please don't be jealous...

I got bored today waiting for Troy to come home and got on makemebabies.com

Here are our uh... attractive... children.

Our little boy who looks more like a girl...

And our little girl... who is apparently of another race.

Like I said... don't be jealous of our incredibly genetically blessed children. Maybe Troy and I should look into adoption in the future?

hair did

I got my hair did! I cut off 3 whole inches, added layers AND bangs! My good friend Heather came over to my house last night and snip snip! new hair!

Here is the last picture of me with my looong hair at Bekah's Homecoming

Here is all the hair I chopped off!

And here is my new hair! I know I'm posing for myself...don't judge me.

Thanks Heather! Totally Emma Stone worthy!

V-Day

Troy and I had an awesome Valentines Day! It wasn't really a typical valentines day because neither of us really take the holiday all that seriously. Troy knows that flowers are a big deal to me so he got me a really pretty bouquet of roses and lilies and he bought me a Jazz Hornacek throw back jersey. And in all honesty I completely forgot about Valentines until the day before (when troy gave me my gifts). So I felt like/am a horrible wife.

Saturday Troy and I went to his sisters house for a sleep over. It was her husbands birthday so we went to dinner with their family and ate at "Rib City" if anyone ever says "Hey lets go to Rib City!" I recommend you run away screaming. It was awful. I got the safest thing on the menu chicken fingers and in my first bite I found BONE. I have bone issues. I can't eat anything with bones in it...completely grosses me out. I picked at my dinner the rest of the night. Troy even tried my chicken fingers and didn't like them. That's saying a lot.

On Valentines Troy and I went to church with Kerstins family. Then when we all got home we watched Die Hard. After Die Hard we participated in Brian and Kerstins Valentines tradition...Wendy's! We had a romantic dinner with 4 screaming children...well ok 2 screaming children. My one year old neice Kennady tried to commit suicide climbing up a wall and jumping off. And my infamous nephew Jackson played the drums on my head with straws and started the most awesome duck dance. Which basically consisted of him flapping his arms and wiggling his butt while yelling "quack! quack!" While all of this was going on the grown-ups stole the childrens kids meal toy MAD LIBS (freakin love it!) while trying to come up with nouns, verbs and adjectives with child friendly sexual inuendos. HI-larious!

Oh and I almost forgot...Troy, Heath (troys brother), Steph (heaths wife), and Kerstin (troys sister) ran the Sweethearts 5k! I cheered.

Steph kickin' everyones trash!

Heath and Kerstin

My cute Husband!

if only I could afford a maid.

Can someone please teach me how to be neat and tidy all of the time? Please? I would definitely say that since I've been married I'm WAYYYY better at being clean then when I was un-married and living at home. I just hate that when I look around my house and see all of the things that are left out on counters or on the floor...they're mine. Any ideas? Tips? I need help.

inspiration

I have been inspired. I am always looking on the internet for furniture and other such things. Always looking for that one great deal, on that one perfect thing that I probably couldn't afford anyway even if I found it. Living in this apartment that I know I will not be spending the rest of my life in is slightly depressing. I like my little apartment don't get me wrong. It has served us quite well and is so super cheap and despite my seemingly endless complaints... it's pretty nice. I'm just ready to move on to bigger and better things. Unfortunately, bigger and better things just aren't quite in our budget as of the moment since we're both in school. So until then I look at furniture that we can't afford or possibly could afford but have absolutely no place or a need for. For example, a hutch, accent tables, a big huge sectional couch (one day! one day...). I REALLY want new furniture. We are in desperate need of a new couch. It's a hand me down from my mom that she bought when I was 9...yikes. Anywho... My inspiration.

I'm always looking at pottery barn and other equally expensive websites dreaming my life away. But I also don't really want to have a pottery barn house. I would like to have my house have some personality. I've started looking at KSL and Craigs List for stuff. And I stumbled upon this blog (on KSL of all places) and now I just want to buy really old cheap furniture and then refinish it! I probably won't do it myself...even though Troy knows how. Maybe I'll just have the people from The Frosted Gardner do it for me instead. One day. When I have my bigger and better house/town home/condo/anywhere other than this apartment. If only you could refinish couches....ok I'm sure you can. But I really just want a new one.

And in case you were wondering (because I know you were) Brand New was AMAZING. They sound AWESOME live. Super talented boys. Fantastic.

tomorrow...

Is my most favorite band ever in concert! BRAND NEW! and I know all 2 of you who read my blog are probably sick of lyrics but I need you all to understand and appreciate my love/obsession with them. After tomorrow it will be lyric free...for awhile.

so here is my pick of #2 fave songs (it's a tie I couldn't decide)

Order your daughters to ignore me, think that will sort me
and sweep me under the rug
And a beating with a book everyone
the book tells you to love
There is an ember in the heart of the kiln
And its burning hot with love
Burning out my sins until there's nothing but dust
holding me with care into your cigarette
Cause the God I believe in never worked on a campaign trail
--"The Archers Bows are Broken," Brand New

and now probably my actual 2nd fave...

Was losing all my friends.
Was losing them to drinking and to driving.
Was losing all my friends, but I got them back.
I am on the mend.
At least now I can say that I am trying.
And I hope you will forget things I still lack.
--"Sowing Season," Brand New

Jesse Lacey is a lyrical genius. Seriously. Every single one of their songs has a deeper meaning. Their latest album "Daisy" has probably some of their weirdest lyrics ever but they are genius. "The Devil and God are Raging Inside me" is definitely their BEST album. And I challenge all 2 of you to listen to the song "Sowing Season" the first time I listened to it I was like "sure this is good" and then this one part comes in...and BAM. I was hooked.

tomorrow...AHHH!

pic-chas!

So... I know I just said I have zero time in my post yesterday...But my teacher never uploaded the assignment she said she was going to. Either that or I am completely blind it is no where. I swear. My husband is gone basketball-ing with his amigos and I here I sit alone and bored and should probably read a text book but I decided to upload pictures that have been on my camera since Thanksgiving instead...en-JOY!

After the Thanksgiving 5k we ran and Troy's patchy handle bar mustache he grew just for race

The 'stache after he shaved the handle bars off. He sported it about 10 minutes before it creeped me out.

Our teeny little christmas tree all lit up!

He's going to kill me for posting this... let's not tell him :)

After Mara and Jae's wedding. I forgot my camera so this is the extent of the pictures from their wedding event!

Brand New is in TWO DAYSSS!!!

lyrics from one of my top 3 fave songs...

I'm slowly bringing you down from the Heavenly gates
Now I'm drowning in the flood I made
Well explain myself to me on the other side
I'll watch from Heaven when I die
"At the Bottom," Brand New