happy easter (a day late)

I'd be lying if I said I didn't really care about Easter candy.  Let's be real, it's the best candy.  But that's not why I love Easter.  I love Easter because it brings everything back into perspective.  I focus less on myself, and more on Christ.  I am reminded to be a better example, to live my life through my Savior.  He provided the ultimate sacrifice, so that I may have the opportunity to live with Him again.  Every day is more hopeful, every mistake less painful and every joy is just a little sweeter knowing that our Savior provided a way to return to Heavenly Father.  I am eternally grateful.

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I love Easter because we get to celebrate the life of Jesus Christ.  I know without a doubt that He lives! 

p.s.  Am I the only one who got up at the crack of dawn this morning to go buy Easter candy on clearance, before all the good kinds were gone?! :)

lesson learned

Advice:  do NOT set the bar too high when it comes to birthday gifts for the hubs.  What do I mean?  Well, when we celebrated Eric's birthday in our first year of marriage (April 2009) I gave him the best present ever.  Seriously.  Have you ever heard of Barrett-Jackson car auctions?!  Make that the world's greatest collection car auctions.  Eric is so into hot rods, muscle cars, almost anything you can rebuild so I knew I had to get him tickets to this car show!  So, April 18, 2009 Eric opened his gift and was so surprised when he saw tickets to Barrett-Jackson!  I instantly won the coolest wife ever award :) (Best part? Tickets were cheap!)
In October 2009 (yeah, we had to wait a few months for the car show haha) we headed down to Vegas!  We stayed at the Mandalay Bay where the event was taking place, and we had the funnest weekend ever!

Eric' chillin' in our room, checking out events for the next day.  He was like a little boy on Christmas Eve night.  So excited.

The camaro was not available yet so this was a big deal! 

We looked at cars for hours (or what felt like hours haha, but I was a good sport!) then headed outside.  We were surprised to find out we got to drive some pretty awesome cars!  Lucky us! 

Side note: before driving the cars we had to take a breathalyzer test and I instantly felt guilty (even though we weren't drinking ha) and was super giggly.  Eric breathed into it and the guy didn't even check, he just let him through.  When I breathed into it he sat there and watched it until it cleared haha.  Awkward.  Haha!  I've never even tasted alcohol!  Apparently I can act like I've been drinking, or I just acted guilty haha!

We each drove the camaro through a course they had set up.

Eric's famous picture...SO HOT!

Race car driver's took us for a spin in the new model (well new back then, it was the 2010 model) corvette.  So crazy and fun!  They flew through the course and drifted around corners!

We got to take these porsche's for a drive, then traded places with race car drives and they drifted through the course.  SO FUN!

After the car show we went shopping, ate yummy CheeseCake Factory, and went swimming!  (Mandalay Bay has the funnest pool, aka the Beach!)  Such a fun weekend! 



Ask me what I got Eric for his birthday last year...

I know.  Coolest wife ever award down to what-the-crap-is-this-lazy-wifey award.  Just kidding :)  Seriously, there's just no competing though!  (Although, it is a nice watch..haha!)  No worries, I made up for it this year with his gun..

Don't mind his work clothes, we went shooting as soon as he was off work!

So, if you can help it, don't give him the best birthday gift he could ever imagine in your first year of marriage.  Everything else will just be down hill from there!  Hahaha!  To be fair, Eric was such a good sport about the watch, he'd really been wanting it for a long time!  He's always a good sport! :)

i smile

I am so excited to join in with Jessica because, well, I just love to smile! :)

I smile because my face is finally starting to show signs of healing!  I'm noticing the break outs are happening few and far between.. woo woo!  I still have ridiculous amounts of scarring, but in time those will fade.  Hopefully.  I'm trying to get used to these imperfections. :)  For those of you who live in southern Utah: if you need any dermatologist needs...please go see Tim Nowatzke.  You will NOT regret it!

I smile when I tell my husband we'll go shopping where ever, and for what ever he wants for his birthday weekend.... he chooses to go shopping to buy me some capri's.  What?!?  How did I get so lucky?

I smile because I get to have serious girl time today watching this movie :)  This is the ultimate girl movie and definitely my favorite!  I've never seen the original, or read the book.  Definitely on my list!

I smile at the thought of being a mommy one day.  i. can't. wait.

 I know this picture is a little blurry, not the best.  Oh well.  You need a little mystery.

I smile at how attractive my Eric is.  mmHmm...  I'm so lucky this man is all mine.  Oh and I smile at how happy Eric is about that silly gun!

I smile at the idea of shopping with my mom-inlaw and sisters-inlaw tomorrow!  Looking forward to some girl time with them!

I smile at how happy my tummy is.  I ate a whole bag of these in two days. 

