Work and Play

Thursday I made apple cinnamon muffins for breakfast, they were scrumptious, and then went to my math class long enough to turn in my homework then left for home.  I didn't feel well.

Friday I made taco soup for dinner.  It was delicious as usual.  Yesterday morning, I found a tear in my favorite purple dress as I was getting ready for church and lost to Kyle at Skip-Bo...terrible way to start my day, but Kyle was pretty excited...about winning.  After church we ate more taco soup and then decided to play Dicecapades, which is fantastic!  There are over 100 dice and some of the card you draw say things like role a green number dice and do that many sit ups and move 3 spaces, or each player take one of each of the number die and who ever stacks all of them on top of each other first within 30 seconds move 2 spaces.  It also has real trivia questions, but I find the random things to be the most fun.

My flowers are getting ready to bloom!!! I can't wait!  Ugh...the anticipation in killing me!  It's so exciting to think that I could help them grow up to be beautiful flowers! :)

Saturday we went to Idaho Falls.  These are some jeans we found in JC Penny's.  They make me think of my friend KC soon-to-be Barnwell.  She looks good in everything, including colored jeans. Jealous.

After Idaho Falls we went to a play and I was so tired that I pretty much hated the whole thing...it just went on and on and Everyman was so whiny!  I couldn't take it, but we had to stay because Kyle had to watch it for his humanities class.

Today is Memorial Day so Kyle and I didn't have school, so instead Kyle got up at 7:15 so he could submit an assignment by 8 for his humanities class that in over on Friday, then I got up at 7:45 to clean the apartment up (Kyle did dishes...he's so wonderful!) and look over my group math homework, then a girl from my math group came over at 9 a.m. and we worked on our team homework for almost 4 HOURS!!! Some day off that was.  Then Kyle read to me and played with my hair and then I took a nap while he did more homework.  Did I mention it was supposed to be our day off?  We wanted to do something fun so we thought we'd play a game and agreed on Taluva....we got it at this game store in Salt Lake City while we were on our honeymoon and we love it.  I don't feel like explaining it so I won't, but we really enjoy it...Kyle won :(  He wins a lot.

Kyle decided that we should have hotdogs for dinner so I helped him clean out the grill and he got things hot, and while things were heating up I convinced Kyle to go get chocolate and graham crackers so we could make s'mores afterword.  The hotdogs were delicious...it makes me want to go camping so bad.

But when I went to get the marshmallows out of the cupboard they were GONE!  No s'mores for us.  Disappointment.  So we did dishes instead.  And it's raining

The Duck Pond

This morning Kyle didn't have class...lucky.  As for my luck however, I had to go to math and learn about mortgage payments and interest rates, but the clouds, oh the clouds!  Sooo GORGEOUS today and I couldn't wait to go out and take some pictures...I had to beg a little, but Kyle eventually caved.  We took our little excursion to the duck pond and I can't even believe how great of a day it was, I was so happy.

Kyle had fun skipping rocks and chasing ducks, but then I made him my picture slave. mwahahaha! :D

I was so excited to take so cool reflection pictures because I think they are fun and I just love them.


The "duck" pond...and then Kyle through a rock at it.

We got yellow dandelion pollen spots all over us and the bees were everywhere!  I love bees...Kyle hates them and it makes me laugh. :)  I said "Kyle, we love flowers, they love flowers, we're all friends here." but he still wasn't happy about it.

Dear Winter, It's Over!

Please, don't come around here anymore.  I don't want you back for at least a year.  Oh wait...maybe just a couple flings before things really start to heat up.

The weather here is being SOOO BIPOLAR!  It was nearly 80 degrees the day before last, 77 to be precise, and the very next day what does it do?  It's a freaking BLIZZARD!  UGH!  In all honestly I love the winter time, I love to play in the snow and make snowmen, snow angels, go snowboarding, and snow is just beautiful, but when it's over and the seasons change and things are blooming it needs to stay gone and wait it's turn!  And it wasn't just one freak blizzard, there were two!  One around noon-ish, followed by beautiful sunshine, and then another blizzard of hail around 5:30 ish.  It was a bit ridiculous.

This was yesterday around noon-ish...

By The Light of Your Headlights

Kyle and I went on a mini adventure last night so that I could try out taking night pictures.

Here is my favorite...which I think is fantastic, so you if you think anything less...please don't bruise my ego and keep it to yourself.

This one turned out pretty neat, too.

Also, last night while we were eating dinner we started talking about chili and Kyle says to me regarding my dad's chili..."you can't even really call it chili...it's more like the soup of the gods!" and yes...it is that good.

Hair Cut

This last week Kyle decided that he officially wanted to cut his hair. We decided Sunday would be the day, but after a slight mental breakdown (him this time, not me) because of school, and a surge of motivation today seemed like a better day, so we got some clippers and I went to work. A bit spontaneous, and I like it.

Before...

After...

Bagpipes...

Yesterday Kyle and I took a nice little bike ride to the nature park and as we are riding around the duck pond we hear bagpipes...yes, bagpipes...then we come around to the other side and sure enough there was a man playing the bagpipes.  Unfortunately he was not wearing a kilt.  Then it started to rain and the wind started to blow and the whole way home we were riding against the wind.

Date Night

Tonight we went on a date.  We went bowling and I did sooo aweful, I got a gutter ball on every frame...sometimes two in a row.  Kyle was kicking my butt!  I was so mad, but then I kept getting better.  We bowled three games, Kyle won the first two and I did so fantastic on the last game (120) that my overall score for all three games was higher than Kyle's!!! I was pretty happy...to say the least.  Then we went and got Jamba Juuice and the guys in front of us had an extra coupon for buy one get one free and he was so kind as to give it to us, so we got a free Jamba and that makes everyone happy.  Then we went to the cheap theatre (and snuck in our Jamba + free Jamba) and watched The Back-Up Plan...which was pretty funny, Kyle and I enjoyed it.  That was our date and I loved it!

On a side note...I got so much homework done that I don't have anymore for the weekend AND I am pretty much done with homework for my Old Testament class, which the one I get a ton of work in.  I feel pretty good about it.

It's 12:00am exactly.  Good night.

Cake For Breakfast

Kyle's birthday was on Tuesday, today is Thursday.  Two days ago we had a bar-b-que and it was quite successful.  Kyle cooked the burgers, Josh & Trista brought potato salad, and I cut things up.  Everything was delicious, so delicious that we stuffed ourselves so full that we couldn't eat any cake or ice-cream.  Then after a few hours had passed and Josh & Trista had left and we weren't so full, we forgot.  Just plain old forgot about cake and ice-cream, the highlight of all birthdays past, present, and future!  Then the next day forgot again until about 10 o'clock at night and we were too tired, so we agreed to eat cake and ice-cream the next morning...FOR BREAKFAST!  And so we did and it was delicious.  It was complete with candles and I sang quite beautifully, too :D I'm such a great wife.
...The wonderful early morning shadows...

P.S. Today we have been married for 2 whole months! WOOT WOOT!!

Neighborly Kindness

Today is the day before Kyle's birthday, so while he was in class for two and a half hours I got out the little charcoal grill that I have been hiding in our storage closet and began putting it together.  Almost immediately I scraped my thumb knuckle on I don't even know what, then as I was attaching the lid I managed to slice off a good chunk of my right index finger and it wouldn't stop bleeding and we were out of our good band aids so i had to use one of those gross plastic ones that turn the skin white and pruney because it doesn't allow your skin to breath...so you sweat and then it doesn't even stick after very long.  I'm sure everyone has had this experience...at least I hope it's not just me.  Well, I got it put together and I put it out on the balcony.  As soon as he gets home from class he is so happy that I think my surprise is spoiled so I asked him if he looked on the balcony as he drove up the lot.  He didn't, he was just happy...plain old honest to goodness happy, but I couldn't take it anymore.  I told him to go look on the balcony and he was so excited!  And I was so happy that I could surprise him, too, because it's really hard.  So now we have a little grill and tomorrow we are going to try it out and have a bar-b with Josh and Trista.

