Its official...

I am going to back to school to finish my degree at Weber State University starting in January. I never started school again once Robbie and I got married....mainly because I just didn't feel like it was the right thing for me at the time.  (Which makes perfect sense...I got pregnant. And not only was I pregnant, I was barfing the whole nine months. There would have been no way I could have handled school with all that.)  So now, I feel like its the right time to start back up.  Brynn will be almost a year old and I feel confident that I will be able to leave her for a few hours each day to do what I need to do.  I am getting my degree in photography and I could not be more excited! Photography has always just been a little side hobby for me but I enjoy it so much. I have always wanted to start my own little photography business, but I just didn't want to without a degree in it. There are so many things to learn about photography and I can't wait to learn all the things I need to know to be a professional photographer! Boy, am I thankful I did a year at LDS Business College to get a bunch of generals out of the way.  The only generals left that I need for my BFA are two math classes, a life science, and two more classes in the humanities department. (Like a language or something...Robbie wants me to take Spanish) So the fact that I dont have to do a bunch of core classes makes me all the more excited.  Each semester I will basically have 3 art classes and one gen. ed. class. Rock on! 

  

Brynn wants to say something:

Brynn is constantly trying to type when I have the laptop out...so I let her have a go finally. Heres what she has to say:

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2 years.

I have been meaning to post since earlier this month, but the pictures I want are on our hard drive and I can't get it to work. So here is my post without pics.  Sad panda.

Robbie and I celebrated our 2 year wedding anniversary on August 6th.  It was probably one of the best dates he and I have ever had! We started off by dropping Brynn off at my mother-in-law's house. Then we headed into Salt Lake City.  First stop: The Grand America Hotel...can I just say how amazing that place is inside? Someday when we have more money, I want to spend a weekend there! Anyways, I wanted to go into the bakery they have there for some authentic French macaroons.  They were DELICIOUS! I will definitely be going back.  The bakery there is probably the cutest things I have ever seen. It's something you would normally only see in a dream.

After the bakery, we headed over to the Melting Pot.  Funny story....So we wanted to try somewhere new, and had heard great things about this restaurant.  As soon as we ordered our drinks, we looked at the menu and OW WA WEE WA that food is over the top expensive! We didn't want to just leave, so we just laughed and decided we would order. (Which even though its not really in our budget, the memories from this place are worth the cash)  But just let me tell you...that place is amazing. We ordered one of the "cheaper" options on the menu, which is a four course meal for two.  We started off with some cheese fondue that words really can't describe.  They gave us a variety of dippers to dip into the cheese.  Delicious.  2nd course was a reallllly good salad.  Third course was our meal.  Since there is a burner on every table, they make and keep the fondues and broth right there on your table.  They brought out a variety of assorted meats and then we cook it ourself in the fondue pot full of broth.  It was soo yummy.  And let me just say, the presentation of the food was impeccable.  So beautiful.  It was fun to be fancy for an evening.  The fourth course, and probably worth the money we spent all by itself, was a delicious chocolate fondue.  Robbie and I have never tasted something so good.  We had dippers like strawberries, bananas, coconut covered marshmallows, cookie covered marshmallows, cheesecake, brownies, pound cake, etc.  It was the most delicious dessert I've ever had.  We decided we would be coming back in the future, either just for dessert (The dessert a la cart  is $18) or if we find a 50% off coupon in citideals.com.  It's just too expensive.  But definitely delicious.  We decided one dessert wasn't enough, so we went to Red Mango afterwards.  Red Mango froyo is my favorite!  It's hun-cal, naturally sweetend frozen yogurt and is full of probiotics. We shared a white peach (best flavor) with fresh strawberries to top it off and it was so delicious.  Food makes me happy.  A little too happy.  We laughed and had such a good time together.  It felt like we were in that dating stage again.

I love my hubby.  The past two years have been so great.  We didn't waste any time in the baby department and I wouldn't have it any other way.  He is such a great father to Brynn and a wonderful husband to me.  I couldn't ask for more.  He takes care of me, and I can see the love he has for me in his eyes every time he looks at me.  He puts up with my moods and gets up to help with Brynn in the night with no complaint.  He changes poopy diapers without whining about it and cleans my car for me (I dont know why, but I hate cleaning cars).  I can't wait for more years to come with him.  Love you Robs!

RIP Monkey PJs.

