Fun Facts You Probably Never Wanted to Know

Of course I had to write something sappy about my man on our anniversary, but now I will write a few things we have learned about each other in the last two years. 

1. Al, coming from an all-boys family, has finally accepted that I cannot get ready for anything as fast as him. It was initially very shocking to him that it takes me longer than 5 minutes to shower, wash my hair, and shave my legs. Luckily, after realizing that my legs are literally half my body and my hair is 20x longer than his (my head hair that is, not leg hair…usually), I think he is beginning to accept this.

2. I cut Al’s toenails for him. Gross? Probably. I actually hate feet, so it must really show my love for him that I tolerate his. Really I do it because he had a habit of cutting them into points and I got sick of him scratching me with them at night.

3. I have a suspicion that this is true with many husbands, but even though Al and I live in the same house, he somehow has no ability to recollect where anything goes. Not that he doesn’t put anything away, he is actually probably neater than me, but every week after we do the laundry I have to go show him where his clean jeans are in his drawer. The same drawer they are in all the time.  The same rule applies for anything in the kitchen.

4. I was pretty naïve getting married in March…I apparently didn’t realize what a big deal March Madness is. Al was pretty good at abstaining from watching basketball 24/7 just after we got married, but at one year in I knew I was doomed into watching at least 3 games a day on and around our anniversary. Good thing I do enjoy sports (in small doses) when I get sick of it we have learned to go our separate ways and I end up watching Sabrina the Teenage Witch on Hulu while Al’s beloved teams are playing.

5. Poor Al didn’t know what he was getting himself into when it came to my hair. I have to admit he takes it pretty well when he always has to unclog drains and finds strands of hair in his salad. I like to tell him when he is at work and finds my hair in his beard that I’m just marking my territory. 

6. I have realized that although he seems all mature and responsible on the surface, he is definitely a kid at heart...like a let's-go-build-a-snow fort-in-this-blizzard sort of kid at heart.

That's Why He's My Man

As a belated anniversary post, I figured I would write all about how I have a pretty dang awesome husband, so if you are not into super cute/mushy posts, I invite you to stop reading here. I will give you a less mushy version of our life after. Promise.

Number one:  Al takes care of me. We avoided getting sick for most of the winter, but sadly that came to an end a few weeks ago when we both developed a nasty sort of lung gunk cold. Somehow this affected me more than him (or maybe I’m just a whiner), and one night I could NOT for the life of me stop coughing. I kept having dreams that I needed to cough, so I just kept coughing and coughing…it was horrible.  Just when I was getting ready to rip my throat out, poor Al, who of course could not sleep through the noise, got up and made me some herbal tea. He then made me a little bed in our living room so I could watch something to get my mind off of my throat problems, put Harry Potter on for me (he knows how Harry Potter just makes me so happy), and even still came out to sleep next to me so I wouldn’t be alone.

Number two: Al makes me laugh. Here’s a fun fact you may or may not know about Al: he likes to make up songs…and has some pretty legit dance moves. Here’s another fun fact: he is pretty much tone deaf (although, he’s been practicing, and has improved greatly since we’ve been married).  Whenever I am being a grump Al breaks out into a song about how I’m being a grump and ads his own (quite impressive) dance moves.  He gets so enthusiastic about it I just can’t help but laugh. Someday I hope to get a video of this, but he stops immediately whenever I get out any form of recording device, so for now you will have to take my word for it. Although this picture makes me laugh too:

Number three: We make a good team. We make such a good team, that we should get jerseys (like that one song says…).  Seriously though, I know we look absolutely nothing alike, but we are both just the right amount of 1^st grade humor, and stubbornness to make it work. So glad I married this guy:

Special

At work we are doing a little (huge) remodel. I get to sit in a big open area with no doors or heat that is directly in the construction zone. Literally I come home covered in dust every day, in fact I probably shouldn’t drive because my contacts are pretty much coated white when I take them out….

