Meal planning might be the death of me.

I don't know about you, but I have the hardest time thinking of what to have for dinner! And the even worse part is that I'm really picky with food, so Cody's always hesitant to suggest something as I will most likely say no to his ideas.. Which leaves me to thinking of EVERY SINGLE MEAL!! I'm not going to lie.. It's super stressful and we end up eating cereal or shapes mac&cheese a lot more than I'd like to admit.

Lately, the thought of chicken makes me want to throw up, unless it's cut up in small bite-sized pieces before it's cooked (is that weird?). So I really need some new recipes with hamburger meat (preferably) but I'd even be willing to cook with other types of meat.. The only other type of meat that I've cooked with was when I tried to re-create Cafe Rió's pork and used a pork shoulder. Even then though, I just threw it in the crock pot. And it did NOT taste like Cafe Rió.

Noodles are the other things that have been sounding good.. which is weird because I've never been one to choose noodles over ANYTHING else. So we've been having some new concoctions I've made with noodles (like spaghetti sauce and cream cheese, with cut up chicken chunks over noodles. YUM!)

Anyways, if you have some good recipes that aren't spicy and don't contain any peppers, PLEASE SEND THEM MY WAY!! I'll be forever grateful.. and so will Cody!

The other front room.. finally cleaned and put together!!

I can't tell you how excited I am to have both of our front rooms spotless and all decorated for the time being!! We're having my huge family dinner at our house tomorrow, so we spent a good portion of today cleaning our brains out. But it was worth it!! Here's our other front room:

Dex was hugging Cody.. So cute!

I just love the heck out of him (:

We went up to Brigham City today to see my good friend Megan.. who recently eloped! It was so good to see her, since the last time was at mine and Cody's wedding!

I should have gotten a picture of me and her today.. but I didn't! What was I thinking?! 

I just love her! I wish she didn't live 2 hours away!

Happiest of birthdays to my quarter-of-a-century-old husband (:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABE!!!!!! I'm so glad you were born 25 years ago (: You bring so much joy in my life and sacrifice so much for me. I'm grateful everyday for all that you do for our tiny little family.

Isn't he adorable?!?! Our future little babes are going to be super cute!

Good call on the haircut, Trina (:

Don't know why the date says 1987.. it was 1994.

We decided to have a little birthday celebration last night, and we went to Gloria's Little Italy in Provo last night. HOLY GOOD FOOD!! It's quite expensive though, so keep that in mind. But totally worth it! I got the 5 cheese bowtie pasta and Cody had the Chicken Parmesan and MMMMMM!!! Cody was kind of struggling.. He spilt his Dr. Pepper all over the table and his pants within 3 minutes of getting it, then when his side salad came, he flung a cucumber on the floor. (To his defense, the cucumber was HUGE and shouldn't have been so hard to eat that he had to cut it.. which was why it ended up on the floor) Good thing we were there at 6:45 and not very many people were there yet!!

Cucumber. On the floor.

Then afterwards, we headed over to Comedy Sportz where Laughing Matters was performing. The only reason I knew there was a show is because I follow Bonnie over at The Life Of Bon, and she mentioned there was a show that her husband would be in! We got there a little early, so we decided to walk around the streets of Provo for a little bit, and we got to see the progress that's being made on the new Provo Temple!!

We headed back over to watch the show.. Turns out I knew 3 of the 4 guys in that comedy group.. they used to be in my ward! Also, I met Bonnie! (and baby Bonnie!) She's such a sweet girl, and I'm so glad I went up and talked to her!!

(side note, Comedy Sportz' bathrooms are SUPER GHETTO!! This is what Cody found in the men's restroom. A bottle of Vodka!)

A bottle of Vodka on the floor!

Cody and I had a good time together just getting away for a little bit. Tonight we're having a family party with his family, tomorrow we're having a family dinner/party with my family, and then next weekend Cody and I are heading down to St. George for his birthday present! We're staying with our good family friend, Elaine. She is so sweet to let us stay with her for free!! We stayed with her about a year and a half ago, the week before Cody proposed and I could have sworn he was going to propose to me right here:

In the gorgeous red rocks of St. George, with my Mom there to photograph it all. But alas, he didn't. Because he wrote me an adorable song and secretly led me up to the roof of Pizza Pie Cafe with rose pedals instead (:

Anyways, I'm so happy with you Cody!! You make me laugh on a daily basis, you love me even when I get really silly, and even join in on the fun!! I'm looking forward to celebrating your birthday with you for a million more years!!!

