Can't Wait

So as I am sitting on our couch doing my homework and Mike on the chair applying for law school I can't help but think how excited I am for this Summer. 

Do not ask me where we are going to be living or what we are going to be doing because I don't really know. 

All I know is that looking out at what a nice day it was today, reminded me of how this summer we are going to be enjoying the warm weather and the long summer nights. 

Cheers to the sun setting after 5 o'clock!

And of course the other thing I can't stop thinking about is wedding season and how excited I am for all of my dear friends who are getting married!

Such a fun Spring/Summer ahead!

If I did not love target before I sure do now!

Okay so I love Target. I love their clothes, DC+popcorn combo for only $1.50, swimsuits, okay you get the picture I love target. I think that my favorite thing about target is the fact that you can get something from there and everyone is wondering where you got that because it does not look like you spent ten dollars on it from a superstore. 

Okay to the real point why I am loving target right now.

Well let me tell you. 

I was just searching the internet, you know like how I do everynight when doing my ADD from doing homework starts to kick in. 

So I was looking at Rue magazine at the story of Jess LC's beautiful Home 

(seriously if you have not seen it either on the magazine or on about 20 other blogs, it is seriously beautiful) 

and I  looked to see where this beautiful yellow chair was from. 

You see I have all of this beautiful furniture that I am just waiting to decorate in our apt net year and well this chair might look AMAZING or too much next to the couch. 

Anyways the chair is from target. 

I bet you didn't see that one coming. 

Anyways so I kept looking to see what other beauties I might find and look what I found!

 

I used this print from Calico Corners for a few of my projects last semester and lets just say to upholster and everything it was a lot more than $291. 

Here are some other chairs I am LOVING from target. 

all images via Target. 

Don't you just love target even more now?

Is it too late to do a Christmas update?

Because I do not want to do homework and because I STILL have not told about our Christmas break.. 

I think now is better late than never? 

So our Christmas break was: entertaining, relaxing, family packed and we wouldn't have wanted it any other way. 

Here are some of the highlights of our trip:

We attended the most beautiful wedding of our dear friends Ben and Emily. 

So happy we got to be there for their special day!

The next day we flew to Florida where I had the genius idea to pack a carry-on with all of the things I needed for our trip to Orlando the next day. 

You know just incase my luggage got lost, I would have my carry-on to get me through my Orlando vacation? 

Well long story short. Delta made me check my carry-on. Carry-on got lost the whole 2.5 weeks. Carry-on had my: make-up straightner, tennis and running shoes. Ended up gelling in Harry Potter World with my new Dr. Scholl's from Wal-mart. Learned even more than before that I have the best in-laws who are way more patient and optimistic that I was and talked to Delta everyday to get my luggage back.

We went to Orlando. It was a short trip but so much fun. 

We drove both ways. 

2 different routes. 

2 trips to Steak & Shake 

which I blame for my 2 pound weight gain during that trip. 

Enjoyed a wonderful day at Harry Potter World where Priscilla and I gawked over how much we loved Harry Potter World and how much it reminded us of the books. 

While the boys talked about how riduciously buzy the park was

(which it was, I mean an hour wait just to go in the shops? but so worth it)

And rode on all of the rollercoasters the girls wouldn't. 

Returned back and spent the rest of Christmas: eating tons of treats, visiting friends dressed up like Santa and his helpers, playing cards, watching movies, watching Glen Beck, going to the movies, walking Sandy and just enjoying being with family. 

For New Year's Mike took me to Seaside where The Truman Show was filmed and then we went to the house where Gone with The Wind was filmed. 

Then we went to Bonefish for dinner, Baytowne and then back to the house to ring in the New Year.

It was a wonderful break and everyday we talk about how much fun we had and how we want to head back. 

Michael was so happy the entire time we were with his family. 

It seriously is the best just seeing his face light up the closer we get to seeing his parents. 

I am so grateful that on the trip I got to spend a lot of time for my in-laws and get to know them even better. 

They are seriously the best and I cannot wait till they come up to Provo in a few weeks!!

I have already been trying to convince Mike to play hand and foot with all of us! 

Here are some pictures of some of our fun adventures. Enjoy!

7 months to late?

I cannot believe that Mike and I have been married for almost 8 months now. 

If feels like just yesterday we were married. .. I guess 8 months is not really that long, but to us, our first year of marriage, 2/3rds of the way done? 

It has gone by so fast!

This past week I have been organizing my computer (not out of a NYR but just for the shear fact that my computer is getting old and full) so I have been de-cluttering and transferring old files onto my external hard drive. 

That is when I came across some wedding pictures and  realized that I have never shared them.

So instead of catching up on what I did over Christmas break I guess I should catch up on what I was doing 7 months ago... 

Mike and I were married on May, 22 2010 and after a lovely Honeymoon to the Caribbean, Miami, and Disneyworld, we headed back to Mike's hometown of Niceville, Florida where his parents threw an amazing Open House at their beautiful home.  

Looking at all of the pictures it just reminds me of what a fun night it was.

I am so blessed to have such an amazing family. 

My mother-in-law with the help of the whole family put all of this together for us. They made the food, my Florida mother ( as she calls herself! which I love because in-laws sound so distance which is not the case! She really is my other mother or Florida mother!) made all of the flower arrangements, picked all of the decorations, and organized it all!

I think out of all the pictures my favorite is the first and the last. At the bottom is both of our immediate families. 

Our families get along so great.

(hence why I love the first picture. We are all so happy!)

They are really so much alike. 

I thank my Heavenly Father everyday for blessing me with these families. 

I am so happy that they love each other as much as we love them. 

I can't wait till we all can be together again. 

I am thinking family vacation sometime soon. 

Hawaii anyone?

PS. Isn't granny just the cutest person you have ever seen. Mike and I miss her so much. She is 92 the funniest, happiest, sweetest old lady with the cutest southern accent.

Ever.

The End.

Puggle

Just say it a few times to yourselves because it is So dang fun to say.  

Puggle Puggle Puggle. 

Now you may be asking yourselves what in the world is a Puggle? 

Well let me tell you...

It is a Pug+Beagle and it is so dang cute! 

We want one! 

Of course we have to wait till next year till we are in a semi- permanent place(3 years at least), that: allows dogs, actually has a place for it to roam, and I have a job so that we can support it.
But next year comes around we are getting one! 

Just you wait! 

Here are some pictures to tide you us over till then.

 (picture taken from google images)

We like the more of the Beagle than Pug look. Aren't they just so cute!? The Pug eyes, the Beagle ears and just the right size to fit into an: apt, condo,townhouse... whatever we end up in next year?

Disclaimer- Just because we want a dog, does not mean that we are getting a dog to delay a want for children. We just are total dog people and after spending time with Sandy (our parents/parents-in-law's dog) we realized how much we want a dog in our little family to play with, cuddle with and keep us company.