Anyway, not only am I getting what I think is the black lung from inhaling so much sheet rock dust, but because random people are coming in and out so much, I’ve begun talking to all the construction guys in grunts:

Guy walks in

Him: nod of the head

Me: grunt (meaning hello)

Me (in my head to myself): really? Did you just grunt?

Guy walks out to go to lunch

Him: nod of the head

Me: grunt in acknowledgment that he exists

Me (in head to self): Really? I just did that again? K, next time I will really make an effort to use my words

Guy walks back in

Him: nod of the head

Me: try to say hi, but it gets stuck in my throat on the way out and sounds like a boy in puberty grunting.

I then gave up and went for a half closed-mouth smile that probably makes me look like a socially awkward pre teen on the verge of crying.

  

I imagine it looks something like this:

The end.

My Life is Boring to Everyone but Me

Well I've been meaning to get back to the blog for a while now, but every time I try to write something I realize that I have absolutely no idea what to write about. I thought to myself that once I was done with school I would be able to write all the time because, I mean, really what else would I have to do?….no more tests, no more homework, no more spending all my time procrastinating my homework. Really I should have all the time in the world, right?

Well, yes…I do have more time. Generally I spend my time procrastinating going to the gym rather than putting off homework. However, I have realized that my life has gotten, if possible, even more uneventful.
For example: Back in post high school through getting married I could talk about all the cool things I did plus dating, which always makes for some good stories (even though I didn’t even have a blog then…I could have if I’d wanted to!) Like, that time I dumped a frosty on Abby’s head. ( I had a picture of this, but I'm too lazy to find it right now).
Or that other time that guy I was dating got married. While we were dating.

It was weird, like this picture I randomly found on google.

Or when we got engaged.

 Hmmm someday I will have to write that story anyway I guess.

Anyway, but then, when I was in school I could talk about how on one day of the week my first class was full of feminist hipster tattoo-covered people who spend their time listening to indie music and interpreting contemporary art, and arguing why you shouldn’t get married. And how in my very next class (that was still for my same major, I might add), I counted 4 young prego married girls, and we had intense discussions on fairy tales and why or why not Jon Travolta is gay. I could also talk about how nearly every day I was just about killed by long boarders. Especially the one who would read a book and text simultaneously as he booked it down a steep hill.

So now, what do I do? I go to work all day long. 5 days a week. And see the same four people every day. I mean, I guess I could talk about that one guy who works with me that never talks. And his office smells (suspiciously) like burning herbs, but that would get old.
So, until the day we have kids and I can be like all those coooool mommy-bloggers who write about how their kid pooed under the bed today, promise I will try to keep it as interesting as possible. Any ideas, all you blogging experts?

Adventures of September

Good news!

Al and I actually did stuff in September besides just homework and watching How I Met Your Mother!
It's honestly almost sad how uneventful our lives generally are...
But not this last month!

Actually, school was part of the adventures we had; Al and I had some credits we needed to burn before graduation, so we decided to take a river rafting class. Uh, best. idea. ever. We got three class credits for sitting through 2 classes and going on a river trip. I was actually pretty fun, even though the river was mostly flat.
There were 11 people in the class, and 3 instructors on the trip. Of those, there was only 1 other girl besides me. Let's just say I have never seen so many boys not care about peeing. right. in. front. of. me. I was like, really? You don't even care that I'm here? It was pretty funny though.
Anyway, Apparently the U has an awesome outdoors program where you can just rent any equipment you want for a pretty cheap price, so note that if you ever want to do stuff outdoors. The instructors wanted us to be able to try out as many different things as possible, so they brought paddleboards, two-person inflatable kayaks, sit-on-top kayaks, and oar boats too, of course. We were able to try all of these, which was awesome.

Al is the one on the left there, on one of the kayaks.

I was kind of glad the water was flat when I was figuring out how to row, because the boat moved completely opposite of what I was expecting, but I thought it was awesome once I got the hang of it!

Clearly I am looking my most attractive in the pic.

