yes you should be jealous of my great finding

You know what is so great about marriage and relationships?? You can find someone just as weird as you are! Everyone, ok not everyone, most people can act normal at work or out in public but as soon as you get home most of the time all of our weird traits come out. Anyway the point is its good we have families or significant others to share in our weirdness. There is this couple i see occasionally and I kept thinking they looked so familiar. One day I received the GLORIOUS revelation as to who they reminded me of. Are you ready for it?? Please scroll down

But Whitney you say, those are muppets.... I know, and thats just what is so fantastic about it! Just entertain the wonderful idea that those muppets are actually real live people and you will know exactly who I see. My family loves muppets more than anything and I thoroughly enjoy finding anything that reminds me of muppets, but this is not even one of those instances. I'm pretty sure these characters were based off of these people. It made me pretty happy :).

And I thought I loved you then

Yesterday we went to SLC to celebrate my sisters birthday. We went and saw the wildest dream at the imax and it was awesome. Then we went up to my parents house and had yummy home made pizza and fresh raspberry and marzipan and peach and marzipan pie. YUMMY! We left pretty late because we were having so much fun so needless to say we were pretty tired on the way home. To keep Brandon awake I started being silly and telling him the story of a girl and a boy who fell in love surprisingly and got married. This was of course us but it was goofy and kept us awake. Did you know that we started out just cuddle buddies then make out buddies? Yep for a good 3 or so months we spent every minute together but refused to say we were dating. I think we were in such shock because we had no idea what the other was really like. We had some pretty misconstrued conceptions about each other because we had only hung out occasionally in big groups for 4 or so years. Secretly I think I always kind of liked Brandon but as I did for months before we got engaged I didn't admit it or believe it. We thought we were so different than we actually are and had no idea how much we had in common. Isn't it funny how all things happen in the right time and place. We had known each other for four years and all this heart ache and dating other people and the one I wanted more than anything was right there in front of me and I never would have even thought about it. If we had dated earlier though I'm not sure it would have worked out. The Lord definitely prepares you for the right time. I just want to say that marrying Brandon was the best decision I've ever made. I know its only been two months but I can't believe how wonderful it is. You know that Brad Paisley song "Then?" I just love the lyrics, "now your my whole life, now your my whole world, I just can't believe that I could ever love you more, but I've said that before" come on that's just good stuff :). Usually I don't like songs like that but I LOVE this one. It's so true how it just gets better and better and you're constantly surprised that you can keep finding things to love about them. Sorry about this cheesy post but I just can't help it. Brandon is my everything and I couldn't be happier with it. Thanks for allowing me a girly giddy newly wed moment :)

music

I have this very embarrassing thing about me which I am about to share. Despite growing up on classical/opera from the dad and bluegrass/classic country from the mom I LOVE LOVE LOVE hard rock music. I'd even go so far as to say I like metal, occasionally I could even throw in death metal but rarely. I'm the only one in my family that strayed from bluegrass (though i still enjoy it). The only thing I like more than hard rock is cleaning with hard rock music on. Tonight Brandon had a group meeting and I had a glorious hour of cleaning to breaking benjamin, rise against, three days grace and a few others thrown in there (yes i know its friday night but i guess thats what happens when your married ha ha). Despite previous posts, I actually like cleaning (when i want to do it). My freshman year I would wake up every saturday, clean the house, and go grocery shopping before any of my roommates would wake up. I loved it. I even cleaned at an old folks home for a spell. If you've never rocked out while cleaning, you should really try it, its quite fun. This is a pointless post, sorry :)

hair

I cut my hair!!! Sadly I have lost my camera presently so there will be no pictures. She cut off seven inches and it looks something like this. I totally look that drop dead gorgeous with it too ;) Just kidding!. I love it though, it feels so much better and it looks clean and nice. No one at work noticed, then when one of our co workers came in with like half an inch cut off his hair everyone noticed. How does that happen? I like it a lot, the end

