New York City

WARNING! Lots of pictures :)

Last Thursday my mom, Holly, Andrea, and I went on a girls weekend trip to New York City. It was such a blast! Thankfully we had great weather and made it back safely. Here are A LOT of pictures from our fabulous trip.

Times Square

Holly and mom in front of the Anthropologie store at Rockefeller Plaza. We absolutely love this store!

In front of the NBC Today Show building. We went to the NBC Store to buy some souvenirs for Brett and the boys. While we were there a girl came up and asked us if we wanted to see the rehearsal showing for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. We went up to his studio at 3:00 with about 20 other people and he judged his jokes on whether we did or didn't laugh. It was hilarious! We heard his opening jokes and then he did his famous "Thank You" Cards. It was so funny and so fun to see the set.

Jimmy Fallon writing his "Thank You" Cards...

P.S. The picture looks pretty bad cause we weren't allowed to take pictures....but I had to get just one....

Empire State Building!

We went and saw Mamma Mia on Friday night. We got the tickets that day for a great price and it was such a blast! Did we sing to all the songs you might ask? Yes, yes we did.

We went down into a shopping district called Soho on Saturday morning to find some purses at a store that was recommended to us by some friends. Holly and I went into this mans store to buy some cute oriental looking pajamas for Lucy and Mia. This guy and the guy next door had them and so we were bargaining back and forth with them. This guys wouldn't sell it for cheaper so we were walking out of his store and just as I was about to step out he yelled, "Stop her, stop her!!" Needless to say we bought them from him...he was just too funny. He also gave us two free postcards just for being so fun to bargain with.

If you ever go to NYC, please get an Almond Croissant. You won't regret it.

The World Trade Center visitors center and memorial. It was so amazing to go through and read about 9/11 and the people that it affected. I cried pretty much the whole time we were there.

A caption next to this steel beam said that it was dedicated to all the people who helped to recover 19,979 human remains and remove 1.6 million tons of material. So incredible!

We were in this paper shop for probably way too long. They had fun paper and trimming shops that we loved!

On Saturday we went to Wicked. For all those who have not seen this show and have heard people rave about it, just know that it really is as good as they say. It was incredible and to top it off we had fantastic seats. I'm listening to the music right now...

The 4 gals....

Sunday we went to church at the temple and then walked through Central Park and some other cute stores...

We went to lots of sweets shops, which I already miss, and they were amazing. You might be asking yourself, are those really cupcakes? Yes, yes they are. And it was good.

Hanging out at Central Park and watching the Ice Skaters across the way.

As you can see we had a great trip. Now it's back to work and regular life. It's fun to have something so fun to change it up a bit.

1. An incredible trip!

2. Bread is in the oven.

3. Staci, my sister in law, is having her baby soon!!

The Sweet Tooth Fairy...

In December my sister, mom and me took Lucy and Mia to this cute

dessert shop in Provo called The Sweet Tooth Fairy.

I L.O.V.E. these girls.

The first thing Lu ate was the cherry on top....

Mia loved her sucker...

SO excited....

Success!

1. New York in 36 hours.

2. Brett helping me with chores. He is the best!

3. Wonderful neighbors.

V-Day

Brett and I had a great Valentine Weekend this year. On Saturday we went to a restaurant on Center Street in Provo called Los Hermanos. It has been a small goal of ours to go to alot of the small restaurants here in Provo before we leave next year. It was great and we were surprised at how big it was inside. From the street it looks like a small one room restaurant but it spanned a couple of rooms and an upstairs.

Brett also took me to Tai Pan Trading and let me pick out a new decoration for our apartment. I was so excited! I love decorating and it was the perfect gift. We didn't spend alot of money, but Brett and I also made little gifts for each other. Brett made me a sweet crossword puzzle of words of things that we like to do and funny nicknames we have for each other. It was awesome. I made him a scavenger hunt that went all through our apartment with some candy and his favorite treats along the way. It was a great Valentines Day.

Update:

Right now in our lives we are kind of everywhere. Brett is still going to Graduate school and working at BYU in research for Electrical Engineering. He studies Dipole Moments of Proteins (?Yes, I know....). I work at Solase on University Parkway doing chemical peels and facials and doing a call monitoring job for a company based in Lindon.

Brett and I really like our ward. Brett just got called to be the new ward Clerk. He will start his calling next week and he's really excited. I just got called to be on the Relief Society Meeting Committee which I'm excited for as well.

Yesterday we were talking about how we love our life. We are so incredibly blessed! It's incredible how happy you can be with very little. There are always things that stress us out and worry us but everything is pretty much great!

