v-day & president's day

I know most people posted about their Valentine's Days a long time ago.  I am just now getting around to it!  Holidays are always fun when you work at a school.  I got a bag full of valentines from all the kids.  They were SO excited to give them to me.  I think the #1 candy I got from them were fun dips!  Somehow those just don't sound quite as appealing as when I was a kid.  Dan wanted to come home early and do cute things around the house for me, but I got off of work early and foiled his plan (sorry, honey!).  We still had a good time together though.  Dan got me pink roses (my favorite), I got him a game for us to play together (and a grill... remember from last post?), and he also got the chain on one of my necklaces fixed.  We then went to Red Robin and shockingly did not have to wait at all.  We walked right in and sat down.  It was great.

Over President's Day weekend my parents came to visit us!  We went to the Parade of Homes together (which I will blog more about later) and we celebrated my Dad's birthday.  The men also went golfing (of course).  Here are a few pics....

My parents! They are so cute.

My Dad and me!  I made him a boston cream pie.

Us!

In other news... a Gap Outlet just opened here and I'm so excited!  My friend and I checked it out yesterday and it was fabulous.  You see... the shopping in St. George is um... just ok.  But with the addition of Gap I feel we are moving up in the world!  haha.  It's kind of perfect because it's next to the new Old Navy and the new Dick's Sporting Goods.  So while I'm clothes shopping Dan can enjoy the sporting goods store.  I can't think of a better arrangement!  

Today is going to be a sunny, beautiful day!  We are going to be grilling with some friends this weekend as well as building more garden boxes and finishing up the parade of homes (so far we've seen 25 of the 28 homes).  Have a great weekend, everybody!  

Weekend Projects

It seems lately our weekends consist of a trip to Home Depot.  When I was younger I used to hate going to Home Depot!  Just ask my Dad, I thought it was the worst store ever.  But now that we are buying things for our own house, it's much more fun.

Our most recent project has been building garden boxes.  It's not quite time to plant, but we figured we'd get a head start and build them.  So far we have built one and have the wood to build two more.

Before shot.

After!

The garden boxes were our project 2 weeks ago.  This past week on Friday it almost hit 70 degrees here.  It felt so good and I was so ready to be outside!  So our Saturday project was working on our back deck to make it a little more hang out friendly.

I have been eyeing these outdoor chairs at Home Depot since last year.  Now that we have the outdoor space for them I told Dan it was time to get them!  I love the bright colors.  I am already envisioning myself reading on the back deck in my new chair.

My new chair!

Dan in his chair.

We also got a grill for our back deck and we're so excited to use it!  It's something we've been wanting for a while, we were just waiting for the right deal to come along.  I told Dan it was his Valentines present (and then proceeded to buy him other presents, because that's just how I am).

We were so ready for warmer weather and what happens this week?  Rain!  Looks like I won't be reading in my chair too soon.  Oh well, still enjoying the rain, something we don't see very often here!

Hello, goodbye.

Ok poor picture quality, but here is the last picture we took of Dan with his old Acura.  We drove it to Las Vegas Friday night to give it to his Dad (the original owner).  His Dad then drove it back to CA.  

We were talking and we had many good memories in that car!  Such as... our first date, we got engaged by it, our honeymoon, and it was the only car we had for the first year of our marriage.  

Here's Dan with his new car, a Nissan Maxima.  So far he is really liking this new car and I'm sure many more memories will be made with this car.  Such as me getting my highest bowling score ever last night!  Yep, 135! Ok... it's not that great, but I rarely get over 100, so for me it was awesome!  

As of late...

Poor blog is being neglected.  But really, not much is going on here!  We've just been working and that's about it.

I guess we did get Dan a new car last weekend, that was fun.  He was ready to finally get a car that he fit in comfortably.

Lately I've been using my silhouette for a few things.  It is so much fun!  I made this to go on top of our cupboards:

I also made a surprise with my silhouette for my nephew and sent it to him in the mail.  He and I are kind of pen pals :).  He sent me a picture this week and it made my day!

At work today was 100 day.  The whole day was dedicated to activities involving 100 since we've been in school 100 days.  Let's see... we put 100 fruit loops on necklaces, stacked 100 plastic cups, put 100 stickers on a chart, each kid frosted 5 cookies which totaled 100 for the whole class, we made 100 day hats, and lots more.  All of our activities were even done in 100 minutes!  The kids seemed to have a great time!

Oh and this past week was the 150th birthday of St. George, so we went to the celebration for it.  We felt we had to participate because it's not every day you turn 150!

So that's us.  Just going through January and looking forward to some warmer weather soon (i hope)!

Christmas & New Years

I have been trying to write this post for a week now!  Work has started back up again so I've been busy with other things.  But now that we have 9:00 church I've got the whole afternoon free!  We had a fun Christmas just the 2 of us.  We slept in, opened presents (Dan got me a Silhouette and I've already got lots of projects in mind...  I got him Wii Fit and I think I use it more than he does.  I love it!), had a yummy breakfast, went to church where Dan played a special musical number, and even had a district of missionaries (10 of them) over that evening for treats and a movie (17 Miracles).  I wish I took pictures of our celebration, but I didn't.  


For New Years we went to Southern California to spend time with Dan's family.  My favorite part was going to Santa Monica Pier.  It was a really neat place!   We walked along the beach and got lunch at a little beach cafe, rode the roller coaster on the Pier, and played a few carnival games.  We then walked up to 3rd street promenade, an outdoor mall with every store imaginable.  Unfortunately it was getting cold and foggy so we didn't stay too long.  That evening we rang in the New Year by playing games and eating chocolate fondue.  

I did snap a few photos with my new iphone (other x-mas gift... i love it.  it definitely lives up to the hype).  

The Pier.  You can kind of see it amid the fog.

Santa Monica beach.

On the Pier.  And freezing a little bit.

3rd Street Promenade.  The football is Dan's prize from one of the carnival games.

Happy New Year!

We also went mini golfing one night in CA.  I did horrible.

We had so much fun we've decided to go back to So. Cal during my spring break in March!  When we saw Jet Blue had tickets for $29 each way we knew we couldn't pass up that kind of deal.  We'll be spending most of our time in Newport Beach.  I'm already looking forward to whale watching and the Newport Beach Temple!