1. it was 0 degrees Farenheit today. literally. that is way too stinkin cold.
2. one more day of classes!
3. old navy has super cute stockings on sale - for only $1.00! and they're very very cute. don't worry. i bought 9. one for everyone in my family!
3. me and gravy have this obnoxious thing going on - we literally can not get mad at each other for more than a few minutes without one of us (which leads to both of us) bursting into laughter. its horrible!! i can't prove a point. i can't make him think im mad. i can't stay mad no matter how hard i try. its frustrating! okay so there's actually nothing horrible about it. i suppose it's actually really a great thing. but...frustrating!
4. we're officially done christmas shopping!! for everyone...except each other. but that will be done tomorrow! so exciting. i'm so excited about the presents that we are giving this year. we put so much thought into them, and i'm just really excited to give them away!!
5. we've had another little fun surprise thrown into our christmas vacation. gregs parents are going to fly down to vegas and meet us for 2 days on our way to california! greg and his parents are going to go to the vegas bowl to see BYU play, while I get my hair done by my favorite person!! it's been almost a year since she's done my hair. i really can't tell you how excited i am about it! we are staying at the trump hotel on the strip (exciting!), hopefully going to go see a show, and eating amazing food! (ie. claim jumper. my favorite thing about las vegas. giant pretzels with extra cheese, diet coke, black tie chicken pasta, chocolate chip cream cheese pie! ohh boy) it will be a fun little diversion! then off to califonrnia! sunshine, hot tubs, movies, food, yay!
6. i'm totally gona get straight a's again this semester :] woo-hoo!! scholarship finally please??
7. danny won the biggest loser. Better him than rudy...but still..why not amanda?? i liked her most. and she looked smokin at the finale!
8. last night at old navy i bought the CUTEST sweatpants that i have ever had. i will post a picture asap. They're bright orange and pink striped. oh boy. i love them. greg tried to make me wait until christmas to wear them - ya right!!! they're my new favorite article of clothing.
9. i've been married for almost 6 months. thats a long time! haha. i know what you're all thinking...no, it's not that long. but it kind of is! a lot has happened, we've both changed and grown and done so much. i love it!
10. we had some friends over for dinner on sunday night. i had a pretty delish recipe to make to dinner, but i needed something super for dessert. in my head i remembered seeing a picture of a blackberry peach cobbler. i had my heart set on it. i went through every single dessert page of every single cookbook that i own (not that many..but still..a big effort) and i couldn't find the picture! so, i recruited greg. we again went through every single dessert page of every single cookbook. not there. so, i decided to go back through all of the blogs that i read where people post recipes - thinking, obviously it had to be there. i knew that i had for sure seen it somewhere!!! i went back for 2 months worth of blogs. nothin! so, i remembered that a few days ago i had been waiting for greg to get out of class and i had looked through some cookbooks there. of course! it was obviously at the BYU bookstore. so, we packed up in the middle of the freezing snow, and drove to the bookstore. we dilligently looked through all of the dessert pages of like 15 cookbooks. NO BLACKBERRY PEACH COBBLER. we were about to head to costco, where i also remember seeing a cookbook....when i decided that i would just google it and see what images popped up. low and behold. i found it. 3 hours later... so. we made it. and it turned out disgusting. BUMMER!!! never again will i got running around the city in the snow trying to find a stupid recipe.
well. thats all. thanks bye!
12.09.2009
12.07.2009
thought of the day.
The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin. -Jay Leno
12.05.2009
date night
thanks guys!
12.04.2009
hello :]
hellllooooo blogging world. we have been on a sort of hiatus i suppose. life has been a litttle nutty. i swear, i have never had such a busy busy semester! its crazy. In the last 3 days i've written a 10 page paper, and 2 4 page papers! seriously crazy. my ten page paper was about this beauty by artist elihu vedder (ellie-who vay-der...pretty sweet huh?? if nothing else, the artist's got a cool name!)
check out that sucker! and try writing a 10 page paper about it. HEADACHE!! but at the same time, it makes me feel kind of intelligent that I pulled it off.
finals are in just one week!! this semester flew. i really don't feel like i've learned enough this semester to be taking a final on anything (except maybe dear elihu) one year from now i'll be a BYU grad! i hope i make it. this is rough.
we're so excited for christmas. we will head down to california for a few days to be with my family. doesn't get much better than that...sunshine, swimming pool, hot tub, good food, movies, my favorite little boys (who sadly aren't that little anymore) and best of all - 18 hours in the car with my love. it's so totally nerdy. but I love going on road trips with him. this summer we spent 100s of hours (literally) in the car together - and it was a blast!! i can't wait. best of all - not a single thing related to school that i have to think about! hurrah! i'm so excited to be with my family for christmas this year. last year was my first christmas away from my family...and it was pretty dang hard for me! i bawled in the airport (but it ended up being a super fun trip!! it was just hard to leave) anyway, i'm quite excited for this year!
after california we will head back east to north carolina for new years! which i'm equally excited for!! we're hoping to go to myrtle beach while we are there!! i'm really super excited for this. i've been once before, and i totally loved it.it's going to be an awesome break.
