Pretty. Odd. Life.

And Then There Were Three...

noreply@blogger.com (Brittany) — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:46:00 +0000

Yep! We are expecting a baby!! :) Very excited and happy!

We had these pictures done in Daybreak and I think they turned out really cute.

The top one we printed out and gave to family to announce it.

I am 11 weeks, and due September 2nd. I have been nauseous throughout the day, and the only thing that has helped is eating often! Not really tired, more fatigued. I just want to lay down and rest. I don't think I could really sleep. And I've been getting up to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night. Something I dislike completely. I don't sleep that well as it is, I don't need something else to wake me up! But I guess I better get used to it huh? Well that's a pretty big bomb to drop, so I'll leave it short and sweet :)

Baby Bezz!

Welcome, 2012!

noreply@blogger.com (Brittany) — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 05:51:00 +0000

Well, it is now 2012, and I am just now getting around to posting about it. I really haven't had the desire to post about it, because well, our lives are basically the same. And I would sort of feel bad if I kept repeating myself over and over in posts. So I try to update when something different happens in our status quo life.
So my reasoning behind this post is that it's a new year! That's different! Here are a few pics of our NYE. Nothing fancy. Although, I keep saying, one year I am going to do a fancy NYE.

Here we are. Cheese.

Lovely, Andy!

J & K

The girls sportin our bubbly.

I think Mar was the only one into this pic haha

"Are we done yet?"

So that was our night, basically. There was some game playin, some kinect dancin, and video watchin.

We love our friends and love spending time with them! It just needs to happen more often!!!!! *hint hint*

Merry Christmas!

noreply@blogger.com (Brittany) — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 22:05:00 +0000

I can't believe it's Christmas tomorrow! It definitely doesn't feel like it. I'm excited to spend lots of time with family and lots of delicious food in my belly. I hope everyone has someone to share it with, and has some good food to eat as well.

A few days ago, we got a wonderful surprise, just in time for Christmas. Our pictures from our groomal session!!!! :) I was so excited! The canvas turned out amazing, and she also included some prints for free, which is awesome because they were ones I was definitely planning on printing out.
I'll let the pictures do the talking...sorry, some of them you'll have to click on them to see the whole thing.

I think they all turned out great given our weather challenges...notice the balloons in the 2nd picture, they're straight out to the side haha. And our sparklers.....took about 30 minutes to light, with the wind blowing, and the lighter not cooperating. Plus being 3 year old sparklers, probably didn't help.

Anyway, I hope you have a Merry Christmas and enjoy your time with your loved ones!

Babies, Homes & Pics

noreply@blogger.com (Brittany) — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 04:17:00 +0000

Well my "break" of sorts really didn't last that long {2 weeks and 2 days}, but I'm bored and figured I may as well do something sort of worth while.

~Matt and I are at that point in our life where we should start procreating. {According to Utah Law though, we reached that point the day after we were married}. I only say this because I have been asked a lot lately {the last 3 or 4 months} when we are gonna start having babies. To which I reply, Never. Only because I hate being asked that question. It's actually kinda personal, and if I don't know you on that level, you should just shut up. How do you know that we're not already trying? That we've been trying for months and we're having infertility issues. "Thanks for reminding me that I can't do what a woman's body is naturally supposed to do."* Plus I love seeing the look on their face, trying to figure out if I'm serious or not.
We also live with a real-life baby, which is a great source of birth control. The other day when I was watching him, he screamed for 5 minutes straight. Like the deep throated, cheese grater on your vocal chords screaming. Nothing I did made him stop. NOTHING. I had to just carry on what I was doing acting like a deaf person. I lost my patience after 1 minute of the screaming. It makes a lot more sense to me now why mothers drink or pop pills throughout the day.

~We are going to be starting the house hunting adventure soon. It makes me really excited and stressed out all at the same time, and it hasn't even started yet. I have issues. It happened a lot sooner than we anticipated, but knowing we are first timers, and how the loan process can be, we should start gettin on it. We haven't fully decided whether we're going to build or buy an existing home. We've heard some pros and cons from some of our friends who have built. Anyone who has advice, I am welcoming it all!

~I'm still job searching, no surprises there. I haven't been 100% committed to finding a new job. Kinda just hoping it'll fall in my lap. Because let's be honest, right now, the only way you get a job or hear of a legit job opening is from someone you know. You can't trust craigslist and not even ksl is all that great. I feel like it's all a bunch of scammers. I'm not really a fan of monster and those other sites, they all just seem like a marketing scam to me. Can't you just call a place you're interested in, and if they have an opening, submit your resume and get an interview? I mean at least an interview. What the hell happened to that? I'm pretty sure that's what I did when I was in high school, and during college. Next time I call a place I have submitted my resume to, and find out the job has been filled, without me having an interview, I'm telling them they missed out on their best candidate.

