The First Anniversary

Robert's and my 1st year anniversary was this past Sunday.  We made it a two day anniversary, since it was on Sunday.  On Saturday, we went and saw Les Misérables (I think that's the right thingie above the e haha) with his family, which we will see again tomorrow with my family.  It was pretty good, but I am used to musicals that have some speaking parts.  This musical seriously had like five speaking parts, such as "Come." or "What shall we do?"  That's about it.  And one part of the movie totally ruined the rest of the movie for me.  I won't spoil it for those of you who have not seen the movie yet, but for those of you who have seen it probably know the part I'm talking about.  Yes, the part with Anne Hathaway and the captain guy.  They didn't need to include that part in the movie.  They could have implied what happened to her; they didn't need to show it and make it as graphic as it was.  Anyway, it disturbed me for some time, even after watching the movie.  Once the story moves along, you're so caught up in what is happening you forget that scene momentarily.  I was surprised at how well Anne Hathaway sings though.  I didn't know she was a singer, and the emotion she put into her songs made it so well done.  Hugh Jackman did good as well, but I wasn't a fan of Russell Crowe's voice.  Sure, he can hit the notes and such, but I dunno... just not a fan of his singing voice.  Marius reminds me of Robert haha.  Emmali saw the movie before we went, and she mentioned how one guy reminded her of Robert in the movie, and I knew exactly who she was talking about once he was shown on screen.  I think it's his freckly face :)  The whole theater was bawling by the time the movie ended.  It was good, but I'm not as impressed as all those die hard Les Misérables fans out there.

Back on track... after the movie Robert and I headed to a "surprise" location.  We went to Salt Lake City and stayed at the Red Lion.  I was super tired so we took a nap before heading out to dinner.  We went to Tucanos for dinner, since I got a free meal card for my birthday.

Robert loves Tucanos. 

Grilled pineapple.  Used to not be a fan, but I love it now!

Slowing down.  We had a lot to eat.

We went back to the hotel after Tucanos and watched some Pawn Stars on the History Channel.  I think I've mentioned in a post before that we like watching that show together. 

The next day we woke up and went to Music and the Spoken Word that the church has every Sunday.  It was interesting to participate as an audience member as they record it because before they record, they tell you things about the Conference Center and how they broadcast Music and the Spoken Word. Did you know that the two projector screens at the Conference Center are 36 feet long?  They're so big they need two projectors per screen in order to make the pictures/videos on the screens look crisp and not blurry.  Crazy.  And there are four acres of land on top of the Conference Center.

Waiting for the broadcast to start

The Mormon Tabernacle Choir

Salt Lake Trip

Last night Robert's family took a trip to Salt Lake to see the lights at Temple Square and to shop at City Creek Center before his grandparents drive back up to Idaho today.

Eating dinner at the Joseph Smith Memorial Building at The Garden

 After dinner... waiting while family pictures are taken

The Salt Lake Temple with pretty lights around it

 Driving back home... I wrote this in the glass before finding out that Robert's grandpa is very particular about his cars and doesn't like "your mitts" all over.  Oops :S

Merry Christmas!

It has been an awesome four day weekend.  Friday night, my sister-in-law, Emmali, slept over at our apartment.  Saturday after Robert went to work, we went to Fillmore with his family to visit his grandparents for Christmas.  We spent the night, then came back Sunday night.  Sunday night was spent at my parent's house.  We slept over there both Sunday and Monday night, and went back to our apartment just last night.  Now it's back to reality (more like work), but luckily I only have the rest of this week to work before I get my break for all of next week.


Sorry, I was going to take pictures to post on here, but I didn't really take any...  except for some ones with my sister.  Which aren't very attractive, so I'll only put one up :)

Finally... Christmas Break!

