom and step pops. It was way fun! By far my favorite part was the river rafting/ropes course/ziplining day. It was amazing and I have been wanting to do another ropes course/zipline ever since. Maybe someday...
September 2010 - Um... Yeah, I really don't remember much about this month. I think it was just standard school, institute, roomie bonding and such... Not too much exciting.
October 2010 - Elder Warren left on his mission to NYC. This wouldn't seem like a big enough deal to make my blog since we weren't even speaking to each other, but it was huge to me. I mean, this kid broke my heart and I had spent the entire year trying to get over him and I thought for sure when he left on his mission it would make things easier, but it just didn't. What made it easier will come later on in this post.
November 2010 - This is the month I interviewed for and received my patriarchal blessing and limited use temple recommend. I felt good! I was also able to show my dutch roomies what Thanksgiving is and it was way fun taking them home with me and going shopping and such. This is the month they also invited me to go to NYC with them in December and somehow I managed to talk my mom into letting me go. Way cool!
December 2010 - By far the biggest month of my year... sorta. On December 3rd, I met Talls and the whole week following we spent just hanging out and getting to know each other. Then I left for NYC with my lovely Holland girls on the 10th. I loved loved loved NYC! I just feel sorry for them because I couldn't stop texting Talls the entire time I was there. I still feel way bad about that, but in a way I don't cuz all those hours of texts and phone calls really brought us closer together. My favorite part about NYC and the one thing I would do if I could only spend one more day there was the museum on 9/11. It was so emotional being there and seeing pictures and reading stories. It just brought everything about that day closer to home in the most amazing way possible. Ellis Island was also gorgeous! I got home from NYC on the 19th and my grandma died on Christmas and it was about time too... We are all super happy that she is with my grandpa again, right where she belongs :) And on the 27th, buddy made the 2 hour trip to come visit me. We had our first kiss on temple hill and then he told me he wanted to marry me so the rest of my month was occupied with crazy thoughts of marriage.
January 2010 - I came back down to start spring semester. Talls and I hung out all the time and made arrangements for the wedding like hiring a photographer and I got my dress. That was all before he officially proposed to me on the 27th. We had gone to the temple to do baptisms and then he took me to my favorite cupcake shop in the world. With our cupcakes, we went up on a hill overlooking St. George to eat dinner and of course, our cupcakes. Well he had put my ring on top of my cupcake and I was absolutely in shock when I saw it. He then played Marry Me by Train on his phone and asked me to dance, but I was too in shock to even move, so we just sat there instead and when the song was over, he stood me up, got down on one knee, and asked me to marry him. Obviously I said yes :)
February 2010 - I really remember like nothing from February so moving on...
March 2010 - Spring break! Loved it! Talls was able to come home with me for a weekend and it was super fun hanging out with old friends and playing cards with my rents. By the way, I have the funnest and hippest parents on this planet!
April 2010 - I got a job! Well actually, I got it in March, but I really started getting into it in April. Good stuff. I also had my bridal shower over Easter break and Talls was able to go home with me then too.
May 2010 - Um... So I got married this month which I kinda think is a big deal yeah? Yeah. I also got to move out of a dorm for the last time! Ya! No more smeer lappen to battle with. Just an adorable husby to pick up after :) And on the 13th I took out my endowments. Then went on a honeymoon to SLC, or more correctly, temple square.
June 2010 - Worked, worked, and worked some more! Also got to go home for the Mormon Miracle Pageant which was near and dear to my heart and just an overall great experience. I highly recommend going if you have never gone before. It's life changing! Literally...
July - August 2010 - Can I just let you read my month in great detail? Too bad if not, cuz I will anyways. That is all.
September 2010 - Um... Yeah, I really don't remember much about this month. I think it was just standard school, institute, roomie bonding and such... Not too much exciting.