~I am torn between getting Netflix. I think I would love it for the TV series aspect of it. Plus we could watch it in our room. Right now we can only watch movies in our room, we don't have cable hook up. And there are some series I know I need to be sucked in to. VD {Vampire Diaries, not Venereal Diseases, thanks}, Pretty Little Liars {I'm reading the books, and yes I am 13 again and love them}, and maybe a few others. But I am not wanting to get it because it requires XBOX Live. And it's not just 3 months here, 3 months there. It's the slam bam thank you ma'am's of XBOX Live: Gold. I didn't find this out until this past weekend. My husband already has a severe addiction to his precious XBOX, I don't need to fuel that addiction any more, and getting XBOX Live would certainly do that. And I know you can set a time limit on the XBOX. Except that my loving, conniving husband did that already. To 18 freaking hours a day, and set it to some bizarro password he doesn't remember. Wonderful.

~We got our groomals taken again. I know, weird right? But be honest, if you could, you would. So I did. Remember that photoshoot giveaway I won? Well that's what I used it for. And I LOVE the pictures she got. She did a really good job! They were taken on Dec. 1 {Eli's birthday :)} which happened to be the same day that the wind storm from hell occurred. We got them done at Memory Grove. I had never been there before, but it's a cute little park/neighborhood. It wasn't too cold at first, but once that sun was behind the trees I was a human popsicle. My lips were purple. Add the fact that the wind was blowing and I was at the beginning stages of hypothermia. The wind was blowing the entire time too, so some shots my bangs are all sorts of jacked up, but we made it work!
Here are a couple of my faves:

We got this one in a canvas :)

The rest will be coming to me shortly on a cd, I'm pretty excited! If you ever need pictures done, you should check out Micah Folsom. She lives in Oklahoma but comes out to Utah often since her family is here.

Well that's all for now. Enjoy.

*I'm not saying that is our situation. Just an example of why it bugs me.

In A Funk

noreply@blogger.com (Brittany) — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 06:40:00 +0000

Kinda not feeling the blog thing anymore. Both reading blogs, and writing on this one.

It's more of a hassle than anything else. And I have found that I RARELY actually read the content. I just look at pictures. If there's no pics, you get a big fat "NEXT!" {Anybody remember that totally real, reality dating show on MTV?}

I guess I'm just getting tired of reading the same crap day after day, and having 2,340,578 new posts to read every day. And then I'm supposed to write my own? I don't think so. Not in this lifetime. So for now I think I'm going to hang it up. And I'll post pics when they happen. I thought I was going to get all serious in this blogging world, and make some extra side money, and get all these followers, and yadda yadda yadda. But turns out that's a lot more work than I'm willing to put into it, and I'm not that interesting. So who knows, maybe I'll go private, maybe not.

Just a heads up.

But before I go, I will part with some mini notes. It's my quick and easy way to fill you in without explaining too much.

Dear Thanksgiving,
You were really good, and I was very satisfied. Thanks for being around so I can realize how blessed I really am.
Love, Me
PS After reading this I realized how sexual that first sentence sounded. My bad.

Dear Utah,
You suck. You have inversions, cold temps, craptastic weather, and retarded drivers. This brings out the road rage maniac in me. I'm not quite fond of her. And that's only counting 1/2 of the year.
Love, Me

Dear Laundry,
Do you ever end?
Love, Me

Dear Black Friday Psychos,
Yes I am aware I am included in this note, but this is the last time. Bitches and their pepper spray; MEN breaking out into fights; stores offering outrageous sales on a certain item, but not on an almost identical item, and placing them next to each other to confuse me, and finding out the other is 3x as much, only to go back and see that the sale item is already gone; no food places being open between the hours of 12:00-4:00 am; waiting outside in the cold; looking like hell; smelling like hell......it's gotten ridiculous.
Love, Me

Dear Weather,
Please shape up by Thursday. Snow, rain, hail, sleet, blow wind all you want Wednesday. I don't even care. But by Thursday, if you decide to be PMSing still, I will be pissed.
Love, Me

Dear 2011,
How are you almost over?? I swear I was just celebrating your beginning. You were pretty successful. How about you pass this on to 2012; be even better ok?
Love, Me

Dear Eli,
You are so cute, and I love you so much!!!! It's unreal. You're almost 1. O-N-E. How did that happen? I don't know, but you sure are so fun to be around, and I'm so happy I get to be with you all the time. It makes me ecstatic. I'm so freaking happy you're in my life, you have made it so much more fun.
Love, Me {the best sister ever}

Peace & Blessings.