the theater

Brandon and I went to the theater tonight... properly pronounced the thee-eat-awr in case you were wondering. Brandon's informing me that doesn't look like i'm saying it so just imagine a haughty British person taking you out to the theater. ANYWAY we went to see the Scarlet Pimpernel. When I was a kid, my best friend and I loved this play/movie/book. We always quoted it and watched the movie etc. I loved it. When I saw an ad for it outside my work I immediately bought tickets.  There are 2 types of people that go to the cache county ellen eccles theater, those that want to be there and purchase tickets that are closer up and more expensive, and those that have to be there, usually students in the USU class who purchase the worst seats or get stuck with the more expensive ones because they bought them too late.Since we get a student discount I bought the more expensive closer up ones because we wanted to be there. However, that also means we were sitting with the geriatrics and the few random young people. I love old people that go to the theater, they dress up in their best and enjoy it so much. I think that when I'm old I would like to be a theater goer, they look like they enjoy it so much and they have so many friends there. The old man sitting next to me smelled like very strong aftershave and he would fall asleep almost every number, wake up for the last few moments of the song and exclaim how wonderful the number was. It was quite entertaining. I think he genuinely meant it was wonderful, he just couldn't stay awake. Overall it was very fun and just happened to fall on our two month marriage anniversary. Sadly Brandon has a ton of homework so he was a little sad at how much he had waiting for him. It was so wonderful and I loved it. The main actors were incredible and I love the music from it. I'm very glad we went. Someday, I'm going to go when I'm old, and I'm going to get an awesome theater hat to wear in then take it off until after, you know like the kind that people wore to the theater back in the day..... something like this one. Ya, its gonna be great.

babies

You know how some girls love kids, I mean Love them? That's never really been me. Despite the fact that I've worked with kids for 8 years of my life in various jobs I like them but I'm not one of those girls that just love them. I love kids that I know and since I've gotten older I've liked them more and more, especially now that I have 2 nieces and 1 nephew. These are them, somewhere over on the left side of the page because i can never get my pictures to work out right... Anyway I love all of them so much, they are so great.  Seriously aren't they freaking cute?? Sorry I stole them off of your blogs sister in laws. So last weekend we went to the lake and Friday night to Saturday morning it was just Brandon, Jared, Kinley, Jay and I. Saturday morning I woke up pretty early with Kinley and I figured I'd hang out with her for a bit till the rest woke up. Side note, i'm pretty good with 4 and up year old kids but I don't have a lot of experience with younger because they weren't old enough to ski or go to school. So since it was morning I figured, she must need her diaper changed, don't all 2 and a half year olds pee at night? Well it wasn't really wet but I thought, I change my underwear every morning and it will probably be nice to have a fresh diaper and she might have only peed a little bit so I thought better get a new one... ya like I said, not a lot of experience, looking back this didn't seem to be the best choice. So I haven't actually changed a diaper in a really long time but I don't know how to tell a 2.5 year old her new aunt can't REALLY change diapers. I thought to my little self, it can't be that bad, just strap em in right? I put it on pretty tight because i didn't want any of that poop getting out and luckily i had the wherewithal to ask her how it felt when she eeked out, "its really tight." OOPS I just didn't want it falling off or anything so I adjusted accordingly, got her dressed in a really cute outfit and felt pretty proud of myself. I thought this isn't so bad, I can do this. Well about ten minutes later she peed which was probably when I should have changed the diaper the first time. So I got her out of her cute little outfit and went for round two, thinking it'll only be easier this time right? Well that's when I realized I put her diaper on backwards the first time. I didn't unwrap the whole thing before I took the old one off and didn't properly switch them out but miraculously she got into the thing, wiped off, not too tight or backwards and back into her cute little outfit. (Kayleen hopefully if you read this you're thinking how funny and not never come near my children again please :) That's when I thought (and think that lots of times), wow we'd really better wait a while to have kids because I kind of suck. Then later that day the rest of the crew arrived and I was holding Addy (the littlest girl) when she started falling asleep. I decided to take her up and put her on the bed to lay down. She looked up at me and giggled and smiled and sleepily closed her little eyes and it was the greatest moment. It made me think how great it will be to have that in my own little one to do that with and how cute it will be. But then again i just called my future baby it so I probably shouldn't have kids. I hope I miraculously learn all these things about kids and babies like no sunscreen until they're old enough, no this no that, seriously when do you learn all these things? I'm scared to death! It's a good thing we've decided to wait a while for children. In the mean time I guess I'll just have to keep loving my nieces and nephew and hope when the time comes for me to have children, I'll know.

I need one of those cleaning robots, do they exist?/ can I please whine!

