Girly Giveaway!

My goood friend Erin is doing her first giveaway on her new blog. She is so talented at so many things including photography and creating some super cute sewing projects. Her first give away is a little girls skirt. If your interested you should check out her site at erinnoeldesigns.blogspot.com. The giveaway ends on halloween!

Abandonment leads to Boredom

Nick went to watch some band stuff today... all day...so he didn't invite me a long. Since my husband is gone and I'm waiting on the laundry you get this:

♥ What are your middle names?
"Elisabeth" and "Wayne"

♥ How long have you been together?
Since November 2007, Married since March 2008

♥ How long did you know each other before you started dating?
He asked me to be his girlfriend after one week of knowing each other but we started hanging out the day after we met.

♥ Who asked who out?
I asked Nick out on what was supposed to be a triple date to the Dixon Corn Maze

♥ Who made the first move?
If I remember correctly Nick held my hand in the corn maze that night

♥ Did you go to the same school?
Nope.

♥ Are you from the same home town?
Technically we are both from Sacramento but grew up in different areas

♥ Who is the smartest?
We're both smart in different areas

♥ Who majored in what?
I have my credential in Montessori Preschool Education and Nick majored in Life

♥ Who is the most sensitive?
My feelings definitely get hurt easier

♥ Where do you eat out most as a couple?
Chilis or we eat in with pizza

♥ Where is the farthest you two have traveled together as a couple?
Mexico, on a cruise in November last year

♥ Who has the worst temper?
Nick

♥ How many children do you want?
One right now, but eventually three or four

♥ Who does the cooking?
Me, unless Nick is trying to make me eat fish then he has to cook it

♥ Who is more social?
Definitely me

♥ Who is the neat-freak?
Neither but I'm the one who cleans

♥ Who is the most stubborn?
Nick, which still throws me off because I'm crazy stubborn

♥ Who wakes up earlier?
Almost always Nick does

♥ Where was your first date?
Dixon corn maze

♥ Who has the bigger family?
I do. I have five siblings and Nick has one.

♥ Do you get flowers often?
No, because I already have fake flowers in my house all the time.

♥ How do you spend the holidays?
Christmas eve with Nick's family, Christmas with mine.

♥ Who is more jealous?
I don't know that either one of us gets very jealous.

♥ How long did it take to get serious?
This question should actually be written as how quickly did it take to get serious? I was ready to marry Nick after like three weeks of dating.

♥ Who eats more?
I'd say it was equal. There's a lot of snacking going on in this house.

♥ What do you do for a living?
I'm a preschool teacher and Nick works as an outside salesmen for Fastenal.

♥ Who does/did the laundry?
I do both our laundry and Nick does his when he needs something before I'm ready to start the laundry.

♥ Who’s better with the computer?
Hands Down -Nick

♥ Who drives when you are together?
Nick. I don't really like to drive and he loves it so it works out.

♥ What is your song?
We dance to At Last for our first dance but everytime I hear Shadow of the Day by Linkin Park it reminds me of when Nick and I were dating and makes me smile.

New Stuff

I should not be allowed to go with Sam to her hair appointments ever again. Lately I've been trying to grow my hair out. However, yesterday I changed my mind after seeing Sam's new cute hair. Thanks Jaime for cutting my hair with a couple hours notice! Mom was sad to see it so short and just as I expected Nick LOVES it. I really like it too and am excited to have a new cut.

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Nick also got something new...Guitar Hero for the Wii. His brother had bought it but didn't like it as much as he thought he would, so when Nick went over there to wash his car he bought it off of his brother. Thanks guys for disliking your game because my husband loves it!

My Husband

What we've been up to....

Two weekends ago Nick and I were watching tv and saw that the CHP was having an Open House in Stockton so we decided to go and see what it was all about. They had a lot of the different cars that the CHP has used throughout the years and some other cool stuff including a helicopter landing which was our favorite part. After that Nick took me to see Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs in 3D! I'm now wondering what it would be like to jump around in a jello mold...



This last weekend was my nephew's birthday party at Fog Willow Pumpkin Patch. Since it wasn't until the late afternoon we headed down to Elk Grove early to check out the Giant Pumpkin Harvest Festival in Elk Grove Park. We saw some seriously giant pumpkins! It was a cool little festival. It had a bunch of fenders and fun stuff for kids to do including carnival games. Check out the size of the crazy pumpkins....



At Cale's party we saw some cool farm animals, took a hayride and got to play on a giant haystack as well as a cool play structure. Andi is getting creative and decorated her cupcakes to the theme of the party, they were very cute. Everyone had a great time and all the kids got to take home a perfectly size little pumpkin. We love the pumpkin patch AND we love Cale.

Nick had a birthday... Shout Hooray!

This past week has been Nick's birthday week. I wasn't sure how I was going to pull it off but I decided that I would get him a present everyday for seven days since he has spoiled me these last two birthdays. They ranged from silly little gifts like a diet pepsi to silly awesome ones like the first season of ChiPs. Yesterday was Nick's actual birthday and we celebrated over at the Langstraats house because our apartment doesn't really accommadate more than four people. (Thanks again guys!) We had dinner there, ate the experimental Snickers cake, and then opened presents including his last one from me.

The Cake...It has melted caramel, peanuts and chocolate chips in between two layers of chocolate cake with whipped butter cream frosting and snickers bars on top...it was pretty delicious but I felt like I ate five candy bars in one piece of cake...

Nick blowing out his candles Brianna style

Showing off the beautiful card that Bri made for him.

I knew that Chad and Erin were getting him the BYU hat so I saved the reversable BYU basketball shorts as his last gift.

Birthday weeks are hard work but I had a lot of fun trying to pick things out for him and I think that he had a lot of fun opening up his silly presents everyday.

Labor Day

For Labor Day Nick and I invited ourselves on a trip to Apple Hill with my parents. Everyone else had the same idea so it turned out to be almost the whole family. We went to our regular stop for chocolate caramel apples, hanging by the pond, apple juice and checking out the crafts. After that we stop by another place that had some farm animals that the nephews and niece really enjoyed at least until Jill got licked by a cow. We had a great lunch and then headed home to relax and have dinner with Megan and Bubba. We had an awesome time and I hope you enjoy some of the pictures of our day.

My Birthday Week

For my actually birthday Nick and I went to the River Cats baseball game with some friends of ours. One of our friends had a bunch to tickets and parking passes that needed to be used by that night so we were lucky that he invited to go along for FREE. We didn't win but I did get a chance to fill myself with ridiculous amounts of liquid cheese. It was a lot of fun.

Before the game (Check out our awesome sits. Thanks Sims!)

Nick and Chad (Erin was out of town.)

My friend Michelle's birthday is the day before mine and she had a 80s themed bowling party that weekend. I hadn't been bowling in a long time so it was fun to see how poorly I still played. The food was great, especially the desserts, (rubic cube cupcakes and a cake decorated like a cassette tape) and her one year daughter provided amazing entertainment with her dancing skills.

Michelle and I in our matching yellow.

On Sunday we had dessert with my family and just had a great time celebrating. My mom even made me a gift that had 25 little gifts of 25 things each. (25 dimes, 25 stickers, 25 cotton balls...that type of thing.) I had a great birthday this year!