V-Day. No, Not That One.

noreply@blogger.com (Brittany) — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 18:11:00 +0000

Happy 11/11/11 & Veteran's Day! How fun that we get to celebrate the men and women serving our great country on a day that only happens every 100 years. I, for one, am so grateful to have people so willing to serve our country. I really am impressed with their desire to do something so selfless. Sad, but true, I do not have that kind of courage or bravery. I have become somewhat of a sap in my old age....the dumbest things make me tear up, or get that huge lump in my throat. However, getting teared up over the National Anthem, or even seeing someone in uniform is not considered dumb.
With it being "The Month of Gratitude" aka November, I have a huge amount of gratitude for all our branches of military, and the men and women, boys and girls who serve. It's crazy to think that some are younger than me. But extremely more mature, I'm sure of that.

So go out and thank a Vet today; without them, you wouldn't be doing what you are right now.

Mini Notes

noreply@blogger.com (Brittany) — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 21:26:00 +0000

I've seen a few other bloggers do this, and I think it is a little funny and cute. I'll try not to go overboard. Because that does get annoying.

Dear Weather,
WTF? I can handle dark, gloomy days. I can even handle a little rain. But I am NOT prepared for snow. Don't you know that snow is only allowed for one day, and one day only? Christmas day, in case you forgot. And then it is to promptly melt December 26th.

Sincerely, Me.

Dear Crazy Bitch Client,
Please scrub off your hideously ugly orange tan, stop penciling in your eyebrows so dark when your hair is platinum, don't talk down to me like I should give a shit about you, stop thinking we are going to refund your money, stop blaming Utah for giving you dog cancer, oh and how about you just go drink bleach ok? Oh, and also, don't come back.

Sincerely, Me.

Dear Facebook Users,
Stop using the hashtag to post something you think is super relevant and cool, because you have more friends on there than you do Twitter.

Sincerely, Me.

Dear Body,
Why haven't you fought off this sickness yet???? I'm pretty positive it's been about 6+ weeks. I'm ready to feel normal again, aren't you?

Sincerely, Me.

Dear Alpine School District,
Thank you for hiring Matt. It's been such a relief to have another income!!!!!

Sincerely, Me.

Dear Pinterest,
I bet you feel pretty cool, gaining a lot of popularity in the last month or so. You have now made procrastination a hobby. Thanks for that.
I really do love you though. I hate that I love you, and I also love that I love you. Talk about a dysfunctional relationship.

Sincerely, Me.

Zoo Bash

noreply@blogger.com (Brittany) — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 04:02:00 +0000

Last night we went to 97.1's Halloween party. It was lots of fun, and really packed!
We went as Dog the Bounty Hunter and his wife, Beth {same costume as last year}. We only reused this costume because it was really freaking awesome. And I totally thought, had we gone to a legit Halloween party, with a costume contest, we could win. So this year, not really knowing what to be, I knew this would be a perfect chance to use the costumes from last year, and hit up a costume contest.
We looked perfect. And we also got a lot of stares and quick glances at us on trax. I was surprised how empty trax was, and how we were the only ones dressed up. I almost thought for a second, that we were a week ahead of Halloween.
Anyway, once we were downtown at the Depot, we started dancing, and having a great time. We got there around 9:30, so on the "early" side of being fashionably late. It didn't take long though for it to fill up.
Then the costume contests were starting. And I have to say that I am not a fan of how the whole selection process is handled, but I guess when you're dealing with large amounts of people dressed up, that want to win money, it is a little difficult. They had 3 categories, best couple, best overall, and of course, sexiest. Basically what you were supposed to do, is ~~make~~ push your way up to the front of the stage so they could see you, and they would choose 5-6 that they thought were the best. So a lot of people got overlooked. Including us :( I was so bummed out because before the party really got started, we met and talked with Frankie, the main morning show host. We had a good 10 minute conversation, which included him saying how awesome our costumes were. So I'm thinking, we are golden. He's seen us, we are in the back of his mind for this contest. Must have been the very, VERY back. The couple that won was a couple dressed as zombie Michael Jackson, and his date from the Thriller music video. I have to admit, although their makeup looked good, I had no idea who they were supposed to be. They were black, and wearing the letterman jacket and all, but beyond that I had no clue. Just thought they were zombies. Quite pathetic seeing as how I'm a huge MJ fan/fanatic. In my defense though, it was because the dude was bald. if he'd had a fro on, I would have known. But whatever. It's over, and we weren't even in the running.

