Paint and Birthdays

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Tiffany's Birthday Party Pictures

Basketball & Blood...

Anybody that knows Justin, knows that he is extremely accident prone. Most of the major accidents I just get to hear about, but not this one, lol.

This is the second time since I've known Justin that we've ended up in the ER with a broken nose from Church Basketball. Those boys are so rough! Luckily they said it didn't break his nose, just bruised it severely and it bled for 3 hours strait! He also got a minor concussion but I guess that's what happens when little guy with face + big guy with elbow.

He didn't want me to take his picture, but at least it's proof he isn't faking, lol.

Today is....

Day 5 of 9 (that's MORE THAN HALF) that I've gone without drinking any soda. Of the other four days, I have not drank more than 4 oz. (Justin and I share one can every so often)

I'm quite proud of myself!

Now if I could just get rid of the darn headaches, lol.

I know they'll be gone soon enough though....

Getting out of the slump

I'm glad to say that things have livened up for us a bit since my last post. It was getting pretty dull there for a while. I survived my 8 days of work to enjoy my two days off. It was WONDERFUL. Justin and I just hung out at home with eachother.

Even the dogs had a lazy day...sleeping in the snow!

Even the dogs had a lazy day...sleeping in the snow!

We enjoyed the new adventures of Mario on the Wii...Very fun, I must admit, even for being a ninetendo hater :D

Yesterday we had the day off, but we were a little more energetic. We ran errands around town, went and go Chinese food. We went to Lowes and bought my Cabinet Pulls for the kitchen for my birthday. We also bought some GREEN paint that we're going to do in the Living room as an accent wall. I'm not going to lie, I'm kinda nervous about it. Some color will be good in there though.

You can't see them very well, but they are really cute! It's called Moss green...I'm pretty excited.

This is the wall...

After we finished our errands we took the dogs on a nice walk. It was fairly beautiful outside yesterday. Not like summer -- but better than usual. Then we went back to mario for a little while before we grilled shish-kabobs with marinated deer backstraps, zucchini and yellow squash. It was REALLY good. It was healthy too. We've been doing a lot better with our eating habits lately. They were never BAD in the first place, but we're trying some new things out, to say the least.

After dinner Trish and I went and saw the movie "When in Rome," SO CUTE! I loved it. It was funny and cute and did I mention funny?

After the movie we came back to my house and visited forever. I love girl talk! Love my friends. So amazing and fun :D

Then this morning...I'm so proud of myself. I was very brave this morning. I found my trial pair of contacts, put them in..I could see :D Loved that. I got out my swimming suit!!! and put that on...Yikes! Actually It wasn't that bad, lol Or I wouldn't have continued with my plan. But then I went and got Hailey and took her to Toddler Time in the Swimming Pool at the Rec. Center. We had so much fun! I just stinkin love that little girl. She's so funny and smart and energetic. I also felt so good to get out of the house and do something that I didn't normally do...

I had to explain to Tiffany the reasoning for any upcomnig awkward comments or questions she had about the naked little boy in the womens showers.....

I can't help but love her innocence and curiosity. All she could do was stand there and point and go "He has a.....He has a ....." and as I'm washing her off I tell her, It's okay, he's a boy and you're a girl. That's why you don't have one of those......I don't think she understood because she just kept staring at him until we went to get dressed. Funny Girl!

February...

February brings to me...

1. My 21st birthday!
2. Valentines day {Excited for a night off with the hubby}
3. Valentines day the movie which I'm SO excited to see
4. Hopefully it will warm up MAYBE just a little?
5. A trip to Salt Lake for some cute spring decorations...I'll do whatever I can to get it to roll around sooner!

Yesterday night Justin and I went to my parents house to have a birthday party for my sister. She is 23 now. It's crazy how time flies! It's hard for me to believe that she is 23 because that means I'll be 21. I'm turning into an old person! lol Not just that, but she has two {adorable} little girls already. We have two girls too but they're a little easier to take care of :D (sometimes) haha.

