Valentines Day!

So I've never been a huge Valentines Day person and I don't think I ever will be...Oh darn! We did however "celebrate" it sort of. Thursday was our super sweet 10 month anniversary and Saturday was Valentines day, so we decided to kind of combine the both and went out to a nice dinner Friday night (like we would really try to go out on actual Valentines? Pass, too many people out for my liking). Actually we really only went out to this place because we had a gift card, that my sister-in-law and her husband so kindly gave us for Christmas. We went out to a restaurant in Salt Lake called...

It was a pretty nice dinner, but it made me realize that "nice" dinners are completely overrated. I would much rather go to a restaurant in comfy jeans than trying to eat food in a dress that I can barely breath in. I would post a picture of us at this restaurant but I just looked at it and I look horrifying in it, so I left it out.

Although, one nice thing about Valentines is that it gave us the perfect excuse to eat some of our favorite things like Salt and Vinegar chips and Cadbury mini eggs!



So that's our update for our "holiday" weekend. Now for an update of last weekend, my sister and Lance came up to Utah just for a few days but we were able to see them for half the amount of time they were here. It was so fun to see them again and especially to see my little adorable niece, Elle. I was able to capture TWO pictures of Conryd playing with her. He's going to be such a good dad some day :)

And I'm not quite sure what Elle is doing in this picture but she's still so cute! I think the bow got too heavy so she needed a rest :)

And well I guess this completes my update. Love you all!

MMM oreo cookies and exercising?

Here's our "baby."

Last week Conryd and I made our first BIG purchase...an elliptical! We figured our gym memberships are up in a few weeks, and the money we would spend for a new membership would cover more than the total cost of our elliptical, plus the warranty for 5 years. We are very excited about our big buy and now we really have NO excuse for not working out :)

In other news...I had the strongest craving for homemade oreo cookies today. So I ignored all of my "health" eating instincts and caved in. And you know what, I'm not even mad I did. But good news for me, I now have an elliptical right at my finger tips to work off all those delicious oreo cookies...mmmm I can still taste the goodness! Here is a picture of my beautiful creation (Sorry if it's blurry, I guess I don't have that steady of a hand)


Bree is coming Friday, WooHoo!! And my mother is already here. It was so nice spending time with her and I look forward to spending time with my adorable, adorable, adorable niece :)

GAAHHH!

SO "good" news, I basically want to quit my job. I'm sick of being treated like crap and being taken for granted. I'm sorry but that is just not worth the tiny amount of bucks that I'm making. I think I'd much rather have my dignity than have a couple of nothing dollars in my bank account. Today pretty much just drew the line that I either need to A. Quit and find a new a job or B. start school full time and still find a new job. What I would really love to do is coach this...



"This" being coaching cheer. I would seriously do anything to be able to coach and quit my stupid job. Anyways, just an update.
What did we learn? My job sucks, I want to quit and some how find a way to coach cheer. The end.

Inspired for "change!?"

Well yes, I have conformed to "change!" And that change being...my blog background :) Bree inspired me to do after her post on changing some things of her own. After I read that I couldn't stand to look at my background anymore! So I finally changed it, after hours or template searching, I found one that I think I like? Let me know what you think? Better or worse?

In other news, Conryd is now in his 3rd week of school at BYU and doing great. He's studying all the time, which I hate but can't make him not study. He's putting a lot of time into his school work which is great to see. He's really enjoying it and keeping up in all of his classes so far, so I'm quite proud of my little "cougar." As for me, I'm still working and trying to figure out what I want to do with my life. Suggestions would be great!

Not much else is going on in our lives as of right now. If any of you are looking for some good movies to watch may i suggest Ghost Town, The House Bunny (I know it looked super lame but it's actually hilarious), and Horton Hears a Who. They're all surprisingly funny. But if you watch them, and end up hating them...don't blame me! Oh yeah I just found out that Kate (my cousin) started her photography business, I think it's hers? But a few of our engagement photos are on her website. So we're like pretty much famous :) She's really talented when it comes to anything "artsy". Here's her link if you guys would like to check out some of her stuff.
http://kateosbornephotography.com

Oh yes, and here is our Salvesen family photo...

This photo made me decide that it's time to start losing that "Holiday" weight.

Good night!

Finally, a Christmas update!