On to an even better story....
We left right after the contests were over {which btw, the winner got $300....still sad about it}. Remember how we rode trax down? It 12:00 when we left, and after having a conversation with one of Matt's fast pitch players, the last trax leaves that station at 12:00. We. Just. Missed. It. Eff. We called that friend of Matt's to see if he could come pick us up, because he lived nearby. But as fate would have it, he was too drunk to get us. Ironic, no? He told Matt on the phone, "Isn't that funny? I'm drunk, you need the ride, and you're sober!" Haha how true it is. Well we did what any 15 year old does, and called my mom. lol.
Luckily, she didn't have her phone on silent.
And since she has a sleeping baby at home, she couldn't leave to get us, so she calls Eric to come get us. How awesome. Talk about irony. We made it home, safe and sound, and empty handed.
Here are some pictures from the night!

Some mood lighting.

Just having a bomb-diggity time.

Us with Frankie from 97.1

With the Halo guy, Master Chief {yes, I had to ask my husband that}.

That One Time We Went To the Aquarium

noreply@blogger.com (Brittany) — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:35:00 +0000

Since Matt had Thursday and Friday off last week, due to UEA, we decided we'd take Eli to the Aquarium! I kind of wanted to go, and Eli was the perfect excuse for a 23 year old going to the aquarium. :)
It was fun, and I would definitely go again, because in January they're getting otters! How cute! It was a little fishy smelling when you walk in, and it was kind of gross, but you adjust.
Here were some of the highlights in pictures:

Eli looking cute as ever!

He loved watching the penguins!

They were pretty entertaining

He liked looking at the big fishy's too

Touching the sting ray's was a little bit freaky...

The octopus was cool looking

The jelly's were fun too

Thanks to the timer on my camera!

Sorry, it's sideways, but that's an anaconda

Big long ugly fish

The fish that kept staring at us.

It was a fun outing, and we will be going back to visit the otters in January :)

Thoughtful Thursday

noreply@blogger.com (Brittany) — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 03:25:00 +0000

Pain: Written by Spencer W. Kimball
Pain stayed so long I said to him today,

"I will not have you with me any more."

I stamped my foot and said, "Be on your way."

And paused there, startled as the look he wore,

"I, who have been your friend," he said to me,

"I, who have been your teacher---all you know

Of understanding love, of sympathy,

And patience, I have taught you. Shall I go?"

He spoke the truth, this strange unwelcome guest;

I watched him leave, and knew that he was wise,

He left a heart grown tender in my breast,

He left a far, clear vision in my eyes.

I dried my tears, and lifted up a song---

Even for one who'd tortured me so long.

I saw this on a friend's blog tonight, and just thought this was a really great poem. I usually do not think of negative, unpleasant, unhappy, situations like this. But it is true. Whether it's physical pain, or emotional; pain molds us, and makes us into stronger, more mature, more wise, and grateful people. We savor the good days more.
What doesn't kill us will make us stronger.

Thrifty Thursday

noreply@blogger.com (Brittany) — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 22:51:00 +0000

I have a funny story. Well, funny to me. And quite awesome actually.
I was at the DI today trying to find a few things for Witches Night Out, and for a performance my dance company has coming up the next few weekends. I was in the dress section, which is right by the shoes, and thought, "Eh, what the heck, I'll take a gander at these moldy old shoes." Well, lo and behold....

Shoes from the DI

Now, I need to pause right here and take you back a few years to preface these shoes. It was my freshman year {and only year} of college, and for whatever reason, I decided to look good that day. Usually I was a jeans and tee kind of girl, or jeans and hoodie, or sweats and hoodie. But this day, I was wearing jeans, a cute shirt and jacket, I did my hair and make up, and I was wearing these wedges. The exact same ones. However, I was running late, as usual, and I still insisted upon wearing these wedges. But being that I was late, I of course didn't have time to waste tying these ties, so with a swift stroke of ingenuity {or sheer stupidity}, I cut them off. Brilliant! I thought. Now I can slip these on whenever I like, and just go! Ha. Not so. I hardly ever wear them, and when I do, they give me blisters because there is nothing to hold them securely to my feet, so they slip and rub all over. Very uncomfortable. I have never forgiven myself for my lack of brains on that particular day. Because I REALLY did love these wedges!

My sad looking wedges

Fast forward to present day, and I about clapped my hands and jumped up and down. Seriously.
I'm glad I didn't though, because I did gasp a little bit, and Juanita gave me a strange look. Screw Juanita, I just hit the jackpot! And they are CLEARLY in perfect condition. But then I scolded myself because you shouldn't get all worked up when you find the perfect pair of shoes; usually it ends up that it's not even your right size. So I braced myself for the let down when I looked at the size. "Size 8, oh dang....wait a minute...hot damn, that's MY size!" I was super excited.

