Dear Upstairs Neighbor

Dear Man who lives above us, and gives me so many sleepless nights & mornings:

Why do you get up at 4 am and stomp around your room??
And then go quiet, tricking me until you get up for good at 5 am?
I think you have a pet elephant up there, or you weigh 600 lbs.- because it's not humanly possible to stomp as loud as you do.
If you don't have a pet elephant, then you must have bloody stubs from all your stomping.
Some days (most days) I get really mad at you, and I want to stomp on my ceiling back so you know what it sounds like.
But until I figure out how to walk/stomp on my ceiling you win every fight you never know we have.
I have thought of many possibilities to give you the benefit of the doubt;

• you are a world-renowned Irish dancer and love to stomp around dancing
• you are an interior designer and love to rearrange your furniture every morning at 5 am (with all the moving around and things banging this one seems possible)
• you had a skiing accident when you were younger, and they had no choice but to replace all your bones in your legs with lead, or concrete, whichever is heaviest. Thus resulting in your stomping everywhere.

You see neighbor? I have tried, but none of these explanation satisfy me.
So, if you are going to come down and prove one of my theory's please either bring your Interior Designer degree, a doctors note explaining your accident, or umm... your Irish dancing tights {?} to prove a reason to me, thus helping me not get so angry at you in the wee hours of the night and again in the wee hours of the morning.

Thanks neighbor- oh, and p.s. If you start your washing machine and/or dryer again late at night or early in the morning I will cut all the wires that give your apartment energy supply..
ok, thanks! {Insert sweet, smiley face here}


oh the joys of apartment living.

A Day Date on his Day off

Brett had Monday off- and I was SOOO happy!!
We decided to have a day date, which included shopping {very short and quick shopping trip- husband's idea of a fun day off does not include shopping- weird}, seeing a movie, lunch at in-n-out, a haircut for the hubby and a looooong, relaxing walk in the sunshine.
It was the best day we've both had in a while.

{Sidenote- my growing belly}


We saw the movie "unknown"- because Brett's been claiming that all we watch lately is chick flicks, which I can't deny. But I think he enjoys "When in Rome" just as much as me :)

Unknown was not my favorite. I won't give anything away. I just needed a different ending.

We splurged calorie wise and got shakes with our cheeseburgers. It was the most delicious strawberry shake I'd ever had. yumm... I want another one now...

Then to burn all of our milkshake and burger calories we explored the river trail by our apartments. We went on like a 2 hour walk, it was such a beautiful day- and it felt so good to spend so much time together!

Hoping to see more of this warm, utah sunshine

Happy Valentine's Day!!

Happy Valentine's Day!!!
Today is the day of love, I am so thankful for my love and everything that he does for me.
I am so happy to be married to him and to be starting our life with a little one coming in July!!

I hope you have a wonderful Valentine's Day- and spread the love!

Love Week - Day 7

Today I love : Good Health!!!
Because I do not have it at the moment.
I was up all night throwing up and having ummmm... other problems... :)
We decided I have the flu.
I hope it's just a 24 hour thing
The worst thing about it is that I am SO THIRSTY all the time- but I threw up all my Gatorade and sprite this morning- so now I'm just sucking on ice cubes.

This is me miserable pretty much.
Sucking on an ice cube, sitting on the couch- not going anywhere!

I do love that I have a husband that can provide meals for himself.
This is him making himself and Brittany breakfast burritos.
I love that he can cook for himself.
It made my day a lot better!
oh and p.s. He's currently doing the dishes right now- no one asked him to. I love him.

I love babies in a cute Valentine's outfit.
Lilly looks so cute!

“True love of man for woman always includes love of God from whom all good things issue.”

–Elder John A Widtsoe

Love Week- Day 6!

I love date nights!! But who doesn't?!
Brett & I made a date of grabbing some knobs at Lowe's for our D.I. dresser- and picking up a small nightstand/table thing from Target...it was so fun!
Since he's a working man now- any time I spend with him is cherished!!
Even if it's a date to Lowe's to pick out knobs! :)

We even paused to take a belly shot!

After about 1 1/2 hours of shopping- I knew Brett would be hitting his limit soon...
It came while we were at Target.
This is how I can tell his limit's been hit... he walks a million ka-zillion miles an hour to get out of the store and I can't keep up with him.
So- when this starts, I try not to stop and look around at anything else...

This morning I got another date! Can you believe it!
Since Brittany is here we wanted to do some fun things- so we went to Kneaders for breakfast-
D-E-L-I-C-I-O-U-S!!
All you can eat cinnamon french toast- for only 4.99, and it is SOO gosh darn good.

Keep Spreading the Love!!
Valentine's Day is almost here!

“If we would truly seek to be more like our Savior and Master, learning to love as He loves should be our highest goal”
-Ezra Taft Benson

Love Week- Day 5

I love having tiny little visitors! :)
Lilly is the daughter of one of my best friends from high school-
it's so fun having a little one around our apartment!!

Happy Love Week!

“Be quick to say, ‘I’m sorry.’ As hard as it is to form the words, be swift to say, ‘I apologize, and please forgive me,’ even though you are not the one who is totally at fault. True love is developed by those who are willing to readily admit personal mistakes and offenses.”
–Elder Joe J Christensen

Love Week - Day 4!!

I loooooove the husband in his glasses. I think he looks so cute.
He only wears them for driving at night- or going to see a movie or something.
I snapped this picture of his cute little self without him knowing it was coming!
{p.s. This was on the way home from our pregnancy class at 10:30 at night. He had been up since 6am- and hadn't been home for the day, so he's a little sleepy!}

I just put this painting into a frame and I love it.
This is a small hand painting I got on the Greek Island, Aegina.
I bought it in a little shop- from a man who made everything himself that was in his store.
I think it is so beautiful- and it reminds me that I want to go back :)

Happy Love Week- I hope you're finding lots of things to love!!

“True love and happiness in courtship and marriage are based upon honesty, self-respect, sacrifice, consideration, courtesy, kindness, and placing ‘we’ ahead of ‘me.’”

–Elder Marvin J Ashton

Love Week- Day 3!!

Today I am loving these simple things:

Multi-Grain cheerios are a staple in this house- they are soooo good, they don't taste multi-grainy and stuff, they are actually pretty sweet!
Try them!
I love this necklace/bracelet holder my sister Kate got me for Christmas. I love the color, and I love that it holds all my necklaces! (which are a pain to try and store without one of these!) I especially love this jewelery tree on top of our new black dresser we got for $30 from D.I.!
{No pic of the dresser yet, because it still doesn't have knobs-working on that!}

I looooooove my scrub brush. I discovered these a few years ago, and now I pretty much go crazy without one. Vacations make me feel so dirty because I can't get squeaky clean without my scrub brush!:) This one made me a little mad- I bought it from T.J. Maxx {first mistake, get them from khols or walmart}- but I usually get the natural wood color, this one has a dark paint over it, which I would like to know who thought of that?! The paint is chipping, so in the shower I notice little bits of paint coming off running down the drain. I need to just peel the whole things off, but I'm to lazy to do that.

My mother-in-law sent this to me as an engagement gift when Brett & I got engaged. I can't live without this cute little guy. I always know if my ring isn't on my finger, it's on his trunk- and it's so reassuring! Over Christmas break when I didn't have him, I'd take my ring off at night, and a try and put it somewhere unique- that i was sure to remember.
In the morning I usually couldn't remember where that unique place was.
I think Brett's happy I have little elephant back too!

Happy Love Week!!

“Perfect love is perfectly patient”
– Elder Neal A Maxwell
{I'm definitely not there- but working on it!! :) }

Love week- Day 2!!

Today I am loving the picture collage that Brett & I put together, and hung up last night.
It is in our living/dining room- and we love it!

Today I also love the Paul Mitchell hair schools- I love getting my hair cut there. My haircut was $14!! The only downside is that it usually takes them a long time to cut/dry my hair because it's so thick, so I'm usually in there 2+ hours, however I like that they take their time and try and do their very best since they are in school- it makes me feel like I'm getting a perfectionist of a hair stylist. It's so fun!

Happy Love Week!
I hope you're finding lots of things in your week to love!!

“Love, as defined by the Lord, elevates, protects, respects, and enriches another. It motivates one to make sacrifices for another”
-Elder Richard G. Scott

Love Week 2011

Thanks to D-dawg for inspiring me to do my own love week.
Love week is a good way for me to realize how much I have and especially during this time when I am adjusting to a working husband- it will especially be helpful!
{ some days I have a hard time being grateful for things when I want to smash the clock to pieces hoping it will magically make the time go by faster so he would be home sooner}

So, naturally...
Day One of Love Week:

I am a happy girl when husband gets home!
I LOVE it!

"True love is a process. True love requires personal action. Love must be continuing to be real. Love takes time. Too often expediency, infatuation, stimulation, persuasion, or lust are mistaken for love. How hollow, how empty if our love is no deeper than the arousal of momentary feeling or the expression in words of what is no more lasting than the time it takes to speak them.."

-Elder Marvin J. Ashton

I guess we couldn't live with the parents forever...

We had a wonderful & fabulous time off... being at home with family and not much to do was the best. Every day we just did what we wanted and didn't have much to worry about, and then...

We got Brett's start date! It was a lot earlier then we expected. So we pretty much packed up- and headed out. We are now here in UT and missing the CA weather. And family. And the no responsibility. so why did we come out here again??
oh ya- a career.

Brett started work Monday- and is enjoying it. He is working for Goldman Sachs-and does not have to commute very far. And I am loving being in our apartment and hanging out with family- Kate came over for lunch today and last night I went to a pregnancy class with my sister in law. Lot's of family time!

before we left home I snapped this picture of Brett and my brother Travis after church.
And I love it!

Brett and Trav have a special relationship- I think they were friends before this life. No one can make Travis laugh like Brett- it's cute.

Now that we are back in the swing of normal life I realize I have to stop neglecting the blog- so I will try and update regularly!