A Few Of My Favorite Things

Hats & bangs

Strawberry CheeseQuake Blizzards

Hanging out with my best friend

Stronger Every Day

This morning I woke up and found this: 

"My... love... for... you... grows... stronger... every... day"

...which led me around the corner to this:

:) :) :) I LOVE that husband of mine!

22 on the 22nd

We celebrated my golden birthday this weekend :) It was absolutely perfect, all thanks to my amazing hubby!

We spent Friday night at the Hard Rock Hotel, lounging by their beach-themed pools. 

Mmm... lovely...

Saturday morning we enjoyed a giant, mouith-watering breakfast at "The Egg & I." I'm sure I've never enjoyed biscuits and gravy quite so much as I did that morning. YUM!

THEN we made our way to Henderson, to partake of the heavenly deliciousness that is Rita's Italian Ice (my favorite treat when we lived in PA)

We made several shopping stops (just to pass the time) on our way to the Venetian...

...where my tedious quest to find some Shock Tarts finally came to an end! This shop is basically like a miniature, pink Willy Wonka factory.

I savored each bite of said candy, while I sat in a state of complete bliss, watching The Phantom of The Opera! 

I'm pretty stinkin' blessed to have such a good life, filled with people that I love. All 22 years have been something worth celebrating, and I suspect that my 23rd year of life may just be my best year yet!

Scanography Freebie!

I've heard it referred to as scan art, scanner photography, or scanography; I don't even know if it is considered to be an official form of art-making, but it should be, because it's sawwweet! We had a "scanography" assignment in one of my classes and I loved it so much that I convinced Ev to buy a fancy little scanner for Christmas! This is part of the first piece I created with it. I pulled this stuff out of my Mom's front yard, arranged it on the scanner glass, and scanned it at some ridiculously high dpi... (then threw in a little bit of creative editing) and voila! Easy peasy. Seriously, you should all try this. It is addicting.

I designed this poster set in two different colors. If you like 'em, you can have 'em! Download your favorite color in an 11x17 poster format, and don't forget to leave some love. Comments and suggestions are always appreciated! 

The Cutest Boy

Disclaimer: I'm not pregnant...

But sometimes when I look at these pictures of Evan...

.... I wish I was. 

Sometimes I seriously can't wait to have a houseful of mini-Evans to love and to look after. And if they grow up to be just like their daddy, I will consider my mothering career a success.

Fun at Tahiti Village

Remember back when this little babe came to visit? Well while she was here, my sister invited us to come float in the lazy river at the resort where they were staying! We had a lovely time, and they were excited to spend some time with their baby, after two whole days apart. Afterwards we all went out to Chili's for dinner and free Oreo molten cake! Yum! It was pretty much the perfect evening.

Car Troubles

Having car troubles seems to be our lot in life.

Last summer, the night before our wedding, the Subaru blew a head gasket, and eighteen-hundred dollars later, (luckily?) we were able to drive it to PA. There, we had more troubles, bringing the total to just over two-thousand dollars.

THIS summer, we spent another twelve hundred when they told us that it needed new struts, as well as rack and pinion. We were hoping that would fix the shuttering problem, but come to find out, what they really need is THOUSAND[S!!] of more dollars to fix the viscus coupling (who even knows what that is) and some clutch problems... and engine mounts... and probably a million other things. 

So... we came up with this brilliant strategy: Ignore it, and maybe it will go away.

We aren't really willing (or able) to pay to get it fixed, so we just let it sit, at home, all neglected and alone and broken. Evan has been driving my car instead; my trusty little Toyota, five years older than the Subaru and still goin' strong. The only grief it's ever given me is a dead battery in the midst of Rexburg's freezing winters. So you can imagine how my heart sank when I got a call from Evan in the airport, telling me that MY trusty little car completely shut down on his way to work. (Insert long, drawn out "Nnnnoooo!!!!")

Watching them tow away my old, faithful friend.

But guess what? One week, one tow, and 150 bucks later, MY car is back in business! Boo-yah!

The moral of the story isn't that Toyota is better than Subaru (you can draw your own conclusions, there). The moral of the story is that maybe you should keep your currently functional cars in your prayers and prepare for unexpected expenses, cause you never know when this kind of stuff might happen to you!