Any guesses on where the sans ties ones are headed???? :)

Oh, and at $6, you can't beat that!!

I love Thrifty Thursdays!

Miracles

noreply@blogger.com (Brittany) — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 01:05:00 +0000

This last week has been a hard one for some members of my family. My cousin and his wife were blessed with a beautiful baby boy, Princeton, on Sept. 23. He was born at 29 weeks. There were many prayers given on Princeton's behalf, and my cousin and his family. Unfortunately, Heavenly Father's will is different than our own at times, and he passed away 5 days later on Sept. 28. The funeral was today, and I was able to leave work and go to it. I usually avoid funeral's like the plague if I can. They are depressing, long, and downright sad. But today, I was amazed at how incredible this service was, for this tiny infant. I looked at his tiny body laying in the casket and couldn't help but gasp. He was just so tiny, being almost 3.5 pounds.
I am truly amazed at my cousin and his wife's strength through all of this. I can't even imagine going through that, and at such a young age.
Although Princeton passed away, there were still many miracles, and I'm sure the ripple effect will be huge. He brought his little family closer than ever, and brought them closer to God. Helped them realize the bigger picture, and God's plan for us all. His short life here has brought hope, compassion, love, and even faith to some who haven't had any in a long time.
I can't really explain how it changed me because it's hard to put into words. But I do feel differently, and I am so grateful to call him a member of my family. It really is something I'll never forget. I am so grateful for the knowledge I have of The Plan of Salvation. I don't talk religion a whole lot, {or ever} on here, but this knowledge can change lives, and gives meaning and purpose to life. It felt so great to be surrounded by my family. I can only imagine that was a small glimpse of what it will be like in the next life.
Something that the bishop said that really stood out to me was this, and I'm paraphrasing; "...this is a reminder to us. To help us refocus, recommit and redirect our compass..." And it really is. It's exactly what I needed to hear.
I'm so proud of my cousin and his wife, I think they are amazing people, and I look up to them for so many reasons.

Princeton Michael Hawkins

9/23/11-9/28/11

My DIY

noreply@blogger.com (Brittany) — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 02:38:00 +0000

I finally finished my TV stand today! :) There still are some things that need to be added, like glass for the top of it and something to put behind the doors because they aren't attached by regular hinges, so they can swing either forward or backward. Anyway, let me paint you a picture of this beast.

I was at the DI and thought, I'm just gonna look and see what the furniture section has to offer...I've seen enough blogs about redoing stuff, I can take that on.
I saw this POS and thought "Bingo" {odd, right?}. The top was a little warped from some water damage or something, and since it was fake wood it was a little questionable. But it was $8 and not too big, where it wouldn't fit in my car. So I brought it home and put it in the garage. And there it sat for approximately 5-7 months. In that time it collected quite a bit of dust, cobwebs, spiders and other sick crap.
It was nearing the end of summer and I was thinking that I should probably get working on it before the weather turned to pot.
So I wiped it down to clean it up, and about had a heart attack with all the bugs on the bottom of it. *Shudder*
Then I took it apart, and should've made a diagram because putting it back together was a freaking mess. I am so clueless when it comes to handy work. I sanded it lightly for the heck of it, and then got to painting.
I did 3-4 coats of Krylon satin black spray paint made for plastics. Then I decided I should put a clear coat on top of it, and I would advise against it. I could've done something wrong, but it totally made it LESS shiny, and dusty looking. And it also wasn't a smooth application. It was very scratchy to the touch. So yeah. Just don't do it.
Then since the top was warped and looked like crap and stuff {even after painting}, I decided it needed a little help. Went to Hobby Lobby, picked up some scrap booking paper and Modge Podge and got to work.

Let me remind you what it looked like BEFORE:

NASTY!

And here is what it looks like now!!! :)

LOVELY!

Oh and I got the knobs at Walmart for like $1. Score!

OH. MY. GOSH.

noreply@blogger.com (Brittany) — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 03:49:00 +0000

I have no words.

http://micahfolsomphotography.com/blog/index.php/2011/09/21/and-the-winner-is-3/

Go to that link!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:)

Micah Folsom Photography

noreply@blogger.com (Brittany) — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 18:06:00 +0000