(PS. as i'm typing this, I'm watching some stupid show on TLC, but the girl on the show is named....STELLA!! okay. anyone who has talked to me in the last few weeks knows...i love love love this name. I want a baby girl named Stella. Stella Ettie Cook. HOW ADORABLE? It seriously doesn't get much cuter. Baby Stella....aw)
okay. moving on. we bought a christmas tree!! actually, technically speaking. i did. haha. i went shopping with my aunt on black friday, and came home with a tree! decorations and all. surprise honey! anyway, it looks like a who-tree from a dr. seuss book. its skinny and short, and the branches are sparse...and i LOVE it!! our decorations are all pink and green and blue and SPARKLEY mmm. i love them. our tree topper is my abolsutel favorite part.
backtracking a little... when new moon came out last month i totally had tickets at midnight. and we totally had a pre-party and totally made totally awesome slash totally adorable tshirts.
"oven or freezer, heater or ac, fire or ice, fur or fangs, werewolf or vampire, jacob or edward?"
"i (heart) him"
"Jacob is hotter than Edward...literally."
"i don't date disco balls"
"i (heart) boys that sparkle"
so fun. i love my friends.
unfortunately... my sweet boy got totally sick 15 minutes before we were supposed to leave for the movie. so, i sent my friends on their way and played nurse to my sick husband. i wasn't very good at it. but i tried! i guess i love boys that are sick more than boys that sparkle.
lucky for me - i have an amazing friend who bought me a ticket (AND popcorn AND diet coke) for the next day. so i saw it. and surprise, i LOVED it. cheesy and silly and cute and poorly acted. and i loved it.
last night i had some of those same AMAZING friends over to watch ben hur for a humanities class that we're in. the movie was cool i guess. but i had so so so much fun. i love having friends. i love having girls that i like...that like me too :] we have fun together. and i'm so happy that i have them! for the first few months that we were married i didn't really go out with anyone except greg. which - was GREAT! but... there's something that I really, really missed about hanging out with girls. it was just hard for me to go from living with 5 of them..to living with slash not really ever even talking with them. it's weird how things change when you get married. atleast how they changed for me. there are some people that i thought that i would always always be best friends with, that i don't even talk to anymore. i have no idea what's going on in their lives, or if they ever think about me anymore. kay that kind of sounds like a sob story, and i dont mean for it to. i just think that its sad. and its been really hard for me.
moving on! good thing that i have greg. my wonderful fabulous amazing husband. i'm just gonna take a second and tell you all just how awesome he is.
he gets me and puts up with me and understands me like no one else does or has or ever can. he knows when i need him. example...today, i had a really hard time in one of my classes. i didn't even tell greg about it, but when he picked me up from school...he had nothing other than a route 44 diet coke with vanilla from sonic. seriously? he is amazing. wednesday night i was trying to write this impossible paper (analyzing mozarts violin sonata 2. gag.) and so i locked myself in my room. a little while later he surprised me with homemade chicken parmigiana and garlic bread (a favorite!) it was so nice of him. it's small things like that that happen every day that make my life so great. im just so lucky. ah. i am the luckiest girl in...the world. :]
because i love him oh so much, i consented to freeze my butt off and go to the byu vs. utah game with him last saturday. and boy was it freeeezing. we had a little tailgate party with my family before hand. it was super fun! i seriously have the most awesome family.
the game was actually really fun! for the first half of the game, we had awesome seats and i was completely enjoying myself. it was a close game, lots of exciting things happened.
BUT THEN...the sun went down. and the wind started blowing a little bit..and i was done. it was so stinkin cold i didn't even know what to do with myself. i was wearing 2 shirts, a sweatshirt, a winter coat, mittens, 2 pairs of leggings, jeans, winter boots, socks. PLUS i had a blanket. and it still wasn't enough.
greg bought some hot chocolate - super delicious hot chocolate by the way - which made the final quarter bearable. and it was totally worth it. the outcome of the game was fabulous. greg rushed the field with my cousin jake. it was super exciting. im totally content with my one football experience of the season.
hopefully with life calming down a little bit ill be able to blog more? but don't hold your breath. i kind of really suck at blogging.
ps. thought of the day....i was so lucky to live here for 2 months.
oh how i love that city.
finals are in just one week!! this semester flew. i really don't feel like i've learned enough this semester to be taking a final on anything (except maybe dear elihu) one year from now i'll be a BYU grad! i hope i make it. this is rough.
