May In A Nutshell

May was crazy. Period. 

We decided to move. 

We're moving so we can be closer to our friends. 

Along with that comes our own brand new washer and dryer. We're pretty excited. 

When we were first married our apartment didn't have a washer, dryer, or dishwasher. When we moved to Ohio we upgraded and our apartment had a dishwasher. Now we will have all three. I feel so special. We're movin' up in life. 

May went a little like this: 

Spent EVERY single weekend away from home between shoots and church stuff. Literally I did not spend a single weekend home this month. 

Worked 40 hours a week (instead of my usual 30), although having the extra money has been nice.

Photographed: Senior pics, 1 Wedding (down in Columbus),  2 wedding receptions, 1 family, and booked 3 for next month because I was too full.

Went to the Doctor: 

My blood work came back irregular. Enough to make my body not want to have a baby. The doctor said it is also stress induced and when he asked me if I was stressed I totally lied and said no, in my sheepish voice. I think he knew better. So we're taking care of it. I was scared to take my prescription at first because of all the nasty side effects, but it has actually made me feel quite fantastic. I now have a new found hope of actually having a baby. 

Celebrated Mother's day: 

I was very proud of myself for not boycotting mother's day this year. I even let Boyd buy me flowers. Some day I will be a mom.  The hardest thing are the constant reminders that I don't have kids of my own, especially when I can't go to play dates with the other moms and kids, or when my husband is going around holding other people's babies because we don't have one. I feel like everyone around me is having kids. Friends, family, co-works, associates, I mean EVERYBODY is having a baby, even that one guy down the street that I don't even know his name. BUT my time will come when I can join the "mom club." I can't wait. Until then, pass your babies this way, and I will love them. I already mother the 14 toddlers at the school, whom I watch for 10 lovely hours (note the sarcasm). Someday I will be a mom to my own kiddos. Hopefully by next year I can officially celebrate mother's day as a real mom. If not, maybe the year after. But like I said, I actually celebrated mother's day this year. 

FINALLY: I turned 23. 

Boyd keeps telling me it is my Michael Jordan year. What ever that means. But, he said, because it is my MJ year something good will happen. Hopefully something good, like getting preggers. He told me that he was determined to get married his MJ year. He didn't, BUT he did meet me 3 days before his 24th birthday. So I guess something really good did come of his MJ year.

Sadly the day before my birthday I was coming inside and Boyd abruptly said "STOP!!!!" and told me not to move as he started picking through my hair. I was totally freaked out. I work with kids and lice is always one of my greatest fears. Then I thought there was a spider or something in my hair. He then gave a little tug to reveal my FIRST white hair. YIKES. It totally felt like plastic or like one of those fiberglass light thingys. I was mortified. Boyd said it was from stress, I'm just scared out of my wits because my dad turned snow white when he was in his 20's.  Looks like I'll have to make a new friend at a good salon. 

Anyway for my birthday:

I went to the Hartville flea market. I found some goodies to hang on my jewelry board I will be making for our new apartment. I'm really excited about that. 

Boyd and I made a triple chocolate mouse cake. (Shaun, we are not as talented as you. Looks like we'll have to make it together next time) 

It didn't turn out the way it should have but it was still good.

Well, I guess this is what I look like as a 23 year old. 

The only thing I have to say is my hair is really long. That's probably the only thing I'll remember about my self when I look back. 

Carrie and crew came down for the weekend. We had a blast. 

Beth's fam also came down and it was great to have them there.  Beth & Scott got me hooped earrings that I have been wanting for forever. They were perfect.

Love these girls!

 

Kirsten and I are birthday buddies since her birthday is on the 31st. 

Now it is time to pack pack pack. Moving day: June 1st.

April In A Nutshell

I've been busy. Don't judge me for saying that.

Here is what we did in April. 

Decorated eggs for easter

 The Easter bunny came to our house.

note the wicked awesome baskets made by Boyd's parents.

Then we did something a little crazy! We participated in our church's pinewood durby! 

It was a blast!!! I've always wanted to do my own pinewood car. I have fond memories of my brothers making theirs. Boyd said "are they fond memories or jealous memories?" I think it is a little of both. Mostly jealous because I always thought "Why don't they ever let the girls do this?" Dang it, why don't they! Well, they let the girls participate in our ward! HA! 

Boyd's: Left -Condor Man Car

Mine: Right - Perry the Platypus 

p.s. I paid stupid google to load more pics. Lame!

Blogger GRRRR!

So apparently I can only load 1 GB of photos onto blogger. Sad Day because now I can't blog about the rest of my trip unless I "buy" more space for $5 a year! What should I do?

Florida: MICKEY Ice Cream

Boyd and I wanted Mickey Mouse ice cream so bad!

So we bought one to share. 

Totally worth the $3.50

Of course I took a picture.

Florida: Hollywood Studios - Beauty and the Beast

 This picture totally describes our whole trip. Boyd played 20 questions with Micah and Zoe pretty much the whole time. That is what they are doing here. The game went a little like this "Is it pink? Yes, Is it a pig? Yes! Is is pink? Yes, Is it a flamingo? Yes! Is it black and white? Yes, Is it a penguin? YES! Is it brown? Yes, is it a brown bear? Yes! Is it black? Yes, is it a black bear? Yes! So on and so forth, but the ones I named were pretty much the only animals we covered. It was pretty funny!

 While we were waiting for Beauty and the Beast to start we took pictures, again.

 I absolutely Loved Gaston! He was hilarious!!!!

 We had awesome seats, like in the 4th row.

 Brooke loved Beauty and the Beast. Especially the Beast! She was glued!  She flipped out and was screaming/laughing/jumping up and down when she was watching because she liked it so much.

Florida: Hollywood Studios- The HIGHLIGHT of our trip

 Boyd and I LOVE Phineas and Ferb! I got so excited when I saw them. I was totally like a little kid and was beaming! Seriously, this was the BEST!

 

 Ducky MoMo for real! haha

Florida: Hollywood Studios Part 2

 Zoe loved getting her autographs. Especially by "green army man"

 Jake the pirate? No clue who he was but the live show we went to was pretty sweet!

Florida: Hollywood Studios Part 1

 Micah took this picture! Pretty good huh!

 

Poor Dave. I made him take like 50 pictures of us. I always tell him waist up.

 This picture cracks me up. It's such a nice picture, oh wait, where is Eli?

BEST RIDE EVER!!!!!

 Do you like how we each have a camera in our hands, just waiting to take the picture.

Star Tours! SO COOL!

 Micah was hilarious! He totally was sucked into the ride. He kept saying "remember that real ship we rode on!" 

I totally got sick. Every time we went into "hyper space" or whatever I had to close my eyes

 This is proof that they still have red and blue glasses.

For lunch we ate at PIZZA PLANET! From Toy Story! How cool is that. (p.s the pizza wasn't that great) The salad was delicious! I'm kinda disappointed in the lack of theme. I was expecting to walk into the restaurant and have the whole thing be themed, but the only thing they had were the aliens hanging from the ceiling. 

 After lunch we saw this TOTALLY AWESOME AMAZING JAW DROPPING car show. It was disgustingly cool! They had these stunt cars that did all these tricks and mid show they had Lightning McQueen! It was fantastic! My mouth was literally open in awe the whole time!

On the drive back Micah totally fell asleep. Boyd played puppeteer with his arms and he still wouldn't wake up. So I started flashing him with my camera (What a good aunt I am) He loved it and kept pretending so I would take more pictures of him. Funny Kid. 

Mickey power lines: Sweet