happiness has arrived!

this is my 2nd year i've made our "family photo albums" from MyPublisher and am so happy with the result!

the quality is absolutely wonderful.

i love the layouts and options.

i really do just love it all!

at the beginning of each year they have this smokin' deal for their 100 page photo albums,

i put mine together pretty quick (blogging about your life and making collages before for those posts made it a zip).

we were so excited to get it.

we sat down and flipped through the pages reminiscing over the past year's events:

oh, that was so fun!

oh my gosh, remember when you did that?!

i loved that trip.

i love that picture.

oh, i miss them.

those were all very common phrases, but so true!

making the album is like making a present for yourself, and then they wrap it for you and you get to open it!

it's the best!
i don't do writing in the books,
i may go back and add in my own cute stickies/notes and stuff about events later,
but for now, i like the crispness of the photos on white.

SO,

if you're wanting to make yourself an album,

definitely consider MyPublisher.

they rock.

(plus, is you sign up with them and say cutlercoupon referred you, i get a $20 credit to my account which would be cool too, but not necessary :)

for your own comparison sake if you order from them,

i paid $45, i think, with shipping, for a 100 page, high quality book,
again, that's a crazy awesome deal, so if you get close to that #, do it,

Brian Regan.

last october we bought out tickets to go see BRIAN REGAN in january!

that date in january has finally come and we had such and incredible time!!!

the journey to the concert was, stressful, to say the least.

teeth were bared, a few tears were shed, but we FINALLY found a parking spot.

parking downtown slc (when you have 10 minutes til your event) is terrible.

BUT, we made it, with time to spare!

we were beyond excited to be there.

joe bolster opened for brian regan and was indeed hilarious,

but once brian regan came on the stage our smiles were ear to ear for the next hour and a half.

it was just the best.

he is so funny,

his material is everday funny stuff that he exaggerates and it's SO TRUE!

for our future benefit and laughing fit.

here we go!

taking the christmas tree down.

the new year's moment and celebrating your life like new year's every moment: crazy

remembering people's names, has a j and a c...good luck

dancing, strobe-light dancing

the first words on the telephone

the feather pen

marching band...marching accountants, loop holes with no red flags

fixing the house, only knowing to point and mutter where it's broken.

telling people how to fix your house, the tool belt

greetings at a party...chest bumping some lady, homes/watson

getting older, small talk with doctor that you're in pain

guy on the camel- people throwing stuff at him

running for president, cain having to explain
no jokes at the airport
longevity analysis...not worth it to eat healthy
the other people named brian regan: convicted felon, screen writer
102 dalnmations
hair on the middle of his forehead
UPS again- people shake their head when he does it "wrong"
trying to understand mortgages, like a magic trick
checking in for a hotel room- zippitydooda and yippeiokaya...crazy guy always gets a room
iDoctor
guys don't talk about life while golfing, gary dating anyone?
octopus have 6 arms, 2 legs, lots of bad habits to ensue
when singers talk about why they wrote sad songs, awkward.

if you get the chance to go to a show of his, pay the money and GO!
so worth and such a great memory for us!

Casey Post #4 BYU VS ST MARY'S

 

 

 

 

   

 

BYU Vs. ST MARY's: This game had to be the worst officiated game I have ever seen in history, even worse than some of my high school games when we played on the road in freezing Wyoming. I wouldn’t say BYU played amazing, they played pretty bad too, but I believe the Refs never allowed them to sustain anything throughout the game. This statement about the game was hilarious because it was so true, "it's not easy to make 22,000 mormons upset, but that's what happened tonight."-KSLradio. They have it spot on I mean when 22,000 LDS people start throwing things onto the floor multiple times that caused a technical foul to be called on BYU form their fans; the game has to be pretty bad. My dad came up for the event and I hope he enjoyed at least the food, we went out to Costa Vida and then the three of us went to the game. Dad stayed the night and attended church with us the next morning and I think it was the first time he had been to church here, and I think it brought him back to his younger years will all the couples holding hands and just showing PDA in church. We had a great weekend and I am glad my dad came because it is always fun to have family around.

babies babies and more babies!

remember when i mentioned how FOUR of my sister in laws were pregnant a few months ago?

guess what?

there are actually FIVE sister in laws pregnant!!!!

all due about the same time crazy enough!

let's go through the list shall we?

I believe we shall :)

mrs. amanda will be having a BOY in april

mrs. blair will be having a GIRL in march

mrs. megan will be having a GIRL in june

mrs. camille will be having a GIRL in april

mrs. kerri will be having a BOY in april

i tried linking up to where it was announced what they were having,

sorry if you can't see blair's, it's on her facebook. 

wowza, right?

and to add some fun to the mix miss whitney will be marrying into our family, via kirk, in march too!

we are so completely thrilled for all these girls, all 6 of them!

we're kinda obsessed with all our nieces and nephews :)

cookies.