October 2010 - Elder Warren left on his mission to NYC. This wouldn't seem like a big enough deal to make my blog since we weren't even speaking to each other, but it was huge to me. I mean, this kid broke my heart and I had spent the entire year trying to get over him and I thought for sure when he left on his mission it would make things easier, but it just didn't. What made it easier will come later on in this post.
November 2010 - This is the month I interviewed for and received my patriarchal blessing and limited use temple recommend. I felt good! I was also able to show my dutch roomies what Thanksgiving is and it was way fun taking them home with me and going shopping and such. This is the month they also invited me to go to NYC with them in December and somehow I managed to talk my mom into letting me go. Way cool!
December 2010 - By far the biggest month of my year... sorta. On December 3rd, I met Talls and the whole week following we spent just hanging out and getting to know each other. Then I left for NYC with my lovely Holland girls on the 10th. I loved loved loved NYC! I just feel sorry for them because I couldn't stop texting Talls the entire time I was there. I still feel way bad about that, but in a way I don't cuz all those hours of texts and phone calls really brought us closer together. My favorite part about NYC and the one thing I would do if I could only spend one more day there was the museum on 9/11. It was so emotional being there and seeing pictures and reading stories. It just brought everything about that day closer to home in the most amazing way possible. Ellis Island was also gorgeous! I got home from NYC on the 19th and my grandma died on Christmas and it was about time too... We are all super happy that she is with my grandpa again, right where she belongs :) And on the 27th, buddy made the 2 hour trip to come visit me. We had our first kiss on temple hill and then he told me he wanted to marry me so the rest of my month was occupied with crazy thoughts of marriage.
January 2010 - I came back down to start spring semester. Talls and I hung out all the time and made arrangements for the wedding like hiring a photographer and I got my dress. That was all before he officially proposed to me on the 27th. We had gone to the temple to do baptisms and then he took me to my favorite cupcake shop in the world. With our cupcakes, we went up on a hill overlooking St. George to eat dinner and of course, our cupcakes. Well he had put my ring on top of my cupcake and I was absolutely in shock when I saw it. He then played Marry Me by Train on his phone and asked me to dance, but I was too in shock to even move, so we just sat there instead and when the song was over, he stood me up, got down on one knee, and asked me to marry him. Obviously I said yes :)
February 2010 - I really remember like nothing from February so moving on...
March 2010 - Spring break! Loved it! Talls was able to come home with me for a weekend and it was super fun hanging out with old friends and playing cards with my rents. By the way, I have the funnest and hippest parents on this planet!
April 2010 - I got a job! Well actually, I got it in March, but I really started getting into it in April. Good stuff. I also had my bridal shower over Easter break and Talls was able to go home with me then too.
May 2010 - Um... So I got married this month which I kinda think is a big deal yeah? Yeah. I also got to move out of a dorm for the last time! Ya! No more smeer lappen to battle with. Just an adorable husby to pick up after :) And on the 13th I took out my endowments. Then went on a honeymoon to SLC, or more correctly, temple square.
June 2010 - Worked, worked, and worked some more! Also got to go home for the Mormon Miracle Pageant which was near and dear to my heart and just an overall great experience. I highly recommend going if you have never gone before. It's life changing! Literally...
July - August 2010 - Can I just let you read my month in great detail? Too bad if not, cuz I will anyways. That is all.
Friday, August 19, 2011
Day 27: The Last Month, In Great Detail
Wow... A whole month to detail for you guys. I don't even remember last week, let alone last month. Well I guess we will do our best...
A month ago was obviously July 19th. I know that my birthday is on July 23rd and Talls and I took a trip to my home for it. From Talls I got a book, What Happened to Goodbye by Sarah Dessen (my fave author ever!!!), the movie Charly (tear jerker), and some coolio capsules that you put in water and they dissolve into sponges. My present from my mom was going to the Idols Live concert earlier in the month which was awesome! Plus a shopping spree that same trip. And my dad gave me what my dad typically gives... a squash, a cucumber, some food to add to my food storage, plus an amazing guitar tuner! and an iTunes gift card. Thanks all!
My birthday is awfully close to the 24th of July which just happened to be on a Sunday this year so it got celebrated on my birthday. That was fun getting to do the local town celebration of a parade and a celebration at the park. I don't think Talls was expecting much since the town I grew up in has about 500 people versus his 30,000, but he was pleasantly surprised. I also baked an awesome birthday cake for myself and put some rubber duckies on top which are now sitting in my shower. I also got a birthday balloon which blew up on the way home scaring everyone in the car. Great fun.
The last Sunday in July, Talls and I had to speak in sacrament on priesthood leadership and given it was my first ever sacrament talk, I think I did pretty well. In fact I went to the dentist today and my hygienist is a girl in my ward and she told me that she enjoyed our talks, especially the part when I elaborated on how Talls and I met and his stalkerish ways... Mwahahaha...
August 8th, 9th, and 10th, buddy and I took a nice mini vacay up to the SLC area to go to Thanksgiving Point, Lagoon, and Temple Square. Thanksgiving Point was good and the gardens were gorgeous (but hot). We both decided that we need to get Talls mom up there cuz she just loves gardening so she could easily spend a whole day there enjoying the gorgeous flowers and stuff. Lagoon was also a blast. It was fun watching Talls get all worked up over the roller coasters. For me, Lagoon began to loose its appeal the first time I went to Disneyland, but Talls has only spent a couple of hours in Disneyland and he had only been to Lagoon approx 3 times before I went with him so he was like a little kid in a candy shop. Too cute! The best part about it all was the fact that the lines were way short. Like max wait time = 20 minutes. Average was probably 5-10 which was great other than the fact that I can get motion sick sometimes and going on that many rides in the heat eventually did me in. Temple Square was also great, but that is in my week detail.
There is so much I am leaving out, but I'm honestly getting tired of these 30 days of posts. I have no idea how I'm supposed to tackle a whole year in detail. Whew... May have to take a break before getting to that one...
A month ago was obviously July 19th. I know that my birthday is on July 23rd and Talls and I took a trip to my home for it. From Talls I got a book, What Happened to Goodbye by Sarah Dessen (my fave author ever!!!), the movie Charly (tear jerker), and some coolio capsules that you put in water and they dissolve into sponges. My present from my mom was going to the Idols Live concert earlier in the month which was awesome! Plus a shopping spree that same trip. And my dad gave me what my dad typically gives... a squash, a cucumber, some food to add to my food storage, plus an amazing guitar tuner! and an iTunes gift card. Thanks all!
My birthday is awfully close to the 24th of July which just happened to be on a Sunday this year so it got celebrated on my birthday. That was fun getting to do the local town celebration of a parade and a celebration at the park. I don't think Talls was expecting much since the town I grew up in has about 500 people versus his 30,000, but he was pleasantly surprised. I also baked an awesome birthday cake for myself and put some rubber duckies on top which are now sitting in my shower. I also got a birthday balloon which blew up on the way home scaring everyone in the car. Great fun.
The last Sunday in July, Talls and I had to speak in sacrament on priesthood leadership and given it was my first ever sacrament talk, I think I did pretty well. In fact I went to the dentist today and my hygienist is a girl in my ward and she told me that she enjoyed our talks, especially the part when I elaborated on how Talls and I met and his stalkerish ways... Mwahahaha...
August 8th, 9th, and 10th, buddy and I took a nice mini vacay up to the SLC area to go to Thanksgiving Point, Lagoon, and Temple Square. Thanksgiving Point was good and the gardens were gorgeous (but hot). We both decided that we need to get Talls mom up there cuz she just loves gardening so she could easily spend a whole day there enjoying the gorgeous flowers and stuff. Lagoon was also a blast. It was fun watching Talls get all worked up over the roller coasters. For me, Lagoon began to loose its appeal the first time I went to Disneyland, but Talls has only spent a couple of hours in Disneyland and he had only been to Lagoon approx 3 times before I went with him so he was like a little kid in a candy shop. Too cute! The best part about it all was the fact that the lines were way short. Like max wait time = 20 minutes. Average was probably 5-10 which was great other than the fact that I can get motion sick sometimes and going on that many rides in the heat eventually did me in. Temple Square was also great, but that is in my week detail.
