Flashback: Late Night Adventure

Sometimes when we are alone in our house. Sitting on the couch or giggling on the luv sac it hits me. 

WE ARE TOTAL WEIRDO's 

then I laugh a little more. I love that Adam is my perfect kind of weirdo. He makes me laugh more than anyone I know. Even when I don't want to laugh. When I want to be mad at him, he can still make me giggle. We do the stupidest stuff together and its fun. 

Like one night Adam wanted to go check on our investment (yogurltand & a drive by of all our competitors). He was trying to convince me that leaving the house at 11pm in my PJ's was a good idea. He said it would be EPIC. 

So of course I couldn't turn that down, an epic adventure. 

Well it wasn't epic, but it was fun. 

Then a few weeks later we had spent the evening running errands. Had been out to my parents house. Already eaten dinner, and Adam was craving Ethiopian food. 

He cajoled me into the car with some other promise of a memorable night. I think he said:  The night that movies are about.

Who wouldn't be a part of that? 

one of the good thing about Adam's late night adventures is that he complains less when I take a million pictures. So I got in the car and we headed to SLC in the middle of the night to eat spicy food as a second dinner. 

IT was really awesome. We love our new little place. Its like a family. They are so kind whenever we come up. If there is no Injera to buy, they will make me some. Which I appreciate. 

This time the wives were burning incense and making coffee the Ethiopian way. It made the atmosphere perfect. It smelled like home. It felt like home. We decided we need to find a way to bring the incense back and burn it in our house but not smoke ourselves out. Should be some interesting experimenting coming in the beginning of June. 

We gobbled down our food. 

Let full and happy.

I am so glad that Adam can drive. Muah ha ha ha hahahaha. Makes me a much better sport on these little adventures. I also love the drive. The uninterpreted quite. or conversation. The way Utah looks at night. The time spent with theMR. 

Since the move we haven't had any adventures yet...the country presents several challenges one of them being the proximity to well just about anything. Once we get settled & better at judging the [time/Distance/commitment] it is to adventure out, we will get back. We may even venture South...Muah ha ah ha.

Happy Adventures to you!

♥ theMRS. 

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The middle one turns {FIVE}

There is something so magical about birthdays. 

I remember being a kid and just WAITING, longing for my birthday. To be older. One of the big kids. To grow up. 

Now that I am here...making my way through life as a pseudo adult, I wish I could back to being young. Back to the days when summer seemed to last forever. Long summer days drifting into summer nights. Back to when getting older was exciting and seemed to hold the unknown. 

Now birthdays just means more wrinkles!

So back in December we got to celebrate a magical 5th birthday for little Avery. Its crazy to think she is just 5. She seems so much older. Probably because she is always trailing close behind her Big sister Ashtynn. 

so we headed to the most Magical place in Utah County....Chuck E. Cheese! 

I mean who DOESN'T want to eat food at an establishment ran by a mouse?

ITs a win in my book. 

It was a lot of fun to see my nieces and their cousins running around, playing games, winning tickets and having a good time.

Avery taking her cousin Ava on a ride.    Ashtynn showing off her CRAZY tickets from one game.     The present Adam and I picked out for Avery!

Avery taking her cousin Ava on a ride!  Ashtynn showing off her ticket winnings.  The present Adam and I picked out for Aves. Me and Gracie having iPhone fun.  Avery's Uncle Colton showing off his winnings!

 After the kids ran around for a while and Ate pizza it was time to move on to the present portion of this party! Watching little ones open presents is so funny. They get a kick out of the smallest things. 

Nothing makes a little one feel rich like a handful of $1 bills! 

Avery had the biggest smile about her Justin Beiber T-Shirt! She is in SOOOO much love with him. Its hilarious. She sings his songs and jokes about how he is in love with her too. I mean he says it on the movie! hee hee she is a riot. 

things I love about Avery's littler personality:

• She is extremely rational. Tell her we will be somewhere in a minute, and she will call you out on it. 
• She is bold. 
• She is a sassy little one. 
• She is loving and kind. 
• She loves to use the Amharic we taught her over and over again. 
• She is smart.
• She loves Adam. Whenever I see her she says Where's Adam? At her party she asked the same. I told her that he was working. She was sad- THAT'S not fair! He shouldn't have to be at yogurtland when Im having a party.

It was an AWESOME party and a lot of fun!

♥ theMRS.

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AND!!!! We have internet....

& Direct TV WITH a DVR.

its like we are almost grown ups....except the house is still mostly not unpacked.

Oh and with the direct TV guy coming today Adam had to pull everything off the wall...

So its an even bigger mess. 

Who would have thought. 

Now that we are real people....

WHAT shows do we NEED to record?

I am so excited to have Bravo! Oh and free HBO/Showtime for 3 months!!


♥  theMRS.

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becoming a Craftinista?

In my quest for being the world worst homemaker, I decided I should try and craft….at least a little. Let’s be honest- to attempt to be the perfect Martha Stewart Wife would really just be setting myself up for imminent failure. SO instead, I own the fact that I will dabble in the domestic arts and hope that maybe one day I will have the time to devote to them.

Until then, I am still trying to figure out what I even like doing.

So this holiday season I got ambitious. Dareth has been taking about hosting a craft night. I have been looking for a reason to try to make some of the things I pinned. So I was all for it! Especially since my last craft project was a TOTAL fail.

Except I didn’t make anything I pinned…why does it always work out like that?

Instead I spent hours looking for the perfect stalking to make For Christmas. And once we did, We were both sold.  

We picked out fabrics we liked. I went for more reto looking stuff. Knowing that Adam bought me a Gold Tinsel Tree for next year!!! CANT WAIT!!!Oh Next Christmas can't get here soon enough!

The first Craft night was a lot of fun. Sarah came too! And Dareth’s ACTUALLY crafty Friend Dani. We cut. Ironed. Pinned and sewed. While Dani Scrap-booked and Sarah worked on a block set.

Can you see this picture? I only can in IE and its weirding me out....

It was fun. Mostly because it was a reason to get together. Which doesn’t seem like we do enough.

I was on a crafting high, since this project WORKED! So Dareth and I got even more ambitions and bought fabric for several scarf projects.

Needless to say, craft night 2.0 was a slightly  (OK a ton) less successful. I made Adam a scarf at least! 

Now I just need to commander my mom’s good sewing machine….Muah ah ah ah aha….that would make all these projects so much easier.

New plan….I’ll keep you updated on how that goes.

♥ theMRS. 

• Did you do a homemade Chistmas?
• Any Projects you pinned that I need to see?

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Happy New Year

I hope 2012 is treating you gloriously so far!

♥ theMRS.

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