St. Patty's Day!!!!

i have been looking forward to St. Patrick's day for so long! It's my favorite holiday for a couple reasons:
1. It's fun to make just a normal day of the week into something special, no matter what holiday!
2. green is my favorite color EVER! Any holiday the celebrates by using only the color green, is awesome! (it's super special because no other color gets a holiday all to itself!)
3. it's the day Ryan and I met 2 years ago!

To celebrate today, I wore my new green and white striped shirt

and made an all green dinner: Green garlic mashed potatoes, green salad, green beans, green tinted water, and grilled chicken (this was impossible to make green...so it was sprinkled with green parsley)


So I hope all of you had a wonderful day today! I can't wait til next year!!!

BASEBALL!!!!

This past weekend, we went to Mesquite NV for the baseball spring break tournament. They played 4 games total, two against Loyola Marymount University, one against Oregon State, and one against Univeristy of Santa Barbara. We won the two games against LMU and lost the other two. We had such a great time!
We left Thursday afternoon, and drove down with our best friend's, The Davis'. Friday, the team had a double header, and another double header Saturday, then we headed home on Sunday morning.
We found that there isn't much to do in Mesquite...at all! We watched the movie "Mighty Joe Young" on TV one night. After Ryan and Alex would leave to the field, Danielle and I were stuck in our hotel room waiting for the games to start, we ended up watching everything from Harry Potter to some Modeling show on E!...haha, we had a great time though and are sad to be home already after such a short trip.
Ryan, the pitching machine

Me and my love :)

Jan and Shonagh Davis, me (the scorekeeper), Lindsey Davis, Amy, and Jessica...Danielle was our photographer

Amy, me, Danielle

The team was playing "flip" before one of the games, and we were pretty entertained by it, so we took a picture, it turned out pretty cool I think!


The rest of this week will be a lot of fun since Ryan is on Spring Break, we'll be able to spend time with our friends during the nights!

USU Basketball

This past week, we went to the USU Basketball, it is the last one we'll be able to attend this season, and they won the WAC Regular Season Championship. So not only did they win...by about 10 points....but we also got to rush the court, and watch the whole team get up on the ladder and cut down the net! It was so much fun! The best part of it was that we got to go with our best friends, The Davis'. They're going to be moving in May, and won't be coming back up in the fall, so right now is the only time we have with them! No matter how much I want summer to come, I really am dreading it because it means they'll be gone. After the game, the four of us celebrated our last basketball game together by going to Cold Stone, mmm!

So now that basketball season is over, baseball season is on it's way! We'll be going on our second baseball trip of the year this weekend. We're going to Mesquite Thursday night, and they'll have a double header Friday, another double header on Saturday, and we'll be coming back home on Sunday. It's just a short trip, but a LONG awaited one! I'm so excited for baseball season, it will be so much fun this year! So check back soon, I'll be posting pictures of Mesquite when we get back!

got 'em!

yay! now you can all see my cake creation and the pretty flowers from Valentines Day. I got my phone to finally send the pictures...so they're a little blurry, but oh well.

v-day!

I know I'm a couple days late on this one, but i just couldn't pass up a post on valentines! i love it too much! it's a whole day dedicated to being cheesy, mushy, ooey-gooey, lovey-dovey, and crazy in love! this year we didn't do anything crazy at all though, which was perfect, we stayed at home, Ryan made me a delicious steak dinner, and got me pretty red roses and the movie Nights in Rodanthe (i've wanted to see it since i read the book, but it wasn't in theatres anymore nor was it on DVD yet...best present EVER!) so we just had a delicious dinner, and watched my new movie. and for dessert, i made him a heart shaped chocolate cake (complete with pink and purple dinosaur sprinkles, ha!)

***ok so i didn't have a camera with me at the time, but i took pictures on my camera phone, but for some reason they won't send from my phone to my email, so instead of picture of us and our sweet gifts...enjoy Richard Gere and Diane Lane dancing in a chick-flick!

my wedding is better than your wedding.

so i haven't posted anything in awhile, i know i know. but i also realized, that i have not only not been posting much lately, but i haven't even been posting pictures of us, or that matter even pictures that i've taken! i'm turning into an awful blogger and i apologize. so to make it up to you, i'm going to post about why my wedding was the best wedding day out of everyones (yes, that's right, even yours). And I'll let the picture do the explaining:

1. first and foremost i got to marry this hunka hunka burnin' love!


2. we found out that even though we were married, we were still attracting the opposite sex!



3. my mom brought snacks for us to eat while we were getting pictures taken outside the temple


4. my mom also made all these super cute dresses for my bridesmaids (my mom is awesome right?)


5. we had a band that came and played songs that he learned specifically for our wedding! such as "bubbly" colbie callait, "sunday" bebo norman, "on my mind" kalai, and others. talk about a cool band...


6. we had cotton candy!!!!!




7. i got raspberry filled chocolate wedding cake smeered across my face and veil.


these are just 7 of the reasons i think my wedding was great. and i'm totally kidding about ours being better than yours...i'm sure your wedding were great too! anyway, i thought i'd do a wedding post since i started my blog after our wedding and i've never done one since...also, i miss the warm weather and looking at these nice august pictures make me happy!