Best Birthday Ever

So this is the first birthday that me and Landon have celebrated together and so after Landon heard about my past less amazing birthdays he decided to give me the ultimate birthday ever and he sure did! It started a week before my actual birthday and his family had us over for dinner and his dad made his famous ribs, my favorite! his grandparents gave me a pot and pan set and his mom and sister gave me a clock.  He took me out on different dates during the week. On Friday night after getting home we were getting in bed and I was fluffing my pillows and low and behold under my pillow was a card, I picked it up and hidden under it was my ipod! One I had been hinting for to landon for weeks! Total surprise! I was so excited I stayed up for hours playing with my new toy!  On saturday we really celebrated we went up and ate at the Cheesecake factory...SO GOOD! Then we went walking around the mall and Landon bought me a new pair of high heels that I wanted. After that we went to the gateway to the Apple store to buy fun stuff for my new toy, we got a screen protector a little cover for it and my fun red case for it!On my acctual birthday sunday (the superbowl we went to my parents house and celebrated with lots of food, fun and cake! I had so much fun spending the week with friends and all my family. But Landon did not leave it at that. Another one of my birthday presents was passes to go snowboarding! Landon had never been so it was a big step for him to promise me a trip.

So a week later we went up to Brighton for a fun fil

led time of night boarding! We invited my sister a long and had a great time teaching Landon the basics and getting a good laugh at him falling time after time! After awhile he started getting the hang of it and we started up the lift and by the end of the night we were on the big kids lift flying down the mountain!

On top of everything Landon did for my Birthday we also got to celebrate Valentines day I spent 

all morning mastering the art of making heart shaped pancakes, Landon got me flowers and we got to play in the snow for awhile before we went out and about around town Landon had a surprise

for me and took me to a furniture store in Provo that I like and told me that I could pick out a couch! I had been dying for a new couch seeing that the one in our apartment is balancing on some of my old text books....needless to say I was very excited  and loved it. We finally found one we both liked and that Landon was able to haggle for a good price and bought it!

Needless to say I have an amazing Husband and I love him so much Im so lucky to have someone like him in my life to keep each day new and exciting! This was the best birthday/week/month ever...Landon is going to have a tough time topping this next year!

House to Home

So for the longest time I have been dying to decorate our new apartment. Landon knowing my itch to decorate got me a few things for christmas that I had been eyeing. Due to my supreme capablility of procrastination and business It has taken till now to finally get pictures printed and put in to the frames so that we could hang them up. But the final product is amazing!

It was a fight to get all the pictures the same height on the wall, getting the ribbon tied right. Me and Landon rehung all of the pictures a few time to get them right. Eventually after time were going to start replacing our wedding pictures with pictures of us through out the years and even

 longer out in to the future family pictures and pictures of kids.

Also for christmas my parents gave Landon and I a Greg Olsen print called "Walk with Me" that I had been pining over for quite sometime. and now along with our wedding pictures its on the wall and I could not be happier. So our little apartment is starting to come together and be a great place to come home to. Me and Landon could not be happier!

Financial Aid is run by the Devil

So I have decided that the finacial aid department at Utah is run by the devil....or at least by someone who gets a kick out of whatching me run around with my head cut off trying to do everything he asks. This all starts out a few months ago when I fill out my paperwork to get aid for the spring semester. Easy process...not so much. I thought everything would be processed in time for tuition to be paid but I was mistaken.
A week before tuition was due I decied I will call up to the financial aid office to see what was going on. As it turns out because I got married during the school year I am applying for, for aid my file is on review...which means I have to turn in a copy of my marriage licence and mine and landons tax returnes....Not so hard, right...WRONG! Turns out I managed to loose our marriage licence in the process of changing my last name, and my wonderful dad who did all my taxes misplaced my tax papers. Trip to the Provo court houses FUN! I went to get a copy of my marriage licence but the computers were down which I did not find out until after I sat there for 30 min, I now get to come back another day. Now on to the IRS office, where I find out that getting a copy of a tax return costs $60 bucks and takes 6 weeks, I dont have that long. Come to find out you can submitt a transcript of you tax return with something called a summery of wage report. YAY a break. So after going back and getting my marriage licence I fax all of these papers to the financial aid department in hopes to resolve all these problems.
NOPE...So its been about a month for all this running around to go down, so I call the aid office to see what is happening only to find out I am going to have to fill out another stupid paper because aparently my taxes are off by TWO DOLLARS!!! Think im kidding, think again, two dollars is a serious thing!!! So I take this new paper to my dad in hopes he can help me find out what is wrong. Well my dad stands by his tax filling capablitities and he ends up finding my tax return that I needed in the first place. Turns out that by some stupid rounding issue with my income is how they came up with the two dollars difference.
So now I have faxed up my original tax return in hopes everything will finaly work out and I will be able to get money to pay for the rest of my tuition. You would think I was trying to borrow money to build a bomb or something. Never underestimate the complexity of financial aid office and the US government...the devil is in there somewhere.

New Hobby

So as I have noticed you are not a cool married person unless you have a blog...as told to me by one of my married friends. So here I am attempting something new. I have never been really good and writing down events in my life but now that me and Landon are married I feel more inclined to try. So blogging is going to be my new hobby in hopes it will keep me motivated to take more picture and write things down. Good luck to me!!