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This last week was my 23rd Birthday! I feel like I graduated yesterday, but my 5year class reunion is this next summer! What?! Wednesday (my birthday) the 21st of April, was a very relaxing nice day. :) I worked for a few hours, then I was able to do some shopping. When I got home around 2pm Ry had gone out and had this little baby all set up 

He let it slip a few weeks ago that he was getting me a fish for my birthday, so I was honestly expecting one goldfish to put in a mason jar. haha This is so much more fun! I have ALWAYS wanted a big fish tank with a filter and everything. I was so surprised! 

He got me 4 fish! We named the Dwight, Andy, Finley, and Franklin. :)And yes, they are still alive. 

My family was on their way up to Logan for the weekend and they stopped in to say hi. :)

Sky, Kelsey & Randal baby.

When Ry got home from work he took me to Thai Village. MMMM! We have been wanting to go try it for so long now. It is like 4 blocks from our house and it has taken this long to get over there! It was amazing, I kind of have been wanting to eat there every night since. :)

After dinner we HAD to go over to Chili's to get a multon cake. We love it, and birthday is a good excuse right?

 it was yummy!

On Friday, Ry and I drove up to Logan, we stayed with Mandy and Thomas in their hotel room. Grant was such a pleasant little baby! He slept all night!

Such a little chunk! We are best friends :) I am so obsessed with this kid!

Saturday morning we got up and went to the Logan temple. Monica and Josh were married! It was  a really good ceremony. Lots of really good reminding things were said, that will help me with my own marriage. Monica was such a beautiful bride, and I did like that she was able to wear her dress in the temple. 

 The happy couple!

We probably took more pictures than they did haha but here are a few

Sisters :)

The Flavel/ Palmer/Wigginton boys. (and Brek) 

ahhh my handsome husband :) I am so lucky!

Ryan & Thomas by the romantic waters.

:)

Mandy Thomas and baby Grant. Such a happy family! (I can't figure out why this picture is turned like that)

Grandma and Grandpa Oswald.

One more to add to the Temple wall!

After the temple stuff we had to stop by Aggies Icecream!

Thanks everyone for the birthday wishes and presents. :) We had a good week! 

And NOW a funny BYU library video that Ryan found the other day. haha pretty dang funny

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySN8Q4U6wys

Even smile with your liver

Last week Mandy and Thomas had to bring Grant up to Primary Children's because that cute little boy was having a hard time breathing. They said he had RSV, so they got him up to Salt Lake on Monday. The nurses just had to suck all his nastiness out of his nose every few hours, and they had him on Oxygen. He was so cute and such a good baby! They stayed until Thursday,  and before they left I walked around Winco with them. Grant got kind of fussy in his car seat so I held him the whole time. I cannot even begin to explain how much I love that boy! He is so dang adorable! I don't even need kids I can just live vicariously through Mandy. haha J/k Ry. ;)

Here is Grant in the Hotel :) He is getting chubbier! He was so skinny when he was born.

I realize all my posts usually revolve around Grant,

But I can't get over how fun and cute he is.

This last week I finally got to watch "Eat, Pray, Love"

 What a great movie! Even though I didn't agree with some of her opinions. I totally wish Ry and I could live in the house she had in Bali. :) I would like to do all those things she did but not by myself, Ry would have to come. I loved the old man she saw in Bali, 

 I loved his saying " Smile with your face, smile with your mind, even smile with your liver. :)

Julia Roberts did such a great job too.

  I just love her & her Brazilian lover!

AND JAMES FRANCO!

 What great casting.

This weekend Chris, Ryan and I drove down to Blanding Friday night. Saturday had lame weather, it was so cold and windy. So we spent most of the time inside. We went over to Dev and Tiffs early on Saturday to play with the boys. Tiff was in St. George and Dev had to go help someone with their power, so Ry and I got to play with the boys for like 20 min. We played "Badguys" and had pillow fights. Ryan was the bad guy.....so we hogtied him up!

 

with belts. haha

It was my moms Birthday on Saturday, so we made enchiladas for her, and all had a good time together.

