V-Day 2012

Matty and I were bummer valentines this year... this past week has probably been the craziest I have had this semester with regards to school. So between that and Matty's consistent madness of a schedule we both threw up the white flag and said peace out to cupid. Good news is we still love each other lots, and my excessively kind husband took me out to eat food on Monday - the ultimate manifestation of love! He asked me what I wanted and I begged not to have to make dinner that day. Wa-la!

We always do our fondue dinner though, which is fun, and will occur in the near future! V-day is every day anyway right? Yes. We have definitely become one of those couples who are V-day lovers or haters depending on our mood... or schedule. This year we both supported each other with the-
"I don't believe in V-day. I can give you a loving card and some flowers any day. I each chocolate hourly-don't waste our money babe. I love you too much, I need every day to express it" and it resonated with me this time around! Last year though, we went all out and had a blast. So next year is a big fat toss up:)


  
V-day 2010

V-day 2012 (at the mall being haters:) )


This next week will be much more easy going. I don't know what I will do with all of my time! I have had a lot of fun day-dreaming about a new apartment and what we might be able to do with a small space to make it feel like home. It can get really exciting and really unrealistic fast! Its still fun to admire these spaces though.

This last one is my favorite. It is a cozy space which seems to be our lot in life for the next few years. 

And although all of the other images are so cute, they are so clean and untouchable! A little too sterile for me (anyone who really knows me understands my messy habits!). This is the perfect balance of unorganized organization, which I am all about! I want to snuggle up in a blanket on that little couch... and maybe read a book... for the first time in my life.

For now maybe I will just stick to my textbooks/the good book, and I hope to finally post on all the enlightened goodness I have eaten up this semester! Hopefully I will catch up on a post about pregnancy info from class and my readings by the end of this week!

Lets go back...

School is great right now, Matty is sad about graduating (can you believe that??). He loves byu AND school, what luck! He is getting ready for big tests and working for us, and he is a smarty. And my hero/boyfriend. Thanks for being a great Matty babe:)

I am loving my pediatric/OB rotation. I always thought I would love to be a labor and delivery nurse and turns out it's not really for me, mostly because I cry every time I watch a birth. And the parent's are thinking, Seriously?! Who is the creeper bawling her face off in the corner of my room... seriously though who am I?!

 In my defense, this is a little spirit coming into the world- cue the waterworks! Luckily the last couple I was able to help with was getting a c-section, so we had time to calmly discuss the excitement of their beautiful new baby arriving. She gets in the OR, baby comes out, I cry, she was cool with it, I was embarrassed. Like I said, not my thing:) 

BUT I have learned so much about kiddos and baby loving this semester and it has been so interesting. I am hoping to post something I learn every week so I can remember the advice I really loved. 

Speaking of babies, the picture above is from 2006. All of my siblings in their prime:) We are all changing and becoming adults with our own lives. I say we should just go back.

Do you ever feel like that? 

Viaje Fever

Every now and then I get travel fever and these pictures tipped the cup!I think sometimes you just get hungry for the chance to open your mind a little bit and understand people that are different than you and cultures that are different than yours. No better way to get away and deal with life than to get a perspective check- witness cultures outside the states and take in the fact that Heavenly Fathers children are everywhere. Having the chance to  take part in things that are so important to other people and communicate with people in a language that you can both understand- love, kindness, smiling, laughing!- would be so choice:) And so much better than our well-processed and bland words we conjure up for first impressions anyway!
Oh and good food, the most healing anecdote IN THE WORLD. Way too awesome.  
 Oh to go to Paris...

... or here

It would also be cool to wear this (cutie cute boots)...

or this.... 

Or this... under this



Holding this... with this inside, to document all the adventures and life lessons! Every second as they happen.
Seriously very cool! And I am looking forward to Ecuador this Spring! I am so grateful and I know it will hold me over for a year or so. 


And one more thing





Is anyone else super bugged by the awkward and crazy popular length of dresses right now?!? They are always so cute and about 4 inches too short... not even half a foot! It makes it worse and sadder that it is SO CLOSE... so close!! Not only are dresses super popular but in this length... only this length... so they are constantly having fun with new designs and pouring them into stores nearest you and I cannot partake: ( I am wanting to get some light-weight/inexpensive summer dresses to combat heat during the May to August months but it has been crazy hard. You can find me in dressing rooms around the state crying and tugging, with all my heart, at the hems of these so-freaking-close dresses. I am sure if I tug hard enough the fibers will magically lengthen those 4 darn inches and I will walk out a happy, well-ventilated, covered girl:) I need to get me a sewing machine... and maybe some lessons!