Finals are finally over, and now it's time for Christmas break, which mostly consists of work.  Yeah.  Not too exciting.  I work from 8-5 every day this week, plus the 3 days after Christmas.  Then after that, I really get a break!  Except Robert will be at work a lot of that time, so I better get bumped up on the waiting list for my library book (I'm only the 2nd person on hold, but still...) or I am going to be one super bored girl.  I guess I could go to Springville and hang out with family while Robert's at work.  Anyways, even if I might be super bored some of the days, at least I'm not at school being bored in class haha.

Plans for the break

• Robert and I wanted to ride the Trax Frontrunner up to Salt Lake, but it's $11.50!  We're pretty sure it's cheaper just driving up there with our car, to and from.  Still, I think we're taking a trip up there to see the lights one of these days.
•  Les Miserables!
• A trip to Fillmore to visit Robert's grandparents
• A secret surprise trip Robert's got planned for our 1st year anniversary (I did some guessing, and I'm pretty sure it's somewhere in St. George)
• And of course Christmas and New Year's.

The Big 2-1

Even though it didn't feel like I turned 21.

My birthday was Friday, where I was at work pretty much all day.  8 to 5.  My in-laws took me out to lunch to JCW's, where we ate delicious burgers and fries.  So good.  They also made me open up my present while we were waiting for our food to come out.  It was a pretty big box, and I was wondering what they could have gotten me.  I was thinking maybe clothes or something like that, but when I opened up, there was a big red blanket inside.  I was fine with that cuz I love blankets!  But then, I felt something hard wrapped up inside of the blanket. It was a new... iPhone 5!  I was so surprised (the blanket was just a decoy)!

My first photo taken on my iPhone.  Most of you have probably already seen this on Facebook ha.

After work, Robert and I went straight over to Springville where we ate dinner at my parent's house.  Songs were sung, candles were blown out, and presents were opened.  And of course, at my house, games were played.  That was my evening.

Saturday Robert and I got away to Park City for a little birthday trip.  His mom had given him a Groupon to a Thai restaurant right there on Main Street that expires on like the 13th, so Robert figured we could go to Park City and stay the night to use the Groupon before it expired. It was a freezing day with flurries of snow and icy winds.  We first went to the outlets where we looked around for a bit (didn't get much... just found one Christmas present for someone), then we went to our hotel to take a nap.  I was exhausted not only from walking around the outlets, but also from the day before.  I forgot how much energy working an entire shift takes!  After our extremely short nap of 10 minutes, we were on the road again.  We headed to the movies and watched "Rise of the Guardians".  It was a cute animated movie (it's the one with Jack Frost, Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, and Sand Man).  Right after the movie, we went straight to Main Street to eat some dinner.  We parked right in front of the restaurant (literally), and we didn't have to pay the parking meter because of the holidays.  Lucky us!  The Thai food was delish, but later that night it was not treating my stomach very good.  Oh well, it has passed.  Ha.  Robert and I went back to the hotel and watched one of our favorite TV shows "Pawn Stars" (it's one of those shows I love watching with Robert, but I wouldn't watch by myself... I have other shows to watch hahaha).

It was a fabulous weekend.  Sucks to come back to finals!  Once this week is over, this girl is one happy camper.

Thanksgiving Break

This weekend was a much needed break.  It was a fun weekend!

Wednesday
I had to work all day.  Work was a little slow.  I got to decorate the Christmas tree in our office, and that was about it haha.  When I got home from work, Robert and I headed to his parent's house in Springville, and we just slept over there.  We ate some good pizza, kicked back and watched a movie.  Movie choice: Mirror, Mirror.  It was a funny movie, though some of the acting was a little cheesy at times.  The weirdest part was the Bollywood dancing at the end during the credits.  Weird.

Thursday
Two Thanksgiving meals!!!  My side of the family has always had a Thanksgiving lunch, and then for dinner my grandma makes turkey noodle soup using the bones from earlier to make the broth.  So, we had Thanksgiving lunch with my family, and then we had Thanksgiving dinner with Robert's... the perks of having both our families in Springville ;)  At my grandma/grandpa's house, we ate our lunch and then kind of relaxed (I guess the turkey was getting to everybody... but me.  For some reason the "tired" chemicals turkeys produce don't affect me).  Robert, Tanaya, and my cousin, McKell, played on guitars for a bit, then we just played around with some apps on Robert's iPhone.  Robert tried to get a nap in, but we were being to loud.  Oops :/  After all that, we got a round of "Bang!" in.  It's such a fun game!  Robert had to leave during the game, so others took our spots.