Training run #3 complete!!

I'm proud to announce that I have now successfully run 3 training exercise runs!! My second one was last Friday, and I decided to run Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday of this week, so I'll keep checking in!

No pictures of today's run, but it's getting so much warmer out!! There were kids playing on the play ground, one girl laying on a blanket in the middle of the field, and a couple other runners!! It felt good to be one of them (:

But I'm having some troubles now.. The inside of my calves are hurting like no other!! I had to cut my run 5 minutes short today because they were causing so much pain! And I stretch after I run really well, doing the curb calf stretch, but it doesn't get the insides of my calves.. Any suggestions? I'd really rather my legs weren't about to fall off!!

I'm itching to sew!!!

I've only done a few sewing projects, and nothing too insane. I got a sewing machine for Christmas two years ago, and have used it only a handful of times: Shortening this, smaller-izing this, sewing these, and making this cute bow! Probably two other times too, but I don't have a post about it.

Anyways, when I get a few hours and some fabric, these are some of the things that I'm DYING to make!

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For Kaylee's baby boy (:

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For Kay's baby too.. Except I'd sew mine.

Apparently I need to learn how to make quilts, seeing almost half of these are quilts. Like Mother, like daughter, right? (Love you, Ma!) And if you don't know my Mother, she's one of the craftiest people in the world, and has about 20 handmade quilts (or more!) and entire downstairs basement dedicated to crafting. She's awesome.

So yeah, let's all hope I can get some time to make these, because let's be honest, EVERYTHING'S SO DANG CUTE!!

I have officially started training!!

The 5k is still a few months away, but I'm more out of shape than.. (insert someone really out of shape here).
So I needed to start as soon as possible. I've kind of been in a bind because I have so much homework this semester that I've struggled with working out, but I just decided that I needed to make time or I'd never do it. So I went to Carterville park (one of my favorite parks.. I met the love of my life there :) with Dexter, and we jogged/walked away! I'm using this as a guide, and it worked really well for today! I'm feeling it, but it also felt so good to be out there and actually taking one more step toward my goal!!

My cute little buddy!

The sun was trying to poke through!!

AND PLEASE HELP ME STAY ON TRACK WITH THIS!
If you know me at all, you'll know that I don't finish anything.
-Like the Pile On The Miles.. although I did do a lot more walking than I was before!
-Like when I set a morning routine to get up with Cody, eat, practice the piano, workout, and do homework before I went to school.. But didn't say anything about it to anyone unless I could get past 2 weeks of doing it.. Which I didn't.
-When I tried to work out without a gym
-The 50 pushups goal.. which I'd still really like to do!

So basically, I'm a failure when it comes to working out. But by golly, I can finish crafts!
(this is mainly for me to feel a little bit better about myself, because the list above is pretty gruesome.)

Painted this for our kitchen

Made this for our bedroom

Took a boring door from white to teal

Shortened this vest, and another one.

Gave my jewelry a home

Sewed those curtains and made that wreath

And painted this beauty (:

Anyways, moral of the story, I have to keep up with this. I paid 50 dollars for Cody and I to run that race, and dangit, WE'RE GONNA RUN THAT RACE!

We rearranged our front rooms.. again.

I feel like we rearrange or add something to our front rooms every Saturday when I have Cody here to help me.. But I think it might stay like this for a while! This is only one of the rooms because I haven't finished cleaning the other one. So, that will come later. I never put a picture up of our front room when we had it split in half.. so here's the

-BEFORE-

This was the view from the craft room. We put the black coffee table in between the couches after I took this picture.

This was the second half of the "split" room

And the gallery wall and it's surroundings before

I liked it for about .2 seconds, but it was a pain to walk around the couch since it was right in the middle of the room. And, the plant in the bottom picture was dying because it was too far away from the windows.

And here it is

-AFTER-

This is the view from the craft room - The canvas that's blank will be painted.. soon. But doesn't my tree look so good hanging up? And no, I didn't paint the picture on the left.. I wish!

View from the kitchen

The new gallery wall area

This was the best I could get of the whole room

It is a little strange having the couches so far away from each other, but it opened up the room so much more. Plus I love the rest of the room, so I don't even care about that minor detail!