arts and crafts

We were on a decorating kick this week.

We're pretty proud of our creations.

Wanna see? :]

Got this shadow box at D.I. for 3 bucks. Add some paint and cute accessories and bah duh bing!


A yard of on-sale fabric at Joann's + an oober cheap frame from D.I.= perfection.

A little corner of bliss.

007 moment.

Tonight we decided to be 15 again and we snuck into the Hampton hotel to go for a dip in the pool. We were sooo sneaky! We walked in casually like we were coming to visit a friend and headed back to the pool door. Smooth. Next part was tricky, we needed a room key to get in and nobody was in there so we couldn't just knock. I visited the little girls room while we waited for somebody to come down to the pool. When I came back out, Will was telling a spanish-speaking maintenance guy that happened to walk by that we forgot our room key. Vwala! He let us in and we were in business! It was nice to have some one on one relaxation time with my man before the stress of school starts. We could be secret agents, I swear. :]

Happy faces and Bob Marley

Have I failed to mention that Will is the sweetest guy on the planet? Okay so i'm a little biased.. but seriously. He blew my socks off on Friday with another one of his cute little surprises! It started like this:

I woke up at 5 am when nature called. There was no Will in my bed. I found him on the couch because he said I was breathing heavy and he couldn't sleep. My stuffy nose plus him being a light sleeper don't mix. I was lonely in bed but needed my sleep. Next time I woke up it was to the clacking of pans in the kitchen. I walk in to find Will making pancakes and syrup mm. Bob Marley's "Dont worry, be happy" was defineatly playing in the background on our laptop. I was a very happy woman! Only thing is I sorta ruined the surprise because he said he had planned on actually bringing me my breakfast in bed but oh well. It was still the sweetest start to a great day! Don't worry, be happy man. :]

It's unfair how cute he looks in pj's with sleepy eyes.

Boise isn't just for potatoes.

So a few weeks ago Will and I decided it was high time for a mini vacation. Lucky for us, we have some rad friends from Eagle, Idaho who suggested a trip up to their parents' places for the weekend. Evan and Chase, you're the bomb!

Highlights of our trip:

• Will got a speeding ticket when we were 10 minutes away. Boo!
  
• Hot tubbing in the wee hours of the morning.
• Ate KFC for the first time in years. (Chase's Dad owns aton of them. He knew the Colonel!)
• Ruled the hills on our quads and dirt bikes.. until mine played "Steamroller" on me. Ouch!
• 6 hours on the lake filled with wake surfing, wake boarding, and getting wicked tan lines.
• Got to sit in on the last Sacrament meeting for the Beacon Light ward. Sweet people!

Moral of the story is, Boise isn't just for potatoes. It's for lovebirds and buddies too. It was a weekend worth remembering. :]

the sandman skipped our house..

I think The Sandman missed our house this week.. There hasn't been a night so far that i've gotten a full 8 hours of sleep or been in bed before 11:30. I'm not bragging. I love my zzz's. But the good part is, the lack of sleep is due to excitement of so many new things! Rewinding back to Tuesday night.. I was exhausted after work so Will told me to nap while he went to the gym then he would come back and we'd cook some yummy dinner together. 2 and 1/2 hours later, snap. I woke up and our mac and cheese with steamed veggies dinner was made and eaten at 9. That threw our timetable off for the night. We watched Planet of the Apes and went for a run at midnight. Still not tired. Did some other fun married people stuff. ;) Still not tired. Then we got the grand idea to register for a 5K. Pause. This is where i catch you up to speed on our "30 for 30 Healthy Month".

At the end of July, we started to get sick of our late night fast food runs, hit or miss gym times, and shh little pudgy bellies. So here's the solution to the predicament that we came up with. NO fast food, NO soda, NO junk food, and my least favorite.. NO sweets for the next 30 days. Plus gym EVERYday. Sound tough? Yep I wasn't sure I'd make it out alive. But the results started showing fast, we've both lost a few pounds in just one week, have alot more energy, and are pushing eachother so much everyday to keep going. It's been an adventure!

Unpause. So this race isn't until September 10th, plenty of time for us to kick our rears in gear (don't laugh, yes we are training for a 5K!) But the cool thing is it's at the U and it's in honor of patients and doctors at the hospital there. So guess what we get to dress up as? Need I say more? Oh the fun of it! Now last night was a doozy.. We started out with plans to play baseball with a big group of friends. Will gets called on a job when we pulled up. Fail. (But good for my hard-working hubby! :] ) So after talking dirtbikes and hot girls with will's buddies for an hour, Cozette comes and rescues me and we make it a girls night. Ross and Walmart shopping. We found smokin deals and had loads of fun catching up! She dropped me off and I was pleasantly surprised to get to bed before midnight.. with still no Willy by my side. :( I wake up at 2:30AM to a Sleeping Beauty kiss from my babe of a husband. Did I mention I love him aLOT? We stayed up talking for an hour after that and I showed off my new clothes. And we slept happily ever after.. until I had to get up for work at 6:30. Oh wells.. happy blogging! :]

Kids here, kids there, kids everywhere!

Let me preface this post with a nope we are NOT pregnant.

So last week, Brother Taylor calls us into a room and gives us our first calling in the ward..
Nursery teachers.
I know the norm reaction to this calling might not be the greatest..
But it's a challenge we're excited to meet!
Sacrament meeting, then 2 hours of playing dolls, tying shoes, and handing out snacks?
Sounds like a grand ol time to me.
Plus we'd get to stick together for all of church, which we don't mind one bit :]

Today was our first day in there..
We heard tales from sister's broken piggy bank to imaginary farms to dinosaurs saying "moo".
Will was an all-star with the kids, he got beat at a basketball shootout by a 3 year old boy named Luke and made a few little girlfriends. :] They're tough competition, those darn cuties.
It was a treat, let me tell ya.
These kids are adorable, we can't wait until next sunday!

How we met.. His and Hers

Her version:

It was a hot sabbath day in June in Mesa. I was running late to church and had to drive our Altima with the windows down (the air conditioning is broken.. and by that time of summer it was 100 degrees yikes!). I rolled in to the parking lot, kinda embarrased about my wind-blown messy hair and found the furthest parking spot so i could fix my hair before anybody saw me. I walked in to the building just as the Sacrament was being passed so I sat down on a couch in the foyer. A minute later, a cute boy walked in the door late too. He sat down on the same couch as me. I checked him out through the corner of my eye, wowza he was good looking! I'd grown up in that stake and knew most of the people in our singles ward through school or my siblings, so i knew this stud had to be a new comer.. I took it upon myself to be our ward's welcoming committee and asked him alittle about himself then offered to give him a tour of the building. (Which he later told me that he thought was so funny because most LDS churches are the same design.) He must have been intrigued because he followed me around for 10 minutes while I pointed out where the Bishop's office, Sunday school classes, and bathrooms were. Then I helped him find a friend (Ben Garns) that he knew in the ward and left him for my own group of friends for the rest of church.

Later that day..

When church was over, I headed out to the parking lot to leave and just guess who i ran into! Will and I were walking in the same direction in the parking lot so I yelled "Hey Will!" and he waited for me to catchup so we could walk together. Again.. he looked so cute that day! Now remember.. I had parked in the far end of the lot and was thinking he was just being a gentleman and walking me to my car when he pulled out his keys and unlocked his truck, in the parking spot next to mine! We had a good laugh at the coincidences of that day.. we were both late, both parked next to eachother, both knew the same friend.. at that point we just thought it was such a small world! God had other things in mind from these events.. :] He then asked for my number so we could maybe "hangout" before he went back home to Utah for the rest of the summer. Although we didnt hang out until 2 months later.. he made a lasting impression on me.



His Version:

So it was another scorching day in the blazing hot desert of Arizona and I was looking forward to the cool air that the church so dearly provides. I pulled into the parking lot and took the only spot I could see with a small tree providing a patch of shade. I was a little nervous to attend the new ward, because I barely knew anyone in Mesa. I was trying to hurry up because I had been running late and I stumbled into the foyer during the sacrament. I looked around as I entered and everyone was giving me a weird look except for a smiley blonde girl on the couch. I decided to take empty seat on the couch next to her. I kept checking her out as I sat there, and I wanted to do something to catch her attention, so I pulled out my scriptures and started reading them to try and impress her. She looked over at me and I gave her a friendly smile, (probably creepy like). She asked me if I was new and I told her where I was from and a little about myself. She asked me if I would like a tour of the church, of course I said yes even though everything is pretty much the same in all LDS churches and there is signs on everything. I tried to look as impressed and amazed as I could as she showed me the bathrooms, classrooms and bishops office. We flirted quite a bit and I could tell she was enjoying herself. We parted ways the remainder of the meetings and on my way out I saw her again. I thought she was the prettiest girl in the ward and wanted to somehow get her number before she left, thinking it could be the last time I would ever see her again. Coinsidently we had parked right next to each other, and as I was going towards my truck I started fumbling for me keys to give me a little more time. I looked over and noticed that she was just getting into her car and didn't seem to be trying to add time onto the clock, so I got really nervous and said something really weird and then asked her for her number. She looked a little confused, but gave it to me and I got into my truck, figuring I would never see her again. She had a certain glow about her and thought about her time to time the next two months in Utah, though we never spoke during that time.