Everytime Robbie would get Brynn ready for bed, she would come out wearing the monkey PJs. I don't know why he loved them so much, he just did.  After a while though,  he for some reason decided that she wanted him to save the monkey PJs for the weekend...a special occasion.  So every Friday and Saturday Robbie would put the monkey PJs on her.  He would seriously get excited for the weekend so she would wear the monkey PJs. Monkey PJs are for hard partyin' apparently.  I thought it was adorable.  She did outgrow them recently though and he was a little depressed about it.  I completely understand where he's coming from though.  I get depressed everytime she grows out of something.  So I went to Kohls and found a pair of the same monkey PJs in an 18 month size.  He will be pleasantly surprised in about a year.  

Something funny about this post is that my best friend, Lacey, had a near identical blog post about some ugly Eeyore pajamas that Mark fell in love with.  I just love how hilarious that is.  Mark and Robbie had the same weird pajama complex I guess.  Heres a couple pictures in loving memory of the monkey PJs. 

 

July

July was a busy busy month! We had a ton of family come into town for the 4th, lots of activities, and we were able to spend time with Robbie's sisters and all their kids. It was a blast! *Jackson calls Brynn "BrynnBrown" everytime he says her name.  Its all one word. So cute. *We lit fireworks and turns out Brynn is a pyro.  We thought the loud noise would scare her, but she couldn't get enough of it! That girl could sit around and light ground blooms and saturn missels with us for hours. *We went on a vacation with my family to Alcova Lake and Casper.  Brynn loved the boat and she was such a good girl while we were there.  It was so nice to be able to spend time with family.  My dad beat everyone at Farkle every single time we played. I loved being able to spend quality time with Robbie..he is always working these days since he's doing two jobs right now.  * We had a blast taking Brynnlee on her first trip to the zoo. She couldn't take her eyes off of this bright pink stuffed gorilla in the gift shop...I was a softy and bought it for her. I better work on that before it gets even harder :)   *My sister in law, Kirsten, was in town and stayed with us for a couple of nights and she was able to meet Brynn for the first time.  Brynn fell in love with Kirsten.  It was adorable. I loved getting to spend the day with Kirsten and just shop and talk.  I'm so grateful my brother found such a wonderful woman.  (I'm not just saying that because I know you read this Kirsten ha ha)  *Brynn  got her first black eye...poor gal.  

kisses for mama

pathfinder spillway

Grandma and Brynn in their matching pink hats :)

Brynn riding Porter

twinsies

Kelli just had to roll in the red dirt...

my messy girl

5 months

love my sweetie

Hogle Zoo

Buns sleeping on the boat

Robbie being inappropriate with our shadows.

Junebug

In June I was able to go visit Wyoming and see my family and friends for about two weeks. It was greatly needed and so relaxing! There's nothing like home, thats for sure.  Casper was so beautiful and it was great to get away from the hustle and bustle of Utah.  My parents backyard is seriously an oasis. The annual garden is full of different plants and flowers that my mom takes really good care of.  There are trees and the greenest grass you'll ever see.  Theres a covered porch with a table, chairs, and even a tv. Its the best backyard in the world.  And as if it could get any better, one of our neighbors put a waterfall in their backyard so we get to enjoy the sound of rushing water now as well!  Ok...enough with the backyard.  I was able to see my grandparents (and by "see" I mean completely destroy my grandma at Pinochle) spend some time with my best friend Lacey,  go to the lake with my parents, play scrabble with my mom, go golfing with my dad, have a bbq with Lacey, Mark, Matts, and Jess, and go to lunch with my dear friend Catherine.   Here are some pictures of my visit to good ol' Casper.

The next generation of best friends. All 4 months apart!

Yesterday's trouble has recently given life to tomorrow's trouble...yikes!  By the way, we have pillows under our shirts. We aren't THAT fat.

It happened again.

Ughhh I hate it when I do this! I started a blog post like three weeks ago to try and catch up, then realized the computer I was typing on didn't have the pictures I needed so I was going to go to finish up on our other computer....yeah needless to say that never happened.  I do have lots of updates to do! June and July have been so fun and action packed I don't even know where to begin.  But I will have to do a few different posts to get through it all.  Its really late right now. 2 a.m.  I have this overwhelming feeling of just wanting to uproot and move somewhere random where nobody knows Robbie and me.  Like i want to just bust out the suitcases and leave tomorrow.  No, I'm not upset and no, I'm not in a bad mood. I'm just fine.  I just really want an adventure.  As much as I love family, I kind of just want to be in a place where our family doesn't live 10 minutes away.  Somewhere we only have ourselves to depend on and somewhere where we have to cook our own Sunday dinner each week.  Anyways, on that note.  I'll try and post up on our lives tomorrow if I have time.  Until then, I'm a happy girl, I love my family, and the church is true.  Ciao!