People of Walmart

Shopping at Walmart and suddenly this husband-child of mine decides to plop into a bin of pillows. Apparently it was comfy enough to tuck the rest of his body into it. I was laughing in tears and decided to up the ante and hide behind him. (If he's going to embarrass me, he's going to be embarrassed all right!) He started calling my name quietly after a while, panicking, and struggled to get out while a passerby and a walmart employee tried not to notice the flailing arms and legs of the pillow bin.

He finally got out and tried to walk it off all cool, but me and the two onlookers knew the real truth.

New hair

Some crappy phone selfies and a fast-moving Rachel Bettis doing my hair. The first photo is after my haircut and the second is after my color. Hello~ gorgeous hair! I've been good about keeping my hair super healthy and haven't colored it in over a year so I thought I would treat myself to a salon visit! Bye bye healthy hair, but hello sexy ombre!

Wind Caves

Braden and I (finally!) hiked the Wind Caves. We miss Alaska (so much it hurts!) and being in the great outdoors every day (and if not in the outdoors, we were just one scenic view away from our kitchen and living room windows). So we made and packed up some kimbap, dropped some kimbap off at our friend's place, and hauled our butts up the mountain to see these famous wind caves and have ourselves a little picnic. While we were there, I spotted a narrow cliff and I knew instantly that I wanted to climb it. Please don't ask me why because it was probably one of the dumber things I have done in life and once I set my mind to do something, I have to do it.

It was the most terrifying thing I've ever done (the whole thing was super high and as narrow as my foot is long. One strong gust and I could have tumbled hundreds of feet to my death. But as my favorite First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt, advises, 'do one thing that scares you every day', right?

Braden picked me some wildflowers that grew like crazy all over the mountain. In this photo I think I'm singing 'The Hills Are Alive' from The Sound of Music (don't hate!)

They actually stayed fresh for a long time as a reminder of our fun afternoon.

Baby Animal Days

Friday was... date day! B and I headed to the American West Heritage Center where I could elbow out little kids and hog the baby animals. You think I'm kidding but...

I'm so not.

Umm.. only the most adorable bunny EVER! It was so much softer and plumper than the other bunnies.. and it was so hard to believe this was an animal, not a toy. SO CUTE!

B loves his bunny.

I got to hold this feisty little thang. He was adorable and seriously so tiny, I could have stuffed my bra with him and a buddy! Yes.. could have.. don't worry- I didn't.

Ahh! his little bunny feet! They're so fluffy I could die!

And we stopped by HuHot for some hot, Mongolian grill.. a bit pricey, but seriously delicious. 

When we left, there was a line out the door and we overheard one lady loudly scoffing,"$12?! What a rip-off!!" and I wanted to turn around and ask her what her deal was. Seriously? It's Logan, UTAH. Be glad anyone's building anything here. And it's a Mongolian grill- you don't see those much anywhere. The only one I know of in Utah County is down in Springville. Also, it's a buffet, so if you wanted, you could get your money's worth. And, they have really good ingredients laid out, and did I mention it's unlimited? If you really had to express your displeasure, all you had to do is raise your eyebrows and discreetly walk out of there.

Instead we watched her stomp off to her (badly beaten) minivan and speed off angrily.

Hope no one died that day.

Valentines Week

This week was really fun. We went to the Jazz vs Thunder game (Jazz won, of course), went to Elements for  Valentines Day, and went shooting on the weekend.

Jazz vs Heat

Went to a Heat game with some friends (Jazz won, yay for us, boo for friends).

Last week of school

Since I've changed my major to Graphic Design from Actuarial Science, it sucks nuts that I'm so far behind now that I've changed my major officially 3 times, but it's a good feeling knowing that I'm finally pursuing what I love. Braden (finally!) graduates next year in Geographic Analysis and Bio-regional Planning (yeah, be scared) and right now he's in the thick of senior's courses, some of which have grad students in them for the same amount of work and credit which I find totally unfair to the undergrad students. He spends hours and hours on projects and sometimes I find myself with nothing to do and dying of boredom... I'm didn't realize he was such a big part of my daily entertainment. But since I was so bored, I decided to make bracelets and sell them on Etsy and now I'm the busy one, dragging him to the post office and Michael's and spending insane amounts of time on the computer (well, more than usual insane amounts). Business is amazing, it's been about 2 months and I've made over $1,500.

 

After finals this week, we're headed off to Alaska again, which I'm really excited for and kind of nervous about, but that good nervous, the optimistic anticipation of knowing this summer is a clean slate and making new friends again. Living in Alaska is amazing and gives you such a good perspective on life. Being away from tv, internet, and the often cold, technology obsessed society is so refreshing. I definitely love anything computer-related, I've been reading VCR manuals ever since.. um, VCRs existed (that should date me). But living in a beautiful house on stilts, on the base of the mountain, overlooking downtown and the ocean, surrounded by trees, and where the only dominant birds are bald eagles, there's something about it that makes you feel so clean and untouched (well, until the tourists start rolling in and it's the height of capitalist America on ship days). But the days we have to ourselves are memorable and we're so excited to have friends up there with us this time.