 

Mom and Grandma :)

 

Most of the night was spent gathered around Grant of course. He is starting to smile and he is so dang cute! Mike can get him to smile the most, I guess probably because Mike is funny looking.

 

 

We also spent about an hour laughing our heads off at Grant, because when Felicia would blow on his face he would inhale right after and it was so so so funny. I got alittle on video haha He gets so much attention.

 

Mike and Filly are still both on crutches. haha Felicia has to get surgery again because she broke 2 of the screws that are already in her ankle. She doesn't know how that happened.......Mike is having a checkup this coming weekend to see how his foot is healing.

 

On Sunday Mandy and Thomas blessed Grant at Church, It was good to be there, and he looked so cute in his little suit. We had a yummy dinner after church, and we got some good family pictures.

 

 

We love Grant the most.

It was way nice to go home, it's always a relief to get down there for some fresh air, and some NO traffic. I love driving from my house to Ry house in 1 min with no stoplights, or hardly any other cars to worry about. :) We need a Blanding break every once in a while, so we don't die with our crazy work/school schedule.

We have lots of fun things planned for the next few weeks so more to come!

Your Jimmer isn't even real!

Oh my goodness we have had such a fun weekend! Well it started on Wednesday, Ry and I were able to go to the Jazz game with Tom, Karie and Kacee. They played the Minnesota Timber wolves, and it was a pretty dang good game! Very high scoring! They hit like 71 in the first half. It was fun to see family and we always like to get out and do something besides work and school. On Thursday Kacee and Karie came into my work and I gave them both a Microdermabrasion. It was fun, and I think they liked the facial... lol After we found Tom we went to Cafe Rio there in Draper. mmmm I never get sick of Cafe Rio, It is my very very best! I think Ry felt bad that he didn't get invited, but that's what you get when you are responsible and don't sluff school!

 Tom Just had surgery on his thumb the day before. :( Karie is so nice to cut his food for him. lol 

I had all day Friday off from work and that was so nice! I was able to get a few things done, which always results in lots of money spent. :) I had to get one of my window wipers fixed....ugh. Sometimes I feel like my car is just a hole I'm throwing money into. But I am very grateful that it is payed off, and that nothing major has gone wrong with it. As long as that little Alero drives I will keep it, because I love not having a car payment! At around 6 I met Kate in Provo! Her and Shadd drove up so that Kate could come with me to a little shower for our friend Stevie. She is having a baby at the end of this month and she is giving him up for adoption. She already has chosen the family, and so they threw a little shower up in Heber City for Tara (who is adopting Jackson)  it was also for Stevie just to help her out and get her back on her feet. It was kind of a bitter sweet feeling. I have so much respect for Stevie and I'm not sure I would be able handle all of that. Adoption is such an amazing thing. Tara had 2 children of her own, and they both passed away with in a few weeks because of a heart defect, so they resorted to adoption. They already have a little boy who I think is like 2, and now they get to have Jackson in just a few weeks. Tara seems like she is such a nice person and what a blessing for her. I know that Stevie is doing what she feels is best for Jackson and herself. She is one of my favorite people, and I love her so much. Kate too! :) I love Kate! I have such beautiful friends.

 

 

 

This is Coleen (Stevies Mom) Stevie, Tara, and then Tara's Mom.

The moms had to drink 7up out of the bottles.  ;)

 

It was so good to see Stevie. I hadn't seen her since like right after I got home from Hawaii. So it had been about a year and a half. It was also way good to see Kate. As always :)

 

Saturday, Ry and I got up and went to the gym and then pretty much lounged around watching March maddness and Ry had lots of homework too. BYU played SOOO good! It was such a fun fun game to watch. They played Gonzaga and beat them 89-67. 

 

 

My favorite sign of the game was "Stockton is really here to see Jimmer" haha Speaking of Jimmer.... :) I love him. I think he is so sexy. haha I think all the hype about him is so silly though. I bet he gets proposed to everyday at BYU. Ry and I found this video last night that the BYU library made, and we were cracking up, because I think that really might happen. ha jk

http://www.youtube.com/hbllproduction 

haha so funny!