If you are friends with me on facebook, you'll have noticed that I entered a giveaway to win a free photography session from Micah Folsom Photography. Part of the qualifying process was to comment and say what session you'd want and why. And strangely enough I said I wanted a bridal session done. Haha I know, I'm already married, but this is my "why". Fact: I hated my photographer. Harsh, I know. But the truth hurts. I'm not going to say who I used and bash them that way, that's not nice. But I will say that the quality was terrible, NO editing was done. {Isn't that WHY you hire a professional?} Because honestly, I feel like I could've bought a little disposable camera for $3.25 or whatever, and given it to one of my bridesmaids, and they would've ended up the same. Now, I can do a little editing myself, and I think I am alright at it; but HELLO! That's what I flipping paid you to do! Not so I could spend hours on the computer editing that crap myself.
Oh, and about half of my pictures were taken of my little cousins dancing to the music. Don't get me wrong, I love my cousins! But I don't think I paid the photog to take family pics of my cousins, who just happened to be at my reception. Thanks though. So Teri or Mindy, if you want some pics of your kids, I've got about 40 of them! Also, he wasn't there to take a pic of me throwing my bouquet. We had to do a fake reenactment. Cuz that still totally captures the fun of it.

ANYWAY. Clearly that's specifically talking about my reception. But just overall, I wasn't happy with the quality. And as Micah pointed out to me in an email she sent me {yes she totally emailed me. I feel special!}, everyone deserves pictures they LOVE of them in their wedding dress. And it's true. That's the one day that totally changed your life for the better {hopefully}. So PLEASE everyone, send me good vibes, prayers, wishes, luck, cross your fingers, toes, etc. for me to win. This would be UNREAL!

Let's also pray I still fit in my dress....

Coming Up Next...

noreply@blogger.com (Brittany) — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 17:48:00 +0000

So here in a little bit I'll be featuring my very own, first {and possibly last}, DIY. I only say "last" because it was a lot of freaking work, and a lot more money than just going to walmart and buying the same thing. But I suppose "my hard work, and effort" makes it one of a kind that you just can't get in stores. Or something like that...

Anyway, here is a teaser of the Before:

How I managed to pull off a better looking After, I have no idea. But it really does look a helluvalot better.

Stay tuned for full details....!

awesomeness.

noreply@blogger.com (Brittany) — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 22:17:00 +0000

This is for Janelle!
Check this out, it's just like the one she posted from John Schmidt.

Talented kids!

Bullets?

noreply@blogger.com (Brittany) — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 02:21:00 +0000

+ I'm glad everyone and their dog decided to update their blog over the holiday weekend in blogland. I had like 64 new blogs to read in my reader. That is a very intimidating number to have it constantly staring you in the face on your phone.
I HATE feeling behind, like I need to "catch up" with the blogs I read. And sadly to say, I was really only interested in reading about 30% of them. {A lot of the updates were crafting blogs, and those ones mostly had multiple updates. So don't get all upset if you did in fact, update your blog this weekend}.

+ I did nothing noteworthy this weekend. Which is sad, considering it's basically the end of summer as we know it. My husband was out of town for his national softball tournament, in Arizona. {They came in 7th out of 26, not too bad}.

+ I got extensions. That's a new change for sure. They look really good, and I like them. But at the same time, I dislike them. They are a lot of maintenance and require a hefty chunk of change. But I am happy with the way they look and feel.

+ I also got accepted into a performing dance company called Compass Dance Company. I am really excited to start dancing and performing again! It has been far too long. I am a little rusty though, and hopefully it won't take much to get back into the groove of things.

+ I am going to start taking Accutane this month, and in order to do so, they had to take a blood sample. I'll have to continue giving blood samples for the next 3 months as well. You have to fast for 8 hours prior to your appointment. Today was my appointment and stupidly, I made it for 5:15 pm. I ate nothing the whole freaking day, and was about ready to chew my arm off. Thinking I was going to have to actually pump out some blood, for a sample, I knew I shouldn't eat, no matter how loudly Cafe Rio was calling my name.
I get to the office, and all they did was prick my damn finger and fill up 3 minuscule little tubelettes. Really???! You needed me to starve myself for 8 whole hours for that BS?! Ridiculous. Next time I'm eating, I don't even care.

+ I went to Planned Parenthood to get some birth control {contrary to belief on facebook}. Since I don't really have a doctor of my own, and I don't want to have to wait 19 years to see one, PP is the next best thing. Plus, I can't really wait that long to get some BC because of the whole Accutane thing. {You have to use 2 forms of BC at all times while you're on Accutane FYI}. Anyway, as I was walking out to my car, this kid stops me in the parking lot and asks me if I have an account there. Now, call me racist, but I wasn't all that worried because 1: I was in South Jordan and 2: He was white. And decent looking.
Me: Um what?
Kid: Do you work at Planned Parenthood?
M: No.
K: Ok well....*hesitates, looks down at feet, clearly feeling like an irresponsible child*....so, me and my girlfriend had unprotected sex last night, and we're only 17, but I'll be 18 in 4 months! {Wow congrats!}

At this point I knew where this was going. And being the "nice old lady" he thought I was, I'm sure, I went in there to get him the morning after pill. {He paid of course...}
I was about 99% sure the lady behind the desk saw this whole confrontation and knew it was a set up, but I'm sure it happens all the time. I wanted to throw a handful of condoms at him while we were at the desk, and say here, use these, they're FREE!
Let's just say that was my good deed of the month.
You're welcome little teeny bopper for getting you the morning after pill, so you can ride around in your pink little VW Bug and enjoy your teens as a teen and not a mom.

