paint by number...

bb and i decided to bring out our creative sides..well, billy actually decided, but i have been wanting to do this for a while so i am really excited...tonight we went to hobby lobby and splurged a little on art supplies...we decided that we both wanted to try acrylic painting...just for a fun outlet...neither of us have extensive experience in this department :) but we figured why not have some fun and be creative....so here is our new art project...tonight we put together the little studio in bb's office....

hopefully things will be up and running soon and we will have some real projects to post...if nothing else we will definitely get a good laugh out of this little adventure! billy and i both are into modern/abstract art so we are hoping someday we can be like....

laurie maitland

or jackson pollockbut in the mean time...we will probably just be laughing at ourselves... a lot! :)

music downtown...

on saturday BB and i had to be at a birthday bash downtown at a piano bar...new and different experience...but a lot of fun! we had reservations at a table...ordered pizza and listened to two pianists duel and play audience requests all night...the whole audience really got into it and everyone was singing and having a great time...

just dance!

this video was way cute...my mom sent it to me and so of course i had to share....

dancing in the liverpool station

lovin' nyc...

this article by joanna goddard in glamour was just too cute to pass up...

"We Left Two Cameras on New York City Benches. What Happened Next?"

apart...

so so sad to say... billy has recently decided that he is going on a business trip to lake tahoe...for one whole week! :( i was distraught...what would i do with myself for a whole week without the hubsy? visions of sleepless nights and lonely me in our king size bed kept creeping up inside, i had anxiety just thinking about it, and then...

i thought about this.... and then this....

and then this....

and then this...

and of course this....

and realized what i HAD to do with my week...i'm goin' to cali :) and i am soooooo excited to be able to go...bumming that BB won't be there with me...but there is nothin' better then spending time with family and good friends when you can't be with the hubsy right!?

cali countdown....less then 2 weeks! :)

seriously...

so today at 2:30 i had my visiting teaching appointments to be to straight after work. well, i made some brownies the night before and left them on my kitchen counter so they wouldn't melt while in the car at work. i headed straight home from work...pulled into the garage...stuck my keys and my phone in my purse...PAUSED, thought: i will leave my purse in my car because i am just going in to get the brownies....picked up 4 plates of brownies (hands full) reached for my car door....and...oh, its LOCKED! and there is my purse, with my keys and my cell phone (which happened to have all of the numbers of both my partner, and the girls i visit) sitting on the passenger seat of my car....and oh BB was NOT at home....

needless to say i spent the next 45 minutes borrowing the neighbors phone...trying to track down my partner, with no luck, calling billy to come home, so i could selfishly steal his car.... :) and shoving a wire hanger down through my car door to no avail!

BB got home at 3:15 at which time i took the keys out of his hands...jumped in his car and yelled "GOOD LUCK!" as i drove to my last appointment...i finally caught up with everyone and the brownies all got delivered....thank goodness....but i honestly had to sit down, reflect and laugh....because, well, this isn't a random occurrence, in fact i do this on quite a regular basis and NO I DO NOT HAVE A SPARE KEY! but hopefully i will tomorrow...lesson learned...i hope :/

but seriously....would you expect anything different from me? seriously?

someday....

someday i would love to have this....the end.

THE little THINGS...

the other night BB and i ran some errands and then stopped at the gas station on our way home to get him a soda! he loves to stop at the gas station because they have a soda bar and so he can add any flavor he wants to his sodas…it’s a special treat for him! anyway, as we sat there in the gas station line, i realized that this is totally something we would have done when we were dating….before marriage….and that made me think of how lucky i am to be married to my hubsy. i love being able to go out with him every night…anytime i want…i love being able to spend time with him and wake up with him, i love it when he dances with me while we are waiting for our dinner... and then all of a sudden it was like we were dating again….and my heart started to pitter patter…and i couldn’t help but think how much i love this man. how lucky am i!? funny, the little things in life...

yay for summer weddings!!!

we just wanted to give a shout out to billy's little brother jordan and his new fiance lindsey! joe and lindsey were officially engaged last weekend, although we were all very much expecting it for a little while now... billy and i are so excited for them, and i do believe the bush padres are very much as well!

we are also excited to be gaining another married couple in the family and we LOVE lindsey! yay for joe for doing it the bush way and keeping up with his dad and brother! :)

so CONGRATS to them!!! and yay for summer time weddings!

