Easter 2010

First holiday as the married... well, besides Valentine's Day & St. Patrick's Day...

We celebrated Easter!!

We had a lot of fun coloring our hard boiled EGGS :) We found a kit at Walmart that even gave us some fun sticker faces.... oh we're so going to do this every year.

The above were David's eggs he did... Below are mine. When there's only 2 people, we could die 12 eggs! Wow....What a fun holiday! Besides the eggs we visited family and that sort of stuff but this was the best part for me....

My D

Just a quick spotlight on my #1 and only....

Since Father's Day is in the air..... and just because I want to (since we aren't parents yet).... Here's a bit about my David that makes me smile all the time:

• David is a very busy student, employee, and husband. He does so much for me along with putting in work time at a dental office, studying all his biology and chemistry classes, cooking dinner sometimes, running errands, and even helping me get to bed on time. He's got to be tired sometime right? He only needs 6 hours of sleep he says, I need 8 :) So, it's a hit and miss on who wins the hours they want. Well, one night I walked past our study room and I just had to take a picture. He's so cute....
• David is a COOK. I had no idea when I was dating him or I would have had him cook for us more... but David served in Italy and makes some pretty nice Italian meals. My favorite part about watching him in the kitchen are the SPICES. Whether we are cooking together, he's making something, or even it's just me - he always grabs the spices (which he organized so nicely - he's good at that too) and tosses them in our dish. It always tastes better with all the spice, even though I just have no idea about spices...
• He also would DIE without hot sauce - TABASCO. The late night snack is a tortilla and cheese with Tabasco... yummy... But really everything can have Tabasco and he loves it. I think it must be an acquired taste


• Since we're on the food subject - David also loves pizza. I even like the Italian Pizza :) I'm totally craving it now. Here's him on his mission, Italy has the best food!!
• David LOVES Nintendo. Yep. He's been into it since he was a tiny boy. He still does it when he has down time. I like watching and playing with him too although he's so good I don't know who could beat him. Good thing at least I had some practice with my brother.


• David sort of has a twin - that was born 20 years after him! His little brother Daniel is the exact same as David - in characteristic, looks, Nintendo, etc. David's mom says all the time that they really should have been twins. Its fun for me to see Daniel and know how David was as a child.


• David is such a romantic. I absolutely love it. I find little notes all over the place all the time telling me how much he loves me. I find them in my wallet, in my clothes, in my granola bars, on my computer, on my car... all the time! It's so fun. One that I had to take a picture of was purely a creative masterpiece. He snuck into my house 7 days before we were married and put up a countdown chart as well as a full on note in like 100 stickies. These went up in February and I'm proud to say that Post-its really STICK because we still have them up and haven't tried to keep them up. Awe....
• I love David's little quirks - he's used to shoes always since he had so many siblings with little messes all over. He loves basketball shorts and always puts them on when he gets home. He studies all over the house depending on the day and his mood - it's a surprise for me. He LOVES going on walks with me and being outside. He burns so easily. He loves the swimming pool. He could probably live there if he could. He likes his hair short and is teaching me how to cut it with Shayla.


• David loves candy, chocolate, baking cookies and brownies, and ice cream! He could eat ice cream daily if he could....sounds great to me. Here's him caught licking the spoon :)
• David grew up not having a dishwasher so I've had the pleasure of teaching him! He's actually getting really good at it. He does so many things for me, especially if he gets home early to study, he also does laundry or cooks or dishes...


• His favorite color is red. He goes to the U. I went to the Y. But we love both schools & since he's not too much of a sports watcher, it doesn't matter.


• We had a friend make our wedding favors and we have TONS of left overs still! Luckily it's bubble gum! David loves that, and swallows it a lot, but I still love him. He loves the black ones. He also loves black liquorice and other gross flavors like that. I just wait a bit to kiss him after he eats those :)
• David's such a gentleman. He's the best husband I could have ever wanted. He takes care of me when I fall asleep on the couch and makes sure I get to bed when I need to.


• He's also persistent. Before we were dating, he never gave up on texting, calling and inviting me to activities. He did win me over and I'm hooked forever. I'm so glad he was that persistent. Isn't he just the cutest and the best?? I do say so....

