My best friend.

 One more from Labor day because it is ridiculously cute. 

He is seriously my best friend.

Memorial Day.

Last year on Memorial Day, we went climbing.

Surprise I know.

This year, I sure wish I was climbing with this goof ball.

I miss my best friend.

To all you Mother's out there.

My mom rocks. 

She is my best friend. 

She has always been there for me through everything. 

She is always on my side. 

She is so loving. 

She always makes me feel like a million bucks. 

She is one of the most Christlike people I know. 

She is amazing. 

I truly hope to be just like her when I am a mother. 

And to all the rest of the moms out there...

Here are 10 things you should know from Kid President: 

Happy Mother's day Mom!

I am so glad I get to spend the day with you. 

The Easter bunny came.

We had a beautiful Easter Sunday. 

It was 85 degrees here in Gainesville.. maybe a little too hot. 

We spent the morning at Church 

and all afternoon with friends from Dave's school. 

We got to watch little kiddies hunt for Easter eggs. 

and I even convinced the 'Easter bunny' to get us some new clothes. 

We ate delicious food.

And skyped with both families and friends. 

Isn't he a cutie pie? 

I wish we could have our own personal photographer. 

That would make memory recording so much easier. 

He is always so serious in photos... it kills me. 

Three fabulous gentleman. 

Oh and I made Easter cake balls. . . 

Don't forget to check back tomorrow for the recipe!

How do you celebrate Easter? 

Dave thinks we shouldn't pretend there is an easter bunny for our kids, ridiculous I know. 

The 1 day I get to act like a FOOL.

 ... is one of my favorite holidays. 

Dave hates it. 

This year I am going to play one of my absolute favorite tricks on him. 

Credit goes to by brother in law. 

He did it to my sister when they were dating and it was hilarious!

Drum roll please....

This fabulous stuff is going on the toilet seat downstairs.

 I will let you know how it goes.

Happy April Fooling!!

What tricks do you have up your sleeve today?

He is not here, but is risen. {inspired}

Happy Easter everyone!

Here is what I am inspired by today...

He is Risen. 

You can learn more here. 

Will YOU be my Valentine?

So I never told you about our love day. 

It was pretty great. 

We both were busy all day but I surprised Dave in the morning 

with a heart attacked mirror. 

And a little gift. 

Remember my datevitation giveaway? 

Dave totally scored his own. 

He LOVED it. 

 We enjoyed a lovely evening. 

Chuy's for dinner. 

Which is seriously one of my favorite Mexican Restaurants now. 

Sorry folks, not in Utah. 

Then Dave took me to see Safe Haven. 

Typical, I know. We loved it. 

I read the book and I always enjoy Nicholas Sparks' books. 

Our Love day was fabulous. 

Low key is always a good thing. 

I hope everyone had a happy LOVE day. 

just pretend I am not two weeks late telling you about it. 

President's Day is for Utahns?

Last year for President's Day weekend we went down south

for some warm weather and climbing. 

We spent a couple night's in the local bouldering area called Moe's valley. 

It is just right outside St. George. 

We had a fabulous time with some of our favorite people.

And we really enjoyed REAL rock. 

This year, Dave has school on President's day.

How lame is that? 

I think it is a Florida thing or something. 

We did go climbing this weekend but it was in a gym on fake 'rock'. 

So this weekend definitely had me missing my Utah...

 Yes. I let him grow his hair that long and I have no idea why. 

Yes. My mom thought it looked good on him and he should keep it that way. 

Yes. All these pictures are from our trip down south last year. 

Happy President's Day...

go do something FUN!

Happy LOVE day!

Happy Valentine's Day to the one I love the most. 

DIY Valentine's gift.

I am certain you have probably seen this project all over pinterest. 

I made this for Dave 2 years ago and I love it. 

It was such a simple, inexpensive DIY gift but it is really thoughtful too. 

Here is the how to:

Supplies:

Construction paper

1 desk of cards

Directions:

First, think of 52 reasons you love your significant other. 

Mine were anywhere from:

'You love me for who I am'

to

'You always give me a smile when I look at you'

to 

'You make me laugh at least once a day'

You can write these or type them, 

I typed mine up and printed them all out on a piece of off-white paper.

Second, I glued that piece of paper to another piece of red so I could add color to it. 

Then I glued that piece to each card. 

Last, make a front and back cover. Hole punch each card and put a ring through the top left. 

It turned out to be a fun little flip book of reasons I love Dave. 

Happy LOVE month!

Valentine's Date Ideas

It is crazy to me that this will be our fourth Valentine's together. 

As you can tell, I love Valentine's Day!

I really just love any reason to celebrate something. 

I thought I would share with you what we have done to celebrate each year, 

in case you are in need of some great ideas...