we're so excited for christmas. we will head down to california for a few days to be with my family. doesn't get much better than that...sunshine, swimming pool, hot tub, good food, movies, my favorite little boys (who sadly aren't that little anymore) and best of all - 18 hours in the car with my love. it's so totally nerdy. but I love going on road trips with him. this summer we spent 100s of hours (literally) in the car together - and it was a blast!! i can't wait. best of all - not a single thing related to school that i have to think about! hurrah! i'm so excited to be with my family for christmas this year. last year was my first christmas away from my family...and it was pretty dang hard for me! i bawled in the airport (but it ended up being a super fun trip!! it was just hard to leave) anyway, i'm quite excited for this year!
after california we will head back east to north carolina for new years! which i'm equally excited for!! we're hoping to go to myrtle beach while we are there!! i'm really super excited for this. i've been once before, and i totally loved it.it's going to be an awesome break.
(PS. as i'm typing this, I'm watching some stupid show on TLC, but the girl on the show is named....STELLA!! okay. anyone who has talked to me in the last few weeks knows...i love love love this name. I want a baby girl named Stella. Stella Ettie Cook. HOW ADORABLE? It seriously doesn't get much cuter. Baby Stella....aw)
okay. moving on. we bought a christmas tree!! actually, technically speaking. i did. haha. i went shopping with my aunt on black friday, and came home with a tree! decorations and all. surprise honey! anyway, it looks like a who-tree from a dr. seuss book. its skinny and short, and the branches are sparse...and i LOVE it!! our decorations are all pink and green and blue and SPARKLEY mmm. i love them. our tree topper is my abolsutel favorite part.
"i (heart) him"
"Jacob is hotter than Edward...literally."
"i don't date disco balls"
"i (heart) boys that sparkle"
so fun. i love my friends.
unfortunately... my sweet boy got totally sick 15 minutes before we were supposed to leave for the movie. so, i sent my friends on their way and played nurse to my sick husband. i wasn't very good at it. but i tried! i guess i love boys that are sick more than boys that sparkle.
lucky for me - i have an amazing friend who bought me a ticket (AND popcorn AND diet coke) for the next day. so i saw it. and surprise, i LOVED it. cheesy and silly and cute and poorly acted. and i loved it.
last night i had some of those same AMAZING friends over to watch ben hur for a humanities class that we're in. the movie was cool i guess. but i had so so so much fun. i love having friends. i love having girls that i like...that like me too :] we have fun together. and i'm so happy that i have them! for the first few months that we were married i didn't really go out with anyone except greg. which - was GREAT! but... there's something that I really, really missed about hanging out with girls. it was just hard for me to go from living with 5 of them..to living with slash not really ever even talking with them. it's weird how things change when you get married. atleast how they changed for me. there are some people that i thought that i would always always be best friends with, that i don't even talk to anymore. i have no idea what's going on in their lives, or if they ever think about me anymore. kay that kind of sounds like a sob story, and i dont mean for it to. i just think that its sad. and its been really hard for me.
moving on! good thing that i have greg. my wonderful fabulous amazing husband. i'm just gonna take a second and tell you all just how awesome he is.
he gets me and puts up with me and understands me like no one else does or has or ever can. he knows when i need him. example...today, i had a really hard time in one of my classes. i didn't even tell greg about it, but when he picked me up from school...he had nothing other than a route 44 diet coke with vanilla from sonic. seriously? he is amazing. wednesday night i was trying to write this impossible paper (analyzing mozarts violin sonata 2. gag.) and so i locked myself in my room. a little while later he surprised me with homemade chicken parmigiana and garlic bread (a favorite!) it was so nice of him. it's small things like that that happen every day that make my life so great. im just so lucky. ah. i am the luckiest girl in...the world. :]
because i love him oh so much, i consented to freeze my butt off and go to the byu vs. utah game with him last saturday. and boy was it freeeezing. we had a little tailgate party with my family before hand. it was super fun! i seriously have the most awesome family.
the game was actually really fun! for the first half of the game, we had awesome seats and i was completely enjoying myself. it was a close game, lots of exciting things happened.
BUT THEN...the sun went down. and the wind started blowing a little bit..and i was done. it was so stinkin cold i didn't even know what to do with myself. i was wearing 2 shirts, a sweatshirt, a winter coat, mittens, 2 pairs of leggings, jeans, winter boots, socks. PLUS i had a blanket. and it still wasn't enough.
greg bought some hot chocolate - super delicious hot chocolate by the way - which made the final quarter bearable. and it was totally worth it. the outcome of the game was fabulous. greg rushed the field with my cousin jake. it was super exciting. im totally content with my one football experience of the season.
hopefully with life calming down a little bit ill be able to blog more? but don't hold your breath. i kind of really suck at blogging.
ps. thought of the day....i was so lucky to live here for 2 months.
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