:)

Let's make this short, sweet, and simple. Here are some pictures with a little description.

Before = Blah. Dave is cute though. :)

So we FINALLY got our bedroom set. We love it. Now our room looks sorta put together.

Next is lamps, pictures, curtains, ottoman thingy. In due time. No rush.

Well I got bored one day and took some pictures. There wasn't too much that was very pretty.

There wasn't snow on the ground-there was mush.

No flowers-they're dead.

The temple grounds were closed-so none of that.

I was cold anyway, so oh well. There are a few that I thought were decent.

I saw this hairstyle on youtube. Thought I'd try. It looks pretty cool. But that day I ran out of hairspray.

You can see a bobby pin falling out.

That was a long day at work I'll say. It was outta control!

This was a simple pinterest project I made another night when I was bored.

I found a frame at Goodwill for like a buck and just got a few things and voila. Cuteness. 

It's for our little mini beach bathroom downstairs.

And on Sunday night, we realized our fridge was broken! It definitely must not have been working the whole day...(maybe even the day before) everything was pretty mushy in the freezer so we had to throw it all out and nothing was very cold in the fridge. I guess we are glad it isn't summer...So the fridge dude came and looked at it and it has been decided. We get a new fridge from our apts! At least we don't have to pay for it, but I kinda wonder what it will look like. Guess we'll find out. I just have high hopes its like stainless or something...yah right though. :) 

So far in 2012

Life hasn't been too crazy so far. We have just been doing the normal stuff, just hangin' out and working. Getting new licenses, registering cars, looking for insurance. You know, the good stuff. We have started a project though! Kind of cool. Hopefully it works! We are trying to refinish our table. I got it from a co-worker and we figured we'd try it out. Why not?? So here's a few pictures.

The first in the series is the original table. The next is me munchin on some chippies while David sands it in the freezing cold. (He did make me do it too, though.) Then it is the sanded not so shiny product. And one layer of finish. We have another layer on it, but I don't have a picture. And we forgot a slight step. I don't know how much it really affects the table, but I guess we will find out. And David likes to lather that stuff on...nice and thick. I think a little too thick. So we'll see. ha Guess we really can't ruin it, so whatever happens, happens! We will also have to do part of the chairs. And then reupholster them. 

I made this sign for our bedroom with my nifty cricut that I got for Christmas. I need some more fonts and styles now! :) Not sure how I feel about the yellow still...hm.

This stuff is amazing. Click this link for the recipe >>> YUMMY.

It is the easiest thing ever. And so good. Next time I will cut the potato chunks smaller just so it is easier to eat them. But other than that it is perfection in your mouth. 

A few weeks ago we had game night at our house with our awesome neighbors. It was a good ol' time playing some settlers of catan and mario kart! Then at midnight (so it wasn't sunday anymore) we went to this little mexican restaurant right by our house. So we walked there in the freezing cold and pigged out. Good times. 

I just want to say that I am so excited to see both sets of my parents! Yay! :) 

(Well minus my dad--poor guy has to stay home and work.)

Good times are coming up and there is so much to be thankful for and so many reasons to be happy. 

:)

The New Year.

Well we have made it to 2012. The past year has been a great one for us, the best yet in fact. :) Well anyways. We spent NYE down in salt lake. We did this last year as one of our first dates, so we wanted to kind of "relive it" or make it a tradition kinda, possibly. We'll do it when we can. How's that for a tradition. Ha. It was super fun. Anything we do together makes me happy. So we went down to Target, I know it may not seem like a big deal, but really it is! We are just too far....then we went to dinner at Red Robin, which we also don't have near us. We actually had a feast there. Almost couldn't walk after...haha. Oh man. Then we headed down to SLC and walked around the gateway, watched the water show that's there and tried to take a picture. It only took us probably 7 tries to get the water semi-shooting up. :) I don't know why I stick things in my pockets when we take pictures...YUCK.

Oh, and thanks for the gloves again Shan and Rod. :) Love them!

We walked around the temple grounds, looked at the lights, and just talked. We road on the little light-rail thing and that's fun in itself. People watching is just great! We also saw Whitney (David's sister) and talked with her for a little bit. We were going to go ice skating, but we were already freezing and just decided not to. So we headed home, saw lots of fireworks in the sky which was cool, rented a movie and I got a blue raspberry slurpee! My absolute favorite! Oh, we rented 'Warrior'. Go get it. It is amazing! Loved it. Annnd that was our date. Happy New Years! 

Our First Christmas

Well I haven't posted in what seems like ages. So lets review what has been happening in our life.

My friends Chelsea and Courtney were in Logan so we had a sleepover and hung out at the house and made cookies. We went to In-N-Out and I was so happy! I have been having withdrawals for a long time. (Sad? Maybe...but whatever.) We went down to Salt Lake to the mall and walked around the temple and saw the lights and took a tour of the Conference Center with the nicest woman on earth possibly. I wish I knew her name so I could send her a card or something! The next night we went to the hot springs which was fun. There was nobody there since it was a school night, so we had our own pool. :) Then we took Chelsea back to her aunt's house so she could be on her way home to Cali. It was definitely a good time. I love my friends <3

So this is what Dave and I look like if we were both old men.

Good look huh?? hahaha Thank you iphone...creepy!

Isn't David's red curly hair so cute?!

So that was a fun weekend I must say! Also, we did get a washer and dryer! It finally got here a few weeks ago and we had a close call. The guys didn't think they were going to fit in our little laundry closet area thing. But I made them make sure it did. There was no way they were leaving with our washer and dryer! I was even willing to take the doors off, but thankfully we didn't have to do that :)

 Dave did a good job and ordered them without me when I was sick in bed after black friday shopping. He's a good surpriser.

