an anniversary

we had the most wonderful anniversary this year. the first 3 years we celebrated our anniversary were fun but let's be honest, it wasn't that much different than the other 364 days of the year. it was just us and it was always just us. but for the last almost year, we've spent a lot of our time and energy helping a certain little boy grow and survive. so this  year it was a day to really really  focus on US. OUR marriage. OUR love. OUR attention on one another. not that the other 3 anniversaries haven't been special but we are in a different league of anniversary's now, i love it so very much.

like all our other years we continually talked to each other during the day of "what were we doing 4 years ago at this exact time." i love doing that. while another single girl friend of ours from dental school watched maxson, we sneaked away to HuHut grill, one of those Mongolian places that cooks the asian food in front of you. we had the sweetest time together asking one another to list the most BLANK in the last 4 years. best road trip, scariest road trip, best activity, best food, biggest regret, and best decision. it was so good to just sit alone with one another, laughing at past experiences and focusing on each other.



we raced home to our sweet little maxson (because an hour away from him was quite enough;) we put him to bed, i baked some cookies to share at the baby shower i then went to for just a little bit. i left the shower early to race to the theater with my sweet husband to watch the new hunger games movie, catching fire! there's something so endearing about holding hands, running through the snow, racing into the theaters together. we were surrounded by college students (very likely single and a little drunk) on all sides, we made up silly stories about the groups and giggled to each other so glad we were married. we held hands and cuddled (as much as you can cuddle in those ver separated movie chairs) riveted by the movie at every point. suddenly it was 12:15 am and our movie was over! we loved it. go see it!!!



we came outside to another more snow dusting the cars and sidewalks (i'm making this sound all peachy perfect, romantic and wonderful but it was FREEZING outside and i was hating nebraska humid winters, that cold just BITES you!). but the night was fantastic. we were reminded how lucky we are to be married to our best friend.

happy 4 years to us, so glad we have an eternity more together!

mexico found its way to provo, who knew!!!

i had heard from a few guys in my major that the (ghetto) supermarket in provo called rancho market

actually has some insanely good mexican food inside!

like, the grocery store has a little restaurant place in the back,

so on thursday
we went,

we conquered, 

and it was insanely delicioso!

we couldn't believe how good it tasted, really,

and their "meal combos" are ginormoso!

we split 1 and had leftovers for a full dinner the next day.

it felt like we were back in mexico:

people speaking espanol left and right,

crazy cool mexican packaged cookies, crackers, and other foods,

TONS of fresh/weird meats,

tiny aisles,

and latinos everywhere!

ha, we were literally the only white people in the place.

favorite part: the tortilla maker guy in the back- happy smiley just tossing the tortillas everywhere!

we couldn't help but smile the whole time at the atmosphere and the feel.

go try it out sometime!

for dessert we hit up macey's and got us some  50 cent ice cream cones.

casey got cherry dipped (gross)

we love provo.




on another note:
we got shutdown hardcore friday night:
tried seeing tangled at the BYUish movie theater: sold out
drove to the dollar theater to see tangled: sold out all night
went over to get coldstone: the line was out the door and we're impatient people
drove up to university mall's coldstone: again, line out the door.
drove to smith's to get the movie red bc we saw it in their redbox earlier that evening: casey went in to come out with no success.

we hate provo

at that time we decided
a) so glad we're not single anymore to have to worry about dates going as planned and trying to impress the other person but instead being able to throw a fit get a little grumpy bc what you wanted to work out totally did not.
b) go home and give-up

casey actually ended dropping me off at home while he wen to see if the redbox at 7-11 had red.
he came back with the movie and hot chocolate.
i threw some of them pillsbury dough boy cinnamon rolls in the oven, and we called it a good night.
after the movie ended i fell asleep on the couch, cuddle up to casey while he played video games til 2 am
all in all, friday night turned out good.

last week

like i mentioned earlier, we had so many things going on last week i didn't have a spare moment to blog!

the list goes as follows: 

4 test/quizzes for casey in organic chemistry (which=hard) and physiology (which=hard), he did fabulous.