Then, before Kyle left again we decided to make more homemade pizza because we liked it so much last night...and we had a bunch of sauce left over.  Kyle made the dough again, since my finger was mutilated and then he left for orientation at his new job.  My job while he was gone was to make the pizza...and since last time the crust was super thick I decided to make two smaller pizzas, but they ended up being two of the same size pizzas as last night.  I put the first one (just cheese) in at 6:30 because we thought he would get done around then.  When that one was done I put the second one (pepperoni & orange peppers) in and then Kyle texts me and tells me he is going to be awhile later.  So instead of letting the first one get cold and just sit there, staring me in the face I decided to go over to our neighbors, who I had only met briefly on the stairs about a week ago, and ask if they had had dinner yet and if they wanted some pizza.  She was very surprised that I wanted to give her a whole pizza, but I assured her we had more than enough and that we wouldn't know what to do with it.  She's nice and I like her. Her name is Geri.  So I decided that every time we make pizza, we should make two and give one away because it's fun and I like it.

...And when Kyle did get home...he ate that whole entire pizza save the one piece that I ate.  It was no small pizza, either.

Homemade Happiness

Today is Sunday and we decided to attempt making homemade pizza...after church of course...and a nap...and after we cleaned because Josh and Trista were coming over for our pizza adventure.  Anyways, so this is how it went...

-First Kyle made a sticky mess into a beautiful lump of pizza dough.

Then, while the dough was rising, we made the sauce...

And cut up the delicious orange peppers...mmm...so so good! I could snack on those everyday.  They are most likely my favorite veggie today...maybe for the year even.

Then I took to "rolling" the dough.  Which was fantastic and I loved it and will always do it this way for the rest of my life because it is so fun and I just love it.

Then it was time...

And 20 minutes later...

Oh man was it good!  Especially for our first time.  Next time I want to try putting spinach, and mushrooms (only on my side, of course), and banana peppers, and maybe chicken instead of pepperoni.  I don't have much else to say except that our apartment is clean, our bellies are full, and we are happy and ready for bed.

Rigidly Disconnected

So last night....really more like yesterday, I had a bit of a meltdown because I hate school sooo much!!!  I am only taking 13 credits and I have no time for anything but homework all day everyday and I can't take it anymore.  Kyle wakes up early almost every morning to do homework, then we go to school and while he is in class I do homework and while I am in class he does homework, then we go home eat a quick lunch and the sit on opposite couches in front our computers and do homework until we are too tired to do anything else and then go to bed.  That is our life. That is it. Thats all. And yesterday I had this brilliant idea for my photography class and I was super excited about it. I was excited for my homework. Then when as we were walking out the door to go take pictures, we couldn't go because we had too much homework! I couldn't even do my homework because I had homework! I couldn't take it, I just started crying, like a little kid who didn't get her way. It was ridiculous.  Then I vented to Kyle about how much I hate school because we never have any quality time to spend with each other.  Then since I can't use my computer for my OT homework I have to wait for Kyle to get done and by that time it's 10 and I'm so cranky and tired and throwing a little temper tantrum while I try to do my homework and he comes over to help me and then I just broke down and started sobbing. And Kyle, being so sweet and loving closes his computer, picks me up, and takes me to bed. Needless to say I didn't get that homework done, and I really don't even care.

So in my family class we just learned about unhealthy, unbalanced family relationships and I just realized that that is what school has done to us.  And, to make things a bit ironic, the two classes that create the most imbalance is my family and my religion class! Perfect. I have discovered that Kyle and I are rigidly disconnected, as defined in my family textbook.  That is our life as students.

On the brighter side of things, I planted some flowers about 4 weeks ago and they are so exciting to watch as they grow.  I can't wait until they start to bloom! They are getting so big and green, it's like a little jungle in their pot.  Speaking of little things growing...