Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Gingerbread houses:)
Every year Quinn's family tradition is to make gingerbread houses, it's one of my favorite things I made Quinn call his mom while we were in Memphis to make sure she would wait until we got to Utah to do it, it's so fun and something I definitely didn't want to miss out on! Ginger was busy with Christmas stuff so Quinn and I offered to make the homemade gingerbread for the houses early Friday morning...Quinn let me sleep in while he baked gingerbread all morning by himself, what a good husband I have:)
Our house turned out even better this year than last:) We had quite a bit of yellow candy left over from our wedding reception if you can't tell;)
Home sweet home
Quinn and I are done in Memphis! Finally! We got to spend Christmas week in Utah with our family before heading to Wyoming. We had a great time in Utah with friends and family.
Of course we went and saw the lights at temple square. Quinn and I stopped at "our wishing well" and tossed in a couple of coins:)
After temple square we headed over to the soon to be Mr.& Mrs.Sasften's new house to watch a movie Kayla and Brady stopped by for a minute to show us their cute new puppy! It was fun to hang out with my old roomies:) I miss you girls
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
We gave Coco a bath
Friday, December 16, 2011
When Quinn is at work....
There is only so much to do when you are stuck in a hotel room without a car in Memphis TN... When Quinn is at work Coco and I can get pretty bored.
Going from a lifestyle of school, work, homework, wedding planning, etc. to a life of nothing to do.. can be quite a dramatic change. Before I always thought "when my schedule isn't so full I will do so many things I don't have time for now. I will work out everyday, I'll read all those books I've been hearing so much about, I'll catch up on all the T.V. shows I've missed, I'll finish all of my started art projects and then decorate every wall in my house with my stuff," the list goes on and on.... The funny thing I have discovered is without a list of things to do everyday I pretty much do nothing at all. Today for example Coco and I woke up somewhere around 12 or 1 in the afternoon cooked ourselves some breakfast (egg and toast like always). Went for a short walk came back to the hotel room and watch Vampire Diaries until around 7:30 p.m. When Quinn told us he was on his way home.. I then quickly picked up our hotel room and hopped in the shower, to destroy the evidence of our laziness before Quinn got home. This is the way I spend probably half my time in Memphis.. Not always watching Vampire Diaries of course we like to switch up our shows and not every day we are quite so lazy...but still we don't get too much more productive than this unless we got crazy good sleep the night before or have had a V8 energy drink with our breakfast(we should probably buy more of those)Anyway, kind of a pointless blog, but I needed a break from Vampire Diaries;)
Going from a lifestyle of school, work, homework, wedding planning, etc. to a life of nothing to do.. can be quite a dramatic change. Before I always thought "when my schedule isn't so full I will do so many things I don't have time for now. I will work out everyday, I'll read all those books I've been hearing so much about, I'll catch up on all the T.V. shows I've missed, I'll finish all of my started art projects and then decorate every wall in my house with my stuff," the list goes on and on.... The funny thing I have discovered is without a list of things to do everyday I pretty much do nothing at all. Today for example Coco and I woke up somewhere around 12 or 1 in the afternoon cooked ourselves some breakfast (egg and toast like always). Went for a short walk came back to the hotel room and watch Vampire Diaries until around 7:30 p.m. When Quinn told us he was on his way home.. I then quickly picked up our hotel room and hopped in the shower, to destroy the evidence of our laziness before Quinn got home. This is the way I spend probably half my time in Memphis.. Not always watching Vampire Diaries of course we like to switch up our shows and not every day we are quite so lazy...but still we don't get too much more productive than this unless we got crazy good sleep the night before or have had a V8 energy drink with our breakfast(we should probably buy more of those)Anyway, kind of a pointless blog, but I needed a break from Vampire Diaries;)
Beale Street
We took a trip to Beale street:) It seemed to be the most talked about place to go see so we decided to check it out....
Our little frozen Memphis family
Beale street was talked up a little bit too much.. It wasn't really our scene basically it's a small strip with different bars and clubs, there was lots of loud music which would have fun if it didn't scare Coco so much. Maybe we'll have to go back to have dinner one night but other than that Beale street didn't have much to offer Quinn, Coco and I. Still fun to see though, Coco enjoyed the walk and it got us out of our hotel!
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Memphis
We have been staying in Memphis for the last couple of weeks and I am ready to go back to Utah! There isn't too much to do here...When I asked the receptionist at the spa what is fun to do in Memphis she replied with "Eat some BBQ and go to the movies..." So there you have it if you ever want to come to TN:)
It was a 20 hour drive to get here. We weren't in too big of a hurry to arrive so we stopped and stayed at 2 different places, rather than driving straight through. This is what Coco did most of the drive...she's always sleepy.
Our hotel room
We do have a kitchen which is nice, not having to eat out ALL of the time. Unfortunately no oven.. We didn't realize this until after we bought groceries now we have a whole freezer full of frozen pizzas. I don't know what we'll do with them LOL oops!
Our neighbors must be permantely high...This is the vent in our bathroom that the stench leaks through. Quinn has to cover it with the washcloth to keep out the smell. It sort of works, but if you stay in the shower too long, you will definitely be high as a kite by the time you get out hahaha. Aside from the constant stink of marijuana in our bathroom and the 4 flights of stairs we have to climb to get to our room, the hotel isn't bad, and it's home for the time being:)
It was a 20 hour drive to get here. We weren't in too big of a hurry to arrive so we stopped and stayed at 2 different places, rather than driving straight through. This is what Coco did most of the drive...she's always sleepy.
Our hotel room
We do have a kitchen which is nice, not having to eat out ALL of the time. Unfortunately no oven.. We didn't realize this until after we bought groceries now we have a whole freezer full of frozen pizzas. I don't know what we'll do with them LOL oops!
Our neighbors must be permantely high...This is the vent in our bathroom that the stench leaks through. Quinn has to cover it with the washcloth to keep out the smell. It sort of works, but if you stay in the shower too long, you will definitely be high as a kite by the time you get out hahaha. Aside from the constant stink of marijuana in our bathroom and the 4 flights of stairs we have to climb to get to our room, the hotel isn't bad, and it's home for the time being:)
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Surfing
We went surfing on our last day in Hawaii. It was my favorite! We had a great instructor Ina, I fell right in love with him:) Both Quinn and I stood up pretty fast and even did some cool tricks where we held hands as we surfed side by side. Unfortunately we didn't get any photos while we were surfing. We had a great time though, I wish we would have gone surfing the first day, that way we would have know how much fun it was and done it the rest of the trip! Definitely can't wait to do it again!
Ina and us
Our very last stop before the airport was Napli Bay it was beautiful, we got this photo just before the rainstorm. We had an amazing trip, can't wait to go back!
Ina and us
Our very last stop before the airport was Napli Bay it was beautiful, we got this photo just before the rainstorm. We had an amazing trip, can't wait to go back!
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