life lately

One of my best longest friends Annekah came up to Utah with her newborn babe Theo!

"let me take a picture of you in your new suit!!"

my lil sis shayna sent him that tie from ukraine

sunday selfie

hedgehog selfie FAIL

visiting noma (my german grandma) in the hospital when she had pneumonia

my parents were out of town, and dustin was so sweet - he skipped his night class so he could drive down to american fork to visit her with me.  

superbowl/birthday party for donna (dustin's mom) at the harpers' house!

sad day since we were all cheering for the broncos.

we went out with some friends from our ward

dancing (as in ballroom/salsa dancing) & coldstone

such a good time!

went to a jazz game with shrude! (my boss, harp teacher, mentor, friend..)

we had awesome 3rd row seats!  sadly the jazz lost that game.

midway ice castles 

with our friends the jensens & the ostlers 

we like kissing each other!

now for a quick trip down memory lane...

three years ago we went to the ice castles for one of our first dates!  ahh we were babies!

three years ago - february 2011

it's fun to look back and think about when we first met, and how easily we fell in love and how quickly i knew that i wanted to be with him forever.  it always felt so right and easy and it still does!  

"best of" christmas 2013

• Christmas shopping date at City Creek!  I love living 4 minutes away.
• We sent out Christmas cards for the first time.  
• Quinn fit in perfectly with my woodland creatures Christmas decor.
• Humongous, as in 7 feet tall, gingerbread house at the Grand America.
• We saw The Hobbit.  It was ok, not my favorite.
• Lots of Christmas classic movies including White Christmas, Elf, Christmas Vacation along with the cheesy Hallmark romantic holiday comedies that I kind of love.
• Christmas Adam celebration with just us two.  We went out to dinner then opened presents from each other.  Dustin got a new blue suit. He totally surprised me with a little blue box.
• Santa came to my grandma's on Christmas Eve!  Sadly I was *not feeling well* and missed him. ;)
• Skyping both of our sisters!!!  Shayna in Ukraine, Korinne in Idaho.
• Christmas get together with some of my best friends, and their husbands, and precious babies!
• Lots of time spent with each other and our families.  

guess who? 

(yes i was santa! i was volunteered! no one else wanted to do it! the littles never knew it was me though haha)

last year                                                                          this year

i LOVE these girls!

imagine dragons

A few weeks ago we got to see Imagine Dragons in concert!  They are one of our favorite bands - Dustin and I both LOVE every track on their album.  I'm just waiting for them to release another album! Hopefully soon?  The concert was this year's Vivint end of year party so the whole arena was filled with Vivint people!  It was such a fun concert and Imagine Dragons were amazing live!  So much energy and crazy drum solos thrown in everywhere.  Thanks Vivint!

with our best Vivint friends TJ and Emily

dustin turns 25

September 23rd was Dustin's birthday.  He turned a whopping 25 and we celebrated all weekend long!  Friday night some executives from my company were in town from Chicago and they took us out to dinner at the Market Street Broiler!  We had never been there before and the sea food was amaaaazing.

Saturday, Dustin had a halo party with his friends in Provo and they played till 2am!  Guy bonding time.  It's good for them.  

Sunday we went over to the Harpers' home and had a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle themed birthday party!  Dustin loved the turtles when he was little (and still does) and his mom went all out!  Scott made his famous garlic burgers on the bbq yum.  My family and a few of the neighbors came over for the party!  This was also the night we were introduced to "The Fox" video bahahaha.  

Monday we went to the Pie for dinner with our brothers and some friends - they had a live musician in there and he was really good!  After dinner, we had some friends over for cake and ice cream.  I made a "better than sex" cake - Dustin's favorite.  Everyone wanted to meet Quinn and she was the highlight of the night as usual.  

Happy belated Birthday honey!  You are my favorite 25 year old!  I love you forever and I am so happy you are 25 so we can rent a car on our upcoming vacation. :)

24

I turned 24 in Texas!  Woot woot!  My birthday was on a Saturday which was kinda a bummer because that is Dustin's loooong day of work selling alarms (9am - 9pm).  But it was still a really great day.  Emily and I met the guys for lunch (sushi yum) and then we got pedicures and frozen yogurt!  After the guys got home from work (around 10pm) we went to Wing Stop for dinner.  The next day we went to South Padre Island one last time and Emily made me a pink birthday cake!  We also celebrated again when we got back to Utah - we had a luau for all the August birthdays on my mom's side of the family.

This birthday was infinitely better than last year's because last year we were in the car all day long driving home from Texas, and then I was sick that night, and then the next day we had to move into our new apartment where we didn't have hot water for a few days.

It was sooo nice just coming back to our apartment with all of our stuff there just as we left it.  Not having to worry about finding a place to live, or moving all of our stuff was a million times less stressful than last summer. We (or rather I) have been having fun rearranging things and redecorating our little home, so maybe I will post some pics soon. We totally love the area, ward, neighborhood we are in and will be here at least until the spring when Dustin graduates.

Anyway, I love birthdays and getting older, and I am excited to see what 24 brings!

sushi lunch

wing stop with the browns for our late night dinner! we love the lemon pepper & honey bbq aaaand the drink machine where i can get cherry vanilla diet coke :)

our last trip to south padre island, with whataburger of course.

birthday luau with the fam

my trip to utah: part 2

After my grandma's funeral in San Diego, I flew to Utah to work for a week.  I stayed at my parents' house and took care of the kitties since they turned around and went back to San Diego to wrap up family/funeral stuff and spend some relaxing time at the beach.  I was so happy I was up here for my friend Courtnie's wedding and I had a lot of fun hanging out and catching up with my girlfriends in Sandy.

courtnie & travis

married!!!

she was such a gorgeous bride!

fun reception at the draper dome

katie - to whom i am eternally grateful for setting me up on that blind date a few years ago

at the provo rooftop concert!  mindy gledhill was great

and can i say how much i love these girls

millie, bean, and i slept over at bean's cabin and then went boating with her fam!  sadly this is the only picture i took haha.

aaand milie turned 24!  happy birthday millie! 

also - when my family was in san diego, my mom turned 50!  on her 50th birthday, she and my dad did a 50 mile bike ride!  how awesome is that?!  my parents are pretty cool.