Snow Date

This year it was my turn to plan our Anniversary Date. 

I had the hardest time coming up with stuff for us to do with a super tight budget. 

I guess the The Dating Divas knew. Not really but they just happened 

to post a "Snow date" activity to Facebook.

It was perfect. I love the snow, Bryce loves the snow.

I had to make a few adjustments, because the snow outside was the yucky dirty stuff. 

Well that and Bryce's Vertigo has been bad. So I didn't want to do anything super crazy.

I put the Christmas stuff away the morning of the date. 

But left the tree and these cute snow flakes on it. Which are ironically from our wedding.

For the indoor Snow Date we;

Ate "Snow Angels" 

Built a Snowman

Had a "Snowsock" fight 

I was so excited, I went to print off the printables for the date. 

It was my lucky day the colored ink was emptied. Dang it! 

I thought about running to the store 

only to remember we currently only have one car. Which he had... 

It was only a day before so I went through my scrapbooking stuff.

As a result I made a super amazing invitation and Card.  

The top and bottom left are the invitation.The middle and right side is the card I made for him.

I may have gone a little overboard but I had so much fun making them.  And of course the bucket is full of  "snowsocks" snowballs.  

For the card I got computer paper and glued different scrapbooking paper to it. I put a little card on the front. On the inside I listed his best qualities A to Z.  I used a few sparkling stickers every few words.

Instead of putting Bryce is at the top I put "stinker" which is a nick name we both use for each other...   

On the invitation, which I gave to him the day before our date.  

I used some brown scrapbooking paper and glued others to it. 

I cut out a mitten and wrote the date, time and place of the date. 

On the front I put a note saying 

"Baby it's cold, so take my hand to hold, lets celebrate our love with a snow date".   

I used a  angel shaped cookie cutter to shape the ice cream used for the "Snow Angels". Aren't they just so special??.. He thought they were cute. 

 The Amazing snowman is something I made for Ava out of foam. I got the idea from Growingajeweledrose. But we are kids at heart so we used it. She was busy playing at Grandmas so she clearly did not miss it.  

After the snow date, we made dinner. Which consisted of steak, Smashed Bake Potatoes, broccoli and cream soda in our wine glasses (he was in charge of dinner). Of course it was a candle light dinner. I know it is "surprising" but I didn't get any picture of the food or table. 

After dinner we decided go see the movie Austanland. It didn't start until 9:20 pm so we snuggled and watched Once Upon a Time until we needed to go. Bryce was one of five guys in the theater and had to control himself from gagging the entire movie.. I know he secretly loved it.     

Six Ans De

Did you know that I took french in high school? Saying it was a joke to me is an understatement. I took it for two years and hated it. I had these big red (like the gum) playing cards. It was my last class of the day so we always ended up playing at the end of class (I know that the teacher loved me for it). I finally got to the point where speaking burger king Spanish was going to be my second language... Oh and I worked downtown at a burger king so it was kind of a necessity to know some Spanish..

" Love is like pi....

natural, irrational and 

very Important"....

― Lisa Hoffman 

 I am not sure why my explanation to the title needed all that to be said.. Oh well six ans de means six years in french (in case you didn't know). That's right Brycifer and I have been married six years. I don't really know why I call him Brycifer because whenever I say it, the word Lucifer comes to mind. And he most defiantly is nothing like that, but I like it and it has stuck.. so whatever.  

I feel like it was just yesterday that we get married. More importantly it feels like we should just be celebrating six months and we should still be newly weds. That's obviously not the case, but hey as long as we live in the honeymoon phase of life forever it all works out... (or so we pretend).  

"I love being married.

 It's so great to find one special person

 you want to annoy for the rest of your life."

 — Rita Rudner 

I have heard people say that year one was the hardest, which it was hard. I have also heard that after year seven it's a piece of cake.. I will keep you updated on that when we celebrate eight years. I am pretty sure year six has been the hardest, there are things in life you just aren't prepared for. So even with all the crap fun that has happened this year. We have defiantly had lots of laughs and are still very much in love.. cheesy I know, but true. 

It will be the first year we haven't gone out for our anniversary. I am way excited though. Bryce is in charge of dinner and I have planned an activity from the dating divas click here for activity. I will post more about it next week. I think it will be fun to stay in. 

