Blog-Stalker

Today I was checking out some of my favorite blogs. So I clicked on Darci Gardner's because I Love reading her blog! (yes... I blog-stalk her regularly!) Well, in one of her recent posts she was talking about another blog by one of her good friends, so I clicked on the little link thing to take me to the blog and all I have to say is.. I'm inspired! Darci's friend started this thing called a "happy book". From what I could see it is a book that she writes 5 things in it a day that made her happy! (I think that's what it was anyways... if not than she inspired me to have a good idea of my own!) I am going to make my own happy book so that I can always remeber the special happy things that happen to me every day! So I have to say THANK YOU to Darci Gardner and her wonderful friend that I have never met! You inspired me today, and I have been long overdue for some good inspiration! Happy book here I come!

CRASH! BOOM! BANG!

Friday the 13th really is a day for bad luck! Let me explain.... On Friday night Logan and I decided to celebrate Valentine's Day a day early because we both had to work on V-Day. I was already out and about so I met Logan at Applebee's for what was a very fun and relaxing dinner, and left in our separate cars to go home and watch Prince Caspian together. I followed Logan (he was driving our nice car, thank goodness!) in my little old Honda and we were almost home when we got split up on the dreaded 17th street. Getting split up wasnt really a big deal but when I went to switch lanes, this crazy lady in a minivan sped up to cut me off causing me to have to swerve back into my lane and rear-end the car in front of me! I didn't hit the car in front of me very hard, but for some reason my airbags went off and almost blew my head off! After the initial shock of the exploding airbags, I figured out that I had wrecked and then noticed that the entire car was full of smoke and smelled absolutely horrible! (So not only do the airbags blow your head into the backseat, but they smell like someone lit a bucket of pee on fire!) When I got out of the car I saw that I had also caused the car in front of me to rear-end the car in front of them! CRAP! Logan turned around to rescue me and help me deal with the angry people in the other cars and by the end of the night it all turned out to be ok.. Only 2 out of the 3 cars were damaged and it was only a fender-bender. The bummer part is that our Honda is considered "totaled" by the insurance company because it costs more to replace the airbags alone than what our car is worth, so we are now on a car search! If anyone has any good ideas where to look for a sturdy car for me to drive, let me know!! Now that it has been a few days after the wreck I have come to find out that I am TERRIFIED of driving now! I guess a wreck was a good but unfortunate way to teach me to watch where I am going!

There is a new member in our little family!

We got a puppy! I have been begging Logan for a puppy since we got married and he finally buckled! Last Wednesday I asked Logan if we could go look at a puppy... I promised him that I wouldn't make him buy the puppy and all I wanted to do was look... Well we met the breeder at a gas station in Ririe and I tried my best to hide my excitement the whole way there. The moment I walked into the gas station and I saw the puppy I fell in love with it! Needless to say, Logan couldn't refuse me once he saw how attached I was and we took the puppy home with us that night! Our puppy is a Morkie (maltese-yorkie) and he is only 8 weeks old. He weighs 2lbs. 9oz. and is black and brown with little white spots on his back paws and chest! His name is Kalu. Logan picked the name from a common name on his mission in Africa. Kalu in Africa is the equivalent to "Carlos" here in the states (my parents just call him Carlos). Most of the time he is an angel, but he has his devilish moments too... For example, last night he jumped off of our bed while we were sleeping and decided that it would be a good idea to poop under the bed. You can guess that he was in A LOT of trouble when we woke up and found out what he did! Other than the occasional accident he "usually" goes to the bathroom where he is supposed to, doesn't bark, and knows just how to butter us up! He is a cuddle-bug and we can never stay mad at him for very long! We are so lucky to have him! Here are a few pictures we have of Kalu so far...


Playing with his new rope toy!


Getting caught chewing on the pillow.... he is so hard to be mad at!



Just hanging out!


His first bath... he is so little that the bathroom sink was the perfect size!



He didn't like bathtime very much...


I will post more pictures soon to keep you all updated with how he is doing!

School Days!

Well our Christmas break is over and Logan and I are both back to the hum-drum days of school life. Logan is already neck deep in homework and is getting a little stressed out but at the end of the night he gets it all done. My classes just started this week and I am already starting to get over whelmed with all the work they are going to be this semester! We are both a little too excited for summer break even though its still 3-4 months away! But ever since we have been married it is crazy how fast time flies! Logan has already been home from his mission for a YEAR! It seems like just yesterday that he stepped off the plane. 2008 was a busy year and I hope that 2009 its just as exciting!!!

Let's start from the beginning...

I decided that it was about time that Logan and I finally got in on this whole blog business! But just to warn you, I'm not very good at being a "blogger" yet, so bear with me on this! To give you a little background info about us, we started dating in the Fall of 2004 when Logan was a senior at Idaho Falls High School and I was a little sophomore! We dated for the majority of that school year and all the way through to when logan left on his mission in February of 2006. Logan served faithfully to the people of Cape Verde, Africa for two years and came home in January 2008. We started dating the moment he got home and were married on August 8th, 2008! We now live in a cozy 2 bedroom apartment in Ammon, Idaho and we go to school full-time! We are so so so so happy together and can't wait to see what our new life together throws at us!