1. For our first Valentine's together, we each planned our own date and we celebrate two days in a row.  I loved this because we each got to surprise the other with our date idea and we got to extend the holiday. Dave came down to Provo and took me out to a nice restaurant and then we went wedding RING SHOPPING! It was the best surprise ever. We definitely went ring shopping many times after that and we didn't get engaged until the end of July but our very first time was on Valentine's and I loved every minute of it. The date I planned was for Sunday night. I made a delicious homemade meal and homemade sugar cookies. I love decorating sugar cookies so I made some delicious homemade lime frosting and Dave hated it... fail. Don't get me wrong, he was still very nice about it but he didn't like it at all! haha. Valentine's doesn't have to be perfect.

 2. Our second Valentine's together was our first 'Married valentine's'. I made Dave plan this one because I love seeing what he comes up with. He took me to a fun little Mexican restaurant close to our house that we had been wanting to try. He bought me some adorable red toms which I had been really wanting and he got me carnations.... This is where the fail came in. For some reason I really don't love carnations and I totally cried! Hilarious I know. I guess I really just expected him to get me roses, but he didn't. And I was really emotional for some reason?? Who knows... Anyways, he did buy me these beautiful roses a few weeks later.  Once again, Valentine's doesn't have to be perfect.

3. Last year for Valentine's, instead of getting gifts for each other we decided to go get a couple's massage. My heavens, it was AMAZING! We went to Massage Envy and they have some re-occuring deal where you can get an hour long couples massage for about $100, I think. Neither of us had ever had a body massage before so we loved it. Then we had a delicious homemade meal of BBQ salmon and key lime pie-- he even liked the lime too. The even better part... we didn't have a fail last year :)

As for this year... we haven't really decided what we are going to do yet. We love movies and I read the  Nicholas Sparks book 'Safe Haven' so we might go see that since it comes out on Valentine's Day. And maybe a delicious dinner somewhere in town too. We are still thinking of ideas. Does anyone have any good date ideas for me???

DIY Valentine's Wreath

I love holidays. 

Really I love any reason to celebrate something. 

So naturally, I love to decorate. 

Seeing as we live in just a little over 500 sq ft of space, I don't have a lot of space to decorate. 

(I cannot wait until we move in three weeks!!!)

I think it is really fun to have a new wreath on the door for every season/holiday. 

I always keep my wreath inside because then I get to see it more often

and I really don't have that many people come to our door anyways. 

This wreath is super simple. 

All you need is:

1 round styrofoam wreath

1/3 yard burlap

2 felt squares

1 yard of twine

Super glue/ glue gun

First cut about 4 inches of the burlap.

Put a light layer of super glue or glue from a glue gun around half of the wreath. 

Then wrap the burlap around and around and around :)

Do this until you reach the beginning and just glue down the excess on the back side o the wreath. 

Take your felt square and cut our a curly cue circle. 

You can make this as big or little as you would like. 

Hold the middle of the circle and start wrapping the felt around it. 

This is much easier than you think .

Put a little bit of glue on the end to hold it together. 

Add glue to the bottom of the rose and place it wherever you'd like on your wreath. 

For the burlap banner, cut out four triangles with your burlap. 

If you have a glue gun, glue each triangle to the twine. 

Otherwise, you will probably want to stitch them. 

Write whatever word you would like with permanent marker. 

Tie the banner to both sides of the wreath. 

Happy LOVE month!

enjoy.

What is your favorite Valentine's Day decor?

Leave me a link, I want to check yours out :)

(Nosotros) somos jovenes

Yes, my husband helped me with this fabulous title. 

google translate it, dare ya. 

Sometimes I plan my blog posts ahead of time. 

Sometimes I don't. 

Today I planned to tell you all about my Superbowl experience. 

I was going to tell you about the fabulous cake balls that I made that looked like footballs

 And about the fabulous party we went to with people from Dave's department at school. 

And how I totally didn't really care about the football game, 

I claimed to cheer for the forty-niners because of Steve Young, yep I am that cool. 

All I cared about were the commercials...  and yes, this one was my favorite:

I was going to tell you about how much I loved the half time show because

it took me back to all the fun times with my single lady girlfriends. 

And I was going to tell you about the most adorable baby that was at the party. 

But really. 

All I want to tell you about is how much I wished I was at my family's superbowl party the whole time. 

Celebrating the superbowl is a tradition in my family. 

Every year we go all out. 

Basically we make every party food that you could ever imagine.

There are always five different kinds of dip for chips. 

My favorite little kiddies are there to play with when the game gets boring. 

And all the men are there for when I have 'real' questions about the game and what the call was. 

It is basically a holiday to me. 

This was my first year EVER that I didn't get to go to this shindig. 

