"just call me Russell Crowe"

when you see this face you know he does NOT want to be taking a picture :)

Once you've been married for awhile, how often do you get to surprise your spouse with a date?!  For us.... that's rare!  I was so excited because I was actually able to surprise Eric with this date!!  We spent the day with Trevor and Alycia (my brother and sis-in-law) and had such a great time!  I'd seen Alycia blog about shooting arrows with Trevor and I knew Eric would love it!  I was right :) 
Shooting arrows is quite the workout!  I was definitely feeling the whole time.  Makes a girl feel pretty weak haha!  But seriously, I loved shooting as well!  I hope this becomes a hobby for the both of us!  The problem is, Eric and I are both right handed, but left eye dominant.  Which means it feels more natural to shoot guns/bow and arrow right handed, but we have to do it left handed.  Well they don't have left handed bows to rent out so needless to say, Eric and I were shooting blind half the time :)  Maybe we'll have to wear eye patches over our left eye?  We'll be pirate-robin hood's :) 
Anyway, we had such a great date!!  Thank you Trevor and Alycia!  (speaking of Trevor and Alycia, no pictures with them :(  I have to be better about taking pictures!)  It was funny, Eric kept telling us "just call me Russell Crowe" then we would all talk about how we didn't really care for that movie.  But let me show you a little secret...

I'm the only one who shot right through the middle x!  Woo woo :)  I'm hoping we get to do this again real soon!  Then you'll be seeing us with our pirate patches on ;)

P.S.  How was the weather for you over the weekend?!  Ours was...

I bet if I had a clue how to edit this could be a really great picture haha

This snow is not my cup of tea.  I'm definitely a desert girl all the way!  Please send some warm, sunshine rays my way :)
P.P.S.  A huge thank you to Lesley at Ireland Ever After for awarding me with the Stylish Blogger Award.  I am definitely feeling the blog love :)  

we love the MacPherson's. bitter/sweet and worth remembering.

Today's post is in memory of one of our best friends.  One year ago today I experienced the most tragic, heart break in all of my life.  Ryan MacPherson was my best friend for a time during high school.  Every memory I have of him is such a good memory!  After high school we drifted apart, naturally, but came together again after we had both gone through some major changes.  He got married, I got married, then he and his wife had a baby. 

We reconnected again and Ryan and Eric got along instantly and his wife, Ashley and I clicked just as fast!  Of course their sweet baby had us wrapped around her fingers!  I remember Eric telling me once, "I want a Lily..."  I told him no :)  We hungout multiple times a week and always had the best time!  We didn't have enough time... 

I have looked at this picture SO many times and am just now seeing those bunny ears Ryan pulled on me!  Seriously!  Payback someday...

February 24, 2010 Ryan passed away.  The main thing I remember feeling then was heart break, helplessness, and confusion.  I've never experienced death up until this point and nothing can prepare you for how much it hurts.  I felt so helpless because I wanted to comfort Ashley, to take it all away.  It was so heart breaking to watch her go through this.  And I was so confused.  Why did it have to be Ryan's time to return to our Heavenly Father?!  He still had a long life to live with the best wife and sweetest baby girl.  My faith had never been tested this way before.  I really struggled with this.  After the longest battle faith finally won.  I believe God has a plan that we just won't understand fully until the next life.  God is not cruel.  He loves us so much, and He gives comfort when we ask/need it.  .  I do know that Ryan is with our Heavenly Father and that he is happy.  I know he is watching over Ash and Lily!  And most importantly, I know that we will see Ryan again and that Ashley and Lily will get to be with him forever!

Ryan we miss you so much!  But I thank you for making our lives happier, for all the wonderful memories, and for bringing your amazing wife and sweet baby into our lives!  Ashley is one of my very best friends and Lily still has us wrapped around her fingers, naturally!  Can't wait to see you again!

Ash and I... sexy bestie's ;) hahaha that was just for you Ash! 



We love Lily so  much! :)

Ashley I look up to you so much!  You are by far one of the strongest women I know!!  You are such an amazing example to me!  You are gorgeous (yes I'm always jealous of your hair), so positive all the time, and the best mommy!  I'm so glad your my  bestie and I love you so much! :)



a little adventure... finally!

Saturday was such a great day!!  I've been itching to get out and go on a little adventure and my friend suggested Park City!  Living in Utah all my life I've never spent time in the actual town so I was way excited about the idea!  I thought I'd have to do some serious convincing to Eric but he said yes before I could finish asking him if he'd like to go there.  Apparently I wasn't the only one ready to get out :)  I checked the weather on Friday (stupid) and it said Park City would be partly sunny/cloudy.  Perfect!  So Saturday we got ready and headed out of town without checking the weather again (stupid!)  Needless to say, it snowed the whole time.  Aside from Eric wearing tennis shoes (his feet got soaked haha) instead of boots we had such a great time!

