My husbandless weekend

My least favorite time of the year is here.

Hunting season. 

Besides the fact that I don't really care for hunting, the real reason I don't like it is because one or two weekends out of the year I lose my husband. 

I realize one or two weekends out of the year is nothing. 

But still... I don't love it. 

I had 3 whole days all to myself and here is how I spent them...

Friday night my friend Jessica and I decided to be spontaneous and drive down to Utah and go to Frightmares at Lagoon. 

I've never been to Frightmares but it was a lot of fun! 

They have people dressed up to scare you everywhere. 

I didn't realize that until a guy jumped out at us with a chain saw hahaha 

it was great. 

One of the funnest things we did while we were there was walk through this "fun house"

It was a trip, to say the least. 

The worst part of the trip was the drive home.... 

It was soooo long, we got lost, we were in stand still traffic because of construction (does Utah ever not have construction?), we had to drive in the middle of nowhere and almost hit one or two deer... We finally made it home around 1:45am!! 

It was definitely worth the drive though. We had lots of fun. 

Saturday I went to Super Saturday with my mom, grandma, and Jaylen. 

We did two crafts...

and I got lots of spray paint on my hands.

Not the first time that has happened haha. 

Here are the finished products....

Not the cutest things I've ever made... But they were only a few dollars each and it was fun being able to spend the morning with my family. 

The morning before Branden left we couldn't find my keys anywhere. Long story short, they were in the road and had been ran over a few times in the middle of the night. 

Well when they got ran over it broke my "clicker" (idk if that's the word but you know what I mean)

Saturday I went down to Honda to see how much it would cost to get a new one.

$75!!! SERIOUSLY?? Well I guess I'll just have to use my keys from now on. Wahh...

Sunday night finally arrived and lookie who is home :) 

Missed that face. 

The end. 

It seems that I have an obsession with taking pictures from this angle...

Anyway-- This was basically my weekend. 

I went to the doctor on Friday night because I was feeling sickish (what I thought was possibly a sinus infection). So, the doc prescribed me some antibiotics and this lovely nasal spray (gross), well ever since I went to the doctor and have been using the medicine I feel worse than I did before. It's awesome. Except not really. 

I caught up on my Vampire Diaries episode for the week... Does anyone else hate watching a TV series week by week? I would much rather be able to watch them back to back. Such a dilemma. Speaking of watching back to back, I finished the entire final season of Desperate Housewives this weekend. I obviously was very productive... 

What about you? Was your weekend as fun as mine?? 

Lately...

....it is beginning to be freezing outside

so quick morning runs to Double Shot are a must...

....I hosted Bunko at my house on Monday and made some delish

Better Than Sex Cake

I also made Taco Soup. Two surprisingly successful dishes (thanks to my mom for her recipes), because I normally am not great when it comes to cooking!

This is my favorite room in our house....

I'm kind of obsessed with that wall. Would it be overboard to say I want

to paint every room in chevron? Because I do. 

See those cute frames up there?? I bought those babies from DI and spray painted them.

$1 for each frame... bargain. 

I am kind of spray paint happy...

Did you know that spray paint is super sticky and does not just wash right off?

Ya me neither. 

What a pain.

I finally hung up the two canvases I made....

This wasn't the look I was going for in the beginning, but it works. 

So that's that. 

Lastly-- Let's talk about these slipper socks Branden got me for our anniversary. 

Besides the fact that they are huge, I love these things. 

They keep my feet stylish and warm.

Not to mention I think those are bats on them... and seeing as it is Halloween this month, they are very appropriate :)

So that's what has been going on lately with us (mostly me) ;]

October

BOO!

I'm sad to see September go... It was a good month!

But now we are in full swing for October and all of the upcoming holiday fun.

I love the fall weather but also am dreading the winter.

Basically, I hate snow. 

The end.

It's times like Halloween when I wish I had some cute little kiddies to dress up and take out trick-or-treating. Since we are all old and what not now... Someone needs to throw a Halloween party so we can dress up too! 

Speaking of kids... This is the month when my sister and her husband find out what the gender of their baby is! I'm telling you... I still think it's a girl, so when they find out it's a boy I will be shocked. I just have a feeling... We will see ;]

I'm sure you have all been dying to hear/see how my chevron wall turned out...

Well it is soooo cute! I was nervous, but it turned out really well. 

I haven't finished decorating so the pics will have to wait. 

Sorry about your luck!! 

What are you excited about for October? Besides the obvious...(Vampire Diaries)....

Random thoughts for your hump day :)

Yesterday I got off work early and decided I was ready to take the plunge and paint chevron on the wall in my living room. 

You guys, I was excited about this. 

Once I had the tape on, things were looking pretty good.

Well I put on my first coat of paint and the negatives starting rolling into my mind. 

Do I love the color I picked?

The stripes are too big....

Does it look like Charlie Brown exploded on my wall?

Let's just say I hope I like it better once I've finished painting and the tape is taken down. 

Cause right now... I'm just not sure.

In the middle of the taping/painting I took a break and had some Cafe Rio (Taco Tuesday) and watched the finale of The Vampire Diaries. 

Is anyone else dying for the new season to start?!? 

OMG. 

I will keep you posted on the status of my chevron wall....

Wish me luck!

Crappy crafting...

This weekend Jessica and I attempted to be crafty. 

I say attempted because it seems like we bought a lot of stuff and had high expectations of our finished products and in reality they were just not good.

I made this sign a few weekends ago...

I love the way it turned out! 

So, we decided to try and make a Halloween sign using the same technique as this one... 

I don't have a picture of the finished product (because it isn't even finished ha) 

but let's just say it doesn't look as good...

Blah. 

We also attempted to make picture frames

...that didn't exactly work either hahaha

Another project that I have been in the process of working on is this one...

Holy pain. Let's not even talk about the huge amount of extra white there is on the bottom. I haven't even attempted to re-cut it. I've had this picture sitting in my basement literally for months.  You could say we aren't getting along haha. 

One thing that I was semi successful in doing this weekend was spray painting these hideous lamps that got left at our house from the previous owner...

Now the only problem is the lamp shades. They are obnoxious. I need to find new ones...

Ok, on to yet another thing that has been "in the works"---

My living room wall. 

Originally I painted this wall a purplish color.

Well I hate it.

So I decided, I am buying wallpaper! 

Well, I couldn't find any that I love....

So I went home and started painting over the purple. 

Just painted it white. 

hahahaha I realize this is a major disaster. I still need to do a few more coats. 

The new plan is to either do a stripe or chevroned wall!

Chances of either of those things happening? Not great.

I'm sure I will attempt, but you know how that goes. 

and finally I did a DIY canvas. 

Here is the finished product. 

This project was a huge mess. 

Modge podge is so messy. 

Now it didn't turn out perfectly... at all... but I am somewhat pleased with it.

So there. 

I have 3 more to do, so hopefully they will look better.

Well that was my weekend... it feels like I did a lot yet got nothing done...

If only the weekend was 5 days and the week was 2 days. 

If only...

Anyway, have a good week everyone!

Our first anniversary

It sounds weird to say it is our first anniversary (yesterday)....

Mostly because we have been together for almost 5 years, but also weird

that it has already been a year since we got married! 

To celebrate our first year as a married couple we went to spend the weekend in Lava.

Lava is a small little town about 20ish minutes away from where we live.

Doesn't sound like loads of fun, I know, but it really was!

For dinner we walked down to a local pizza place.

We got the family special... for 2 people= way too much food!!

Good food though!!

The big reason that anyone really goes to Lava is for the hot pools--

Did you know they sell popsicles at the hot pools? How did I not know this? 

There's nothing like hot tubbing while enjoying a popsicle. Seriously. 

Good stuff. 

The next morning (the 17th) our actual anniversary-- we drove home and stopped for breakfast/lunch at 5th Street Bagelry. 

Coincidentally, on our wedding day I went there for breakfast with my friend Jessica. 

This time around I wasn't so nervous and I could actually enjoy my bagel ha. 

We ended up going to a late dinner at Red Lobster. 

Why a late dinner, you ask? Oh, because we decided to have direct tv installed and it took kind of forever. 

Anyways... dinner was amaze. And we have a shizzz ton of leftovers. 

Yayy for a fab lunch today. and probably dinner too ha!

Lastly we had to follow tradition and eat a little bit of the top of our wedding cake.

I didn't really think about the fact that it was in the freezer and so, it was frozen. Duh. 

Anyway... I let it thaw out a bit and took a little bite of it. Still pretty tastey. 

That is how we spent our first wedding anniversary! 

It was a good good weekend :) 

Happy Anniversary baby! I love you!!

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Here are some random videos from our wedding.... 

So sweet, I love them all.