Three Whole Years

It's Ryan and my anniversary today. I actually forgot until this morning resulting in dinner at Macaroni Grill and that's it... It's good enough for me though, because I'm exhausted.

Ryan, I love you and you're amazing.

The end.

Boston, Oh Boston!

These are the oldest seats in baseball and they are part of Fenway Park. Now I'm not a fan of baseball AT All, but taking this tour around the stadium was probably my favorite thing we did this trip to Boston. 

Other things I got to do on this trip: 

1. The Freedom Trail  - we did the WHOLE thing in one day this time. It took all day and was quite murderous, but making it to Bunker Hill and walking up the 295 death steps was so worth it. I feel like we got jipped on the USS Constitution because it was being remodeled and didn't have sails or masts up.

2. Lexington-Concord AND Walden Pond = Amazing

3. GHOST TOUR - Pure awesomeness, mostly because of our ridiculous tour guide that took us through grave yards and informed us about the Boston Strangler (who was never caught).

I'm so glad that I had the opportunity to go back out there for 6 days. I can't believe that Dr. Feller decided to take the whole office out there for a concert, but I'm sure happy he did. I got to play the tour guide for our group because I was the only one who had been there before, but having my SUPER FANTASTIC iPhone this time sure helped with navigating. 

Focus

Just a good day

One more reason I can't wait to have a kid....

General Conference Activity Packets!!! I can't believe how helpful that thing was today. I've never got so much from watching one before. I've found it so hard to concentrate before and take anything from the speakers, let alone remember them past 10 minutes. But not today! I can tell you who each speaker was AND what they talked about. 

I think my favorite talk was President Monson's from the first Sunday morning session. (I'm about to get deep so look away if you can't stand it) He spoke about having faith that will get you through tough times. Although is story about the German woman that lost her entire family was super depressing, I loved his end statement. "The future is as bright as your faith." During these tough economic times I think this is important for people to remember.  This won't last forever, everything has an end.  Stay faithful and righteous and you'll make it, God will help you make it. He'll never leave you alone if you continue to do what is right. Something that I heard in church a long time ago and has stuck with me all these years goes along with this theme. "God will never giver you any trial that you can't handle."  I've have periods in my life where I thought I would never be able to dig myself out of the hole that I had dug for myself. I'm thankful for the atonement and the ability to repent for stupid decisions. 

And as long as I'm on this super ser

ious note, I thought I'd let everyone know that I really do like Ryan despite my previous post about the cinnamon twist and grocery shopping. 

Oh!! AND because of the fabulous Activity Packet I noticed that President Monson was wearing a different tie the second Sunday session... and the second would have been MUCH easier to draw... 

* the picture is from the walk that Ryan and I took the dogs on today - continuing with the REALLY good day theme.

Wow.

This is possibly one of the funniest pictures I've ever seen. My iPhone had this free app where you can swap faces on two people... Fantastic. Or absolutely disgusting, you choose.

Ryan says he'll never take my advice again...

... and I want to cry.  We bought our house just over a year ago and I remember thinking., "Wow, this is a really good price and housing prices won't get much cheaper." I would like to kick myself in the face at this point. We toyed around with the idea of getting into a new built house, and we thought long and hard about how much we could afford. Ryan really wanted the Auburn floor plan, but we just couldn't do it at the time, plus it was way more house than we needed. I was so dang eager to get into a house and out of our lame apartment.

Well, in 13 months... the Auburn we were looking at came down $80,000!!!! Seriously, I want to cry right now. We could be living it up in our ideal house with way more space if we JUST would have waited a year. Crap.

Lesson learned.  And I'm not allowed to look at the real estate pages anymore.

UPDATE: Ryan said later that he thought he might have bought to early... in marriage. ouch.

I did something REAL bad

I finally decided what I wanted to do as my graduation gift... (in case you didn't remember... I GRADUATED COLLEGE)  I had to get rid of it because the longer it sat in my bank account the more I was tempted to go out to eat with it and buy clothes or other random little things. This was the biggest purchase I've ever made so it was a little terrifying. 

I got the white MacBook so I can have something all to myself and I get to take it with me on trips. Plus, it left some room for me to get a decent photoshop program AND a plane ticket to Arizona. So Kim and Brooke, be expecting me this summer.

And don't worry, I'll bring my own computer to play on.