We did a little shopping!!  I am so lucky I married a man who actually likes shopping with me! 

We ate lunch at Good Thymes (thank you Trevor and Alycia for the Christmas gift certificate...this is where we used it:) it was so yummy!  Eric ordered a Reuben sandwich... how have we never tried this before?!?!  Yum!  Anyway we totally recommend this restaurant, just don't order the pulled pork... weirrrrd flavoring! :)

<< We LOVE sweet potato fries so this was awesome! (Yes, the fries were terrified of Eric's intensity ha) And yes, our dessert was just as yummy as it looks!! :)

I told you it snowed all day :)

Main Street, Park City

Main Street was a lot of fun!  Such cute, quaint buildings!!  If you notcied the sign: F'n Hot in the background of our picture... that was our favorite!  Haha maybe I shouldn't admit that but it's a store full of hot sauce and seasonings that are, well you can guess how hot they are :)

Ha ha ha ha!

Anywayyyy.... I bet you can't tell how much we loved Park City ;)  We're hoping to go back within a month to do some snowboarding!!  And we'd love to go spend a weekend there for a real get away!  And we're planning to go back in the summer for more fun!   

And now for my favorite part of the night:

Watching Eric shake it to Just Dance for the wii!!  :)  SUCH  a fun game!!  I hope you all had an amazing weekend!

P.S.  Words with Friends is my new favorite time waster!  I highly recommend this app :)  And if you want to play with me tell me your username! :)
P.P.S.  I love my Eric!  And he loves me enough to shave for our date (I love me a smooth face ha) but he forgot to trim that hair under his lip.  What do you call that?  Anyway.. after my nagging he trimmed that thing to almost nothing as soon as we got home :)

7 facts about me.. you're dying to know :)

I received a blog award!!  How fun right?!  I actually thought about not doing it because who wants to read about me?  Then I remembered that I don't care, this is my "journal" so why not?!  (Seriously though, do you guys care to read?  Ha ha!)

-Thank Tif for the nomination - Tell you 7 Facts about myself - Nominate 7 other blogs for the award

Really, thank you Tif for the award.. makes me feel so warm and fuzzy inside ;)  Seriously though, love you girl and I'm still so excited for you and Joe!  Check out Tif's blog, you won't be disappointed!

Now for my 7 riveting facts ;)
1.  I'm going to become a spin instructor this year!  Seriously, I know it's weird, but I LOVE spin classes and think it would be SO fun to teach!
2.  Shhh... Don't tell anyone but I'm getting more baby hungry.  I'm not sure why, but it's hard for me to admit, maybe because we can't have babies right now?!
3.  I (we) really have thee best friends in the world!!  How does one (two) get so lucky?!  I (we) don't tell my friends enough:  Love you all and Thank you for being SO amazing!
4.  I've been in love more than once.  But this love I have for my husband is the most fulfilling, satistying, longing love I've ever felt.  I will never stop needing him.  I will love him always and forever.  I am the luckiest girl on earth.
5.  I'm really starting to love cooking!  (I never, in a million years, thought I'd be saying this!)  If you have any yummy recipes please share... pretty please?!
6.  I miss playing the piano.  I was really, actually pretty dang good and I just ran out of time to practice. (Lame excuse, I know!)  Now I live far away from my piano.  I miss it soo much but I will start playing again!!
7.  My very favorite thing to do is snuggle up to my man and read a good book!  Oh I just love reading!!  So if you have read any good books lately..share the wealth!  I'm in need of some new books :)

These 7 blogs I'm nominating because I really do want to get to know them better!  I secretly (oh it's not so secret?!) blog stalk and want to be friends with these girls :)
connie - one gorgeous mamma with the cutest family ever
alycia - my amazing sister in law 
melissa - another gorgeous mamma + our hubby's think they are mexican/chilean (so glad mine's not the only one haha)
jessica - love reading about this adorable wifey with "sexy" short hair and her adorable hubby
bret - got to get this girl blogging somehow.. especially when I never get to hear about her life anymore
audrey - beautiful mommy who's hubby posts about his valentine's for her.. cuuute
alexa mae - sweet, sweet family with the most touching posts
Enjoy :)

3 years ago...

3 years ago today Eric made me the happiest girl on earth!!  He got down on one knee and asked me to marry him... best decision he ever made ;)  Best decision I ever made? Saying yes!

This is the only "yay we're engaged" picture I have  because of the whole computer crashing/not having pictures backed up problem.  I had to scan it onto my computer haha..baaad quality but at least I have one!