5 test/quizzes for kimber in random classes

we tried going to fatcats for our free bowling bc the cougars scored over 30 points at their game 2 weeks,

they're dumb and didn't let us bowl bc it was past 9. boo

another night we went to texas road house bc it just opened here in orem!

pretty much we went so we just go eat all their rolls!

i'm pretty sure we got...8 batches...yummy!

and what we did order, we took home in left over boxes.

ps- texas roadhouse=fun suckers bc they don't let you take pictures inside except if the server is taking it of you. boo

but the cherry limeade and rolls made it worth it

then we went to the opening of HARRY POTTER!

we were beyond excited

we went with the best group possible of harry potter fans.

we're so happy nicole and brookie let us come along

activities included playing harry potter trivia and casting spells at other muggles.

the movie was wonderful too.

it stayed true to the book and did not disappoint a bit.

we loved it!

casey and i also had football games this week which we both lost :(

but, it was still fun to play!

i also had a relief society sleepover that i got to go to with the women in my ward,

seriously, such a blast.

best activity yet!

we stayed up way later than needed, played fun games, had lots of great converstations,

only had the fire alarm go off for 15-20 min, and just had the best time ever.

a cute girl in our ward, rachel, had a family cabin in midway we got to go to, no pic.

it was great to be able to just talk to all the women and not just for 2 hours and then have to go home.

one year older

now i am 20! 

yay!

my SIL told me i'm in limbo-land when it comes to my age:

not a teenager anymore but not officially and adult!

i think that means i have no predicaments i must follow eh!?

it was a low key celebration but that's ok :)

and let's just say it wasn't the best day at work, ha oh well

what we did do, made my birthday very special!

really awesome wrapping on my presents! 

got a fancy new camera, a temple bag, and Cutler engraved in my scriptures!

my mom sent a cute package that made me just so excited! i wanted to open it the moment i got it! so hard to wait! also a card came from my sweet dad (he's too cute and insisted that he still had to do something for my b-day himself) and my aunt and uncle. real mail really makes me so happy!

saw toy story together on wed. it was cute :) i didn't get to enjoy it to its fullest bc i was still taking phone calls during the movie ha (see that clipboard? that thing is attached to my body this summer as if it's treasure, gosh!)

we used a match for my candle :)

also we got to go swimming this week! casey was close enough to come home for lunch on friday and we had enough motivation with the weather to go swimming! it felt so good to get in that water! we brought cantaloupe out with us too :)

all the phone calls i got were very special so thank you if you called (or left a fb/blog message)!

casey's fam made me this really awesome birthday video too! funniest thing ever!

did i tell you?

we saw it

and just as said so many months ago, we went to the midnight opening!

in fact we went to the 1 o'clock am opening slightly against our will

even though i really didn't want to go to midnight opening,

we really liked it and we had lots of fun together!!!!

casey reminded me that when we were dating we wouldn't have second guessed going to any midnight opening so we should try to stay as fun and wild and "young" as long as possible :)

haha i love him.

of course books are always better than movies, and you must expect not so good acting for that movie but casey really liked the fight scene and i liked all the cheesy lines i remember from the books

oh goodness...twilight saga!

but we didn't get the HP preveiw in ours!!!!

whhhhhaaaaa!?!?!?!?! HOLD THE PHONE!

yeah i know!

but we watched it the following day online.

doesn't it look epic!

we will stay "young" and go to those 2 midnight openings as well!!!!

SO EXCITED for it!

as another friend of mine mentioned, i am so proud to be apart of the HP generation!

i remember waiting what seemed like forever to have the 4th and 7th books come out!

those midnight openeings were so fun!

not knowing what was going to happen to harry,

like so many others, those books inspired me to love to read

plus i was pretty much the same age as harry when i read each book,

i thought that was soo kewwwl :)

and with twilight too,

i remember being so excited for that 4th book to come out,

not knowing what was going to happen,

sigh, i hope there are some more amazing series that will come out that'll be epic too

well that's that here folks!
we're going to a rodeo saturady night to colebrate the 4th!
i absolutely love the 4th of july :)
a summer holiday
watermelon
red
white
blue
sunscreen
swimming
bbq
decorations

i just love it
adios!!!

this.

movie.

was.

freaking.

awesome.

 Russell Crowe= best robin hood ever

the saga...

yes, i'm talking about this.

haha, we like it.

and i just had to share this when i saw it :)

ps- why be on "team jacob?"

my brother said it well, "it's like watching the re-run of a football game and cheering for the the team you know who's going to lose in the end!" 

true or what!?

so you will all know that on the 30th of June 2010,

casey and i will be at the theaters if work permits :)

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well right now we are here in st. george on a little trip with the cutlers!

we went and saw the movie Avatar today in 3-D which was way fun with everyone!

we're having a blast and trying to savor these last few days of no school!