Robert and I had another wonderful meal at his parent's house.  We ate, got full, and weighed ourselves.  I forgot to mention we (Robert, Emmali, dad, and I) weighed ourselves in the morning to see who would gain the most weight haha.  Emmali "won", but she had extra weight from her jeans later on, when in the morning, she just had some shorts on.  Plus, I don't know how accurate that weighing thing was haha.  According to the scale, I only gained 2 pounds.  So, after dinner, we all sat in the family room to process our meals.  We talked, took pictures for Thomas (Robert's brother on a mission), and sat around.  Then, it was game time.  We played one round of Uno, then played a game of Yahtzee.  That was a terrible game for me... just having no luck at all.  After playing the game, we went and slept over at my parent's house.

Friday
I got to sleep in, and it felt great!  Robert and I left my house around 11 to go shopping for Christmas presents.  We went for Black Friday, but not really, because we found out that the deals on Black Friday aren't really the cheapest during the year.  People really think they're getting great deals, when really, they're not.  But, I did score a great deal because I had a card with 6 punches at Forever Young (the shoe store), where on my 7th punch, I would get a free pair of shoes.  Plus, the sale going on at the store, buy one get one half off (which they have other times of the year... not special to Black Friday), made my purchase cheaper.  I got a free pair of shoes, plus I got half off for the pair I was already buying.  It was nice.  We bought some other things for ourselves for Christmas.  We still need to buy stuff for our family members.

Robert had to go to work from 2-9 on Friday, so I was at home doing homework, sorting the clothes, and doing some dishes.  I may have watched a TV show or two as well... :P  My mom called me and told me she'd pick me up because my family was playing glow-in-the-dark volleyball.  I was debating on whether I wanted to go or not, but I was super bored at home, so I decided to have her come get me.  It was a good choice.  I was being active instead of sitting on my butt at home.

 Glow sticks lined the volleyball net

 We used a huge beach ball, put some glow sticks inside, and voila!  A ball that glows in the dark.  Haha.

One of the black lights we used

Everyone was wearing a white shirt.  That way, people could be seen in the black light.  It was a ton of fun.  The ball doesn't look heavy, right?  Wrong.  People underestimated its weight, and it almost ripped my (and others') arm off a time or two.  It was still fun (actually, super fun).  We just played in the gym at the church next to my house, since my dad has keys to the church.  My uncle Gary had the music blasting on the church speakers.  We turned off the lights, and played some volleyball.  Okay, not real volleyball, since the rules were:

1. no out-of-bounds

2. a single person could hit it as many times as they wanted

3. others could help get the ball over the net on a serve

4. pretty much just keep the ball off the ground

Good thing we had those rules because that freaking heavy ball would have gone nowhere if we played with regular rules haha.

Robert got off work just in time to arrive to our last game.  Afterwards, we went back to my house and played two rounds of Zilch while we waited for Tanaya to shower (she was coming to sleep over at our house).  Robert won both rounds.  He was just having a lucky night!

It was a fun weekend, but it still continues, so I need to go and get ready now.

Baby Talk

I baby talk with my husband all the time (sorry to those of you who happen to hear it all the time... haha).  I've been thinking about what would happen when we have kids.  Would we still baby talk to each other?  Is this just a phase in our marriage?  I admit, it is a weird thing we do.  I don't know why we do it, but I'm pretty sure I got it from Robert haha.  He would talk like that while we were dating and I just sorta started doing it.  You really do become the people you hang out with the most.  Anyways, I hope it's just a phase... that would be strange hearing 40 year old parents with teenagers still talking to each other like they were babies.