He's Old!

Dallas turned 26 back in February, and while we both know 26 is FAR from being "old", I still like to tease him. It was a fairly simple day, mostly because we both had to work, and had work and school fairly early the next morning. I made a delicious dinner of something (Neither of us can remember what it was... I don't know what that says about my cooking, but I'm going to pretend it means it at least wasn't awful), and his favorite cake which is "tres leches", a Latin desert that uses 3 different kinds of milk in the cake, and then tons of whipped cream on top. It was DELICIOUS. And really rich.

Then he got to open his presents, which I didn't get a picture of except for this one...

So that says "to the moon and more" for any of you who don't read Spanish. It's a super mushy saying that he started using a couple months ago when I would playfully ask how much he loved me. Mostly I'm just proud of the sign. My cousin who lives down the street had some left over flooring from a project and a Cricut machine she let me use. My handy brother sawed the piece into thirds and then I glued them together (I think that was the first time I have ever used wood glue). I used the Cricut to cut out some vinyl in a design that I had drawn on the iPad, and then stuck it on. Pretty much it was the craftiest and cutest thing I have ever made in my life. And I'm kind of proud of it. If you couldn't tell. 

But anyways the day was about Dallas and we had a WONDERFUL day. I'm so happy I married this hunk of a man! I can't wait to keep celebrating his birthday for many more years to come :)

Counting Down

This semester has been a doozy. I'm pretty sure we both almost died at least once. Here is a quick photo diary of some little things we've done over the semester.

I found out what the WILK looks like at 6 am. I have NEVER seen it empty before. EVER. 

 I found my keys that I had lost back in November

Dallas slept a lot

I color coded my planner. It changed my life.

I got to sit in the Life Flight helicopter during my clinical up at Primary Children's

I crashed Dallas's chemistry class and almost died

Dallas thought he was funny

Dallas studied a lot

I found out I'm allergic to amoxicillin 

There is about a month left in this semester and we are COUNTING the days.

My life according to Instagram

Sometimes I don't have time to blog, so I just Instagram instead
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I melted a plastic spoon while trying to make pecan brittle

We painted my sister's room for Christmas

Our awesome gingerbread house. Mom let us make our own patterns this year and Dallas went ALL OUT

We got a fish! His name is Dude.

I crashed my bike while talking to my mom on the phone. Not my brightest moment.

Dallas does the dishes. I love him.

Thanksgiving for four. Could have fed twelve.

Dallas' finals studying attire

More. Snow.

This is probably more snow than I have seen in my whole entire life. I am LOVING IT!

This is a slew of pictures from the last week-ish of our adventures in the snow.

Beautiful landscape from Rock Canyon when we tried to go sledding

Scene at Rock Canyon with all the sledders. I think it looks like a Grandma Moses painting, and this picture does not even do it justice.

That is snow up to my knees. MY KNEES.

Dallas fell

...and again

Thursday morning

Friday morning. Dallas couldn't get a break with the shoveling!

Frontrunner adventure

 IT SNOWED! Again I guess, but this time was memorable because instead of just enjoying the snow from inside our cute and warm house, we decided to go on an adventure.

 

Cute, snowy house

I love icicles

 Recently, a commuter train opened up that runs from Provo all the way to Ogden. Dallas recently took a full-time job (!!!!!!!!!!!!!)  in Draper, which is about 40 minutes from our house. Since we only have one car, him taking the train would make our(well, my) life much, much easier. On the free public opening day we decided to test out the possibility of Dallas riding his bike to the train station, riding up to Draper and then riding his bike to his office. We got to the station and this is what we saw.

We waited in line for an hour. It was FREEZING. I couldn't feel my toes when we finally got on the train. 

Warm again!

After a mile long bike ride in the freezing snow, we made it! We decided that while it's possible, it's not very practical if it is snowing and wet outside. And, luckily, I got feeling back in my toes once we made it home.                                           

Drat, we've got rats!

The first snow storm of the winter was an eventful one for us. I was trying to get over a 24-hour flu bug and Dallas was trying to deal with our hot water heater that decided to stop working. All of the sudden I saw something dart INTO OUR BEDROOM. I yelped a bit, and then screamed for Dallas. He then spent the next hour creating a trap to catch this mouse, involving a sheet of paper and a mason jar.

He was kind of cute in that jar...

I was super impressed. And then I was super sad because we had to get rid of (read "kill") the mouse. When Dallas brought the jar back in I wrote all over it with sharpie because I was NOT going to use that jar for anything else.

Jazz Game

 So our ward is super awesome and for one of the Elder's Quorum activities we went to a Jazz game. We had a blast, even though I'm not so great at watching basketball games.

We were in the nosebleeds. It was great.

Additionally, my husband doesn't know how to make a normal face. This was our attempt at getting a cute "Hey-look-we're-on-a-date-at-a-Jazz-game" picture. Excuse the photo-explosion.

Almost...

This was the best one.