Anyway, that was a good time, but what was even better was that the day after we got home from that trip, we left for Newport Beach to spend some time with Al's fam.
It was awesome to take a much-needed break and to spend some time with the fam. We stayed at the Marriott in Newport, which is awesome.

 
It was a little cloudy the first day, so we mostly just played games. Actually, Al would have been happy just playing ping pong the whole time.

We went to the beach the second day. It was wonderful. We went boogy-boarding, practiced our volleyball, and had my favorite fries and shakes at Ruby's diner.

It was such a great break. And we made it home just in time to make it to this awesome game! Yes we did witness all 3 wins.

And, I would also like to add that we were not in the crowd that rushed the field early. We waited until after the second win to do that. Go Utes!!

After that it was back to the grind. We did get a break when were able to go to my family's cabin this last weekend, but unfortunately we didn't take pics.

aaaaaaand that was the end of it! Now hopefully all that excitement will get us through our last semester.

Yeah, We're Still Here

That's right, we are alive. Sure, we have become pretty much anti-social hermits, but summer school, work everyday, and scouts (that one is just Al), will do that for you. But somehow in between papers and projects, we were able to squeeze in some more interesting activities. So, in celebration of me procrastinating my homework right now, I will tell you about them. You are welcome America. 

To kick off our week long summer vacation we decided to try to make the floating lanterns from the movie "Tangled" with our friends Nate and Kenzie, and Jeff and Lindsey. Most of them failed miserably, but Jeff and Linds constructed some monster lantern out of not one, but four garbage bags. That one just floated right up!

Sorry those pictures are so awful, it was probably way more cool in person. Actually, right after this lantern took off it almost burned down a nearby tree. Luckily Al's cat-like reflexes snatched it before it could light. Good job Al. We then ran away to In-N-Out Burger before someone called the cops. 

We went on various hikes, and short over-night trips to crystal hot springs. Oh, and to add to our collection Al insisted I get a backpacking sleeping bag; so we decided to sleep in our new (not so new for Al) sleeping bags in our living room. This lasted about two hours before we both woke up in a pile of our own sweat and gave up and moved to our (much less hot) bed. 

In the beginning of June we finally got a niece to sort of balance out the boys, uhh sorry I can't figure out how to rotate it on this whole blog thing....

Then pretty much we did nothing until the 4th of July when we hiked and went to a rodeo. Yay, we love rodeos! Oh, and as you may notice from the following pictures, Al has been growing out a mean beard. Not sure how I feel about it, all I know is if it gets long enough that I can significantly mar it with scissors in his sleep, count on that happening. 

Check that Mountain Man

Crazy Kids

Well, that's all I've got for now! The semester is over in three weeks, so hopefully it won't be too long before I am back on here....

Happy 1 Year!

I can hardly believe it, but Friday Al and I celebrated our 1st anniversary! This is just crazy to me, partly because sometimes I still can't believe/forget that I'm married, let alone that I've been married for a year. But it's been an awesome year so it just flew by!

I told Al as our anniversary was coming up "don't mess up." And he did a great job! In the morning I got up early and made him breakfast before he went to work, and we gave each other just some little gift things: We decided we were not doing anything HUGE because we are getting iphones next week, so Al used his connections at Zagg to get us Zagg skins for our phones: so now we will have a wedding picture keeping our phones scratch-free! So cute. I never know what to get guys so I just gave him a whole bunch of candy...so heart felt.

When I got to work I found these babies waiting for me

Also with the flowers was a cute card written by Al, telling me that we were getting off work at 2, we were going to dinner, and then checking into the Marriott hotel.
We were going to go somewhere new/fancy for dinner, but then we just decided to go to Red Robin where we go pretty much ever-other week. That Bonzai burger was delicious as ever! And of course afterwords we spent a romantic evening at the Marriott watching March madness.

The next day we just spend a day at home wearing sweats, as can be seen in this picture, watching yet more basketball:

Man we look ragged. We also had a piece of our wedding cake top, which was surprisingly good considering it was a year old.

And that was our celebration! Now we are back to school to finish up our semester...so basically no more life for the next few months.