My extensions + bangs!

And that sounds like a perfect place to bid you farewell.

$100 + Sephora = ?

noreply@blogger.com (Brittany) — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 03:58:00 +0000

{That's supposed to be me; so happy that I won ;)}

{I'm not saying I won, but that will be my face when I DO win!!!}

Pin It!

noreply@blogger.com (Brittany) — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 02:17:00 +0000

Do you have Pinterest? If you like looking at pretty/cute/genius/inspirational/beautiful/amazing things, then maybe you shouldn't get one. Because it will consume you! You just keep scrolling and scrolling and scrolling to see more incredible things! It's never ending!

Here are my latest pins that I LOVE:

Source: polyvore.com via Brittany on Pinterest

I'm really loving gray & yellow, and gray & turquoise.
can you tell?

Source: polyvore.com via Brittany on Pinterest

and of course with fall coming on, I am thinking of this:

Source: rockdaworld.tumblr.com via Brittany on Pinterest

and I really think this would be a lot of fun!

Source: bradfordid.com via Brittany on Pinterest

can I have my own place yet??? Oh and with lots of $$$ to spare???

Source: dwellingsbydevore.com via Brittany on Pinterest

and just for a little humor...

Source: likeaphobia.us via Brittany on Pinterest

Source: eatliver.com via Brittany on Pinterest

Hahaha! See what you can find on Pinterest???! As if I'm not on the internet enough....

Anyway, have a fabulous weekend!

3's Company!

noreply@blogger.com (Brittany) — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 18:35:00 +0000

Happy THREE year anniversary to us! :) I can't believe how fast the time has gone! But I really have loved every, ok not EVERY day, but most of the 1,095 days we've been married.
Matt has been such a blessing to me in my life, and I couldn't have asked for anyone better. Ok, maybe someone who isn't so attached to that damn XBOX....but I'll still take him; XBOX and all....

The past three years haven't been the easiest, that's for sure; and without him by my side through it all, I don't know what I would've done. I might be in a mental institution. He is my Knight in shining armor.

I LOVE YOU, MATTHEW SHAWN BEZZANT!

Spread The Word:

noreply@blogger.com (Brittany) — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 08:00:00 +0000

This Friday, July 29, I am having my first denim party :) I'm hosting it, so please feel free to come! It's at my house and it's an open house from 6pm-10pm. You can bring friends, moms, sisters, cousins, etc! Come try on some jeans, and see me! If you'd like me to email you the info, just message me your email address.

Hope to see you there!

Where, Oh, Where, Have I Been??

noreply@blogger.com (Brittany) — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 00:12:00 +0000

I haven't the foggiest. But here I am!

I was in Monticello over the 24th weekend. Pioneer Day for us Utahns. OR as I've also heard it called, Pie-N-Beer Day; haha take your pick!
We were in Monticello for a softball tournament for Matt's team, Page Brake. I used to not like going to their games because I wasn't really into it. But now that we've been together for 4 years, you get into it, whether you like it or not! I really do like it though, and have fun being at the games. The traveling tournaments are no exception.
Matt left Friday morning because he was in the Homerun Derby. He ended up winning it in a double sudden death match! He is pretty impressive. He hit 31 homeruns, and won us a 32" LED TV :) I'm very proud! Go hubby! Basically in a homerun derby, you are given a certain amount of pitches, and then they narrow it down to the top 4 who has hit the most homeruns. Then they'll give you another set of pitches and whoever hits the most out of that is the winner. BUT in this case, Matt and his friend Braden hit the same, so they had to do a sudden death match. Again, they hit the same amount. Then Braden didn't any, and Matt hit 4. I wish I could've been there for that.
I got in, late Friday night with one of Matt's teammates, Chris and his wife M'Lyn.
Then aaallllll Saturday was spent at the fields. It was Monticello's town days that weekend, so there was lots going on and the whole town comes out and watches the games. I guess when this is the biggest thing your town does, everyone is sure to show up. And as a side note, pretty much all of the hotel rooms were booked in every hotel. At much higher rate, might I add.