Anyway, for the party my mom made home made pizza. It's the best! For our birthday parties when we were little we would always have home made pizza. It was like bringing back an old tradition that was somehow forgotten. So yummy! Hailey was so hyper too, she kept climbing on my back and telling me to "take me on horsey ride" or she would climb up in the computer chair and sit there and say "spin me, spin me, spin me" until I would. It was so fun just playing with her. Little Natty is growing up SO fast too! She can sit up on her own now. She is so chunky, her little leg rolls are just adorable!

Saturday Justin and I kinda crashed. We were both all excited to have a date night together and {mostly because of me} we just layed around the house. We opted for Taco Bell for dinner then went to Walmart {in our PJ's} to go grocery shopping. Then my dad came up from Jensen and started helping Justin cut the lumber to frame in the basement office while I sat down there and watched them, lol.

You know how....haha.... sometimes {like Saturday} I am lazy and am just in lounging around clothes but my hair and makeup are still done from the day and I'm like...well I don't look that bad, I'll be fine just to go to the store in this. I see people at walmart all the time in their pajamas and never really think much of it, so why shouldn't I be the same. Of course it's that one night you decide not to change when you go and you see plenty of people you don't usually see and they're dressed up all cute...and you look like...well you've been lounging around the house?

It's just not fair.

Friday night, I got to go to one of my good friend's Baby shower. Jess is just about to have that little girl and I'm so excited! She got so much cute stuff and it's all so TINY! I just love it. I know she's going to be an absolute doll. I had to rush out of there so Justin and I could be to the temple on time, but we had a good time.

Now...I only have 3 1/2 hours left to go and I'll have two days off with Justin! Oh man it's been a long time since I had a day off.

January is almost over!

This past week has been kindof a blur of not-so-interesting things. I've worked for the past three nights and then again this morning and will continue to do so until next Tuesday when I'll FINALLY get a day off. So I have not been seeing much of Justin. I stay home and clean during the mornings and play with the dogs, exercise, do computer work, cook then get ready and come to work.

Justin has been doing various things while he's been at home in the afternoons. Mostly helping me get the house cleaned up. He went and practiced basketball Wednesday night, then played Church ball thursday night. I believe that they have not lost a game yet. Yesterday's was a forfeit, so they won, but didn't have to play for it. Pretty exciting.

I have been really wanting to go to the rec. center more lately. We have memberships, I just need to GO. I printed off some schedules online the other day so now I know what' s happening when. Just need to do it.

That's about all that's happenin in our little world. I finally have a morning shift so I'll get to go home at 3 today. Then I get to go to Jess' baby shower, and Jensen to do my parents chores, then back up town to go to the temple.

Busy Busy...

Dan, Wendy and Kyler

One of the things I like about working at the Marriott is that I can usually twist Trish's arm into giving me the same four days off that Justin usually has. It's only once a month (mostly) so it's not THAT hard, but I do have to say that I love it. This four day weekend Justin's cousins from Taylorsville came out, Dan Wendy and Kyler, and spent Friday - Sunday. It was lots of fun! They went swimming Friday night at the Rec. Center while I was at work then Saturday we got up and had a big breakfast with crepes, hash browns and bacon then we went to Jensen and my Dad took us on a wagon ride! Kyler found a chin-rest
Hookin up Sparky.
Dan caught a baby pig for Kyler to pet. He wasn't too sure about that. It was cute though.

Then we went to Melanie's house and had lunch and hung out upstairs til about 5 while Kyler napped. After that we went home and got our clothes changed and went bowling. Super fun. I was in second place which was surprising because I only got 95... Kinda embarrassing. haha.

Mine and Justin's awesome bowling shoes
Mine and Wendy's awesome bowling shoes.

Then we went home and played cards and watched movies til about 1 am. That's late for Justin and I, lol we're bums :D

Sunday we got up and went to CAL Ranch and got some dog food and got Kyler some awesome John Deer boots for his birthday next week, then we went to Lowes and bought all the lumber to frame in the office/ gun room in the basement and Dan went and helped Justin haul it all in the house while Wendy and I went and picked up Cafe Rio for lunch. After we were finished eating they headed home. It was such a great time! Thanks for coming out guys!