 I missed it. 

A lonesome Thanksgiving.

To me, Thanksgiving is the ultimate family holiday. It is all about eating the most delicious food and soaking up some much needed time with the ones you love. I have spent every Thanksgiving my entire life with my dear family... this year is different. Since we live over 2300 miles away from home and we are going home for Christmas, a flight during Thanksgiving (for at least $400 a person) doesn't really make sense. Thus, we will be spending Thanksgiving in Florida. I will be with the man I love so much but I will really miss all my family. Since I will be missing home ALOT and Dave has a few days off of school, we want to do something really fun. This is where you come in... Here are a few of the things we have thought about...

1. Two night getaway to Daytona Beach. 
            -This is a great deal- less than $200. It is only 2 hours away and we would get to soak up some rays during the holiday. Plus, I wouldn't have to cook an actual thanksgiving dinner for just us.

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2. Spend Thanksgiving day in Disney World. 

    -Do I really need to say anything here? We have never been. And I would definitely not be missing home at all if I am in the happiest place on Earth!! This is a little more pricey than the first but it is Disney World!!

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3. Two night cruise to the Bahamas. 

    -We would leave on Thanksgiving Day and drive down by Miami (5ish hour drive) and spend the afternoon on the ship. The entire next day is in the Bahamas :) Never been there either... hmmm. THIs choice is the most pricey but still under $400!! Great deal, right??

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4. Thanksgiving dinner in Gainesville and go Black Friday Shopping. 

      -Let's be real, this is probably the most likely option. It does include me making Thanksgiving dinner though... that is a lot of money and work. However, I LOVE Black Friday shopping! I get so excited about it every year! Nothing is better than getting a good deal! 

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Basically when it comes down to it, I am going to miss home a lot that day! So I want to be really busy doing something REALLY fun! So we have four options people. I have been trying to plan something for over a month- Dave doesn't really care what we do... to an extent. So I need some good advice. 

If it were you, which option would you choose and why??

What are your plans for Thanksgiving this year??

Waldo. Pumpkins. Sore Throat. Carmel Apples. Seeds.

We had a FABULOUS weekend. 

{Other than the fact that I have been sick with a sore throat}

It all started Friday night with the Halloween Climbing Competition. 

Dave and I dressed up as 'Where's Waldo' & 'Where's Walda'

 Dave set for the competition (he put up a lot of the problems on the wall)

so he couldn't compete but he totally would have won. He is a rock star climber!

AND....

I took first in my category! WOOT! WOOT!

I climbed in the intermediate women's category

and I took second over all the women there. 

I was pleased with the result. And it was super fun :)

Saturday night we went on a triple date with some friends.

We ate delicious pizza at the most amazing Satchel's Pizzeria. 

If you are new here, get used to seeing pictures of us where we don't smile. 

I have no idea why they always turn out this way....

We made delicious carmel apples...

I loved doing them sliced up this year, way easier to eat :)

We coated ours with:

snickers. butterfinger. and peanut m&ms.

Dave worked really hard at our pumpkin while I made the apples. 

He attempted a Spider...

but the pumpkin was 2 and a half inches thick!

FAIL. 

(at least I am smiling here)

Today we lounged around the house because my throat has been hurting pretty bad all weekend. 

Despite the sickness, I have been on a baking craze today. 

Come back for the most amazing chocolate chip cookie recipe sometime this week. 

And I baked these delicious pumpkin seeds. . . 

Thanks goes to Laura for the amazing recipe

I love weekends. 

Don't forget to check out my guest post over at 

Unspoken Conversations

It is all about the basic belief's of Mormons. 

I hope you will stop by and read it :)

Five Fall Favorites

Sorry for being MIA yesterday.
My blog was accidently marked as spam
and took forever to be restored.
Did that happen to anyone else ??
it was lameo.

Anyways.
Can you tell by the wreath I made

that I am really missing Fall weather? 

In order to make me pretend it is Fall

I thought I would list my top 5 things

I am excited for this Fall. 

1. Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bread. 

I love so many recipes in the Fall

but this is definitely my all time favorite. 

Link to this delicious recipe here

2. The Fall Leaves Changing Colors

Granted this won't happen in Florida

a girl can pretend, right?

photo taken up Rock Canyon in Provo.

3. Pumpkin Carving

Dave is totally the master at this one. 

I love cooking the pumpkin seeds!

4. Fall Clothes

Basically wearing cardigans and boots again.

But now I am excited to wear pants too!

5. Cuddling

This is going to sound funny

but Dave hates cuddling when he is hot. 

So basically he hates it all Summer.

I can't wait for him to like it again :)

Photo credit to dustontodd photography

Are you experiencing Fall weather yet?

What are you most excited for Fall?