There is so much I am leaving out, but I'm honestly getting tired of these 30 days of posts. I have no idea how I'm supposed to tackle a whole year in detail. Whew... May have to take a break before getting to that one...
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Day 26: Your Week In Great Detail
This should be a bit more exciting than my day in detail, but not by much...
Wednesday - This was the last day of a trip buddy and I had gone on. This day we decided to go to temple square and attend an endowment session along with visiting some of the buildings we didn't make it to while on our honeymoon. That temple has the prettiest celestial room ever! Granted I have only been in two other temples, but still. Gorgeous! We had lunch at the Olive Garden which was delicious and we had the coolest waitress. She was awesome! Maybe she was just working for a good tip, but she deserved one thats for sure. Then we went back and toured the Church History Museum which was really cool and then stalked some brides before we had to leave at 5 to go have dinner with one of his friends in Roy. I had never met her or her husband but they were really fun to hang out with for a couple of hours before we headed home. We got out of there a little before nine and with construction and all, it took us a little over 5 hours to get home. It was such a struggle to stay awake but we made it and it was worth it!
Thursday - I don't really remember much about this day except buddy didn't have to do a whole lot of working and so we got to hang out a bit. what we did exactly I don't recall although I do know we went grocery shopping.
Friday - One of my good friends from high school was having her bridal shower this day so I made the 2 hour trek home to celebrate with her. It was a great shower and I even won at two of the games... famous partners & bingo (I got blackout first). I was also able to visit my daddy which was good. Friday nights are usually our date nights so we just had a nice game night and played some Racko and Mancala and Connect 4. Buddy also let me do his makeup... haha... It was a very good makeup job though. If only it had been on a girl... After we played our games we walked down to McDonalds (with buddy's makeup still on) and got some kiddie cones. It was fabulous.
Saturday - Buddy didn't have to work much this day either so we played some more games in the morning and then cleaned during the afternoon. I was able to tackle our study room which has been driving me bonkers ever since he got all of his stuff moved in and cluttered everything up with random books and papers. It was bad, but now you can actually see our desks and I love it! That night was the Miss Iron County pageant which we went to because A) I love pageants and B) One of my roomies was competing (she took 1st attendant! Yeah! Go Emilee!). It was Tall's first pageant and he actually enjoyed it which makes me happy cuz that means I can take him to more :) After the pageant we came home and hip hopped it up before bed time.
Sunday - Right before we went to bed Saturday night, Talls got a call from his little sister saying that their mom had been injured in a hike earlier that day and wouldn't be able to play the piano in sacrament so buddy had to cover for her. We also had a farewell to go to for one of his friends. When we came home, we had a lovely and adventurous lunch for our third month anniversary (details of that are contained in day 24's post). After that I don't remember much of what happened that day although I'm sure it was great.
Monday - I went back to work after a week off for my last 40 hour work week before school starts! Yay! And we had a great FHE lesson that night and other than that, I also don't remember much from that day.
Yesterday - Another work day, which was detailed in yesterday's post. For those of you wondering (for the one of you who is actually reading this and maybe wondering) I did go get my haircut by possibly the cutest and nicest beautician working for any great clips anywhere! and then went home, made dinner, and buddy didn't go to ultimate frisbee so we watched Love Happens instead.
Yup... that's my week.