Here's a random picture of Dave at walmart, on the phone with his mom, with a dino helmet on.

No big deal. :)

So here's a funny story....

This is David at home on his 15 minute break because....he took a milk shower at work! He is a forklift driver at Gossner Foods which is a milk/cheese factory and he was stacking milk in the racks. He had a load with a couple pallets of milk and he apparently didn't quite line it up right and it all came down on him. He was soaking wet. Shoes. Socks. Pants. Shirt. Everything. The guys at work were laughing at him and were wishing they had some cereal to go with the milk ;) So I made him take this picture with me in his cute little uniform. He's so precious!

Here's a christmas picture. Not the same as the one we sent in the cards. Which by the way, I hand made which I probably won't do again, although it did keep me busy for a while! And also. Our prints sucked! So sorry about that people. Don't listen to Dave if he tells you to print 'matte' instead of 'glossy'. ;)

Here's me making our family's famous peanut brittle. It really hurts your arm. 

And my grandma's cookies are on the microwave. Wow. Amazing. Thanks Gma! 

My sweater looks kinda funny on my tummy cuz my phone was in my pocket. So don't be getting any crazy ideas--especially you Rodney! ;)

Well, Christmas was great. Unfortunately we forgot to take pictures on Christmas morning, so I am really pretty bummed about it, so I guess we'll try to remember next year. But, we had such a fun time together and also with our family here in town. We skyped a lot of family too, which was awesome! Skype is such a wonderful thing! We are so thankful for all the cards, photos, and gifts! So thank you everyone, it is great to get pictures and hear updates on lives other than our own. We are so blessed and happy and thankful! Lots of Love!

Christmas is Coming!

Well we had a great Thanksgiving this year. And black friday too. We had a nice dinner with some family and watched super 8 and just hung out. It was a nice day off I must say. Dinner was good. We are all kinda noobs at cooking thanksgiving dinner. It is definitely a learning process and we have a few things to "perfect" next year. The movie was good--well the parts I saw, not like I fell asleep or anything...ha. Typical me. My Mom always used to ask me if I was watching tv with my eyes closed and I'd wake up and say, "Uh...no." Black Friday was quite eventful. We went to target--45 minutes away--and the line was wrapped around the whole building almost! We were pretty surprised. It wasn't that bad last year in sacramento...there was even a "beat bus" in the front of the store playing some music that kept the crowd pretty happy until the police made it leave. Dang. It was pretty cool. We got inside and it was ok, busy-but not madness, security did a great job with the control. We got all of our christmas stuff! Tree, ornaments, etc. so I was pretty happy. Then. We both got sick. Lame, but oh well. 

So we finally set up our tree! I am so excited for our first christmas together! Hopefully we can take some pictures and send some holiday cards soon. It is on my mind...

There's a few christmas-y pictures. My mom sent me her tripod in the mail, so I am very happy to have it. I am going to try to take our christmas card pictures with it. So we'll see...

Aren't these the cutest pillows ever?! I just love them. My wonderful Grandma Adam made them for us. She came and visited a while ago, and she thought she would make us some pillows for our living room couches to match our decor...well it doesn't help much when you change the colors. Whoops! When I opened the package I was so happy, and then I instantly thought, Crap...What can I do to fix this...haha! So I think I am going to make our guest room these colors. Problem solved. Sorry Grandma...apparently I shouldn't change my colors every week. I love them so much though! And Grandma. If you really want to, you can make us some green/cream/black ones. :) ha I have extra fabric if you happen to want a sample. Love you! 

Sunsets and Ducks.

Our sink is now unclogged! YES. It is so good to be able to rinse off a plate without the sink filling up :) Also, our oven should be fixed now...we had a few horrific experiences with it...no joke. Ew. Fingers crossed! I drank a whole gallon of Sunny D by myself this past week. I don't know if that's a good thing? Oh well. David has the milk, I have the Sunny D. It just works. Um. What else...nothing much. The only thing I took pictures of was our adventure to this little stop along the side of the road on Sunday afternoon. 

This little ducky was such a cute model :) My favorite one. They all came running to us when we walked out there but then they left because we didn't have bread. Next time we will!

The sunset was super pretty! I was having some problems with my camera...like my tripod is broken I found out. Bummer. And David somehow disconnected my lens...that was sketchy! Thankfully I caught it in my hand instead of the ground! Poor boy didn't want to touch the camera after that hah 

He's a cutie.

I am so thankful for nature and its beauty. I also love the snow--its so pretty.

Can't wait for thanksgiving next week and family get-togethers.

Oh..black friday too! :) 

<3 D&B

SNOW

Well it finally snowed! It was pretty funny actually, I was talking on the phone with my mom, and she asked if it had snowed yet? I said no. Well about 45 minutes later, I got off the phone and checked my missed texts from David saying it was snowing! So I had to call my mom back and let her know that it had indeed snowed. :) So then of course I took a picture or two.

I love the snow right now. It is so pretty. I wake up every morning looking out the window to see if it snows. David informed me that it will not snow every night. Dang. 

But, it is freeeeeezing outside. I did go running the other night and I forgot gloves. So that was painful. Took me a good while to defrost when I got home.

David and I also played racquetball again. We try to do it like once a week and we go with some friends that he works with. Well this past weeks trip wasn't so fun for him. He got smacked in the face with my racket. It really was a complete accident...poor guy... He says he still loves me.

The past week really wasn't too eventful for us. Just working and living. I use my heated blanket everyday. Probably the best money we've ever spent. ;) I also am contemplating on cutting my hair again. Even shorter...but I don't know yet. We'll see. Oh. I got bored so I took some pictures again.

There's some random pictures for you. I was driving around to find something to take pictures of and all that stacked wood caught my eye, so I stopped and walked around the area a little bit. :) D & B