the Kentucky temple.

we were able to go to the temple!
wahoo!
except the temple is TWO hours away in Louisville, KY! ha, but it was still wonderful :)
no really it was, i'm grateful that the temple was even that close!

we listened to efy music pretty much the whole way there,
it was so fun to have all those fun efy memories flood our minds, so many good memories.
we listened to each other and laughed, seriosuly we both loved efy and both wish we got to be counselors,
instead we chose to be married :)
in the temple! ha.

afterwards we took a little detour to downtown Louisville, KY to a little deli place.
very appetizing if i do say so myself.

happy father's day!

dear casey:

i love you.

one day in the long away future, you will be a real dad (not a wooden one).

and then i can post cute pictures of you and our kids!

until then, we will show a picture of how you've always been preparing to be a daddy,

i.e.: mowing the lawn in your super cool mario slippers at age 3 :)

man, 1989 treated you well sweetie!

dear daddy,

like i said, 

2 posts. 1 week. both about you. you lucky man you :)

truly you are wonderful.

whenever we did things together, you had this way of making everything so special.
you taught us how to ride motorcycles and now all us kids think we're so awesome bc most people just ride quads but we're super cool snobs and think bikes are better. wow. we're cool.
did you know that sometimes i would purposely fall asleep on the couch bc i knew you'd carry me back to my bed at like any age and then i felt like a princess in a movie being carried away.

thanks.
this is my third father's day away from you, boo! hopefully sooner rather than later i can celebrate right next to you again!
and sorry if my card got to you late, i promise i've had it for like 2 weeks and never sent it!
love you so much daddy!
have a wonderful day!

lastly, to my father in law,

thanks for raising casey.

he has so many of your great qualities!

and let's face it, you had a pretty sweet mustache back in the day.

a birthday

dearest padre,

it's your birthday!

and i love you.

i hope your day is wonderful!
remember how when we were younger mom assigned us dinner seats so we'd all rotate sitting by you at dinner bc you're awesome like that?
yeah, you're awesome like that.
hope your birthday is fun and you enjoy the day daddy :)

 

 
love you so so much!!!
ps- dad, you're like the only lucky person who's going to get TWO posts dedicated to them in 1 week :)

a little bit of june.

top moments of the last 7 daysish.

1. casey took his big test! wahoo! he's done studying and we are so happy with the results!  
go casey!!!

2. went to applebee's after his test to celebrate being done with studying and relax.

3. we watched the movie CARS k, we love that movie! so cute!

4.  we went and saw pirates 4! (in 3D, boo). but it was still a great movie, they're so clever!

5. we made lots of yummy cookies.

6. we went to buffalo wild wings in honor of casey's pre-testing dinner.

7. we've been playing outside a little bit in the sun. i love the sun so much!

8. we've been playing with chalk outside too!

9. we got to teach the sunbeams on sunday. we kinda love this calling!

10. i got a summer job at kohl's! whoopie! the manager of the store is in our ward and was very kind :)

11.we laid on the bed the other day in the middle of the afternoon and played scrabble on our phones against each other for 45 minutes. bliss.

12. we've been doing our hair curly lately with this tutorial and really like it!
i love being able to get my hair curly without having to use heat on it.
(dear woodruff SIL's, you're not welcome for showing you that video)

13-16. continuing to play with buddy, having yummy tacos, saw someone's beautiful kitchen and envied it immensely, another picture of the cookies we made.
 
17. and for all 1 of you cross country girls that read this blog, i've started doing 4 corners again. pretty much my whole work out for the day is 2-3 rounds of 4 corners and i'm hurting. ha, wowsers.

overall it's been a great week.

a special little treat

 
so we kinda love that little mrs curl ice cream place lately.
we went again.
i had another sprinkle dipped one.
casey had a crunch dipped one.

soft serve ice cream in the summer is like the best thing ever next to otter-pops and popsicles.
(i just typed poopsicles on accident which made that sentence way funnier).
i think my favorite part is the bottom of the cone, i love that part :)

yay for ice cream and even better than that,
a hot summer where your ice cream starts to melt before you can start eating it.
that is true happiness.

take me out to the ballgame

the indiana indians!
last weekend we traveled up to indianapolis and went to the minor league ball game with cody and camille,
and had a blast!

there's something about just sitting back with friends and watching a good ol' american ballgame.
the 7th inning stretch came around and we sang our hearts out to take me out to the ballgame in our loudest voices possible.
good times, good times.

and after the game they had a firework show!
i love fireworks so much!
they are so incredible to watch, hear, and feel (you know, when they boom super loud:)
it made me so excited for the 4th of July!

good company and a good ballgame.
a friday well spent.

ps- they won :)

mrs. curl ice cream

it had been a long day for all of us i believe.

so casey's brother, cody, brought up the idea for us to meet up at this little ice cream joint by the library.

casey and cody practically live there these days so it happened to work perfectly.

everyday i drive by "mrs curl ice cream" there's always a long line which has gotta mean something!

while casey and i waited for our hot dogs,

we ate our ice cream cone topped with sprinkles.

casey also learned from cody that they had frozen bananas for 93 cents!

so he of course had to get one too.

here's our dogs :)
they were so yummy.
casey and cody's were a full foot long, crazy boys.

after eating and relaxing and talking,
we went over to the park and watched jaden run around for awhile.
remember how much fun parks were when you were little?
every one was different from slide to monkey bars, they were all just so fun.
it was relaxing to watch jaden play around on it all and remember how much fun it was for us too.

peacocks, dogs, and blankets

today's run consisted of the 2 following events.

ONE. an incredibly huge peacock in someone's little barn by the road!

seriously, coolest thing ever i have seen here in indiana next to fireflies.

the peacock was huge! and vibrantly colored! seeing it just once more alone will encourage me to go running that much more.

TWO. my new friend named buddy.

it's the only dog i've run by that barks at me happily.

so now at the end of my runs i stop by buddy's yard and we play for awhile. (his owners said i could:)

he loves me.

i love him.

and then i just wanted to randomly add a picture of this little blanket i've been working on.

crocheting the edges of baby blankets is a nice and cute activity i do to pass the time.

keeps my hands busy.

and actually has a purpose other than just looking cute.

1 blanket down. a few more to go.