i stole this pic off their facebook! shhh...aren't they just too cute...oh to be engaged again! :)

blog stalking...

alright, so...during a recent session of blog stalking :) i ran across this amazing little blog! i LOVE IT! i must say it has definitely been preoccupying my time! and during this same session i found this website! AMAZING...in love....again! needless to say my addictions have definitely been fed well this past week by these new fun sites and so i was thinking about it this weekend and well, i just couldn't keep these awesome little finds to myself and i figured i would share so...

just click on the above links and

enjoy!

favorite finds from the website

place mats...

cute napkins...

bathmat...
duvet

never mind favorites...i wouldn't mind buying out the whole site! :)

oh, and on a side note...super excited! found the sofa/bed i want to get for the hubby's new office makeover....keep in mind that he has super mod taste...

and the best part is that it connects into this awesome space saving sofa bed! until then i'll just be drooling over it...::sigh::

dum da dum dum...

So yesterday I got home from work ready to do some cleaning...The in-laws are coming in for the weekend and we are excited! :) but this is what I came home to....

And then I looked a little closer...and realized our beloved animal had chewed off the ends on about 6 of the lower blinds...needless to say new blinds are in order...

Every time I come home to this sort of thing the first thing I hear from Billy's mouth is..."she would go in a heart beat if we put her on KSL"...haha :/

...and then I have to lovingly remind him that that's not going to happen....although I think that after 3 shredded beds, three ruined doors, massacred carpets, chewed up wicker furniture and now the blinds...it was a little harder to say no this time...

We love her...I promise we love her....UGH!

On a lighter note....How excited am i that In N Out Burger is coming to Draper! SO SO EXCITED! I am already craving a double double and their oh so delicious frenchies! Love it!

Why we fell in Love with SLC...

No I did NOT take ANY of these pictures... :)

The worst sound in the world....

On Saturday morning Billy and I woke up to begin the BB Birthday celebrations by driving down to Salt Lake to grab breakfast at the amazing Park Cafe! (It is a favorite treat) It was a nice day and we were excited! We slowed down as Billy put on his blinker to make a left hand turn onto the street that holds this amazing restaurant...when we hear....

The Worst sound EVER! The loudest screeching of brakes on cement I have ever heard just milliseconds before we hear CRUNCH....We both looked at each other dumbfounded and I think I was the first to speak...

me: "really?"

Billy: "ya, that sucks"

me: "really?"

That is when we turned around to see a Rav4 who had apparently not been paying attention to the fact that we were waiting to turn, and had slammed, without much pause, right into the back of our little black car....

Everyone was and is fine....including the driver of the Rav...our car has some serious damage to the rear but is still completely drivable thank goodness....however, the Rav didn't make it out too well....The radiator fluid was flooding 13th south and it had to be towed away... sad.

You would think at this point we would have thrown in the towel on the Birthday Bash for BB but no....we had driven all the way down town and we weren't giving up our favorite breakfast spot without a fight! so I left the scene of the accident...(i know I know...but I told Billy to tell the cop why) ran across the street and put our name down on the list so that when all was said and done, police reports had been filed, we could walk right over and enjoy the world's best breakfast without a wait! :) Oh and it was good!

The car is driving fine and we were released of liability....but it can't get into the body shop until Monday...so until then, if you see us driving around in this....

Just know...Park was SO worth it!

Happy Birthday and Valentine's Day Babe!

Today is Billy's birthday, and I just wanted to let him know how much I love him!

I can't imagine where I would be right now without you babe, you are everything to me!

Happy Birthday to my Valentine!

Feel free to show Billy some love today! :)

Hi, is this the post office!?

um ya....so this post is dedicated to the West Jordan Post Office.....

Those of you that have known me for the last year or so will remember my cell message that stated at the end....

"If you are trying to reach the post office, you have dialed incorrectly, PLEASE don't leave a message..."

The above sentence was necessary because well, for as long as I have had my cell number I have gotten mis-dialers leaving messages for who? the one and only West Jordan Post Office...In the last year or so however, the calls increased pretty dramatically...I am talking like 1 a day here... and so the above sentence came into play on my cell phone message.

The calls did slow however, and so the message was removed....