Wednesday - This was the last day of a trip buddy and I had gone on. This day we decided to go to temple square and attend an endowment session along with visiting some of the buildings we didn't make it to while on our honeymoon. That temple has the prettiest celestial room ever! Granted I have only been in two other temples, but still. Gorgeous! We had lunch at the Olive Garden which was delicious and we had the coolest waitress. She was awesome! Maybe she was just working for a good tip, but she deserved one thats for sure. Then we went back and toured the Church History Museum which was really cool and then stalked some brides before we had to leave at 5 to go have dinner with one of his friends in Roy. I had never met her or her husband but they were really fun to hang out with for a couple of hours before we headed home. We got out of there a little before nine and with construction and all, it took us a little over 5 hours to get home. It was such a struggle to stay awake but we made it and it was worth it!
Thursday - I don't really remember much about this day except buddy didn't have to do a whole lot of working and so we got to hang out a bit. what we did exactly I don't recall although I do know we went grocery shopping.
Friday - One of my good friends from high school was having her bridal shower this day so I made the 2 hour trek home to celebrate with her. It was a great shower and I even won at two of the games... famous partners & bingo (I got blackout first). I was also able to visit my daddy which was good. Friday nights are usually our date nights so we just had a nice game night and played some Racko and Mancala and Connect 4. Buddy also let me do his makeup... haha... It was a very good makeup job though. If only it had been on a girl... After we played our games we walked down to McDonalds (with buddy's makeup still on) and got some kiddie cones. It was fabulous.
Saturday - Buddy didn't have to work much this day either so we played some more games in the morning and then cleaned during the afternoon. I was able to tackle our study room which has been driving me bonkers ever since he got all of his stuff moved in and cluttered everything up with random books and papers. It was bad, but now you can actually see our desks and I love it! That night was the Miss Iron County pageant which we went to because A) I love pageants and B) One of my roomies was competing (she took 1st attendant! Yeah! Go Emilee!). It was Tall's first pageant and he actually enjoyed it which makes me happy cuz that means I can take him to more :) After the pageant we came home and hip hopped it up before bed time.
Sunday - Right before we went to bed Saturday night, Talls got a call from his little sister saying that their mom had been injured in a hike earlier that day and wouldn't be able to play the piano in sacrament so buddy had to cover for her. We also had a farewell to go to for one of his friends. When we came home, we had a lovely and adventurous lunch for our third month anniversary (details of that are contained in day 24's post). After that I don't remember much of what happened that day although I'm sure it was great.
Monday - I went back to work after a week off for my last 40 hour work week before school starts! Yay! And we had a great FHE lesson that night and other than that, I also don't remember much from that day.
Yesterday - Another work day, which was detailed in yesterday's post. For those of you wondering (for the one of you who is actually reading this and maybe wondering) I did go get my haircut by possibly the cutest and nicest beautician working for any great clips anywhere! and then went home, made dinner, and buddy didn't go to ultimate frisbee so we watched Love Happens instead.
Yup... that's my week.
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Day 25: Your Day In Detail
Ready for a boring story? Here goes...
6:45 - Unwillingly wake up to my alarm and try to wake up the husby who always sets his alarm for like an hour before he actually wakes up.
7:00 - Eat breakfast. I had a bowl of frosted mini wheats that I discovered have more protein and fiber in them than multi grain cheerios do.
7:15 - Took a nice hot shower to brush my teeth and wash my face (I had showered the night before) because my house was cold!
7:30-8:00 - Did my hair and makeup and, since I was running late, let the husby pick out my outfit for the day.
8:00 - This is where it gets boring.... Went to work. Where there was nothing to do. As always.
12:07 - Went on my lunch break. Finished writing a letter to Elder Warren, had some easy mac, mailed the letter to Elder Warren, got a new student ID, got a cool sticker to put on my student ID which will allow me to get into sporting events for free, and got a pack of M&Ms when I realized that easy mac probably wasn't enough to hold me over until dinner.
1:07 - Went back to work and sat here waiting and praying for something to do other than study a hugemongus accounting book and surf the web.