You know how there are those women who's houses sparkle they are so clean? (probably because they hire a maid or they spend way to much time on it but either way more power to them) Our house was not like that, but it was darn well clean. We did a full clean once a week and we were not allowed to go to bed until our barbies were picked up even if we did intend to play with them the next day. We also could barely even walk away from the dinner table to go to the bathroom lest it appeared we were trying to get out of dishes which were always done instantly after dinner. I swear you were eating your last bite before your plate was whisked away to the sink and expected to be washed. Ok so total exaggeration but the point is we were taught to clean and do it well which I am very grateful for now. HOWEVER, I can not seem to keep up on it! By most people's standards they would laugh at me when I say my house feels messy but really it does and I have high standards for how I should and want to keep the house. Maybe its because I've never had my own house but it seems like every time I clean one thing something else gets messy and it never ends! I constantly find myself saying "I JUST cleaned that how is it dirty again??" I usually have to tell myself "you work full time and are very busy, its ok if your house is not spotless" but I still get sad. I think another part of the problem is my entire house is about the size of some peoples living rooms so its pretty hard to keep things clean when everything you bring into the house looks like clutter (also easier to clean because its small... its a conundrum) Oh sigh, the other sad thing is I know this will never go away, I will have to clean house the rest of my life... yikes! On the bright side at least Brandon is a pretty good helper. He at least does his part to try and keep it picked up and cleanish.

What's that you say? If you spent the time cleaning you did writing this post you could have cleaned quite a bit (well at least thats what my mother would say after she gave me lots of sympathy about how hard I work and everything is ok :) Thanks mom) Well don't worry, I did all the dishes, took out the trash, cleaned all the cardboard boxes from the hall from our vacuum and other various items, put away our camping gear and unpacked from our lake trip last weekend (found a dead mouse skull in our basement which was rather upsetting even though I've caught more mice in traps in a month (when i lived at home) than most people have in their entire lives i still was super grossed out) put away some groceries, and looked at the bed and refused to make it (i hate making beds for some reason). So I'm trying, but the problem is it just keeps coming back. Oh well, thanks for listening/reading.... yes you, all three of my readers :)

PS: I went 18 years of my life with no diswasher, then we got one.... Now we don't have one and I hate it. Thanks to my awesome sister in law giving us a tip, we bought one of those pre-fill soap sponges which has worked wonders... still not the funnest especially with only one small sink.

4 for 1

This will be like 4 different posts in one... Lets see last weekend we went to Yellowstone as our first real camping trip because Brandon got lots of new camping gear!! it was a blast. The first day we went to Lake (where I worked and saw the few random hot pots along the way to Tower. Its amazing that if you even go two feet of the main path or walk the entire boardwalk loop how there are no people. Its sad how much people miss because they won't walk the extra bit to see cool stuff. That night we got skunked on camping sites so we had to drive out of the park to cooke city where every campground along the way was only for RVS so finally we found a "camp ground" that was basically just national forest land where you could pitch a tent and build a fire, no toilets or camp sites or anything. It ended up being way nice because it was quite and peaceful. The next day we drove through the park and saw Norris, Canyon and Tower and camped at Norris. Then we spent Monday going to Old Faithful and the few in between and driving home. Oh i have to tell about the most delicious Mexican Restaurant we found in Afton on the way up. It was called the Agave and we totally just took a leap that it would be good and boy were we right. The Molé was so good I bypassed the chips and food for the sauce and just started drinking the sauce with a spoon.... I love sauce by the way and this was just wonderful. We loved it so much we starved ourselves all day Monday so that we could eat it again on the way home YUMMY!

Ok next part of the post: My sister got me a cookbook from Kitchen Kneads which is this awesome specialty kitchen store in Logan, its one of my happy places. Since I got like 4 of the same cookbook I decided to take it back so I could get some fun stuff. I also decided I wanted to get whatever I wanted (Brandon got the home depot gift cards so I thought it was fair) so I got this!!!
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Is that not the cutest thing ever? To make it even better, its mini, like 4 inches long. I know its so useless but it said you can use it for small pastries or ravioli or i thought just for small things... I don't know but I'll find somewhere to use it you just watch! I also got a pretty blue snow flake cookie cutter, a pink spoon and a recipe book stand. I'm stoked

Part 3: I got some exciting things at the store tonight, i got some stuff at the case lot sale and 3 cartons of the good ice cream that was on super sale and grapes and cantelope and all kinds of yummy things which made me happy which leads to part 4

Part 4: Why can't anyone bag!!! Isn't that their job? Seriously how hard is it. Case: I brought my own bags which often means you will be walking with them and therefore need sturdier bags... this was my situation. The bag man decided to put both gallons of milk, lettuce, grapes, peaches, two things of meat and pickles all in one bag which was so heavy I could barely pick it up. In the other bag he put my cantelope and a thing of juice, SERIOUSLY??? I just don't understand why every time I go to the store they either put like one item per bag, pack them stupidly and just be plain annoying. I think they should have bagging training because no one can do it. Ok the end