25th Anniversary Surprise Party!

This past Saturday I had a surprise open house for my parents! It was so much fun and I could not have done it without out my wonderful husband and two beautiful aunts (Jolene & Teresa) Thank you guys so much! I know my parents enjoyed every minute of it!

Okay so here is the story its actually kind of funny. So about a month and a half before the BIG day I decided to have a surprise open house and invite family and some close friends to help my parents celebrate their big day! So together with Jolene I created the invites and sent them out to the family! By the way they did a great job at keeping a secret :) Anyways back to the story so I had to tell my mom something so they would not plan anything. I came up with the excuse that I was going to have an open house on March 19, and I wanted them to come and just hang out! At first my mom was totally okay for it and then she started thinking about it and then the quizzing came all the time. She would ask me why that date so I had to be quick on my feet and say it was because Caley (I work with her) is going to have a baby and she wants to come and so I wanted to do it before she had the baby. Then she would keep asking me who all I invited and I said everybody from work and a few of our friends. She seemed to buy it for awhile and then the questions started to really come on so I got the brilliant idea to ask her to help me make the food haha.....she said okay and it totally threw her off our tracks.....it's kind of funny that she made some food for her own party.

Okay so the day arrives and I asked her if she reminded my Dad about the open house and she was like I thought you told him....which I never did because she said she would. So I talked to my Dad and he said we have lived here for 2 years and that he did not need to come to an open house plus basketball was on. So my quick thinking came in handy again I asked if Mom was close and he said kind of....I told him that he needed to keep this a secret that it was a party for him and mom. He said alright what time do we need to be there and that was that! So then later when they arrived to our house and people started to show up my Mom figured it out she was so surprised but she still had a little feeling it was for them haha. Then I later found out when they were driving over my Dad asked my Mom what kind of house warming present she got us....she looked at him weird and said I didn't get anything and so my Dad started to give her a bad time it was so funny.

The evening went fantastic and it was so good to see our family and catch up! I think I am going to have to throw another party just so we can all get together again soon!

Getting Fit

So about a month ago it hit me that I needed to start getting into shape again and start really working out. Since it was still pretty cold outside and I was just not feeling the whole P90x workouts I decided to just kind of play around with our Wii fit, so I tried the free running and I started out really light and only went for 10 minutes and I ran a WHOLE 1.2 miles without even taking a little break! This was huge for me and it felt so good. Everyday I would push myself a little farther and then eventually I made it up to 20 minutes of straight running. I even got Zac to start doing it with me :) Now I am up to 30 minutes and our average distance is 5.6 miles!!! I am so excited I can't even handle it and I feel great, and I have not had any arthritis pains the whole time....plus to all of this is I have lost 4 pounds which means I am closer to my ultimate goal!

Now Zac is thinking we need to start running for 40 minutes and he is giving me one more week at 30 minutes each time. We have even thought that once the weather starts getting a little nicer we are going to start running outside and we have decided that our long term goal to this is to be able to run a marathon!! I know it sounds crazy but I am excited for this new adventure! I think this weekend we are going to look at some different marathons and see which one we want to do.

Happy Birthday Dad!!!!

Today is my Dad's Birthday!!!!! Thank you for being the best Dad in the world I hope you have enjoyed your day of doing nothing except watching basketball!!!

Today...

So today I came home after work and the house was unusually quiet.....I went into the man cave and this is what I found......

25 Years.....

Today is a very special day in our family. My parents are celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary!!! We are so blessed to have amazing parents!!!! Love you guys!!!! Thank you for being great parents!!

4th Grade

I have absolutely loved every minute of my internship this semester. I have learned so much!! I absolutely love the kids even though some days they like to test the waters haha but in all they are a great group of 4th graders. One really fun thing I have been able to do this semester is my mentor teacher gave me a task of decorating our door with a spring theme........

I love it! It turned out so cute and even though you can't see the kids very well they are all making a monkey face!

Love love

HaPpY bIrThDaY bEnItA!!!!

Today is Benita's 20 birthday....it is so crazy that it has already been 20 years!!! I hope you have a wonderful day Ben and that all of you wishes come true! Love you lots!!!!!

ZaC's BiRtHdAy!!!

So if you really know me you would know that I HATE having to wait for surprises or better yet having to wait to give someone a present....so now that you know that I am sure you can guess what is coming next......I CRACKED I could not handle the anticipation anymore so on Friday I asked Zac if it would be okay if I gave him a present everyday until his birthday and he said that would be fine.....he is such a great husband....so I gave him a Utah picture.....so I really didnt think this through very well because he was then trying to hang it up in the family room....but it is suppose to go in the man cave which at this point he doesn't know he is getting....so then I am getting all antsy again.

So to take my mind off of the other presents I suggest we go to dinner and he chose to go the the Reef downtown....and let me tell you they have the best sweet potato fries so you should go try them....anyways back to the story so we are driving home and we decided to go and get shakes at iceberg and then it hits me again that when we get home he is going to want to hang up the picture so I asked if he would be willing to open another present he said sure so we made a stop at my parents and I frantically tried to wrap a 32" tv but it didn't work out so hot so I wrapped one side haha anyways he opened it and he was shocked! It was the best I loved the look on his face. Then he asked where he could put it and I told him in his new man cave and he got even more excited! I knew that this was the best present ever for him!!!

So then Saturday comes and we start putting together his room and then he starts talking about how we need to go and buy some curtains....little does he know that is his next present....when we get finished I told him I have another present and I gave him the curtains and he just started laughing so then I started laughing it was the best! In the afternoon our friend Logan asked if Zac would help him chaparone 14 year olds up and Bogus and he was so excited to go hang with the boys....I stayed back and Meah and I had a little girls night followed by some super gross IHOP when the boys got back haha.

Sunday came and we went to church and we sat and contimplated about getting season passes to Bogus and we both decided we needed them so that was Zac's present for Sunday...haha it was a win for me too....then my parents took us our to Buffalo Wild Wings for Zac's birthday dinner...it was so good.

Monday came and the boys went snowboarding again while us girls were at school and then we all got together and Meah made an awesome potato soup and I failed miserably at making brownies so I had to stop at the store and get a new dessert...this is a whole story in itself haha.

Tuesday finally came and we had a relaxing evening at home and just watched movies and ate fried rice.....and I gave him some clothes for the final day of his birthday weekend...

Wow that was long sorry....but it was a great weekend!