Celebrating Trey's Day of Birth!!!

Happy birthday honey buns!!! I love you to pieces. And I love the weird faces you like to pull in pictures. Here are some pictures of Trey opening his presents this morning.

Opening present #1 - Stevie Wonder's Number Ones CD (Trey is in love with Stevie)

Opening present #2 - Band of Brothers DVDs, he's obviously pretty pumped about this one

Present #3 - Vans Old Schoo shoes

And assembling present #4 - A guitar stand which was beautifully wrapped in a garbage bag (Thanks for the idea Sara)

And this is Trey's family's dog Zeke. I just had to get a picture of the way he sleeps, pretty funny huh.

And here's the happy boy. I think I did pretty good with presents this year, he seemed rather pleased. Check out the look on his face, pure joy! Love you Trey. Thanks for being such a great hubby wubby.

I'm it!

I've been tagged by Callie and it's been awhile since I've done one of these babies so I figure, why not!? Here it goes...

5 things I was doing 10 years ago:

1. Playing soccer like crazy - I was on a competitive soccer team and summer is the season for tournaments
2. Getting excited to be a 9th grader - I thought I was soo old!
3. Dancing in my last dance review with Mel & Jess
4. Still playing the piano
5. Totally being awkward - gotta love the awkward jr. high years

5 things on my to-do list:

1. Finish unpacking!
2. Finish laundry
3. Do dishes
4. Get some more sleep
5. Go to the doctor - we think I might have strep throat, blah!

5 of my favorite snacks/food:

1. Ice cream!!
2. Raspberry pretzel salad
3. Banana cream pie
4. Chocolate chip cookies
5. Cheesecake

5 things I would do if I was a billionaire:

1. Pay for Trey to go to med school
2. Buy a nice house and decorate it really cute
3. Be generous with my money
4. Go on awesome trips, starting with Europe!
5. Buy our dream cars

5 bad habits I have:

1. Not thinking before I say things
2. Squeezing the toothpaste from the middle(this one drives Trey nuts:))
3. Picking my nose while I drive - I know, I'm totally like a little kid
4. Procrastination
5. Not flossing

5 Places I've lived:

1. Centerville, Utah
2. Logan, Utah
3. Sorry I'm kind of boring, but that's all I can say for this one

5 things most people don't know about me:

1. I get super stinky feet, Trey loves it :)
2. I LOVE to pick at things (zits, blackheads, slivers, etc.)
3. I can probably quote most of Dumb & Dumber
4. I had a childhood fear of those aliens on Sesame Street (the ones that would say "yipyipyipyip...ah hah, ah hah") and they still freak me out
5. I have a HUGE zit on my head right now.

Here are the freaky little things...they would seriously give me nightmares!

Granolified!

We're officially becoming granolified this summer. It's bound to happen when you live in Logan for so long. Ok just playin', we're not, but we have both starting riding our bikes to work. Trying to save some money since gas prices are pretty much ridiculous and bound to get worse. We also finally got to go camping this weekend!!! Wahoo! The weather was beautimus! We went with our buddies Zack & Callie up Blacksmith Fork Canyon. Sorry, no pics this time. It was practically dark when we made it up to the campsite. We went to the Summerfest, Logan's art festivus, which was conveniently located at the Tabernacle (2 blocks from our house) on Saturday. There was some crazy hippy art there, I enjoyed it. Later we hung out with our friends the Jensens and layed some blankets down on their front lawn, drank smoothies, and enjoyed the nice summer night. Trey and Jake strummed their guitar and ukulele. Yeah, I would call it the granola/hippy weekend for sure!

And just in case anyone was wondering, in approximately 29 hours we will be venturing out of the Utah bubble! Woo woot!!! I'm super excited, boy do I need a vaca. Our destination: CHICAGO!!! And yes, we will be going to a Cubbies game! I'll take lots of pics and will probably post the longest blog entry anyone has ever seen. Should be a good time. Stay tuned! Enjoy a picture of the cool bean that I'm excited to see...

Ah the great outdoors...

I must say I'm a little bugged with the weather lately. Trey and I have been itching to go camping this summer but where is the beautiful summer weather that we have been anxiously anticipating for the past 8 months??? Who knows, but it's definitely not in Logan. Although I'm happy to say that this week's weather forecast does look promising. Let's keep our fingers crossed, shall we?

We got some sweet camping gear with our stimulus moneys from the good ol US goverment. I took my first trip to Smith & Edwards, that was quite the experience! You could seriously spend a whole day in there looking at all the stuff. Our friend Nate likes to remind us that 'you can even buy a bomb!' there. Their slogan makes so much more sense to me now...'We Have Everything You Want ... If We Can Find It'. Well we ended up finding some pretty good stuff...

A 12 qt. Camp Chef dutch oven

A camp stove (MSR 'Pocket Rocket') for backpacking

2 Mess kits

A lightweight sleeping bag for Trey (he already got me one :))

A mini mag flashlight

Trey also found us a sweet deal online on this little beauty. It's very lightweight, great for backpacking.

Our camping/hiking plans for this summer include White Pine Lake, the Wellsvilles for sure, either Moab and Arches National Park or Zions, maybe even some Havasupai if we're feeling crazy. I'd also like to explore the Minnetonka Caves up by Bear Lake, I've never been there before and I hear it is righteous! Oh and of course the Snake River with all the Banbury clan, can't forget that one!

Now hopefully the weather cooperates so we can do all this crazy fun stuff before it gets cold again! Oh and here are some pictures of us and our friends up the canyon having a good old fashioned mallow/weinie roast...this is the closest we've been to camping this year :)

Pretty much the best idea ever...

I would like to give a shout out to our new found love...Netflix! Seriously, whoever thought up the whole idea is a genius! And a rich genius I'm sure. For only $9.99 a month, we get 2 DVDs a week, delivered right to our mailbox. It's so great, we've been doing it for about a month and a half now and we are sold! We have been able to queue up some old movies that we've always wanted to see, but never wanted to spend the $2 to rent them at a regular movie store. Last week we started it off with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. I loved it! Paul Newman is a crack up! We decided the young Robert Redford resembled Brad Pitt quite a bit. Tres attractive.
The last movie we watched was Casablanca, also a classic that neither of us had seen. I thought it was a really good movie. I finally got to see where that famous line comes from, "Here's lookin at you kid." I highly recommend it.
Some others on our queue that I'm excited to get are: Cool Hand Luke, The Bucket List, Xanadu(both of us have never seen it, we hear it's crazy), The Kite Runner, Benny and Joon, Some Like It Hot, Say Anything, and of course, Ghost Dad. I say of course because I was OBSESSED with this movie when I was little. I would always beg my parents to rent it every weekend. I really can't remember much about it so I'm kind of excited to see it. It will probably be lame but I'm sure it will give me a good laugh.
So does anyone have any other recommendations for good movies to add to our queue???