now you see me, soon you won't

Hey friends,

Last night as I was looking at my audience through the stats menu on blogger, I became disgusted as to where my blog had been looked at and posted.
No it's not certain people, it was some pervert that linked my blog to a terrible site. So..
In order to make me feel better,

this is one of those cookie cutter blog posts letting you know that this blog is going to become

Please give me your email address so I can add you to the list!

or you can leave a comment with your email address, 

or you can message me on Facebook with your email address.

Basically, just hand over your electronic mail address to me in any way shape or form.

Danke! 

(oh, that's German for thanks)

xoxo,

-O

the best way to say I love you.

Most of you know that shortly after graduating High School I was an avid temple go-er. Sadly, since getting married I haven't gone NEARLY as much as I would like.

When we were sealed there was only one thing that I remember the temple sealer said and I want to write it down so I will never ever forget. 

"The best way to let your spouse know that you love them is by taking them to the temple. When you go with each other, it is your own personal and spiritual way of saying, 

I love you."

Doesn't that rock?!

Well we definitely have realized that his advice was golden in our first year of marriage. There is a dramatic difference in our relationship when we attended the temple. So we are going to make it a more important part of our lives again!! Starting with once a month, then we are going to make it every other week, baby! 

Who's with us?

So grateful to have these buildings on the earth. They are our happy place!

xoxo,

-O

(Want to learn more about these beautiful buildings? Click on the temple picture on the left!)

October Fun!

This month really flew by! So here are some of the fun things we did:

We have season tickets to the BYU football games and have LOVED going to each game! After playing football his sophomore year, J grew a dislike for football (locker room talk reasons). I LOVE football. So at first J was hesitant to go to the BYU games.. he's never been to one. Now he anxiously awaits each game! 

There is something about LaVell's stadium that is just so thrilling!!! 

Plus we also discovered their corn dogs... so bad for you, but so so good!!! 

We get one every game.. I'm just going to blame it on tradition!

My sister had a witches night out party. Her decorations were the bomb... I wish I took more pictures of it. We were supposed to dress up as different witches. I of course chose the Miranda witch. If you have no idea who that is, look up Miranda Sings on YouTube. 

You won't regret it... okay, maybe you will. 

You really will.

Yes, I know I left the tag on my hat. WWMD?! 

(What would Miranda do?)

We went to the movies, and we carved pumpkins TWICE (we had to make up for the lack of pumpkin carving last year)! We also saw "In the Heights" at the Hale which was AMAZING! Definitely recommend it! It was fun seeing some familiar faces on that stage as well. 

We were old people for Halloween and Daisy was a cute little lion and let us keep her costume on her the whole time we went trick or treating with our nephew Alex. The second we got in the house though, she wanted that bad boy off!

J even went to school in his costume, 

these pictures do not do us justice! 

Then I also chopped off my hair! Yay for change!

Then finally, on Saturday we took family pictures! I can't wait to see them!!!

I feel like we did so much more but it's all just slipping from my memory. This month seriously went by in a flash! The next two months always do too... here's to hoping I keep up to date on blogging so I don't do four posts in one day again! Wowza!! Just follow me on Instagram. That's where I'm at.

Happy November erry one!

xoxo

-O

p.s. Aren't I doing so great at taking pictures?! YEAH!

Anniversary Getaway

With being the normal "newly weds" we weren't able to go on a super fun anniversary trip like we hoped we would have been able to. Like going on a cruise or to Disneyland... but you have to have money for that and we had no monies.

So, we just made the most of it! Since our anniversary was on a Wednesday we went out for sushi and then decided to do something that weekend.

haha, the goof.

I was in charge of Saturday, and Jacob was in charge of Friday night. Jacob kept it a secret as to where we were staying until late one night when it slipped just a few days before we were going to go out of town. Ha ha, he was so upset but I didn't mind because it was my favorite place!!!

Castle Creek Inn!!!

This time we stayed in Enchanted evening. It was a bigger room with a couch and a bigger bed. Probably more for a business man considering there was a desk and all. But it was beautiful!

Here are some pictures:

Plus they knew it was our anniversary so they were super nice and even told us "Happy Anniversary" every time they saw us. We ordered room service and felt super cool!

But then we fell asleep as we were eating it... which led to us not feeling very well. Ha ha. But it was still really really fun! After giving our stomachs some time to rest. We went down  to the lobby and got some of their games to play and movies to watch and of course we had to take advantage of the fresh out of the oven snacks!

The next morning we had Belgium waffles for breakfast that were DELICIOUS! We also got a late check out so we didn't feel as rushed as we did last time. Also, I packed J a shirt that was missing a button so we had to go shopping last minute and get him a new shirt!

Then we headed up to Salt Lake for my adventure. We ended up going to the gateway and each bought a book that we wanted to read and then went to THE CIRCUS!! I was a little apprehensive considering our original anniversary plan was to head to Vegas and see Zarkana, but we absolutely loved it!! It was a blast!!! We did almost witness a deathly fall, but it was great!

Best pictures we could get... cheesy over the top smiles and a funny face.

Then we couldn't help but want to get home to our Daisy Mae... even though it was just for one night we could tell she sure missed us! She stayed the night at my in-laws and she came running up to us as soon as we entered the house and fell asleep in Jacobs arms. Love that pup!

All in all it was a GREAT anniversary.

I mean, it doesn't really matter what you do to celebrate it. Just as long as you're still together! Ha ha. :)

Although, Jacob did say the other day that the next time we go on vacation we are leaving Utah. Ha ha... we're desperate for some Mickey ears or the beach!

xoxo,

-O

Our little Daisy

Well if you are my friend on FB or IG you will have noticed that we did indeed get Daisy!!

We love her so much! 

We don't know how she does it but she gets cuter and cuter by the day!

This is my first dog. 

Growing up, my Mom was allergic and we really didn't have the time to take care of a dog 

with both parents working. 

So I'm a first timer and I am LOVING it!

She is such a good doggy. She doesn't shed, she's hypoallergenic, LOOOOVVVEEESSS to cuddle, she jumps like a bunny, she loves people, she's starting to learn to like other dogs, she knows two tricks, she's {almost} entirely potty trained, and she makes us laugh all the time.
She is so silly.

 

She loves to be held like a baby and have her tummy scratched.

When you give her a bath, she looks like a little rat. Ahahahaha.

But mostly she cuddles, and finds the funniest ways to sleep. In the mornings when Jacob takes her out she runs up the stairs to my side of the bed and jumps up and down on her hind legs until I pick her up. Then she takes my pillow, the little thief!

We love her and are so happy that we have her. 

The phrase "I miss Daisy" continually comes out of our mouths when we go places that we can't take her. 

I guess we are now classified as over the top doggy parents. 

Ha ha.

xoxo,

-O