Okay I could write SO MUCH more... but I'll save it for fun posts later on... I love you baby!!

Date Nights

Marriage doesn't mean the end of date nights, going out, dinner, nights on the town... At least for David & I... Now we don't have to worry about who we go out with and always get to spend our date nights together :) :)

We've done a lot of fun things so far in our few months. Here are a few pictures of all our adventures:

FONDUE - We got a fondue set for our wedding and had to try it out right away. We invited David's brother and sister-in-law over one night to try it with us. Yummy huh???

FLOWERS - There's an Italian tradition that women get yellow Mimose flowers on March 8th for Festa Delle Donne (Women's Day), I had no idea! But David walked into the house that day and guess what??!?! He gave me flowers for the first time. Awe, loved it!

(And he organized our new dishes from our wedding, so pretty huh??)

BRIAN REGAN - For David's b-day in December I gave him tickets to see one of his favorite comedians who was in SLC. It was a great night out together...

ICE SKATING - On our 3 month I surprised David with a trip to the Oval Circle and we went Ice Skating!! Sadly, the bigger oval wasn't open, so that gives us an excuse to go back :)

TEMPLE DATES - Every month we go to the temple usually Friday nights to just get away. Since we're in Utah now, we're taking advantage of visiting all the ones around. We did our first sealings together at the Draper Temple. And for conference we met up with my dad to catch a session with him and spent the night in Bountiful too - that was fun for me, a regular tradition to share with David too. We also just went to the SLC temple and had a special time there too.

IRONMAN 2 - I surprised David with a night to the movies (i even drove him all around back weird ways to throw him off the movie scent...muahahah)... He loved it.

CAFE RIO & Dinners out - We celebrated the end of Spring semester with a dinner at Cafe Rio. We've done a few dinners out whether it be to Red Robin where he took me secretively one night as well as a few other places :)

Nights at home - Sometimes since we've got so much school, work, etc - we just want a home night. We get slurpies or frosties, a redbox, and enjoy a relaxing night at home.

Summer is supposed to be coming... Yes, it has been in the 50's and 60's last weekend, and when it gets here we have even more fun things planned outside like camping, drive-ins etc. :)

Honeymooners

It's honeymoon time!!! So, we've had 2, yes TWO, honeymoons so far since we've been married :). #1 was Park City in the snow. #2 was California Disneyland & Newport Beach!!

At Park City we watched and walked in the snow, went ice skating, had a Valentine's Day dinner, went to the outlet mall, and had a great break from regular life. It was a great weekend to have time for David & me. Here are some pics:

About 5 weeks later during David's spring break we flew to Cali for a whole week!!! I had a few days planned for Anaheim with 1 day at Disneyland as well as a few days at Newport Beach about 20 minutes away. Disneyland was 1st. We didn't have a car, so we walked to a ghetto Mexican market to stock up on food, walked to church the next day, walked all over in downtown Disney. Then the next day I followed David's advice to get up early as we ran from ride to ride at Disneyland. We basically hit all the rides we wanted to by 10:30am. No way! We still rode a bunch other and then went to the Blue Bayou (Pirates) Restaurant as our expensive dinner. It was great to share with David the fun family tradition of pirates food and now our new tradition of sorts. We rested for a bit and headed back for the evening rides and the fireworks show. I was completely worn out by the end. My knee/foot had been hurting since we got there and basically it only got worse even when we got to Newport Beach. But it was wonderful to be on total vacation where we could also just relax and not have any cares.

We picked up our rental car and headed to the beach! Got there just in time to watch the sunset as we dipped our feet into the sand. Awe... perfect. We found the Newport shopping mall, found the Balboa Island and Peninsula to walk around on and check out the frozen bananas and little shops. We also had planned for a seafood dinner, and I took David to a place right on the water. It was perfect with my fish & chips and his seafood gumbo. I sure didn't want to leave our little vacation place, but school and work needed us. We headed home and still had the weekend to relax and catch up on all our errands. It was great to come back and still have a bit of time before it all got hectic again. I sure love my David. It was a great vacation... it's so amazing to realize that I'll get to vacation with him forever now. We have many more Disneyland's and other trips to take with us and our future family :)