tuesdays are lame.

people say marriage is hard. in my opinion (and i'm an expert, since i've been married for a month), it isn't marriage that's hard, it's everything else in life that is. like for me right now, what's hard is being an adult. i love being married, but i don't love being an adult. the thing is though is in most cases, you have to be an adult to be married...

well darn.

i saw these two kids today riding their bikes when i stopped to get gas after work and i was filled with envy. who misses being a kid in the summer? summer just plain isn't the same as an adult. for me, summer as a kid meant reading all morning, then meeting up with my friends and riding our bikes or walking to get a snow cone. then either coming home and running through the sprinklers or going to the pool all day long. how bomb is that? kids totally have it made.

last night for family home evening dawson and i walked to walmart with jude to get a router for our internet. everyone there just went crazy seeing our adorable dog. let's be honest, he's the cutest. and now we have internet! which means i no longer have to go to one of my parent's homes to blog study.

i actually kind of like cooking...i'm not amazing at it but i'm not bad at it, i've actually made some good dinners! it's kind of fun to come home and just focus on making dinner til dawson's home from work. i like it. if anyone has any recipes they just live by, feel free to send them my way!

one thing i do not like to do is fold laundry. all our laundry is thrown into a basket which is thrown into our closet and just sits there. it's getting a little out of control. that's probably what i should be doing right now instead of blog (i was so productive for that month we didn't have internet).

my husband claims that he could be a doctor cuz all they do is hear what's wrong with you then give you medicine. actually, the funny thing is, is that i'm the one who wants to be a nurse and he's the one who is always taking care of me. when i had a uti he is the one that pushed me to go get a medication for it. when i got all these crazy bug bites on my neck he went and bought me after bite and cortisone and would take initiative to put it on me. and since i've been feeling like i might have a cold, he has given me some medicine and supplements at night and makes me use this netti-pot thing (it's disgusting--you pour some salt water in one nostril and it comes out the other nostril) to clear my sinuses.

tuesdays are mega lame cuz i work 10 hours and i have to work til 11:00 at night. i leave before daws gets home from work so i only see him in the morning before he leaves then when i get home right before bed. or he'll usually be in bed falling asleep when i get home, but he'll wake up and talk to me for a while at least. but tuesdays i just miss him and i have a really hard time not being with him. it's pretty dumb cuz it's only one day a week and i really am so blessed to be able to see him as much as i do. i don't think life can get much better than coming home to the person you love every day.

on top of it being tuesday though, i was at work this morning cleaning for the person i was taking care of, crouching and cleaning their fridge, when i stood up and my phone fell right out of my pocket into the bucket of water i had been using. it won't even respond to turn off and has just been frozen on the lock page. i've had it sitting in rice for the past few hours.

well, cheers! tuesdays suck! happy tuesday!

-misses lake

hey, jude.

we love him.

-misses lake

the engagement pictures i never posted.

our pictures were done by the amazing madison nash in march at memorial grove park. madison has yet to create her photography website so when she does i'll share it, but in the meantime if anyone is interested in her work, email me for her contact information. i am in LOVE with our engagements! i get super happy every time i look through them.

-misses lake

[kandi]

our honeymoon & the baby.

our honeymoon was amazing! we spent the first night in hotel park city and woke up to it snowing! it was crazy that it was snowing in the end of may but it was so pretty! we then headed down to st. george where we swam, four wheeled, hiked, and just relaxed. 

we went to zion's for a day to hike angel's landing. i had never been to zion's or done angel's landing before but  had heard a lot about it. i kept asking daws if it was hard and he'd respond "not at all, it's a walk in the park!" and tell me how him and his brothers have raced up the whole thing before. but the announcements on the bus told us it was a "strenuous hike" and as we approached the trail there were signs of people falling off cliffs, so i was beginning to doubt that it was really going to be a "walk in the park". and it wasn't. the trail is paved, as dawson had told me, but for me the beginning of the hike was really steep! i had to take some breaks to catch my breath and it made me realize i need to get myself into better shape and get better at hiking if i'm going to keep up with this guy! it was amazing though. i at least wasn't scared at all and the top was amazing! it was incredible to just sit so high up and relax and talk and enjoy the view with my husband!

our last evening in st. geezy, dawson had the brilliant idea to look at dogs on ksl. now anyone who knows us could tell you this was a bad (or maybe good?) idea, because we are both dog lovers. there happened to be a litter of half australian shepherds and half border collies--dawson's dream dog--for sale nearby. the rest of the night we went back and forth with whether or not we should just call to see if there were any left. well, when we did call we found out none of them had been sold yet. then we decided to stop right there and not go see them, because once we'd go look at them, we'd be certain to buy one, and who just brings a dog home from their honeymoon like that?

well, we went back and forth with the idea for the rest of the night and pretty much all day the next day, and while we were out the next day, the last day of our trip, we went and looked at the dogs.

 and there he was, the pick of the litter, a male with one blue eye and a merle coat. and we bought him and named him jude.

jude is growing steadily, we can't really tell a whole lot because we see him every day, but friends and family members have been commenting on how big he's getting. he's a really hyper and active dog, and some times he drives me crazy, but we love him so much, and boy does he love us back. we have a lot of fun with him and he brings a lot of happiness into our home!

and in case anybody's wondering, i love being married.

-misses lake

best day of my life.

may 26, 2012

[photo by jacki stoddard-miller]

-misses lake

home sweet home.

hello blogging world, i'm back. since i last regularly posted, i started a new job, we bought and remodeled a house, got married, honeymooned, and bought a puppy.

our house is perfect for us. for three weeks straight we spent every waking moment that we weren't at work working at our home. we scraped lots of wallpaper, pulled up lots of carpet, spackeled and sanded, and painted lots! we had so much help from our family and also some of our friends. it was absolutely amazing to have so many people support and help us get our home ready by the time we were married. i'm so grateful for the opportunity we had to fix the home up and make it ours. it was some hard work, and was very overwhelming at times, but it has been incredibly rewarding. i always loved being there to work and it was fantastic to come home from our honeymoon to our own house that we worked so hard on.

being in my own home with my husband is the best feeling ever. i am in love with my life.

the wedding was amazing. once again so many people worked so hard to make the wedding what it was, and it was absolutely perfect. i will post more about the wedding and honeymoon later!

-misses lake