Our 4th

Holiday weekends are the best! Nick and I were both lucky enough to have the day off work so we spent the day celebrating! We hung out with Scott and Kalli Brueck almost all day! We started out by going to the Cedar City parade.... which was okay. Lets face it, the best part of a parade is the candy and you don't get candy thrown at you when you are "big kids" ;)

Well, I got my husband back!

I've been telling Nick he looks cute when he sleeps for months!

I finally got a picture without waking him up!!!

After 10 long days of Governor's Honor's Academy Nick came home and he was POOPED! 52 High School students between their Junior and Senior year came to SUU for a leadership type weekend. Nick was lucky enough to be a counselor and had a ton of fun with these kids!

10 days of rarely seeing your husband can be really hard....

since Kalli and I were in the same situation we occupied our time watching some of our favorite shows, going on Scooter rides, and making these yummy cupcakes!

I did get a little bored....

so there were days when I would do things like make a "Welcome Home Nick" banner.

Once Nick awoke from his "16 hour coma" we were able to have lots of fun! Yesterday we shopped with Scott and Kalli (and found an awesome kitchen table with 6 chairs for $100!!!), went to Cafe Rio, saw Transformers, and made these babies for Monday!
Even though it was hard to have Nick gone for 10 days, I'm so glad he had fun at GHA.

He now has 52 new facebook friends to prove it :)

is this on sale?

Ever look through the grocery ads that come on Tuesday? I always wonder if items are really that cheap when they have the giant "price cut" or "buy 10 save $5" signs. Well, here's a website to help you find out what really is a deal and what isn't.

GrocerySmarts is simply amazing! You need your state code to login - if you don't know it, you can access it on the website. Utah's is g84rcm. After you login, select the store you'd like to see deals at. If an item is coded in red (4 or 5 starts) it's a great deal! If it's black with 3 stars, it's an okay deal. The best part is.... if there is a sale item with a coupon at the same time there is a link provided that takes you directly to it.

Seriously, who would have thought you could get 6 pounds of Tillamook cheese for $9.33?

Father's Day Weekend

Nick has been an orientation leader at SUU this summer. Because of this job, we got to go to the summer games for free by volunteering to carry some flags around the field. It would have been REALLY great if the wind didn't almost blow us away ;) That's Cedar City for you. They even had to cancel the "flag parachuter" during the National Anthem because he would have blown to St. George! The fireworks were AMAZING though (the whole thing was a finale!) and we even won free pizza coupons from a texting contest! SA-WEET!

(I don't know who this girl on the left is....) Us with Colton and Carlee Griffiths

We went to Salt Lake for the weekend to see our families and it was so fun! Friday night we went to Tron with Nick's parents (which was really good!), Saturday we worked hard in the Shober's yard and that night we spent a little while at my parent's condo downtown. Sunday we all had dinner together at the Shober's to celebrate Father's Day and it was way fun!

Mitch, Me, Ty

The Shobers

The Husseys

These are our cute little Father's Day gifts - they turned out WAY cute!

Way cute cards and pop top gift cans! I got the card idea here from my cute friend and prior roommate Elyse and a pop top gift can tutorial can be found here {these are the best!}

Summer Weather.... FINALLY!

Today was such a beautiful day! We couldn't pass up a scooter ride!

We decided to make a date out of it and we got our favorite meal:

A Cafe Rio pork salad with extra meat, shredded lettuce, no cilantro, and only a few chips. We love these so much we waited in line 45 minutes to get it.

We took our salad to a man made lake in Cedar that we had never been to. People fish, swim, and just plain hang out here. Tonight definitely won't be our last time going there this summer!

Weekend Projects....

Two weekends ago we joined some friends and checked out a few yard sales.

The friends we went with recently moved into a 6 bedroom house. They were looking for a few pieces of furniture to fill their new big place - a couch, table, chairs etc. Nick and I had our eyes out for a {new} desk, but we were mostly helping our friends....

We did the slow drive by to see if we wanted to get out of the car and look around at a storage shed yard sale. When a cute old lady waved us down we decided to at least take a look...

And that, my friends, is when we found this for $10!

We bought it with the intention of painting it a funky color. And that is what we did last weekend!

First we got rid of the top! We then patched some nail holes from where the top part sat and put a piece of wood in the gap above the top drawer.

After that we lightly sanded the whole desk.... with sand paper. UGH. If we ever choose to paint a piece of furniture again I think we may invest in a sander!

Next we followed Nicole's advice and scrubbed it down really good - we wiped it down with water first, then used a magic eraser to dry it out and scrub it clean!

Then we primed it...And painted it!

And set it up in our {soon to be} office.

The last thing we need to do is find some knobs for the drawers....

Love Him!

I just got some cruise pictures from a friend's camera... and I found this!

My husband is so much fun!

Also.... I just realized that you can click a tab that says "compose" to write a blog post. Posts always took me forever because I always used the "Edit Html" tab where there is a bunch of gibberish when you upload pictures/bold words. I'm getting left behind in the technology world.... so much to learn!