Celebrating Spring Break!

We kicked off Joshua's spring break with a fun-filled Saturday! After some sleeping in, we headed to a wooded area on campus to explore the trails. We enjoyed the warmer weather, trickling streams, and serenading whistler.



The lone green tree that's ready for spring!

Along the trail we occassionally saw a wooden bench. At one point we saw a sign pointing to "Sister's Corner" and mused about what may be there. I suggested that Sister's Corner must have two benches. Guess who was right?!

We spent part of the afternoon wandering through Carr Mill Mall and finally checking out Weaver Street Market. I'd heard soo many good things about the local co-op. We both loved the small town feel of it! Maple View Farm ice cream and chocolate milk, fresh sourdough bread, and an amazing looking steak from a local farm were our happy treasures from the trip.

We tried out the famous Alfredo's Pizza for dinner and were satisfied. Good pizza but nothing too famous about it. Papa John's spinach alfredo pizza with chicken and bacon (and olives on my half) is still our current favorite pizza.

We ended the night as true adults. Sam's Club has two new members!
In Joshua's words, "That moment when having your own Sam's Club membership makes you feel adult." 
In my words, "I feel like a kid in a candy store."

Unmentionable Number

My Joshua had a birthday!! (For some reason, he doesn't like it when I say how old he turned. Like he thinks he's getting old or something.)

Friday's are a short school day for him, so he was home while I was on my break at work. I pretended to be his paparazzi. I called and asked him to check the front porch for a package...and I sneak attacked him! Somebody [amazing and wonderful] had delivered a delicious looking ice cream cake!

Friday night we celebrated at IHOP with some free birthday dinner for Joshua! (Plus a non-birthday-related brief exploration of a nearby slighty ghetto mall.) Back at home Joshua opened presents, and we had some yummy cake while watching some Boy Meets World. Then went to sleep super early like an old couple.

Birthday boy eating his scrumptious food. Also notice his

strawberry-topped pancakes and my red velvet ones. Heavenly!

Birthday wish with our lone nickel.

"How'd you know I wanted this?" 

I think that means I'm good at surprises.

Happy with his new book!
The only one he'd name as a birthday wish.

Joshua looked...funny but thinks I look cute. :)

"Happy Birthday" - not Harry Baker in case you were wondering.

The festivities continued as we used a birthday present and went to Texas Roadhouse for a lunner. It was certainly memorable since our waitress quit in the middle of her shift. We didn't know that at first...we just thought we were receiving possibly the worst service ever. We'd been seated for at least 5-10 minutes before she showed up to ask us about drinks and take our order. And we never saw her again. We'd received our food, and I was nearly done when I finally (out of desperation/maybe just thirst) went to ask another waitress for a refill. It was after that another waitress showed up and made it up to us with her amazing service. So birthday lunner ended up being a success, full of incredible, edible food and extraordinarly long straws.

 

Happy ##!!!

Valentine's Day

It's hard to believe this year is our FIFTH Valentine's Day together!!!!!

**Unfinished blog post alert!**

 

Random Realization

Today I had a funny realization while I was eating a delicious dill pickle. I hate cucumbers SO much! It's because of the flavor, but it's also in large part due to the seeds. I think they're gross. Sometimes I do eat cucumbers because it seems like the right thing to do at the time, but I never enjoy them. Anyway, I LOVE pickles!! They can be whole pickles, babies, spears, sliced...doesn't matter. Dill or bread and butter. I love them! And the seeds totally don't bother me. Well today I was looking at my pickle and had the thought that it was once a cucumber. Still loved my pickle and enjoyed the gigantic seeds in the middle. But cucumbers....LOATHE entirely!

(Joshua thinks I'm a little crazy for writing a blog post about this.)

Spook made it!

Our car, or Spook as we fondly refer to him, reached a momentous milestone today!!

 

 

Check out the mileage! I have been greatly anticipating this moment for weeks, and I'd even calculated when it would happen. Naturally I was thrilled when I got a red light (after a streak of green ones) just in time to snap a good picture!

 

In other car news, just this week I finally found a radio station we like. Good times.

SNOW

It snowed Thursday night!! I was checking the next day's weather when I noticed. Naturally I had to go run around in it! Mostly I was hoping for a snow day Friday, but that didn't happen. Clearly I was still excited to play in it though!

Winter's Coming!

This morning when I went outside to go to work there was ice on our car! On half of the back windshield. I was feeling a little bothered by it and momentarily missed covered parking...until I realized it's the end of November and I've only had to scrape ice off half of my back windshield once this season. And the season is actually still autumn...not winter.

Let's just say that every time I check the weather I feel glad to be living in Chapel Hill and not Rexburg.

Ice made me think of snow. Snow made me think of winter, and winter makes me think of Christmas. I've found a Christmas radio station!! It's the only decent radio station, besides classical, that I've found since moving here. It makes me happy. :) Happy holiday season to us!