Merry (late) Christmas and Happy (late) New Year! I hope everyone enjoyed their time off of work. I know I did :)

So Christmas this year was just wonderful...although I don't think anything could have beaten last years Christmas! Conryd and I were able to fly out to CA to see my WHOLE family! I was so excited to finally see my sister and her baby, "Baby Elle."

We spent the week in San Diego, but unfortunately we hit rainy weather. But in the end it all worked out...seeing as how I was practically paralyzed (no joke) for half the week. It was super depressing, I threw my back out. Yes I know, I am only 20 years old but I felt like a 90 year old woman. I had literally never felt so helpless before in my life. It all started off with me lying on the floor and not being able to get up again. I cried my eyes out for about 3 hours out of frustration and pain. My dad and Conryd finally gave me a blessing and within the next 20 minutes or so I was finally able to stand up-ish, and make it next door to our house, up the stairs, down the hall, and FINALLY into our bed. And then once I was in bed, I was pretty much stuck there for 2 days, no joke. Conryd was so so soooo good to me. He brought me food in bed, rolled me over when it was time, heated up my heat pack, and pretty much catered to my every need. It was so sweet.

Anywhoooo, Christmas was amazing! We went to Sea World, which was surprisingly better than I thought it was going to be. I think I want to become a dolphin trainer now :) It was cute to see Cadence play and just be amazed by everything! San Diego, although paralyzed for most of the trip, was a lot of fun! Thank you mommy and daddy.

Going home was so great, but also a bad thing because it just made me miss everything about it. My family, my house, the warmer weather, my dog, the nail forum :) and so much more! I'm hoping we'll be able to make it out there soon but I doubt that will happen, especially with Conryd's harsh school schedule. I think we'll be stuck in Utah forever! LAME! Well now comes the part to post pictures and a cute little video of my new-ish niece, Elle.

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!

So yesterday was our biggest snow storm yet here in Utah for the season. I kind of liked it because it was the perfect excuse to miss work :) I just thought I would post a few pictures and little short clip of Dezzie playing in the snow. It was hilarious to watch her.

Here is her playing in the snow...


And here is after playing in the snow...



It was so funny! In case you can't tell what those pictures are all about, she has little snow balls that formed and stuck to her fur while she was out frolicking in the snow. They were impossible to pull off so we had to "sit" her down and blow dry them until they melted. It made her P.O.ed to the max ( I know super cool phrase right?) so of course, being the psychotic dog that she is, she started to growl and then all hell broke lose. The infamous chasing of the tail started and didn't end. I swear she is not all there in the head, but we still love her regardless of her disability.

And only 2 full days until we leave for good old sunny California. We are so excited to see our family and I am just DYING to see Elle. And of course, my other 2 adorable, adorable ADORABLE nieces. AND I was introduced to some awesome Indie Christmas music, so if you're interested...let me know :)

And I'm not sure how many of you are familiar with this house, but it's in Utah and thy set up their house to a light show every year. It's really amazing and a lot of fun to watch. Conryd and I went last year and again this year. If you wish to see more just check out their website which is holdman.com I believe. Or just search in google holman lindon,ut. Hope you enjoy it :)

Amazing Grace Techno - Computer Controlled Christmas Lights from Richard Holdman on Vimeo.

It's the most wonderful time of the year

This Thanksgiving was my first Thanksgiving away from family :( It was kind of weird to not be with them, but I realized that I still was family, my new family. It was a little bit different than our "traditional" Thanksgiving but it had the same concept, food and family. We went over to Conryd's brothers house to eat and play Rock Band with my neices and nephews. My 8 year old niece, sadly, can kick my trash in Rock Band. I guess I'm just not coordinated enough.


Yes I know, we are a very picturesque couple :)

So that's basically what our Thanksgiving consisted of. It was a fun, loud, tiring day. All in all though, it was wonderful.

For those of you who don't know, Christmas is my FAVORITE time of the year. I really could care less about the presents...well sometimes, but I love love love love love decorating for Christmas and the feeling that Christmas brings. I was so excited, that I made Conryd help me decorate this past weekend. We decorated our tree and hung a garland over our fire place. It still needs a few more decorations, but I still need a few more days to convince Conryd it's okay to spend money on decorations because they are reusable every year. If anyone wants to donate money to me I wouldn't even be mad :) Here are 2 pictures of our first decorations of the season.




Happy Early Merry Christmas :)