New Years 2011/2012

I finally have a few New Years resolutions this year... which is a big deal! Fingers crossed we will stick out our resolutions in 2012:)  

Christmas was awesome we had a lot of fun with family and friends! We did not get one picture of ANYTHING... I am so mad at myself! It was so good to see family though. Mike and Jen and Kristine and Chuck all came to AZ and it was so good to see them and our nieces and nephews (especially our new nephew Henry!). We had a great Jungle Boys party at the Komenda residence, lots of fun and so good to see everyone! AND Jose got her mission call to Farmington, New Mexico!! SO HAPPY! Love you Jose!:) They will be so lucky to have you, and I will be bitterly jealous of them! So excited for my sister.

2012 might be a long one but we have already received so many blessings! Grateful we have a job at all, grateful there is a good chance I will get to finish my degree (even though it means being apart for a semester:( it will be worth it! Right???), thankful for the opportunity to study abroad and thankful for a sweet husband that is so supportive and encourages us to achieve goals. And most of all, we are so grateful for a Savior who will be carrying us through the next 12 months.

2011 Recap

Matty's birthday 2011
  

   End of NY trip 2011 (BB)                      Beginning of NY trip (TS)

Grimaldi's May 
  

     Ensenada on the cruise                          Janes, New Port Beach 

 

    My surfer king:) Hunington Beach                   Central Park- July   

 

      2nd Anni- Mesa                               Sweet nieces-Summer 2011

     
Finally having time together! Summer 2011
 

        Halloween at home                         Wahlstrom Halloween Party:) 

 

      Nerds for Halloween!                   Fall Semester/ Matty's senior year

Med-surg clinical group!

2012 Resolutions:

Health!

 I have always loved food WAY more than the idea of having a rockin' bod (I admire and am jealous of people with such amazing self-discipline though) but after being at the hospital and seeing some things, I am going to try to eat and exercise to live. I think that is the only thing that will really keep my attention. It might stick if I can think about what each bite is doing to my arteries instead of my hips- they have a mind of their own anyway:) In honor of this we got P90X for Christmas, and its been kicking my trash ever since!:) (Thanks Eric and Holls!)

Cooking/Eating

Mama got me this cookbook for Christmas and I am in love! Seriously, I have been creeped out with how obsessed I am; I carry it with me like it's a textbook or something!

There are {some} healthy options inside and it is just jam-packed with yumminess. So excited to still eat treats that make my brain happy but also eat some foods that will make my body happy too!! Notice this is not a diet, pleeeeease don't ever hold me to that.  

Catch up on some reading

This book and I have a date {359 days to be exact!}. Matty got me this beautiful triple combo for Christmas, thanks babe! I needed some new ones in a real way. I am excited to get re-acquainted and soak up the goodness, and I am hoping to do more studying than just skimming at midnight, partially unconscious! 

If you would like one check out this link...

http://mormon.org/free-book-of-mormon/

So grateful for this new year,we are turning the page and hoping to become better and to endure better:) Hope your new years was awesome! Happy 2012! 

** We are loving and thinking about the Amos family everyday. You mean so much to us and my family!

Quick Fall 2011 Post

Fall is seriously the best season for all the right reasons. Layering without the hefty winter coat, warm/fattening food, farmers markets, colors! We are typically driving back from a hot Arizona summer come fall semester and its a big fat warm, crisp, red, yellow, and orange hug. I think we will miss it...

Every Saturday I would go for a run and end at the Farmers Market. Utah apples and peaches are to die for, so it was tradition to splurge on some yummy fruit. 

The best Mexican food we have had in Utah was at the Farmers Market, it is just not right it only lasts until October! AND only on Saturdays! :(










We live just down the street from the tabernacle that burnt down last year; all of our stake conferences we had were held there. It was such a tragic thing to watch and we would drive by every day and wonder what they were going to do with the left over skeleton of such a spiritual and historical building. We were so happy to hear it would be reconstructed into a temple! Nothing could be more appropriate, there is some really cool symbolism in seeing a building that was so good and beautiful and had seen so much history in the church go through the refiners fire and be recreated in such a Celestial way. It gives me chills it is so cool! Excited to take a picture when it is done! 


Here are some "before's"...



  


Halloween 2011: 

 

Why Why Why does this have to end??

Mal/Molly's Baby Shower- September (I think?)

I think this little group will be the HARDEST part about this last semester, we are frantically trying to spend as much time with them as we can. For the first time in 5 years we will be separated pretty permanently and I am having a hard time accepting it! Court and Matt (just married!) will be leaving for law school this summer, Jordan and Annie for Med School (Texas), and Mal and Dal will be gone a year later for podiatry school. It is such a weird and miraculous thing we all ended up a few minutes from each other and I am in denial that this is our last semester in the loving/creepishly coincidental harmony we have been able to sustain all these years. Just love them.  

Molls... 

 

Mal and Dal's little Molly. I mean, really?!? Could anything be so cute!?  She has had all these want-to-be aunties kissing and smothering her every second. 

I got to go visit Ky and I had a lot of fun with him. He is HUGE right?? He showed me the ropes around Utah State and we just hung out! It was good to get to go see him, love him. Glad he escaped Mesa-town for a bit:) He is doing great! 


It was a great Fall season and semester!