Beginning yesterday...they began again...this time however, it was job seekers looking for an opportunity to spend their 40 hours a week at the amazing...West Jordan Post Office....I got two phone calls yesterday...one of which so kindly informed me that MY number was the one posted on the Department of Workforce Services Website for who to contact to inquire about a post office position in lovely West Jordan....

Will it EVER End!!!!!!?????

This post would like to thank the amazing Whitney Cameron for its birth.

Hi-Yah!!!

Have I mentioned yet that the hubby is into Kung Fu? :) Yes, that is right, Kung Fu. He started taking lessons a couple of months ago and tomorrow is his second rank review, meaning he gets to move up in sash color....He is officially moving from yellow to orange and I dare say that I think he is pretty excited about it ;)

If you ask him why he is into Kung Fu, Billy would probably answer back that it is a good work out and easier for him to get into then the gym, which I full heartily take as part of the truth. But between you and me, I think it was his recent Kung Fu movie fetish that got this extra curricular activity kicked off...and now he loves those movies even more!

One night, he stayed up and rented Kung Fu panda, I know it is a cartoony movie and not real martial arts or anything....but I am not sure that he got that because he said....

"It's funny but the kung fu was surprisingly accurate... "

I love him!

Happy Birthday LYRIC!

So today...is officially...the date of birth of our beloved boxer...Lyric. I'm sure you all know something of our dog....more then likely something she has done wrong :) but let me say...on this day...that we do LOVE our little girl!

Let's review the past year that we have been able to spend with our adorable pup!

Lyric was born January 22, 2008. We picked her straight out of her adorable litter....and how could we not...look how stinkin' cute she was!!!!

We proceeded to take her home when she was a little over 6 weeks old....true to the puppy cliche she was wobbly, nervous, whiny and absolutely lovable....until she proceeded to go potty all over our new house.... :) but we were expecting that and so we suffered....but by the time our little tike was 2.5 months old she had bruised both Billy's and my arms to about our elbows with her sharp little puppy teeth and playful puppy attitude....i should also let you know that we were sleep deprived at this point in time (or at least i was) because our cuddly little pup hated being alone in her kennel...so I would lay on the floor next to her, with my fingers lingering through the kennel door so she could feel me there until she fell asleep every night, and subsequently upon her awakening about 2-3 times a night....Billy and I both thought...."hey, i thought we ordered a dog, not a child!" :) but the sleepless nights lessened and so did the biting...after some training she sat, laid, rolled over, shook paws and stayed...unless distracted by otherwise more interesting things....however, her most annoying trait emerged as she grew more and more comfortable in her new found home...our dog talked back! yes...i know i didn't know it was possible either....but she did...when she was mad, she barked at us....when we weren't paying attention to her, but each other, she barked at us...and so came the bark coller...which dramatically helped our plight!

Today...I am proud to say...I am the owner of a beautiful boxer girl...who only occasionally raids the trash, jumps up on our guests, sheds like no dog I have ever owned....and who is completely comfortable passing gas anywhere and at anytime....

But we love her! We love her zany personality, her ability to make us laugh uncontrollably, her sweetness, her playful attitude, her absolute need to cuddle when she is tired and her bear hugs and slobbery kisses....This is our Lyric....and we are so happy to say that we can no longer imagine our lives without her!

Case of Paranoia....

Billy won't be home until 8pm....that gives me 3.5 hours to myself, at night...i know i know you are probably thinking...wow lucky girl haha...but I'm not...I HATE being alone! Never have liked it, probably never will...it is the true reason why we got Lyric...and she does help out a little...but I still get the Heeby Jeebies in a house all to myself...Yes this 24 year old...who has lived away from her parentals for 6 whole years and married for over 2 is as paranoid as they come....yikes...

And now I am thinking maybe I shouldn't post this...cause what if some crazy person reads it and thinks they have a green light! um....well to the crazies out there...i have really close neighbors! and a really scary guard dog and well I got mace for Christmas! haha so BEWARE!

Congrats Alli and Tyson!

We were so glad that we got to share your special day with you! We wish you all the best in the world!

U of U in at Number 2!!

Alright so of course I had to post this! The Year end rankings....

AP Top 25
1. Florida (48) 13-1 1,606
2. Utah (16) 13-0 1,519
3. USC (1) 12-1 1,481
4. Texas 12-1 1,478
5. Oklahoma 12-2 1,391

yay for Utah!