The little miss is still at the grandparents, so this morning I slept in until 9:30.. I felt guilty but it was super nice. 

Here are some facts about our marriage (because this is really what people blog about when writing about anniversaries). I think we should blog about all the times we almost  killed each other... that would be so much more interesting to read about. 

* Settlers of Catan is our favorite game to play... (it is also detrimental for our marriage). Last nights game proved this statement to be true... I am sore loser sometimes that is all.

* We (I) still have not mastered the art of sharing a blanket while sleeping. I had to learn to share a bed with someone. Do I really have to share my blanket? 

* In the past few weeks we have worked on making some projects (crafts) together it's been a good learning  and strengthening opportunity for us. You would think by year six we could work on projects together with out any problems. 

*Politics still lead to heated calm debates in our house.. I am glad we agree to disagree. I wonder if our kids will be more conservative like Bryce or more liberal like me. 

 *Most importantly we love each other more then last year, last month and yesterday. I am so grateful I get to spend eternity with this Goober. No one can make me more made (because really we choose to get mad) or laugh as hard as he does. He is the most amazing best friend I could ever ask for. He just gets me.

  Guess who is not happy in this picture?

 We didn't do family pictures this year. This was as close as we got. 

Half a Decade Ago

               Half a Decade Ago I married my best friend. In five years I have discovered some things.

He still snores. You would think after five years of sharing the same bed, I would be use to it. I usually nudge two or three times a night telling him he his snoring. Bryce claims that I snore sometime too and shouldn't be complaining. Honestly I have no idea what he is talking about. 

We CAN NOT share blankets when we sleep... Once again you would think after five years of marriage we could share a blanket when we sleep, no we can not. I like to be warm and my own blanket. He likes to sleep with just a sheet and when we do share I always end up stealing all the blanket. 

I am always not always right.....When we were dating, I was chatting with a friend that was married and I said girls are always right. Her response "so not true". In five years I have learned... It's fun to joke about with other people that the woman is always right, but in reality we are not. Sorry to break it to you ladies. 

Marriage is Hard.... You go from being single and doing whatever you want to being married to someone, living with someone, loving someone with the intention of being with them FOREVER.  It can be kind of frustrating and just like any relationship there are hard times. Working through those times bring opportunities for you to grow closer as a couple. It brings learning opportunities about your spouse and yourself.

Love is changing.... Sitting next to Bryce in the celestial room of the Salt Lake Temple, I remember thinking their is no way I could love him more then I do in this moment. A few moment later we were sitting in a sealing room, our hands locked together, staring at each other and I already loved him more then I had a few minutes ago. In five years that has grown with every disagreement, tear, trial, hug and kiss. I could not have asked for a better person for me. 

Some fun facts a little timeline of the last five years plus some

March 2007, We met skydiving in Moab

April 28, 2007, We started dating

August 2, 2007: We got engaged

December 28, 2007: We got hitched

October 2008, I cut my hair short for the first, this was big! 

December 2008, We got snowed in for Christmas, it was great! 

December 28, One year! 

May 2009: Bryce graduated from USU

August 2009: We moved from our studio apartment in Logan to Layton and we are still in the same place. we are growing out of it though. 

September 2009: we got our Xterra

December 28, Two years

April 12,2010: Little Miss Ava was born. We became parents

December 28, 2010, Three year. We had our first night away from Ava

July 2011: Jojo our red grand am finally died so we got buckey our acura

December 28, 2011, Four years. We had our second night away from Ava

April 2012: I graduated from Weber  
December 28, 2012: it will be our fourth night away from Ava! 

Here we have year one, two, three and four. As you can see in year three I didn't take a picture on our anniversary so we have one with Ava at an ugly sweater party. PS the pictures are not working how they should. oh well.

Four Freaking Years!

On the 28th Bryce and I celebrated four years. It has been a FANTASTIC journey. One I can not imagine having with anyone else. Bryce's parents watched Ava while we went to a bed and Breakfast in Salt Lake. While in downtown we went on a carriage ride around temple sq, something I have always wanted to do. It wasn't nearly as awesome as I thought it would be. We also went to the Leonardo. It was so freaking amazing. There was lots of interesting exhibits. They were also doing DNA testing to if people are able to multitask. They also had participants take a 30 minute test. Needles to say I am not a supertasker. The servay had multiple math problem which may have not worked in my favor.