Happy Birthday to Me

So as some of you may know my 22nd birthday was May 23rd and Neil took it upon himself to create an amazing birthday WEEK for me.


Whenever we were at a store like, oh I don't know...IKEA, or something, I would see something and be like oh I really like that and he would just get it for me...no questions asked. He really spoiled me which was fun. I told him it was a good thing that I only have a birthday once a year, haha.

Throughout the week he spoiled me and then continued to spoil me over the weekend. On Friday my diploma came which I'm sure he arranged, haha, just kidding, but getting that definitely added to the birthday hype. On Friday Neil took me out to dinner to a soup and salad buffet place called Sweet Tomatoes and we got stuffed to the rim and then he took me to see a movie-When in Rome-which was very cute.

On Saturday Neil continued to spoil me with gifts galore-cardigans, knitting supplies, a frame for my diploma, and then our friend from Virginia, who pretty much introduced us back in the day, came down to Draper to help celebrate my birthday. Don't worry Mattie doesn't live in Virginia he lives in Farmington, Utah, but it was so fun to see him and spend time with him like the good ole Virginia days. We went and played MiniGolf (so fun/funny) and then we ate at Bajio's one of my favorite places to eat. After getting stuffed yet again we played games at our house and watched X-Files (our current movie marathon that's going on).

On Sunday we had a dinner with my family and we played Balloon Volleyball (of course). It was such an enjoyable and relaxing weekend with friends and family.


See Neil, my family and in-laws totally spoil me. I'm so blessed to have such an amazing family!

Sweet, Sweet Love

So as of May 1st Neil and I have officially been together (dating/married/in love) for a whole year! Neil is just so amazing and I have honestly loved every minute of being with him.

It was nice because May 1st was a Saturday so we got to pretty much spend all day together! We woke up nice and early, okay at like 9 o'clock and the first thing we did was participate in a Stake Dodgeball Tournament, haha I know, I didn't know they did church dodgeball either, but they do.


We had two games-one at 9:30 and one at 10, and don't worry we won both! We are so intimidating the other teams didn't even show for both games! Haha. So we broke up our team and played a few fun games, but we are honestly so sore now, haha, you should have seen us trying to walk around, and trying to sustain our leaders at Stake Conference on Sunday, haha, funny yet painful.

After our Dodgeball adventure we went to a soccer game of a little girl in our primary class named Annie and it was so fun! It's been pretty cold and rainy the past few days, but thankfully it didn't rain during her game.


It was nice to talk to Annie's family and watch her play soccer, she made us real proud!

After the game Neil and I ate at Wienerschnitzel and then Neil volunteered at Deseret Industries for 2 hours, and I decided I would just wait in the car and read the book I got at the library called "The Calligrapher's Daughter".


It's a really good book. It's about a girl who grew up in Korea during the time the Japanese invaded Korea and a lot of changes towards the Western style of living were happening. I've really enjoyed it.

After volunteering at DI for two hours which made Neil even more sore, we came home and I made my lovely husband Shepherd's Pie which he loves, and then we had the Adult Session of Stake Conference.

Afterwards we came home and drank Sparkling Cider to celebrate our one year anniversary.


We then just relaxed the rest of the night and watched Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman!


It was pretty much a perfect ending to a perfect one year (togetherness) anniversary because we love each other and we love Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman!