this past weekend we were up in rexburg for the poetry slam.
garrett was the feature poet, so he read some poems, sold lots of books, and i had a great time.
here is one of the poems he did.
you can see the rest on his blog.



while in rexburg i had the chance to finally collaborate with some friends and and work on an etsy shop ive been wanting to open for a long time now.
i took 40+ vintage dresses up to rexburg with me
one of my best friends mallorie foster modeled them
and one of my other best friends olivia schultz photographed them.
we had so much fun and im excieted go get this project up and going.
more on that later though.
while we did our thing, the boys some how ended up in the corner playing cards.
which was perfect.

other highlights from the weekend;
hanging out with my little brother
finally getting my bike back
meeting baby wes for the first time
watching jay and mama roxy play together
oh, and i went red.

remember that birthday party i was telling you about?
well the invitation is in the works.
its going to be designed like a music festival flier
and have garrett, sharon, and i on it as our spirit animals.
(or possibly a tree for sharon by her request....)
its going to be pretty sweeet.

our good good friend drew grella is doing the art work and design.
i love his stuff. to the point where we have more of his art work in our home than anyone else's.
you can see some of it here.

he started on the invite this week and sent me a sketch of garrett.
i think it is so great.
and i am so excited to see the rest.

not to be that person, (though i totally am)
to day is sals birthday!
we celebrated with cupcakes (garrett and i)
and sal got a big smoked bone and spent his day sleeping and then at the dog park.
i am so glad he's part of our little family.
also, jay just had to be right next to him the whole time.

its been awhile.
i know.
here is whats been going on.

garrett finished his new book!!!
you can now buy it here.
we are headed to rexburg this week for him to do a reading at the rexburg poetry slam (which he started)
i know i had no part in the writing of this collection of poetry, but i am so glad it is done.

i got a new job!!!
i am now a preschool teacher at the university.
i teach the professors and doctors kids.
(most of which are crazy smart for three year olds.)
who would have thought, right?
it is one of the hardest but most rewarding jobs i have ever had.
most days its me vs. 16 three year olds.
sometimes i win. sometimes they win.
but its a good time.

last week at school/work i learned that i in fact never paid attention when we talked about dinosaurs when i was going through school.
while trying to teach about dinosaurs i found my self constantly going to dictionary.com and having it read the names of dinosaurs to be because trying to figure out how to say ornithomimids and pachycephalosaurs is really hard.
also, three years repeat, mimic, and remember everything you say and do.

we went to a friends comedy show, and it was soo funny.
every one should have a friend that does stand up comedy.

we have been indulging in, get this, siracha carmel popcorn.
if you know me you know i love three things
siracha, carmel and popcorn
putting them together was genius.
i based my recipe off of this one.

weve had sunshine and rain for the past two weeks.
guys, i think the snow is gone for good.
well, lets cross our fingers.
im ready to put away my winter clothes and start using my water slide pass.
also im ready to start riding my bike to work.
or rather, riding the train up the giant hill that the U of U sits on and then cruising down it on my bike.

we are planning a major birthday bash.
garrett, our good friend sharon and i all have birthdays in the same week.
(mine is my golden birthday, 25 on the 25th!)
none of us like to have the attention that comes with having a birthday.
so we are throwing ourselves a mini music festival on the snake river.
basically taking the attention off us individually, putting it on all of us and our musical friends.
music, food, friends, pinata, im trying to convince them we need a bounce house...
basically, its going to be a great time and every one is invited!

my mom started following me on instagram!
which is cool.
my parents arent on any form of social media.
so this is kinda a big deaaaal.
(k, not really but whatever.)

and of course we have had all of the in-between stuff,  visits from friends, lots of time spent with aunt bobbi and kids, playing with our animals, trying new restaurants,  going on adventures, time at the gym, trying to sleep in on saturdays, etc.

basically, we are busy and happy.
but will try to be better at this little blog.

this weekend i got made fun of for my neurosis about bad guys getting into my house.
and then we got home and found out that bad guys got into our house....

we had such an enjoyable weekend in idaho.
so many good conversations, friends, movies, music.
its was just what we needed,
a little break from smog lake city.

one of the nights we stayed up until 4am,
and we joked about my obsession about locking the "bad guys" out
and how i am sometimes too paranoid about that type of thing.
and how silly it all was.

when we got home sunday night the screens were off our windows
and jay was jumping out the window and walking towards me.
i cant even begin to explain all of the feelings and thoughts i had.

i didnt want to go in our house, but at the same time i wanted to go in so badly.
to walk in and not see things that we left there a few days before wasnt the worst part.
the worst part was knowing that some stranger went through all of our stuff
our closets, the office, our bed room...
he took what he wanted, and left the rest.

he even dumped out my laundry basket so that he could carry all of my jewelry out in it.
or thats what we're guessing since the laundry basket and jewelry were both gone.

i hate that he had to move the picture of the fresno temple
and our engagement photo
and my family photo
in order to get all of the jewelry off the dresser.

i dont like that i couldnt fall asleep last night because every little sound i heard scared me.
i dont like that i feel violated and exposed.
and i dont like that when i got off work early today, i was scared to go home.
so i didnt, until garrett was with me.
and i dont like that when i turn onto our street now,
my stomach drops and i feel like im going to throw up.

its a good thing things are just things.

p.s. garrett found a 7 hour video of dogs barking that i have seriously contemplated turning on every time we leave the house now. you can read his take on all of this and listen to the 7 hours of dogs barking here.

Is it too early to get excited about deep love you ask?
not at all.
especially because the audio tracks from last year have just been released!
which means the dvd is on the way soon too.
which also means, that every one should go get the audio here in preparation for the dvd.
but if you need another reason, valentines day?

you might think im biased because i married the ever so talented garrett sherwood
i have seen the show well over 10 times, and sat through hours and hours of rehearsals.
but im not.
truth is, i saw deep love the very first year they did it and fell in love with it way back then.
before i fell in love with garrett.
so when i say this is a dang good album, i mean it.
though i will admit that soon after my first viewing of deep love is when i started crushing on garrett,
but whatever.
go listen to the album!

*track 9 is my favorite. just sayin

can i just say we love and live for the weekends?

one of the best parts of living in a big city is all of the options when it comes to food.
we love our food.
and we love trying new things.
this morning we went to the rose establishment for some rooibos tea.
we got the toasted carmel and it was delicious!
the place itself was charming.
set down town with a loft feel, skylight, and lots of cool little touches like an old stove and subway tile walls.
while we were driving over, snow flakes started falling and the wind was blowing
which created the perfect setting for us to be drinking hot tea indoors to.
though we might not really look it, we really enjoyed our selves, and the tea.
(you cant beat 4$ a pot)