Memorial Day 2015

So as many of you may know, I love holidays. I especially love dressing up for holidays and eating food that color coordinates with it. :) (I know a little weird) So for memorial day, we went and got blue and red Gatorade, hot dogs, chips, watermelon (our second one this summer and it's only May)etc. Typical memorial day food. I seriously get giddy over doing fun stuff like this.

Don't mind my extremely frizzy hair ;) Not quite used to the humidity here.
Like I said, I love dressing up for holidays. Got the shirt for $5, earrings $3 and bracelet free :) 

Friends

Well, I always knew I wasn't the best at continuing things but I made it to day 2 on my friends week. DAY 2!!! Ooopsie....  So I decided to just do a few more. :)
This girl needs her own post. This girl is named Kelsey Norton. She is my best friend and always will be my bestest girl friend EVER.. that is right. EVER!! No one can replace her and no one probably ever will. We get each other, we know each other and we love each other. It isn't some phony kind of love that people just say to each other, it is a genuine love. The love that when bad things happen to her, I cry, I mourn with her. Then when she comes to me for opinion and guidance, I tell her straight up, not lying to say the right things. I do this because I love her. She may not always like it, but I guess being this close of friends you don't want to lie to the other to try and soften it up. I know she would do the same for me. I mean 11 years of friendship will do that to you.
Kelsey is special, Kelsey is kind, Kelsey is smart. Kelsey has had to go through many things that no teenager should have to go through. But Kelsey did it and SHE came out stronger in the end. She is a fighter. She LOVES everyone, literally she hates being mean to people and making them upset so she loves everyone. But if you get on her bad side, you might as well just not try any longer :) :) :) (love you kels) She taught me how to be patient and how to unconditionally love. How to give people multiple chances even when they don't deserve them. She taught me how to be kind and how to always see the best in others. She has taught me how to have fun. We have gone on countless road trips together, many high school dances, girls camps, long car rides to go past the boys that we liked house (come on doesn't every girl do that :) ) We can laugh about anything. Still to do this day a quote from She's the Man "do you like gouda" is our favorite line and anytime someone says it to the other we bust out laughing!! I can imagine her saying it right now. We have the same tastes in a lot of things, one of those being movies. I swear we could watch movies for days and love it.
My parents were big sticklers on no sleepovers but Kelsey's house always seemed to be the house that I could convince them. :) I think I have shared a bed with Kelsey more times than anyone else (well next to Michael) If you guys can't tell I love and miss Kelsey daily.
Moving out to St. Louis has been hard because I miss family and I miss Kelsey. I miss just being able to drive up to her house and just hang out. I miss being able to give her hugs and do have heart to hearts. Phone heart to hearts are just not the same. I miss hearing her stories about boys and her daily tasks. In July, this girl is on the top of the list for me to see. LOVE YOU KELS!!!! Long friendship=a lot of pictures.

A Little Piece of the Future

A couple of weekends ago, we got a little taste of what our future will look like with kids.
 A cute mom came up to Michael and I and asked if we would babysit her 4 children for the weekend while her and her husband celebrated their 10 year anniversary. HECK YES! I was all for this, especially because her kids are WAY good and stinkin cute. So she wanted to leave the day I got done with my last final, so this was a fun way to officially celebrate summer! It hit me that oh wait, we aren't these kids parents, they have actual moms and dads that they can't wait to see in the next day. It is kind of funny how we both just got consumed and loved these kids that we forgot that they aren't ours. It was definitely crazy to go from having no kids and having everything be about us, to having 4 kids to take care of over night. It made really appreciate moms and all that they do. They are COMPLETELY selfless.  I love how these kids absolutely adore Michael. It showed me that we are a good combo on I am the one to crack down on things such as making sure the kids ate their food before they had cake candy, and Michael is the one where they go and wrestle and play with. Seeing him hold the sticky 2 year old covered in ice cream, cleaning her up then buckling in her car seat, it seemed like he was made for this!

Like I said above, these kids are amazing! They are crazy, wild but most importantly loving. I loved just hearing all the giggles and the running around going on. It just makes a home feel like a home. 

The oldest boy loved Michael most of all. Anytime Michael would do something, he would do it. Michael was sitting on the coach with his arms folded and he sat down and looked at Michael then copied him. I asked to sit by Michael during movie night, but he didn't want to leave Michaels side. He was the one to ask when we could go wake up Michael in the morning, then that would lead us into going and jumping on him yelling WAKE UP MICHAEL!  Come play with us!! Michael would be the last person to get a hug at night as well. On Saturday night they wanted french toast with whipped cream and strawberries, so Michael was in charge of making it. David was of course right by his side being the cinnamon and sugar man. I loved to see a bond between the two. 

The weekend consisted of a lot of ice cream, a lot of movies, park time, birthday parties, walks, snuggles, and yummy unhealthy food that they can get cause mommy and daddy weren't here. (Don't worry they had fruit with every meal) 

Michael said everyday, man if I didn't have finals next week I could do this for another week. That is how amazing and fun these kids are.

Michael and I were exhausted by the time 8 o'clock rolled around and the kids were in bed.
I am so happy that the parents asked us to take care of their kids because it was a blast and made me want my own kids ;) (not for a while) Thanks Mary and Joe for letting us take care of them! :)

Went to many parks

I thought this was the cutest thing. I couldn't find Hazel so I went searching and here she was just sitting and listening to music. 

 Had a lot of ice cream

They seriously all loved Michael.

 We had chocolate covered popcorn and I look at the two girls and they are just covered in it. Don't worry we brushed their teeth real well that night. :) 

This is the view from their roof and I thought it was SO cool! 

A Few Things About My Husband

So on the blog, we hear a lot about me but we don't hear much about Michael. Michael is amazing. He just got done with his first year of classes in Graduate School.  I don't see a lot of Michael during the school week and it can be hard, but when he tells me what his professors thinks of him it all pays off. His professors love him, literally praise and love him. His first semester, his mentor and other professors talked about how amazing his writing is and at the end one of his professors said that she couldn't wait until she had him in her class again. I think that means good things especially coming from a graduate professor. This semester he has been kickin his butt about getting his thesis proposal done. He finished, turned it into his mentor and she came back with saying how this is the most well written thesis proposal she has seen. She hardly had any comments and said as well how this is the fastest she has had someone finish it. Yep that's my husband!!!! He called me today and said how all the Psychology professors at the end of the semesters get together and talk about each student. His mentor said that professors were raving about him. He had a social cognition class and it was by far his hardest and most time consuming class so far, with a very hard professor and I guess at this meeting he was saying how Michael did so well and was very pleased with him! I mean come on, how awesome is that to hear? There have been many more things with his school that he has excelled in so I just had to brag a little bit. :)
Also he plays racquetball almost every week with a good friend in the ward Dan. Dan also says how well Michael is! Michael has been told he plays like old men (I guess old guys are good at racquetball)
So there is just a sneak peak into how awesome my husband is :)
Love you Michael!