Vegas & BYU

Every year Brad & his brothers go to Vegas together. The past two years when I have been a part of this fun trip it has been conveniently timed with the Mountain West Tournament. Obviously with the way BYU played this year it was made even more fun. It also falls on the day of our first date. To some it may not be a big deal but our first date was on Friday the 13th, its a big reason we chose a Friday the 13th for our wedding so we try to do something to celebrate that while we are down there.

Butterfly house

Right before the game Brad surprised me with a shirt that said "yeah he shoots from there" with Jimmer's number :-) So cute! The game was awesome! We were there to see Jimmer score 52 points in a single game :-) We played at the casinos. This means my sister inlaw and I played penny slots while the guys played craps. I played a little but stuck mostly to the cheap stuff. I made 29 cents haha luckily Brad did better than me!

Since I missed out on the girls shopping trip, Brad was super sweet and took me shopping the next day...for most of the day. We saw a lot of fun things, walked through some animal exhibits, ate yummy food and of course since it was the 13th we stopped by one of our favorites Serendipity! We love the frozen hot chocolate that they make...its amazing!

A little bit after we made it back home, BYU beat Gonzaga. Brad came home from work a little before midnight and said "they just announced that BYU is landing in Provo soon. I almost went but then I thought maybe I should just come home because you were waiting for me." He is thoughtful but I said "lets go right now." So we did. We called his brother and his wife so they could come along and we rushed to the Provo airport. We made it there just after they landed and it was packed!!! Jimmer had a ton of security and didnt stop for anyone but we did snag a quick picture with Abouo. It was a quick fun adventure that I felt deserved notice. And yes I am wearing my pajama's under that coat haha

6 months and Valentinesday

Normally I try not to go on and on about the lovey dovey mushy stuff but I think there are a few exceptions this being one of them.
Brad and I made plans to go to Ogden to see one of my friends and to visit my cousins who I was missing alot. After school we hit the road. When we were just past Lagoon we found out that my friend would not be home afterall...kinda sad because we havent seen eachother since before Brad and I got engaged and I was supossed to get a box of movies back for my brothers. Of course I still wanted to see my cousins because we hadnt seen then since the wedding so we continued on. I have the cutest cousins and they were so excited when we made it to their house. We all went out for frozen yogurt and did a whole lot of laughing :-)
Brad said that since we still had a lot of time before the Jazz game he wanted to take me shopping at the Gateway. Like I'm going to turn down shopping! While we were there I turned the tables and convinced Brad to get new shoes for himself. I know I love shoes but really I don't need more and he has been wanting new DC's for a long time.

After when we were heading to the Jazz game brad pulled into the Little America :-) One of the places we went during our honeymoon. He had a room for us. Then when were unloading our bags that Brad had packed, my mom called. I know he was trying to make it so I couldnt hear but I know her voice very well.
I bugged him until he told me we were meeting them at the ticket office. This was the Jazz's first home game since Jerry left so I was excited we would be meeting them.
We headed over and as we were about to pass Ruths Chris I said "we need to take my parents there like we promised." Seriously as soon as I had finished my sentence we passed through the light and Brad turned in haha what a sneaky buggar.
My parents were already there waiting to have dinner with us.I love spending time with them so it was the perfect touch. It was such a nice evening and I was even able to feed my crème brule love!

We had breakfast and the most delicous hot chocolate the next morning at the hotel. It was such a sweet surprise expecially coming from my cute husband who has a very difficult time keeping surpirses.

Don't worry I had planned a 6 month/Valentinesday surprise for him as well. Since he lost his wedding ring at Thanksgiving when we were sledding I knew I wanted him to have another. But he insisted on getting it himself this time around...well I waited    and waited    and waited. Then I decided if it was a gift he couldnt say no :-) I wanted it to be more than just -here's a new ring!- so this is what I did.

I made these cute fortune cookies from flower wire, felt and ribbon. Then I put little slips in each one of them. The slips were all fun little coupons. I made one fortune cookie a little bigger and put tiny pink hearts on it and that was the one with the ring inside.

So there you have it. The 6 months and Valentineday lovey dovey mushy-ness.

Snow fun & Jazz games

This post is a little bit late. I have no excuse. I simply keep forgetting to post it. We had a super fun day and some cute pictures to go along with it so I dont want to completely neglect it though so here it is.

We decided it would be fun to take my parents with us to spend the night at the Tuttle cabin. We had origionally planned to spend Friday night and return Saturday. But then my parents realized they had no one to stay with their dog and my dad might not be out of work in time so we changed our plans and decided to go Saturday morning.

We later learned that my brother Brandon decided to go play basketball instead of coming with us so he could've watched the dog and my dad left work early....oh well such is life.

We drove up to where the snowmobiles are kept. Unloaded....okay lets be honest the guys did most of the unloading and we just put the waterbottles in our backpacks and kept warm in the truck :-) Then it was off to the cabin. Can I just say the mountains are gorgeous when it snows!

We played games, ate yummy treats, and enjoyed hot chocolate by the fire. When we went back outside my wonderful, sweet, caring husband decided it would be in his best interest to throw me into the snow. Well obviously that means war so my mom took pictures of us tumbling down the hillside in the snow. Super fun! Not so fun trying to get back uphill when I kept sinking to my waist....but we had a good laugh.

We went and played around the hills and on the lake for awhile and then had to head back.
We had planned on heading back much much much earlier but the timekeeper decided playing was more fun :-)

So after grabing lunch in Heber we made it home with 15mins for me to shower, change and get ready to go to the Jazz game with some of the Tuttle clan. I flew to get ready but really as most of you girls know, it is very difficult to achieve all of that in such a short period of time. So I left with wet hair haha the rest of me was ready so maybe that counts.

We had so much fun! We drove to SL with Aunt Marie, Patty & Grandma Tuttle. I have to tell you Grandma Tuttle is the cutest sweetest Grandma and her and Brad are very close so it is always fun to see them together.

I have to admit I am very easily distracted when we are with her because she has the best stories! So we wispered back and forth through a lot of the game :-)

So it was a fun-packed day! Time with both families and really we had a blast doing everything