Good Things to Come

A great little clip we watched today. We love the Mormon Messages the church puts up online.
Elder Jeffrey R. Holland recalls his days as a poor young father with a broken-down family car and testifies that for those who embrace the gospel of Jesus Christ, there are better days and good things to come.

What we need to remember is that "some blessings come soon, some come late, and some don’t come until heaven; but for those who embrace the gospel of Jesus Christ, they come." -Jeffrey R. Holland

Our First Big Purchase

So you wont believe how thrifty Dan and I are... we've been looking at apartments online and kept seeing ones we like that are in our price range... but the kicker has been that they only have washer/dryer hook ups. We want an apartment with a washer and dryer because let's face it... our quarters are better put to use playing Galaga. So anyways, I told Dan that maybe we should look into buying a washer and dryer (an investment we will eventually have to make anyways) and we found these beauties on the ksl classified website! The ad had only been posted no longer than 1 minute and the asking price.... you wont believe this... $25 for the matching set!
At first I thought it was a joke. For April fool's day this past year, my mom's old roommate's son had posted an ad on craiglist giving away her washer and dryer for free and posted her phone number. She woke up to a ton of phone calls asking about her brand new washer/dryer that she was giving away..... so naturally I thought this offer was too good to be true! But I called the guy, he seemed nice (I could hear a small child whining in the background, so clearly a family man) and he told me that he had just bought a new set and just wanted to get rid of this one!

So this morning Dan and his brother and friend drove down and picked it up, and now Dan and I are proud owners of a washer and dryer for $25 lol.
A funny side note, I texted this picture to my parents and they laughed. They bought a very similar set when they first got married!

Also tonight we made these delish cupcakes. Super easy to make and bound to impress anyone you make them for:

They are my grandma's specialty, but I didn't have all the ingredients to make them from scratch so I used a package of just normal chocolate cake mix (we used German Chocolate because it was on sale, and because I am German [if there was Canadian Chocolate cake mix, Id buy that instead]). Mix it up like the box says. In a separate bowl, mix:

a package of cream cheese

1/3 cup sugar

1 egg

vanilla

1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

Pour the cake mix into muffin tins 3/4 of the way full, and add a spoonful of the cream cheese mixture. Bake for 25 minutes at 350. Makes 24.

We also watched King's Speech tonight. I loved it.

Oh my goodness, one more thing to add.... dan bought a Wii today!!!! It is black and it is so fun. He did his price shopping and found a great deal at Target. Now that we have mastered being experts in deals,  I need to work on my mario kart skills!

Bye Bye Nails.

Well, to begin... my laptop burned out its fourth charger two weeks ago and for the past two weeks I have been without a computer that was able to blog. It has been awful!
But I want to give a shout out of thanks to Dan's roommate Andrew for letting me use his old apple desktop. It kept me on task by not being able to load facebook, youtube, my email or this blog AND provided my quiet apartment with a quiet hum so I didn't feel so alone.
Anyways... Dan has just informed me that no one cares that I havent blogged in a while so I will just cut right to the chase of things we have been up to recently.

Number 1- best purchase ever... the Pass of All Passes. $49.95. Get's us season passes to Seven Peaks waterpark, unlimited activities at Trafalga, season passes to Owlz Games and Utah Flash games.
So far we have already gotten our money's worth. Last monday we went to the batting cages with Andrew and Catherine and last weekend we went to Trafalga and did laser tag, go carts, and bumper boats... WHICH reminds me..... Dan loves to start trouble. Well, not necessarily start trouble but he loves to instigate it. We were waiting in line for the bumper boats and this one little kid started to spray us while he was on the ride. Dan ran and grabbed a paper cup, filled it up with water, and flung it over the fence (cup and all) and hit the little kid. The ride operator came over and told Dan it was okay, as he too reached down, filled the cup up with water and threw it at the little kid. A water fight broke out... when the little kid's got off, the ride operator told their mother that he had taken down their information and was going to get their season passes removed but he said nothing to us. (As I re-read what I wrote it doesn't seem that funny... maybe you had to be there)

Number 2- Hygiene school (for me), I am sure dan is bored of me always talking about it, but I do LOVE it.last week i took my first radiograph... tomorrow i get to learn how to take blood pressure.... however last night was a little sad for me as I sat there, clipped my nails down to the bare minimum. I realized that I will never again have long nails....

Number 3- dan has just informed me that this blog is only about me so now I will write about him. he has been very busy with school.

Tulip Festival!

Yesterday Dan and I were reunited! He picked me up from the airport right on time and gave me three beautiful tulips to get me excited about the tulip festival at Thanksgiving Point that we went to later that day!
The weather was beautiful and worth getting a cherry tomato red face for.

A little collage I made of some of the beautiful tulips!

Lauren is Almost Back!!

Tonight is the last night before my beautiful fiance Lauren gets back in town, so my brother and I went climbing and out to eat. We climbed for a while and had fun. Then we went over to a new burger place called JWCs. We each got the chile cheese hotdog with a bunch of fries. It was super good, but a hassle in the castle to get down haha. In the end my brother had a good laugh at my struggle and sent a picture to Lauren. I quote, Lauren: "loveeeee the pic your bro sent!!' We had a fun night and here are some pictures.

 Climbing with my brother. 

 This is the big meal.

After the big meal. 

What day is Prom?

I've picked my man, my ring, my dress, reception hall, food, type of flowers, colours, and today I got my shoes. We weren't planning on it, but my mom and I passed by a DSW today and I suggested we just go peak inside for ideas. I have never even been in that store before, but I have a great friend who rants and raves that DSW is the best shoe store ever. We walked in, I glanced around, and there I saw the cutest pair of shoes. Tried them on, decision was made.
As I was walking around in them, making sure they fit okay, a lady said to me "those are really cute shoes, when's prom?"
I laughed and should have been more quick on my toes to respond "it was three years ago" but instead all I said was "oh it's for my wedding". The lady blushed and quickly ran away haha.

But this has happened a couple times. When I went into try on dresses, the ladies at the front desks would ask me if I had come to try on prom dresses! I guess that's a good thing though!

Time Apart

Well this past week I went home to go visit my family in Chicago and Dan stayed in Provo to get started with school. It's been weird being apart, especially since last week we got to be with each other all day everyday! But we have helped pass the time by taking pictures and sending them to each other and skyping. I know, we are pathetic... can't stand being apart!! haha
Here is what we've been up to while apart:

My first day back in town my mom and bro took me to Portillo's, my FAV restaurant here in town.

Nate Dogg and my Momma!

Chocolate cake shake... yummmmmmmm

Toque and I went running, our housing development always has the prettiest flowers planted!

my ring... again. I love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nate taught me how to play the kazoo! 

aww Toque!

My mom and I outside Lou Malnatis... one of the best deep dish chicago pizza joints!

My mom and I coordinated our outfits 

My mom is much better at the model face than I am!

Nate and I

Delish pizza!

Cazookie for Nate's birthday!

Me and Nate's baseball game!!

Dan rock climbing!

Dan playing Galaga!! On our second date we went for a walk down on Center Street. We walked by a window and Dan did a double take. I turned to him and asked "were you looking to see if that PacMan was a Galaga machine?"... ever since then, Dan and I have loved playing Galaga around town. The best machine we've found in down at the dollar theatre. The machine in the basement of the wilk is terrible.

*** I also want to add in the fact that Dan is sporting our awesome friendship bracelet we made for each other.

Dan's been so productive on his homework while I've been gone! Maybe I should leave more often!

Um...I don't think thats a good idea!