My day with Brad

Well Wednesday was my birthday...I turned the big 2-3! I know, I can't believe it either. Brad did a really good job of making sure I had the best day ever! The night before my birthday he took me to pick out our Christmas tree! I LOVE Christmas and I love to make a big deal of it, so it meant a lot to me that he took me to get our tree after he had a long day at work. It was so fun picking it, we found the perfect one, and they even had hot chocolate (my favorite) for us while we looked. It was like a scene from a movie :) We got it home and I thought he was just going to set it up and we'd decorate it another time because it was late, but he let us decorate it that night. I was so excited! The next day I had to work, but it was ok because work bought lunch and made me a card, they are pretty great! When I got done with work and  walked in our house Brad had all the christmas lights on and the house was clean :) my mother and sister-in-law came over and set up this cute happy birthday banner with balloons and then took me to get a pedicure! It was so fun, and definitely needed :) After pedicures Brad let me open my presents...he got me a sewing machine!! I am so excited, and was so surprised! I can't wait to get done with school so I can get started on some projects! :) Brad took me to Benihana's for dinner! I have wanted to go there for awhile and I'm glad we finally got to go. It was delicious! And so fun to watch them cook in front of us. After dinner he took me to the Festival of Trees! I loved it, they had some really beautiful trees this year. After all of the festivities we went home and had some delicious birthday brownies that cute Brad baked for me! He really is the best husband.It was a wonderful day, I loved getting cards and birthday texts from my family and friends. Thanks babe for making it special for me! I love you.

Birthday dinner at benihana's

My Sewing Machine!!

Homemade birthday brownies mmmm

Our tree! Brad named it Cleveland...cleveland the tree

Our weekend

Brad and I had a great weekend together. On Friday he took me on a "hot date." We went to dinner at California Pizza Kitchen mmmmm and then to a movie. We haven't been to a movie in the theaters together for a long time. It was fun to get out of the house and spend time just the 2 of us. On Saturday after Brad got off work we had a Twilight Movie Marathon...yes thats right, we watched 3 movies for a total of 6 hours of non stop Twilight. We want to go see the new one and we hadn't seen the other ones so we figured we should do it all in one day :) Brad won't admit to it, but he likes those movies. He was very excited when Edward and Bella kissed. On Sunday we had some of my family over for dinner. It's fun to have people come over to our house. :)

Last weekend Brad had a boys night and I had a girls night. We went down to gateway and had dinner and saw Footloose...then we went DANCING! It was so fun to hang out with all my friends and talk about girl stuff and just be silly together, the time just flew by, and before I knew it it was 1:00 am! And I know Brad had a blast with his friends. They ate pizza and played poker and I'm sure they were out of control. I came home to find soda cans and 5 empty boxes of pizza in our kitchen. :) I'm glad they had a good time.

Nicole, Emma, Traci, Me, Kari

This is Brad's latest look...don't worry, it didn't last long. I'm sure you can understand why.

Weekend Fun

Brad and I had a great weekend, it started on Friday when Jeff and Traci came over and we played the wii. The boys got a little too into some of the games :) it was fun to spend the night talking and hanging out with them! Saturday it was my mom's birthday so we spent the day with her, just hanging out and playing games. We had dinner together and then my dad, sister, Brad and I all carved pumpkins! On Sunday is was the ward primary program. My little primary kids did such a great job! It was a cute program and everyone loved it! It was a wonderful weekend, and just like all wonderful things, it ended too quickly.

Baseball on the Wii

Happy Birthday to the best mom!! We love you!

Our Pumpkins!
Brad's is a haunted castle, mine is a witch, Melinda's is ghosts, my dad's is the grim reaper.

I got home the other day, and this is what I found

This note that probably took 10 seconds to write, made my whole day! :)

A different kind of workout

My dear friend Traci is a fitness pole dancing instructor and she invited us over to her house to teach me and Emma a few workout routines. (fat burning, muscle building workout routines...nothing else) Let me just say that pole dancing is HARD! She is an expert and was doing the craziest moves! I don't know how she does it. Anyway, I consider myself to be pretty athletic and when she showed us "simple" moves I thought to myself, "oh this should be no problem, I should be able to do that." It was the exact opposite! I was so tired after our hour lesson...and sore. Lets just say I have a new respect for people who can do it and make it look graceful. It was super fun, and a great workout. I can't wait to do it again! Thanks Traci!

Notice my sweat? (I'm sure you do, its hard to miss) It was a tough workout

The girls
Traci, Emma, Me

365 days

On Wednesday Brad and I celebrated our first anniversary together! It was such a fun day. We both had work and school all day but at 7pm we got to celebrate our day together. I made Brad a big fancy dinner and we just hung out and talked about our wedding day. After dinner we watched our wedding video, that was my favorite part. It was so fun to see us so happy and in love...not much has changed since then :) After the video we ate some of our cake from our wedding. We were pleasantly surprised to find out that it actually tasted really good. We got a fresh cake from the reception center and we ate some of that too, they really didn't taste all that different. They were both delicious, pumpkin chocolate chip cake is the best! Brad brought home beautiful roses that looked just like the ones from my bouquet, he is so thoughtful!
On friday we went downtown to Little America (where we stayed on our wedding night) and spent the weekend there. We ate at an italian place called Biagi's which was delicious. We walked around downtown and looked at little shops along the way. We went swimming and hot tubbing and Saturday morning ate at the cute little restaurant inside the hotel. It was perfect! I honestly feel like the luckiest girl! Being married to Brad is the best, he is the perfect husband and treats me like a princess everyday! He always makes me laugh and I just feel so special when I'm around him. We were definitely made for each other, and he really is my other half! Thanks for the best 365 days, I love you babe!