Fact: Bears eat Beats.

Fact: I hate buying food.
I think it is such a waste of time and money, because it just goes right through us! Then we have to buy more! I honestly wish I could just only WANT to eat what is healthy for my body and what my body needs, think of how much money we would save! I keep telling Ryan I would totally give up my taste buds, so that I could do just that. lol Obviously I wouldn't really...... But I do think that would solve my problem with this hot cocoa addiction I have had lately. I know god gave us our taste buds for a reason, but I just wish that my mom would have never fed me sugar so I wouldn't know what I was missing! :) (thanks mom, it's all your fault. jk) Anyway, Ry and I spent $81 at Winco last night, which probably would have been over $100 anywhere else. But still 80 bucks is a lot! We tried really hard this week to make up a meal plan for the next 2 weeks, so we didn't end up with a bunch of random crap that didn't go together like we usually do. lol  So hopefully we can stick to it and just be happy healthy people the next 2 weeks, for dinner at least. :)

Lately we have been so busy, but we have done some fun things! 2 weeks ago on Wednesday Ry and I both got off work a little early, We went to visit Carma our land lord for a little bit. Then we drove down to campus for the BYU vs New Mexico game in Provo. We were so excited,  Ry got the tickets like a month ago, and we wore our matching BYU cougar shirts.  haha I was so disappointed  that Davies got kicked off a few days before.....what a punk. Who cares what he does in his "personal" time. But freak, if you're going to do it with your girlfriend just wait until after basketball season. Am I right? I'm sure it killed the BYUers who axed him, but they would have done it with anyone. I'm sure the rest of the world has a hard time understanding our values, and the reasons for them. BUT! BYU is a private school, Davies knew 100% what was expected of him to play on their team, and he screwed it up. If he couldn't handle he should have picked a different school. Kind of sad, but it's his own dang fault. I really liked this article on ESPN that Ryan found.    http://m.espn.go.com/ncb/story?storyId=6175251&i=FB&w=1aet5  It's nice to know that even though the guy doesn't understand the honor code, he can respect it. Well, I'm sure you all know that BYU lost that game..... um...I probably could shoot better than all of them that night. :) jk But seriously, It was bad. The best part of the game was the Half time show. Hahahahha I STILL giggle when I think of how funny these ladys were. I think they said their age range was from 56-94. (I don't know how to get these links to work But really, watch this! It was super funny! Maybe just copy and paste??) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9XULgUO2vU
 They said how many children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren they all had put together, lol and it was lots. I can't remember, But I know the grandchildren were in the thousands.
After the game Ry had some homework to finish so we spent the rest of the night in the library, (I know such a romantic evening) :) But it was so he didn't have to go back down to campus the next day.

On Saturday My cousin Justine had her baby shower. She is such a cute pregnant girl. I didn't get any pictures... but it was so good to see her, and I found out that she is moving to Draper. So I am going to be best friends with  that little London Lynn on my lunch brakes. :) I'm already got a pattern to make her and Grant church clothes. :) Ahhh I love Grant We were able to Skype with Thomas, Mandy and Grant on Sunday :)

I think Grant was Hungry? I don't know, but he was kind of mad. lol

 :)

 What a cutie! We love you Wiggingtons!

 I would like to end with our favorite Office episode. ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts9geuPWQvs

Ihatewinteritis

Today, I worked a half day because I had an appointment to go do my taxes at 4. Now I have nothing else to do until Ryan gets home. So I'm a little bored.... and I have major IHATEwinteritis! ( yes, it's a real word and its a problem!) Why does winter have to last 9 months out of the year!? What is the point? It really makes me miss Hawaii. I miss being warm. :) ahhhhhh  

And I miss my old Job ;(

And I miss The Uluaves :(

BUT! I love my husband :)   He is my favorite :) Having him around makes everything better, and seeing him is the highlight of my day.

So I guess it's ok I live here....as long as Ryan is here.
Hurry spring! I'm so freezing!