Wait.  Crap.  A whole bag...in two days?  I don't smile, I frown!

So bad.  So gross.  But sooo delicious!

birthday weekend recap

I'm just going to put this out there... I'm not the best wifey in the world.  Dang it.  Since Eric's birthday was on a Monday (yesterday) and he had work AND school, I really wanted him to have a special birthday weekend.  And maybe a little surprise party.  Ask me if any of that happened?!  Our weekend was...pretty normal, but in a good way.  It was a happy, fun, friend filled weekend with zero surprise parties.  Please help me out here, I don't come from a party throwing family, so I have no clue how to go about putting together a SURPRISE party!!  I'd love some tips so that next year I can try to throw my man a surprise party!!
Friday night we went out with one of my best friend's (Jaicee and I met in hair school, we just LOVE Mark and Jaic!) and had a great time!  Dinner, bowling, ice cream...what's not to love?!  Especially when Eric and I barely beat them at bowling, earning ourselves some free ice cream! :)

Saturday we did a little shopping and then went shooting!  (Yes, Eric got his birthday present a few days early.)

Bullseye for the birthday boy!

Cheesy Eric with his birthday gun!

Sunday was so laid back and relaxing!  After church we invited our neighbors over and had lunch.  Once lunch was finished we popped in a movie and took a nap.  Yep that's right.  We all took a nap.  Our friend's, their two kids, me and Eric.  Asleep in our little living room.... haha!  I wish I could've taken a picture, but I was sleeping instead :)  When we all woke up we ate some dessert with dirty spoons.  Oh it's true.  Eric thought the dishwasher was clean.....

Come over anytime!  We really know how to make you feel right at home!  We'll make you take a nap, feed you yummy food with dirty utensil's, if you're really lucky...that yummy food will be a week old! ;)  No worries...the food was NOT a week old! 

Monday (Eric's birthday) we met up for lunch at Taco Bell.  It's our unhealthy, nasty little guilty pleasure haha.  It really was a pleasure though because Eric didn't have to eat a sandwhich for lunch, and this was our first time meeting up for lunch on a weekday since moving up here!  Longest run-on sentence ever?  After work we went out for pizza!

He LOVES taking pictures... can you tell?!

Eric had to go to school after dinner, lame, so I baked his cake and made the frosting while he was gone!  Of course I messed up on the frosting and had to dump it all down the drain.  And of course I didn't have enough ingredients left to make a second batch.  So once Eric stopped at the store, I made the frosting, and everything cooled off enough to throw together, Eric finally ate birthday cake.  At 9:30.  Freakin' baking...I do NOT love you.  But I love my Eric.  I hope he had an amazing birthday/weekend.  I know I did! :)  A huge thank you to friends and family for Eric's birthday love!

happy birthday Eric!

Happy Birthday Eric!!

Hahaha.. I had to do it!  This picture is totally shows how you feel about your birthdays :)

Half way to 50... not to make you sound older than you are... haha! ;)

25 reason's why I love you:

1. You are my best friend.
2. You sing in the shower.  Some time's we have company over and you think we can't hear you... we can ;)

3. You are the biggest (cutest) dork.  Makes life so entertaining!

4. You are the hardest worker.  You do so much to provide for our family and I'm so grateful!

5. You can make friends with anyone!

6. Your laugh.  It is the best sound in the world!  Seriously, if you can get Eric laughing really hard..hilarious!

7. You dress so cute.  I know that's weird, but I love that you care how you look :)

8. Your wink, gets me every time!

9. You are always on time.  I've always loved that about you because I'm the same way!  (Except when it comes to church, why is it SO hard to be on time to church?!  haha!)

10. You hate school but you never miss a class!  You work so hard to get your good grades!

11. Your brutal honesty :)

12. You're a hot little number in your pick up truck....  Seriously.  So true!

13. You clean the toilets for me because you know I hate that chore the most!

14. You actually like shopping with  me!  I am one lucky girl!

15. You are an amazing example to me! 

16. I love that you play with my hair, it's my favorite thing in the world!

17. You are so excited about your hand gun.  (Happy Birthday!)  Now our family is truly protected..haha!

18. You love cartoon movies!  Is anyone else's favorite movie  How to Train a Dragon?! :)

19. You like to cook occasionally and love to bake!  My tummy loves it!

20. Your eyes.  I hope our babies get your eyes/eye lashes!

21. You love babies (well...our friend's babies haha) and can't wait til we have one of our own!  Makes me so excited to see you be a daddy!

22. You really are a humble man.  Something I need to work on.

23. I love that you speak spanish, it is so convenient :)

24. You give the best compliments.

25. You love me.

Happy Birthday babe!  I love you :)

(It would probably make his day even better if he got lots of love from blog land...)