I'll cut to chase and tell you they won the tournament! They are the team with the youngest players, Matt and his 3 friends being the 4 oldest on the team. It's a lot of fun being on a winning team. He was on another team a few years back, and they weren't very good, so this is a much more enjoyable game to watch.
They had fireworks before the championship game, which were pretty decent. They echoed off all the surrounding mountains so that was cool. Only 2 pictures this whole trip, and they are on my phone.
Can't seem to get the other pic on here....

In other news, I finished my pajama pants. Yay. {sarcasm}

Just Because I Can.

noreply@blogger.com (Brittany) — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 03:21:00 +0000

These are the cupcakes I won from Wedding Cakes By Dawna. She did my wedding cake and I absolutely loved it!

We picked up the cupcakes on Matt's birthday and used that as his cake.

Peanut Butter Cupcakes.

Mmmm. That's all I can say. And that's not even a word.

You should get some because they rock, and are FAR better than any other bakery/sweet treat shop that I've had.

This was our wedding cake! Beautiful!

Fourth of July

noreply@blogger.com (Brittany) — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 21:10:00 +0000

Happy Fourth of July Blogland!!! :)

This weekend has been a good one! And it will continue to be good because I have tomorrow off as well!! It's Matt's birthday!!!
Let's break the weekend down shall we?

+Friday we had some s'mores at Jeff & Kayleene's house with Mar & Andy. Let's just say if us 6 get stranded and we needed to start a fire to survive; we're SOL. Haha pathetic! NONE of our husbands were in Boy Scouts long enough to learn how to build a fire from scratch! Good thing J&K's bro in law was there and knew how to get it going! Oh and if you're wanting to try a new ingredient on your s'more, put a Reese's cup on it, instead of the plain ol' chocolate....amazing!

+Saturday we had dinner with our other friends Zac & Laura at Texas Roadhouse. Mmmm. Why order food, when you can just eat a dozen rolls??! I'm really only going to order a side salad next time, and devour as many rolls as I want. Filling, and cheap. Genius. After we gorged ourselves nearly to death, we went to the Riverton fireworks show. It was pretty good too! It was insanely packed every street we were on, and we weren't even at the park that it was supposed to be at, so we figured it was probably EXTREMELY packed at the park. So we turned down a nice and dark (not ghetto) neighborhood and camped out on someone's lawn - Thank you!
We saw the fireworks just fine, we just couldn't hear the music, which is ok. From what we could hear, it sucked.

This is Zac & Laura. It was pitch black in the car, I couldn't tell where the camera was aimed and neither could they!

After that, we somehow thought that getting ice cream, to add to our 7,238 caloric intake for dinner, was a good idea. If you ask me though, ice cream is always a good idea. And it was delicious. Thank you Cold Stone.

+Sunday I spent the morning with a friend of mine whom I haven't seen in ages -yes, that's you, Ashley! We were at her apartment complex pool, 1 of 4! Hello! It was lovely weather and it was nice to get some Vitamin D. Then I proceeded to get my year's full of Vit. D because I had to help the husband do maintenance on the Lehi baseball field. Yes, my skin is thoroughly enraged with me. My apologies. I remembered to put sunscreen on my face, however. His family had a BBQ later, and it was fun. I was so worn out though from working on the field I felt like a zombie. A crisp, zombie.

+Today, the actual, 4th of July, we went on a hike up Little Cottonwood Canyon. We originally were going to go to Lake Mary, which is up past Alta, but they had it closed off, so we turned around and just parked at 2 different little areas and hiked up those trails. They were short and easy, which is fine. The first one took us to a waterfall which was really cool, and I mean that both figuratively, and literally. Freezing would be the more appropriate word to describe that water though. The second trail was pretty rocky and gave us a little bit more of a workout. It sort of just dead end at the top. We could have continued on had we brought our rock climbing gear....but alas, I left it at home....{sarcasm}.

This is where the waterfall was :)

Just scaling the rock wall...NBD.

My super sexy husband :)

Just the waterfall

My amazing editing skills of the waterfall :)

The second hike that was a dead end.

After climbing back down, we realized we were starving. We decided on The Wing Coop, which is my all-time favorite wing place. It never lets me down.
Now, we are resting up to go to the Bee's game later tonight! :)
Baseball is America's favorite past-time after all!

I love this country. I love what it stands for, and what it believes in. We are all so incredibly blessed to live in a country that has so many freedoms and liberties. No, it's not perfect, no country is, but it is without a doubt, a land of opportunity. I am so grateful to live here in the US where I can live how I choose to live. Our men and women in the armed forces are who we are celebrating today. Our Independence is what we are celebrating. God Bless America! <3