1. Life.

2. Rain today!

3. I get to see my sister in 17 days!

My Mom & Me

When I was little I remember reading a book called My Mom & Me. I loved it. It was about a day that a girl and her mom spent together and all the fun things they did. This weekend I felt like I was in that book. This weekend my mom and me got to spend the weekend together. My dad, brothers, and Brett went on a snowmobiling trip and so I got to spend some fun time with my mom. We met in Salt Lake for the gift show and then went shopping. Later that day we went to dinner at Zupas and Rumbi. We couldn't decide where to go because we loved the salad from Rumbi and the soup from Zupas. So we just got both. Sometimes that happens. :) We got a good chuckle out of it. After we went to a movie and I spent the night at my parents home (Yes, I have a fear of sleeping at our apartment alone). And today we went to a bridal shower. It was such a fun weekend. My mom is so fun and it's so much fun to spend time with her.

1. My sweet mom.

2. Brett gets home soon!

3. My wedding album arrived today!

Lost

Last night was the season premier of the last season of Lost.

It was amazing. We love the show and are so excited for this last season.

We cuddled up, ate dinner, and enjoyed the show.

It was a fun, relaxing, and exciting, night. (Even though we are a little

more "lost" about the show than before ;))

1. The warm weather today.

2. A very yummy dinner tonight (hopefully!)

3. Lost.

I Love That

I love Brett.

We just got back from grocery shopping and I love when he comes with me.

He is very meticulous about prices. He gets

a very serious look about his face as we walked down the aisles and

find the products we need.

I love that.

He is so cute.

This last week I completed our wedding album and he

was so excited about it with me.

I know that when I get excited about something small,

he probably isn't as excited or impressed but he pretends.

I love that he does that.

It makes me so happy.

I love that he helps me with laundry, dishes, and cleaning.

Since we have no dishwasher, the dishes have to get done somehow.

He is so great to just jump in and do them.

When I get up before he does,

He ends up making the bed, too.

I love that he does that.

Brett and I love to spend time together.

We love watching Lost, going to the library,

eating dinner together, and playing games together.

I love that.

I usually pick up Brett from school.

He calls me around 6:15 and I go get him.

I love seeing him walk out and get in the car.

He kisses me, smiles at me, and asks how my day was.

I love that, too.

I love that God loves me so much that he blessed me to meet Brett.

He is my world. I would be lost without him.

I truly love him.

1. New cereal.

2. It's almost the weekend!

3. My brothers birthdays are this weekend, dinner with the fam.

A Snowy Night at the Provo Temple

Tonight Brett and I set out for the temple at 6:20 from our apartment. It took us about a minute to get there and we just got home (It's 10:15). Yes. We got to the temple and it was incredibly busy! They escorted about 80 of us down to the basement to wait in a waiting room while the Temple President talked to us. He said that it was the busiest night the Provo temple had ever seen. They had people waiting all over the temple to get into endowment rooms. We finally got into a room and were able to go through the endowment. Crazy busy! When we finally left we walked outside to see amazing amounts of snow falling heavily from the sky. It had snowed about 5 inches while we were gone. It was a great night and a great memory.

Ready...Set...

I just did it.

I registered for the Utah Valley Half-Marathon.

It is one of my new years resolutions and I'm so excited!!

It is on June 12, 2010, and I'm running it with my Aunt April.

I have always wanted to run a half and maybe sometime a full. We'll see...

1. I'm going to the temple today.

2. That I can run.

3. My family.

Take Two!

For this brand new year one of my resolutions was to learn how to make a new recipe, whether it be entres, desserts, salads, what have you, each week of this new year. Some of you may remember a recent experience I had with baking of bread. It was a failure. F.a.i.l.u.r.e. So, instead of waiting until the last week of the year to try again, I decided this was the week to face my fear head on. I went to the grocery store and got the needed supplies. This morning I woke with a little bit of fear in my belly hoping that this time it would be a success. At 11am this morning, I began. I laid out all my needed ingredients.

As you can see here....

And nervously began....

And after some mixing, adding, measuring, rolling out, and cooking....

3 Successful loaves were born!!!!!!!!! I couldn't be happier. (Actually I could, the shape was a little weird, I'll work on that.) But all in all I am extremely pleased.

Happy Friday and have a great weekend!

P.S. One of my other resolutions is to be more Grateful. My wonderful sister Holly posts 3 things she is grateful for at the end of every post. I think it's a fantastic idea and I hope she won't mind if I copy. :)

1. Work.

2. My BREAD!!

3. Blue skies today.