At approximately 5 o'clock I will close up shop, go to great clips where I will get a much needed trim and then venture home to make dinner. Depending on what the hubby chooses to do tonight, I will either make another fleece blanket to donate to Cantus! (if the husby decides to go play ultimate frisbee) or go on a walk with the husby (if the husby decides to eat dinner with me rather than play frisbee). At approximately 9:30 I will insist on turning in for the night, but we will have to do our scripture study first and cuddle and talk for a while so once again, I will get to bed anywhere from an hour to an hour and a half later than I desire. Isn't my life just so exciting? :)
6:45 - Unwillingly wake up to my alarm and try to wake up the husby who always sets his alarm for like an hour before he actually wakes up.
7:00 - Eat breakfast. I had a bowl of frosted mini wheats that I discovered have more protein and fiber in them than multi grain cheerios do.
7:15 - Took a nice hot shower to brush my teeth and wash my face (I had showered the night before) because my house was cold!
7:30-8:00 - Did my hair and makeup and, since I was running late, let the husby pick out my outfit for the day.
8:00 - This is where it gets boring.... Went to work. Where there was nothing to do. As always.
12:07 - Went on my lunch break. Finished writing a letter to Elder Warren, had some easy mac, mailed the letter to Elder Warren, got a new student ID, got a cool sticker to put on my student ID which will allow me to get into sporting events for free, and got a pack of M&Ms when I realized that easy mac probably wasn't enough to hold me over until dinner.
1:07 - Went back to work and sat here waiting and praying for something to do other than study a hugemongus accounting book and surf the web.
At approximately 5 o'clock I will close up shop, go to great clips where I will get a much needed trim and then venture home to make dinner. Depending on what the hubby chooses to do tonight, I will either make another fleece blanket to donate to Cantus! (if the husby decides to go play ultimate frisbee) or go on a walk with the husby (if the husby decides to eat dinner with me rather than play frisbee). At approximately 9:30 I will insist on turning in for the night, but we will have to do our scripture study first and cuddle and talk for a while so once again, I will get to bed anywhere from an hour to an hour and a half later than I desire. Isn't my life just so exciting? :)
Monday, August 15, 2011
Day 24: Whatever Tickles Your Fancy
Oh buddy... If there was ever a story worthy of being a Talls & Smalls Adventure, its probably this one. So yesterday was our 3rd month anniversary. For our wedding someone gave us two champagne glasses with a bottle of sparkling cider (non-alcoholic of course) which we drank with a fancy dinner for our 1 month anniversary so its become sort of a tradition to have sparkling cider in those glasses every month on the 14th. The first month we had a fancy dinner at home and the second month we had a picnic. Well this month the 14th just happened to be a Sunday so I tried to think of Sabbath Day dates to go on and finally decided to hide out in a church after the block to have a packed lunch like we did pretty much every Sunday when we were engaged. However, that plan got disrupted by a messed up schedule blah blah blah so we were just having a normal lunch at home with our champagne glasses and everstuff when I had the brilliant idea of lighting a candle to make it a little more romantic. So we lit a candle and the mood was set, that is until buddy picked up a random paper towel and stuffed it in the candle. At first I was just like, "Buddy, what are you doing?" But then I plucked it out and it was flaming and I started yelling, "Buddy! Buddy!" There were ashes flying everywhere and a burning paper towel just sitting on our table. It wasn't long before our smoke alarms went off too. Buddy was poking at the flaming towel with a fork while I was debating on whether stomping on the ashes or throwing water on them would have a better effect. Finally, buddy got the towel stabbed by a fork and wanted to throw it in the garbage can which really is probably the stupidest thing you could do so I yelled at him for that too. His next idea was to take it outside but I wouldn't let him do that either so I grabbed a cup, filled it with water and stuffed the paper towel in it to listen to it sizzle. As we looked around, we noticed all the ashes that had littered our kitchen/living room and were just grateful we didn't set anything on fire. And then we laughed... and laughed... and laughed. It really was great! Just wouldn't have been if the house had caught on fire. The best part though is that we still have the cup with the paper towel inside and a note on top of it that reads, "In remembrance of the sparks that flew at our third month anniversary lunch". Oh yes, married life is great :)
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Days 21, 22, and 23
So I'm just throwing this out there but... I have been a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints for two years today! Probably even about this exact minute, although I don't quite remember exactly when my baptismal service was, only that it was in the evening. Oh, and I pormise that the last few days of posts will go much smoother than the last week has because I will be at work where I have both the time and the fast internet connection to post. So anyways...
