Happiness

I came home from work one day last week and found these beautiful flowers waiting for me! My hubby knowing what a rough week I was having surprised me with these lovely lilies :) Not only did I come home to flowers, but also a picked up living room and a put together bed! I have a great hubby! We've been sleeping on just the mattress since we've moved in and have had the bed pieces in our room, but haven't had time to put it together....well Dave hadn't had time to put it together with his 12-14 hour work days, it was his bed and I'm sure if I attempted to put it together I would have screwed something up. Life is grand! 2 more days till mexico!! :)

Catching Up...

Ok, so it's been forever since I've posted anything. Lots has happened...well mainly that I'm married now :) I'll do my best to catch up, but I might just skip to our recent happenings... so here it goes!

Back in October...actually Halloween weekend Dave and I took a trip out to upstate NY to see his sister Lori and family. We had tons of fun relaxing going to Palmyra and the Fly Creek Cider Mill!

Thanksgiving was spent in Wyoming with Dave's family. I went coyote hunting and elk hunting. I tagged along for the experience....no animals were harmed :) I did get to see Moose!! I was excited because that's all I wanted to see...waking up at 3:30am was worth it!

After Thanksgiving we moved into our apartment. Moving was a pain and organizing it all was worse! Almost 2 months later and we're still organizing things. Can't wait to be done!

Before picture...soon i'll have an after picture :)

Once we got settled in we had Whitney and Jenna over for some hot chocolate, donuts, and snowflake making.

We also had Jen and Emily over for dinner before Emily and her family left for Scotland.

Christmas was spent in Texas with the Milwaukee crew joining us for the holidays! I was expecting to get a break from the cold Utah weather, instead it followed me to Texas. It was great to be home for Christmas with the family!

We also celebrated Grandmas Birthday!

New Years weekend we went winter camping. Dave's dad got us an all season tent, so we decided to test it out. We found a spot in Spanish Fork canyon. Dave cleared out the snow for out camping area and built snow walls. I somewhat made a sledding trail on the hill next to our camping spot. It ended up being lots of fun. We stayed warm in our tent due to our nice catalytic heater :)

Besides that, we've been organizing and cleaning our place along with working. We're excited to be going to Playa del Carmen in 2 weeks for a whole week! Im ready to get my tan on and enjoy the beach!

Enjoying the Outdoors

A few weeks ago Dave and I decided to go camping up in the mountains and enjoy the outdoors

The leaves were changing and the weather was still nice, so it made for a perfect drive up the canyon. We took the Alpine Loop and camped around Spring Lake. We left Provo pretty late and made it to our campsite around 3am. This is what we woke up to...

For breakfast we had yummy pancakes, eggs, hashbrowns, bacon and juice. It was the BEST camping breakfast i've ever had! Beats granola bars and bagels anytime! After breakfast we packed up and drove the rest of the Alpine Loop and enjoyed the beautiful foliage!

Last weekend we went up Hobble Creek Canyon and drove around till we found a area to camp out on. Weather was nice, but a bit colder than the last camping experience. Dave got the fire going and we warmed up with a yummy cup of hot chocolate!

For dinner we had chicken and beef semi-prepared tin foil dinners with tortillas, guacamole, and chips. Dinner was delicious! For entertainment we watched Seven Pounds.

That night we realized that we forgot to pack the griddle, which presented a problem for making breakfast the next morning. We brought plates with us and decided to sacrifice one and see if it would work as make-shift griddle. I woke up the next morning to the sound of crackling fire and breakfast already made! My boy is awesome!

Breakfast consisted of pancakes, hasbrowns, sausage, hot chocolate, and orange juice.

Thank you Mr. Plate for sacrificing yourself!

Thank you Dave for allowing Mr. Plate be be sacrificed!

Christmas and New Years will be spent here...

NEW ZEALAND!!

YAY! Sad thing about it, it's not going to be with my family, but they're ok with me going :)

I can't wait! Im so excited.

Not Knowing...?

I have no idea what got me thinking about this...well actually, im pretty sure it was one of the songs I was listening to while working. So I began staring of into space thinking why is it that many of us like to stay in the dark when it comes to knowing certain things or getting answers to certain questions..etc. Who knows, maybe I'm the only one who feels this way. I guess you could say some things you're better off not knowing, like the song from The Used- "knowing nothing is better than knowing at all" but if you're anything like me...not knowing drives you crazy!! So I kept thinking about it, then it came to me that sometimes it's better to stay in the dark. Sure, in the dark there maybe fear, but there is also HOPE! ...yah, this thought still isnt good enough for me to not want to know, so I guess I will forever go crazy wondering if I want to know or not...which is better??

My New Place

So I finally moved out of my old place, YAY! I spent my friday night unpacking what seemed like millions of boxes. I should have taken pictures to show the craziness of my room before unpacking and during...at one point I thought it would never end.

6 hours later...TADA!

Im still missing my desk which will go at the end of my bed and i still have a few more pictures to hang up, but all the unpacking is done...thats all that matters! Oh and I also have my own private entrance.

she's right outside my door :)

...hot flashes & cold sweats.

Being sick sucks! I've been laying in bed all day...seriously! Not much you can do when your body aches and it feels like it's going to fall to pieces at any moment. Im hot one moment, freezing cold the next...im going crazy! Times like these I just want to crawl into my mommy's lap and have her play with my hair and make it all better. Boo for being thousands of miles away.