HAPPY EASTER!

 I hope everyone has a wonderful Easter tomorrow!

 

The only way I could get him to stay in the basket was lots of cilantro. As you can see. 

ramblings...

i don't really know what to write today. i'm just a little bored. matt is sleeping on the bed behind me. and i am sitting in the semi-dark on a computer. there's not much of anything exciting going on. so i might just ramble. i'm sort of on a diet. i wouldn't really say it's a diet, but a drastic change in the way i eat. ha if you have heard of the Cinch! diet that is what it is. right now i am doing the 5 day detox, which kind of stinks. i have actually tried this before and it worked, but then i went right back to the same way of eating. the deal is the first 5 days you only can eat these 5 foods. eggs. yogurt. raspberries. almonds. and spinach. i eat 4 meals a day and drink at least 8 cups of water. the first time i did it i cried the first day. the yogurt was disgusting. nonfat plain yogurt. i also didn't enjoy the spinach salad with balsamic vinegar. i know some of you not so picky eaters wouldn't think that sounds bad, but i hate vinegar. anyhow i lost like 7 pounds the first time i tried it (i'm sure most was just water weight, but still i got off that number i was stuck on). the deal is after those 5 days you move into the next 25 days with the same idea but a variety of foods. and that's where i lost. so i decided to give it another go. i know i'm not fat. but i do have some fat. and plus i just want to be healthy. so today is day 2. and i'm sort of doing an adjusted cinch! diet. i'm using some strawberries instead of all raspberries. and i'm also using italian dressing. and vanilla yogurt. i'm sure the real real way would be better, but i'm sure it still has mostly the same effect. day 1. well i kind of messed up. i made homemade bread the day before and well i wanted some and so i did. yeah i don't have the greatest self discipline when it comes to food. i did everything else right though. today has been better. i ate a strawberry smoothie for breakfast and then had a salad with a hard boiled egg and some strawberries. i'm bad at eating all the almonds that i'm supposed to eat. i don't mind them but they aren't my favorite. matt and i are doing a competition to see who can get to their goal first. then we get to buy something. i want a cute/fancy dress. so yeah i'm trying to eat better and get back into working out. it's rough. at least i haven't gained weight since i have been married. just got a little softer. ha anyhow. matt and i went to willow park zoo. i swear i saw splash and alfred there, but it was hard to tell. i saw 2 big ducks hanging out by each other but there colors had changed a bit. so it was probably them. flash is in the other room probably doing something he shouldn't. i took him to work today. he was a hit. but i think i just about killed him with the 2 short car drives and all the people touching and holding him. he was shaking a lot. matt is going to graduate this summer! which is kind of scary. that means we have to figure out our lives and where we will go and what we will do. i think we will chill in logan for a little bit and both work. but then it's either off to grad school or maybe teach for america. either way i'm pretty sure we will be leaving utah. i'm ready for a change. i am also super excited for the summer. we are going to go to california, canada, and back packing and arches and who knows where else. we decided we are going to have a fun filled summer. we are poor yes. but this is the time in our lives to be poor so why not be a little poorer and enjoy it. my job is going to let me work the weeks when i'm around and when the school year starts i will work at my other one again. so i think it will work out. so yeah. that's all for now. sorry if it's hard to read.

Sickly

What our week looked like:

tissues, lots of them...

 cold/flu medicine...

 plenty of orange juice (pretty sure i drank one of these all by myself in one day)...

 ramen noodles...

 and redbox movies.

i am well on my way to feeling normal, but Matt is still in the thick of it. i hate being sick.

Life in the Past

NOVEMBER

I am behind. So starting in November. Birthday Month. Matt turned 25 and I turned 23. I decided to decorate our place for Matt's b-day. I blew up lots of balloons and put up streamers (we kept it up till my birthday!). We went out to dinner to Texas Road House I believe, watched a movie, and ate cake (the best cake ever). Sadly we did not take any pictures during my birthday, but it was awesome! I went out to Lunch with two of my girl friends. We went to the Crepery, which was delicious. We also got some chocolates at blue bird. While this was happening Matt was transforming our place into a cute spa. He had walled off our hallway with wrapping paper and put a big bow on it (where the green streamers are). So when I got home I had to unwrap the hallway to find the hall lined with candles. I was impressed to say the least. I got to take a bubble bath, get a nice massage, and he even had drinks all prepared. 

DECEMBER

1st Year Anniversary, Watching nieces and nephews, Christmas and Flash! 

Our anniversary was slightly disappointing this year. Matt had a ton to do because it was finals weekend. He had a lot of papers due. We still had a good day though. We watched our wedding video and had a yummy meal. Matt got me flowers and we tried some of our cake top (GROSS)!! We were hopping to go somewhere that weekend, but it just didn't work out, so maybe next year. It's crazy we have been married now for over a year. It was a good first year! Hopefully this year will continue to be even better!! 

We watched my sister's kids the week before Christmas. It was hard and fun! We played in the snow, made cookies, watched movies, did crafts, played wii, painted nails, and so much more! 

Christmas! well we don't really have any Christmas pictures, but we do have a ton of Flash whom i got for Christmas. We love our little bunny! 

JANUARY

Happy New Years!! 2011!! 

We brought in the new year by hanging out with some of matt's high school buddies and their wives. We played rock band and watched scott pilgrim and ate food. 

   Mustache Matt (this lasted only for a few minutes we were both scared)

  We got flash a harness and a leash.

FEBRUARY

Happy Valentines Day! I did 14 days of Valentines. Kind of like the 12 days of Christmas. I started with 14 and then ended at 1 on V-day. 14 mini candy bars. 13 real kisses. 12 fruit snacks. 11 mini cupcakes. 10 hugs. 9 a puzzle with 9 pieces that I made.8 a pizza with 8 pieces. 7 corn bread muffins. 6 pack of pop. 5 doughnuts. 4 jazz game and pizza (not really 4 but still counted it). 3 packs of gum. 2 Lindtt Chocolate bars (the good stuff) 1 ME!!! I dressed myself all up in pink and made me into a present. I really wanted to find a big box to fit in completely, but that didn't quite work out.

Matt made me a delicious meal! Steak! Lobster tail! and Mushrooms!! It was so good and he makes the best steaks ever. Very very good! 

More of Flash...sorry. 

We went to Matt's families Cabin with Jordan and Lindsey! There was lots of snow and lots of sledding. We just would sleep in, eat, play in snow, relax/nap, eat, snow, relax, sleep...over and over again. 

 and some more of flash.... he loves the snow too.