1. tristan is ridiculously adorable.
2. we finally got some good snow in provo, yay!
3. COOKIES.
4. we bought ourselves bowling shoes for our anniversary. yayyyyyyy.

did you know i love chocolate chip cookies?

i LOVE chocolate chip cookies.

if i could only have one dessert the rest of myself, it'd be chocolate chip cookies.

i don't make them very often anymore because i totally gorge myself on them.

literally, i make myself sick because i eat so many.

but anywho, here's some of my basic tips and tricks for cookies!

 my long time go-to recipe has been the nestle toll house recipe.

always stellar.

(i do often add just a little bit more flour than what it calls for, maybe an 1/8th of a cup for 1 batch).

when ever it says butter, always use crisco, the yellow baking crisco.

it makes all the difference.

semi-sweet is the popular choice for cookies.

but, milk chocolate chips are EVEN BETTER.

try it.

lately i've been using cookie recipes that use vanilla pudding powder as an ingredient.

super yummy!

again, try it.

last sunday we made 2 new cookie recipes.

1. paradise bakery copycat.

and 2. "best-ever" chewy chocolate chip cookie

here's my verdict:

1.  pretty normal. nothing overly amazing about it. i had to add like 1/3-1/2 c more flour to make it more fluffy and once i did that it was much better.

i'd make this recipe again but not next time.

2. surprise ingredient: cornstarch. turned out incredibly yummy, i'd say. fluffy and chewy. very much enjoyed. we liked this one so much and will for sure be trying this one again!

if you have any strong preferences on cookie tips/recipes, do share!

Casey Post #3 What would Tazz do?

So it was a nice week not having to go to school on Monday because of Martin Luther King Day. I don’t know how I am making it through this last semester because honestly I am ready for my undergrad to be over. Alright, so Kimber told me to talk about one thing so I will tell you about a funny saying that I came up with as a rebuttal to any of her trying to make me think she is right; and yes she is always right. So whenever I do something she doesn’t like or a difference that she has with something I like to do AKA: Videogames, Fantasy Sports, etc… there is always a reference to what would Jesus do coming from her. Yes, I know I know Jesus probably wouldn’t have played video games and he may have only saw a play of the Super bowl, but I could never find a rebuttal for this statement. We were in Arizona last weekend and Kimber’s parents have a dog named Tazz, she is a quite interesting dog that always just loves to whine at the back door until you let her in. She wont even fetch her ball anymore when the back door is open she thinks she is going to get locked out, it is a horrible game. You know sometimes a little annoying kinda stinky so you don’t want to pet her a whole lot, and so I got the bright idea to tell Kimber, well what would Tazz do? I think Tazz could care less, but to whack your face with her massive tail, eat anything in her path, and just want to be inside, when she is an outside dog. This phrase will always make us laugh and especially when I hear that phrase What would Jesus do? I will always think of What will Tazz do? Isn’t this rebuttal the best, c’mon, Tazz is almost like a little child innocent, carefree, really doesn’t as long as she receives a can of anything she can gobble up. I think it is pretty great!

more tids and bits

from the telefono:

dental school celebration day:
in-n-out
krispy kreme doughnuts.
that's right, we celebrate with class.

some more pics from courtney's wedding.
it was really fun, i got to wear a different dress each day i was in az :)
a dress without  tights!
my legs were jumping for joy in all their freedom happiness!!!

the drive back to UT was cray to the Z.
rainbows, crazy fog, and snow.
speaking of lots of driving, we are almost through with our books we wanted to listen to,
any must reads out there?
we've listened to hunger games and eragon lately,
but we have tons of driving in front of us this year.

 

i don't think i took any pictures of just hanging with the family in AZ crazy enough.
it was nice and low key.
playing with the girls,
2 bahama bucks trips,
games,
church,
ya know, the usual.
but it was a gorgeous 70 degrees out.
my arizona weather did not disappoint.

ps- we're really not home that much,
so because we're not home much at all, we don't really turn on our heater, as crazy as it sounds.
but the other nights we were home all night, twas wonderful.
so we brought out the wine and fancy dishes and turned that heater on!
do you how good it feels to get into bed and see the temperature is 65 degrees in your room and not 55!
big difference people, big difference
(will this change our heating behavior? probably not.)

feeding the ducks.

so last week, abby came over and we played.

we had a grand old time too.

she just cracks us up.

when she was over, we went to the duck pond.

yayyyyy.

remember last time we went to the duck pond?

so we braved the cold and took our walk.

it was so fun watching her and those ducks.

she loved chasing them and was just so carefree.

i wish i could just bottle up that energy she has and use it for myself at the gym.

provo people:
go feed those crazy ducks that stay in provo during the winter,
they need their food.

and from the phone: