Fridge Tag and crazy eva

i'm finally posting pictures of my fridge for megan's fridge tag. (which i do NOT think is a dumb idea personally). i've been procrastinating posting them because i was figuring i'd clean it out and post clean pics, but...it still looks the same. how can 2 people + baby have a COMPLETELY full fridge!!!

On a different subject today eva was throwing a living fit about taking a nap. so after she screamed her head off for a while, jared goes in to check on her and here is what we find:apparently she just decided to start standing up! the funny thing is that she keeps pulling up on EVERYTHING like she's been doing it all along. funny girl. i love how proud she is of herself. :)

TAG.

so pretty much everyone except for me has filled this out so here goes!


Two Names You Go By: kermit and "BUH BUH BUH BUH BUH" (eva's name for me...i think)

Two Things You Are Wearing Right Now: black workout pants, beige-y spit-upy top

Two Of Your Favorite Things To Do: learn a new craft and do my makeup

Two Things You Want To Do Very Badly At This Moment: watch Lost and pee

Two Favorite Pets: gordita (my super chunky cat) and bonnie (my childhood dog)

Two People Who Will Fill This Out: uhh....i think everyone i know already has!

Two Things You Did Last Night: cleaned and attempted to work out

Two Things You Ate Today: spice-rubbed steak and apple beer

Two Last People You Talked To: jared and eva

Two Longest Car Rides: alabama to colorado/new mexico and....colorado to nauvoo

Two Favorite Holidays: christmas and...my birthday. i like my birthday :)

Two Favorite Vacations: nauvoo and anywhere where family is

Two Favorite Drinks: MILK and.... MILK. we go through 6-7 gallons a week sometimes.

How we met : )

Well, since megan challenged everyone to tell their story about how they met their spouse, and since i can't think of a single thing to write a blog about, i figured i'd take her up on that challenge.

AHEM. Well for those of you who don't know, megan and I married brothers. So obviously i met jared through tim and megan. they were dating and i guess tim and jared were going to iowa to paint their aunts house and so tim decided to come and see megan since they were in the general neighborhood. So he hauled jared along with him who was quite perturbed to have to go and see tim's girlfriends family. MEANWHILE....tim asked megan who then mentioned to me if i would go on a date with jared (tim and megan will deny this) since jared had a psycho girlfriend at the time. (i'm not just being mean, she was a basket case!) well i hate being told what to do so of course i said "heck no!" so by the time the boys got to our house jared and i both had our noses stuck up in the air. only then i was a little intrigued about why he wouldn't pay me any attention and so i maybe flirted with him. a little. ok...i flirted a whole lot. but in all fairness he flirted back!

to shorten this long story i'll cut to the chase. we dated long distance (i know i know) for about a year and then we both ended up at BYU where we dated for another year. in the middle of that we got engaged. He proposed in front of the nauvoo temple, at sunset. it was perfect! only according to jared i forgot to say "yes" when he asked me and just shoved the ring on my finger. jared was my first boyfriend and first kiss. :)

we were married august 25th 2006. which means our 2nd anniversary is just around the corner! it doesn't seem like it though, being married to your best friend is waaaay more fun than work. :) blah blah blah i know i'm getting all mushy, but it's true! anyway, thats our story in a really big nutshell. Our wedding: August 25th 2006

1st anniversary

picking a peck of pickled peppers

i have to admit to yet another obsession....GARDENING. jared thinks i have a ridiculous amount of plants and i feel like i hardly have any. he's been pretty nice about letting me fill up our limited space though. i'm currently growing herbs, some daisies, jalepeno, bell and gypsy peppers, and a brandywine tomato "tree" as jared so lovingly refers to it. :) we had to start the plants quite a bit earlier this year since last year they all fried once july rolled around. the space factor has me itching more than ever to get into a house with a yard. but the way things are in this area i would settle for a house with a patch of grass. Here's a few pictures of my unruly plants.

Two of the pepper plants (front) and the tomato plant (rear)

herbs and the sprouting daisies

a few of my peppers; we ate these on chicken alfredo pizza! sooo yummy

eva playing in her exersaucer while i tend my other babies. :)