Day 21 <3 A Recipe
Here is a recipe for fettuccine alfredo that I stole out of a Betty Crocker cookbook. Everyone I feed it to loves it so I figured its a good one to share...
Ingredients:
8 oz uncooked fettuccine
1/2 cup butter (1 stick)
1/2 cup whipping cream
3/4 cup grated parmesan cheese
1/2 tsp salt
dash of pepper
Directions:
1-Cook noodles in a dutch oven pan. While noodles are cooking, make sauce.
2-In a saucepan, heat the butter and whipping cream on low until butter is melted. Stir in the cheese, salt and pepper until mixture is smooth.
3-Drain the fettuccine and put back in dutch oven or serving bowl.
4-Pour sauce over noodles and stir until the fettuccine is well coated.
Super simple, just don't make the same mistake I did the first time I tried to make this. I was young and innocent and didn't know that there was more than just cool whip whipping cream out there so yes... I tried to make this with cool whip. Not exactly the best result I must say. :)
Day 22 <3 A Website
There is a website I have recently become obsessed with called pinterest. It is so great for a girl like me who loves to shop online and surf the web because it allows you to pin and organize all the products and ideas you like in a neat and organized fashion which you get to share with others and they can either like it or repin it to their own respective boards. It's great! Here is a link to one of my boards...
http://pinterest.com/cassityj/wish-i-may-wish-i-might/
Day 23 <3 A You Tube Video
Oh all the great ones I could go with, but when it comes right down to it and people ask me to share my favorite video at a youtube party, it always comes back to this one. Every time.
So stupid, but I <3 it! :)
Day 21 <3 A Recipe
Here is a recipe for fettuccine alfredo that I stole out of a Betty Crocker cookbook. Everyone I feed it to loves it so I figured its a good one to share...
Ingredients:
8 oz uncooked fettuccine
1/2 cup butter (1 stick)
1/2 cup whipping cream
3/4 cup grated parmesan cheese
1/2 tsp salt
dash of pepper
Directions:
1-Cook noodles in a dutch oven pan. While noodles are cooking, make sauce.
2-In a saucepan, heat the butter and whipping cream on low until butter is melted. Stir in the cheese, salt and pepper until mixture is smooth.
3-Drain the fettuccine and put back in dutch oven or serving bowl.
4-Pour sauce over noodles and stir until the fettuccine is well coated.
Super simple, just don't make the same mistake I did the first time I tried to make this. I was young and innocent and didn't know that there was more than just cool whip whipping cream out there so yes... I tried to make this with cool whip. Not exactly the best result I must say. :)
Day 22 <3 A Website
There is a website I have recently become obsessed with called pinterest. It is so great for a girl like me who loves to shop online and surf the web because it allows you to pin and organize all the products and ideas you like in a neat and organized fashion which you get to share with others and they can either like it or repin it to their own respective boards. It's great! Here is a link to one of my boards...
http://pinterest.com/cassityj/wish-i-may-wish-i-might/
Day 23 <3 A You Tube Video
Oh all the great ones I could go with, but when it comes right down to it and people ask me to share my favorite video at a youtube party, it always comes back to this one. Every time.
So stupid, but I <3 it! :)
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