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Bridal [Storm]

In the next two weeks, I have four bridal showers. Four. Can I just say that I’m thrilled? I love bridal showers! Everyone is so giddy and excited for the new bride-to-be, plus I love picking out the gifts. I can’t wait.

 

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And many more, till I’m 104.

Some of you have asked me what I want for my birthday. Here’s what I want:

I want Justin to sing that to me, personally and live.

In addition, I want Michael Scott to stay on The Office and Modern Family to have new episodes all through the summer. If you could arrange the weather to be warm from now on, and the end of the semester to come already, that would be great too.

So, once you all figure that out, here are some additional ideas:

Or just a cupcake will do. Cupcakes always make me happy.

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Summer Sun

The summer before last, my family and I went to Fort Myers, Florida for two weeks. We spent the days on Sanibel and Captiva Islands. We saw dolphins, found star fish, swam out to sand bars, rode bikes, walked on trails filled with alligators. It was hot, humid, and a great time with my family. I can just see myself now walking across that burning boardwalk in Miami with my siblings and eating at the Bubble Room in Captiva.

I wish we could go back. Today.

 

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Princess Peach

On Saturday, T.J.’s sister Lacey turned 21. Her husband Josh arranged a birthday party at our house. We put up all the decorations and hid when they came through the door. Lacey was very surprised and loved the party theme:

Princess!

It was a great night with all the family. We played hilarious games like Scribblish and What If. My favorite What If round said: What if T.J. was a dancing gorilla? Then I read my answer, which worked out perfect:

I’d keep him as a pet.

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Did I leave anyone off of the map?

I {heart} summer.

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Birthday Blair

Well, well, well. Today is Blair Margaret Murphy’s Birthday. She is 22 years old. Seems just like yesterday, it was her 14th birthday and she was falling down the steps at the Levee in her chunky heals and short flares. Sadly, time has moved very fast and another year has past where I am not celebrating with her. Everyone needs a Mormon to celebrate with them on their birthday, don’t you think?

Some of the best times of my life have been with Blair.

Spring Break ’06: We were on an island in Florida. Turned out that the only boys on the island were retired old men or middle school/elementary kids. I didn’t have a problem with either of them (joking) and so I tried to get Blair to go hang out with the middle schoolers when she was deathly ill from the sun.

Spring Break ’07: Cocoa Beach. Need I say more?

Music videos and our stand up comedy that was suspiciously destroyed/lost.

Working at Snowie together.

The night before my wedding.

My 6th grade birthday party when Blair yelled at Rachel for jumping on the trampoline too long.

Walks up to Convenient for ice-cream.

 

I could go on and on. But the best part about Blair is that we can go for months without seeing each other and then when we finally do get to meet up, it’s like no time had gone by. She’s been a great friend since 4th grade and I hope she had a great birthday and has an amazing new year. Blair is starting med school this year, so it’s going to be a big one!

Love you lots!

xo xo,

Katie

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Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories.

Continuing on…

Saturday came around and we just did Saturday-type things such as cleaning, laying around, eating a delicious breakfast at Maglebye’s, doing homework, and watching I Am Legend with T.J.’s siblings and their spouses.

This brings us to Sunday. We had a wonderful afternoon hanging out together with the windows open, sunlight pouring into the condo. We watched a few romantic movies, took a walk, made some sugar cookies (which I am kind of in love with), and home-made Valentines.

I tried to make these cute heart cakes, but I tried to experiment a bit and so I didn’t follow the recipe exactly. Turns out I should have done precisely what it told me to do, considering I had to through the entire cake away.

I also learned why I blog and don’t scrapbook when I was making Valentines. I decided not to give them away because they looked so silly.

In the middle of decorating the cookies and listening to the wonderful, new Adele CD, we had another situation occur. Just when we were having the best Sunday of our lives…

T.J. fell (I won’t tell you how so doesn’t get embarrassed) and we realized one of his stitches broke. It was disgusting. Lots of blood. That type of stuff makes me sick just to think about. It was late and he was in a lot of pain, so he decided we should head on over to the ER again just in case it did any damage or wouldn’t get infected. At least sitting in the ER for a while made me finish my homework.

So, that was our weekend.

It was a bit crazy, but hopelessly romantic at times.

Oh, and P.S. my husband surprised me on campus with a beautiful bouquet of roses, took me to the Bombay House (my favorite Indian restaurant), and had a large box of exquisite chocolate covered nuts waiting for me at home to eat when he had to go back to campus for the night. I ended my Valentine’s Day watching An Affair to Remember with the timeless actor, Cary Grant. They just don’t make actors like him anymore…

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An Affair to Remember

We decided to celebrate Valentine’s on Friday because T.J. it was more convenient. Turns out we should have stuck to celebrating on Monday because of a  several minor catastrophes, but we got a lot of memories from the weekend and next year we will be able to look back and laugh.

Situation 1: I bought T.J. new Levi’s (for free because I had a Kohl’s gift card) and wanted to wait until Valentine’s day to give them to him. I was too excited, so on Thursday night, I laid them on the bed with a cute note for him to find when he came home and I was already asleep. He was just excited as I was so he ripped off the tags before even trying them on. Fortunately, I am a good wife and know my husband’s jean size.

Situation 2: I told T.J. that Friday night he needed to be ready by 8:00 PM, dressed in a suit and tie. He went through about 100 ideas of what we were going to do. I should have written them all down because we are always out of date ideas. He decided the surprise must be a dinner and a show. He literally couldn’t handle the anticipation so I calmed him down with another part of my V-day gift: a bottle of Martinelli’s and an hour of Arrested Development.

Situation 3: On the way to our final destination, I told him we could play 20 Questions because he was really going crazy not knowing what we were going to do. I then started to get very self conscious because the evening was going to be fun but not epic and I didn’t want his hopes to get way up. He found out we were going dancing, but thought we were going to have dance lessons somewhere. (Pretty sure if he knew anything about me, he’d know I would never do that to him or to me.) So, to his surprise, we met up with his best friend Ryan and his fiancé Kasey Anne, his brother Dustin and sister-in-law Lindsey. The evening was to be spent at the UVU Church Institute Dinner and Dance (because who turns down a free dinner with great friends?). There was a big brass jazz band (which we had at our wedding so that brought back fun memories) and although we aren’t a part of the institute, it was still a blast.

Situation 4: We all got a little tired, I decided to head home because I had been up late from the JB Premiere (ohhh gosh, what a great movie), but T.J. went and played Kinect with the rest of the group. My husband takes this game very seriously and gets very competitive. Maybe too seriously and too competitive because while playing, he hit his hand on the lightbulb hanging on the ceiling and needed to go to the E.R. All of this occurring while I was at home sleeping, T.J. found out if the cut would have gone any further he would have needed surgery. Luckily, he just needed four stitches. But still not fun. I woke to my husband climbing into bed around 2 or 3 AM telling me he just came from the hospital.

TBC in the next post…

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The Loose Ends

Boy. Oh. Boy. This year, I took the responsibility of planning our Valentine’s date and can I just say it is going to rock? Oh, and did I mention it’s only costing me approximately $5.00? Everything is falling into place nicely thanks to leftover wedding gift cards, remixing my closet, and help from a little friend of ours.

 I can’t give the details now, just in case T.J. reads this (yeah, right) but it’s going to be fun, classy, and romantic.

And this brings me to the conclusion of my post. Not much accomplished in this one.

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Sisters at Heart

I try to live vicariously through Blair.

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