Fresh Air {take two}

APAAHWLOPASIWATVB

Meaning....

A post about a hike with lots of pictures and some insignificant words at the very bottom.

It was too long to fit in the title. {hooray for acronyms!}

And last night, I got to have a girl's night with my lovely friend Brea! Thanks to ingenuity of Pinterest, we figured out how to do newspaper nails:

See the words? 

So. Cool. 

Man I love Pinterest. It gave me the tutorial on how to make a very awesome maxi skirt. 

More hiking pictures here. 

All You Need is Love {and Chocolate}

Dum da, da da dum.

{there's a tune there.}

Did you all have a stupendous Valentine's Day??! 

I hope so. 

I love that there is pretty much an ENTIRE month dedicated to love.

{don't be whiny all you singles...just because you're not in a relationship doesn't mean you can't spread the love!}

February always reminds me how thankful I am to have such a super-duper husband.

So super, in fact, that once upon a Valentine's Day I actually {fake} proposed to him. 

I'd just bought the ring. Figured I might as well do something cheesy deeply romantic with it.

Yes, it was even at the temple where we were to be married. Awwwww. 

This year the Christopher got flowers at work from a secret admirer...

{who on earth...? ;) } 

...and a trio of gifts that all came under the heading, "I'm such a sucker for you!"

Caramel green apple suckers, the soundtrack to Suckerpunch, and some brown socks which didn't tie in all that well.

But I sure do love me some cheesiness, and I will NEVER get sick of it. 

{Nor will I ever stop thinking my clever ideas are hilarious.}

Then we ate some tacos and 'tots {don't mock--it's my new favorite dinner}, and laughed our way through This is War with a big bag of popcorn and bottles of apple beer. 

But what all this really reminds me of is how much I love knowing that our marriage is eternal.

That means we will be this awesome for-evah.

All Dressed Up With Somewhere to Go

Last friday night....

we got to go to a Sweetheart's Dance.

{and we danced on tabletops.....kidding...can anyone name that song though?!}

I got so excited...you girls know how it goes....it's an occasion to get PRETTY.

And big hair...it's totally my new favorite thing.

We forewent learning the chacha at seven in favor of tacos and arrived fashionably late just after eight o'clock. 

I'm not awkward....I'm excited. Awkwardly.

My my, aren't we sexy?

{and we know it.}

After we'd pigged out on tacos and tater tots {could there be a more perfect union???}, we sauntered on inside to find platters of fresh strawberries and pineapple. Of course, we had to eat some. And then we definitely had to sit down and digest all that food for a good while. Blech. 

Then we danced our little lovely hearts out. 

We even got complimented on our swing! 

{although really....we just move fast, we don't actually do that much.}

A well-spent night, don't you think?

Lazy, Lazy, Busy

It's true.

I am twice as lazy as I am busy.

When I finally get home from work #1, get done with at-home work #2, tidy-up the house, and possibly make dinner, all I want to do is sit. On my butt. Maybe stare at the wall, or something useful like that.

But instead, tonight, I am doing you all the honor of blogging. 

{yaaaaaay}

We went camping a while ago. Which may not seem like that big of a deal to most of you, but see, I've actually never been camping. Don't judge. And actually, it was kinda fun. I like the fire part, the hot chocolate part, the billions of balls of gas burning millions of miles away {name that quote!}, the morning hot chocolate, the fishing...pretty much everything except the sleeping on the ground in the cold part.

But I'd go again. :)

Now, skipping right over Halloween {for which we did nothing} {zip} {zero} {nada}, we'll go to last night.

Date Night. 

Winky winky.

I set up this super fun, super easy date {thanks to the Dating Divas} for Chris. I made THIS invite:

...and left it on his desk at work alongside a bomber hat {don't ask me why he wanted one}.

So when he came home....I had set up a  few candles and snowflakes a magical wonderland of cozy goodness. AND made caramel apple bites. AND picked up some movie theater popcorn. AND bought some yummy white chocolate caramel to go in our hot chocolate. AND rented the movie Elf. 

And he was super excited....

....and we both lived happily ever after.