MOAB!

So Landon and I decided to take a few days off of work and take a long weekend vacations down to Moab. Landons aunt Marci and uncle Todd have two jeeps and take their kids jeeping over spring break it was a fun filled family vacation. I had never been jeeping before so it was a new expirence for me and I loved every min of it. We took of thursday after it finished snowing 5 inches in Orem and made the drive down.

We took it easy the first day, hiked around on a few trails and soaked up some much needed warm weather. On friday we took off in the jeeps and headed for the rocks. We did the trail called behind the rocks in the morning and went out to picture frame arch for lunch.

Later that afternoon we did another trail called poison spider. We were half way through the trail on our way to an overlook

that drops off 2000 feet into the colorado river when the battery on Marci's jeep most literally exploded....Not Good....We packed everyone into the other jeep and went out to see

the overlook and let the jeep cool down. When we came back to figure out our exit stratagy the jeep cranked and worked fine! We were able to make it back down all the tough spots in the trail before it gave out on us for good. It was now getting dark and we were still stuck so we ended up rolling the jeep the rest of the way down the trail, and luckily made it safely back to town.

On our last day in Moab we did one more trail called seven mile rim, which over looks moab. it was pretty mellow in most spots which was a good change from all the excitment the first two days. I even got to drive for a good portion of the trail. Freaky I thought I was going to killeveryone driving that tank of a jeep but it was lots of fun after I got the hang of it.

The rest of the trail I found the prime spot to sit....On top of the roll cage in the spare tire. It was great and I got a good idea of what it might feel like to ride an elephant!

Over all we had a great trip and a much needed break from all our everyday stresses. Now the jeeping bug has bitten Landon and I we now have the great idea to buy a jeep of our own and fix it up and have it ready for Moab next year! Now I am starting to get excited for our next adventure, In May we are flying out to South Carolina and Landon gets to meed my extended family and see where I spent two summers of my life bumming it on the beach! CANT WAIT!

Easter Fun!

I have always been big on holidays and so for our first year being married I wanted to start making traditions how I want them to be! I was so excited for easter this year to go all out in making Landons easter basket the best ever! Landon is a coke lover for life and so I decided to fill his easter basket around that. He has this idea that coke in bottles is better than anything else so I got him a big case from costco and two old school coke mugs. A new shirt and game for his xbox that he had been wanting for awhile. He loved it and promptly popped a bottlecap off a coke. Landon really went over the top on my easter basket he didnt nessesarly fill my basket to the brim but what he did put in it was perfect. Landon got me a new pair of Maui Jim sunglasses that I had been eyeing since he broke my last pair. Knowing that I love girraffs he got me a new one and put my new shades on him! And then he filled the rest with more peeps then you could think about eating. It was kinda wierd only haveing the two of us on easter, but it makes me even more excited for our future family and filling their easter baskets!

Thank God for Humidity...wish Utah had some...

So almost all last week I have been dying sick, no fun. On wednesday I went to the doctor and was told I had strep...then promptly banned from being anywhere near work. Strep and working in a hospital never works out to well. So I proceded to bore my mind out at home for the next few days. Landon was so sweet, seeing this is the first time I had been really sick since we have been married and he waited on me hand and foot as I got sick on top of my strep compleatly lost my voice, started hacking and weezing and being half near dead on the couch. I love my husband he is the best! Well my saving grace the $15 buck humidifier from walmart that I bought back in college. Me being an avid lover of the southern states and all that comes with it...utah is great but lacks the wonderful humidity! I will swear by it. You dont get as sick with humidity and you can get better faster! Landon was even great with my love of the humidifier and it running 24/7 in our small little apartment making it a sweltering...wet...almost good enough South Carolina in the middle of a summer imitation! Although nothing will be as good but it has brought my voice back and almost cured my cough in a few days, and compleatly gotten rid of my congestion. So when sick and in doubt wondering what to get at the grocery store to cure you...buy the humidifier!

Meeting my Favorite Author, Jodi Picoult!

So a few years ago I found a book written by Jodi Picoult and started reading in....and didnt stop till I had read all the books she had written over the past 15 years or so. Her books are fantastic, and she is by far one of the best authors, I have not found a book of hers that I did not like.  She puts out a book every year and every year I buy it the day it comes out and read it with in a week only to have to wait a whole year for the next one. Well awhile back I heard she was coming to Utah for a book signing! Needless to say there was no way I was going to miss meeting my favorite author! So I drug Landon with me and we made the trip to SLC with my favorite books in hand ready to meet Jodi! She did a reading from her new book, which was really cool to hear her read her own book. Then she took questions from the audience about her upcoming books, the movie My Sisters Keeper that is based off of one of her books and how she comes up with her stories and does her research. It was by far one of the coolest things ever to hear how my favorite author has written these awsome books. After all that she sat to sign books. I brought two of my favorites for her to sign. I wanted to get a picture with her but they would not let me so landon took this while she was signing my book! I got to talk to her one on one for a min  SO COOL! She was absolutly amazing, so well spoken and she does everything herself, she doesent have a staff to do her research it she goes and lives the life of the people she is writing about, I only wish I could say I have done some of things that she has. One of the coolest people I have ever met!These are some of my favorite books of hers,  "Nineteen Minutes" is about a high school shooting by a disgruntled teen. "The Pact" is about suiside and the aftermath. and "My Sisters Keeper" Is about a a girl who was born to keep her sick sister alive (the movie for this comes out in June). I highly suggest these or any of her other books to read if you want to pass some time. Enjoy!

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!