12

Twelve days until I’m going here:

To see this little pooch

And these two lovely parentals

And my long lost friend

Fresh air, puppy cuddling, late night talks, mom’s cooking, nature walks, home.

I’m excited.

What to-doo

I make a to-do list every day. There’s something about writing out all the things I have to do and making little boxes that I can later check off and pat myself on the back for being productive. What’s even better is when I actually finish my whole list for the day.

Yesterday was one of those days, when my list was long, BUT I finished it. Don’t laugh at the ridiculous things I add {Yes I know there are 4 boxes that could be summed up to one, laundry. That’s how much I hate laundry, I need 4 checks to get me through LOL.}

Oh and I’m definitely guilty of adding things after I’ve done them, just so I can feel good checking them off {it’s nice, don’t knock it till you try it}

However, I have a strict Friday-fun day policy. It means it’s finally the weekend and I won’t do work. Case in point:



T.G.I.F.



choc-o-la

Jake & I signed up for a contest through our apartment complex, just for signing up we got a gift certificate to The Chocolate {a dessert café}. For those of you that know my love of all things sweet you know I was super excited. We couldn’t even wait one day to go use our gift certificate. The chocolate is decorated super cute!

But really the best part is the desserts.



Brownies with mint frosting




Chocolate cupcakes with peanut butter frosting




Turtle brownies




chocolate chip cookies



Jake ordered the red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting.

I ordered the Moroccan vanilla cake. {Side note: I LOVE, and I mean LOVE LOVE LOVE chocolate. I’m really not a vanilla kinda girl. BUT I have this strange reaction to chocolate that is like PMS x20. If I eat chocolate it makes me SO grumpy, irritable, and emotional. We’re talking any bit of negativity and I’m in tears. Completely emotionally & unstable. So basically chocolate was rarely in my house as a child and my husband feels very strongly that I don’t eat it. LOL. } On that note, the vanilla cake was really good!

Jordan {Jake’s sis.} & Tessa joined us



Jordan & Tessa



It was fun, but the best part? The deal that was made for Jordan to eat one of these:

Yeah, HOTTEST PEPPER. Both her and Tessa had one later that night. {pictures & video to come.. So funny}

Photos & Food

Today I did a little photo shoot with by beautiful older sister Brittany. She was a wonderful model & I had fun pretending to be a photographer.

Also, earlier today I found this fun website that has lots of yummy recipes (bonus: they are healthy!). Tonight I made chicken parmesan , grilled zucchini and tomato salad, and herb & buttered noodles. Yum. Check out the recipes here & here.

Jimmer Fever.

Have you heard of this guy?

Jimmer Fredette! Well, he's kinda a big deal around BYU. Ok for those of you that were outta-the-loop he's an amazing basketball player. Last week our bball team was ranked No.9 in the nation and SDSU No.4 came to Provo for a bball game.So who cares? Pretty much all of BYU! Getting tickets to the game was crazy, students camped out and formed huge lines in the snow. My lovely husband was one of the crazies who waited outside for hours and hours. And he got us some AMAZING seats! I waited for about 15 minutes, totally worth it.

Someone gave J a cute fuzzy blue hat, nice look ya?

The game was crazy, the fans were so loud. The student section was standing and screaming the entire time.

We jumped up and down, screamed, cheered, and clapped pretty much the entire time. We had so much fun!

And the best part?.... We won! Yep, beat the Number 4 team by about 10 points

Jake rushed the court, yep that's my husband!
oh ps. we each got t-shirts that were flung into the crowd, I fell backwards and did something I'm not proud of, but you do what you gotta do, right? AND we made it on the jumbo-tron. Yeah, we're kinda a big deal haha